A 25-year-old woman, Ogochukwu Nwosu, is in a critical condition at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos State, after she was bathed with substance suspected to be acid.

It was learnt that Ogochukwu was at Ilasa bus stop, on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, when a man allegedly dropped from a motorcycle and poured acid on her.He was said to have jumped back on the motorcycle and fled the scene.

The victim, who sustained burns on her face, neck, breasts, among other parts of her body, was reportedly rushed to LUTH by passersby.

Ogochukwu, who spoke with a PUNCH Metro correspondent from her hospital bed, accused one Mrs. Chidi, the wife of the man who had proposed marriage to her, as the culprit.She alleged that Mrs. Chidi had been threatening her on the telephone and through text messages immediately she learnt of her husband’s intention to marry her (Ogochukwu).

She said she had turned down Mr. Chidi’s proposal because he was married, adding that the latter persisted.

“On Thursday, I had closed from Computer Village where I work. Around 8pm, when I reached Ilasa bus stop, I dropped off the bus.
“I was about to cross to the other side of the road when a man dropped from a motorcycle and poured something on me. He immediately fled on the motorcycle. People came to my rescue and took me to the hospital.
“I suspect Mrs. Chidi because she had been threatening me before the incident. And while I was on admission at the hospital, she called and spoke with my brother, saying that was just the beginning,” she added.

Ogochukwu’s brother, Peter, said he recorded a part of the conversation with Mrs. Chidi on his mobile phone.

Peter said he reported the incident at the Itire Police Division, adding that Mrs. Chidi was arrested and detained for two days before the case was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.

It was gathered that the police admitted the suspect to bail shortly after the matter got to the SCIID.

PUNCH Metro learnt that counsel to the victim, Louis Nwaugbala and Anthony Obi, had already petitioned the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Headquarters, Abuja, over the matter.

A copy of the petition, obtained by our correspondent, read in part, 

“Sometime in 2012, one Mr. Chidi approached our client and started making advances to her and promised to marry her. But she vehemently refused the proposal. She told him that she was not interested in the marriage since he was already married.
“Upon Mr. Chidi’s insistence of wanting to marry our client and even making preparations to visit our client’s family to formalise the marriage rites, our client advised Mr. Chidi to inform his wife of his plans to take our client as his second wife, since both of them will be cohabiting in the same house.
“Immediately Mr. Chidi made his plans known to his wife, all hell broke loose as Mrs. Chidi started calling and persistently threatening our client’s life through phone calls, text and Whatsapp messages.”

The petition alleged that the suspect threatened to wreak havoc before December 2016, the purported month of the traditional marriage between Mr. Chidi and Ogochukwu.

It added that Ogochukwu was persuaded against reporting the threat to the police by Mr. Chidi, who allegedly promised to persuade his wife to accept the union.

It said tragedy struck when the victim was attacked while she was returning from work on Thursday, October 6, 2016.

Nwaugbala, the victim’s lawyer, said justice must be served in the case, adding that Ogochukwu must be flown abroad for plastic surgery by the suspect and her husband.

“That is the only thing that can assuage the damage presently done to her. She should be flown abroad for treatment,” he added.

When contacted, Mr. Chidi declined comment.He said, 

“I cannot speak with you, neither can my wife. The case is under investigation at the SCIID. Go and speak with the police at Panti; they are the ones investigating it. We cannot make any comment.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident.

She explained that Mrs. Chidi was released on bail because she could not be directly linked to the attack.

She said, “It was reported that the victim was bathed with acid by two men on a motorcycle. The victim alleged that she suspected the woman because she (the victim) is a girlfriend to Mr. Chidi and because she (victim) might likely marry the man, Mrs. Chidi might have planned the attack.

“Mrs. Chidi was picked up, made to undergo investigation and the command could not get any clue linking her to the case for now. And to protect her right, she was granted bail. Investigation is still ongoing to unravel what actually happened. Anyone linked to the case will be duly prosecuted.”

Hoodlums, suspected to be cult members, on Saturday unleashed mayhem in the Ijagun, Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State, during which they killed a final-year student of the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun.


PUNCH Metro reports that the cult members, who were armed with cutlasses and guns, at about 12pm invaded Abapawa – an area off the campus – and chased students, during which the victim, Ganiyu Oloyede, was hacked to death.

Oloyede was said to be a 400-level student of Social Studies in TASUED.

It was learnt that Oloyede was hacked to death by the cult members because his girlfriend, whose
name could not yet be ascertained, was beaten up by one of the cult members, and the victim had reportedly challenged the assault.

It was said that the cult members later mobilised to the hostel where Oloyede, who was preparing for his teaching practice stayed and killed him.

Punch adds that there was tension in Abapapawa, as students shut themselves in, while the cult attack persisted.

Policemen from the Obalende division later arrived at the scene to remove Oloyede’s corpse to a mortuary.

A female student and eyewitness, who gave her name only as Bisola, said Oloyede, aka Agunrege, was killed as a result of the cult clash between Aye and Aloera confraternities.

