03/29/18

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Lawmaker representing Yobe State, Senator Buka Abba-Ibrahim, has said that serious negotiations are ongoing for the release of Leah Sharibu and the remaining Chibok School Girls abducted by the Boko Haram.

The Lawmaker revealed this in a point of order on Thursday at plenary.

Leah Sharibu is one of more than a hundred Dapchi schoolgirls that were abducted by the Boko Haram on February 19, 2018, in Yobe State.

Five of her colleagues died in captivity while 104 others were released on March 21, 2018, but she was held back in captivity for allegedly refusing to denounce her Christian faith.

On Thursday Senator Ibrahim told his colleagues, who called for Sharibu’s release, that serious talks were ongoing for her release.

He described the situation as unfortunate, more so as it appears that she would spend Easter in captivity rather than with her family.

There have been calls from different groups for her release more than a month after she was snatched from school. LR News
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The Police Command in Edo said it had recovered 120 arms and ammunition in compliance with the Inspector-General of Police’s directive on Arms mop-up nationwide.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Johnson Kokumo, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing newsmen in Benin.
Kokumo said that nine AK-47 rifles; 15 pump action guns; 38 Dane guns and 23 locally made cut-to-size single barrel guns were recovered during the operation.
He also said 12 locally made single barrel pistols; six locally made double barrel pistols; seven single barrel English made guns; one G-3 rifle; one TO6 rifle as well as one K2 rifle; one berreta rifle and two English pistols were recovered.
He also disclosed that 154 live cartridges were mopped up with five suspects arrested during the month-long operation.
In another development, the command had arrested three suspected members of a kidnap gang.
According to the commissioner, the gang has threatened to kidnap a man  identified as Reuben if he refused to pay N1 million into a Zenith bank account.
He said that items recovered from the suspects include: one AK-47 rifle; one pump action gun; two double barrel guns and one cut-to-size double barrel gun.
Others are: two Dane guns; nine 7.62mm calibre live ammunition; seven live cartridges and one infinix cell phone with two Sim cards.
Kokumo also disclosed that another suspect was arrested by the command for conspiring with others still at large to rob one Jackson Okuomoise.
He said that the suspected robbers also abducted the victim’s friend and shot him.
He said that three pump action guns; three cut-to-size double barrel guns; three cut-to-size pistols and six live cartridges were recovered from the suspects.
The commissioner thanked the people of the state for volunteering credible information, and assured of the command’s worthy stewardship and efforts to ensure peaceful Easter celebrations. LR News
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Zambian opposiiton Nevers Mumba,and wife

Mr. Nevers Mumba, Zambian opposition party leader, has been jailed for three months for gaining access to the country’s state broadcaster by lying to a police officer.
Lusaka magistrates David Simusamba found the former televangelist guilty of one offence of giving false information to a public officer.
He, however, acquitted him of criminal trespass into the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC).
Mumba was accused of having given false information to a police officer that he had an appointment with an editor of ZNBC.
In the second count, he was accused of trespassing into ZNBC with intent to annoy staff.
Mr Simusamba said Mumba was a former vice-president who should have refrained from acting in a reckless manner.
The magistrate said he had also put into account the fact that Mumba committed the offence in a political environment.
On September 8, 2016, Mumba was said to have unlawfully entered ZNBC newsroom with intent to intimidate and annoy the staff.
He was protesting over a story which was aired concerning the presidential hearing.
President Edgar Lungu, who was for the second time elected in 2016, has been accused of clamping down on dissent.
The opposition condemned the conviction.
Main opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema tweeted saying: “Our brother Nevers Mumba has been convicted for three months for simply visiting ZNBC. This must stop.”
Meanwhile, there was commotion at the Lusaka Magistrates Court as ailing opposition NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili sought bail for the graft case he was facing.
While the hullabaloo to process his bail was playing out, Mr Kambwili, 50, recently from a hospital, was reported to have collapsed as he waited in the holding cell.
As his supporters pushed to rush him to the hospital, police would not have any of those requests resulting in a bitter exchange of words, with some supporters openly wailing while he lay motionless in the vehicle.
Mr Hichilema called the treatment by police “brutal’.
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