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Nigeria bombings: Boko Haram
claims responsibility
Zeenews Bureau
Maiduguri: A radical Islamist sect on Monday
claimed responsibility for suicide bomb
attacks that left at least 36 people dead in
northern Nigeria on Sunday.
The group, known as Boko Haram, made the
announcement in an e-mail statement
received by a news agency on Monday.
Kaduna state authorities have imposed a
24-hour curfew as soldiers and police make
efforts to restore order.
Suicide bombers targeted four churches in a
series of attacks that also prompted reprisal
attacks by Christian youth against local
Muslims. In all, two churches were attacked
in Kaduna city while another two were
bombed in a nearby Zaria city.
In Zaria town, two churches were bombed
as a bomber drove into Christ the King
Catholic Church (CKC), Sabon Gari, and a
similar attack took place at the Evangelical
Church Winning All (ECWA), Wusasa.
Red Cross officials in the city said in a
church located in Zaria town, most of those
killed or wounded were children.
Kaduna state has previously seen attacks by
Boko Haram.
Last Sunday also, the group attacked two
church services, sparking violence which
killed seven people. Hundreds have died in
its previous attacks on churches.
Boko Haram says it wants Islamic sharia law
in place across Nigeria and analysts suggest
it is trying to trigger clashes between
Christians and Muslims.
A country of 150 million people, Nigeria's
population is equally divided between
Christians and Muslims.

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By Ibrahim Shuaibu Kano State Police Command on Monday arrested one Augustine Effiong, 25, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, who is popularly known as Abubakar Garba, as one of the suspects behind last month’s attack on the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) attack. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris said in a press statement made available to reporters on Monday that, Effiong had confessed to be one of those behind the attack on Christian worshipers at BUK. The Commissioner said during the preliminary investigation, the suspect, a resident of Bulunkutu Abuja Quarters in Maiduguri admitted to have relocated to Kano State last April. He also confessed to have participated in a series of attacks, which claimed the lives of both police and military personnel in the state in the wake of attacks launched on Kano early this year. The suspect was born and brought up in Maiduguri before he later converted to Islam and has been transferred to Abuja for further investigations, according to the police. The command said, Effiong was arrested following an attempt to murder a civilian at Danlasan Village in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State.

Workers’ Day: MTN staff protest
suspension of colleagues
Tweet Tweet 28
May 1, 2012 | 3:02 pm
News
Staff of the Jos Call Centre of MTN, a
telecommunications operator, on
Tuesday took to the streets to protest
the suspension of 10 of their members.
The staff, clad in MTN Yellow T-Shirts,
claimed that their colleagues were
suspended by CNSSL, the consultant
outfit managing the centre for the
telecommunications company.
They took over some major streets in
the city, chanting solidarity songs while
asking the company management
to reinstate the affected staff.
The protesting staff said those
suspended are six union executive
committee members and four others.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the staff carried placards,
some of which read “Say `No’ to slave
wage, MTN and CNSSL are partners in
crime, Nigerians are slaves to South
Africans, what a pity, and Enough is
enough, no more slavery”.
The aggrieved staff were, however,
orderly and peaceful as they were
surrounded by some policemen and
men of the security Special Task Force.
NAN gathered that this was ostensibly to
avoid any breakdown of law and order.
It would be recalled that the Call Centre
staff were allowed to form a union after
the centre was picketed on March 14,
2012 by NLC over alleged poor
conditions of service.
In the Memorandum of Understanding
signed then by the NLC and the CNSSL
management, the latter had permitted
the workers to join unions of their
choice.
Immediately after this, an interim
executive committee was installed.
Paul Afolabi, the acting Chairman of the
Call Centre’s branch of the National Union
of Telecommunications
Employees, claimed that the affected
staff had done nothing wrong
to warrant any suspension.
Afolabi told NAN in an interview that
CNSSL management and NLC agreed then
that nobody would be victimised, thus
leading to the opportunity to form
unions.
He wondered why the formation of the
union should be a worry to the
company.
“This is a ploy to divert attention from
the issues on ground. We will not be
deterred until they improve our
conditions of service.
“The difference between what we take
in Jos here and those of other call
centres in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna is
just too much,” the union official said.
He said, as a way of pressing home their
demands, the staff would not honour
the slated meeting with the
management on May 3, 2012 unless the
workers were recalled. “The
management must recall our suspended
members before negotiations will
continue,” he vowed.
Efforts to speak with Jibrin Bancir, the
Plateau NLC Chairman, proved abortive
as calls to his mobile phone lines were
not going through.
The management of the centre, on its
part, refused to talk to NAN on the
matter after several efforts.(NAN)

