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<p>Egyptian, <a href="http://m.ucanindia.in/news/rolando-del-torchio-abducted-from-inside-university-campus-30342.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Filipino kidnapped</a> by pirates off Nigeria<br /><br /><a href="http://Www.Usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-09-17/nigerias-president-apologizes-for-plagiarizing-obama-speech" class="external text" rel="nofollow">usnews.com</a><a href="http://Go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&amp;CLCID=0409" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Pirates attacked</a> a cargo vessel off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped two crew members, a maritime specialist validated Thursday, in the newest high-seas strike in the Gulf of Guinea.<br /><br />It was the second assault in one day: early Monday pirates kidnapped six crew members of a Turkish cargo ship, the M/T Puli, according to the Nigerian Navy.<br /><br />"This assault — like most others off the Niger Delta — was completed at night and carried an element of surprise," Dirk Steffen, from the <a href="http://www.Coface.com/Economic-Studies-and-Country-Risks/Denmark" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Denmark-based Risk</a> Intelligence company, told AFP, referring to the attack that was later.<br /><br />The crew gathered in the citadel after the boat had been boarded by the attackers, but two crew members — the Egyptian electrician and the Filipino 2nd officer — failed to make it there and were seized by the attackers", he said in an email.<br /><br />The Liberian-flagged vessel, chartered by French shipping company CMA CGM, was attacked at 8:56 pm (1956 GMT), 28 nautical miles from the shoreline of the oil-rich Niger delta region.<br /><br />Steffen, the director of marine security at Risk Intelligence, said the objective was uncommon and indicated the pirates were aiming at kidnapping rather than hijacking tankers for his or her fuel freight.<br /><br />The Gulf of Guinea is becoming a piracy hotspot and Risk Intelligence has recorded 32 offshore attacks for Nigeria alone this season.<br /><br />Steffen linked the increase to the winding down of an amnesty scheme to former Niger Delta militants, who demanded a fairer share of oil sales in the 2000s through sabotage and kidnapping.<br /><br />It also reflected a trend of a decrease in abductions and offshore piracy in the area around elections. Last year Nigeria held presidential and parliamentary polls.<br /><br /><br />Nigeria loses N577b yearly as tax incentives to firms<br /><br />A fresh report by Actionaid and Tax Justice Network Africa has shown that Nigeria is losing about $2.9 billion (N577.2 billion) revenue yearly to corporate organizations as tax incentives with a view to attracting foreign investments into her market.<br /><br />The report which focused on Senegal and Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’ Ivoire shows that allowing tax incentives to investors foreign firms, is depriving authorities of cash to buy essential public services like infrastructure, education and health.<br /><br /> Despite serious questions about their usefulness and the utilization of tax incentives, their large earnings losses has become common practice.’’<br /><br />‘’ since most of them haven't been in sectors like production that create the most occupations’’ Neither have considerable amounts of jobs been created by the foreign investments, despite generous tax incentives given by the government.<br /><br />The report advocates that the Nigerian government and all other governments in ECOWAS desire to review the incentives they may be granting with a view to ensuring that those remaining are targeted at achieving particular social and economic aims, abolishing motivators that are unproductive and reducing them.<br /><br />It likewise calls on the authorities and the ECOWAS members to bring their incentive regimes under the control of an individual thing with powerful and resourced supervision mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability of public spending.<br /><br />Addressing journalists on behalf of the coalition in Abuja, the Deputy- Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, Ifeoma Charles -Monwuba said: ‘’The study has shown that annually, Nigeria forfeits as much as N577 billion as an outcome of tax break granted firms. This amount could go towards addressing infrastructural deficit.<br /><br /><br />AGF restates Nigeria’s commitment to international rights standards<br /><br />The Government has expressed commitment to the highest standards of adherence to human rights, in the actions of all her international affairs, including counter insurgency operations against Boko Haram in the state.<br /><br />Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made the pledge when he received a delegation from Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Madame Fatou Bensouda, in Abuja.<br /><br />Salihu Othman Isah, in a press statement issued by his Special Adviser, Media and Marketing, the AGF assured the delegation that Nigeria has high value because of its relationships with the ICC, and will continue to fulfill its obligations to the court.<br /><br />Malami also revealed that the Nigeria Army has conducted its operations in the Northeast region in a highly professional way, imbibing the best practices in the areas of humanitarian law and international human rights.<br /><br />He also revealed that he was aware of the eight case files opened against Nigeria by the ICC, which the prosecutor intends to investigate in her next phase of appraisal of Nigerian scenario.<br /><br />"Let me reiterate that Nigeria retains the sovereign ability to investigate and penalize the alleged offenses will therefore continue current efforts in the <a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">preceding</a> direction, and referred to in the report.’’<br /><br />He further added that government is committed to ensuring that troops are guided by their rules of engagement, guaranteeing that any infractions will be seriously dealt with.