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National security spokesman Mike Omeri said on Wednesday that 36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram since the start of a four-nation military offensive, voicing hope that the operation could lead to the group’s “total defeat”.
He also stated that four towns had fallen since last Friday, including three in Borno state and Buni Yadi, in neighbouring Yobe, where the insurgents slaughtered more than 40 students in February last year before seizing it in August.
Crucial “co-operations and alliances” have led to victories over the Islamist rebels, he said, thanking neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger for cutting off “the supply lines of the terrorists”.
“It is hoped that the unfolding regional cooperation will hasten the total defeat and extermination of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the sub-region,” he added.

Prof. Madu-The main reason why OBJ organised a football match

ABEOKUTA-Former President,  Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, last week Wednesday,  dazzled many  during a fun filled football match held  at MKO International Stadium, Abeokuta when his Presidential Library team slugged it out with a team of Ogun State Government led by the governor Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
At the end of the novelty match which was to commemorate the 78th birthday of Obasanjo, OOPL team defeated  the state government team with  2-1.

Obasanjo who was the skipper for his team  displayed some dexterity on the field of play and  scored  the two  goals  while the Special

AD expels presidential candidate, criticized Buhari and adopts Jonathan

LAGOS—THE Alliance for Democracy, AD, has adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as its flag bearer for the March 28 election.

The party also said its National Executive Council, NEC, has suspended its former National Secretary, Rafiu Salau, stating that the NEC ratified the report of disciplinary committee that found Salau culpable of

Wole Soyinka blast Good luck and Buhari

Professor Soyinka, who spoke yesterday in Lagos at the public presentation of a book titled “Modern and Tradition Elite in the Politics of Lagos” written by Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole also dismissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s book, “My Watch”, as “three tonnes of doctored and self-serving narratives”, concluding that, “a little learning is a dangerous thing.”

Wole Soyinka has condemned what he described as crudity and vulgar abuse of language that has dominated the electioneering campaigns in the country and blamed

Danjuma Visits GEJ and Refuses to Endorse his 2nd Term

General Theophilus Danjuma who was the Former Chief of Army staff and Minister for Defence,yesterday met with President Good luck Jonathan behind closed doors at the official residence of the President in the presidential Villa.

General Danjuma who said he had been abroad told state House correspondents that he came to discuss with the president on the situation in the country.

Asked what he discussed with the President, General Danjuma said their discussion was confidential and urged

ORDINARY BABY MAKING MACHINE

so many ladies have increasingly been denied of their choices in the social system only to be given full regards in the area of procreation due to the continuous laws by some governments in the wake of civilization .For instance, in Iran,  Draft legislation aimed at boosting a flagging birth rate threatens to reduce Iranian women to “baby-making machines” and set their rights back by decades. A first bill, which has

Amosu is not a threat to APC - Apc chieftain

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State, Remi Bakare has said that the alleged planned defection of the state governor to another party would not affect the fortune of the ruling party in the state.
Bakare who stepped down for Amosun in 2011 governorship election on the platform of the defunct Action

Congress of Nigeria, said the party leaders were regretting the action they took by fielding Amosun as the party candidate.
Speaking with  few newsmen  yesterday, in Abeokuta,  over the crisis rocking the party in the state,  Bakare described Amosun as a stranger in the progressives party, accusing the governor of jettisoning  the party manifesto.

Senate house Approved Obanikoro as minister inspite .......

The Senate house of assembly members sitting on Wednesday has giving their immerse support for the former Lagos State PDP Governorship aspirant Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s second coming as minister.

Obanikoro that lose the position of PDP Governorship flag bear in Lagos State to Mr. Jimi Agbaje who hope to unseat the APC from Lagos State House.

Opposition from All Progressives Congress, APC,

ICE PRINCE WARNED HIS FANS AND MEDIA

Chocolate City rapper Ice prince has warned media and fans to stop comparing him to fellow Chocolate City rapper M.I Abaga( Mr Incredible).

Ice prince in recent Tweets called out Blogger and socialite Noble Igwe and warned him to stop comparing his music and that of MI.

Nigeria Army set to reclaim Bama

Investigation revealed on Tuesday that deployment of ground forces and equipment was preceded by days of targeted aerial operations in Bama and its environs.

The Nigerian Army has plugged a major operation to free the strategic town of Bama, Borno State from the deadly Boko Haram insurgents.

An intelligence source, who made this known, said that the military was expecting a productive result from Bama which was captured by the insurgents some time between September and October last year.

He also stated that, “The battle to liberate Bama has started; troops have started going in. You know that the Air Force was deployed last week to carry out targeted bombardment on the town.

“Bama promises to be a tough one because those people have fortified the place; they planted mines around the town but our soldiers are in high spirits to conquer.

INEC is not Prepared for March 28 and April 11 Election - PDPGF

The governors of the ruling peoples democratic party at an interactive

session with the media and civil society organisations in Lagos yesterday, also faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission preparedness for the elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has kicked against the use of card readers for the March 28 and April 11 general elections.

Before the interactive session titled ‘Sustenance of Democratic Values and National Development,’ ended, our correspondence learnt that INEC had summoned leaders of all the   political parties in Nigeria to a meeting on Thursday over the polls.

The governors at the Lagos forum were Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom);Ayo Fayose (Ekiti)  Liyel Imoke (Cross River);Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Babangida Aliyu (Niger) Bala Ngilari (Adamawa)and Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo).
Others   were  Jonah Jang (Plateau); Ibrahim Shema (Katsina);Mukhtar Yero (Kaduna) and Ibrahim Danwambo (Gombe).

The PDP also on Tuesday sent a Note to INEC detailing its observations on Saturday’s Card Readers mock in 12 states.