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This is Too Bad! Up To 2,000 people killed by Boko Haram in fresh attack on Baga

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 BBC over 2000 people may have been killed by Boko Haram militants in Baga town in Borno state yesterday. A state official in Borno state, 
Musa Alhaji Bukar told BBC that bodies lay scattered on Baga streets and
 that the whole town has been destroyed.</span> </div>
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This is Too Bad! Up To 2,000 people killed by Boko Haram in fresh attack on Baga

According to BBC over 2000 people may have been killed by Boko Haram militants in Baga town in Borno state yesterday. A ...

Why Jonathan must not be re-elected – Fashola

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                  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, scored the President
 Goodluck Jonathan administration very low and urged Nigerians to vote 
it out in the next general elections.<br />

Fashola stated that change of leadership is expedient at the national
 level because Nigeria is too important both globally and continentally 
to be left in the hands of those who “play politics with the lives of 
her citizens.”<br />

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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Addressing members of the Yoruba Tennis Club and their Island Club 
counterparts at their respective Club Houses in Onikan, Lagos on 
Wednesday, Governor Fashola said the national government, formed by the 
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has failed to provide its most important
 responsibility, which according to him, is the security of life and 
property of citizens and protection of the territorial integrity of the 
nation.<br /><br />
The Governor, who noted that Nigerians handed over a whole country to
 the ruling party in 2011, expressed regrets that the same party is now 
returning to Nigerians to ask for another leadership mandate with only 
part of the country, having lost some parts to insurgents.<br /><br />
“They are returning now to ask for our votes with only a part of the 
country that we gave them because some parts of the country have been 
lost to people we didn’t elect. So, in that most important 
responsibility, they have dropped the ball.”<br /><br />
Governor Fashola, who expressed dismay that the PDP has politicized 
everything, noted that nothing is too much for the party to sloganize 
about.<br /><br />
He accused the federal government of playing politics with the very 
sensitive issue of the more than 200 abducted secondary school girls in 
Chibok in Borno State.<br /><br />
The Governor also said that the PDP-controlled Federal Government has
 also orchestrated about how it made the country “the biggest economy in
 Africa”, wondering why smaller economies could provide electricity for 
their people while the self acclaimed “biggest economy” could keep her 
people in darkness.<br />

“Please ask them why smaller economies could get petrol easily for 
their people and why we have to queue for hours and days to get petrol 
in a biggest economy in Africa,” the Governor said.<br />

He also wondered why the so-called biggest economy in Africa is trying to buy arms from a smaller economy to secure the country.<br /><br />
He pointed out that the nation’s currency, the Naira, is now trading 
for N180 per Dollar while the South African Rand is trading at R11 to 
one United States Dollar.<br /><br />
According to Fashola, what matters is the quality of the life and 
prosperity of the citizens and not the size or number being bandied by 
the PDP-led government.<br /><br />
Governor Fashola tasked the people to figure out the last time the 
President went to present the Annual Budget in the National Assembly, an
 obligation which, according to him, is a constitutional one.<br /><br />
The Governor also said that the Federal Government also played 
politics with the Ebola Virus Disease containment as it almost turned 
the very grave situation into a political trophy.<br />

Conversely, Governor Fashola said, the All Progressives Congress 
controlled Lagos State Government has done well at many fronts including
 the Education, Security, Power and the financial sector in spite of the
 very precarious economic and security situation in the country.</div>

Why Jonathan must not be re-elected – Fashola

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, scored the President Goodluck Jonathan administration very low and...

Buhari will end Boko Haram insurgency--- Okorocha

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Imo State Governor , Rochas Okorocha has assured Nigerians that the 
all Progressive Congress ( APC ) Presidential candidate, Muhammadu 
Buhari, will stop the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northern parts of the
 country if elected.<br /><br />
Okorocha who lost to Buhari in the keenly contested APC presidential 
primary election, stated that the former Head of State has the capacity,
 more than any other Nigerian to tackle the current insecurity ravaging 
the country.<br />
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Speaking with newsmen at the Government House, Okorocha recalled that
 Buhari as the then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) to President Shehu 
Shagari, effectively tackled the Maitasine riot which he said can be 
compared with the Boko Haram sect.<br /><br />
According to him, “there is no doubt that Buhari as President will 
put an end to Boko Haram and other security challenges confronting the 
country, which the present administration has failed to tackle. During 
the Maitasine crisis in Kano, it was Buhari who resolved the crisis and 
it was as deadly as the Boko Haram.<br />

