Almost A Hundred Of Nigerians In Custody In Abidjan

At least 70 Nigerian citizens are detained for various offences and brought to justice in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

At least 70 Nigerian citizens are detained for various offences in Abidjan

According to the information provided by Nigeria’s Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, Ifeoma Akabogu-Chinwuba, although the prison authorities claimed about 85 Nigerians in custody, only 70 of them have been paraded during the last consular visit to the prison in Abidjan.

Illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and traffic in human beings are the most frequent crimes committed by the detainees.

Nigerian embassy provide legal assistance for those still standing trial to enable them get fair hearing. The ambassador urged all Nigerians abroad to stop dishonoring the homeland with shameful criminal acts.

“It is not a good testimony to hear that our citizens are either in prison or detained for criminal acts. We need to be good ambassadors of our country. As Nigerians, we need to engage in legitimate businesses, we need to protect the image of our country,” Akabogu-Chinwubasaid.

Brazil 2014: Arsenal Manager Reveals Why Super Eagles Failed

Arsenal Football Club manager, Arsene Wenger, at the weekend revealed what he thinks caused the Super Eagles failure at the just concluded FIFA World Cup hosted by Brazil.

 

Speaking to Beinsport, Wenger, who revealed he has been doing an examination of the African champions’ display in Brazil, stated that it was “not lack of talent” that affected the team but rather, it was “poor organisation”.

 

Related:  Super Eagles Are Saboteurs, Conspirators — NFF Chief

He said the Super Eagles would have gone beyond the round of 16 in the competition, if conditions were ideal.

 

“Nigeria had no solidarity. They showed the whole world the problems they had before the World Cup and it was the same with Cameroun. The problem was not lack of talent but with poor organization,” Wenger said.

 

The Arsenal manger, however, commended the Eagles’ first half display against eventual victors, France.

 

Related:  Brazil 2014: It Is The First Time An African Country Will Reach The Semi-final – Popular Prophet Predicts (PHOTO & VIDEO) 

 

“Nigeria was not too bad against France. They had a good first half but could not maintain the momentum in the second half,” he said.

 

Meanwhile, the Super Eagles have never been able to go beyond the round of 16 in any previous World Cup.

Kidnappers den discovered in Orlu, Imo State

Residents of Okporo-Orlu road and neighboring streets woke up this morning to heavy gunfire as policemen engaged suspected kidnappers in a gun battle. According to an eye-witness, a kidnappers den was discovered at Okporu-Orlu in Imo state. Two members of the gang were shot dead while one victim was rescued. Details are still sketchy at the moment but will bring an update later...

Renowned Islamic Cleric Indicts Politicians Over Boko Haram

Sheik Muyideen Bello, a popular Islamic cleric at the weekend, said it is Nigerian politicians that are sponsoring the Boko Haram terrorist group.

 

Daily Independent reports that, the cleric made the revelation while speaking at the 5th Annual Ramadan Public Lecture organised by member representing Lagos Mainland Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Moshood Oshun, at the Lagos City College, Yaba.

 

Related:  CAN Indicts Islamic Organisation Over Boko Haram

 

Bello, who also accused politicians of serving their self-interest instead of that of the citizens further accused leaders, especially office holders, of deceiving the masses.

 

According to him, terrorism which is recently being experienced by the country is a retribution for the bad attitude of the people in general.

 

Bello, who noted that truth has become a very scarce commodity in Nigeria said: “people now do whatever they like, some politicians are the real terrorists, they rule the people the way they like. There is no truth in them, they worship money, the leaders and the followers are corrupt. It didn’t start today and it will not change if we don’t tell ourselves the truth. We all do what we like and even some religious leaders have compromised because of money. They tell the leaders what they want to hear and not what they should tell them” Bello said.

 

The cleric who is renowned for is straightforwardness as a preacher, reiterated that whoever refused to tell the truth is a terrorist, say: “and we all live with terrorists in our various homes”.

