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PHOTOS: President Jonathan Meets TB Joshua at Synagogue

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday paid a condolence visit to 
Prophet TB Joshua at his church premises to commensurate with him and 
other members of the Synagogue church family over the unfortunate 
incident of a building collapse that claimed about 80 lives under 
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Jonathan who described the incident as very sad, had said:<br />
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"Today when I arrived Lagos, my first port of call was where a 
five-storey building collapsed and 80 people confirmed dead, about 131 
people were injured. It is a very sad story, very sad incident to us and
 the international community because most of the people that died in 
that building collapse were not ‎Nigerians. In fact about majority of 
them are South Africans. I spoke to the President of South Africa, Jacob
 Zuma to first express our own sentiments and condolences to the 
President and people of that country."</blockquote>
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TB Joshua took President Jonathan round the site of the crashed building. See the photos:<br />
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May the souls of the dead rest in peace and may God grant all the injured speedy recovery. Amen!</div>
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PHOTOS: President Jonathan Meets TB Joshua at Synagogue

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The 12 Convicted Soldiers Deserve To Die —says Ex-Generals

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Some retired senior military officers have backed the death sentence 
passed on 12 soldiers of the Nigerian Army for engaging in acts 
considered as mutiny.<br />
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The soldiers were court-martialled for a variety of offences, including 
firing shots at the General Officer Commanding, 7 Division of Nigerian 
Army, Maj Gen. Ahmed Mohammed, in Maiduguri, Borno State.<br />
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The military court, which convicted the soldiers in Abuja, found 13 out 
of the 18 soldiers guilty of mutiny, criminal conspiracy, attempted 
murder (shooting at GOC's vehicle); insubordination and false 
accusation.<br />
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Some retired General who spoke to Punch, said the death sentence was 
necessary for the military to maintain its age-long rules on discipline.</blockquote>
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In the aftermath of the conviction, some prominent Nigerians and 
pressure groups have urged the military not to carry out the sentences. 
But the retired senior military officers hailed the judgment and said it
 would have to be carried out.<br />
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A former Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Brig.-Gen. 
Williams Obene (retd.), said, “I commend the boldness of the Army 
authorities to follow the terms and conditions of service – the extant 
laws that established the armed forces, particularly the Army– and for 
trying to uphold discipline at the highest level.<br />
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“When politicians and highly influential Nigerians interfere in the 
daily administration of the military, things become difficult. That 
situation is very prevalent under democracy.”<br />
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Also, a former Adjutant-General of the Nigerian Army, Major General 
David Jemibewon (retd.), said the court martial must have considered 
evidence and circumstances before reaching its decision on the soldiers.<br />
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Jemibewon who is a former Minister of Police Affairs said, “The military
 does not operate on sentiments or on people expressing either sympathy 
or lack of sympathy. Most of the things (we do) in the military are 
based on laws. It is difficult for me to align with people calling for 
clemency or pardon.<br />
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“The court martial has the facts and they have now come to conclusion after allowing evidence.”<br />
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In the same vein, retired Colonel Anthony Nyiam also hailed the 
judgment. Nyiam, was one of those sentenced to death by the regime of 
former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, said, “As a soldier, and 
respecter of the law and tradition, the worst thing a soldier can do is 
to mutiny. And the penalty, as the law says, should be served. If you 
interrupt the traditions of the military, you’re interfering with the 
foundations.”<br />
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Similarly, a former military administrator of Bauchi and Osun states, 
Col. Theophilus Bamigboye (retd.), backed the sentence, adding that it 
was in line with military rules and regulations.<br />
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He said, “The court has followed the laid down procedure and military 
etiquette. They (the court) must have looked at the entire situations 
before arriving at the sentence.<br />
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“We have our own laws and so many things regulating our conduct in the 
military. I will not want anybody to die but we are talking of military 
procedure, which has to be followed.”<br />
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Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army has said it is waiting for the approval of 
the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, on the death sentence
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The 12 Convicted Soldiers Deserve To Die —says Ex-Generals

Some retired senior military officers have backed the death sentence passed on 12 soldiers of the Nigerian Army for engaging i...

Actress Tonto Dikeh has been Dumped by her Rich Boyfriend?

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 Actress Tonto Dikeh is not happy at the moment and her grouse is with 
girls who always go after any man that is making her happy. According to
 her latest hint, it appears another lady has snatched her rich man and 
she is so pained that she even contemplated using acid to attack her 
boyfriend snatcher...<br />
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Could this be why we've not been seeing pix of Tonto and her boo online? Hmm, Naija babes not smiling!</div>

Actress Tonto Dikeh has been Dumped by her Rich Boyfriend?

