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Boko Haram militants lining up elderly and shooting them in Borno

According to a report by AP , Boko Haram members are turning their guns on elderly people, & killed about 50 of them this week in a new tactic to instill more fear in some Northern areas... Residents from five villages say people too elderly to flee Gwoza local government area are being rounded up and taken to two schools where the militants open fire on them. The villages are about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, in Borno "What they are doing now is to assemble the aged people - both men and women ... and then they just open fire on some of them," said Muhammed Gava, a spokesman for civil defense groups in the area.  More than 50 people had been killed at Government Day Secondary School in Gwoza, he said. A villager who had fled said more elderly people are being gathered and shot at Uvaghe Central Primary School. The villager spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of endangering his trapped parents. Government officials did not immedia

Photo: Fashola meets with Ambode and all APC Guber aspirants for reconciliation

Yesterday Dec. 19th, governor Raji Fashola met with Lagos APC Gubernatorial aspirant, Akinwunmi Ambode and other APC Guber aspirants who lost out in the primaries in a bid to reconcile all grieving parties.