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Before it get's busy tonight ... Before network get's jammed ... Before I get drunk with praises ... Before 2014 finally carry its bag and leave ... Before 2015 arrives and stays for the next 365 days to your delight ... Before anybody else wishes you ...... Let me be the 1st to WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR & PROSPEROUS 2015! You have been counted as a Successful Candidate for the year 2015. Rejoice and shout halleluyah!!!! Congratulations.

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Mod.....FP tinz, lt fellow nairaland see madness @ it peak

Tolzeal:
YES..SAYING IT LOUD....

Bro......ur comment is ridiculous

Tolzeal:
I think i wanna see more of that in 2015.

Do u mean it?

In his most recent column for Saturday Sun
titled Press Clips, veteran Nigerian journalist
Mike Awoyinfa chronicled Redeemed Pastor J.T.
Kalejaiye’s explosive sermon last Sunday in
which he appeared to be canvassing support for
the APC Buhari-Osinbajo ticket come February
2015.
In his message, Pastor Adeboye’s close
confidant and touted to be among the
favourites to one day take over Redeemed
Christian Church Of God (RCCG) predicted ‘there
would be a pleasant surprise in 2015 elections’,
telling congregants to ‘go and mark it’.
Sounding angry with the way Nigeria is going,
Pastor Kalejaiye, regional evangelist of RCCG
fumed:
“Of what use is my brother, my blood brother
who is not going to move the nation forward?
And you want me to vote for him because he is
my brother? Don’t let us deceive ourselves.”
“What are we saying? Let’s call a spade a spade,
brethren. Things cannot continue this way.
Corruption is the order of the day. You can steal
and nothing will follow . That’s all… Brethren, if
you don’t do something, something will do you.
Wake up!”
He continued, “We have to change our system…
Who is a Christian? Who is a Muslim? When I
was working somewhere, my boss was a
Muslim. I enjoyed under him. My boss
provoked me to study further. My boss was
always after my welfare. It shall be well him
wherever he is today. He is a Muslim. The
soldier attached to me was with me for almost
15 years. I never knew he was a Muslim. The day
he opened his mouth to say “Sir, I am Muslim,” I
said “What? But you follow me to the camp.
You do this, you do that.” He said that when it
was time to pray he would pray.
“Brethren, wake up! Who is a Christian? That
somebody goes to church doesn’t make him a
Christian. That somebody bears Christian name
doesn’t make him a Christian. You are a
Christian yet there is no employment for our
youths. People who should be feeding their
parents are still being fed by their parents. How
many youths can get married today without the
support of their parents financially ? During our
own time, we did our wedding, we only called
our parents to come and eat. Today, our
children who are 35, we are still feeding them."
It looks like the message of CHANGE is really
spreading fast!

Could this be fashion or madness... Share your views

1. The Gambia has only one
university.
2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only
Spanish speaking country.
3. South Africa is the most visited
African country.
4. Nigeria has the richest Black
people in Africa.
5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid
Footballer of all time, he received
about £350,000 weekly in Russia in
2011.
6. A person from Botswana is called a
Motswana, the plural is Batswana.
7. A person from Lesotho is called a
Mosotho.
8. A person from Niger is called a
Nigerien.
9. A person from Burkina Faso is
called a Burkinabe.
10. Nigeria has won more football
cups than England.
11. Zimbabwe’s President, Robert
Gabriel Mugabe is the world’s most
educated President with degrees, two
of them are Masters.
12. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest
club in Africa.
13. Didier Drogba is Chelsea’s highest
goalscorer in European competitions.
14. Johannesburg, South Africa is the
most visited city in Africa.
15. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play
for Àlgeria, but the selector rejected
him, saying they are already many
players like him in the team.
16. President Jacob Zuma was once a
referee in prison.
17. President Robert Mugabe was
jailed for 11 years for fighting for
freedom.
18. President Robert Mugabe is
Africa’s oldest Head of State and the
world’s second oldest Head of State.
He was born in 1924.
19. The Seychelles are the most
educated Africans. Seychelles’ literacy
rates (Adult: 92%, Youth: 99%)
Zimbabwe is 2nd (Adult: 91.2%,
Youth: 99%).
20. Rwanda is a better country for
gender equality than England and
USA.
21. And Nairobi is the only capital
city with a National Park.
What else do you know?
22.uganda last participated in African cup of nations
in 1972..
23. Tanzanias 90% of them speak Swahili
24. Uganda is 3rd best country in the whole world in
alcohol consumption

God save us in dis Yuletide season

An explosion bedded in a football field has killed one
person in Potiskum, Yobe State in north-east
Nigeria, witnesses said.
Residents of Potiskum told Channels Television that
the explosion occurred at the Arikime Primary
School playing ground and killed a sugar-cane
vendor who was heading home after the day’s
trading.
They believe the planted bomb that went off around
6:30pm local time on Sunday was targeted at
footballers using the playing ground.
The bomber, according to witnesses, was aiming at
killing early morning football players who often
besiege the busy Arikime playing ground for early
exercise only to be triggered prematurely by the
sugar-cane seller.
“The innocent wheelbarrow pusher runs into the
embedded explosion leading to his death and I can
assure you that the death toll this morning would
have been much if not for the early trigger which
claimed just one life,” a witness said.
The bomb is believed to have been planted by
members of the Boko Haram sect, who seem to be
having field days in the troubled Potiskum town in
the last quarter of this year.
Suicide bombers have about two months ago killed
Islamic faithful on procession.
Two weeks later students of the Government
Science Secondary School Potiskum were killed in
their numbers by a bomber who gained access to
the assembly ground of the school.
Relevant authorities are yet to confirm the Sunday
incident and no individual or group has claimed
responsibility of the attack.
Source: www.channelstv.com/2014/12/29/explosion-kills-one-yobe-state/

y.......

diluminati:
you mean that sly thief?

