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MAIDUGURI, (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked Nigeria’s northern city of Maiduguri in Borno state on Wednesday from a cashew plantation a few kilometres from the Giwa barracks, military sources said. Residents said they heard heavy shooting and explosions on the outskirts and began fleeing their homes. “I’m trapped near the University of Maiduguri now,” local resident Kabir Olaoye told Reuters by phone. The shooting began around 6:45 p.m. (1745 GMT), he said. The city of around two million people is the birthplace of the jihadi group, which has killed thousands in its attempt to carve out an Islamist state in the country’s northeast. Maiduguri has not experienced an attack since two major takeover attempts in late January and early February and several bombings in March. Boko Haram claimed an area larger than Belgium last year and was fast becoming a regional threat after it increased cross-border incursions. Chadian and Nigerian troops entered

A suspected member of the armed robbery gang that attacked a bank in Lekki, Lagos in March this year says he was given only N50,000 from the operation that claimed the lives of three police officers and a teenage street hawker. Ekelemo Kuete. The suspect, an Ondo state indigene, who is one of the four arrested this week (all 4 pictured above), said 15 of them went for the operation and that he was the one that drove the speed boat that took the robbers to the crime scene and drove them after they had completed their operation. Scene of the robbery "We were 15 in number that went for that operation and we used two speed boats. Five of us stayed back in the boat at Lekki while the other 10 went inside the bank. When they killed the policemen and two other civilians I queried them but they didn’t listen.  I am the speed boat driver that took the armed robbery gang to Lekki on March 12, 2015. I didn’t want to go, they forced me, and after the operation, they

Mrs Roseline Akinsola, 50, on Monday delivered a set of twins after 14 years of childlessness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akinsola, who works at the Ekiti State Christian Pilgrims Board, was full of praises to God for answering her prayers. The mother of two girls, who weighed 4.2kg and 2.3kg, advised other couples in need of children not to lose hope. In an interview with NAN, she expressed gratitude to God for giving her the children after several years. "I thank God for the new name he has given to me; before, I was being called Iya Iyanu’’ without a child, but today, my name has changed to “Mummy Twins.’’ Many of my colleagues, friends and neighbours mocked and sidelined me, but because I stood firm on the words of God, He answered my prayers. I thank my husband, who inspite of the troubles and problems from family members, friends, colleagues and neighbours still believe in me and God. He stood by me like a father in all ways and also be

Nigeria’s Dr. Benjamin Ola Akande of St. Louis, Missouri, has been named the 21st president of the 164-year-old Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He will take office July 1, succeeding Dr. George B. Forsythe, president since 2008, who is retiring after 10 years at Westminster. Dr. Akande, a Nigerian-born American citizen, was introduced Friday, May 8, to a large audience of about 200 faculty, staff and students. He served as a professor of Economics and Dean of the George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster University in St. Louis. He also leads Webster’s global Office of Corporate Partnerships. “We’re proud to introduce Dr. Akande as president of Westminster College,” said Wallace L. Head, chairman of the Westminster Board of Trustees. “We’ve achieved our year-long goal of finding the most qualified person to lead Westminster and to continue executing our strategic plan. “It includes developing leaders for a global community by es

Buhari, who stated this when Delta State All Progressives Congress members visited him in Abuja, said he took the decision because he believed Nigeria must be free. Buhari said, “Going through the court is not easy, both materially and physically, and I maintained that consistency because my view about my country is that Nigeria should be truly free.” He condoled with the delegates over the killing of some people during the last general elections. The president-elect added, “I understand why many of you, who were denied the opportunity to choose those you want to represent and lead you are taking the line I took in the last 12 years in line with our constitution. “Whether you get it or not, the most important thing is that you believe in the system and you should continue to try until the system is perfect. “I express my condolence to you for the people murdered and I assure you that my objective of remaining consistently in partisan politics is to make sure th

Following earlier reports that he suffered a relapse of his Kidney ailment and had to be admitted to a Lagos Hospital, popular music producer/singer, OJB Jezreel has denied the reports. He cleared the air via a Facebook status update on Monday. "I'd like to set the record straight, am at home and healthy with my family going about my normal business. "Obviously bloggers don't research before they post. If they did they would know that a transplant patient will always do routine checkups because of infections etc", he wrote.

