No fewer than five traditional rulers have been reportedly killed during an attack by gunmen at Nnenasa community Headquarters of Njaba local government area of Imo State.
According to sources, the traditional rulers from the area numbering over 20 were in a meeting at the local government headquarters in the community when gunmen invaded the the place, interrupted the meeting with sporadic gunshots and killed at least five traditional rulers on the spot.
Those who sustained heavy gunshots injuries have been rushed to nearby hospital for treatment.
When contacted, the Imo state police public relations officer, Mike Abatam, said he was yet to get the full details of the incident.
At least 50 bandits have been killed in Kaduna state on Tuesday.
This was revealed by the Kaduna State Government.
The government said the bandits were killed in Birnin Gwari, through the combined efforts of ground troops and air raids.
Mr. Samuel Aruwan Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State confirmed this, in a statement.
“In an inspiring success for the security forces, over 50 bandits have been neutralized during a combined ground and air assault in the Saulawa-Farin Ruwa axis of Birnin Gwari LGA.”
The statement said the operational feedback to the Kaduna State Government from the Command of the Joint Operations, a Nigerian Air Force helicopter gunship provided close air support to ground troops advancing from the Dogon Dawa-Damari-Saulawa axis.
It said following extensive scans, bandits were spotted on five motorcycles, about 4km east of Saulawa, waiting to ambush the ground forces. They were engaged vigorously by the helicopter gunship, and were wiped out.
“After this, armed bandits on about 50 motorcycles were sighted fleeing towards Farin Ruwa, and were struck effectively by the gunship. Fleeing remnants were mopped up by ground forces,” it said
He added that a second helicopter gunship joined the operations, and many more fleeing bandits were neutralized by precise strikes, adding that, an assessment, revealed that more than 50 bandits were neutralized during the joint operation.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai expressed his satisfaction at the operational feedback, and congratulated the ground troops and gunship crews on the rout.
He urged them to sustain the momentum and bring even more bandits to their bitter end.
Have you ever meet a very pretty lady who is unable to attract any man into her life? You might think this is impossible or strange, but it happens on a daily basis. In recent time, we see so many pretty girls like angels who could not be boastful of a single man that is attracted to them.
This is contrary to popular belief that, beautiful women attract the most wonderful men around. What we all need to understand these days is that, it takes more than a pretty face and a nice figure for a man to find ladies attractive.
Though physical attractiveness is certainly important, but it is mainly useful when attracting someone who is just meeting you for the first time. But to someone who already knows you, your personality plays a major role in getting the attraction you deserved rather than your looks.
It is very possible to attract a man for the first time with your physical appearance, but it takes so many other qualities in you to keep such a man. If you are a woman who are not in possession of what most men like to see in women despite your beauty, it could be difficult to find a committed man for a healthy relationship.
Below are few things to do in order to attract men as a woman;
Work On Your Physical Attractiveness: To be sincere with you, physical look is one of the things that attracts men to women at the first time. I’m not saying you have to be extremely beautiful (you are not God), but you can dress up yourself to always look appreciable by men. The way you dressed determines how you will appear and also addressed. It is good to look good.
Build Your Self-Confidence: You have to feel secured and believe in who you are, how you look and your ability as a woman. You don’t have to keep doubting yourself or feeling unsecured. Believe in yourself, be confident. Don’t allow any man to look down on you because of the way you look down on yourself.
You Have To Be Relaxed When With Them: You are in the midst of men and you are not feeling comfortable. No matter how pretty you are, no man will appreciate you. Some of them may even misunderstood you to be proud or arrogant. No matter how stressful your day was, you just have to hide that, and behave calm and friendly. Make them comfortable to talk with you by creating some familiar topics of discussion.
Be Polite In Rejecting A Date: A wrong person asked you out and you hanged him up with the biggest insult. Don’t ever think you can do that without negative effects. No matter how pretty you are, this will surely affect the real person you want to be attracted to. You don’t need to disrespect anybody, just voice out your opinion in a very understandable and respectable manner. If you are fond of insulting men, it will soon go round and the real man you needed his attention may not want to come for his own share of insult. I hope these tips helps…. Have a nice day friends.
