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Backwardness in modern day.

Very Good move. Commendable.

Dialogue with the terrorist?

i thought the figure is far higher than estimated !!!

It's Okay now igbos please go away all this noise of your so called biafra this biafra that is enough. Please don't forget that we Niger/Delta are not part of your region and don't even think about Rivers please go away with your tiny 5 states and be your biafra good luck to you all.

Mr Badluck,Shoeless, Zoology, Animated, Retardeen, Odechukwu, Clueless, Moneylunder, Mumudu,onipanama etc please prove how you winning your war !!!!

RETARDEEN Just said that Nigeria is winning war on boko haram

Once you sure of yourself as a born again and still you keep on committing sin which you know, you are not a born again, unless you want to be performing baptism multiple time and consider your self as on/or born again which is no born again

May their soul rest in peace, but how come they found themselves in volatile area, didn't they know that the northern Nigeria is no go area even for christian Nigerians

Privatisation may boost production, but electricity price hikes could hit poor the hardest.

Nigeria is set to privatise the country's electricity industry in a bid to help solve a severe power shortage problem.

Analysts and citizens say the move may boost energy production, but will also result in price hikes that will hit the country's poorest most.

More than $16bn in public funds has already been used in failed attempts to increase power supply in recent years. Now, the government is seeking about $100bn in private sector investment to meet the high demand for electricity.

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from the Nigerian capital, Abuja.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/201238142448684718.html

Hostages killed before UK-Nigerian operation could free them, as Italy president asks why Rome not informed beforehand.
Italy's president has accused Britain of an "inexplicable" failure to consult with his country before a failed attempt to rescue an Italian and a Briton being held in Nigeria by kidnappers who claim ties to al-Qaeda.

The two hostages were killed by their captors before a joint British-Nigerian operation could free them, leading to heavy criticism of the UK, and accusations by Italian politicians that Prime Minister Mario Monti's government is inept in foreign affairs.

Franco Lamolinara, an engineer, and a British hostage, Chris McManus, had been working on a bank construction project when they were kidnapped nine months ago.

"The behaviour of the British government, which did not inform or consult with Italy on the operation that it was planning, really is inexplicable," Giorgio Napolitano, the Italian president, told reporters on Friday.

A top security official in Nigeria said on Friday that authorities had arrested three people in connection with Thursday's operation.

The official did not say whether the suspects were linked to Boko Haram, a radical Islamic group.

The official said that prior arrests had led to information about the hostages, but Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja, said the quality of that information was now under scrutiny.

"The failure of the rescue mission is raising questions about the credibility of the intelligence the two countries acted on," she said.

Explanation demanded

In the town of Sokoto on Friday, blood spatter-coated the walls around the front door of the house where the hostages were kept.

Large-calibre bullet holes had punched through the concrete walls. Locals said they believed the two hostages were killed in a back bedroom.

Residents say the attack lasted about nine hours, with heavy gunfire, and said the military also used an armoured personnel carrier to attempt to storm the compound through an unfinished house behind it.

William Hague, the British foreign minister, was holding talks with his Italian counterpart over the failed rescue attempt at a meeting of European foreign ministers in Copenhagen, while the UK's ambassador was meeting with officials in Rome.

Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman Steve Field said Monti had not complained over the circumstances of the
operation in a telephone call on Thursday with the British leader.

He also insisted that Monti and the previous Italian government had not raised objections to the possibility of mounting a rescue mission during talks over the last nine months.

'Constraints involved'

Hague confirmed the Italian government was informed about the rescue attempt by Britain on Thursday once the operation was already under way.

"We had to make a decision very quickly to go ahead with this operation, we had very limited time, that constrained how much we were able to consult others,'" Hague said at the meeting in Denmark.

"We were able to inform the Italian government as the operation got under way, but not to do more than that. But I think everybody understands the constraints involved, the rapid timing involved in a case like this."

In a later phone call with Monti, when the hostages had been killed, Cameron had "explained the situation and the reasons for the decision and why we thought it was right for the operation to go ahead", Field said.

British military and intelligence officers had been working within Nigeria for several months ahead of the operation, before a contingent of special forces, drawn from the elite Special Boat Service, were deployed in recent weeks, officials said.

'Strong advice'

In London, the government's crisis committee of political, military and intelligence officials, known as COBRA, had met about 20 times since the men were kidnapped to consider the case and options to rescue the hostages.

