Former militant and leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has denied having a hand in the bomb blasts in Kaduna, which was reportedly targeted at former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.).

Alhaji Asari Dokubo

Asari, who spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, through the national chairman of his group, Aladiokuma Hart, said the allegations against him was a ploy by those who masterminded the attack to score cheap political points and make him look bad ahead of the forthcoming 2015 general elections.

According to the Vanguard report, he claimed they were the same people responsible for his arrest in Benin Republic.

He urged those behind the allegation to come forward and substantiate their claim with facts, figures date, time and (the) venue that he or she knows about how Dokubo-Asari masterminded the attack.

“They should come out in the open and stop using the media as a grapevine for defamation of character. They are all drowning people looking for what to take hold of in their failed mission,” he said.

Health Minister,  Onyebuchi Chukwu has made it known that a doctor in Lagos has contracted the deadly Ebola disease.

Vanguard reports that the Health Minister revealed that the Lagos doctor who attended to and treated the Liberian Ebola victim in Lagos has contracted the deadly virus.

Three kidnappers were killed and three others arrested in gun battle around Ogbe-Ofor Quarters, Ogwashi-uku, at the weekend.

Joint efforts of police and anti-kidnap squad operative in Ogwashi-Uku community near Asaba, Delta State, succeeded in elimination of a kidnap group, that allegedly abducted an octogenarian, Rangers Okafor.

The old man was kidnapped from his house around Idumu-Aku Quarters in the community about three weeks ago. The criminals were nabbed in a building that served them as a shelter and where Okafor was held.

After all the speculations over where Nigeria international midfielder, John Obi Mikel, would be playing his football trade next season, he has finally announced that he would fight for his place at Barclays English Premier League club, Chelsea.

It would be recalled that Mikel lost his place in the Chelsea first team following the arrival of Serbian midfielder, Nemanja Matic, in January.

It was speculated that the Nigerian will be leaving Stamford Bridge this summer for new pastures but Mikel has decisively moved to quash suck speculations.

Only John Terry and Petr Cech have spent more years in Chelsea than Mikel.

Though Didier Drogba initially signed for the Blues two years before Mikel, but having been away for a couple of years, the West African pair will both be beginning their ninth campaign at Stamford Bridge.

* John Obi Mikel

Speaking on his illustrious career with Chelsea at the weekend, Mikel told the club’s official website, www.chelseafc.com: “I’ve been in this team for a long time now. I came when I was 18 and I’m 27 now. Time flies.

“I’ve seen the good times and I’ve enjoyed the good times with this team. At the same time I’ve shared bad times with the likes of John Terry and Petr Cech. There have been lots of good times in the nine years I’ve been here. Whenever there was a bad one we’ve always come together as a team and we’ve always managed to turn it around.”

A 55-year-old pedophile was arrested after he was spotted with an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia.

The picture of Welshman Michael Jones, from the UK, shows the moment that he is holding the hand of an underage girl in the country’s capital Phnom Penh. On other photos he is surrounded by half-dressed eight and nine-year-olds, and with a small child sitting on his lap.

According to the police, an 11-year-old girl said she was paid £3 for sex in a room rented by a man.

Jones has been arrested after charity Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) took pictures of Jones following a tip-off about alleged activity with underage girls in Cambodia.

It is believed they were 12 or 13 while the country’s age of consent is 15.

Reportedly, Jones then took the girls shopping, bought them gifts and gave them money before taking them back to their houses.

He left Cambodia in mid-April before returning on June 9 when APLE started to monitor him again when he is alleged to have taken an underage girl to a rented room.

The charity spokesman claimed Jones was seen promising to pay the rent for one family.

Four of six girls who were questioned claimed they had been abused by Jones.

On June 27, 2014, Michael Jones was officially charged by Phnom Penh’s court prosecutor. He has been charged with carrying out indecent acts against minors and paying for child prostitution. If found guilty he faces eight years in jail.

One of his alleged victims was put into secure accommodation while the other three were returned to their families.

Son of Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) and his wife, Dorothy Jeneba Kamara, shared some photos from their honeymoon.

Tomi Ashimolowo and Sierra Leone beauty Dorothy Jeneba Kamara got married on Saturday, July 26, in Kent, UK. The couple are now on their honeymoon in Dubai.

Dorothy Jeneba Kamara took to her Instagram page to share some sweet photos from the honeymoon. The newlywed hottie showed off her body in a swimwear during a visit to the beach with her husband.

It would be recalled that the father of the groom, Matthew Ashimolowo, who is a prominent Man Of God in Nigeria, was recently charged to a Lagos High Court, Igbosere, by four chieftaincy clans of Offiran and Aiyeteju villages in Lagos.

Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel is glad that Didier Drogba is back to the club.

