2015-01-12 12:30
Sokoto - National leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) and
former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu has urged President Goodluck
Jonathan to resign and go back to Otueke, his hometown, reports Thisday.
Tinubu,
who was addressing party supporters during the commencement of APC
governorship campaign in Sokoto, said Jonathan should as a matter of
urgency quit the stage as he had failed his generation.
Commenting
on remarks made by Jonathan that his generation had failed, Tinubu
stated that it is the personal failure of the president not the failure
of his generation.
He
took a swipe at President Jonathan for saying that Muhammadu Buhari,
APC’s Presidential candidate, did not buy a single rifle during his
military rule, noting that the president is ignorant of the state of
Nigerian armoury.
Read more at Thisday.
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Northern emirs reject Jonathan
2015-01-12 12:30
Abuja - Several northern emirs have turned down an attempt by
President Goodluck Jonathan to get them to endorse his re-election bid,
reports Nigerian Watch.
The emirs have vowed to remain neutral and only support whoever emerges victorious in the February 14 presidential election.
Jonathan had approached one of his emir allies to lobby and persuade his colleagues across northern Nigeria to endorse him as their candidate for the election.
The emirs, however, said they want to take the back seat to await the people’s choice, pointing to the volatility of northern politics.
Read more at Nigerian Watch.
The emirs have vowed to remain neutral and only support whoever emerges victorious in the February 14 presidential election.
Jonathan had approached one of his emir allies to lobby and persuade his colleagues across northern Nigeria to endorse him as their candidate for the election.
The emirs, however, said they want to take the back seat to await the people’s choice, pointing to the volatility of northern politics.
Read more at Nigerian Watch.
France deploys 10 000 troops as hunt for accomplice intensifies
2015-01-12 12:52
Paris - French security forces are mobilising
10 000 officers in their search for what Prime Minister Manuel Valls
called a "probable accomplice" to three days of bloodshed and terror
around the capital.
Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because "the threat is still present" after the attacks that left 17 people dead - journalists at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, hostages at a kosher market and three police officers - plus the three attackers, who were killed on Friday in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.
Meanwhile, France's interior minister said on Monday the country is mobilising 10 000 security forces to protect the population. Bernard Cazeneuve said the deployment will begin on Tuesday, and will focus on the most sensitive locations.
The widow of one of the attackers crossed into Syria on Thursday, the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the same day her husband shot a policewoman to death on the outskirts of Paris, according to Turkey's foreign minister.
Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday that Hayat Boumedienne arrived in Turkey from Madrid on 2 January, ahead of the attacks and stayed at a hotel in Istanbul before crossing into Syria on Thursday.
Video emerged on Sunday of her husband Amedy Coulibaly, explaining how the attacks would unfold and police want to find the person who shot and posted the video, which was edited after the attacks were over.
Valls told BFM television on Monday that France is at war against "terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam”.
Survivors say the Charlie Hebdo attackers, brothers from Paris, claimed they were from al-Qaeda in Yemen, the group the US considers the most dangerous offshoot of that network. In the video, Coulibaly pledges allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
But ties among the men date back to at least 2005.
AP
Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because "the threat is still present" after the attacks that left 17 people dead - journalists at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, hostages at a kosher market and three police officers - plus the three attackers, who were killed on Friday in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.
Meanwhile, France's interior minister said on Monday the country is mobilising 10 000 security forces to protect the population. Bernard Cazeneuve said the deployment will begin on Tuesday, and will focus on the most sensitive locations.
The widow of one of the attackers crossed into Syria on Thursday, the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the same day her husband shot a policewoman to death on the outskirts of Paris, according to Turkey's foreign minister.
Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday that Hayat Boumedienne arrived in Turkey from Madrid on 2 January, ahead of the attacks and stayed at a hotel in Istanbul before crossing into Syria on Thursday.
Video emerged on Sunday of her husband Amedy Coulibaly, explaining how the attacks would unfold and police want to find the person who shot and posted the video, which was edited after the attacks were over.
Valls told BFM television on Monday that France is at war against "terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam”.
Survivors say the Charlie Hebdo attackers, brothers from Paris, claimed they were from al-Qaeda in Yemen, the group the US considers the most dangerous offshoot of that network. In the video, Coulibaly pledges allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
But ties among the men date back to at least 2005.
