Ghanaian Fraudster Jailed Over £800,000 ($1.28 million) Internet Love Scam

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgu10gKxHzYgwdXLF8-udpd8hWNdZZk_U5TESozrQyREYbZD0RKD9f685FaBi9Oj66K6mxShfAixW0yX-w2qu5Swc8ebVjeKuGnuz-QB86wxHZ1Id-D-yQqZXE26Mbh2dTHSc5vqK4FEk/s1600/Maurice-Asola-Fadola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgu10gKxHzYgwdXLF8-udpd8hWNdZZk_U5TESozrQyREYbZD0RKD9f685FaBi9Oj66K6mxShfAixW0yX-w2qu5Swc8ebVjeKuGnuz-QB86wxHZ1Id-D-yQqZXE26Mbh2dTHSc5vqK4FEk/s1600/Maurice-Asola-Fadola.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Report by</i> <b>Glen Keogh</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A Ghanaian fraudster who posed as an American major general to swindle thousands of pounds from lonely British women he met through online dating sites has been jailed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Maurice Asola Fadola charmed vulnerable lonely women during his 'Rom Con' scam, sending flowers on their birthdays and bombarding them with flattering messages and poetry.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But he would soon claim to be in some sort of financial difficulty and ask the often widowed pensioners to send cash his way - which he used to pay for a lavish gold-plated mansion in his home country.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The conman, believed to be in his 40s, has now been unmasked as one of the world's most prolific online dating fraudsters as his callous crimes left some victims penniless and even HOMELESS.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At least 19 British victims were spun an elaborate web of lies as Fadola used pictures of US Army servicemen plundered from the web to claim he was serving in Iraq and needed cash for emergency medical treatment, customs charges or even to buy his way out of the army.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In all, he is believed to have conned 19 British victims out of around £800,000.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> After almost three years of heartache and accusations, Fadola has now been sentenced in his native country to five years in prison and ordered to repay his victims in full.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> One victim, 71-year-old grandmother Katherine Clark from Southsea, Hampshire, travelled to Ghana to give evidence against Fadola.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She had lost her husband 30 years previously and was charmed by the conman, who this time claimed to be a British builder named Bruce living in London.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking to Sky News in 2011, she said: "He made feel great, he made me feel wanted and that he was genuine. It was a nice feeling."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fadola soon told Ms Clark he was moving to Ghana and encouraged her to send money to him to invest in a mining company.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She even travelled to the West African country at one point to meet 'Bruce' and encountered Fadola - who was pretending to be Bruce's driver.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMuuJ9c92e-7H00r3zuOJPstnY2aVTQB8I4RvxwU6YuHacT-fjC1vyX0CBAzIswd-eDv-nXp_VZlWtjpgGjGPdNSWcFC8mjxBlELDLod3myHoODr8ZCWp8TikcWjy-jWTAqOjLH0MM1k/s1600/Maurice-Asola-Fadolas-mansion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMuuJ9c92e-7H00r3zuOJPstnY2aVTQB8I4RvxwU6YuHacT-fjC1vyX0CBAzIswd-eDv-nXp_VZlWtjpgGjGPdNSWcFC8mjxBlELDLod3myHoODr8ZCWp8TikcWjy-jWTAqOjLH0MM1k/s1600/Maurice-Asola-Fadolas-mansion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He took her to Fadola's luxury marble-clad mansion, showed her a case of gold to prove the investment was genuine and then said Bruce was in prison and needed her money for bail.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On another occasion, 57-year-old widow Dena White, of East Yorkshire, lost her home after she re-mortgaged her property and used £50,000 of her savings to help 'Steve Moon' in a legal dispute over the impounding of his war medals.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fadola - posing as Moon - said he couldn't access his own cash because he was serving in Iraq.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The pair chatted through a dating website for hours each day.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking to the Daily Mail after he was unmasked, she said: "Of course I was wary but everything he told me seemed to check out.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "He’d send me poetry. It sounds silly now but we were in love."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fadola was snared when he tried to obtain a British visa which disclosed his true identity to the National Crime Agency, who were investigating a case where a disabled woman had been persuaded to sell her house and send funds to Ghana.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He is believed to have targeted women across Britain, France, Sweden, Italy and the US and was found guilty of more than 20 offences stemming from his 2012 trial.</div> <br /> <br /> <b>Source: <i><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/online-dating-fraudster-ghana-scammed-4546717">Mirror</a></i></b>

Ghanaian Fraudster Jailed Over £800,000 ($1.28 million) Internet Love Scam

Report by Glen Keogh A Ghanaian fraudster who posed as an American major general to swindle thousands of pounds from lonely British women he met through online dating sites has been jailed. Maurice A…

