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A young girl who was taken into captivity by the Boko Haram insurgents over two years ago has narrated the gory tale of how the sect leader, Abubakar Shekau, made her his sex slave and got impregnated her during the process. Speaking exclusively to IQ4News’ Prince Dickson, the victim who identified herself as Meenah Dawah (pseudonym) disclosed that she escaped from her captors earlier in the year. She explained how the insurgents made her watch as they murdered her parents in their village located at Konduga, Borno State, while she was only 17 years old. Dawah further stated that she escaped the insurgent’s camp following a raid by the military adding that she got pregnant for Shekau during her 27-month captivity. The insurgents shot her in the leg during her escape bid. The bullet was later removed at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno State. The escapee further revealed the ordeal of different girls who screamed helplessly each time t...

A GA reader while driving along L.B. Johnson freeway in Dallas, Texas this morning saw this truck with a message on the tail-board. Can we express ourselves like this in Nigeria and still drive around freely?  More photos below.

MAIDUGURI, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in a bus killed one member of Nigeria’s civilian joint task force (JTF) at the main checkpoint on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday, military and JTF sources said. There was no immediate claim for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno, is the birthplace of the jihadi sect. A JTF member at the scene said that after passengers had left the bus, the driver drove forward to another inspection point at the Njimtilo checkpoint in the southwest of the city where he detonated the bomb. Three civilians were injured. Since President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration at the end of May, there has been a sharp rise in the number of raids and bombings across the country, especially in Borno. Attacks in neighbouring Chad, including on the capital N’Djamena, have also been on the rise. Buhari and his regional allies are set...

Reports according to DAILY POST has it that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a former Head of Service of the Federal Government, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, on charges of fraud and money laundering. The former head of service, alongside other accused persons, however pleaded not guilty to the 24 counts when they were brought before Justice Gabriel Kolawole, on Monday. According to the prosecution, Oronsaye and ‎other accused persons committed the procurement fraud in 2010 while using the various sums of money, illegally withdrawn from the Federal Government’s account, for “biometric data capturing project.” According to the charges, the offences were contrary to the provisions of section 14(1) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act and section 1(1) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other related offences Act. Counsel to Oronsaye, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, and that of the other accused persons, made oral application for bail but was opposed...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday relieved the nation’s service chiefs of their appointments. Details later. . .

Nigerian Prison sources say ex Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido and his two sons Aminu and Mustapha, have been flown to Abuja this morning ahead of the court hearing for their bail application holding tomorrow July 14th. The former Governor and sons who are standing trial for allegedly collecting bribe totaling N1.35 billion from government contractors when he was governor, were on July 9th ordered to be remanded in Kano Prisons by Justice Evelyn Anyadike.

Reports reaching DAILY POST has it that there has been a new twist to the power tussle in Rivers state as a National Industrial Court in Yenagoa has ordered the immediate reinstatement of elected Chairmen of 22 Local government areas in Rivers state. The Court also ordered the Inspector General of Police to enforce the directive with immediate effect. The 22 Local government Chairmen under the auspices of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON had approached the National Industrial court to obtain an order restraining the Rivers state government “and its agents from dissolving” them. Recall that a Federal High court in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice Lambo Akanbi had set aside the Local government election that ushered in the 22 Chairmen.