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The military says only the political authorities can decide on the demand by Boko Haram insurgents for exchange of the abducted Chibok girls with the sect's detained members.

The Chief of Defence Staff, Lt-General Abayomi Olonishakin, stated this while addressing State House correspondents Monday fter a workshop organised for chief executives of government agencies held at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.

In a video released by the sect weekend, a man clad in military uniform hanging an AK47 rifle had said some of the girls were still alive but would only be exchanged with Boko Haram members in the custody of the Nigerian authorities.

The Chief of Defence Staff also stressed yesterday that the military would sustain its counter-insurgency operations.

"That (swapping of Chibok girls with detained sect members) is a political decision to be taken. The military decision is that we are going ahead with our operations. The operation is being conducted appropriately," the CDS stated.

Olonishakin, who said the meeting was on how to handle all forms of crises, including terrorism or flood, said the military was analysing the video and would make appropriate comments at the right time.

The CDS dismissed a report that a man who was declared wanted in connection with the activities of the insurgents was turned down when he reported to the army command in Borno State.

"Nobody reported to my men and was not turned back," he said.

Information Minister Lai Mohammed also spoke on the sect's request for swap, saying: "Until you are able to ascertain the authenticity of those you are talking to, you don't go into details."

The minister restated that the Federal Government was in touch with the leadership of the sect.

"The government's position is clear that we're in touch with them. We're just being careful and cautious to ensure that we're talking to the right people especially with the news that there is a split in the leadership. But what is important is the safety and security of these girls. The thrust of my statement was to ensure the nation that we're on top of the situation. We're not even just reacting to the video, we've gone far beyond the video in talking to the group already," he said.

On the plan by the BringBackOurGirls campaigners to match to the State House again, Mohammed said: "We appreciate their commitment to the return of these girls, but there are few things we need to do behind the scene. What we're saying is that the government is committed to doing everything to rescue these girls. We're engaging them. By saying we're talking to them, I'm talking from a point of knowledge. It does not matter what other people say. I know that the government is in touch with the group.

"Most people will forget the issue of these girls as soon as the effect of this video is over, but the government is daily working on it. Until the release of this video, the effort was not attracting any attention. But everyday, the Office of the NSA and others concerned are working on it. For us, it's not just because of the release of the video, but because of our belief that there'll be no final closure to Boko Haram until we're able to resolve the issue of these girls."

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, explained that the workshop was arranged for chief executives to understand how to respond to emergency issues and be in the position to advise the president to take the right decisions under emergency cases whether on terrorism, flood or any other thing.

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The Nigerian military asked a man it declared wanted to go home after he reported at one of its facilities in Borno State.

Ahmed Bolori, the coordinator of the Fa’ash Foundation and the Partnership Against Violent Extremism and resident of Maiduguri, was declared wanted alongside two others on Sunday.

The Nigerian Army in a statement said the three, which included journalist, Ahmad Salkida and Aisha Wakil, a lawyer, were declared wanted for their alleged ties to the Boko Haram sect.

The Army said the three refused to provide useful information to authorities despite having clear and unfettered access to the sect and also held them responsible for the Boko Haram video that was released on Sunday.

The video purportedly showed the Army conducting area bombardment of an unknown location where the abducted Chibok girls are kept, killing many of them in the process.
The Defence Headquarters denied killing the girls and said it was also analysing the video to establish its authenticity.

In a message released by Farook Kperoogi, a U.S.-based Nigerian journalism professor, Mr. Bolori reported at “the top military barracks in Maiduguri, waited for more than two hours, but there was no one to interrogate or arrest him.”

Mr. Kperoogi posted the development on his Facebook page which he said was part of the conversation he had with Mr. Bolori.

Mr. Kperoogi also attached a WhatsApp conversation in which Mr. Bolori could be seen discussing with an official of the Defence Military Intelligence about how and where he could turn himself in for interrogations.
Mr. Kperoogi said Mr. Bolori was later told to “go home” after spending more than two hours waiting and making frantic calls to Army hierarchy to come and detain him, having been declared wanted.

The announcement by the Army declaring Messrs. Bolori, Salkida and Wakil wanted has triggered debates across the world.

The spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman, could not be reached to comment for this story Monday morning. He did not answer or return calls made to him.

