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                  You wouldn’t know it from her sweet smile, but the reason why Nesrin Abdi carries a rifle is in case she needs to shoot herself dead. This, she explained matter-of-factly, would be preferable to being captured by the monsters of Islamic State. Nesrin, a 20-year-old medical student, is by all accounts a happy, well-educated, middle-class young woman with an infectious joy for life. In her home town of Kobane on the Syria-Turkey border, moments of joy are rare, but a photograph captures the triumphant moment three days ago when she was among Kurdish fighters who recaptured a strategic hill from the Islamic State invaders. Continue...

                               Fayose was sworn in, in style yesterday as the Governor of the people of Ekiti State. To celebrate, he opened the gates to the government house to the state’s citizens. Pics:  bellanaija.com . See more pics below.

                           Pastor Enoch Adeboye is General Overseer of one of Nigeria’s biggest churches, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). At a recent convention, he revealed a WAEC (West African Examinations Council) official tried to seduce him and followed him to London, where he reported her to the police. He told his congregation, “She said that God told her that I will be her husband. I rebuked and informed her that I am a happily married man with children. Undeterred even by the intervention of her husband and the Inspector General of Police (at that time), she stalked me to London. My threat to report her to London Police (when she phoned me) stopped her physical presence but she never stopped calling me.” He attributed his resistance to the Holy Spirit, “Holy Spirit is the only yoke destroyer. There are certain forces or challenges of life that human beings cannot solve by their own efforts except through the help of the Holy Spirit.”

                            The Nigerian Government yesterday said it has reached a ceasefire deal with the Boko Haram sect to halt all confrontations with the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex issuing a directive to the service chiefs of the Army, Navy, Airforce and Inspector General of Police to comply with the ceasefire agreement in all theatres of operations chidexboy  the deal was also confirmed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe yesterday. Continue...

                               Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, yesterday, raised the alarm that innocent volunteers from the Shehuri Community in Borno State, who have been assisting in catering for widows, orphans and other internally-displaced persons, had been arrested by the Department of State Security Service, DSS. Continue...