She said,

 “The crisis started at about 12pm in Abapawa in Ijagun. The area has several students’ hostels. I saw the boys running around with cutlasses. They were later said to be Aye and Aloera cult members.

“They chased Ganiyu (Oloyede) to a corner and cut him with cutlasses until he died. What started the fight was that Ganiyu had a girlfriend who was beaten up few days ago by one of the cult members. The cult member was said to be interested in the lady.

“Ganiyu had protested the beating of his girlfriend by the cult member and the culprit went to invite his friends, who attacked Ganiyu. Students are still in fear because the cult members are threatening to unleash more mayhem.”

Another student, who did not want his name in print, said the cult members came on a reprisal to attack a rival cult member, but Ganiyu was the one they met in the hostel.

He said,

 “On getting to Ganiyu’s hostel, the cult members did not meet the person they came to attack. When they saw Ganiyu, one of them recalled that he had had an issue with him (Ganiyu) over a girlfriend. So, they vented their anger on him.

“Right now, Ijagun is hot and the soldiers who came to restore normalcy are only arresting and harassing innocent students. The cult members have all gone into hiding after the killing. We want the police to intensify their patrol around the campus. We want our peace to be restored.”

Punch gathered that Oloyede’s corpse had been deposited by the police in a morgue in Ijebu Ode for an autopsy.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the killing.

He said,

“There was a clash between members of the Aye and Aloera cults in an area around the university.
“When the policemen got to the scene, the deceased, a 400-level student, was found dead with machete cuts. The body has been deposited in a morgue for an autopsy. Normalcy has been restored to the area now. Meanwhile, effort is on to arrest the fleeing suspects.”

The Public Relations Officer, TASUED, Nureni Bakenne, said the deceased student was supposed to undergo a teaching practice.
“The school, through its chief security officer, has  put in place several security measures to prevent a recurrence.
“Our school has not witnessed a cult clash in a long time,” he added

Men of the Nigerian Army have recorded another victory over Boko Haram.  Troops of 7 Division, Operation Lafiya Dole, have rescued 85 people, mostly women and children held hostage by insurgents in Borno north, bordering southern fringes of the Lake Chad. A statement by the army spokesman, Col. Sani Usman on Sunday, said the hostages were rescued when the troops conducted a decisive clearance operation into the remnants of Boko Haram strategic town of Chukungudu. Usman said the operation was led by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 7 Division, Brig-Gen. Victor Ezugwu, between Friday and Saturday. “The manoeuvring Brigade led by 3 Battalion of 22 Brigade, successfully cleared Geram, Bulankassa and Chukungudu believed to be the Boko Haram terrorists strongholds in that area,” Usman said. He said the troops killed five terrorists in a fierce encounter that made several of them ran into the Lake Chad waters. “The troops recovered four rounds of Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) bombs, one Double Barrel Gun, 349 packets containing various rounds of ammunitions, three magazines, a link belt of machine gun ammunition and one AK-47 rifle magazine,” he said. According to Usman, during operations, the troops discovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) making factory at Geram. “In the factory, they found several already primed suicide bombers’ vests. “They also discovered well-equipped motor vehicles and motorcycles’ workshop and spare parts wharehouse at Chukungudu village. “The troops recovered three vehicles and several newly acquired motorcycles.” He said that in line with rules of engagement, the IEDs factory, vehicles and motorcycles had been destroyed.  He reported that a soldier died during the operation.

A Kogi state polytechnic lecturer, who is also the Computer Science head of department, allegedly slapped one of his students and she fainted last Wednesday.A Nigerian, Mohammed A. Halilu, shared the story:

"Mr A A Zubairu (HOD computer science kogi state polytechnic Lokoja). Is at again!! The picture there shows the student assaulted by HOD computer science this morning. 

The student fainted and was hospitalized in the the kogi poly clinic after receiving a heavy slap from A A Zubairu whose steady habit is to be slapping student at any slight chance. The polytechnic management should please wake up for this ugly trend."

 

Despite cut in the salaries of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, both of them together with cupboard ministers and different political appointees pocketed the sum of N2.295 billion as official salaries and allowances within the last one yr.

Economic private gave the breakdown on Sunday in an analysis of reliable remunerations of the President, Vice-President, Secretary to the government of the Federation and the top of provider of the Federation, Ministers, and different prime govt functionaries as accepted by the earnings Mobilization, Allocation and monetary fee (RMAFC).

RMAFC determines and fixes the remuneration packages of public and political administrative center holders, while the national Salaries, Wages and sales commission fixes the salaries and allowances of civil servants in Nigeria.

Packages through RMAFC comprise: annual salaries, accommodation, auto upkeep/gas, individual assistant, condo preservation, domestic employees, leisure and utilities allowances.

Different are constituency allowance, worry allowance, newspapers and monitoring allowances.

A principal examination of the document shows that Mr. President has an annual basic revenue of N3.51m, Vice- President N3.03m, while Ministers, Secretary to the government of the Federation, Head of carrier and Chairmen of Boards of statutory companies have N2.02m respectively.