Okorocha however described Buhari’s Presidency as an interventionist 
administration that will hand over power to the Southeast after doing 
just one term.<br /><br />
” Buhari’s administration is going to be an interventionist 
government because I don’t see him doing a second term. After solving 
the country’s security and other challenges and putting it back on 
track, he will hand over power to the Southeast in 2019,” Okorocha 
stated.</div>

Buhari will end Boko Haram insurgency--- Okorocha

Imo State Governor , Rochas Okorocha has assured Nigerians that the all Progressive Congress ( APC ) Presidential candidate, Muhammad...

Pictured! I Was Unconscious Until My Abductors Released Me- Female Suicide Bomber

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A young female suicide bomber, who was arrested in Kano today, has said she was unconscious until her abductors who kidnapped her from Bauchi released her with explosives in her body today, to go out and explode in the midst of people. According to her, she didn’t know what she was doing and only got hold of herself when she got to town.<br /><br />The girl, Babban Gida who was wondering around suspiciously was arrested opposite Kantin-Kwari textile market, the same scene where a major explosion occurred two weeks ago, in which two female suicide bombers detonated explosives which killed many.</div>

Pictured! I Was Unconscious Until My Abductors Released Me- Female Suicide Bomber

A young female suicide bomber, who was arrested in Kano today, has said she was unconscious until her abductors who kidnapped her f...

Christmas Celebration: Army Bans Vehicle Movement For 5 Days In Borno

The Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, Borno State have announced that starting from tomorrow, Christmas Eve, no vehicle would be allo...

Pics: Parents of missing Chibok girl say its going to be a bad Xmas for them

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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One 
of the parents of the missing Chibok girls says it will be a bad 
Christmas for them this year as their daughter has still not returned. 
In an interview with 
CNN, the parents of the missing girl described her as a very studious 
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: #171717; line-height: 19.5px;">She is brilliant. She likes reading. She liked to go to school,” her father told CNN.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: #171717; line-height: 19.5px;">She used to tell me one day she would 
finish school and become somebody. She loved studies; she used to assist
 the younger ones with their homework. She used to fall asleep with her 
books in her arms.” her mother said</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #171717; line-height: 19.5px;">The
 missing girls father says during festive periods like Christmas, the 
family was always “complete and happy”, but that as it is now it won’t 
be the same saying . “One of us is not there, how can it be the same”? 
“There is nothing I can say; it has happened. It is a bad Christmas, but
 there is nothing we can do.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #171717; line-height: 19.5px;">The mother says she believes that one day her daughter would come back home. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #171717; line-height: 19.5px;">“Her
 siblings know that she is not here. They themselves know what is 
happening, having come out of war. They keep asking me, ‘when is she 
coming back?’ But I keep telling them to keep trusting God, maybe He 
will hear us.  I always feel pain inside of me, but I am trusting God 
that one day, she she will come back.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #171717; line-height: 19.5px;">“I tell the Children that she will come 
back, they should keep praying and hoping that she is still alive and 
that she will come back. They will come back. They will come back. That 
many girls? If they are still alive on the face of the earth, they will 
come back" he said</span></span></span></div>
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Pics: Parents of missing Chibok girl say its going to be a bad Xmas for them

One of the parents of the missing Chibok girls says it will be a bad Christmas for them this year as their daughter has still ...

Photos from the Bomb Explosion in Gombe State today

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Who will save Nigerians from Boko Haram? Innocent folks are dying 
everyday. The latest explosion, which occurred on Monday morning, was 
said to have claimed 18 lives, and left over 20 people injured. 
Witnesses say the explosion happened inside a commercial car headed to a
 nearby town.<br />
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A eyewitness said: "The bomb exploded around 9:30 a.m. inside a local 
commercial car that was used to transport passengers from Gombe to 
Bajoga town... The place was very crowded."<br />
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A bleak Christmas for many families all because of Boko Haram. Really sad!</div>
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Photos from the Bomb Explosion in Gombe State today

Who will save Nigerians from Boko Haram? Innocent folks are dying everyday. The latest explosion, which occurred on Monday mor...

