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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 
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Buhari will end Boko Haram insurgency--- Okorocha

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

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

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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 
girl</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;">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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 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

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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 />
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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 />
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• Being a press conference addressed by Professor Soyinka at the Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, yesterday.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">- by Wole Soyinka</span></b></div>
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Why I called Jonathan Nebuchadnezzar; the full details__Soyinka

I shall not insist that the historic/biblical figure of Nebuchadnezzar is uniquely apt for the pivotal figure of the ‘democratic...

Boko Haram men attack cement factory in Gombe, steal vehicles

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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 
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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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Yobe State Government has closed down all public and private schools Over Monday Bombings

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yobe State 
Government has closed down all public and private schools in the state 
following a bomb blast that occurred at Government Science Secondary 
School, Potiskum in the state where 48 students lost their lives and 79 
students injured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The commissioner of education in the state announced this morning that the closure was with immediate effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to
 the commissioner, the government decided to close the schools to enable
 it adopt more security measures to guarantee the safety of students, 
teachers and the school environment across the state. </span></div>
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Yobe State Government has closed down all public and private schools Over Monday Bombings

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">Watch the Video Below..</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">In <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His words:</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am using this opportunity to send this message to the infidels in Nigeria and their rest infidels in the world in Hausa vernacular, the tongue that many understand and if the need arise, I will explain in Fulani and Kanuri, but let us explain to you briefly.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">People should know that it is Allah that we are serving, the Prophet of Allah SWT. This is what we put ahead of us; we are praying to die in this path and see heaven and begging Allah to grant us inner most part of heaven and may Allah shield us.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You followers of the constitution, have you forgotten your what you said in your constitution when we were preaching in Maiduguri town? In you constitution, you cite section 8 verse 1, 2 to 3 in that your cursed document referred to as the constitution, that it is a law and not reversible. You came out in your radio and newspapers and say we are fighting for Islamic Caliphate, it is that constitution that stops us preaching in Maiduguri, and we move out because of exile Allah tasked us to embark.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have you also forgotten? And you are now seating down and say you have reached ceasefire with us, with who? That your infidel Danladi Ahmadu, if he is our hands today he will not pass the day because we will slight his throat. When did we even know him? Who is Danladi in this world? Allah is the knower of everything.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because of this, there is no any ceasefire or dialogue with anyone instead it is a war with beating and killings, and guns that we are hungry for like food with Maggi cubes. We are on course; our focus and determination is to see that only Quran is being use in running the world, with Allah this is what we put ahead of us.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That President Idris Deby of Chad and one Ambassador of Nigeria, with Cameroon that we are doing ceasefire, where did they see us? Your white man from Germany is with us presently, he is crying and if we like we will cut him into pieces, or gun him down. We are not afraid of anyone except Allah; this is our job.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Who have freed girls from Chibok whom we abducted in their school? Those girls that Shekau abducted and took them to place of his choice about six months today. Allah passed infidels; Allah is ahead of America, Allah is ahead of a plane called drone, nonsense, Allah is supreme ahead of everyone.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If parents of Chibok girls will know the condition of their children, they will not be worry; it is either to be with their conversion to Islam or you die with pains. You don’t know that the over 200 Chibok girls have convert to Islam, they have memorized several sections of Quran, they have finished in the midst of John, Luka and others, they have realized that Christians have filled old testament with lies.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Small girl from Chibok insisting that Islam is the true religion, just form six. We have married them off, and they are in the house of their husbands. To hurt people is Shekau, they are saying Shekau is a throne; it is me Shekau whose father is Muhammadu, Shekau the man that hurts infidels, staying in the world will be difficult for you, you are just misbehaving in the world.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Who created you? We have not done any ceasefire with anyone; we did not, we did not do ceasefire with Chad, we did not do same with Cameroon and we did not do same with Niger and Nigeria. We did not do same with Ambassador of Chad, and we did not do any dialogue with Africa. We did not do same with Europe and Asia; we did not do with America and the useless United Nations of nonsense.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We did not, who is dialogue? It is a lie; it is a lie, we will not do it, Allah said no to it. We are working with Quran, and no infidel will threaten us. You lacked what to do; you want to please your leaders, and you are lying, the likes of Solomon Darlung, Abdullahi Wase, the likes of Senator Ndume. The people are tired, whether you like it or not we are working for others to convert Islam.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is my business with you? Me that left my parents in our house; I left my mother and father. I came out to team up with those that want to promote Islam; you are just deceiving people with ceasefire.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is with a single knife that I started and today with more than 20 vehicles I ceased from you, and they are saying Shekau is not a person but a special name. I greet you SSS; I greet you that went to study in Israel, I greet you a member of psychology origin; I greet you descendants of biology. I greet you fools that pledge to Nigeria.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You pledge to Nigeria your country, I  Shekau pledge to Allah my God. If you don’t know, today you will know, I pledge to Allah to be faithful. This is Shekau, nonsense like you people. This is my brief talk; this one is okay for you, and you should convert to Allah and follow Quran.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You are unlucky to have missed Quran and stopping those doing it; it is a lie anyone that refuse will see. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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SEE The Video Of Boko Haram's Shekau Speech On Ceasefire & Abducted Chibok Girls! [Read Full Transcript]