Mtn Call Center Jos Closed Down By Nlc
MTN CALL CENTER IN JOS HAS BEEN CLOSED
DOWN BY NLC THIS MORNING DUE TO POOR
WORKING CONDITIONS AND WAGE DIPARITY
TO THEIR WORKERS; CALL CENTER
AGENT ARE BEING PAID 35000 IN JOS, WHILE
THOSE IN OTHER STATES PERFORMING SAME
FUNCTIONS ARE PAID 120,000 WITH SAME
QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING AND
FUNCTIONS, SO IF U DIALL 180 AND IT
TAKES A HELL B4 UR ATTENDED TO....DONT
BE SUPRISED

MTN CALL CENTER IN JOS HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN BY NLC THIS MORNING DUE TO POOR WORKING CONDITIONS AND WAGE DIPARITY TO THEIR WORKERS; IMMAGINE CALL CENTER AGENT BEING PAID 35000 IN JOS, WHILE THOSE IN OTHER STATES PERFORMING SAME FUNCTIONS ARE PAID 120,000 WITH SAME QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING AND FUNCTIONS, SO IF U DIALL 180 AND IT TAKES A HELL B4 UR ATTENDED TO....DONT BE SUPRISED

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Jokolo’s bombshell: North should forget
2015 Presidency
...Says IBB, Gusau, Atiku, Buhari, govs
failed the North
From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna
Thursday, March 22, 2012
From an uncommon quarter came a
warning yesterday to the northern political
elites already jostling for political power in
2015. Deposed Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Al-
Mustapha Jokolo, said they should tarry a
while and give the South-South another
four-year term beginning from 2015.
Jokolo, who was deposed about seven
years ago in a controversial circumstance
and still fighting his deposition in court, told
Daily Sun in an exclusive interview in Birnin
Kebbi, Kebbi State capital, on Tuesday, that
the North should forget the Presidency for
another eight years.
He insisted that the North should only
return to power at the federal level, after
the Igbos too must have produced the
President for one term of four years,
beginning from 2019.
All these, according to him, are his own
panacea for restoration of peace to the
country, and to further strengthen the
country’s claim of oneness without
discriminating against any section or ethnic
group.
This is even as he accused the likes of
former military president Ibrahim
Babangida (IBB), ex-vice president Atiku
Abubakar, former Head of State Muhammed
Buhari, former National Security Adviser
(NSA) Aliyu Gusau, including all the northern
governors, of being responsible for the
spate of insecurity in the region, saying, if
they had played their parts well as leaders
in their respective times, the situation
would certainly have been different.
He said: “The situation whereby all these
leaders, who created these problems will
now sit down and claim they want to find
solution to the problems they created will
no longer be acceptable to us. They should
just bury their heads in shame, and allow
the younger generations in the north, to
take the driver’s seat.”
He also spoke on the recent defection of
former governor of Kebbi State, Senator
Mohammed Adamu Aliero, from the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), back
to the PDP, saying that “it is our turn to
laugh at him, and to laugh at Buhari, who
handed over the party’s platform to him in
the state, after what he did to him in the
ANPP. We warned Buhari but he wouldn’t
listen,” Jokolo added.
Below are the excerpts of the interview:
What is your take on the recent defection
of Aliero from the CPC, back to the PDP?
Why don’t you just leave me out of these
political talks. You know I am not a
politician. Please, let me be.
But you are a major stakeholder in Kebbi
State; as such, you should be concerned
about what happens there.
Okay, will you have the courage to publish
whatever I would say?
Why not, go ahead, so long as they are not
libellous.
(General laughter) You see, Aliero is a serial
political betrayer. There is nobody that has
associated with him that he has not
betrayed. You know he was in ANPP, on
which platform he won election to be
governor of Kebbi State in 1999. But this
man was one of Obasanjo’s agents in the
ANPP. He was one of those who betrayed
Buhari in 2003.
Now, as we were approaching the 2007
elections, he had concluded plans to move
to the PDP, so as to cover his tracks. But he
was still attending ANPP meetings, just to
jeopardise the party’s chances of making
any impact in Kebbi, since he was moving
out of the party.
He brought Saidu Dakingari with the hope
that he could remote-control him. When that
was not working, he connived with the
former First Lady, (name witheld by us) to
undo Dakingari. But Dakingari trusted in
God, and in the end, God delivered him from
their hands.
Through divine intervention, he got back
the party’s machinery in the state, and he
was nominated as the candidate for the
2011 governorship election. So, this was
what angered Aliero and he had to leave the
party for the CPC.
Now, after losing the election, he is coming
back to the PDP. To do what? I don’t know,
because Dakingari had won all his elections
before now without Aliero. It is absurd to
say that out of all the 36 states in the
country, only the governorship election in
Kebbi State was not free and fair.
