Where are you now or shifted to Osi ?

jimi4us:
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Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigeria's military on Saturday claimed further gains in its counter-offensive against Boko Haram, but the group's shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed the talk of success as "lies".

Army spokesman Sani Usman said troops destroyed more rebel enclaves and camps in the restive state of Borno, which has been worst hit by the six-year Islamist insurgency.

"The fight against the terrorists in the northeast is gaining successful momentum, with most of the camps falling to the Federal might," he said in a statement.

A total of 62 people were rescued from around the town of Gwoza, which last year Boko Haram declared the headquarters of its caliphate but which it lost control of in March.

Some 77 men, women and children, most of them "haggard, dejected and obviously malnourished", also arrived in the town of Bama on Saturday, Usman said.

One man picked up said he had his right hand cut off by militants in their Sambisa Forest stronghold in Borno last year, he said, adding that eight Boko Haram suspects surrendered to troops.

Nigeria's military has claimed a series of successes against Boko Haram recently and on Friday said it had rescued 90 people and dislodged Boko Haram from two villages near Gwoza.

President Muhammadu Buhari in early August gave his new military commanders three months to defeat Boko Haram, after six years of violence, at least 15,000 dead and more than two million homeless.

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Shekau has not been seen on video since February and until an audio message last month had not spoken since March, when he proclaimed Boko Haram's allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group.


This screen grab image taken on February 18, 2015 from a video made available by Islamist group Boko …
His absence sparked fresh rumours about whether he was still alive or had been deposed as leader, with other videos this year fronted by an unknown rebel under the name Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Shekau said in a 25-minute recording in Hausa and Arabic via social media: "They (the military) lied that they have confiscated our arms, that we have been chased out of our territories, that we are in disarray.

"We are alive, I am alive, this is my voice, more audible than it was before. This is Shekau."

He added: "Buhari is a liar and has deceived you. The army spokesman is also lying. He and his footsoldiers always run helter-skelter whenever we come face to face with them...

"Buhari, you once claimed that you will crush us in three months. How can you crush us?"

Shekau directly refers to IS group leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, to whom he says he is "loyal and subservient".

He also namechecks IS spokesman Abu-Mohammed al-Adnani and sends "greetings to the faithful in Yemen", where there is also an IS "affiliate".

There was no indication of where or when the recording was made but it appears to have have been in recent days.

Shekau talks of Buhari's "deal with Hollande", referring to the Nigerian president's three-day visit to Paris earlier this week, which included talks with his French counterpart Francois Hollande.

He also dismissed as untrue Buhari's comments about "our brethren in prison".

Buhari this week said the Nigerian authorities were talking to Boko Haram prisoners in their custody and could offer them amnesty if the group hands over more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last year.
http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-leader-dismisses-nigerian-military-claims-215252023.html

Ekumeku Movement
The Ekumeku Movement consisted of a series of uprisings against the rising power of the Royal Niger Company of the British Empire in the Anioma communities of the Western Igboland. The British penetration of Nigeria met with various forms of resistance throughout the country. In the south, the British had to fight many wars, in particular the wars against the Ijebu (a Yoruba group) in 1892, the Aro of Eastern Igboland in 1901–1902, and from 1883–1914, the Anioma.

Opposition was strong in Anioma land where a series of wars were waged against the British. The Ekumeku, who were well organised and whose leaders were joined in secrecy oaths, effectively utilised guerrilla tactics to attack the British. Their forces, which were drawn from thousands of Anioma youth from all parts of Anioma land, created many problems for the British, but the British used forceful tactics and heavy armaments (destroying homes, farms, and roads) to prevail. The Ekumeku, however, became a great source of Anioma nationalism.

The Ekumeku Movement is unique in Anioma history for two reasons. First, the length of time the movement endured, comprising Military campaigns over a period of thirty one years. Secondly it is the outstanding example in Anioma Civilization of an attempt to unite previously disunited states to resist the colonial army. You have seen that one crucial reason for Anioma defeat was the great discrepancy of scale between the average Anioma community and the colonial army. The British decided on a preemptive strike, and in December 1902 sent a powerful expedition which systematically destroyed a number of towns and imprisoned their leaders. This, it was assumed, was the end of the Ekumeku.."the Ekumeku and other secret societies have been completely broken".

