Nigeria began withdrawing some of its 1,200 troops in Mali, yesterday, and redeploy them in security operations at home, military authorities said, Tuesday.
Nigeria has been planning the withdrawal mainly due to the need for more soldiers to fight its own homegrown Islamist insurgency.
Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade said in a statement: “The troops are mainly those not accommodated in the structures of the newly formed United Nations mission in Mail. They are to join the ongoing internal security operations.”
He did not specify how many troops would be withdrawn, saying only that an “input of sizable men and materials will continue in the UN Mission,” including a Nigeria-run military hospital.
In mid-May, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency and launched an offensive against Nigerian Islamist sect, Boko Haram, in North-East Nigeria.
The insurgency remains active and has stretched Nigerian security forces.
Suspected Islamists killed 15 people in bomb blasts in the northern city of Kano, Tuesday.
Voters in Mali’s presidential election turned out in large numbers peacefully on Sunday, eager for a fresh start after a March 2012 coup allowed separatist and al Qaeda-linked rebels to seize the country last year.
Vote counting has been disputed and the result is likely to cause tensions.
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Lagos — Lagos State Government, yesterday, debunked allegation that it deported 67 indigenes of Anambra State, saying what happened was that the state government did rehabilitation and resettlement of citizens from other states.
It equally assured residents of adequate security of life and property in the wake of the recent arrest of some Boko Haram suspects in the state.
Briefing after the weekly security meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola, state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, said the state government only resettled the 67 Anambra indigenes.
According to him: “What happened was that the state government did rehabilitation and resettlement of the citizens from other states. These were those who came into the state and turned into destitute.
“After the state government realised this, it embarked on a reform mission. After that, they indicated that they would be happy to go back to their home-towns and be resettled. That was what happened. There wasn’t any deportation as claimed.”
Similarly, Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has berated critics of Lagos State Government over the controverial deportation, saying no sane government will be blackmailed into allowing homeless individuals to inflict security and environmental problems to its state just to please those that readily play lousy and retrogressive politics with issues for selfish and ulterior interests.
In a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, the party said it was irked by the decision of “some professional chance takers and political opportunists to take advantage of the recent movement of some indigent, homeless and social miscreants to Onitsha for the purpose of re-connecting with their families when they have no tangible business in Lagos.
“We expect that the opposition in Lagos and its array of frustrated politicians will certainly seek to play politics with the decision of the Lagos State government to move some people that have no tangible business staying in Lagos to their home states.
“We expected that the professional ethnic agitators who have wasted public offices in Igboland, pillaging resources that would have served the interests of the people are now cashing further from the plights of their vicious approach to governance on this issue.
“It is a shame to the opposition that it is seeking cheap political capital from the plight of the hapless victims of its free loading approach to governance and has drawn the support of ethnic irredentists whose failure on governance left the Igbo people so poor that they have become homeless refugees in Lagos and other parts of the country.”
“To put the records straight, the Lagos State government, with its commitment to the interests of Lagosians and in its effort to build a functional modern mega city, had long embarked on the decision to pick up the many derelicts, the homeless, beggars and social miscreants that inhabit all parts of Lagos, clean them up, find means of livelihood for those that are employable and send those it cannot manage to their respective states.
“We are all aware that this scheme has seen the practical reduction in the number of the beggars, street urchins and social miscreants that used to constitute real danger to life in Lagos and has seen such people moved back to various states, mainly in the North.
“We should note also that other states in the South, including South West states have received such people and the Lagos State Government has been careful to ensure that the number of people involved in such periodic movements are minimal and are only people who do not have where to stay in Lagos, who don’t have any real engagement in Lagos and who constitute nuisance to other Lagosians.”
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ABEOKUTA — A man who said his brother was one of those that lost their lives in a bomb blast, Monday, at Sabongari in Kano State, has said that he counted no fewer than 50 dead bodies in a mortuary in the city.
The witness who simply identified himself as Godwin, from Edo State claimed that his dead brother wore number 38 tag at the mortuary in Kano State with more bodies in the morgue.
He said his brother was a member of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, whom he said was mobilised from Ebonyi State where he schooled to serve in Kano State.
Godwin who spoke on phone on a live radio progamme ‘Day Break Show’ in Abeokuta, yesterday, said though normalcy had since returned to the troubled area, there was still feeling of insecurity among non-indigenes in the state capital.
He said: “As I’m speaking, I am at the mortuary to collect my brother’s corpse and he is number 38 and I can see more bodies.
“The total figure is about 50. The 12 causalities claimed by the government is not correct.
