If GEJ is re-elected, Nigeria will fall apart – Senator Ahmed Zanna

by James Sambo Senator Ahmed Zanna has warned that Nigeria will disintegrate if President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected at the 2015 presidential elections. Zanna, who represents Borno Central Senatorial zone, described the present government as the most irresponsible in Africa, saying that President Goodluck Jonathan has made little effort to secure the release the girls.... Read More

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September 11, 2014

#BringBackOurGirls: 150 days and still counting…

by Mayowa Aboah It has been 150 days since over 200 girls from Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, were kidnapped, and they are yet to be rescued. A statement, issued by the #BringBackOurgrils movement, signed by Hadiza Bala Usman, Oby Ezekwesili, Maryam Uwais and many other members, called on the government and security agencies to... Read More

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September 11, 2014

#BringBackGoodluck2015: Nigeria’s shame revisited

by Joe Igbokwe The moment the American newspaper, The Washington Post, hit the news stands, President Jonathan ordered his handlers and campaigners to dismantle the shameful campaign billboards across the country bearing the hashtag #BringBackGoodluck2015#. On social media yesterday, angry Nigerians disparaged the presidency and the supporters of the president for making mockery of our... Read More

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September 11, 2014

Boko Haram to swap 30 Chibok girls for 18 detained members

by S’ola Filani A report in the Nation newspaper claims that Boko Haram has agreed to swap some of the abducted 219 Chibok girls for 18 members. According to the Nation, Boko Haram sent the list of its commanders and the 30 girls to be swapped to a minister, who is also a lawyer, an... Read More

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September 10, 2014

The Presidency says it wasn’t aware of #BringBackJonathanIn2015 … but, Doyin Okupe championed it

by Kolapo Olapoju The Presidency has claimed that it was not aware of the #BringBackJonathan2015 campaign banners, despite those banners being placed around many parts of Abuja, the federal capital. Bowing to the pressure of public opinion, Reuben Abati, the special adviser to the president on “Media and publicity” released a statement to this effect, urging the sponsors of... Read More

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September 9, 2014

Herbalists are angry! They want Federal government to probe Sheriff and Ihejerika, or else….

by Azubuike Azikiwe Herbalists have given the Federal government an ultimatum to probe the alleged sponsors of Boko Haram, else they would personally deal with them. The Northern Nigeria arm of the Council of Babalawos (native doctors) has urged the federal government to promptly probe the alleged involvement of General Azubuike Ihejerika and Senator Ali... Read More

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August 28, 2014

One ‘foreign expert’ like that is telling us what we already know about politicians and Boko Haram (READ)

by Kolapo Olapoju Dr Stephen Davis, an Australian based international adviser has revealed that the operations of Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram, are being sponsored by some Nigerian politicians. During the interview which aired on an Australian TV, ABC, on Wednesday, 27 August, he said that until the sponsors of the militant groups are stopped,... Read More

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August 28, 2014

Oby Ezekwesili: We cannot afford to move on without our daughters

by Oby Ezekwesili Today marks 136 days since April 14, when 219 daughters of Nigeria were taken captive from our midst at close to midnight while we all slept. The Presidential Facts Finding Committee on Chibok Abduction which was set up evidently to validate to those who doubted the tragedy, helped confirm that our daughters... Read More

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August 25, 2014

Opinion: Simple and short, the Chibok girls show Nigeria as a failed state

by Simon Ateba The abandonment, by the Nigerian government, of 219 school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram Islamist sect on 14 April is a global tragedy and a clear confirmation that Nigerians who dump Nigeria everyday ‎for foreign lands have no choice but to flee from a failed state that had long abandoned them.... Read More

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August 15, 2014

Bukola Saraki: Mr. President, this is how to defeat Boko Haram

by Bukola Saraki For the President to say, when he met the girls’ parents this week, that he has had to “remain quiet” because it could hamper the work of the intelligence services is unacceptable. The kidnapping of over 270 schoolgirls in Chibok, which took place over three months ago, is in the news... Read More

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August 7, 2014

GOOD NEWS: U.S surveillance planes spot Chibok girls [DETAILS]

by Kolapo Olapoju According to the Washington Post, a recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeast Nigeria, reportedly showed what appeared to be large group of girls being held together in remote locations. The report says that in July, flights over the north east spotted a group of 60 to 70 girls held in an... Read More

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August 4, 2014

Ebubedike Akabuwa: Unity in Chibok storm

by Ebubedike Akabuwa Contrary to some reports that it took the government two weeks to respond, the government responded promptly. The captain walked briskly around the scene. His men had cordoned off the area in a matter of minutes after the incident. They had become so good at it. And why not, he thought? They... Read More

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August 1, 2014

Tunde Leye: Why – and how – the Press needs to do better

by Tunde Leye We don’t want a press that asks us if the president gave the Chibok parents Hundred Million Naira. Rather, the press should investigate what really happened, get evidence and tell us factually. Did the president release that money? When things happen in Nigeria today, this is the cycle it follows. First, newspapers,... Read More

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July 30, 2014

Were the Chibok parents given N100 million? What do you think?