<br /><br />The minister nevertheless gave in combating terrorism <a href="http://http//www.canopusinstruments.com/product/industrial-automation-product/process-controller-indicators/programmable-process-indicator/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">indicator</a> of this government’s resolve to ensure respect for human rights by all, while remaining unshaken and resolute.<br /><br />Responding, the leader of delegation, <a href="https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/articles/201657341" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Phakiso Mocho</a> Choko said the <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/prosecutor" class="external text" rel="nofollow">prosecutor</a> doesn't intend to undermine the sovereign rights of Nigeria in meting out punishment and investigating crimes.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nig.com/news-and-views/2016/smes-�-the-soft-underbelly-cyber-criminals-love-to-target/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">nig.com</a>He divulged that most cases were the ones <a href="https://Ecosia.Zendesk.com/hc/articles/201657341" class="external text" rel="nofollow">sponsor nations</a> are unable to resolve through internal mechanism.<br /><br />The prosecutor, through the delegation expressed support and openness to work with Nigeria, in addressing all identified offenses and criminality against mankind, but told that he was optimistic in continuing with their participation.<br /><br /><br />Amnesty International accuses of covering Zaria killings up Nigerian military<br /><br />Make them bring it out for all to see, If they will have signs that is proper. We cannot confront law-abiding citizens."<br /><br />"Whoever we confronted must have been a <a href="http://www.Dmoz.org/public/flag?cat=Society/Law/Legal_Information/Criminal_Law&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.criminaldefense.homestead.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">criminal</a> and enemy of the state.<br /><br />In its report published yesterday on its web site, AI said <a href="http://www.Dmoz.org/Health/Medicine/Evidence_Based_Medicine/Surgery/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">evidence collected</a> on the earth razed buildings, revealed the military burnt people living and dumped casualties’ <a href="http://www.yohaig.ng/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">[http://www.yohaig.ng/ Latest Naija News 29th January 2017</a>] bodies.<br /><br />This tends to corroborate the April 10 signs of a top official of the Kaduna State government when he appeared before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the state government, following the Shiites-military conflict in Zaria between December 12 and 14 last year, involving the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, by which a lot of individuals were said to have died, culminating in the continuous detention of the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and other members since then.<br /><br />The <a href="https://Www.Merriam-Webster.com/dictionary/official" class="external text" rel="nofollow">official</a> told the commission that the bodies of 347 IMN were collected from the hospital mortuary and an Army depot in Zaria and buried in secret in a mass grave near Mando on the nights of December 14 and December 15.<br /><br />The group’s assistants, armed with batons, knives, and machetes, had <a href="http://www.Classicrefusetrucks.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">refused</a> to clear the road the Hussainiyya, near their headquarters , for a <a href="http://Militaryfacilities.org" class="external text" rel="nofollow">military convoy</a> to pass.<br /><br />The military had claimed that IMN assistants <a href="http://Www.Silent-Echo.com/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">attacked</a> the convoy in an attempt to assassinate Buratai, which IMN members <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Environment/Waste_Management/Equipment/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">refused</a>.<br /><br />The report, titled Unlawful killings and mass cover-up in Zaria, comprehensive eyewitness testimony of alleged large-scale <a href="https://Ecosia.zendesk.com/hc" class="external text" rel="nofollow">killings</a> by the military and exposes effort by the authorities to destroy and conceal evidence.<br /><br />Our research, based on witness testimonies and analysis of satellite images, has located one mass grave that was potential. It's time now for the military to come clean and admit where it covertly buried hundreds of bodies."<br /><br />" of what occurred in Zaria over those two days The genuine horror is only now coming to light.<a href="http://Www.komis-mebli.katowice.sk/the-nation-nig-newspaper-today.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">katowice.sk</a> Bodies piled outside the mortuary and were left littered in the streets. Some of the injured were burned alive," said AI’s Research, Netsanet Belay and Advocacy Manager for Africa.<br /><br /><br />Army, religious leaders harp on ethno -religious harmony among Nigerians<br /><br /><br />world.<br /><br />Speaking at the seminar/award ceremony of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State chapter, Oyebade recalled the good old days when spiritual differences never caused disharmony among Nigerians, as they saw themselves as one united people working for the improvement and unity of the country.<br /><br />Additionally in Kaduna, an university lecturer, Dahiru Yahya, and the state Manager of the Directorate of Security Service (DSS), Mr. Mustapha Sani, expressed divergent views on whether members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), otherwise known as Shiites, constitute a hazard to Nigeria’s security.<br /><br />But Sani said the group had represented serious threat to the nation by applying primitive weapons in their own operations and organising military training.<br /><br /><a href="http://Book.Daum.net/detail/book.do?bookid=DGT00029955191IN" class="external text" rel="nofollow">nigeriagalleria</a>.com/Nigeria/States_Nigeria/Images/Lagos-State-Political-Map.jpg" style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The GOC, who was honoured with a Public Service Award, called on media practitioners to sensitise the people on faith and ethnic issues -religious harmony across the country. </p>