In 1904, the Ekumeku rose again. This time the changed their tactics, mistakenly, it would seem in retrospect, abandoning the united guerilla warfare of 1898 for the individual defence of each town. The last act of the Eureka drama began in late 1909. The occasion was a succession dispute in Ogwashi-Uku. One of the claimants, Nzekwe, the son of the last Obi, feared that the British would deprive him of his throne, and decided to fight for his inheritance.

History

On 2 November 1909, the British sent an expedition to Ogwashi-Uku but they failed in the expedition. The British perceived, in the whole Asaba hinterland, a sympathy with the Ekumeku, and a disposition to throw off government authority. In 1911, there was a final round-up of Ekumeku leaders in various towns that was followed, once more, by imprisonments.

The acting lieutenant-governor of the southern provinces sent an agitated telegram to Lagos: "Whole country is above area...is the state of rebellion." Reinforcements arrived from Lokoja, and the British proceeded to a confrontation at Akegbe. We quote both the contemporary British accounts of the battle at Nkwo market.

The war

With the invasion of Ndoni in 1870 and bombardment of Onicha-Ado (Onitsha) on 2 November 1897, the stage was set for the Ekumeku war that engulfed the whole of Anioma. The Royal Niger Company (RNC) commandered by Major Festing engaged Ibusa in 1898, and in 1904 it was the people of Owa/Ukwunzu against the British in a war that W. E. B. Crawford Coupland requested for more arms to crush the western Anioma communities. Owa would once again engage the British in 1906 in battle that S. O. Crewe lost his own life. On 2 November 1909, it was finally the turn of Ogwashi-Ukwu who matched the British. In this war the British sustained many casualties with the death of H. C. Chapman.

Aftermath

Although the Ekumeku failed in 1914, but the western Anioma treasure their memory as imperishable legacy. Heroes included Dunkwu Isus of Onicha-Olona, Nwabuzo Iyogolo of Ogwashi-Ukwu, Awuno Ugbo, Obi of Akumazi, Agbambu Oshue of Igbuzo, Idabor of Issele-Ukwu, Ochei Aghaeze of Onicha-Olona, Abuzu of Idumuje-Unor, Idegwu Otokpoike of Ubulu-Ukwu are still remembered in Anioma land. The Ekumeku War is one of the most vigorous campaign of opposition to the British empire and inspired later rebellions such as the Mau Mau of Kenya.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekumeku_Movement

*baboons and monkeys

By Bisi Lawrence
What did the former military ruler and former Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, General Muhammadu Buhari mean by saying that, if the national elections in 2015 were not fairly conducted, “the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood”? It seems to be an idiomatic phrase portending evil, especially with the chilly connection of blood in its connotation. Could it have meant that “blood would flow”? Or that certain elements would be drenched in blood? Who is the “monkey” and who is the “baboon”?

One believes that the broad interpretation would be that a rigged election, which the nation has suffered before, would provoke a bit of mayhem if it was repeated in 2015. But those who are making so much of out of it give the impression that: one, the CPC leader has issued a threat that there would be bloodshed if his party did not win the elections in 2015—the accompanying caveat of rigging is carelessly, or carefully, de­emphasized; and two, that he was already inciting, or even preparing, for the occasion of such a bloodbath.

However, we all know that several other people have made statements that stopped short of making “a call for revolution” (with apologies to Osita Agwuna, peace to his shades.) Highly placed intellectuals have mentioned the word “revolution”; highly respectable politicians —an endangered species —have also raised it in alarm; highly revered clerics have also spoken about it in trembling voices; all as the possible outcome of any perpetrated assault on the freedom of the people to determine their destiny through the ballot box. Buhari could not have intended to convey anything much more than that, or could he? He did not even say the dread word, “revolution”.

It may all be politics, of course, but obviously a ploy that is based on wrangling with the opposition will ultimately prove to be counter-productive to those in power. Apart from the devastation it does to the image of government, it only highlights the fact that the sensibilities of the masses are ruffled when the lightest touch of hectoring is perceived by the people as a device of governance. For instance, in coming down so heavily on Buhari, his critics unfortunately simultaneously exposed their own flanks to blazing— though similarly— ineffectual criticism themselves.

