₦airaland Forum

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am from dim ojukwuku university

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KANO (AFP) – Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released Sunday that he led an October 24 attack in which 35 people found in military uniform were killed in the Nigerian city of Damaturu.

“Look at what happened in Damaturu (capital of northeastern Yobe state),” the head of the Islamist group said in the video obtained by AFP through the same intermediary as previous clips.

“Since we killed them with our hands — in fact I was the commander of the operation — so, you cannot say I’m making conjecture,” he said.

The authenticity of the video clip — in which Shekau spoke for about 11 minutes in Arabic, Hausa and Kanuri — could not be independently confirmed.

“This is a brief message to the world. We carried out the Damaturu attacks with Allah’s help, with Allah’s might, with Allah’s glory and with victory from Allah, the Creator,” he said.

The video was titled “Battle of Damaturu” in Arabic.

Thirty-five bodies in military uniform were brought to a morgue in Nigeria’s restive northeast after a coordinated assault by Boko Haram targeting the security forces, a hospital source had said.

The attack in Damaturu was the first significant 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.

Contacted by AFP on October 28, Yobe state military spokesman Lazarus Eli did not deny reports that dozens of soldiers were killed during the clash.

Vanguard

Abuja – No fewer than 500
students of public and private
schools across the country on
Sunday observed the partial solar
eclipse at the National Space
Research and Development Agency
(NASRDA), Abuja.
A solar eclipse is an astronomical
event that occurs when the moon
passes between the sun and the
earth and partially blocked the sun.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the solar eclipse
started in Abuja at exactly 1. 03
p.m. as predicted by NASRDA.
NASRDA provided the students
and some Nigerians with
instruments, including Eclipse
shades to observe the eclipse.
The Supervising Minister for
Science and Technology, Mrs
Omobola Johnson, said the students
were invited to motivate them to
develop interest in the study
science and technology.
“We invited these students to
boost their interest in studying of
science and technology which is the
bedrock for industrialisation of any
nation.
“That is why we are using this
medium to encourage you to develop
interest in studying science and
technology, particularly astronomy
and space science,” Johnson said.
Johnson, represented by the
Permanent Secretary in the
ministry, Mrs Rabi Jimeta, said the
occurrence of the partial solar
eclipse revealed that space
technology was working in Nigeria.
Partial Solar Eclipse
She promised that government
would continue in its efforts at
ensuring the development of space
science in Nigeria.
The Director-General of NASRDA,
Prof. Seidu Mohammed, described
solar eclipse as a natural
phenomenon with no direct impact
on climate change.
He described as false insinuations
that occurrence of eclipse was an
indication that the world was
coming to an end.
“All that is happening is a natural
phenomenon and there is no
religious sentiment attached to it.
“This should help us to discourage
the mysteries attached to solar
eclipse by various religious bodies.
“From the scientific perspective,
it’s just a natural phenomenon.
“The signal from geo-stationary
satellites does not have effect on
any of the communication gadgets
like the GSM, aircraft and
businesses,” Mohammed said.
Some of the students, who spoke
with NAN, commended government
for the opportunity to observe it at
the centre, adding that it would
boost their interest in studying
science-related courses.
Mr Yat Japheth, a student of
Baptist High School, Kubwa, FCT,
said today was his first time of
observing solar eclipse with such
instruments provided by NASRDA.
Miss Peculiar Daniel, Scintillate Int’l
Model School, Lokoja, said the
opportunity would help her to know
more about the sun, the moon and
the earth.
Also, Mr Luru Adewumi, a teacher
at the Oak Height Schools, Lugbe,
Abuja, described it as an
opportunity that some of the
teachers never had when they were
in schools.
Adewumi said the opportunity would
not allow anybody to deceive the
students about strange
attachments to solar eclipse by
people.
Children in Abuja, today.
He said the experience would help
the students to understand the
practical aspects of science.
However, Mrs Akinwumi Arize, who
brought her five-year-old son to
observe the eclipse, said such
gesture would help children to know
how the galaxy and the universe
operate.
NASRDA had predicted that a
partial solar eclipse would occur in
Lagos at 12:30 p m.; Kano, 1.07 p. m.,
and Enugu, 1.04 p.m.
It also added that the entire
African continent would be
affected by the partial eclipse,
while some other parts of the world
would witness total eclipse.
The agency predicted that another
partial eclipse would occur in April
2014, March 2015 and September
2016. (NAN)
Vanguard

THE Christ Apostolic Church Good Women Association of Ijesha Land District Coordinating Council has praised the performance of the Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, since he assumed office almost three years ago.

The CAC women Association, who paid a courtesy call on the governor in Osogbo, said the beneficial programmes of government are now the talk of the town.

The leader of the group, Lady Evangelist J. K. Orimogunje, said CAC women know and appreciate the ongoing school reform because it is directed at reshaping and securing the future of school children in the state.

Orimogunje, who is also the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairperson in Ijeshaland, equally mentioned other laudable programmes of government in education, health, welfare and security, like the OYES scheme, monthly welfare scheme for vulnerable elders (Agba osun), school feeding scheme, free uniform initiative, eye surgery and free breast cancer test.

“We what to tell this government that we have intimated ourselves with the restructuring ongoing in the education sector and we approve of it in its totality because we know the ultimate beneficiaries are our school children, who are our tomorrow.

“Indeed, you are God-sent to the State of Osun and we the Good Women of CAC Ijesha District coordinating council know your worth and salute your courage in doing all that you are doing,” Orimogunje said.

She said that the move of the governor has been misconstrued by many people, who are alleging an Islamisation agenda. According to her, the governor is impartial to all religions.

