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Brock Lesnar def. The Undertaker (Hell in a Cell Match)

Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens def. Dolf Zigler

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins def. Kane

Divas Champion Charlotte def. Nikki Bella

WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day def. The Dudley Boyz

Roman Reigns def. Bray Wyatt (Hell in a Cell Match)

Alberto Del Rio def. John Cena (New U.S. Champion; U.S. Championship Open Challenge)

Dolph Ziggler, Cesaro & Neville def. Rusev, Sheamus & King Barrett (Kickoff Match)

Breaking! Another Plane crashes again. All on board feared dead.

An airliner has crashed in central Sinai killing all 224 people on board, Egyptian officials have said.

The Airbus A-321 had just left the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, bound for the Russian city of St Petersburg.

Wreckage was found in the Hasana area and bodies removed, along with the plane's "black box". An official described a "tragic scene" with bodies of victims still strapped to seats.

Egypt's prime minister said no "irregular" activities were to blame.

Sinai has an active militant network, and on Saturday afternoon, jihadis allied to the so-called Islamic State made a claim on social media that they brought down flight KGL9268.

But Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov told Interfax news agency that "such reports cannot be considered true". No evidence had been seen that indicated the plane was targeted, he said.

Egypt's civilian aviation ministry said the plane had been at an altitude of 9,450m (31,000ft) when it disappeared.

Security experts say a plane flying at that altitude would be beyond the range of a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile (Manpad), which Sinai militants are known to possess.

But the German carrier Lufthansa said it would avoid flying over Sinai "as long as the cause for today's crash has not been clarified". On Saturday evening, Air France said it was following suit.

British Airways and easyJet said their routes were regularly reviewed, but that they had no plans to alter their routes to and from Sharm el-Sheikh.

Breaking! New Zealand win Rugby World Cup

The  Zealand won Rugby World Cup beating Australia 34 - 17. Richie McCaw on live interview with BBC said: "We said four years ago that we get on the road again with this being the end goal, try and do something no-one else has done. I'm so proud of the guys. we lost a bit of momentum in the second half but we kept our composure and came back strong. 

"I wouldn't say anxious. I knew the momentum was against us but we've been in those situations before. it'a a matter of not panicking. I've done it many times over the years, but to do it in a World Cup final shows the caliber of me we've got."

Will he retire? "I still don't want it to end. I'm still part of this team, I'm going to enjoy today, how can you have enough of this? I don't think you ever have enough of it. If you get moments like this why would you ever call it a day." 

ITS PAYBACK TIME. Orubebe charged before CCT

The federal government will on November 9th, 2015 arraign former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on a four-count charge, Orubebe is said to have breached the Code of Conduct rules for public officers.

According to Ibraheem Al-hassan, Head, Press and Public Relations, already, the charge was served on the former Minister by the bailiff of the Code of Conduct Tribunal yesterday.

The charges were filed by Peter Danladi (Esq) of Code of Conduct Bureau, on the 8th of October 2015, on behalf of Attorney General of the Federation.

The charges before the tribunal are: that “you Godsday Peter Orubebe while being a Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria in charged Niger Delta Affairs, on or about June 29th 2011 did make a false declaration in your Asset Declaration Form by failing to declare plot 2722 Kyamu District Abuja on assumption of office on 26th September 2007 and on leaving office (at the end of your tenure), on June 29, 2011 and you thereby committed an offence under section 15 of Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act Cap C15 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and as incorporated under paragraph 11(1) & (2) of part 1 fifth schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and punishable under section 23(2) of the CCB & T Act and as incorporated under paragraph 18 of part 1, fifth schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).

“That you Godsday Peter Orubebe while being a Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria in charge of Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, on or about June 29, 2011 did made a false declaration in your asset declaration form by failing to declare plot 2059 Asokoro district, Abuja on assumption of office on September 26, 2007 and on June 29, 2011 and you thereby committed an offence under section 15 of the CCB & T Act, Cap C15, laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and as incorporated under paragraph 11(1) & (2) of part one fifth schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), and punishable under section 23 (2) of the CCB & T Act and as incorporated in paragraph 18 part 1 fifth schedule to The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).”

 

WONDERS WILL NEVER END! Robbers force students to have Sex with themselves.

Within few minutes of settling down in a secluded place – off the campus – where Bimbola (not real name) agreed to narrate her ordeal to our correspondent last Monday, the dry white handkerchief she was holding became soaked with tears.

