Barely three months to the November 21 governorship elections in Kogi State, a prominent strategist and stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Jeremiah Abuh has been assassinated.
The party chieftain was trailed to his home at Ejule on Tuesday evening. According to eye witnesses, they shot him several times in the stomach before fleeing in their unmarked getaway car.
It is reported that the PDP is pointing an accusing finger at the opposition.
Preparations have reached an advanced stage for operatives of the Nigerian military to take over the protection of the country's oil pipelines from militants.
Col Rabe Abubakar, Acting Director, Defense Information disclosed this on Tuesday, adding that the GMD of the NNPC, Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu had already met with the Chief of Defense Staff, Gen Gabriel Olonisakin to work out modalities for the implementation of the project.
Col Abubakar said that the GMD's visit to the CDS was sequel to NNPC's proposal to President Buhari to give the Army Corps of Engineers charge over the maintenance and protection of the oil pipelines.
The Punch quotes Dr Kachikwu to have told the CDS that plans are on to procure additional boats for naval patrol and tracking equipment to monitor the vessels coming into the country.
“We are trying to equip the Navy a lot more with boats for patrols; we are trying to get trackers and central system to be able to monitor every vessel that comes in and out of the country.
“We have equally spoken with the Chief of Air Staff on other effective ways of collaboration."
It is estimated that Nigeria loses about 250,000 barrels of oil per day.
The governor of Plateau State, Mr Simon Lalong has said that he has submitted a list of people who looted the state's resources to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The governor spoke in Jos while inaugurating his newly appointed permanent secretaries. He said he hoped that the anti graft agency would help the state to recover the looted funds.
Meanwhile, the governor is worried that he has not heard from the EFCC since he submitted the petition.
If you expect to find only IEDs, rifles and sundry arms in Boko Haram camps, you're dead wrong. Nigerian troops who have sacked the insurgents from many of their camps made shocking discoveries.
Western education may be forbidden to Boko Haram, but certainly, illicit sex and drugs are not.
As Nigerian Army disclosed yesterday, hard drugs, sex enhancement drugs and condoms are usually found in camps captured from the militants.
This according to Army spokesman, Col Sani Usman suggest that the insurgents are not driven by Islamic ideology. He added that most of the fighters arrested could not recite the Quran.
Col Sani Usman said that troops of the 3rd Division yesterday arrested suppliers of hard drugs and stimulants to the insurgents at locations in Geidam local government area of Yobe State.
“The arrested persons were also engaged in the supply of fuel in addition to hard drugs such as Cannabis (Indian Hemp), Chlorofone substance (AKA Madaran suck and die) and Tramol, amongst others.
“You will recall that sometimes ago we reported that ironically most of the Boko Haram terrorists captured by Nigerian military cannot read the Holy Qur’an, some of them cannot even recite the first chapter- Suratuh Al-Fatiha and yet they claimed they wanted to establish an ‘Islamic State’.
“When the Nigerian military captured their bases and training camps, they never found Qur’an or other Islamic books, what were mostly found were ammunition, local charms, condoms and all sort of drugs including sex enhancing ones in their enclaves, " he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that his government plans to review the Nigerian foreign missions to know which ones are really necessary.
The president spoke in Abuja after a meeting with Ambassador Bulus Lolo, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that the committee to carry out the review is already in the works.
Buhari said that the committee will determine how many foreign missions Nigeria needs to have in order to maintain appropriate standards.
"Let's keep only what we can manage. We can't afford much for now. There's no point in pretending, ’’ he said.
".. . . these boys playing now have definitely gathered some points so those who want to displace them would have to fight for shirts. They have to show the hunger to play for Nigeria. Everyone here is replaceable. Only Nigeria cannot be replaced. I retired and people are still playing for the country. Nobody is indispensable.”
These are the exact words of Super Eagles gaffer, Sunday Oliseh. He was responding to a reporter's question about the absence of John Mikel Obi and Victor Moses from the team.
After they beat Niger Republic 2 - 0 in an international friendly, Oliseh lauded the boys for improving on their performance in the AFCON qualifier in Dar es Salaam last Saturday.
The two goals were scored by Ahmed Musa and Moses Simon in the 11th and 85th minutes respectively.
Meanwhile, former Super Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu has said that the win against Niger will serve as a morale booster for the boys.
"I believe this win against Niger is good for the morale of the team. They face a massive task against Egypt in their next qualifying game and need to go into that game in confident mood, ” he said.
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