Nigerian Troops Storm Sambisa, Rescue 300 Females… Identities yet to be confirmed

Nigerian Troops Storm Sambisa, Rescue 300 Females… Identities yet to be confirmed


In a daring and precise operation the Nigerian troops have stormed the Sambisa Forest and rescued about 300 women and girls. We gathered that at least three major terrorists camps have been destroyed in the well-cordinated attacks that include the destruction of the notorious Tokumbere camp in the Sambisa Forest. While confirming the operation the Director Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade said he could not confirm the identity of the freed victims and their origins and he would state if any of them was from Chibok until after the . He said: “I can only confirm the rescued this afternoon of 200 girls and 93 women in different camps in the forest. We are yet to determine their origin as all the freed persons are now being screened and profiled. Please don’t misquote me on their origin. We will provide more details later.”

Four feared dead, many injured as bomb explosion rocks Kogi radio

Four feared dead, many injured as bomb explosion rocks Kogi radio


Four persons were feared dead after a bomb explosion at a community radio,  TAO FM,  in Kogi Central senatorial  zone , Monday night.

Sources said that the explosion occurred around 8 pm .

No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing of the station located at the centre of Okene town.

Although the number of casualties was yet to be ascertained , unofficial sources said four persons were feared dead with many injured.

The Source also said the attack may not be unconnected with its hard-line on some politicians; especially those who have received verbal attack from the radio station over their role in the Saturday House of Assembly re-run election in some part of the senatorial axis.

Confirming the incident, the State Police Public Relation Officer, Shola Collins said, the police have already been mobilised to the scene of the incident.

Collins said the attack which affected part of the radio station building, said four persons have already been declared dead while many are still in the hospitals.

Xenophobia: Nigerian men are snatching our girlfriends - South African politician

Xenophobia: Nigerian men are snatching our girlfriends - South African politician




South African politician, Makashule Gana, has said some of his compatriots have complained to him that they are angry with Nigerians and other immigrants because they snatched their girlfriends. Gana, a Deputy Federal Chairperson


of Democratic Alliance, made this disclosure in at an anti-xenophobia rally, held at Constitution Hill.South African newspaper, City Press, reported that Gana advised that rather than get angry and take the anger out on foreigners, South African men should “provide” properly for women, rather than lash out at non-nationals for “stealing” women away.

Gana urged the crowd at the rally to spread the message of not taking part in xenophobic attacks to “our wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, makhwaphenis (secret lovers), neighbours and brothers”.

“If you can’t speak to a girl, now all of a sudden a man that comes from Zimbabwe or Nigeria that can speak to a girl now must be killed. What is that?”

“So I ask my fellow brothers from South Africa, if you want a woman please go speak up, don’t go around and killing someone from Nigeria because they can speak up for themselves. Speak out because it is important,” he told the crowd.

He also urged South Africans to look at themselves and not blame non-nationals for stealing their jobs when these jobs didn’t exist in the first place.

Babatope gets knocks for backing illegality

Babatope gets knocks for backing illegality


The 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the Ekiti State House of Assembly have criticised a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, for calling them charlatans.

They slammed the exTransport and Aviation minister for backing the impeachment of Ondo State Deputy Governor Ali Olanusi and opposing the impeachment proceedings against Governor Ayo Fayose.

The lawmakers’ comments followed Babatope’s interview in a national newspaper yesterday.

They said a senior party leader should not be speaking from both sides of the mouth in his analysis of political events in Ekiti.

In a statement yesterday by Special Adviser (Media) to Speaker Adewale Omirin, Wole Olujobi, the lawmakers advised Babatope to take a break after the defeat his party.

Slamming the PDP leader for calling them charlatans, the lawmakers said it was regrettable that Babatope could succumb to partisan emotions while his country crumbled under the weight of illegal acts of brigands.

The statement said: “A question mark is being put on Babatope’s integrity.  As a leader, he supported the impeachment in Ondo but he is now calling Ekiti lawmakers names for questioning Fayose.

“Babatope’s past role in Ekiti is still fresh in our memory, as he was alleged to have participated in the supervision of thugs to unleash mayhem on our members.

“We want to ask Babatope where was his integrity and clarity of thought when he kept quiet when Govenor Ayo Fayose invaded the court and beat up a judge.

“What did he say when Fayose froze the Assembly’s accounts, seized the Speaker’s vehicle, cut electricity supply to his house, locked him out of his house and office and seized his official car?

“ What did Babatope say when Fayose suborned seven PDP members to illegally pass the budget, approve commissioners and special advisers, revoke the Local Government Law, State Transport Management Agency and Social Security Scheme laws without recourse to the Assembly through revocation bills?

“It is quite unfortunate that a supposed progressive elder statesman in the twilight of his political career threw away all he attained as a progressive and is frolicking with wolves.”

Boko Haram Is A Fraud - Buhari

Boko Haram Is A Fraud - Buhari


Nigeria, 27 April 2015: President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari says the Boko Haram will be denied a recruitment base the moment our local communities realize that its claim to being a religious group is nothing but a fraud.

