Live Above Board, Saraki Tells CDS, Service Chiefs

The Senate yesterday, after several hours of screening, confirmed the newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and service chiefs.  The screening which lasted for about four hours, was held in a closed door-session.  President Muhammadu Buhari recently requested the Red Chamber in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to approve the appointments he made on July 13. Saraki urged the security chiefs to live above board.
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Boko Haram: Cameroon Deports Over 3000 Nigerians

YAOUNDE, (AP) — Cameroon has expelled over 3,000 Nigerians as part of the fight against Nigeria’s Islamic extremists who have launched attacks across borders, officials said Tuesday.
Suspected Boko Haram fighters disguised as refugees with explosives hidden in their luggage were arrested at a camp in northern Cameroon Monday, Cameroon’s government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said Tuesday.
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Obama Warns Of Dangers To Israel If Iran Deal Blocked: U.S. Jewish Leader

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Mandela Washington …
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told U.S. Jewish leaders it was likely rockets would fall on Tel Aviv if a nuclear deal with Iran was blocked and military action ensued, one of them said on Wednesday.
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Metuh: Blackmail Won’t Stop Restructuring Of PDP.

Olisa Metuh, national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says no amount of blackmail will prevent reorganisation of the opposition party.
On Friday, the party announced a cost-cutting policy that includes reducing staff strength by 50 per cent and cutting staff salaries and allowances by the same margin.
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FACT CHECKER: Emefiele Lied On Dom Accounts.

Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), claimed on Monday that Nigeria is the only country “in the world” that allows its citizens to operate domiciliary accounts.
What, in the world, was he talking about?
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Recover Stolen Oil Money, Buhari Tells NNPC Boss

President gives new helmsman Kachikwu six tasks
A NEW helmsman took the reins yesterday at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the Executive Vice Chairman/General Counsel of ExxonMobil (Africa), as Group Managing Director (GMD), asking him to give recovery of stolen oil money a priority, among other targets.
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Appointing Amaechi As Minister Means Buhari Is Anti-People, Targeting Our Members – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has said that it would amount to glorifying corruption, if claims by the immediate past governor of the state, Hon Rotimi Amaechi, that President Muhammadu Buhari is begging him to accept appointment as minister or Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, is anything to go by.

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Dog Buried Alive In France Sparks Social Media Fury

Photos of a dog buried alive up to its head in France sparked an outpouring of anger on social media Wednesday, and police said the owner was taken into custody.
The French mastiff was discovered and then rescued on Saturday by a man walking his own dog on waste ground in Carrieres-sur-Seine, west of Paris.
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General And His Game: How Obasanjo Unwinds

The old man dropped the last seed in a hole on the Ayo board and slapped his palm against his thigh with glee – he had just scored a vital point in the game.

According to Yorupedia, Ayo is a Yoruba game “played in a carved wooden box, containing twelve holes (six holes on each side), and forty-eight Ayo seeds (four seeds in each hole).
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Group Says Ibru, Others Stole N10bn From Ikeja Hotels

The Civil Society Network against Corruption has said that the embattled former chairman of Ikeja Hotels Plc, Goodie Ibru, and his “accomplices” mismanaged N10 billion belonging to the company.
In a statement commending the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for charging Mr. Ibru and others for alleged fraud, Wednesday, CSNAC said that Mr. Ibru and others embezzled in excess of the N2 billion they were being accused of by the anti-graft commission.
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People Who Were With PDP For 10 Years Left After Buhari Won – Metuh

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has confessed that it is cold being in the opposition, explaining that some members stopped showing commitment to the affairs of the party the week it lost the 2015 presidential election.
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Oyeyemi Gives Sept. 1st Deadline for Speed Limiters

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi has said with effect from 1st September this year, enforcement of the use of speed limiters in vehicle would commence.
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Suspect Detained After Jade Helm Military Base Comes Under Gunfire Again

For the second straight day, gunshots were fired Wednesday near a military post in Mississippi where US Army soldiers are in the midst of a training exercise.

