Boko Haram disguises as women to avoid troops arrest.

The Boko Haram terrorist seems to be employing more ways to lash out their terror following the "heavy damages" and the rain-like bombardments they're suffering from the Nigerian troops in the fight to recapture Baga in the Northeast, and other towns.
The terrorists according to a statement by the Army spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Olukolade, now disguises as women to avoid being captured by the troops who are on codon and search operation.

The statement reads...........

“The cordon and search in Baga has revealed some terrorists disguising as women. The searches are also yielding more discoveries of arms especially bombs hidden in various locations, especially Baga town.
Apart from those captured in the
course of fighting, many arrests of terrorists hiding in the town are being made and troops are still busy interrogating the suspects.

“Meanwhile, in furtherance of the mission to clear terrorists from all their enclaves by the military, the Nigerian Air Force has stepped
up its air bombardment of identified targets in Gwoza, Bama and Sambisa forest, preparatory to other phases of the mission.
The air strikes have been highly successful as they achieved the aims, hitting vital targets with required precision.

Terrorists are now in disarray as they scamper to escape from the impact of air bombardment of their
locations in the forest.
“Having successfully liberated Baga where the terrorists have been marauding, the troops’ attention has now been focused on consolidation of the security of the area to pave way for return of citizens.”

Exclusive: NUC Declares Aisha Buhari’s certificate fraudulent

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has disclosed that, contrary to claims in some quarters, any certificate obtained from the Kaduna Satellite Campus of the Ambrose Alli University is fraudulent and a scam.
Deputy Director Press of the NUC, Ibrahim Yakassai disclosed, this to The Nigerian Times when our reporter called to confirm the status of the institution and certificates earned from it.

He said: “It is fraudulent and a scam. There is no such thing like Ambrose Alli University, Kaduna Study Center. The NUC is not aware
of such.” The Nigerian Times recalls that the Sunday Trust Newspaper in the story, ‘Now, Hajiya Aisha Buhari steps out’, published January
18, 2015 had reported that the beautiful wife of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had bagged a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ambrose Alli University,
Ekpoma (Kaduna satellite campus). She later proceeded, based on the same degree, to obtain a Master’s degree in International Affairs and Strategic Studies from the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.

The NUC in a directive in 2001, under former Executive Secretary Peter Okebukola to all Vice-Chancellors, had directed all university satellite campuses to be shut down. While most Universities complied, few others were adamant, leading to another directive by the
present Executive Secretary Professor Julius Okojie, to re-affirm the initial directive that all universities in the country running external campuses (satellite campuses) be shut
down.

A satellite campus, according to the NUC guidelines on which basis the illegal ones were closed down, “must not be more than 200 kilometres from the main campus,”
“must not be located in a state outside the state in which the main campus is located,” “must have staff of the satellite campus directly or indirectly appointed by the main
campus in line with laid down academic standards.”

According to Sunday Trust, Mrs. Buhari enrolled in the undergraduate programme of the Ambrose Alli University and received lectures at its Leventis Building satellite
campus, Kaduna.
The Newspaper also reported that she holds a National Certificate in Education (NCE) from the National Teachers Institute (NTI) alongside a Diploma in Beauty Therapy at the
Carlton Institute of Beauty Therapy, Windsor, in the United Kingdom and a certificate course from the French Beauty School, Esthetique Academie Dubai. She is a member of the United Kingdom’s Vocational Training and Charitable Trust and the International Health and Beauty Council.

Speaking to The Nigerian Times, a former coordinator of one the satellite campuses of the university who asked to be anonymous,
said while some campuses were able to insert records of some students of the satellite campuses into the general students’ records at the main campus, others were just
issued certificates without recourse to the parent school.
He said while the certificates of those whose records where successfully entered into the
school’s main record could claim some level of validity, the others remain invalid.

He said: “The campuses started in 1998 and were all officially closed in 2002. “Some of the campuses at the earlier stages would get someone from the main campus in Ekpoma to invigilate the examinations and
under some arrangements would then register the students’ particulars in the record of the
university. After this, those certificates got a value of validity.
“However, after sometime some centers started issuing certificates to their students in the name of the parent university without any recourse to record keeping and so when employers or schools of post graduate studies contacted Ekpoma for verification, the records of most of them were not found.

