Germans welcome their Heroes!

The city of Berlin-Germany was all gold, red and black colours as Germans trooped out in thousands to welcome their heroes, the German 2014 World Cup Team.

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Goodluck Jonathan says #BringBackOurGirls campaign is 'Political'!

According to BBC news, President Goodluck Jonathan has accused activists of "playing politics" after his meeting with parents of the abducted schoolgirls was called off.

The #BringBackOurGirls group should be ashamed of manipulating "the victims of terrorism", he said.

It was gathered that President Jonathan agreed to the meeting on Monday following an appeal by Pakistani rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai. His first meeting with some of the girls' parents on was reportedly due to hold on Tuesday.

Reports says President Jonathan planned to meet 12 parents and five girls who escaped shortly after being captured but the parents withdrew at the last minute without giving any reason.

"Unfortunately, political forces within the Nigerian chapter of Bring Back Our Girls have decided to take this opportunity to play politics with the situation and the grief of the parents and the girls. They should be ashamed of their actions," he said in a statement.

"Those who would manipulate the victims of terrorism for their own benefit are engaging in a similar kind of evil: Psychological terrorism," he added.

Spokesman to the President Doyin Okupe said the President was "extremely distraught".

Kurds enter Syria from Turkey to fight jihadists!

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered northern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab, a monitor said Tuesday.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that "At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their comrades in Ain al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), which is under total siege by Islamic State jihadists," 

A Kurdish Syrian activist said the flow of fighters came as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blacklisted in Turkey as a terrorist organisation, gave orders for Kurdish fighters to move to protect Kobane.

"Fighters started going into Kobane from Turkey some four or five days ago," said Havidar, who goes by only one name.

"But the latest entry, last night, came after orders from the higher leadership of the PKK. Last night, there were celebrations in Kobane -- fighters were firing into the air as they arrived in the town," he told AFP.

The Observatory's Abdel Rahman also said the mobilisation had come after a call by the PKK, which has branches in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

"The Kurds are preparing for an assault by the Islamic State," he said.

Syrian Kurds have been fighting the IS for many months.

"But this is the first time that the jihadists appear to be advancing while the Kurds are suffering real setbacks. That is because IS has brought in a lot of weapons from Iraq," said Havidar, referring to weapons seizures from the Iraqi army amid an IS offensive there.

"Kurds going in to fight are from everywhere -- Turkey, Iran, Syria and others. Even some Kurds based in Europe are saying they want to go fight," he added.

Kobane, under siege by advancing IS troops, is important because it is located between Raqa -- the jihadists' main bastion -- and Aleppo, where IS has made recent advances.

"The situation is certainly going to get worse before it gets any better," said Havidar.

The IS proclaimed an Islamic "caliphate" in late June, straddling Syria and Iraq.

Once welcomed in Syria by some rebels seeking President Bashar al-Assad's ouster, the jihadist group's systematic abuses and quest for domination turned the opposition against it.

Rebels launched an offensive against the IS in January this year, but Kurdish Syrians, whose towns are located along Syria's border areas, have been fighting the jihadists for longer.

Havidar said: "IS is fighting the Kurds not for religious or ethnic reasons -- it simply wants their territory because it is strategically located along the borders, and because it is near IS bastions."

Abdel Rahman added: "It's a life-or-death battle for the Kurds. If IS takes Ain al-Arab, it will advance eastwards towards other Kurdish Syrian areas, such as Hasakeh in the northeast."

Police captures Boko Haram's chief butcher!

The Police on Tuesday said it has arrested the “chief butcher” of the dreaded sect, Boko Haram, in Balmo Forest, Bauchi State.
A statement by Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, says the suspect identified as Mohammed Zakari, was arrested on Saturday along Darazo-Basrika Road in Bauchi State, as he was fleeing from Balmo Forest following the massive onslaught by security forces. 

