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Members of the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri have been  implicated in a series of violent attacks on civilian targets as a means of avenging the death of troops assigned to fight the Boko Haram sect. Investigations by SaharaReporters revealed that JTF members have killed more than 45 civilians and destroyed more than 100 houses. These wanton acts of mass murder and destruction were carried out by JTF operatives last Monday and Thursday after bomb explosions killed a JTF commander and two members of the outfit. “It is an unforgivable crime when armed officers take to killing innocent civilians in a fit of vengeful rage,” a Nigerian reporter for Human Rights Watch (HRW) told Saharareporters from Abuja. He called on the Nigerian government to identify, arrest and prosecute the rogue officers who carried out these illegal killings and widespread destruction in Maiduguri. “That’s how the government can demonstrate that it did not give approval for this grave violation of the rights ...

People view the wealth of men of God from different angles. While some think there’s nothing bad living a good life filled with abundant wealth, others believe men of God are just supposed have enough, and that their calling doesn’t require excess. Whichever way you choose to look at this, everyone has a right to their opinion. Here are the five pastors Forbes think are the richest in Nigeria. 1. Bishop David Oyedepo Affiliation: Living Faith World Outreach Ministry, aka Winners Chapel Estimated net worth: $150 million David Oyedepo is Nigeria’s wealthiest preacher. Ever since he founded the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry in 1981, it has grown to become one of Africa’s largest congregations. The Faith Tabernacle, where he hosts three services every Sunday, is Africa’s largest worship center, with a seating capacity of 50,000. Oyedepo owns four private jets and homes in London and the United States. He also owns Dominion Publishing House, a thriving publishing company ...

Just this week, a House of Representatives committee issued a report warning the United States against doing business with  two major Chinese tech firms, ZTE and Huawei . The companies were closely tied to the Chinese government, the report said, and could be stealing information from the U.S. government and American businesses. Against that backdrop, today Future Tense—a partnership of  Slate , the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University—held an event called “ Arms Race vs. Relay Race: What Does Innovation Hold for China? ” In opening remarks, Steve LeVine, Washington correspondent for  Quartz  magazine and a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow, established the questions for the day: Can China ever become an “innovation juggernaut,” just as it is a world leader in manufacturing? Does “innovation” have to mean breakthroughs, or is incremental innovation—small tweaks on Western-made technology to make it cheaper and sometimes better—enough? And should th...

children, women and men. There is uproar in the land; the echoes of our discord, long lost to the façade of unity we have patched up with for forty years, are reverberating again. Biafra is back, this time not as the country that is said to have been, but as the nemesis that is, our nemesis, a reminder that this union was faulty from foundation, and that, worse than the faulty foundation was the absence of true leadership from those on whose shoulders the future of Nigeria was thrust. We call them founding fathers. I’ll come back to them. In my village, those whose feeling of accomplishment is founded in vain comparison with others, rather than themselves, like to brag that our clan has produced more educated people than the other clans. They count the graduates from family to family and house to house, and ignorantly pass on to us the message of supremacy over others; you know, that body language that conveys feeling of superiority; “I’m better than you!” Beyo...

A Mexican teen boy has been shot dead by US border patrol agents in Sonora, just across the Arizona border. The boy was killed after he threw rocks at the guards. US authorities have claimed 16-year-old Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot dead after guards had ordered him and a group of youths to stop hurling rocks. The US Customs and Border Protection said the boys kept throwing missiles, causing the agents discharged their weapons. Human rights groups have been angered by the incident which some observers have alleged was discriminatory and excessive. Witnesses have said Rodriguez died from several bullet wounds. The shooting by was the third fatal incident since September. At least 15 other Mexican civilians have been shot dead by American patrols since 2010. Another teenage boy, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, 15, was shot and killed in June following an incident in which US authorities said had been throwing rocks at an agent on the fringes of the El Paso border wit...

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