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SEE PHOTO: Boko Haram Leader Shekau is Dead

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Since <a href="http://olufamous.com/">OluFamous.Com</a> reported on 
Sunday that the highly dreaded Boko Haram commander, Shekau has been 
killed during an air-strike in the Konduga area of Borno State, many 
people have been asking for some kind of photo evidence. We have just 
received a photo confirmation. See it below:<br />
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Nigerians are yearning for peace, hopefully this development will bring peace to our country!</div>

SEE PHOTO: Boko Haram Leader Shekau is Dead

Since OluFamous.Com reported on Sunday that the highly dreaded Boko Haram commander, Shekau has been killed during an air-...

VIDEO: Afro-Candy Caught Doing It

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She has finally done it. Naija rough woman has taken her things too far 
with a young man right inside her own bedroom and the video has leaked, 
either directly or indirectly. SEE the video below...<br />
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Do you want to know what happened when got it rough</div>
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VIDEO: Afro-Candy Caught Doing It

She has finally done it. Naija rough woman has taken her things too far with a young man right inside her own bedroom and the...

See The Bad Things Jim Iyke Did to Me ––Keturah Reveals

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She sounded absolutely distraught, and utterly disconsolate. Her usual 
exuberance, the bonhomie which she wears like a badge of honor was 
missing both in her voice and in her demeanor. She was inconsolable, 
pained and emotionally devastated. She had every reason to feel that 
way.<br />
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For over six years, she had given her all to a rom*nce that had been 
celebrated, touted and written about as one that was made in heaven. For
 six years, they had projected the image of a blissfully happy couple 
that could do no wrong.<br />
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Her boyfriend of six years – the one that is famously referred to as the
 ‘Nollywood bad boy’, Jim Iyke has finally acted out his moniker and it 
is not pretty at all:<br />
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“These days, I ask God: Why has thou forsaken me? How can a man with 
whom we had gone through the highs and the lows - a man who had 
professed so much undying love for me over the past six years just walk 
away like that? I don’t know what happened and I wish I could put a 
finger on it.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a>Keturah had told Vanguard, sounding sad and exasperated.<br />
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Their rom*nce was strong, and Jim had spoken severally of plans to walk 
down the aisle with her. He had told me a number of times that in 
Keturah, he had found “a perfect mate – someone who was “s*xy, 
intellectually curious, exotic and edgy.” Keturah was known all over the
 world as Jim Iyke’s   girlfriend – a wife in waiting. They had traveled
 round the world together, and she had stood by him through most of the 
scandals that have continued to trail his professional and private life.
 Not even when another woman claimed to have dated Jim Iyke and later 
accused him of battering her and a business deal gone awry which was 
amplified in the media, she didn’t threaten to end the affair.<br />
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Keturah Hamilton, the Jamaican-born actress, model and business woman 
was the partner tailor-made for Jim Iyke. She had accepted and tolerated
 all of the actor’s ‘foibles, issues and challenges’ and was determined 
to stick with him through thick and thin.“And then…Just when we thought 
the wedding invitations will soon be mailed out; just when we thought 
the loving duo had reached a point of no return in their relationship, 
the news broke out that the story book romance had ruptured; that the 
center of the relationship could no longer hold. Jim Iyke had ‘bailed’ 
out of the affair and appeared to have acted out some of the elements in
 their joint reality show “Jim Iyke Unscripted.” He was said to have 
ended their six year-old affair in a most emotionally callous way. He 
simply walked away “without even a phone call” recounted tearful 
Keturah.<br />
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“He took away six years of memories, of support of love and all that I 
did for him-just like that. How mean and callous can one get?<br />
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Keturah also recounted how Jim Iyke used and dumped her. “Jim was 
supposed to come to New York and stay for six months, during which time,
 he would go to an acting school here in New York and then we would move
 to Los Angeles and get married and pursue our acting dreams. I was 
looking forward to that with eagerness and then he just walked away.”<br />
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Asked what could have been the reason for such a change of heart, 
Keturah said “We had problems like normal lovers do, but we always 
resolved them amicably. I know there was something Jim asked me to do, 
which I didn’t want to do right away. But that should not have made him 
to do what he did.”<br />
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However, when pressed to reveal what it was that Jim wanted her to do, she said it was personal.<br />
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Keturah said she feels used and dumped. “I played along in the reality 
show as if I truly was a jealous and crazy lover. It was an act, but now
 I feel as if Jim set me up. He is a wicked man. I stood by him through 
all his troubles and tribulations. I helped bring him to the limelight 
when the light of his career was dimming. He is an ingrate and I leave 
him to God.”<br />
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One thing that seems to have pained Keturah more than anything else is 
the rumour making the rounds that Jim left her for the Ghanaian actress,
 Nadia Buari. “That is the rumour I have heard and I know it is not just
 a rumour. They have been hooking up in Ghana. They were together at 
Tuface’s wedding and appear to be everywhere together. I just can’t 
believe Jim would be this ungrateful – after all I have done for him. I 
have not been able to accept this and I am truly in a state of shock. If
 Jim could treat me the way he did, after six years of being there for 
him, supporting him, encouraging him in all that he did, then I wish 
Nadia the best of luck.”<br />
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Meanwhile, Keturah has moved on with her life.<br />
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“I am a strong woman and I am moving on with my life. God cannot give 
you that which He will not provide you the platform to stand and deal 
with. I wish him the best in his life.”</div>
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See The Bad Things Jim Iyke Did to Me ––Keturah Reveals