Could you imagine anyone less uncomfortable with quoting someone’s former statements to illustrate a volta-face in that person’s new position, than Dr. Rueben Abati, the present mouthpiece of the presidency? How could he feel comfortable to recall whatever Mallam Nasir el Rufai might once have said about Buhari, without inviting a reprise of his own unflattering statements about the personification of the presidency for which he now goes to bat?

General Buhari’s remarks may not have been statesmanlike, especially in the way they were couched. But he is in the opposition and allowances must be given for his frustrations. A judicious reference to his failures to return to power, this time legally, might have been enough to set him back on his seat, instead of a lengthy harangue from the seat of power. It was almost as justifiable, and practicable, as attempting to swat a fly with a mallet. The entire exercise seemed to represent an attempt at a total squelch, an over-kill purposed to reduce the opposition’s view to smithereens. If that is successful all the time, of course, we would totally have lost our much-touted democracy since it cannot exist in the absence of an opposition.

On the other hand, responsible leadership is also a function of the opposition in any democracy. It perforce has noble action, sound thinking, and patriotic utterance as its important components. Irresponsible statements, no matter how much they might have emanated from the stress of disappointment and the bitterness of disillusionment, should not be the habitual brand of someone who plays, or aspires to play, a leading role in society.

A statement from the camp of the beleaguered former Military of Head of State characterizes those who resent the controversial remark of Buhari as those who would stand in the way of a fair and free election. Are those the “baboons”?

And are the “monkeys” then those who would cause the blood to flow? As far as I can see, so many bloated baboons are behaving too much like mischievous monkeys, to tell one from the other at this time.

*one more for the team

Among the many burning issues before this nation today is the towering question of how we can exist together. Some people even delimit it to whether we should live together at all.

We seem to have passed through the initial fever of the first notion that gripped us; I refer to the Sovereign National Conference. It stayed with us for quite a while, and might not have entirely said goodbye to its most ardent adherents. It had a number of those, at the beginning, until it became apparent that it would naturally destabilize those who were in a position to facilitate its coming to life. It is simply not feasible in our country to reshape our lives to that extent.

So we began to speak about fiscal federalism—in other words, the determination of how we can share our resources equitably, with regard to the source of the revenue—mainly petroleum products, our pre-occupation with which has drowned the serious interest we should take in other resources.

However, some states seem to be recovering from the petroleum obsession. They are re­valuating the strengths of their past and re-discovering the beauty of their heritage.

They have come to the realization that they can re-establish the old glory that was theirs. And this has come not a moment too soon as events make them to realize that they have been singled out as the team to beat. It is apparent that they can stand secure and unassailable, if only they indeed had a team— ­the full team.

Now, this goes beyond winning elections, or belonging to a particular political party, or establishing a personal cult of independence. It is gradually emerging in the shape of regions now, the old regions which the mindless pursuit of state creation slashed into shreds.

The North valiantly held on to that heritage of a monolithic philosophy which embraces Tiv, Hausa, Fulani, Gwari and so many other groups into one massive visage. Many people of the old West know who is keeping aloof, and preventing the emergence in the West of one mighty voice. This page calls today for a total unity of purpose among the inheritors of Obafemi Awolowo, to strengthen the unity of Nigeria.

And why not? The Ondo people have always identified with the brightest heritage of Yorubaland.

Time out.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/baboons-and-monkeys/

EasternLionn:
Hmm, nawa ooo, KARMA is a biatch

“Nna nke bina igwe Chukwu Okike Abhiama we have made the short journey by sea from Macau to Hong Kong to bear testimony to your everlasting faithfulness. Accept my total submission to your will and offering of praise this day, for without you we are nothing. As you decreed, we shall preach your gospel here as we did in Macau where we pray for your guidance and protection of the IPOB Family there. We have no power nor might but only your grace can guide and sustain us, for in the end Biafra will be restored and when it does, your name will be hallowed throughout the surface of this earth forever and ever…….Iseee” – Kanu posted few hours ago on his Facebook page

http://www.igberetvnews.com/?p=11891

Hungry Oba

The zoo must fall first

Then we can listen to them

The table may turn, So we may see

impeachment of Buhari

Buhari should as a matter of urgency appoint a new president (Hausa) for them and probe the coup leader

Joc86:
Are you saying that yerobas are lost children of Benins?.