Pictures Of The Taliban killers Who Slaughtered 132 Children

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        These are the faces of some of the evil men who stormed a 
Pakistani school yesterday & slaughtered 132 innocent children. The 
photo was released by Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani today. This 
pic was taken shortly before the attack in Peshawar, Pakistan.<br />
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       The Taliban leader said they have no remorse for killing the 
children and others as the Pakistani army have long been killing the 
innocent children and families of Taliban fighters. The militant leader 
said they plan to carry out more attacks and told civilians not to 
detach themselves from all military institutions as they are their 
target.<br />
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More photos below<br />
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              The militant leader<br />
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The militant leader</div>
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                Some of the student who lost their lives<br />
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Pictures Of The Taliban killers Who Slaughtered 132 Children

These are the faces of some of the evil men who stormed a Pakistani school yesterday & slaughtered 132 innocent children....

Chibok Girls Will Never Be Saved - Obasanjo

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<br /><strong>Obasanjo has again condemned President Goodluck Jonathan</strong> <strong>saying
 that because of his failure to act, the Chibok girls, which were 
abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in April 14, will never be rescued.</strong><br /><strong> </strong><br />
<strong>Obasanjo noted this during an interview with Rosie Collyer of Radio France Internationale (RFI).</strong><br /><br />
He also spoke about his book saying that 
everything he has written about Jonathan, he has also said to him 
face-to-face.<br />

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<b>RFI<em>: Why have you chosen to publish your autobiography now, when 
Nigeria is politically charged ahead of February’s general election?</em></b><br /><br />
OO: You used the word politically charged. There is no time Nigeria 
is not politically charged. One thing one can say about Nigeria is, 
since independence we have had some high ebbs or low ebbs but Nigeria 
has been very, very politically active. So the question of which is the 
opportune time or auspicious time for a book to be published, it is 
entirely up to the publisher and of course the reading public. <br />

I completed writing the book, which took me about 18 months, about 
four months ago and I gave it to the publisher. And the publisher 
decided that after reading the book that he would like to publish it 
before the elections.<br />

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<b>RFI:<em> You are apparently critical of President Goodluck Jonathan in your autobiography. Why?</em></b><br />

OO: Whatever I have said in my book, I have said it to President 
Jonathan one-on-one. I have said it in public statements that I have 
made over the past two or three years. So there is nothing in my book 
that is new that I have said about President Jonathan.<br />

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<b>RFI:</b><em><b> One area where you have criticised President Jonathan is his
 handling of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls. What advice did you give 
the president? </b></em><br />

OO: It is unfortunate. What I have said to Jonathan before and what I
 have said also in my letter – and I have said it several times – is 
that, once active and concrete action was not taken within 48 hours, a 
period of 72 hours was already too late. We will never be able to get 
those girls again. And the story of those girls will go on for the next 
30 years. Some of them will come out when they are adults or they will 
be sent back when they are pregnant by those who have captured them. If 
anyone is thinking of being able to get those girls released intact, he 
must be day dreaming.<br />

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Obasanjo has already used to say that Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Borno state will never return back home.<br /><br />
He made this statement, Ocotber 5, while speaking at the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.<br /><br />
Obasanjo said: <b>“<em>I believe that some of them will never return. We
 will still be hearing about them many years from now, some will give 
birth to children of the Boko Haram members, but if they cannot take 
care of them in the forest, they may release them.”</em></b></div>

Chibok Girls Will Never Be Saved - Obasanjo

Obasanjo has again condemned President Goodluck Jonathan saying that because of his failure to act, the Chibok girls, which were abduc...

Sanusi Lamido, Tweets About Boko Haram Attacks In Kano State

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The former CBN governor & Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido took to 
twitter share his thoughts about the incessant attacks of Boko Haram 
insurgents in Kano.<br />

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Sanusi Lamido, Tweets About Boko Haram Attacks In Kano State

The former CBN governor & Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido took to twitter share his thoughts about the incessant attacks of Bo...