Read the full statement by Mr. Kperoogi below:

[b]It is now self-evident that no one in the highest reaches of governance and security enforcement in Nigeria is thinking. How can you declare people “wanted” when you haven’t even invited them for questioning–and they haven’t resisted your invitation? I just got off the phone with Ambassador Ahmed Umar Bolori, one of the people declared “wanted” by the Nigerian military.

He told me he called the Chief of Army Staff, the spokesperson of the Nigerian military who announced him “wanted,” and other top military officers and said he was at their beck and call and didn’t need to be declared “wanted” since he wasn’t in hiding.

He then went ahead and turned himself in at the top military barracks in Maiduguri, waited for more than two hours, but there was no one to interrogate or arrest him.
He called and texted the chief of army staff and the military spokesperson again and pleaded with them to send someone to detain, arrest, interrogate, or do whatever they wanted to do to him because he wanted to clear his name.

He was later told to go home and return the following day! They told a “wanted” man to go home and come back the next day! Can you believe that? First, he is personally known to the chief of army staff and to the military spokesman. These people also know his home in Maiduguri.

They know where to get him if they want to. Yet they declared him “wanted.” Is there any parallel to this level of puzzling incompetence in the world? Who declares people “wanted” without any interest in seeing, much less interrogating, them?[/b]

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Chibok resident urges govt to bring girls home

The President, Kibaku Youth Association of Nigeria, the youth association of the community, Moses Zakwa, said whatever the Federal Government could do to rescue the Chibok girls would be welcomed by parents of the abducted girls and the entire community.

He said the Chibok community and the parents of the abducted girls were already disappointed that the All Progressives Congress government failed in its promise to rescue the girls within its first 100 days in power.

Zakwa said, “The government knows the best thing to do. We, the stakeholders and parents of the Chibok girls, want the government to do whatever within its power to rescue the Chibok girls. This is over two years of abduction that we are talking about. This issue happened in 2014 and till today only one girl had been rescued.

“This same APC government used the platform of Chibok girls, one way or the other, to clinch the power. They promised Nigerians that they were going to do everything possible to rescue the girls; and we believed them – Nigerians believed them. Today, we are talking about over one year since they assumed office, nothing has happened.

We are in touch with Boko Haram – FG

The Federal Government on Sunday said it was in touch with members of Boko Haram.

In a statement by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the government added that it was being cautious in order to establish that it was dealing with the right people.

Asked by our correspondent if the government was conceding to the request of the Islamist group, Mohammed said the government was doing everything possible to secure the release of the girls and “put an end to the horrible saga of their abduction”.

He said, “The government is in touch with those behind the video. We are on top of the situation. We are being extremely careful because the situation has been compounded by the split in the leadership of Boko Haram. We are also being guided by the need to ensure the safety of the girls.

“Since this is not the first time we have been contacted over the issue. We want to be doubly sure that those we are in touch with are who they claim to be.

“We hope that the latest development will signal the beginning of the end of the nightmare to which the girls, their families and indeed all Nigerians have been subjected since the unfortunate abduction.”

Military dismisses B’Haram’s claim

The Defence authorities have described the claim by the Boko Haram that some of the Chibok girls were killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force as propaganda.

The acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, told our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday that the equipment used by the military in the bombing of the Sambisa forest had a high level of precision in hitting targets.

He said the insurgents were only making attempts weep up psychological trauma in the parents and citizenry against the military.

Abubakar added that the military was studying the latest video released by the insurgents to ascertain its authenticity.

He further stated that the same platforms were deployed by military in the operation against pipeline vandals at Arepo and other riverine communitiesof Ogun and Lagos states.

He said, “We are still assessing the video clip to confirm its authenticity or otherwise. This is an era of social media, anything can happen, anybody can crop up anything. However, we are very much alive to our responsibilities.

“The claim that the aerial bombardment was used to kill some of them is a complete propaganda; they are trying to buy time, or trying to put psychological trauma in Nigerians against the military.

“The equipment we are now using since the beginning of the new leadership of the military is a high level precision aerial equipment; just the way we did in Arepo in the Ogun, Lagos areas against vandals. The equipment was capable of the registering target and capable of hitting that target.

