The protesting women, under auspices of CADA Women, said they have been in pains since abduction of the girls two weeks ago
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This information filtered in just as the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, urged the Federal Government not to have any sacred cow in the fight against terrorism
Sambo, who said the government was particularly proud of the security agencies commitment to ending insurgency in the country, promised that the Federal Government was not resting on its oars as it was doing everything possible, including cooperating with neighbouring countries to check Boko Haram activities with the aim of putting a stop to it
Speaking at the Fourth Annual Presidential Breakfast Prayer at the State House Banquet Hall, Jonathan said the meeting was held principally to pray for the victims of the numerous Boko Haram attacks across the country
This was contained in a statement by Major General Chris Olukolade, the Director of Defence Information in Abuja on Friday, which also said that four soldiers died during the confrontation
According to Manko, some hoodlums attempted to highjack trucks loaded with wheat, leading to fracas, which attracted police attention and intervention
“We are going to survive and rebuild our lives because truth will always triumph over falsehood
Parents told the governor that officials would not listen to them when they drew up their list of names of missing children and the total reached 234
The President stated this when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and Senator Philip Aduda (PDP-FCT), led some residents to pay him a Easter homage at the Presidential Villa
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Governor Nyako claims that President Goodluck Jonathan is from the Eastern region which according to him was responsible for the killing of Northern political elites on the 15th of January 1966! This is a very disgraceful remark by the governor and a pathetic embarrassment to the Nigerian Military from where Nyako derives his career antecedents.
The Islamist militant group — who name means “Western education is sin” in the local Hausa language — has bombed schools, churches and mosques; kidnapped women and children; and assassinated politicians and religious leaders alike
“Meanwhile, with this development, we have 44 out of our 129 students at the hostel on the day of attack on the school
He said the widely publicized and very serious allegations made against him by the PDP and its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, to the effect that his utterances were responsible for the current state of insecurity and terrorism bedeviling Nigeria, were absolutely without basis
Jonathan called the meeting in response to the growing insecurity in the country
It said the President’s quick return to the hustings was reprehensible and has shown that his visit to the scene of the blast was merely to avoid the kind of flak he has received for refusing to visit Yobe State where 43 school children were massacred recently, rather than a genuine show of sympathy by a truly compassionate leader
The statement said; “Government must act decisively irrespective of whose ox is gored and protect the ordinary people of Nigeria”.
“The interest of the generality of Nigerians is over and above the interest of a few power hungry people who are sponsoring terrorism”
In a statement on Monday in Lagos, by Olusegun Dada and Brimah Mohammed, Interim Chairman and Secretary respectively, the group condemned in very strong terms the terrorists who carried out the heinous act and the federal government under whose watch thousands have been murdered in recent weeks
Parents told the BBC’s Hausa service that at least 200 girls had been abducted. The attackers are thought to be from the Islamist group, Boko Haram
The TUC President and Secretary, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama and Comrade Musa Lawal respectively, in a statement said, “It is unfortunate that this incident happened at all, worse still that it happened while the nation was still trying to come to terms with the reported killing of over 210 other people in Gwoza, Dikwa, Kala Balge, and Gambulga towns last Friday and Saturday, and another 60 in Kaigamari and Ngoshe villages, all in Borno State