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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed the impression of some world leaders about President Muhammadu Buhari.
The ex -President, who spoke with reporters at his Abeokuta home yesterday, added that despite Nigeria’s “mistakes and missteps,” it is not doing badly at 55 as a nation.
Obasanjo added that 55 years in the life of a nation was still relatively young and notwithstanding this, the country had managed to be dynamic and progressive.

He said: “I heard some of the comments of those he (Buhari) met; the comment that probably will not come back to him. He met Clinton for almost one hour and President Clinton , when I joined him for his global initiative talked to me about the impression of our President, it was favourable.

“Gordon Brown and I met him and
we talked about issues. The few other leaders who met him gave me their impression and his debut so to say, it has been good. I think we are at the table, what they use to say that Nigeria is not at the table, now we are present at the table.”
He said Nigerians should be willing to learn from past mistakes while core national values should also not be eroded to enable the real growth and progress become manifest.

He noted that Nigeria was now well positioned with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for both recognition and active participation in global politics in a manner that would likely elicit positive attention from the international community.

According to Obasanjo, feelers from the world leaders and statemen during the recent UN summit showed that President Muhammadu Buhari did not only have a good outing there, but also helped to place Nigeria at a strategic position for global politics.

He identified youth unemployment, education, security, justice, the economy among others as areas the country should not joke with particularly corruption, saying it has the capacity to destroy everything noble about Nigeria.
Obsanjo said: “Fifty five years in the life of a nation is comparatively young, growing and when you look at the life and history of those that you may call settled societies or reasonably matured countries, we are not doing too badly.

“They have had missteps just as we are having missteps, they have made mistakes and most of them have learnt from their mistakes, they have been dynamic in the way they have progressed and I believe that we are doing the same thing.
“What is important is that certain cardinal pinches, cardinal features of our national live, values, should not be eroded. And then we should also be willing to learn from out mistakes.

“The President in his statement said Nigeria has the marks in making the potentialities of a great nation is just question of actualising our potentialities and that will require all hands on deck ; men, women, muslims, christians, young and old, irrespective of our location, our tribe, our social standing, Nigeria needs all hands on deck.
“And we must also realise important issues that we must not play with, we must not play with the issue of education, we must not play with the issue of health for our people.

“We must not play with the issue of employment for our teeming population particularly for our youths, we must not play with the issue of economy, we must not play with the issue of security, peace and justice. Justice and peace go hand in hand, we can’t have injustice and expect peace to reign supreme.”

- Nation

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SexyKaycee:
so when we have power we should praise Buhari but when we dont we should ask our governor? wow

The Federal government has done theirs.........It is left for the state to follow foot steps





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SexyKaycee:
We have had no light for 2 days here in kaduna

Ask your Governor......... We have here oooo

Sai Baba is currently on Air niw as he address the nation...............

- Gave credit to GEJ for admitting defeat in the past election

- Condemns past Government for squandering National Resources........


Thanks to him........We have Light this time.....Lol


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Wait! Wait!! I am not to share any nonsense or post what has not being released. As Nigerians and rest of the world wait for the #Thelist promised to include angels who has never hurt or steal anything away from Nigeria.

Do you think #Thelist is something worth clamouring for?

Who do you think will make #Thelist and why did he/she deserve to be there?


Please share your views!!!!

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Today as I was washing a long ago soaked clothes long forgotten in the greyish brown effort with the sharp smell of ingratitude, I heard a loud shout of quarrelling folks at other other side of the road at the back of our house. I climbed the stairs in acticipation of the street reenactment of Klitchco and Sam Peter (The first bout ooo).

I saw a respectable man, he looked churchy, as he trades blows with a monster looking giantly OLOKADA man.

I saw his wife with a baby in her arms trying to stop him,
The most significant is the shout of the about seven year old son, 'Daddy! Daddy!
I didn't hear his full plea but I knew it was to retrain his father.

