Breaking news|| Boko Haram takes over Borno villages, kills 9, hoists flag

Boko Haram has become Nigeria’s biggest security challenge

The insurgents hoisted their flag in one of local government wards.
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram terror group on Monday attacked various communities around the rocky mountains of Gwoza town of Borno State killing nine villagers and setting ablaze houses and churches in the area, residents and a public official said.

The insurgents also hoisted their flags in Ashigashiya ward of Gwoza Local Government Area and are currently celebrating in the area which they have now declared their headquarters.

Sources from Gwoza hills said apart from the nine people killed, several others were left with serious bullet injuries as fleeing residents now take refuge on tall rocky hills.
A local government official, Nglamuda Ibrahim, who spoke to journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said his displaced people have since Monday night been calling for help.
He said residents, from their hideout on the hills, have spotted the gunmen who are preparing to launch another attack on them.

“As we speak now, I am still receiving distress calls from them, they were all crying and calling for help; no soldier or police official had gone there yet.
“The Boko Haram gunmen mounted their flags in Ashigashiya which is now like their headquarters,” he said.

“In last night’s attack, six churches were burnt, eight persons were killed and several others seriously injured. We cannot count the number of houses that were burnt in Chinene village of Chikide-Joghode-Kaghum ward,” said Mr. Ibrahim. “They also attacked Amuda village where one person was killed and several others injured”.
Villagers still in danger

The official expressed worries that the villagers, who are held up in the rocky mountains, may be in danger because as soon as the gunmen find a way, they would attack them.

He added that “currently, as I am talking to you now, the insurgents have mobilised at Izhaghathagwa mountain, planning on how to finish (kill) our people; that is why they have been calling for help before the gunmen climb up to them.”

He listed the names of some of those killed in Chinene village as Bulama Dajiba, Bulama John, Haruna Wadda, Bitrus Kurma, Haruna Kwatha, Haruna Waruda, and Shaibu Galva.
“We are calling on the military authorities in the state to quickly go up there and help us rescue those poor villagers, their wives and children before the imminent danger of the gunmen attack caught them up in the mountains,” he said. “We have a detachment of soldiers that were deployed to Gwoza but none of them cares to go behind the mountains, even though everyone hears the sound of the shootings there”.

A top security personnel confirmed the incident to PREMIUM TIMES and other journalists in Maiduguri.
The source who did not want to be named in this report as he is not authorised to speak with journalists said “we all have received the report from Chinene village. It was really another sad episode there”.
He added that the hoisting of flag in Ashigashiya happened since three weeks ago, and said he was surprised that security forces have not moved to the area.

The Boko Haram has killed over 12,000 people in Northern Nigeria since an insurgency that began in 2009.
The group is also responsible for the kidnap of over 250 teenage female students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

Boko Haram Blows Up Another Bridge

By SaharaReporters, New York
Suspected members of Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, yesterday blew up another bridge that links Borno and Adamawa States, according to a Nigerian military source as well as residents in the area.
The sources said members of the insurgent sect have continued their rampage in isolated towns in the northeast. Yesterday, Boko Haram militants also attacked residents of Limankara community in Gwoza local government area of Borno State, burning more than 300 houses. Limankara is in the southern part of Borno State, about 147 kilometers from Maiduguri.

A source in the town said the residence of the district head of Limankara was one of the homes burnt down by the rampaging insurgents. The district head is the father of the Borno State Commissioner of Trade and Commerce.
One resident, Titus Musa, said the insurgents took away his car. He added that they also hauled away “over three thousands bags of foodstuffs and 10 vehicles.” Another source in the community said the Boko Haram members torched a church belonging to the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN).

“We are helpless,” one of the residents said. “We don't deserve this. Let the government do something fast about these demons before they finish [off] our generations.”

Last Monday, Boko Haram insurgents abducted eight teenagers from Waranbe community. Our military source said the insurgents had taken over the town of Gworza and its surrounding areas.

What is ISLAM? || Council of Islamic Ideology declares women’s existence anti-Islamic

KHABARISTAN TODAY

Islamabad - Sharia Correspondent: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah. As the meeting concluded CII Chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Shirani noted that women by existing defied the laws of nature, and to protect Islam and the Sharia women should be forced to stop existing as soon as possible. The announcement comes a couple of days after CII’s 191st meeting where they dubbed laws related to minimum marriage age to be un-Islamic.

After declaring women to be un-Islamic, Shirani explained that there were actually two kinds of women – haraam and makrooh. “We can divide all women in the world into two distinct categories: those who are haraam and those who are makrooh. Now the difference between haraam and makrooh is that the former is categorically forbidden while the latter is really really disliked,” Shirani said.