She tried to stop weeping for a while, but she couldn’t resist it, and the more her friend – who followed her to the meeting – tried to calm her down, the more she struggled to hold back her tears. What she passed through in August was painful, unimaginable and dehumanising. In fact, she might not be able to forget that night in her life.

Ever since the incident, everything about her has changed, according to her friend.

In the night of August 13, 2015 – around 12 midnight – she said she and her roommate had returned from a night reading class in preparation for their forthcoming exam in November, locked their room and were about to sleep when they heard their hostel mates jamming their doors, screaming and walking up the hostel stairs.

Before they knew what was happening, the men were at their door and expectedly, they forced the door open. “Come out now or we will kill you,” she recalled what the men told her and her roommate, and with fear and trembling, the girls did their bidding.

Three hefty fearful-looking men, clad in black polos and jeans, armed with guns, machetes and axes had stormed their hostel – located in the Under G Area of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State – and demanded that all the students, both male and female, should gather in one room.

While one of the hoodlums stayed with the students, pointing guns at them should they ‘misbehave,’ the other two locked the entrance to the hostel, ransacked all rooms one after the other, stole the students’ laptops, money, debit cards, tablets and mobile phones.

But even after stealing all their property, the robbers were not done. The next command they gave the students was what Bimbola has not yet got over with.

She narrated, “They raped some girls in our presence, but not only that, they asked us to start having sex with ourselves. They called from among us a guy and a girl and asked them to have sex with themselves, right in everybody’s presence. They threatened to use their weapons on us if we didn’t cooperate. Then they asked all of us to strip naked. Since it was in the night, most of us ladies already had only our night gowns on, while most of the guys were just putting on boxers. They said we should all be naked. When they were satisfied, they called another pair of students to do the same thing and told everybody to watch.

“For about three hours, they dehumanised us, humiliated us. Unfortunately, nobody in the next hostel knew what was going on; if anyone knew, they would have helped us to call the police or the Student Union Government officials.”

But what was more pathetic about Bimbola’s story was that she didn’t just witness the whole action; she was also asked to have sex with a guy she never dated. “Everything happened like it was a dream. They pointed at a guy I knew as my junior and asked him to do ‘it’ with me. When I refused, they slapped me and I fell. I had no option than to do it. I looked at my roommate and she was already shedding tears for me. How humiliated I was!” she cried.

She further told our correspondent, “It was not a night to remember. I wish I could erase it from my memory. My friend and I returned to the hostel that night after reading in the school because our exam is fast approaching. If I knew something like that would happen, I would have stayed in the school till the morning, but I needed to prepare for the following day’s work. I had just finished having a shower when my roommate and I observed something was wrong. There was no light, so we couldn’t see properly, but we observed that our hostel mates were all jamming their doors at some men’s command.

“They cramped all of us in one of the rooms upstairs and we were all frightened. My parents are not yet aware of this incident and I don’t wish to share it with anyone again. I only agreed to speak to you because my friend here encouraged me to and I feel something should be done by the authorities concerned to stop this barbarism. I know I’ll be fine soon.”

Since July when they resumed for the semester, the students of LAUTECH have been witnessing robbery attacks and rape by the same set of unknown men – who call themselves ‘Three MOPOLs’ each time they barge into their victims’ hostels.

Though the institution is non-residential, individuals and private organisations provide accommodation for the students around the university.

The Welfare Officer of the Student Union Government of the institution, Ridwan Okedara, said he could not count the number of calls he had received ever since the incident started occurring in July up till about two weeks ago. He said it was unfortunate that the hoodlums had yet to be apprehended.

He said, “I’ve received calls in the past four months almost every passing night about this incident. Victims and eyewitnesses usually say the robbers were always three and they would tell them they were the ‘Three MOPOLS,’ but we are not sure if they are not even more than that. For instance, there were some nights when I received calls that the robbers were operating in the Adenike Area (a popular students’ residential area near the school) and I would quickly call our security officers to go to the said hostel, but few minutes later, I would receive a call that they were operating somewhere else.

“Before the security people could get there, the robbers would have left and we would hear they had started operating somewhere else. We don’t know their tactics yet. From what we have heard from eyewitnesses, they would enter a hostel, pretend as if they were looking for somebody and before the students knew it, they would threaten them with guns and machetes and ask all of them to be inside one particular room after collecting their phones, laptops and money. They ask the students to strip off their clothes – both male and female, then ask them to start having sex with themselves. They could call a male from say 200 Level and ask him to have sex with say a 400 Level female student.