Having said that, however, it is good that he
is returning to the PDP, after all the insults
he had poured on the governor and the
government. We will now wait to hear what
he would be saying next. But his returning
to the PDP will give us opportunity to laugh
at him, and to also laugh at Buhari, because
we warned him about Aliero, but he would
not listen. Now he has abandoned him
again. It is our turn to laugh at him, and
laugh at Buhari, who handed over the
party’s platform to him in the state after
what he did to him in the ANPP. We warned
Buhari but he wouldn’t listen.
We also hear that his return may have
everything to do with positioning for 2015.
What do you think?
Well, I don’t deal with speculation. Once the
time comes and you are sure of your facts,
ask me for my comment then, I will tell you.
However, frankly speaking, I am aware
some of our northern governors, including
former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar are already jostling for
the Presidency, come 2015. And I ask
myself, what have they done for the North,
to justify their aspiration?
Look at Atiku, for the eight years he was
vice president, what did he do for the North
and Islam, apart from the expensive
university he built in Yola, which is not
within the reach of the poor in the state?
With what he is earning from all his
investments, tell me what he has done for
Islam and the North. Yet, these people will
want to lord it over us in the name of North
and Islam. I think they should just forget
about 2015.
Look at TY Danjuma, the man is assisting
Christianity with his wealth. He has
singlehandedly built infrastructures for
universities in the Middle Belt area. But what
do we have from our own leaders?
Nothing! They created Boko Haram and
other security challenges we have in the
north. Yet, the same people will now sit
down and say they want to find solution to
the problem. They should please give me a
break. They should quietly retire to their
homes and wait for their turn to die, and
allow the younger generations to take over
leadership in the region.
Since all these people; IBB, Gusau, Buhari,
Atiku, Ciroma, and others in their category,
have all failed us, they have nothing more
to offer. The likes of IBB, Atiku, Buhari,
Gusau, Ciroma, including all the governors,
are responsible for the spate of insecurity
in the North. If they had done the right
thing, as leaders during their time, the
situation we find ourselves today would
certainly have been different. The situation
whereby all these leaders, who created
these problems, will now sit down and claim
they want to find solution to the problems
they created will no longer be acceptable to
us.
They should just bury their heads in shame
and allow the younger generations in the
north to take the driver’s seat. Look, the
truth is that if Mohammed Yusuf, (late Boko
Haram leader) was not killed, all these
people, including the former governors of
some of the North-Eastern states, would
have been exposed, and Nigerians would
have had the opportunity of knowing the
role they played in the whole thing.
If I heard you correctly, you are saying the
north should forget about 2015
Presidency. Is that correct?
Look, not only 2015 but after 2015. They
should not think of producing the president
until after the South-East has produced the
president in 2019. The South-South
produces the oil for God’s sake. So, I am
strongly advocating that for peace to reign
in Nigeria, South-South must be given
another term of four years in 2015. It must
not necessarily be Jonathan, it can be
anybody, but the Presidency must remain in
the South-South by 2015.
The one year Jonathan spent before the
2011 election is part of Yar’Adua’s tenure,
so this is just the first term of the South-
South. The region should be given another
term of four years after Jonathan’s first
term. After that, the South-East should also
be given another four years after South-
South’s second term. It is after that that the
north can now have it. And even in the
north, it should go to the North-East,
because we in the North-West have
produced Nigeria’s president on too many
occasions. I am talking of both military and
civilian.
After North-East, it should go to the South-
West, for another four years, from where it
should come back to the North-Central, for
another four years, from where it should go
back to the South-East for another four
years, before returning to the North-West.
This is my own recipe for a lasting peace
and unity in the country. Since we are
talking about constitution review now, they
should find a way of inserting it in the
constitution, so that the Presidency would
go round and every section or region will
have a sense of belonging.
Are you sure northerners will not call for
your head with this position of yours?
I don’t give a damn! Those who want to call
for my head can as well go to hell. Don’t you
think we should be honest enough by
telling ourselves the truth? Tell me which
Sardauna’s legacy is still standing today?
Sardauna united the north but they have
succeeded in dividing the north. I am
prepared for whatever that will follow my
position on this Presidency matter.

