by Oge Okonkwo

 

#BringBackOurGirls:US to deploy troops to rescue abducted girls

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday accepted the offer of the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to assist Nigerian troops towards rescuing the abducted 234 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno State.

Disclosing this to State House correspondents, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,  Reuben Abati, said that Jonathan accepted the offer through phone call conversation with United States Secretary of State, John Kerry. Read more….

Abduction scare: Police recover school bus

The Nigerian Police Force says it has recovered a school bus belonging to the Divine International Academy School in Phase IV Nyanya, a suburb of Federal Capital Territory which was snatched on Tuesday morning by gunmen within the premises of the School.

The snatching of the bus had created pandemonium in the area where two bomb attacks by the insurgent group Boko Haram had claimed over 100 lives in less than a month as rumours spread that children were inside the bus when it was taken away by the by the unidentified gunmen. Read more….

#BringBackOurGirls: Forensic scientists ready to help, free of charge

Forensic DNA technology could help identify and reunite with their families the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Islamist militants, scientists told AFP Tuesday.

Software already exists to match missing people with their relatives, and it has been used worldwide to identify and return more than 700 children who were trafficked, some across international borders.

Most of all, forensic scientists in the United States and Spain say they are ready to help, free of charge. All they need to get started are DNA samples from family members of the lost schoolgirls. Read more….

Police recover rifles from dustbin in Kano

The Police Command in Kano said on Tuesday that it had recovered two rifles from a dustbin in Kano metropolis.

ASP Magaji Majia, the command’s Spokesman, said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Kano.

He said the recovered weapons included one K2 and one G3 rifles, adding that the feat was achieved following a tip-off. Read more….

1,702 pregnant women test positive to HIV in Lagos

Statistics from the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has revealed that in the last one year 1,702 pregnant women tested positive to HIV and had to be placed on prophylaxis in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, who reeled out the statistics recently, added that 1,143 babies that had been exposed to HIV were also placed on prophylaxis Read more….