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pussygotlips: Cow brainers

Did you think military approach is the best way to bring back the girls? How did you even know he is clueless? men you got to watch your words. Thanks

Adventurist: How on earth do you think he will bring back those girls when he's clueless on what next to do??

I wonder why they were killing their people in the pretense of winning the ruler ship of Nigeria. God go punish them all. GEJ 2019. Isa Allah u.

Boko Haram is no more religion insurgency but political. So how do government overcome this when they are some people who want them so as to be the perpetual ruler of the nation.

What is your take this monday morning on the above assertion?

So, Jonathan should produce Chibok girls or forget 2015 ambition? (Y! FrontPage)
Adeyanju-Deji
by Deji Adeyanju
“The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has issued an ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to bring an end to insurgency in all its manifestations and produce the abducted Chibok school girls before the end of October, 2014 or forget his 2015 ambition.” – culled from ThisDay Newspaper, August 11th, 2014
How can Goodluck Jonathan end Boko Haram with this approach of threats and political witch hunting by this desperate group of #BornToRule people all in a quest for #2015? Our nation is witnessing Political insurgency not religious insurgency and these same Elders are not willing to corporate with Government to finding a lasting solution. All they are concerned about is taking over power or pushing GEJ aside with threats, intimidation and blackmail.
Having failed through series of bombings and several other tactics, it is understandable that the #ChibokGirls abduction was their perfect game plan to cajole and threaten GEJ with ultimatum. It is now very clear that they intend to use #ChibokGirls as a manifesto issue for 2015. Those of us who have always suspected that the #Chibok abduction was never carried out by Shekau just got additional proof of our earlier assertions.
The #Chibok abduction was carried out as a last resort to tarnish and malign the GEJ administration by these desperados from Northern Nigeria. I have never seen where a president overcame insurgency especially a politically motivated one for that matter without the support and corporation of the people of that zone. We still remember vividly how the Elders and people of the Niger Delta rose-up together to support their Political Elites to solve the problem ofmMilitancy that was plaguing their land then. Now some power hungry people are giving GEJ an ultimatum to solve insurgency and produce #ChibokGirls abduction that they themselves organized. What an irony.
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You will all recall that when the abduction took place some hypocritical Northern elders and two other groups met GEJ and offered to reach out to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau to secure the release of the 276 abducted girls.
You will all recall that when the abduction took place some hypocritical Northern elders and two other groups met GEJ and offered to reach out to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau to secure the release of the 276 abducted girls. The options they tabled included either payment of ransom or the release of some detained members of Boko Haram as a form of prison swap.
The President gave them a listening ear thinking these were genuine patriotic Nigerians. The Groups even said if the options were acceptable to Government they might meet with a team from the insurgents at a neutral ground to negotiate. But when the President realized that these are a group of insincere people who just want dangerous Boko Haram elements in custody released so that more girls could later be kidnapped and one day they now ask him to resign, he turned down their hypocritical options. Despite the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan ruled out the possibility of swapping abducted schoolgirls for members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram detained by security agencies across the country, some of these Northern leaders have continuously kept on agitating for the Federal Government to accept the insurgents’ proposal.
How can a President with a sound mind accept such a satanic proposal? These leaders kept using blackmail phrase like “no sacrifice was too much to #BringBackOurGirls.”
I was particularly impressed when one of the parents of the abducted girls, Ishaya Abama, said: “government should only take decisions that would result in total eradication of the activities of the Islamic sect.” This is how patriotic citizens should talk not these satanic so-called Northern Elders who just want to plunge our nation into more crisis by realizing dangerous Boko Haram elements in custody. I have observed that, these so-called Northern Elders do not love or care about the #ChibokGirls, all they want is maximum anarchy and total destruction so that may be GEJ can be overthrown by the military because if not why will they ask for the release of dangerous Boko Haram elements who can later kidnap thousands of other girls?
My question to these crazy elements parading themselves as so called Northern Elders is what part of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is this their ultimatum coming from?
I will like them to enlighten me on this Section of the Constitution from where they are giving GEJ this Ultimatum.
There is no doubt that by the provision of the 1999 constitution as amended, a Nigeria President can only spend maximum of eight years in office. Section 137 (1) (b) of the 1999 constitution as amended has spoken to the President already, so no need wasting your spittle on the subject matter of GEJ seeking a 2nd term as that can only be decided by GEJ’s decision to contest and the Nigerian electorate.
GEJ has the constitutional right to seek re-election. These reckless and senseless so-called Northern elders keep making unconstitutional statements. What a pity.
How can you give a Jonathan who didn’t create Boko Haram an ultimatum? Why haven’t you given your boy “Shekau” an ultimatum?
How can you give a Jonathan an ultimatum when you and your people are not willing to expose your fellow brothers sponsoring Boko Haram or those participating in it?
Before you can successfully give GEJ an ultimatum of forgetting about 2015 elections, you people should first #BringBack all the innocent people of North East killed in your quest to take-over power and also give the Governors of the North East this same ultimatum.
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Deji Adeyanju writes from Abuja and can be contacted on Twitter @adeyanjudej9 or dejiadeyanju_1979@yahoo.co.uk
Op-ed pieces and contributions are the opinions of the writers only and do not represent the opinions of Y!/YNaija.

