Troops of Operation Fire Ball have eliminated five Boko Haram
(BHT)/ISWAP terrorists and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition as
well as bags of assorted grains in recent attacks on their hideouts in
Borno. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard
Onyeuko, disclosed this in statement on Sunday. He said that Operation
Fire Ball, a subsidiary of Operation Lafiya Dole, had continued to clear
terrorists from their identified enclaves in the North East.
He
said the troops of Army Super Camp 11 Gamboru-Ngala, on Nov. 27, overran
the terrorists’ hideout at Garal and Bulankesa Villages. He said that
the troops eliminated two terrorists in the encounter while others fled
in disarray with fatal injuries.
He added that troops
deployed in Pulka, also raided a terrorists’ logistics base at
Ashigashiya on Friday, killing two terrorists while others escaped with
debilitating gunshot wounds. According to him, bags of assorted grains
and other food items were recovered and the logistics warehouse was
destroyed.
Five members of a six-dare-devil armed robbery gang, who held members of
a church in Ogun State spellbound, robbed them of their valuables and
thereafter seized a woman, have been arrested. The suspects are; Abubakar Ibrahim, 38, Sulaiman Yusuf, 32, Ismail
Yusuf, 20, Umar Aliu, 26 and Yinusa Musa. According to the State PPPRO,
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the hoodlums armed with cudgels, breezed into
Christ Apostle Church (CAC) at Gudugbe Alagbon area of Ewekoro, during a
vigil, and forcefully brought the service to an abrupt end on
Wednesday, November 26,2020.
It is reported that some of the
congregants were beaten to a pulp before they were dispossessed of their
valuables. The suspects while leaving, abducted one Mrs Mojisola
Atolagbe.
Following a distress call, the police swiftly moved to
the scene, combed the forest through which the hoodlums escaped and
successfully apprehended five of them, while one escaped for which a
manhunt has been launched.
Recovered items from the suspects include; a cutlass, two sharp pointed cudgels and assorted dangerous charms.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has
revealed that it will cost the ministry N81m to cut the grass and clear
the weed that have taken over the MKO Abiola National Stadium in Abuja. He stated this recently while speaking during the one-day seminar
organised by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) FCT
chapter.
According to him, the ministry approached the Abuja
Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) for assessment in the stadium,
which was built in 2003 with N53 billion on a 29 hectares (72 acres) of
land. The stadium is divided into Package A which houses the Main
Bowl and Package B which houses other facilities like basketball courts,
NFF office, volleyball courts, tennis courts, squash courts.
“We
approached AEPB to come see what can be done to clear the grass and
weed in the stadium and they told us it will cost us N81m. If we tell
Nigerians we used N81m which is not even available, there will be an
outcry. The funds are not really there for us and that is why we are
partnering with private investors to bring back the key components of
our infrastructures,” he said.
He was pronounced dead in Paris after battling a long illness. The
ex-Senegal international, had several stints across England, France,
Greece and Switzerland.
He was one of the standout players for
Senegal at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea, scoring the only
goal of the game against then defending champions France.
Diop,
who made 63 appearances for the Teranga Lions, died at the age of 42. He
also played for Fulham, West Ham, Portsmouth among other clubs PremierLeague
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has denied media
reports that it has agreed to call off the ongoing nationwide strike.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday morning, ASUU President, Prof.
Biodun Ogunyemi, also refuted claims that the union reached an agreement
with the Government negotiation team led by the Minister of Labour and
Employment, Senator Chris Ngige after a meeting on Friday.
Ogunyemi stressed that it was only agreed that the union should
convey the government’s message to their organs about the agreement
before it can communicate their decision to the government after which a
date would be announced to end the strike. He added that the suspension
of the strike cannot be determined by him alone.
A news report had emerged that ASUU gave an indication at the meeting
that the strike which started in March would soon be called off after a
meeting with the leadership of the union and its organs.
According to the report, ASUU agreed to call off the strike after the
government pledged to pay N40 billion for Earned Allowances and N30
billion for the revitalization of the university system bringing the
total payment to N70 billion. It was further reported that the
Government agreed to settle the arrears of salaries of the lecturers
before December 31
One Ibrahim Abubakar, a shop owner along Zoo Road in Kano metropolis, committed suicide on Thursday evening.
According to Vanguard News, his body was discovered hanging from
a rope in his shop. His son, Abdussalam Ibrahim, told newsmen that his
father was battling with psychological trauma further worsened by
domestic responsibilities he could not handle, including the wedding of
his daughter that was approaching soon.
“ Our father was
battling with psychological trauma and he is also poverty-stricken. More
so, my sister is due to be given out in marriage soon. We performed the
evening prayer with him, after which he went back to the shop and hung
himself. He gave up the ghost despite attempts to save him when he was
discovered,” he said
igeria has taken delivery of an ancient Ife Terracotta head from the
Kingdom of Netherlands. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information
and Culture, received the artefact from the Mohammed said the return of the terracotta head after hundreds of
years was a milestone in seeking the return of other antiquities taken
away from the country.
“It gives me profound joy to receive this
very important antiquity, an Ife Terracotta, which is dated to be at
least 600 years old. I am even more delighted that our efforts at
pursuing the return of Nigerian antiquities, which we launched last
November, have started yielding fruits,” he said.Ambassador of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to Nigeria, Harry van Dijk, on Thursday
