Daily News Update: Commander Appointed by the Nigerian Army to lead an Offensive Project Against Boko-Haram

Daily News Update Headlines:
* Commander Appointed by the Nigerian Army to lead an offensive Project Against Boko-Haram
* Recovered Looted funds will be used to fund Women Affairs Ministry - Buhari
* Buhari Accepts Nigeria Custom Comptroller-General Resignation.
* Delta State Governorship Election Tribunal Delayed.
* Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida praised late former military head of state ,Sani Abacha
On the Foreign Scene
* Man dies trying to stop Suicide.
* Civilian and Police killed in Kashmir, Indian rebel shooting.

Commander Appointed by the Nigerian Army to lead an Offensive Project Against Boko-Haram

Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar has been appointed by the Nigerian Army as the commander  to lead an offensive project with the aim of bringing to an the fight against Boko-Haram. The operation is termed as “Operation Lafiya Dole,” which should lead to the crushing of the  Islamist insurgents operating in the northeastern part of the country.

Recovered Looted funds will be used to fund Women Affairs Ministry - Buhari 

The officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs have been assured by President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday that part of the money his administration will recover from looters would be used to fund the ministry. This assurance was given when officials of the ministry were led by the Permanent Secretary, Ezekiel Oyemomi, to brief ‎the President on its activities and challenges at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Delta State Governorship Election Tribunal Delayed.

The Delta State governorship election tribunal court proceeding was delayed on Monday in Asaba, the state capital as new petitions were submitted. Three new motions have been filed by counsellors of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as hearings on alleged electoral misconduct were to begin again.

Reacting to Okowa’s motions, an APC leader in the State, Dr Cyril Ogodo, described them as “delay tactics and an attempt to frustrate the commencement of the trial.”

A fresh hearing of the motions brought by Okowa and the State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will begin on Thursday August 20 as adjourned by the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Nasiru Gunmi.

Buhari Accepts Nigeria Custom Comptroller-General Resignation.

After six years on the seat. the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller-General, Dikko Abdullahi, has resigned

President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the resignation but yet to name a successor at Press time. The circumstances of his leaving office were not immediately clear.

The former Customs boss met with the president on Monday. He said he would like to be remembered as the “father of modern Nigeria Customs Service”, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.

Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida praised late former military head of state ,Sani Abacha.

Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida while speaking with journalist in Minna, Niger state ahead of his 74th birthday yesterday August 17th, praised late former military head of state ,Sani Abacha who he said saved him from being killed during the Gideon Orkar coup in 1990 which was plotted to oust him from government.  

On the Foreign Scene:

Man dies trying to stop Suicide.

A 24year old man who tried to save a 19 year student from suicide met with his own death when attempting to pull the young man from the 14th floor of a University of Hawaii dormitory.

"The two men fell;  one of them to his death while trying to pull the other from a ledge," Honolulu police said

The 24-year-old man who died was trying to bring inside an apparently distraught 19-year-old who went out a window onto the ledge early Sunday, authorities said.

Both men were severely injured from the fall, police said in a statement. They were taken to a hospital, where the older man was pronounced dead. The 19-year-old remained in critical condition.

Civilian and Police killed in Kashmir, Indian rebel shooting.

According to police report; a policeman and a civilian were killed in an opened fire shooting by suspected rebels on Tuesday, outside a Muslim shrine in Indian Kashmir.

The militants targeted the police officer guarding the shrine of Tujjar Sharif, 55 kilometres (35 miles) northwest of the main city of Srinagar.

“The policeman unfortunately lost his life, and a civilian who was shot during the attack succumbed to his injuries later,” deputy inspector general of police for the area, Gharib Das, told AFP.

“It appeared that the policeman on guard was the target, not the shrine.”
It was not clear if the 70-year-old disabled civilian was shot by the militants or he was hit by a bullet when police returned fire.

The militants fled the area after the attack and the dead police officer’s automatic rifle was missing, Das said, adding security forces had launched a hunt for the attackers.


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