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                          Tony Tetuila was popular in the early 2000s for hit songs including (You Don Hit) “My Car”. After being under the radar for a while, he surprised us by announcing his bid for public office, a trend among entertainers this electoral season – read here for more . Tribune reached out to Tetuila on leaving his trademark blond hair behind if he gets elected, and allegations he’s entering into politics for money. Continue...

                       So it is to be war — again. Despite Parliament’s endorsement yesterday of air strikes against IS fanatics in Iraq, the British people may be forgiven for venting dismay and doubt. The Prime Minister yesterday told the Commons that IS, the Muslim fanatics who have overrun swathes of Syria and Iraq, pose a clear and present danger to Britain; that we have no choice but to fight them: ‘There is no walk-on-by option.’ But have we not been here before? Have we not heard the same arguments presented by Tony Blair to justify the commitment of Britain’s Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, then by Cameron to make sense of crusades in Libya and — until the House of Commons sensibly stopped him — Syria? Today, after the expenditure of billions of pounds and hundreds of British lives, we see Afghanistan on the cusp of succumbing to chaos and warlordism; Iraq in ferment and apparently incapable of self-defen...

                         Cameroonian soldiers have captured Abakar Ali, one of the top commanders of insurgent fighters belonging to the Islamist group, Boko Haram. According to our reliable source, the Cameroonian army also seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the Islamist militants during the operation. Abakar Ali who also goes by name "Mustapher Umar" was caught with 5 machine guns, 14 rifles, 24 rockets, 4 rocket launchers, 6 Kalashnikovs, 60 Kalashnikovs magazines, 4 automatic pistols , over 500 9mm ammunition, 469 12.7mm ammunition, 4,454 7.62 mm ammunition, 1,491 5.56 mm ammunition, 822 ammunition of 7.62 mm, 6 grenades, 28 rocket launcher chargers and other weaponized accesories like pincers, tweezers and knives. A mid-level Nigerian military officer, who is serving with a multi-national force that operates around the Nigeria-Cameroon border, revealed the information to SaharaReporters via telepho...

                         The planned arraignment of the alleged mastermind of the April 14, bomb blast that killed over 75 persons at a motor park in Nyanya Abuja, Aminu Ogwuche, was stalled yesterday owing to bickering between the Department of State Service, DSS, and the Nigerian Police Force, over which of them should be allowed to conduct the trial. Continue...