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Vanguard
NLC seals MTN call centre in Jos for ‘shortchanging staff’ Tweet Tweet 28 March 14, 2012 | 1:00 pm News Jos – The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday sealed up the premises of the MTN Call Centre in Jos, citing the “undue exploitatiion and shortchanging of staff”. Mr Jibrin Bancir, Chairman, Plateau chapter of NLC, led the NLC team that sealed the call centre. Bancir said that the action became necessary because of the refusal of CNSSL, the company managing the MTN call centre, to meet an earlier agreement to review the working conditions. He said that the congress met with the company in December 2011, where both discussed the need to operate based on the MTN standards as obtained in other parts of the country. “MTN has standards. You cannot be paying somebody, who is doing the same job, for the same company, N120, 000 in Kaduna, Kano and Lagos, only to pay N37,000 to their counterparts in Jos. “When I got in touch with the Human Resources Manager of MTN, he said that it was the business of CNSSL to manage the centre. “That was after fruitless efforts to make CNSSL to review the workers’ service conditions. “Eventually, we gave the company a 14- day ultimatum, which expired Tuesday. Now, we are left with no option, but to seal up the centre,” he said. Bancir said that the centre would remain sealed until the company reviewed the conditions of service of the workers in Jos office to meet up with their counterparts in other parts of the country. Mr Adekoya Adeyemi, Head of Human Resources of CNSSL, however refused to comment on the development and said that “it is not time for interviews”. One of the staff, who gave his name simply as Ibrahim, also said that the exploitation had been on for a long time. “We have tried to discuss with management as gentle Nigerians so that we can resolve the matter amicably and maturedly, but that has not yielded any fruit. “How can you assemble graduates and be paying them peanuts? he querried rhetorically, and vowed that the staff would resist any attempt to continue to shortchange them. Other workers, who spoke on the development said when they were recruited, they were told that their salaries would be increased significantly from the initial N35,000 after two years in service. “But after two years in service, we recveived only N2,000. “Currently, our contemporaries in other places are paid between N100,000 and N120, 000,’’ one of them, who opted for anonymity, said. “We, in Jos, do the same job as those in Kano, Kaduna and Lagos; we do the same shift, we had the same training but they pay us about a third of what they pay in other states. “Here, they pay N37,000 a month but they claim that we are paid N120,000.” They also expressed anger that the local management deducted monies from their salaries for the rice given to them by MTN during Christmas. When contacted, Funmilayo Omogbenigun, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Corporate Services Division of the MTN said that MTN Nigeria’s local outsourcing model is unique in the telecommunications industry. “Our partner, who has no association whatsoever with MTN or its board, was selected through a rigorous bidding process which ensured that the winner had demonstrable abilities in call centre management. “We also insist that their policies are aligned to MTN’s best practice with respect to the ethical treatment of employees,’’ she explained. He said that MTN made sure that staff provided by its outsourced partners were remunerated in line with the current levels for their particular job profile and geographical area. “What the staff are paid is based on their location, which could be different from other places,” Omogbenigun said. (NAN)

