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According to a BBC, African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage “war” on Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic militants. President Hollande of France, who hosted the summit, said regional powers had pledged to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group. Last month it abducted 223 schoolgirls in north-eastern Nigeria, where it is based. Fresh attacks were reported in Nigeria and Cameroon overnight. Thousands of people have been killed by Boko Haram in recent years. The Paris summit brought together President Francois Hollande, Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, and their counterparts from Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. Afterwards, Mr Hollande said participants had agreed on a “global and regional action plan”. He said this involved “co-ordinating intelligence, sharing information… border surveillance, a military presence notably around Lake Chad and the capacity to intervene in case of danger”. Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said: “We are here to declare war on Boko Haram”

Standard Hotel management yesterday announced that they have discovered the staff who sold Jay Z and Solange’s elevator fight toTMZand the staff has since been sacked. According to them the staff was sacked for “breaching the security polices of the hotel and recording the confidential CCTV video” which was against the hotel rules. Hmmm nice decision by the hotel management, but then one would want to ask if the guy really needs the job with the huge some of$250,000 in his possession.

Dance Hall reggae act,Chinagorom Onuoha, the one we all know asAfrican China, is not happy with his fellow artistes and has tongue lashed them, calling them hypocrites and pretenders in the campaign to force the Federal Government to effect the rescue of the abducted Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents. According to the singer whose conscious music like Crisis, Mr. President and Our Government Bad, made serious waves in the late 90s to the early 2000s, he had called up some of his colleagues to feature in his new song, Boko Haram, with the aim of making it a collaboration of various Nigerian artistes but his colleagues turned him down during the production. Hear him: I was happy when I approached some of the artistes, but along the line, they turned it down saying that they couldn’t do the song and as such, I had to do the song all alone. He therefore wonders why those same colleagues of his would now turn around to copy what foreign c

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A rural North Carolina that was horrified last year when an 11-year-old girl was raped and murdered in her own bed has been shocked again - this time after a neighbor boy, age just 14, was arrested and charged with the crime. McKenzie Mae Sessoms, a fifth grader from Clinton, North Carolina, was found suffocated with a pillow last September 6 - the morning after her brothers threw a 'rowdy gathering' at the family home. On Wednesday, police announced the arrest of a young teenage boy, who is charged with first-degree rape and murder. Officials did not release his name, but family and neighbors identified him as Antonio Trey Jones. At the time of the murder, Jones was living with his grandfather Howard Jones in a house off a dirt road - just feet from McKenzie's home, Mr Jones told WTVD-TV. 'If he done it, I'm glad they got him. That's all I can say,' Mr Jones said. An autopsy report says that McKenzie was found wedged against the pillow that was used to suff

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A man, who allegedly kidnapped two children at Iyana-Ipaja, a suburb of Lagos State, was on Wednesday evening burnt to death, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. An eyewitness, Yusuf Sanni, told NAN at the scene that the suspected kidnapper was caught with two children on Oshundairo Street in Iyana-Ipaja. He said the man was first sighted on the street on Tuesday loitering around. “This man was seen on the street wearing boxers and looking unkempt. “We did not know he was coming back to kidnap the two children. “It was one of the youths who noticed his movement around the children that raised an alarm while the man took to his heels,” Sanni said. NAN reports that some policemen, who were at the scene, were not allowed by the mob to rescue the man before he was burnt. A police officer, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that efforts to bring the situation under control were unsuccessful as the mob hurled stones at policemen. He said, “They prevented us from gaining access to the suspect, t

A man, who allegedly kidnapped two children at Iyana-Ipaja, a suburb of Lagos State, was on Wednesday evening burnt to death, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. An eyewitness, Yusuf Sanni, told NAN at the scene that the suspected kidnapper was caught with two children on Oshundairo Street in Iyana-Ipaja. He said the man was first sighted on the street on Tuesday loitering around. “This man was seen on the street wearing boxers and looking unkempt. “We did not know he was coming back to kidnap the two children. “It was one of the youths who noticed his movement around the children that raised an alarm while the man took to his heels,” Sanni said. NAN reports that some policemen, who were at the scene, were not allowed by the mob to rescue the man before he was burnt. A police officer, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that efforts to bring the situation under control were unsuccessful as the mob hurled stones at policemen. He said, “They prevented us from gaining access to the suspect, t

The series of explosions that rocked the Federal Capital Territory in the last two weeks appear to have taken toll on its health facilities as some of the hospitals in the territory rejected victims of Thursday’s bomb blast at Nyanya, a satellite community within the FCT, which left 30 people dead and many others injured. Saturday PUNCH learnt that some victims were sent back when they were brought to hospitals on Friday morning. At the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, victims were turned back due to lack of bed spaces. It was reported that some patients were sent back when they were brought to the hospital on Friday morning. For example, a woman, who was brought to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital in a Honda Odyssey car with registration number BM 837RBC, was not allowed to be brought down from the vehicle. The old lady, who was lying at the back seat of the car, was feeling uncomfortable as the driver of the car was speaking with the officials of the hospital. After a

According to Sun News, Mrs. Tina Iwuji, a 52 year old mother from Ezinihitte Mbaise LGA, Imo State has been arrested by the Imo state police command for allegedly selling the two weeks old baby of her son’s girlfriend. Mrs Iwuji son, Emeka had impregnated his Lagos girlfriend, Esther Godwin, a native of Ndoki, Delta State and then decided to send her to his mother without telling his mum that he owned the pregnancy and also instructed Esther not to open up to his mother that he was the who got her pregnant. Mrs Iwuji accepted Emeka’s request and allowed Esther move into her house in January 2014. Esther eventually gave birth, and just two weeks later, Mrs Iwuji sold the baby for N350,000 not knowing she was selling her own grand daughter. Mrs Iwuji told Sun “It was my son Emeka Iwuji who brought Esther as a friend not a wife from Lagos to my home in Mbaise, Imo State. I asked Esther who was responsible for her pregnancy and she said it was not my son. I asked her what was her mission a