Targeted advisers, Speech writers, administrators general, Accountant normal of the Federation, everlasting Secretaries, CEOs of corporations and INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners, each and every acquire an annual normal cash of N1.9m. Officers below this class are referred to as ‘contributors of constitutional our bodies’

It suggests that best the President and the Vice-President experience difficulty allowances of fifty percentage each and every of their annual normal salaries; 250 percent as Constituency Allowances and enjoy other perks to be supplied (TBP) by means of government.

Benefits the duo are entitled to incorporate, but now not limited to: accommodation, furnishings, domestic staff, personal Assistants, Newspapers, cars, amusement, maintenance and Estacode.

In the meantime, Ministers, Advisers, permanent Secretaries and INEC Resident Commissioners are entitled to 200 percentage of their annual common income for accommodation; 300 percent for furniture; seventy five percent for vehicle protection and fuel; 25 percentage for personal Assistant; seventy five percent for home staff; 45 percentage for entertainment; 30 percent for utilities; 15 percentage for newspapers, and 20 percent for monitoring.

While the President and vice president’s duty tours and estacode are offered by means of executive at various charges, different officers have fixed premiums.

The estacode allowance per day for ministers, SGF, Head of carrier and Chairmen of Board is $one thousand per night on international commute; Member of constitutional bodies $900 per night; unique Advisers and Speech Writers $800 per night time; everlasting Secretaries, Director-Generals/CEO of corporations and INEC Electoral Commissioner take $600 per night time every on overseas journeys.

A comparism of the figures with earning of an ordinary Nigerian worker with a minimum wage of N18,000 a month, exhibit that civil servants will ought to work for more than 4 years earlier than incomes the utility allowance budgeted for Ministers of the Federal Republic.

The new record used to be released two weeks after a equivalent breakdown of what federal lawmakers earn every 12 months.

Source – Dialy post

A single mom, Ifunanya Eme has been arrested by means of police in Ajangbadi discipline of Lagos for allegedly dumping her day-ancient baby girl with the aid of the roadside.

Eme, a salesgirl who hails from Enugu State, was arrested on Tuesday by way of policemen on the Ilemba Hausa division, after residents of Solimo road raised the alarm.

Eme, who was brought to the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Ikeja, on Thursday, informed Punch that she dumped her day-old youngster due to the fact that her lover deserted her, adding that she had no manner of taking care of the baby.

It was once gathered that 31-yr-historical Eme met her lover, recognized most effective as John, who worked as a contract employee with a enterprise within the subject, in March 2015.

It used to be learnt that Eme, who lived along with her elder sister in Ajangbadi, advised John early 2016 that she was pregnant.

John ended the relationship, fled the area and switched off his mobile cellphone. It used to be mentioned that Eme used to be delivered of the child girl on Monday in her house and wrapped her in a polythene bag.

She allegedly sneaked out of the residence and went out to dump the polythene bag by means of the roadside round 1am on Tuesday.

Residents were stated to have woken as much as the sight of the youngster, after which police were alerted and the baby was traced to Eme. She used to be subsequently arrested. The youngster was once said to have been rescued and is currently receiving clinical concentration.

Eme mentioned she had not been in a position to reach John after she instructed him that she was once pregnant.

She said, “i'm not married. I work as a salesgirl at a grocery store at Church bus stop in Ajangbadi. I met John final year and we started dating.

“after I found out that I was once pregnant early this 12 months, I referred to as John and he mentioned he used to be touring and he used to be not ready to maintain any youngster. Seeing that then, he had now not come to look me, and his cell mobile number had been switched off.

“I used to be delivered of the child at home on Monday considering that I might no longer manage to pay for health facility bill. I'm an orphan. So, when John left me, i didn't have mum and dad that I would provide the baby to. I accordingly made up our minds to dump her by means of the roadside the place variety-hearted folks could decide on her up.

“When some neighbours discovered her, they said at the police station and the baby was once traced to me. It was once poverty that forced me to abandon the girl by way of the roadside.”

The Lagos Commissioner of Police, Owoseni, stated after the child had acquired clinical awareness, she would be transferred to the appropriate govt company for rehabilitation.

The latest expand within the fee of chicken feed in Nigeria has been forcing chook farmers to ration food for his or her birds.

Findings have shown that the cost of constituents for the composition of chook feeds, especially maize, has increased by using 100 percent.

For example, a 100kg bag of maize, which used to price about N6,000 in April 2016, is now being offered for about N12,000.

Additionally the cost of fish meal, one other major ingredient in chook feeds, has elevated by means of 60 percentage. A kilogramme of fish meal that used to sell for N500 now bills about N800.

Nonetheless, the cost of egg in the market has not loved an identical develop.

Earlier than the hike in the cost of chicken feed parts, a crate of eggs used to sell for N600. It is now being sold for between N650 and N700, relying on the egg measurement.

This development has led farmers to be rationing meals for their birds or mixing their feeds with lesser nutritious components.

This has as a result resulted in a drop in egg production as malnourished birds do not produce eggs maximally.

