Kidnappers Release Nkiru Sylvanus & Kenneth Okolie

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Good news reaching us is that Nollywood actress, Nkiru Sylvanus and former Mr Nigeria, Kenneth Okolie who were kidnapped on Saturday in Owerri have been released by their captors. Nkiru, who is also a special assistant on public relations to the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha and Kenneth were kidnapped at a place where they were taping an episode of a public relation’s show, “Inside Imo” somewhere close to the famous Concord Hotel, Owerri. Vanguard reports that they were released on Thursday night.

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Nigerian Police bars SSCE & Third Class Degree Holders from Recruitment

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To join the Nigerian Police as a Constable, you would need to have an academic qualification higher than a Secondary School Certificate and to become an Inspector, a Third Class Degree would no longer be accepted as the minimum entry option has now been reviewed.

This was noted by the Commissioner and Chairman, Public Affairs Committee of the Police Service Commission, Comfort Obi, yesterday in Abuja. She explained that the commission had reviewed the recruitment process into the police.

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Two Nigerian Teenagers get Life Sentences for the Murder of a 17 Year-Old in the UK

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Kwame Ofusu-Asare

“Everyone gets stabbed, everyone gets shot. Everyone dies, everyone goes to jail, that’s how life is.”

That was the chilling statement made by Nathaniel Okusanya, 19 who along with his friend, Nelson Idiabeta, 18, killed Kwame Ofosu-Asare, an innocent 17-year-old student in March this year after mistaking him for a rival gang member. At the time of the murder, Okusanya was 18 while Idiabeta was 17.

Kwame just happened to be “in the wrong place at the wrong time” and was stabbed 14 times in the back in a ‘cowardly and merciless’ murder by the two young men.

According to Daily Mail, the pair were members of the TN1 gang – Trust No One – out to avenge one of their member who was stabbed by a rival gang member from the GAS gang – Guns and Shanks – just hours earlier. They had toured housing estates in Brixton to find rival gang members and came upon 17-year-old Kwame and his friend, who had nothing to do with any gangs. He was a sixth-form student who moved to London from Ghana in 2002.

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Secondary School Students in Ogun State narrate how their Principal Conducted Unauthorized Virginity Tests on Them

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The Principal of a Secondary School in Ogun state, Olufunke Oladeojobi, has been quizzed by the police for allegedly conducting virginity tests on some students in her school.

Without seeking the consent of the parents and guardians of the students, she called in a nurse and jointly carried out virginity tests on a group of 10 students last week Monday.

Punch reports that the principal and the nurse whose name could not be ascertained allegedly dipped their fingers into the pupils’ private parts. After the exercise, which took place at the principal’s office, each of the pupils was given an exercise book.

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Policeman kills bus conductor for stepping on him

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Lagos CP, Umar Manko

A yet-to-be identified policeman attached to the Alapere Police Division, Ketu, Lagos, on Wednesday allegedly shot and killed a bus conductor for stepping on him.

Eyewitnesses said the policeman was standing at Tipper Bus Stop when the conductor stepped on him.

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I Don’t Have Anything to Do With Members of Boko Haram – Buhari

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Mohammed Buhari

Former presidential candidate of the Congress for Political Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), has restated that he does not have anything to do with members of the violent Boko Haram sect.
In addition, he said that the “biggest” Boko Haram in Nigeria is the Federal Government itself.

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JTF Foils IED Attack In Maiduguri

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The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri this morning foiled an attempted attack on one of its vehicles.

The incident occurred in the Costain area where suspected Boko Haram operatives planted a remote controlled Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the road.  The target was a JTF Toyota Hilux vehicle.

A statement by JTF spokesman, Lt. Colonel Sagir Musa said nobody was killed or wounded.

Source: Sahara Reporters

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