ISIS kidnaps Nigerian in Libya

The Islamic State has reportedly kidnapped a Nigerian in Libya.

The man’s passport and photo were posted online through the Twitter handle, -T- @TDecker75 on Friday night.

The passport posted on the Internet indicated that the man’s name is Ibrahim Adeola; his date of birth is May 24, 1979; he was born in Imo State.

Adeola’s passport was issued on January 21, 2012 and its expiration date is January 20, 2017.

He was said to have been kidnapped in Wilayat, an eastern part of Libya.

The Nigerian was reportedly abducted by the IS along with a Ghanaian, Kofi Sekyere and an Egyptian, Bekhit Ebeid.

The terrorist group is known to always kill its hostages usually by beheading them.

SUNDAY PUNCH had reported that there were strong indications that Boko Haram had forged a strong operational alliance with the ruthless IS as the two bodies released a joint video for the first time about one week ago.

It was the first video recording since Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the IS in 2014.

The video showed the picture of a suspected Nigerian soldier in a kneeling position surrounded by three terrorists with AK47 assault rifles.

Later in the video, the body of the soldier was shown without the head.

The location of the action was not specified in the latest video.

The audio message released through the militants’ vast social media channels was read by an IS spokesperson who also threatened further violence against Christian and Jewish communities.

The video carried a West African insignia of the IS which indicated that the group had set up a media wing in Nigeria.

In March, the son of a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammad Uwais, Ibrahim, had travelled to Syria and allegedly joined the IS.

The junior Uwais, who is in his 40s, was said to have made the trip with his two wives and four children.

Beginning in 2014, a number of people from various countries were beheaded by the IS operating in Iraq and parts of Syria.

In January 2015, a copy of an ISIL penal code surfaced describing the penalties it enforces in areas under its control, including beheadings.

Beheading videos have been frequently posted by the group to social media.

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Aisha Buhari says she still cooks for herHusband

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, said that despite her status as the wife of the Nigerian president, she still cooks her husband’s food.

She revealed this at a party she organized to mark the Eid-el-Fitri celebration at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

She said: “I’m going to leave you soon.

I want to go back home to cook for my husband because my children are here playing with you.

Nobody is at home, only my husband. So, I want to go back home to be with him and also cook dinner for him”, she said. She further stated that the Sallah party was an indication of promoting warm interaction and sharing.

She said, “On occasions like this, we celebrate with children, especially the less privileged, including those in the various internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) camp.

We love, appreciate and share with their present situation.

“The reason for this is to promote warm interaction and sharing what we have with one another.

On this note particularly, we decided to celebrate with all children from different back ground”. She advised the children to obey their parents and teachers’ instructions both at home and schools.

“The future of this great country lies in your hands.

You are to compliment the efforts of government by working very hard in school and be obedient to your parents.

Tomorrow you may become president, the president’s wife, Senator, honourable members, governors, medical doctors, teacher, journalist, engineer, nurse, lawyer and the rest of other honourable professions”, she added.

Source Linda Ikeji

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So Sad! Mother Stabs Her Son Several Times

Promise Eboye a Six-old boy could be liken a cat with nine life after he survived four gory looking stab injuries on his back that was allegedly finflicted by his biological mother on Monday July 13.

The boy who lived with his mother who is simply identified as Comfort and step-father in Kollington area of Ijaiye, Lagos, while his biological father resides in Benin, Edo State narrated how he was stabbed his mother.

The Punch reports that at about 8am on Monday, Promise’s mother, stabbed her son four times, inflicting life-threatening injuries on the boy’s body.

It was learnt that the broken bottle Comfort used pierced the boy flesh inflicting one three-inch injury and another two-inch injury on the boy’s back.

READ ALSO: UNBELIEVABLE: 21 Babies Missing From Motherless Babies Home Residents said that Promise’ mother held tight his wrist and stabbed him several times at his back while the young boy screamed for help.

They wondered what kind of offend did the boy committed to have warranted this kind of cruelty.