Findings also showed that the high price of maize was as a result of low cultivation therefore of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents in the north, ordinary assaults via Fulani herdsmen and flooding.

This obstacle was tested within the 2016 Maize Outlook by means of a consulting corporation, Novus Agro Nigeria.

In line with the outlook, the fee of maize hit N65, 000 per metric tonne in January 2016, up from around N45,000 in October 2015 and has been on steady upward push considering the fact that then.

The Director-common of the poultry organization of Nigeria, Mr. Onallo Akpa, mentioned the chicken enterprise in the nation was once in challenge.

He mentioned, “last yr, Nigeria produced over 14 billion table eggs and was acknowledged because the number one egg producer in Africa. But we have not been competent to calculate the construction figure in the final one yr considering the fact that of the crisis we're going through. However definitely, our egg construction determine has dropped. The enterprise is being threatened now due to excessive cost of poultry feeds.

Akpa also said the problem arose hence of overlook of the agricultural sector and the non-supply of inputs like fertiliser to the “few” farmers within the nation.

He mentioned, “Maize was being bought between N4,500 and N5,000 per 100kg bag in October/November 2015. But now, it is about N12,000. Now there may be pressure on maize with the aid of the poultry enterprise which consumes over 2.5 million metric tonnes annually. The breweries and other industries additionally compete with us.”

The Chairman of Dedora Nigeria constrained, Lagos, Mr. Emmanuel Omokwale, said his farm had been recording loss day-to-day.

He lamented that before, his farm used to provide 300,000 crates of eggs per day, however would hardly produce 1,000 crates now when you consider that of the rise within the prices of raw materials.

He stated, “the costs of uncooked substances hold on growing every day. Maize is a main illustration. I have been in this business for over 25 years, i've now not purchased maize above N80, 000 per tonne. But the rate is now N180,000 per tonne. With the best way it is going, simplest God is aware of when it'll end.

“different obstacle is non-availability of nutrients and others that are used to produce amino acid to complement chook feed. All these matters are not produced in Nigeria. Maize and soya beans are in the neighborhood produced, but soya beans are in many instances imported into the country. The currency exchange challenge has compounded the non-availability of vitamins.”

Omokwale delivered that the currency trading concern, increase in gasoline rate and high curiosity rate have additionally contributed to the drawback the poultry industry is going through.

“we are not breaking even since we cannot meet the cost of feeding the birds. In my farm, I provide water, electrical energy, labour and protection. For illustration, i purchase diesel at N200 per litre and i take advantage of a minimum of 200 litres of diesel per day, that is, N40,000 on diesel alone everyday,” he said.

Omokwale delivered that these problems had ended in a pointy decline in the creation of eggs on his farm.

He said, “we can’t meet demand for eggs on account that we don’t have ample birds. We don’t have the potential to stock now. The main issue is that the more we produce, the extra we lose. We can't just develop on account that to feed the birds by myself is complex.

“Some chicken farms ration the feeding of their birds. However the trouble with that's that in case you undertake that process, you will be worse off. Because of this you have to lessen your stock. It's too highly-priced to stock now. Everyone will quickly see the influence of what's going down now in the country.”

The Managing Director of Abibcom Farms in Ogun State, Dr. Habib Stephen Temitope, additionally mentioned insecurity had contributed to the non-availability of uncooked materials for chicken feed.

He mentioned, “How do you feed your birds when the fee of raw materials is growing every day? The excellent factor is to lower your stocking potential. A kilogramme of maize rate N44 earlier than, however it is being offered for N105. So, if you are shopping one hundred kilogrammes of maize, you want N105,000 to do so in contrast to before when it price N44,000.

“but regardless of the upward push within the price of raw substances, poultry farmers cannot broaden the fee of eggs. Vaccine is another predicament. You are to vaccinate your birds. Some farmers are rationing food for his or her birds simply to keep them alive when you consider that of these problems.”

according to Punch, a chicken farmer in Ibadan, who has about 2,000 birds, Isaac Oguntuase, said he had began rationing feeds for his birds seeing that of its fee implication and the fiscal problem he was once going by means of.

He explained that the sufficient number of chicken feeds required daily for his birds is 250kg as each and every consumes an common of a hundred twenty five grammes of food per day.

He stated, “i will be able to inform you that the rate of poultry feed has multiplied with the aid of 100 per cent. My birds have no longer been consuming as they should; alternatively of giving them 250 kg of feed everyday, i have reduced the ration to about 200kg.

“however the hindrance with that's that their egg creation has dropped by using 30 per cent already. If birds don’t devour well, they won’t produce eggs as they must and the little they produce might also be small in size.”

additionally a chicken farmer in Ogun State, Mr. Johnson Anwuzie, mentioned he had been substituting maize with dried garri (koko) and fish meal with soya beans.

But he famous that the move had decreased his birds’ egg creation rate. Rather of an average of a hundred and eighty crates of eggs everyday, Anwuzie has been getting not up to 140 crates due to the fact he started adulterating feed for his birds.

“i've been losing some huge cash considering the fact that of the high price of maize and its unavailability,” he stated.

