"I CANNOT GIVE YOUR LETTER TO BOKO HARAM" SAYS DAME PATIENCE

Yesterday, during the 2014 children celebration at the banquet hall some Nigerian children who paid a courtesy visit to First Lady Patience Jonathan seized the opportunity to hand her letters they wrote to Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau protesting the abduction of the Chibok girls and asked the First Lady to pass the letter to him. 

Patience Jonathan received the letter but  told the children that she doesn't know who Shekau is but would give their letters to the Chief of Defence Staff who would help deliver it .

"Let me thank the children that gave me letter to give Boko Haram. Well, I have received your letter, but I’m not the one to give it to Boko Haram because I don’t know Boko Haram and I have never seen Boko Haram. But I will give it to NSA or Chief of Defence Staff who will submit your letter accordingly. To my children parliament, thank you for your letter. Thank you for your deliberation. I have received what you gave to me. I will make sure I pass it to the president because it is addressed to him and the other one is addressed to Boko Haram. That is why the two are different.” she said

Dame Patience also asked the children and Nigerians  to desist from abusing and insulting the president, saying that God made him the head of the country. She made illustrations from the Bible. keep reading after the cut...

HOW TO IDENTIFY A SUCIDE BOMBER PART 1

In this era of suicide bombing attacks, it is penitent for every Nigeria to be able to spot one if you ever find them in your midst. In as much as there is no specific profile to a suicide bomber but there are general signs which can enable the general public recognize one. 

The PRO of the police force, Frank Mba, stated below ways we can identify a suicide bomber.(PART 1)

Characteristics of a potential suicide bomber
There is no specific profile for anyone who engages himself in suicide bombing. A suicide bomber can come from nearly every cultural background, religion, race, creed or gender. However, the following are common characteristics of a potential suicide bomber.


Through his behaviour
• He behaves in a way similar to someone with no future.

• His mental state could present clues – his eyes are secretive, he makes obvious attempt to avoid eye
contact with the people he perceived to be his enemies and always looking at every possible exit.

• Mumbling prayers – may be fervently praying to himself, showing the impression of whispering to someone else.

• He shows no response to any authoritative voice, command or instruction.

NIGERIAN JOURNALIST WITH ACCESS TO BOKO HARAM RETURNS HOME TO NEGOTIATE WITH BOKO HARAM

Ahmad Salkida (pictured above), is the only Nigerian journalist who has access to the deadly sect boko haram. Ahmad is known to have previously worked for Daily Trust and Premium Times and reported extensively and indepthly on the Boko Haram sect which caused security agencies to label him an affiliate to the sect. He(Ahmad) fled Nigeria to Dubai 2 years ago after being accused of being a Boko Haram sympathizer. Ahmad said he fled after 'his life and that of his family became endangered' after security agencies began to mistake his in-depth reporting on the terrorist group as evidence of his closeness to them. He went underground for several weeks before finally fleeing Nigeria. Salkida had turned down Boko Haram's many requests for him to publish exclusive interviews and materials for them.
According to new reports, the Nigerian government flew him back home a few weeks ago to negotiate with Boko Haram on their behalf, since he's the only civilian who has allegedly seen Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and come out alive. He reportedly came back home after the Nigerian government assured him that he will not be arrested. Continue to see his tweets below....

CHIBOK ABDUCTION: MISSING GIRLS HAVE BEEN FOUND SAYS CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF

The Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff has given  an indication that the missing Chibok girls, abducted by the dreaded terrorist sect Boko haram in Borno over a month ago have been sighted in an undisclosed location.
Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh did so when when he told some protesters at the Defense Headquarters in Abuja, that the military was, however, not using force to rescue the kidnapped girls.
He said that the military had information on the location of the girls but would tread softly to get the students out. See the words in part....

“If we go with force, what will happen, they will kill them. Nobody should come and say the Nigerian military does not know what it is doing.“We know what we are doing; we can’t go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back”, he said.

THE VICTIM OF CUSTOM OFFICER'S ATTACK DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL

Tope Fadipe, the lady who was attacked with acid by a Nigerian Customs Officer in Badagry area has been discharged from the General Hospital in Badagry, Sahara Reporters reports. (Read here)

Tope was admitted at the hospital on May 9th following the attack by Chief Superintendent of Customs F.C. Nwaeze, who accused her of failing to remit N50,000 in stock sales to his wife, an
allegation Tope denied but was still punished for it. The acid caused the victim grievous bodily harm.

Her attacker is currently being held at the Police State Criminal Investigation Department at Panti in Yaba, Lagos.