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Scary Stuff!!! Video + Full Transcript of the Latest Release by Boko Haram

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7UobSMkG4KOrTVImI0kRobYy5HuNIWSv9rnhyfDwh5DgPM3rpcOMwDNwGcAgJacfAKm_yPe08ogi3iebWELHAAExakubeXZslFesHXgzmqmxqkmMak5zvr7UMqbhGMTocTclQqDNlyfs/s1600/BokoHaram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7UobSMkG4KOrTVImI0kRobYy5HuNIWSv9rnhyfDwh5DgPM3rpcOMwDNwGcAgJacfAKm_yPe08ogi3iebWELHAAExakubeXZslFesHXgzmqmxqkmMak5zvr7UMqbhGMTocTclQqDNlyfs/s1600/BokoHaram.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Below is the full transcript of the embedded video recently released by Boko Haram. In the video, the terrorists deny any ceasefire agreement with the Nigerian government. Please, read on...</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "I am using this opportunity to send this message to the infidels in Nigeria and their rest infidels in the world in Hausa vernacular, the tongue that many understand and if the need arise, I will explain in Fulani and Kanuri, but let us explain to you briefly.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "People should know that it is Allah that we are serving, the Prophet of Allah SWT. This is what we put ahead of us; we are praying to die in this path and see heaven and begging Allah to grant us inner most part of heaven and may Allah shield us.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "You followers of the constitution, have you forgotten your what you said in your constitution when we were preaching in Maiduguri town? In you constitution, you cite section 8 verse 1, 2 to 3 in that your cursed document referred to as the constitution, that it is a law and not reversible. You came out in your radio and newspapers and say we are fighting for Islamic Caliphate, it is that constitution that stops us preaching in Maiduguri, and we move out because of exile Allah tasked us to embark.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Have you also forgotten? And you are now seating down and say you have reached ceasefire with us, with who? That your infidel Danladi Ahmadu, if he is our hands today he will not pass the day because we will slight his throat. When did we even know him? Who is Danladi in this world? Allah is the knower of everything.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Because of this, there is no any ceasefire or dialogue with anyone instead it is a war with beating and killings, and guns that we are hungry for like food with Maggi cubes. We are on course; our focus and determination is to see that only Quran is being use in running the world, with Allah this is what we put ahead of us.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "That President Idris Deby of Chad and one Ambassador of Nigeria, with Cameroon that we are doing ceasefire, where did they see us? Your white man from Germany is with us presently, he is crying and if we like we will cut him into pieces, or gun him down. We are not afraid of anyone except Allah; this is our job.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0WBnDLDLwU8?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Who have freed girls from Chibok whom we abducted in their school? Those girls that Shekau abducted and took them to place of his choice about six months today. Allah passed infidels; Allah is ahead of America, Allah is ahead of a plane called drone, nonsense, Allah is supreme ahead of everyone.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "If parents of Chibok girls will know the condition of their children, they will not be worry; it is either to be with their conversion to Islam or you die with pains. You don’t know that the over 200 Chibok girls have convert to Islam, they have memorized several sections of Quran, they have finished in the midst of John, Luka and others, they have realized that Christians have filled old testament with lies.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Small girl from Chibok insisting that Islam is the true religion, just form six. We have married them off, and they are in the house of their husbands. To hurt people is Shekau, they are saying Shekau is a throne; it is me Shekau whose father is Muhammadu, Shekau the man that hurts infidels, staying in the world will be difficult for you, you are just misbehaving in the world.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Who created you? We have not done any ceasefire with anyone; we did not, we did not do ceasefire with Chad, we did not do same with Cameroon and we did not do same with Niger and Nigeria. We did not do same with Ambassador of Chad, and we did not do any dialogue with Africa. We did not do same with Europe and Asia; we did not do with America and the useless United Nations of nonsense.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We did not, who is dialogue? It is a lie; it is a lie, we will not do it, Allah said no to it. We are working with Quran, and no infidel will threaten us. You lacked what to do; you want to please your leaders, and you are lying, the likes of Solomon Darlung, Abdullahi Wase, the likes of Senator Ndume. The people are tired, whether you like it or not we are working for others to convert Islam.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "What is my business with you? Me that left my parents in our house; I left my mother and father. I came out to team up with those that want to promote Islam; you are just deceiving people with ceasefire.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "It is with a single knife that I started and today with more than 20 vehicles I ceased from you, and they are saying Shekau is not a person but a special name. I greet you SSS; I greet you that went to study in Israel, I greet you a member of psychology origin; I greet you descendants of biology. I greet you fools that pledge to Nigeria.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "You pledge to Nigeria your country, I  Shekau pledge to Allah my God. If you don’t know, today you will know, I pledge to Allah to be faithful. This is Shekau, nonsense like you people. This is my brief talk; this one is okay for you, and you should convert to Allah and follow Quran.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "You are unlucky to have missed Quran and stopping those doing it; it is a lie anyone that refuse will see.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Thanks."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: SaharaReporters</b></div>