A chook farmer in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Mr. Oladapo John, stated he had diminished the inventory of fowls on his farm.

He mentioned, “instead of adulterating their feed, i've lowered the stock of fowls on my farm. However in contrast to before after I used to provide a hundred egg crates on my farm, I only produce 30 now.”

A chicken farmer, Mr. Azeez Gbolahan, described the rising cost of feeds as demanding, pronouncing the development has had enormous influence on his trade.

Gbolahan, who rears layers and cockerels, lamented that in spite of the growing fee of the feeds, any try and expand the rate of their products would result in loss of consumers.

“the costs have skyrocketed. It's killing the business and consuming into our profit. For illustration, on the opening of the year, a bag of layers mash was round N2,200, but now it’s N2,900. It used to be about N2,650 simply three weeks ago, however now it has elevated once more.

“Painfully, you could’t simply broaden the costs of your merchandise like that, else you are going to lose buyers. I attempted it. I raised rate of a crate of eggs from N700 to N750, however I misplaced numerous consumers thus," he said.

Findings with the aid of Punch also confirmed that many poultry farmers are relocating out of the business because it has turn out to be complicated to preserve their farms beneath the current instances.

The Northern Muslim and Christian religion forum, a Northern Socio-religious workforce has known as on President Muhammadu Buhari to admire the contribution of Prophet. T.B Joshua to country wide progress.

This is because the crew also known as on the Federal govt to as a subject of urgency accomplice with the respected Prophet for the social economic growth of the nation.

A announcement from the group of workers made readily available to newsmen in Kaduna recounted that Prophet. T.B Joshua is a renowned preacher with followers scattered all over the location the globe and his humanitarian gestures are unrivaled in Nigeria.

The statement together signed through making use of the Coordinator Ustaz Bello Gazali and Secretary common, Yohanna James noted that lately after the earthquake in Ecuador the Prophet and Emmanuel tv companions reached out by way of chartering a cargo airplane which carried 20 tons of emergency comfort to distressed areas suffering from the devastating earthquake.

The announcement additionally said “An Israeli rescue and alleviation school famous through utilising the United nations, ZAKA had taken realization of the countless one of a kind charitable deeds completed via Prophet T.B. Joshua and the Emmanuel television staff.

Thus, ZAKA’s chairman, Rabbi Yehuda Meshi Zahav received right here to The SCOAN final week and escorted Prophet T.B. Joshua to Israel to award him for his efforts and to also invite him to accomplice with them to improve the work of God in Israel.”

The dialogue board for this reason acknowledged it has develop to be pertinent for Nigeria to admire the crisis of the Prophet and admire his achievements for the country. They stated govt additionally have got to take the Prophet significant as his prophecy about ingredients scarcity within the establishing of the twelve months has come to move with the attendant hassle within the nation.

The dialogue board mentioned many people that heed the prophecy and went again to the farm mainly within the north on the second are reaping bountifully, and often called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to faucet his spiritual and economic abilities toward relocating the country ahead.

The declaration moreover revealed that plans are already on floor for Muslims and Christians inside the north to join fingers and honour Prophet T.B. Joshua for his humanitarian efforts which do not discriminate and urge other religious leaders inside the county to emulate him in helping the less privileged ones within the society.

Source: Legacy Reporter

Nearly 1/2 one million kids round Lake Chad face “extreme acute malnutrition” as a result of drought and a seven-yr insurgency by way of Islamist militant team Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, UNICEF said on Thursday.
 Of the 475,000 deemed at threat, 49,000 in Nigeria’s Borno state, Boko Haram’s heartland, will die this year if they do not receive remedy, in line with the United countries’ little one company, which is attractive for $308 million to cope with the challenge.
Nevertheless, up to now, UNICEF stated it had simplest got $41 million, thirteen percent of what it wishes to help those affected in the four countries – Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon – that border Lake Chad.
On the begin of 2015, Boko Haram occupied an area the scale of Belgium but has due to the fact that been pushed back over the final 18 months by army assaults with the aid of the 4 nations.
Most of its ultimate forces are actually hiding within the wilds of the sizeable Sambisa woodland, southeast of the Borno provincial capital, Maiduguri.
UNICEF mentioned that as Nigerian executive forces captured and secured territory, support officers have been opening to piece together the scale of the humanitarian disaster left at the back of in the group’s wake. “towns and villages are in ruins and communities don't have any entry to basic services,” UNICEF said in a record.
In Borno, almost two thirds of hospitals and clinics had been partly or thoroughly destroyed and three-quarters of water and sanitation amenities wanted to be rehabilitated.
Regardless of the military gains, UNICEF stated, 2.2 million persons stay trapped in areas underneath the manage of Boko Haram – which is attempting to establish a caliphate in the southern reaches of the Sahara – or are staying in camps, frightened of going house.
Boko Haram is thought to have killed as many as 15,000 persons seeing that the launch of its insurgency in 2009.
Responding to its battlefield setbacks, Boko Haram has turned to suicide bombings, many involving kids.
UNICEF mentioned it had recorded 38 cases of little one suicide bombings thus far this 12 months, in opposition to forty four within the whole of 2015 and simply 4 the 12 months before that.

