Insurgents have attacked Tumur Town, a community in Niger Republic, which houses more than 40,000 refugees from Nigeria, Daily post reports.
The attack on Sunday according to some refugees, who called their relatives in Maiduguri, was very bloody, leaving over 51 people dead and causing many damages of property, including animals.
Most of the inhabitants of the town (Tumur) are people from Abadam Local Government Area of Borno state in Nigeria.
It could be recalled that a similar incident occurred in mid May this year, which prompted over 2000 households to relocate to Damasak in search of safety and protection.
Government officials and international organisations in Damasak told newsmen that the town of Damasak may experience continuation of movement of people from Niger (mass influx) in the coming days.
The officials called on the government and partners to begin to make preparation for essential items including food to respond to the immediate needs of the new arrivals.
A 33-year-old farmer, Osazee Agbontaen, has narrated to the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, how he allegedly lost his pregnant wife due to his unlawful detention by police operatives.
Agbontaen, who resides at Ekowe Community in Ovia Northeast Local Government area of the state, told the panel that his wife who gave birth by cesarean section died while he was remanded in prison custody.
He added that he was arrested unlawfully based on a petition written against him and was detained for two weeks before being sent to prison.
“I was at home when some policemen invaded my house at about 2am and started banging on my door. Because I didn’t open for them on time, they pounced on me and beat me up, dragged me on the ground before throwing me into their van.
“They took me to their station, where I spent almost two weeks in their custody before they remanded me in prison,” he said.
The petitioner added that his wife who was carrying an eight-month old pregnancy would not have died if he were around to assist her.
“It was while I was in the prison that my family members came to tell me that my wife has put to bed through cesarean section.
“Ten days later, they also came to inform me in the prison that she couldn’t make it and has died.
“I was confused when I heard the news of the death of my wife,” Agbontaen said.
He noted that upon thorough investigations, the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) and his Investigating Police Officer (IPO), came up to say he has no case to answer.
As if the death of his wife was not enough blow, the widower also complained that he lost everything he had and that while in the prison, his farm was overgrown with weeds, and that the left over parts of his farm was later destroyed by fire.
Lagos State Government on Monday began five-day disinfection and decontamination of 33 live bird markets across the state.
Ms Abisola Olusanya, the State’s Commissioner for Agriculture kicked off the exercise at the Awolowo Live Bird Market, Mushin.
Olusanya noted that the exercise was aimed at preventing the spread of avian influenza and other zoonotic diseases as the festive period approached and the demand for live birds increased.
She listed the live bird markets lined up for disinfection and decontamination to include those in Awolowo, Mushin, Cairo, Bolade and Olaleye.
Others are live bird markets in Bariga, Ketu, Mile 12, Tejuosho, Oyingbo, Jankara, Pelewura, Oja Oba and Agege.
Also on the list are Abattoir I and II, Idera, New Garage; Isale Oja, Agege; Ikotun, Alayabiagba, Alaba Suuru, Agboju and Festac Town live bird markets.
“The exercise will also take place at Ojo Cantonment live bird market; Alaba Rago live bird market; Okokomaiko live bird market; Ejina live bird market Ikorodu; Sabo live bird market, Ikorodu and Odogunyan live bird market, Ikorodu.
“Ajah live bird market, Sangotedo live bird market, Akodo live bird market, Arasi live bird market, Ibeju Lekki and Agbalata live bird markets, Badagry are also included,” she said.
Thereafter, she urged members of the Live Bird Marketers Association of Nigeria and all stakeholders to give their full support and cooperation in order to ensure the success of the exercise.
Barcelona will face Paris St. Germain (PSG) and former striker Neymar while title holders Bayern Munich are up against Italy’s Lazio in the last 16 of the Champions League after UEFA’s draw was held on Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the draw took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The clash of Lionel Messi and FC Barcelona with last year’s runners-up PSG is a repeat of their remarkable meeting at the same stage in 2017 when Barca overcame a 4-0 first-leg loss to beat the French club 6-1 in Spain.