But the man was out of control. I knew he must be fighting for his right.
But what remained with me was the re-echoing of the boys call 'Daddy! Daddy!
He was afraid!

I went back to wash the clothes as I thought within me that what ever that small boy must have learnt about self control would have been eroded today.

In the future, as a campus guy, he might get angry and see a stick nearby, he will break the offenders head because today he will learn that SELF CONTROL isn't possible.
The father lost the opportunity of showing to his son that he too can listen to the call of a child when he is wrong.

I am sad.

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bomsilaga:
this is bad for religion.

IS SAUDI SACRIFICE!!!! RIP

Hundreds of protesters on Tuesday barricaded the entrance of the National Assembly in Abuja singing solidarity songs in support of the embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. They also warned anti-graft agencies to desist from being used against perceived “political enemies.”

They carried placards with different inscriptions such as, “Enough is enough, we support Saraki and Ekweremadu.”

Saraki is facing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over alleged falsification of documents in his assets declaration form when he was governor in Kwara State.

- Punch

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Muslim man, Asadullah Khan, strangled his own 19-year-old daughter to death with his bare hands after learning from police she had been caught shoplifting condoms to have sex with her forbidden boyfriend.

He and his wife Shazia then dressed the dead girl named Lareeb (left), a dental technician, in her clothes, wheeled her in a wheelchair from their high-rise apartment to the family car, drove to a secluded embankment in their home city of Darmstadt in Germany, and tipped the corpse down it.

Khan, 51, with tears streaming down his face, admitted the killing because in his eyes she had brought 'dishonour' on the family with her love for a boy he didn't approve of. He and his wife were wed in an arranged marriage and he wanted the same for her.

Khan and his wife, originally from Pakistan, are on trial for murder at the State Court in Darmstadt. Shazia, 41, described how she was a downtrodden woman, totally in the thrall of her husband, and unable to save her daughter.

The court heard how the parents sent Lareeb's sister Nida, 14, to a relative on the evening of the murder in January this year.
Nida gave evidence against both her parents, saying her mother was as strict as their father, often striking both of them.
The mother held out her arms to Nida when she appeared in court on Friday but Nida refused to acknowledge her.

Nida said: 'My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick.
'We were never allowed to talk about her boyfriend. My father used to say my sister should be forcibly married in Pakistan.'
The court heard Nida is now in therapy and has nothing more to do with her parents.

Shazia said that on the night of the murder Lareeb had quarelled again with her father and hit him. He later crept into her room as she slept, knelt astride her and strangled her.

'I couldn't stop him,' the mother said in a statement read by her lawyer. 'I have rheumatism and didn't have the strength to fight him off. I wanted to scream, but I couldn't.

'Lareeb stayed away from the home for several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf. One day we received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to steal condoms.

'At this point it became clear that there was sexual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.'
Killer Asadullah, who speaks no German, said he 'loved' his daughter.
The trial continues.

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A 46-year-old man, Morris Ndidwe, has allegedly raped his 11-year-old daughter and impregnated a neighbour’s daughter in Delta State.

The man has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command.
Ndidwe, according to his wife, had made several attempts of having carnal knowledge of his 11-year-old daughter in the past before the last one that landed him in police net.

His wife claimed that her husband’s behaviour had made her quit the marriage initially and that she only returned after several appeals and an assurance that he had repented from his ways.

She said she had initially moved out of her matrimonal home after her husband impregnated their neighbour’s daughter.
She said, “My daughter told me what she went through in the hand of her father whenever I was not around and when confronted, my husband denied, saying, he had stopped the act .

“One afternoon, I returned from church and caught him with our daughter. Again after much pleading, I relented on my resolve to quit the marriage.”
The last straw that broke the camel’s back, according to the wife, was the event that transpired last week.

Ndidwe’s wife said, “Last week, around 9pm, my husband drove me to the church for a vigil. He was alone with our children. The following day when I returned, my daughter told me what her father did to her. When I decided to check her private part my husband refused and almost beat me, but my neighbours intervened.”