He further went on to explain how the women around the world can ensure that they get promoted to being makrooh, from just being downright haraam. “Any woman that exercises her will is haraam, absolutely haraam, and is conspiring against Islam and the Ummah,whereas those women who are totally subservient can reach the status of being makrooh. Such is the generosity of our ideology and such is the endeavour of Muslim men like us who are the true torchbearers of gender equality,” the CII chairman added.

Officials told Khabaristan Today that the council members deliberated over various historic references related to women and concluded that each woman is a source of fitna and a perpetual enemy of Islam. They also decided that by restricting them to their subordinate, bordering on slave status, the momineen and the mujahideen can ensure that Islam continues to be the religion of peace, prosperity and gender equality.

Genevieve Nnaji Told CNN about Pres. Jonathan And The Chibok Girls

Here is a thrilling interview between Max Foster and Genevieve ,Listen to what she said and drop your coment

Max Foster: Genevieve Nnaji is an actress, model and singer who has been raising awareness on the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. She told me they won't stop till the missing girls are found. Take a listen.

Genevieve: Everyone is involved. We are all mothers, we are all humans and these are young girls
that have been taken into captivity and uh.... we just felt that as.. some of us who have a bigger face and more recognizable in terms of being celebrities and having a large fan base, we thought it's our responsibility to help shed light and bring the fight to the forefront and stop this inhumane act.

Max Foster: There's been some criticism of the authorities in Nigeria that they were slow to react to this. What's your reading into that?

Genevieve: Um, for me I think it would be unfair to say our government was slow to react because no one knew whether they reacted or not. The thing is we weren't told, that's the problem, we didn't know if they were aware of the situation or not. So, the major problem people are having is that lack of communication between the government and the people.
We just wanted them to, at least, react to us. And make it aware to our knowledge that they know what was going on, we knew there was a problem at hand, its just that lack of communication.

Max Foster: Has it improved now?

Genevieve: Well, it has improved a whole lot, Now we can see things being put in place, now we can see the efforts being made and again, that will be credited to the noise that has been made, towards the campaigning that's been made around the world, you know, the global community having an interest in this. So, we are grateful for all the attention. What it has done is create hope in a situation that seemed hopeless in the beginning.

Chibok: American Marines locate abducted girls in Sambisa forest

There were indications yesterday that the 230 female students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls' Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, have been sited at the Sambisa
Forest in Borno State, by the Special Forces of the United States Marines.

The girls, who were abducted on April 14, were part of the 250 students boarded at the school for the West African School Certificate, WASC/ Senior Secondary School Certificate, SSSC, examinations, triggering world-wide condemnations.
This was even as more US military officials arrived Nigeria yesterday to join local officials in the search for nearly 300 school girls taken captives by the Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, the US Secretary of State John Kerry, and the defence department, Pentagon, said.

The UK team had earlier arrived in Abuja to support Nigerian government in its response to the abduction of over 200 school girls.
The arrival of the foreign troops is coming on the heels of the appeal yesterday by the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar for Nigerians to unite and fight the insurgents to achieve success.

According to Kerry, "Our inter-agency team is hitting the ground in Nigeria now and they are going to be working with President Goodluck Jonathan's government to do everything that we possibly can to return these girls."
The CNN also quoted the U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, John Kirby, who serves as Pentagon press secretary, as saying that the small team of seven would join advisers supporting local efforts to find the girls abducted over three weeks ago.

Kerry said the US team, working with the Nigerian government, would do everything possible to free the girls and everything possible to stop the atrocities of Boko Haram.
"We are also going to do everything possible to counter the menace of Boko Haram. The entire world should not only be condemning this outrage but should be doing everything possible to help Nigeria in the days ahead," he added.

But there are no plans to send American combat troops into Nigeria, Mr. Kirby said.
The abduction of the school girls on April 14 in a remote community in Borno State, one of the most shocking terrorist acts by Boko Haram yet, has drawn widespread anger around the world with calls for a swift action.

President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday that the kidnapping will be "the beginning of end" of Boko Haram.
US President Obama has said he hopes the abduction by Boko Haram will galvanize the international community to act against the brutal group that has directed much of its cruelty on civilians and the innocent. Marines-arrest
This week, more than 100 people were killed in a busy market by militants suspected to be from the group. The attack occurred in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State, near the Nigerian border with Cameroun.

US MARINES CARRY OUT FIRST ARRESTS OF TWO BOKO HARAM MEMBERS IN BENUE STATE.