Bayern will start as favourites in their tie but will be wary of Simone Inzaghi’s Lazio team who have reached this stage for the first time in 20 years.
FULL DRAW
Borussia Monchengladbach v Man City
Lazio v Bayern Munich
Atletico Madrid v Chelsea
RB Leipzig v Liverpool
Porto v Juventus
Sevilla v Borussia Dortmund
Barcelona v PSG
Atalanta v Real Madrid
Un-seeded teams (group runners-up) are listed first, and will host the first leg of the home-and-away ties.
Governor of Katsina state, Aminu Masari, has said the abductors of at least 333 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, have contacted his government.
The Governor made this known when he briefed President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura on Monday.
Thugs wielding dangerous weapons invaded the Arewa House Kaduna on Monday, where they ran after officials of the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, who were there for a security summit.
Abdulaziz Suleiman, spokesman of the CNG, in a statement, explained that even security guards had to run for their lives.
According to him, “We regret to announce that armed thugs numbering hundreds were unleashed on the Arewa House venue of the security summit hosted by the Coalition of Northern Groups on Monday, December 14.”
“The Summit aimed to discuss ways to achieve synergy between communities and government security and design a uniform approach to the current security situation in the North.”
“Participants at the meeting included retired military officers, Retired Police officers, religious leaders, traditional rulers, various women, youth and trade associations.”
The CNG said just as the meeting was kicking off, ” sponsored armed thugs stormed the auditorium after subduing the civil guards at the gate.”
“The overturned tables shattered glasses, attacked the guests and officials, wounding several people and smashing vehicles parked in the premises.”
“It is disturbing that a battalion of armed thugs can stroll free across the streets of central Kaduna wielding dangerous weapons without the intervention of the security. Security only arrived hours after the thugs had left.”
“It is quite obvious now that some powerful forces are benefiting from the current security situation and would do everything for it to continue.”
“We are now all the more committed to ensuring the safety and security of the North and its people.”
2020 Big Brother Naija star, Praise Nelson has cried out saying he is going through a lot.
Praise also used himself as an example to affirm not everyone who is happy on social media is actually happy in real life.
Praise revealed this on his twitter page writing;
''Been going through a lot lately, one thing i know for sure is that not everyone who’s happy on social media in really happy…but then it’s can only get better #believethat''
Been going through a lot lately, one thing i know for sure is that not everyone who’s happy on social media in really happy...but then it’s can only get better #believethat
More than 500 pregnancies were recorded in secondary schools of Benin’s northeastern department of Borgou during the 2019-2020 school year, the Beninese news agency (ABP) reports.
“Altogether, 547 out of 36,487 school girls regularly registered were pregnant during the 2019-2020 school year as against 431 cases in 2018-2019,” ABP reported, quoting Thomas Adam, a Representative of the child protection department of Secondary education and professional and technical training ministry.
Adam attributed the increase in the cases of pregnancies to the long cessation of classes observed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Although no strategy linked to the phenomenon was yet made public, several analysts of the Beninese society fear that the crisis linked to the Covid-19 affected the measures taken to eradicate early pregnancies in schools.
An Iranian woman who became known as a “Zombie Angelina Jolie” lookalike has been jailed after sharing creepy pictures online.
Sahar Tabar, 19, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, her lawyer said.
The woman, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, became known on social media after sharing distorted pictures of herself in which she looked like the zombie version of Angelina Jolie, The Sun reports.
She gained an Instagram following and was arrested last year.
Tabar was charged with corruption of young people and disrespect for the Islamic Republic, The Guardian reports.
She used make-up and Photoshop to post the pictures online, which she claimed she did “as a joke”.
Tabar also denied reports that she had carried out surgery to look like Angelina Jolie.
“This is Photoshop and makeup. Every time I publish a photo, I paint my face in an increasingly funny way,” the 19-year-old said.
“It is a way of expressing yourself, a kind of art. My fans know that this is not my real face.
“I did not even think about being like Jolie. Also, I did not want to resemble the cartoon character the Corpse Bride.”
