Four girls out of the 168 students of
Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok,
Borno State, that were abducted by Boko
Haram in April, have escaped.
The Chairman, Chibok Local Government Area,
Mr. Bana Lawan, announced this on Tuesday in
Abuja at a one-day stakeholders meeting for
validation of draft humanitarian response plan
for the abducted girls. The meeting was
organised by the National Emergency
Management Agency.
Lawan, who was represented by the Director
for Personnel and Management, Mr. Musa
Elijah, said the number of escapees had risen to
57 as against 53, while 164 girls were still held
by the terrorist group.
He said, “The people of Chibok are anxiously
waiting for the safe return of their children.
Except for the unfortunate situation where two
of the parents have passed on. They were known
to have BP (blood pressure) issues, although I
am not a medical expert, but they will not be
opportuned to welcome back their daughters.
“Latest report reaching us is that instead of 53,
those that have escaped are now 57 and those
remaining are 164 and not 168 as before. This
is out of the 221 girls that were abducted.”
Lawan explained that it was not all those who
registered for the Senior School Certificate
Examination in the school that stayed back.
“Those that registered for the SSCE are not all
that sat for the exam. Over 500 registered and
those who had relatives around decided to move
to various places like Kaduna and Maiduguri to
write the exams. Those that were left with no
relations decided to stay back to take the risk
and among them 221 were abducted.”
The chairman said the moral of the girl child in
the North-East was low as most of them were
discouraged.
“The school in particular has been existing for
long and the quality of education in it has been
diminishing. So I want to appeal to the Federal
Government, through NEMA and the
presidential committee, to intervene in
rebuilding the school,” he added.
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"You can imagine if this government had not been facing these distractions within this period, definitely, we would have moved farther than this. All these distractions are planned to bring this government down and since they failed, terror will also fail.
Mutai Hona, a father of two girls who
were abducted by Islamist militant
sect Boko Haram in the Chibok area
of Borno state, has died of high blood
pressure as a result of the
disappearance of his daughters.
Hona, a father of 8 children and two
wives, was 56.
In an interview, a man who identified
as his brother James Yama told
reporters that Hona who was “hale
and hearty”, died on Sunday due to
psychological trauma when he
realized none of his daughters were
in the video released by Shekau
Abubakar.
“We are suffering in silence, one of
my brother Mr. Mutai Hona whose
two daughters were among those
abducted died last Sunday as a result
of heart attack, since the incident, he
has not been eating well, before he
developed High Blood Pressure.
If we had seen the corpses of our
girls, we would have forgotten about
them. They have turned the whole
episode into hide and seek game with
the authorities not letting us know
really what is happening, it is
unfortunate.” he said to Vanguard
Mutai Hona was buried on Monday
according to religious rites
Nigerian musician, Ice Prince
Zamani has seriously expressed his
displeasure with President Jonathan
over the recent Boko Haram
bombings especially the one involving
his place of birth, Jos.
Twin explosions occured in the city of
Jos on May 20, Tuesday, and claimed
at least 118 lives with the number of
casualties growing. The singer soon
after the bombing took to his social
media pages to express his sorrow.
came up with the phrase “If I pray,
heaven go hear…” adding the red-
colored hashtag #prayforjos .
The same day Plateau State-born
musician addressed President
Goodluck Jonathan (in the informal
way) on Twitter asking him what is
going on in Nigeria.
Read His Tweet Below:
Goodluck Jonathan!! What da f**k is
up?? We’ve been glued to the news
since this sh*t started.. Now there’s
bomb in my city!! Wtf is up?
— panshak zamani (@IcepriceZamani )
May 20, 2014
A member of Boko Haram on Tuesday
granted an interview to US news
channel, CBS where he revealed that
the group spent three months
planning the abduction of 276 girls of
Government Girls Secondary School,
Chibok, Borno State, last month.
