Donald Trump reminds him of Adolf Hitler - Former Mexican President Vicente Fox

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump reminds him of Adolf Hitler.

"Today, he's going to take that nation (US) back to the old days of conflict, war and everything. I mean, he reminds me of Hitler,” he told CNN on Friday.

Fox, who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006,  said Trump “has offended Mexico, Mexicans, (and) immigrants. He has offended the Pope. He has offended the Chinese. He's offended everybody."

Last week, Pope Francis said that anyone who embraced Trump’s border-security positions “is not Christian.”  Trump has vowed to expel undocumented immigrants and build a wall on the US-Mexico border.

The former president earlier denounced Trump's proposal that Mexico should be made to pay for the wall.

Trump, who has never held elected office, is still leading the Republican presidential primary field, despite the fact that his campaign has been marked by controversial statements, including with disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants and Muslims.

He vowed to deport 11 million undocumented workers from the United States and establish a “deportation force” for this purpose.

It is not the first time that he was compared to the German dictator. Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman said in December that Trump’s rhetoric about banning Muslims from entering the US reminds him of Hitler.

"If you go and look at your history and you read your history in the lead-up to the Second World War, this is the kind of rhetoric that allowed Hitler to move forward," Whitman said.

The New York real-estate mogul has created a furor in the US and around the world by proposing a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the United States, following a mass shooting in California.

He has also called for a database to track Muslims across the United States, and he has also said that the US would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down mosques.

Fuel Scarcity: queues reappeared in fueling stations across Ibadan, Oyo State

Motorists are groaning as queues reappeared in fueling stations across Ibadan the Oyo State capital.

The situation has started creating panic among residents.

Going round some major roads within Ibadan, Channels TV reported that only a handful of petrol stations were selling petrol while majority were not selling.

Both the independent and major marketers appeared to be affected as most were not selling.

Some motorists are suspecting that some filling stations are possibly hoarding the products as no explanation has been given for the non-availability of the product.

Some of the station managers  denied this allegation and said that they were not dispensing fuel because they did not have product to sell.

However, managers of some of the few stations selling claimed that they had no idea why there should be any form of fuel scarcity.

These few stations sold at the official pump price but there were fears that they might not be doing so for long if the fuel scarcity continues.

Efforts to get the NNPC or the leadership of IPMAN for comments were unsuccessful

Twin blasts in Somalia capital

Hundreds of Somali soldiers erected new security checkpoints across the capital, a day after attacks by Islamic extremists killed at least nine civilians and wounded several others, according to AP.

Government security forces patrolled the streets of Mogadishu Saturday following the attacks Friday night on a hotel and a nearby public garden.

Police said at least five militants from the group al-Shabab were also killed in the attacks on SYL Hotel and the Peace Garden, which each involved suicide car bombers.

The first blast, at the hotel, sent a loud booming sound across the city, shattering windows and ripping the roofs off many nearby buildings. The truck packed with 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives bomb may have been the most powerful bomb used by al-Shabab in recent years, said Somali security minister Abdirizak Omar, told AP.

At the scene of the hotel blast Saturday, an elderly Somali woman raised her hands in grief, shouting "God have mercy on him" as she looked at the wreckage of her son's car which was near the truck bomb.

Somali resident Barre Ali said the explosion at the hotel "felt like there was an earthquake." In his bedroom, Ali pointed to cracks in the wall of his house, which is located 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the scene of the blast.

More than 20 of the wounded are being treated at local hospitals, said Mohamed Abbas, the director of Daru Shifa hospital. Inside one hospital on Saturday, some victims of the attacks lay bleeding on the ground, screaming in pain, in the report.

Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke condemned the bombings.

"Such acts were perpetrated to terrorize (the) public and wreck the stability and development of the country," he said in the statement.

Despite being pushed out of Somalia's major cities, al-Shabab continues to launch deadly guerrilla attacks across the Horn of Africa nation.

Land Scam:EFCC Docks AMATA Chiefs for N3.5m fake deals

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 arraigned the quartet of Abdulaziz Dalha Musa, Abbah Muhammad Bello, Bala Mohammed Zakari and Salisu Yusuf Juji before Justice Faruk Lawan of Kano State High Court on a two count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence.

The accused persons are all executive members of the Amalgamated Traders/Artisans Welfare Development Association, AMATA, Kano State Chapter.

The complainant, Alhaji Yusuf Yakubu Mika’il, a trader in Singa Market Kano alleged that, sometimes in February and September 2013 he was approached by the executives of the AMATA, Kano Chapter over some plots of land which they had for sale.

According to Mika’il, after series of negotiations, a sum of N3.5million (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) was paid to the accused persons and he was subsequently issued with receipts.

However, the accused persons could not deliver on their promise as agreed and efforts of the victim to recover his money yielded no result.

The accused persons pleaded not guilty to charges when they were read to them.

EFCC:A Man Arraigns for N1.3m Visa Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 arraigned one Abdulaziz Abdullahi Eleyeye before Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano on one count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence.

Eleyeye, a graduate of Bayero University Kano was arrested on June 17, 2014 in Lagos following a complaint by one Khalid Ahmad Umar who alleged that the accused person defrauded him to the tune of N1.3m (one million, three hundred thousand naira).

The said amount was to be used for procuring America Visa for the victim.

According to Umar, having no doubt of Eleyeye who claimed to be a travel agent, he paid the said sum into the accused person’s account domiciled in three new generation banks.

Umar claimed that, when he presented himself for the visa interview at U.S.A Embassy he was turned down. Consequently, the accused advised him to re-apply, this time in Kuwait.

It was discovered to be a phony deal when the complainant was deported from Kuwait International Airport back to Nigeria on the grounds that, the travel documents he presented were forged.

Efforts of the victim to get service for his money or recover same were unsuccessful.

The charge reads:

“That you, Abdulaziz Abdullahi sometimes between June and December, 2013 within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, Kano knowingly retained the sum of Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira (N763,000.00) in your Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. Account with account number 0020927933 being proceeds of your illegal act to wit: obtaining  the said sum from one Khalid Ahmed under the false pretence that you will secure a visa for him to United States of America, Qatar, South Africa or Kuwait and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 17 (a) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004 and punishable under Section 17 (b) of the same Act.”

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge when it read to him.

In view of his plea, counsel to EFCC, Salihu Sani asked the court for a date for trial.

Justice Omotosho adjourned the case to March 7, 2016 for hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial

The accused person is to be remanded in prison custody.