“These robbers rape our students and then ask the students to have sex with themselves. We’ve heard a case when the robbers used white handkerchiefs to wipe the private parts of the students after the act. We are also suspecting ritualism here. They go to hostels anytime from 8pm to 1am and from eyewitnesses’ accounts, there was usually no light anytime the hoodlums carried out their operation.”

This is exactly what another victim of robbery in September by the same ‘Three MOPOLs’ said, who spoke with Saturday PUNCH on the condition of anonymity at a restaurant outside the school premises.

Meanwhile, Okedara has information about some of the hostels where the incidents [rape and robbery] had taken place, but pleaded to be kept secret to avoid undue stigmatisation of the victims, which is perhaps understandable.

The other victim who spoke with our correspondent said, “It was very dark and there was no light to see their faces when they came to our hostel. They told us they were the ‘Three MOPOLS,’ and mere looking at them, we could not imagine how they were able to gain entry into our hostel and ordering all of us to go inside one room. We were told to take off our clothes and they raped some of the girls. They didn’t rape me and they didn’t ask me to have sex with anyone, but they stole my laptop and phone. It was traumatic. It was like experiencing hell that night.”

The President of the school’s chapter of the Women Against Rape, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Exploitation, who is a nursing student in the institution and also the Vice-President, the National Union of Campus Journalists, Israel Fawole, said the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and the national body of the Women Against Rape organisation had already been informed about the issue and that they had taken interest in the matter.

He further said some of the victims had been taken in for rehabilitation at undisclosed locations due to the trauma they had experienced.

He said, “Not all of them are willing to open up, but some have come forward and they are being taken care of. Rape is an epidemic and it must stop. Some of the victims are undergoing rehabilitation now. Most of them are shy to talk about it, but recently, we organised a peace walk against rape, where female students had to protest against the incident.

“It is so unfortunate that unwanted visitors would barge in, threaten our students with axes and guns, ask the opposite sexes to start having sex in their presence and other students. They collect the students’ property, rape them and still tell them to commit sex with one another. We are tired of this mess.”

Forced into lesbianism

Another terrible aspect about the incident is when the hoodlums ordered female students whom they had taken hostage to make love among themselves, thereby practically forcing them to commit an act of lesbianism. An official of the institution, with whom some of the victims and eyewitnesses had shared their ordeal with, told Saturday PUNCH.

The official, who pleaded anonymity, said some female students confided in him that they were asked to have sex with other female students during the robbery operations.

“I believe it is more than what meets the eyes. This is not an ordinary robbery. Normal robbers take what they want and leave. They would not ask students to all be in one room, tell them to go unclad, rape the female ones and still tell their victims to have sex with one another. It is a disgusting thing and as a parent myself, I have been unhappy since I started hearing the bad experiences of some of our students,” he said.

Bimbola had also told our correspondent that the robbers called a female student and asked her to have sex with another female student in the night they attacked them.

When students become vigilantes

This situation could perhaps be ascribed to poor insecurity for the students of the institution, with some of the students blaming the situation on both the police (for allegedly extorting and not protecting them) and the school management (for not intervening on time when the crisis started).

For several weeks, the students became their own security personnels. While the male ones carried planks to scare off the ‘unseen’ criminals and burned tyres in the night, the female students cheered up their male colleagues.

The SUG Welfare Officer, Okedara, said, “The insecurity in the school is unfortunate. This started a week after we resumed for this semester. On the first day of our resumption, we had an issue with the police, which led to a serious misunderstanding. The SUG had a confrontation with the police then. They used to patrol hostels and in the process did extort our students, according to victims. They would stop students on the road and probably if they saw expensive phones or tablets on them, they would ask where they got them from. Their mentality is that those using ‘big’ phones are ‘Yahoo-yahoo’ people (internet fraudsters).

“We got several reports from our students on this issue and we couldn’t take it anymore. The president of the SUG challenged them and this led to a fracas. We went to the station at Owode to report to the DPO, but they attacked us. We went to the Soun (the traditional ruler) of Ogbomoso and the resolution there was that if we didn’t want them to be coming again, they wouldn’t come because we really didn’t see any impact they were making then apart from extorting students. We wanted them to stop coming because of the bad eggs among them, but the Commissioner for Police has intervened in the matter.

