After over 160 days in captivity, some of the 219 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, have been released by the Boko Haram, FirstAfricaNews has learnt.


While a source said about 50 of them were released in a swap deal in two lorries, the Chairman, Chibok Local government Council, Mr. Bana Lawan, said on Wednesday that four of the girls fell ill and were released by their captors.

Lawan gave the information in Abuja at a one-day stakeholders’ meeting for validation of draft humanitarian response plan for the abducted girls.

The meeting was organised by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
He said the girls were released on Tuesday to bring the number of those that had regained their freedom to 57.

Lawan commended Nigerians for showing concern and support for Chibok people, saying the support had restored the hope and aspiration of the people for the return of peace to the community.

He also praised the Federal Government’s prompt intervention through the provision of relief items for the people.

He urged the government to resuscitate the facilities destroyed by the insurgents and improve security in the affected school to boost the morale of the students.

Lawan explained that boys were encouraged to attend GGSS in Chibok because of the lack of education facilities in the area and appealed for the construction of boys’ hostels in the school.

He said the construction of the hostels would reduce the hardship faced by the students, who attended school from afar.
When contacted the leader of the Chibok community that met with President Goodluck Jonathan in the villa last month, Dr. Bitrus Pogu said the community is yet to be officially informed about the schoolgirls release.

News that Boko Haram agreed to release the abducted 219 Chibok girls if the Federal Government will simultaneously set free its 18 key commanders has been on the airwaves in the last couple of weeks.
The two parties have asked their representatives to go back to their leaders on the new swap deal proposal.

Prior to the latest agreement at the talks in Abuja, which was witnessed by some officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC), Boko Haram had insisted on a piecemeal release of the girls, with priority given to 30 married Christians among them.

The Federal Government also offered to release six of the 18 sect leaders in detention.

The two sides maintained a parallel stand until they met again in Abuja at a session facilitated by the President, Civil Rights Congress (CRC), Comrade Shehu Sani.

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Former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu-Sheriff has come under heavy criticism over the gift of one hundred and fifty million naira he offered to cater for the victims of Boko Haram in the North-eastern States.


The former governor has been in the eye of the storm after the Australian hostage negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, alleged that Sheriff was one of the sponsors of the terrorist group.

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A businessman in Nigeria died after being raped by five of his six wives. According to the Daily Mail, Uroko Onoja partied at a bar in Ugbugbu in Benue State until the wee hours of the morning in July.

When he returned home, he decided to have sex with his youngest wife. However, his five other wives became jealous and barged into his master bedroom. The women were armed with knives and sticks and began attacking Onoja. They eventually forced Onoja to have sex with them as well.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday warned those nursing the plan to postpone the 2015 general elections to abandon the plot, saying Nigerians will resist all attempts to get tenure elongation through the back door.

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The son of Nigeria’s First Republic Prime Minister, Dr. Abdul Jhalil Tafawa Balewa, Saturday, said he would contest the 2015 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Balewa who condemned plot by the leadership of the party to demoralize other presidential aspirants said “I am not intimidated by the decision of the PDP governors and the party to support the second term aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan”.

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Much ado has been made about recent events in South Africa concerning the Nigerian-owned jet that was found loaded with millions of dollars and that was in the process of procuring arms and a fighter helicopter for the Nigerian military and security agencies.

As a former Minister of Aviation, I wish to assure the general public that the flying of large sums of cash by security and intelligence agencies for the purchase of arms in a time of war and conflict is something that is quite normal and it happens quite often. As a matter of fact, it has happened under successive Nigerian governments, both military and civilian.


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Ugandan MPs have been inundated with complaints that many condoms on sale in the east African nation are too small, warning the problem is a blow to the fight against AIDS.


Insisting that one size doesn't fit all, MP Tom Aza of Uganda's Parliamentary Committee for HIV/AIDS said a recent tour of areas worst hit by the virus revealed that some men "have bigger sexual organs and therefore should be considered for bigger condoms."

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The honest taxi driver, Mr Imeh Usuah, who returned $120,000, (about 18 Million Naira) left in his car by a passenger is among the 305 Nigerians and foreigners to be honoured with this year’s National Honours. He gets an MFR.
The 305 who Nigerians distinguished themselves in their callings will on Monday, September 29 be honoured for their contributions to national development.

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Bomb blast and shootings at FCE Kano Minutes ago. many students and others killed

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Mohammed Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brother of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is the Caliph of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, has converted to christianity, reports Al-Jazeera this morning.
The move has brought the man an unprecedented backlash from the Salafist Sunni community that has ordered a fatwa, or death-sentence, on the man as soon as the news was spread in media around the muslim world.

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firstafricanews: The $9.3m cash in several suit cases found in the seized aircraft in South Africa belongs to the Federal Government, it has been disclosed.

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Should NASS Approve $1bn Loan to Fight Boko Haram?
President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for approval of $1 billion loan to purchase arms and ammunitions appears to be the most important to the National Assembly it resumes from its annual leave.
The President had in a letter dated July 15, 2014 explained that the external loan was urgently needed to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of the Armed Forces and security services in order to enable them to confront the insurgents more forcefully.
The National Assembly had in the N4.6tn 2014 Budget provisions, appropriated N968.127bn for Defence on account of the Boko Haram insurgency.
The Senate mandated the joint committee to report back to plenary within one week.
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Keep dreaming. If the so-called “fool” decides to defect to PDP today, y'all will welcome like the way you welcomed FFK. Shameless party!

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A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir el-Rufai Tuesday chose Fadan Kagoma, the country home of the late governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, in Jama’ah Local Government Area of the state to begin his gubernatorial open consultations.
The former minister was at the palace of Kpop Gwong, Col. Paul Zakka-Wyoms (retd.), the Paramount Ruler of the Gwong to formally intimate the monarch on his governorship ambition.

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Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Joseph Mbu, has described himself as a lion, who tamed the ‘leopard of Port Harcourt’, in apparent reference to his face-off with Governor Rotimi Amaechi of River State.

“I advise you (CP) to carry the senior officers along in your administration. It is only a lion that can tame a leopard. I tamed the leopard in Port Harcourt, each time he remembers my face, he would remember how I tamed him,” Mbu said, drawing loud laughter from the audience.

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A court-martial in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced 12 soldiers to death by firing squad for mutiny.
The court, which handed the judgment at 1.35a.m., also one was handed a 28-day with hard labour, while five others were freed.
The condemned soldiers are Cpl. Jasper Braidolor, Cpl. David Musa, Lance Cpl. Friday Onun, Lance Cpl. Yusuf Shuaibu, Lance Cpl. Igomu Emmanuel and Pte. Andrew Ngbede.

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One of the private jets said to have attempted to smuggle US$9.3 million meant for buying arms for the Nigerian intelligence service has been linked to the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor......

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A South African minister has said the acquittal of athlete Oscar Pistorius of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is "extremely disappointing".


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There was pandemonium this Saturday in Minna the Niger State capital, as part of the podium hosting several top government officials.


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Son of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Lt. Col. Adeboye Obasanjo who sustained injuries in a gun battle with Boko Haram insurgents in Michika on Monday has been treated and discharged from the hospital.


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