US Marines currently in Nigeria to help the government combat Boko Haram terrorists have made their first arrests taking two male suspects into custody after they were found in possession of arms and ammunition during a targeted search.

Over the last week, US Marines have arrived in Nigeria to help with the fight against terrorism after Boko Haram took their war of terror to another level by abducting 234 pupils from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State. Acknowledging that the matter was getting beyond its control, the Nigerian government swallowed its pride and accepted outside help.
With the abduction coming at a time when Nigeria is hosting World Economic Forum on Africa and inbetween two horrific bomb blasts in Abuja, there has been a lot of international offer of support. France, the UK, the US and China have all offered differing degrees of support in the form of intelligence, training and military assistance.

Since Wednesday, US troops have arrived in Nigeria where they are providing security for the WEF summit on Africa. It is expected that the Marines will also join Nigerian soldiers in pursuing Boko Haram into the Sambisa Forest in Borno State where they are believed to have spirited the kidnapped girls to.
According to Major General Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's director of defence in¬formation, two suspected Boko Haram members were arrested at Any¬ibe in Logo Local Gov¬ernment Area of Benue State. He added that the duo, made up of a teenager and an elderly man, were arrested during a cordon-and-search operation and found to be in possession of firearms.

Weapons found in their possession included two rifles, three locally fabricated pistols and 61 rounds of special ammunition. Apparently, the arms were found in the possession of the teenager he is currently undergoing interrogation in custody.

US marines are highly specialised soldiers who have been deployed effectively in areas affected by serious conflict and terrorism such as Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not yet clear how many Marines will be deployed to Nigeria as part of the current operation or if they will establish a base in Borno State.

What is your opinion?

These are the names of the Christian daughter abducted by the Terrorist known as "Boko Haram" in Northern Nigeria

Do you think they can be rescue?

#BringBackOurGirls Picture from United Kingdom

Fight against terrorism is a global one,Join the campaign 

#BringBackOurGirls Picture from Ibadan Rally.

No Girls Are Missing - Asari Dokubo_Is He Mad or what do you think?

What do you make of this?

#BringBackOurGirls || Michele Obama Join The movement

Celebs from around the world have joined the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which calls for the return of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian school girls.

The first lady of the United States has joined celebs like Chris Brown, Mary J Blige, 2Face and Keri Hilson in showing support to the campaign.

Michelle Obama:
Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls.

Niger Delta militant Still in Business || Nigeria Police, JTF confirm abduction of three Dutch nationals in Bayelsa

“We got reports that the three expatriates accessed Letugbene community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa at the weekend without security escort.”
The Police have confirmed the abduction of three Dutch nationals in Letugbene community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.Alex Akhigbe, the Bayelsa Police Command spokesperson, said on Monday that the victims were abducted on Sunday during a visit to Letugbene without security escort.

“We got reports that the three expatriates accessed Letugbene community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa at the weekend without security escort and were abducted on Sunday.

“We do not have further details beyond this at the moment,” Mr. Akhigbe said.Letugbene, a coastal community in Bayelsa, shares boundary with Delta State.The victims were said to have travelled to the coastal settlement through the waterways from Warri in Delta State.
The expatriates, who were in company of Nigerian guides, were in the area to inspect a dilapidated hospital with a view to offering assistance.

Community sources said armed hoodlum seized the expatriates and forced them into a speed boat and escaped to an unknown destination.The Media Coordinator of the Joint Task Force, Lt.-Col. Mustapha Anka, also confirmed the abduction and pledged to get further details from the troops in the area.

Boko Haram Killing in the north,Niger Delta militant Kidnapping in South,,What do you think will be the solution to all this?

Opinion Poll || Today mark the fourth year of Goodluck Jonathan in office as the president of Nigeria following the death of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua_Rate him

Today is exactly four years one day since Goodluck Jonathan became the President of Nigeria following the death of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.

How would you rate his performance so far?
A. Excellent
B. Good
C. Average
D. Fair but below average
E. Poor
F. F9?

World soccer in focus: Stephen Keshi releases his 30 MAN World Cup list

The Super Eagles 30 man provisional list for Brazil 2014:

Vincent Enyeama, Austin Ejide, Chigozie Agbim, Daniel Akpeyi, Elderson Echiejile, Juwon Oshaniwa, Efe Ambrose, Godfrey Oboabona, Azubuike Egwuekwe, Kenneth Omeruo, Joseph Yobo, Kunle Odunlami, John Mikel Obi, Ogenyi Onazi, Ramon Azeez, Ejike Uzoenyi, Sunday Mba, Gabriel Rueben, Nosa Igiebor, Joel Obi, Michael Uchebo, Ahmed Musa, Shola Ameobi, Victor Moses, Emmanuel Emenike, Victor Nsofor, Osaze Odemwingie , Michael Babatundel , Nnamdi Oduamadi

What do you think of this List?