NLC seals MTN call centre in Jos for
‘shortchanging staff’
Tweet Tweet 28
March 14, 2012 | 1:00 pm
News
Jos – The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)
on Wednesday sealed up the premises
of the MTN Call Centre in Jos, citing the
“undue exploitatiion and shortchanging
of staff”.
Mr Jibrin Bancir, Chairman, Plateau
chapter of NLC, led the NLC team that
sealed the call centre.
Bancir said that the action became
necessary because of the refusal of
CNSSL, the company managing the MTN
call centre, to meet an earlier agreement
to review the working conditions.
He said that the congress met with the
company in December 2011, where both
discussed the need to operate based on
the MTN standards as obtained in other
parts of the country.
“MTN has standards. You cannot be
paying somebody, who is doing the
same job, for the same company, N120,
000 in Kaduna, Kano and Lagos, only to
pay N37,000 to their counterparts in Jos.
“When I got in touch with the Human
Resources Manager of MTN, he said that
it was the business of CNSSL to manage
the centre.
“That was after fruitless efforts to make
CNSSL to review the workers’ service
conditions.
“Eventually, we gave the company a 14-
day ultimatum, which expired Tuesday.
Now, we are left with no option, but to
seal up the centre,” he said.
Bancir said that the centre would remain
sealed until the company reviewed the
conditions of service of the workers in
Jos office to meet up with their
counterparts in other parts of the
country.
Mr Adekoya Adeyemi, Head of Human
Resources of CNSSL, however refused to
comment on the development and said
that “it is not time for interviews”.
One of the staff, who gave his name
simply as Ibrahim, also said that the
exploitation had been on for a long time.
“We have tried to discuss with
management as gentle Nigerians so that
we can resolve the matter amicably and
maturedly, but that has not yielded any
fruit.
“How can you assemble graduates and
be paying them peanuts? he querried
rhetorically, and vowed that the staff
would resist any attempt to continue to
shortchange them.
Other workers, who spoke on the
development said when they were
recruited, they were told that their
salaries would be increased significantly
from the initial N35,000 after two years
in service.
“But after two years in service, we
recveived only N2,000.
“Currently, our contemporaries in other
places are paid between N100,000 and
N120, 000,’’ one of them, who opted for
anonymity, said.
“We, in Jos, do the same job as those in
Kano, Kaduna and Lagos; we do the
same shift, we had the same training but
they pay us about a third of what they
pay in other states.
“Here, they pay N37,000 a month but
they claim that we are paid N120,000.”
They also expressed anger that the local
management deducted monies from
their salaries for the rice given to them
by MTN during Christmas.
When contacted, Funmilayo
Omogbenigun, General Manager,
Corporate Affairs, Corporate Services
Division of the MTN said that MTN
Nigeria’s local outsourcing model is
unique in the telecommunications
industry.
“Our partner, who has no association
whatsoever with MTN or its board, was
selected through a rigorous bidding
process which ensured that the winner
had demonstrable abilities in call centre
management.
“We also insist that their policies are
aligned to MTN’s best practice with
respect to the ethical treatment of
employees,’’ she explained.
He said that MTN made sure that staff
provided by its outsourced partners
were remunerated in line with the
current levels for their particular job
profile and geographical area.
“What the staff are paid is based on
their location, which could be different
from other places,” Omogbenigun said.
(NAN)

Apart from the 35k Call center representative in Jos works with more strigent conditions in jos unlike other locations, like working almost 7days per week, working overnight 4 times in a month from 6pm to 7am picking calls with headset in their ears for long hours and attending to your problems when u diall 180 but u will neva know what der are going tru.

MTN Call center Jos, has been closed down by NLC due to poor salary being paid by CNSSL a company MTN contracted it to. Imagine a university graduate being paid 35k per month while same staff @ Lagos, Kaduna, and Kano are paid 3times more than that. God help us with greed in this country.

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Underwear bomber : Nigerians divided over Mutallab’s life jail verdict
On February 17, 2012 · In News Email0

By UDUMA KALU
In Decembr 25, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, became Nigeria’s first suicide bomber when he tried to blow a US-bound flight. The ignition system failed, and Mutallab was tackled by a fellow passenger and subdued until the flight landed.

Though Mutallab’s trial ended last Thursday with a life jail in prison without parole, more Nigerians have learnt to be like him. There are now many suicide bombers in the country, wreaking havoc and killing thousands in attempt imposing sharia in Nigeria.


