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                According to a new video circulating on the internet,Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau,who spoke out today through the video in Hausa but translated in English that ''For me the end has come.This is a message of greeting and joy for you to see my face.This is my desire:that whoever sees this will hear nothing but greetings between me and you.Only Allah knows the rest,as you believed and as you submitted.For me the end has come.This is only the message i want to send to you for you to understand that this is certainly I.This is why i did this.May Allah protecr us so that no hypocrite stands between us.May Allah protect us from the devil so that he doesn't achieve his evil among us.May Allah protect us and may we stand firm on the path of Allah.I thank my creator''.According to a military source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri told AFP that ''Watching Shekau in this video,the message is clear,the game is over.For this arrogant and boastful

                                 Duke of Cambridge Prince William met with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta today thursday and he promised to support Kenya's efforts in fighting poaching.Prince William is in Kenya to see the longstanding conservation and anti-poaching initiatives being supported by Tusk Trust according too President Uhuru's tweets,which further add that the two leaders discussed conservation,security and defence.His visit comes just before Kenya burns the world's biggest ivory stockpile.At least 120 tonnes of ivory eight times the size of any ivory ever destroyed and 1.5 tonnes of Rhino horns will be destroyed next month in Kenya.More photos below.                                                                

                     The Lagos state Police Public Relation Officer,PPRO,SP Dolapo Badmos who confirmed the arrest said the three suspects were arrested with human flesh by the Anti Robbery Squad SARS and they are undergoing interrogation following the discovery.According to her,the police arrested Ekene with the human flesh and when he was interrogated he said he was sent by one oil magnate.Police sources said Ekene was accosted by the police detective on routine checks along Bucknor area of Ejigbo with one white sack containing undiscovered content.Ekene was ordered to open the sack and he confessed that it contained human flesh.He was subsequently arrested and taken to the station where the matter was transffered to SARS.When he made a confessional statement,he told he police that he was promised N500,000 by the oil magnate who asked him to abduct a baby for him.He said out of the money he was promised,he was paid N100,000 as advance and he went and abducted a two year old baby for

               Today thursday,President Muhammadu Buhari who spoke at the National Executive Council meeting of the All Progressives Congress {APC} revealed that the government has saved over N3 trillion through its Treasury Single Account policy,while that the list of money recovered by government through the ongoing anti corruption crusade will soon be made public.The President also said it was regrettable that the nation failed to save for the rainy days when oil sold for above 100 dollars,pointing out that at the moment,about 27 states in the country are not able to pay the salaries of their workers as and when due.Buhari who expressed sadness over the violence that characterized elections in the country appealed to security agents in the country to try and give Nigerians the confidence to go out and perform their constitutional responsibility without molestation,adding that even though the leadership of INEC has been changed,he has shown that he has a lot of respect for them and t

                According to Congo's interior minister who said today thursday that Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has won a new five year term with more than 60 percent of the vote.The Interior Minister Raymond Zephyrin Mboulou said on state television early today thursday morning that oppostion leaders Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas won 15 percent support in Sundays vote,while retired general Jean-Marie Mokoko won 14 percent.In an interview with Radio France Internationale,Mokoko called for an independent commission to review the tallies from individual polling stations.Residents said Brazzaville and the economic capital Pointe Noire,an opposition stronghold,were quiet but tense on thursday as opposition supporters waited for their candidates to publish their results.Police and soldiers continued to patrol the streets,but the government today thursday lifted a blackout on internet and mobile phone use that it said was meant to prevent unofficial results circulating and causing u

                                      The Lagos state government has assured Lagosians of their safety during the Easter holidays as it is collaborating with security agencies to put in place necessary security measures that will guarantee safety of lives and properties in the state.In a statement issued yesterday wednesday by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy Mr Steve Ayorinde,the government described the safety of Lagosians as top priority during the Easter celebrations as the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode will not shirk from its function of protecting the lives and property of its citizens.Ayorinde urged residents and visitors to the state to be conscious of their environment and report promptly any unusual movement,abandoned objects,packages and strange faces in their neighbourhood to security agencies as security personnel have been put on alert throughout the state.While urging Lagosians to celebrate the Easter in moderation,the statement also advised ci