The economy shouldn't be smiling on Nigerians. The naira tumbled extra to 402 at the parallel market on Wednesday, a day after the CBN banned 9 banks from the foreign exchange market over failure to remit $2.334bn to FG's Treasury Single Account domiciled with the central financial institution of Nigeria.
The neighborhood foreign money had closed at 397/greenback on Tuesday.
At the interbank market, the naira closed at 315.93/dollar, scale back than 305.5 it recorded on Tuesday.
The naira, which hit a contemporary file low when you consider that the CBN floated the foreign money on the authentic interbank market in June, first touched 400/dollar at the black market this month.
On the interbank market on Wednesday, no trades had been posted until three minutes earlier than the top of the session, when the CBN which has been lowering its greenback earnings, intervened, Reuters reports.
Best three offers valued at $zero.75m have been traded at 305.50 per greenback, a level the market has closed at due to the fact Monday. Also, the naira had hit an all-time low of 365.25 per buck on the interbank on Thursday.

Some gurus have recommended Emir Sanusi for his “well timed” comment, urging President Buhari to as a subject of urgency change his policies, announcing Nigeria needed to be proactive and artistic to resolve its challenges.
An economic analyst and Chief govt Officer, Cowry Asset administration restricted, Mr. Johnson Chukwu, stated the Federal executive and the economic management crew had been reacting in silos to challenges dealing with the economy.
“We have to react in a more coordinated manner. We have got to reply with a cocktail of options.
“It took us time to open up the economy to international investors. By the point we did, the overseas traders had moved on. The gas subsidy that we eliminated was good, nevertheless it could have include other movements that may have helped the economic system.
“we'd like foreign borrowing in an effort to bring dollar liquidity again and stabilise the market. The President will need to established an financial consider tank so that it will give you a targeted strategy to tackle the problems,” he mentioned.
Additionally, the head, research and funding Advisory, SCM Capital, Mr. Sewa Suwu, mentioned the present monetary management staff needed to maneuver faster than the present %.
He said, “The financial challenges are usually not odd to Nigeria, however all commodity exporting countries. The best way out of the current challenges is to spend our approach out of it.
“we have a national predicament and it's a time for all economists and specialists to provide you with ideas that can help us to get out of the challenges as a nation.
Sanusi's suggest To Buhari Administration Is correct – professionals
We need to come collectively as one and sort out the quandary.”
The Director common, West African Institute for economic and economic administration, Prof. Akpan Ekpo, who famous that the federal government could no longer fix the nation in a single yr, mentioned, “What i will name a mistake is the prolong in taking motion; we call it lag structure in economics.
“For example, there was an pointless delay in passing the budget. There used to be an pointless lengthen in forming a cupboard. These two essential delays have been developing challenge for the country.
“In February, a few of us warned that we had been on a tip of a recession with the rising unemployment, rising inflation and declining productivity.
“If at that point, they'd carried out the finances and released money – seeing that you ought to spend out of a recession – we'd have evaded the recession. A funds of 2016 was once passed on could 6; whilst we communicate, we don’t understand how far they have got gone with the implementation.”
An expert in fiscal Economics at the college of Uyo, Prof. Leo Ukpong, stated:
"right now, what we'd like is to create jobs and hold men and women employed. I've no longer obvious any clear-cut policy in that course."

The monetary and fiscal Crimes fee, EFCC, on Tuesday, August 23, 2016, arrested one Iwuchukwu Martin Uche for obtaining money below false pretence to the tune of USD145, 000.

Uche, who claimed to be a military officer working for the North Atlantic Treaty organization, NATO in Kabul, Afghanistan allegedly, collected the money from his sufferer, H. Uyen, a Viatnamese girl, after promising to marry her.

The suspect, who also claimed to be a property agent operating in Nigeria and Ghana, allegedly instructed the victim that he needed the money to procure some files for the planned wedding.

The cash was once allegedly wired to the suspect’s Diamond financial institution account. He'll be charged to court.

A 30-year-ancient man recognized as Hassan Jamilu, who was once paraded at a Gudu higher field court docket sitting in Abuja on Monday, used to be sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for breaking into Shoprite’s money room and trying to interrupt the riskless.

Alhaji Umar Kagarko, who is the courtroom decide, gave Jamilu an choice of fine in the sum of N30,000 and warned him to desist from committing crimes, including that the plaintiff, as a private organisation must file a civil subject for compensation.

The suspect was once prior arraigned on a 3-depend cost of crook trespass, shop breaking and try and commit an offence of theft.

The Prosecutor, Patrick Ebong, had advised the court that one Harrison Jatau of Pavilion protection restricted, Shoprite mall, Apo, Abuja, mentioned the matter on the Apo Police Station on April 25.
He mentioned Jamilu criminally trespassed into the stated mall by means of the outside, climbed the fence to the roof top and broke into the ceiling. He said the convict used a robe and dropped down into the money room of the mall and attempted to break the secure.

