National Assembly shut down by the Senate President

Nigerian security forces fired teargas inside the parliament complex as opposition lawmakers, including the speaker of the lower house, arrived for a key vote on emergency rule in the northeast.
 

The leader of the Senate, David Mark, later ordered the immediate closure of both chambers until next week over the incident. This was as a result of the confusion that engulfed the complex earlier today.
 

Multiple reports, including from eye witnesses, indicated that security agents tried to block House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, who defected to the opposition last month, from entering the building.

 

 

Spain richest duchess dies aged 88

The Duchess of Alba, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Staurt, Spain's richest woman has died in Seville after a short illness aged 88 years.  She is the world's most titled noble.

 

The eccentric Duchess Alba was the head of one of Spain's oldest noble families.  She was also widely loved in Spain.

 

Earlier this week, she was treated for Pneumonia in the hospital but had to be taken back home.  She is survived by six children and a husband Alfonso Diez, a civil servant who is 25 years younger than her.  They got married in 2011.  She overcame opposition to the marriage from her children by giving them their inheritance in advance.

 

Suspects in court for beating and stripping naked three policewomen

The police authorities at the Oregbeni Police Station, Ikpoba Hill, Edo State are currently fuming over the beating and stripping naked of three of their colleagues (policewomen) by a group of persons at the Oregbeni Quarters.

 

The policewomen were said to have gone on the invitation of a landlady who wanted one of her tenants arrested.

 

Trouble started when the tenants who they met having her birth insisted on finishing with her bath before following them to the station.  Fracas broke out when the police officers refused and insisted the lady must follow them.  Other residents in the area were said to have joined the tenant to beat up the policewomen.

 

24-year-old commits suicide in the church

A police team in Owo, Ondo State are trying to unravel the reason why 24-year-old man, Lanre Falodu committed suicide in a church.

according to Tunde, the deceased brother, Lanre was taken to the church to seek spiritual solutions to his problems.  He was said to have at about 5.30am on the very ill-fated day escaped and was later found to have hung himself on a tree.

The pastor of the church who discovered his lifeless body reported the case to the police.  A team from the police station was dispatched to the scene of the incident where the deceased body was removed and deposited at the Owo general hospital.

 

 

Boko Haram now attack more towns in Cameroon

The Islamist extremists Boko Haram are now targeting and attacking more towns with sophisticated weapons in Cameroon.  According to Leopold Nlate Ebale, the establishment of a caliphate by Boko Haram is not aimed only at Nigeria but also Cameroon.

 

Boko Haram's focus have mainly be on towns in the North Western part of Nigeria.  Occasionally attacking some border towns in Cameroon and using them as bases for rest and to stock up with arms and food.  Recently, its attacks are now spreading further into southern part of Cameroon.

 

One dead, three wounded in a Tallahassee campus library shootout

Three people have been wounded and an armed assailant shot dead in a shooting incident at the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee.  The incident took place inside the university's Strozier Library, where the gunman fired five to six gunshots.

Tallahassee police said they confronted the suspect outside the library block, where he opened fire on officers and was shot dead.  Three people were wounded in the incident, according to police spokesman David Northway.

 

Sisters arrested for trying to smuggle marijuana to brother in prison

Two sisters, Shade Oyetobi and Atinuke Adebanwo are currently in police net for attempting to smuggle wraps of marijuana to their brother Babatunde Oyetobi, an awaiting trial inmate who is being held in a holding cell for awaiting trail inmates.  Babatunde was arrested for street fighting and has been in prison custody for the past two years.

 

One of the sisters, 24-year-old Shade said the marijuana was given to her by Jamiu  one of  Babatunde's friends.

Nigerian military recaptured Adamawa towns, lecturer undergoing interrogation for having links with Boko Haram

According to a statement posted on the Nigerian Military twitter handle yesterday, it stated that the towns of Gombi, Hong and Pelia have been recaptured by the Nigerian military troops.  Also, it said during the confrontation between the military and Boko Haram, many of the insurgents were killed and others arrested.  Arms and ammunitions were recovered.

 

A security source said the military authorities had carried out a huge deployment of personnel for the mission to liberate the communities in the area.

50 million Nigerians defecate in the open, 119 million lack proper toilet facilities

The Communication Specialist of the United Nations Children Fund, Mr. Geoffrey Njoku yesterday stated that about 119 million Nigerians were not using safe toilets.  He said ''Some 2.5 billion people worldwide do not have adequate toilets and among then one billion defecates in the open.  Here in Nigeria, about 119 million people are not using safe toilets while 50 million out of this defecate in the open.''

 

Nigeria is said to be among the top five countries in the world with high population practising open defecation and this number have increased since 1990.  Lack of safe, clean toilet and practise of open defecation seriously impact people's health, wellbeing and dignity as well as efforts towards poverty reduction as well as economic and social development.