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The only common features describing Owere is the abundance of Hotel. Jeez if that is the yardstick used to compare PHC and an Ashawo city then sorry for you guys. I ve not been to Owerri but I know PHC very well and I have to say PHC is really beautiful.

Just remember a thrend

ALL TRIBES CONTRIBUTED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS COUNTRY.

I wonder the kind of insult this lady would have received if she was a Muslim from the north.

The story is true I read it on daily trust and it even included a picture of the couples. really strange no injury just the two of them lying dead in a car

Why European women are turning
to Islam
By Peter Ford, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor /
December 27, 2005
PARIS
Mary Fallot looks as unlike a terrorist suspect as one could
possibly imagine: a petite and demure white Frenchwoman
chatting with friends on a cell-phone, indistinguishable from
any other young woman in the café where she sits sipping
coffee.
And that is exactly why European antiterrorist authorities
have their eyes on thousands like her across the continent.
Ms. Fallot is a recent convert to Islam. In the eyes of the
police, that makes her potentially dangerous.
The death of Muriel Degauque, a Belgian convert who blew
herself up in a suicide attack on US troops in Iraq last
month, has drawn fresh attention to the rising number of
Islamic converts in Europe, most of them women.
"The phenomenon is booming, and it worries us," the head
of the French domestic intelligence agency, Pascal Mailhos,
told the Paris-based newspaper Le Monde in a recent
interview. "But we must absolutely avoid lumping everyone
together."
The difficulty, security experts explain, is that while the
police may be alert to possible threats from young men of
Middle Eastern origin, they are more relaxed about white
European women. Terrorists can use converts who "have
added operational benefits in very tight security situations"
where they might not attract attention, says Magnus
Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the Swedish National
Defense College in Stockholm.
Ms. Fallot, who converted to Islam three years ago after
asking herself spiritual questions to which she found no
answers in her childhood Catholicism, says she finds the
suspicion her new religion attracts "wounding." "For me,"
she adds, "Islam is a message of love, of tolerance and
peace."
It is a message that appeals to more and more Europeans as
curiosity about Islam has grown since 9/11, say both
Muslim and non-Muslim researchers. Although there are no
precise figures, observers who monitor Europe's Muslim
population estimate that several thousand men and women
convert each year.
Only a fraction of converts are attracted to radical strands of
Islam, they point out, and even fewer are drawn into
violence. A handful have been convicted of terrorist
offenses, such as Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber" and
American John Walker Lindh, who was captured in
Afghanistan.
Admittedly patchy research suggests that more women than
men convert, experts say, but that - contrary to popular
perception - only a minority do so in order to marry Muslim
men. "That used to be the most common way, but recently more
[women] are coming out of conviction," says Haifa Jawad,
who teaches at Birmingham University in Britain. Though
non-Muslim men must convert in order to marry a Muslim
woman, she points out, the opposite is not true.
Fallot laughs when she is asked whether her love life had
anything to do with her decision. "When I told my
colleagues at work that I had converted, their first reaction
was to ask whether I had a Muslim boyfriend," she recalls.
"They couldn't believe I had done it of my own free will."
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It was not a bomb blast but a gun battle at rijiyar zaki police station. one police man confirm dead, two others wounded.

* Imo state governor Rochas refused to accept a young ASP from Imo state as his ADC. Instead he picked a northerner Idoma man for the job.
* The current ADC to Anambra State governor is from Kano State.
* Orji Kalu ADC for 8 years was DSP Haliiru Aliyu from Kastina state.
* Ebonyi state ADC is from Taraba state.
* Akwa Ibom state ADC is a Hausa man from Bauchi state.
* Edo current governor drove his ADC one DSP Oyis a native of Edo for a northerner from KOGI
* The new governor of Bayelsa started with a Hausa man DSP Abdulkarim before pressure made him opted for a SS
Imo, Rivers and other state government house in the SS /SE are guarded by only MOPOL Squadron from the north. Even at that, private residential quarters and private own companies also prefer northern MOPOL or army to guard them.
In a post in nairaland someone described the SS / SE as a jungle of mistrust. I paused to ask my self why do SS and SE entrust there security to a tribe they despise so much? is it because they don't trust each other?

This man is indeed clueless.

This has been the rash in recent months. Anytime an
issue emerges, the President rather than rely on
constitutional structures to achieve results will rush
to mushroom committees and the reports of these
committees have also been piling with the
government showing no interest in implementing
their recommendations. That the President has
chosen to rely on extra constitutional bodies is an
indication of lack of confidence in the civil servants
yet no one in the civil service has had to pay for their
inability to produce results if that is the reason the
President does not have confidence in the civil
servants. This leaves us with a reasonable suspicion
that these committees are not set up to achieve
anything after all; they are only conduits to siphon
money into the pockets of those the administration
wants to settle.
When the President arrived the African Union
meeting in Addis Ababa last month with thirty aides
and his wife with forty two aides and the media
reported the news, his information managers cried
wolf accusing the media of mischief. But our thinking
has been that a few weeks after the President
promised in a national broadcast to curb waste in
government, sincere efforts where going to be put in
to achieve that aim but from all indications, there is
no sign that this President can prevent Nigeria from
her procession to Golgotha.
God bless our country!
Agba Jalingo.
Journalist/Activist
Managing Partner, GiantConcept Media consult
3 Ifesowapo St., Ogudu Orioke, Lagos.

