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1 B’Haram kills 20 in fresh Borno attacks

 There seems to be no end in sight to the Boko Haram insurgency as some men believed to be  members of the sect waylaid traders returning from a local market in Borno killing 18 of them.

Also, a senior officer of the Department of State Security said that some hours earlier, another set of gunmen had attacked Sabon-Kasuawa in Hawul Local Government Area of the state and killed the village head and one of his guards.

 FUNSHO WILLIAMS WAS STRANGLED TO DEATH------ PATHOLOGIST

Lagos State Chief Forensic Pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, on Wednesday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that the slain former governorship candidate in the state, Mr. Funsho Williams, was strangled to death.

Six men – Bulama Kolo, Musa Maina, David Cassidy, Tunani Sonani, Mustapha Kayode and Okponwasa Imariabie – are standing trial before the court for the murder of Williams.

Williams, who was to contest the 2007  governorship election in Lagos, was murdered on July 27, 2006, at his residence, 34A, Corporation Drive, Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi.

 JONATHAN SUMMONS GOVS, SERVICE CHIEFS OVER INSECURITY

President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned members of the National Security Council to an emergency meeting on Thursday (today) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja against the background of recent security developments in the country.

According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President would preside over the meeting that would start at 11am and later preside over an enlarged meeting that would be attended by state governors by 1pm.

 SOLDIERS, HUNTERS COMB BUSHES FOR ABDUCTED GIRLS

Soldiers, policemen, local vigilantes, hunters and volunteers combed the bushes on Wednesday in search of over 100 schoolgirls abducted on Monday by Boko Haram Islamists in Chibok, Borno State.

The rescue teams, aided by surveillance helicopters, were said to have moved deeper into the vast forest that extends into neighbouring Cameroon and other states in the North-East.

JONATHAN MUST SHOW LEADERSHIP, SAY APC GOVS

Governors of states under the control of the All Progressives Congress have urged President Goodluck Jonathan, to play his part as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and do whatever is necessary to protect Nigerians.

The governors said this when they visited some of the victims of the Nyanya Motor Park bomb explosion at the National Hospital, Abuja. Four Boko Haram members carried out the bombing which left more than 89 people   dead   and over 246 others injured on Monday.

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