“Kano has been peaceful in the last three months, but, with this latest one, we are again living in fear. Even though we were born here, we still see ourselves as non-indigenes, which should not be. It is terrible and worrisome here.”
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The Nigeria Football Federation has asked Nigerians not to panic following the widely publicised plot by Malawian coaches to help their national football team, the Flames bring down the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the last group match of the 2014 World Cup qualifier on September 6, in Calabar.
The First Vice President of the NFF, Chief Mike Umeh described the reported meeting of Malawi national team coach, Tom Saintfiet with other coaches in Blantyre last week as “a mere propaganda,” adding that, “we have nothing to fear because we will be playing on our soil.”
He said, “What they are doing is mind games and we are up for it. Remember, we will be playing in Calabar. We have never lost a match in Calabar, so I don’t see how we will start with Malawi who held us to a draw with a late equaliser in their own home.”
Umeh dismissed as “untrue” insinuations that Saintfiet whose employment as technical director by the NFF was scuttled in the last minute was out for a vengeful mission against Nigeria.
“No. He cannot do that because he has to keep faith. Who says he cannot be employed tomorrow? Look at Keshi who is in charge of the Super Eagles today; he had been turned down before. So, Saintfiet cannot think that way. Even if he does, he is only a coach who will pass instructions. He won’t do the playing.”
Umeh assured that the Eagles will soar over the Flames because the Stephen Keshi-tutored team was superior to their Malawi counterparts. “We are African champions and will ensure we get the right result.”
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AWKA — GOVERNOR Peter Obi of Anambra State has protested to President Goodluck Jonathan, the alleged deportation of 72 persons by Lagos State government. The deporteees were dumped at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha at night last week.
Obi’s letter to the President came on the heels of a threat by Onitsha branch of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, to drag Lagos State government to court over the issue
Obi’s letter titled: “Unconstitutional, illegal and forced deportation of Nigerians to Anambra State from Lagos State” reads: “I wish to respectfully bring to your due attention a very disturbing development that has vast national security and political implications.
“Last September and again on July 24, 2013, the Lagos State Government contrived inexplicable reasons to round up Nigerians, whom they alleged were Anambra indigenes (most of whom the SSS report shows clearly are not from Anambra State) and forcefully deported them to Anambra State, dumping them as it were in the commercial city of Onitsha (see attached SSS report).
“This latest callous act, in which Lagos State did not even bother to consult with Anambra State, before deporting 72 persons considered to be of Igbo extraction to Anambra State, is illegal, unconstitutional and a blatant violation of the human rights of these individuals and of the Nigerian Constitution.
“Your Excellency, no amount of offense committed by these people, even if deemed extremely criminal, would justify or warrant such cruel action by a State authority and in a democracy.
“Even refugees are protected by the law. Furthermore, the extant provisions of the Nigerian Constitution states: ‘Every citizen of Nigeria is entitled to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part, thereof, and no citizen shall be expelled from Nigeria or refused entry thereby or exit therefrom’.
“Sir, forced deportation such as this, which Lagos State seems to be making a norm in addressing its domestic challenges are egregious and calls into question the validity of Nigeria and its federating components. Such acts violate human decency, the rule of law and constitutionally ordered liberties. Were Anambra and other states in the federation to resort to such extreme measures, there would be total anarchy.
“It would amount to complicity on the part of the states and the Federal Government, if this issue is not thoroughly investigated and some form of censure brought to bear on Lagos State. I suggest, Sir, that you direct the Attorney-General of the Federation to investigate these incidents.
“Naturally, I have the obligation to protect the interest and welfare of all Nigerians resident in Anambra State irrespective of their states of origin and I would be left with no option other than reciprocity or reprisal”.
I will, however, put any such reaction in abeyance until Your Excellency has had the opportunity to address our concerns.
“Please accept, Your Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest regards.”
Similarly, rising from a meeting in Onitsha, the NBA frowned at what it described as flagrant violation of human rights of some Nigerians by Lagos State government and warned that it could be forced to take appropriate legal action against Lagos State government if the ugly incident was not redressed.
In a communiqué, the chairman, Mr. D.C. Maduewesi and secretary, Mr. Steve Ononye, recalled that a similar incident occurred at the same Upper- Iweka in Onitsha last year in which over 100 persons of South-East origin residing in Lagos State were deported to Anambra State without any reason.
According to the association, most of the victims of the illegal deportation were innocent Nigerians who lived below poverty level and regretted that a state like Lagos that has a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) at the helm of affairs could embark on flagrant abuse of the rights of fellow Nigerians.
