Buhari Reportedly Rejects N400M Armoured Cars.

Nigeria’s Head of States, President Muhammed Buhari has reportedly rejected the offer by the Federal Government to acquire 5 new armoured Mercedes Benz S-600 (V222) cars for his presidential use. The State House planned to purchase the cars which is worth N400m .

A source from the presidency told journalists on Thursday that they found out about the plan during a briefing by Permanent Secretary of the State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi, of the Ministry of activities on Wednesday.

Furious President Buhari was said to have told Emodi that the purchase was unnecessary. Describing it as a ‘waste of scarce resources‘, the source said Buhari told the permanent secretary that the cars he inherited from former President Goodluck Jonathan were good enough for him.

“I don’t need any new cars. The ones I am using now are just fine,” He said

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, also confirmed that Buhari had withheld approval for the purchase of the new cars.

Fake Boko Haram Offers To Exchange Chibok Girls For Their Detained Members.

Group of fake  Boko Haram Insurgents are offering to free the kidnapped Chibok girls in exchange for the release of militant leaders held by the government..A human rights activist told The Associated Press that, Boko Haram’s current offer is limited to the girls kidnapped in April 2014.

The new initiative reopens an offer made last year to the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan to release the 219 students in exchange for 16 Boko Haram detainees, the activist said.

The man, who was involved in negotiations with Boko Haram last year and is close to current negotiators, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters on this sensitive issue.

Fred Eno, an apolitical Nigerian who has been negotiating with Boko Haram for more than a year, told the AP that “another window of opportunity opened” in the last few days, though he could not discuss details.

He said the recent slew of Boko Haram bloodletting — some 350 people killed in the past nine days is consistent with past ratcheting up of violence as the militants seek a stronger negotiating position.

Eno said the 5-week-old administration of President Muhammadu Buhari offers “a clean slate” to bring the militants back to negotiations that had become poisoned by the different security agencies and their advice to Jonathan.

Two months of talks last year led government representatives and Eno to travel in September to a northeastern town where the prisoner exchange was to take place, only to be stymied by the Department for State Service intelligence agency, the activist said. At the last minute, the agency said it was holding only four of the militants sought by Boko Haram

It is not known how many Boko Haram suspects are detained by Nigeria’s intelligence agency, whose chief Buhari fired last week.

The activist said the agency continues to hold suspects illegally because it does not have enough evidence for a conviction, and any court would free them. Nigerian law requires charges be brought after 48 hours