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DSS foils ISIS-linked Boko Haram attack on U.S, UK embassies …arrests key suspects based in Benue, Abuja The Department of State Security Service has said it has busted a deadly ISIS-linked Boko Haram terrorist gang that had planned to attack the United States of America, the United Kingdom and other western interests in Nigeria. The DSS in a statement by Tony Opuiyo, said it prevented the fatal attacks between the 25th and 26th March, 2017, halting the malevolent gangs based in Benue State and the FCT, from striking. Apart from preventing the attack, the DSS said it also arrested the masterminds whose names were given Isa JIBRIL, Jibril JIBRIL, Abu Omale JIBRIL, Halidu SULE and Amhodu SALIFU. Source: www.vanguardngr.com  By Soni Daniel

FBI obtained court order to monitor ex-Trump adviser in Russia probe - Washington Post In this Friday, July 8, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, then adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File) More WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement and other U.S. officials. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting foreign policy adviser Carter Page's communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russ

MTV Reality Star Clay Adler Commits Suicide Clay Adler, at the Hollywood premiere of “The American Mall” in 2008, has died. (Photo: Getty Images Reality TV star Clay Adler is dead after intentionally shooting himself during a trip to the desert with friends … TMZ has learned. Clay appeared on 2 seasons of the MTV reality show  Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County . Law enforcement sources tell us Clay and his pals went shooting in the desert on March 25. In the middle of firing, we’re told he turned the gun and shot himself in the head. He died in the hospital on March 26 of the gunshot wound. Our sources say there were no drugs or alcohol in his system, but Clay had struggled with mental illness in the past. Clay also did some acting, and became pals with Jennifer Lawrence when they were both starting out in Hollywood. Clay with Jennifer Lawrence at the 15th Annual Movieguide Awards in 2007. (Photo: Getty Images) He was an avid surfer, and friends and fa

Nigeria will end up in a very, very bad way if… – Osinbajo Vice president Osinbajo  He noted that corruption was fiercely waging reprisal attacks in states, but assured the public that President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to sustaining the anti-corruption fight to ensure the system was cleaned up and government business done the right way. He also called for a re-orientation of Nigerians. Speaking during a courtesy visit to his office by Nigerian Association of Law Teachers at State House, Abuja, yesterday, Osinbajo noted that Defence contracts of $15 billion, for which many individuals were being prosecuted, was half of the nation’s  foreign reserves. He said: “If we are not able to sustain the fight against corruption, we will end up in a very, very bad way as a nation. “We have seen it in so many different ways that at almost every state, corruption fights back and fights very fiercely. “We should be able to examine our priorities because for us, corruption is

Please, no 2019 for Buhari LET me seize this opportunity to bid our President, Muhammadu Buhari, welcome back from his medical trip to the United Kingdom. I am happy he is back on his feet instead of lying inside a life support machine even dead as earlier rumoured. We Christians are taught to forgive our transgressors and pray for our enemies. We are not taught to kill them. Faith is the personal right and affair of all human souls for which we account to the Creator when the time comes. I believe that anybody who wishes even his enemy dead has killed him because he would do so if given the chance. It is a singular act of foolishness to wish bad things to befall your enemy because he is your enemy today but what of tomorrow when things suddenly turn the other way round? That is the wisdom in Christians being asked to pray for our enemies to repent of their wickedness. Buhari is not even our enemy! He is our President, duly elected by a majority of Nigeria’s voters in 2015. Tha

How gunmen killed Army captain, 4 Policemen in Lagos By Evelyn Usman, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Bose Adelaja & Ifeanyi Okolie THE relative peace hitherto experienced by residents of Yewa, Isawo community in Ikorodu area of Lagos was, yesterday, shattered following sporadic gunfire by suspected kidnappers, which left six persons, including an Army Captain, four policemen, a landlord and a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, dead. A police patrol van burnt by kidnappers that invaded Yewa, Isawo community in Ikorodu area of Lagos yesterday, an incident that left seven persons, including an Army Captain, four policemen, a landlord and a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, dead. The OPC member was set ablaze and police patrol van was also burnt during the two-hour shoot-out. Vanguard gathered that two members of the kidnap gang, who were felled during the cross fire, were carried into speed boats by their colleagues and ferried to an unknown destination in the cre