Tunde Bakare says give Chad, Niger & Cameroon 10 days to produce girls or face war

FORMER vice presidential candidate and Save Nigeria Group convener Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to threaten war with Cameroon, Chad and Niger if they do not produce the 234 girls abducted from Borno State within 10 days.

On April 14, 234 pupils were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State. They have since been taken to unknown locations amid rumours that some of the girls have been ferried across Nigeria's border to neighbouring countries where they have been married off to Boko Haram fighters.

With rumours rife that some of the girls have not only been forced into marriages but repeatedly raped, Pastor Bakare has told President Jonathan to hold Nigeria's neighbours responsible for their plight. Speaking during a service at his Latter Rain Assembly church in Lagos, Pastor Bakare said the government needs to take action in the light of reports, which indicated that the missing girls had been taken across the Nigerian border.

Pastor Bakare added: “I want to see the president of our country sending ambassadors of peace and war to Chad, to Cameroon, to Niger Republic, to say that this is the report we are hearing. Our borders are porous and now our children are abducted and we understand they are in your territory

What do you make of this,Good advice?

Jay Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Rihanna and Chris Brown are all being sued for alleged stealing of written songs.

Some of the music industry’s biggest names have been named in a more than $2 billion lawsuit!
Jay Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Rihanna and Chris Brown are all being sued by Richard Dupree, a prisoner in a California jail.

Dupree allegedly believes that the musician stole over 3000 songs he wrote while serving time. They reportedly spied on him via satellite. It is not clear which songs the prisoner is talking about.

U.S. Offers To Help Nigeria In Search For Abducted Students

By SaharaReporters

International focus remains on the fate of the abducted students still missing from a mass kidnapping at a state-run girls school in Northern Nigeria more than two weeks ago. Now, the Americans have offered to lend their assistance to Nigerian military forces in their own continued search.

The abduction took place on the night of April 15th when convoys of heavily armed troops, many wearing unmarked green colored military fatigues stormed the dormitories of the secondary school in Chibok, Borno State.

Developments since then have been murky, from the actual number of students taken at gunpoint, to claims by the Nigerian military of firefights of engaging the militants with claims of rescuing the more than 200 students. Those claims by the Nigerian forces were later recanted. About 40 of the students escaped with the remainder missing.

"We have been engaged with the Nigerian government in discussions on what we might do to help support their efforts to find and free these young women," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a daily briefing in Washington. "We will continue to have those discussions and help in any way we can."

It is unclear as to what the Americans may be offering in terms of assistance. In the circles of Washington politics it is also unclear if statements from one source will push one agency, or government body, to act.

Chibok Schoolgirls: Nigeria Police, SSS Say At Least 276 Still Missing -PREMIUM TIMES

By Ola' Audu

The Police and officials of the Department of State Security, otherwise called SSS, in Borno on Thursday came out with an increased fresh figures on the missing secondary school girls.

The security agencies said the total number of girls abducted and still unaccounted for stands at 276 as against the 234 figure being mentioned.
They said they have compiled an official list of kidnapped students, which is more authentic than that announced by the school management.
Parents of the abducted girls had last week told Borno Governor Kashim Shettima that 234 of their daughters had been discovered missing after they had all registered complaints with the school management.

The school principal had, however, told journalists during the governor’s visit to Chibok that 230 students were still missing with 43 accounted for. Most of those 43 escaped from their abductors, the principal had said.
The police and the SSS, however, addressed a joint press conference on Thursday at the headquarters of the Borno State Police Command.
The state police commissioner, Tanko Lawan, who also said 53 of the girls had escaped so far, explained that their figures were more reliable because they were carefully collated from various members of Chibok community and those in surrounding villages who confirmed not having their daughters back home since after the attack, even though he said the figures could even be more.

“It is really difficult to say the actual number of girls that were abducted. This is because, students from other secondary schools within the catchment area were deployed to GGSS Chibok to write their final year examinations due to the peculiar security challenges in Borno State,” the police boss said.
“The students were drawn from schools in Izge, Lassa, Ashigashiya and Warabe A. and that is why after the unfortunate incident, there were various flying numbers as to the actual number of girls that were taken away.

