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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...