There is a popular adage which says that “what a man can do, a woman can do even better” one of the reason why most ladies are often stranded as regards fending for themselves is this mentality of learning conventional trades or handworks meant for ladies only.
I noticed that once a lady decides to learn a handwork or trade, she goes for things like; hair dressing, nails/eye lashes fixing, make up, fashion designs for women, baking, catering and exclusive boutique business (for those girl with rich boyfriends) etc..
Truth is, those line of business venture for ladies is saturated already and the competition is on the increase thereby making most ladies struggle with less patronage. But in a situation whereby a lady decided to learn handworks supposedly meant for guys only, that lady will excel greatly because she will not only be patronised but admired and giving referrals by men.
There are lots of male dominated handworks ladies can take advantage of. Yesterday, I met a lady in a barber’s shop and i was both amused and amazed to find her giving a nice hair cut to this particular guy. That lady is always busy with work because she stood out as most guys would rather patronize her instead of having their hair cuts with male barbers.
Some of you may have stumbled on a trending video on social media where a young talented lady was playing a guitar and was making excellent rhythms of high life music with it to the amazement of viewers. In fact, a lot of people on the comment box were already asking for her services. imagine how that lady is becoming a celebrity with her talent. Same goes with other kind of male dominated trade.
For Example; shoes making, repairs of phones/computers, sewing of men’s wears, auto-mobile servicing, driving, laundry service, almaco constructions, DJs, female MC. etc. These are just few out of many. You can take advantage of these and learn something to make yourself outmstanding. As lady, those funny joke you post on facebook to make people laff, you can become an MC ( master of ceremony) and make money from it.
Please girl, that time you use in washing hips of clothes in your boyfriend’s house in the name of showing how wife material you are, you can open a laundry shop and most men would be glad to patronize you.
Having a rich boyfriend is not a license to sit idle, his money is not yours, women are endowed with lots of talents but many are dormant because of the little tips they get from their boyfriends. Ladies, please discover your talent and let your generation feel your existence. I hope this make sense.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal has lamented how Zamfara bandits are terrorising Sokoto residents.
The governor stated this when the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, visited him on Monday in Sokoto.
Mr Tambuwal appealed for more efforts to contain the security challenges, confirming that a gang of bandits attacked communities in Goronyo local government area in the state and killed scores of people on Sunday.
He emphasised that more security presence and collective strategies were needed to contain the increasing security challenges bedevilling the state and nation at large.
According to him, bandits flushed out Zamfara are fleeing to Sokoto and other states.
“From last night, yesterday evening till this morning, we were greeted with dastardly attacks in Goronyo local government, particularly Goronyo town, where scores lost their lives and still counting,” said the governor. “We are not sure of the figure, but about 30 persons died.”
Mr Tambuwal appealed for a synergy between the army and other security operatives in the state while requesting more troops and deployment of resources to the state.
He described the visit by the COAS as a homecoming, noting that his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as COAS had been widely greeted with cheers in Sokoto, being an indigene of the state.
“You have come at a very trying moment for the army and the Nigerian nation. We are faced and bedevilled by many security challenges in our own area here, particularly banditry, kidnapping and other associated crimes,” added Mr Tambuwal. “We shall continue to pray for your success, the army and its operatives in general, to ensure success over criminals.”
The governor pledged that his administration would continue to support the army and other security agencies toward achieving success.
The Association of Micro Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (AMEN) has urged government to swiftly implement its various policies aimed at massive job creation, youth empowerment and engagements and poverty alleviation. Mr Saviour Iche, National President of the association, gave the advice during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos on the one year anniversary of the #EndSARS protests.
He stated that the protest was expected to bring changes, transformation, new agendas and innovative ideas, in view of the way government had handled previous issues that brought about the protest.
According to him, the call for change appears not to have been fully addressed, hence, the need for government to look into the various demands of the youth for improved national outcomes.
