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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO LOKOJA – No fewer than five persons were hit with bullet at the gate of Kogi State polytechnic, Lokoja where senator Dino Melaye was holding a protest against the state government. The protest which stated around 11am turned bloody when gunmen yet to be identified invaded the venue of protset. The gunmen who stormed the venue from the Nataco junction brandishing guns of different guns and cutlasses started shooting into different direction sending people scampering for safety including journalists who were at hands to cover the event. Before the Army and the state commissioner of Police could reach there almost an hour into the shooting, five persons have fell victims of gun shots with a vehicle caught in flame as well. …details latter. The post Breaking: Five fear killed as Senator Dino’s protest turns bloody in Kogi appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rmAdny via Blogger http://ift.tt/2sTOwll

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO LOKOJA – No fewer than five persons were hit with bullet at the gate of Kogi State polytechnic, Lokoja where senator Dino Melaye was holding a protest against the state government. The protest which stated around 11am turned bloody when gunmen yet to be identified invaded the venue of protset. The gunmen who stormed the venue from the Nataco junction brandishing guns of different guns and cutlasses started shooting into different direction sending people scampering for safety including journalists who were at hands to cover the event. Before the Army and the state commissioner of Police could reach there almost an hour into the shooting, five persons have fell victims of gun shots with a vehicle caught in flame as well. …details latter. The post Breaking: Five fear killed as Senator Dino’s protest turns bloody in Kogi appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rmAdny

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Boko Haram, in a new video, has claimed responsibility for the attack on Maiduguri on Wednesday night that killed at least 15 people. It was the first major assault on the city in 18 months. “We have killed those we can and have left with the bounties of war we are displaying now,” said a voice on a video released by Boko Haram on Saturday, showing the group’s fighters among piles of ammunition and other supplies. “We are hale and hearty, contrary to claims that we have been killed,” the voice said. The Boko Haram fighters attacked Maiduguri’s suburbs with anti-aircraft guns and several suicide bombers, a police official said on Thursday.  The three bombers sent into the city  self-destructed. The video showed what appear to be Boko Haram fighters moving through the bush with guns and vehicles mounted with heavy weaponry, as well as shots of them holding security passes and other Nigerian military supplies. “God has enriched us with the arms and amm...

http://ift.tt/2sgGSV3 Calabar – The Cross River Government says that it has awarded N1.16 billion contract for the commencement of work on a model banana farm project in Akamkpa town of Akamkpa Local Government Area. Prof. Anthony Eneji, state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, stated this on Sunday in Calabar. Eneji said that the contract was the first phase, adding that work would commence on a 100 hectares out of the 250 hectares of land allocated for the project in the state. He said that already, the contractor had been mobilised to sight for the first phase of the project. According him, the second phase will start in Boki Local Government Area. “The farm will grow different species of banana, and thereafter, turn them into finished products such as fruit juice, banana sweets, chips and so on,” he said. The commissioner said the state had been blessed with natural crops like banana, plantain, pineapples and Cucumber, among other. The post C’River awards N...

http://ift.tt/2ruSsau This screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location. Nigeria's government on May 17, 2017 said another Chibok girl was free, having escaped from Boko Haram Islamists more than three years after being kidnapped with more than 200 classmates. / AFP PHOTO / BOKO HARAM / HO Nigeria’s government on Thursday retracted its announcement that another Chibok girl was free, saying she was not one of the 219 whose kidnapping more than three years ago caused global outrage. The presidency said on Wednesday evening that the teenager was picked up by the military after fleeing from Boko Haram jihadists. But Laolu Akande, spokesman for Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, later tweeted that the girl was a junior secondary school “student from Chibok community”. In a text message to AFP on Thursday, he said the 15-year-old...