Kano Police find high-powered weaponry in Nasarawa area, Military kills 50 suspected terrorist in Borno hideouts raid & other important news you should know today

by Oge Okonkwo

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Kano Police find high powered weaponry in Nasarawa area -Sahara Reporters

The Kano State Police Command on Thursday uncovered 13 high caliber Improvised Explosive Devices, known as IEDs, at Sauna Fafunga in the Dakata area of Nasarawa Local Government Area.

The terrorists who had parked a starlet car, ox-blood in colour, at about 2 P.M. near a Juma’at Mosque, had primed the IEDs waiting for the Juma’at prayer to commence before carrying out their act.

It was later learned that a 10-year old boy had notified the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Dakata, Superintendent Sani Ahmed, that he became suspicious and suspected a rickety car parked by the side of the Mosque. Read more…

Military kills 50 suspected terrorist in Borno hideouts raid – Premium Times

The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said on Friday that more than 50 suspected terrorists died during a raid on a makeshift camp used by terrorists in Miyanti and Bulungu, Borno State.

In a statement posted on its website, the Defence Headquarters said 53 terrorists died in the encounter, while the troops lost two of their men, and five others received injuries.

The DHQ said that a fuel dump used for storing fuel, vehicles, including Toyota Hilux trucks, and seven motorcycles were destroyed in the raid. Read more…

WHO warns of the risk of Ebola spread in West Africa – Vanguard

The World Health Organization has warned that Ebola could spread beyond hard-hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to neighbouring nations, but insisted that travel bans were not the answer.

“We want other countries in west Africa to be ready,” WHO Ebola specialist Pierre Formenty said on Friday.

“I’m talking about bordering countries like Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau,” he told reporters. Read more…

Chibok Schoolgirls: I am not weak, Jonathan says – Premium Times

Worried by local and international criticism, President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday explained his government’s seeming inaction in rescuing the over 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

Mr. Jonathan, in an article he wrote for the Washington Post, said he was “deeply concerned” about the abduction. He said he knows his silence on the abduction “is being misused by partisan critics to suggest inaction or even weakness.” Read more…

ASUU-LASU debunks rift within lecturers – PM News

Some lecturers at the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo on Friday defied the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by commencing lectures.

NAN checks at the university’s faculties showed that lectures were held by some lecturers in the Faculties of Social Sciences, Management Sciences and Arts.

Prof. Olatunji Abanikanda of the Department of Zoology, told NAN that he had began lecturing since 26 June, in compliance with the newly-approved 2013/2014 academic calendar of the university. Read more…

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