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The terrorists according to the statement
were seen conducting funeral for their
dead members around Mudube village.

A renewed clash between members of the
dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group and
security forces claimed the lives of
terrorists, military authority said in
Maiduguri.

A statement by the spokesman of the 7
Division of the Nigerian Army in
Maiduguri the Borno state capital,
Colonel Mohammed Dole said that the
clash which lasted for 2 hours occurred
along Maiduguri-Bama-Gwoza road of
the state.

The statement also disclosed that 3
vehicles and 3 AK-47 rifles were burnt in
the process while scores of the
insurgents fled with various degrees of
injuries.

According to the statement, due to
increased offensive operations by ground
and air against the terrorists, the
situation has forced the terrorists to
embark on forceful recruitment of youths
and abduction of women from vulnerable
villages into their fold.

The statement also said that security
forces are on their trail to ensure safe
release of those forcefully recruited or
captured into the terrorist group.
It was also revealed that air

It was also revealed that air
bombardment of the insurgents’ hideouts
in Mainok and Mada general areas of
Kaga and Konduga local government
areas of the state by the Nigerian Air
Force also claimed the lives of some
Boko Haram terrorists.

The terrorists according to the statement
were seen conducting funeral for their
dead members around Mudube village.

Colonel Dole appreciated the continuous
support and cooperation given to the
security forces by the public and called
for its sustenance. He also assured that
security forces will continue to launch
attack on the terrorists wherever they are.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/12/14/security-forces-kill-8-terrorists-in-borno/

bionicdude: i will "go and die"

stjudas: Sauce?

Four Nigerian political parties have
declared that they are coming together to
form a working political alliance as the
country prepares for the 2015 general
elections.

Announcing their alliance at the
emergency national executive meeting of
the National Conscience Party, the
National Chairman of the party, Yunusa
Tanko, said that the Advance Congress of
Democrats, the Social Democratic Party
and the Labour Party are joining forces to
give Nigerians an alternative ahead of the
elections.

“We are pained that up till now, the
Nigerian people are yet to count their
blessings without making unpleasant
reference to how they are being governed.
That is why we resolved as a political
party, not to be part of any merger but in
a working alliance with other like-minded
political parties.”

The group also asked President Goodluck
Jonathan to address some of the issues
raised in the letter written by former
president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

“It is instructive to note that President
Goodluck Jonathan should address the
nation as a matter of urgency and answer
most of the damning allegations which
was leveled by the former president,
which has placed this country in an
unsecured situation.”

This is yet another alliance that has
emerged in the country outside the All
Progressives Congress, APC which was
announced in February 2013, and
wrestling power from Nigeria’s ruling
party, the People’s Democratic Party,
PDP has been the major motive behind
these alliances as declared by the parties
involved.

The National Chairman of the Advance
Congress of Democrats, Yusuf Buba,
while justifying this recent alliance,
referred to the parties on ground, as “a
mix-up of strange bed fellows with
different ideas and ideologies” which they
claim is an opposite of their alliance that
is built on the similarities in their ideas
and ideologies.

The parties also said that details of their
alliance would be made available to the
public in 2014, as the 3rd alternative for
the people, ahead of the 2015 elections.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/12/14/labour-party-ncp-two-others-form-alliance-for-2015-elections/

POPE II: . No and I don't want to, Igbo are not related to Jews so watching that trash is pointless

deols: It is possible.

If her menstrual blood can flow through. So can a spermatozoa find its way in.



If you are a virgin, be a complete one, abeg

Afam4eva: Pls, i'm not a jew but an IGBOTIC man. Calling ourselves Jews reeks of inferiority complex. Why can't the jews be called IGBOS.

adepojuot: Why you dey blame this poor alhaji for God sake,don't you know Islam support under age marriage,abi you Na no know remember say Aisha was just 6yrs old when 55yrs old prophet Muhammed married her....abi you Na don forget yerima case....

phantom: i take exception to this rubbish post.it is posts like this that make the idea of an igbo nation unappealing to some of us.put a lid on your God complex.be warned!

