Sekere, the Yoruba musical instrument, is reputed never to be found wherever tears are being shed. Made of a gourd that is knitted round by beads and which its user twists, shakes or slaps to produce a medley of exciting sounds, Sekere and sorrow are strange bedfellows as this musical instrument can never be found in an assemblage of poets engaged in dirges. Proud of Sekere’s pedigree of being a springboard of joy and conviviality, Yoruba proudly thump their chests that Sekere does not cavort in an assembly of the downcast. Unlike the Sekere however, last week, and as it has been its wont, Nigeria again showed that Sekere’s antithesis excites it. From the political, the social, to the economic, the Sekere became a rare object in sight in Nigeria.
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A statement issued Friday from Primate Ayodele Ministry made this assertion.
“Thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more. Last night, operating on my orders, the United States military forces successfully removed a major terrorist threat to the world, the global leader of ISIS,” Biden said in a statement from the White House.
Sources told PRNigeria that he replaces Aba Ibrahim, who was appointed by Abu-Mosab Albarnawi’s Interim Committee.
According to him, the death of Shekau only escalated the lingering terrorism acts perpetrated by the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP).
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the vice president said this when he received at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, a US government delegation led by the White House Deputy National Security Advisor, Mr Jonathan Finer.
The latter had attempted to defend the indefensible by seeking to justify and rationalise the despicable and totally unacceptable submissions and actions of the embattled Minister of Communications, Sheik Isa Pantami.
The call was made by the party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Prince Adelaja Adeoye, on Sunday.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, said this while answering questions from newsmen at the updates briefing on military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja.
A former Intelligence Chief in Mali, San Louis Keita, made the allegation in Abidjan, the Cote d’Ivoire capital, at a news conference
One of them confirmed that the ISWAP group was escaping from recently destroyed camps by the Nigerian Army in coordination with the Nigerian Air Force and troops from the Multi-National Joint Task Force.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, while answering questions from newsmen at the updates briefing on military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja, said there was nothing to fear about the claim.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Wednesday said two soldiers died, while four were wounded in the encounter.
A global war on terror approach mirroring the resourced US-Western backed coalition against the collapsed ISIS self-declared Caliphate in Mosul and Raqqa could finish off ISIS most active affiliates in Africa.
Amnesty International reports thrive on the common perception that state military and security authorities will always deny allegations of GVHR and War Crimes even if they were caught red-handed
Enenche said troops of 212 Battalion under Sector 1 of OPLD successfully repelled the terrorists’ attack, killed several insurgents and recovered arms and ammunition at Gajigana, Nganzai Local Government Area on Sunday.
The Federal Government and the Republic of Chad have agreed to sustain the Multinational Joint Task Force operations against Boko Haram/Islamic States for West Africa Province terrorists in the Lake Chad region.
The Multi-National Joint Task Force has launched a coordinated offensive to dislodge Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists from Tunbuns Islands of Lake Chad.
The United States has named Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, the new leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a devastating series of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people.