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Boko Haram Negotiator, Stephen Davis, Opens Up Again

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<b>by Stephen Davis</b><br />
I read with interest Asari Dokubo’s comments published on September 14 
in the Daily Post. Asari is quite correct in saying that he knows me 
well and has met members of my family. In 2004, the Niger Delta was 
aflame with conflict. Asari, Ateke Tom and Tompolo were waging a fierce 
war against the Nigerian federal and state governments. <span style="color: #cc0000;">Many people had been killed</span>.<br />
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Nigerian military were having trouble contending with Asari’s guerrilla 
warfare. Small, highly mobile and heavily armed militant forces in fast 
boats struck across the Niger Delta targeting oil installations and 
military posts. Nigeria’s oil output at one point dropped to  as low as 
600,000 barrels per day and on average was halved to one million barrels
 per day.<br />
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This was a devastating blow to Nigeria’s economy and the operations of 
the major international oil companies. Apart from the economic impact, 
communities were suffering from the conflict with many innocent people 
killed in military efforts to purge the communities of militants...<br />
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My wife and I were living in Port Harcourt and, in 2004, I explored the 
idea of a peace deal with an Ijaw friend, Von Kemedi. As an Ijaw, he 
knew Asari who was also Ijaw. Von was able to make contact with Asari 
who agreed to meet with me.<br />
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Von and I subsequently travelled through the swamps in a speed boat to 
Opurata  village to see the damage to villages before transferring to a 
canoe that we paddled to another village from where we were met by 
Asari’s men in another fast boat. With a blindfold on we were taken to 
another island where we waited until another boat escorted us to Asari’s
 camp. A vigorous discussion took place that night surrounded by Asari’s
 well-armed fighters. By the end of the night, the foundation of a peace
 deal has been set down.<br />
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I subsequently took the peace proposal to President  Olusegun Obasanjo 
and found him ready and willing to support peace and disarmament. The 
deal also encompassed demobilisation and a programme to reintegrate the 
militants back into the communities. This required a skills training 
programme which President Obasanjo supported. A final essential element 
was weapons surrender and destruction. The protocol used was that set 
down by the UN and was agreed by both sides.<br />
<br />
At the Villa<br />
I stayed in close contact with Asari by satellite phone each evening 
around 5pm. We worked out the details of the peace process. The first 
step was a ceasefire. The ceasefire was set in place on  September 8, 
2004,  but in the following days was broken three times and each time it
 was the Nigerian military that broke the ceasefire. Even when under 
fire during a ceasefire breach Asari, honoured his word and withdrew, 
firing only for self-protection.<br />
<br />
To complete the peace deal, President Obasanjo directed me to oversee 
the extraction of Asari and his key commanders in September 2004. I 
travelled to the Niger Delta with a handful of SSS men headed by Fubara 
Duke, an Ijaw man known to Asari and trusted by President Obasanjo.<br />
<br />
At 1am on September 29, 2004 Asari, and his commanders met us at 
Abonnema Landing in the Niger Delta and we proceeded to Port Harcourt 
airport where we boarded a plane at dawn to take us to Abuja and direct 
to President Obasanjo in the Cabinet Room. That day was punctuated with 
amazing revelations as Asari recounted events that led him and his men 
to defy the government and launch a guerrilla style campaign.<br />
<br />
Asari always kept his word to me. He gave me an undertaking on the 
ceasefire and kept it even in the face of breaches by the military. When
 it came to  time for weapons surrender, he asked me how many weapons I 
wanted him to surrender. I said, ‘ Asari you have 3,000 men, so I want 
3,000 weapons.’<br />
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Asari gave a commitment to hand over 3,000 guns, 100 general purpose 
machine guns and some rocket launchers which were subsequently destroyed
 in a series of public destructions to UN standards overseen by the Army
 at Bori Military Camp in Port Harcourt in mid-November 2004.<br />
<br />
President Obasanjo kept his word and on  October 1,  2004 the peace 
accord was announced and Asari and his commanders returned to the Niger 
Delta.<br />
<br />
Asari is correct in saying I never paid him anything. I never paid 
anyone and no one paid me either by way of funds or favours. President 
Obasanjo did not offer to pay me for the Niger Delta peace accord and I 
did not seek payment. The peace deal was built on trust. I went to 
Asari’s camp unarmed and without any security.<br />
<br />
Asari and his key commanders travelled with me and the small SSS 
contingent totally unarmed. We trusted each other with our lives and 
that built trust. There can be no peace without trust. Without trust, 
there is merely a ceasefire which will eventually be broken and the 
fighting resume.<br />
<br />
Asari said in his interview with the Daily Post that President Obasanjo 
broke his word. I am not so sure of that. What I think Asari may be 
