Use your children as thugs, Edo youths tell politicians

AHEAD of the 2015 general elections in Edo State, thousands of youths in the state, yesterday, held a procession round major roads in Benin, saying politicians should use their children as thugs, warning that they would resist attempts by politicians in the state to engage youths as thugs.

The youths, who declared this on the occasion of the 2014 International Youth Day, called on the state government to set up a panel of inquiry to investigate the alleged murder of Mr. Daniel Aifegha, who was allegedly killed for political reasons in Owan West Local Government Area of the state last month.

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Five suspected Boko Haram members docked over kidnapping in Kogi

Five suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were yesterday arraigned before a Lokoja chief magistrate’s court 1 over alleged involvement in the kidnap of children of the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal.

The suspects, Ibrahim Garba, Usman Musa, Husseini Ovaku, Husseini Umar and Ogah Sunday, were charged with criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, membership of an unlawful organisation and kidnapping contrary to Sections 97(1), 289(c) and 100 of the Penal Code Law and 3(3) and 7 of the Kogi State Kidnapping, Thuggery and other related Offences (Prohibition) Law, 2010.

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I owe no one any apology says Minister who cleared Patrick Sawyer to travel

►LIBERIA’s deputy finance minister, Sebastian Omar, who cleared Patrick Sawyer to travel, yesterday, defended himself against charges of incompetence for clearing Sawyer to travel to Nigeria for a conference. In the conversation on Facebook tracked by online publication, Premium Times, Omar stood his ground, and revealed that Sawyer was his friend.

►Asked whether Omar saw Sawyer’s blood test results or whether he simply told him it was negative, the minister said, “As his superior, if a man tells you his sister died from Ebola and he could have been exposed do you not think it is your duty to ask the hard questions or maybe you could have reported this to the health officials? Stop making silly excuses as to not being his doctors.

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30 Nigerian Soldiers,50 Boko Haram Terrorists Killed in Pilka, Gwoza in one week

No fewer than 50 Boko Haram members and over 30 soldiers were feared killed in an encounter around Pilka, Kirawa and Gwoza communities of Borno State in the last one week, reliable security source has confirmed.

It will be recalled that following the military take-over of Damboa Council Headquarters which was captured by terrorists, suspected Boko Haram gunmen in their hundreds escaped from Damboa and Sambisa Forest where they

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Ebola nurse flees Lagos for Enugu

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►One of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who escaped quarantine on suspicion of having the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos, has been tracked to Enugu.

►The suspect, identified as a nurse, said to have travelled to her home town to visit her family, is now under surveillance with 20 others she came into contact with in the city.

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