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At least 30 ethnic Fulani herdsman were killed by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigerian last weekend when they raided the village of Alau in Borno state. “One of the herdsmen escaped and confirmed to us that he is the only survivor,” Amadu Kusuri, the northeast coordinator of the Fulani Miyetti Allah Association, said Thursday. The Islamist insurgents also kidnapped women and children and stole livestock in the attack on April 24 , Babangida Ali, the brother of one of those killed in Alau, said by phone. While Nigeria says it’s making progress in the battle against Boko Haram, which has waged a violent seven-year campaign to impose its version of Islamic law on Africa’s most populous nation, the group continues to carry out massacres in remote areas and suicide bombings in towns and cities. SOURCE: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-28/boko-haram-militants-kill-30-nigerian-herdsmen-in-north-massacre?cmpid=yhoo.headline&ref=yfp

Strong indications emerged on Thursday that the military high command in the country might come up with a joint operation involving the various security agencies against the menace of Fulani herdsmen in the country. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, told our correspondent on Thursday that the expected operation would not be restricted to a single service of the Armed Forces. He said that the operation would be similar to the ones formed to battle the insurgency in the North-East, the militancy in the Niger Delta and other parts of the country. Abubakar was reacting to the question of what the military would do in view of the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to the military and the police to stop the recurrent killing of hapless villagers by armed Fulani militia. Buhari‘s directive followed the public outrage that greeted the murder of 50 people at Ukpabi Nimbo Community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State by suspected Fu

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Abayomi Olonishakin and the the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase to go after the herdsmen that are terrorizing people in some parts of the country. Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/buhari-orders-cds-igp-to-go-after-killer-herders/144344.html#Ux58BDhQKwGIkWvP.99

Selflessness is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as " having or showing great concern for other people and little or no concern for yourself". Selfless is the opposite of selfish. If you're selfless , you think less about your self, and more about others - you are generous and kind. Being selfless is similar to being altruistic - another word for giving to others without looking for personal gain. Among the political elites in Africa and, indeed, Nigeria such attributes are rare to come by! However, if the events that took place a few weeks ago is anything to go by, then Nigerians would be proud to know that they have in the 'kitty-bag' a new discovery of a long existing selfless personality... the kind-heart mother figure of Senator Fatimat Raji Razaki.  The joy of Mesrs Naanpen Ayuba and Tersoo Aluga knew no bounds as they narrated their ordeal while they were caught up at the Benin-Ore death trap of an express road. They were on their way t

By Tobi Soniyi The Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence handed out to a farmer and father of five, James Afolabi, by the Kogi State High Court and the Court of Appeal. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, a five-man panel of the apex court held that there was no basis to disturb the concurrent finding of the trial and lower courts in their previous judgments. Afolabi, from Kogi State, was convicted and sentenced to death by the Kogi State High Court, Lokoja in 2012 having been found guilty for the murder of a Fulani man, Abubakar Mohammed. The court relied on Afolabi’s confessional statement to the police, where he claimed to have shot Mohammed on the chest for straying into his (Afolabi’s) yam and cassava farm on February 27, 2009. The Court of Appeal, Abuja on March 22, 2012 dismissed his appeal and upheld the decision of the trial court, a decision he appealed to the Supreme Court. On Friday, Justice John Inyang Okoro, in the lead judgment in the appeal marked:

Fellow Nigerian Citizens, On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the Southern parts of this country, I, Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.  We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.  The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect.  Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated.  We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Midd

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday ambushed the convoy of the Acting General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7 Division, the Nigerian Army has said. The Army spokesperson, Sani Usman, said in a statement that “the leading elements of the Acting General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7 Division Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu’s leading convoy  was about 8.30am on Tuesday morning ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists enroute to visit troops in Bama, Borno state, north east Nigeria”. He said “although 1 soldier lost his live and 2 others were injured, they were able to clear the ambush, killing some of the terrorists and recovered vehicle and weapons from them”. READ MORE: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/202050-breaking-boko-haram-ambushes-nigeria-military-commanders-convoy.html

Reports monitored online has it that a father and son whose identities could not be ascertained at the moment were brutally killed during a recent attack on Binev in Buruku local government of Benue State by suspected Fulani Herdsmen. READ MORE: http://www.idomavoice.com/2016/04/fulani-herdsmen-butcher-father-and-son.html?m=1

#MAFO BREAKING NEWS!!!!! BENUE INDIGENES SUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT THE ECOWAS COURT TO STOP FULANI INVASION: 11 (eleven) Indigenes of Benue State co-ordinated by a group known as Movement Against Fulani Occupation (MAFO) have filed a suit at the ECOWAS Court against the Federal Government of Nigeria to protest incessant attacks on their communities by Fulani Herdsmen and failure of the Federal Government to protect them from the said attacks. The Plaintiffs are claiming that the Federal Government of Nigeria has carried out a sustained violation of their sundry Human Rights as enshrined in Articles 3 4, 6, 16, 23, 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. In the suit filed at 10:07 am on Tuesday 12th April, 2016 the Plaintiffs complained to the court that: Incessant attacks on their communities by Fulani Herdsmen have assumed increasing sophistication and clinical coordination of the group of mindless attackers in combat gears, armed with trademark AK-47 rifles and othe

Manchester City will play Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals. That means City could face incoming manager Pep Guardiola in the final, after his Bayern Munich side were drawn against Atletico Madrid in the other semi-final. Read more: http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/36054293

Fresh facts have emerged on how the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State was allegedly manipulated in favour of Governor Ayo Fayose. The embattled former State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Tope Aluko, has revealed how the rigging was perfected inside a hotel barely a week before the poll. He said sensitive materials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), such as ballot papers and result sheets, were delivered to PDP chieftains to allow for the manipulation of the poll long before the first ballot was cast. Speaking on a special interview programme on Wednesday on ADABA 88. 9 FM monitored by our reporter, Aluko claimed that the electoral materials were delivered through Akure Airport and taken to a hotel owned by Fayose’s Chief of Staff Dipo Anisulowo in Are-Ekiti, where the alleged manipulation was carried out. He said ballot papers were thumb-printed and result sheets filled by PDP members, which gave the party “undue adv