Scary Stuff!!! Video + Full Transcript of the Latest Release by Boko Haram

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2015: Northern Leaders Mount Pressure on Buhari, Atiku, Kwankwanso

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOjAmNNKv4ohu9sXoiPMQcScqvt2z5Xz3jLy-JRfUB78ZsQC_LSVXCQ9i1IHM8uE7wj6sVNdCoBPZAbQ_pmdQEtUa-jNxz0vykuzql5z43w1-M4muQYbCJjI-nwaJtu9rGY2XrCxVlWk/s1600/apc-presidencial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOjAmNNKv4ohu9sXoiPMQcScqvt2z5Xz3jLy-JRfUB78ZsQC_LSVXCQ9i1IHM8uE7wj6sVNdCoBPZAbQ_pmdQEtUa-jNxz0vykuzql5z43w1-M4muQYbCJjI-nwaJtu9rGY2XrCxVlWk/s1600/apc-presidencial.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Report by </i><b>Kunle Oderemi</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Some influential leaders from the northern part of the country are mounting intense pressure on the three leading presidential aspirants of the <i>All Progressives Congress</i> (APC) to mutually agree among themselves on a consensus candidate for the party, so as to brighten the party’s chance in 2015 election.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Major-General Muhammadu Buhari; former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Musa Kwankwaso have each obtained the presidential nomination forms of the APC, preparatory to its national convention, which may be attended by 10,000 delegates.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before now, the adoption of the modified direct primaries by party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) had elicited mixed feelings within the camps of the leading contestants for the ticket.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Nigerian Tribune</i> gathered that the northern leaders involved in the intense lobbying for consensus among the aspirants cut across a broad spectrum of groups and organisations, which parade highly influential northerners from the three zones in the North.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The leaders were reportedly determined to ensure that at least one of the aspirants steps down, so that the remaining two can go for the APC primaries, but with a prior understanding that one of them was the preferred candidate ahead the national convention on December 2.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The ongoing broad-based consultations by the eminent persons and groups was said to be part of a seemingly multifaceted approach by the major stakeholders of the party to produce what some sources at the APC extra-ordinary meeting, held last week Friday, in Abuja, (called) an acceptable candidate for the party.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It will be recalled that the Northern Elders’ Forum sent a representative to a meeting of the APC stakeholders in the North, held in Kaduna, about three weeks ago.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The sources said that some of the leaders involved in the current consultations had “placed on the table, some suggestions on how the party can be in good stead for the 2015 election, which include the imperative of a candidate with pedigree.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> One of the sources added: “I can assure you that a number of influential members of powerful institutions and groups have stepped up moves to convince the aspirants on the need for consensus. They agreed that we need a candidate that the party can flaunt his pedigree and integrity against the standard-bearer of the PDP.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “So, the leaders are complementing the current efforts by other major stakeholders to ensure the three contenders reach a mutual understanding on the presidential ticket. They are already working out the possibility of the aspirants agreeing that one of them should be adopted on consensus.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Another source, who corroborated the claim, said the leaders were looking at who, among the aspirants, was not only tested and found to be of a high moral standing, but also had the capacity to lead the country to the next level from next year.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the sources, the northern leaders and leading stakeholders in the APC believed that the race for the party’s ticket was gradually being narrowed down to two aspirants, especially going by the body language of many APC governors.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apart from the governors of three of the APC aspirants in the North, virtually all the other governors of the party had already queued behind Buhari.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Accordingly, some of the northern leaders had made tactical approach to one of the aspirants on the possibility of his stepping down, so as to brighten the chances of another considered as capable of leading the party through the election.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the meantime, no fewer than two governors from another political party were said to have reached an agreement with their APC counterparts for the 2015 election, once the APC resolved the issue of its presidential ticket.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A source claimed that the duo had chosen to remain at the background concerning activities in the APC for now due to strategic reasons, including the need to avoid the wrath of their party.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: <i><a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/20433-northern-leaders-mount-pressure-on-buhari-atiku-kwankwaso">Nigerian Tribune</a></i></b></div>

2015: Northern Leaders Mount Pressure on Buhari, Atiku, Kwankwanso

Report by Kunle Oderemi Some influential leaders from the northern part of the country are mounting intense pressure on the three leading presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC)…

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Why I Have Not Had Sex for a Long Time - Halima