“The equipment was used to avoid unnecessary targets; to avoid collateral damage. So the issue of saying we are using bombs to kill Chibok girls is propaganda. They are trying to create psychological trauma in the parents and all Nigerians.”

Abubakar added that the decision on the exchange of the Chibok girls for Boka Haram suspects could only be taken by political leaders.

“We should not close our eyes on other people who have been rescued recently as a result of Operation Crack Down? The issue of exchange is purely for our respected political leaders. The military would continue with our operation.”

Army declares journalist, two others wanted

The Nigerian Army has declared a journalist, Ahmed Salkida, and two others, Ahmed Bolori and Aisha Wakil, wanted for their alleged connection with Boko Haram.

The acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, on Sunday via email, saying the army decided to declare Salkida and the two others wanted because of the conviction that they had relevant information on the location of the Chibok girls.

He said that the army’s decision had to do with the two recent videos released by the leadership of the insurgent group and the findings by a preliminary investigation by the military on the videos.

He stressed that the military was sure that Salkida and the two others had contact with the terrorists and the missing girls.

Usman said that the three wanted people must come forward to tell Nigerians where the missing girls and other abducted persons were being kept to enable the military to rescue them.

‘‘There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram.”

The acting Army Spokesman called on Nigerians to provide useful information that could lead to the arrest of the three wanted persons.

Wakil, who is a lawyer, was in contact with the Federal Government in 2013, during the amnesty negotiations with the insurgents.

She was reported to have met with former President Goodluck Jonathan as part of the negotiation, which later broke down.

Bolori is said to be the coordinator of the Fa’ash Foundation and the Partnership Against Violent Extremism. He resides in Maiduguri.

I got the video exclusive before release –Salkida

Salkida had on Saturday went on his Twitter handle, @ContactSalkida, to announce that he had obtained the video of the Chibok girls exclusively from Boko Haram.

In a series of tweets, the journalist analysed what he saw in the video, saying one of the girls in the video said airstrikes by the military had allegedly killed some of her colleagues.

He said, “Just In: Jama‘atu Ahlil Sunnah Li-Da‘awati Wal-Jihad #BH has released a video showing the abducted #Chibokgirls and restating their demands.

“This is the second time Shekau has ordered a video of the girls to be released to the public since the abduction of the girls 852 days ago.

“I’m studying the video of the #Chibokgirls that was sent exclusively to me before their abductors upload on it YouTube later. @BBOG_Nigeria.

“Many of the girls can be seen in the video; a Chibok girl speaks in mother tongue and narrates how airstrikes has killed dozens of her mates.

Salkida later twitted the YouTube link to the video on Sunday morning.

In what appeared to be a change of tone after the military declared him and others wanted, Salkida tweeted links to his report published on December 12, 2011, in which he said he was critical of Boko Haram.

He tweeted the link together with another link to another report by him on the division in the camp of the sect, saying, “Recently, BH threatened me for this.”

After this, Salkida twitted a link to a paper he said he delivered in Senegal in 2012, titled ‘Reporting Terrorism in Africa: My Personal Experience with Boko Haram.

The BringBackOurGirls group and the parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls on Sunday demanded that the Federal Government swap detained Boko Haram members for the girls who have been in captivity for over two years.

This followed the video of the girls released by the sect on Sunday.

Boko Haram is holding more than 200 of the 276 final-year girls it seized from Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State, in April 2014.

Some of them escaped, but 215 girls remain missing. In May 2016, one of them, Amina Ali, was rescued.

In the video released by the Abubakar Shekau faction, Boko Haram claimed that some of the girls were killed by air strikes launched by the Nigerian Air Force on their hideouts.

The new video, more than 11 minutes long, showed a masked armed man standing in front of several girls, whom he claimed were the over 200 girls abducted from their hostel at the GSS in 2014.

The man stated that the video was released to send a message to the parents of the girls to beg the government to release Boko Haram members in detention centres in exchange for the girls.

He said, ‘‘It pleased God to let us have these girls in our captivity for over two years now. Our first message is to the parents of the girls to let them know that their daughters are still with us; some of them.

‘‘ I also want to tell them to beg the Nigerian government to release our brethren, especially those in Maiduguri, Lagos and Abuja and other places across Nigeria. They should be released immediately.