But the 11-year-old girl (names withheld) has asked the police to prosecute her father saying she wanted to see him jailed because he might do worse things to her.

Confirming the arrest of the suspect, the state police commissioner, Alkali Baba Usma, said he had made useful statements to the police.

Meanwhile, a middle-aged man who reportedly went to visit his female friend at Agidaese Street, in Ogwashi-Uku Community of the state was said to have died on Friday.

The man, according to sources, slumped in his girlfriend’s room after a marathon sexual intercourse and died on the spot.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs.Celestina Kalu, confirmed that the woman had been arrested by police in Ogwashi-Uku while the body of the victim had been deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.

-Punch

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The South African government on Friday denied reports that it has denied entry of American business icon Bill Gates because he failed to abide by the country’s visa regulations.
There was no record of Gates having entered the country in the past few days, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) said.
According to the South African.com website, Gates wanted to visit South Africa a week ago but was turned away because his daughter didn’t have an unabridged birth certificate.
Referring to the reports, DHA spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete said that if Gates were to visit, he would be expected to abide by the law.
“If Bill Gates had gone to a port of entry and didn’t have the necessary documents our immigration officers were going to apply the law and ask him to provide documents,” he said.
But Tshwete said the reports about Gates being denied entry were false.
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba reportedly is looking into this matter.
Under the new visa regulations implemented on June 1 this year, children entering or leaving South Africa must present unabridged birth certificates, in addition to passports.
The controversial new visa regulations have sparked sharp criticism for affecting tourism.
In another change in visa regulations taking effect in May last year, visitors are required to provide biometric data when they apply for visas. This is a particular problem for people in large countries, such as China, where there are South African consulates only in Beijing and Shanghai.
Also on Friday, Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom said Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is to announce soon whether the government will scrap controversial the visa regulations.
Hanekom said a task team has compiled a report on its findings on how the regulations are affecting international tourism.
“The task team is now ready to present its recommendations so we are waiting to be convened again by the Deputy president

-Punch

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Chief olu falae Former Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) and Afenifere chieftain, Chief olu falae, has been released.
Though details of his freedom is still sketchy but Vanguard gathered that the former presidential candidate is on his way to his country home in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Chief olu falae was Monday kidnapped on his farm at Ilado Village in Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. Coincidentally, the incident took place on his birthday.

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that's true

He shared this on his Instagram Page.
CR7 don hands tehteh.

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The proud wife took to her instagram page to
write about her undying love for her husband,
Tuface, as he turns 40 today September 18th.
Happy Birthday to him. She wrote: Happy
birthday to the best MAN I know... I love u today
n always . God bless u my darling .. Eternally
Yours..