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Information just coming in suggests that there was confusion at the Orile-Agege General Hospital, Agege area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday, 12 August, 2014 when a patient was brought to the hospital with symptoms of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

P.M NEWS reports that the patient, who was brought into the hospital in the morning, was bleeding all over his body and as a result, nurses, doctors and other patients in the hospital fled from him.
A health worker attending to a patient of Ebola virus
A health worker attending to a patient of Ebola virus

A source in the hospital, who did not want her name published because she was authorised to speak on the matter, informed that the patient had come to the hospital last week complaining of fever, but re-appeared on Tuesday with blood coming out from his body.
The source added that everybody in the hospital fled from the patient in order not to contract the deadly Ebola Virus.

A health official, who also craved anonymity, confirmed to newsmen that the case was reported at the hospital on Tuesday.

It was gathered that the authorities of the Orile-Agege General Hospital informed the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital about the patient, saying they did not have the wherewithal to handle the case.

It was learnt that the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital declined and called the State Ministry of Health officials who ordered that nobody should touch the patient as government was coming to pick him up.

Officials of the Lagos State Government, it was gathered, picked up the patient and the man who brought him to the hospital and took them away to be tested if the case was actually an Ebola one.

However, attempt to get the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris to confirm the incident proved abortive as his Public Relations Officer, Bosun Ogunbamwo, said he had gone to Abuja.

In a related development, reports stated that there was also panic on Lagos Island, western Nigeria, on Tuesday when a middle aged woman identified as Ada, slumped at CMS bus stop.

It was gathered that immediately the woman, who sells newspapers, suddenly collapsed on the road, people started running away from her thinking that she was a victim of Ebola virus.

The incident, according to eyewitnesses, was said to occur at about 6p.m as the woman was trekking along the road on Odulami Steet and suddenly collapsed on the major road.

The eyewitnesses said because of the outbreak of Ebola virus in the country, people refused to go near her to render assistance until people who knew her, including some newspaper vendors, arrived the scene to identify the woman as Ada and dispelled the rumours that she was a victim of Ebola virus.

It was gathered that sympathisers immediately started buying sachets water and pouring it on the collapsed woman’s body.

She however did not regain consciousness, but was seen breathing faintly on the ground

The incident was said to attract a huge crowd who stormed the scene to catch a glimpse of the woman.

A vendor at the scene of incident, who claimed to know the woman as a vendor, said the woman habitually drinks local gin called ‘ogogoro’, and said each time she drank it in excess she would collapse and sleep on the spot for at least three to four hours before she would regain her consciousness.

“We have been talking to her to stop drinking the illicit gin, but she would not listen,” he said.

It would be recalled that Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwuthe, stated on Monday, 11 August, 2014, that Ebola virus has killed no fewer than three people in Lagos, Nigeria.

Chukwu also added that there are 10 cases of the disease in Nigeria, stating that hundreds of other people are being monitored for traces of the Ebola virus.

On Wednesday, 13 August, 2014, an official of the Economic Community of West Africa States was reported to have died from the Ebola virus in Lagos, Nigeria.

According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, about 1000 people have died from the Ebola virus since the outbreak of the disease started in West Africa in February this year.

Source: http://www.naij.com/276593-ebola-scare-orile-agege-general-hospital.html

My brother I too fear for them ooo

amjou: This has always bn my fear for health workers

Olorun gba wa oooo.

