Month: February 2018

Troops Arrest Fulani Herdsmen while Setting a Village Ablaze in Adamawa

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Troops of 101 special Forces Battalion on Excercise Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) deployed at Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State swiftly responded to distress call and supported troops at Gwamba under attack by herdsmen on Tuesday 27 February 2018. Despite swift reaction to rescue the village from destruction, the notorious herdsmen set the villagge ablaze before troops arrival. The determine troops trailed the herdsmen and arrested 6 of them at Garigiji while trying to escape. During the process of the arrest the herdsmen show resistance, which made the alerted…

Nigerian Online Publishers To Police: Journalists Are Not Terrorists

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The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has rejected claims by the Nigeria police that two of its members, Messrs. Timothy and Daniel Elombah, are terrorists and that they breached the country’s cybercrime rules because they approved the publication of an opinion article, deemed offensive by the police, on their website. OPAN stated its position in a statement issued on Wednesday ahead of the arraignment for alleged terrorism and cybercrime of the journalists on Thursday. The police, in a four-count charge, filed at the Federal High Court 5 in Abuja…

DSS Arrests suspected killer of Taraba lawmaker

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The Department of State Services said it had arrested Barnabas Torva Amadu, who was accused of being a member of a gang that kidnapped and killed Mr. Hosea Ibi. Ibi, until he was kidnapped and killed, was a member of the Taraba State House of Assembly. The service said Amadu was arrested on February 25, at Takum in Taraba State, when a joint team of service operatives and the military arrested the 23-year-old Isaiah Suwe. Suwe was said to have led the team to Gbise Village, Katsina Ala Local Government…

PRESIDENT BUHARI SALUTES NLC AT 40

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President Muhammadu Buhari on behalf of the Federal Executive Council and all Nigerians,has warmly congratulated the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on its 40th anniversary. President Buhari joined all Nigerian workers, retirees and pensioners in celebrating the milestone of the vibrant labour union that has lived up to the expectations of its founding fathers by protecting the interest of the Nigerian worker through viable engagements with public and private sector employers. The President affirmed that the NLC has burgeoned into a matured and focused umbrella for all workers in the last…

PRESIDENT BUHARI CONGRATULATES MOVIE VETERAN ,TUNDE KELANI AT 70

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President Muhammadu Buhari joined the media and entertainment industry in congratulating renowned movie producer, filmmaker and photographer, Tunde Kelani, on his 70th birthday. President Buhari felicitated with all family members, friends, professional colleagues and the teeming fans of the artiste, who started out as a journalist before mastering the art of storytelling through the stage and tube, and rising steadily to become one Nigeria’s foremost directors and producers in Nollywood. The President commended Kelani’s uncanny story telling skills and his ability to breathe life into scripts and translate literature to…

How Lagos Banker Stole N700m From Customers- EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Monday, February 26, 2018, arraigned one Nsa Ayi before Justice Mojisola Dada of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an 11-count charge bordering on fraudulent false accounting to the tune of N700 million, an offence contrary to Section 335(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011. The defendant, a former Relationship Officer, Coronation Merchant Bank, allegedly connived with unknown parties to move funds using customers’ electronic instructions meant for investment in the Federal…

2019: APC NEC extends Oyegun, Others tenure by 12 months

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APC National Chairman, John Oyegun The Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has been granted a 12-month tenure extension. The committee tenure is to expire in June 2018 The tenure extension was the major decision taken after a three-hour meeting of the APC National Executive Committee held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday. At the end of the nearly three-hour meeting, the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, announced the NEC’s decision to the media. Bello, who was flanked by…

Dapchi Girls: Exclusive Document Shows Nigerian Military Knew Of Boko Haram’s Plan To Carry Out Mass Abductions In Yobe, But Withdrew Troops

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New evidence showing that the Nigerian military was informed that Boko Haram was planning mass abductions in Yobe State has emerged. A document obtained by SaharaReporters indicated that the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) was notified by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) of plans by Boko Haram militants to carry out a massive attack in February. The confidential memo dated February 6, 2018, and titled “Plans By BHT To Carry Out Massive Attacks In Maiduguri And Damaturu” was signed by Brigadier-General EA Adeniyi, he stated that intelligence gathered by the agency indicated…

EXCLUSIVE: Nnamdi Kanu, Wife Spotted In Ghana -TheCable

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Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been spotted by security agents in Ghana, TheCable understands. There has been controversy over the whereabouts of the IPOB leader who was last seen in public in September 2017 before the military launched Operation Python Dance II — apparently to quell the agitation for the breakaway of south-eastern Nigeria. Since the military raided his home in Aba, Abia state, there has been speculation that he was arrested and might have been killed. At some point, Orji Uzor Kalu, former…

Dapchi 110: The tragedy of a nation by Reuben Abati

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Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed from taking power in 2015, and those who advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to give a damn had their way, and Jonathan had remained in power and all the current problems had surfaced, it would have been said by Nigerians that Goodluck Jonathan truncated Nigeria’s destiny. In 2015, the refrain,…