These developments finally led to the NUC’s hammer on those centers.” Every effort to get responses from the Registrar of the University, Mr. Ojo Maliki and
Public Relations Officer of the university, proved abortive. While mails where not responded to, calls from our reporter were treated with rude and evasive responses. A
University officer, who craved anonymity, told this newspaper that Edo being an APC state, the authorities are extremely careful not to get caught in Nigeria’s fractious political party rivalries.

,........Culled from Nigerian Times

Photo: Gen. Buhari meets with Mr. Tony Blair in London

General Mohammadu Buhari (GMB) and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, held a
meeting with the former Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. Tony Blair, in London on Saturday.

Gen. Buhari Traveled to Landon to meet Mr. Blair in company with Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, and a former Governor of
Kwara, Bukola Saraki, who tweeted to share a group photograph of participants at the meeting on his tweeter page.
This is what he tweeted......

“Just finished a meeting with @Govsia @ThisIsBuhari and @tonyblairoffice,”

This will put to rest some insunuations and rumours on social medias and some quarters that the General went to London for medical attention.

Attempted Prison Break in Calabar Prison Foiled- As comptroller Confirms

The Comptroller of Prisons in Cross River, Mr Clement Udosen, has confirmed that some inmates at Afokang Prison in Calabar South
Local Government Area, on Friday attempted a jailbreak.

Udosen told newsmen in Calabar that the inmates overpowered some prison guards, seized their rifles, fired shots and injured some of the guards.
He said that the inmates also broke a section of the prison walls in their attempt to escape.

He said the inmates did not succeed in their attempt to escape as soldiers and state security service operatives, the Nigeria Police
and Nigeria Security and Civil Defense personnel contained them.

He said: “By 11 o’clock this morning, I was in my office in the headquarters when the DC in
charge of this prison called me to say that there was a serious problem in the yard I rushed down.
“When I got to the prison, the whole place was filled with security agents with rifles who came to assist us.
“Inmates in two cells with about 70 inmates in each cell overpowered some prison staff and rushed to the armoury, seized rifles and open fire on our staff.

“ They broke other cells and the whole yard was filled with inmates who carried what they could get to break the prison fence.
“Luckily they have all been rounded up and nobody has escaped.

“A lot of people were injured and one staff had been rushed to the hospital.
“Right now doctors with their team are treating those who sustained injuries.’’
Source:.......NAN

Military rescues 158 victims held captive by Boko Haram in Yobe

About 158 Women and children abducted by Boko Haram militants  from Katarko village in Yobe have
been set free and subsequently reunited with loved ones
in Damaturu, the Yobe capital as reported by NAN.

The victims were set free by the group after after pressures from the ongoing bombardments from the military against their strongholds in the Northeast. The captives were held in captivity for three weeks before being released.

Ahmed Goniri, the state Commissioner for Justice and Chairman of the State Committee on Rehabilitation of Victims of Insurgency, said this while addressing journalists in Damaturu on Thursday.
“The victims were screened by security operatives to authenticate their status while government provided them with psychological
therapy to ease their trauma,” Mr. Goniri said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had earlier reported that the victims were released by the insurgents three weeks ago but remained in custody of security agencies to undergo screening to ensure that
they were indeed captives.
Abdurahman Dauda, a displaced person, said his wife and six girls were released by the insurgents.

“Two of my boys are still in their custody but, I am of high spirit that they will soon be rescued,” he said.
One of the victims, who preferred to remain anonymous, said’ “to be fair
to the insurgents, they did not rape or abused us, they simply asked those who were not interested in their religion to leave, and they
eventually released us”. Meanwhile, the state government has provided
N50,000, two bags of rice, sugar, noodles and wrapper to each of the 15 widows among the victims, while 47 other women received N30,000 each and same quantity of rice, sugar, noodles and wrapper.

Presenting the relief materials, Mr.
Goniri said government commiserated with the families of the victims and provided the relief materials to help them to resettle.
He said 20 boys were still in custody of the insurgents and expressed hope that the renewed operation against the insurgents would rescue them from there captivity.