AALASIKI: Kogi PDP youths,I am a kogi youth and I have been at home for the past 6 months wasting away,it will be very senseless of me to vote someone like jonathan in 2015.

FreeGlobe: when will sokoto govt conduct the next mass wedding for widows and singles so we can marry this Berem off to a Sani Shinkafi. She's a nuisance on this website. smh

IKEMBA NNEWI: Berem you can insult me all you like buh that wont stop me from telling you the truth, check my post history starting from 'INNO18', to 'Nnewi1stSon' to this present one where i supported Obi. I wont reply your vile language, because last i checked you were married with kids, so i presume you're older than me, i'll give you that respect.

azeezhy: Point of correction OP, your header should read kogi PDP youth endoses GEJ and not kogi youths...
I want to believe there are still some sensible youths over there

donphilopus: Is Kogi recognized in Nigeria's politics??

Members of the PDP Youths
Alliance in Kogi have applauded the transformation
agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The group acknowledged the efforts of government in
the area of job creation, through which jobs had been
created for some of them.

In a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting on
Sunday in Lokoja, the goup said that youths across the
six geo-political zones constituted the major
beneficiaries of government programmes.

The Coordinator of the group, Mr Charles Enefola, cited
the reforms in agriculture, transportation, small and
medium scale enterprises and power sub-sectors of the
economy as potential areas of job creation.


Enefola appealed to the president to go a step further by
introducing social security and empowerment schemes
to alleviate the suffering of unemployed youths, and the
aged in the society.

He said that this would go a long way to reducing crime
and poverty level among Nigerians, especially those in
the rural areas.

Enefola reiterated the group’s implicit confidence
in the ability of Jonathan administration to lead
the country to the promised land and pledged its
support to his administration.

The group also commended Gov. Idris Wada for
providing the people with purposeful leadership
and for creating jobs for over 2,000 of its
members through the youth empowerment
programme.

The group called for the completion of the skill
acquisition development centre currently under
construction at the campus of Kogi State
Polytechnic in Lokoja.

It said that the centre, when completed, would help to
reduce the unemployment level among the people.

The group called on the state government to focus more
attention on the development of tourism, sports,
agriculture and solid mineral deposits to create wealth
and jobs for the citizens.

They expressed their support for the national leadership
of the party led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and the
national executive council of the alliance under Dr
Charles Omini. (NAN)

chino11: My greatest concern is why Yorobars are not trooping here to campaign and pledge support for Okorosha, the same way they tirelessly and consistently campaigned for Ngige during the election in Anambra? Some of them even conducted the election on NL and declared Ngige the winner.

Okorosha should by now understand that he does not presently have the support of SE people neither does he enjoy the support of his so called APC..

Its only a shortsighted person as Okorosha that could not see through the deceit and how APC is shortchanging him..

"I will continue to show openly and inside me the
total commitment to the Sharia movement that is
sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in
press reports.

"God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the
total implementation of the Sharia in the country,"
Buhari said.

No fewer than 25 people suspected to be members of
Boko Haram sect were killed, Thursday, in a clash with
troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army at Ngauramari
villages of Bama Local Government Area of Borno state.

Ngauramari is a small farming community along the
Maiduguri- Bama – Firgi-Gwoza federal highway which
had witnessed series of attacks and killing of over 20
motorists and passengers this week by suspected
terrorists.

Our Correspondent gathered that the incident took place
at about 8am on Thursday when some suspected Boko
Haram members, crossing the road from their camps in
the Sambisa Forest exchanged gunfire with troops, with
the killing of three terrorists. Vanguard gathered those
who fled from the scene of the attack were killed by
military airstrikes.

Sources said, during the encounter with the military, all
roads leading to the area were closed for over three
hours in order to avoid civilian casualties, particularly
motorists and their passengers who were plying the
road as at the time of the airstrikes.

