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Nigerian Police Arrest, Detain Sheep For ‘Stealing’ In Borno The Borno State Police Command in Maiduguri has arrested and detained a lone sheep and her two lambs following a complaint that it ate a heap of fried fish displayed for sale. The incident occurred at Bulabulin Ward in the Maiduguri Metropolitan Council on Saturday. The sheep and her lambs were said to still be detained as at Sunday morning. The arrest was made following a complaint lodged at the Bulabulin Divisional Police headquarters by one Yusuf Ibrahim who sells fish along a busy road in the neighbourhood. According to Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst, Ibrahim complained that the sheep had been 'terrorising' him for years.  He said he had endured the intrusion and criminal behaviour of the animal for five years, but that its action on Saturday caused him huge losses. Ibrahim further remarked that the sheep had formed the habit of coming around his shop and patiently keeping watch ...

TANZANIA 🇹🇿 Tanzanian🇹🇿 airplane crash-lands into Lake Victoria! The Precision Air plane flying from Dar es Salaam to Bukoba with about 49 passengers is reported to have crash-landed into the lake due to poor weather conditions witnessed in the region. The passenger aircraft had left Dar es Salaam two hours earlier and was descending at Bukoba Airport when it crash-landed. Preliminary reports blame the accident on bad weather as the region has been experiencing heavy rains leading to fog Rescue operations are underway. More details later and more photos below.

Oyo State Transport Union Member Electrocuted While Destroying Campaign Billboard Of Accord Party Gov Candidate In Oyo A middle-aged man whose name has not been revealed has been electrocuted while destroying a campaign billboard of Adebayo Adelabu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Adelabu is the governorship candidate of the Accord Party in Oyo State. It was gathered that the victim, identified as a member of the Park Management System (PMS), had climbed a pole at the Challenge area in Ibadan on Friday without knowing that the billboard was connected to a live wire close to it. While the victim was fighting for his life, his colleagues fled the scene of the incident before the arrival of police officers. A video of the incident which has gone viral, showed the victim lying on the ground while passersby watched his lifeless body.  

More Than 1700 Residents Kidnapped By Bandits In Six Months – Kaduna State Government The Kaduna State government has said 1,789 citizens were kidnapped by bandits in six months. The government said 161 bandits were killed in various encounters with security agencies within the same period. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Homes Affairs in the state, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this while presenting the second and third security situation reports for 2022 to the state government on Friday. Aruwan further said 59 bandits were neutralised by security agents at different locations in the second quarter. He said those killed due to banditry, communal clashes and reprisals in this quarter were 285. In the third quarter, which he said was from July 1 to September 2022, 804 residents were kidnapped, with 508 of the number recorded in the Kaduna Central senatorial district. Cattle rustled within the period were 1,133 while 109 bandits were neutralised during engagements with ground forc...

Spanish Ambassador Seeks  Better Synergy With Nigeria Customs Service  The Nigeria Customs Service recently played host to Juan Ignacio Sell Sanz, the Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria at the Customs Headquarters,  Abuja. Juan Ignacio applauded the recently concluded training on the Revised Arusha Declaration held in Nigeria.  He also appreciated the World Customs Organisation initiative for including a resource person from the Spanish Customs Authority.  The CGC Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) appreciated the visit and also extended gratitude for the resource person's effort in instilling knowledge to the Officers and Men of the Nigeria Customs Service. The Ambassador was presented with a souvenir to cement his visit to the Nigeria Customs Service,  "This will be the start of a mutually beneficial relationship." The CGC reiterated. More photos below. 

Ghost workers: Zulum asks committee to review identity of 624 teachers  Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has ordered a review of Primary School teachers' verification exercise conducted in December 2020, which found 7,794 ghost teachers among 22,556 ghost workers across the 27 LGAs of the State.  Zulum had set up a Primary School Teachers Verification Committee, chaired by Dr. Shettima Kullima, former Chairman of Borno State Universal Basic Education Board.  The Committee evaluated 26,450 teachers on the Government’s payroll of which 7,794 were identified as ghost workers.  The Nigerian Union Teachers (NUT) in Borno State however complained that of the 7,794 ghost workers, about 624 teachers were believed to have been wrongly included in the ghost workers’ list.  Governor Zulum in response, set up a review Committee which he inaugurated today (Friday) in Maiduguri. The Governor, during the inauguration, gave four terms of reference asking the Committee...

PHOTO: In London, President Buhari receives Morocco's Ambassador to the UK President Muhammadu Buhari receives Morocco's Ambassador to the UK, Hakim Hajoui, who came to deliver a personal message from His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco. With them is Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Sarafa Tunji Isola. London, Sunday, November 6, 2022. One more photo below. 

