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Troops involved in the ongoing counter-terrorism operation in the North-East have arrested a number of terrorists who disguised as women in Baga, Borno State. Baga, the headquarters of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, was captured by the insurgents in January but was recaptured by the Special Forces on Saturday. The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, who stated …

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has appealed to voters not to be deceived by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who will share cubes of sugar, tubers of yam and grains for their votes, saying Nigeria’s politics has gone beyond that level. Speaking at the commissioning of a 35-bed community health centre built by a member of the Edo State …

A job syndicate coordinated by Mr. James Odeh and one other that specialises in issuing fake letters of appointment to unsuspecting job seekers has been nabbed by the intelligence unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service in Abuja. Before his arrest, Mr. Odeh is said to have issued about 400 applicants with fake appointment letters into the Nigerian Prisons Service. 31 …

A “ghost town” of burnt-out homes and looted properties greeted residents returning to Gamboru in northeast Nigeria for the first time since Chadian forces retook it from Boko Haram. Scores of people crossed the 300-metre (yard) bridge that forms the border with Cameroon under military escort on Friday to survey the ravaged town. Boko Haram seized Gamboru, in the violence-wracked …

A helicopter hovered the skies of Adamawa on Thursday, dropping flyers residents say may have emanated from a breakaway faction of Boko Haram, The leaflets contain renunciation of the sect and apology messages to the people. It is the second time in two weeks the Boko Haram sect has distributed flyers. The first batch warned northerners not to go to …

By Alltmepost.com, with report from DOD News. About 10,800 men are sexually assaulted every year in the United States Military, said Russell Strand, a retired Criminal Investigative Service special agent at the Army’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Program Summit last Thursday in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Strand who co-spoke with Jim Hopper, a psychologist and researcher about an aspect of sexual violence …

Benin – By Ola Airenakho Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has tasked the state Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOGPADEC) to spend 80% of its resources on the provision of lasting infrastructure. He gave the charge on Thursday at the inauguration of the Board of the Commission at the Government House, Benin City. According to him, government …

THE National Assembly, yesterday, completed the amendment of the 1999 Constitution with approval of life pension for anybody who has held office as President or Vice President, Senate President or Deputy Senate President, Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. But beneficiaries of this gesture must be occupants who successfully concluded their terms in office without removal or …

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called for calm in the face of Tuesday’s bombings which claimed several lives in Borno and Yobe states as well as the explosions and gun attacks at the APC gubernatorial campaign rally in Rivers State that had many people injured. Disclosing this in a statement …

Niger state Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has again expressed his discontentment with the decision of his deputy, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Ibeto to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC. This was as the Governor on Wednesday by-passed his deputy to appoint Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Barrister Adamu Usman as the Acting Governor while he embarked on …