Information just coming in suggests that there was confusion at the Orile-Agege General Hospital, Agege area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday, 12 August, 2014 when a patient was brought to the hospital with symptoms of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

P.M NEWS reports that the patient, who was brought into the hospital in the morning, was bleeding all over his body and as a result, nurses, doctors and other patients in the hospital fled from him.
A health worker attending to a patient of Ebola virus
A health worker attending to a patient of Ebola virus

A source in the hospital, who did not want her name published because she was authorised to speak on the matter, informed that the patient had come to the hospital last week complaining of fever, but re-appeared on Tuesday with blood coming out from his body.

The source added that everybody in the hospital fled from the patient in order not to contract the deadly Ebola Virus.

A health official, who also craved anonymity, confirmed to newsmen that the case was reported at the hospital on Tuesday.
It was gathered that the authorities of the Orile-Agege General Hospital informed the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital about the patient, saying they did not have the wherewithal to handle the case.

It was learnt that the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital declined and called the State Ministry of Health officials who ordered that nobody should touch the patient as government was coming to pick him up.

Officials of the Lagos State Government, it was gathered, picked up the patient and the man who brought him to the hospital and took them away to be tested if the case was actually an Ebola one.

However, attempt to get the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris to confirm the incident proved abortive as his Public Relations Officer, Bosun Ogunbamwo, said he had gone to Abuja.

In a related development, reports sstated that there was also panic on Lagos Island, western Nigeria, on Tuesday when a middle aged woman identified as Ada, slumped at CMS bus stop.

It was gathered that immediately the woman, who sells newspapers, suddenly collapsed on the road, people started running away from her thinking that she was a victim of Ebola virus.

The incident, according to eyewitnesses, was said to occur at about 6p.m as the woman was trekking along the road on Odulami Steet and suddenly collapsed on the major road.

The eyewitnesses said because of the outbreak of Ebola virus in the country, people refused to go near her to render assistance until people who knew her, including some newspaper vendors, arrived the scene to identify the woman as Ada and dispelled the rumours that she was a victim of Ebola virus.

It was gathered that sympathisers immediately started buying sachets water and pouring it on the collapsed woman’s body.

She however did not regain consciousness, but was seen breathing faintly on the ground

The incident was said to attract a huge crowd who stormed the scene to catch a glimpse of the woman.

A vendor at the scene of incident, who claimed to know the woman as a vendor, said the woman habitually drinks local gin called ‘ogogoro’, and said each time she drank it in excess she would collapse and sleep on the spot for at least three to four hours before she would regain her consciousness.

“We have been talking to her to stop drinking the illicit gin, but she would not listen,” he said.

It would be recalled that Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwuthe, stated on Monday, 11 August, 2014, that Ebola virus has killed no fewer than three people in Lagos, Nigeria.

Chukwu also added that there are 10 cases of the disease in Nigeria,staing that hundreds of other people are being monitored for traces of the Ebola virus.

On Wednesday, 13 August, 2014, an official of the Economic Community of West Africa States was reported to have died from the Ebola virus in Lagos, Nigeria.

According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, about 1000 people have died from the Ebola virus since the outbreak of the disease started in West Africa in February this year.



SOURCE: http://www.naij.com/276593-ebola-scare-orile-agege-general-hospital.html

Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu has made it known that a doctor in Lagos has contracted the deadly Ebola disease.

Vanguard reports that the Health Minister revealed that the Lagos doctor who attended to and treated the Liberian Ebola victim in Lagos has contracted the deadly virus.

Related: IMPORTANT: Bush Meat Could Host Ebola Virus

The Liberian, identified as Patrick Sawyer was a Liberian finance ministry employee before he died from the pawns of the deadly disease which has reportedly killed many in some African countries.

Although few days back, the Lagos state ministry of health said none of the health officials who had contacts with the Liberian has manifested any symptoms associated with the early stage of the deadly disease, the health minister has however said otherwise saying that one of the doctors has tested positive today. From the record of the World Health Organization, Ebola outbreak in West Africa now has increased to 1,323 cases, 729 deaths with the Death rate of 55%.

The nation however reports that 70 of those that travelled with the Liberian are under surveillance while 8 are already quarantined while the government has also set up six member treatment and research committee as part of the efforts to repel the disease.

sorry for my ignorance. where is the gear for this sedan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4thc6parYU#t=327

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4thc6parYU#t=327

hmmmm

My fellow nairalander what is your take on this.

Goodluck till 2019 that my side. What about you?

