Boko Haram Agrees To Release 219 Chibok Girls in Swap Deal

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TheNation reports that the two parties have asked their representatives to go back to their leaders on the new swap deal proposal.

Prior to the latest agreement at the talks in Abuja, which was witnessed by some officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Boko Haram had insisted on a piecemeal release 
of the girls, with priority given to 30 married Christians among them. The Federal Government also offered to release six of the 18 sect leaders in detention.
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Photo: Police hunt man who killed siblings, hacked two in Edo state

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The Edo State police command has launched a manhunt for 50 year old Mike Okeze, for allegedly hacking two children to death and viciously attacking two others.

According to a report by Punch, Okeze stormed the home of his neighbour, Oliver Udeh, last Wednesday September 17th in Okha II community, off Old Sapele Road in the Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State, and attacked his children with a machete. He killed Udeh's two children, Destiny (3years) and Samson (6years). He then attacked two other children, Goodness (4years - pictured left) and Gift (8years - pictured right). He severed Goodness' arm and tore the nose of Gift. 
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Graphic pics: Mayhem in Lagos Island as popular Politician is killed by Suspected Political thug.

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Political campaigns have begun and the 1st casualty has been recorded in the centre of Lagos politics, the Lagos Island. A favorite local politician named Azeez Ashake was shot dead at close range before his house at Isale Eko on Saturday September 20th by suspected political thugs.

His son, Usman was also shot but is believed to be alive receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos Island. Azeez Ashake is considered a powerful leader of a specific political group in Lagos Island, and is considered very influential. His killing caused lots of chaos in Isale Eko on the weekend, where this has been reported that four folks have up till now been killed in retaliation for his death. Warning *Graphic pic once you continue*

GEJ yet to decide whether he will rerun with VP Sambo- PDP

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The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, says President Jonathan will be the one to determine if he would still like to run with his Vice, Namadi Sambo in the 2015 general elections.

Metuh said this at a press conference yesterday September 21st in Abuja. He also said that President Jonathan is yet to respond to the decision the party members took on Thursday September 18th where he was adopted as the sole Presidential candidate of the PDP
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Cameroon military now claiming they killed BH leader Shekau, shares pic

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The Cameroon military yesterday announced they've killed Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a statement released on the website. The statement was written in French (a language I don't understand...so I obtained the report from Cameroon Concord.View it below...

In a rare public show by the Cameroon army, photos of the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau were made public alongside a statement claiming he was killed during a cross border raid deep inside Nigeria by the Cameroon military. A Cameroon military source who spoke to Cameroon Concord late last night, revealed that Abubakar Shekau was killed following an aerial bombardment of his hideout inside Nigeria. The Cameroon army has ever since yesterday been in serious combat against thousands of Boko Haram fighters trying to enter Cameroon via Fotokol from Gambaral Ngala in Nigeria.

Is that the same man though?

See more tweets bellow.

Doyin Okupe reveals why Dr Adadevoh's name was not included in the 2014 national honors list

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 You can find many persons who believe that late Dr Stella Adadevoh who died from the Ebola virus, must certanly be posthumously identified by the federal government as her singular act of stopping Sawyer from living the First Consultant Hospital saved many Nigerians from contracting the disease. However when this year's National Honors list was published the other day Thursday, her name wasn't included.

SSA to President Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe explained why in a tweet... See his tweet after the break.

SitRep 14 Sep - 20 Sep: Transcarpathia & Transnistria

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by "Y"

Transcarpathia

ATO 
More than one hundred Zakarpattya Border Guards were sent to front in the east. Groups photographs taken at the leaving parade show the extremes the Ukrainians have resorted to. The members are not of prime military age, are generally older adults. Their physique is very variable, including a significant proportion of extremes. The recruits are reported to have been given 2 weeks training. 

Four prisoners of war were returned to Transcarpathia as a result of the cease fire. These were members of the 51st Mechanized Brigade and were in good physical shape. They were captured near Ilovaisk on 24 August. A further two are due to be repatriated in the near future. 
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Western Sanctions to Boost Russian Industry Development: Kremlin Administration Head

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Western sanctions could spur the development of Russian industry and the cooperation of Moscow with other nations, the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov said in an interview published Sunday.


"In the defense [industry], and in other industries, the imposed sanctions could be a powerful incentive for our industries to take more active part in their own development, as well as in cooperation with the countries, which have not previously seen this cooperation," Ivanov said in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.
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Poroshenko Underlines Importance of Minsk Memorandum: Reports

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In an interview with the country's TV channels, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko underlined the importance of the Minsk Memorandum, aimed to restore peace in eastern Ukraine, Poroshenko's website reported Sunday.


