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A chieftain of Arewa Consultative Forum and delegate in the ongoing National Conference, AVM Mukhtar Mohammed (rtd) has said the Boko Haram insurgency and other insecurity bedeviling the nation were created by those desperate to hold on to political power in the country at all cost. He stated this during a conference of the Arewa Research & Development Project held in Kaduna on Thursday. According to Mohammed, the Boko Haram problem lingered so long because those who are at the helms of affairs lacked political will to tackle and arrest the problem at inception and it has turn to “a monster which will consume even the creators themselves if care is not taken.” He also added it was time for the North to think upright and go back to the region they received from their founding fathers in order to salvage it from numerous problems of insecurity and poverty.

Nemesis has caught up with a man who has been impersonating lawyers in Akure after he was arrested by members of the Nigerian Bar Association in the city. The man – identified as Olaoluwa Joseph was arrested on Monday while appearing as a lawyer before Chief Magistrate Olarenwaju Adesanmi in Akure. The suspect reportedly dressed in a lawyer’s suit and sat at the bar before he was apprehended after signing lawyers’ attendance register for the day. A lawyer in the court, Mr. Olomoniyo Oluwabunmi, alerted the presiding magistrate that Joseph who sat at the bar and had been appearing before the court was not a lawyer.

A 19- year-old boy identified as Osagiator Ighodaro has been arrested by the police in Edo State for allegedly making love to a dog inside an uncompleted building. The bestial act happened at Iguosa community in Ovia North East local government area of the state. Osagiator was caught after a neighbour suspected the manner he carried the dog and followed him to the uncompleted building. The suspect who lived at No 13 Midwest Lane, off New Lagos road, Benin City, said he often visits Iguosa community to look for menial jobs. He said the dog followed him as he walked along the street in the community and he took the dog to an uncompleted building where he had canal knowledge of the animal. He said, “As I was walking along the street I saw a dog following me and I carry it like a baby and there after I decided to take it to an uncompleted building where I did what I did to it. It was there that one man came into the building and arrested me. I did not know what came ove...

An ECOWAS official has died from Ebola in Nigeria, the West African regional bloc said on Tuesday, taking the total number of deaths in the country from the virus to three. “The ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission announces with deep regret the passing of a staff member of its Lagos Liaison Office, Mr Jatto Asihu Abdulqudir, aged 36,” it said in a statement. “Mr Abdulqudir, a protocol assistant, was among those who assisted the Liberian delegate to a regional meeting Mr Patrick Sawyer, who died from the Ebola Virus Disease at a Lagos hospital on 25th July 2014.” The official had been quarantined since Sawyer was confirmed as having Ebola, which has killed more than 1,000 people since the start of the year, most of them in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. “The Commission wishes to use this opportunity to express its gratitude to Nigerian government authorities and others who contributed to managing the late official while under quarantine,” ...

A 29 -year old- man has been arrested by the Anambra State police command for killing and roasting his mother in Ndikpa Awuka, a community in Orumba South local government area of the state. The suspect, Ekene Ucheagwu, killed 65- year- old Agnes Ucheagwu in May, accusing her of using witchcraft to prevent the family’s progress. The police  spokesman in the state, Uche Ezeh, a deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), told reporters at the office of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SAR) in Awkuzu that the suspect would face the full wrath of the law. He said the suspect committed the crime after he was released at Umuchukwu police station for beating the woman mercilessly. In his confession on Tuesday, Ucheagwu admitted that he killed his mother, alleging that the woman prevented the progress of her children and indeed that of the family. According to him, his elder brother, aged 45, is still unmarried because of their “mother’s witchcraft and curses on the children.”...

Man believed to be training female bombers was arrested yesterday in Kano. Also arrested with Ibrahim Ibrahim, were the 16 girls who security agents said were being trained as would-be bombers. Sources in Kano said the teenage girls were arrested when security men swooped on the place were they were being trained following a tip-off. Joint Task Force (JTF) officers carried out the raid. Ibrahim  is believed to be  of would-be suicide bombers. Last month, a 10-year -old girl was arrested along with a man – both wired up and on a suicide bombing mission -  in Funtua, Katsina State. There have been a series of female suicide bombings in the North in recent times. Most of the young girls are usually dressed in  hijab , under which they carry the lethal objects which they detonate at designated places. Many people have been killed in Kano, Kaduna and in Borno states by female suicide bombers. JTF spokesman Capt. Ikechukwu Eze confirmed the arrest,...

Another Lagos nurse has been tested positive to Ebola Virus Disease  22 days after the first case of the virus was recorded. The newly wedded nurse was among the people that had direct contact with the late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer. According to the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, the nurse  husband is among the 177 people placed under surveillance. He said nine people have so far developed EVD, thus bringing the total number of cases in Nigeria to 10.  Two of these two have died – that is the Liberian and the nurse while eight are alive and currently on treatment.

The Primate of the Church Of Nigeria Anglican Communion the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh on Sunday suspended shaking of hands during communion. He also said the church would from September roll out measures to its faithful as pre-conditional measures to ward off the rampaging Ebola virus. According to a statement, the Primate said the church , before September, would start to “implement some measures in the conduct of its Holy Communion service.” The statement said: “He therefore announced the suspension of the shaking of hands during exchange of the peace, and also the age – long mouth method of administering communion. “Primate Okoh while delivering a sermon at the Cathedral Church of The Advent Life Camp Abuja said communicants would from yesterday dip bread in the wine and into their mouths. This is aimed at preventing the spread of the disease- if it exists- through physical contact. “Communicants adhered strictly to this instruction while receiving the communion in the church yeste...