It wondered when it became fashionable for a state in the country to engage in internal deportation of fellow citizens without tangible reasons and called for adequate compensation from Lagos State government to alleviate the suffering already experienced by the deportees.
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JOS — It was an emotional-filled atmosphere, yesterday, as Plateau State Police Commissioner, Mr. Chris Olakpe, narrated how an eight-month-old baby was turned into a commodity, sold and re-sold by different buyers.
Parading the suspects at the state police headquarters, Olakpe said grandmother of the baby, Kate Anwacha, first allegedly sold her to Eucharia Anyeagbu for N200,000. Eucharia allegedly added her own profit margin and re-sold the baby to Rita Madubuko for N330,000.
The second buyer eventually allegedly sold the baby for N500,000 to one Grace Nnadozie from whom the baby was eventually “recovered” by the police in Awka, Anambra State.
According to the commissioner, the mother of the baby, Blessing Godspower, had lodged a complaint that her mother (Kate Anwacha) sent her on an errand and sold her baby, Chiamaka Obinna, before she returned.
He added that police detectives from ‘A’ Division, Jos recovered the baby from the last buyer in Anambra State last week.
According to the CP, the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.
Police nab housewife over hubby’s death
Also paraded were a 17-year-old housewife who allegedly murdered her 26-year-old husband and four suspects alleged to have killed a cattle boy and plucked out his eyes for ritual purposes.
The housewife, Maryam Yahaya, allegedly stabbed her husband, Lawal Bala, a butcher, on the neck while sleeping at their home in Gangare area of Jos, on July 9, killing him in the process.
He added that the wife who was arrested for questioning eventually confessed to the crime.
Man arrested with human eyes
Olakpe said one Tacha Tali was arrested with two human eyes last Friday and he later confessed that they belonged to a cattle boy at Shwar village in Kanke Local Government Area of the state who initially went missing while he took cattle for grazing.
His decomposing body was later found with the two eyes removed. Tali’s confessional statement later led to the arrest of his two accomplices and the herbalist alleged to have demanded for the eyes.
Ten other suspects were paraded for alleged robbery while 11 vehicles recovered by the police in the last one month were also on display.
Olakpe called for continuous cooperation from the public in the effort to bring criminal activities to the barest minimum in the state.
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LAFIA — Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Umaru Shehu, has confirmed the detention of two men for hijacking the N2 million given to the widow and children of an officer killed in the Alakio attack.
The money was given by the Nasarawa State Government and the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to widows and children of officers killed on May 7 attack on security agents in Alakio.
Shehu told newsmen in Lafia, yesterday, that the two brothers of one of the deceased officers from Plateau collected the money from the widow who had two daughters and gave her only N20,000.
According to Shehu, the widow reported to the police that she was subjected to all manners of humiliation and was ejected from the family house with her children.
He said the alleged ill-treatment prompted the police to invite the brothers, detain and query them over the allegations.
He said they confessed to having collected the money and allegedly spent N700,000 on the funeral rites of the deceased.
The CP said he had to invite their pastor to intervene, leading to the refund of N1.3 million, which the pastor suggested should be given to the widow and her children for their upkeep.
Shehu, however, warned that other relatives should desist from claiming monies meant for the upkeep of the children of deceased officers.
He charged people to fear God and imbibe the teachings of both religions to make the world a better place.
According to him, to ensure transparency, each widow has been directed to open an account.
He said the widows were also directed to give the account numbers as well as their mobile phone numbers to the police authority for prompt action concerning benefits.
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OSOGBO — An Osun State high court, sitting in Osogbo, yesterday, stopped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from conducting an election to fill vacant position of National Secretary of the party during the planned mini national convention of the party.
The order was consequent upon a suit filed by the ousted National Secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
Justice Oyejide Falola, in an exparte motion filed by Prince Oyinlola, granted the three prayers in the motion after listening to the argument of counsel to the applicant, Realwan Okpanachi.
Prince Oyinlola had dragged Osun State PDP chairman, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa and PDP national leadership before the court, concerning the plan of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party to hold a mini national convention during which some of the vacant positions in the NWC, including that of national secretary, which was last held by Oyinlola in substantive capacity, will be filled.
Also joined in the suit is the chairman of the PDP Mini National Convention Committee, Professor Jerry Gana.
While addressing the court, counsel to the plaintiff, Realwan Okpanachi, said his client, whose election as PDP national secretary was nullified by the declaratory judgment of Justice Abdul Kafarati of an Abuja High Court on January 13, this year, has a pending appeal before Court of Appeal, Abuja, due for hearing in September.