I want to crush Boko Haram but some people are frustrating me ––Jonathan

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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">He said, “Somebody may just look at you as entertainers but you are much more than just the entertainment industry because you create a positive image for Nigeria. Most of us politicians are just busy generating negative issues. Everyday, they talk about corruption, governance and other issues. It is you that pump the positive news into the system.” Earlier, Segun Arinze had commended Jonathan for his administration’s support for the creative industry. </span></div>

I want to crush Boko Haram but some people are frustrating me ––Jonathan

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Twin Bomb Blast Rocks Jos

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Twin bomb explosions have occurred this evening in central Jos, the capital of Plateau State near a busy motor park, operated by state-owned Plateau Riders around 6.30pm, residents have said. The casualty figures are yet unclear, but many are believed to have died from the explosions.<br />
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Twin Bomb Blast Rocks Jos

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Jailbreak in Minna, 270 inmates freed, weapons stolen

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Nigerian military seizes arms-laden Russian plane bound for Chad

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Premium Times is reporting that a Nigeria military has intercepted a Russian plane loaded with 
large amount of arms and ammunition, bound for neighbouring Chad.<br />
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security source told PT that the plane was seized early today  Saturday Dec. 6th at the Aminu Kano International Airport.<br />
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The aircraft, which was headed for N’djamena, the capital of Chad, 
landed in Kano at about 2a.m. Nigerian time, the source said. All crew 
members of the aircraft have been detained by Nigerian forces. (Source -
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Nigerian military seizes arms-laden Russian plane bound for Chad

Premium Times is reporting that a Nigeria military has intercepted a Russian plane loaded with large amount of arms and ammunition...

Nigerian troops finally clear Mubi of terrorists, seek civilian Cooperation

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Find the press statement below...<br />
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The Nigerian Troops have completed the operation to clear Mubi, Adamawa 
State of terrorists who  had mischievously renamed the town ‘Madina’ and
 operated in the town and the environs.

A mop-up operation is nevertheless ongoing to apprehend and deal with 
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Members of the terrorists group were dislodged after coordinated air and land operations in the area.<br />
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More special troops are being deployed to other areas in the North-East 
axis in similar coordinated air and land operations to rid the 
communities of terrorists’ activities.<br />
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A top military officer told PRNigeria that that desperate terrorists 
looking for escape routes may wreak havoc on soft-targets in 
neighbouring communities that are not affected in the military 
operation.

He said: “In their attempts to escape the intensity of military 
offensives, desperate terrorists have resorted to attacking soft-target 
in neighbouring communities.<br />
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The officer acknowledged improved understanding of the communities on 
the military operation but seek for more supports from the civilian 
population in identifying and exposing members of terrorists group.

"The people must be courageous and brave enough in identifying the 
terrorists that are mostly known to the locals to enable the military 
curtail the excesses of the insurgents.

"We are working assiduously to also tackle activities of moles, some 
very young who spy for terrorists and invite them for invasion of 
communities. We need the cooperation of the residents,” he concluded.
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Nigerian troops finally clear Mubi of terrorists, seek civilian Cooperation

Find the press statement below... The Nigerian Troops have completed the operation to clear Mubi, Adamawa State of terrorists wh...

Pics: Students of FGGC Bajoga being evacuated during BH attack

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This, unfortunately, is our truth. Pics show students of the Federal Government Girls College Bajoga in 
Gombe state being evacuated during yesterday morning's attack by Boko 
haram on the town.<br />
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Pics: Students of FGGC Bajoga being evacuated during BH attack

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Jet bombard Boko Haram as they re-group to storm Yobe State

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Believe me, this is the kind of news I want to be hearing from Nigerian 
military. Boko Haram should not be allowed to attack any part of 
Nigeria. As soon as they are re-grouping, bombard them. Simple!<br />
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Air Force jets were said to have heavily pounded Boko Haram insurgents  
as they re-grouped to launch yet another attack on Damaturu, the Yobe 
State capital.<br />
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Reports filtered into the town that the insurgents were regrouping at 
Garin Itace (firewood town) which is about 20km on the outskirts of 
Damaturu, to re-launch an attack on the town.<br />
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Security sources said some local residents sighted the terrorists and 
alerted security agents who this time around took proactive steps to 
attack them out before their plans were hatched. The jet bombarded them 
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The sound of bombardment by the jet fighter coupled with a pocket of 
gunshots during the operations sent most residents back to their homes 
before the 6pm that the curfew took effect. Some had to run.<br />
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According to SR, Governor Gaidam who was returning to Yobe was turned back to Kano by security.<br />
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A source said “the governor’s convoy was almost at Bulkachuwa in Dambam 
LGA of Bauchi state when the security advised him to turn back for fear 
of mistaken airstrike on his convoy”.<br />
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Also, more hideouts and escape routes of the insurgents have been blocked.<br />
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Fresh insights from intelligence gathered by the military confirmed the 
desperation of Boko Haram to take  over Maiduguri and Damaturu, both 
capitals of Borno and Yobe States.<br />
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“Provoked by the daring and antics of terrorists, the Nigerian troops 
have continued to rain devastating blows on their (terrorists’) hideouts
 and escape routes," a source security revealed.<br />
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Undisclosed number of terrorists were killed, no personnel or civilian was affected in this latest effort.</div>
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Jet bombard Boko Haram as they re-group to storm Yobe State