“The second tenure of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration promised the inclusion of more youths and we have seen that trying to come into play with the appointment of the current chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
“However, the government needs to do more in many other cabinet positions, so that the youths feel much included in the affairs of the country.
“This would also put them in the best position to carve out polices that would impact the young population and ensure their implementation as well.
“Government should try and look into the demands of the youths and step up efforts that would better the lots of the Nigerian economy and the lives of the ordinary citizens,” he said.
Iche advised against any protest during EndSARS anniversary, saying that the impacts would affect the masses more.
“There are people that if they did not go out in a day, they would not eat.
“The high cost of living will lead many people to suffering and the economy will be totally grounded,” he said.
The micro entrepreneur president urged intensified efforts at creating more friendly business environment by the provision of power, infrastructure and other social amenities to restore manufacturing performance.
He also advised the government to monitor the disbursement of its various intervention funds and palliatives aimed at supporting small businesses.
Troops of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have killed Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists, says the Nigerian Army.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement on Monday in Ábuja.
Mr Nwachukwu said the troops deployed alongside the Cameroonian Defence Force had on Monday killed four terrorists at the Forward Operating Base (FOB), Wulgo in Borno.
He added the “vigilant troops successfully” foiled attempted infiltration of the terrorists into the camp while “on patrol to dominate their area of responsibility.”
According to him, the troops “swiftly responded with overwhelming fire and spontaneous” reinforcement from the battalion headquarters, forcing the terrorists to retreat.
“Troops immediately carried out a hot pursuit and exploitation after the encounter, along the terrorists’ route of withdrawal and neutralised three terrorists. The gallant troops also recovered three AK 47 rifles, six magazines and 50 rounds of 7.62mm special,” he said.
Mr Nwachukwu also stated that four other terrorists were killed the same day, around the 151 Battalion location, noting that they were burnt beyond recognition, “as their gun truck mounted with anti-aircraft guns ran over an improvised explosive device (IED).”
He also mentioned that the troops were currently conducting further exploitation to “clear any surviving terrorists.”
“The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has commended the efforts of the troops. He charged them to remain aggressive and focused, as they dominate their areas of operational responsibility to ensure complete extermination of the terrorists and restoration of normalcy,” the army statement added.
Desperate to feed her family, Saleha, a housecleaner here in western Afghanistan, has incurred such an insurmountable debt that the only way she sees out is to hand over her 3-year-old daughter, Najiba, to the man who lent her the money.
The debt is $550.
Saleha, a 40-year-old mother of six who goes by one name, earns 70 cents a day cleaning homes in a wealthier neighborhood of Herat. Her much older husband doesn’t have any work.
Such is the starkness of deepening poverty in Afghanistan, a humanitarian crisis that is worsening fast after the Taliban seized power on Aug. 15, prompting the U.S. to freeze $9 billion in Afghan central-bank assets and causing a halt in most foreign aid.
Already, 95% of Afghans aren’t getting enough to eat, according to the United Nations’ World Food Program, which has warned that “people are being pushed to the brink of survival.” Almost the entire Afghan population of 40 million people could fall below the poverty line in coming months, according to the U.N.
Behind these statistics lie countless personal tragedies of families like Saleha’s. She and her husband used to work on a farm in the western province of Badghis, but two years ago lost that income because of fighting in the area and drought. So they borrowed money just to get food. Hoping to find employment, they ended up moving to a giant encampment of people displaced from other provinces, known as Shahrak Sabz, in Herat.
With the financial system and trade paralyzed after the Taliban takeover, prices for basic food items like flour and oil have doubled since mid-August. The lender offered early this month to write off the debt if she hands over her little girl.
They have three months to provide the money. Otherwise, Najiba will be doing household work in the lender’s home and be married off to one of his three sons when she reaches puberty. They are not sure which one. The oldest is now 6.
“If life continues to be this awful, I will kill my children and myself,” said Saleha, speaking in her tiny two-room home. “I don’t even know what we will eat tonight.”
