An explosion blew out windows and caused a fire at a huge Russian medical research center, one of only two in the world that stores the killer smallpox virus.

The blast at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, also known as the Vector Institute, in Koltsovo, near the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, injured one worker who suffered third-degree burns.

Local officials have told state-run media that the blast was probably caused by a gas explosion in a room on the building's fifth floor during repairs.

State news agency TASS cited Koltsovo city head administrator Nikolai Krasnikov as saying that no biohazardous materials were stored where the explosion and blaze took place and that there is no threat to the general population.

There is not yet any indication from independent media outlets that the population is in danger. Some 13 fire trucks and 38 firefighters were sent to the scene to extinguish the fire, which covered 300 square feet.

The facility was created in 1975 and housed biological weapons research during the Soviet era. Spread across dozens of acres, it employs thousands of workers.

It is considered to be one of the world's leading epidemiological research centers, developing an Ebola vaccine earlier this year, according to TASS.

In 2004, Ebola researcher Antonina Presnyakova died at Vector after pricking herself with a needle that had the killer virus. The New York Times reported that there was a delay of several weeks before the incident was reported to the World Health Organization, which meant the agency's scientists "could not provide prompt advice on treatment that might have saved her life."

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited a report from PBS that a high-ranking Soviet official who defected to the United States in the 1990s had claimed smallpox was shifted to the site to conduct bioweapons research.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta is the only other place which stores samples of smallpox, which was declared eradicated in 1980, having killed up to 500 million people in the 20th century.

There has just been a viral CCTV footage of a thief walking into All Saints Anglican Church, Ketu, Lagos to steal a bag during service.

Apparently the owner of the bag kept it freely on the church chair where it was taken by the thief who left the church immediately as if nothing had happened.

He was later spotted on the church CCTV camera.

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The moment a man walked into All Saints Anglican Church, Ketu, Lagos, yesterday, and stole a bag during service

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Former Big brother Naija housemate, Cynthia Nwadiora (Cee-C) has allegedly fallen out with all the brands that signed contracts with her after the BBNaija show.

All brands involved with her want to pull out as soon as her contract expires due to her unnecessary attitude.

”Cee-C has fallen out with MizNwanneka the hair boss and even though her contract is not yet over,the chummy relationship in the beginning is no longer what is used to be. The reason for the fall out is tagged to Cee-C’s attitude to Business, according to Stella Dimokoko @ Stella Dimokoko

Insiders inform that the N5million hair deal signed by Cee-C and Royal hair deal fell to pieces on the same day he handed her a white car which went viral Online. He is reportedly patiently waiting for the contract he signed with her to be over so that he can quietly take back the car she got as brand Ambassador.

I asked the source why the car would be taken back and i was informed that the car was not gifted to her but comes with the period of Ambassadorship and contract says it is not hers.

Cee-C who also signed a contract that has expired with Sapphire scents was also allegedly not in good terms with the brand until her contract expired.

The Brouhaha allegedly started from when Cee-C and Tonto Dikeh were flown to Dubai for a photo shoot in early 2019….Details of brouhaha not given but source says ”Stella confirm what really happened from Tonto Dikeh”

I chose not to because another source says Tonto will not utter a word out of Loyalty. Eye wear Brand House of Lunnettes according to the sources has also fallen out with the reality star and vowed not to work with her again even though her contract may still be running.

The Insiders also allege that once when Cee-C and her other reality friend were approached for Ambassadorship deal,Cee-C allegedly said she would not be sharing the spot with anyone and the person was dropped.

Note that fall out does not indicate that these people no longer talk to her or use her photos as advert on their pages,the fall out is that these people have allegedly sworn not to renew her contract again when it expires.

Unless of course this story embarrasses them and they want to shame me by renewing ….LOL

Everyone cannot be wrong at the same time,please change your business attitude Cee-C:

This post deserves a right of denial from all parties but i am taking my story to the Bank.

An Upper Area Court, Mpape, on Monday, ordered that a 34-year-old butcher, Abu Mohammed, who allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman, be remanded in a correctional facility in Keffi, Nasarawa State.

The judge, Hassan Mohammed, who made the order, adjourned the case until Sept. 20, for hearing.

The police charged the defendant, who resides in Karu Abuja with rape and criminal intimidation, which he denied.

The Prosecution Counsel, Vincent Osuji, told the court that the complainant, who was also the victim, reported the matter at the Karu Police Station, on June 2.

He alleged that the defendant met the victim and her friend drinking at Eagles Lodge Karu and asked to join them.

”The defendant slipped some drugs into the complainant’s drink and she lost consciousness.

”After she lost consciousness, the defendant took the complainant to his house and raped her,” he alleged..