“Few days after this confrontation with the police, the incident became rampant and this has turned almost all of us to vigilantes. We stay late at night, keeping vigil and burning tyres, just to scare off the perpetrators of this crime. When we started hearing of this act, all students usually went to bed early, but we found out that it was giving these ‘three MOPOLs’ an advantage. We sensitised ourselves and we decided to stay late at nights.”

The President of the SUG of the institution, Olatunde Bakare, said he had been personally leading a team of student vigilantes since July due to the alleged nonchalant attitude of the police and the school management previously.

He said, “It is a bad experience and it saddens my heart that something this disgusting is happening to our students. When it started, we thought it was something we could curb on our own, so we took to the streets. I led a group of students who became watchmen overnight. We constituted a security committee on our own to be our own security personnels.

“We have both the male and female students keeping vigil. We don’t carry guns, but only burn tyres and we hold planks, just to let the robbers know we are not sleeping. We stay up till 3am and this has affected students, especially those who have lectures early in the morning, but we cannot rest until we apprehend these criminals. The exam is starting next month and we hope this will not happen again.

“We found out that anytime the operation was going on in, say Area A, we would get a call that it was going on in Area B. We would have apprehended the criminals, but for the diversion in reports. We couldn’t involve the police initially because the bad eggs there were just extorting our students. The aspect of ritualism is more disgusting to me.

“Because the school is non-residential, it has exposed us to many hazards. We protested that the school management should do something and we told them we want the school to become residential so that there could be more security. We believe if the management could work on our resolution in reviewing the edict which established the school, it could become residential. Hostels could be built on the campus so that the school security would help a lot in protecting our students.”

Anger, protests

Bakare, like other students Saturday PUNCH spoke with, also said protests had been staged against the school management on the issue because rather than the school looking deeply into the issue and responding appropriately, they responded that because it is a non-residential institution, they had the responsibility of protecting students only when they were on the campus and not when in their hostels.

The response of the management did not in any way sound sensible to the students.

“The management’s claim was that the school is non-residential, but when it became unbearable, they called a meeting of all the stakeholders and they have started doing something. The DSS, SARS, OPC and local vigilantes too are now with us. We called on the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company and they too have improved on supplying electricity to hostels. If those criminals try it again, we will apprehend them,” Bakare boasted.

‘We’re beefing up security’

The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi, said the insinuation that the university management didn’t do anything on the rape and robbery incidents was far from the truth. He said the school had, before the incidents, teamed up with landlords of students’ hostels in hiring security officials to patrol the hostels.

He, however, said it was a challenge providing security for the over 4,000 students of the institution, being a non-residential one.

He said, “We seek the understanding of the students to know the challenge facing the management. The edict establishing the school does not in the first place allow us to have hostels. Be that as it may, we would like members of the public to know that long before the recent ugly happenings, there was a standing security committee of the university – members include representatives of all security agencies and I can state categorically that all the main security arms of the government have served diligently well in this committee.

“Even in the most recent incidents, the management summoned a meeting of all landlords, agents and students to brainstorm on ways of increasing security awareness and combating crime. It went further to call an emergency meeting of the university governing council.

“As parents themselves, the members of the council frowned at the appalling situation and granted all requests of the management aimed at putting immediate stop to any crime against the students. The university has long before now been funding a joint patrol of security in areas popularly inhabited by its students and the management is not willing to stop at anything when it comes to guaranteeing the safety of lives and property of our students.”

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OBAMA DEPLOYS SPECIAL FORCES TO SYRIA

The United States have announced the deployment of 50 special forces Personnel to Syria in the war against ISIS, the state department announced Thursday. This is a clear departure from the Administration's position of "No boots on the ground" in Syria. According to the White House, the Pentagon has also been “consulting” with the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, to establish a special operations taskforce to fight Isis “leaders and networks” across the Syrian border in Iraq, a senior administration official told the Guardian on Friday.

But the White House insisted that its overall strategy to combat Isis remained the same and said the special forces troops would be helping coordinate local ground forces in the north of the country and other non-specified “coalition efforts” to counter Isis rather than engaging in major ground operations.

“The decision the president has made is to further intensify our support for our forces who have made progress against Isis,” the White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, said at a news conference.

WORST ROAD ACCIDENT SINCE 1982 KILLS 40 IN FRANCE

More than 40 pensioners on a day trip have been killed after their bus crashed with a truck on a country road in south-western France.

