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Another suicide bomb vest duly primed by the terroristsTroops fighting against the Boko Haram Terrorists in Nigeria’s north-east have discovered a Bomb Making factory in Yobe State. Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) used by terrorists were found in the factory. In a Statement on Friday, the spokesman for the military, Major General Chris Olukolade, said the discovery was made during ongoing cordon and search by troops in Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. He said a large quantity of IEDs, including those commonly used by suicide bombers, were recovered from the site. The factory, which was located in a fertilizer company, has also converted some of the materials therein for production of all types of IEDs. Degrade Capability Of Terrorists Troops evacuated the materials which include a large quantity of suicide bomber vests from the facility to their base.Inside terrorists IEDs factory “It is believed that the heavy calibre bomb used in blowing up...

Jonathan sack SURE-P Chairman for delivering Obasanjo’s birthday lecture Abuja - President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked Martin Luther Agwai as Chairman of the federal government’s Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), reports The Cable. Agwai’s sack comes six days after he delivered a lecture at the 78th birthday ceremony of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. At the lecture, Agwai, a retired general and former Chief of Army Staff, said change in leadership had become inevitable in the country. Also read: Obasanjo predicts Buhari will be president He also described Obasanjo as an inspiration to some generation of military officers, particularly those from minority ethnic groups. Agwai warned the military not to get enmeshed in politics, noting that the country would suffer for it. Agwai is being replaced by Ishaya Dare Akau with immediate effect.

Obasanjo predicts Buhari will be president Abeokuta - Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has predicted that the presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC) Muhammadu Buhari will be elected on 28 March as Nigeria’s new president, to succeed incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, reports PM News Obasanjo spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Tuesday, when he met a civic rights group called, Concerned Citizens of Nigeria. He dismissed insinuations that the victory of Buhari will be annulled like that of Moshood Abiola in 1993. He noted that Buhari as a trained and highly intelligent soldier is different from Abiola.

Abuja - Boko Haram's pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group was a sign of weakness and a result of pressure on the jihadist militants by Nigeria and its allies, the government in said on Tuesday. National security spokesman Mike Omeri called the pledge "an act of desperation and comes at a time when Boko Haram is suffering heavy losses". The Islamists' leader Abubakar Shekau made the announcement in an audio message on Saturday night after months of indications that Boko Haram was seeking a formal tie-up. Troops from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger have claimed a series of successes against the militants since last month, pushing them out of captured territory in northeast Nigeria. The operation is designed to secure and stabilise the region in time for the general elections on March 28. Omeri said in a statement that the four-nation coalition force was "rooting out Boko Haram out of its strongholds and degrading its combat abilities". Also ...

Abuja - First Lady, Patience Jonathan has denied promoting political violence with her comments, reports Punch. She noted that she is a woman of peace that will never in any way be identified with violence before, during and after elections. Patience Jonathan was reacting to the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to report her to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly asking supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party to stone anyone canvassing for change, the APC slogan, during a campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River State. She noted that as the President of the African First Ladies Mission, there was no way she would be promoting violence under any guise. The First Lady, who spoke through her her media aide, Ayo Adewuyi, said she was not ready to be dragged into any argument with the APC concerning the case in ICC.

Abuja - Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has urged all Igbos residing in Lagos State to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general election. He appealed to them to elect presidential candidate,  Muhammadu Buhari, and their Lagos State gubernatorial candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode. Okorocha asked the Igbo to vote APC for the required change that would transform Nigeria and give the people better life. He argued that the APC was the party that Nigerians were looking up for the deliverance that the country needed. The governor stressed that Lagos remained a blessing to the Igbo nation and that the APC remained the only party of choice for all residents of the state. He added that the governorship candidate of the APC in Lagos State would not deceive or discriminate against any tribe but would continue with the good works of outgoing Governor Raji Fashola. Okorocha described Fashola as a man who is highly revered globally as one of the best Governors the co...

Abuja - Indigenes of Chibok community in Borno State have rejected the gesture of the Federal Government to reconstruct the Government Secondary School in Chibok where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted last year. The indigenes who were led by the Caretaker Chairman of Chibok Council Area, Mallam Ba'ana Lawan, accused government of several “broken promises” regarding the rescue of the girls since their abduction in April. “It is disheartening to inform you that since the abduction of these girls, the federal government did not bother to send delegations to Chibok to sympathize with the parents, instead, the parents were invited to Abuja and conveyed in cargo military plane with no comfort whatsoever. We still observed that recently, President Goodluck Jonathan visited Mubi and Baga, but failed to visit Chibok to sympathize with our people,” Lawan said. He added that the priority should be to get the schoolgirls returned rather than the rebuilding of the destro...

 a propaganda boost for now, but in the long term it could internationalise a conflict restricted to Nigeria for nearly six years, analysts say.  The effort comes as both Islamic extremist groups have lost ground in recent weeks and as Nigeria's neighbours are forming a multinational army to confront Boko Haram.  By pledging allegiance to ISIS, Nigeria's home-grown militants have severed ties to al-Qaeda, which is more powerful in the region, said Charlie Winter, a researcher at the London-based Quilliam Foundation. Boko Haram has never been an affiliate of al-Qaeda, but its militants fought alongside al-Qaeda-linked groups during northern Mali's Islamic uprising two years ago, and some of its fighters have been trained in Somalia by al-Shabab, another group with ties to al-Qaeda, according to the group's propaganda. Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an audio posted Saturday on Twitter. I...