 

Related: What Famous Islamic Cleric Has To Say About Chibok Girls

 

“Prophet Muhammed was also a president in his own way, and we should all follow his footsteps as he led the people with the fear of God. God says he owns all resources in the country and in the world. I don’t believe we have any special terrorists in the country. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), set up by the government has not been prosecuting people in recent times, those that were arrested for fraud were not even prosecuted, we are all deceiving ourselves,” Bello said.

Boko Haram was founded in 2002, by Mohammed Yusuf, who was reportedly killed extra-judiciously while in police custody. The extremist under the new leadership of Abubakar Shekau, launched its first offensive in 2009, in an attempt to create an Islamic state. The sect initially focused on opposing Western education, as "Boko Haram" means "Western education is a sin" in the Hausa language. The sect was designated a terrorist group by US in 2013.

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Lagos Police command arrests armed robbers using police uniforms

Four armed robbers who specialize in robbing with police uniforms have been arrested and paraded by the Lagos state Police command. The four men named Julius George, Samuel Orgah, Lucky Oliseh and Lucky Friday were arrested by the police force at the Ile Zik area on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on the 22nd of June Punch reports.

From their confessions, it was gathered that other operations carried out by the gang included robbing a trailer load of rice at Oju-Elegba area worth N4.5m and a tanker carrying engine oil worth N11m. They were arrested during the Ile Zik area operation, which was said to be their fourth operation, and involving about N8m. Continue...

Ring leader of the gang, 34 year old Julius George from Benue state who is married with children in his confessional statement said he led the other men into the act by deceiving them that he was a police man. He said he bought the police uniform materials in the market, made them into the uniforms and gave them to his gang members. 

"This was not the first time we would use police uniforms for robbery. In 2013, I was arrested by the police and charged to court. I was remanded for some time, but my family came and I was released on bail. Later, the court discharged me for want of evidence. While in remand at the Kirikiri Prisons, I met Sam (Orgah). When I came out of prisons, a friend of mine called Benjamin invited me again for another job. I was asked to escort a truck of engine oil from Apapa to Mushin, because they still regarded me as a policeman. They paid me N5,000 when they offloaded.” he said

33 year old Samuel Orgah who is also from Benue state said he was an imprisoned armed robber who took to his bad ways after he regained his freedom in 2011. For Oliseh Lucky from Delta state, he said he came in contact with the gang leader,  George, only three weeks before their arrest when George invited him for the N8m robbery in Ile Zik area.

Friday Lucky who says he is a clearing and forwarding agent working at a shipping company in Apapa Lagos said he met George three months ago at Iyana-Oba and had never engaged in armed robbery. He said he was only invited to help collect money for Friday and did not know he was an armed robber

“I have never gone on an operation with Mopol before. He only invited me to come with him to collect money. I did not know it was robbery,” he said.

The Lagos Police PRO Ngozi Baide says the State men are currently being investigated.

SHOCKING: 16-Year-Old's Girl Sues After Seeing Disturbing Pictures Of Herself Raped And Unconscious

A 16 year old girl that was raped and disgraced on social media, has finally come out after two months to defend her self and bring her rapists to justice.

The Houston USA citizen told reporters that it all started when she was invited to a party last month, then she alleges she was given a drugged drink.

The girl who gave her name as Jada said she then lost consciousness and was then raped that same night at the party.

She continued that she did not know all these until she saw pictures and videos of her nude self on twitter unconscious.

Jada said: “I had no control,” "I didn’t tell anyone to take my clothes off and do what they did to me.”

"There’s no point in hiding,”. “Everybody has already seen my face and my body, but that’s not what I am and who I am.”

One of the attacker has been identified as Innel Yahia, who immediately took to Twitter to maintain his innocence.

The attack and pictures where trending on Twitted with the #Jadapose and contains scenes of her unconscious player.

How should young girls protect themselves from attacks by adrenaline driven boys?

South African Boy Killed After 'Changing Into A Tiger'

A Durban man, Sibusiso Madiya, has reportedly told a Regional Court in Durban, South Africa that he acted in self-defence when he killed a Chatsworth boy because the victim and his friends had transformed into tigers before his eyes.

IOL.co.za reports that the 26-year-old from Savannah Park pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder on Thursday, 10 July, 2014.