The collision happened near Puisseguin in the Gironde wine region, east of Bordeaux, after the bus had set off from a nearby town. The truck driver also died.

The French president said he was "plunged into sadness by the tragedy".

This is the worst French road disaster since one in 1982 when 52 people died.

The crash happened at around 07:30 local time (05:30 GMT).

HIV CURE DISCOVERED BY DOCTOR WHO CREATED IT

Over 40 years after AIDS has killed millions of people across the world, a top doctor pointedly fingered for creating HIV in the early 1970s, Robert Gallo has come out now saying he has discovered the vaccine.

Dr. Robert Gallo, this week described his breakthrough vaccine as “just another protein” but different than anything that has been tried before.

He also exuberantly labelled it “the beginning of the beginnings”. 
Gallo was exposed in a previous ZimEye article after having been confronted on live video for his alleged role in embarking on biological warfare intended to wipe out black people as well as gay men in the 1970s. 

This time Gallo has announced he is beginning the first human trials of his suddenly discovered HIV vaccine.

He described the vaccine as “just a protein” but different than anything that has been tried before. 

It’s designed to induce a new kind of antibody to target infection right at the start, since the AIDS virus integrates within one day into human genes, and it becomes part of DNA in 24-36 hours. 

Gallo said it has taken nine years to get to this stage. The goal of the first phase is to prove his belief that the vaccine is safe. 

“I think it’s very interesting and important to see how we do in man in the first phases and the second phases, but we know it’s the beginning of the beginning,” Gallo said. “I’d feel a eureka moment, an exciting moment, if I knew it works. You know, we have a way to go to know these things.” 

Phase one has started enrolling volunteers, 60 of which are needed. Twenty people will get this vaccine candidate, and Gallo said the first person will be injected by the end of this month. 

Phase two involves linking up with other people’s vaccines, Gallo said, in the hope of finding a “one-two punch” that really does the trick. 

BREAKING! EFCC QUIZES FORMER KEBBI STATE GOVERNOR, USMAN DAKINGARI

Reports just coming in reveals that former Governor of Kebbi state Usman Dakingari has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He was arrested few hours ago by the agency in Abuja thursday. The Ex-Gov is accused of laundering N3.8billion of Kebbi state funds during his tenure as Governor of the state. He is answering questions at the moment at the Commission's Headquarters in Abuja.

Recently, his wife Zainab was accused of laundering N2billion for him.

Details follows..........

WORLD WAR III LOOMS

China joins Russia aerial bombardments in Syria in the fight against ISIS.

Obviously, this leaves the United States and allies sharply divided on their parallel foreign  policies in the region. China and Russia's involvement in this war has strengthened the Assad regime fighters and government who the US and its allies want to oust out of office for allegedly waging war on his own people.

China has already warned that World War III is inevitable unless the US backs down.

POLICE AND OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES COMMENCES PROCESS OF ENROLLING IN IPPIS

Last week the Nigeria Police started the process of enrolling on the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS). The policy was first introduced in 2011 by the Jonathan Administration but only few of the MDA's migrated to the scheme. Out of the over 400 MDA's, only about half complied. President Buhari in his determination to cut costs gave a marching order to all Federal MDA's to migrate to IPPIS immediately. The Police and other agencies have distributed data capturing forms to its personnel in compliance to the President's directives.

NIGERIA'S TAX AGENCIES SHORTCHANGING NIGERIA IN BILLIONS

A guest on Burgami, a Community Radio show on 92.1 FM Monday in Abuja revealed how Govt. Tax Agencies are shortchanging the Federal Govt. of Nigeria of huge sums of money in sharp practises as a result of the newly implemented TSA Policy. These agencies who collects tax in dollars chooses to remit such taxes in naira after converting the dollar in the open market at the rate of N224 and N225 naira to 1 USD as against N199 official rates. The difference is then taken  away. President  Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a probe in all these agencies.

Details soon.

SECURITY TIPS: - How To Identify A Suicide Bomber

The following tips is to guide us on how to identify a suicide bomber and the safety measures to take.
According to security experts, one of the easiest ways of identifying a suicide bomber is the suspicious manner in which the bombers carry themselves, by ensuring they avoid eye contact with people around.
Although there are no specific profile for suicide bombers, as they can come from nearly every cultural background, religion, race, creed or gender, they however share some common characteristics that define a potential suicide bomber.
Here are signs you should watch out for as compiled by Daily Correspondents' forensic experts:
*Always be on the lookout, especially in trains, busses, planes, markets, malls and large events!