Mr President isn't sily, mind ur words

Ride on Mr President....... GEJ till 2019

Accept dis toking frm Mr President

Oh Lord! let ur will b done come 2015

HAS JONATHAN’S PRESIDENCY BECOME
IRRELEVANT? WORD OF THE LORD:
“The Lord God of heaven has put a fire on the
thrones of Nigeria that is waiting to consume those
who come to the throne in self-will.”
In 2010, under the unction of the Holy Spirit; I wrote
these words about President Jonathan’s
presidency:
The Lord said clearly that the divine mandate he is
giving to President Jonathan is to prepare the way
for the David that he is bringing to seat on the
throne of Nigeria. Jonathan is to lay the foundations
that will lead to the emergence of this David. That is
the divine mandate of God to him and we have a
duty to watch over him in prayers to ensure that
this agenda is not high-jacked or aborted. We have
a duty to continue to pray so that the President will
be focused on this prophetic mandate of God,
because once he tries to exceed it his presidency
will become irrelevant. I believe that is what
happened to the former Nigerian President.”
Yesterday (21-11-14) and for no reason at all, this
quote started jumping out at me causing me to raise
the question, whether Jonathan's presidency has
become irrelevant to God.
Being that my commitment to the Lord is to be His
vessel and to share His word no matter how hard or
unpleasant, I started tuning my antennae
heavenwards. My initial impressions are best
articulated in the words of Daniel to King
Nebuchadnezzar when he was called to bring an
unsavoury word to the king:
“My Lord, the dream be to them that hate thee and
the interpretation thereof to thine
enemies.” (Dan.4:19b)
If I were bringing this word to the President, and
somehow, I am placed in a position where I am to
tell him the mood of heaven concerning his
presidency, I will say exactly the same words to
Him.
How did the President get to this point?
I articulated the mandate of God to President
Jonathan in my book ‘IN THE MASTER’S
PRESENCE.’ If you have the book please read pages
340 to 354. God called President Jonathan to lay a
new foundation for Nigeria. This is why he is the
President at the helm of affairs during Nigeria’s
centenary when the colonial foundation on which the
Nigerian nation was built ran its full course and
expired. A person called to build a new foundation
must judge corruption and wickedness. I am afraid
the President has not done well in this area.
The constitutional conference was a step in the
right direction but does the President have the will
to fight to implement its essential recommendations
with all the hawks and self-centred people at the
National Assembly?
The President is also called to make room for the
David that the Lord will use to rebuild Nigeria, but
has he started praying to ask the Lord to show Him
this David so that he can start working for his
emergence.
God raises leaders at different times in a nation’s
history to address specific problems. Is it an
accident that the President is leading the nation at a
time of a global Islamic agenda to dominate the
whole world? The Boko Haram insurgency must be
situated in the context of a global Islamic agenda to
dominate the world again and raise a caliphate that
will rule the world the way Islam did with the
Ottoman Empire. Islamic escatholgy teaches that a
twelfth Iman (The Mahdi) will arise at the end times
to lead Islam to world dominion. This aspect of
Islamic escathology agrees with what the bible
teaches about the end-time anti-Christ. All
branches of Islam owe their allegiance to Islam and
not to any state, and without understanding the
spiritual under-tone of the conflict with Islam, the
political leadership will never evolve the right
strategy for dealing with the problem.
For Islam to effectively fulfill this vision, it has to
take hold of the whole rebellious forces birthed
through Nimrod the first African monarch with the
final opposition against God in view. Nigeria
happens to be the nation with the largest number of
blacks in the whole world, and so the nation is
important to God and Satan. You see that in Nigeria,
the number is evenly matched as rough estimate
show that about half of Nigeria’s population are
Christians with the other half as Moslems. It is not
so in any other nation in the world and so Nigeria
will be the theatre where these forces will clash.
The Lord has sent His word ahead to us that Nigeria
will be the burial ground for Islam.
If the President does not see this larger picture, he
will be scratching the surface and NEVER be able to
evolve the rights strategy to deal with the problem.
I restate the agenda that the lord set for the
President between 2011 and 2015 as I outlined it in
My book;
‘Nigeria has the opportunity to come back on track
but for this to be a reality, there are five areas the
leadership must focus on in order to succeed. The
years 2011-2015 can be make or mar years for
Nigeria. The five areas are:
a. Foundation.
b. Institution building.
c. Global Trends.
d. Strategic Alignments.
e. The Second Coming of Christ.
Could it be that the Lord is judging that the President
has not measured up to standard in these areas?
For example, why has the slump in oil prices taken
us by surprise as if discerning people world-wide
did not see the hand writing on the wall?
Commenting on global trends, this is what I wrote in
page 349 of my book as far back as 2010:
“What are we doing about finding a viable
alternative to oil? The oil industry is likely to change
in the next few years with the discovery of shale oil
in Israel…
About 20 years ago shale oil was discovered in
Israel but commercial exploitation was impossible
because of the environmental issues involved and
cost of refining. However, in the last few years two
things have happened that changed the equation.
Firstly, the price of oil has gone up significantly
making exploration commercially viable. Secondly,
an Israeli firm working in conjunction with an
American company has developed a technology to
refine oil shale underground thereby by-passing the
environmental hazards associated with refining. If
this project were to take off, Israel will become a
major player in the oil industry in the world and this
has enormous implications for the world economy
especially Nigeria and other mono product
economies. Are we seeing ahead and making
plans?”
It is a shame, that just four years after we published
these words, the reality has dawned on us and in-
spite of warnings we have been caught off-guard.
Our government economists are predicting that oil
prices will stabilize next year but this is a
deception. Oil will take a further dip because nations
like Israel that are preparing for war will soon
become self-sufficient in oil and this will further
bring down the price because nations like Russia
will also like to sell at all costs and this will make
the OPEC block irrelevant.
I see the judgment hand of God coming on OPEC
and if I were Nigeria’s leaders I will think seriously
about pulling out from the unfruitful alliance before
the hammer of God falls. Could it also be that this is
the reason why OPEC has come into the hands of
Nigeria and also into the hands of an iron lady that
fits the biblical picture of a subtle woman?
The greatest need of President Jonathan today is to
have around him counsellors who will counsel him
by the Spirit of God and I do not see many of such
men around him.
2015 AND APC:
Yesterday, General Buhari finally laid to rest the
whole controversy over who will be his running
mate by choosing a well-respected lawyer and
Christian leader, Prof. Osinbajo to run with him.
Some beloved brethren asked me my take on this
and this is how I respond:
The first question to ask in this situation is what is
the Lord saying? Who among the leaders has God
chosen and raised for this time? (See Dt.17:15).
What I heard from the Lord is that His heart is set
on David.
I asked the Lord again concerning this David, and
He told me specifically that the David He has for
our nation will be an Igbo man from the eastern part
of the country, specifically from Anambra State.
He said that He will go back to the foundations, at
the junction where Nigeria’s destiny was distorted
through tribalism and pick a man from there and
begin the journey again.
This is the word I heard from the Lord. I am
publishing it because the Lord said the same thing
to different praying people including a prophet from
the northern part of our nation.
Gen. Buhari is a man of proven character and
integrity. Prof. Osinbajo is amply qualified to be the
Vice President of our nation. He will do well if given
the opportunity. But they are not the ones the Lord
is raising for our nation at this point.
SO WHAT DO WE PRAY AND HOW DO WE PRAY:
The prayer point the Holy Spirit has crystalized for
me as I pray for the nation is simple:
‘Lord raise this David for us through whom you will
rebuild our nation. Do whatever it takes to bring this
David to the throne.’
As I pray this prayer, I see God’s fire on the throne
of Nigeria. I believe we are entering the season
where men will cheat, kill and do whatever they do
to win elections but they will not be able to seat on
the throne because the Lord has not called them.
God’s purpose has gone beyond President Jonathan
and Buhari. I see the President winning the election
next year, but I doubt if he will be able to sit on the
throne simply because the Lord is NOT inviting him
afresh and he has not held meaningful
conversations with the Lord on what he is to do.
Does it mean that Christians should not vote? No.
we must vote one way or the other. If you put
President Jonathan and General Buhari side by side,
I will choose Jonathan. But even as I am choosing
him I have also made room in my heart for the
intervention of God. I will not cry if the Lord starts
shaking things, because I know that he is shaking
with a redemptive purpose in mind.
May your kingdom come O Lord and may your will
be done concerning the throne of Nigeria. That is
the right place to stand on this matter.
In Christ,
Messenger!!!
Source: kingdomnewsng.com/prophecies/150-2015-president-what-is-god-saying