NOBODYY:
Dele is wah language?
French??
Some ppl sha

ROTMI Amechi is he from Yoruba, Mohammed Azikiwe (Zik's son) is he from the North ...

Things are really unfolding these days against the claims by Yorubas. Just like it was highlighted that Lagos is owned by Benins, it is revealed that Oduduwa is Benin people word One wonders if Yorubas are real at all ? Why borrowing words and claiming things that originated from Benin without any credit to the originator ?

This is also same when Yorubas, due to brevity of the journalist Dele Giwa, Yorubas are claiming he was a Yoruba man but the fact is that Dele Giwa was from Old Bendel state...

hmmm

This man is never tired of propaganda... Shame

Buhari Is Ticking Time Bomb by Femi Aribisala

Editor’s note: Femi Aribisala, international affairs expert, has severely criticized President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that he wasted 100 days of Nigerian lives. Aribisala claimed that electing Buhari as president was a big national blunder.
Buhari made himself the sole administrator of Nigeria
In the middle of a national economic crisis, the president has been comatose. He made himself the sole administrator of Nigeria; a role not envisaged by the Constitution. These 100 days, Buhari has been the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Petroleum, as well as the Attorney-

General. He has been the Minister of Education, even though we are yet to see his school-leaving certificate. He alone has been the minister in all the ministries of the federal government.
As a result, the country has ground to a halt. There has been no national direction, no economic policy; no government. Only bombastic anti-corruption rhetoric. Not surprisingly, the economy has gone from bad to worse. Official reports from the National Bureau of Statistics indicate that while like Nero, Buhari fiddles as Nigeria burns, our GDP has plummeted to 2.35%; a 40% decline under Buhari. Job-creation has dropped by 69 %.

The CBN, in its monetary policy committee report of August 2015, complained that: “lack of fiscal directives is behind (Nigeria’s) current economic woes.” This is a big indictment of the administration. The coming of Buhari has brought about stagnation in domestic and foreign direct investments. The stock market has nose-dived, with investors scared away due to uncertainties arising from the government’s indecisiveness in the face of national economic adversity.
President’s failed promises

It is now clear that Buhari obtained votes from Nigerians during the election through false presences. Contrary to his highfalutin campaign promises, he has not stabilised the international price of oil. Instead, it has fallen drastically from $60 to $40. Buhari has not made the naira equal to the dollar. As a matter of fact, it has depreciated considerably under his short watch. He has not used his vaunted military experience to defeat Boko Haram. On the contrary, the insurgency has become far more deadly, with over 1,000 innocent Nigerians killed within just three months.
Buhari’s promised free meals for school-children, allowances for discharged youth corpers, and 5,000 naira monthly allowance for indigent Nigerians have all turned out to be poppycock. He has not even mentioned the coal industry in Enugu, how much more made any moves to revive it. His boast to APC governors that he will recover billions of dollars of stolen funds within three months has proved to be hogwash. With the election over, he quickly backtracked on Chibok, saying: “We do not know if the Chibok girls can be rescued.”

In my years as a public policy analyst, I have never seen a government anywhere spend its vital first 100 days doing absolutely nothing like this one. In defence of the president’s ineptitude, Lai Mohammed said in a recent interview that: “Buhari never promised he was going to do anything in 100 days, that’s the honest truth.” This admission by the mouthpiece of the APC confirms conclusively that President Buhari has wasted 100 days of Nigerian lives.
Buhari’s anti-corruption strategy
Buhari’s so-called fight against corruption has already become a farce. The first salvo was to lock up former Jigawa state governor and prospective 2019 PDP presidential candidate, Sule Lamido and his two sons in jail with extreme prejudice. Then when Saraki rocked the boat by steamrolling himself to the Senate presidency without APC endorsement, his wife was peremptorily invited for lunch by the EFCC. The Senate has now retaliated by putting the EFCC Chairman himself on trial on allegation he stole trillions of recovered naira.
The truth of the matter is that any anti-corruption probe is likely to open up a can of worms. Buhari is surrounded by corrupt politicians. Indeed, the APC is so corrupt; the president has not been able to find 36 “clean” ministers among his colleagues in over 100 days. That is some kind of a negative record.