Soldiers training at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg reported that shots were fired into the air around 8 a.m. in the same area where gunfire was reported on Tuesday, Lieutenant Colonel Christian Patterson, a spokesman at the Mississippi Military Department, said in a statement.
Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby
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Bad News for US: China, Russia Bolstering Military Cooperation in Asia

Further rapprochement in Sino-Russian relations, especially in the defense and security field, is bad news for the United States, says American academic Peter Harris.

As Russia and China announce their plans to conduct joint military drills in the Peter the Great Gulf, the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan, Washington's strategic planners are racking their brains over how to preserve the American status quo in the "increasingly multipolar" world.
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Buhari Orders Fast-Track Environmental Clean-Up Of Ogoniland

In keeping with his avowed commitment to working for the development and well-being of all Nigerians, President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja approved several actions to fast-track the long delayed implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Report on the environmental restoration of Ogoniland.
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Ndigbo Group Commends Buhari Over Appointment Of NNPC GMD

A group representing the people of South East Nigeria, the Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the appointment of Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
The group said the appointment of the new NNPC GMD who is from Delta State in South south Nigeria has shown that the President listened to the outcry of Nigerians over the imbalance in the appointments he has made so far.
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ECOWAS Parliamentarian Advocates Free Education

A member of ECOWAS Parliament, Sen. Haward Taylor, of Liberia on Wednesday in Abuja urged all ECOWAS member countries to make basic education free of charge for their citizens.
Taylor made the call during an interview the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
She said that adopting a free education policy would be a major stepping stone towards a more prosperous West Africa.
Taylor said it would provide affordable and equal opportunities for every school age child in the region.
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Russia declassifies the report on the aftermath of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 5, 2015

Russian Historical Society

Kristina Rus

Russian Historical Society has published a report of the Soviet ambassador to Japan on the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Archive of Foreign Policy of Russia in time for the 70-th anniversary of the attacks. The report was recorded a month after the attacks.

The following are the highlights of the report:

The train terminal and the city of Hiroshima were destroyed so much that there was no shelter to hide from the rain. 

The city was a scorched plain with 15-20 cement buildings left standing. 

Several dozen thousand people huddled in the dugouts on the outskirts of the city.

People who came to help the victims during the first 5-10 days died.

UPDATED: New NNPC Boss Promises To Achieve Buhari's Goal For Oil Industry

The newly-appointed Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has assumed duty as the chief executive of the corporation.
This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Ohi Aligbe, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, on Tuesday, in Abuja.
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Fayose: Buhari Just Making Noise On Corruption.

Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti state, has criticised the anti-corruption stance of the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as mere noise-making, witch-hunt and diversionary tactic to hoodwink the public into overlooking the seeming failure of the government to deliver on its electoral promises.
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Senate Declares State Of Emergency On Roads.

The Nigerian senate on Wednesday declared a state of emergency on road infrastructure in the country. It observed with sadness, the loss of lives resulting from the bad state of the roads across the country.

Consequently, it urged the federal government to undertake the immediate rehabilitation and dualisation of major highways and interstate roads across the country.
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Senate Summons CBN Gov. Over Falling Value Of Naira

After a brief debate, the Senate on Wednesday agreed to summon Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the state of the economy, especially on the falling value of the naira.

The senators said the presence of Emefiele is needed in the upper chamber to brief members especially on the implications of the free fall of the naira and on what is being done to halt the depreciation of the currency.
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EXCLUSIVE: Autopsy Confirms Military Executed Benson Ogedegbe For Exposing Their Crimes

  SaharaReporters has obtained an exclusive copy of the coroner’s autopsy report of Mr. Benson Ogedgebe, who was executed by soldiers of the 19th Battalion stationed at Koko Military Base in the Oghara area of Delta State.

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Disunity Among Nigerians Festers Insurgency – Minimah

The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, said on Wednesday that the Boko Haram threat would have been nipped in the bud if Nigerians had united in support for the military and condemnations against the insurgents.

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Local Hunters Arrest 3 Suspected Boko Haram Members

In what could be described as reprisals attacks, a group of trained local hunters on Tuesday in Gulak village of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, arrested three suspected members of Boko Haram dreaded sect.

A member representing Madagali constituency in the state House of Assembly, Emmanuel Tsamdu, confirmed the arrest of the three suspected terrorists.
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