In a newly issued Most Wanted list, the United States has maintained the $7 million (N1.4 billion) bounty it placed on Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram. Shekau’s name is included in the list of 71 most-wanted terrorists in the world released by the US on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. The list carried a total bounty sum of $375m (N74.6bn) as “rewards for information that leads to (the terrorists’) arrest or conviction.” The highest bounty on the list ($25 million) is placed on Ayman al-Zawahiri, suspected to be one of the doctors and advisors to Osama bin Laden, the late leader of Al-Qaeda. Four Islamic State terrorists appeared on the list with a total of $20 million bounty on them. The list also includes senior members of the Islamic State Group (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab and two female members of a Turkish military/political party and the terrorist group, Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front. The Nigerian military has said that finding Shekau is not its pri

ATLANTA (CNN) Nine Georgia deputies have been fired in connection with the death of a 21-year-old student in Savannah, Georgia, authorities announced Friday. The firings are related to the case of Matthew Ajibade, who died in an isolation cell on New Year’s Day, said Gena Bilbo, the Chatham County Sheriff’s spokeswoman. Two of the nine deputies who were fired had been on paid leave. Ajibade, who was from Nigeria, was arrested on January 1 after police received a phone call about a domestic disturbance. Authorities arrived and saw Ajibade holding a women under a blanket, according to an incident report. Her “face was bruised, and her nose was bleeding,” the report said. The Sheriff’s Office said Ajibade “became combative during the booking process.” His family has hired Mark O’Mara, a CNN legal analyst who represented George Zimmerman in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Ajibade had bipolar disorder, O’Mara said. After Ajibade’s death, the Georgia Burea

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A robbery gang over the weekend at Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, shot the pastor and founder of an Ughelli based prayer group while attempting to steal his Jeep. The pastor identified as Steve Akpokomuaye, was said to be driving home from church along the Oviri-Ogor road where he had gone for a prayer session when he was double-crossed by the gunmen in a Camry car and two motorcycles. According to witnesses, the pastor who was alone in the car was asked to come down from the vehicle with the intention of stealing the car. The witness who gave his name as Efemena, said: “An argument ensued between the gunmen and the pastor leading to the shooting of the pastor on the leg. Though the bandits failed to abscond with the car, they fled the scene immediately they shot their victim.” Confirming the incident to newsmen, a senior member of the Ughelli vigilante who spoke on anonymity stated that a combined team of the vigilante and police chas

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, has sentenced Happiness Eboh to five years in prison for duping some persons seeking employment with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. According to a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Sunday by the NSCDC, Justice Babs Kuewumi found Eboh guilty on the count of conspiracy. He, therefore, sentenced him to five years in prison with hard labour for the crime he was said to have committed in Osogbo, the Osun State capital between January 30th and May 7th , 2013. The security agency had arraigned Eboh alongside two other persons who are now at large on four count charge of stealing,conspiracy, impersonation, and advance fee fraud. The convict was said to have obtained a sum of N5,000 from Issa Musa under the false pretence of securing employment for him in the NSCDC, thereby commited an offence contrary to and punishable under section 8 (a), (b) and (c) of the Advanced Fee Fraud Relat

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Gunmen on Friday evening abducted a lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Dr. Femi Omisore, on his way to attend a funeral at Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State. Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that Omisore, a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Design Management of OAU, was abducted in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on his way to attend the ceremony. His captors, who were said to be armed with guns, were said to have trailed him for a while and his driver tried all he could to avoid being overtaken by the hoodlums. On catching up with him, the hoodlums were said to have killed the driver out of anger and forced Omisore out of his car before he was taken away to an unknown place. The gunmen, it was farther gathered, fired several shots at the petrol tank of the lecturer’s car and ensured that the car caught fire before they left the scene. The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, OAU chapter, Dr. Caleb Aborisade, confi

A yet to be identified man and an indigene of Ido Ekiti has been killed in a Wednesday kidnap operation of a senior Nurse working with the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladeneka. The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Majekodunmi Ayodele, who revealed this on Thursday to journalists also raised the alarm over Wednesday invasion by some youth who accused the hospital of not giving preference to indigenes in employment exercise. Ayodele alleged that the youths under the platform of Ido Youths Vanguard pelted the Olojudo of Ido Ekiti, Oba Ilori Faboro, with pure water sachet for mediating in the issue. He stated that Mrs Aladeneka, who hailed from Akwa Ibom State but married to an indigene of Ondo State was abducted on Sunday along Ipere –Iludun-Ido road while traveling on the bad and lonely road with her husband. He said another occupant of the vehicle, whose identity was not revealed was killed during the operation, giving an indicatio

A 19-year-old man, Tunde Ahmed, who allegedly defiled a six-year-old daughter of his neighbour was yesterday arraigned at an Apapa Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Ahmed, who resides at Abule Ado area of Lagos State, is standing trial on a two-count charge of indecent treatment of a child and child defilement. The prosecutor, ASP Soji Ojaokomo, told the court that the accused committed the offences on April 7 at his residence. Ojaokomo said that the accused, who was living in the same building as the parents of the girl, lured her into his room, where he inserted one of his fingers into her private part. “Ahmed also forcefully had carnal knowledge of the child without her consent,” he said. He said that the offences contravened Sections 135 and137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 135 stipulates that any person who unlawfully and indecently deals with a child is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment