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Pioneer National Publicity Secretary, Senator Aniete Okon, on Thursday said the party should give President Goodluck Jonathan automatic ticket and make him the party’s presidential candidate for the 2015 general election.

Vanguard reports that, the senator, who made the call in Abuja, ahead the party’s primary election to determine who its candidate would be said President Jonathan deserves it.

Related: TAN: Why President Jonathan Must Contest In 2015

Okon, a delegate representing Akwa Ibom State at the on- going National Conference, who said he has examined the nation’s political environment, expressed optimism that there was no vacancy in the Presidential Villa, because of Jonathan’s achievements and the support by Governor Godswill Akpabio-led PDP Governors’ Forum as well as other Nigerians.

The senator, however, noted that Nigerians have the constitutional rights to contest election but advised any Presidential aspirant to wait till 2019, after Jonathan’s tenure had elapsed.

According to him, in countries with developed democracies, incumbent presidents were given conventional right of first refusal by the political party and that of President Jonathan would not be different.

Related: Youths Storm Abuja For Jonathan

“In PDP, The President has the conventional right of first refusal. The party without excluding any other aspirants, must in the manner of universal convention of parties in most democratic realms invite the incumbent to bear the party’s standard in an election on the incumbent‘s record. In the PDP, we believe that Mr. President has more than made the mark. His record, given the distractions posed by the concert of dark intrigues that spawned hydra-headed conflicts and consequential breaches of security that eroded our sovereignty recommends Mr. President to justifiably present himself for re-election. In the PDP, there is no credible aspiration that will be worth a passing glance. We are ready. It is the opposition that has the daunting task of house-keeping to sort themselves and establish something akin to order” he said.

Okon while insisting that President Jonathan’s deserves to be re-elected listed his achievements so far to include privatisation of the power sector, construction of the second Niger Bridge, the newly completed international airport in Enugu, revitalisation of the railway transportation system, improved agricultural sector, massive road construction across the country, among others.
It would be recalled that the elders and frontline politicians in Bayelsa State on Thursday, July 31, also urged President Goodluck Jonathan to declare his intention to re-contest in the 2015 Presidential elections.

Source: http://www.naij.com/70579.html

I think it is time for Mikel to move on with his life from chelsea. He should leave while the ovation is loud. What did you think my fellow comrade.

Chelsea Manger Jose Mourinho has said that he has no choice but to let go of one of his foreign players as there is no way he could register all.

Super Eagles Mikel John Obi in Chelsea

Mikel Obi in Chelsea jersey

Super Eagles Mikel John Obi has been rumoured now for some time to be on his way out of the London club, and with the arrival of Ivorian marksman, Didier Drogba, making the amount of foreign stars in the club, 18, the manager has his hands tied.

Premier league clubs can only list 17 foreign players over the age of 21 in their official 25-man squads and Chelsea have 18 overseas stars. The UEFA Champions League laws also follow the same policy.

British Tabloid, Telegraph, says that Mourinho has made up his mind on three players, Fernando Torres, Peter Cech or Mikel, and one of them has to go.

Mourinho had earlier said: “From the group you are expecting us to have as a squad, I have to send one away because we have one extra foreign player.

“So from all these players, if you think all of them have to stay, you are wrong. One of them has to go.”

Mikel has represented Chelsea in over 200 league appearances, winning the Champions League title with them. He joined them in 2006 after initially agreeing to join Manchester United.

Sources: http://www.naij.com/70471.html

It was the guy illiasu that was driving and none of the girls. Please read between lines before conclusion.

Olekumaster: i smell lies!

Nigerians which way from now till 2015?

A bomb explosion has occurred at College of Islamic and Legal studies, Kano State.

According to witnesses, the bomb was detonated by a female suicide bomber in the school premises while students were checking their results.

The number of casualties hasn’t been confirmed, but the Kano State Police Command has confirmed the blast in the school.

Details to follow…




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mikel will continue till the guy get to maturity.

Ok, I have being expecting people like you since. Mikel need rest after the world cup. Chelsea is not planning to sell him. Hater pack over there.

MadCow1: Mikel resting from what please?!

Wetin you expect ehn Agent to talk before?!

You obviously dont understand Public Relations and Image Management.

I like him too but he is becoming lazy to develop himself and it is telling on his career.

mrcassanova: As a Chelsea fan and I like mikel, he has to step up his game.