He said the 30-year-old suspect hails from Kaigamari village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
“The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, Bauchi State, is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo Forest Camp and is linked with the recent slaughter of seven people, including women and children.
“Findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will assist the law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.“The suspect whom investigation reveals was tutored in the art of insurgency at Gombe Forest under the leadership of a fleeing insurgent, one Abba Taura, and moved to Balmo Forest only three months ago, is discovered to have actively participated in the April attack against Customs officers at Kari Town, along Maiduguri Road, Bauchi State.” Mba added: 

The Police High Command urged citizens in the affected areas to be on guard for any suspicious or strange character fleeing from Balmo Forest.
It also called for the understanding and support of the public for the efforts of the police and other security forces in tackling insurgency, terrorism and other related crimes headlong.
“Although the war on terrorism is unrelenting, it is certainly not insurmountable and must be won with the cooperation of all”. Mba said 

Oscar Pistorius in nightclub altercation!

Oscar Pistorious was reportedly involved in an altercation at a nightclub just days after his lawyers wound up their defence in his murder trial.

His spokeswoman, Anneliese Burgess, said the athlete was in a quiet booth in the VIP section of a club in Johannesburg's upmarket Sandton district when a man "started to aggressively interrogate him on matters relating to the trial".

An argument ensued in which my client asked to be left alone. Oscar and his cousin left soon afterwards. Oscar regrets the decision to go to a public place and thereby invite unwelcome attention." She added.

Burgess said the individual concerned "has now been identified as a Mr Mortimer". South Africa's Star newspaper named him as businessman Jared Mortimer, who offered a different version of Saturday night's events of and claimed Pistorius was drunk.

Mortimer said he reacted after Pistorius, who is free on bail, made disparaging comments about Mortimer's friends and the family of president Jacob Zuma. "I took that personally because I am very good friends with a member of the Zuma family," Mortimer was quoted as saying.

He added that Pistorius was intoxicated and started getting aggressive. "He was poking me and saying that I would never get the better of him. He was close to my face and at that point I pushed him to get him away from me – and he fell to the ground."

The VIP Room club, was hosting an exclusive birthday party called the Superhero Squad and many of the guests wore superhero costumes. The club's website says it caters to the "nouveau riche" and invites guests to "slip on your diamante dancing shoes or designer suit and dance the night away at the most ostentatious venue in Joburg."

The club manager insisted "everything is being blown out of proportion''. "I was sitting with him [Pistorius] and his cousin at their table. They were there for an hour and there was definitely no 'altercation' as this person is making out. Perry Mermigas reportedly told South Africa's Times newspapars: 

"He was chilling with his cousin, nothing more and nothing less. If there was something, like what is being described, we would definitely have got involved. What I can say is that Oscar was at the club and left, like any other normal patrons, after an hour."

Hours after the incident, On Sunday, Pistorius tweeted for the first time in five months, posting a Bible verse, a collage of pictures of his humanitarian work and an extract from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning.

Moscow Subway Accident, Putin orders for investigation!

In what was described as one of the worst accidents on the Russian capital's subway system in years, about 20 people were killed and more than 120 were injured when a Moscow underground train derailed during the morning rush hour.

 Three carriages derailed on a train travelling between two stations at 70 km per hour (44 miles per hour) at around 8:35 a.m. (0435 GMT) on the world's busiest subway system.

"It braked very hard. The lights went off and there was lots of smoke," a man, his nose bloodied, told Rossiya-24 television.
"We were trapped and only got out by some miracle. I thought it was the end. Many people were hurt, mostly in the first rail car because the cars ran into each other."

Rescue workers evacuated more than 1,000 people from the area of the accident, the Emergencies Ministry said. Injured passengers were carried on stretchers, bloodied and bandaged, out of both metro stations.

According to reports, helicopters ferried the most seriously hurt to hospital and passengers helped to the surface by emergency services looked stunned or were crying. "There is no one alive left," Moscow deputy mayor Peter Biryukov said. "The cause is not known, the work continues.

"Some bodies were recovered from the wreckage but others remained underground, crushed in the accident", he said.

President Vladimir Putin, who is away in Brazil, ordered a criminal investigation into the accident, which is likely to raise further questions over Russia's transport safety record. There was no suspicion of a militant attack - the cause of scores of deaths in Moscow's subway system in years past.

The Investigative Committee put the toll at 20 dead. Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted Health Ministry representative Oleg Salagai as saying that 129 people were injured, 42 of whom were in a serious condition.

Source: Reuters

Exposed - How a Nigerian Senator funds Boko Haram, buys 400 Golf Cars!

According to reports, Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial District at the Nigerian Senate has reportedly been tied with funding the Islamic terror sect, Boko Haram. 