The prosecutor also alleged that the defendant stole her necklace and infinix phone worth N162,000.

Osuji said that the offence, contravened the provisions of sections 283 and 397b of the Penal Code.

The Police Command in Enugu State is investigating a complaint of alleged weakness of male genital organ by Mr Sunday Ebubechukwu, after a handshake with a suspect identified as Anayo.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Sunday.

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Amaraizu said that the incident happened on Sept. 13 within the Obiagu axis of Ogui area of Enugu metropolis.

The police spokesman said that the suspect, simply identified as Anayo, is also a physically challenged person.

“The Command through its operatives of Ogui Division is unraveling the mystery surrounding an alleged complaint of feeling of weakness of a male genital organ of a man shortly after his handshake with another man in Enugu.

“Sunday Ebubechukwu on that fateful day raised an alarm which attracted sympathizers to the scene at Obiagu on the ground that someone whom he allegedly had handshake with may have caused the instant weakness of his manhood.

“Thereby causing his manhood dysfunction instantly. It was however gathered that the alarm he raised prompted sympathizers around to descend heavily on the alleged suspect, Anayo.

“The suspect was said to be receiving beating of his life before police operatives from Ogui Division promptly intervened and rescued him,’’ he said.

Amaraizu said that investigation was being carried out on the incident. (NAN)

25-year-old Sadiq Yinusa, pictured above, has been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command, for attempted robbery. When interrogated, Yinusa said he went to rob at a nightclub in the Igbobi area of the state so he can raise money to secure the release of his other gang member who is currently being held at the Kirikiri prison.

Yinusa was arrested at a nightclub in Igbobi while attempting to rob the club supervisor. Armed with a locally made shot gun, 4 live cartridges, a socket wrench, a chisel and a plier, Yinusa attempted to rob the night club supervisor but was apprehended.

When interrogated, Yinusa said:

“Prince Chika, currently serving prison sentence in Kirikiri for robbery, called me last week to help him hassle around for funds to secure his freedom from prison. I have visited him in the prison a week ago and he had called me from prison to appeal for my assistance. He gave me the location of this gun and some of the arms he used.

He has assured me to pay back within the first few weeks of regaining freedom. I retrieved all these arms from the bush where he kept them before heading for the operation. He told me that he bought the gun in Anambra State for a sum of N5000. Yesterday was the first day I would fire a gun during an operation. Everybody had already left the club in Morocco Road, Igbobi when I scaled the fence. I saw the supervisor, and at gunpoint, I requested for his wallet.

I felt he was wasting time, so, I shot him but he dodged it and raised alarm. I was escaping when I ran into a patrol team of RRS men responding to distress noise. I was a pickpocket and a burglar before venturing into robbery. Last week, I broke into three houses in Somolu. From each of the houses, I collected two mobile phones of my victims. I also got three laptops as well as jewelry. I sold them to Adamu Jubril.

Whenever, I collect ATM cards from victims, it is Korede Baki (22) that assist me in doing the withdrawals. I collected the PIN along with the ATM card at gun point.”

Also arrested with the suspect were the receivers; Jubril Adamu and Korede Baki. According to Jubril Adamu, popularly called Ango, a trader in Tejuosho Market, Yaba,

“I have been buying stolen items from Yinusa for over six months now. I have bought over 15 mobile phones, laptops and jewelry from him. I bought laptops from him at N30,000:00 each.”

The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Eric Ifeanyi Okoro for killing his hunched aunt, Benisa Okoro.

The suspect nicknamed 'yahoo boy' by residents of Umuka in Okposi community of Ebonyi State reportedly returned late at night, ate the food his aunt kept for him before stabbing her several times on the chest till she died in the pool of her blood.

It was learnt that the driver from Okposi General Hospital morgue he contacted to convey the corpse of his aunt to their facility, refused to carry out his wish after seeing that the corpse had a thick clot of blood. Eric was arrested after the driver raised an alarm, alerting other residents of the community.

Eyewitnesses said he did not deny the murder but confessed to it and also boasted that his father he reportedly tried killing in Owo, Ondo state is his next target.

“We, the chieftains of Umuka community have reached a decisive conclusion that should the police fail in their duty of bringing the self-confessed murderer to book, Eric can never return to this community to live and co-exist with us; the Umuka Ogwumaeze people any longer. He had been a security risk to the lives and peaceful coexistence of the people of this community since he reportedly attacked his father and attempted to kill him in Owo, Ondo State,” the community leader, Mr Sunday Okorie Agwu said.

Also confirming the incident, the President of Umuka Youth Association (UYA), Nwanneka Ngada Okorie said the arrested suspected internet fraudster has been consumed by his inordinate ambition and always wants things done his own way.