He prayed the court to favourably consider and grant the motion before it, owing to the urgent nature of the issue involved.
In his ruling, Justice Falola ruled that the second and third respondents, Professor Gana and PDP national leadership be served copies of the motion outside the jurisdiction of the court.
He added that, upon the receipt of the motion, the respondents should maintain status quo till 26 July, the day the action was instituted before the court.
He also ordered that, should the PDP hold its mini convention, election must not be conducted to fill vacant position of national secretary in the NWC of the party pending the determination of the motion on notice.
He then adjourned the matter till Monday, August 19.
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National leader of the new party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said APC would set Nigeria on an irreversible cause of change.
His words: “Once again, history is made in our country and before our very eyes.
The confirmation of the registration of the All Progressives Congress, APC, by INEC signals the commencement of a new phase in the struggle to bring true democratic change to Nigeria.
This is not just a merger. This is the first ever merger in the history of Nigeria and represents a paradigm shift in the politics of our country.
“Together we must own it. As Nigerians we see history unfold before our very eyes and we must rise up to answer the call of history to liberate our people. I congratulate all our governors, all our members from the North-East, North West, South-South, South- East, South-West and the North Central and all would-be members and well wishers of our great party, APC.”
He further said: “Today, I can say that Nigeria’s democratic journey has started on a new course and we must pursue this course religiously and rigorously. Our commitment to achieving One Man, One Vote remains resolute.
‘”We therefore must demand from INEC the full adoption of the biometric system. Prof. Jega and the Institution he leads will not achieve much and their efforts at free and fair elections will not be fruitful until they adopt a modern technologically driven biometric system that will ensure the integrity of our elections and earn the confidence of Nigeria.
“If this is done, we can then say our democracy has advanced several miles forward to join other civilized democracies in Africa. Good job, Jega and INEC. You deserve an administrative pat on the back. The real kudos will come when you work to midwife a virile democracy.
“We worked hard to ensure that our party was in good stead and in good standing with the law. Selfish interest and ego were shelved. Personal sacrifices were made particularly by those who hitherto occupied higher positions in the merging parties in the interest of moving Nigeria forward.”
Nigerians hail move
It’s a breakthrough for Nigerians-Osoba Former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba said the registration would lead to a breakthrough in the country. “I want to congratulate Nigerians because this is a major breakthrough for their redemption.
With this registration, it is going to reduce political tension in the country because Nigerians have been yearning for an alternative to government. This time, APC is coming to lead the final redemption and survival of democracy in Nigeria.”
The battle to beat PDP has started — Moghalu A chieftain of the APC and former National Secretary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Mr. George Moghalu, described the registration as a welcome development for the country.
“I must say today is a happy day for our party. We are very excited about this development and it is a confirmation that opposition now has a strong platform to express itself.
This registration signifies the beginning of mobilization across the country towards our party’s clamour to wrest power from the PDP,” he said.
APC ‘ll have problems—Babatope However, former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a stalwart of the PDP said though the registration of APC was a welcome development, the party would run into troubled waters in due course.
His words: “The APC is a welcome addition to the list of political parties in Nigeria. I am afraid, however, that the APC will not achieve any meaningful result in its operation as a political party because the party is made up of strange bed fellows.
I am sure that the internal contradictions that will come up within the party, will eventually lead to the destruction of the party. It is not easy to run a political party.
To merge diverse interests into one sudden political group is, organizationally, a problem.
They may not realise it, but they will realise it later because the words of the elders are the words of wisdom.
The PDP is never afraid of the APC, if anything at all, the registration of APC will throw the PDP the greater challenge of ensuring that it retains the goodwill of Nigerians.”
It’s a healthy development for the polity — Kaita Also, former Governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, commended APC leaders for achieving the feat. “That is a very good development. I congratulate the APC leaders for achieving that feat. It is a healthy development for the polity.”
It’ll create a viable opposition —Kokori Former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Chief Frank Kokori said: “I am happy about it because the small parties we had before now were inconsequential.
This development will create a viable opposition and it will also present a credible opposition to the ruling party. Without a viable opposition the political culture will not develop properly. With APC we are set to experience the type of party politics we had during the SDP and NRC days.
It is obtainable in civilised democracies. This is one of the greatest things I have seen. With the coming of APC there will be internal democracy and that will in turn create full democracy in PDP.”
