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Until Mend,Asari and other South South militias calling for violence if GeJ isn't president by 2015 are ready to die or carry out suicide bombings they should please shut up, cos its all bark and no bite...if they think there threats will scare northerners then they are deluded..We wake up with bomb explosions..we sleep with gun shots, go to work avoiding check points and still leave our lives...so wat else can a they do...and if Asari and co think we are afraid of their 'paper tiger' threats then please kill people and see..make violence the order of the day and I promise you they (SS) will see wat the real normads/almajirs/Abokis are capable of...

some of you have never been to the north...the high number is simply due to polygamy...average northern housa man has 3-4 wives nd plenty children...wen the issue came up and prof wole soyinka was shouting the same thin, Umaru shinkafi asked him do u know I hav 9 children nd how many children does an average southern Family have?...we housa marry a lot weather rich or poor cos of cultural nd religious freedoom...please put dat into consideration nd for those calling the North Desert...so all the agriculture nigeria was known for in the past was done in a Desert?..think before u speak

Nigeria Jaga Jaga

By SaharaReporters, New York
Military sources have told
SaharaReporters that Tuesday’s
unprecedented onslaught on Bama by
suspected Boko Haram terrorists
resulted in the death of two soldiers
and 13 of the invaders during the fight
at the military barracks.
At the police barracks, a woman and
two children were burnt to death, our
sources said.
They also confirmed that 22 policemen
were shot dead by the terrorists at the
Divisional Police Station, and 14 prison
officials killed at Bama Prison Station.
“The attack was repelled by soldiers on
sentry a little distance from the
Barrack’s Fence,” one of them said,
appearing to be downplaying the
severity of the incident at the military
facility.
SaharaReporters had earlier been told
by sources that security agencies were
still counting the numbers of the dead,
and that several police were killed in
the attack in which the militants
released as many as 150 prisoners in
Bama Prison. All the warders on duty
were reported to have died.
SaharaReporters has also learned that
the following structures were attacked
and burnt:
·   The Police Area Command
and Divisional Police Station;
·   Bama Prison Station;
·   Magistrate Court;
·   Primary Health Centre, and
·   Police/MOPOL Barracks
The following items were recovered: 3
AK 47 Rifles; 8 RPG launchers; 3 RPG
Bombs, and eight magazines
Earlier today, security sources told
SaharaReporters that today’s brazen
attack on military, prison and police
formations in Bama is perhaps the
biggest undertaken by Boko Haram
militants.
In an attack on Bama on April 26,
suspected Boko Haram terrorists killed
a Divisional Police Officer and scores
of police officers.
Three days later, on April 29, a Boko
Haram/JTF duel resulted in the death
of 17 persons. About 200 homes were
reportedly burnt to the ground.

May be He will lead the Campaign for GEJ in 2015

kunlekunle: wwould the battle be in SS like boko haram doing in the north?

Very Good question wo..or will they be attacking cities like Lagos,kano,kaduna and Abuja...

Shouldn't he be arrested to explain wat he means

Using threat to maintain power.....hmmm charles tailor did it and now?

One of the leaders of the Niger Delta

Ahead of 2015 general
elections, Northern youths engaged
former President of Ijaw Youth
Congress (IYC) and Leader of the
Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force
(NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-
Asari, in a war of words over the re-
election bid of President Goodluck
Jonathan in 2015.
Dokubo had fired the first salvo while
addressing a press conference in
Abuja as he declared that the Niger
Delta region cannot guarantee peace in
Nigeria if President Jonath- an is not
returned in 2015.
He also stated that after Jonathan’s
presidency, the region will resume
claim to the resources in the oil-rich
Niger-Delta, saying that they are
currently on sabbatical leave.
The Arewa youths, however,
responded immediately warning Asari
Dokubo to desist from beating the
drums of war over the re-election of
President Jonathan in 2015.
*Asari
They said that the choice of Nigeria’s
next president would be determined by
Nigerians and not Ijaw militants or
pipeline contractors.
Asari Dokubo in the interview pointed
out that the reason there is relative
peace in the country, especially in
South-South geo-political zone
currently is not because of the amnesty
granted to Niger Delta ex-militants by
late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s
regime in 2010, but Jonathan’s
presidency.
Asari who spoke on a wide range of
national issues also said that contrary
to the claims of Jonathan’s critics that
his administration is visionless, the
administration has surpassed the
previous ones in terms of provision of
social infrastructure.
He said: “I called this briefing because
of events that are unfolding in the polity.
Recently, the Special Adviser to the
President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsely
Kuku, made a statement in the United
States of America, that the peace being
enjoyed in the Niger Delta will not be
guaranteed if President Goodluck
Jonathan is not returned as President
of Nigeria in 2015.
“This statement has been supported by
several groups from the region. Also,
the statement has been attracting
reactions from several quarters,
expectedly from the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN) and others.
“I want to go on to say that, there will be
no peace, not only in the Niger Delta,
but everywhere if Goodluck Jonathan is
not president by 2015, except God
takes his life, which we don’t pray for.
“Jonathan has uninterrupted eight
years of two terms to be president,
according to the Nigeria constitution.
We must have our uninterrupted eight
years of two tenure, I am not in support
of any amendment of the constitution
that will reduce the eight years of two
tenure that Goodluck Jonathan is
expected to be president of Nigeria.”
“For very long time, our resources from
the Niger Delta has been used to feed
and fund Nigeria, and some people are
still feeling that Nigeria is their personal
property, and they can manage it the
way they like, but those days are gone
forever, it can never come back again.
Reacting to Dokubo’s threat, the
President of Arewa Consultative
Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima,
described it as an unfortunate outburst
borne out of ignorance and mischief
ostensibly to elicit cheap patronage
from The Presidency.
Shettima regretted the statement
credited to Dokubo, saying that it was
wrong for the President to allow the
former warlord to be speaking for him,
thereby giving himself out as an ethnic
Ijaw leader and not the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, who was
popularly elected based on the
goodwill and support of the generality
of Nigerians.
He said, “President Jonathan should
stop these elements from talking as if
they alone elected him into office in
2011.”

