Rare footage shows Bama town liberated from Boko Haram

AFP shared this video showing what Bama looks like now after it was recaptured from Boko Haram on March 10th.
Follow this link to watch the video on youtube...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbChEoki5jQ&feature=player_embedded

Terrorists killed as troops recapture Gwoza, BH HQ + photos from the operation

Statement from the Defence Headquarters below and photos from the operation after the cut..

Sequel to the violent and heinous crimes perpetrated by terrorists in North Eastern Nigeria, the Armed Forces of Nigeria was tasked to halt the carnage and restore sanity in that region. This resulted in the deployment of land and air forces. The deployment denied the terrorists the freedom of action they had hitherto enjoyed and they resorted to diversionary tactics known with terrorist groups around the world by carrying out isolated attacks and bombings.

Father and son arraigned for $4,256 internet scam

Find the EFCC press statement below...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 24, 2015 arraigned Justice Unuafe and his son, Omorigho Unuafe, before Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on a 4-count charge bordering on obstruction, possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money by false pretense.

Father and son were arrested by operatives of the EFCC upon intelligence gathered while investigating a reported case of internet scam.

Chadian and Nigerien soldiers look at the decaying corpses at a mass grave in the recently retaken town of Damasak

Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds in northern Nigeria town: residents

(Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday.

There was no immediate official confirmation of the figure, but the Islamist group has previously carried out mass kidnappings. Boko Haram's abduction last April of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the region stirred international outrage and drew global attention to the group's six-year insurgency.

"They took 506 young women and children (in Damasak). They killed about 50 of them before leaving," a trader called Souleymane Ali told Reuters in the town. "We don’t know if they killed others after leaving, but they took the rest with them."

Troops Recapture Pulka, Borno State From Boko Haram

See The Restriction Of Movement Issued By The Police On The Election Days

The press statement released by Nigeria Police Force:
As part of efforts to ensure adequate security in the forthcoming general elections across all the Federation on Saturday 28th March, 2015 and 11th April, 2015, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, CFR, NPM, NPOM, mni has ordered the restriction on vehicular movements as follows:
(i) Saturday 28th March, 2015, 8.00am – 5.00pm only.
(ii) Saturday 11th April, 2015 8.00am – 5.00pm only


This total restriction of movements order applies to all, except for Ambulances, Fire service trucks and others on essential duties. Consequently, travellers and citizens who intend to use roads on these days and hours are advised to plan alternative times for their travelling.

Photos Of Boko Haram Member Disguised As Woman Who Was Arrested In Borno

 

The Nigerian Army has arrested a suspected male terrorist in Kwaya Kusar, Borno state.

According to reports, the man who disguised himself as a lady dressed in Hijab was nabbed by troops on Saturday as he made for the market.

He was arrested with explosives and according to a military source, he is currently being interrogated and providing useful information to the military

See another photo after the cut...

People in Buhari's village wash their roads after GEJ pays a visit

Fresh Tension As Home Of Bayelsa Ex-Militant Is Bombed

Reports By SaharaReporters
There is heightened political tension in Bayelsa State following a bomb attack on the home of an ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Eris Paul, popularly known as Ogunboss.

Security agents and eyewitnesses told a correspondent of SaharaReporters that Ogunboss’s home in the Etegwe area of Bayelsa State yesterday came under attack by unidentified gunmen who used an improvised explosive device (IED).

Our sources said the attack happened close to 11 p.m. on Thursday. “We heard a big explosion and everything just shook,” a resident close to Ogunboss disclosed.

Security Operatives Raid Suspected Boko Haram Hideout In Kaduna

A combined team of security operatives from the Nigerian Army, Department of State Security and plain clothes police officers on Wednesday night raided a building suspected to be a hideout of a Boko Haram commander who sources say was on the run from Maiduguri.

The building located at No.4 Fulani Road, Ungwan Dosa, in Kaduna North Local Government Area of the State was allegedly leased out to one Muhammed Mai Borno who moved into the premises with his wife.

According to a neighbor who pled anonymity for fear of victimization, the man actually moved into the premises after the rainy season.

Scores Of Dead Bodies Found In Bama Wells-Nigerian Military

The capture of Bama has led to the discovery of horrendous atrocities perpetrated by terrorists while their hold on the town lasted, and as they fled.  A large number of dead bodies were discovered in wells apparently of some of their hostages or those who resisted them”, a source told PRNigeria.

Aside those whose bodies were thrown inside wells, others were also said to have been executed on the River Bama Bridge as the terrorists fled the town. Civilians who have been cooperating with troops also narrated horrendous tales of the brutality of the terrorists while they held sway and ruled with iron hands, executing their own version of religious jurisprudence.

Boko Haram Insurgents Slaughter Wives As They Prepare For Gwoza Showdown

A source in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has told SaharaReporters that many embattled Boko Haram insurgents in the town of Bama slaughtered their wives as Nigerian soldiers continued to rout the Islamist fighters in Nigeria’s northeast. Some of them later moved to Gwoza where they vowed to defend their so-called capital with the last drop of their blood.

