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Iam least bothered. but better than french

i can see biafra war repeated

I just hope my Efik people stay out of this nonsense . . polity is getting heated rapidly

Any fellow supporting this should be killed

he should be killed . this is worse than gay marriages

I hate gay marriage >:. Having said that what gays do to themself in their bedroom is non of our business.we have bigger fish to fry

Rossikk: When I passed through Abuja the other day I barely saw ten aircraft on the tarmac.

we r our own enemies .See op lies

so India generates 225,133 MW while we generate 5000mw

smh

good development UP GEJ

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Tippi was born in Namibia, where her parents, Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, worked as freelance wildlife photographers. She was named after Tippi Hedren. During her stay in Namibia, she befriended wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, crocodiles, lion cubs, giraffes, a Northern Greater Galago, a Banded Mongoose, an Ostrich, meerkats, a baby zebra, a cheetah, a Caracal, a snake, an African Grey Parrot, giant bullfrogs and chameleons. She also befriended the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, and to speak their language.
Tippi later moved with her parents to Madagascar and then to France, where she became a celebrity.[6] A book of her adventures was published and translated in several languages. My Book of Africa is a bestselling novel of Tippi's adventurous life in Namibia. She also set up a website, and returned to Africa to make six nature documentaries for the Discovery Channel.
In Paris (France), Tippi attended a local state school for the first two years, but was then homeschooled because she was found to have little in common with the other children in Paris.[5] She is now studying cinema at la Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.[9]

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75% of the country has no power since ages and yet idiots will come and tell how great nigeria is.
. Atleast 50% of people ie 80 million people would have never experienced electricity in lifetime particularly in villages

Good job GEJ .Whether PDP OR ACN, which ever party is in power in states or nation. Nigeria is progressing .
If we maintain the same growth we will join china and india at top of the developing countries.

Width of river Niger at Onitsha is 1050 meters.
While the length of Niger bridge is 1400 meters with 175 meters of bridge inland on Asaba side and 175 meters inland in Onitsha side .

I agree with the poster .

We need people like Oshiomhole in plenty, for nigeria to move forward
religion is the biggest bane of the nigerian society

Arik airlines should not condone the behaviour of staff . let the prosecution present the full facts then we can judge.
until then innocent till proven guity

qualified: I believe the military, thus, Nigeria will win d battle. Call it faith or anything but i know evil never triumphs over good.
May God help and protect JTF.
Long live JTF
long live our president
long live Nigeria

Why dont we do analysis of the situation, instead of saying god will protect JTF .

confusion247: Nigerian soldiers will never win this war because northern Muslims are solidly behind boko haram. Northern Muslims sees Nigerian soldiers as the enemy while they regard boko haram as fighting jihad and a legitimate war.

Then we should prepare for disintegration of nigeria.

A good analysis of the current situation without taking any sides.
The success to mission depends on nigerian soldiers winning the hearts and minds of the locals or else we will drag on the conflict for years leading to disintegration of nigeria

There is no doubt that the situation in northern Nigeria is deteriorating fast and now President Goodluck Jonathan has admitted as much.

No-one else in the government had dared say a word.

The frequency and scale of the attacks carried out by the militant group popularly known as Boko Haram forced the president to take action and to silence some of his critics who accuse him of being out of touch and slow to react.

"These terrorists and insurgents seem determined to establish control and authority over parts of our beloved nation and to progressively overwhelm the rest of the country," said President Jonathan in a televised address.

The tone of the speech was somewhat surprising.


Here was the president of the country effectively telling every Nigerian: "You are all in danger".

Perhaps it was aimed at getting widespread approval for the imminent military offensive.

The Nigerian military has promised "massive deployment of men and resources aimed at asserting the nation's territorial integrity."

Soldiers are being sent to the three states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno - where the attack on Bama occurred last week.

Describing that attack, an army spokesman told the media that dozens of Boko Haram fighters had arrived in the town, some 70km (44 miles) from Maiduguri, the regional capital of Borno, before dawn in pick-up trucks mounted with heavy firepower as well as in buses.

Mali parallel
The militants killed police officers, soldiers and prison staff before releasing more than 100 inmates.

It was an unusual account coming from an army that has a reputation for playing down the number of casualties following Boko Haram attacks.

It is not clear how declaring a state of emergency in three north-eastern states will change the situation on the ground.


Comparisons have been made between Boko Haram and the Islamist rebels in Mali prior to the French military intervention in January.

Some analysts have suggested that if left to fester, there is little to stop Boko Haram from setting up its own Islamic institutions in the extreme north-east of the country.

Will more boots on the ground improve the situation?

Much will depend on how the troops behave.

Not for the first time, the Nigerian army has been accused of carrying out human rights abuses - last month in the town of Baga in Borno state, residents said soldiers targeted civilians and burnt homes in response to the killing of a soldier.

The military denied the accusations whilst at the same time stating that the militants were hiding amongst the civilian population.

"We call on all citizens to co-operate with our security agencies to ensure a return to normalcy within the shortest possible time," President Jonathan said in his address.

Amnesty?
It is a big ask.

In the already heavily militarised north of Nigeria, residents are hardly in a position to take sides.

Analysts argue that the military has already lost the battle for hearts and minds and residents feel trapped between the two sides of this murky conflict.

When a Reuters news agency journalist visited the battered town of Baga, he witnessed locals shouting abuse at soldiers.

The military faces an almost impossible task of defeating the militants without civilians paying an extremely heavy price.

President Jonathan does have another option.

Under pressure from northern politicians and religious leaders, he agreed to consider an amnesty for the militants despite the fact that he had earlier rejected the idea of dialogue.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau does not seem keen either.

"You talk of dialogue. You are free to say whatever you want but we will never stop our struggle," he said in the Hausa language in a recent video recording.

Seeing as the Islamist group is not a homogenous group, it is possible that some insurgents could be persuaded to adopt a peaceful path.

But as thousands of soldiers enter the increasingly militarised environment it seems highly unlikely that peace talks can gain any traction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22546745

where is the Anti-Corruption Network when obj stole 16 billon dollars .Selective justice does not work .

at least we r 4th in some thing .

The kind of money we as a nation r wasting is mind boggling

killing of any human is bad .but where r those so called northern politician when there is massacre of southern people from civil war to at present genocide of christians .

CFCfan: This Bala Na' Allah of a dude should definitely check-in at Yaba Left.

Why not wipeout entire north nigeria for bokoharam

tempest01: I served close to that area, I know what happened when fulani pple attacked our village then. The youths took some concoction to prevent guns from penetrating. No wonder they wey able to wipe the police. We will never know the politics involved in this killing...these eggon youths arm themselves to fight against fulanis...why involve the police instead of finding a lasting solution to the violence between the two waring sides.

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True talk brother . where is MR.El Rufai when odi village is massacred or any TIV or another mid eastern ethnic group
massacred by fulani groups.
Death whether fulani or any another ethnic group or police is condemnable . BuT why take selective justice