The man who gave his name as Saleh
Abubakar told his interviewer that
the reports that some of the
kidnapped girls are sick and in need
of medical attention were false. He
claimed to have seen the abducted
girls three weeks ago, and that all of
them are fine.
Details on Complete Interview
Granted By Boko Haram Member To
US News Channel and CBS…..shortly
Controversial Islamic scholar and leader of the
Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly called
Shiite Muslim group, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky
has alleged that the leader of the Boko Haram
insurgents, Abubakar Shekau was being shielded
by the Nigerian military.
Zakzaky who spoke at the Movement’s 2014
Martyr day in Zaria on Sunday also alleged that
the Boko Haram activities were part of covert
operation by the developed nations to balkanize
Nigeria and plunder its resources.
While claiming he knows the hide out of the
nation’s most wanted man, Zakzaky said:
“Abubakar Shekau is presently being kept safe
in a military camp. Let no one be fooled, there
is nothing like Boko Haram. It is a covert
operation to balkanize Nigeria and steals its
resources in the name of search of Boko Haram
insurgents. If you can fool others, we cannot be
fooled.
“They have realised that there is gold in
Zamfara and Zaria, Birnin-Gwari, gold and
platinum in Sokoto and Borno. They did it in
Iraq, as they went in search of weapons of mass
destruction which they never found but plunged
the country in chaos.
“The same thing was experimented in
Afghanistan before our eyes. The Western
countries are experimenting the second phase
of scramble for Africa with great expectations
from Nigeria.
“The U.S. and Israel see the Islamic Movement
in Nigeria as the greatest threat to achieving
their sinister objective, hence the constant
clampdown attempt and arrest of our members.”
While alleging victimization of its members by
the Nigerian authorities, he asked for the
immediate release of two of its members
Haruna Abbas and Ibrahim Hussain, who he said
was arrested over a year ago for no just cause
and “unjustifiably” detained without trial.
“No law or constitutional provision allows for
such a lengthy detention without trial and
without visitation by families and friends,
especially in a democratic government Nigeria is
claiming to operate,” Zakzaky said.
Meanwhile, an inter-religious group, Think-
Nigeria Christian/Muslim Initiative wants
Nigerians to work hard to expose activities of
terrorist groups in the country and ensure
religious harmony in the country.
While commending multi-billionaire businessman,
Alhaji Umaru Abdulmutallab, who reported his
son Faruk to the authorities when he became
radicalized, the group in a communiqué at the
end of a two day summit in Kaduna asked
parents to pay more attention to their children
and wards in order to protect them from
activities of religious extremists.
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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan strongly condemns the bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau state, today, describing the perpetrators of this tragic assault on human freedom as cruel and evil. He has also directed all relevant agencies to mobilise support and relief efforts in aid of the victims. The President extends his heartfelt sympathies to the affected families and persons.
A suspected car bomb ripped through a
crowded
entertainment spot in the north Nigerian
city of Kano on
Sunday, witnesses said.
The blast on a busy road lined with bars
in the
predominantly Christian area of Sabon
Giri, could be
heard several kilometres (miles) away,
locals said.
Nigeria’s Channels television said 10
people had been
killed but there was no official
confirmation from police
in the city.
Also an eye witnesses account said that
more than twenty
five killed in the blast
"The school is owned by the State Government but it is the commitment of the Federal government to rebuild the school, build walls to protect it and provide facilities since it is predominantly a school that takes care of girls education so that the girls would be protected. Yes I will visit Chibok, no doubt about that but what we are anxious about now is to locate the girls. These girls are not held in Chibok. If the President goes to Chibok today, does that solve any problem? Maybe psychological problem or for media relevance but you have not solved the problem. The problem facing the President and indeed the Nigerian government is to get these girls from wherever they are" he saidSee pics of President Jonathan at the summit
"The issue of not negotiation with the terrorists – it’s out of the question. If it means talking to the devil, it means the devil can come down, we can get back our girls. The group that kidnapped the girls are a bunch of raving lunatics.