There have been reports that delectable
actress, Stella Damasus snatched Daniel
Ademinokan from his pretty wife, Doris
Simeon.
But since then, the actress has kept a sealed
lip over the allegations. She and Daniel have
claimed what they have between them is
strictly business. Both of them now live in the
US and attend events together like lovers.
However, in a recent interview with Golden
Icons, Stella, a mother of two, finally
confirmed having an affair with Daniel, a
respected filmmaker and director. She also
spoke on how she moved on after the death
of her first husband, Jaiye Aboderin about 10
years ago and the real reason her second
marriage crashed.
On tying the knot with Jaiye Aboderin at the
age of 21, Stella said: “I always wanted to
start early. I always wanted to have children
early. I wanted to have a marriage early. I
wanted to grow with a family. I wanted to
learn the inside of it, I didn’t want to wait and
grow, and mature, and become big and
famous then start to wonder ‘oh, will anyone
marry me now’. “I didn’t want that to happen
because at 16, I was already popular. I was
making money, I was travelling.
So at that point looking at my life, I said, ‘if I
do this for another five, six or seven years,
and I don’t start a family, it will become more
difficult for me later on. And so, I decided if I
find somebody who I love, who will love me
back, we will go together. We will fight all the
fight, make up, we will do whatever, but we
will grow old together. And that’s what
happened. “And I am happy I made that
decision, because today, I have a 15 year old.
I grew up with my children. When you see the
three of us, and you see my daughters, you
will think we are sisters. We talk as friends.
So it was an important thing for me. To have
a family, and have that…I needed something
to check me. “We have a tendency to be
crazy and do whatever we like because we
could get away with anything, we could travel
all over the world, we could get people to like
us like this (snaps finger), we had money to
throw around. “If I don’t have that family unit
to check me, I don’t know what I would have
become and I won’t lie about that.” She spoke
about how she recovered after losing her
dead husband.
“They say time heals. I say, I have a different
definition, I say time numbs. It is not
something that heals, and then that’s it, it’s
gone, it’s gone, No. This is someone you
planned to spend the rest of your life with, and
grow with. “We made plans, like every other
couple. And when that happened…he died
when I was 26 with two children. I just felt
that my life had ended. So, but with time, this
year, December 3rd will 10 years, one full
decade.
“So it is not healing, I won’t call it healing but
I will say it numbs it and once in a while, it
comes up and the pain is as fresh like
yesterday but it is how you deal with it that
matters. “And that’s what I have had to do for
the past 10 years but I am very grateful for
the family I have, for the people I have around
me. For that, you need a lot of strength. God
helped me through it all.” Stella also cleared
the speculation that her movie ‘Widow’ was
her true life experience. “’Widow’ is a true life
story but not my story. The woman who I
played lives with her children in the UK.
I did Widow, months before my husband
passed away. So I saw the lady that I played,
so when the movie came out, the movie
came out after my husband had died. “It
didn’t come out before. So when it came out,
everybody thought ‘oh that’s her story, she
was telling her story’. It wasn’t my story. I
wasn’t upset, I was actually grateful that I did
such a great job that people believed that it
was me. Because as at the time I was doing
it, my husband was, in fact he was the one
dropping me off on location. So it means I
must have done a very good job for people to
actual feel it and say oh that’s her story.” On
her relationship with Daniel Ademinokan:
“Let me put it this way. Let me help you hit
the nail on the head. One of the comments I
have seen consistently, over and over again,
is ‘Stella snatches somebody’s husband’,
‘Stella the husband snatcher’, which is what
has been going on. And I had sworn that I
would never talk about it, or even listen or
stress myself about this thing but I have
decided to do this now, so that I end this once
and for all. “First of all, let me paint a picture
for you and you let me know what makes
sense to you. When I looked up the word
snatch or steal, ehh, let’s go to the dictionary.
It means, forcefully taking something away
from its original position; forcefully from its
original position to another position;
something that does not belong to you. That’s
what I gathered from the word snatch or
steal. So, I looked at me, Stella, and I
wondered to myself, how is it possible to go
to somebody’s home, and take a man, and
take his son, away from his home and say
follow me. You are a man, and according to
their story, he is happily married inside his
home. With his family complete and I walk
into that home, to forcefully take a man, able
bodied man, and a kid, away from
somebody’s hand and you are there looking
at me.
How does that work? “Did they accuse me of
using voodoo? Yes or no? They said no.
Okay, did I put a gun on anybody’s head and
remove somebody from somewhere? They
said no. So logically, if people actually sit
down and think about it intelligently, how do
you snatch somebody from somebody and
the person is there looking at you? “So, when
you see a man who has settled ties with a
woman and decides to move on with his life
and you feel that there is something in this
man that you like and he likes you. I am not a
kid. I am 36 years old.
I am not about to start hiding myself. I was
waiting for somebody to actually ask me this
question, because all I have heard for the
past two, three years are rumours. “They
said, blogs said, this said. Nobody has been
bold enough to confront me and ask me. So I
say, if I steal something from somebody, and
the person is really the owner of the thing,
you come and ask me, ‘you took something
from me, give me back’. “But nobody was
able to that. And I am like, ‘if I meet an able-
bodied man that has left and moved on’.
Source: 9javibes.com/gist/cares-sleep-50-men-nollywood-actress/

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Mr Oga, ar u sure of wat u ar sayn.........because SSS dey on NL

AaaaHh

A WORD FOR PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO
I am glad that the APC eventually took my advice and
saw the wisdom in not fielding a muslim/muslim
ticket for the 2015 Presidential election even though I
hear that, right up till the last minute, they almost did.
I congratulate my friend and brother Professor Yemi
Osinbajo on his nomination as the Vice Presidential
candidate of the APC and running mate to General
Muhammadu Buhari.
I have known Yemi for a number of years and I must
say that he is not only a very pleasant and civilised
person with a warm and gentle disposition but he is
also a cerebal lawyer with a brilliant mind. I have
immense respect for him.
Yet sadly ever since I heard about his nomination
and announcement as Buhari's running mate I have
felt nothing but sheer pity for him and a deep sense
of pathos. My counsel and words for him are as
follows:
Woe unto the children of light that secretly delight in
darkness and that seek to thwart the counsel of God
for their nation by joining hands with the sons of Boko
and the daughters of Haram.
The bible says ''what fellowship is there between
light and darkness?'' It says ''what does God have to
do with Belial?'' It says ''what profiteth a man to gain
the world and lose his soul?''.
A respected Pastor of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God, a devout and committed Christian and
an intellectually-sound, well-bred and well educated
Professor of Law accepts to be running mate to a
closet fundamentalist, a bloodthirsty, cruel and
murderous military dictator and a die-hard believer
in the philosophy of ''born to rule''? This is serious.
A gifted servant of God who is a favored spiritual son
of Rev. Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the
Redeemed Christian Church Of God has jumped into
bed with one of the most notorious troublers of the
faith and one of the most consistent enemies of
democracy and Nigeria? This is very sad.
Rev. Enoch Adeboye is undoubtedly one of God's
greatest and most respected generals on the planet
and one of the Church's most humble and best-loved
precious gems, yet one of his spiritual sons has
surely let him, and indeed the Kingdom of God, down
by choosing to play ''man Friday'' and second fiddle
to an individual that represents everything that is
troubling, unsettling and repugnant to the modern
world and to the 21st century? What a tragedy.
A learned Professor of Law and a senior member of
the Nigerian bar who is the leading authority on the
law of evidence and who has written numerous
books on that topic chooses to play number two to a
man that failed all his exams at military college and
that never went to a decent school or to any
university? Jumping Jehoshaphat.
It is only in Nigeria that this sort of thing can happen.
Poor Yemi. Look at what the Haramites have done to
him and look at what they have reduced him to. Is
there anything that these creatures from hell will not
do?
Is there anyone that they will not use and is there
any norm that they will not defile, pervert, debase,
violate and corrupt in their ignoble quest for power
and as a consequence of their insatiable lusts and
manifest greed?
The truth is that each and everyone one of us,
including my friend Yemi, will ultimately have to
answer to God for the choices that we make and we
must live with the consequences of those choices.
It is no wonder that the Redeemed Christian Church
of God has disassociated itself from a false claim
that the Church and, by implication, Rev. Adegboye
himself, was supporting the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket.
Thankfully they have come out to say clearly and
categorically that this is not so. One can always trust
Adegboye to do and say the right thing because he is
a man that is truly ''after God's heart''.
Yet the denial of an endorsement and tacit support
from his Church is just the first of many shockers
and unwelcome surprises that Yemi will be served
with in the next few weeks. He will get shock after
shock and surprise after surprise until the battle is
over and circumstances compel him to go back to
his very lucrative legal practice.
Yet before he does that he should learn a thing or two
from one of his esteemed colleagues and yet another
Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, the
courageous Pastor Bosun Emmanuel. Bosun said the
following words in his famous sermon titled 'The
Nigerian Church' which went viral just a few months
ago.
He said, ''woe be unto any believer who joins hands
with the enemies of God in an attempt to bury the
Church and destroy the gospel''. This was a timely
admonition and these are strong and wise words
from a true servant of God who is under no illusion
about what is going on in the politics of Nigeria and
who is brave enough to say it as it is.
Yet whether we choose to heed Bosun's words or not
I am absolutely certain of one thing: those that have
aligned with the servants of satan and the children of
darkness and that seek to thwart God's counsel for
our nation shall not prevail.
Boko Haram abducted 185 women in Borno state on
December 18th and they killed no less than 52
innocent people. Despite that some people are still
supporting Buhari and his army of desperate
Haramites? What a people, what a country.
Those that say that Buhari has changed simply
because he chose a Pastor as his running mate are
ignorant. Did he not have a Pastor as his running
mate in his last outing in 2011? Did he not still say
that it was his intention to ''spread sharia throughout
the country'' and that ''an attack on Boko Haram is
an attack on the north''?
Did he not oppose a state of emergency in the north
eastern states and say that it was unfair for the
military to kill Boko Haram members? Did he not say
that instead of killing them they should forgive them,
pamper them and treat them in the same way that
the Niger Delta militants were treated?
Did the spokesman of his party Alhaji Lai Mohammed
not say that the proscription of Boko Haram by the
Federal Government was ‘’unjust’’ and ‘’unconstitutio
nal’’? How does the fact that Buhari has opted for a
Christian running mate change any of these things?
In any case he only opted for a Christian running
mate because he was compelled to do so as a
consequence of the hue and cry that the prospect of
a muslim/muslim ticket had already started to
generate.
Are those that cite the fact that he has a Christian
running mate as evidence of his new-found love for
Christians aware of the fact that during the American
civil war a small, ignorant, misguided and deluded
group of negro slaves actually fought on the side of
the southern confederate forces in an attempt to
keep slavery in place?
Did that suggest that the leaders of the southern
confederate ‘’secession’’ states suddenly changed
their minds and fell in love with the blacks that they
had enslaved and treated like animals?
Is Buhari's claim of not being partial to his own
hausa-fulani tribe not a little far-fetched? Did he not
lead a northern delegation to Alhaji Lam Adesina, the
late Governor of Oyo state, just a few years ago
when some Fulani herdsmen were slaughtering
Yoruba farmers on their own land and ask him ‘’why
are YOUR people killing MY people?’’
Apparently Buhari believed that the aggressors that
had invaded the land and farms of others and that
killed all the occupants had a right to do so simply
because they were fulani. Yet some people still claim
that the man is not a tribalist.
Ignorance and lack of knowledge is a terrible
affliction but in this context it is not only terrible but
also very dangerous. Buhari’s choice of a Christian
Pastor as his running mate means nothing and
changes nothing about him or his entrenched views
and ancient mindset.
It rather provides clear evidence of his sheer
desperation to win power at all costs and it is a
reflection of his obvious and deep-seated deceit. Let
the truth be told even though the heavens may fall:
Christian Vice President or no Christian Vice
President, Buhari's heart remains as dark as ever.
We shall meet him in the field: let God's will be done.
Source: Femi Fani-Kayode Facebook Page