Federal Courthouse in Detroit where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as the underwear bomber, pled guilty to all charges against him October 12, 2011 at the Federal Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan. Michigan. Abdulmutallab, a 24 year-old Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up Northwest 253 flight as it was landing in Detroit on Christmas day in 2009 is scheduled for sentencing in January 12, 2012. AFP

However, the verdict has also shown the division between North and South of Nigeria. A neighbour of the Abdulmutallab family in Kaduna, prominent rights activist Shehu Sani, said a lighter sentence would give Umar Farouk a deserved chance to rehabilitate. The blame should lie with the terrorists who took advantage of the model student, as he was too young to know better, he said.

Some in the Muslim north think the whole case is a US conspiracy. There is far less sympathy for him in the Christian south. Matthew, a banker, said that a death sentence would be justified. Having harmed Nigeria’s image, as Boko Haram is doing now, Matthew said the 25-year-old does not deserve a second chance.

However, Mutallab’s trial revealed the lie that poverty fuels Boko Haram or any of the Islamic fundamentalism in Nigeria. In fact, some of the known leaders of Islamic terrorists came from wealthy backgrounds. When Mutallab, pleaded guilty to attempting to blow up a commercial plane as a would-be suicide mission for al-Qaeda, his family quickly called on the US government to review the sentence.

“This was an act of terrorism that cannot be quibbled with,” Judge Edmunds said, as she imposed the maximum sentence.

In statement to the BBC, the family of Abdulmutallab said they were “grateful to God that the unfortunate incident of that date did not result in any injury or death”.

“We strongly appeal to the American justice department to review the life sentence,” they said. “We also appeal to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to continue with their support and engage with the American government to ensure that a review is made.”

Ahead of the sentencing, assistant defence lawyer Anthony Chambers argued that a life sentence for Abdulmutallab would be unconstitutional, since no other passengers were hurt.

Sentencing guidelines directed the judge to impose a mandatory life sentence, but Mr Chambers appealed for a lighter term.

“Not one passenger lost his or her life. Not one passenger suffered life-threatening injuries,” he said.

Prosecutors said a life sentence was warranted because an attempted terror attack heightens public fear and burdens airports with expensive and time-consuming security procedures.

As part of the sentencing hearing, four passengers and a crew member aboard Flight 253 made statements, telling the judge the event had forever changed their lives.

A video from the FBI showing the power of the explosive material found in Abdulmutallab’s underwear was also shown at the hearing. As the video played Abdulmutallab twice said loudly “Allahu akbar” – Arabic for “God is great”.

Abdulmutallab himself made a brief statement. During the short trial, he had fired his lawyer and attempted to represent himself.

“Mujahideen are proud to kill in the name of God,” he said in court. “And that is exactly what God told us to do in the Quran… Today is a day of victory.”

“In quick response to some of the things that have been said, I say my life and the lives of Muslims have also changed due to the attacks on innocent civilians,” he added.

On the second day of his trial, in October, Abdulmutallab unexpectedly declared that he would plead guilty to all charges.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had pleaded guilty to eight charges, including terrorism

The bomb was a “blessed weapon to save the lives of innocent Muslims”, he told the court.

“The US should be warned that if they continue to kill and support those who kill innocent Muslims, then the US should await a great calamity… or God will strike them directly,” he added.

Investigators said Abdulmutallab admitted he was working for AQAP, and had been inspired by and had met Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who was killed in 2011 by a US drone strike in Yemen.

Abdulmutallab received the bomb, as well as training, from AQAP before travelling from Nigeria to Amsterdam.

There he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit, which was carrying 279 passengers and 11 crew members.

The bomb was not picked up in security checks at airports in Lagos and Amsterdam.

On board, the bomb failed to detonate completely and passengers had to put out the fire.

Abdulmutallab’s father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, an influential banker who is well connected in Nigerian politics, said he had approached the US embassy officials and Nigerian authorities in 2009 to warn them about his son. Abdulmutallab was already on a US watch list, but not a no-fly list.

