Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

French authorities were able to identify the suspect in a series of shootings in Paris thanks to a man who recognized him and approached police Monday, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Thursday. Abdelhakim Dekhar allegedly shot a photographer at the daily newspaper Liberation in Paris on Monday. Dekhar was semiconscious because of medications when he was apprehended Wednesday night, Molins said. He was also linked by DNA samples to bullet shell casings and a car that was seized Monday, according to the prosecutor. That car had been carjacked near the Societe Generale bank towers in the Paris neighborhood of La Defense. Authorities are studying a 15-year-old psychiatric report on Dekhar to try to understand his motivation. The report showed no psychiatric abnormalities, Molins said, though it indicated obsessive tendencies. On Thursday, French President Francois Hollande thanked police for capturing him. It "prevented the worst from happening again," he ...

The Special Task Force (STF) in Jos on Wednesday confirmed that rustlers killed two herdsmen and injured another during an attack at Foron community, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau The incident occurred on Tuesday. The spokesman of the STF, Capt. Salisu Mustapha, said that “at least two people were killed. The other person injured during the attack is receiving treatment in a hospital’’. The spokesman said the STF was, however, investigating the incident. The Public Relations Officer of Plateau Police Command, Mrs Felicia Anselem, who also confirmed the incident, however, said only one person lost his life during the attack. “The gunmen on Tuesday night killed one cattle rearer and injured another person during the attack,’’ she said. The spokesman said 120 cows were also rustled by the attackers. “The police are investigating the matter to unearth those behind the murder and robbery,’’ she said. She called on members of the public with vital information on the incident...

SCORES of women from various parts of the state who protested, yesterday, over the conduct of Anambra governorship poll on Saturday, had a rough deal at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as they were dispersed with tear gas canisters by the police attached to the commission. The women, who marched through some streets in Awka and ended up at INEC head office were calling for total cancellation of the election. Some of them carried placards that read “Anambra not for sale,” “No election was conducted in Anambra,” and “We want fresh poll not supplementary poll.”  As the women ran for their dear lives, two of them fainted and they were helped out by their colleagues. Their leader, Mrs. Tina Akonobi, said that they were at the commission’s office to “mourn for the disaster, destruction, doom, robbery and fraud that took place on the November 16.”             She said: “The election was a sham aimed at insulting th...

President Goodluck Jonathan  may have  initiated peace talks with the leadership of the National Assembly  aimed at resolving the disagreements over the 2014 budget. The development came barely 24 hours after Jonathan cancelled his scheduled visit to the National Assembly earlier on Tuesday to present the estimates of the budget to a joint session of the legislature. The crude oil benchmark proposed for the budget in the 2014-2016 Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper is the bone of contention. Jonathan had initially proposed $74 per barrel of crude, but was later favourably disposed towards the $76.5 passed by the Senate. However, the House rejected the $76.5 and passed $79 as the  benchmark. The President had claimed, in a letter to  the leadership of the National Assembly,  that the benchmark dispute was the reason he put off the visit. He advised the Senate and the House to harmonies their positions on it before he could present th...