Boko Haram ur days ar numba

torhuke:
Once upon a time in 2001, General BUhari told a gathering of Muslim Umrah that Muslims should vote for fellow Muslims who will defend their faith.
And once upon a time, General BuHari led a delegation from his Daura country home in katsina state to meet former governor of Oyo state, late Lam Adesina. The meeting was all about the clashes between Hausa-Fulani herdsmen grazing with their cattle in the indigenes’ farmland and destroying their crops. Buhari’s exact words to Lam Adesina were: “Your people are killing my people.”
Today, this Same Buhari who sent many southerners to prison and spared northerners of equal status and allegations in 1984 is being rebranded and repackaged in beautiful carton of lies as an aged of change.. Nigerians, shine your eyes.

TRUE TALK..,.........Team GEJ till 2019

Cameroon’s army has announced that its
officers killed 116 Boko Haram militants when
they attacked a base in Amchide town in the
Far North region of the country, the Hausa
service of the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) reports.
The country’s defence ministry spokesman,
Lt.-Col. Didier Badjeck said that the militants
ambushed a column of army vehicles using
an improvised explosive
device and then hundreds attacked residents
in the region of Amchide, north of Maroua.
“The response of our forces was swift and
appropriate. The attack was repulsed and
the attackers neutralised,” Badjeck said,
adding that 116 militants were killed.
On its side, the Badjeck said one soldier
was killed and while two vehicles were lost.
Source: 9javibes.com/news/cameroonian-army-kills-116-boko-haram-insurgents/

Hybee2493:
Op pls email

@ Ibrahim.....hw far?

Beetroot:
He has a point.
If we are sticking to renders, this won't even be noticed.
But from a functional point of view, the finished floor level should be higher on the inside than the outside, say at least 100-150mm.

I cn sight u @ Archy Deolu

tainot2002:
@OP,How much dem pay you?

I wsn't pay any moni......... I'm jst luver of truth

mileyjay:
GEJ 4 2015

Na so my broda......GEJ till APC has a better candidate

Leadership is one of those things that defines any
great nation and Nigeria is one of those nations,
which has always been infamous for their culture
and few of the greatest leaders in the world.
Goodluck Jonathan is one of those great born
leaders produced by Nigeria in recent times, who
has managed to captivate people in many different
ways. With some of the best and worst decisions
taken during his tenure as the president of Nigeria,
it is very necessary to identify the most important
facts about him, to get a closer look upon his
leadership and him as a person.
20 Things To Note About President Goodluck
Jonathan
1. Prior to his tenure as the President of Nigeria,
Goodluck Jonathan served as the 6th governor of
Bayelsa State, Nigeria in the year 2005.
2. Goodluck Jonathan was born to a family of canoe
makers in the land which is today known as the
Bayelsa state of Nigeria.
3. Goodluck Jonathan holds a second class honors
degree in Zoology, An MSc degree in Hydrobiology
and a PhD degree in Zoology.
4. He entered politics in the year 1998, prior to
which he worked as an Education officer, Lecturer
and Environmental Protection Officer.
5. He was sworn in as the Vice President of Nigeria
in the year 2010, upon the death of Umaru
Yar’Adua’s death, which made him the fourteenth
head of Republic Nigeria.
6. In the year 2010, he was the first Nigerian head to
open his own Facebook page in an attempt to fulfill
his promise to have a regular interaction with the
common public, so that he is able to attend to their
regular needs and disputes.
7. It was in the year 2010 that he formally
announced his entry into politics, with his
announcement of the Presidential Election through
his Facebook page.
8. He is one of the first Presidents of Republic
Nigeria who has always been open to the public, by
granting them one of the easiest access through
Facebook and office. This ease of access to a
President of a nation was previously unheard of in
the world of politics.
9. He was the first President who was publicly
warned not to contest in the Presidential elections,
but he still went forward as he wanted to upgrade
and unify Nigeria.
10. Goodluck Jonathan was one of the first
Presidents of Nigeria who did not have the
background of politics or Military. He was also the
first president who was elected from Southern
Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan – AFP/Getty images
11. He was one of the first Presidents to have
experienced the maximum number of bombings and
riots by his rivals who did not accept a Southern
Nigerian as the Head of a country.
12. Not a lot of people know this, but he is the first
President of Nigeria to have initiated Air Rescue
mission for stranded citizens. This is one decision
which was both criticized by his rivals as a waste of
government resources and appreciated by the
citizens of Nigeria.
13. He was the first President of Nigeria who had
approved of the Freedom of Information Act, which
allowed the citizens of Nigeria to have full
information on the government’s workings and
orders.
14. He concentrated his efforts to upgrade the local
travelling facilities, one of his main
accomplishments was to upgrade the local Airports
after 57 years.
See Also: 10 Curious Facts About Nigeria Flag
More interesting Facts About President Goodluck
Jonathan
15. He focused his attempts on the electrical
departments so that he could give his citizens
uninterrupted power supply, which was until now
being sold to the neighbouring countries.
16. He successfully revived the Comatose Railways
after twenty years. The revival of the railways with
the help of private investors and State investors
helped to re-establish an important part of Nigeria.
17. In his Presidential tenure, he passed a bill which
would ensure the entry of imported goods within 48
hours.
18. He appointed the first female Chief Justice of
Nigeria, which was previously unthinkable in the
Republic of Nigeria.
19. He was the first President to review the salary
structure of Government Employees and re-arrange
their salary on the basis of their performance during
their tenure.
20. He is one of the most successful Presidents of
Nigeria who has acted in the interest of his country
and he is the first President of Nigeria who has
been able to live up to most of his promises, which
he made during his election campaign.
Even though many have criticized many of his
decisions as The President of Nigeria, GoodLuck
Jonathan has become one of those great leaders of
Nigeria who is only concerned about the
development of Nigeria. Which is why we created
this list of 20 Things To Note About President
Goodluck Jonathan and his accomplisments.