The role allegedly played by Senator Ndume in the death of Major Timothy Fambiya, who led the operation that led to the death of the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has also been brought to light. 

Ndume is currently standing trial at an Abuja High Court over links with the infamous terrorist sect. He is accused of providing phone numbers of some government officials to the members of the Islamic sect. 

The Nigerian Airforce in Borno State recently bombed Senator Ndume’s convoy of vehicles on his way to his village on suspicion that he was attending a meeting with the insurgents. 

The reports from PointBlankNews, says the senator was angered by the deployment of Major Timothy Fambiya, an indigene of Gwoza in Gwoza Local Government Council of Borno State to eradicate the sect members and halt their activities in the area. 

The area falls within Senator Ndume’s Senatorial District and is predominantly Christian. Ndume, who happens to be a Muslim, could not come to terms with a Christian soldier routing a sect he sympathizes with. 

He believes a Christian soldier sent to lead the Government forces against the sect is war against Muslims. There are many accounts of the circumstances surrounding Shekau’s death, but he is believed to have been killed in Gwoza Hills by a contingent of Special Forces led by Major A.T. Fambiya. 

Fambiya is reckoned to be one of the best Special Forces officers in the Nigerian military, who grew up in Gwoza and understood the rocky terrain. 

Further investigations revealed that it was Major Fambiya that delivered the fatal shot that sent Shakau reeling in Gwoza Hills during a fierce battle but the Boko Haram leader did not die immediately. 

He was severally moved to Mali and later Cameroon where he gave up the ghost. His aides, who sought to create the impression that he was still alive to sect members, hurriedly buried him. 

Following Shekau’s death, an infuriated Senator Ndume had allegedly contracted the second in command to Major Fambiya, Captain Ibrahim Jamare, to eliminate him. 

Captain Jamare, who had briefed the Senator on the circumstances surrounding Shakau’s shooting , was allegedly paid N60 million by the Senator to eliminate the major. 
While on a return mission to Gwoza Hills still in search of Shekau, Captain Jamare had shot Major Fambiya at the back of the head while he was observing something with binoculars. 
The military had in a brief ceremony at the Nigerian Military Cemetary in Abuja declared that Major Fambiya was one of the best special forces officer in Nigeria. “He was killed in action on June 26, 2013 in a fierce encounter with Boko Haram terrorists”.

It was alledged the Major’s suspicious killing had prompted his brother Iliya Joshua to call on military authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. “We call on the Federal Government to investigate the rumoured cause of the death of the officers since it remains a mystery to our family. I made the call because he was supposed to be at the Army school of artillery. The last time I called him, he said that he was not part of those people that were going to Maiduguri for this operation. But later, I was told that he had been killed. He was not supposed to be on posting to that place,”he said. 

Over 400 hundred people including women and children were killed last month in Ngoshe and Atagara by insurgents, who hoisted a flag at the Gwoza Local Government Area. 

The insurgents disguised as soldiers had called the residents to come out to discuss peaceful co-existence in the area. 

Unkonwn to the residents, they were sorroundedv by the insurgents, who opened fire on them killing all that gathered at the village square, who were mostly Christians. The burning of residential houses, churches and schools have continued until a recent deployment of soldiers in the area. 

Purchase of 400 Golf Cars Security agencies are also working on the lead that Senator Ndume had purchased 400 Golf cars for insurgents disguised as empowerment for his constituents. Golf cars have been used in several bomb explosions in Maiduguri, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Abuja. 

Further investigations revealed that insurgents and new recruits were offered a golf car or N500,000.00 to procure the vehicles themselves by the senator. 

The recruitment drive is disguised as one of his constituency empowerment projects. Most of the insurgents are said to have migrated to Abuja and are now domiciled in Waru and Wasa villages, some kilometres from the National Assembly Quarters where they wait to be called upon to carry out car/suicide bombings. 

National Cordinator of the Joint Information Centre on Security, Mike Omeri, had at Wednesday’s briefing of the media on government’s fight against terrorism said government was investigating some politicians following their links with terrorists. 

He said some of the politicians have been arrested. He said the development followed information provided by insurgents in custody. He maintained that government would not condone involvement of politicians in security matters involving the nation.