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Your list applies to girls too, in its entirety. It is what humans do.

killebolavirus:
Over 200 girls abducted in Chibok
in April 2014 are being held in
Gwoza town in Borno State, a
woman who was recently
released by the Boko Haram sect
has told the icirnigeria.org .
She said she was held in the
same location as the abducted
Chibok girls.
Mbutu Papka, 56, who was
kidnapped in July 2014 and held
by the insurgents for eight
months in two locations, said
confidently that the abducted
girls were being held under very
tight security in a house in
Gwoza.
Ms. Papka said nobody is allowed
near the fenced building where
the abducted girls are being held
under 24-hour security. Even the
heavily armed guards, who keep
watch over the girls round the
clock, it was learnt, are only
allowed to go into the house to
deliver food, water and other
supplies to them.
The woman was seized along
with others when Boko Haram
attacked Gwoza on July 4, 2014
and taken to Mdita, a remote
village near the notorious
Sambisa Forest, bordering Askira
Uba, Damboa and Gwoza.
The abductees, who included
many children, according to Ms.
Papka, were kept in Mdita for
five months before being
transferred to Gwoza, where they
were held for three months
before they were finally released
on March 15.
It was while in Gwoza that she
learnt that the Chibok Girls,
whose abduction has attracted global
attention, were being housed in a compound
adjacent to where she and other abducted
people were kept.
Asked how she knew the girls were there, Ms.
Papka said she never saw the Chibok girls,
but explained that people in the area pointed
at the heavily guarded flat and said the girls
were inside.
Because access to the house was restricted,
she said, the girls apparently did their own
cooking and chores by themselves.
“In the camp at Gwoza, there were clear
demarcations between where people were
kept. The Chibok girls, other captives and
Boko Haram members and their family
members all had their separate areas secured,
though the security in the area where the
girls are kept is visibly different and much
tighter,” she said.
Ms. Papka explained that the conditions
under which the captives in Gwoza were kept
were fairly tolerable and far better than the
first location, as there was water supply.
She said that after they were taken to Gwoza,
their living conditions improved remarkably
because the town has modern facilities, as
opposed to the rustic Mdita.
“When we got to Gwoza, things changed
because there were facilities there and the
place was 10 times better than Mdita. We had
a normal life in Gwoza, except the trauma of
living in captivity. Whatever we wanted to
eat, they were provided. They would bring
water, firewood, etc., and leave them
outside,” she explained.
A few other comforts were provided.
“They even provided perfume for anyone who
requested for it,” she added.
According to her, at Mdita, she met other
abducted people including women and
children, among whom were many under the
age of seven, all living in terrible conditions.
“There was a room we used to urinate in and
because of lack of water, the place stank and
maggots were everywhere. We took our baths
once daily, if we were lucky,” she said.
Because of the terrible conditions and
absence of health care facilities in the camp,
many people fell sick and some died.
“There was a Redeemed Christian Church of
God pastor who was killed during the attack
on our village, and his wife was abducted
with us. She died at Mdita due to the
condition of the place and the death of her
husband,” Ms. Papka said.
The pastor’s wife, she explained, had diabetes
and, before her abduction, had been on a
special diet which could not be provided by
the insurgents.
Ms. Papka said she and the other women
were not raped or assaulted, although she
could not speak for the Chibok girls because
nobody was allowed to see or interact with
them.
She also said that the Boko Haram men lived
with their wives and children in the Gwoza
camp, but kept away from others and cooked
their own meals.
On March 15, 2015, after three months in
Gwoza, Ms. Papka and 10 other older women
were taken from the camp, herded into a
vehicle and driven to Izge, a village, from
where she was taken to her own village on a
motorcycle because the road is bad.
The ride, however, was not free.
“I was asked to pay N8, 000 for the motorcycle
ride, which I collected from my family,” she
stated.
This website also learnt that a two-year old
boy was given to Ms. Papka when she was
released. The boy, who is reported to be sick
and has rashes on his body, has since been
reunited with his family, which is now
seeking financial assistance to take the child
to hospital.
“He was crying uncontrollably, so they (Boko
Haram) handed him over to me as we were
leaving,” she said.
Gwoza local government area of Borno State,
which is just over 100 kilometres from
Maiduguri, the state capital, is said to be one
of the council areas still wholly in the hands
of Boko Haram terrorists.
Gwoza town was first captured by the
insurgents in August last year, following a
heavy gun attack by insurgents who hoisted
the sect’s flag and declared it the
headquarters of the group’s Caliphate.
Over 12,000 persons were displaced from the
town and repeated attempts by the military to
recapture it in the past have failed largely
due to the hilly terrain, which provide hiding
places for the terrorists from which to
operate.
This website has learnt that it is not the first
time that released Boko Haram abductees
have claimed to know where the Chibok girls
are being held.
Emman Shehu, a founding member of the
Bring Back Our Girls group, told our reporter