A number of arrests made by Nigerian authorities in recent days had provided more concrete information on the whereabouts of those being held captive, but had also alerted the kidnappers that authorities were on their
trail.

British officials said those involved in the operation feared the captors had become aware that the "net was closing" on their location.

"Their very strong advice was that it was important to act, and to act quickly and that offered the best chance of getting those people out," Field said.

"Our opinion, and the opinion of those on the ground was that the hostages were under imminent and grave danger."

He said that the precise details of how and when the two hostages died remained so far unclear, but that the "early indications were that both men were murdered by their captors before they could be rescued".

Security situation

Al Jazeera's Ndege said the security situation in northern Nigeria was deteriorating.

"The Nigerian authorities have been doing their best to try and get the security situation under control. They have deployed lots of police and military in many of the areas," she said.

She added that much of the deployment in northern states was in places that had experienced attacks by Boko Haram.

"Obviously, news of the kidnap and news of this failed rescue mission will only serve to make people , a little bit more worried about how in control the security services are," she said.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/201239134854498334.html

Even though you are one of them that make the life miserable for ordinary Nigerians today. Thank God you still admit the truth here. Mr tinubu please be patient, God is about to send a young revolutionary messiah who will wiped out all of you together and safe Nigeria from this precarious situation.

Na boko haram kill am abi na armed robbers  

Upon all the Billions of Naira stolen on a daily basis ? Retardeen still think about blessed them even more. Oh my God !!! What a country and is senseless looters called leaders

kayci_d77:
Chei, OBJ and Tinubu will be smiling by now . You don't give such a role to a Yoruba man . He will betray Nigerians.

Just admit that you are lunatic because of your silly tribalism post

Willy+willy:
Very good strategic appointment, now a Yorubaman will help stop his Yoruba kinsmen from embezzling and looting this country,
Nice appointment, he knew his Yoruba tribe well and how fraud runs in their DNA, he will know how to curtail them.
Yoruba tribe, a Tribe that glorifies Fraudulent lifestyle

You are cretin. Silly Bigot :

Why not retardeen stand up now and boast again that he is on top of his promise to protect the security and integrity of Nigerians

So the best help Nigeria soldiers can render to a mentally unstable person is to kill him ever since this man acting like that no authority think about helping him to psychiatric hospital for treatment and everyone ignored him What a wicked nation and her zombies

clueless and foolish administration, while not name aso villa umblera

To confront Boko Haram or armed robbers

Why everybody complaining ? that's not new thing, we are living in corruption and embezzlement free administration and everyone understand that, while those that are there keep on looting to the sky limit, while those on standby praying and anxiously waiting for their own turn to do the same, while my poor people keep on fighting each other for tribal and ethnic issue to support the PEOPLE DESTRUCTIVE PARTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Angry Angry Angry

Worst place to be a woman Nigeria

And the best place for them to offer this type of prayer is Lagoon Restaurant in Lagos

yes

Why everybody complaining ? that's not new thing, we are living in corruption and embezzlement free administration and everyone understand that, while those that are there keep on looting to the sky limit, while those on standby praying and anxiously waiting for their own turn to do the same, while my poor people keep on fighting each other for tribal and ethnic issue to support the PEOPLE DESTRUCTIVE PARTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@poster, Wetin kill dem yo nor mention am ooo, anyway RIP to them.

Shut da hell up there !!!!!!!!!!!! why can't you advice him to do the right things first, if you respect yourself others will respect you.

Better to arrested them than to lose both rescue and the arrest of the bastards

So it has come to this

ATLANTA (AP) — Whitney Houston left everything to her 19-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina.

The pop superstar's will doesn't mention specific assets, but leaves all of her furnishings, clothing, personal effects, jewelry and cars to her surviving children. Bobbi Kristina was her only child.

Inside Edition first reported the will, filed in Atlanta, on Wednesday.

Houston's money will be put in a trust. Her sister-in-law and manager, Patricia Houston, was appointed the administrator of the estate.

Upon turning 21, Bobbi Kristina will receive part of the money, more of it at age 25 and the balance at age 30. Houston's trustees can give her money from the trust for various purposes, including tuition, to buy a home and to start a business.

http://music.yahoo.com/news/whitney-houston-leaves-everything-her-daughter-231315077.html

I hope that Bobbi Kristina will do her mom proud, and be responsible with the money that her mother earned over the many years.