“He has been consumed by his inordinate ambition to always have things done in his own way irrespective of whosoever his actions might affect.

Ifeanyi is a ‘Yahoo boy’, his father would have been his first victim, when he wanted to kill him the previous year and that was why he was brought home February last year to live with his very lovely and caring aunt; Benisa, whom he has stabbed to death. This is what you get with always wanting things come easy without working for it”.

The Police Public Relations Officer of Ebonyi State command, Loveth Odah said the matter is being investigated and the suspect will soon be charged to court after investigation has been concluded.

For the umpteenth time, another lady has been murdered in a hotel in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The
Unclad lifeless body of the yet to be identified lady was discovered, today, inside one of the rooms of the hotel located at Rumuola.

The circumstances surrounding her death is still unknown, but police officers are current at the hotel. This is coming few days after another lady was found strangled to death at another hotel in the State. .

This year alone, more than 10 ladies have been murdered in similar manner in the State, prompting people to believe a serial killer is on the prowl in Port Harcourt.

Two Nigerian men have lost their lives after the drugs they swallowed burst during a flight from Brazil to Ethiopia. The deceased, identified as Chigozie Pascal Aniagbado and Chijioke Chidioka Ogbuefi, died before an emergency landing, despite the fact that CPR was performed on them.

According to the eyewitness; At this moment am in Ethiopian Airline from Brazil to Ethiopia my sit number is 30D which falls at the middle in between two men, they are all black skin like me, The flight was 12hrs journey, the young man at my right asked me to check the flight ✈ map to know how far we have gone which I did we already half the journey.

Then he said to me do you speak Igbo I said yes, he said he doesn’t know if he will make this journey that it seems the drugs he swallowed must have expired its stay in his system ,then my mind sink right inside my stomach, I began to shiver, he said don’t be scared it’s not in the bag is inside my body, he said I should stand and get him drinking water, I refuse standing cos I was scared he may insert something in my bag, I have to wave for the air hostess to come, she came and serve him water, he demands for food, he was given.

He became calm, a few minutes later he brought an olive oil from his bag and drink, This moment I was confused I don’t know what to do, then he started shivering /panicked & fell down that was when all the doctors in the plane assembled, questioning, asking his country & tribe ,his blood was tested for sugar samples & high blood pressure. He was able to open that he swallowed drugs.

As I speak his vomiting blood, my God I don’t know what will lead a young strong man to this, as I type now his gasping out the doctors has to put him on oxygen, his progress is slow, Because of them we are having emergency landing, the pilots said no matter their crime, it’s their priority to keep them alive.

We couldn’t land the said country has Ebola, so we proceed while they are on oxygen. While typing, I was told they had lost the battle. May their soul rest in piece

In its quest to remain in the hearts and minds of its old and prospective customers, Mr. Bigg’s, Nigeria’s pioneer quick service restaurant (QSR) has commenced what industry watchers have described as a first-of-its-kind revolution in the sector aimed at redefining the brand as well as guarantee improve quality of service.

At a guided tour of some of the model restaurants in parts of mainland, island Lagos and its environs, recently, Mrs. Ethel Mba, Marketing Manager, UACN Restaurants led selected journalists to have enjoy a feel and look of the new-improved Mr. Biggs, an arm of UACN of Nigeria, which has existed for about 33 years.

Justifying the need for the new-look Mr. Bigg’s, Mrs. Mba who noted that there are over 100 restaurants under the brand, said the whole idea is to remodel the restaurants into a centre of excellence in the 21st century.

Speaking at one of the model restaurants located at Northwest Filling Station by the Victoria Garden City, VGC, Lekki, Lagos, Mba said the new approach promises to sustain excellence in wide variety of dishes, pastries and confectionaries to the delight of its teeming consumers, which is the heritage of Mr Bigg’s

Mba assured that apart from the VGC outlet, which was opened on the 9th of July, 2019, two more restaurants will spring up at Amuwo Odofin in Festac town and Abule Egba along Lagos Abeokuta Express Way and other parts of the country very soon .

“The new restaurants will be patterned after the structure of the Lekki restaurant to deliver high-quality food and good ambience as the basic standard. Aside this, the menu range will be equal and well-balanced in terms of meal choices depending on customers’ tastes or new trends,” she said.

Mr Bigg’s history began with the coffee shops inside Kingsway Department Stores in the 1960s. In 1973, these shops were rebranded as Kingsway Rendezvous, which became Mr Bigg’s in 1986. The chain saw rapid expansion after becoming one of the first Nigerian companies to sell franchises to investors and subsequently adopted a full franchising business model in 2012, making it the first to establish franchise restaurants in QSR.