01/06/18

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Again, the troubled Logo government area of Benue State was attacked by herdsmen in the early hours of Saturday, leading to the death of 11 persons.

The fresh attack is coming barely six days after Fulani herdsmen attacked five communities in Guma and Logo local government areas of the state in which over 20 persons were murdered.

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The latest incident, according to a source, happened at Tombo village in Logo local government area of the state.

An eyewitness told our correspondent that the attackers came to Ukemberagga/Tsewarves, Tse Toradi, all in Tombo community in Mbagber ward of Gaambe-Tiev of the council area.

Another source claimed that the attackers launched the attack at about 11pm on Friday and lasted till 5am of Saturday.

Though State Police Command spokesman, ASP Moses Yamu, said only four persons were killed, the ugly incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday when the villagers were asleep.

It was gathered that the herdsmen invaded the village, destroyed houses and shot indiscriminately.

The Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Mr Terver Akase, equally confirmed the report.

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Nigerian troops on Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the ongoing Operation DEEP PUNCH II have been recording successes, going by the scores of Boko Haram militants killed in the theatres of war, the voluntary surrender of hundreds of the rag-tag fighters and the flight of many from the enclaves where they were hiding.
Friday’s efforts were even more remarkable as Nigerian troops captured some high calibre weapons and equipment from the terrorists in their Sambisa Forest hideout.
Boko Haram members captured alive


Some of the weapons seized from Boko Haram

Boko Haram pickup, on which they mount guns

A side of the truck is battered

Burning away in the background is a shelled Boko Haram hideout in the fringes of Sambisa Forest

These Boko Haram militants appear to have reached the end of the road

Photo credit: Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Army on Saturday said 1, 050 insurgents had surrendered to troops in Lake Chad and Monguno general area of operations, as it also warned that many of them are on the run.
The army urged abutting communities to watch out for the fleeing Boko Haram insurgents as their enclaves in Lake Chad region come under intense onslaught.
Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Maiduguri.
Nwachukwu disclosed that 250 fighters of the Al Barnawi-led faction of the insurgents had surrendered to Nigerian Army, sequel to artillery and aerial bombardments by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole of their enclaves in Lake Chad basin.
He added that 700 insurgents also surrendered to troops at Monguno in an ongoing clearance operation.
Nwachukwu explained that Mamman Nur, another factional leader of the insurgents sustained fatal injuries and one of his wives killed in the operation, while many of the insurgents who escaped, surrendered to Niger Defence Forces.
The army spokesman noted that some of the insurgents surrendered to Nigerian Army.
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At least 25 migrants are feared to have drowned in a shipwreck off Libya after a dinghy, possibly carrying some 150 migrants, ran into trouble, two rescue organisations said Saturday.
“Rubber dinghy sunk north of Tripoli. At least 25 people died in the incident, exact numbers still unclear. Italian navy on the scene,” the German charity Sea Watch said on Twitter.
The Italian coast guard told AFP 85 people had been rescued from the sinking vessel, and eight bodies recovered so far.
It was believed to be the first shipwreck of 2018 — though rescue organisations say countless dinghies attempting to cross the Mediterranean are likely to sink without a trace, meaning the year’s death toll may have begun even earlier.
The alarm was sounded after a surveillance aircraft deployed in the EU anti-trafficking mission Sophia spotted the partly-submerged dinghy some 40 miles off the Libyan coast, in international waters.
“Shipwreck off the coast of Libya, east of Tripoli. Dozens of people missing who will die without a burial,” tweeted the Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms.
Sea Watch said it had been alerted to the disaster by the coast guard, which believed 150 people had been aboard.
“The search continues for survivors,” said the coast guard, which was aided in the rescue by a navy vessel.
Last year, 3,116 people died trying to cross from North Africa to Europe, according to Doctors Without Borders.
Italian-led efforts to prevent people from setting out saw a sharp drop in the number of arrivals in the second half of 2017.
While migrants who made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean in rickety boats still numbered nearly 119,000, it was a roughly one-third drop over the previous year.
The drop has been attributed to a controversial combination of an Italian-led boosting of the Libyan coastguard’s ability to intercept boats and efforts to seek the assistance of powerful militias.
In the first six days of 2018, over 400 people have been brought to safety in Italy, the interior ministry said, compared to 729 in the same period last year
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Osun State Command, has seized 272 Kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa and arrested one suspect in connection with it.