HBD 2 Tuface

Motorcycle drivers on Thursday shut down the Ijegun Road in the Alimosho area of Lagos State, after a woman, Idongesit Ekpo, and her husband, Godwin, were shot by a team of policemen attached to the Isheri Osun Police Division.
While Idongesit died on the spot, Godwin was said to be in a critical condition at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where he was taken for treatment.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the couple was returning from a church programme on Wednesday in a tricycle belonging to the family. Our correspondents were told that Godwin met a police checkpoint at Obalagbe bus stop, where some other tricycle drivers were being reportedly extorted by an eight-man police team.
He was said to have been flagged down by one of the policemen, but as he sped past, one of the officers shattered his windscreen with a baton.
A police corporal, identified as Aremu Musesiu, was said to have opened fire on the tricycle. It was learnt that the bullet pierced through the tricycle back side and hit Idongesit, who was breastfeeding a three-month-old baby.
Her husband, Godwin, who looked back when the shot was fired, was said to have also been hit in the neck. The policemen were said to have hurriedly taken money from the tricycle drivers they had earlier detained, before fleeing the scene.
Tricycle drivers in the community trooped out on Thursday to protest the death and demanded justice for the victims.
The protesters held placards, some of which read, ‘Isheri Police, your generation will suffer,’ ‘Stop killing us,’ among others.
protest train went to the Isheri Osun Police Station, where they met a team of armed policemen in more than six vans. An Armoured Personnel Carrier was also mounted on the road to the station.
The Financial Secretary of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Lagos State branch, Chinanzor Ifechiga, was brutalised and her telephone seized by the Divisional Police Officer. Ifechiga, who was accused of filming the protest and taking pictures, was manhandled by eight policemen, who struggled to take the phone from her on the order of the DPO.
The protesters left the station for Ijegun Road, where they ordered other tricycle operators to cease work. Six police vans packed full with policemen from Idimu, Igando, Ikotun, Gowon Estate and Isheri Osun divisions, were observed by our correspondents on the road.
A tricycle driver, Henry Chibuzor, said the couple was shot at around 10pm on Wednesday. He said, “I was going home around 10pm when I saw the eight-man team asking me to stop at a checkpoint. I was there with four other tricycle drivers.
“The man was coming from church with his family. As he got to the junction, he swerved and his tricycle mistakenly brushed their patrol van. “A policeman hit the tricycle’s windscreen with a baton and damaged it. The second policeman fired a bullet which hit the woman in the neck, came out from the other side, and hit her husband too.”
He said the policemen collected N5,000 from him and also extorted money from other tricycle drivers. Another witness, Kabiru Olaoye, said the residents quickly formed a crowd at the scene and prevented the policemen from leaving. He added that the cops called for reinforcement, adding that officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad and policemen from surrounding divisions arrived at the scene and rescued the killer-cops. Olaoye said, “The policemen, who perpetrated the havoc, were eight in number and they included Demola and Aremu. Aremu was the one who fired the shot.”
PUNCH Metro learnt that while the woman died immediately, the man was quickly rushed to the Igando General Hospital.
“The man was rejected at the Igando hospital and was taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital at Ikeja.” A tricycle driver, Oladimeji Ayinde, said the police deposited the remains of the victim in a mortuary.
It was learnt that the family tricycle had been taken to the Area M Police Command, while the children of the victims were with the police.
A member of the tricycle drivers association in the area, Bamidele Olorunshogo, said tricycle drivers in the community were being constantly harassed by the police in the Isheri Osun station. Olorunshogo said, “Their mode of operation is that whenever the police arrest you, you will pay at least N3,000. If you don’t have the money on you, you will be allowed to go home and bring the money.”
Another member of the association, Salman Aboyeji, told PUNCH Metro that the police at the station were fond of unlawful arrest and detention of drivers. He said the protest that greeted the death of Idongesit, led to the release of 13 other tricycle drivers, who had been arrested under controversial circumstances.
Albert Itekena, a 300-level student of Political Science, who also operates a tricycle in the community, called for an end to the intimidation. A member of the CDHR, Ifechiga, who was allegedly brutalised during the Thursday protest called for justice.
Ifechiga said, “The DPO said I was one of them (the police) and I should not join the protesters. Because I refused, he said I should release my phone to him. “He said he would disgrace me before everybody.
“He pointed a gun at me and the crowd dared him to shoot. He then ordered eight policemen to beat me up because I refused to give him my phone. He humiliated me before the protesters. But I am determined to get justice for the couple; and I want my phone back.” The Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who confirmed the incident, said Aremu had been arrested and detained.
He added that the DPO of Isheri Osun had also been issued a query for disobeying the Inspector General of Police’s instruction. He said, “The police are doing all in our capacity to ensure that the deceased’s children are taken care of. The police corporal involved has been taken into custody. When we complete all necessary disciplinary action, he will be charged to court for murder.
“The team leader and the DPO of Isheri Osun division have also been issued queries for disobeying the IG with regards to policemen performing duties out of uniform, and without a properly-labelled police van.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
on Thursday declared wanted the man managing
Senate President Bukola Saraki’s property
company, Mr. Kennedy Izuagbe, for alleged
N3.6bn money laundering.