“They killed their wives so that the women would not get remarried to unbelievers if their husbands die in the fierce battles with Nigerian soldiers,” said the female source, who just arrived in Maiduguri from Bama, a major battlefront in the continuing military operations to dislodge the Islamist insurgents from Yobe, Adamawa and Borno.

31 Kuje Prisoners Score 67 Distinctions, 94 Credits In Nov/dec WAEC

Thirty-one inmates at the Kuje Prisons, Abuja have jointly scored a cumulative 67 distinctions and 94 credits in the 2014 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The inmates were part of the 38 inmates who sat for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) organised examination, sponsored by NUGA BEST, a non-governmental organisation, Punch reports.

The results of seven candidates were withheld.

DCP Musa Tanko, who represented the Controller-General of Prisons, Controller-General of Prisons, Dr. Peter Ekpendu, presented the inmates with their certificates.

Herder Attacks Housewife For Resisting Rape Attempt In Abuja

There was palpable tension last week at Kundu, an Abuja village in Kwali Area Council after an unidentified herdsman allegedly attacked a housewife, Mrs. Eunice Mathew, for resisting a rape attempt.

Locals told City News that the victim, who sustained major injuries, was rushed to a health centre after the incident.
The victim, while narrating the incident on her hospital bed at the community on Friday, said it happened around 2p.m. when she was returning from the farm.

The 28-year-old woman said she was carrying firewood on her head when a man accosted her, demanding to have sex with her but she refused.
According to her, the herdsman pushed away the firewood on her head and in the course of her struggle with him, he removed cutlass and stabbed her on the head.

Gunmen Snatch Nigeria's Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison -Madueke's Brother

Reports By Saharareporters

Unidentified gunmen in the early hours of Thursday kidnapped Joseph Agama, the younger brother to Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, Police sources say.

 Police Spokesman for Bayelsa Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the development on Thursday. He  said that the command got a report shortly after the incident happened.

According to Butswat, the police received a  distress call on Thursday from the victim’s father, Maxwell Agama.

Butswat said that the incident occurred at about 12.30 am on Thursday at Yenaka Community, a coastal settlement in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa  state.

Choi! See The Huge Python Captured By Nigerian Soldiers While Battling With Boko Haram

The Nigerian Military, during their counter attack against Insurgents in Bama, were not only faced with the challenges of littered land mines by the insurgents, they were also faced with the issue of fighter snakes deployed to poison our military officers.

Pictures Of Captured Boko Haram Members

Another photo after the cut...

Jega: There’ll Be No Soldiers At Polling Units

Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has confirmed that soldiers will not be at polling units during the 2015 general election. Jega, who made this disclosure at a town hall meeting in Abuja on Monday‎, however added that soldiers would be invited if there is a breakdown of law and order.

He explained that the military participated in the 2011 election within the confines of the constitution: to provide military support to the police if there is breakdown of order.

“There will be no soldiers at the polling unit. The army is not supposed to be visible at any polling unit,” Jega said.

Accident Scene/photo From Building Materials Ogidi Market

credits to Nairaland

It happened this evening as bus drivers in front of the market where scrambling for passengers leaving little space for on coming vehicles, as the truck was coming from awka got to the bend, the road was banked that It could accommodate up to five buses, but the drivers had already covered half of the main road..the truck driver tried all he could not to hit any of the buses only to enter the gutter killing pedestrians that were crossing over..some guys are still trapped under the truck.

See another photo after the cut (Very graphic photo) viewers discretion is advised

Troops clear Boko Haram members from Goniri, Yobe state

Fire Guts INEC’s Abuja Warehouse

The warehouse of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at its Electoral Institute along Airport Road, Abuja was gutted by fire at the weekend.

But fears that 2015 electoral materials might have been affected were doused by INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity Mr. Wole Osaze Uzzi.

 He said: “None of the sensitive electoral materials for the presidential and National Assembly elections and the governorship and state assembly elections was affected.”

Gunmen Attack Nigerian Student Leader In Ondo State

Unknown gunmen attacked Afolayan Simon Awodola, the president of the National Association of Ondo State Students (NAOSS), a source familiar with the situation has told SaharaReporters.

 The source, who is also a member of the association, said that Mr. Awodola was seriously assaulted in Benin City, the capital of Edo State. “They used a cutlass to cut Awodola on the forehead after he tried to fight back,” the source said.

The victim is an undergraduate student at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) where he is believed to be in his final year.

Two Loud Explosions In Maiduguri

Two loud explosions were heard yesterday evening around 9:56 p.m. in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State. The explosions came the same day that three bombs were discovered at a market earlier in the day.