Yap

Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin
Okupe, says President Goodluck
Jonathan has justified the mandate
given to him by the electorate in
the 2011 general elections.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with
Sunday Vanguard in Lagos, Okupe
said the Jonathan administration
inherited five major challenges in the
power sector namely, low generation
capacity, comatose NIPP projects, poor
and inadequate gas supply and non-
alignment of gas infrastructure with the
location of the NIPP projects, poor and
dilapidated transmission infrastructure
and non-implementation of the
privatization exercise in the sector.
According to the presidential aide,
within two years of the Jonathan
presidency, four of those challenges
have been substantially resolved and
the only outstanding one, which has to
do with transmission and distribution,
will be resolved in the next 12 to 15
months.
Doyin Okupe
“Some of the transmission projects
completed by the Jonathan
administration within two years are
Ganmo, Sapele, Katanpe, Mando,
Kubotso, Alaoji, Ikeja West,
Oworonsoki, Ojo, New Haven,
Ajaokuta, Abuja, and Ihovbor.
It is also during this period that Nigeria
attained a peak generation of 4, 517
and we are certainly looking at about
10,000 megawatts by December this
year.”
According to him, the agricultural sector
is another area where giant strides
have been attained by the Jonathan
administration with the progress made
in rice, cotton and cassava production
while making single digit loan available
to farmers nationwide with the
attendant potential of creating millions
of jobs.
In the aviation industry, he said over
fifty percent of the nation’s airports have
been rehabilitated and plans underway
to assist indigenous airlines acquire
new planes to end the era of avoidable
crashes in the country.
He explained that the moribund rail
transportation is being revitalized
nationwide.
On the provision of road infrastructure,
Okupe said major critical road projects
in the country have been fully or in the
process of rehabilitation. They include
Benin Ore Road, Kano Maiduguri dual
carriage way and Port Harcourt-Enugu
Road. “This administration is also
making efforts to construct the Second
Niger Bridge and the East West Road.
The first of its kind multi lane dual
carriage Lagos Ibadan Express road of
which the design has been fully
completed will be ready in the next 24
months.
“On the economy, the administration
has been able to establish micro
economic stability upon which we can
now build in order to further improve on
the standard of living and well-being of
citizens.
We have an excess crude oil
account with a surplus of over 9 billion
dollars, a foreign reserve of over 48
billion dollars, a Sovereign Wealth
Fund of 1 billion dollars, a World Bank
projected growth rate of about 6.5
which is the highest in the sub region
and an inflation rate descent to 8.5
percent from 11 percent in the previous
year.”

Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general election, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Tinubu, a few days ago, may have held a private meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal.

But as the opposition coalition comprising CPC, ACN, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), which is merging to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), sets its sights on 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan is also making moves to cover his flanks as the election approaches.

In this regard, THISDAY learnt that the president hosted some select Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors to a private dinner last night at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where it is believed that issues concerning the party was discussed.

However, it was gathered that the secret meeting, which might have taken place last week between the two leaders of the merging opposition parties and Tambuwal at a private residence in Abuja, is not unconnected to efforts by the opposition to woo the speaker to their party.

The meeting was deemed a strategic gambit by the opposition to get Tambuwal to defect from the ruling PDP on whose platform he was elected to the House of Representatives, to the yet-to-be registered APC as the opposition party’s possible presidential contender in 2015.