 During the flight bringing him back from Bahrain, Pope Francis speaks about Ukraine and the world's many conflicts. He talks about his friendship with the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, of the importance of ensuring rights and equality for women, on migration issues and against child abuse. To German Catholics he says: "Germany already has one great Evangelical Church, I wouldn't want to see another one." From the Papal flight Please find below the working transcript of Pope Francis' conversation with journalists on the flight back from Bahrain. Fatima Al Najem Bahrain News Agency: I would like to tell you something before I address my question to you. You have a very special place in my heart, not only because you visited my country but because you were elected Pope on my birthday. I have a question: how do you evaluate the results of your historic visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain and how do you evaluate the efforts Bahrain is making in consolidating and promoting commu...

Aguleri Community Celebrates World Eri Festival 2022. Sons and daughters of Aguleri, Anambra East Council Area led by Eze Chukwuemeka Eri of Enugwu Aguleri today set down to Odene River- Agbanabo Ezu na Omabal  for prayers and cleansing of all the Igbo extractions. The journey is to commemorate the entrance of their progenitor, Eri, whom they  believe had stopped at the confluence thousands of years ago before his sojourn in the upland, Aguleri community where the races of other igbo tribes and beyond began.  The commemoration is called "Olili Obibia Eri".  During the ceremony, Eze Eri engaged in deep prayers, seeking God's face for the upcoming year and thanked him for the passing year.  He also watched his subjects with water and also bless others that they can take home for other spiritual purposes. After the cleansing at Agbanabo Ezu na Omabala, they all converged at Obu Gad palace, and continued with another series of prayers, followed by kola nut rituals a...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will on Monday, November 7, set in motion the legal fireworks for the 2023 election with the inauguration of over 300 members of the election petition tribunal. The spokesperson for the Supreme Court, Dr. Festus Akande, said this in the invitation sent to journalists in Abuja on Saturday. According to him, the event has been scheduled for Andrews Obaseki Auditorium at the National Judicial Institute in Abuja. He also explained to our correspondent why the inauguration would be coming so early. Akande said, “If there’s delay in swearing them in, you will ask why the delay, but it’s done early now, you are asking questions again. What will one do to please the world? I believe you have not forgotten that they will undergo induction for sometime before they commence sitting. “Elections are taking place in February 2023; we are in November already. Do you want them to be inaugurated in February next year, being the same month of ele...

Don't Endorse Tinubu, Igbo Youths Warn Ohanaeze Ndigbo Ahead of the scheduled visit of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ,Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Imo and Anambra states, Igbo youths under the aegis of the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has warned Ohanaeze Ndigbo not to contemplate endorsing his candidature. A statement by the President General, Goodluck Ibem expressed concern that Tinubu never bothered visiting the South east during his party’s Presidential primaries campaign as well as visiting the flood victims in the zone. According to the statement “Tinubu has never hidden his disdain for the people of South east and now that the elections are here, he suddenly needs their support and endorsement. “Prior to the APC presidential primaries, Senator Bola Tinubu visited all the geopolitical zones in Nigeria to canvass for votes from APC delegates but he never visited any South east states to campaign during their party’s primaries. “Why ...

CP Durosinmi warns residents against defacing/destroying billboards/posters   ....or get ready to face the music, CP tells political saboteurs. The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Police Command, CP Olatoye Durosinmi is dismayed and miffed at the attitude of some Political Stakeholders, especially as it pertains to the 2023 general elections campaigns. Some unscrupulous Persons have left the acceptable norms of politics and are now involved in campaigns of calumny, destruction and defacing of opponents Billboards and Posters. This is not a true reflection of what acceptable democratic tenets stands for. The trend the CP notes, cannot be allowed to become a new normal. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commissioner of Police has set up a special monitoring Team, saddled with the responsibilities of identifying, arresting and prosecuting those behind these undemocratic acts. The CP has however assured all Political Parties and Stakeholders of a level playing ground and has...

2 Pakistani businessmen, blind Nigerien, son arrested for cocaine, skunk trafficking . 2 wanted drug kingpins nabbed as NDLEA recovers 788,400 opioid pills, 2,685.5kg others Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested two Pakistani businessmen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a public address system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahole, Pakistan via Doha. The two suspects: Asif Muhammed, 45 and Hussain Naveed, 57, who hold Nigerian residence permits suspected to be fake are frequent travelers to Nigeria under the guise of doing textile business. They were arrested on Saturday 5th November at the Lagos airport barely a week after they came to Nigeria, that is, Sunday 30th October. Operatives at the SAHCO import shed of the airport on Friday 4th November seized 13 cartons of Tramadol 225mg and 200mg imported from Karachi, Pakistan. The consignment has a total weight o...