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6BJK2gS8OSw5afvnvwt8HQFp1SWYie93NgXK46FPHS8gtgkWS9xiboCWq3_7en3pkhiq6TBfn3qag0dKqLl6md5yWG4zSq4cgT_TPSqwiPH588qnyK5IGyAA-Mo0dc56P5zNU5q8lLdA/s1600/halima-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6BJK2gS8OSw5afvnvwt8HQFp1SWYie93NgXK46FPHS8gtgkWS9xiboCWq3_7en3pkhiq6TBfn3qag0dKqLl6md5yWG4zSq4cgT_TPSqwiPH588qnyK5IGyAA-Mo0dc56P5zNU5q8lLdA/s1600/halima-5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Report by </i><b>Segun Adebayo</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Actress, Halima, sure knows how to get her fans attention anytime she wants to. She was even once described as one of the most controversial actresses in <i>Nollywood</i>. Despite her many controversies though, the Kano-State born actress does not seem to be perturbed as she has continued to live her life, enjoy her career and make few appearances at public functions.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Halima came out of her shell during the week when she came up with a post advising women to abstain from sex. She urged ladies to learn how to control their bodies and abstain from rubbing bodies with men. Halima claimed that she had not slept with any man for a long time for many years, though she admitted that it has not been easy keeping her hormones in check.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The actress explained further that her body “is now used to not having sex regularly”. On her Instagram page, she wrote :Take control of ur body and say no to sex!! stay off sex my ppl kisses buh u free to laff cos am laughing".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In her response to various comments, Halima asked her fans if it was compulsory that they must have sexual intercourse, adding that the gospel of abstinence should be preached.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The actress, who has recently been trailed with various scandals, stressed that sex is not food.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Halima who has been linked with a sizzling romance with <i>Ruggedman</i> said "I don’t like responding to such rubbish insinuations again, I'm bigger than that”.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: <i><a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/razzmatazz/item/20280-why-i-have-not-had-sex-for-a-long-time-halima">Nigerian Tribune</a></i></b></div>

Why I Have Not Had Sex for a Long Time - Halima

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Nigeria Detains Military Commanders For Abandoning Mubi To Boko Haram

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNGp3OTsqGuICdkMlJAEnlKOK9pwllup6etjcBkdkYuZLLt3WdPPDRg2trVqNwyNWLLJVZJhRyiL8PUczH7Ev3ktXN6H7Ma7RJff-OqDWF9hZTJvZSCWpoj5y-L_MKOJMXP9RyOP65Qw/s1600/Fleeing_nigerian_Soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNGp3OTsqGuICdkMlJAEnlKOK9pwllup6etjcBkdkYuZLLt3WdPPDRg2trVqNwyNWLLJVZJhRyiL8PUczH7Ev3ktXN6H7Ma7RJff-OqDWF9hZTJvZSCWpoj5y-L_MKOJMXP9RyOP65Qw/s1600/Fleeing_nigerian_Soldiers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Report by</i> <b>Sahara Reporters</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Five military commanders have been handcuffed and detained at the military police guard room at the 23 Brigade headquarters in Yola Adamawa state for abandoning Mubi in Adamawa state to Boko Haram militants last Wednesday.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The commander whose names and ranks were given as Colonel Ibrahim, Lt. Colonel Magaji and three others abandoned the 213 Brigade headquarters a few minutes after Boko Haram militants reached Mararaba and Hildi on the outskirts of Mubi.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Defense officials in Abuja had told <i>SaharaReporters</i> that investigations were ongoing as to the cause of abandonment of the battle front by the commanders.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Another set of commanders from the 234 Brigade are expected to be detained by the military authorities as soon as they leave the MRS Hospital in Yola in a day or two according to our sources.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The team includes Lt. Col O.A Agwu and his lieutenants. They equally fled the battle scene in Mubi and allowed Boko Haram militants to take the town with(out) resistance. However, Lt. Col Agwu’s pick up van somersaulted twice and crashed injuring him and his lieutenants  as they fled Mubi.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mubi had three army battalions comprising of the "234 Brigade, the 213 Brigade and the 21 Support Group" when it fell to militants last Thursday. The soldiers fled alongside civilians to neighboring villages in Nigeria and Cameroon. A <i>Punch newspaper</i> report today claims that over 300 soldiers fled to Cameroon.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>SaharaReporters</i> could confirm that the rest of the soldiers are in "MIA" mode in Song Adamawa state where they await further orders to act against Boko Haram.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><i><a href="http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/02/nigeria-detains-military-commanders-abandoning-mubi-boko-haram">Sahara Reporters</a></i></b></div>

Nigeria Detains Military Commanders For Abandoning Mubi To Boko Haram

Report by Sahara Reporters Five military commanders have been handcuffed and detained at the military police guard room at the 23 Brigade headquarters in Yola Adamawa state for abandoning Mubi in Ada…

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