8700 Soldiers Set To Deploy Against Boko Haram

The Acting Director of Defense Information, Col Rabe Abubakar has said that military chiefs from the Lake Chad Basin Commission have concluded plans for the imminent deployment of the 8700 troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force.

He said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that a meeting of military chiefs in N'djamena, Chad concluded the plans for the deployment. Present at the meeting were defense chiefs from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroun and Republic of Benin as well as the Commander of the Multi-National JTF and other high military ranking officers.

“The Chiefs of Defence Staff from the Lake Chad Basin Commission member- countries met in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad and finalised details of the deployment of a joint force to fight the Boko Haram which has sworn allegiance to ISIS and has killed hundreds of people through suicide bombings in the last three months, " the defense spokesman said.

He noted that the Chief of Defense Staff has been working hard to meet up with President Buhari's directive to completely eliminate Boko Haram within the next three months.

He also said that troops of the Multi-National JTF would be deployed to two command centres in Nigeria and Cameroun, even as soldiers on secondment to the task force have been directed to immediately report to their duty posts.

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Police In Kubwa Arrest 38 Year-old Security Guard For Defiling 9 Year-old Girl

The police in Kubwa, in Bwari Local Council of Abuja have arrested a 38 years old security guard for being in a sexual relationship with a girl of 9 years. The security guard works and lives at a church in Phase 2 Site 2, Kubwa.

During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the police that he had been in a sexual relationship with the primary 4 pupil for over a year. He said that he usually picked up the little girl at an agreed point after school hours. From there, they would proceed to his house.

However, trouble started for the randy guard when he decided that their usual after-school tryst was no longer sufficient.  He slept with her over the night and the parents became alarmed that their little girl did not come home.

The worried parents contacted their pastor whom the suspect incidentally works and lives with. The cleric reported the matter to the police and subsequent investigation led to the arrest of the security guard.

Medical examinations at Kubwa General Hospital confirmed that the 9 years old primary 4 girl has been sexually active.

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Medical Youth Corpers Protest Nonpayment Of Allowances By Bwari Area Council

Health corpers doing their NYSC program in Bwari Area Council, Abuja are protesting the failure of the council authorities to pay their monthly allowances since March this year. The corpers from Batch C of the National Youth Service Corps began their service in December 2014.

The authorities had requested the services of health care youth corpers whom they posted to the various health facilities in the area council. They placed the medical doctors on monthly allowances of N100,000 (one hundred thousand naira) and the pharmacists, nurses, laboratory technicians etc N70,000 (seventy thousand naira).

However, the youth corpers said that they were short paid by 30% in January. The doctors received payment alerts of seventy thousand naira as against the expected one hundred thousand. The rest got fifty thousand naira instead of seventy thousand. Upon enquiry, they were told that the area council could no longer pay what was initially promised, due to paucity of funds.

Despite the cut in their monthly payments, the youth corpers said their main grouse is that they have not been paid since February and their service ends in October. That would mean that they could be leaving with about ten 🔟 months of their allowances unpaid.

The health corpers are also worried about stories making the rounds in the rumor mill that a lot of NYSC members had in the past left Bwari Area Council will months of unpaid allowances.

Attempts by Brekete Family Show to reach the Chairman of Bwari Area Council on Friday were not successful. The youth corpers said that the Zonal Inspector of the National Youth Service Corps had earlier intervened without success.

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Buhari To Host Ban Ki Moon In Abuja Today

President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to host UN Sec-Gen, Ban Ki Moon at the Presidential Villa, Abuja today, Monday 24 August 2015 at midday.

The information is contained in a media advisory signed by Mr Oche Egwa for the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. The statement said Buhari and the UN boss will address a joint press conference after a closed-door session.

Thereafter, Ban Ki Moon will return to the Presidential Villa for a dinner to be hosted in his honor by President Buhari.

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Buhari Begs Lawyers To Support War Against Corruption

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerian lawyers to support his government's war on corruption and help return the country to the path of uprightness. He urged lawyers who often defend human rights to also see corruption as a violation of human rights.

Buhari identified corruption as the major reason why Nigerians suffer all manner of derivations
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“For the masses of our people, the millions still wallowing in want and diseases, corruption is a major reason why they cannot go to school; why they cannot be gainfully employed; and why there are few doctors, nurses and drugs in their hospitals and health centers.

“It is the reason why pensioners are not paid and potable water is scarce.

“In effect, corruption diverts public resources meant for millions of people into the private pockets of a greedy few, thereby causing a lot of suffering, deprivation and death.

“In my view, there can be no greater violation of human rights.

“Viewed in this way, I think we can all fully appreciate the gravity of this oppressive and destructive evil. This should rouse us to fight it with the same zeal and doggedness as we deploy in the defence of fundamental rights, ” he said

He also advised lawyers to place the integrity of Nigeria's legal system above their own pecuniary considerations by not covering up the misdeeds of their clients.

The president spoke this Sunday through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu at the opening of the 55th annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja

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The Three Sins That Led To Parradang's Fall

Feelers from government circles indicate that the case of former Nigeria Immigration Service boss, David Shikfu Parradang is like that of the proverbial hunter's dog that wouldn't hear his master's whistle.

A subsequent statement to the one that announced Parradang's dismissal issued on 21 August 2015 and signed by a director/secretary in the ministry in charge of Civil Defence, Fire Service, Immigration and Prisons Services Board, Mr A. A. Ibrahim gave more insight into Parradang's suspension.

His number one sin according to the statement was the issuance of appointment letters to 1600 new personnel without approval. The new recruitments consisted of 700 Assistant Inspectors of Immigration and 900 Immigration Assistant III.

The suspended Immigration boss is said to have ignored repeated warnings from superior authorities to take necessary corrective actions. The statement cited the letters from the supervising ministry as reference nos: FMI/PSO/OOllll/402 of June 11, 2015, and FMI/PSO/OOl/lll/411 of June 14, 2015.

By failing to act directed in those letters, Parradang registered his second sin.

Whatever hope that was left for Parradang was swept away by the Nigerian Visa scandal involving ISIS terrorist, Imam Ahmed al-Assir. The wanted cleric was arrested at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, Beirut as he tried to board a flight to Palestine enroute to Nigeria with a fake Palestinian passport and a valid Nigerian Visa. That was how the embattled former Immigration boss landed sin number three in his register.

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Ambush: Army Chief's Convoy In Gunfight With Boko Haram Fighters

Faljari village, 45kms east of Borno State capital Maiduguri was the scene of a fierce gun battle on Saturday between troops in the convoy of Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and suspected Boko Haram terrorists.

The Army Chief was in Borno State to motivate the front line troops in the war against the insurgents, said Army spokesman, Col Sani Usman.

At the end of the firefight, 10 insurgents and a soldier were killed. Five militants were captured while four others managed to escape.

"The terrorists encountered an overwhelming firepower from the troops in which 10 of them were killed. The troops captured five terrorists," he said.
"During the encounter, sadly, we lost a soldier, while an officer and four soldiers sustained gunshot wounds, " Usman said.

The Army Chief was unharmed in the incident.

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