A suicide bomber:
*Wears loose clothing giving the impression that the body is disproportionately larger than the head or feet.
*Wears heavy clothing, no matter what the season (out of season dresses; he or she may be wearing cold sweaters during hot season).
*Has unusual gait, a "robotic" walk. Stiff movements, lack of mobility of lower torso or decreased flexibility (from wearing bomb device – however backpacks are increasingly common.
*Display of tunnel vision. The bomber often will be fixated on the target and appear nervous, preoccupied, or have a blank stare.
*He or she appears to be focused and vigilant and may be fervently praying to him/herself – giving the appearance of whispering to someone.
*Displays no response to authoritative voice or direct salutation.
*Behavior which may be consistent with no future – unconcerned about receiving purchases or change.
*Walk with deliberation – but not running – towards a visible objective.
*Demonstrates forceful actions (to reach a desired target by pushing their way through a crowd or into a restricted area)
*Displays signs of drug use - including, for example, enlarged pupils, fixed stare, and erratic behavior.
*Carries bags or backpacks (used to carry explosives, nails, and other shrapnel). The bomber generally holds his or her bag or backpack tighly. Wires sticking out of the bag.
*Has a fresh shave - a male with a fresh shave and lighter skin on his lower face. May also have shaved his or her head or have a short haircut (This may be done to disguise appearance or to be better groomed when going to paradise).

*May smell of unusual herbal/flower water (in order to smell better when going to paradise).

NOTE: The unusual herbal body odour, is as a result of the incense used in the final rituals performed on them as they take off for the suicide mission.
*Has a hand in the pocket or tightly gripping something like a triggering device.

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US DEPLOYS TROOPS TO CAMEROON TO FIGHT BOKO HARAM

14 October 2015 – The United States is sending up to 300 troops, along with surveillance drones, to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort to counter Nigeria’s Boko Haram armed group.

In a letter to Congress on Wednesday, President Barack Obama said 90 military personnel began deploying to Cameroon on Monday ahead of the arrival of additional troops “to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations in the region”.

“The total number of US military personnel to be deployed to Cameroon is anticipated to be up to approximately 300,” Obama said.

“These forces are equipped with weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security, and they will remain in Cameroon until their support is no longer needed.”

A defence department spokesman told reporter in a statement that the deployed personnel will support ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) flights being conducted in the area.

The statement said the personnel had been deployed at the invitation of the Cameroon government.

“The results of these ISR flights will better enable African partners to secure their borders against violent and illegal activities disrupting our common desire for stability in the region,” the statement said.

“Most importantly, all information collected by US’ unarmed, remotely-piloted aircraft is used to support international counter-violent extremist organisation operations.”

US officials said the troops would provide intelligence to a multinational task force being set up to fight Boko Haram and composed of troops from Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad and Benin.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the US had offered its “unique capabilities” to assist with the regional effort.

“This deployment will be part of an effort to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations in the region,” Earnest said.

“This is obviously a unique capacity that the United States has to bring to bear to this effort, and it will be used in support of the ongoing regional counter-extremist efforts that are ongoing there.”

Boko Haram, which wants to implement Islamic law in Nigeria’s northeast, has launched attacks in Nigeria and neighbouring countries over the past few months.

BREAKING! EFCC ARRESTS FORMER GOV GODSWILL AKPABIO

A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

EFCC operatives arrested the Senate Minority at about 5.20 pm on Friday.

He was accompanied to the EFCC office in Abuja by Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Ricky Tarfa and some aides.

ABIA STATE SETTLES WORKERS OWED SALARIES

Anambra Pays Workers outstanding Salaries.

Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, says he has fulfilled his pledge to workers in the state to pay all the salaries and pensions backlog, ahead of the deadline of 30 October.

Government commended workers for their patience so far and assure them that all efforts will be made to ensure that they are not owed any arrears of salary.

The Chairman of the Bailout Funds Management Committee, Mr. Obinna Oriaku declared today that all outstanding Salaries and Pensions in Abia State have been transmitted to banks for onward disbursement to their beneficiaries.

Going by the breakdown of the payments made, three month salary arrears owed council workers and four months to primary school teachers have been paid.

Arrears owed pensioners, ministries, agency and judiciary workers have also been cleared.

