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About thirty-eight more corpses were on Monday recovered from the scene of Saturday’s onslaught on farmers by Boko Haram Insurgents in Borno State, sources told SaharaReporters. The deceased were slaughtered at a rice plantation in Kwashabe village, about 20 kilometres north of Maiduguri. The insurgents were also said to have destroyed the rice plantation after killing the farmers. The Defence Headquarters had claimed only 43 people were killed , but a source told SaharaReporters that the death toll had risen to 81 as 38 more bodies were recovered by search and rescue teams on Monday. He said, “The army restricted us from capturing the scene with our phones; they know what they are doing, and they know they will be exposed. Today alone, 38 bodies were recovered and it will continue tomorrow. “What happened here was a human harvest, not massacre, the story media and the government is just lying. They did not even talk about the farm produce and rice plantation that was razed ...

Hours after members of the Boko Haram terrorists beheaded over 30 farmers in Borno State, gunmen suspected to be bandits have slaughtered seven farmers, including a nursing mother, across three communities of Tashar Bama, Dogun Muazu and Unguwar Maigayya villages of Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State, The Sun reports. A member of the House of Assembly representing the area, Ibrahim Danjuma Machika, confirmed the killing on the floor of the House on Monday while sponsoring a motion on the need to reinforce security in some of the villages in his constituency. Google Apart from the people killed, he said that the bandits abducted a total of 30 other villagers from the affected communities. According to him, the hoodlums may have changed from their previous method of launching their offensives on villages at night as they now attack the people in broad daylight. “Our people now live in fear as the bandits now carry out attacks in our villages in broad daylight. “Th...

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has lamented that a sizable number of officers of the Nigeria Police Force who should be fighting criminal elements in the country are involved in non-police duties like carrying the bags of the wives of Very Important Personalities. El-Rufai said he is frustrated over the killings in his state, adding that the situation at hand had overwhelmed the police. Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai He urged the National Assembly to see to the amendment of the Nigerian Constitution to give states control of the police. The governor argued that the state governments are presently responsible for the day-to-day operational cost of the police, insisting that the states can run the police. El-Rufai spoke on Monday night while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme monitored by The PUNCH. He said, “We’ve always made a very strong argument that one centralised police in a federation does no...

File Photo A soldier of the Nigerian Army believed to be serving in the North-East has written the Chief of  Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, over injustice in the recent military’s promotion exercise. The soldier lamented that the army authorities failed to promote soldiers and officers who are due for it and even injured in the ongoing Boko Haram war since 2018, simply because they have “no connection.” File Photo The soldier, in an open letter to the army chief, decried the high level of injustice in the promotion exercise carried out by the army – the list of which was released last Friday by the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja. The personnel in the letter noted that the army surprisingly failed to comply with the Harmonised Terms and Condition of Services which was promulgated by Nigerian Armed Forces and which regulates a “smooth and well-deserved promotion exercise as and when due among the other rank cadres.” The soldier said, “It is disheartening that while ...

Oby Ezekwesili A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has called for an independent mental and physical assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari to ascertain his ability to govern the country in the face of growing security challenges. Ezekwesili said a medical panel must be set up to assess the President, adding that the security situation in Nigeria was becoming too critical for Nigerians to sit and watch. Oby Ezekwesili The former minister stated these on her official Twitter page, stressing that the state house physician cannot be trusted hence the need for an independent panel. Her posts reads, “As an extremely concerned citizen, I hereby demand a medical panel on Buhari since we obviously cannot trust the State House Physician to provide us with accurate information. It is reasonable to demand now for citizens to have full disclosure on the state of health of Buhari. “I think that at this stage and depth of fragility of Nigeria state, Privacy has to yield gro...

Three persons have been killed and no fewer than four houses razed in a suspected clash between two cult groups in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Residents accused the Delta State Police Command and the leaders of the area of folding their arms while the cults Aye and Mafia engaged in a battle of supremacy on Sunday. Vanguard In another fighting at Oghenevweta and Oseri areas of Ekuigbo community, two persons were allegedly killed as the cultists battled on Sunday night and Monday morning.  Both clashes occurred less than a week after a related incident between Aye and Aro Baggers cultists resulted in the death of eight persons in one week. One of the victims, Oghenero Oke, also known as the Last Card, who is allegedly a member of the Mafia confraternity, was killed around Oteri Old Road in Oteri community, Ughelli by a resident of the community identified as Eloho, while two others sustained gunshot wounds. A security source from the Ughelli Polic...