Mr. Nwaeze reportedly got his boys at the Badagry Customs unit to torture her. Although she said they were two salespersons working for officer Nwaeze's wife, she said she was the only one tortured by the team Nwaeze assembled. Continue after the cut....

BOKO HARAM CRISIS: WHICH WAY NIGERIA

The men behind the mask have continued to cause the great Niger Area lot of trouble, Yet it looks like the incessant killing isn't coming to an end but has just begun. And we got questions, numerous unanswered questions. Few days ago someone said to me "I barely sleep these days, when i sleep for some time i look through the window for suspicious movements", and i wonder if it is going to get any better.

Which way Nigeria? After 100 years are we going backwards or forward. In recent times, our front pages have been splashed with the atrocities of the masked men and i wonder where Nigeria lost its guard for insurgents to take the lead.

The Military, we have the best foot soldiers in Africa and we about 5000 men in action for UN peace keeping mission but our own home is on fire they don't seem to be able to salvage it. Why cant the 5000 men on UN peace keeping mission be withdrawn to come home to combat till all is well at home? And i find find it laughable that the soldiers are unequipped to combat the masked men, between 2012 and 2013 the military received about one trillion Naira to battle this insurgency, the foreign aid (cash wise) has been enormous in the past years. The recent budget has about N130.7billion given to them and another 3.8billion underway for approval. With the millions and billions being called out Army generals say there is inadequate funding, i wonder if this trillions are just in paper or it is chilling in another man's account? well, like someone said "stealing is not corruption".

POPE CALLS ISREAL AND PALESTINE TO THE VATICAN FOR PEACE TALK

Pope Francis has extended an invitation to leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to come to the Vatican for a peace talk between the two nations over their long over due conflict, during his three days visit in the middle east. Pope Francis said,

"In this, the birthplace of the Prince of Peace, I wish to invite you, President Mahmoud Abbas, together with President Shimon Peres, to join me in heartfelt prayer to God for the gift of peace," Francis said.

"I offer my home in the Vatican as a place for this encounter of prayer."

According to reports both sides have agreed to visit the Vatican for the peace initiative.

22 YEAR OLD GOES ON A SHOOTING RAMPAGE IN CALIFORNIA FOR BEING REJECTED

Elliot Rodger, the 22 year old son of Peter Rodger who co-directed "the Hunger Games" on Friday 23rd of May, killed himself after killing six other people in Isla Vista near the University of California.

Elliot Rodger who was a Student The Santa Barbara City College was angry at people for rejecting him especially at the girls who were not attracted to him. The shooting and killings by young Eliot was pre-meditated, there are evidence from his youtube videos and blogs, one of it reads as follows "Tomorrow is the day of retribution. The day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you," he said.

"For the past eight years of my life, ever since I hit puberty, I've been forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me. Young Rodger sufffered from Asperger’s syndrome was in the care of varous therapist until his death.

Rodger started by stabbing three of his roommates to death around 9.30pm on Friday then armed himself with three handguns and drove to nearby Alpha Phi sorority. According to law enforcement agent, Elliot knocked on the door but no one would let him in and that was when he spotted two women standing outside the sorority and fired shots at them killing two of them, Katie Cooper, 22, and Veronika Weiss, 19.

UPDATE ON THE JOS BOMBING LAST NIGHT

Yesterday night a bomb explosion occurred along Bauchi Road, near the University of Jos, Jos City. The explosion which happened at about 9pm last night had no casualty recorded except for the bomber. 

The attempt by the bomber to blow up the football viewing centre failed. He reportedly died alone before reaching target after the explosion went off in his car.

NEWSFLASH: BOMB BLAST IN JOS AGAIN

Just in, There has been a bomb blast in Jos in a football viewing center. we do not know if there are casualties. More details soon

UPDATE: one person has been found dead while the men of the fire service  and NEMA arecene of the incident. 

BIG TROUBLE: I DREAMT OF A MILITARY COUP

I found this article quite revealing and it got me thinking,"what if". Read and decide...

Perhaps it was the marathon of information on the coup in Thailand that I ingested before I dozed off… or perhaps it was the unseating of an inner desire—Freud says that urges and desires that are repressed to function normally in society are released by the unconscious during dreaming. Either way, here’s what I experienced:

It was business as usual in Nigeria that day; 32 killed in Borno, 2 villages burned with more farmers forced to abandon their land, the Senate was meekly going after Diezani and Diezani was going after the Senate while the masses were still being ripped off of $4 million a day being pocketed by Diezani and her cronies in the old-news kerosene subsidy scam.