A spokesperson to President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has denied claims that the President disbursed the sum of N100 million as compensation to parents of the abducted Chiboks girls. In a tweet last night, Okupe said; “I want to make it clear & emphatically 2(too) dat(that) PGEJ(President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) did not gv (give) any... Read More

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July 28, 2014

Opinion: Why the Chibok girls may never return to us

by Nnaemeka Oruh But if the presidency truly believes that the abduction is real, and the Department of State Security truly knows the location of the girls, then please, one week is enough to devise a plan and rescue the girls. It has been over one hundred days since the abduction of the Chibok girls.... Read More

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July 23, 2014

100 days after, will the Chibok girls ever be found? Join the debate

by Emmanuel Chidiogo It is 100 days today since over 200 secondary school girls at Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, were abducted. A few days after the kidnap, the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign began as an attempt to pressurise the government into swift action for the rescue of the missing girls.... Read More

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July 23, 2014

Female Footballers organize ‘100 days football Match’ for abducted Chibok girls

by Kolapo Olapoju To mark the 100th day since the abduction of the 219 Chibok girls and to keep the conversation alive, Nigerian Female Footballers in Abuja took partook in a football match tagged ‘100 days football Match’, for the missing Chibok Girls. The match, which was played between two football teams, ‘Dream Girls Women,... Read More

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July 22, 2014

We wait: Jonathan meets parents of #ChibokGirls behind closed doors

President Goodluck Jonathan is currently in a meeting with parents of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok, Borno State on April 14 2014. The meeting is being held behind closed doors inside the the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja including 51 escaped girls, parents of escaped girls, parents of girls still in captivity and community leaders... Read More

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July 15, 2014

Kidnapped Chibok girls to get FG scholarship – Jonathan

by Kolapo Olapoju President Goodluck Jonathan has made a promise of educational scholarship for all the abducted schoolgirls of Chibok, Borno State once they are rescued and back home. The president reportedly made the promise yesterday in Abuja at the State House during a meeting with 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani advocate of girls’ education rights.... Read More

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July 14, 2014

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau apparently thinks bombing Lagos, Abuja is funny (WATCH)

by Kolapo Olapoju A video has been released, where Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Islamic sect, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the June 25 bombing in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and the attack at a fuel depot in Lagos. In the video, Abubakar was evidently mocking the futile the efforts of the government... Read More

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July 9, 2014

Chibok hunters rescue 32 Boko Haram abductees (Report)

by Kolapo Olapoju According to The CableNG Newspaper, 30 out of the over 200 Chibok school girls kidnapped from the community by Boko Haram in April and an additional two young victims have been reportedly rescued by some local hunters. The hunters were said to have stormed the sect’s hideout and successfully rescued 30 of... Read More

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July 8, 2014

Opinion: Chibok survivors and multiple narratives of victimhood

by Jibrin Ibrahim Yes indeed, time is passing and the agronomy of the parents and relations continue to grow. So far, seven of the parents of the girls have died of their chagrin. Is the Nigerian State and Government saying they will continue to watch as the Kibaku Nation is annihilated? My heart bleeds for... Read More

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July 5, 2014

Tunde Leye: Executive President sir, could you please execute?

by Tunde Leye The President failed to be executive when it took 18 days to react to the kidnapping. He failed to be executive when the Chibok parents had to organize a vigilante force to go into Sambisa in the days after the kidnap when the army failed to turn up. Executive. Adjective: Relating to... Read More

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July 3, 2014

‘What the Nigerian president should have written’: The Washington Post rips Pres. Jonathan’s article apart

by Isi Esene After publishing a piece written by President Goodluck Jonathan last month, The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah has penned down what, in her opinion, the Nigerian president should have written. In a reaction to claims by Nigerians, and many key-players in the international community, that his administration is doing next to nothing to rescue the... Read More

