3 soldiers, several gunmen killed in Daura attack – Nigerian Army

The Nigerian Army on Friday confirmed that three soldiers were killed in an attack by gunmen in Daura, Katsina State.

Maj. Gen. Garba Wahab, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Nigerian Army, who disclosed this to newsmen in Kaduna, said several of the attackers were also killed.

He said that the army and other security personnel had cordoned off three areas in the city and were conducting a house-to-house search “to fish out some of the wounded gunmen who forced their way into peoples’ homes’’’.

He also said that the army was coordinating with security agencies in Niger Republic as “80 to 90 per cent of these gun men are not Nigerians’’.

Wahab said the gunmen had attacked four banks and stole some money, adding that a vehicle loaded with the stolen cash was recovered, in addition to four AK-47 rifles.

He said that the operation to fish out the culprits was ongoing, and advised residents of Daura and the neighbouring local government areas of Baure, Sandamu, Mashi, and Dutsi to cooperate with security agents by reporting suspicious movements around them.

“What happened this morning is similar to what happened in Bama where the gunmen burnt prison and police stations to divert attention,’’ he said.

Wahab appealed to journalists to support security agencies in the fight against terror, saying it was the collective responsibility of all well-meaning Nigerians to work for the peace and stability of the nation.

“Let us stop patronising criminality. Whether they are terrorists or armed bandits, the truth is that they are against the Nigerian state, and that is the bottom line’,’’ he added. (NAN)

[JUST IN] Delta State Government to expel any Hausa/Fulani Cattle Rearer

Delta State Government to expel any Hausa/Fulani Cattle Rearer who causes Problems in the State.

Delta State Government has also place ban on Youth activities in Oghara. The Secretary to the State Government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macaulay who stated this while briefing journalists shortly after the State Security Council meeting in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Governement today noted that any company that continues to have business with them in the name of any youth organisation will be inviting the wrath of the state government

He also stated that any youth who is involved in any form of crisis as a result of Amnesty granted by the Federal Government would be dealt with accordingly. Emphasis that Federal Government Amnesty is over.

BREAKING NEWS; Boko Haram Kill CAN’s Borno Secretary Minutes After GEJ's Broadcast

Barely 30 minutes after President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno State alongside two other states because of terrorism, the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in the state, Reverend Faye Pama Musa has been shot dead inside his Maiduguri residence by members of the radical Islamic group, the Boko Haram

Security sources that Musa, the head pastor of a Pentecostal church in Maiduguri, was trailed to his GRA residence by two gunmen who shot him at close range at about 7.30pm.

The headquarters of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has confirmed the murder of Reverend Musa.

Describing the killing of its Secretary in Borno State as “sad”, Kenny Asaka, the media aide to the National President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, sad the President received the news with a “heavy heart.”

President Jonathan Declares State of Emergency on Adamawa, Yobe and Borno

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria today declared a state of  emergency in three Nigerian states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno. The  president made the declaration during a live nationwide broadcast on NTA at 7pm.
In imposing the state of emergency today, President Jonathan wielded extra-Ordinary measures by invoking the Section 305, Sub section 1 of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria.
Regardless of the state of  emergency imposed, President Jonathan stressed that "the Governors and other political office holders in the affected states will continue to discharge their constitutional responsibilities".
 
See the full address after the cut...

JUST IN: EFCC Arrests Former Bayelsa Governor; Timipre Sylva

Former Bayelsa Governor; Timipre Sylvaption

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday arrested the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva.

A statement signed by EFCC’s Acting Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the former governor was “picked up at his Abuja home, at No. 3, Niger Street, Maitama” by the EFCC officials who stormed the former governor’s home at about 10.00 am.

He is currently being interrogated at the Abuja headquarters of the anti- graft agency.

According to EFCC Mr Sylva is “being grilled in connection with fresh evidence linking him with a bouquet of fraudulent transactions that borders on money laundering. Part of the new evidence includes a number of eye-popping real estate acquisitions in Abuja.”

Oh no! Nigerian Air Force Jet Crashes, Two Dead

Nigerian Air Force jet

A Nigerian fighter jet taking part in military operations against al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in Mali crashed in western Niger, killing its two crew, Niger and Nigerian officials said on Monday.

The incident marked the first casualties in Mali for Nigerian troops, which form the largest contingent in a West African regional force participating in the French-led campaign to drive Islamist rebels from the country's desert north, reports Reuters.

Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force, said the plane was an Alpha jet stationed in Niger as part of a Nigerian squadron supporting the mission in Mali.

"An investigation is going on to find out what happened. They were on a normal routine flight about 60 km (37 miles) west of Niamey when something happened," Anas told Reuters.

Asked if there was any evidence of anti-aircraft fire, he said: "We don't know but it was inside Nigerien territory."

A Niger security source said the jet crashed near Dargol in the Tillabery region which borders Mali.

"The plane was not shot at. It was not in enemy territory so for now we are looking at maybe a mechanical problem," another security official from Niger, who asked not to be identified, said.

 SOURCE:  Reuters

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Tega Omofurieta

Tega Omofurieta is a 19years old boy from Emevor in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta state.

Tega took ill last year and was diagnosed recently this year, February 2013 to be precise, at the Delta State University Teaching hospital, Oghara of Chronic Kidney Disease (Chronic Glomerulonephritis) meaning his two Kidneys are no longer functioning.

He has been living on Dialysis since then, but the Doctors have advice that he needs to go for an urgent Kidney Transplant in India to save his life.

The mother, Mrs Roseline Omofurieta has closed down her business because of this illness and presently is on debt row, so as to pay for the dialysis at least once every week instead of three times a week prescribed by the Doctors

The purpose of this appeal therefore is for financial assistance to the tune of N6,000,000 (Six Million Naira) to enable Tega undergo the Kidney Transplant in India.

For the past months, Tega cannot pass out urine, he can't eat what others are eating and can't even lie down to sleep.

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