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According to this twitter user, these photos show South African military helping in the fight against Boko Haram in Borno state. I can not verify this claim. See more photos below.

This is a traffic advisory from the Lagos state government ahead of APC mass rally tomorrow March 7th. Statement from Lagos government below... This is to inform the general public that due to the planned Mass On Street Rally by the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Org. on Saturday 7/3/2015 from Maryland along Ikorodu rd through Funsho Williams Ave. to Teslim Balogun Stadium, from 8am to 2pm, various sections of the road will be closed. Service lanes and unoccupied sections of the express lane corridor inward Teslim Balogun Stadium will be available to motorists during the procession. Motorists are advised to use the service lanes of Ikorodu rd and Funso Williams Ave., Agege Motor rd or Third Mainland bridge. 200 Lastma personnel will be deployed to manage traffic and other incidences. Pls tune to Traffic radio 96.1 FM for update. Kayode Opeifa Honorable Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos State

An angry mob yesterday March 5th broke into a prison in Dimapur city in India, overpowered security there, grabbed a man accused of raping a student multiple times in February, stripped him naked and dragged him four miles before beating him to death in front of a large, jeering crowd. Students and others had actually gathered in Dimapur for a rally against rape, when they decided they'd had enough and went to the jail to find the rapist. The crowd tore down 2 gates before dragging him to the town's clock tower to exact street justice According to the Indian Express, the man, identified as a 35-year-old used car trader, raped a student on February 24th and was arrested the next day. He was in jail awaiting trial when the mob attacked the prison. They pelted him with stones and beat him with sticks until he died.  There's a rising anger over the high rate of sexual violence in the country and people are tired of waiting...

Ekiti state Governor, Ayo Fayose and his aides pictured eating at a Buka in Ajilosun in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital recently.

After the cut is another video of controversial Catholic priest, Fr. Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, expressing his thoughts on the state of the nation. In the video, Fr Mbaka denied ever meeting Buhari and also asked all those who are angry with him to please forward their account details so he can return whatever money they had given to him. Lol The Rev. Father said "They keep saying, it shall be well..it shall be well....When? Is it until you die?" Lol. He says nobody should mark any government as a good government because they created roads. He said it's like him being a pastor and giving out holy communion and people praising him for it. He said it's not an achievement, he's just the doing the job he was called to do just like the government. Watch the video below

Ibrahim Uwais gave his parents and everyone around him the impression that he hates Boko Haram because of the “damage” they are doing to Islam — but he has now gone to Syria apparently to join the Islamic State militants.  His distraught father, Mohammed Uwais (pictured) — who served as the chief justice of Nigeria from 1995 to 2006 — was still trying to come to terms with the news when he suffered a suspected armed robbery attack last weekend, although he was not hurt. Ibrahim, described as a 41-year-old “reserved and committed Muslim”, has two wives and four children, TheCable learnt.  His elder wife was the head of a private school in Abuja while the younger worked with the Debt Management Office (DMO). When he took the decision to go to Syria to team up with the “jihadists” of the Islamic State, he reportedly called his wives aside and told them they were free to return to their parents.  “But both of them said they would go with him,” a sou...

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the service of court papers on the Police Service Commission in Abuja in a suit seeking declaration that an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, is unfit to remain a police officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, The ex parte application for leave of court to serve the PSC outside of jurisdiction was brought before Justice Ibrahim Buba by a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN). Falana had on Thursday appeared in court and announced appearance as counsel representing the plaintiff, a lawyer, Mr. Tope Alabi, who filed the case. Alabi is urging the court to compel the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission and the Attorney General of the Federation to immediately declare Mbu’s office with the Force vacant over alleged abuse of power. The plaintiff’s legal action against the AIG stemmed from a recent order reportedly given by Mbu to the police officers of the O...