Caseless:
can u imagine how they are trying to justify what that stuupid pastor said about apc? How can anyone in his right sense blame a political that's less than 2yrs old for boko haram? What is the c-in-c doing to save the situation?
I hate all this religious groups; they are the problem of Nigeria.

So APC is new...........APC members ar also new?

In the photograph above are Christian leaders from
the North at the Press Conference including Bro.
Adamu who miraculously survived a Boko Haram
AK47 placed on his nose before it was fired.
VOICE OF THE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS NIGERIA
PRESS RELEASE
LAI MOHAMMED AND PASTOR BOSUN’S CD
Welcome,
In reaction to the recent newspaper reports about a
letter which was credited to the General Overseer of
the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Mr. Lai
Mohammed as the spokesperson for a political
party has been making disparaging remarks about
Pastor Bosun and a message that the pastor
delivered to a Christian community.
We wish to express our dissatisfaction about the
purported statements by Mr. Lai Mohammed which
we consider misleading, unfair, and undemocratic.
We condemn it as it is aimed at distracting well
meaning Nigerians from the truth that would help
build our nation. Serious issues that affect Nigeria
were revealed in the message and the Pastor has
the right to express his apprehension about issues
that affect Christianity, more so, considering the
lethal persecution of Christians in the northern parts
of the country. Christians needs no instructions from
Lai Mohammed on how reasonable people should
cast their votes. Nigeria of today is supposed to be
a democratic state that guarantees freedom of
expression, free thinking and belief, a free country
where people have the right to say YES to their
fellow men or even No to God. If the All Progressive
Congress is truly a democratic party, it should
never be afraid of an individual’s opinion. Nobody
stops the movement of the winds.
The Nigerian constitution guarantees every citizens
right to believe what they want to belief in and join
any political party of their choice, nobody should be
hunted or persecuted because of what they belief in
or not.
Mr. Lai Mohammed is not the spokesperson of
Pastor Adeboye and he does not have the right to
come out and tell Christians what Pastor Adeboye
has to say about the free speech of Pastor Bosun
Emmanuel. With due respect to Pastor Adeboye, I
believe he has a platform where he addresses the
members of his denomination. Mr. Lai should steer
clear of Christian affairs. If Pastor Adeboye wants to
pass instructions to members of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Mr. Lai Mohammed should
not be the messenger.
We have enough of Christian blood being shed on
daily basis across the Northern Nigeria. We respect
Pastor Adeboye, a profound Christian leader, whose
messages have changed many lives and brought
hope to millions of people around the world. Lai
statement on statements credited to Pastor
Adeboye does not hold in a free country where all
men stands for freedom of conscience and justice.
However, we want to state that Nigerian Christians
are citizens of Nigeria just like their Muslim
counterparts. Nobody should use partisan politics to
divide the body of Christ that has suffered so much
in this country. If Lai Mohammed wants Christians
to vote for his political party then, APC should go
back to its drawing board and create a proper
balance in the party. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and
many other reasonable and well meaning Nigerians
have suggested this. The party should create a
political platform that takes into consideration all the
various groups in the nation rather than drag the
church into its political mud.
Currently in the South West, 100% of APC governors
are Muslims. All the governors of APC in Yorubaland
are Muslims. So, how does Mr. Lai Mohammed
want such a party to be described? Is that an all
inclusive party or what is it?
How does Mr. Lai Mohammed want to describe a
party which at its inception, nearly all its national
principal officers belong to only one religion? Is that
a balanced and all inclusive party? On the alleged
insinuation that Pastor Bosun’s message is capable
of inciting the Christians against Muslims, Mr. Lai
Mohammed is being economical with the truth. On
the contrary, he is the person seeking to incite
Muslims against the Christians. We suggest that he
should go and listen again to the message. If the CD
was meant to incite anybody, Nigerian Christians
should have been on the streets by now. That
message was calling Christians to prayers and
revival of the church.
Worldwide, the church advocates peace and not
war. We also acknowledge that there are moderate
Muslims, particularly in the South West, who are
willing to practice their religion and allow other
people freedom of religious belief. On the contrary,
it is the Islamic fundamentalists that have been on
rampage in Syria, Iraq, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, and
in northern Nigeria. These are the group of people
cutting off people’s heads, amputating hands,
beheading little children, wiping out entire families
and carrying out genocide and using destructive
weapons to cause sorrow and unimaginable
hardship for peace loving people. It is the Islamic
extremists that are responsible for the insecurity in
the nation and they are the cause of the
apprehension.
I challenge Lai to rise as a good Muslim, including
his party, to put an end to this carnage ravaging the
Nigerian nation, rather than raising issues with a
godly pastor like Bosun Emmanuel, whom I know
can never be purchased to be mischievous.
Christian and Moslem leaders have equal right to
contest or follow political parties of their choice as
equal citizen of Nigeria. If Christians are concerned
about the structure of any political party, they have
the right to raise the apprehension.
Again, I will emphasize, Pastor Bosun cannot be
said to be wrong in his assessment of APC, because
a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, also
recently cautioned APC about its strong Islamic
posture. APC and Lai Mohammed should go and
take corrective measures and reassure Nigerians
that they are not seeking to creative a party for the
Islamic Brotherhood in Nigeria. Nigeria is a multi-
religious and multi-cultural nation. Every serious
minded political party must strive to reflect the
various diversities in the nation if it wants a broad
based support.
CHIBOK GIRLS
More than 200 girls abducted from Chibok are still
in captivity and all our leaders are not doing enough
to secure their freedom. This is condemnable
around the world. We join the world to condemn this
unpatriotic inaction too. Our leaders should stop
creating state of chaos to advance their religious
and political agenda. We have no other country to
call our own than Nigeria. The Government and the
oppositions must please wake up and act NOW.
Those canvassing for truce with terrorists must
equally be terrorists. Weapons worth millions of
Naira were moved to the North East, but are now
captured by the Boko Haram. If Mubi cannot be
protected, nowhere in the North is protected.
OUR CONCERN NOW
Several cities of the North East are largely
populated by Christians, Michika with 96%
Christians, Gwoza with 75% Christians, Bama with
45 per cent Christians, Madagali with 71%
Christians.
These and several other cities of the North East
have been captured by the insurgents. Recently,
Mubi has been captured and thousands of
Christians are on the run, while many have been
beheaded and thousands are still missing without
any trace.
Christians are being used as human shield by the
Boko Haram. Innocent women are abducted while
young men are forcefully recruited to join the
insurgents. Any Christian that refuses to renounce
Christ is beheaded. The situation is so dire that
those who escaped to the hills were eating grass
due to lack of food. In addition to the lack of food,
there has been cholera breakout among the
refugees that killed many children.
Please consider the following distressing figures:
On 26th Oct, 2014, Boko Haram abducted 30 men
from Mafa to marry the Chibok girls in Sambisa
forest.
On 17th Oct, 2014, they took 22 Christians in Gwoza
and forced them to take arms.
On 23th Oct 2014, they abducted 26 men and 30
women and took them to Sambisa.
On 25th Oct 2014 Christians that ran to the hills
were pursued and slaughtered.
Many Christians have been kidnapped by Boko
Haram and were marked with Boko Haram tattoos
which make them vulnerable and potrays them as
members of the insurgents. Anyone found with this
tattoo on the body by Nigerian or Cameroonian
military can be arrested or killed immediately.
The nation of Cameroun is populated by 21.7 million
people, approximately the size of Lagos state. They
are able to keep and protect their borders. Nigerian
Leaders must rise above religious and ethnic
animosity and prevent this nation from being torn
apart.
THE NEED OF THE PERSECUTED CHURCH NOW
While we must appreciate the contribution of the
President of CAN, Pastor Oritsejafor, the Anglican
Communion (The Burden Bearers), Victoria Christian
Fellowship Church, Lekki, TREM, and various other
Christian bodies who are helping the children and
families of Martyrs in Nigeria, we are asking the
Church leaders, to please stand up to save lives
now. Our mission is on ground in Yola providing
foods and medicals to brothers and sisters who
need our help now.
Our gratitude goes to Oyedepo foundation for
granting free university education to two of the
children of the martyrs. We ask other Christian
universities to help these children that lost one or
both parents due to the persecution of Christians in
northern Nigeria.
Blessings
Isaac O. N Wusu
Director
Voice of the Christian Martyrs Nigeria
Source: kingdomnewsng.com