The boy while narrating his ordeal said that his mother normally beat him with cane at the slightest provocation and does not understand why she does that.

He added that she sometimes will beat him still he could not walk.

He described in this way,“my mother is wicked.”

The stabbed explained that he was staying with father since when he was one year old.

But his mother came to pick when he turned 5 years from his father’s house.

Promise said: “I was sweeping the day she came. I did not know her as my mother.

My father then told me that she was my mother and she had come to take me to Lagos.

“When we came to Lagos, I started to live with her and my step-father.

But she beat me all the time.” When asked what happened that led to his mother to stab, he said he tripped and fell.

He said: “When I fell, my mother asked me what pushed me and why I fell. She was angry and went to take her N30 cane.

When she was beating me too much and I was screaming, one of our neighbours came to hold her hand to take the cane away from her.

The woman said I should run away because my mother would kill me the way she was beating me.

“My mother said ‘I will kill you, I will kill you’. When she could not find anything else to beat me with, she took a broken bottle on the ground and started to stab me on the back.” Promise revealed that he was rescued by residents, who took him to a private hospital nearby.

But before the boy was taken to the hospital, it was gathered that his mother had planted another story in the boy’s head.

READ ALSO: My Twins And I Drink Garri Daily For Survival The founded of the hospital where the boy was receiving treatment,Pastor Charles Agboola, a pharmacist , explained that the two people who brought Promise in said the boy fell down and landed on a broken bottle.

However, it was a different story the boy narrated to Agboola’s wife, a nurse.

He told her that he was watching two people fight when he sustained the injury. She said: , “He told me that they pushed him and he landed on the broken bottles but when I informed my husband, he said immediately that the story could not be true.

I also noticed that the wounds were not consistent with that story. “It was shocking that the boy’s mother was not remorseful in any way.

It was when she dashed out of the door under the pretence that she was going to look for money for the boy’s treatment, that a crowd from their street, who were coming to the hospital ,grabbed her and told the true story of what happened. “When we asked Promise why he lied, he said his mother had told him what to say when asked how he sustained the injury.”

Agboola stressed further that by the time the boy was about to leave the clinic, he was crying. “He said he did not want to go back home.

We fed him, gave him any kind of food he wanted because I could not leave the boy to suffer even though nobody paid us any money for his treatment.

We even prayed for him. Anytime we brought up the issue of who would take over his care when he was released from our hospital, he became very sad,” he said.

Neighbours said Comfort sometimes punished the boy by smashing his head against a wall when ever he did something wrong.

She was later handed over to the police at Ijaiye- Ojokoro Division. Comfort, who is nursing a toddler, told the police that Promise stepped on her baby, which was why she became angry.

When Promise’s biological father was later contacted, he initially said he wanted nothing to do with the issue. “I have other children – I have produced boys and girls.

Whatever she likes, she should do with her son.

When she likes, she would take the boy to a motor park and send him to me through a driver,” the man said. Confirming the incident, the police spokesman, Kenneth Nwosu, said Comfort would be arraigned as soon as possible.

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Syrian army ambushes 40 rebels in Lebanese borders

As many as 40 rebels were killed Saturday in a Syrian military ambush at a contested city near the Lebanese borders, the state news agency SANA reported.

The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters ambushed the militants, who were attempting to sneak into the city of Zabadani from its slops, the report said.

Meanwhile, the Syrian army and its allied Hezbollah fighters continued their offensive to recapture Zabadani, northwest of the capital Damascus and near the Lebanese borders, managing to storm the city from its southern part and advance toward its center.

The government forces’ battle aims at clearing the city and the entire region of Qalamoun of the Nusra Front and its allied militants, who used the city as a conduit to smuggle militants and weapons from Lebanon into the western countryside of Damascus.

Winning the battle by the Syrian forces and Hezbollah would shield the Lebanese borders of the threat of the Nusra Front, amid reports that most of the blasts that targeted Lebanon recently were planned by the rebels in Syria and the cars were booby-trapped in Qalamoun.