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Why I called Jonathan Nebuchadnezzar; the full details__Soyinka

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I shall not insist that the historic/biblical figure of Nebuchadnezzar 
is uniquely apt for the pivotal figure of the ‘democratic’ history in 
the making at this moment — for one thing, Nebu was a nation builder and
 a warrior.<br />
<br />
One could argue, even more convincingly for the figure of Balthazar, his
 successor, or indeed, Emperor Nero as reference point — you all 
remember him — the emperor who took to fiddling while Rome was burning.<br />
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However, you should easily recall why I opted for King Nebu — the figure
 that currently sits on the top of our political pile himself evoked it,
 albeit in a context that virtuously disclaimed any similarities, even 
tendencies. Perhaps, he meant it at the time when he claimed: ‘I am no 
Nebuchadnezzar’. Perhaps, not! </blockquote>
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One judges leaders on acts however, not pronouncements, which are often 
as reliable as electoral promises. King Nebu remains relevant — and not 
only for leadership. We, the citizens, are beginning to feel the heat...</blockquote>
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Without any claims to prophecy — unlike Shadrach and company, we wake up
 each morning to a sensation that we have been cast in the furnace 
together with those who at least committed the crime of dissent or 
criticism.  No divine miracle appears to be at hand for a last-minute 
rescue.<br />
<br />
In desperation, one is reduced to hoping that the evocation of his own 
biblical reference point will resonate somewhere in the mind of one who 
is so ostentatiously humble and pious, kneels at the feet of a priest 
who could easily be mistaken for an office worker, and cultivates the 
high and holy company of acknowledged spokesmen of God.<br />
<br />
So, here goes. Gentlemen of the Press, let’s not beat around the bush: 
the line has been drawn. The people must decide — whether to submit or 
resist. We may be no-count plebians in the sight of the new-born 
patricians of Aso Rock and their apologists but — must we revert to the 
Abacharian status of glorified slaves? Of course, it is up to any people
 to decide.<br />
<br />
The praetorian guards have been let loose — to teach the rabble their 
place. The recent choice of a new leader for the Guard was clearly no 
accident, and this hitherto unknown enforcer, one Suleiman Abba, has 
wasted no time in inaugurating a season of brutish power.<br />
<br />
When a people’s elected emissaries are disenfranchised, cast out like 
vagrants and resort to scaling fences to engage in their designated 
functions, the people get the message. However, the choice is always 
there, and each choice comes at a cost. It is either we pay now, or pay 
later.<br />
<br />
The latest action of the supposed guardians of the law against the 
nation’s lawgivers is an unambiguous declaration of war against the 
people. I am glad that a commentator has referred to it as an attempted 
coup-de-tat. And it nearly worked.<br />
<br />
Legislators are not elected for their athletic prowess, and such 
endeavours should not be demanded of them. There are even presidents and
 prime ministers who were elected despite physical handicaps. The brain 
is where it matters, the vision and commitment to service. Our 
legislators however have been made to perform over and beyond the call 
of the Olympics.<br />
<br />
I don’t understand why some media have described their action as a show 
of shame — this is a very careless, easily misapplied designation. The 
act of scaling gates and walls to fulfill their duty by the people must 
be set down as their finest hour. They must be applauded, not derided.<br />
<br />
If shame belongs anywhere, it belongs to the Inspector-General of Police
 and his slavish adherence to conspiratorial, illegal, and 
unconstitutional instructions — to undermine a democratic structure, and
 one — to make matters worse — convoked in response to an emergency of 
dire public concern.<br />
<br />
What sticks to this policeman is worse than shame; it is infamy. Such a 
public servant deserves to be publicly pilloried, tried and meted a 
punishment that is appropriate to treasonable acts, if only to serve as a
 deterrent to others in positions of responsibility under the law. To 
demand less is to reduce ourselves below the status free citizens of a 
free nation.<br />
<br />
It means we endorse violence against our representatives, that we are 
content to submit ourselves to the jackboots of naked force. It is to 
annunciate the era of the brute, as the current fundamental modality of 
governance.<br />
<br />
For this latest outrage, one in an escalating series of impunity, the 
buck stops yet again at the presidency, and that incumbent, Goodluck 
Ebele Jonathan, continues to surprise us in ways that very few could 
have conjectured.<br />
<br />
Peaking at his own personalised example where he set the law of simple 
arithmetic on its head — I refer to the split in the Governors’ Forum, 
and his ‘formal’ recognition of the minority will in a straightforward, 