Some of thousands of Nigerians told to leave neighbouring Niger in the past week due to threats from Boko Haram militants have died en route from lack of food and water, evacuees told Reuters. Niger has evacuated Nigerians living around Lake Chad, military and aid officials told Reuters on Tuesday, as the armies of four west African nations battle to quash the Islamist militants.  I counted over 50 people that died on our way out of (the town of) Lalewa when the Niger soldiers were chasing us as if we are animals,” said 45-year old Ibrahim, one of the group who was originally from Nigeria’s Kebbi state. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator OCHA said that 25,000 people had arrived in the towns of N’Guigmi and Bosso in southeastern Niger after fleeing their island homes on Lake Chad. OCHA said most of these families needed shelter, food and water. The governor of Niger’s Diffa region initially told people to leave by Monday for security reasons after an attack

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Thursday, took one Adeogun Olajide before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly importing 2.692 kilogrammes of cocaine into the country. Olajide, said to be an official of the NDLEA, was taken before Justice Saliu Saidu along with one Adams Michael a.k.a. Chidi, with whom he allegedly conspired to commit the crime. The two men were arraigned on four counts bordering on importation of cocaine without lawful authority. The offence, according to the prosecution, was contrary to sections 11(a) and 14(b) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. The prosecutor for the NDLEA, Augustine Nwagu, who filed the charge FHC/L/174c/15 against Olajide and Michael, alleged that they committed the offence between January and March this year. The prosecution alleged that the accused persons were found in possession of 2.092kg of cocaine on February 24, 2015 at the Internation

A 27-year-old generator repairer has reportedly stabbed one Tochukwu Ejika, a security man, to death in Lagos. The suspect, identified as Abimbola Azeez, who is from Ikire in Osun State, reportedly stabbed the victim several times on his belly during a misunderstanding in God’s Own Estate, Ijanikin. It was gathered that the suspect was on his way out of the estate when the Chief Security Officer accosted him at about 8p.m. An exchange of words followed, which degenerated into a fight. Before residents could intervene, Abimbola had stabbed the victim leading to the loss of blood and eventual death. The suspect was taken to Ijanikin Divisional Police Station, while the corpse was deposited at the mortuary. Azeez said: “I live with my friend, R. Kelly, in Ayetoro, Ijanikin. Last week, I went to my customer’s house to repair his generator.” He said he wanted to live with the customer but was told it was not possible. He said while he was leaving the estate, a man accost

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its downstream subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), said they had 1.2 billion litres of petrol in stock. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by Mr Ohi Alegbe, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Department, NNPC. The statement stated that the figure translated to 31 days sufficiency, going by the 40 million litres daily consumption of the product in the country. It explained that the Managing Director of PPMC, Mr Haruna Momoh, made the announcement in Abuja. It quoted Haruna as saying that “21 additional vessels laden with petroleum products are in offshore Lagos waiting to berth. “NNPC has made adequate arrangements to ensure energy sufficiency in the country and reassured motorists that the noticeable queues at the filling stations would thin out in the days ahead”. Momoh said that the NNPC also had 21 days sufficiency of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) ot

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, have arrested a Lagos pastor over drug trafficking. The suspect, Daniel Lanre Akintola, 43, was caught with 1.978kg of heroin concealed in the false bottom of his luggage. This is coming just a few weeks after a Lagos-based pastor was arrested for smuggling narcotics to South Africa at the Lagos Airport. It was gathered that another suspect, Onwueg-busi Tochukwu Victor, 48, was also arrested with 51.5kg of ephedrine found inside his luggage. NDLEA commander at the Enugu Airport, Mr. Nsikak-Abasi Udoh, disclosed that the 43-year-old pastor wanted to abandon his luggage at the arrival hall for fear of arrest. He said: “Mr. Daniel Lanre Akintola unlawfully possessed 1.978kg of heroin, while returning from Entebbe, a major town in Central Uganda. “He wanted to abandon the luggage, but we detected his intention. The drug was carefully concealed in a false botto

The Chairman and Spiritual Father of Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, Rev. Samuel Abidoye, has said he does not know if the President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, is the messiah Nigeria needs. He, however, said he was certain that Buhari and his deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, were credible and committed people, who would make positive impacts on the governance of the country and the lives of the people. He spoke in an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday during the 46th Mount Horeb Ascension of the church along Ilorin-Ibadan Expressway. He noted that Buhari, given his antecedent of introducing the War Against Indiscipline when he was the Head of State, would bring about the necessary attitudinal change in Nigerians. He also said Osinbajo, being a pastor and a man of integrity, would add value to good and purposeful governance. The cleric also commended the outgoing President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, for conceding defeat after the president