A commercial driver , Ali Wando who came from Gwoza
into Maiduguri told our correspondent, “I saw three
corpses by the roadside at Ngauramari which were
dismembered by the rocket launcher fired at them by
the military when they came on their tricycle.”

“Several other bodies were lying further in the bush but I
did not go to count them because I was afraid, as I
believed some of the insurgents might hiding further in
the bush”.

Another commercial driver who did not want his name
mentioned for security reason said, ” soon after the
military killed the terrorists in Ngauramari, the Nigerian
Airforce fighter jet located some of the suspected
terrorists around the Bama-Firgi-Gwoza river bank,
attempting to cross the river where the fighter jet
attacked and killed them.”

When contacted on phone, the Spokesman of the 7
Division, Nigerian Army, Colonel Mohammed Dole sent a
text message to our Correspondent saying, ” I am
coming up with a statement on the incident very soon,
thanks”, but after waiting for several hours, there was
no response from him before this post.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/25-killed-army-boko-haram-clash-borno/

The Federal Government has said no fewer than
19,000 persons in the South West part of the country
have so far benefitted from Community Services Women
and Youths Employment, CSWYE, project of Subsidy
Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE P.

Speaking through the Minister of Labour and
Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, in Oyo State, during a
sensitisation and appraisal tour of the CSWYE project of
SURE P, for the South West Geo Political zone,
beneficiaries recorded man hours work output of 27,
550,000 in the past one year.

A statement by Prince Samuel Olowookere, Deputy
Director, Press/Public Relations, Ministry of Labour,
quoted Chief Wogu as assuring Nigerians that the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, was
committed to job creation as well as empowerment of
women and youths for self reliance.

Chief Wogu, who recently led a high powered delegation
on CSWYE project of SURE P, to the Governor of Oyo
State, South West Geo Political zone, said: “I want to
re assure all the people of Oyo State and Nigerians at
large that, the promise made by Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan, to create jobs for Nigerian youths is being
successfully implemented through the CSWYE project.”
According to him, other five states in the South West
Geo Political zone had also benefited from the project
with a total beneficiary figure of 19,000 with man hours
work output of 27, 550,000.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/19000-benefit-sure-p-s-west/

World leaders have lauded Nigeria’s initiative that
facilitated the first-ever global trade reform agreement,
which has the potential to add $1 trillion to the global
economy.

The agreement followed five-days of negotiations in
Bali, Indonesia.

The outcome is an offshoot of the work done at the
World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) Eighth Ministerial
Conference in Geneva, where it was agreed that the
WTO should end the fruitless years of negotiations and
identify key elements of the Doha Round, where
agreements could be reached with a view to delivering a
package in those areas.

The world’s trade ministers said the “helpful” leadership
of the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and
Investment, Olusegun Aganga (who chaired the MC8),
helped in the early resolution of the contending issues
at the just concluded Ninth Ministerial Conference
(MC9).

The Swiss delegation commended Nigeria’s leadership
of the MC8, saying it helped in no small way to reach
the MC9 consensus.

The delegation, which has invited Aganga to Davos in
January, said members want to continue engagement
with Aganga in view of the quality of leadership he
displayed.


It said Aganga’s experience would help address many
issues.

The 159 member countries of the WTO came to Bali for
the MC9, knowing that it was either a deal was struck
regarding the three packages on the table or the WTO
will lose its integrity.

“For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly
delivered. This time, the entire membership came
together. We have put the ‘world’ back in the World
Trade Organisation,” WTO Director-General Roberto
Azevedo told exhausted ministers after the long but
fruitful talks.

There were three main items in the package – trade
facilitation (to streamline customs procedures and
minimise unnecessary border delays, delivering jobs and
opportunities in times of unemployment and slow
growth); agriculture and development issues, which
apply mainly to Least Developed Countries (LDC

On the whole, agreements were reached at the end,
including the reaffirmation of the non-discrimination
principle of Article V of GATT 1994; public stockholding
for food security purposes; duty-free and quota-free
market access for least developed countries, among
others.

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/12/world-leaders-praise-nigeria-on-1tr.html?m=1