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Chibok Girls Who Escaped From Boko Haram Explains-- We Went Through Hell To Survive

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We have heard some of the abducted Chibok girls were lucky enough to 
escape.These are the accounts of some of those lucky girls who have 
since been reconciled with their parents. Sunday<a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/escape-boko-haram-went-hell-survive-chibok-school-girls/" target="_blank"> Vanguard</a> met with four of the escapee girls whose heroic accounts are recorded below.
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<b>First is Saratu Isa, 19, who wants to become a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">teacher</span> some day. Narrating her story, she told Sunday Vanguard that after their SSCE papers on the fateful day, they retired to their <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">hostel</span> to rest and prepare for the next day’s papers.</b></div>
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In the night, they slept. She woke sometime later. She also woke up her 
friend, Comfort Ayuba (born on March 28, 1997), and asked her if she 
heard the rumour that Boko Haram was about to invade <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">the school</span>. The friend said it was a lie, yet they attempted to locate a safe corner within the hostel to use as hideout if <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">the Islamic</span> terrorists eventually entered the school.But before they could secure a hideout, they started hearing <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6747821070134156749" name="more"></a>barking orders to other girls in the hostel.</div>
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“The claim of people saying that the jihadists came to the school with 
so many vehicles is not true. No! Their vehicles were packed far away 
inside the bush. They came in and told us they had come to protect us 
from an impending danger, since there was no security in the school and immediately they started assembling us in a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">single</span> file and marching us to the bush.”<br />
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It was at that point that some of the girls started having hunches but 
it was too late to do anything because the invaders, armed to the teeth 
and dressed in army uniform, were barking orders that any girl who 
attempted to play games would be killed and it was obvious that they 
were not joking.</div>
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Three girls were saved by divine intervention. According to Saratu, two 
Christians and one Muslim who arrived the park late and wanted to play a
 fast one. The insurgents asked them their religion and one of the 
Christians said she was a Muslim. The Muslim identified herself but the 
third girl didn’t deny her religion. She said she was a Christian. They 
asked her to change her religion or be killed; she said she would rather
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<b>Boko Haram:</b> Didn’t we ask you not to go to English School?</div>
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<b>Christian Girl:</b> I was born here in Chibok and have never been to 
any Taboc School. I was born into a Christian home and will remain a 
Christian.</div>
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So the three girls were asked to lie down and that they were going to 
kill them, beginning with the unrepentant Christian. Without displaying 
any emotion, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">the Christian</span> girl was the first to lie down saying they should go ahead and kill her.</div>
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And a debate among the Boko Haram men, with some of them saying they 
should kill the kafir (infidel) while others argued against it. So she 
was asked to get up. We were all still in the bush where the vehicles 
were. The Boko Haram men continued their argument as to whether to kill 
or not to kill the Christian. Soon the vehicles the men brought were 
full and there was no space for the three girls. So they were asked to 
go. So the three of them left and started heading home.</div>
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“We trekked the long distance into the bush where they had parked their 
lorries and other vehicles. Soon after, the vehicles began a voyage into
 the forest. We were five that were locked up in the booth of a car and 
we had no means of knowing how long; the journey took. We were just 
there until God knows how long; then they came to a final stop. While we