According to the report, Madiya told the court through his Legal Aid attorney, Hycenth Mlotshwa, that he saw the “tiger”, referring to the Grade 1 pupil Lindokuhle Mabhena, approach him at a Shallcross park in June last year and thought he was going to attack him.

The accused added that he had stabbed the boy with a knife he had found on the ground earlier.

"It was only after a group of people arrived that I realised it was not a tiger but a human being,"  Madiya reportedly said at the start of his murder trial on Thursday before magistrate Trevor Levitt.

Mlotshwa told the court his client believed in supernatural powers, adding that the accused saw fellow inmates transform into animals in the prison where is being held during the trial.

Prosecutor Krishen Shah, however, said the accused had been referred for mental observation and was deemed mentally fit to stand trial.

It was gathered that around midday on June 15 last year, Madiya was skateboarding at a park in Peak Street, Shallcross, when seven young children, who had been following him, approached him. He said they all suddenly transformed into tigers.

We Are Not Dead, We Are Back To Give Nigerian Lyrics A Meaning —Danfo Drivers

Remember the song Danfo Driver, The popular song which took over the Nigerian airways a decade ago was sung by duo of Mountain Black and Mad Melon.

Mountain Black and Mad Melon (real names Jimoh Olotu and Omeofa Oghene) have revealed why they have been absent and their plans on reinventing theirselves back into the music scene.

The men whose music genre is the Ajegunle’s Galala have been rumoured to have parted ways by their fellow colleagues for some years now.

Thy gave an interview to Vanguard recently.

Excerpts: Q. Is it true that two of you have parted ways?

A. No, we didn’t split, we only quarrelled, but we are still together. And we are still alive, so, no shaking. What actually happened was that we went to school to further our education because we believe education is the key to ultimate success.

Also, we’ve been going round for musical tour; first one was in Mali, followed by another one in Portharcourt. We also performed during the Portharcourt carnival. Presently, we are fully back to the music scene and very soon we will be dropping our new album and that will be in two months’ time as we are still working on it.

Q. Fans have been worried over your absence on the music scene. What has been happening to you two?

Chibok Parents Ready To Storm Sambisa Forest

Parents of the abducted Chibok schools girls and other residents of the community have said they are prepared die in Sambisa forest for the rescue of the girls.

Parents of missing Chibok girls weepingThe distraught parents and residents who are still mourning the loss of their children, who have been missing for close to 3 months, after they were abducted in a night raid by Boko Haram, said they are left with no other option but to storm the forest and get their girls back.The parents, who disclosed this to Leadership in Maiduguri yesterday, said they would be happy to receive the corpses of their daughters for decent burial than for them to remain in Boko Haram's captivity without any knowledge of what they are passing through.Related: No Girls Are Missing, Chibok Is A Scam - Asari Dokubo InsistsHowever, the Borno State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Titus Pona, explained that the people have already started mobilising themselves to go in search of the girls inside Sambisa Forest as they feel the government is not doing enough to rescue the girls, but that stakeholders in the area have been pleading with them not to embark on such a deadly mission.He added that they don't for how long they would be able to prevent them from doing so.Pona said: "We went round to see some of the parents and their families; it was a very pathetic sight; some of them were crying and asking that they would be happy to receive the corpses of their daughters so that they can bury them and mourn them decently, than having them out there in the bush, without knowing what is happening to them."Related: We Don't Know Location Of Missing Girls In Borno, US DeclaresThe Presidential fact-finding committee on the abduction of the school girls in Chibok, Borno State, had in June, submitted their report to President Goodluck Jonathan. Their report confirmed that the actual number of girls abducted was 276, out of which 219 are still missing as about 57 of them had escaped and had since been reunited with their family.

Asari Dokubo still maintains Chibok girls were not kidnapped

Despite the faces and names of kidnapped Chibok girls being released, ex-Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo is still maintaining that no girls are missing. See what he wrote on his Facebook page above

Photos: Scene of today's bomb blast in Maiduguri market

Here are some pics from the scene of today's early morning bombing that happened at a busy local market in Maiduguri, Borno state. Continue to see more photos..