during the week that a young girl who was
released last week and an elderly woman had
previously claimed that the Chibok girls were
being kept in Damboa and Sambisa area.
Mr. Shehu, who is also director of the
International Institute of Journalism, Abuja,
said: “Two people, a young girl and an elderly
lady have said in the past that they know
where the Chibok girls were being kept, the
girl saying that only last week.
“We have heard people say in the past that
they know where they are. We heard before
that some of them were in Damboa, but the
military has reclaimed Damboa and they did
not say the girls are there,” he said.
The whereabouts of the Chibok girls has been
a mystery since April last year when they
were kidnapped while writing exams in their
school.
Mr. Shehu, who lambasted the military for the
manner it handled the abduction of the girls,
said that since April when they were
kidnapped, the military has made no attempt
to rescue them.
If there had been any rescue mission, he
observed, the military would have been giving
regular updates about the progress being
made in that effort.
“There has never been a rescue mission by
the Nigerian military to free the Chibok girls,”
he said, adding that the federal government
and defence headquarters have not shown
seriousness or the political will to rescue the
girls.
For example, Mr. Shehu said, the
#BringBackOurGirls group learnt during the
visit of Yousafzai Malala, the Pakistani girl-
child education activist, to Nigeria, that the
57 girls who escaped from the insurgents had
not been debriefed either by the military or
any other security agency.
More than 200 young girls were abducted by
Boko Haram gunmen at the Government Girls
Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, on April 14,
2014, the same day that suicide bombers
wreaked havoc in Nyanya, on the outskirts of
Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
It was reported that the 276 girls who were
writing their final West African School
Certificate, WASC, exams were kidnapped
when the insurgents attacked the town
pretending to be security guards and asked
the girls to come with them.
What followed, particularly the reaction from
the Nigerian government, caused a lot of
outrage that eventually changed the dynamics
in the fight against the sect.
Less than 48 hours after the abduction and
Abuja bomb blast, President Goodluck
Jonathan was pictured dancing at a rally in
Kano, and it took him almost three weeks to
publicly speak about the incident, saying
government was doing all it could to free the
girls.
It was also reported that the Nigerian military
had four hours intelligence prior to the
kidnapping, something the military later
admitted, but said its over-stretched forces
could not immediately send in
reinforcements.
The government’s attitude drew widespread
criticism and protests grew against its
response, which was viewed as tepid. Protests
were also held in major Western cities,
including Los Angeles and London.
At the same time, the popular movement for
the release of the girls, the Bring Back Our
Girls group, was formed. The movement’s
hashtag, #BringBackOurGirls, attracted more
than two million tweets within its first week.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex
Badeh, once said that the military had located
the girls, but ruled out a forceful rescue
mission for fear of harming the abducted
girls.
On July 23 and 24, 2014, vigils and protests to
mark 100 days of the abduction were held in
Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Togo,
the United Kingdom, the United State, Canada,
and Portugal and following global attention
brought by the abduction, the UK, US, France,
China, Canada, Israel and the European Union
all offered support to Nigeria.
But despite all efforts by Nigeria and other
nations, the abducted girls have remained in
captivity, with no clue about their fate.
If Ms. Papka’s present condition is anything to
go by, even if the girls have not suffered any
physical abuse, the emotional and
psychological trauma inflicted by their
experience would be, indeed, enormous.
ICIR reporter learnt that Ms. Papka’s
experience appears to have left a permanent
impact on her. Her children say she is like a
stranger to them. She is easily scared by
sounds and approaching footsteps and prefers
to stay alone, not talking to anyone.
These are apparently effects of her abduction
and detention by the insurgents. Sadly, there
is no mechanism put in place either by the
state or federal government, or even civil
society organisations, to provide any kind of
counselling or medical care and assistance for
her.
It was learnt that the Borno State government
is aware of the release of the 11 women by
Boko Haram as their return home was widely
celebrated in many villages, but as at
Wednesday morning, 10 days after, no state
official has visited any of them or offered any
kind of assistance.
On Wednesday, when our reporter talked to
one of her relatives, she said the family was
planning to take her to see a psychologist.
Attempts by the icirnigeria.org to share
information about the girls’ whereabouts with
the military and get its reaction were not
successful, as the Director of Defence
Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade,
said in a telephone conversation that he was
out of town.
Although it was agreed that the information
was too sensitive to be shared on the
telephone and that a face-to-face meeting was
necessary, Mr. Olukolade, who said he was
returning to Abuja on Tuesday, has not
reverted to us at the time of publishing this
report.
This report was first published by the
International Centre for Investigative
Reporting [www.icirnigeria.org ]. We have
their permission to republish.