‘‘You all knew that we had the girls, but God never allowed you to know their location and you will never know by God’s grace. You keep lying in your media that you will rescue them; they have been with us for over two years, yet you don’t know where they are. You have been lying about these girls.

‘‘For over two years that we have been with these girls, about 40 of them have been married, some are dead as a result of airstrikes by infidels. We will show you a video of how your own aircraft dropped a bomb that killed some of these girls. Some of the girls have suffered fractures and other forms of injuries as a result of the air strikes.

‘‘As you can see, these are the girls, all we want is for you to release our brethren, otherwise, you will never get these girls, God willing. This is our message to the Federal Government and the parents of the Chibok girls.

‘‘As long as the government does not release our people, we will also never release these girls.

One of the girls, Maida Yakubu (Dorcas), who spoke in both Hausa and Kibaku, her native language, asked parents to “be patient and beg the government to release their people, so that we will also be released.”

The BBOG, in a statement, on Sunday, read by a co-convener, Aisha Yesufu, stated that members would press for their demands with a march to the President office.

“After listening to the call of Dorcas Yakubu, we demand an immediate action, as well as a result-oriented response plan by the government. The excuse of a split within the terrorists’ ranks or a period of validation of the authenticity of their claims will not suffice this time. We shall press these demands with a march to the Presidential Villa in the next few days,” the group stated.

The coalition expressed disappointment over the failure of the government to make use of the information it received from the earlier video of the girls in April.

“In the aftermath of an earlier video, we repeatedly called on government to treat the information as the missing piece of credible information it was seeking. Not even the return of Amina Ali, a Chibok girl, inspired the sort of response we demanded,” the group added.

It called on the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, China, Australia, Israel, and agencies like the United Nations and the African Union to reengage and adopt a strategic rescue position.

A co-convener of the coalition, Oby Ezekwesili, stated that there were only three choices available to the government.

She stated that her movement would not allow the government to rest until the Chibok girls were rescued or released, adding that the BBOG did not want to see another video of the girls.

She said, “We are not going to let up until this government acts. Let them get ready because every day we shall be marching to the (Presidential) villa. These girls were kidnapped in the course of getting education, which annoyed me to no end.

“It is on this basis of education that I became what I am today. If it means marching to the villa everyday to demand the release of our chibok girls, so be it….Only three choices are available – negotiate to release our girls, use the military operation or a combination of the two. We don’t want to see a fourth video.”

Also, Esther Yakubu, the mother of one of the abducted girls, Dorcas, said she broke down while watching the video of her daughter.

Esther said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was “more clueless than Jonathan’s.”

“The Chibok girls must be rescued, they must have their lives, the future that Boko Haram tries to truncate,” she said in an emotional outburst.

Earlier, Esther had told one of our correspondents that she regretted putting Dorcas in boarding school.

“I wanted her to have the best of education, I planned to sponsor her education to whatever level she wanted, but she could not sit for her final examinations because she was abducted.

“Boko Haram in the video asked the government to release their members so that they could release our girls. If the government knows that it cannot handle the insurgency, it should invite other countries. It is not a crime to seek assistance in a war. It is a shame for them to allow our daughters to languish in captivity for over two years.

“I don’t regret sending her to school, but I regret putting her in boarding school. If she was a day student, she would be home with me that night. The abduction affected her because she was in boarding school,” Yakubu added.

She said apart from her daughter, she recognised about 20 other girls.

“I recognised Saratu Ayuba, Awa Ishaiya and others. In that video, Dorcas has grown up a little and she is slimmer. I cried when I saw her in the video. That is only change I observe, but I thank God she is alive.”

Dorcas father, Kabu Yakubu, urged the government to release Boko Haram detainees in exchange for the Chibok girls, adding that the demand had boosted his hope that his daughter and others would eventually make it home.

“I will sleep well because since she was kidnapped, I have never seen her in other videos released. But today, I saw her in the video, and my joy was rekindled.

“What we have been telling the government is what Boko Haram demanded in the video. We are appealing to the government to help us to release Boko Haram detainees so they can release our daughters. In the video, my daughter was begging the government to negotiate with the terrorists and they (Boko Haram) said unless the government releases their members who were being detained in Abuja, Lagos and Maiduguri prisons, they won’t release the girls.

Susanne, the widow of the Chief Protocol Officer of the Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Desmond Nunugwo, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of killing her husband and labelling him a criminal.