Take a look at some of the committees; Presidential
Advisory Committee (PAC) headed by Gen. T.Y.
Danjuma Rtd., Presidential Committee on
Expenditure Review headed by Prof. Anya O. Anya,
Presidential Projects Assessment Committee headed
by Alh. Ibrahim Bunu, Presidential Taskforce on
Power headed by Prof. Barth Nnaji who doubles as
the power minister, Presidential Committee on
Security Challenges headed by Alh. Usman Galtimari,
Presidential Committee for Review of reports on
ethno-religious crises in Plateau State headed by
Chief Solomon Lar, Presidential Committee on Post
Election Violence headed by the former Grand Khadi
of Niger State, Sheikh Ahmed Lemu.
Others are Presidential Committee on Review of
Outstanding Constitutional Issues headed by Justice
Alfa Belgore rtd, Presidential Committee on NDDC
headed by Chief Isaac Jemide, Presidential Taskforce
for Passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)
headed by Senator Udo Udoma, Presidential Special
Committee on the reorganization of the Police
headed by Parry Osayande, Presidential Committee
to negotiate with Labour on Fuel Subsidy headed by
Justice Alfa Belgore rtd, again, Petroleum Revenue
Special Task Force headed by Nuhu Ribadu, National
Refineries Special Task Force headed by former
Finance Minister Kalu Idika Kalu.

Senator Ben Obi, Special Adviser to the President on
Inter-Party Affairs. There is absolutely no reason to
appoint a special adviser for just this function, when
there is Ahmed Gulak, Political Adviser to the
President just as the designation of Dr Mariam Ali,
Special Adviser to the President on Inter-
governmental Affairs.
Perhaps the most curious is the Special Adviser (New
Media), Reno Omokri. In clear terms, he is special
adviser on Twitter and Facebook matters! This is
aside the fact that there is a Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity. Strangely, the
‘Twitter and Facebook Special Adviser’ is not attached
to the office of the Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity but to the Special Adviser, Research and
Strategy.
By the way, these special advisers would ordinarily
have their own personal assistants and their personal
assistants will have their own P.A.s and so on and so
forth.
Beyond these bizarre appointments also is the waste
of money in servicing committees and task forces
which are fast becoming mere “job for the boys”. The
Jonathan government continues to diminish the place
of the federal civil service and associated executive
organs in the functioning of government but
continues to mushroom a legion of committees, task
forces and panels to assume sundry responsibilities
at the centre. These mounting layers of bureaucracy
and its cost implication are a major source of
concern just as the non-implementation of
committee reports submitted in recent times and it
calls to question the commitment and sincerity of the
“Jona-our-Son” government.

Mrs. Sarah Akuben Pane, Special Adviser to the
President on Social Development. One is too
stumped to even comment on this. Mrs. Sarah Jibril,
Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values.
What a joke! Who even monitors what, if any, work
some of these appointees have been carrying out?
Kingsley Kuku, Special Adviser to the President on
Niger Delta Affairs. What would the minister and the
minister of state for the Niger Delta ministry be doing
and what about the head of the Niger Delta
Development Commission?
Prof. Dan Adebiyi, Special Adviser to the President on
Special Duties and Senator Isaiah Ballat, Special
Adviser to the President on Special Duties (Office of
the Vice-President). Could someone please unpack
this designation for us? Same request suffices for Nze
Sullivan Akachukwu Nwakpo, Special Adviser to the
President on Technical Matters and for Mrs. Asma’u
Abdulkadir, Special Adviser to the President on
Gender Issues. What on earth amounts to ‘Technical
Matters’?
And there are also Yakubu Abdullahi, Special Adviser
to the President on Political Matters (Office of the
Vice President); Mr. Bashir Sufyan, Special Adviser to
the President on Legal Matters (Office of the Vice-
President).
Professor Nwanze Okidegbe, Economic Adviser to the
President. What economic advice would this officer
give the President that the National Economic
Management Team members including the Minister
of Finance and the Minister of National Planning
cannot?

GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR
President Goodluck Jonathan in June 2011 sought
and obtained the approval of the Senate to appoint
20 advisers to assist him in running his government.
However, the President has, in apparent breach of
the number of aides approved for him, gone ahead
to appoint at least 24 advisers as at the last count.
Beyond exceeding the number, the designations of
the appointees also raise serious questions as to the
necessity of the appointments. Let’s consider a few.
Dr. Tunji Olagunju, Special Adviser to the President
on NEPAD and Dr. Pius Olakunle Osunyikanmi,
Special Adviser to the President on International
Relations. Apparently, these two offices could have
been handled by a single person. Besides, why do we
have to appoint a special adviser to the President on
these when there is a Ministry of Foreign Affairs with
more than one minister, permanent secretary,
directors and possibly a department in charge of
NEPAD?
Mr. Oronto Douglas, Special Adviser to the President
on Research and Strategy. Sentiments aside, what
exactly is the role of this office and couldn’t it have
been carried out by a permanent employee in the
Presidency?
Prof. Abubakar Sambo, Special Adviser to the
President on Energy. Really? What distinctive ‘special
advice’ is the President expecting from the
incumbent here that the ministers for petroleum,
energy and power cannot give?