AP
Boko Haram attacks: Nigeria 'needs same support as France'
2015-01-12 13:02
Lagos - A Nigerian archbishop called on Monday for the same
international support to tackle Boko Haram as France has received since
it was hit by Islamist attacks last week.
"I see the very positive response of the French government tackling this issue of religious violence after the killing of their citizens," said the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Jos in central Nigeria, Ignatius Kaigama.
"We need that spirit to be spread around, not just when it happens in Europe, [but] when it happens in Nigeria, in Niger, Cameroon and many poor countries, that we mobilise our international resources to confront the people who bring such sadness to many families," he told BBC World Service radio.
Kaigama was speaking after another bloody weekend for Nigeria in which three female suicide bombers, including one thought to be as young as 10, killed at least 23 people in the restive northeast.
Conscience of the world
His comments echoed those from the head of the UN children's fund, Anthony Lake, who said on Sunday that harrowing reports from survivors of the a massive attack on Baga on 3 January and the use of a 10-year-old girl as a human bomb "should be searing the conscience of the world".
"These images of recent days and all they imply for the future of Nigeria should galvanise effective action. For this cannot go on," the Unicef executive director said.
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan, who has been criticised for his failure to end the insurgency, issued a statement condemning the Paris attacks but rarely comments on attacks in his own country.
As Nigeria was attacked again on Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people around the world took to the streets in solidarity with millions in France to protest against Islamist attacks that left 17 people dead in Paris last week.
Worst massacre
More than 13 000 people have died in the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria since 2009 and hundreds of thousands more have been made homeless.
In the Baga attack, Boko Haram fighters are thought to have carried out the worst massacre in the six-year insurgency, razing the town and at least 16 surrounding settlements on the shores of Lake Chad.
There have been local claims of mass slaughter in Baga but there is as yet no independent corroboration of the figures.
AFP
"I see the very positive response of the French government tackling this issue of religious violence after the killing of their citizens," said the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Jos in central Nigeria, Ignatius Kaigama.
"We need that spirit to be spread around, not just when it happens in Europe, [but] when it happens in Nigeria, in Niger, Cameroon and many poor countries, that we mobilise our international resources to confront the people who bring such sadness to many families," he told BBC World Service radio.
Kaigama was speaking after another bloody weekend for Nigeria in which three female suicide bombers, including one thought to be as young as 10, killed at least 23 people in the restive northeast.
Conscience of the world
His comments echoed those from the head of the UN children's fund, Anthony Lake, who said on Sunday that harrowing reports from survivors of the a massive attack on Baga on 3 January and the use of a 10-year-old girl as a human bomb "should be searing the conscience of the world".
"These images of recent days and all they imply for the future of Nigeria should galvanise effective action. For this cannot go on," the Unicef executive director said.
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan, who has been criticised for his failure to end the insurgency, issued a statement condemning the Paris attacks but rarely comments on attacks in his own country.
As Nigeria was attacked again on Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people around the world took to the streets in solidarity with millions in France to protest against Islamist attacks that left 17 people dead in Paris last week.
Worst massacre
More than 13 000 people have died in the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria since 2009 and hundreds of thousands more have been made homeless.
In the Baga attack, Boko Haram fighters are thought to have carried out the worst massacre in the six-year insurgency, razing the town and at least 16 surrounding settlements on the shores of Lake Chad.
There have been local claims of mass slaughter in Baga but there is as yet no independent corroboration of the figures.
AFP
Boy, 10, kills friend with dad's gun
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Mahikeng - A 9-year-old boy has been killed
after his 10-year-old friend accidentally shot him while playing with
his father's gun in Khuma, Stilfontein, North West police said on
Monday.
"Three children were playing with a toy gun when the 10-year-old boy took his father's licensed firearm from beneath the mattress, and a few minutes later the shot went off and instantly killed the 9-year-old boy," Sergeant Kealeboga Molale said.
The incident occurred on Friday around 16:00. An inquest docket was opened and the 10-year-old's father was arrested, Molale said.
The man, aged 53, would appear in the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Monday for contravening the Firearms Control Act by allegedly failing to lock his firearm in a safe.
