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A Nigerian mum on Wednesday pleaded with the UK Govt to allow her son remain in the country hours before he was due to be deported to Nigeria, a country his mother says he's never lived in. 5 year old Rafeeq Atanda (pictured above) and his mother Bola Fatunbi, were held on Wednesday night at the immigration center in London ahead on the scheduled deportation yesterday. Looks like they may even have been deported. "Speaking from the centre, Bola told the Evening Chronicle: “I feel safe in Gateshead, but we have no one in Nigeria. Rafeeq was born here, he goes to school here and is doing well, it is so very hard for us. There are so many kidnappings and frightening things with Boko Haram happening in Nigeria, it would not be safe.” From UK Mirror Fighting back tears, Bola, 30, told how she had first come to the UK following the death of her parents and brothers and sisters in a car tragedy in Nigeria in 1997. She said: “It was so hard but I thought ...

As this woman fled Baga, Borno state last week with her family, she saw a baby boy crying next to his dead mother. She stopped and picked him up. She now cares for him. Photo credit: UN Refugee Agency. See photos of other Nigerian refugees currently in Chad ,

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The Defence website was defaced 'ISIS' style by hackers today. Spokesperson of Defence HQ, Chris Olukolade confirmed it, then later revealed that the website has been taken back from the hackers... Meanwhile, someone on twitter with user name @imamsadiq123 has been boasting about being responsible for the defacing. Check his chilling tweets below

No less than 12 persons, including three pregnant women, a native doctor and eight others, have lost their lives in the wake of the renewed activities of men believed to be cultists in Agbor and Boji-boji Owa communities of Delta State. In recent weeks, residents had moved about freely, thinking that calm had finally returned to their communities, only for the men to strike in the early hours of yesterday. It was reliably gathered that the killings have heightened fear and tension in the communities, as lorry loads of armed policemen and other security agents have swarmed both communities. Residents who spoke to LEADERSHIP Friday disclosed that the attacks were part of a supremacy war between various cult groups who have laid siege on the communities in the last three years. According to these residents, the cultists shoot sporadically into the air on some nights; scaring residents of the areas and, in most cases, allegedly rape unsuspecting young ladies. Among ...

The dates for the general election in February may be hanging in the balance as the nation’s national security adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has called for postponement to give the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) more time to distribute about 30 million permanent voter cards (PVCs) to eligible voters. But,  INEC  has declared that there was no operational reason, including the concerns over the distribution of the PVCs, to postpone next month’s general election. Dasuki spoke yesterday during a talk show at Chatham House, the London think-tank group. According to Reuters, the NSA said he had discussed the matter with the INEC chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, adding that a delay within the time allowed by the law will not be a bad idea. “That is what we are encouraging at the moment,” he said, noting that INEC had been able to distribute 30 million PVCs but had an outstanding 30 million others to hand out. He further said that althoug...

Tears flowed freely from the eyes of onlookers when the fiancée of a man who was clubbed to death over a bet in Surulere area of Lagos State suffered miscarriage. LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that the dead man and his fiancée were planning to get married in March. The deceased, Oluwatosin Odukeye, 32, was said to have been killed on January 15, 2015, at Makinde Street, Ojuelegba, by hoodlums who obeyed the order of the victim’s boss, Shade Onafowope. A police inspector attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, where the case is being investigated, disclosed that the widow of the late Odukeye collapsed in shock and lost her pregnancy in the process. He said: “According to the family, the couple was planning to wed in March this year. The case was transferred to us from Surulere Police Station. The victim was a lottery agent of Premier Lotto, at Abiodun Street, Shomolu, which is one of their numerous offices in Lagos. A man...