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Tragedy struck in the early hours of today, Monday, when the lawmaker representing Akure South/Akure North Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Hon Adedayo Omolafe, died suddenly in his home at Akure, Ondo state. It was gathered that the House of Representatives member, popularly called Expensive, died around 2 am on.The Advocate ....
Governor Nasir El-Rufai Governor Nasir El-Rufia of Kaduna State has established a strong link between bandits terrorising the North West and the Boko Haram insurgents operating in the North East. Governor El-Rufai, stated this on Sunday while featuring as a guest on a monitored Channels Television programme. It has been established that the kidnapping operations (by bandits) are substantially funding Boko Haram activities in the North East. Boko Haram has no way of getting any money and some of them have slipped and joined the ranks of the bandits, and together they are doing this to raise a large amount of money that are being used to fund the intensified operations of Boko Haram,” he said. ....
Views: 403 The Coordinator of the Sector 4 Command of the Joint Border Patrol Team in the North West and a Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service, Aliyu Mohammed, has said that operatives had to offer bandits seven bags of seized rice to save themselves. Then Comptroller revealed this on Tuesday when he spoke at a news conference in Katsina State. Mohammed said the bandits offered the rice were operating in Dutsinma Local Government Area of the state. He said the operatives had entered the bush where the bandits were taking shelter, adding that it was the same route that smugglers used in bringing contrabands into the country. ....