APC is welcome — Ezeife Former Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife said: “I congratulate the members of APC. The argument that it will take the nation back to the days of NRC and SDP does not stand, because those parties were based on ideologies, which was a little to the left and a little to the right.”
Ribadu calls for renewed commitment A chieftain of the newly registered party and 2011 Presidential Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, expressed joy over the emergence of the mega opposition party.
Ribadu, in a statement by his Media Aide, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, in Abuja, congratulated key players of the merged parties “for shoving their personal interests in order to allow for mutation of a pan-Nigerian party that can provide credible alternative to the ruling party”. He charged members of the party to strive harder for the ultimate goal of dislodging the ruling PDP.
He called on Nigerians to resist manipulations of the electoral process either through whipping up religious or sectional sentiments or by the use of money, maintaining that 2015 elections would be a major litmus test for the opposition and all progressive Nigerians.
Osun APC greets Nigerian progressives
From Osun State the APC (formerly ACN) congratulated Nigerian progressives family for the final registration of the new party “in spite of spirited efforts by those in power and influence in Abuja to prevent it.”
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Authorities of Gaskiya Senior College, Badia area of Lagos are presently at the centre of a growing tension that could snowball into a major crisis following expulsion of a female student and suspension of six others for allegedly holding prayer meeting after school hours.
The students, who are members of the Christian Students Union in the school, were also allegedly branded as cultists by the principal of the school, identified as Mrs. Shobowale, an accusation the students and their parents denied, saying they were being persecuted for their faith.
It was gathered that 12 students of the fellowship were holding their prayer meetings on Tuesday, April 2 around 3.30 pm, when the principal of the school directed the security guard to tell them to leave the premises once it was around few minutes to 5.00pm.
The Christian students said they pleaded with the gate man to give them one minute to say the closing prayer, but the security man, who apparently did not understand the message, reported back to the principal that the students refused to vacate the school premises.
One of the students, Jennifer Emmanuel while praying, was said to have mistakenly hit the principal when the school head stormed the venue of the prayer meeting.
It was alleged that the principal had on April 3, 2013, during the morning assembly paraded the 12 students before the school as cultists. The students were first placed on seven days suspension, while those of them who were prefects were allegedly deposed.
Consequent upon this, parents of the affected students were said to have begged the principal to stay action on their wards, a plea that fell on deaf ears as the matter was reported at the Education District IV, with the students accused of being cultists. A letter, with the heading: “Re-emergence of Cultism in the School” was also sent to the District.
On May 7, the principal of the school placed six of the students, all in SS 2, on indefinite suspension. They have not been recalled as at the time of filing this report, while Jennifer remained expelled from the school. The names of the affected students were given as John Otega, Michael Change, Valentina Okoye, Valentine Okoye, Faith Okolie, Chidinma Chidozie and Jennifer Emmanel, all SS2.
Parents of five other students in SS 3, were forced to report to school whenever their wards were writing any paper in the West African Examination Council, WAEC, as the school authorities said they had to be monitored because of the supposed emergence of cultism in the school said to have been occasioned by the students.Also, in the letter of expulsion issued to the parents of Jennifer, the principal alleged being slapped by the girl, adding that the security personnel also got the same treatment.
The letter of expulsion dated May 7, 2013 reads: “This is to communicate to you the decision of the Ministry of Education that your ward, Jennifer Emmanuel, is thereby dismissed from the school with immediate effect.
“The dismissal is consequent upon her grievous offence of slapping both the security personnel and the principal of the school on 2nd April, 2013. By this decision, your ward henceforth ceases to be a student of this school.”
Moreso, in the letter of suspension of six other students dated May 10, 2013, the principal said it was consequent upon their disobedience to school authorities by holding a prayer meeting on April 2, 2013.
The affected students denied the principal’s claim that the expelled student, Jennifer slapped her and the security personnel said such a thing never occurred. They demanded for justice to be done.
Parents of the suspended students, Mrs Goodness Chidozie, Mrs Beauty John, Mrs Felicia Okolie, Mrs Jacita Change, Mrs Tina Emmanuel and Mrs Chinweogo Okoye, in a letter accused the principal of persecuting their children who “as committed Christians could never be involved in cultism”. They called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to investigate the matter.
“Our students are still at home doing nothing.What have these Christian students done to deserve this painful humiliation,” they queried. The aggrieved parents want the state government to invite all concerned parties in the matter to get to the root of the matter.
When Vanguard Metro,VM, visited the school, the principal was said to be out of the premises. But contacted later she had this to say: “I can’t comment on the issue because it is already before Education District 5. And more so, I am a civil servant”.
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