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July 1, 2014

The violence continues: Gunmen burn down police station, raid armoury in Borno

by S’ola Filani Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect attacked and burnt down a police station in Shani, Borno State late Monday afternoon. The militants attacked the Divisional Police Station among other nearby residential buildings, shops and vehicles using Improvised Explosive Devices and petrol bombs. Eyewitnesses say the militants... Read More

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June 29, 2014

BREAKING: Many people dead, several churches burnt down as gunmen attack village near Chibok

by S’ola Filani A massive attack is reportedly ongoing in Kautikari and Kwada village, seven kilometres away from Chibok town, Borno state with many villagers feared dead. The attackers, according to report from locals in Chibok, targeted worshipers getting ready for the Sunday Service. About five churches including Deeper Life Bible Church were said... Read More

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June 26, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: Chibok – Is Nigeria still serious?

by Abimbola Adelakun Instructively, two cardinals were missing from the President’s response to his fact-finding committee: A sense of urgency about rescuing the abducted girls and, that of culpable responsibility. Two months after the Chibok abduction saga started, the fact-finding committee on the missing schoolgirls submitted its report. The committee confirmed that, indeed, the schoolgirls... Read More

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June 24, 2014

Not so fast: We’re yet to confirm kidnap of 60 women in Borno – FG

by Akan Ido The Federal Government has said that it is yet to confirm media reports that 60 women were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Chibok, Borno State almost 70 days after over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in the same community. Media reports indicate that about 60 women were forcefully taken from their homes on... Read More

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June 21, 2014

Singer, Adokiye offers her virginity for the release of Chibok girls

by S’ola Filani Pop singer and Imo State Peace Ambassador, Adokiye, shocked her fans recently when she revealed that she is a virgin, adding that whoever wants her virginity should be prepared to buy her mother the private jet she long promised her. It now appears Adokiye is ready to give her much coveted virginity... Read More

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June 18, 2014

Dele Agekameh: The forgotten girls of Chibok

by Dele Agekameh Unfortunately, days have turned into weeks and months, and nothing tangible or cheering has been on the horizon about the girls’ return to reunite with their loved ones. On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Wole Soyinka, professor and Nobel Laureate, appearedon the British Broadcasting Corporation’s programme, Hardtalk and added his voice to the... Read More

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If GEJ is re-elected, Nigeria will fall apart – Senator Ahmed Zanna

#BringBackOurGirls: 150 days and still counting…

#BringBackGoodluck2015: Nigeria’s shame revisited

Boko Haram to swap 30 Chibok girls for 18 detained members

The Presidency says it wasn’t aware of #BringBackJonathanIn2015 … but, Doyin Okupe championed it

Herbalists are angry! They want Federal government to probe Sheriff and Ihejerika, or else….

One ‘foreign expert’ like that is telling us what we already know about politicians and Boko Haram (READ)

Oby Ezekwesili: We cannot afford to move on without our daughters

Opinion: Simple and short, the Chibok girls show Nigeria as a failed state

Bukola Saraki: Mr. President, this is how to defeat Boko Haram

GOOD NEWS: U.S surveillance planes spot Chibok girls [DETAILS]

Ebubedike Akabuwa: Unity in Chibok storm

Tunde Leye: Why – and how – the Press needs to do better

Were the Chibok parents given N100 million? What do you think?

Opinion: Why the Chibok girls may never return to us

100 days after, will the Chibok girls ever be found? Join the debate

Female Footballers organize ‘100 days football Match’ for abducted Chibok girls

We wait: Jonathan meets parents of #ChibokGirls behind closed doors

Kidnapped Chibok girls to get FG scholarship – Jonathan

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau apparently thinks bombing Lagos, Abuja is funny (WATCH)

Chibok hunters rescue 32 Boko Haram abductees (Report)

Opinion: Chibok survivors and multiple narratives of victimhood

Tunde Leye: Executive President sir, could you please execute?

‘What the Nigerian president should have written’: The Washington Post rips Pres. Jonathan’s article apart

The violence continues: Gunmen burn down police station, raid armoury in Borno

BREAKING: Many people dead, several churches burnt down as gunmen attack village near Chibok

Abimbola Adelakun: Chibok – Is Nigeria still serious?

Not so fast: We’re yet to confirm kidnap of 60 women in Borno – FG

Singer, Adokiye offers her virginity for the release of Chibok girls

Dele Agekameh: The forgotten girls of Chibok

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