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                    President Buhari gave the assurance today at a joint press conference with President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana,he said ''After i was sworn in,i said i will have my cabinet in September.I expect that Nigerians should ask me questions after the 30th of September if i do not do so.The first thing i did after i came into office was to reorganized the military and clear orders were given to them in terms of retraining,re-equipping and redeployment of troops.In the northeast,the military is gaining ground and Boko Haram has been limited to the Sambisa forest.Internally Displaced Persons are gradually moving back home and they are being reintegrated into their respective communities''.President Mahama said that Nigeria and Ghana will soon begin the process of reviving their joint commission for cooperation between the intelligence and anti-graft agencies of both countries.The Ghana President also thanked Buhari for his visit and he told him that his coun

              100 Togolese asylum seekers in Nigeria,were on saturday deported back to their country by Nigerian authorities.The group of Togolese came to Nigeria in July after Benin,which had hosted them for nearly a decade,stripped them off refugee status.One of the refugees identified as Sogbo Maonou,who was among those deported,said that Nigerian soldiers in Lagos loaded them onto buses on saturday that drove them to Togo through Benin.Brigitte Eno,deputy representative for the  U.N Refugee agency in Nigeria,said the group should have been counselled before being repatriated.''They were supposed to be informed individually and counselled but immigration did it their own way.We were not even aware of the fact they were being put on buses''.Michael Akindele,general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said due process was followed,they were all interviewed but their requests for asylum were rejected.Many of the Togolese asylum seekers claim they face

                   Remember yesterday,i reported that a medical plane that was carrying seven people disappeared off Senegal coast.So today,it was reported by the Senegal aviation authority who said that the medical plane appears to have collided with a much larger Boering plane shortly before vanishing from the radar screens.The private Senegal air plane was carrying a French patient as well as a doctor,two nurses and three crew members from Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou to Senegal's Dakar on saturday night.But it overshot the coastal capital by more than 100km {60 miles} and then vanished above the Atlantic Ocean.The search rescue efforts continues today monday.

                  Today monday,some midwives in Lagos state stormed the Lagos state Governor's office and the Lagos State House of Assembly to protest the refusal of the Lagos State Government to pay them their 20 months salary arrears.Armed with placards,the midwives under the aegis of Midwives Services Scheme,MSS,expressed their displeasure over the non payment of their entitlements since January 2013 to date.Some of the placards carried by the women reads ''Reduced Maternal and Child Mortaliry,midwife is the answer,pay us our allowances'',''MSS midwives demanded payment of salaries,Jan-December 2013 and Jan-December 2015'',Governor Ambode,Pay MSS allowances'',''MSS midwives,no pay,no work,Gov.Ambode please pay our salaries''.Mrs Beatrice Iioegbunam,spokesperson for the protesters stated that they were employed by the federal government in 2010 to work under the Millennium Development Goals,MDGs to help to reduce maternal an

                30 women were today monday in Ikeja Magistrate court sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution.Those sentenced are Funmi Olayemi,Damilola Ibrahim,Blessing Emmanuel,Grace Nwaokoro,Anu Titus,Princess Osu,Cynthian Ozumba,Chindima Eke,Blessing Winwah,Rebecca James,Gift James,Bukola Taiwo,Patience Amos,Oyinda Adesewa,Funmilayo Ajayi,Modinat Bello,Damilola Abiodun,Saki Godwin.Glory Edet,Blessing Okafor,Tope Obatula,Shade Afolabi,Foluke Kolawole,Tosin Ajayi,Bisi Onanuga,Princess Isaac,Ester Akpan,Cythia Osas,Joy Osas and Patricia whose surname is unknown.The accused were being tried for prostitution and breach of peace.The Magistrate Mrs O. Odusanya sentenced the accused to six weeks each with an option of N10,000.The accused during their arraignment today monday pleaded guilty to the offence,attributing it to the handiwork of the devil.The accused,whose ages and residential addresses were not given,were arrested at Obalenda area of Lagos at 2 am.The prosecutor,Insp

                                                                    President of Nigeria Muhammad Buhari is expected to travel to Accra,Ghana today monday to discuss regional security with his counterpart,President John Dramani Mahama.The Nigerian president's office has issued a statement confirming this.During the one day official visit,Buhari will also discuss trade relations with Ghana.As part of his efforts to build a concerted regional effort against the Islamist extremists of Boko Haram,Buhari has already visited neighbouring Cameroon,Chad,Niger and Benin.