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If he has a British passport then he is British. If he was winning gold for Team GB would we call him Nigerian?

What makes him Nigerian? Is Bill Clinton Irish? Even Schwarzenegger is not Austrian? #AdebolojaisnotNigerian .@omojuwa

When Eniola Aluko scores for England she is British. The day she commits a crime she will become Nigerian

John Fashanu was British when he was scoring goals for Wimbledon, he became a Nigerian when he had match fixing charges

We cannot afford to let the world keep defining our identity

@omojuwa: JJ, the sad part of the whole issue is that Nigerians are usually in the forefront of this perceived negative media.

You cannot quantify how much Aljazeera has influenced the global conversation on Islam and the Middle East

@aninoritse A Brit of Nigerian descent? If he was winning gold for you guys would you guys add the Nigerian part of his origin? Wake up!

@dimu4ever Not about denying his Nigerian origin, this is simply asking would the Nigerian part of him be amplified in a differnt scenario?

Until you show me where the Nigerians that won medals for Team GB were called Nigerians I am done.

I watched London 2012. At no time were the British athletes answering Nigerian names get called "Nigerian"

Nigerians abroad should represent us well. Thing is when they do, they get other passports. Argh! Hard life

[size=14pt]Boko Haram claims responsibility for Baga, Bama attacks.[/size]

The leader of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for the two recent deadly attacks in the North-East in a video obtained by AFP yesterday.

The video also depicts women and children being held hostage by the sect. The video features Shekau, who was declared a global terrorist by the United States, seated on a rug with a kalashnikov resting behind his right shoulder. “We are the ones that carried out the Bama attack,” Shekau said in Hausa language, referring to the May 7 assault that killed 55 people, mostly soldiers and police.

“We also carried out the attack in Baga,” he further said of the April 16 raid in the town near Lake Chad that sparked clashes with soldiers which killed nearly 200 people. Nigeria’s military has been accused of causing scores of deaths in the Baga violence by deliberately setting fires that razed thousands of homes. “It was you, the security agents that went into town the following day and burnt homes and killed people at will,” Shekau said.

The military has fiercely denied the reported abuses by its soldiers, insisting that only 37 people died in the Baga violence, including 30 suspected Islamists. Some seven minutes into the 12-minute video message, the screen splits, showing Shekau on the left with a group of unidentified women and children on the right.

The Islamist leader claimed this group is being held hostage in retaliation for the wives and children of Boko Haram members detained by the military. Boko Haram has never before boasted about the kidnapping of Nigerian women and children.

“As long as we do not see our women and children we will never release these women and children,” Shekau said. The group set out a similar condition for the release of seven members of a French family who were kidnapped in February in Cameroon near the Nigerian border.

The Moulin-Fournier family were released last month. Before claiming the French abductions, Boko Haram had not widely been associated with kidnappings.

Their attacks, which have killed hundreds since 2009, have included suicide blasts as well as coordinated gun and bomb assaults on the security forces and other symbols of authority. The recent attacks in the North-East have raised concern about the increasingly brazen tactics used by the insurgents, who said they were fighting to create an Islamic state in mostly Muslim northern Nigeria.

In Bama, they stormed the commercial centre in a convoy of seven vehicles, launching coordinated pre-dawn attacks on the military, police and several government buildings. Under pressure over his apparent inability to contain the violence, President Goodluck Jonathan created a panel to seek an amnesty deal with the insurgents.

In his latest video, Shekau re-stated his opposition to any such pact. “You talk of dialogue…You are free to say whatever you want to say but we will never stop our struggle,” he said. While Shekau’s hardcore Islamist loyalists may resist a peace deal, analysts believe that Boko Haram is fractured, with some camps possibly open to amnesty.

The Boko Haram conflict is estimated to have cost 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security forces. The images of Shekau in the latest video resemble those previously released by the group and the message was distributed by email, in a manner consistent with earlier Boko Haram messages

gonzaga: Now that all the top military commanders of MEND; Asari, Tompolo, Boyloaf, Ateke Tom, Dagogo, Shoot At Sight and co have come out openly to deny any link to the October1 bomb blast, the big question is this; does Jomo Gbomo the supposed spokes person of MEND really exist?

Tompolo who is acclaimed as the general commander stated what many of us have been suspecting, he said;"ANYBODY CAN BE JOMO GBOMO AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE PASSWORD". This simply means that, anyone could have issued the statement in the name of MEND. As the youths and future leaders of tomorrow( if the old allow us) we should take more than a passing interest on national issues devoid of any form of sentiments. Our politicians as usual have started the blame game already and they want to politicize the whole issue so that a proper investigation will not be possible. Based on the revelations of all the well kown ex-militant leaders yesterday, widely televised on Channels news at 10, let us begin to look at the possiblity of the none existence of Jomo Gbomo. We all know that an e-mail account can be created using any name, so WHO IS JOMO GBOMO? DOES HE REALLY EXIST? ARE SOME PEOPLE USING THE E-MAIL ACCOUNT?

begwong: nO WONDER THE SATE WAS INCLUDED IN THE STATE OF EMERGENCY.
ON TARGET THEN.

KnowAll: [size=18pt]Does Nigerian Airforce have Bombers, I know we have Fighter Jets, this is where the bombers come into it, unfortunately we do not have those flying fortress B52 Bombers. Boko Haram are running into the " Daisy Cutter territories " the Daisy cutter is one massive bomb as big as a mini- van used in Afganistan .

It was used in the Tora-Bora Mountains by the US Airforce to dislodge Al queada operatives when they were hunting for Bin Ladin, Since we don't have this kind of weaponry, I don't want to burst your bubbles or your opportunism, it would be tough for Naija troops on those mountains in Adamawa State.[/size]

sexkillz: [color=#000030]Taken care of. [/color]

Ola one: Is this Mike Awoyinfa/Naptu2?

, I would like to know ooo

naptu2: I'm going to add that to my list.

Let's see. . . . All the things I've been called on nairaland.

"Government official or SSS agent", "Benefiting from Lagos State Government", "Yoruba Boy", "Northerner", "GEJ asslicker", "librarian", "journalist", "you people" (I suspect that the guy meant either muslim or northerner), "Fashola". I think there's more.

killuminati: Take it raw!

Kano representer!!

killuminati: @naptu, I go vex with you fa! Oya come upload Kano state's flag and logo before I descend you...in twinkle of an eye!