NA abeg do the needful

cutemydee:
@kennygee i do not think only lawyers are jobless in Nigeria.It is just that because you see 'them' infront of Cac it brings attention but the truth is most of the people you see there are not even lawyers.remember not only lawyers can register at Cac.Also we have so many unemployed that we do not know cos they sit in the comfort of their homes. And I also want to point out that Law is very wide and lawyers are meant to specialise thereby they are free to work in almost every establishment as long as there is legal department there. Coporate law is one of the numerous branches of law.You can be a lawyer and not appear in court all your life.it is in Nigeria that its widely assumed that once you are a lawyer you must work in a law firm and go for court cases.No. Law is not like that.A lawyer can even work in an oil company,a telecommunications company,hospital, banks,Tax office(Lirs,Firs)etc.

God bless you dear.

Why is pharmacy before law? Your post reeks of fallacies.

Lies from the pit of hell

if I say I understand weti ds guy mean na lie

Jega and Jega only. anything more than that and thunder will strike the plotters of this dirty joke.

Which is why u need to support us.
We want change too.
Sai Buhari

Charming1:
***BREAKING NEWS** WATCH AND LISTEN

Check out the ways he approached Questions and relayed the prospects for the elections.

http://chinomnsoawazie..com/2015/03/i-will-not-lose-elections-pres-jonathan.html

Who told u..
You will lose..
Sai Buhari
Victory is ours

I don't get this government at all. Everything is just clumsy, imagine meet the president and yet I have heard Buhari's
name mentioned at least a hundred plus times. So,
who is the president?

U go too chop slap

I dnt trust this Fani Kayode of a guy. I loathe him.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
corruption activities u and ya fellow thugs want tinubu to put an end to , tinubu=devil, d devil came to steal(lagos state mony, kill(funsho williams) and to destroy(greed makes d dude wants to scatter southwest). Apc wifout tinubu wld ve bin better. Yoruba youths(tinubus gang) wise up!

Reconstruct ur thoughts in a clear and articulate manner. It is quite easy to guess whom the thug is here.

Lies from the pit of hell.

Yes you av.. Y'all demystified the oil sector wit ambidexterous corrupt activities. Shame.

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Op u need to see Nneka's face! No amount of make-up can save her. In fct, it is de make up dt wl need savin

Kill em all. Unfortunately fr dem virgins don finnisshh...

He failed us all. That is why we want change. And the funny thing is change is constant.
Sai Buhari
Sai baba!!!

Weti be ur own?:p

egift:
The problem is not just wish stooge becomes the Chairman. But that if there is a new Chairman in this last minute, he will ask for more time. And only the INEC Chairman has the power to postpone the elections by law. The plan is to extend Jonathan's stay in power or manipulate the process to stimulate his victory

Do you know the first bill Jonathan sent to the National Assemble when he got elected in 2011? A bill to give him 7 years single tenure in Office.

Jonathan's greed has been there since the beginning.