REVEALED: Why Nigerians Need To Be Grateful To The Late Sanni Abacha

The opinion below is written by Azuka Onwuka, a popular Nigerian writer on social issues and it was first published by PUNCH online. You can follow him on Twitter @BrandAzuka.

Former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, unwittingly did Nigeria a big favour regarding our democracy. On May 29, 2014 Nigeria celebrated its 15 years of unbroken democracy in the Fourth Republic, which is about three times longer than the longest period of democracy we had had hitherto. If not for Abacha, this could not have been possible.

The First Republic had lasted five years and three and half months. The Second Republic lasted three years and exactly three months. That showed retrogression. After many postponements about handing over to the civilians, the Third Republic kicked off in a peculiar way: Gen. Ibrahim Babangida conducted governorship and legislative elections while he was still ruling the nation. That experiment, which started in 1991, was supposed to culminate in the conduct of the presidential election in 1993 and final handover to a democratic government.

Eventually, the presidential election held on June 12, 1993 was peaceful, free and fair, according to the reports of all observers. The electoral body began a state-by-state release of the result as collation was concluded in each state. Chief M.K.O. Abiola of the Social Democratic Party was ahead, winning in states which were assumed would be won by his opponent, Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention. Then like a joke, the release of the results was suspended. While Nigerians were wondering what Babangida’s plan was, he announced the annulment of the election on June 23, 1993, to the consternation of most people. According to Babangida: “These steps were taken to save our judiciary from being ridiculed and politicised locally and internationally.”read more...

CULT ATTACK:One Feared Dead, Two Injured in Bayelsa

A 300 level engineering student and two final year students of the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassomma, Bayelsa State, have been feared dead as a result of a clash between AY and Vagas rival cult groups on the campus.

The unnamed 300 level student, who was inflicted with machete cuts, was said to have died in a private hospital at Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, where he was taken to.

According to an eye witness who is also a student, simply identified as Dan, a final year student was also killed by a group of cultists who were eight in number, entered the examination hall and started shooting sporadically. Dan further said that this cult happenstance is the second in two weeks relating how a final year lady was killed by same cult group.

Related: Police Arraigns Eiye Cult Members, OPC For Murder And Theft

High security is however now in place to curtail the activities of these cult groups by the school management.

Speaking with Newsmen, Mr. Hillary Opara, who is the Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa Command, denied that they were any death resulting from the attack. He however confirmed that there was cult activity in the school and a student was inflicted with machete cuts.

Related: GOOD JOB: Police Arrest 63 ‘Black Axe’ Cultists

Mr Opara also made it known that five cultists have been arrested while the Police are on the lookout for the others.

Cultism has been a major problem in Nigeria’s educational system. It would be recalled that not long ago, some suspected cultists wreck havoc in Benue State University while four secondary school students were arrested for cultism in Ondo recently.

Boko Haram And Military Battle In Yobe, 7 Dead

About seven people were reportedly killed on Saturday during a clash between Boko Haram militants and the military in Goniri village, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State

According to Daily Trust report, members of the deadly sect stormed the town and attacked the soldiers’ base located at Railway area of the town.

They were said to have engaged the soldiers in the gun duel.

Though no official casualty figure has been released, credible sources said four of the insurgents, three soldiers and two civilians lost their lives, while 10 people were injured.

According to residents, who fled to Damaturu shortly after the incident, many government buildings were razed during the attack.

One of the residents who pleaded anonymity said, "Base center (vocational center), GSS Goniri and the government lodge were all burnt down by the insurgents."

Related: Security Bust Boko Haram’s Intelligence Cell And Arrest Its Head

The resident explained that in recent times, the insurgents had been frequenting the town to preach to the people without interference and whenever they reported to security agents, they would be told that as long as they are not attacking anybody, they have no problem with them.

This attack is coming some months after soldiers foiled plans of the armed terrorists groups to carry out an attack in Goniri Community, Gujba Local Government Area, Yobe State.

Boko Haram attack is becoming a daily occurrence in Nigeria. Just this morning, a bomb went off at the busy Monday Market close to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) building in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, with at least 10 people dead and 27 others severely injured.