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Elsewhere In The World: At Least 42 Dead After Islamic Terrorists Shot Up Students As They Slept In Attack On Nigerian College

42 Dead In Islamic Terrorist Attack On Nigerian College Another day, another deadly terrorist attack . Via Fox News: Islamic terrorists dressed in Nigerian military uniforms assaulted a college inside the country Sunday, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in their dorms and shot others trying to flee, witnesses say. “They started gathering students into groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto the next group and killed them. It was so terrible,” one surviving student, who would only give his first name of Idris, told Reuters. The siege began at about 1 a.m. in rural Gujba. “They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them,” Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press. The extremists also torched classrooms. Nigeria State Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai told Reutersthat he suspected that the terrorist group Boko Haram was behind the attack, but declined to elaborate. Idi Mato said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies of students mostly aged between 18 and 22, but he said as many as 50 may have been killed. The Nigerian military has already collected 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 25 miles north, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. Two of the wounded later died, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping at the hospital. Boko Haram is aiming to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has intensified attacks on civilians in revenge for a Nigerian military offensive against the group, Reuters reports. Most schools in the area closed after militants on July 6 killed 29 pupils and a teacher, burning some alive in their hostels, at Mamudo outside Damaturu. Northeastern Nigeria is under a military state of emergency to battle an Islamic uprising prosecuted by Boko Haram militants who have killed more than 1,700 people since 2010 in their quest to install an Islamic state, though half the country’s 160 million citizens are Christian. Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden in the local Hausa language. More than 30,000 people have fled the terrorist attacks to neighboring Cameroon and Chad and the uprising combined with the military emergency has forced farmers from their fields and vendors from their markets. The attacks come as Nigeria prepares to celebrate 52 years of independence from Britain on Tuesday and amid political jockeying in the run up to presidential elections next year with many northern Muslim politicians saying they do not want another term for Jonathan, who is from the predominantly Christian south. Damn, the dead body count keeps rising and it’s just so sad that innocent lives are taken each week with these attacks. SMH.

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Elsewhere In The World: At Least 42 Dead After Islamic Terrorists Shot Up Students As They Slept In Attack On Nigerian College

Drugs Are Bad M’Kay: Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Stepdad Reveals He And Her Mom Were Gone Off That Yayo, Takes Blame For Her “Many Addictions”

SMH @ this guy dry snitching after all these years… Jada Pinkett-Smith’s stepdad says he blames himself for some of the “many addictions” Jada recently revealed she had battled . Via Celebuzz reports : Jada Pinkett Smith’s recent admission that she battled “many addictions” may have shocked the world, but it only added more grief for the man who helped raise her. Warren A. Brown, now a successful attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, married Smith’s mom Adrienne Banfield Jones in 1979 when the actress was just 8-years-old. Although Jones has recently spoken openly about her drug abuse when her daughter was a child, this is the first time Smith’s stepdad has revealed what really went on under their roof. And he’s not proud of it. “At times I felt guilty,” Brown told Celebuzz. “I remember just the three of us in the house together and I knew I was high and so was her mother. “She didn’t know though, she was too young to recognize it. She didn’t see us doing anything. But I felt really bad because I thought this little girl deserves better than her parents (being) addicted.” Brown admits yayo was his drug of choice, but stopped short of revealing too much about his ex-wife’s substance abuse. “While we were both dealing with that, I was still going to court and she was going to school and working. She left it up to me to watch Jada,” he added. “It’s difficult to feel guilty. I don’t really blame myself, but I think about a couple things. I question that if I had not divorced myself from them, whether or not she would have fallen into addictions. And if I had been around I may have witnessed it and been able to pull her out of it.” Although he doesn’t know of any “addictions” Jada may have endured back then, he tries to remember only the good times they shared being “thick as thieves.” And there were many. “She was a sweet little girl. We were very close. It was me and Jada,” said Brown. “I was raising her while her mother was working and in college.” Brown recalls taking her on many “firsts,” including trips to New York City, Cape Cod, Virginia Beach and Jamaica. He even recalls a day trip to the movie theatre to see The Karate Kid, which brought back a flood of memories when he passed by a local theatre only to see her son Jaden on the marquee for the new installment in 2010. “We spent a lot of time together,” he said of their bond before he divorced her mother around 1986. “But once I separated from her and her mom, I quickly got remarried and my new wife asked that I distance myself from her. So it was a sudden departure for Jada, and it was always just the two of us.” He can’t help but think if he would have been there for her, she would have struggled less. “Anyone who knew of our relationship would not disagree that my estrangement with her may have played a part,” admitted Brown. “I tend to think that if I was there, I could have provided a positive role model. “I loved that little girl.” We hope he’s being genuine. It’s never too late to own up to your mistakes though — do you think he deserves some credit for that?

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Drugs Are Bad M’Kay: Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Stepdad Reveals He And Her Mom Were Gone Off That Yayo, Takes Blame For Her “Many Addictions”