peer election — democracy has been rendered meaningless where it should 
be most fervently exemplified.<br />
<br />
Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade a system by which
 one attains fulfillment, and this is what the nation has witnessed time
 and time again in various parts of the nation, the recent affront 
against the legislative chamber being only the most blatant and 
unconscionable.<br />
<br />
We know, of course, that this is not the first of its kind in the 
nation’s history, but precedents are not binding. Each leader selects 
his or her own model for emulation or avoidance, and that choice is 
certain indication of the true nature of such a leader, and a clue to 
the kind of conduct that a people can expect of him.<br />
<br />
It is a warning. His choices for the occupancy of crucial public 
positions — such as the protective arm of the nation — constitutes an 
even more immediate and constant public alert. The signals are ominous —
 for and beyond 2015.<br />
<br />
These, to state the obvious, are not ordinary times. The menace of Boko 
Haram hangs over the corporate entity called a nation and over every 
individual, citizen or mere bird of passage.<br />
<br />
The cliché ‘heating up the polity’ may grate the eardrums with its 
banality but I think that we have a right to demand of a leader not to 
stoke up the furnace in which events have cast its citizens.<br />
<br />
Every day records a new violation of our humanity. The atrocious 
targeting of the great mosque of Kano has rendered any lingering doubt 
of impending national imposition an invitation for collective suicide, 
preferably through piecemeal dismemberment.<br />
<br />
The theories of cause and effect can wait, or continue — it does not 
matter — the omniscient in such matters continue to pontificate, some of
 them blithely forgetting that they indeed contributed to policies that 
landed us in this brutal cleft.<br />
<br />
What does matter is an awareness that the nation is only part of a 
global eruption of fundamentalist delusions whose staple diet consists 
of destabilisation and dehumanisation — all summed up as an ideology of 
Hate for the different. For the defiant.<br />
<br />
This should form the basis of understanding by which an implacable enemy
 is confronted. And it should form the basis of leadership awareness. It
 should have led, by now, to national mobilisation on an unprecedented 
scale, one that may even impinge, however temporarily, on those 
liberties that you and I consider non-negotiable in our rights as 
citizens.<br />
<br />
However, imagine, just imagine that today’s leadership were of such a 
cast of mind, one that makes demands of sacrifice from the citizens. The
 response would be outright rejection. And deservedly so, because any 
such motion would be distrusted. It would be seen as an act of 
insincerity, an opportunity to acquire even more powers for citizen 
enslavement.<br />
<br />
This is the price you pay for encroaching on the precincts and 
entitlements of others with whom you share a structure of authority. You
 lose the trust of the other legs of — in this case — a governance 
tripod.<br />
<br />
Every act, especially in abnormal circumstances, would be viewed with 
extreme suspicion, and the gates open wide, without any strenuous effort
 on its part, to the triumphal progression of the enemy. That is the 
collateral damage that the abuse of power attracts to whatever should be
 a collaborative undertaking.<br />
<br />
Where governance has degenerated to such a level that any individual, on
 account of his uniform, can stop an elected representative of a people,
 in this case a governor, from going about his legitimate duties or 
exercising his basic, elementary right as a citizen — as happened during
 the recent Ekiti elections — we do not need to guess what happens in a 
situation that calls for general mobilisation, on which, needless to 
say, the good will and trust of all arms of governance depend in a 
crisis. This, of course, requires the capacity for forward-thinking.<br />
<br />
The shambles that punctuated a presidential campaign visit at the 
Obafemi Awolowo University a few days ago merely underline the total 
alienation of President Jonathan from the reality that has engulfed the 
nation.<br />
<br />
Yes, political campaigns are part and parcel of the bloodline of the 
democratic process. We know that they never stop. However, that a 
national leader should go campaigning on the platform of ethnic support 
at a time when priorities dictate a united national engagement for 
survival, is a grotesque undertaking that was tragically rebuked in the 
massacre of worshippers and desecration of the Kano mosques, almost 
simultaneously with the alienated gathering of selected crowned heads 
and journeymen at the OAU campus, a macabre echo of Balthazar’s feast.<br />
<br />
Long before Nyanya, long before Chibok, long before the mildest of the 
now innumerable violations of our basic right to exist as free citizens,
 the march of a nation towards implosion has dominated the landscape, 
but an obsession with the pettiness of power has obscured remedial 
vision and thus, the creative options constantly open to any prescient 
leadership.<br />
<br />
If Somalia was too far away as instruction, then surely Mali remains 