She explained that six hours after Desmond was taken into custody, he was pronounced dead.

She told PUNCH Metro that she had been calling her husband’s phone repeatedly but it was switched off as she did not know he was in EFCC’s custody in Wuse 2, Abuja.

Susanne said, “Around 3pm on June 9, my husband had gone to pick up our son from school and they both returned home. He later went out. Around 6pm, I called his line and it rang once. I tried his number several times later, but it was off.

“The next morning, I got apprehensive when he didn’t come home. However, around 3.48pm, someone called me with his phone and said my husband was in the EFCC’s custody and I should come to bail him.”

Susanne said on getting to the EFCC, she was told to go and get a man because being a woman, her husband could not be released on bail to her.

Shortly after leaving, the EFCC was alleged to have issued a press statement breaking the news of Desmond’s death.

She said, “The EFCC called me to their office to come and bail my husband while he was already at the mortuary.

“I later received a phone call from a former colleague of mine that he had read the news online that my husband was arrested for fraud and he had died.”

The widow said she was informed that her husband’s arrest was sequel to a petition written by one Uloma, his business associate.

Susanne said, “She (Uloma) told the EFCC that she met my husband on a flight in 2012 when he was on his way to the US where I went to give birth. She said my husband introduced her to a third party with whom she did a N91m transaction.”

Susanne berated the EFCC for labelling her husband a fraudster even after causing his death, adding that the anti-graft agency must clear his name.

The nephew of the deceased, Amaechi Ihezie, told PUNCH Metro that when he visited the EFCC, investigators told him that Desmond slumped and died.

He said the anti-graft agency denied Desmond bail even after it had been discovered that he did not receive any money from the transaction.

Ihezie accused the EFCC of being overzealous as the commission did not inform the Ministry of Defence of Desmond’s arrest or investigation even though he had been working at the ministry for over 10 years.

“The EFCC told me that before he died, he wrote a statement of four pages. They gave him his phone to make calls for about two hours and then nobody came to bail him and so they said they transferred him to their head office and that a few hours later, he started to complain of discomfort and slumped. They said he was rushed to the hospital and confirmed dead,” he added.

In a petition addressed to the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), the lawyer of the family, Mr. Paul Edeh, alleged a cover-up in the case.

Edeh said the EFCC had released all those, who were in detention with Desmond, on the day he died so that there would be no witnesses.

The petition partly read, “The EFCC has blatantly refused that a post-mortem examination should be carried out on the body so as not to be indicted. This may have been the reason why more than two months after Desmond’s death, no move has been made to carry out an autopsy.

“After many visits by our clients to the EFCC and the police, both agencies have maintained that Desmond died a natural death. One, therefore, wonders how both the police and the EFCC could come up with such a common position in the absence of a medical examination to determine the cause of death.”

However, the EFCC had said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that the deceased allegedly fraudulently obtained N91m from an acquaintance after he tricked her into believing that he had high net worth business associates in Dubai, who were on the verge of buying NICON Insurance, and convinced her of their disposition to help her stockfish business.

Consequently, she allegedly wired N91m into an account, Mainage General Merchants, in Diamond Bank.

The EFCC added, “After the transfer of the funds, he became evasive forcing the complainant to report to the EFCC. Consequently, he was arrested in Utako, Abuja, at about 5.33pm on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

“He admitted to receiving the money from the complainant, with the additional information that he transferred N30m of the said money to Norway. But he could not explain the whereabouts of the balance of N61m.

“The suspect was detained at about 7.30pm, in the absence of anybody to take him on bail. Six hours later, he suddenly complained of discomfort and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Nigerian Army has explained why it declared a Nigerian journalist, Ahmed Salkida and two other persons – Ahmed U. Bolori and Aisha Wakil – wanted because of their alleged link with the terror group, Boko Haram.


Sani Usman, the Acting Director Army Public Relations, a colonel, said in a press statement issued on Sunday evening that, “There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram Terrorists and have contacts with them.

“They must therefore come forward and tell us where the group is keeping the Chibok Girls and other abducted persons to enable us rescue them.

The army says it was relying on relevant laws of the country, especially the Terrorism Prevention Act 2011 to declare the two men and the lady wanted in connection with Boko Haram.

