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El Tio Mexican forces have captured one of the country’s most wanted drug lords, officials say. Dionicio Loya Plancarte, known as El Tio (The Uncle), was one of the leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state, officials say. The government had a 30m-peso ($2.2m; £1.3m) bounty on his head for drug and money-laundering crimes. Troops were deployed to Michoacan earlier this month after vigilantes clashed with gang members. The vigilantes accuse the government of not doing enough to protect locals from extortion and violence. Armed with high-powered weapons, they have pushed out the Knights Templar from some of their strongholds in the Tierra Caliente region. The army was sent in to restore order and disarm the so-called self-defence forces. However, many have refused to lay down their weapons until the cartel’s main leaders are captured. Follow us on Twitter: Click here On Facebook:   Click here Add on BBM: 2860E881 or 7C80F17E

D' banj Oyebanjo, a.k.a D’banj, on Monday said he would take to farming to encourage youths to embrace agriculture and fight poverty. D’banj said in an interview with in Ikeja, during the launch of “ONE’s Year of Agriculture’ Campaign” that his action was to explore another area of opportunities. “ONE’’ is an international, non-partisan, non-profit, advocacy and campaigning organisation aimed at eradicating poverty and preventable diseases in the world through public awareness. D’banj said that during his meeting with the “ONE Organisation” in South Africa, he was convinced that agriculture was the only way forward for Nigeria and Africa. “They told me about how many potentials that we’re missing out on. “They told about how if we focus on agriculture in the next five, six, seven, 10 years, Africa can actually be feeding the rest of the world. “They told me about how much the small scale farmers don’t even have any support and they are the larger percentage of people that are...

The State Security Service released the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, in the early hours of Tuesday after quizzing the ex-minister for about 15 hours. El-Rufai, who reported to the SSS Abuja office at about 9.30am on Monday, was released some minutes after midnight. The bail conditions of the All Progressives Congress chief was not known as of the time of filing this report. The former minister was summoned by the SSS for what the security agency described as provocative and inciting comments. El-Rufai was reported to have said there would be violence if the 2015 elections are not free and fair.   El- Rufai SSS detains El-Rufai The State Security Service on Monday detained a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai at its headquarters in Abuja. The SSS operatives detained el-Rufai, who is the interim Deputy Publicity Secretary of the opposition All Progressives Congress, when he reported at their of...

Properties worth more than N50 million were on Monday destroyed in a fire incident that gutted a warehouse in Omu-Aran, Kwara, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. An eyewitness told NAN that the warehouse, located on Aperan Way and behind a filling station, was stocked with foam and building materials. It caught fire at about 4.15p.m. and raged for more than three hours before the arrival of fire fighters from Ilorin. NAN reports that although no life was lost in the incident, police men from the Omu-Aran police division, assisted by some military personnel were on hand to maintain law and order in the area. An Assistant Chief Fire Superintendent, Mallam Mustapha Ibrahim, who led the team of firemen, told NAN that he received a distress call at about 5.30p.m. and immediately headed to Omu-Aran. He said that the intensity of the fire was due to the materials stocked in the warehouse which accounted for the huge losses incurred in the incident. Ibrahim attributed the fire to a susp...