therefore Government of Nigeria should fix a date for referendum

Amarabae:
how is he a fraudster? Did he defraud you?

mekaboy:
Thunder fire u. Who are u to tell Anambra people how to run our state.

seunmsg:
Initially it was no referendum, no election in Anambra state. Now, it's no restructuring, no election. Meaning election can take place in Anambra without referendum. Reality is setting in gradually.

I have come to declare Ebonyi a Biafra state and when next I come, I will shut down the state for three days,” he said

emmasege:
Need you a further proof? Did the voice of B uhari as released on Sunday not suggest to you that he's been on life support? I can bet it with you that extra efforts and attention must have been given to him to be able to mutter those few words.

johnbuck81:
oya prove to us that Bubu is not on life support.

States under Biafra

It constituted the former Eastern region of Nigeria and was inhabited principally by Igbo (Ibo) people. Biafra has been commonly divided into four main "tribes": the Igbos, the Ibibio-Efiks, the Ijaws and the Ogojas. The modern-day states that make up Biafra from the eastern region and midwest are: Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Delta, Rivers and Cross River, Igbanke in Edo state and southern part of Benue state.

Demolaeby:
Free Biafra! Is a country on its own. 50yrs in enough to hold someone. Free them and let them have their resources. The have tried for allowing their oil money for Nigeria. Please, we should let them be. Enough is enough

Young03:
FG don divert our attention from d money

PapaBaby:
Patriotic Nigerians IPOB "corruption supporters" dey your back gidigba.

Wike we know

NwaObinkita:
Wike should go and brush his teeth...


We are too smart for his unintelligible propagandas.

No amount of threats would stop Rivers state from recovering Ikoyi cash – Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike insists the $43m recently discovered by the EFCC from a building in Ikoyi belongs to the Rivers state government - Wike says the federal government has refused to release the money to the Rivers state government even when it knows that the money belongs to the state - The governor says Rivers state will use every means to recover the money Governor Nyesom Wike has said he was currently working with some lawyers to make sure the $43m recently discovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from a building in Ikoyi, ‎Lagos was returned to Rivers state government.

Governor Wike speaking on Channels TV programme, Sun Rise Daily, on Friday, May 26, insisted that the money belonged to Rivers and that no amount of threats would stop the state from recovering it. The governor said the federal government had refused to release the money to Rivers state even when it knows that the money belongs to the state.

He said: "You and I know these people will never agree that the money belongs to Rivers, even when they know the bitter truth. "They want it in a hard way and we are ready to use every means to recover that money. “Is it not embarrassing that the EFCC has not come out to tell us who owns the money? Everybody knows the money belongs to Rivers but they don’t want to release it."

NAIJ.com had earlier reported that Governor Wike had alleged that the money was kept at the Ikoyi residence by the Rivers state administration of Amaechi, who is now a minister in the federal government. The governor claimed that the money was the proceed from the sale of gas turbines by the immediate past the Rivers state Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi has however dismissed the claims by Wike as untrue.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106698-no-amount-threats-stop-rivers-state-recovering-ikoyi-cash-wike.html

LoveMachine:
Why isn't he the governor of delta state?

wizzyenya:
guy waiting wike do u
abi wike f..... ur girl

ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by Islamist Boko Haram militants refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the weekend, a mediator involved in the release said on Monday.

The militants on Saturday released 82 schoolgirls out of the more than 200 they kidnapped in April 2014 from northeast Nigeria in exchange for prisoners.

Yet mediator and lawyer Zannah Mustapha said some of the abducted girls had refused to go home, fuelling fears that they have been radicalized by the jihadists, and may feel afraid, ashamed or even too powerful to return to their old lives.

"Some girls refused to return ... I have never talked to one of the girls about their reasons," said 57-year-old Mustapha, who acted as an intermediary in the latest negotiations between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram.

"As a mediator, it is not part of my mandate to force them (to return home)," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the capital Abuja.

The return of the 82 girls on Saturday marked the second group release of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram - with both deals brokered by Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross - after 21 young women were released in October.

A few others have escaped or been rescued, and 113 of the girls are believed to be still held in captivity by Boko Haram.

The latest release may give a boost to President Muhammadu Buhari, who made crushing the militants' insurgency a pillar of his election campaign in 2015, and said in April that the state was in talks to secure the release of the remaining captives.

Yet many women and girls abducted by Boko Haram identify with their captors, may not want to give up their new lives with their militant husbands, or feel forced to stay due to fear or shame, according to Nigerian psychologist Fatima Akilu.

"They develop Stockholm syndrome, identify with captors and want to remain," said Akilu, who has run deradicalization programs for Boko Haram militants and women abducted by them.

"Some are afraid of what to expect, the unknown. We don't know how much influence their husbands have in coercing them not to go back," added Akilu, head of the Neem Foundation, a non-profit group aimed at countering extremism in Nigeria.

NEGOTIATING FOR PEACE

Future talks between Nigeria and Boko Haram militants will extend beyond the release of the remaining Chibok girls in captivity and focus on negotiating peace in the conflict-hit northeast, according to Mustapha.

His role as a mediator dates back to 2007, when he founded the Future Prowess primary school in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state. When conflict broke out in 2009, the school remained open and even enrolled those children born to Boko Haram fighters.

The Islamists have killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency aimed at carving out an Islamic caliphate in mainly Muslim northeastern Nigeria.

"We are not just talking ... we are still actively working towards peace," Mustapha said.

"Even though we have got (some of) the girls back, I don't feel we have made much progress. After the (release of) the 21 girls, how many hundreds have been killed by suicide bombings?"

Although the army has retaken much of the territory initially lost to Boko Haram, large parts of the northeast, particularly in Borno, remain under threat from the militants, who have ramped up bombings and attacks in recent months.

The release of the 82 Chibok girls could be a sign that the militants are weakening further, raising hopes that the remaining captives will be freed one day, said security analyst Ryan Cummings, head of risk management consultancy Signal Risk.

"While Boko Haram may indeed hold out in releasing all of the hostages to maintain some form of leverage, the reality is that the girls have limited value to the sect outside of public relations capital and are likely placing a strain on resources."