sufficiently close warning. With the invasion of Mali by al Qaeda and 
its clones and surrogates, we moved from mere portents, from mere 
distant rumblings, to the wake-up knock right against our gates — and 
yet leadership slumber remained unbroken.<br />
<br />
Mali was retrieved, a breathing space created, but it would appear that 
this was when complacency took over and snoring attained its highest 
pitch. The few waking moments have been spent on sterile, tawdry 
intrigues and consolidation on the marshes and quicksands of power. That
 failure in the aggressive destabilisation of the enemy is the cross 
that the nation bears today — but we must concede that this gross 
dereliction applies not only to Nigeria but to her neighbours — indeed 
to ECOWAS — and the collective failure for concerted action.<br />
<br />
Leadership counts however, and it was Nigeria that took the lead in that
 critical and timely mission that was spearheaded by France.<br />
<br />
The lesson of Mali was completely lost on complacent leadership however,
 leaving time and space for alien invaders to make common cause with the
 internal, unleashing destruction at will and dancing around a nation 
whose armed forces have acquitted themselves creditably on foreign 
missions.<br />
<br />
The architect of that initial policy of containment was the recently 
deceased Gbenga Ashiru, then Foreign Minister, unceremoniously removed 
for the ends of premature politicking, before the logical development of
 that initiative.<br />
<br />
Now, of course, the very manipulators of Ashiru’s removal are falling 
over one another to heap praises on the quality of his achievements in 
office, skirting  — who can blame them! — the tawdry reasons for his 
removal from office. Petty, retaliatory calculations that placed the 
interests of the nation, the very security of its people in acute 
jeopardy from unfinished business. Ashiru’s presence in that position 
had become a fly in the palm wine of Balthasar’s Feast.<br />
<br />
Caution: no one dares predict that the plight of Nigerians would be any 
rosier had his ideas been pursued till the very end. The point is simply
 this — a process was interrupted, truncated without thought, petty 
politicking being made to override substance. I wrote Ashiru to 
commiserate with him and to bolster his morale. He replied in only two 
words: USE AND DUMP!<br />
<br />
Defend yourselves! This is what the perceptive have preached and groups 
like the so-called Junior Task Force translated into action, the real 
heroes of the defence of the tattered ‘Nigerian sovereignty’.<br />
<br />
Among them, a hitherto unknown, a woman, has become one of the symbols 
of resistance, an ordinary woman turned extraordinary, one of the 
hunters who routed the diabolical hordes who appear to rout our military
 even before their appearance.<br />
<br />
Does it sound today as whimsical as it may have sounded to some when I 
urged the organisation of willing survivors of Boko Haram into local 
defence corps, their women especially, proposed that they be kitted out 
fully, and formally inducted as auxiliaries.<br />
<br />
Ladi, it would appear, needed no such urging from any direction. It was 
obvious to her, and others like her that it was futile to await 
salvation from a centre that is so self-obsessed with power that it no 
longer sees even the danger to its very existence.<br />
<br />
A people must defend itself. These are no ordinary times, and we have 
moved beyond orthodox solutions. “Where two or three are gathered 
together…” — I shall complete those words my own way: “They must 
anticipate, organise, obtaining or improvising the wherewithal as 
circumstances dictate.  Fascism is the eternal enemy of freedom, and it 
comes both in internal and external forms.”<br />
<br />
Today, it would be premature to claim that Suleiman Abba and the many 
incarnations of Shekau are cut from the same mould but remember, we have
 been here before. Who can forget Sunday Adewusi, the original Robo-Cop!<br />
<br />
And so, consider this; the ripples from the fascistic eruption of a 
Suleiman Abba may actually result in far greater casualties and inhuman 
degradation of society than those so far recorded even at the hands of 
Shekau and his cohorts. That is the real and present danger.<br />
<br />
This is why the call for vigilance is real and urgent, and a need to 
clip the wings of a predatory bird before it devours society, becomes 
paramount.<br />
<br />
Beset by external and internal threats to liberty and dignity, abandoned
 internally by a do-it-yourself government on the one hand, and 
externally by (claimed) impediments from cynical allies — as we are made
 to believe in the media — let no one cry Anarchy when the people 
respond to that historic cry of liberation, to which one leader after 
another — the most recent being the Emir of Kano and the Ulama leader, 
Yahaha Jingir — have felt moved to urge upon their people: “Citizens, 
Defend yourselves!”<br />
<br />
• Being a press conference addressed by Professor Soyinka at the Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, yesterday.<br />
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Why I called Jonathan Nebuchadnezzar; the full details__Soyinka