It was also learnt that the APC is already considering the zoning of political offices and might zone the presidency to the North-west, Tambuwal’s geopolitical zone.

THISDAY further gathered that the APC is mulling the idea of zoning either the vice-presidential ticket or senate presidency to the South-west zone.

The interim agreement reached at the meeting was that if the senate presidency is zoned to the South-west, then the Office of the Vice-President would be zoned to the South-east.

According to an inside source within the coalition of opposition parties, the decision to allocate the senate presidency to the South-west was being done to pave the way for Tinubu to enter the senatorial contest in Lagos and bank on his past stint as a ranking senator to emerge as senate president.

Should this go according to script, sources said Tinubu’s wife, Oluremi, who is currently the senator representing Lagos Central, will be expected to give up her seat to enable her husband contest.

Though it was uncertain whether Tambuwal has committed to jettisoning the PDP for APC, sources said Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, was seriously considered as the speaker’s possible running mate, but the idea was discarded on the grounds that he is a Muslim.

“Given the current mood of the nation, the party cannot field a Muslim-Muslim ticket right now; otherwise, the pairing (Tambuwal-Fashola) would have been a marriage made in heaven. As a result, the vice-presidential slot has been reserved for the South-east for now,” explained the source.

THISDAY gathered that before the meeting with Tambuwal, APC had considered the former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir el-Rufai.

But the source said: “They were seen as too controversial and unmarketable in the north,” hence the need to look elsewhere.

van bonattel: Just to confuse people, this is a set up to make us believe they are after the main patrons. It might be the emir of Kano that payed for the bombs and told them to detonate it in front of his palace. He has paid for the lives of the terrorists killed tonight.

My frnd in the 1st attack on the Emir a lot of ppl died nd he even got injured

The attack took place this night..2 of the bombers whre killed

Bomb explodes behind Emir of Kano’s palace

It is unclear if the latest attack was targeted at the Emir of Kano.

An explosion has been reported near the Emir’s palace in Kano.

The explosive device, driven in a keke NAPEP tricycle, went off metres away from the palace’s back fence, very close to the central mosque where the Emir prays on Fridays.

Muktar Ahmed who prayed at a Mosque close by, minutes before the explosion, said the explosion occurred shortly after the Ishai prayer time, around 8:00 p.m.

The casualty rate is still unknown as the police are still awakening to the incident.

“The scene of the incident was immediately barricaded by the police,” Mr. Ahmed said.

The Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, was a target of an assassination attempt in mid January.

He was attacked by gunmen on a Saturday afternoon leading to the death of his driver and his orderly.

The gunmen laid ambush on the convoy of the Emir around the Zoo road when he was returning from the Murtala Mosque in the city where he had gone to attend a Quranic recitation competition.

He sustained minor injuries and was flown to London for treatment.

It is unclear if the latest attack was targeted at the Emir.

The Kano State Police spokesman, Rilwanu Dutse, could not be reached for details of the incident as he did not pick or return calls made to his phone.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/130081-bomb-explodes-behind-emir-of-kanos-palace.html

take dat: Igbos are already sold out to GEJ! Ohaneze has been bribed by GEJ to keep shut!

www.nairaland.com/1246912/ohaneze-been-bribed-drop-igbo#15081538

it seems igbos are the easiest group to buy off in nigeria

So APC hav igbo supporters?

ifeduba1988: igbos will vote GEJ AGAIN . This man is just the APC paid stooge dog

So APC hav igbo supporters?

Finally some igbos have seen the light...

