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The Nigerian Police Headquarters has issued a statement saying they didn't ban any protests in Abuja. According to a statement signed by CSP Frank Mba, what was issued yesterday by the FCT Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu was only an advisory notice and not a ban. Find the statement below.   The Police High Command wishes to inform the general public that the Force has not issued any order banning peaceful assemblies/protests anywhere in Nigeria. It notes however that against the backdrop of current security challenges in the country, coupled with a recent intelligence report of a likely infiltration and hijack of otherwise innocuous and peaceful protests by some criminal elements having links with insurgents, the Police only issued advisory notice, enjoining citizens to apply caution in the said rallies, particularly in the Federal Capital Territory and its environs.  Reminding citizens of the earlier position of the Force on peaceful rallies, which the Pol...

ABUJA, June 3 (Reuters) - Nigerian protesters seeking the return of more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist group Boko Haram said on Tuesday they would challenge a ban on their daily protests in court. Nigerian police on Monday banned any more protests in the capital Abuja concerning the campaign to get the girls back, saying they could be hijacked by "dangerous elements" who could threaten state security. The girls were snatched from the remote northeastern village of Chibok, near the Cameroon border, on April 14. "We shall be accompanying our lawyers to the court where we hope to obtain an immediate restraint on this unconstitutional, undemocratic and repressive act," protesters spokesman Rotimi Olawale said in an emailed statement. Much of the anger of the protests, and a #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign that helped fuel it, has been directed towards the government for failing to protect the girls. A Reuters investigation revealed that there were a...

These senseless killings are still going on with impunity. Members of the deadly Boko Haram stormed a church in Attagara, Gwoza LGA of Borno State and killed about 12 worshippers during Sunday service. A resident of the village, Matthew Adamu, gave details of the sad incident thus: “The attack occurred at 9.30am at the EYN Church while the service was going on. Our church has some men who provide security, especially when service is going on. As we were holding our service on Sunday, we started hearing gunshots and everybody fled. Some jumped through the windows and ran into the bushes. Some who live close to the church managed to run to their homes.  “Men in the community however mobilised immediately and pursued the Boko Haram men. They came with motorcycles and a car but our people killed many of them and arrested three. "I later learnt that nine people in the church were shot dead." The attack which occurred barely 48 hours after the murder of the Emi...

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Senior Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe was a guest on BBC's Hardtalk this morning where he spoke about the increasing state of insurgency in Nigeria. Addressing a question on allegations that everyday dozens of bodies are being  transferred from the military headquarters prison called Dubar and deposited at a hospital in Maiduguri with the bodies showing signs of torture and brutality, he replied that the Nigerian Government and the military is suffering from an orchestrated plan to cause disaffection, alleging that people who are angry with the fact that Pres. Goodluck Jonathan won an election are doing everything within their power to fight his government. What he said below... "You do not understand the holistic problem of Nigeria. President Jonathan has committed an offense. His major offense is that he won an election when some people in Nigeria, very strong and powerful feel that he ought not to have won and power ought no...

A witness has recently emerged, claiming she may have sighted the missing Malaysian Airlines flight just before it disappeared. Katherine Tee, a British sailor, was crossing the Indian Ocean en route to Phuket, Thailand when she saw what appeared to be a plane that was on fire with black smoke trailing behind it in March - possibly on the night MH370 went missing. The 41-year-old, who had been at sea for about 13 months with her husband, had kept the spotting of the plane to herself as she was unaware of its significance at the time. But now, she's decided to break her silence and has filed an official report with authorities which could become a new lead into the search for the long lost jet. Ms Tee was sailing from Cochin, India with husband Marc Horn, 50, but was alone on deck when she saw the aircraft. 'I was on a night watch. My husband was asleep below deck and our one other crew member was asleep on deck,' she told the Phuket Gazette. 'I saw something th...

The U.S. Justice Department has filed papers accusing Russian Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, pictured, as being the leader of the gang behind the software  Computer users were last night warned to take urgent action to protect themselves from a global cyber virus pandemic. Police across the globe launched an unprecedented attack on high-tech criminals behind software causing misery to millions. The computers of more than 15,000 people in the UK are already infected with a virus that could cost our economy ‘millions’, the National Crime Agency (NCA) warned. But the grip of those behind the so-called ‘malware’ has been weakened by a counter attack on the servers which control the software. Last night, a Russian named Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev was accused of being the mastermind of an international gang behind the software. Prosecutors say his alleged set-up consisted of criminals in the UK as well as in Russia and Ukraine. Computer experts said computer users must ins...