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Two people were killed and 25 others kidnapped in a Boko Haram ambush on a civilian convoy in Borno, security sources and a local resident said on Thursday. Boko Haram Terrorists The attack on vehicles under military escort happened at around 3:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Tuesday near the town of Gwoza, in Borno state, and led to a brief shoot-out. “A soldier and a civilian were killed in the ambush and a bus carrying around 25 people was taken away,” civilian militia leader Ibrahim Liman told AFP. The attack was believed to have been carried out by fighters from the Boko Haram faction led by Abubakar Shekau, which is based in and around the Sambisa Forest enclave near Gwoza. In August 2014, the jihadists proclaimed Gwoza as the headquarters of its self-styled caliphate. The convoy was heading from the town to the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, at the time. A military source in the city confirmed the incident. “We lost a soldier and a civilian in the attack,” added the officer, wh

The series of tensed political developments in Nigeria coupled with some negative macroeconomic statistics have taken a huge toll on the competitiveness of Nigeria’s stock market, crashing the ranking of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, to worst performing in Africa 2018Year-to-Date,YtD. NSE was ranked best performing in Africa in 2017. It was also ranked the third best in the world last year by ‘CNN Money’ after recording a whopping 48 percent returns on investments during the year. Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE However, Vanguard checks revealed that as at Tuesday, September 3, 2018, the NSE All Share Index, ASI, had fallen by -11.3 percent YtD. The weekly pan-African stock market monitor by United Capital Plc, a Lagos based investment house, which built the statistics indicated that BVRM (“Regional Securities Exchange) was the second worst performing stock market in Africa with a negative return of -11.1 percent YtD. BVRM covers Francophone West Africa’s weaker economies includi

Osamede Adun, a chieftain of the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and a Benin high chief has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Adun, who led thousands of APC members to defect in Benin also placed a curse on anyone who returned to the party. Speaking at PDP secretariat in Benin, Adun said they dumped APC due to the large-scale poverty and high handedness which the ruling party was notorious for. He said: “We are back home to the PDP. I am placing a curse on anybody who comes here to spy on us with the intention of going back to the APC. “There is a curse on anybody here who goes back to APC. We are through with APC and will never go back to that party. “Woe betides anybody here who goes back to APC. There is poverty everywhere. That is the only achievement of APC. We are back to make PDP better than we met it.” We bring the news to you as it comes.....

As the police complies with the order of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for a total overhaul of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad FSARS, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has warned FSARS personnels to respect the rights of Nigerians and if they go contrary to this, they would be severely punished. The police chief made this known while reading the riot act at the Anambra State Police Command Headquarters, Amawbia at a lecture to officers of FSARS yesterday September 5th. Idris who was represented at the event by the National Coordinator X-Squad, Amaechi Elumelu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, said the membership of FSARS was voluntary and asked those who felt they could not cope with the ongoing reforms to opt out now. Idris said henceforth, any FSARS officer who detained any suspect beyond 48 hours without recourse to the court risked dismissal. “You are created and authorised to handle only armed robbery and kidnapping cases. Operatives of FSARS are to be tra

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has challenged the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, to a debate on national issues on any national television. Mr Saraki presented the challenge, alleging that many people in the media believe he (Mr Nabena) is a robot and does not have a face. His statement was in reaction to another earlier released by Mr Nabena on behalf of the APC where he said Nigerians are tired of Mr Saraki’s retrogressive politics and deserve no more. He had also said Mr Saraki’s presidential declaration is his tactic to deflect attention from the deluge of issues he deals with particularly ahead of the 2019 General Elections i.e. pressure to reconvene the National Assembly, a fast shifting political order in Kwara State, among others. The APC spokesperson described the senate president as an abysmal failure and incompetent candidate of leadership as well as guilty of budget padding, among others. “A Presidenti

At least 41 Nigerians suspected to be homosexuals have been arrested by security operatives in Bauchi State. The suspects were arrested during a joint operation by men of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Bauchi State command. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Kamal Abubakar, who confirmed the incident, told Newsmen that the police had charged 37 of the suspects to court. He said, “Although we gathered through intelligence reports that the suspects were homosexuals, we did not charge them to court as homosexuals or lesbians since we did not catch them in the act. But we charged them for being public nuisance since they were arrested at a birthday party.” According to the Bauchi State Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Ado Zigau, the suspects were arrested based on intelligence reports. He said, “Intelligence reports revealed that some lesbians and homosexuals planned a gathering at the Federal Secretariat Conferen

Vector has reacted to the statement by Mi Abaga, claiming that South African rappers are doing better than their counterparts in Nigeria, describing the statement as disrespectful. Abaga on his 2017 song, ‘You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives’ had complained that Nigerians rappers were underperforming . A part from his song revealed this, “None of you rappers is real enough/ once you blow up now you’re switching up/ that’s why these fans are not feeling yall/ SA rappers are killing yall.” In a belated reaction, Vector described MI Abaga’s assertion as a “super lie”. “It’s fine, you can call rappers wack, you can call them anything but I will stand by it any day any time, don’t wash your dirty linen in public,” Vector said during a Cool FM interview. “Nobody should come and say that is why South African rappers are killing Nigerian rappers. That is such a huge thing to say. That takes it to another level. That is a super lie. “Whoever is saying that knows that the South African e