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Nigerian airlines decry high operating cost

Airline Operators Association of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to review the charge s paid by its members in order to reduce their high cost of operation.

General Secretary of the association, Mr Mohammed Joji, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that high operating cost was a challenge facing the aviation industry in Nigeria.

Joji stated that airline operators in the country were burdened with multiple charges, which included five per cent ticket sale charge, landing and parking charge as well as passenger service charge and en-route navigational charge.

According to him, aside the charges mentioned, airlines are also subjected to paying Value Added Tax to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, which he described as abnormal.

He added, “The issue of multiple charges is a major challenge facing local airline operators, because the charges are so numerous and have significantly affected airlines’ operations.

“For instance, we pay five per cent charge for passenger’s ticket, which is a compulsory payment for every operator.

“For the operators to survive in the business, there is the need for the government to harmonise some of these charges in the over all interest of the sector.

“The charges are not good for the industry as a whole, and we urge the government to find ways of addressing this issue which has become a major challenge to us.”

Joji identified another challenge of the industry as the high cost of aviation fuel (JET-A1), which is currently being sold at between N160 and N170 per litre.

He added that the aviation fuel, whose price was usually cheaper than the prices of petrol and diesel, was hither to sold at N40 per litre.

According to him, the marketers have taken advantage of the deregulation of the downstream sector to reap additional proceeds, describing this as illegal and immoral.

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Girl involved in horrific trailer accident inWarri has lost one leg

Earlier this week, I told y'all about a horrific accident that occurred on Monday July 13 at Udu Road, Warri involving a bullion van on the wrong side of traffic and the trailer that hit and crushed a lady's legs. (read here).

Sadly, she's lost one leg, and the doctors are struggling to save the second one.

She's currently at DELSUTH, Oghara and in need of funds. The bank where this bullion van was going has refused to help out.

Some legal practitioners in Udu are on it, and an organization, Center for the Vulnerable and under-privileged area also involved.

Source Linda Ikeji.

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DSS Detains Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki

Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki was detained on July 16, Thursday by Department of State Services (DSS) personnel.

As Naij.com reports earlier DSS operatives in four Hilux vans, ruled by Mohammed, stormed Dasuko’s private residence in Abuja at about 6:40pm and laid siege on in, insisting on seeing Dasuki.

It was also learnt that something similar occurred in Sokoto, in the home belonged to ex- NSA’s father, Ibrahim Dasuki, a former Sultan of Sokoto, where some other SSS personnel also stormed the home seemingly in search of the retired colonel.

READ ALSO: Dasuki’s Houses Under Siege The soldiers reportedly have searched the re sidence, comprising a bid container that had been in the residence for many years.

They have shut down all occupants of the house and would not permit anyone in or out of the premises.

The siege of the one-time NSA’s home may not be separate from the media reports of an intended investigation of the defence budget and other supposed abuses of office by the immediate-past service chiefs who were fired this week.

The DSS operatives later in the night whisked away the former NSA to one of their facilities in Abuja for interrogation.

Later in the night security operatives took away Dasuki for questioning.

A security source confirmed the detention of ex- NSA, but the reason of the arrest is yet to be given.

One source close to Col Dasuki said:

“The ex- national security adviser was shocked that he was not contacted or invited for interaction on any issue.

Dasuki is suspecting that there is a motive to make him to spend the Sallah break in detention.

“As I am talking to you, neither the director- general of the DSS, Lawal Musa Daura, nor any of the operatives in his house has spoken with Dasuki.

All they wanted was for him to surrender.”

READ ALSO: Buhari Addresses Newly Appointed Service Chiefs Nigerian Watch says that Dasuki face s questioning over his role in the South Africa trafficking saga during which a plane load of cash was seized in Johannesburg.

It would be recalled that Dasuki was sacked alongside with all security chiefs on July 13, Monday.

He was appointed NSA by ex-president Goodluck Jonathan on June 22, 2012 to succeed, Andrew Azazi, who died in an helicopter crash in Bayelsa state.

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