I quite understand ur point. Greed hs a way of being consequential. Any move to remove Jega and Jonathan will understand de meaning of CHANGE. We go CHANGE am for am.

Remarkable. More of goodnews will surface aggressively when Buhari is President.
Sai Buhari.
Hit like for Buhari nd shares fr the Otuoke man!

Even tho I concur wt Ribadu on dis one. I am stl highly disappointed in him. I once respected him.
Buhari till 2019!!!!

I rarely care abt who is the Inec chairman. Buhari is goin to be President of Nigeria, notwithstanding abysmal political gimmicks from any angle.
Sai Buhari!!!

I want change. Even if it is coming from a leper.
Sai Buhari

onyenro:
Governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang said he has dragged the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to court over skewed distribution of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to his state, and
warned INEC not to destroy the hard-earned democracy.
Speaking with newsmen in Jos, Jang, who expressed disappointment with the poor distribution of the card
in his state and other parts of the country, noted that the issue has started generating controversy among
political parties, especially between the ruling party and the main opposition party. “If these elections were held on the 14th of February,
can we sincerely say INEC was ready? There are several areas in Plateau State that have not received
their PVC; not that these PVCs are in Abuja, but based on what I have been told, they have not been printed.
“What is the guarantee that these PVCs would get to
Nigeria before 8th of March deadline for collection? Honestly, we appreciated Professor Attahiru Jega
when he conducted the 2011 elections, but whether some people are sabotaging him and he is not aware
of this, only God in heaven knows.
“But when these PVCs came to Jos North, one section got theirs and other did not, in Jos south the
same thing happened, and indeed other places.”
Jang, who said he has gone to court to compel INEC
to allow usage of Temporary Voters Cards (TVCs) if the commission is unable to provide the PVCs, added
that he would announce to the people of his state to go to their respective polling centres with their TVCs
if the commission is unable to provide their PVCs before the March 8th deadline date for collection.
“I have even gone to court to allow usage of Temporary Voter Card; INEC should allow this because they cannot deprive my people of voting; it is not their fault that the commission did not print their cards. We used this temporary voter cards for 2011 elections, we have used them for by-elections and local government elections here in Plateau State without any problem.
So I am advocating for its use if by March 8th my people have not receive their PVC. I am going to make an announcement that anybody with Temporary Voters Card should go to polling units and vote.
“Let me encourage my people that they would vote, except if the elections would not hold. And no electoral officer will stop them if they go to vote with their Temporary Voters Cards. Their names and passports are in the register; they didn’t steal the TVCs. So, as far as I am concerned, they are legal tender, except when they’ve been exchanged for Permanent Voter Cards."
https://m.facebook.com/NigeriaInfoAbuja/photos/a.521594751252638.1073741826.514395005305946/795902320488545/?type=1&_rdr#796190010459776

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Who is we?

emusmith:
Reading the press statement from PDP below, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to come out clear and explain to Nigerians the links between it and the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, which informs and propels its feverish fixation and huge interest in his stay in office.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Saturday said it is more than curious that the APC has continued to fabricate stories and show undue interest on Prof. Jega, adding that such raise a lot of questions for the opposition and the INEC Chairman.

“Undoubtedly, the frenzy, hysteria and spate with which the APC has been inventing stories regarding Prof. Jega’s stay in office even when nothing suggests that such was on the table, raise a lot of issues.

“We ask, is there any underlining issue or arrangement between APC and Prof. Jega which the opposition is hell-bent to protect, informing its anxiety and apprehension towards his stay in office?

“While it is noted that the APC is a party of one week, one lie. We in the PDP look beneath the surfaces to the deeper issues propelling the lies. We therefore challenge the APC to come out clean and tell Nigerians the real reason behind their false alarms and uncontrolled nervousness regarding Prof. Jega ahead of the 2015 general elections.

“Finally, we wish to remind the leadership of INEC that Nigerians are monitoring its activities and series of unfolding political events ahead of the elections, and will not accept anything less than the conduct of credible, free and fair general elections come March 28 and April 11, 2015”,

They should explain why I dnt av light first. In short, explain why I should vote them in again.
SAI BUHARI!!!