Monday, October 6, 2014

Photo: Herdsman Kills his Master in Oyo State





A 20-year-old herdsman, Abubakar Mohammed in Oyo State has confessed to killing his master because he refused to fulfil his promise of giving him a cow after serving him for a period of time.

Tribune reports Abubakar said instead, his master sacked him about six weeks to the date he was supposed to fulfil the promise. And right now, he is cooling his heels at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan, in Oyo State Police Command.
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Boy Dies after Drinking Pastor's Prepared Concotion in Delta State




A pastor (names with­held) in one of the new generation churches in Ozoro, Isoko North Local government Area of Delta State has been arrested over the death one Evi Samson.


The pastor who is also a Registrar in a Magistrate Court in the state was said to have administered black concoction on the victim as an antidote for an ailment. SunNews reports that Uwhemwu who reported the matter at the police sta­tion, said he took his son to the pastor for prayer. He added that the sus­pect gave his son the black concoction to drink follow­ing which the victim devel­oped swollen head and eyes in the night of the same date and died afterwards.

Photos: Ex-Gov Orji Uzor Kalu & Dele Momodu Visit Prophet T. B Joshua



 Former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu and publisher of Ovation International magazine, Dele Momodu recently visited Prophet T.B Joshua to condole with him over his building collapse tragedy. Dele, earlier on today took to his IG page to share photos from the visit.See more pics after the break.

Spanish Nurse gets infected with Ebola Virus





In what is believed to be the first infection outside of Africa, an assistant nurse at a Madrid hospital where two Ebola patients died has contracted the virus herself. According to AFP, a spokesman for the health department of the regional government of Madrid told them:
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Yaba Tech Rector Gets Ex-Student Arrested, Detained By The Army





According to a new report on SaharaReporters, the rector of Yaba College of Technology, Margaret Kudirat Ladipo, allegedly used the military to arrest and detain a former student of the institution, Usman Oloyede. 


Mr. Oloyede, who was fired from the school, was arrested on Thursday, September 25 after he agreed to meet a soldier who posed as the rector’s assistant. He said the rector had abused her influence with the military to ensure his illegal arrest after claiming falsely that he had threatened her.
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Europe Acts as Vassal State of Washington in Terms of Sanctions: Former US Official



Many questions have arisen questioning Europe's ability to act independently after US Vice President Joe Biden recently announced that the US had forced EU countries to impose economic sanctions against Russia despite the fact that many of them were opposed to such measures.

The sanctions have more negatively impacted the EU economy, rather than Russia’s, as Russia has other alternative trade partners in the East and in the South American region, said Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, in an interview to Radio VR. He added that the sanctions could have positive effect on Russia’s economic development as they would make “the [Russian] Government realize that the dependency on Washington and the dependency on Europe is a strategic error of the highest magnitude.”
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Training Syrian Opposition in Georgia Inefficient Against IS





The possible creation of a training camp for Syrian opposition fighters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is inefficient for the fight against the Islamic State (IS), Lionel Beehner, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University, has told RIA Novosti.


“It is hard to imagine the Georgians training thousands of Syrian fighters. Most of the training and cooperation will be done clandestinely, given the regional sensitivities and the real threat of ISIS [IS] seeping into the Caucasus … if they are pushed out of northern Syria and Iraq,” Beehner said on Monday.
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Hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists feared killed in Adamawa




A fierce gun duel is taking place between members of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian troops who have been intensifying efforts to reclaim territories captured by the insurgents in Adamawa Northern zone.  Reports from the area indicate that about 200 insurgents may have been killed in this latest offensive forcing them to retreat as Nigerian troops took control of Michika.

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Atiku backs Gen. Buhari against reports that he is a religious fundamentalist




 Atiku backed Gen. Buhari against reports that he's a religious fundamentalist. Kindly read from bottom to top after the jump.

SA seizes Nigeria's $5.7m in another secret arms deal bust




Three weeks after South African government seized $9.3million allegedly owned by the Nigerian government, they've once more confiscated $5.7million arms money from Nigeria.

Based on South African newspaper City Press, the amount of money was seized by South Africa's Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority for allegedly being the proceeds of illegal transactions and even shared some documents. See the total report when you continue after the jump..

From City Press

Pres. GEJ to confer with leaders of Cameroon, Niger, Chad and Benin Republic on further collaboration against terrorism



Read the State House press release below...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will undertake a one-day official visit to Niamey, capital of Niger Republic tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 to participate in an Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

President Jonathan and other participating Heads of State and Government are expected to review ongoing collaboration against terrorism and agree on further joint action to curb terrorism and insurgency within and across their national boundaries. 
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Nigeria Deserves Explanation From France On Terrorism, Nigerian Civil War, Bakassi Dispute, Oil Theft & B'Haram



Nigeria Deserves Explanation From France On Terrorism Due To Its Involvement In The Nigerian Civil War, The Bakassi Dispute, Oil Theft And Recently The Translation Of Boko Haram Video By The French Media

by Musa BelloENDS
On 30th May 1967, after months of tensions in Nigeria, a separatist group dominated by (one of the country’s three major ethnicities based primarily in the eastern region), declared its secession from the state of Nigeria and established the independent Republic of Biafra. The refusal of the Nigerian government to recognize Biafra’s independence marked the beginning of a civil war that would last until January 1970.
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The man who died thrice and yet liveth!




Culled from Punch
This is an appeal for help. The story tells of the grace of God and the endurance of love between a man and a woman. I was privileged to witness both aspects as it played out in Garki Hospital, Abuja.

Death Number One
Mr. Ikechukwu Obiora was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed. He was unconscious, desperate and dying. He had suffered a stroke and had rivers of blood inside his brain. After the emergency brain scan, we rushed him into the theatre and put two drains in his head to remove blood clots. This released the massive pressure on his brain. However, he remained unconscious, dead to the world and had to be transferred to the intensive care unit for a machine to breathe for him. We intubated him by passing a tube through the mouth, the neck, his throat and into the lungs. This helped him breathe and so sustained his life.
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