TRAVEL & HUMAN RIGHTS

Torn Passport: Egypt Air admits error, to pay compensation to Joshua Kunle Abdul-Azeez, Nigerian medical student studying in Ukraine

ABUJA-The management of Egypt Air, which was accused of maltreatment and wrongful deportation of a Nigerian medical student, Joshua Kunle Abdul-Azeez, studying in Ukraine and tearing his Nigerian international passport has admitted making a mistake and offered to compensate the student.

POLICY & POLITY

Nigeria military claims Boko Haram leader dead

Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria's military on Wednesday claimed for the first time that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead, as it said troops had killed a lookalike who had been posing as the militant commander. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told reporters in Abuja that a heavily bearded Islamist fighter identified as Mohammed Bashir died during fighting in the town of Konduga, in Borno state.

SPORTS/HUMAN INTEREST

Ghanaian football star, Asamoah Gyan, holding press conference to deny using friend as human sacrifice
By Ryan Rosenblatt

photo credit: Laurence Griffiths

Asamoah Gyan insists he did not use the rapper Castro as a human sacrifice. And he's having a press conference to clear it up. Castro and Janet Bandu went missing in July when they were on vacation with Gyan and the striker's family. The assumption was that they drowned in the ocean, but the inability of anyone to find a body has apparently kicked up suspicions in Ghana. And some have begun to suggest that Gyan sacrificed Castro and Bandu.

BUSINESS & IMPORT

Nigerian Govt reneges on promise, collects 70% tariff on vehicles
By David Ogah

Clearing agents, freight forwarders protest, Customs blames ministry • Stakeholders say it's ploy by NCS to meet N1.2tr revenue target 

CONTRARY to the promise of the Federal Government to suspend the collection of a new tariff on imported vehicles till January 1, 2015, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has actually begun the implementation of the regime. This development has drawn the ire of stakeholders, including clearing agents and freight forwarders at the Lagos ports.