On Tuesday 11th November, at Mile 12, Ketu, young
men from the North were seen hawking machetes
and swords in broad daylight. The popular Mile 12
market was filled with all sorts of street hawkers,
but it was noticed that it was only the youths from
the North that were hawking brand new machetes
and swords . The traffic was flowing too fast so they
could not be stopped to answer some questions.
Well, maybe seeing machetes should not have
aroused suspicion, but swords? Who uses swords
in the South?
They were not seen on Wednesday, but on
Thursday 13th November, 2014, the young man in
the picture was seen selling only machetes. The
swords have disappeared. (Maybe, they were sold.)
When asked where he obtained the machete from,
he explained he bought it from Lagos Island. He
priced it at 1,000 naira, refused to budge at 700
naira, claiming he bought it higher but eventually
sold it for 500 naira.
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
We can only guess.
But consider this conjecture: most trucks bringing
foodstuff from the North to Lagos stop at Mile 12.
Could it be that a consignment of weapons landed in
Lagos, smuggled in under loads of foodstuff? Of
course, only northerners could be trusted to offload.
In the process of off-loading, some young rascals
stole some in order to make some fast bucks. That
may explain why the weapons suddenly surfaced in
the vicinity of Mile 12 market, Ketu.
I had visited a machete manufacturing company in
Port Harcourt some years ago and discovered that
freshly manufactured machetes are not sharpened.
It is the customer who is expected to sharpen it
after purchase in order to avoid abuse. The ones
that were seen on the street of Mile 12 are razor
sharp. Someone has sharpened the machete and
they are ready for action.
ANOTHER TWIST
One could have been tempted to dismiss the
conjecture, if not for another related incident.
On Sunday, we mentioned this at the fellowship and
a Sister shocked us by informing us that in Mowe,
as they went on evangelism during the week, (the
same week) they saw some young northerners in
an uncompleted building and sought to evangelize
them. The youths they saw were smoking cannabis.
The youths told them not to preach to them that
they are just waiting for to be paid before they
would attack. The brethren were shocked to hear
the northern youths brazenly say openly that they
would go from house to house attacking. Everything
was ready, their weapons have arrived and all they
are waiting for is the signal and the payment.
“But”, protested the brethren, “why should you kill
innocent people. Don’t you realize that it is evil and
it is sin.”
“It is no problem”, replied the youths, “ after we kill
them, we shall ask for forgiveness. Allah is all
merciful.”
RAISING PANIC?
No. On the contrary, this is to mobilize watchfulness
and prayers. Watch and pray.
I am convinced the two events during the same
week are connected and God in His mercy is still
talking to a church that is barely listening. Please
consider the pattern:
2013: There was an attempt to blow up the 3rd
Mainland Bridge. It failed. (Long before the attack,
people have been seen visions that 3rd Mainland
Bridge would collapse and lots of people will die.
What was not not realized was that it would collapse
due to terrorist attack. Therefore, a lot of prayers
were mobilized to avert the disaster. They were to
strike on Friday but were discovered on
Wednesday.)
2014: There was an attempt to blow up fuel tank
farms at Apapa. It failed.
2015:
PEOPLE GET READY
Please do not misunderstand me, I am not trying to
cause panic or whip up sentiments, but I get the
impression that the church is not preparing for a
situation that is so clear you can easily predict what
will happen next.
By now churches should be training their people on
spiritual warfare prayers. Emphases now should be
on taking authority over the demons that are
mobilizing massively to cause wholesale
destruction in the country. Christians should be
trained and deployed to exercise spiritual territorial
authority all over the nation.
Unfortunately, most churches still behave as if the
party has not ended. I was particularly dismayed
that one church in our neighborhood did not allow
the neighbors to sleep on Friday. Powerful loud
speakers blared throughout the night telling the
worshippers how to use praises to receive miracles
and breakthrough! In the midst of all these! They
danced throughout the night, meanwhile their
brethren are being killed in gruesome manner!!!
No wonder God says the Nigerian church is an
“irresponsible” church. (God said it, not me.)
LAPSES EVERYWHERE?
1. Christians are not trained and deployed to
exercise spiritual dominion over the terrorists
and “those that delight in war”. A senior
pastor counseled recently that the Nigerian
church should declare a state of emergency
in the church, suspend all activities and focus
on prayers. How many churches have
complied? In addition, a set of counsels were
given on “7 Things the Church Should Do
Now”. ( www.kingdomnewsng.com ) How
many churches are taking concrete steps to
forestall the imminent calamity?
2. I was shocked to hear at a prophetic
ministers conference on Saturday that the
children of Ishmael now go to big churches
around 1 a.m. on Sunday mornings with
incense and other articles of sorcery to
enchant and cast spells on Christians. The
elder who spoke is too responsible to talk
carelessly. He confirmed, and other ministers
present at the prophetic conference bore
witness that it is happening. Please train and
deploy the people to man the night hours in
warfare prayers. This is no time to sleep!
3. Please teach the people to return to
righteousness and holiness so that their
prayers can be effective; God does not listen
to sinners. And please, let us stop preaching
prosperity and breakthrough; let us desist
from provoking the Spirit of Jealousy through
the worship of mammon.
4. Christians are not trained to expect crisis. If
anything should happen, the people will be in
disarray. Begin to prepare now. If there is an
attack, what should the people do?
5. Which telephone number should they call if
any crisis breaks out? Or, if they suspect that
something evil is brewing, whom should they
contact? Are the churches working in
consonance with security agencies? Let us
not forget that there are Christians also in the
security services.
6. If people are injured, which hospitals should
they run to? For your information, more
people are seeing revelations of corpses all
over the streets and people running helter-
skelter. I think people should go and read
again the prophetic revelation “And There
Was War” on www.kingdomnewsng.com
Someone sent this to me on SMS on 3rd
November, 2014, ”I had a terrible revelation
by 1.35 a.m. this morning. Boko Haram
invaded Lagos, blocked the whole streets and
went from house to house killing Christians. I
narrowly escaped being lynched by my
cousin. My neighbor was badly injured but
was spared when she agreed to be a Muslim.
Many corpses lay on the street, the sight was
terrifying. Many of the people I knew lost
their lives.”
7. If people have to rally round to defend
themselves, according to the law, how should
they go about it? What are the plans of the
pastors to protect their sheep if any calamity
should strike?
8. Churches on the same street, in the same
neighborhood, irrespective of denomination,
should come together and hold security
meetings.
Begin to close ranks now.
Hmmm,
Lo, I have told you.
Your brother in Christ,
Source: kingdomnewsng.com