Izuagbe, managing director of Carlisle Properties
and Investment Limited, a firm said to be owned
by Saraki, was alleged to have conspired with
others to launder the said amount while he was
the Managing Director of the defunct Societe
Generale Bank.

The Deputy Director in the office of the Attorney-
General of the Federation, M.S. Hazzan, had, in
charges filed against the Senate President, said
he owned Carlisle Properties Limited.

The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC,
Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on
Thursday that Izuagbe, a 45-year-old banker, was
declared wanted because he could not be
reached by the anti-graft agency.

Uwujaren said that Izuagbe, a native of Iviukhua
village, near Agenebode, in the Etsako Local
Government Area of Edo State had fled the
country.
He said, “Kennedy Izuagbe, a former director of
Societe Generale Bank Nigeria Plc and Managing
Director of Carlisle Properties and Investment
Limited, has been declared wanted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

“Izuagbe, 45, who is being investigated in a case
of conspiracy and money laundering to the tune
of over N3.6 bn, has gone into hiding and all
efforts to reach him have proved abortive.
“He is linked to the several shady deals and
gross financial misconducts that took place in
the bank, in which several millions of Naira were
granted as loan without due diligence.

“The suspect, who is believed to have fled the
country, is a native of Iviukhua village, near
Agenebode, Etsako East Local Government Area
of Edo State.”
He urged the members of the public with
information on the whereabouts of the wanted
banker to contact the EFCC offices in Lagos,
Abuja, Port Harcourt, Gombe and Kano or the
nearest police station.

Meanwhile, the Senate President on Thursday
dragged the Code of Conduct Bureau and the
Code of Conduct Tribunal to court in a bid to
stop his arraignment for alleged false assets
declaration on Friday (today).

Saraki, in an exparte motion filed at a Federal
High Court, Abuja, asked the court to stop the
Federal Ministry of Justice, the CCB and the
tribunal as well as a director in the office of the
Attorney General of the Federation, M. S Hassan,
from taking any further step at the CCT pending
the hearing and determination of the substantive
suit he filed before the court.

Hassan, in a 13-count charge filed at the CCT on
September 11, had among others, stated that
Saraki made anticipatory asset declaration of a
house in Ikoyi in his asset declaration form he
submitted to the CCB in 2003.
Saraki was said to have declared that the said
house was possessed through Carlisle Properties,
the company headed by Izuagbe, who was
declared wanted on Thursday by the EFCC.

In his exparte motion, the Senate President is
praying the court to declare that the Ministry of
Justice has not complied with the provision of
the 3rd Schedule of Section 24(1) of the Code of
Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act to act before
proffering a charge against him.

Arguing the motion on behalf of the senate
president, Mahmud Magaji (SAN), said based on
the provision of Section 24 of the CCB and CCT
Act, Saraki’s prosecution before the CCT ought
to have been initiated by the Attorney General of
the Federation or any officer directed by the
AGF.

He argued that, “In the absence of any subsisting
AGF in the time being, this court has the
jurisdiction to direct parties to maintain status
quo pending the hearing of the motion on
notice.”
He argued further that since there was no
subsisting AGF, the charge against him by the
official of the Federal Ministry of Justice before
the CCT is void as the provisions of section 24
(1) of the CCB and the tribunal was not
complied with.

Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed, in a ruling in
his chamber, summoned the chairmen of the
CCB and the CCT to appear before him on
September 21, 2015 to show cause why they
should not be restrained from arraigning Saraki.

The judge ordered that the respondents in the
motion should be served with all the court
processes, including the motion on notice for the
interim order or injunction and motion exparte,
and that the hearing notice should be served on
all the respondents.

