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Some of the survivors of Sunday’s bomb explosion in a viewing centre in Mubi, Adamawa State, which claimed 18 lives, recounted their experiences, yesterday, even as no fewer than 37 people died, yesterday, when a militia formed by some villages clashed with Boko Haram terrorists. In his account, Mr. Oscar Ibeh, a hotelier, who owns the Oscar Joint that housed the football viewing centre and club bar in Mubi, told Vanguard in a telephone interview that two tricycles laden with explosives had parked in front of the hotel for a long time as the owners pretended to be among the crowd watching football or relaxing in the club. Ibeh said: “I never knew it was the tricycles that were carrying the explosives. Not quite a few minutes after crossing the road to enter the chemist opposite my hotel, I heard a loud bang. The bang sent me into the gutter and I lay there unconsciously for over 20 minutes. I started regaining my conscience when people started crying and wailing for help. “When ...

The battle against the dreaded Boko Haram sect have taken a dangerous turn as no fewer than 15 senior military officers, including 10 generals, have been tried before a court-martial and found guilty of giving information and ammunition to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group. A military source said: “There are a lot of arrests that have been made over some officers who were sabotaging the ongoing counter-insurgency operations. The suspects include about 10 generals and other ranks, not to talk of soldiers who have been found culpable of sabotaging our operations. They are facing trial before court-martials set up by their divisions; some have been found guilty, and some are still facing trial. Once the court martial rule, the recommendations are forwarded to the Army Headquarters or Defence Headquarters as the case may be.” Another top security source revealed that four senior officers were found guilty as charged: “Four generals have been court-martialed for divulg...

LAGOS — TWELVE stowaways — 11 Nigerians and a Ghanaian  — rescued by  personnel of the Nigerian Navy ship, NNS Beecroft, Apapa, Lagos, from a Spain-bound vessel, MV African Osprey, weekend, narrated how they almost suffocated inside the cabin they hid. The stowaways, discovered to be casual workers on the ship, told Vanguard that had the crew members delayed in opening the cabin where they hid, they would have died without reaching their dream destination. The suspects identified as  Boniface Douglas, a Ghanaian and 11 Nigerians: Mustapha Ayinla, Bernard Amadi, Azinabor Gideon, Isaac Delight, Daniel Timothy, Justice Agburum, Anthony Oladipupo, Emma Okon, Idowu Adeyemi, Philip Israel and Holly Osatwie, blamed their action on unemployment  in the country. Douglas, the Ghanaian, said the latest arrest was his sixth futile attempt to leave the country illegally. I made 6 earlier attempts Hear him: ” I work as a labourer in the ship. We all planned it without the...

LAGOS— Justice D. O. Oluwayemi of a Lagos High Court, in Igbosere, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, yesterday, granted the application for extension of time for expiration of writ of summons in a suit filed by Ojukwu Transport Limited against Bianca Ojukwu. The court also granted application for substituted service against the defendant. Justice Oluwayemi further granted the claimant’s second application of an order that the writ of summons, statement of claims and its accompanying processes be served on the defendant by posting same at the entrance gate of the premises at 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Drive (formerly Queen’s Drive) Ikoyi, Lagos. The firm, through its counsel, Ike Ubahakwe, in motion ex-parte, prayed the court to extend the writ on summons on Bianca Ojukwu after the expiration of the first writ of summons over the property situated at 29 Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, formerly Queen’s Drive, Ikoyi. After listening to the motion moved by Ubahakwe, counsel to OTL, the judge grante...

AWKA — Okwudili Nnagbo, a kidnap suspect fleeing to South Africa, arrested after boarding his escape aircraft to South Africa at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, last month was yesterday paraded at the headquarters of the State Anti-robbery Squad, Awka, Anambra State, alongside 13 other suspects caught for various offences. Vanguard reports says that Nnagbo, from Nri in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state, said he had been in the business of kidnapping for many years, adding that he had lost count of the number of persons he had kidnapped in the past. He said he decided to quit kidnapping when one of his relations in South Africa invited him over, noting that he thought he had covered his tracks only to be arrested at the point of departing the country. Also paraded were Chukwudi Chinedu from Okija, and Kevin Obi from Umuzu who allegedly raped the pregnant wife of a man they robbed of N66,000 and Uba Christian Chukwuemeka from Oji River in Enugu State who had bee...

In other countries, Presidents are people's servant but in Nigeria our President is the people's lord

This shocking exposé was shared by a Nigerian Pastor on facebook. Read the details below... Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries in 1883 Dear Rev. Fathers and Compatriots, The task that is given to you to fulfil is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo and all over Africa is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already. They speak and submit to us, and what else I don't know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else's wife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know already.  Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators and industrials, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the world .  For these thing...