Leading edge pronounced that the protection alarm blew and the convict narrowly escaped and used to be ultimately caught and arrested with the aid of the police on Aug. 15, after he was once also captured by means of the CCTV established within the rooms of the mall.

The prosecutor mentioned that the offence contravened Sections 348, 355 and 95 of the Penal Code. He additionally said the convict used to be arrested with pliers, scissors, two screw drivers, one flame mate burner and its gas, rain coat gown and an umbrella.

Jamilu pleaded responsible and requested for leniency.

Nigeria Police drive recruitment: Candidates to endure lie detector test Hilarious reaction through Nigerians
The Nigerian Police drive has announced that it'll area positive candidates in the ongoing recruitment undertaking, to compulsory polygraph test (lie detector experiment). This experiment can be furthermore to the final heritage assess, biometrics, medical, bodily examination, aptitude, oral and psychological tests.

The commission, planning to recruit 10,000 personnel, have shortlisted 110, 469 out of the 338,250 candidates for the aptitude exams from the 991,438 applications obtained.

The Polygraph test is geared toward ensuring that candidates aren't of questionable character and their behaviours conform with normal rules of behaviour anticipated of an officer to be recruited into the drive.

The Inspector general of Police, IGP Ibrahim k. Idris mentioned that no candidate shall be admitted for coaching at the Police academy and schools without present process these prescribed tests.

Meanwhile listed here are some hilarious reactions as obvious online:

One Drews_African_Barbie wrote "Lie gini?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Nigerians will move it with Flying colors,  na today hold losing time and money"

even as one Softalvin wrote "The lies in their mouth will damage the machine"

And one akolisa_x wrote "They should be careful before anyone steals the machine"

Tonysoprano101 wrote "A polygraph scan will not be a hundred percentage correct and anybody who's tensed and anxious isn't gonna cross it and more over it used to be designed for prime profile instances. With the intention to the NPF, who're you guys deceiving or that is just an additional case of stealing public money."

Adenike Babalola mentioned "just right one....They cannot seize them all but it will most likely scale down the quantity of liars..."

even as just Andrea wrote "First discover how a lot it's going to cost them to get the machines n gurus...Why don't they test the machines on the ogas at d high? Mumu.Com"

And Imayodelemi wrote "I've said it a few times,Polygraph scan shouldn't be for Nigerians,An normal Nigerian will cross Polygraph experiment even with lies,Nigerians add passion/Emotion to lies,certainly the females...."

Segajok mentioned "let him  by doing the experiment first that he's no longer looking to make some money by way of that is computing device suggestion cause its would not make a damn sense to me why lie detector should used on more energizing . Why not on the old ones within the method."

Kfbers, what do you feel?

Some strategic air strikes by way of the Nigerian Air force has hit hard at the strong base of the dreaded commanders of the Boko Haram terrorists group.
Security sources are announcing Shekau used to be significantly wounded and he could have been captured.
 
Many of the very prime leaders of the heartless killer crew, Boko Haram, had been said to have been killed within the bombings with heavy fireplace-vigour. Infantrymen are actually attacking the bottom in floor operation.
Gallant troops from the Nigerian army had been strategising for lengthy...Earlier than this enormous break.

Acting Director navy Public family members, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman validated this pronouncing

"In what one might describe as the most extraordinary and fabulous air raid, we now have just verified that for this reason of the interdiction efforts of the Nigerian Air drive, some key leaders of the Boko Haram terrorists have been killed at the same time others had been fatally wounded.

The air interdiction took location last week Friday nineteenth August 2016, even as the terrorists had been performing Friday rituals at Taye village, Gombale basic area inside Sambisa wooded area, Borno State.

Those Boko Haram terrorists commanders verified lifeless incorporate Abubakar Mubi, Malam Nuhu and Malam Hamman, amongst others. Whilst their chief, so known as “Abubakar Shekau”, is believed to be fatally wounded on his shoulders. A couple of different terrorists had been additionally wounded. Thanks in your style and common cooperation."

 The Presidency has denied media reviews that President Muhammadu Buhari is searching for emergency powers to sort out the nation’s financial challenges.

The Senior distinctive Assistant to the vice chairman on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, said in a statement late final night time that the financial management group was once on the grounds that a number of measures to urgently reform the economic system but that they had not yet been communicated to the president.



The vice president’s spokesman mentioned that those measures had also no longer been passed to the Federal govt Council and the national assembly.
He mentioned: “The monetary management staff has certainly been on the grounds that a number of coverage options and measures to urgently reform and revitalise the economic climate. Some of these measures may good require legislative amendments and presidential orders with a purpose to enable the executive arm of presidency transfer rapidly in enforcing the monetary reform plans.