General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) with Governor Al Makura of Nasarawa "The fraud called Boko Haram can be defeated by denying it a recruitment base," General Buhari told visiting leaders of Nassarawa State who came to congratulate him on his emergence as President-elect.

"No religion allows for the killing of children in school dormitory, in markets and places of worship. They have nothing to do with religion. They are terrorists and we are going to deal with them as they deal with terrorists anywhere," he announced.

Buhari said he is greatly pained by the destruction of schools in the North-eastern part of the country, an action he said could deny thousands of youngsters access to education and a better future unless something was done urgently to avert this tragedy.

"The worst thing anybody can do is to deny children access to education. That will be destructive to their lives and we are not going to allow that to happen," the President-elect assured.

He announce that his government will help the states to get more money to improve infrastructure by ensuring that all federally collectible revenues are paid directly into the federation account and each tier of government given its due share.

"As at now, the government does not even know how many revenue accounts it has. We will give all the tiers what is due to them but will hold them to be accountable as we would the federal government."

Buhari while describing Nassarawa state as his own "political laboratory", meaning the only CPC-controlled state of the 36 others adjudged the experiment as having been a success.

"From one state, I now have 22 political laboratories."

He commended Governor Al-Makura for surviving his many impeachment plots, saying "without Nassarawa, there would not have been an APC."

I’m ready for probe after tenure, says Jonathan

I’m ready for probe after tenure, says Jonathan




President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said he would be ready after leaving office for any probe of his administration’s activities.

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari plans to revisit the $20b “missing” oil money when he gets into office.

Besides, All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesman Lai Mohammed has alleged massive looting by government officials.

But, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President said he is not afraid of any investigation after leaving office.

He noted that investigations will not be out of place since Jonathan’s Administration also reviewed the actions of previous governments on assumption of office.

He said: “As Alhaji Mohammed threatened in his statement, the incoming administration will be perfectly within its rights to review all actions of the present government as it may deem fit.

“We see nothing wrong with that. After all, the present Administration reviewed the actions of previous governments on assumption of office with resultant benefits for policy and project implementation.”

Abati added that President Jonathan ordered the immediate release of the report of PriceWaterCooper’s investigations into the alleged unremitted $20 billion to the Federation account by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

He said: “President Jonathan is also deeply concerned by the continuing suggestions that his administration still has anything to hide about the unproven allegation that about $20billion is unaccounted for by the NNPC during his tenure.

“To lay the matter to rest, President Jonathan in line with Section 7(2) of the NNPC Act, has directed that the full report of the PWC Forensic Audit of the NNPC accounts be released immediately to the public so that all Nigerians will be properly informed on the matter.”

Denying the allegations by Mohammed, Abati said: “We have noted with concern the allegation by the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that officials of the Federal Government are engaged in “last minute looting of the nation’s resources, rushed privatisation of key institutions and hurried recruitment into the public service”.

“We also consider as most unfortunate and uncharitable, the suggestion by Alhaji Mohammed that the Jonathan Administration is trying to ‘tie the hands’ of the incoming government merely by continuing to discharge its constitutional responsibilities until the end of its tenure.”

“The Jonathan Administration which continues to do its best to ensure a smooth and peaceful handover of power to the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, deeply regrets the unfairness and combative frame of mind reflected in Alhaji Mohammed’s statement.”

According to him, President Jonathan has done his best in the past five years to discharge his constitutional responsibilities for good governance and effective leadership of the nation.

Abati said: “Without any prejudice whatsoever to the freedom of the incoming administration to do as it pleases, within the confines of extant laws when it assumes office, the Jonathan Administration will continue to discharge its responsibility to govern until May 29, 2015.

“In continuing to fulfil the obligations of his office however, President Jonathan has not, and will never condone any form of unscrupulous conduct on the part of state officials.”

He maintained that President Jonathan will never authorise any attempt to create any problems for the incoming administration, stressing that the outcome of the March 28 presidential elections does not imply a cessation of governance.

How Amaechi Intends to Stop Wike's Swearing in -PDP

How Amaechi Intends to Stop Wike's Swearing in -PDP


Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Rivers state chapter says the State Governor Chibuike Amaechi and All Progressives Congress, APC are plotting to secure a Court Injunction in Awka, Anambra State to stop the swearing-in of Rivers State Governor- Elect, Chief Nyesom Wike on May 29, 2015.

This revelation is contained in a Statement issued today in Port Harcourt by Emma Okah, Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of PDP Campaign Organisation, Rivers State.

According to Okah, the plot is to shop for and buy a judge outside Rivers State who will agree to do the dirty job since the judiciary in the State has been paralysed by the Amaechi administration.

The PDP further accuses Amaechi and the APC of leaving no stone unturned in planning to carry out the Governor's threat that he will not handover to Chief Wike.

''However, in the face of this provocation, the PDP urges the people of Rivers State to remain calm as their Gov-Elect will be sworn in on May 29, 2015, as ordained by God like his colleagues in other States. The wish of the enemies of Rivers people to cause constitutional crisis and chaos is not the wish of God for Rivers State, noting that light will surely triumph over darkness'', the PDP statement concluded.
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