Little Olivia about three months ago was in Dubai with her mom where she underwent a leg surgery to straighten her bowed leg.
Her mom had said she barely slept for a day as doctors worked on her daughter's legs and praised her for being a strong baby soon after the surgery was over.
You know what? The result is now out and well the difference is clear. Just look at those photos!!!
Ha! Wahala has worn shorts ooo. Seems the new trend is now men calling out women who show them love on instagram by tagging them or sending them DMS.
We are yet to get over Osaze Odemwengie calling out the beautiful Amara Nwankwo and now this? See men eh, this new trend no go follow o [The Effing Fcuk!!!] LMAO! O wrong nau, it won't follow ooo... lol
So Cubana Chief Priest has called out DJ Cuppy asking her to stop tagging him in her photos. According to the celebrity barman, DJ Cuppy ha sbeen tagging him since yesterday and that is kinda annoying to him.
Tagging Cuppy, he wrote; ''@Cuppymusic please stop tagging me carelessly, dem send you, Abeg free me, since yesterday till now. You just dey tag me back to back smh… Why so annoying''
Wow! She is already 23. We remember when she turned 18 and her mother couldn't keep calm. Well Naomi is 23 today and as expected her mom is still not keeping calm. She is her only child -- you can please throw the thoughts of the actress having another child to the wind, lol.
Naomi has shared a beautiful photo of herself and video, and her mom helped her in sharing one more [a different one from what she showed her followers] and we must say we love her flawless look.
Her playful video below plus what her momma wrote;
''Hey Bestie
You have grown into such an amazing lady
You must have gotten that from me! 😉👍
Thank you for making it so easy to be proud of you. Happy birthday, my angel!
The Nigerian Army officially announced Sunday night that 26 senior officers have so far tested positive for COVID-19, in the wake of the death of its General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division Port Harcourt, Maj.- Gen. Johnson Irefin.
Irefin attended the Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja on Monday, where he complained about some discomfort. A day after, he showed classic symptoms of the virus: fever, headache and mild cough.
A test later confirmed he had COVID-19.
Despite the efforts to stabilise him, he died of the virus on Thursday 10 December, triggering the shut down of the conference.
Army chief, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai went into isolation and also ordered all the officers who attended the conference to isolate and offer themselves for testing.
Buratai also disinvited the officers to the wedding of his son last Friday.
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sagir Musa, disclosed on Sunday that a total of 417 personnel had so far been tested up till Sunday.
The tests confirmed the 26 cases. .
“Currently, all participants are in self isolation irrespective of their results while Nigeria Centre for Disease Control recommended COVID-19 treatment drugs were immediately issued to those that tested positive,” he said.
Nollywood actress , Calista Okoronkwo has revealed why she will prefer to marry an older man to a younger man.
According to her, she will prefer to marry an older man but will not want to be in a polygamous marriage where she will either be the second or third wife. She also revealed that older men are sweeter and also assure the sense of security and comfort to that of a younger man.
“I can marry an older man, but I cannot be somebody’s second or third wife. The older the sweeter. I always like my man to be older than me so that I can feel some sense of security and comfort around him. If he’s much younger, I’ll probably not take him seriously, and that’s the truth” she told Sun News.
The Presidency has disagreed with Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari, over the number of boys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
Masari had said on Sunday that 333 boys were still missing.
However, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, told the BBC Hausa Service that only 10 boys are with the bandits.
The BBC Hausa bulletin read, “The Government of Nigeria has said its security forces have surrounded the location where gunmen have kept schoolchildren abducted from a secondary school in Katsina State.
“Spokesman for the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, told the BBC only 10 children were remaining in the hands of the gunmen according to their colleagues who escaped from the gunmen. The number is below figures released by school authorities at the beginning. Garba Shehu said the school children who escaped said 10 of their friends were still with their abductors.”
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who is currently in Daura, Katsina State, on vacation, had come under fire on social media for failing to visit the school where the boys were abducted.
Buhari instead sent a delegation from Abuja to visit the school and sympathise with their parents.