“We are therefore calling on all Nigerians and peace loving people to give us useful information on their whereabouts. We are also liaising with other security agencies for their arrest if they failed to turn up,” the statement said.

Mr. Sakilda is known for his access to the extremist sect.

Ms. Wakil, a lawyer, was in contact with the Nigerian government during the 2013 amnesty negotiations with the Boko Haram insurgents.

She is believed to have met with former President Goodluck Jonathan at the time as part of the negotiation, which later broke down.

Mr. Bolori is known as coordinator of the Fa’ash Foundation and the Partnership Against Violent Extremism (Pave).

He lives in Maiduguri, Boko Haram’s birthplace and the epicentre of its insurgency. He witnessed the rise of the terror group, which turned violent in 2009.

The Army consider Sunday’s video as part of Boko Haram’s propaganda.

Mr. Sakilda had said on Twitter that the video was sent exclusively to him before the sect uploaded it to YouTube.

Boko Haram had said in the video that it would only negotiate with the Nigerian government through journalists known to be close to it.

The Defence Headquarters had in a statement released shortly after the video went viral on the Internet denied killing the girls and said it was examining its authenticity.

BiafraBushBoy:
Jesu


Looking at the guy, we can all deduce that he has no joy..... From

Unpaid allowances

Scam of Apc

Corruption in Nigeria,

All he did was transfer aggression to an innocent person....

God is watching

A former Secretary General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, yesterday, in Lagos, said the 2014 National Conference did not address Nigerians’ needs, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari administration needs to consider regionalizing the country into the current six geo-political zones for national and economic development.

“The 2014 National Conference is not the answer to the restructuring that Nigeria needs”, Anyaoku said.

He also urged youths to mobilize for the restructuring of the country.

“You should mobilize and channel some of your youthful enthusiasm into clamoring for a restructuring of the country’s governance architecture.”

Anyaoku, who spoke during the 2016 United Nations International Youth Day, held at University of Lagos, said: “The restructuring that I am advocating for proposes no threat to Nigeria’s unity.

“On the contrary, it is the continuation of the ongoing agitation in different parts of the country which is encouraged by the present governing structure that will most probably lead to the undoing of Nigeria’s unity.” He said that some elements in the recommendations of the 2014 conference, such as those pertaining to state police and physical arrangements, are steps in the right direction, noting, “The proposals that the conference adopted that there should be 54 states completely negates the idea of a vibrant federalism in a country with the history of ethnically and religiously diversity as Nigeria.”

He said: “I have maintained since 2005 on the basis of my over ten years experience with governance in over 50 countries of the Commonwealth that Nigeria cannot attain political stability and its desire of national and social-economic development unless it restructures its existing governance architecture.

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The troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested four Boko Haram members who were planting Improvised Explosive Device along a major supply route for the Nigerian Army at Gombiri, Borno State.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in an electronic mail on Friday that the troops who were on a mission to clear mines and IEDs in the area recovered two heavy IEDs from the insurgents.

He said that the suspects were arrested following information provided by an arrested terror suspect, Lawan Abbai, on the activities of the suspects.

He said that the troops arrested four fleeing Boko Haram suspects who claimed to be on their way to surrender to troops.

He stated however that preliminary investigation conducted by the troops revealed that the four suspects were the ones alleged to have been planting IEDs in the area.

He said, “Following information provided by an arrested suspected Boko Haram terrorist, Lawan Abbai, troops on Operation LAFIYA DOLE yesterday morning carried out mine and Improvised Explosive Devices’ clearance at Gombori which was along the troops main supply route.

“The troops located and recovered two heavy IEDs buried in the ground by suspected remnants of Boko Haram terrorists.

“In the process of recovering the deadly IEDs, the troops intercepted four fleeing suspected Boko Haram terrorists that alleged that they were on their way to surrender to troops.

“On preliminary investigation, they were identified as confirmed Boko Haram terrorists planting IEDs along troops’ routes by their arrested colleague, Lawan Abbai.”

He added that the troops also rescued five women and a baby from the Boko Haram members in the area

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Passengers on board a 14-seater bus in Nyeri town, Kenya -were left shocked after two persons, one of them a pregnant woman were arrested with a gun. According to the police, these two are among the most wanted gangsters they've been looking for and the recovered pistol was stolen from a CID officer a month ago.