“I will try to find money to save my daughter’s life,” added her husband, Abdul Wahab.
The lender, Khalid Ahmad, confirmed he had made the offer to the couple.
“I also don’t have money. They haven’t paid me back,” said Ahmad, reached by phone in Badghis. “So there is no option but taking the daughter.”
Following the Taliban takeover, neighboring Pakistan and Iran, where many men from this community used to work as laborers, closed their borders, bracing for a flood of refugees. All that is left as work is collecting plastic bottles and other trash to sell for recycling. Other families in the area have had to surrender children to repay debts, residents say.
Growing destitution could undermine the Taliban’s so-far solid hold on power and serve as a recruiting tool for the local branch of Islamic State, their only significant rival. A Taliban official in the west of the country said that Afghans would have to get used to a meager existence.
“We suffered for 20 years fighting jihad, we lost members of our families, we didn’t have proper food, and in the end, we were rewarded with this government. If people have to struggle for a few months, so what?” said the official. “Popularity is not important for the Taliban.”
Taliban officials have repeatedly said they welcome international aid for Afghanistan but wouldn’t compromise on their Islamic beliefs to secure assistance.
The humanitarian crisis, however, is prompting a debate within the international community over whether to condition foreign assistance on the Taliban moderating their behavior and showing more respect for the rights of women and minorities.
Afghanistan’s new health minister, a urologist appointed by the Taliban and one of the few non-clerics in the new administration, pleaded for the international community not to abandon the country.
“It is the same mother, the same child, the same patient you were previously helping. They haven’t changed,” Qalandar Ibaad said in an interview. “Governments change in all countries.”
Groups like the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.N. warn that emergency humanitarian aid must be unconditional. While demanding that the Taliban allow women to study and work is important, they argue, a more urgent priority is to make sure women don’t freeze or starve to death this winter.
The U.S. and other Western nations that spent the past two decades fighting in Afghanistan have a particular responsibility, some aid officials say.
“These countries who have their fingerprints all over the sorry situation here have at least to disburse the funding we need so we can avoid people perishing in enormous numbers this winter,” Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which operates in more than a dozen Afghan provinces, said in an interview in Kabul. “To pause the lifesaving funding because we’re still negotiating female rights would be utterly wrong.”
Egeland, a former head of the U.N.’s emergency aid arm, said his organization wouldn’t reopen the boys schools in provinces where girls schools weren’t allowed, but it wouldn’t withhold aid that could save lives.
Heather Barr, associate director of the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, said that donors had vowed they would judge the Taliban by its actions, but the risk of famine left them with little choice but to provide aid regardless.
“The Taliban are holding Afghans hostage and playing chicken with the international community,” she said.
Some 2,300 Afghan hospitals and clinics were dependent on foreign funding before the Taliban takeover. Just 17% of those are now fully functional, and 64% are out of essential drugs, said Richard Brennan, the regional emergency director for the World Health Organization.
International aid had also paid the salaries of tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and teachers, now struggling to get by.
In Herat, an emergency feeding center for severely malnourished babies run by the French charity Doctors Without Borders is full and has had to expand capacity. Babies are arriving with respiratory distress, dehydration, and shock. Their mothers are getting such little sustenance that they can’t produce enough milk.
At Herat Regional Hospital, the staff have threatened to quit after not having been paid for four months. The government hospital has run out of even common medicines like antibiotics and basic supplies like surgical gloves and bandages. Oxygen is in short supply. Patients have to purchase their own medicines, anesthetic and other necessities for surgeries.
“I hope we don’t go back to the situation of 25, 30 years ago, when there were basically no health facilities in this country,” said Mohammad Aref Jalali, the medical director. “We could lose everything we have achieved.”
In the orthopedic ward, Abdul Rahman, was lying on a bed with pins sticking out of his leg, where he was shot by robbers for the motorbike he was riding. The wound had become infected and doctors told the father of seven they might now have to amputate the leg.
“If they cut off my leg, there’s no one else to provide for my family,” said Rahman, a laborer, age 37. “What will happen to my little children?”