Jonathan was telling some foreigners about his transformation, how Dangote was now the 15th richest man in the world and Nigerian cabal had the most private jets of any African nation and perhaps any nation in the entire world. He wasexplaining how Nigerians could not be poor because they gave the most donations in Church as illustrated by the wealth of their Pastors.
Cement was still sold at thrice the world average that day; there was no electricity and no water came out the rusty tap when I tried to wash my hands... Continue after the cut

" WE ARE NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED THE CHURCH OF THE RICH" BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO

Bishop David Oyedepo,Founder, Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, in an interview with Saturday Punch talks about the church, why there are many rich people in church, how this can translate to Nigerians and also about his private jets. See part of the interview below,

Why are there so many rich people in Winners?
Because they know better than their contemporaries. If you don’t know what you have, you won’t know if you are deprived of it. The Bible is an open chequebook, it is by revelation we access what belongs to us; by faith we take delivery of it. Someone had access to our empowerment programme and she is a pepper seller, while others sell one basket a day, she sells six, seven. I learnt she had become the envy of all the pepper sellers in her area. Such person has an understanding that whatever she does, she prospers and she knows that when she pays her tithe, she experiences open heavens. But in case people don’t know, they perish for lack of knowledge, and in case they think when you are rich you miss heaven, then they perish for lack of knowledge.

So, it’s right when people claim that this church is only for the rich?

It’s for all the people who believe that Jesus already paid for them to be rich. And those who don’t believe, when they come they start believing when they see it happen in a lot of people’s lives. And we are not ashamed to be called the church of the rich. If they call your family poor, will you be excited? Nobody would be excited. Even when a family is poor, they hate to be called poor. No man in his right mind enjoys being called poor, and nobody truly wants to be poor, people may pretend. Which is more honourable between being a giver and a beggar? Most of us came in very poor, but the light of God’s word came on us and we walked out of poverty in grand style into wealth and riches.

GOBE!!! EJIGBO PEPPER SELLER CASE, VICTIM'S FAMILY SAY THEY AREN'T SURE IF JULIANA IS DEAD

According to Saharareports, the Family of the victims in the famous case of the Ejigbo pepper torture, rape, and alleged murder case, have begun withdrawing their claim that one of the victims, Juliana Agonman, had died. Saharareporters learned of this development from sources familiar with investigations in the matter today.

The sources said the ‘new claim’ had shocked all parties, including the civil society organizations that had been sympathetic to their plight since the attacks.

The family, led by the palm wine tapper, Mr. Freeman Agonman, in a new testimony to police investigators, said, he “wasn't sure the victim that was mostly tortured in the well circulated clip is actually dead.” He said, rather, that she had “suddenly been missing” from where she was taken for treatment in their hometown, at Ajase, in Porto Novo, the Benin Republic. Continue to read after the cut....

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: FG SHOULD NEGOTIATE WITH BOKO HARAM SAYS ABIKE DABIRI-EREWA

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman House Committee on Diaspora, has asked the Federal Government to dialogue with Boko Haram in order to have its abducted girls back. Abike Dabiri who spoke in lagos said the delay on the negotiation could be dangerous. See her words in parts, also click on the video to hear what she said;

“Negotiate with them so that we can get these girls back. Thereafter, anything can happen but at this point in time I think the only way out is negotiation to get this girls back safe and sound, and I see no reason why not.

“For a long time, we remain in denial as a people, the Federal Government remained in denial that’s where we are today. So at this point in time, negotiate with them because you cant just go there and kill them, they will kill the girls.

Question: Should the FG negotiate with boko haram?

REAL MADRID VS ATLETICO MADRID, WHO TAKES THE TITTLE

Real Madrid will be facing across town neighbour Atletico madrid today in the UEFA league finals at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal by 2:45pm.

Who wears the Crown? I see Real Madrid taking the title, Whats your take?

PRESIDENT JONATHAN HANDS OVER SIGNED BUDGET

The president has handed over the signed 2014 budget this friday morning. The budget was signed two days back but was officially handed to the finance minister today for implementation.  Though the budget is said to have some few distortions but will be rectified by lawmakers in the following weeks. 

The National Assembly raised the amount in the document from the N4.642 trillion submitted by the President to N4.695 trillion.

"PROTEST SHOULD BE DIRECTED AT THE TERRORIST" SAYS PRESIDENT JONATHAN

Yesterday, during the Bring Back Our girls protest in Abuja, the president sent some top government officials to meet with the protesters half way instead of heading to the presidential villa as they planned. The president sent a message telling, the protesters to unite with the government to fight boko haram, he also told the protesters to take their protest to the boko haram sect not the government that the government should not be blamed for the attacks. See the statements in parts below;

"Government believes that we all must come together to fight terrorism and that protests should be directed at the terrorists who have abducted our innocent daughters and deprived them of a place at the fountain of freedom in our country.