The State Commandant, Samuel Egbeola, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo.

“The intelligence on this seizure was given by good people of the state and we solicit for more of this from them,” he said.

He said the 272 KGS Cannabis Sativa in 19 sacks were seized on January 4, at Ifewara town, Atakunmosa East Local Government area of the state.

Egbeola also reiterated his commitment in ridding the state of all forms of crimes, especially as it relates to drugs.


He, however, explained that Investigation had commenced, and “We are always ready to achieve our mandate of making the state a drug free state.”
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A 56-year-old Italian woman from Treviso in Veneto has defied medical theory by giving birth to a baby without assisted fertility treatment.
According to reports in the Italian press, the unidentified woman gave birth to a girl, called Beatriz, at Angelo di Mestre hospital in late December.
She also has two other daughters, aged 34 and 28 years.
The reports, according to www.thelocal.it, said the child was born naturally, with one doctor telling Corriere: “It’s a record, a miracle.”
However doubts have been cast by medics over similar reports in the past.
Only a handful of women in their 50s have fallen pregnant without fertility treatment.
One of these is an Italian woman, Giovanna Cardi, who in 2010 gave birth to a baby girl, at the age of 54.
The oldest woman known to have had a child naturally was 59-year-old Dawn Brooke, from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, who had a son in 1997.
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US President Donald Trump on Saturday has replied his detractors by praising and describing himself as “a very mentally stable genius.”
His latest response followed the release of a bombshell book that calls into doubt his mental health.
In a series of extraordinary early-morning tweets, Trump said that “throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”
“I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!”
The White House has been pushing back forcefully against a new supposed tell-all book — Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” — which was rushed into stores Friday after the Trump administration failed to suppress it.
The book quickly sold out in Washington and has been the talk of the town. Trump has decried the instant best-seller as “phony” and “full of lies” as the White House issued a scorched-earth dismissal of “Fire and Fury” along with its author and his sources.
Trump’s tweets came ahead of his meetings Saturday with top Republican lawmakers and Cabinet members at the Camp David presidential retreat to discuss party priorities ahead of the crucial 2018 midterm elections.
Yet the sensational details in the new book and Trump’s continued defence of his mental health have wrenched attention away from policy and news of US financial markets hitting all-time highs, bringing even more scrutiny over whether the US leader is fit for office.
On Friday, Washington’s chief diplomat Rex Tillerson was obliged to defend Trump after being asked during an interview about claims that the president has a short attention span, regularly repeats himself and refuses to read briefing notes.
“I’ve never questioned his mental fitness. I’ve had no reason to question his mental fitness,” said Tillerson, whose office was last year forced to deny reports that he had referred to Trump as a “moron” after a national security meeting.
And, even in defending Trump, the former ExxonMobil chief executive told CNN he has had to learn how to relay information to a president with a very different decision-making style.
Journalist Wolff, no stranger to controversy, quotes several key Trump aides expressing doubt about Trump’s ability to lead the world’s largest economy and military hegemon.
“Let me put a marker in the sand here. One hundred percent of the people around him” question Trump’s fitness for office, Wolff told NBC’s “Today” show.
“They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. It’s all about him.”
The book includes extensive quotes from Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, who accuses Trump’s eldest son Don Jr. of “treasonous” contacts with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, and saying the president’s daughter Ivanka, who imagines herself running for president one day, is “dumb as a brick.”
But it is Trump himself who is cast in the most unfavorable light.
The book claims that for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the president was an “idiot.” For chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, he was “dumb as shit.” And for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, he was a “dope.”
The publication came as news emerged that at least a dozen members of the US Congress were briefed last month by a Yale University professor of psychiatry on Trump’s mental health.
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A militant group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army on Saturday ambushed Myanmar soldiers in northern Rakhine state injuring six.
The attack comes four months after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh following a military crackdown triggered by militant attacks on police posts.
The military said in a statement posted on the commander in chief’s Facebook page that the attackers were from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, the militant group blamed for the attacks on police posts.
More than 20 insurgents using improvised explosives attacked the soldiers’ truck, which was coming from Taungpyo township in northern Rakhine on Friday, the government said in a statement on its Facebook page.
Six injured soldiers were taken to a military hospital, border guard police official Sann Oo said by phone Saturday.
In the past, the military has retaliated against Rohingya following such attacks.
A campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs has sent more than 850,000 of Myanmar’s 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing the country in recent years.
Since Aug. 25 alone, when Myanmar’s army began what it called “clearance operations” following the attacks on police posts, more than 650,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
The United Nations (UN) and the United States have accused Myanmar’s military of human rights violations against Rohingya in Rakhine, including killings, rapes and the burning of homes.
The UN has described the violence as ethnic cleansing.
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Islamic State (ISIS) has declared war on Gaza-based Palestinian terror group Hamas, for its inability to prevent the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
An offshoot of ISIS in Egypt in a 22-minute video recently released, purportedly showed the execution of an alleged collaborator.
The man who is on his knees wearing an orange jumpsuit, similar to the footage of the group’s execution of American and British hostages in 2014, is accused of working with Hamas.
The video reportedly opened with footage of President Donald Trump announcing the Jerusalem move last month with ISIS urging its fighters not to relent but to subdue Hamas.
“Never surrender to them. Use explosives, silenced pistols, and sticky bombs.
“Bomb their courts and their security locations, for these are the pillars of tyranny that prop up its throne,” a knife-wielding man says in the video released Wednesday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist websites.
The jihadi group justifies its war on Hamas by blaming Hamas for cracking down on other militant Islamists and failing to prevent the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The conflict between the two Islamist factions has been brewing for more than a year, according to the Washington Post.
Hamas has been more concerned with securing its border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as a way to improve relations with Egypt – a country taking an increasingly conditional stance toward the group in Gaza. LR News
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The inclusion of Onitsha in the next phase of rail line project by President Muhammadu Buhari is an indication of the new focus of government for South East.
Oganiru Ndigbo Worldwide has commended President Buhari for the proposed project.
In an interview with the Latest Reality Metro on Saturday in Awka, the group’s state Chairman Chief Ifeanyi Okechukwu said that the Igbos should be patient with the present administration for the dividend of democracy to get to the zone.
“As far as I am concern, there is no truth in the saying that we are being left out in the scheme of things all we must do as Igbos is to contribute meaningfully to the success of this administration for more developmental projects to get to us.
“Attention is being directed to our major roads, second Niger Bridge and now rail services getting to Onitsha the hub of commerce which we should be proud of.
Okechukwu called on the zone to do all within their reach to see to the unity of the nation for better days to come.
“We can achieve a lot in our unity in diversity only if we can tell ourselves the truth by downplaying mediocrity, nepotism and ethnicity when taking decisions of national interest.
“That is what is making United States of America strong because they have the unity of their nation at heart in spite of the different ethnic groups that makes up the country,” he said LR News
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The Inspector general of Police, Ibrahim Idris has deployed five additional units of mobile police force, helicopters and special intelligence squads to troubled local  councils in Benue and River states.
He  placed commissioners of Police and Police Personnel in the affected States on red alert, while also  ordering 24 hour crime prevention and visibility patrols all over the Country.
A statement by Jimoh Moshood, the police spokesman said the measures have been taken by the IGP  to nip in the bud and prevent further attacks on innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen and other criminal elements in the mentioned States.
To this end, the Deputy Inspector General of Police Operations has been dispatched by the IGP to Benue State to muster, coordinate and supervise the implementation of the new security strategies put in place by the Force to put an immediate end to the senseless killings and violence unleashed on innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen and other criminal elements in the two States.
“Police Aerial Surveillance Helicopters, Five (5) Units of Police Mobile Force; Police Special Forces have been deployed along with additional conventional Police Personnel, the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Police Explosive Ordinance Department (EOD) and Special Police Joint Intelligence and Investigation Teams to Benue and Rivers State to work with the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (FCIID) Personnel on the ground. This is to bring new impetus to the efforts of the Force to nip in the bud further attacks in the mentioned states”,  Moshood said.
According to him, eight  suspected herdsmen arrested at the scene of the killings in Guma local council in Benue state are being prosecuted, with six  of them remanded in Prison custody.
The other  two suspects arrested at a different scene of crime will soon be docked, he said. 
“The Assistant Inspector General of Police in Zone 4 Makurdi and Zone 6 Calabar have been mandated by the Inspector General of Police to convene Stakeholders meetings in the affected states and also supervise the Police investigation and intelligence teams, and other Police Special Squads deployed by the IGP to the two States”.  
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