Boko Haram attacks Adamawa villages, kills 40

Boko Haram attacks Adamawa villages, kills 40

By Umar Yusuf
YOLA-MEMBERS of the Boko Haram insurgents attacked three villages in Hong Local Council of Adamawa State, in the early hours of Thursday and yesterday, killing at least 40 people.
Locals said that the insurgents had earlier killed 30 people in Gaya –fa community, and later proceeded to another village, Zang all said to be located near the Sambisa Forest.
‘’They ransacked our villages for almost two days. They first attacked Gaya-fa and in a killing spree over 30 people were shot. We were able to repel them on Thursday but they later mobilized and launched attack at Zang. As I am talking to you they are there and over 10 people have been killed. We are set to repel them now,” said chief hunter of the area, Baba Jibrin, in a telephone interview, yesterday evening.
The insurgents were also said to have burnt several buildings in the communities, looting food stuffs and house utensils including mattresses.
Another fleeing resident simply identified as Mr. James, said: “Boko Haram fighters attacked our town Gaya. They killed over 30 people and burnt down several buildings in the community. You know that that community is in the border area just by the Sambisa Forest.
“I believe that, those who attacked the community were dislodged from the Sambisa Forest by the ongoing raid being carried out by the Air Force and the ground soldiers. The military is now in control of a large part of the Sambisa Forest and the insurgents are moving in bands and launching attacks on the communities that are far from where the soldiers checkpoints are.”
This attack came shortly after the military liberated 11 communities from the insurgents. The military killed over 300 of the insurgents with several calibre of arms and ammunition ‘recovered from them on Tuesday.
Security   sources explained that the insurgents, who were routed out of their Sambisa Forest training base by the combined team of Air Force and Army personnel operating in the area, had resorted to
attacking communities that were far away from areas being covered by the military’s presen

Delta Police Arrests Four For Stealing 7,365 PVCs, Registers

According to ASP Celestina Kalu, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, she said based on the report that 6000 PVCs were stolen, detectives arrested the security guards while the stolen PVCs have been recovered and have since been handed over to INEC.

DELTA State Police Command has arrested four men- Aherebe Godday, Omajemite Justice, Oyubu Ejiro and Lucky Aputu, 46, who resides at Oji Aputu compound, Onyobulu Inland Market Road, Oghara, in Ethiope West Local Government Area, for interrogation.
The quartet was nabbed for stealing 7,365 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and registers.
Also, Ajiah Shakira Adewale, a male staff of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC office in Oghara, was said to have reported the matter at the Police Station Oghara.
She reported that unknown gun men broke into INEC office in Oghara and made away with the cards and register.
Similarly, she said follow-up investigation by detectives has recovered one of the stolen INEC registers from Aputu.
According to ASP Celestina Kalu, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, she said based on the report that 6000 PVCs were stolen, detectives arrested the security guards while the stolen PVCs have been recovered and have since been handed over to INEC.
Kalu said investigation is ongoing, while efforts are on to ensure that all those involved in the crime are rounded up.

APC Presidential candidate not in London hospital

Buhari not in London hospital – Garba Shehu on February 21, 2015 at 10:45 am in

By Clifford Ndujihe
THE Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organization, has dismissed as false reports that the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate is being treated at a hospital located at Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, W2 London West End, London and he is not listed by the Chatham House as speaker any time soon. According to online media, Pointblank news, Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, described Buhari’s ‘’medical trip’’ as a vindication of his earlier stand that Buhari was sick and lacked the required capacity to rule Nigeria.
He said; “as against the claim of the APC that Buhari was on a short working visit to the UK, Buhari is being treated at a hospital located at Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, W2 London West End, London.” Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor described claim by the APC that Buhari will give a talk at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London as “deceit taken too far.”
He said: “ This is not to mock Buhari or wish him dead. Rather, it is to expose the falsehood of the APC and desperation of its leaders, especially Senator Bola Tinubu to foist another Yar’Adua saga on Nigeria… While I am happy that the APC people that are packaging Buhari finally hearkened to my plea that they should allow him (Buhari) to seek medicare abroad, I must say that it is unpatriotic for the APC to have lied that Buhari travelled on a working visit. The party should be honest enough to tell Nigerians that Buhari is actually sick and lack capacity to rule Nigeria and that they are only packaging him, hoping that he will become incapacitated if he becomes president so that they can take over power by proxy.”
Reacting to Fayose’s statement, Spokesman of the Buhari campaign organisation, Malam Garba Shehu, told Saturday Vanguard on phone: ‘’That is Fayose with his death wish for General Buhari,” adding that Buhari is not not in any hospital in London. ‘’There is nothing like that,’’ he stressed.
Asked if Buhari would give a talk at the prestigious foreign policy hub, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House London, he said: ‘’We have a Thursday date. We are working on the details. May be it will be ready tomorrow or Monday, otherwise I would have given you the title of the lecture and time.’’
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