According to Nyeri Central OCPD Makau Masai, police officers acted on a tip-off from members of the public who alerted them to the two after they abandoned some suspicious looking luggage at homage building in downtown nyeri.

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The Peoples Democratic Party has slammed President Buhari stating that his policies show that he’s clueless about how to move Nigeria forward.

They said this in a statement released by Deji Adeyanju, the director for New Media for the PDP in which he criticized the statements made by Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. For the avoidance of doubt, we will repeat some of them.

The vice President had revealed some facts about the decline in the Nigerian Economy some of which were; the fall of Foreign Investment by 56% from $395m in Q1 2015 to $175m in Q1 2016, Foreign Investment in the Stock market stood at a mere $90.3m in Q1 2016 down from $621m in Q1 2015, The rise of Inflation to 16.5% in 2016. It stood at 9.6% in 2015 & 8.6% in 2014, a massive fall in GDP growth from 6.3% in 2014 to 2.3% in 2015 & -1.8% in 2016 to mention a few.

The statement also noted that it is difficult to verify Osinbajo’s claim that FIRS has achieved 73.17% because the FIRS has blatantly refused to publish quarterly reports for 2016.
The statement also noted that while Osinbajo stated that CAPEX spending of the FG this year has been N332bn and a promise to release N100bn in the coming days was a positive move, it still represents only a meagre 18.4% of the N1.8tn proposed by #Budget2016 and as such is insufficient to provide any meaningful effect on the economy.

According to the statement, releasing only 18.4% of CAPEX expenditure as at August 2016 has stalled infrastructure development & has killed 1000s of jobs.
The statement slammed Buhari saying that the sum total of the figures showed that the current administration has badly mismanaged the Nigerian economy.
Even worse, the Buhari administration has no clue as to how to reposition Nigeria to beat the recession they have forced the country into the statement further alleged.
The PDP also accused many agencies of violating the FOI Act in refusing to divulge data as such data they claimed would reveal the extent of damage the administration had caused.

The PDP did express optimism that with the appointment of a Special Adviser on Economic Matters the current administration will come up with better policies than the “try your luck” approach adopted in the past 15 months.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

soberdrunk:
Lmao @ the way hin guys dey deny am , nah all dis kain case i dey wish say nah me dey handle----- so out of 2.7 million u only bought blackberry? "Yes sir" *hot slap!!*, you mean if we release you, you are willing to work for '7 years and five months' without pay to refund the money? "Yes sir" *another hot slap*!! You go club with oga money? "Yes sir' *uppercut*! How many girls u carry? "4 sir" *elbow slam*!! ..........

Rozaybb:
lol...omo dat gradma na CAPON ooo!!! see her face

madridguy:
PDP is dead. Shikena

madridguy:
Just make sure you purchase your presidential FORM from Ali Modu Al-Sherriff.

Meanwhile, PDP is dead already.

Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, on Monday, said he would contest for presidency on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019.
Lamido made this known to newsmen in his village – Bamaina – in Birnin-kudu Local Government Area of the State.
He, however, said a party’s ticket was not given to anybody on the platter of gold, adding that a candidate must earn it.
“If my party finds me worthy of the party’s presidential ticket to serve Nigeria, I will thank God and oblige.
“Although there are issues in the party that we are all working to resolve, we hope to have success soon and come out united.
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“As I’m talking to you now, we are working silently to resolve our differences and bring back to our fold those that left the party for APC,” he said.
The former governor held that the internal crisis in PDP was the reason for its defeat in 2015 general elections.
He said that the party had the capacity to rule the country again but the members must work hard to achieve that.
Lamido denied any rift between him and his successor, Gov. Muhammad Badaru of APC.
He stated that both of them had mutual respect for each other and he had no differences with him other than political ideologies.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

ClassCaptain:
i will not comment on the nomenclature

PUNCH Metro learnt that among the seven suspects was a 54-year-old grandmother, Bola Ajayi,who was apprehended in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State for allegedly receiving some of the stolen goods.

The other six suspects are Olanrewaju Gbadamosi, 33; Lukman Akinola, 33; Dele Rotimi, 37; Taiwo Olabode, 38; Uche Anthony, 27; and Taiwo Ayodele, 27.