The order, the judge held, was made pursuant to
the provision or Order 26 Rule 10 of the Federal
High Court (Civil procedure) Rules 2009.
The other allegations contained in the suit filed
at the CCT against Saraki include alleged failure
to declare property on Plot 2A, Glover Road,
Ikoyi, Lagos; failure to declare property on No. 1,
Tagus Street, Maitama, Abuja (Plot 2482,
Cadastral Zone A06, Abuja) and failure to declare
property No.3, Tagus Street, Maitama, Abuja
(Plot 2481, Cadastral Properties Limited).

Others are claiming to own property on No 42
Gerard Road, Ikoyi and earning N110, 000,000.00
per annum at a time the said property was under
construction; failure to declare N375m GTB loan
converted to 1.5m Pound Sterling and used to
purchase property in London; operating a foreign
bank account; transfer of $3.4m from GTB to
foreign bank account during his tenure as
governor and failure to declare leasehold interest
in No. 42, Remi Fani-Kayode Street, Ikeja.

I just love this man....

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emmanwandud:
That you are privileged to create a topic made possible by seun does not mean you should act type think talk in a foolish way. They are God's representatives here uou should as well tell them how best to spend the money

You must be have angry man.....Its a free world bro

When Bisi Alimi wrote on his Facebook wall about my Pastor the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God whom the All sufficient God just enable to acquire a private jet of a whooping sum of $65million mind you I think a dollar is 200naira so you should know how much we are talking about in Naira,I felt the guy is crazy as he was calling daddy G.O all sort of names like greedy blah blah.

In my humble opinion I feel there should be a respect for the Man of God in the choice of his actions but wait a friend also told me Prophet T.B Joshua just got his own air trek of almost the same price tag hmmm Nigerian pastor una well done no forget the brethren with strong faith that has not be blessed by your ministry but will do everything just to pay his tithes and offerings under the mantra of being faithful to God just like we do pay tax for our dearly beloved Nigeria which our Politicians also blow all around the world.

To me there is nothing bad for a man of God having Jets as it is not new in other countries like USA,UK and the likes but they should always have this in mind that Nigeria is country where Unemployment, Abject Poverty and All sort of hardships has become a beast Lording in almost every home in Nigeria.

Please take it easy, If you build companies or affordable school or healthcare center nobody will complain and even add more strength to our Christian faith.

Peace



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When i read this today, i think this is welcome development from facebook especially for our girls who post selfies almost in nude.With a dislike button they can be corrected.

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Government officials have met with the leaders of Boko Haram sect for talks on freedom for the abducted Chibok girls, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said in France.
He however added that apart from ensuring that it negotiates with genuine leaders of the sect, the government rejected the condition given to it by the sect to proceed with the negotiations.
The condition is for the release from custody of the main suspect behind the production of Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs). The President, who was rounding off his state visit to France, spoke during a meeting with the Nigerian community, who met with him under the auspices of Nigerians In the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO)
Buhari said: “The issue of Chibok girls has occupied our minds and because of the international attention it drew and the sympathy throughout the country and the world, the government is negotiating with some of Boko Haram’s leadership.
“It is a very sensitive development in the sense that first we have to establish who are the genuine leaders of the Boko Haram. That is number one. Number two, what are their terms? The first impression we had was not very encouraging,” he said
He said: “They wanted us to release one of their leaders who is a strategic person in developing and making IEDs which have been causing a lot of havoc in the country by blowing up people in churches, mosques, market places, motor parks and other places.
“But it is very important that if we are going to talk to anybody, we have to know how much he is worth. “Let them bring all the girls and then, we will be prepared to negotiate. I will allow them to come back to Nigeria or to be absorbed into the community. We have to be very careful; the concern we have for the Chibok girls, one only imagine if they got a daughter there between 14 and 18 years and for more than one and a half years, a lot of the parents who have died would rather see the graves of their daughters rather the condition they imagine they were in.
“This has drawn a lot of sympathy thoughout the world; that is why this government is getting very hard in negotiating and getting the balance of those who are alive.” Buhari assured the Nigerians that his administration was doing everything to improve on the state of the economy through provision of infrastructure in critical areas.
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