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Press statement from the Military To further assist returnees and other Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) with education of their children, the Nigerian military has reopened a mixed Primary School in Gwoza, Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State yesterday. The military in conjunction with other security agencies and other security stakeholders have placed adequate security measures to ensure the pupils and teachers’ safety and security. Already classes have commenced and the turn out was quite impressive. The reopening of the combined Primary School in Gwoza is significant as the eradication of western education is part of the aims of Boko Haram in their murderous campaign of terror. Gradual restoration of normalcy by troops is therefore indicative of the continuous elimination of the terrorists from Nigerian territory. Similarly, the troops have also dislodged Boko Hararm terrorists from Dissa and Balazala villages located in the same Gwoza Local Government Area yest...

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The Lagos state police command has arrested 42 year old Mrs Nimotu Raheem pictured above for allegedly kidnapping three children, a 4 year old set of twin Taiye and Kehinde, and a 16-month old boy, Fatai Adeola. at an Arabic School in Itire-Ikate, Surulere, Lagos yesterday September 17th. According to a report by The Nation , the Lagos state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni while parading her, said the suspect accosted the mother of the three children along the road and demanded that she hands her children to her. “It was another woman who saw the manner the suspect demanded for the child and the mother gave the child out without any resistance or questions that now raised alarm. For the quick intervention of the police from Itire, the suspect would have been mobbed. At first, the suspect acted like a dumb person but after some tactics used on her by our operative, she started talking. We also got information that she has mental problem. All that she has said so ...

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos has dissolved the 18-year-old marriage of a a retiree, Jonathan Ubi, after his wife, Rita, 40, abandoned her matrimonial home for four weeks for an unknown destination. Jonathan, 65, informed the court that his wife’s disappearance was an abomination and asked that the marriage be dissolved. “My wife committed an abomination by willingly abandoning her matrimonial home for four weeks for an unknown destination. In our tradition, it is a taboo for a wife who abandoned her matrimonial home to come back,” he said. He said his wife had stopped caring for him and the children, leaving everything for their maids. “My wife is lazy, she cannot take care of her family, that was the reason I enrolled all my children into boarding schools as their mother cannot take proper care of them,” Ubi added. He told the court that his wife recklessly mismanaged the business he set up for her and, thereafter, asked him for money. He begged the c...

Edo State Governor has insisted former president Goodluck Jonathan and his erstwhile Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo Iweala have a case to answer as to the whereabouts of the $700 billion withdrawn from the $1 billion belonging to the Sovereign Wealth Funds, SWF. Oshiomole who is chairman, National Economic Council Adhoc committee on the management of excess crude and related federation account issue while speaking with State House Correspondents in Abuja after a private meeting with Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa on Thursday night stated that there was no truth in the defence put up by the former minister that the money was used to finance the second Niger bridge and partially in Kaduna-Abuja rail. It will be recalled that NEC after its meeting on Thursday reported that the subcommittee which also had the Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo; Kaduna State Governor, Mallam El Rufai; Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Emmanuel Udom and Lagos S...

Wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, has donated the sum of N2 million, on behalf of the state government, for the upkeep of the Internally Displaced Persons at their camp in Uhogua near Benin City, Edo State. The Governor’s wife who visited the camp, Friday, also presented items, including clothes, footwear, books, toiletries and others materials running into millions of naira to the IDPS. She said the state would do everything possible to make life as comfortable as possible for persons in the camp. According to her, “this visit is a follow up to our earlier visit and as we did promise, the government and people of Edo State are ready to make you as comfortable as possible. “We are fully aware of the circumstances that made you to leave your homes and we are sure that in a very short time, peace will return to every part of Nigeria. Let me emphasise that you are at home anywhere in Nigeria. “We are planning to come back so that we can have a par...

Kuwait’s Cassation Court on Thursday, September 17 upheld a death sentence for an Ethiopian maid for killing a Kuwaiti teenager. 22-year-old Rabiya Mahmoud was sentenced to death in November. The court sentenced her to death by hanging after she admitted to the public prosecution that she killed Siham Humood Flaitah Al Shemmari, 19, while the family members were resting after hosting a dinner reception celebrate the graduation of a relative. According to reports on the case, Rabiya confessed that in March 2014 she took a knife and walked into the victim’s bedroom where she stabbed her in the chest. The victim survived the first stabs and pleaded for her life; however, Rabiya refused and stabbed her again until she died. She then fled the house, but later headed to the Sulaibikhat police station and turned herself in at 5:45 am. She told officers that she stabbed the victim who was asleep, then locked her inside the room before leaving her employer’s house. She cited conflic...

The police on Friday said the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase would promptly effect the arrest of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, without delay. The Force Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Olabisi Kolawole, stated this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Friday. “We are going to promptly arrest the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and produce him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday. “Since it is a bench warrant issued by a competent court, the order will be carried out without delay. We don’t want to pre-empt anything,” Kolawole stated. The Code of Conduct Tribunal had on Friday, issued a bench warrant for Saraki’s arrest, for failing to appear in court in his ongoing trial for alleged false asset declaration.

Some reactions of the arrest warrant for Saraki issued by Chairman Code of Conduct Bureau. More when you continue...

Photo above shows the chambers of the Code of Conduct Tribunal earlier today where Senate President Bukola Saraki's trial began. See more photos below Photo credit: Sahara reporters

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari yesterday September 17th paid a visit to Federal Medical Center in Yola, Adamawa state where she met with the survivors of the bomb blast incident at the Malkohi IDP camp in Adamawa state which occurred last week. Another photo below

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has called on Nigerian Christian community, particularly those in North East states to forgive members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect. He stressed that the country could only make meaningful development when Nigerians begin to forgive one another. He noted that although people’s sources of livelihood and churches were destroyed during the fiery days of the insurgents, the Christian community should, in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ, forgive and look forward to better times. The Speaker, who is the first northern minority Christian from the core north to hold the highest political office in Nigeria, made this appeal yesterday in Abuja at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, during the diamond anniversary lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria. Dogara re-affirmed the right of every Nigerian to subscribe freely to any religion of his choice as long as it suits his or her conscience. ...