Even in nairaland they are avoiding it.

where in the article did they mentioned BH

Check the source then you will discredit the news

Malaysians are targeting Igbo

Aren't Fulanis suppose to be in the bush. A Fulani man in a polish apartment!!! This is weird. Prove that you are not the dude in that video

@poster 150,000 barrels of crude are stolen daily. This is estimated to cost the nation N2.6 billion every day. Who are stealing these barrels ?

This is however not the first time Christians has been
implicated in attack on Churches and Christians. It will be
recalled that a Christian, Wisdom Kings, dressed in Muslim
attire, was arrested attempting to set fire to a church in
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Also, in Adamawa Yola, weeks ago, three people were killed
in a Church and Muslims were accused as usual. But Police
investigations point to a family feud between a Christian
family.
Last year a Christian woman went to her own parish church
in Bauchi and tried to set it ablaze. In Plateau State, a man
purported to be a Christian was arrested while trying to
bomb a church. Armed men gunned down a group of
Christians meeting in a Church and now it turned out that
those who have been arrested and are under interrogation
are in fact not Muslims and that the story is more of an
internal crisis.
As usual and as expected, the media is playing down the
Bauchi incident because it does not fit into their propaganda
against Muslims and the religion of Islam. “Christians cannot
be terrorist, terrorism is a Muslim thing” while all facts
points to the opposite. Vanguard and other mainstream
media in the country are reporting the incident as a rivalry
between church members.
Since when did Church members start using explosives to
settle dispute? Can we be right to assume that Mandala
Christmas day bombing and other attack on Churches,
including that in Jos, were also done by rivalry within the
Christian community?
For more on Nigeria Media Bias see: The Sun Phenomenal
Bias in Reporting the Jos Crisis and Boko Haram, the Media
and the Threatened Imminent Genocide of Niger Delta
Muslims by Christian Terrorists
As the ‘nigeria wonder’ continues, Vanguard reports that
Boko Haram has already claimed responsibility of the Jos
bombings. Boko Haram allege spokesman, Abul Qaqa, who
is in SSS custody claimed responsibility on behalf of the
group:
“We carried out the attack on COCIN church in Jos
today and we did what we did as part of our resolve to
avenge the killings and dehumanisation of Muslims in
Jos in the last 10 years.”
How did Abul Qaqa verify that truly it was his group that
was responsible? I am sure that if the Christian bombers had
succeeded in Bauchi, he would have claimed responsibility
for that also. Is it not obvious that Boko Haram leadership
has no means of verifying the acts of all its members. Boko
Haram may in fact not be responsible for some of the
attacks that they claim responsibility to.

Muslim terrorists + Christian terrorists + Bank robbers + Contract Killers + Market Thieves = Boko Haram

This is not Nigeria police, from the badge the looks more of a Kenya police officer.

True facts but with lots of exaggeration

Why is this not in the front page.

By SaharaReporters, New York
Nine bombers, believed to be christians, were
apprehended this morning when they attempted to
bomb a COCIN church at Miya Barkate, 20 kilometres
along Jos-Bauchi Highway in Bauchi State.
The suspected bombers are Lamba Goma, Filibus
Danasa, Joshua Ali, Danjuma Sabo, Joseph Audu, Simon
Gabriel, Bulus Haruna, Yohanna Ishaya and Daniel
Ayuba (who was the immediate past Secretary of PDP at
Tilden Fulani Ward, Toro LGA, Bauchi State).
The suspects are members of the same COCIN church,
Unguwar Rimi, a new and small Christian settlement
between Tilden Fulani and Shere Hills. The suspects
who were thoroughly beaten by the public were
rescued by police and then detained at the Toro
Divisional Police Division before they were transferred
to Bauchi State Police Command, Bauchi.
At about the same time this morning in the
Neighbouring Plateau State, a bomb explosion was
reported at the headquarters of the same COCIN
church during a Sunday service. The number of
casualties are not certain. The pastor of the targeted
COCIN Church in Bauchi is Ishaya Izam, who recently
arrived on posting from the Cocin headquarters in Jos,
which was bombed this morning.
It is not clear if the two bombings are related. A
statement on the event in Bauchi state is yet to be
issued by the Police.
Spokesperson of the Bauchi State command of the
police, Hassan Mohammed, confirmed the incident but
said he would only provide details later.
"The suspects are in the police headquarters but we
give full details after investigators have ascertained the
full situationcould not be reached for comments," Mr.
Mohammed said.

Even the jos blast I smell foul play