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Wsdm: Ideological war is usually a diecy war.
Jonathan is too clueless to win this one. Instead of nipping this menace he is busy diverting it to blackmail perceived political opponents. Attributing his failure to boko haram. May be it is boko haram that made Stella to steal 255million on 'ghost vehicles' and also deprived Jonathan to be harsh on her.

OAM4J: Hopefully soon.

KANO (AFP) – Thirty-five bodies in military uniform have been brought to a morgue in Nigeria’s restive northeast after a coordinated assault by Boko Haram targeting the security forces, a hospital source told AFP Monday.

The attack late Thursday in the Yobe state capital of Damaturu was the first raid in a major urban centre in several weeks by the insurgent group waging a four-year Islamist uprising.

Police and residents said large numbers of Boko Haram fighters, some in vehicles and some on foot, stormed Damaturu after dark.

Armed with guns and explosives, they attacked and torched four police buildings, sparking a fierce, hours-long gun battle with the security forces.

“We have received lots of bodies in the last three days from the attacks. I counted 35 bodies in military uniform,” said a senior official at the Damaturu Specialist Hospital, who requested anonymity.

An army officer based in the central city of Jos said 20 soldiers had been admitted at a hospital there, suffering from “gunshot wounds sustained in the battle against Boko Haram in Damaturu.”

“They were brought here for security reasons and better medical facilities,” said the officer, who also asked his name be withheld.

The military rarely discusses troop fatalities following Islamist attacks and local officials who disclose such details have faced pressure to keep quiet.

Contacted by AFP on Monday, Yobe state military spokesman Lazarus Eli did not deny reports that dozens of soldiers were killed during the clash.

“We do not have any data on the death toll,” Lazarus said.

Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade disputed the figure of 35 but said the military sustained losses.

“On the part of the military, we did not suffer that volume of casualties at all,” he said, while adding, “definitely there were casualties on both sides.”

Boko Haram has repeatedly worn military uniforms as a disguise during attacks and it was not yet clear whether the corpses were those of insurgents or troops.

The day after the attack, witnesses and local officials did not say the insurgents who staged it were disguised in uniforms.

Nigeria’s sweeping offensive against Boko Haram has entered its fifth month, and the military has described the group as being in disarray and no longer capable of attacking major population centres.

But the success of the operation remains unclear and the attack in Damaturu, apparently carried out by a significant number of insurgents in a heavily fortified city, has cast further doubt on the effectiveness of the military offensive.

There are however signs that Boko Haram has been pushed back into the northeast, its historic stronghold, after carrying out attacks across the wider north through much of 2011 and 2012.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency across the northeast in mid-May and vowed to permanently end the uprising. Jonathan must decide whether to extend the emergency measures when the six-month mandate expires next month.

The conflict has killed thousands since 2009.

Boko Haram has attacked Christians, Muslims, students, politicians and a range of other groups seen as opposed to the creation of a state governed by strict Islamic law.

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and top oil producer, where the northern half is mostly Muslim and the more prosperous south is predominately Christian.

Clara Chime, the First Lady of Enugu State, says Governor Sullivan Chime, has placed her under house arrest, and has cried out for assistance to reach human rights bodies to rescue her.

In a letter dripping with pain and suffering, Mrs. Chime disclosed that she married Mr. Chime in October 2008 but that she has been unable to share the matrimonial bed with him for over four years.

Describing her desperate situation, she said that even President Goodluck Jonathan and First Lady Patience Jonathan have intervened with her husband without success.

“My father is late, my Mum and few of my siblings are confused and have done all kinds of prayers they know of, 3 of my siblings prefers me dead than to see me leave the Government house. He treats my Mum and my siblings bad,” she wrote.

The Enugu State First Lady said she has been introduced to two psychiatrists whose names she gave as Dr. Onwukwe and Dr. Agumo, who have prescribed “all kinds of drugs that ends up keeping me acute depressed and also drives me into hallucinations.”

The doctors, she noted, are scared of her husband the Governor, to whom nobody can tell the truth.

According to the letter, the Catholic Bishop of Enugu state (Callistus Onaga), and top priests have come to intervene, as have the President and the First Lady of the nation, without success.

Mrs. Chime further complains that Governor Chime has ordered her to leave with her four-year old son whom she conceived before their wedding. However, the governor, according to her, later threatened to disown the boy should she leave with him.

“He has told everyone he can reach that there is no marriage between us that I can leave if I wish to but whenever I plan to leave he instructs them to lock me in. I have told him through Sms that I will leave my son behind and leave alone but still he instructed
his securities to lock me inside the house.”

Mrs. Chime further complains she has lost touch with the real world and all that makes her beautiful because of the side effects of the drugs she is taking, stressing that she is under house arrest for committing no crime.

Of the situation in Government House, she said, “He does not take care of me personally, the government gives me allowance to run the house and that's where I save little from to take care of my elf, my Mum and few of my siblings,” she said in the letter. He shut me out of his life years ago; I don't have access to his apartment. The problem is enormous; I don't know where to start to explain from.”

She said that even the security detail in the lodge has resorted to praying for her, while the few that can be bought with money are taking advantage of the situation.

“Police and SS men have been instructed by Br Sullivan Chime to confine me in a place for a long time now against my wish [but] it is my wish to leave these premises,” she said, begging, “Please assist me to reach to the human rights and say to them to please come hastily and release me.”

Yekini Kazeem, 18, and Ifeanyi Ezekiel,18

Dollarman101: It's all envy and jealously for a president who defeated their paymasters at the polls in 2015 and will repeat same in 2011.

You keep abusing him, he keeps making progress and succeeding. So what's the essence? People like me and millions of Nigerians love him to continue. Kini big deal?

donphilopus: MODS pls consider any of these or if possible all for FP www2.nairaland.com/1495426/us-senator-seeks-peace-meeting www2.nairaland.com/1495205/israel-deputy-senate-president-recruited www2.nairaland.com/1495039/army-deploys-new-measures-check

vislabraye: And who are the somany better goal keepers ?

FreeGlobe: I'm not supporting APC, I support Ngige. is APC not corrupt, please don't derail this thread

afrikanns: you and your stupid partner never contributed any thing call common sense to any posting here. you derailers.

FreeGlobe: I stand with Ngige

olaglobalj: Guy, you the man. Up Chelsea, Up El Nino, Up Mou (one of us)

gbanikiti: Very true! They are really on break.

gbanikiti: oh k.

No one locked my main moniker. I did.

Afam4eva: I hope we beat them so that we can meet Afghanistan in the next round.

gbanikiti: Yes he need to apologize o! Someone sent me another link to log in sef.
My main moniker is under lock and key till further notice.

gbanikiti: No one dares ban my moniker for no reason. Nairaland has been disappointing today.

Dpeacemaker101: People and their rumors, please OP what is your source?