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Islamic jihadist group on Monday claimed liabilities for the suicide bombing that killed more than 30 Syrian rebel fighters in a blast near the Turkish border. IS, in a statement published on Twitter and the messaging service Telegram, said a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt among rebels “getting ready to fight the Islamic State”. The blast on Sunday night struck the Atme border crossing between Turkey and the northern Syrian province of Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Monitoring group said the anti-regime fighters were travelling by bus to Turkey then back into Syria towards the rebel bastion of Azaz, in Aleppo province. The attack killed 32 rebels as they were entering Turkey, the Britain-based Observatory said, updating an earlier toll on Sunday evening of 15. Its head Rami Abdel Rahman said the toll could rise further as other fighters remained critically wounded. IS’s statement said the attack left “nearly 50” rebels dead, charging t...

Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday stopped the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party from going ahead with its plan to conduct the national convention of the party slated for Thursday. Justice Okon Abang ruled during the proceedings that lasted eight hours, that the interim order would subsist till the motion filed by the Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction seeking an interlocutory injunction against the convention is heard and determined. The judge fix Tuesday for the hearing of the Sherif faction’s motion for interlocutory injunction. Judge made the order after joining Makarfi and six other members of his caretaker committee as parties to the substantive suit which was filed last month by the Sheriff and members of his faction. The judge had on July 28 heard Markafi-led faction’s application to join the suit as a defendant and fixed Monday for ruling. The judge overruled Sheriff’s faction’s opposition to the application and ordered that Markafi and the rest of the ap...

Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima on Sunday mark the distribution of food items and farm outreach 40,000 victims of the Boko Haram insurgency through the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which donated one million dollars to Borno State as a post conflict intervention that is meant to support victims who are returning to their communities. Governor Shettima launched at the support with the distribution of 25 kilogram bag of rice and 10 kilogram bag of beans to each of 1,100 households at Mainok village in Kaga local government area, 45 kilometers away from Maiduguri. The Governor announced that the officials of the State Government working with the Gates Foundation used the $1m to procure the food items and commenced funding of 100 hectares of farm where beans is being cultivated. He analyze that 200 farm-families will be allocated tilled and fertile land measuring half hectare each along with improved seeds, fertilizer, chemicals and technical supervision so that ...

the Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari says his commitment to transparency is serving the government well in the face of severe shortage of resources in the country. The President spoke at the State House, Abuja while receiving the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin. He said, “It has been a very difficult year for Nigeria. Before we came to office, petroleum sold for about $100 per barrel. Then it crashed to $37, and now oscillates between $40 and $45 per barrel. “Suddenly, we are a poor country but commitment to transparency and accountability is not making people know that there is severe shortage”, Buhari said. He urged the UNFPA to bear with Nigeria in whichever area the coun­try could not live up to its responsibilities for now, and thanked the UN agency for its commitment to saving lives in the country, particularly of women and children. president noted that population exp...

On May 1, 2016, Edo state government announced an increment of the minimum wage from N18,000 to N25, 000 for Edo state employees. Adams Oshiomhole has revealed why he increased the minimum wage in the state. The Governor said he made the increase to show other state Governors that wages could be increased and paid promptly. he said “I have increased the minimum wage when my colleagues are debating that it is too high and I insisted that it is too small. “I decided to increase it to show that not only that it is too small but it is possible to increase it and pay it. “We are not in arrears of one month salary in Edo State. We are up to date for all those who are in direct employment in the state government, including teachers at all levels.” Adding that he will also pay the outstanding salaries of local government workers in the state. Speaking on how his government has improved education in Edo state, Oshiomhole said “Only nations with educated citizens can cope with the rigours of co...

A lecturer, Dr. Aondosoo Tondo with University of Mkar, Mkar Gboko local government of Benue State was yesterday assassinated by unknown terrorist. Public Relations’ Officer of the institution, Mr. Suemo Shagba who say this to newsmen in a telephone conversation, said Tondo who resides in the University Stafff quarters was murdered at about 4 am by 4 unknown gunmen. According to him, the assassins came into the lecturer’s room while he was saying his early morning prayer with his family, did not request for anything and just shot him, adding that he later died at a teaching hospital in Gboko. The late lecturer with the Department of Political Science hails from Buruku local government area of the State and is reported to be an aspirant for the local government election which has been postponed indefinitely. Confirming the incident, the State Police Public Relations’ Officer ASP said the lecturer was murdered in his compound in early hours of yesterday, intimating that investigatio...

sadden, in Nigeria, upon the dawn of a fresh ‘scandal’, the goal is often to applaud the accuser and hasten to convict the accused in the court of public opinion. Just name and shame the fellow(s) concerned, until they are able to prove their innocence, in an inverse application of the standard law which presumes an accused as innocent, until proven otherwise. It does not matter if the pursued, most often in front of the chasing mob, is the one now chanting, ‘thief, thief, thief’ in order to secure a get-away. Victor Afam Ogene “I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I gave you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.” – John Adams, 2nd President of the United states of America. In penning those words to his wife, Abigail and their five children, Adams was obviously under the clear understanding that the legislature was the anvil upon which every hammer of publi...