The loud explosions were followed by the sound of gunshots, but details of the specific location of the explosions as well as possible casualties and damage remained unclear. A resident of Maiduguri, Bitrus Wida, told our correspondent, “I heard loud explosions tonight but we don’t know the directions. As I am speaking to you, frightened children are crying all over the place.”

Earlier today, two teenagers were arrested at the Monday market after they had planted some bombs, according to security agents.

Two policemen fight each other in public

More photos after the cut...

Photo: Accident on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

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Baby found alive in river 14 hours after car crash, mum found dead in driver's seat

An 18-month-old baby girl was found alive in a car more than 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into a river in Utah, USA. The girl was discovered hanging upside down above water in her car seat by a fisherman on Saturday afternoon, police told reporters. The child's mother 25yr old Lynn Groesbeck was found dead in the driver's seat. And some people don't believe that God exists!

The little girl was rushed to a hospital in Salt Lake City, where her condition has been upgraded from critical to stable.

200 vehicles with Niger & Chad soldiers arrive Nigeria

Fire breaks out in studio area of AIT in Lagos

Fire broke out this morning in the studio area at the Africa Independent Television, AIT, in Alagbado, Lagos. The cause of fire is not yet known but it has been put out by the fire service and members of staff of the TV station. Damage to the property is currently being assessed. No casualties or injuries recorded.

Nigerian Soldiers Recapture Buni Yadi From Islamist Terrorists

Nigerian soldiers today sustained their string of victories against members of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram by recapturing the town of Buni Yadi in Borno State.

Soldiers liberated the town this afternoon, according to a statement by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the army’s acting director of public relations. The soldiers’ recapture of the town is a significant blow on Boko Haram fighters who have been under attack on several fronts by a multi-national force comprising soldiers from Chad, Niger Republic and Nigeria. Buni Yadi is the headquarters of the Gujba local government area.

55 Killed In Bomb Blasts In Maiduguri, Two Markets And A Bus Station Targeted

At least 55 people have been killed in multiple explosions in the northeast city of Maiduguri, an eyewitness and security source told SaharaReporters.

A man on a tricycle, suspected to be a Boko Haram bomber, is believed to have triggered the first blast near the crowded Baga market at about 11:20am, killing 13 people and injuring several others Gubio Kaka said.

"He had wanted to enter the fish market but was stopped and in the process before he detonated the blast". Gubio Kaka who witnessed the scene said.

Five killed in accident

Five persons were yesterday killed in an accident involving a trailer loaded with metals and a commuter bus in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The crash occurred in the evening at Ugwu Nwasike junction when the ill-fated trailer collided with an oncoming commuter bus which resulted to the death of five passengers while others sustained injuries.

The casualties were mainly occupants of the bus while the trailer driver and conductor fled the scene to avoid lynching.

Police woman pours hot water on househelp

A police woman named Ifeoma Anyaegbu poured hot water on her house-help last week in Uwani Enugu State because the house-help allegedly shouted at her daughter. The house-help was rushed to Enugu Teaching Hospital where she's receiving treatment while the policewoman is no where to be found after disappearing moments after committing this crime. They police say they are currently looking for her

PDP Candidate, 36 Others Detained In Ebonyi

There was jubilation in Abakaliki and Afikpo south local government area of Ebonyi State following the arrest of a House of Assembly candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Governor Martin Elechi’s aide, Chidi Ejem and 36 others for allegedly killing a 36-year-old man, Udu Emegha of Amaigbo Etiti Edda, during attack on Labour Party supporters in the area.

Mr. Ejem was the special adviser to Governor Martin Elechi on Petroleum Products, Pricing, and Distribution before he resigned his appointment to contest the State House of Assembly seat.

FCT Minister’s nephew kidnaps brother, demands N10m

The Police in Bauchi State have arrested one Salisu Salmanu, who claimed to be a nephew of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, for kidnapping.

The police said Salmanu connived with his friends to kidnap his three-year-old younger brother at Kofar Idi in Bauchi and demanded a ransom of N10m from his father.

Salmanu, 19, was arrested with three of his friends, namely; Imrana Abdullahi, 17, Abdullahi Mohammed, 19, and Umar Musa, 19, all residents of the Kofar Idi area of the Bauchi metropolis.

14 Traders Shot Dead At Borno Market

At least 14 people, most of them traders, died yesterday when suspected Islamist terrorists detonated a bomb at a market in Mainok, a small community in the Kaga local government area of Borno State. A member of a local vigilante group told SaharaReporters that insurgents belonging to Boko Haram stormed the market and opened fire, targeting traders. “We saw 14 bodies of dead people and many wounded people,” the source disclosed.

Boko Haram Leaders arfadia.com Speaking to SaharaReporters by phone, the vigilante member said his group sent a reinforcement of members to combat the attackers. “We sent our people to Mainok after the attack and they saw that at least 14 people were killed,” he said, adding, “We were told that some people were killed in the bush. So we shall continue to work with the military to end this madness.”