Photo: John Obi Mikel

The legendary Ivorian striker, who in  2012 left for China and then Turkey (Galatasaray), has recently reunited with his old manager Jose Mourinho, goal.com recalls. The Blues’ coach warmly welcomed the 36-year-old back saying he belongs to Chelsea.

Related: Mikel Decides On Chelsea

Photo: Didier Drogba in Chelsea jersey

Sharing his reaction to Drogba’s return Mikel, who also fights for English Premier League place in Mourinho’s squad, said:

“I heard the rumours [that Drogba would come back] but I thought there was no way it was going to happen. I thought when he’s gone, he’s gone, but then I thought about it a bit more and realized it could happen because of the connection that the gaffer and Didier have always had. I’m glad to have him back. It’s like his home. He’s fitting in perfectly well again. It’s like he never went away. It’s good for the team because he’s a big player and a big personality.”

Meanwhile Mikel’s future in the London club has been surrounded by controversies as it was alleged that Mourinho planned to drop either Fernando Torres, or Peter Cech or Mikel.

Ahead of the upcoming governorship election in Osun state, western Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has mandated all its elected members at state and national levels to converge on Osun.

According to a statement made public on Monday, 4 August, 2014, by APC’s  National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, all the ruling party’s bigwigs are expected to arrive in Osun from Tuesday and remain in the state until Saturday’s election, as a way of showing the party’s unalloyed support for incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

The party’s spokesman also added that the directive covers all political appointees in states under the control of the APC, especially Special Advisers and Commissioners.

* APC’s spokesman, Lai Mohammed

Mohammed stated that also expected in Osogbo are members of the party’s national exco and the national elders’ caucus.

The APC said it perceives the forthcoming election as a celebration of democracy and a harvest time for the party, whose candidate has worked so hard to implement his mandate and make life more abundant for the people of the state.

The ruling party in the state also called on its members in Osun to be vigilant ahead of the poll, considering the myriad of desperate tactics being perfected by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to reap where it did not sow.

It would be recalled that the APC had accused the PDP of planning to massively rig the forthcoming governorship election in Osun.

The APC had alleged that the PDP has underground intentions to make the Osun Guber election which comes up Saturday, 9th August, work in its favour by crude or rude means.

As the Israel and Palestine war enters Day 28, millions of Gaza residents have been turned homeless with over 270,000 crammed into 90 over-populated United Nations shelters.

The highly heart breaking war has made many to be displaced with no running water and even electricity. Over 1,700 Palestinians and 69 Israelis have been reportedly killed. Some of the shelters housed by Gaza children have been bombed, killing so many of the children, women hit and even medics are unable to work due to the exhaustion of medical supplies.

Although the warring nations have been on the feud for decades, this particular one started on July 17th after Gaza attacked Israel with rockets following failed peace negotiations. Israel replied with both air and ground invasion of Gaza City….and now, it’s becoming unbearable.

In December 2013, it was reported that Palestine minister, Riyad Al Maliki said Israel must choose between “a meaningful political process” or “force us into an era in which that solution is abandoned and the Palestinian people enter a new stage in their struggle to defend and achieve their rights through all peaceful, political, diplomatic and legal means available”. 

However, these claims did not prevent a bloody conflict several months later.

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated on August 4, 2014, Monday that his government was “sorry for any attack that unintentionally hits civilians”, but, at the same time, he blamed Hamas radicals of turning UN facilities into “terrorist hotspots”.

Here are more photos from the feud scenes:

Nigerian Sports Minister and head of the NSC, Dr Tammy Danagogo has come out and talked of the emotional trauma he suffered over Weightlifter Chika Amalaha who was stripped of her gold medal due to testing positive to drugs in Glasgow.

The minister said that such an act was a huge disgrace to the nation and has vowed that he will find out who and whom were responsible.

Chika Amalaha had won her event in the Games but her gold in the Women’s Weightlifting 53 kilogram competition was nullified after she failed her drug test.

The World Anti Doping Agency WADA have come out and vowed they will get to the end of this, as they can’t understand how a 16 year old could get her hands on banned substances — amiloride and hydrochlorothiazide.

Danagogo said: "My heart bleeds for this 16-year-old girl. She looks too innocent to commit such an offence. She is naive. It’s so unfortunate because it was this same girl that did so well in Gabrone, Botswana. And she was tested and was certified clean. We must get to the roots of this and the coaches, and our anti-doping officials have questions to answer.

"Why didn’t they do their job before coming here to disgrace Nigeria?”, a visibly pained and angry Danagogo asked. For a young girl like this, we had good plans for her.

"She is still in shock over what happened to her. She ignorantly took what she took for weight reduction. It is devastating to me and definitely we’ll look at the level of involvement of her coaches, officials, crew and our anti-doping officials.