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olayincar: Why can't Nigeria turn to God?

Remember, God helps those who help themselves.

Despite the Nigerian government’s public rejection of any prisoner swap with extremist Boko Haram sect, its officials, alongside the Red Cross, are currently in talks to trade Boko Haram militants for more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by the sect in April, the U.K. Telegraph reported Friday.

The report said Red Cross officials have held secret negotiations with top Boko Haram leaders held in Nigeria’s maximum security prisons and a list of 16 senior commanders the sect wants freed in exchange for the girls, has been drawn up.

Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped over 200 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok on 14 April.

The abductions alarmed the world triggering massive campaign to secure their freedom with the United States, United Kingdom and France and other countries offering technical support.

The efforts have remained futile more than five months after as the girls remain in captivity.

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, threatened to sell some into slavery and marry others off.

The Telegraph said the Red Cross is acting as a neutral partner to ensure the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, with deep distrust for each other, honour the swap agreement.

“We felt the negotiations would go better with the backing of a major international humanitarian organisation like the ICRC.

There have been two or three ICRC people at each meeting – international staff rather than Nigerians – and they accompany the government security agents to the various prisons and detention centres to identify the people that Boko Haram wants released,” the Telegraph quoted Fred Eno, a civil rights activist.

The newspaper said negotiations began two months ago when Red Cross officials and Nigerian activists met with a senior Boko Haram leader serving a life sentence, called Omar, at the Kuje Prison in Abuja.

The report said the talks were close to being concluded at a point with the government deploying representatives to Yola to receive the girls, but things broke down after Boko haram reneged on its promise to release all the girls at once.

“The insurgents wanted to release the girls on a piecemeal basis, but the government turned down that offer,” said an unnamed source quoted by the Telegraph.

“There was also some opposition from some factions inside of the government to doing any kind of prisoner swap at all, as they feel the Boko Haram prisoners are hardened criminals who have committed heinous crimes,” a source was quoted as saying.

Another reason the prisoner exchange still remains inconclusive has been the inability of government officials to match the names on Boko Haram’s list to insurgents held in prisons, Mr. Eno told the Telegraph.

According to him, that could be because some of the names are inaccurate. But the report says this heightened the sect’s suspicion that the government was trying to hold some prisoners back.

The news that the government is negotiating with the sect may gladden their parents and the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners who have consistently called on the government to do more to secure the release of the girls.


https://m.premiumtimesng.com/headlines/168370-nigerian-government-red-cross-in-secret-talks-with-boko-haram-over-chibok-girls.html

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Marriage is all about understanding.

Any leader who is not a good manager remains vulnerable.
Leadership isn't easy.

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E'rybody now tryna employ the Ebola crisis for their private pockets... NUT, Association of proprietors, PTA & FG.

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Too many kids on Nairaland.

Name the puppy Suarez

The biblical Plague of Locusts!

Good development!

Lagos should show them the way out.

On a lighter Note
Why Lagos? Why not Nigeria(FG)
Lagos is still a state under Nigeria.

UnknownT: OP, next time Viewers Discretion is advised!!!!

Noted Sir!

Insecurity e'rywhere... God help us.

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Miserable bloggers!

I wonder oO!
This blogger should be arrested.

Ebola: Liberian woman found hanging in Lagos suburb

There was confusion on Bankole Street, Isheri-Oke, Lagos on Friday morning when residents woke up to the sight of a woman hanging on a tree.

The woman, popularly called Kate in the area, was found dead in a black sweater and orange skirt under a pear tree.

Our correspondent, who also visited the scene, gathered from the residents that the woman did not live on the street.Residents who spoke to our correspondent also said that the woman was a Liberian who worked in a sachet water factory before she died.

While they said that the woman had been sickly for some time, the residents said she did not appear to have any problem with anyone in the community.But after the outbreak of the Ebola disease that was brought to Nigeria by a Liberian diplomat, Patrick Sawyer, some of the people in the area opted not to have anything to do with her.One of the residents who pleaded anonymity said, “We see her in this neighbourhood every day. She always looked sick but people stopped selling to her after the Ebola outbreak. It could be because she was Liberian and looked sickly.

This might have frustrated her.”Another resident who spoke to our correspondent after his request for anonymity was granted said, “She attended a church in the area and her church members still saw her yesterday. I used to see her every day in the dress she died in. She was sick and people in this area had avoided her, especially after the Ebola outbreak.

”The PUNCH gathered from some landlords, who are members of the Isheri Oke Community Development Association, that the incident had been reported to the Isheri Police Division.Efforts to reach the Baale (head) of the area,Chief Albert Bankole, for comments proved abortive as he declined to speak to The PUNCH on the issue.The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, could not be reached for comments.

Meanwhile, when our correspondent left there around 11am, the woman’s body was still hanging on the pear tree.

http://www.punchng.com/i-punch/

The legend!

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Its called cheating....cheating has no other name....

Theres every possibility she' ll fall inlove with this nigga....And if this nigga ask her out, she ll start having second thought towards her relationship....

The best thing to do is to cut any connection with the guy and face her relationship squarely.....

Gbam!!

Ugly name, I must confess.

Keep us posted abeg!

And Nuhu Ribadu was like... I don bleep-up Sha!

Typical Nigerian Politician... keeping to an agreement & Promises a major problem since 1999. SMH!!!

justi4jesu: I dont do beef, i only do Cow leg and Shaki

Now, I give up.

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Madam, why the beef nau? Thought we are friends

Until the jobs are created jare!
I believe in action.

justi4jesu: Who called you

Seun did.