When terrorists see Nigerians turn on each other in blame it gives them a huge morale boost. We must never lose sight of the fact that terrorists are the real enemy.

We must be careful not to politicize the campaign against terrorism. When a bomb goes off in Kabul, Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan do not blame the government, they blame the terrorists. When a bomb goes off in Baghdad, Iraq, the people of Iraq do not blame the government, they blame the terrorists. When a bomb goes off in Islamabad, Pakistan, the people of Pakistan do not blame the government, they blame the terrorists. When a bomb goes off in Nigeria, we must all unite to fight the terrorists. This is the task of this generation. Our daughters must be freed to come home to their parents and loved ones".

"PRESIDENT JONATHAN MAY BE NIGERIA'S LAST PRESIDENT" SAYS ORJI UZOR KALU

PHOTOCREDIT: LIB

The Former Governor of Abia state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, who spoke to the airport correspondents yesterday when he returned after a brief trip from the UK . He said, if things are not properly checked politically, President Jonathan might be the last president Nigeria will have. He is quoted as saying,

"When I was travelling precisely on the 26 of April, I left this airport and I spoke to the airport correspondents and I said there was a need to collaborate with international organisations. You see, this issue is not about President Goodluck Jonathan. If we don’t take time and work together as Nigerians, Jonathan might be the last Nigerian President. Jonathan might be the Gorbachev of Nigeria. And that is the truth, so we better wake up. Political class, business class, military, civilians must now stand up to work for our internal security. Internal security is more important than anything we have done and I believe that once we are able to come together Nigeria will be alright. As of now the country is in pains; the country is in problem and some people are taking it very lightly.
We are suffering from pains of our people; we are suffering from pains of the Nigerian system. This is not about which part of the country you come from, it is about Nigeria. Nigerian people should take what is happening seriously and I am surprised that the political class and the private sector are still joking with this matter. This is a serious matter. Anybody’s child can be kidnapped; whether it is at Chibok or any other place, Nigerian should take this matter seriously. Can you imagine how many Nigerians that have been killed; how many of us that have been wounded. I want people to be as wise as my grandmother. I want people to take this matter seriously. Those girls kidnapped are our sisters; they are our daughters. It is because none of us has lost anybody that is why to some people; it is looking like a joke. We should stop taking this as a joke and take the matter very seriously in order to move forward.

We should not lose what we have. We should be able to come together as one family and fight because if we don’t take time; I repeat it for the second time, Jonathan will be the last president of the name Nigeria. Government can negotiate formerly or informally. It can send agents to negotiate on its behalf without getting involved. The US does this in Afghanistan and other places. It can negotiate formerly or informally” he said

N200 MILLION ANNUAL PAY, HOUSE, CARS, FURNITURE FOR GOV. AKPABIO AFTER 2015

Millions of naira may soon be pockted annually by the outgoing governor of Akwa-Ibom state, deputy and all other elected governors to come after him if the new proposed bill in the state is passed into Law.

According to premiumtimes, Barely a year to his exit from office, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has initiated a law to enable him pocket a whooping N200 million in annual pay after his tenure expires.

Mr. Akpabio is also demanding other benefits including a new house, brand new cars, furniture and luxurious living for the rest of his life.

Based on Section 1(1) of the bill, “An indigene of the state who has held office as a democratically elected governor or deputy governor of former Cross River State and a person who has held office as a democratically elected governor or deputy governor of the state shall when he ceases to hold office be entitled,” to the new perks.

Under the proposed law, Mr. Akpabio and others listed in Section 1(1) are entitled to a monthly pension for life at the rate equivalent to his current salary.

Similarly, the serving deputy governor, Valerie Ebe, is entitled to a monthly pension for life at the rate of her current salary.

Mr. Akpabio and his deputy; Mrs. Ebe will therefore pocket a total of N2, 223, 705. 00; and N2, 112, 215, 00 respectively as monthly and a total of N26, 684, 460,00 and N25, 346, 580 respectively as pension, per annum. Continue, see more figures after the cut

PICTURES OF SOME OF THE UNIJOS STUDENTS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE BLAST

This is a picture of some of the University of Jos students who were killed in the Boko haram bomb blast on Wednesday afternoon. The students were on their way home after lectures closed  for the day when the bomb exploded.   

May their Gentle Soul Rest in Peace. We should also pray for the peace of our nation so we don't lose the future of our country.