The Coordinator General of the South-
East Revival Group (SERG), Willy
Ezugwu on Monday called on all
Nigerians of Igbo descent to ensure that
they pitch their voice against President
Goodluck Jonathan at the 2015 general
elections.
In a statement emailed to Channels
Television, Mr. Ezugwu said that “any
person who is genuinely of Igbo extraction
must be prepared to punish President
Goodluck Jonathan at the next election or
through mass protests that would amount
to a vote of no confidence in him after the
series of failed promises he made to
garner votes from the region.”
He accused President Jonathan of
deceiving Igbo people with his campaign
promises of 2011 as all his actions since
coming into office have served to only
further impoverish the one group of people
who genuinely voted for him going by
election figures.
The statement said all that the people of
the South East have to show for supporting
the President in good faith is the array of
phantom projects that if implemented
would only serve to multiply the hell they
presently live in.
It said “Construction of the Second Niger
Bridge is a fresh political dummy packaged
by President Jonathan and his south-east
proxy, Anambra state governor, Peter Obi
and is being marketed under the guise of
being financed through Public Private
Partnership-PPP/BOT-Built-Operate &
Transfer.
“When Jonathan solicited support from
Igbos in 2011 with promises of projects he
did not disclosed to these trusting people
that his grand plan was to sell them into
the slavery that PPP-BOT amounts to
since past events show that these
concessions are usually granted to cronies
who in turn share the resulting loot with
those in government.
“But all these are being disregarded in the
bid to again hoodwink Ndigbo in the South
East and cart away votes come 2015
Presidential election. The desperation of
President Jonathan’s spinners is
astounding. They are branding this project
as the first of its kind in Nigeria when the
harrowing experiences of some travelers in
some parts of the South West since the
collapsed of similar PPP-BOT project
between the Federal Government and Bi-
Courtney Ltd on rebuilding of Lagos/
Ibadan Express road expose the lie for
what it is.
“Private Building of the Second Niger
Bridge with-no fixed completion date is the
stuff fraud is made of. It would come with
consequences on the people since the
investor would be eager to recoup the
resources invested and if history and
happenings elsewhere are good guides,
the profit taking in such ventures would be
unregulated and at the expense of Igbo-
race for next 40 years or for the number of
years of slavery specified in the
agreement.
“We challenge those who routed for
Jonathan Presidency to go ask him: what
has been the benefit of swaying Igbos to
support Jonathan and the PDP? What has
happened to the national resources that
the President is meant to hold in trust that
he now has to start shopping for a slave
master for the South East? Why has
government abandoned the Onitsha
Seaport project, a cargo airport in the
South East and the Orient Oil refinery?”
The SERG Coordinator asked.
SERG asked Igbo people to immediately
start shopping for there would be
candidate for the next elections and
particularly look out for a person that will
protect their economic interest and not
some who will willfully sell them into
slavery. The group said the easiest way of
ensuring this is to insist that a South-East
Presidency in 2015 is a must with a
warning to people who hide under the
guise of social cultural groups to truncate
the collective aspiration of Igbo people.
It also said the people should not rule out
having to take on the Jonathan
government over any attempt to foist anti-
people policies like PPP-BOT on them
since access to world class infrastructure
is embedded in the economic rights
guaranteed by the laws of the land and that
the government can provide these without
recourse to sending Nigerians into slavery.
According to SERG, the Igbo people must
immediately activate all the democratic
avenues available for punishing President
Jonathan for reneging on his electoral
promises.
www.channelstv.com/home/2013/04/08/2015-igbo-group-swears-to-punish-jonathan/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

plendil: which part of zoo rd?

Just after the zaria rd road roundabout as u move to sahad

the_ripper2: I wonder the branch of Boko haram or JAMB dat will b pardoned.

Wahala de wo

OsunOriginal: Despite the Amnesty.

I know nobody will come for this so called amnesty.

The people giving amnesty are the one sponsoring boko haram.

The Govt refuse to consider the amnesty, they should hav given them condition for the amnesty and see if they will take it

Sad how these people want to kill kano city/state

Bomb explosion nw @ Zoo road kano just few minutes ago..ppl are still running

Things are moving from Bad to worse every single day

A gang of suspected kidnappers have
invaded the military check point
mounted by the Joint Task Force, JTF
at Agidigbo junction on Okpai/Aboh
road in Delta State, killing an armed
solider and also snatch a machine
gun, just as unknown assailants shot
two brothers while asleep at Abbi.
It was gathered that the armed gang
who swooped on the soldiers opened
fire while the soldiers retaliated and at
the end of the fierce gun duel, one of
the soldiers lost his life and his
machine gun was taken away by the
gunmen.
One of the gunmen was fatally
wounded in the process and arrested
as he was unable to flee along with his
colleagues.
The entire area has been cordoned off
while the soldiers were conducting
frantic search for the fleeing gunmen
and the possible recovery of their
machine gun. A number of road blocks
had been mounted and residents,
ostensibly afraid of any form of
manhandling chose to remain indoors.
A resident who pleaded an anonymity
told our reporter that “that area leading
to the gas plant had been witnessing a
lot of kidnap cases. In short, Kwale,
Beneku and environs in Ndokwa West
local government area of Delta are
now under siege following the killing of
a soldier at a military check point by
gunmen”, he stated.
Contacted, the State Police Public
Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Famous
Ajieh said he was yet to get details of
the invasion of the military check point.
However on the shooting of the two
brothers, PPRO Ajieh said that “report
from Abbi village stated that one
Akadibo Sunday, male aged 42 was
shot at the back dead while asleep at
night while one Chukwunalu Sunday
27, of same address was also shot in
the chest wounded by unidentified
assailants while trying to ascertain
what was happening to the deceased.
He added that “detectives have visited
the scene and moved the wounded to
the hospital and corpse to morgue
while preliminary investigations are
on
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/gunmen-invade-checkpoint-kill-soldier-snatch-machine-gun/