THE EVOLUTION OF BOKO HARAM (1)
Muhammed Yusuf, founder of “Boko Haram” (BH)
was a devout student and follower of Sheik Jafar
Mohammed, a notable and influential Islamic
scholar before he encountered a radical ideology
(modelled on the Afghan Taliban) which counselled
a total boycott of democracy, government and
Western education. Yusuf was attracted to this
‘pure’ form of Islam which led to a confrontation
with his former mentor, who regarded such
teachings as extremist, and who was later
assassinated, probably by Yusuf’s followers in Kano
in 2007. Shehu Sani claims that BH’s actual origin
dates back to 1995 when it was called Sahaba and
led by one Abubakar Lawan who later proceeded to
the University of Medina for studies, paving way for
Yusuf’s takeover. Some others trace the “Boko
Haram” tendency to the Maitatsine group of the
1980’s. The group is however formally believed to
have started in Maiduguri in 2002.
The group’s formal name is Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna
Lidda’wati Wal-Jihad (People Committed to the
Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad)
though observers nicknamed them “Boko
Haram” (consistent with their teachings and
conduct) which meant “western education is
sacrilege/sin/forbidden”. They seek to abolish the
secular Nigerian constitution in favour of an Islamic
state, and want to establish a complete Sharia
based state in the 19 Northern States and all over
Nigeria. Sometimes known as “Yusuffiya” after its
founder, BH also abhors banking, taxation and
western jurisprudence/court systems and regarded
the mixing of boys and girls in schools improper.
Yusuf also rejected scientific explanations for
natural phenomenon. It appears clear (and was
recently admitted by the new leader, Imam
Abubakar Shekau, a hard-line assistant of Yusuf
now reportedly based in Qoundere, Cameroun) that
the group’s membership include Chadians,
Nigeriens, Cameroonians and other non-Nigerians
and its organisational structure provided for “Amirs”
in Chad and Niger!
Yusuf’s landlord and in-law, late Baba Fugu,
allowed him to build a mosque in the railway
quarters area of Maiduguri, and along with Shekau,
Yusuf developed his “state-within-a-state”-
including a cabinet, a ruling council (Shura Council),
departments, brigade of guards, military wing (with
the “armies” recruited from the large pool of
“Almajiris”), Hisbah, a large farm and court with
Yusuf as judge! As Yusuf’s empire expanded, there
is little doubt that the security agencies and the
Nigerian state were aware of these developments.
But in its dysfunctional state, they either looked the
other way, or when security warned their counsel
was ignored! Yusuf’s message resonated with the
large number of pious, poor, uneducated,
unemployed and disaffected youth and even some
undergraduates and University lecturers joined his
ranks. As his influence expanded, Boko Haram
became attractive to politicians and soon was to
form an “alliance” with the Borno State Government
under Senator Ali Modu Sherriff who became
governor in 2003. Sherriff appointed one of Yusuf’s
associates, Alhaji Buji Foi as Commissioner for
Religious Affairs and Water Resources and took the
group under his wings, further expanding their
influence and power and making Yusuf quite
wealthy.
There was a political and social context to all this.
Modu Sherriff was an opposition ANPP governor
who was ready to use any means possible to
defend his power base from the marauding PDP.
Sherriff and his fellow ANPP governors as well as
their presidential candidate, then Muhammadu
Buhari had championed what Obasanjo called
“political Sharia” to insulate themselves from the
ruling PDP onslaught.BH expanded to Bauchi, Yobe,
Kano and other Northern States, and quite plausibly
helped ANPP sustain their holds on Borno and Yobe
and to capture Bauchi and Kano from the PDP. Then
Sherriff and Yusuf fell apart! Knowing the power of
his Frankenstein creation, Sherriff (and Isa Yuguda
who having secured power on the ANPP platform
had headed back to PDP) launched a “pre-
emptive” (in Yuguda’s words) strike against BH
between July 26 and 29, 2009 routing the group in
Bauchi, Maiduguri, Yobe and Kano States… or so it
then seemed! It was convenient to all concerned to
kill Yusuf, Boi and Baba Fugu! Meanwhile, the
political environment was changing in favour of
BH’s narrative! President Yar’adua who gave the
order to crush BH died and Northern politicians,
Imams, Emirs, and elite appeared unhappy that his
Vice-Prsident, Jonathan, a Southern Christian would
take-over from him. To make things worse,
Jonathan proceeded to contest and win the 2011
elections against Northern threats and intimidation.
BH duly underwent a transformation. To provide
troops, jail breaks were organized-on September 8,
2010 from Bauchi Prisons; and Yola Prisons on April
22, 2011-where detained members were freed. A
transition in terms of funding, logistics, training,
operational capabilities, intelligence and audacity
was also evident. How and who oversaw these
transformations? At the latest, by January 2010
when BH launched its Jihad with its first terrorist
attack in Maiduguri, it may have been linked with Al
Queda as recently confirmed by the Nigerian foreign
minister. From ride-by shootings on “okadas” in
Maiduguri and environs, they graduated to
audacious attacks on police headquarters in Abuja;
and the Christmas day bombing of the St. Theresa’s
Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State! Suicide
bombings also came into the mix!
The suspicious circumstances of the “escape” of
Kabiru “Sokoto” (of Biu), the alleged Madalla bomber
in the custody of Zakari Biu confirms that BH may
have links high up in the police, security agencies,
traditional and religious establishment, and political
and elite circles.
The Evolution of Boko Haram (2)
It seems Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda was
instrumental in persuading late President Yar’adua
to curtail the menace of “Boko Haram”. Yuguda
having decamped from PDP to ANPP, duly won the
governorship in 2007. He subsequently became
Yar’adua’s son-in-law, and returned to the PDP,
possibly losing some political goodwill in the
process. He may have dreaded returning to the
electorate in 2011 with “Boko Haram” roaming free
in Bauchi! I have previously noted that having fallen
out with the sect, then Borno governor Modu
Sherriff was also eager to see off Boko Haram.
When security forces turned on “Boko Haram”,
between July 26 and 29, they responded in a
surprising manner- in Maiduguri, they exacted
“revenge” in a perverse manner by turning on the
nearest Christians!
While under attack from the army and the police,
Muhammed Yusuf ordered his followers to capture
hundreds of Christians. The male captives had a
simple choice-renounce your faith or die! For the
females, it was renounce your faith or stay as
captives, meaning slavery, servitude or worse! The
worst treatment was reserved for Christian
clergymen- three pastors were beheaded with the
executioners shouting “Allah Akbar” in wild
celebrations accompanied by celebratory gunfire.
Pastor George Orjih of Goodnews Church Wulari,
Maiduguri was one of the three. Muhammed Yusuf
personally urged him to renounce his faith and live,
to which the Pastor rejected and instead actually
preached to Yusuf to accept the Christian salvation!
Incensed, Yusuf ordered his immediate slaughter!
Fortunately for most of the captives, the
government prevailed in that confrontation and
most of them were released after Yusuf’s capture.
Once it launched its Jihad in 2010, Boko Haram has
had four categories of targets-specific Islamic
clerics who disagreed with its teachings or
methods; government and security institutions and
personnel; institutions which they considered
abhorrent to Islam-particularly hotels and beer
parlours; and Christians and/Churches. It is easy to
understand why they would attack the first three
groups-opposing Islamic clerics could potentially
undermine their theology and legitimacy;
government and security agencies had attacked
and killed their leaders; the disdain Moslems are
supposed to have for alcohol and prostitution is
well-known. The resort to targeting Churches and
Christians who till then had played no part
whatsoever in this essentially intra-Muslim quarrel
was inexplicable- the then president, governors of
all states in which BH were attacked, the then
National Security Adviser, etc., all being Muslims.
The trend of BH were attacking Churches and
Christians has since accelerated, rather than
decline culminating in the Christmas Day 2010
attacks on Churches in Jos; 2011 bombing of the
Madalla Church and killings in Yobe, Adamawa,
Gombe, Borno, Bauchi, Niger and Plateau States.
As previously stated, one can observe a clear
transition from BH when it was pre-occupied with
local politics in the North-East and Kano, and the
newer version which seems to have a national or
even international agenda (evidenced by the attack
on the UN headquarters). It is clear that BH has
