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The Commissioner of Police in the state, Alhaji Lawan Tanko, told newsmen in Maiduguri that the story was not true

Clad in military uniforms, the attackers raided Koronginim in a convoy of sport utility and military vehicles, the witness told Reuters by telephone, asking not to be identified

Olukolade therefore appealed to media practitioners and the public at large to exercise restraint in the way they speculate and analyse the position of the girls

This was contained in a statement by the spokesman of the committee, Kingsley Osadolor, on Wednesday after closed door meetings between the committee and some heads of security agencies

In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday after an emergency meeting to deliberate on the Boko Haram issue, the party also described as utterly barbaric the action of the girls’ abductors in forcing them to make statements against their personal convictions

If the Senate approves President Jonathan’s request, it would be the second extension of the emergency rule in the three states

The governor made the announcement while addressing members of the Kibaku Area Development Association, Chibok, who were protesting the ab

The prayer summit, which was organised by the wife of the Delta State Governor, Deaconess Roli Uduaghan, was premised on the nation’s peace and security as well as the release of the missing girls

The US offer to help locate and free the girls was made on Tuesday to President Goodluck Jonathan by Obama through the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry

A statement from the committee’s spokesperson, Kingsley Osadolor, said the meeting was held shortly after its inauguration by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja

It also quoted Hague as saying that UK had set up the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and a global summit on the issue would hold in London next month

“Make no mistake about it, there is nothing wrong in the First Lady, as a woman and the mother of the nation, playing a role in resolving the unfortunate abduction of the girls, but that role must be within the realms of social activism, not in policy making or conduct of
state affairs,” the APC said in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed

The statement said that the governor’s wife was represented at the meeting to enable her prepare for a scheduled visit to Chibok on Monday to meet with parents of the abducted girls and give them moral support

Abubakar Shekau for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, in a video reviewed by The Associated Press

CAN, according to a statement sent to some media houses, said most of the abducted girls are Christians as Chibok Local Government Area is made up of mainly Christians

Rev. Fr. Azige Alfred, the Assistant Parish Priest of the church, said during his sermon that the prayer became imperative to seek God’s intervention

In a statement in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said the fact that the dead-enders can bomb the same area twice in as many weeks has given a fillip to the widening call on President Goodluck Jonathan to provide the much-needed leadership instead of shifting blames

The list, released by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, also included representatives of the National Council of Women Societies and those of security agencies

The President announced the decision during a marathon emergency national security meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

He said: “We want to appeal to parents of the abducted girls to please come forward with the names and photographs of their wards, so we can come up with a tentative figure of those missing