........NAN

GEJ commissions 4 new heavy Navy Ships. Says Boko Haram must be wiped out.

President Jonathan today commissions four (4) heavy naval ships in Lagos Navy yard. He said the new war ships will help  to strengthen the nation's security and in fight against Boko Haram
Hear him.........

“We will rout Boko Haram. Our capacity has increased sufficiently and officers and men are doing wonderfully well. The ongoing activities to contain the sect will also provide conducive atmosphere for elections to hold in the region.

“We will return the region to a level
where activities of terrorists cannot be carried out.”

Nigeria Air Force bombards Sambisa forest, Gwoza; DHQ confirms

The Nigerian military seems to be all out to wipe out the Boko Haram insurgents by any means possible. From available report, it seems the insurgents are receiving it hot  from the military as confirmed by the Defence spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Olukolade according to NAN......

"The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said more Boko Haram insurgents have died as the Nigerian Air Force moved to clear Sambisa forest and Gwoza town in Borno, of
the terrorists.
This was contained in a statement issued by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information.

Olukolade said a concerted air campaign by the Air Force was ongoing in furtherance of clearing the terrorists from all their enclaves.
“The air strikes which on Thursday targeted the training camps and logistics dumps of the terrorists in Sambisa forest and parts of Gwoza have been highly successful as it
achieved the aims with required precision.

“The death of a large number of terrorists has been recorded while many others are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck bases.
Olukolade said that the details of casualties will be determined in subsequent phases of the operation.
He said that the strikes had continued “in other locations of the theater, heralding the advance of troops and other elements of the
mission’’.

......Culled from NAN.

Flying Eagles involved in Auto crash, one person injured.

The Flying Eagles were involved in a minor auto crash while returning from the Tema Sports Stadium to their hotel yesterday.

The boys trashed their Ghanaian mates by 2-0 in an international friendly and were on their way to the M Plaza Hotel, when the VIP Marcopolo bus crashed into the main gate of the stadium.

Usman Hassan Saleh was hit by some debris of the broken glass but no serious casualty was recorded among other team members.

Over 300 Boko Haram Terrorist killed, many captured in the fight to recapture seized towns- Army confirms

The Nigeria Army spokesperson Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade has confirmed to journalist that the army were able to kill over 300 terrorist while many were captured in the ongoing effort to recapture towns seized by the insurgence in the North East part of the country.
His words.........

"Over 300 terrorists were killed while a few were also captured. Several weapons and equipment were also captured and some destroyed",

The Defence spokesman also confirmed that five different types of armoured fighting vehicles, an
anti-aircraft gun, about 50 cases of packed bombs and eight different types of machine guns, five rocket propelled grenades, 49 boxes of
various types and calibres of ammunition as well as 300 motorcycles destroyed in the fighting.

In addition, he said, a total of six Hilux vehicles including those mounted with anti-aircraft guns
were also destroyed. However, two soldiers lost their lives while 10 others were wounded in the course of the operation.

Olukolade said the cordon and search operations is continuing along with aggressive patrols by troops who are now dominating the
11 cleared communities including Monguno, Gabchari, Abba Jabari, Zuntur, Gajigana, Gajiram, Damakar, Kumaliwa, Bosso Wanti, Jeram and
Kabrisungul.

He assured that "the various phases of the highly coordinated air and land operations is also ongoing in the designated theaters being
handled by contingents involved in the renewed counter terrorism campaign in and outside Nigeria"

Nigerian 2015 general elections must not hold- Boko Haram vows

The Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram has vowed to disrupt next month’s re-scheduled Nigeria general elections.
The group yesterday Tuesday released a video in which the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt the polls at any cost.
He said the group will use any means possible to make ensure the elections did not hold as planned by INEC.

The 15mins video was released through the group's new twitter account, prompting some analysts to question whether they had been
influenced by Islamic State.
But something looks different this time around about the quality of the video. Previously, Boko Haram videos were of a lower quality and were being distributed to journalists on DVD.
But the latest video is of a better quality.