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There has been panic among Borno officials ahead of a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. Officials of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Sunday boarded a flight that left Maiduguri ahead of the meeting with the president at the Aso Rock villa.

Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta, a new militant group, has disclosed the definite date when it would carry out bombing operations in Bonga Field, Onitsha -Asaba Bridge, Third Mainland Bridge, and other major bridges across the southern of the country. This was contained in a statement issued by its commander, Olomubini Kakarakokoro popularly known as No Mercy.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen five bank accounts traced to a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, and the two sons of a former Minister of State of Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro. The EFCC, it was learnt, froze the accounts as part of investigations into the N4.7bn diverted from the imprest account of the Office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of the former NSA, Lt. Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).

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  At least 14 people were killed when gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital and took an unknown number of hotel guests hostage, police and medical workers said Saturday, before security forces hunted down the attackers and ended an hours-long assault that began with an explosives-laden vehicle blowing up at the hotel gate.

      Anti-Brexit protests broke out on the streets of London after a petition for a second EU referendum attracted 2 million signatures within a day. The protests came despite a record 33.5 million people taking part in the referendum-the highest in any election since 1992-in which Leave won with 51.9 percent, a margin of 1,269,501 votes.

   No fewer than eight persons are feared to have been killed in renewed clashes between communities in Cross River and Ebonyi States. Cross River State in South-south Nigeria shares common boundary with Ebonyi in the South-east zone. The skirmishes occurred between Ochienyim community in Amagu, Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and Adadama community in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State.

The Citizens Advocacy Initiative For Accountable Leadership, CAIFAL, on Thursday, filed a suit at a Federal High Court Lagos, against the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, over alleged mobilisation fraud.

   The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said his Gas Pipeline Project would increase the Gross Domestic Product as well as provide uninterrupted power supply in Lagos. Speaking during an inspection of his refinery, petrochemical, gas and fertilizer projects by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in Lagos, Saturday, Mr. Dangote said the projects would also attract other bigger investors into the Zone.

Nothing like a viral mind boggling math problem that makes you feel you should have paid better attention to your secondary school algebra. The deceptively simply math problem recently blew up in Japan, as people quickly found they were routinely getting the wrong answer.  What do you think the answer is? 

 Gary J. Byrne has devoted his life, and risked it, to serve his country — as a member of the US Air Force, a uniformed White House Secret Service officer, and a federal air marshal. And he believes it is his patriotic duty to do anything he can to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States.