One Taiwo Daniel has demanded investigation into roles played by former Commander of Ilesa Area Command of Nigeria Police Force, Mr Joshua Atunise, in the death of his son, Babatunde.
Taiwo, in a petition filed before the panel investigating police brutality in Osun State by his counsel, Mr Femi Fafowora, explained on Saturday that the victim and his colleagues were arrested at Ilo Ijesa, Osun State, on November 28 by the police.
According to the petitioner, as of the time the deceased met his death allegedly in the hands of Atunise, he was a Higher National Diploma Mechanical Engineering student at the Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke.
He explained that his son was called by some of his colleagues in the campus-based paramilitary group, Cadet Corps, after they were detained at Ilo Ijesa by police while returning from an event.
He further explained that being their commandant, Babatunde went there and was arrested and labelled armed robbers along with colleagues by the police.
He said after much pleading, the policemen allowed them to go on the condition that Babatunde would pay N30,000.
“The refusal of Babatunde to yield to their demand made the policemen call Mr. Joshua Atunise, the Area Commander, informing him that they have nabbed some armed robbers. Atunise ordered that they should be brought to Area Commander’s Office in Ilesa where they were detained.
“Atunise again called them armed robbers, but the Babtunde insisted that he was never an armed robber. This infuriated Atunise, who shot Babatunde twice in the thigh.”
Daniel also said the victim and his other colleagues were later transferred to Osogbo and were later taken to Office of Special Anti Robbery Squad in Oke Baale Area, where the victim died on November 29, 2008.
He said other colleagues of the deceased were later arraigned, but legal advice from the Ministry of Justice exonerated them, adding that despite court orders that the corpse of the deceased should be released, the police had refused to obey the orders.
The chairman of the panel, Justice Akin Oladimeji (retd.), ordered that the hearing notice be sent to the respondents and adjourned the matter till December 17, 2020.
Lord have mercy! The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, has revealed that 333 students are missing following the bandits’ attack at the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, in the early hours of Saturday.
Masari disclosed this on Sunday when he received a Federal Government delegation led by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno in Katsina.
According to him, the government is yet to be contacted by any group or person responsible for the kidnap of the students.
“Based on the available record we have, we are still searching for 333 students through either the forest or their parents to ascertain the actual number that has been kidnapped,” Masari said.
“We are still counting because more are coming out from the forest and we are calling through the numbers of those parents that have phone numbers to find out whether or not their children have gone back home.
“We as a government, we are yet to be contacted by any group or person responsible for the kidnap of the students.”
The market chief of Ikire in Irewole Local Government Area, Osun State, Adegboyega Agbaje has told the Panel of Inquiry investigating police brutality and extrajudicial killings that he was suspended for three months after disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) officers handcuffed him back.
He said that he was arrested alongside his wife, Mrs. Misitura Agbaje, and was paraded with handcuffs in the market where he was presiding over as a chief.
Explaining, Chief Agbaje, said, “On August 18, 2020, at about 2 PM, five police officers in mufti but was wearing SARS jacket led by one Tosin. They stormed my house and asked if one Tunde Agbaje was my son, that he was involved in a robbery. I was arrested alongside my wife and was handcuffed back. We were taken to Nigerian Police Station in Ikoyi and later to Apomu. We were taken to Osogbo in search of my son. We were handcuffed for about 10 hours before we were released.
“I was suspended as a chief because of the arrest and unwarranted scenario by the Police. It was believed in the community that I had committed a grievous offence which was why I and my wife were handcuffed back. I was reinstated after three months when they see that I am not guilty of the offence the police arrested me for. I have official letters of both the suspension and my reinstatement.”
Chief Agbaje demanded the sum of N10 million over the unlawful arrest with handcuffs which he claimed he had suffered embarrassment, emotional ridicule and untold hardship on his personality as a community leader and a chief.
The Chairman of the Panel, Justice Akin Oladimeji said the counsel for the petitioner should write a final written address and adorned the matter to January 8, 2021.