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Boko Haram militants today raided a cement facility owned by French 
group Lafarge, stealing some vehicles.

According to one Samail Adnan a resident of Ashaka town who spoke with 
AFP, the sect members arrived their town shouting and shooting 
sporadically<br />
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"The gunmen kept shouting 'Allahu Akbar' and firing guns haphazardly. 
They went into the cement factory and took away some vehicles," </blockquote>
The militants who arrived the town around 7am through Bajoga, raided 
banks, burnt down a police station and some government buildings. The 
military  was able to repel  their attacks in Bajoga, pushing them to 
Ashaka where they gained entrance into the cement factory and stole some
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Boko Haram men attack cement factory in Gombe, steal vehicles

Boko Haram militants today raided a cement facility owned by French group Lafarge, stealing some vehicles. According to one Sama...

UPDATE: Boko Haram invades Yobe to take over Govt House

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These terrorists are getting more daring by the day, to the extent that 
they now want to take over the Yobe State government house. Boko Haram 
members on Monday attacked Maiduguri and Damaturu, the capital towns of 
troubled Borno and Yobe states, and killed several people.<br />
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The insurgents also sacked police stations in the towns and shot at a 
Nigerian Air Force jet even as they went as far as attempting to take 
over the Government House in Damaturu.<br />
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A security source who preferred anonymity said the insurgents, numbering
 over one hundred, attacked the Police Mobile Unit where they exchanged 
gunfire with the police on duty and succeeded in chasing all the police 
officers away.</blockquote>
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But the military reportedly put up a fierce battle to avoid losing the 
seat of power to the insurgents. And Governor Ibrahim Gaidam later 
issued a statement to commend the gallantry of the soldiers for 
successfully defending the Government House.<br />
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In the attacks on the two state capitals, six people were said to have 
been killed in Maiduguri where female suicide bombers attacked shops in 
the Monday Market while the casualty figure for Damaturu, where 
insurgents reportedly fired consistently for hours, is yet to be 
released.<br />
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In Damaturu, the insurgents attacked a police station and opened fire on
 an air force fighter jet circling the attacked area, witnesses said.<br />
<br />
The insurgents, sources told Punch, had arrived in the Yobe State 
capital as early as 4.00am from Gujba and that they started shooting 
sporadically as soon as they entered the city thus forcing many 
residents to flee into the bushes.<br />
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Many residents of the town in areas such as Pawari and Byepass 
immediately abandoned their abodes and fled. Gujba is in the 
south-eastern part of the town.<br />
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The administrative block of the Yobe State University and that of the 
state radio corporation and the Police Mobile Base, all located along 
the path of the insurgents were said to have been set ablaze.<br />
<br />
The witness said, “The military jet has to be deployed to push the 
insurgents back as the situation is now under control and the entire 
town has been cordoned off.<br />
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“The casualties cannot be counted for now but it is massive; the 
insurgents were overwhelmed and they suffered a lot of death but few 
police officers and civilians were also killed in the crossfire.”<br />
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UPDATE: Boko Haram invades Yobe to take over Govt House

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