After claiming he did not have the 27.5 million naira required for the APC presidential nomination papers and had to borrow it, Buhari now claims he has 30 million naira sitting pretty in his bank account. How does he account for this discrepancy? Some of us are also wondering where he got all the money used to finance his expensive election campaign.
The president of Northern Nigeria
With 100 days in office, Buhari’s ethnic chauvinism is no longer hidden. We have now discovered that what he meant to say on his inauguration is: “I belong to every Northerner, and I belong to no Southerner.” The president went on official trip to the U.S. without an economic agenda, but with 29 Northerners and only four Southerners. While there, he declared that: “The constituents (that) gave me 97 percent cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me five percent.”

We now understand his thinking. Fulani herdsmen continue to kill innocent farmers while Buhari sees no evil and hears no evil; after all, he called them “my people” to Lam Adesina of Oyo State. Of the 32 critical appointments he has made so far, 27 are from his native North and only five from the South. Not a single appointment from the South-East. When queried about this blatant discrepancy, Femi Adesina from the South, and not Garba Shehu from the North, was craftily trotted out.
Tongue-in-cheek, we are told the appointments were made strictly on merit. But since when did the North acquire a monopoly of merit in Nigeria? How can the region with regularly low cut-off JAMB scores suddenly become the citadel of the most meritorious public servants in the country?

The zouht vest should be ready for the same fate cus they will be overrun

The Zoo must fall

Gowon should be questioned for Jos killing because he likes killing Christians as he did to Biafrans...

Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has said that talks of victories by Nigerian troops against Boko Haram, must be taken with caution, even skepticism, especially with the difficulty in accessing the conflict zone by the media and members of the diplomatic community.

The diplomat noted also that in response to military action, the sect has displayed an ability to evolve new strategies of warfare such as using young girls as suicide bombers.

“The credibility of security service statements is not high. It is hard to confirm the Nigerian military’s claims of success as it is difficult for foreigners, including the diplomatic community and the media, to access the areas where Boko Haram traditionally operates in Nigeria,” Campbell stated.

Campbel observed that the military had in the past made exaggerated claims about its victories over the insurgency group.

“Military claims of success must be viewed with caution if not skepticism. Throughout the struggle between Boko Haram and the Nigerian state, beginning with the former’s re-emergence in 2011, security service spokesmen have made exaggerated claims of success.”

Recently, the military said several members of the sect have surrendered but Campbell, writing in the blog Africa in Transition, said the recent bomb attack at the Malkohi internally displaced persons camp in Yola, Adamaw state, showed that Boko Haram still poses serious security risk, despite its inability to take control of any territory again.

“Military spokesmen claim that large numbers of Boko Haram operatives are surrendering. They also cite military capture of Boko Haram arms, food, and even narcotics. On the other hand, Boko Haram terrorism continues, as documented by the Council on Foreign Relations’ Nigeria Security Tracker,” the former ambassador wrote.

Since President Muhammadu Buhari gave a marching order to service chiefs to end Boko Haram in three months, the military has frequently churned out statements of victories recorded against the group and the only information available even to the media comes from the defence spokespersons, with no way of verifying such claims.

The American diplomat also said the recent report of arrest of Boko Haram suspects in Katsina, Lagos and Enugu states, if confirmed, showed that notwithstanding the group’s dwindling membership, its determination to spread beyond its primary locations of Borno, Yobe and Adamwa cannot be underestimated.

President Buhari has made tackling insecurity a top priority and most of his foreign trips since coming to power have been to this end, with the President expected back to the country today from France, where he got President Francois Hollande’s promise of military assistance in tackling Boko Haram.

http://icirnigeria.org/u-s-diplomat-john-campbell-dismisses-claims-of-military-victories-over-boko-haram/

Good one to the original source

It still Broadcasting live noe

nobeku:
You know what your problem is?You are Sex Starved!!!!I don't know if normal sex will help you.. RAPING you might just do! Since the first lady was raped by her husband... OLORI BURUKU!!!!

Shame to enemies of truth Seems u are also a product of rape too Rape by President Buhari or almajaris is same. Rape is rape... Buhari is a rapist and must be condemned...

Oh North why wasting that money on that it.

Agriculture could have been better