referring to is the demobilisation and skills training that did not 
materialise after the peace accord. Funds were to be set aside to train 
the ex-militants for employment and to reintegrate them back into their 
communities. This phase of the work was to be undertaken by the state 
governors.<br />
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By March 2005, a full six months had passed without any sign of training
 and reintegration. It was no surprise then to find 200 Niger Delta 
ex-militants had been recruited by foreign mercenaries to participate in
 a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. The ex-militants were intercepted 
as they departed Warri in a ship bound for Guinea. They had each been 
promised $5,000 and an AK47.<br />
<br />
Had the promised skills training and reintegration been implemented, 
these young men probably would not have agreed to join the coup attempt 
in Equatorial Guinea. So Asari is right but it was more likely that the 
governors were not sincere and not former President Obasanjo. It was the
 governors that had armed, promoted and used the gangs for political 
purposes in much the same way that former Governor Modu Sheriff  was 
alleged to have done in Borno State..<br />
<br />
It was this failure to honour the agreement to demobilise by providing 
skills training and reintegration that fuelled discontent and provided 
the conditions that formed MEND which added bombing and kidnapping to 
its mode of operation.<br />
<br />
Contrary to Asari’s understanding, former President Obasanjo did not 
bring me to Nigeria on my recent trip to seek the release of the Chibok 
girls or for any other purpose. Nor did President Jonathan or anyone 
else. I came to Nigeria in April this year to seek the release of the 
Chibok girls at my own expense and of my own volition because I could 
see no progress on the release of the kidnapped girls.<br />
<br />
Girls horrifying r*pe<br />
While Asari may not believe any girls were kidnapped, let me assure you 
that hearing the stories of some girls who have escaped from Boko Haram 
camps is a sobering experience. There are many girls who have been 
kidnapped apart from the girls from the Chibok school.<br />
<br />
The kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram has been going on for at least a 
year. Initially Boko Haram kidnapped girls because the fighters could 
not go back home to their wives. They used the kidnapped girls. Girls 
tell how they were r*ped every day, week after week.<br />
<br />
One girl was r*ped every day, sometimes several times a day by groups of
 men. Some did not survive the ordeal. The escaped girls tell harrowing 
stories of r*pe and abuse. They are traumatised and require medical 
treatment and counselling. These girls are testament to the horrifying 
truth about the kidnappings.<br />
<br />
But the Chibok kidnappings were only the start of my recent journey to 
Nigeria. It soon became apparent the (alleged) sponsors did not want any
 interference in their plan. The “political Boko Haram” which 
(allegedly) started out as Sheriff’s ECOMOG (so named after the military
 peace keeping forces operating in Liberia at that time because an SDP –
 Social Democratic Party-   candidate was protected from an angry mob in
 Bama by a group of youths supporting the SDP)  that targeted his 
political opponents in the 2003 and 2007 elections have since mutated 
into the Boko Haram we see today that terrorises through beheadings, 
butchering innocent villagers, bombing innocent people at shopping malls
 and in churches, raping and kidnapping.<br />
<br />
It is true that Sheriff fell-out with Yusuf and the allegation stands 
that when the military captured Yusuf in late July 2009 and handed him 
over to the police in Borno State, he was allegedly  executed on 
Sheriff’s instruction. Thus the root of the perception that Sheriff 
cannot be a sponsor but a hated enemy of Boko Haram. But the core of the
 old Yusufiya  is no longer part of Boko Haram.<br />
<br />
Boko Haram is a mutation of  political Boko Haram and Shekau’s Ansaru. 
The Yusufiya grew out of the Izala movement and had great respect for 
Izala. Boko Haram now beheads Izala followers. The “slaughterers” work 
with the political assassins and suicide bombers.<br />
<br />
The sponsors of Boko Haram do not care how many innocent Nigerians are 
slaughtered, how many women are raped, how many girls and boys are 
kidnapped, how many villages are plundered. I have met too many victims 
to say, “It is not my problem”.<br />
<br />
We are each diminished if we allow such crimes against our fellow 
citizens to persist. The Nigerian military is diminished if it uses Boko
 Haram tactics to address the problem. Evil will flourish and triumph if
 good men and women do nothing.<br />
<br />
Many Nigerian politicians have said little and done nothing to curb the 
slaughter of Nigerians that is being supported by the sponsors. While 
fathers die to protect their daughters and wives are raped and butchered
 the sponsors of Boko Haram are accorded privileges and protection.<br />
<br />
They fly in private jets and are accorded military protection. Are the 
sponsors of Boko Haram so far above the law? Have the citizens of 
Nigeria lost the right to bring these men to justice? Who will stand up 
for the poor and oppressed who are being slaughtered and raped in their 
hundreds? By the grace of God we trust that good men and women will 
stand up and justice will prevail.<br />
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<b><i>*Davis, an Austrialian, is a widely known negotiator</i></b></div>