Niamey - A resident in a Niger village says that 200 vehicles with soldiers from Chad and Niger have been seen crossing the border into Nigeria to fight Islamic extremists there. Adam Boukarna, a resident of Bosso in Niger, said Monday that vehicles have been crossing since Saturday. He said after they all crossed into Nigeria and loud detonations could be heard, signaling fighting against Boko Haram members. Also read: Boko Haram bid to join the ISIS for propaganda boost Nigeria's neighbors are forming a multinational army to confront Boko Haram. Niger's government has not publicly confirmed this ground assault. The Chadian military spokesman also declined to comment. Boko Haram's Islamic uprising has killed about 12 000 people in the nearly 6-year-old Islamic uprising in northeastern Nigeria.

Last Saturday’s demonstration of the use of the card reader in selected states of the country has left the political class perplexed. Those against the use of the card reader cannot openly come out to denounce the device given its effective blockage of fake Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs. At the same time, those in rabid support of the use of the device are also constrained by the shortcomings as seen in its failure to effectively read the thumbprints of a significant number of potential voters in many places it was used. •Card reader •Card reader In some centres as Bauchi, potential voters were had to clean their hands repeatedly as it emerged that the card reader is constrained by ointments, grease or other sorts of lotion. However, INEC officials say that all hope is not lost. Voters whose thumbprints are not read by the card readers could still vote but would have to fill an incident report form to reflect the development. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that h...

A security source which confirmed the incident said normalcy had returned to the town. “There is no problem now. Vehicles are passing and people are also moving. The bridge was not affected in the explosion,” he said. There has been a spate of deadly suicide bombs around the country. These have been linked to the Islamic extremist Boko Haram sect.

Abuja - A suicide bomber who allegedly attempted to blow up the bridge linking Maiduguri and Damaturu in Borno State is said to have lost his life during the failed attempt. A resident of Beneisheikh, Modu Ibrahims, said a male driver running a dark ash-coloured Volkswagen Golf car was seen driving towards the military and civilian JTF check points at the tail of the bridge, but before he could maneuver his way to the security check the vehicle exploded leaving the driver dead. “The suicide bomber could not reach his target before the bomb exploded killing him with the explosion causing injuries to dozens of roadside hawkers selling their wares including the beggars who take advantage of the security stop to get patronage from motorists,” Ibrahim said Also Read: Chad, Niger launch joint offensive against Boko Haram in Nigeria  A security source which confirmed the incident said normalcy had returned to the town. “There is no problem now. Vehicles are pa...

Hsueh Jun-Chen, A 22-year-old Taiwanese student, has angrily poured petrol all over his body before burning himself to death after his father asked him to stop playing video game and go to bed.               The TV game addict was reportedly in his room playing Winning Eleven Soccer game at his family home in Fenyuan town, western Taiwan, when father, Liu, told him to go to sleep.                The father thought that was the end of the matter until he could not find his son the following day.He went outside to look for him and found the undergraduate's charred remains about 300 meters away from the house. A devastated Liu told  Daily Mail that he had only asked his son to stop gaming because of his academics. "I had simply said that he should sleep rather than play because university was starting again after the holidays. He said he would and ...

A naked teenager stabbed his mother 11 times and reportedly cut off his own penis after he got high on drugs in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, UK. The incident occurred in December 2013 in the kitchen of the home where mother and son lived. After stabbing his mother repeatedly the 21-year-old turned the knife on himself to cut off his genitalia and was heard shouting, “I love you but this is the prophecy.” The woman somehow had managed to get away, locking herself in the bathroom and called the police.Mrs Mann had suffered injuries to her back, head, neck and arms and was taken to hospital where she required surgery for multiple punctures to one of her lungs and internal bleeding. When police arrived at the family home, the young man who was in the grip of a drug-fuelled psychosis said, “I have stabbed her multiple times, I have killed her. I have stabbed my mum and I need to be punished for what I have done. I am a paedophile, I do not want to live. Take m...

A ten-month-old baby has weighed in at a whopping 2st 13lbs - making her one of the heaviest children in the world for her age.                    Aliya Saleem, of Jharkhand, India, was born at a relatively large 9lbs, then began to rapidly gain weight from the age of four months - and is now as heavy as an average six-year-old girl.                     Her parents are worried about her health, after another of their children died aged just one-and-a-half after gaining weight in a similar fashion.                   The girl's mother Shabana Parveen, 25, said:     ‘A few months after her birth, she starting gaining weight. We had to buy her a new pair of clothes every two weeks because the old ones...

Here's my New Year prayer for you...every single person reading this. You will get in 2015, a kind of miracle you've never received before. You will succeed beyond your imagination. God will fulfill his promise in your life, everything you have ever prayed, asked for, He'll give to you. He will bless you beyond your wildest dreams. He will lift you, strengthen you, and fight your battles for you. Every time one door closes, He will open another one for you. He will put your enemies to shame. He will change your life in 2015. Something great, miraculous, and breathtaking will happen in your life in 2015 in Jesus name. Every miracle that God will do in your life will never be reversed in Jesus name, Amen. When the list of great men with uncommon breakthroughs are compiled this year, your name will be included in Jesus name, Amen. Your struggles have ended with 2014 in Jesus name, Amen. May love, money, peace, health come in abundance in Jesus name. God will use you to bless ...