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Reports had emerged recently that the Nigeria Army had, over the weekend, launched a military operation in the Niger Delta region codenamed “Operation Crocodile Smile”. Armored tanks of the Army were pictured on some streets in Delta state. The Army says part of the aims of the new operation is to provide adequate security for residents in the region as well as critical national economic assets in the region. See More Photos Below

BREAKING NEWS ....NIGERIA: Facebook to offer services in more Nigerian langua... : Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering services on Facebook. Zuckerberg, who is currently ...

BREAKING NEWS ....NIGERIA: Facebook to offer services in more Nigerian langua... : Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering services on Facebook. Zuckerberg, who is currently ...

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering services on Facebook. Zuckerberg, who is currently on a business visit to Nigeria, made the promise at a meeting with software developers and ICT entrepreneurs on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that social media application currently allowed the use of Hausa language on Facebook. “I am glad we support Hausa and we are planning on supporting a lot more languages soon.” Zuckerberg also expressed his willingness to work with local content providers in bringing Nigerian communities to the internet. He said that having local contents on the Facebook platform would ensure that more people were connected. According to him, in the next 10 to 15 years, Facebook hopes to get everyone in the world connected online. Zuckerberg is currently meeting with developers, entrepreneurs and startups. His first stop is the Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB), a social innovation centre in Yaba, dedicated to accelerati

He said: “few weeks ago, both the clergy and the laity gathered and showed their anger over the activities of these Fulani herdsmen; we were able to calm people down; we said let us give government a chance; but you can see the climax, a student has just been butchered; it looks like we are being targeted every year, we are being attacked. “The government should do something about this; it is very painful; it is very sad. This is not the way to do things; all of a sudden these people have assumed another efrontery, they have assumed another boldness, they have assumed another attitude. “If they cannot live with us together, let them quietly go; this is our land, we cannot pack out of this place. “We are pleading with all the security agencies to look into this because at a time, people may not hold their patience again, there may be free range of anger and violence. “Of course we are not prone to violence but at a time we can really be stretched so much that we will have no optio

Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode has described statements credited to U.S Secretary of State John Kerry to the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar as “garbage.” The former minister said this on his Twitter timeline shortly after John Kerry left the Sultan of Sokoto. The U.S envoy had lauded the Sultan for promoting religious tolerance and understanding among Nigerians

There seems to be trouble in agitation group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu as the group has split into two with the breakaway group spotting the name, The Rebranded Indigenous People of Biafra (TRIPOB). The breakaway group, TRIPOB, has picked October 1, Nigeria’s Independence Day, to publicly denounce Biafra Republic and burn its flag. According to Chima ‘Phillip Effiong’ Osuji, who released a statement on behalf of the group on Wednesday, the decision was taken on Monday at the end of an emergency meeting of “disaffected” IPOB members. TRIPOB said it now sees the Biafra question “from a different perspective”, as Biafra will now become “a powerful metaphor for change, development and greatness of the Igbos inside a united Nigeria”. It said it had “accepted the fact that the Biafra Republic is not a reality but an anachronism”, and doubts that the south-south region will ever become a part of a Biafra Republic, except by force after a declaration of another

The Nigerian army has claimed that Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has been “fatally wounded” in an unprecedented air raid that also killed several top commanders of the Islamist group. The claim is yet to be independently verified but the Nigerian Army confirmed the news through its twitter handle. In the early hours of Tuesday (23 August), the Nigerian army wrote on Twitter: “Breaking News: Nigerian Air Force raid kills Boko Haram terrorists commanders… ‘Abubakar Shekau’ fatally wounded.” The army’s claims come a day after the Nigerian air force said as many as 300 Boko Haram insurgents were killed during operations in the state of Borno, a stronghold of the Islamist group. Over the past few days, the Nigerian army has been conducting aerial operations against the extremist group, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (Isis) group and seeks to abolish Western influence in the African nation.

A teenager is alleged to be the mastermind behind a gruesome suicide attack that has left more than 50 dead at a wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey. 69 people were also said to be in the hospital and 17 were “heavily injured”. The teenage suicide bomber is aged between 12 and 14, President Tayyip Erdogan said. Mr Erdogan said the Islamic State (IS) was behind the attack, which targeted the Kurdish wedding party. The bomber targeted the wedding guests as they danced in the street Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, is known to have several IS cells. The attack was the deadliest in a series of bombings in Turkey this year.

script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"> Après avoir posé des croix de Saint André, les agents de la Communauté Urbaine de Bafoussam (CUB) ont détruit le chantier de construction du futur siège de la commune de Bafoussam 1er. 72 heures après son ultimatum, la CUB est passée à l’action. Les agents de la super municipalité sont venus détruire le chantier de construction du futur siège de la commune de Bafoussam 1er. Le récit des faits est contenu dans le numéro de Le Jour en kiosque le 19 août 2016. « De bonne heure hier jeudi 18 août 2016, les engins de la communauté urbaine sont venus raser tout le matériel exposé à cet endroit. Sur place, les contrevents qui servaient de barrière de sécurité du chantier, sont détruits et remplacés par une ficelle. Une partie du gravier, a été ramassé et déversé sur la chaussée pour combler les trous. Les fouilles entamées, sont actuellement bouchées. Tout est sens dessus dessous ». L’exécutif co

script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"> Une cérémonie y relative s’est déroulée vendredi à Yaoundé sous la présidence du ministre de la Défense, Joseph Beti Assomo. Elle marque le dépat de ces soldats en RCA, pour une durée d’un an Une cérémonie de prise d’armes du contingent auprès de la Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en République centrafricaine (Minusca) s’est tenue vendredi, 19 août 2016 à Yaoundé. Présidée par le ministre camerounais de la Défense, Joseph Beti Assomo, la cérémonie symbolisait la mise en route pour une durée d’un an de 350 soldats sur un total de 750. Dans son adresse, Assomo a invité les partants à éviter les comportements déviants, contraires à l’éthique militaire et aux missions à eux confiées. Avant leur départ, les soldats camerounais de la Minusca ont été soumis à la signature de contrats individuels, en même temps qu’ils ont bénéficié d’une revalorisati

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The Dream Team have gotten their rewards from Japanese surgeon Katsuya Takasu – Samson Siasia and Mikel Obi were each given $200,000 and $190,000 respectively Japanese surgeon Katsuya Takasu has fulfilled his promise to give the U-23 Dream Team cash rewards for their efforts at the Rio Olympics.

The Ogun State Police Command has rearrested Joe Chinakwe, the man who named his pet dog Buhari. He would be arraigned in court on Monday. According to the state’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, Chinakwe, who was earlier released a few days ago, was picked up again based on the belief that the suspect’s action was capable of provoking an ethnic religious crisis. He said, He is going to court on Monday because what he did was highly provocative. It can cause an ethnic and religious crisis. We have to be proactive, we cannot fold our arms and allow the state to be plunged into crisis. In fact, the arrest was made to save the suspect’s life because the complainant and his group have threatened to kill him if he comes back and this may trigger violence.”