"We can win only by peace," Poroshenko said.
Poroshenko reminded that the memorandum, achieved in Minsk on September 19, establishes the procedures for ending the armed conflict.
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Russia Makes Proposals During Talks Between P5+1 Group And Tehran, Hopes for Cooperation

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– Russia has made a number of proposals during the talks between the P5+1 group of mediators and Tehran and hopes for collective work in this direction, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti Sunday.
"We have proposed a number of additional ideas. We hope they will be perceived as an impetus for collective work," Ryabkov said.
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Ukraine’s Parliament Speaker to Keep Lawmakers Who Visited Moscow Away From Work

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Speaker of the Ukraine's parliament Oleksandr Turchynov will draft a resolution to keep the lawmakers, who visited Russian parliament session in Moscow, away from work. More than 20 lawmakers of the Ukrainian parliament's group "For Peace and Stability" have recently visited Moscow to attend the session of the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament. "We do not have much time left to work, but I will do everything possible to keep them away from the chamber [of parliament]," Turchynov told Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel. "For Peace and Stability" was formed in July and includes 32 lawmakers.

Ukraine SITREP September 20, 23:34 UTC/Zulu: War or Peace?

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[Quick note: I want to begin this SITREP with a correction to something which I mentioned in the last SITREP abouy General Bezler: even though his signature did appear to figure on the infamous statement of the four commanders declaring their loyalty to "General" Korsun, the information that he had been arrested is, according to sources qualified as "solid" by Colonel Cassad, not true. 

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3 Afghan Officers Go Missing in US Shopping Mall: Reports

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Three military officers from Afghanistan have gone missing in the United States, ABC TV network has reported. The officers came to the United States on September 11 to take part in joint military exercise at Cape Code military base in Massachusetts and were last seen at the Cape Cod Shopping Mall late on Saturday. The TV channel cited a US Central Command official as saying that the men do not present any danger to the society.

US, Other Countries to Provide Ukraine With Non-Lethal Weapon: Poroshenko

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Ukraine will receive non-lethal weapons from the United States and several other countries, which will help the country to strengthen its defense, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

"We have to get and got everything we need: intelligence, radar, surveillance and other types of defense equipment, which will allow us to increase the effectiveness of our weapons dozens of times, upgrade it and do everything possible to ensure that the efficiency of our weapons is much better and it is not only from the side of the United States, " Poroshenko told Ukrainian TV channels on Sunday evening.

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Boko Haram: Shekau impersonator killed by Nigerian troops?

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The Nigerian military may have recorded a major victory in the war against Boko Haram as the man suspected to be mimicking late Abubakar Shekau in recent videos from the sect, may have been killed during the September 17th battle in Konduga, Borno state.

A senior military source said "it is getting more certain that the terrorists' commander who has been mimicking Shekau in those videos is the one killed in Konduga on September 17."

Sources at the image making company of the Nigerian government, PRNigeria, say the death of the man believed to be the leader of the group is responsible for the scattering of the sect members in different independent locations in neighboring countries.
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Katsina Gov. reportedly orders student detained for criticizing him on Facebook

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A student of the National Open University of Nigeria, Abdulmalik Sa’idu, has been languishing in a police cell for over 20 days on the orders of the Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, for posting details of an alleged fertilizer scam in the state on his Facebook wall, Premium Times reports
This was disclosed to Premium Times by Mr. Sa’idu’s family and lawyer. Abdulmalik was first invited to the Katsina Government House on August 28 by a phone caller who claimed he had a message for him. But when Abdulmalik arrived at the governor’s office, he was promptly arrested, handcuffed and taken to Batagarawa Police Station just outside the state capital, Katsina, and detained on the orders of Mr. Shema’s aide-de-camp, Shehu Koko, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP.
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Former head of state, IBB reportedly hospitalized in Germany!

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According with Sahara Reporters, former Head of state, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida popularly called IBB happens to be in a hospital in German. He was reportedly rushed to Germany about 10 days ago from his hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger State. SR reports that the former military head of state who's 73 years of age is severely ill and that his ailment pertains to a chronic back ailment which is why he earlier had surgery in Germany.

Photo: The Carter Pedestrian bridge needs urgent renovation !

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The Lagos state or federal government is repairing the Eko Bridge which cracked recently. Now it's time to let them  take a close look at the Carter Pedestrian Bridge. It needs urgent renovation while the bridge is deteriorating. There is a feeling it might collaspse as there're loads of cracks on it.

Press Release Ban on police road-blocks/check-points still in force - IG of police

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Find the press release below..


The Inspector-General of Police, Acting IGP Suleiman Abba, has stated unequivocally that the order banning the setting up of Police road-blocks nationwide is still strictly in force. In a directive issued to all Commands and Formations of the Force, the IGP warned that all semblances of Police road-blocks and permanent check-points reportedly re-emerging in some parts of the country, especially in the South-East, South-South and South-West geo-political zones of Nigeria should immediately be dismantled.

#FreeOurSoldiers: The 12 soldiers sentenced to death deserve to die - Ex-generals

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While the rest of us are begging for leniency, some retired senior military officers say the 12 soldiers sentenced to death last week for attacking their GOC at their barracks in Maiduguri, deserve to die.

Speaking with Sunday Punch, the ex-generals said it's necessary for the military to maintain its age-long rules on discipline, hailed the judgement and said it must be carried out. A former Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Brig.-Gen. Williams Obene (retd.), said,

“I commend the boldness of the Army authorities to follow the terms and conditions of service – the extant laws that established the armed forces, particularly the Army– and for trying to uphold discipline at the highest level. When politicians and highly influential Nigerians interfere in the daily administration of the military, things become difficult. That situation is very prevalent under democracy.”