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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"> Le kamikaze visait le centre du marché de Mora pour maximiser le bilan Au moins quatre civils ont été tués ce dimanche matin dans un attentat-suicide qui a eu lieu au marché dominical de Mora, selon les autorités administratives de la Région de l’Extrême-Nord. Les mêmes sources informent que 24 personnes ont été blessées lors de l’explosion. Parmi les blessés, huit seraient dans un «état grave» et «seront transportées dans les prochaines minutes à l’hôpital militaire de Maroua». Les sources militaires informent que le jeune kamikaze visait le centre du marché de Mora qui accueille chaque dimanche de nombreux commerçants en provenance du Cameroun, du Nigeria et du Tchad. «Si le kamikaze avait atteint le centre du marché, le bilan aurait ete plus lourd», declare la source. Les islamistes de la secte nigériane, Boko Haram, renouent ainsi avec les attentats-suicides après plus d’un mois de...

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.”

Nigerian Army, Friday said, claims by the Boko Haram insurgents that, 40 of the Chibok girls abducted were killed by military fighter jet was an attempt to draw empathy through manipulative means as according to the military, the bodies shown on the video clips did not lool like people killed by fighter plane but those killed by Ak47 rifle. Speaking at a press conference at the Media Centre of the Garrison Command of the 7 Division Nigerian Army Maiduguri, the Theatre Commander, Major General Leo Irabor explained that, it is a matter of common sense for people to understand that, the Boko Haram insurgents are using all forms of propaganda to arrest public attention and to show that, they are still strong in the ongoing crises in the northeast. According to him, “Boko Haram’s days are numbered, their future is disastrous, but they can save themselves from the disaster that awaits them if they see rea...

The 30-year-old trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, who was arrested last Saturday for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari’ has been released by the police in Ogun State.He has also given reasons why he named his pet dog ‘Buhari’. The embattled trader was let off the hook around 5pm on Tuesday after the intervention of both the Serkin Hausa and President-General of non-indigenes in the state. It was learned that the prompt intervention of the elders made the complainant to withdraw the case he reported against the trader at Sango-Ota division which was later transferred to Police headquarters at Eleweran. However, police sources said both the complainant and suspect were made to sign an undertaking not to cause any breach of peace again. Speaking to Vanguard after this release, the trader, a father of two from the Niger Delta, who trades on second hand clothing lamented that he was made to suffer for no just cause. Narrating his...

Three pilgrims from Kwara have reportedly been arrested by the Saudi Arabian authorities for alleged possession of substance suspected to be cocaine. Hajia Fatima Abolore-Jimoh, the Executive Secretary, Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, confirmed the arrest on Wednesday from Saudi Arabia). She said the three pilgrims, who were among the first batch of 505 Pilgrims from Kwara, were arrested in Madinnah by Saudi Arabia security operatives. The executive secretary, who did not disclose the identities of the three suspects, said they were still in the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities. Abolore-Jimoh said the Saudi Arabian law would certainly take its course on the three suspected drug traffickers She described the arrest as unfortunate and painful in spite of several appeals to them to be good ambassadors of Kwara and Nigeria. The executive secretary said that other pilgrims from the state were still in Madinnah, hale, healthy and in good spirit in spite of the unfortunate ...

A middle-aged Fulani woman simply identified as Asmau (pictured above) has been arrested for stealing two children of the woman she was working for in Ogere, Ogun state and taking them to Ikorodu in Lagos state where she turned them to street beggars, Vanguard reports. Asmau who served as a housemaid to the mother of the two children, worked for four months before kidnapping the children Amina, 6 and Rukayya, 7. Mother of the children simply identified as Hawau while narrating how it all happened, said Asmau had been living with her and assisting her with some domestic chores while being paid N400 or N500 daily. According to her, during the Sallah holiday in July, she had planned to send her daughters to their grandparents in Lagos for holiday and had invited her brother to come down to Ogun state to take her children to Lagos. “My brother came to pick them (Amina and Rukayya) but did not meet me and my children at home on Sallah day because we had gone to the Eid ground to pray...

The Nigerian military has granted administrative bail to Ahmed U. Bolori while Aisha Wakil was handed to the Department of State Security (DSS). It was not clear why Wakil who voluntarily submitted herself to the Army authorities was handed over to the DSS but a source hinted that it was for further investigation as she could prove useful in getting to the root of the Chibok girls debacle. A top military officer, who plead anonymity also disclosed that the investigation is still ongoing while expecting the return of the third wanted person, Ahmed Salkida who resides in Dubai United Arab Emirate (UAE). The three Nigerians were declared wanted after the recent release of video by Boko Haram terrorists group purporting to show some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.