The youngest of 16 siblings, Mutallab is the son of one of Nigeria’s richest men, a banker and former Federal Commissioner for Economic Development. His Yemeni mother Aisha is his father’s second wife, Aisha. Mutallab Senior was instrumental in introducing Islamic banking practices, which follow Sharia law prohibiting the charging of interest, into Nigeria. Much like Osama bin Laden, Mutallab Junior was reared in an extremely wealthy, privileged, and devout household. In private school, Mutallab preached Islam to his classmates, and was known as “Alfa,” an honorific reserved for Muslim clerics, and “the Pope,” for his piety. In 2004 he spent a year in his mother’s home country of Yemen, attending the Institute for the Arabic Language in the capitol, Sana’a. In 2005 he matriculated to University College, London, where he was president of the Islamic Society. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering there in 2008.

After graduation, Mutallab, who had come briefly under the scrutiny of Britain’s MI5 intelligence services for radical affiliations, applied for and received a multiple-entry visa to the US, valid until June of 2010. He visited Houston briefly in August 2008 to attend an Islamic conference, after which he enrolled in a masters of international business degree programme in Dubai. He had begun keeping more to himself, and wearing traditional Islamic garb.

In May 2009 Mutallab attempted re-entry into Britain, ostensibly to attend a course at a fictitious school, but was denied by the UK Border Agency, and his name placed on a Home Office watch list which was not shared internationally.

In the summer of 2009 Mutallab petitioned his father for funds to attend further Arabic courses at the Yemeni language institute he had attended in 2004. The two-month course began in August, but within the month Mutallab had dropped out, remaining in Yemen after his visa expired in September.

danger to the US, and might be in Yemen. Mutallab’s name was added to the 500,000+ Terrorist Identities list composed by the US National Counterterrorism Center. It was not added to the FBI’s 400,000 name Terrorist Screening list, from which the No-Fly list is derived. His visa was not revoked, despite the fact that his name had already crossed several intelligence desks as a potential danger due to probable connections with the terrorist organization al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen. Mutallab had also been linked with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, former imam to several 9/11 hijackers, who was also in contact with Major Nidal Hassan, perpetrator of the Fort Hood, Texas shootings, just two weeks before Mutallab’s father reported him. Mutallab had met al-Awlaki in London during his university studies there, and subsequently during his time in Yemen, though this was not known until after the abortive attack.

Mutallab left Yemen on December 7 for Ethiopia, then jetted to Ghana and Lagos, and finally to Amsterdam on December 24, from where he caught the Northwest Airlines flight he then attempted to destroy, having bought his ticket earlier, in Ghana. He paid cash and checked no baggage, and did not even carry a coat for his trip to frigid Michigan. During the last hour of the flight, Mutallab spent about 20 minutes in the bathroom, afterward covering himself with a blanket at his seat. Other passengers heard strange popping sounds, then noticed a strong, acrid smell and saw Mutallab’s leg and the plane wall on fire.

Fellow passenger Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch national, tackled Mutallab and subdued him while flight attendants used fire extinguishers to douse the flames. An explosive device consisting of a six-inch packet of the plastic powder explosive PETN and an acid syringe detonator were found, the explosives sewn into his underpants (a circumstance which has caused some pundit wags to dub him the “Fruit of Kaboom” bomber).

Upon questioning by authorities, Mutallab admitted that he had obtained the explosives and instructions on their use from al Qaeda operatives in Yemen. He remains in custody at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, awaiting trial for attempted murder, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, and attempting to blow up a US civilian plane. On January 8, 2010, Mutallab pled not guilty to all charges.

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JTF kills 11 suspected Boko Haram members JANUARY 28, 2012 7 COMMENTS The Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, Borno State on
Saturday killed 11 suspected Boko Haram members
in a shootout.
JTF Field Operations Commander, Col. Victor
Ebhaleme, told Reuters that they were killed at a
checkpoint in the city. “Eleven BH (Boko Haram) members have been shot
dead by the JTF (Joint Military Taskforce) in
Maiduguri today, following a shootout with the sect
members at a checkpoint in a stop and search
operation,” Ebhamelehe told Reuters.
“One member of the sect who was wounded is receiving treatment at the hospital,” he added.

yea i heard dis paramiliatary uses CONPASS which should be around 126k for BSC entrants,