“so far as i do know, this has no longer been handed on to the president, the Federal govt Council or the legislative arm of presidency. So, at this point, there are not any further details to share.”

source: NigerianBulletin

Nigeria has been battling with the obstacle of renewed problems of Niger Delta militancy in the yr 2016 due to a variety of problems combined with politics. A main Niger Delta militant group known as the Niger Delta Avengers had been leading the race within the destruction of oil amenities in the South-south vicinity which has threatened the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.
Some militant organizations have called on the halt of the ongoing anti-graft war with the aid of President Muhammadu Buhari and in addition the release of prominent individuals of the folks’s Democratic get together like Sambo Dasuki and others as a  for peace.
Different agencies known as for the unconditional free up of the founder of the independent men and women of Biafra and separatist chief, Nnamdi Kanu who has been incarcerated by the Federal government with expenses of terrorism and treason slammed on him.
Other armed businesses recommend for a progress programme for the deplorable Niger Delta neighborhood which has been degraded by oil spills and hearth outbreaks because of many years of oil exploration via multinational corporations who've didn't competently compensate the host communities.
This brief narrative above leads us to another robust chance to the President by a Niger Delta militant crew leader from Orogun in Delta state named Ogoneoghochukwu.
This audacious Nigerian bared his face in a threatening video the place he reiterated his plan to kill the Nigerian President and his most standard child, Zahra. Like other organizations, he's calling for the instantaneous and unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu.
The young man who wore a black pair of solar glasses and assumably learn slowly from a written assertion sounded company in his words. The viral video came with a brief caption below:

”Buhari has just started a fight that he cannot conclude, We warned him! …The unarmed Biafrans you are sending your navy to kill are progressive, they are intellectuals, they're warriors. They rarely start up whatever but after they do, they don’t go back. We're Biafrans!!!, we're the avengers!! We can come for you!! These towards Biafra freedom look forward to us!!”

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has ordered a full scale investigation into the assault on some Bus fast Transit, BRT, buses mentioned to were vandalised on Wednesday, by rampaging miscreants over alleged killing of a hawker with the aid of probably the most buses at Maryland area of Lagos State.

The governor, who used to be said to be irked by means of the progress directed police and other critical protection organizations to launch a manhunt after the perpetrators and deliver them to book.

In keeping with Managing Director of Primero Transport offerings, operator of the damaged BRT buses, Mr. Fola Tinubu, who revealed this to journalists said investigation confirmed that their buses were not worried in the accident.

He said; “We want to thank the governor for his hindrance since he referred to as me this morning in my view to commiserate with us. He promised to guide us and guaranteed us that he would help in guaranteeing the perpetrators are arrested. We thank him for his generosity of phrases and all he promised to do.”

Tinubu lamented the extent of destruction and the buses affected, pronouncing the losses walking into several hundreds of thousands of naira is a transparent setback to funding.

In keeping with him, the Nigerian public ought to be proficient to attract a line between private investment and public property.

He believed no amount of provocation will have to justify the destruction of forty eight new buses belonging to a confidential investor, who has furnished over 2,500 jobs in view that graduation of operations in November 2015 and still counting.

Nigeria’s naira reinforced against the buck, heading for its first achieve since establishing to exchange without a peg three days in the past, because the valuable financial institution sought to stabilize the market by way of promoting dollars.

The naira rose 0.7 percentage to 282.5 per greenback by way of 5 p.M. In Lagos, the business capital of Africa’s largest economic system, after previous losing as so much as zero.5 percentage.

The regulator has intervened out there with the aid of promoting currency exchange when you consider that it ended the forex’s sixteen-month fix of 197-199 per buck on Monday. It bought $4 billion within the spot and forwards markets that day to clear a backlog of demand for tough currency, and adopted that with about $100 million of income instant market on Tuesday.

“The market expects the valuable financial institution to proceed to intervene on a every day basis for now as it's conveniently the one supply of dollar presents,” Sewa Wusu, head of study at SCM Capital Ltd., said by means of telephone from Lagos. “overseas direct investment and portfolio flows are yet to  flowing in as investors wait on the sidelines to look forward to liquidity, fee discovery and steadiness.”

ahead contracts dropped as merchants reduced their bets on how much additional the naira will weaken, even though they nonetheless see it losing 6.5 percentage by late September. Three-month naira non-deliverable forward contracts fell four.7 percentage, essentially the most on a closing basis due to the fact may 17, to 302.25 per dollar. Contracts maturing in a year declined 3.7 percentage to 340 per dollar.

“The monetary authority can be a commonplace participant in the interbank market, at least in the quick term, to be certain that enough liquidity is available to facilitate two-way alternate,” analysts at Johannesburg-founded Rand merchant financial institution, together with Celeste Fauconnier and Nema Ramkhelawan-Bhana, stated in a observe to clients.

Nigeria’s benchmark equity index rose for a 2d day, advancing by using 2.4 percent to 30,127.82, its perfect close due to the fact that Oct. 21. It has soared 34 percentage when you consider that falling to a greater than three-yr low on Jan. 19, as regional investors buy shares waiting for a return via foreigners, who fled when the central bank imposed capital controls to shield the naira’s peg.

Yields on the West African nation’s $500 million bonds due in July 2023 were little transformed at 7.09 percent. They’ve dropped 51 basis features given that significant financial institution Governor Godwin Emefiele introduced on June 15 that he used to be ending the forex fix.