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Finally the big iroko has been brought down and Nigeria will soon begin 
to experience peace again, after a long while, courtesy of the 
activities of heartless Abubakar Shekau and his Boko Haram boys.<br />
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<b><a href="http://ogbongegist.com/">Ogbongegist.Com</a></b> gathered that 
multiple sources in and around Borno are confirming that Nigerian 
military air-strike in the Konduga area has sent the dreaded Boko Haram 
leader to his grave. News of the death of Shekau and some of his top 
commanders in the latest battle with troops in Konduga is spreading.<br />
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Confirming that Shekau has been killed, one of the residents said: 
“Look, this picture is being circulated after the attack in Konduga. If 
you know Shekau very well, you will know he is the one in this 
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of them that were caught alive are held in the barracks. </blockquote>
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“The remaining ones are those attacking people now. They have gone wild,
 but we were also told that the soldiers are in pursuit of them. Our 
prayer is that they would all fall and our state can experience peace 
again.”</blockquote>
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Shekau’s reported death is also contained in the account of some of the 
survivors of an attack of the sect on Mainok on Friday, as they said 
they were afraid of returning to the town “because we are told the 
insurgents are mad as a result of the killing of their leader, Abubakar 
Shekau, in Konduga.”<br />
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Reports reaching Tribune in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, indicated 
that over 300 people were killed when Boko Haram attacked Mainok market 
on Friday in what was believed to be a retaliation for their leader’s 
death. They attacked when villagers were in the peak of trading on the 
market day.<br />
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A local, Modu Jakana, who narrowly escaped that attack, told Tribune 
that the insurgents came in from all angles, “shooting the people as if 
they were exchanging fire with the military. We don’t know how we 
escaped, but we were so lucky. They were so determined to kill 
everybody. I saw so many corpses while we were running for dear lives. 
At the main road, vehicles that were on top speed also killed so many 
people as there was confusion everywhere.<br />
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“This morning, some of our people told us that over 300 people, 
including some of the insurgents, were killed because we learnt that the
 military came and engaged them in a fierce fight. There is calm, but we
 won’t return to Mainok.<br />
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“For now, they said calm has returned, but we cannot go back because 
these people may strike again. They said the people (Boko Haram) are 
mad, following the killing of their leader, Abubakar Shekau, during the 
attack in Konduga.”<br />
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Oritsejafor’s Church says ‘stop attacking man of integrity’

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Funmi Iyanda shares her strange encounter with T.B Joshua says the two videos she recorded during the interview disappear

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