The 10-year-old boy was being assessed by social workers. Molale could not confirm or deny whether murder charges would form part of the investigation.
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"Three children were playing with a toy gun when the 10-year-old boy took his father's licensed firearm from beneath the mattress, and a few minutes later the shot went off and instantly killed the 9-year-old boy," Sergeant Kealeboga Molale said.
The incident occurred on Friday around 16:00. An inquest docket was opened and the 10-year-old's father was arrested, Molale said.
The man, aged 53, would appear in the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Monday for contravening the Firearms Control Act by allegedly failing to lock his firearm in a safe.
The 10-year-old boy was being assessed by social workers. Molale could not confirm or deny whether murder charges would form part of the investigation.
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APC alleges Jonathan is planning to postpone elections
2015-01-12 11:11
Lagos - The All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged that the
recent investigation report by the Department of State Security (DSS) on
the raid on its data centre was part of the ongoing plan by the
Jonathan led administration to postpone the February general elections,
reports Premium Times.
Lai Mohammed, the party National Publicity Secretary, who sated this on Sunday during a press conference, said the report by the DSS that the party is planning to hack the database of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a ploy by the security outfit and the Federal Government to force the postponement the elections.
He said the thinking at the DSS, which is working in cahoots with the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), is to raise doubts about the integrity of the voter’s register to be used for the forthcoming polls.
Also read : APC hints at legal action over DSS 'findings'
This, he said, would force a postponement of the elections since the existing register cannot be used for the polls.
He stated that that the DSS’s findings cannot stand a serious scrutiny by independent investigators.
Read more at Premium Times.
Lai Mohammed, the party National Publicity Secretary, who sated this on Sunday during a press conference, said the report by the DSS that the party is planning to hack the database of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a ploy by the security outfit and the Federal Government to force the postponement the elections.
He said the thinking at the DSS, which is working in cahoots with the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), is to raise doubts about the integrity of the voter’s register to be used for the forthcoming polls.
Also read : APC hints at legal action over DSS 'findings'
This, he said, would force a postponement of the elections since the existing register cannot be used for the polls.
He stated that that the DSS’s findings cannot stand a serious scrutiny by independent investigators.
Read more at Premium Times.
Ivory Coast defeat Nigeria in CAN warm-up
2015-01-12 06:59
Abu Dhabi - The Ivory Coast defeated outgoing champions Nigeria 1-0 on Sunday in an Africa Cup of Nations warm-up in Abu Dhabi.
Former Chelsea and Lille striker Salomon Kalou grabbed the only goal of the match on 83 minutes following good buildup play from Cheick Tiote.
Coach Herve Renard suffered a blow when Saint-Etienne striker Max-Alain Gradel was taken off with an ankle injury with 30 minutes left.
Also Read: How Enyeama lost crown to Yaya Toure
The 'Elephants', who won their only African title in 1992 when they defeated Ghana 11-10 on penalties, continue their preparation with a friendly against Sweden in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Nigeria, who won their third Cup of Nations in 2013 when they defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 in South Africa, failed to qualify for this year's tournament.
The 2015 CAN gets underway on January 17 in Equatorial Guinea and runs until February 8 with Ivory Coast in Group D along with Guinea, Cameroon and Mali.
Abu Dhabi - The Ivory Coast defeated outgoing champions Nigeria 1-0 on Sunday in an Africa Cup of Nations warm-up in Abu Dhabi.
Former Chelsea and Lille striker Salomon Kalou grabbed the only goal of the match on 83 minutes following good buildup play from Cheick Tiote.
Coach Herve Renard suffered a blow when Saint-Etienne striker Max-Alain Gradel was taken off with an ankle injury with 30 minutes left.
Also Read: How Enyeama lost crown to Yaya Toure
The 'Elephants', who won their only African title in 1992 when they defeated Ghana 11-10 on penalties, continue their preparation with a friendly against Sweden in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Nigeria, who won their third Cup of Nations in 2013 when they defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 in South Africa, failed to qualify for this year's tournament.
The 2015 CAN gets underway on January 17 in Equatorial Guinea and runs until February 8 with Ivory Coast in Group D along with Guinea, Cameroon and Mali.
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