She noted that Aregbesola’s impartiality, therefore, informed the decision by the CAC Women to select him as life patron of their organisation so as to demonstrate to the whole world how fairly he treats all religious organisations.

In his response, the governor commended the boldness of the group in coming out to commend the achievement of government and supporting its programmes and policies, particularly the school restructuring.

Aregbesola said things have gone so bad that the efforts of government look like an oasis in a vast desert.

He, however, promised that government would not rest on its oars until life become better and comfortable for the people in the state.

“I want to commend your group for this visit. I can say that yours is one of the first organisations that has studied government’s programmes elaborately and come out with a better understanding and appreciation of what we are doing.


Origin

Germany has become the first European country to allow parents of babies born with no clearly-defined gender characteristics to leave the ‘male/female’ field on birth certificates blank, creating a ‘third sex’ category in the public register.

The law, passed in August, comes into force on November 1. It was prompted by results of a 2012 study by the German Ethics Council, which found the rights of intersex people weren’t protected well enough.

The legislation is meant to prevent parents from making hasty decisions on controversial genital surgeries for their not-entirely-male-or-female newborns, done to make one of the two gender characteristics prevail.

"This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both -- people who do not fit into the traditional legal categories" University of Bremen law professor Konstanze Plett said as cited by AFP.

As adults, German intersex individuals will soon be also spared from the necessity to fit in the conventional gender framework, as the current two options of entering either ‘M’ for male or ‘F’ for female in a passport gender field, will be officially supplemented by a third option: ‘X’.

This kind of three-gender-choice system was introduced in Australia in 2011. New Zealand followed suit a year later. Intersex advocates, however, say that legalizing the status of intersex people is not exactly where the fight for their rights ends.

“As an adult with an X passport I can tell you that actually using that passport is fraught with difficulty. I can’t fly to the US with that passport, indeed I can’t even book a meeting about that with their consulate,” says Morgan Carpenter, president of Intersex International – Australia, in an official late October statement at the group’s webpage.

Still harder than coping with legal confusion is coping with centuries-old stereotypes, the activist believes.

“Intersex people are regarded by medicine as having ‘Disorders of Sex Development’,” Carpenter says. "The term ensures that sterilizations and unnecessary genital surgeries continue today. This remains our most fundamental concern. Genital surgeries continue in Australia to make infants and children ‘appear’ male or female.”

Germany is expected to face some of these issues as well, as the country’s marriage and partnership laws, for example, are based on the binary gender system. Besides there are so many everyday life situations, in which a neither-male-nor-female child might feel ill-at-ease.

"Schools have toilets for boys and toilets for girls. Where will the intermediate child go? There are separate sports activities for boys and for girls, and so many other things like this. The law doesn't change that. It does not immediately create a space for intersex people to be themselves," AFP cites Silvan Agius, policy director at ILGA Europe, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights group.

It’s estimated that on average one in 2,000 births is of an intersex baby. Advocates argue the actual figure is much larger as intersexuality might sometimes not be immediately defined.

According to German government figures of 2007, cited by Reuters, at least 150 intersex babies are born in Germany each year and 8,000-10,000 people have ‘serious variations’ from physical gender-defining characteristics.

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Where is the pics of 30 people that died ?

Op u remind of highyo of nairaland

Bloody Politics

How many minutes more ?

Where are the good girls ?
Good men are around now.

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Soldier Come Soldier Go so noting is new

Ok, i will look with my korokoro eyes

Less than 400hours to elect Ngige as the New Gov of Anambra

With 10naira u can contact cholera so becareful

Hmmmm Up Kano

Cholera time things

Sampe Pics= Different Topics

Until i see 24/7 power supply in my house/work place before i believe privatization/government is working. Anything less of 24/7 is poorest.

Change is the contant thing in life @ least for once they should go for a change so as to enable Anambra acheive their optimal best even if they dont like my amala, ikokore , iyan , gbegiri , ewedu party etc they have others likeLP, NDP and co

Obianno is not ready to be a governor, d guy is being forced by Peter Obi to come and rule Anambra by force, if not some basic things should have been known by Willie like the issue of Voters Card and now Immunity .
Laughing in swahili jhhjdjdhjdjdjdjdjdjdjdjdj

9japipper: Do u know how you appear when u curse someone on an online forum like this? Grow up my brother.

bro, I undastand u , sm pple are born to curse no matter how caution them they will always do it.
@topic , I think sm times will Nigerians deserve the kind of leaders we have, when we see the truth we failed to follow d truth rather we prefer sm1 that will lie to us. If afta 8yrs the front of govt house cud look like ds , dn what can we say abt d rural areas.

@ least fuel subsidy scandal by the cabals will reduce in my beloveth con3 and farming will know be our priority

Privatization here and there but no major significant yet, let hope may be ds will bcom reality . Anyway sha power in d office is abt 18hrs a day but @ home 2-3hrs a day

My tribe has being causing some sleepness night to some some individual. I just hope they wont die young because of my tribe. All fellow doctors in the house get ur hypertensive drugs ready cos hypertension may be on rise any time soon.
Odua tokan tokan

waternogetenemy: An incumbent have never lost election in Nigeria before and GEJ will not be the first.

list of incumbent Gov that lost are
Ikedi ohakim of(ppa) pdp to Okorocha rochas of (apgs) apc
o, alao akala of pdp to abiola ajumobi(acn) apc , aliyu doma of pdp to
umaru tanko almakura (cpc) apc. GEJ may be d 1st incumbent presi to loss an election in Nigeria