The biggest beneficiaries are Health Management Board workers, Abia University and Abia State University Teaching Hospital Staff: arrears running into seven and eight months have been paid.

Also paid are workers of Abia State polytechnic, owed six months and workers of College of Education, Arochukwu owed eight months.

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FASHOLA EDUCATES THE SENATE DURING HIS MINISTERIAL SCREENING (Pictures...)

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NIGERIAN ARMY JAILS GENERAL OVER BOKO HARAM WAR

Nigerian Army dismisses, jails Army General for losing equipment to Boko Haram

Brig. Ransome Kuti

The Nigerian military on Thursday convicted a Brigadier General, Enitan Ransome-Kuti, blamed for the loss of Baga in Borno State to Boko Haram insurgents in January.

Mr. Ransome-Kuti, son of Beko Ransome-Kuti, a foremost Nigerian pro-democracy activist who died on February 10, 2006, was arraigned before a military court, sitting in Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, in May.

He was accused of cowardly behaviour, loss of weapons to Boko Haram, and negligent performance of military duty under section 62b of the Armed Forces Act.
In its judgment Thursday, the court dismissed the charge bordering on cowardly behaviour, following a no-case submission by the defendant.

The court said the officer was right in withdrawing his troops in the face of superior firepower from Boko Haram terrorists.

He was however sentenced to six-month imprisonment for loss of equipment to the extremist sect.

He was also found guilty for negligently performing his duties and was therefore dismissed from service.

Femi Falana, SAN, assisted by a retired Army Major, Femi Oyebanji, represented the convicted General during the trial.

Mr. Falana said on Friday morning that his team was still reviewing the judgment, which he described as contradictory.

He promised to provide further details later.

Mr. Ransome-Kuti, his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel G.A. Suru, and some other senior officers, were arrested for failing to repel Boko Haram attack on the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force [MNJTF] in Baga in January.

Also arrested at the time were the Commanding Officers of the 134 and 174 Battalions — Lieutenant Colonel Haruna and Major Aliyu. The two battalions were under the MNJTF during the period.

Mr. Ransome-Kuti was the commander of the multinational force during the attack.

BOKO HARAM DETONATES MULTIPLE BOMBS ON MAIDUGURI - DAMBOA - BIU ROAD.

Latest reports coming in reveals that multiple bombs exploded at a small town of Umamari along Maiduguri - Damboa - Biu road Friday Morning. 17 people are feared dead while 7 have been injured in the attack. In recent weeks, the insurgents have resulted to attacking soft targets causing the death of many in Abuja towns of Kuje, Nyanya, Damaturu, Maiduguri and now along Damboa road. This suggest according to security experts that they sect group have lost the capacity to launch attacks on troops and armless civilian towns in heavy miliatarised convoy as seen in the past. It is left to be seen if the Presidential directive to end this war by December will be actualised.

WWE SMACKDOWN RESULTS - OCT. 15, 2015

WWE SMACKDOWN RESULTS - OCT. 15, 2015

The New Day Destroyed the Dudley Boyz and Dean Ambrose in a hellacious Six-Man Tag Match.

SmackDown was yet again another action packed night on the WWE network as fans were trilled by the skills of the WWE superstars. Rusev's unsteady relationship with fans favorite Lana is really having a negative impact on him. The back crushing superstar suffered yet again another loss against non other but Dolf Zigler who took his Girlfriend Lana couple of weeks ago.

The following results were recorded.

Roman Reigns def. Bo Dallas

Cesaro and Neville def. King Barret and Sheamus

Kevin Owens def. Zack Rider

Dolf Zigler def. Rusev

Braun Strowman and Luke Harper def. The Prime Time Players.

The Dudley boyz and Dean Ambrose def. the New Age via disqualification.

OUR DEFEAT WAS PAINFUL - PDP

WE HAVE RECOVERED FROM DEFEAT - PDP

Nigeria's major opposition party seems to have swallowed her pride and put its house in order after their shock defeat in the 2015 general elections where it lost to the ruling All Progressive Patry APC. The Party stated this in a communique issued after a National Executive Commitee (NEC) meeting held in Abuja on thursday. The Acting National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus said "Our Party has witnessed challenging times after our disappointing loss in the last elections. We moved from pain, despair, soul-searching and now by the grace of Almighty God, we have started the process of reduilding confidence in ourselves for a brighter future for our Party".

The Party urged the Government to prevent further destruction of democracy which the PDP protected for the last 16 years.