been influenced by Nigerian politics in general, and
the North-South power struggle that ensued after
Yar’adua’s death in particular. Indeed, it is possible
to interpret their January 2, 2012 ultimatum on
Southerners to leave the North in explicit political
terms-perhaps an attempt to reverse the April 2011
scenario in which a Christian Southerner obtained
twenty-five per cent of the votes or more in most
Northern States! One could also draw a parallel
between the objectives of this ultimatum and the
post-election violence which erupted across
Northern Nigeria last April. Northern politicians such
as Adamu Ciroma, Lawal Kaita, Yahaya Kwande,
Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar had made
statements which may have contributed towards
creating and environment conducive to or indifferent
to political violence. Changes in Boko Haram’s
methods and activities (such as suicide bombing)
also suggest a link-up with Al Qaeda.
The body language of some Northern leaders (such
as Borno elders who spoke out only whenever
government took military action and the initially
tepid response of the Northern establishment) while
not establishing complicity with BH, indicated at
least mixed emotions! The Arewa Consultative
Forum (ACF) very recently issued a shocking
statement claiming falsely that BH’s ultimatum was
in response to an earlier one issued by the “South-
South” in effect justifying same! The most blatant
justification of BH has however been the one by
CBN governor Sanusi Lamido who claimed to the
Financial Times, that the phenomenon was a
consequence of divergent federal resource flows to
the South-South and North-East since 13 per cent
derivations principle in 1999! Sanusi ignored any
facts that contradicted his logic-Cross-River and
Edo States (both in South-South) which get next-to-
nothing from derivation should then be consumed by
terrorism; South-West and North-Central States
who do not benefit from derivation haven’t shown
the same tendency; the South- East zone actually
receives lower federal allocations than North-East;
and how does Sanusi explain the pre-1999 religious
riots in the North (when Northern States took the
highest allocations based on population figures)
including the Maitstsine crisis, or the 1995
beheading of Gideon Akaluka in Kano?
I recommend that anyone interested in resolving the
crisis of poverty, unemployment and ignorance in
the North, should seek the solution in education,
skills acquisition, focus on economic development
and avoidance of extremist religious philosophy!
The BH crisis has its roots in a dangerous
combination of extremist religious ideology abysmal
social conditions and political brinkmanship!!!
The evolution of Boko Haram (3)
This columnist has written at least six articles
dedicated to “Boko Haram”-“The Evolution of Boko
Haram” Parts 1 and 2 on February 1 and 8, 2012;
“Johnnie Carson, the US and Boko Haram” on April
18, 2012; “The Malian Jihad” on January 23, 2012;
“The Politics of Boko Haram” on April 10, 2013; and
“Amnesty and Emergency” on May 22, 2013 and
other articles treating the issue in part and on social
media. Through all these, my position hasn’t
changed-the phenomenon has religious, political,
social, military and global dimensions and
appeasement is unlikely to resolve the crises.
Boko Haram (BH) is motivated by extremist
religious ideology and seeks to overawe Nigeria’s
secular constitution in favour of an Islamic
Caliphate governed under fundamentalist Sharia.
Socio-economic conditions in the North generally
and North-East in particular facilitate religious
demagoguery poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and
ignorance, decades of tolerance for sectarian
politics combined with hegemonic aspirations and
an inclination to deploy violence for political ends,
and a large, “un-parented” and uneducated youth
population bereft of skills and employability whose
only social conditioning has been through a
bankrupt “Almajiri” system. National politics, since
1999, particularly since the demise of late President
Yar’adua and the regionalised 2011 presidential
contest encouraged a climate suitable for
transmutation of what was till 2011, a localized band
of religious miscreants with links to regional
politicians into a national terrorist organization with
the objective of destroying an unwanted presidency.
Given these facts, the debate over whether Boko
Haram is religious, political or otherwise is silly,
nonsensical and pointless! The group is explicitly
religious, has patently political objectives, exploits
abject socio-economic conditions and weak
governance, and is able to leverage a politico-
religious narrative of marginalization of faith and
religion!
The US and Western nations have been in denial
regarding BH and made utterly faulty and escapist
diagnosis and prescriptions for resolving the
matter-Johnnie Carson wanted Nigeria to appoint
more “Northerners” to “important” positions
(unaware (?) that except the Presidency (which they
had until then disproportionately dominated),
Northern Muslims occupied many of the most
important positions in the land-Vice President,
ruling party chair, Chief Justice, Representatives
Speaker, CBN Governor, Ministers of Defence, FCT,
Foreign Affairs and Education, NSA, Inspector
General, Attorney General, Head of Service, Court of
Appeal President etc.) and to create a Ministry of
Northern Affairs; Hillary Clinton refused to designate
Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)
on the faulty logic that doing so would alienate the
North (curious given the official Northern positions
that the group represented neither Islam nor the
North); and Obama and Cameron tried their best to
pretend not to notice BH even when it bombed the
UN office in Abuja, Churches, newspaper houses
and markets!
Till date we retain several wrong assumptions
about Boko Haram-that most of the terrorists are
infiltrators from neighbouring countries-Niger,
Chad, Cameroun, Mali, even Somalia etc.-but the
more empirical observation may in fact be that
Nigeria is now the epicentre of a West and Central
African terrorist network that may in fact destabilize
other countries. I will not be surprised to find for
instance, that the inspiration, funding and logistics
for the failed Jihads in Mali and the Central African
Republic may have partly or substantially emanated
from Nigeria, No one doubts that BH has now linked
up with Al-Qaeda and Somalia’s Al-Shabab! Another
error has been discussing “Boko Haram”,
“Ansarul” (the Malian-related, more internationally-
focused brand of Boko Haram) and “Fulani
Herdsmen” (the domestic terrorism franchise for
the Middle-Belt of Nigeria) as though they were
separate groups! Recent evidence confirms as I
have always suspected that all are one and the
same! Two other facts are evident-the Nigerian
state would be wise to investigate the linkages to
Sudan in Nigerian terrorism. The media expose by a
retired ambassador, Bola Dada and the recent
escape of Nyanya bombing suspect, Aminu Sadiq
Ogwuche to that country suggests that Sudan plays
a significant role in nurturing Nigeria’s Islamic
fundamentalists!!! More troubling is the likelihood
that elements in the armed forces and security
services may be involved in sabotaging operational
strategies and information in the war against BH!
Nigerian soldiers evidently believe so, going by the
mutiny against the now withdrawn GOC in
Maiduguri, Major General Ahmadu Mohammed!!!
The internationalization of the ‘war’ against BH in
the aftermath of the Chibok school girls’ abduction
and involvement of US, France (which thankfully
achieved of US, France (which thankfully achieved a
breakthrough in regional cooperation incorporating
Nigeria. Cameroun, Chad, Benin and Niger), Britain,
China and Israel may be useful in addressing the
problem. On the other hand, the development may
signal the weakening of the Nigerian state and its
possible decline!
The critical question Nigeria and the international
community avoids confronting is “who provides the
funding and logistics for Boko Haram, Fulani
Herdsmen and other terrorists groups operating in
Nigeria?” Does anyone really believe that “Imam
Shekau” is the “leader” of the group that has been
tormenting our nation for the past three years? (I
am inclined to the DSS position that Shekau is a
“title” and “identity” just like “Abu Qaqa” and is
really a dispensable image rather than substantive
leader) How does Shekau, who operates in the
border regions of the North-East record and upload
his videos and transmit them to AFP? How do the
Hilux vans, rocket launchers and arms and
ammunition deployed by Boko Haram get to Shekau
and his men? We know where the foot soldiers of
Boko Haram are, but who are the brains and wallets
of Boko Haram, and where are they?
While we ponder these question, Nigeria’s President
Jonathan confirms that Boko Haram has now killed
twelve thousand innocent citizens!!!
Source: kingdomnewsng.com/articles/142-the-evolution-of-boko-haram-parts-1-3