 were moving, the five of us were praying and hoping that people or the 
army would pursue and catch up with them. Eventually we entered Sambisa.
 When we entered Sambisa, we were given bread and water and told to eat.
 Of course, the girls were too angry to accept the offer of food. So, 
they refused to eat. The men attempted to persuade them to eat.<br />
“On arrival, we <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">discovered</span> that 
an earlier batch had arrived the same destination that looked like the 
camp of militants. As soon as we arrived, Comfort came up with an idea 
that we look for a convenient place to ease ourselves. We told the men 
that we needed to ease ourselves and they allowed the three of us to go.
 After we walked some distance from the camp, Comfort said we should 
make haste and run away.<br />
“The third girl, a Muslim, with fear written all over her, said we 
should not run away when we had not eaten and weak; but Comfort insisted
 that that was the only chance we had to escape. She added that she 
would not die in this forest”.</blockquote>
 Saratu followed her while the third girl returned to the camp.<br />
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“We kept walking away from Sambisa forest. As we progressed in the 
escape bid, we met one man. He didn’t say anything to us. We didn’t know
 what he was doing inside the forest but we were too afraid to find out.
 Later, we met another woman who also didn’t talk to us.<br />
“Eventually, we came to one village and met one Fulani man who gave us 
water and food. We were too hungry and thirsty and so we ate. He 
directed us where to follow to our village and so we continued the 
journey until we met two men . The men were kind; gave us water and 
clothes to change the ones we wore. Initially, we refused because we 
were afraid. We kept going, but one of the men followed us, saying they 
were only trying to help.<br />
“As we went on, we met another man who told us to come and sleep in his 
house because it was night already and we entered the house, believing 
God had planted angels on our path to freedom. We entered and slept in 
his house. The man woke us up at about 3:00 a.m. and told us that the 
village people were wicked and if they found out we were there, they 
would kill us. He directed us where to follow, warning that if we saw 
any <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">motorcycle</span> or vehicle, we should enter the bush.<br />
“He insisted that we should avoid being noticed by anybody. The man told
 us that when we hear a call to prayers, we should stop wherever we are 
until the prayer is finished. We saw a man and asked him direction to 
our village and he told us. We continued until we arrived Chibok where 
we met the army personnel. After narrating our story, they took us to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">the barracks</span>
 where we took our bath and were given food to eat”. Altogether, they 
spent five days between the time they were captured and the time they 
returned home.</blockquote>
<b>Rahab Yaya was born on August 8,1998 in Chibok. Her escape story:</b><br />
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“Like Saratu and Comfort, he also decided that there was no way the 
night would meet us in that thick forest. So, we followed the example of
 our two colleagues, pretending we needed to ease ourselves and, after 
much pleading, they allowed us thinking that we would be afraid and 
return in no time because of the fearful nature of the forest. We walked
 a long distance and always making sure none of the men was trailing us.<br />
“All through the night, we continued our journey to freedom. We went 
without food and water for several days, hoping we would see persons who
 would be sympathetic to our plight.<br />
“But no help came until dawn, the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">next day</span>,
 when a Good Samaritan who heard our story, out of pity, gave us bread 
and water. He told us to be careful because the insurgents were 
operating in the neighborhood, seeking who to kidnap. With renewed 
strength, we continued even when we didn’t know where we were going.</blockquote>
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According to her, after several days of a seemingly unending trauma, 
without clean up and any change of clothes, they eventually arrived 
Chibok to the warm embrace of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">their parents</span> who had searched everywhere for them and immediately people recommended that they go to hospitals for</div>

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