President Muhammadu Buhari The State House, which includes the offices of the president and vice president, has earmarked N66.6 million for the payment of Aso Rock rent and N45 million for sewerage charges.  These reoccurring and unexplained expenditures have again been captured in the 2021 budget. President Muhammadu Buhari Other expenses in the State House budget include over N116 million for vehicle tyres while N436 million was earmarked for the phased replacement of vehicles and spare parts. The sum of N67.9 million was budgeted for motor vehicle fuel. Despite making a provision for over N10 million for the “purchase of giant HD copiers for the library and archive”, the State House would spend N46 million and N22 million for the printing of non-security and security documents respectively.  The 2021 budget dubbed “Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience” captures N13.08 trillion expenditure and N7.886 trillion revenue. Politics News AddThis :  Ori...

President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday promised to make more resources available to the Nigerian military to prosecute the war against insurgency in the country. Buhari added that he would work closely with neighbouring countries on bilateral and multilateral levels to ensure that there is no hiding place for the terrorists. President Buhari According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President made the promises through his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, to the people of Borno State over the killing of at least 43 rice farmers by Boko Haram members on Saturday. He described the massacre as the worst form of “senseless, barbaric and gruesome murder.” In the message, the president expressed the condolences of the government and people of Nigeria and gave strong assurances of his continuous commitment to fighting insurgency and all forms of insecurity in Borno State and all over Nigeria. “Nothing is more i...

Innoson, an indigenous auto company owned by Innocent Chukwuma, has approached the Federal High Court in Enugu to stop what it claims as deregistration and re-registration of Guaranty Trust Bank until the bank pays the company a N32 billion judgement debt. Joined in the suit is the Central Bank of Nigeria as the second defendant; Securities and Exchange Commission as the third defendant; and Corporate Affairs Commission as the fourth defendant. Innoson claimed that the bank is trying to deregister as a public limited liability company to avoid paying the judgment debt awarded against it. Innoson is therefore praying the court for an order of perpetual injunctions restraining the CAC from going private until the bank pays the outstanding judgment debt arising from disagreement on loans and importation of auto spare parts. The auto company is also asking the court to set aside SEC’s no-objection to GTB’s proposal to re-register as a private limited liability company or a holdi...

Nigerians have taunted the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, asking when he would ask President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the embarrassing security situation in the country, the same way he angrily requested former President Goodluck Jonathan to do same in 2014. Some commentators on Twitter stated this while lamenting the rising insecurity in the country, with the latest episode being the massacre of at least 43 farmers in Zabarmari by the Boko Haram terrorists on Saturday. In 2014, Tinubu asked GEJ to resign over insecurity in n/east Well, this is 2019 & insecurity is worse in the n/west, n/east & n/central Therefore, when will Tinubu ask PMB to resign? Where is Tinubu's voice? Insecurity: Tinubu asks Jonathan to resign https://t.co/49HXe4zrZV — Dokun Ojomo (@DokunOjomo) May 10, 2020 @femigbaja and @NGRSenate cannot do anything until their Baba speaks, as long as Tinubu is silent, Femi will keep mute. We thought w...

File Photo: President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at the White House US President Donald Trump on Sunday indicated that he would never concede to Joe Biden or abandon his conspiracy theory about mass ballot fraud. Speaking to Fox News in the first TV interview since losing his re-election bid, Trump said the election was rigged. File Photo: President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at the White House AP Photo/Evan Vucci “It’s not like you’re gonna change my mind. My mind will not change in six months. This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” he claimed, again without backing this up. “We won the election easily. Despite Trump’s unprecedented attack on the validity of the US election system, his legal team has yet to provide any evidence that stands up in court. Case after case has been rejected by judges around the country. The latest rebuff came from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which on Saturday turned down a lawsuit filed by Trump support...