The Special Task Force (STF), keeping the peace on the Plateau, on Thursday said that it was at war with a militia group and not civilians. “We are at war with a militia group that killed of six of our men a week ago; we have no quarrel with any civilian populace,’’ STF Spokesman, Capt. Iweha Ikedichi, said in Wase. Ikedichi told newsmen in a telephone interview that the militia group had allegedly killed six soldiers at Kurmi, a border town between Taraba and Plateau.
He said that three soldiers were missing.

Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland. Voters casting their ballots face a choice between a government led by Prime Minister David Cameron’s centre-right Conservatives or by Ed Miliband’s centre-left Labour in the closest vote in decades.

Mrs Omotayo Oduntan, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, on Thursday cautioned Enugu and Niger Houses of Assembly against impeaching their governors close to the end of their tenure. Oduntan (APC-Alimosho II) told newsmen in Lagos that the current impeachment process in the two states may hinder developmental programmes.

Mr. Oladele John Nihi from Kogi state who started trekking from Abuja to Otuoke, the hometown of President Goodluck Jonathan, to celebrate him (Jonathan) as the hero of democracy, has gotten a female partner in his journey

“Think for a second, one of your children is tied to post, and men are lined up in front of them and the fear he would have felt, and then your child is shot through the heart,” she added.