The orgy of violence revisited Plateau State on Sunday night as gunmen attacked Lopandet community in Dwei Du area of Jos South Local Government Area, killing 13 persons and injuring 12 others. Youths in the community responded yesterday with violent protest of the killings even as the state Governor, Mr. Simon Lalong, commiserated with the people over the heinous attack. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, however, condemned the attack and blamed the governor for embarking on a trip to China, which has no direct benefit to the people of the state. The youths, who defied pleas from women and the elderly in the community, destroyed a police van and attacked journalists who had gone to the community to investigate the killings. An eyewitness from the community, who simply gave his name as Mr. Emmanuel, said 13 persons were killed. According to him, the gunmen invaded the community in a Hilux van at about 8.30 p.m. on Sunday night and opened fire on people at a rel

A head teacher, who was apprehended by the police in Enugu State for defiling four pupils in his school, has blamed Satan for his actions. The head teacher, Nathaniel Idoko, said to be about 50 years old, hails from Mkpamteulo, a community in Enugu Ezike, in the Igboeze Local Government Area of Enugu State. Idoko is the head teacher of a migrant farmers’ children school located in Aguibeji, in Enugu Ezike. The spokesman for the Enugu State Police Command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the Idoko’s arrest on Monday, said he was arrested for defiling four pupils on July 17, 2018. The suspect reportedly took the pupils into a bush, where he sexually assaulted them. The defiled pupils were said to be between five and six years old. Amaraizu said, “On July 17, 2018, Idoko defiled four schoolchildren in a bush near the migrant school. “The head teacher, who is now begging for forgiveness and blaming the incident on Satan, allegedly used his fingers on the private parts of four fe

…No going back on sit-at-home—IPOB …blames S-East govs, Ohanaeze Ndigbo for Operation Python Dance 3 By Chioma Gabriel & Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—SECURITY operatives yesterday urged Nigerians to ignore the September 14, 2018 planned sit-at-home by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and asked people to go about their normal businesses without fear of any molestation.                               Igbo This came as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has cited the discovery of more bodies of victims of Operation Python Dance 2, killed last year by the Nigerian Army in mass graves in Abia State as the reason the group is calling for general strike on September 14, explaining that “at a time when we are still burying those Operation Python Dance 2 killed and dumped in mass graves across Biafraland in September 2017, here we are today with Nigeria military once again poised to invade the South East, to slaughter the weak and innocent in their annual genocidal ritual in the n

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has faulted the claim in some quarters that Igbo people were being marginalized under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. Ngige stated this while speaking to journalists in Awka, Anambra State on the allegations of marginalisation of the Igbos by the APC-led government. He asked his kinsmen to shun sentiments and expand their political horizons by thinking positively and support President Buhari’s second term bid. According to him, the trouble with the Igbos was that they were always self-effacing; adding that everything shared in Buhari government was equally distributed among Nigerians. He said, “There’s nothing that is being shared by the Buhari government that is not equitably done. Buhari has five flagship projects; Lagos-Ibadan to Ilorin Mambila Power Plants; Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway; Second Niger Bridge and East West roads. “You can see how it was shared. So, how are you (Igbo) left out, why are you crying margina

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has alleged that corrupt persons were mobilizing and ganging up to use their illicit wealth to install President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, come 2019. Prince Secondus said that the APC had made itself a safe heaven for corrupt persons and they were converging there not only to get relief but to help install them come 2019 for more protection. The National Chairman, who spoke at the PDP National campaign office at Legacy House, Maitama during the inauguration of the party’s campaign council for Osun State September 22, gubernatorial election, said that the worst form of corruption was rigging of election and buying of votes which the APC was perpetuating in the polity. According to a statement from his media office signed by Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus warned that the PDP would not tolerate the charade that happened in Ekiti state in July to repeat itself in Osun state. “

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi on Monday revealed that many looted funds in Nigeria were stocked in foreign banks, cemeteries and underground. He made this known while declaring open anti-corruption, ethics and integrity training for Ebonyi State local government officials, held in Abakaliki on Monday. The Governor advocated amnesty for looters, saying such approach would help in arresting corruption and commit offenders in surrendering over 70 percent of looted public funds. He promised that in the course of fighting corruption, Ebonyi State government would establish ICPC office in the state. “We have so much of the looted funds trapped in foreign banks, some buried at the cemetery while many were buried underground where they were destroyed by termites. “But if there is a negotiation like committing the looters into subtly surrendering at least 70 percent of the looted funds and keeping the rest or investing all the funds in the country; by so doing, we would