“The fact is that the number may likely change, especially when parents from some of the villages come forth and report the disappearance of their daughters. Most importantly, it is not the number that matters because all the girls are very important and we have to find them.
”There is serious collaboration between various security agencies at all levels towards rescuing the girls,” Mr. Lawan said.

He, therefore, called on parents and community leaders to submit names and identities of their missing daughters”.
The security agencies said efforts are being made to free the girls, even as they provided special telephone numbers “so that parents and well meaning Nigerians can call and give useful information that will lead to the rescue of the girls.”

He provided the numbers as+2348075897377; +23481777309; and
+2348036121490.

There has been widespread outrage since the kidnap of the girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14 by suspected members of the Boko Haram.

Protests have been held across the country to demand the release of the girls.

Chibok Abduction: Nigeria Military Surrenders Information Management to Borno State Government

By SaharaReporters, New York

Nigeria’s federal authorities on Monday surrendered to the government of Borno State its information responsibilities concerning the abducted Chibok girls.

In a curious statement, Defence Headquarters spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade, who famously made the false announcement two weeks ago that the girls had been rescued, and then rescinded it, said the Borno government “in whose facility the incident occurred” would now provide the public with regular briefing on the matter.

“Accordingly, security agencies on ground in Borno State will continue to interact and support the State Government officials in their efforts to inform the public on the Chibok incident and progress in the search without any prejudice,” he said. “The Nigerian Military has always subscribed to the importance of information flow to the public and will continue to sustain this policy in all its internal security operations.”

Borno and two other states have been under emergency rule in the past year, presumably swamped by federal security agencies, and the DHQ statement seemed to stand Nigeria’s constitutional structure on its head. “The security forces on ground in the state have been directed to coordinate with the State Government and provide them with necessary information on the search for the girls,” the statement said.

It is unclear how federal authorities will handle the supposed search for the girls, while the state government will brief the public about their progress, if any.



Full text of the statement:

Nigerian Pleads Guilty To Terror Charge In US Court - PM News, Lagos

By PM News, Lagos

A Nigerian has pleaded guilty in New York to charges he took part in a Yemen-based al-Qaida faction’s efforts to spread propaganda intended to encourage terror attacks.
Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi entered the plea on Tuesday to charges of providing material support to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. He faces up to 30 years in prison at his August sentencing in federal court in Brooklyn.
The 33-year-old Babafemi was extradited last year from Nigeria. U.S. prosecutors say he traveled to Yemen in 2010 to help the al-Qaida group recruit English speakers for its media operations.

The operations included publication of an online magazine for aspiring terrorists. The magazine has published recipes for homemade bombs and suggested targets in the United States and elsewhere.

The plea came ahead of a July 14 trial date.
Prosecutors said that, from January 2010 to August 2011, Babafemi traveled from Nigeria to Yemen twice to meet with leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP.
“The defendant traveled to Yemen to put himself at the disposal of a violent terrorist organization that has repeatedly demonstrated its determination to inflict bodily and economic harm on the United States and its citizens,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

The U.S. government said Babafemi worked on AQAP’s media operations, including the publication of its magazine, called “Inspire.”
The group’s leadership, including Anwar al-Awlaki, paid Babafemi almost $9,000 to recruit English-speaking people from Nigeria, prosecutors said. Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

An indictment unsealed in February 2013 charged Babafemi, also known as “Ayatollah Mustapha,” with four counts including conspiracy to provide material support to AQAP, and use of firearms.
U.S. District Judge John Gleeson scheduled sentencing for August 27. Babafemi faces a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Breaking News: President Jonathan Kick-off 2015 Re-Election Campaign In Defiance Of INEC's Embargo when 223 innocents student are kidnapped by Terrorist

In what could be described as the gross violation of the electoral law, President Goodluck Jonathan today kicked off his re-election campaign ahead of 2015 general elections under the guise of “peace rally” organized by the “Goodluck Initiative for Transformation” in Abuja.

The rented crowd gathered at the unity Fountain near Transcorp Hilton Hotel with campaign posters and banners of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The procession of the rally that passed through Federal Secretariat with tight security provided by the Nigeria Police, ironically, the protester enjoyed full police protection at the same spot where the protest striking Polytechnic lecturers was disrupted on Tuesday with tears gas and water cannons by the police.

During yesterday’s pro-Jonathan rally, the Nigerian police pretended as if nothing happen while the protesters have a free day causing heavy traffic jam in the city without hindrance.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned all political parties and aspirants against early campaigns ahead of 2015 general election.

What do you make of this or What do u call this Nigerians? more pictures here