Chelsea Not Looking To Sale Mikel, He Was Resting - Agent
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John Mikel Obi will join up with Chelsea FC’s players next week Monday and is not expecting to leave soon, his agent has confirmed.

His agent told reporters that Mikel and Victor Moses had been given an extended break due to participation at the FIFA World Cup.

He said: "Mikel has been on break resting. But he is going to Austria on Monday to meet up with the rest of the team".

"I don’t know where people got the information that he was left out of the squad. He played at the World Cup, and he got a break from the club.

"It’s the same thing with some of the other players who got to the same stage, "For now, he is not going anywhere. He will fight for his place. But this is football, and anything can happen at any time."

Mikel had been rumoured to be wanted out by coach Jose Mourinho due to his awful perfomance at the FIFA world cup in Brazil.

Mikel is what we call a Mourinho player, Mourinho had signed him during his first spell in Chelsea as a Attacking Midfielder but moulded the young player then into a Defesive minded player.

Mikel has amassed over 200 appearances for the blues and winning all the major trophies in England and Europe with the blues.

Sources: http://www.naij.com/70226.html

Source: http://www.naij.com/70226.html

John Mikel Obi will join up with Chelsea FC’s players next week Monday and is not expecting to leave soon, his agent has confirmed.

His agent told reporters that Mikel and Victor Moses had been given an extended break due to participation at the FIFA World Cup.

He said: "Mikel has been on break resting. But he is going to Austria on Monday to meet up with the rest of the team".

"I don’t know where people got the information that he was left out of the squad. He played at the World Cup, and he got a break from the club.

"It’s the same thing with some of the other players who got to the same stage, "For now, he is not going anywhere. He will fight for his place. But this is football, and anything can happen at any time."

Mikel had been rumoured to be wanted out by coach Jose Mourinho due to his awful perfomance at the FIFA world cup in Brazil.

Mikel is what we call a Mourinho player, Mourinho had signed him during his first spell in Chelsea as a Attacking Midfielder but moulded the young player then into a Defesive minded player.

Mikel has amassed over 200 appearances for the blues and winning all the major trophies in England and Europe with the blues.

So Mikel Obi hater . Oya make n na come say n na mind again. Mikel for life in Chelsea.

John Mikel Obi will join up with Chelsea FC’s players next week Monday and is not expecting to leave soon, his agent has confirmed.

His agent told reporters that Mikel and Victor Moses had been given an extended break due to participation at the FIFA World Cup.

He said: "Mikel has been on break resting. But he is going to Austria on Monday to meet up with the rest of the team".

"I don’t know where people got the information that he was left out of the squad. He played at the World Cup, and he got a break from the club.

"It’s the same thing with some of the other players who got to the same stage, "For now, he is not going anywhere. He will fight for his place. But this is football, and anything can happen at any time."

Mikel had been rumoured to be wanted out by coach Jose Mourinho due to his awful perfomance at the FIFA world cup in Brazil.

Mikel is what we call a Mourinho player, Mourinho had signed him during his first spell in Chelsea as a Attacking Midfielder but moulded the young player then into a Defesive minded player.

Mikel has amassed over 200 appearances for the blues and winning all the major trophies in England and Europe with the blues.

Source: http://www.naij.com/70226.html

If it is war this terrorist want, we better give them the war. Infact this is war so let us come out of our shelve and fight and at the end of the day the remnant of this country after the war will continue the procreation and the birth of a new Nigeria. God bless Nigeria.

voltron: Pressing Like or making promises or feeling sad or praying to God for his Holy Intervention won't cut it. Allah will not even listen to that crap above. The Truth is we may claim to want all these problems to go away and for Peace and Progress to reign in Nigeria and blossom like wild flowers for the generation of the future to flourish.. We are simply too scared to make a Sacrifice today requires for a better tomorrow to be born. We simply love being stretched beyond the limits of Morality, Sanity etc. we are like a tired rubber band that expands when brought to heat and refuses to break because we want to see if stretching a bit longer will bring about a solution.

Freedom and Peace are brokered on a Sacrificial Altar of Blood.. that is how it has always been and that is how it will always be. ask Prophet Mohammed PBUH or even Jesus Christ the Messiah. This is one FACT that our leaders continue to hide from the masses and Religious icons ensure that they dull the minds of the clueless followers with lies of divine intervention. either a group of like minds take up the mantle of leadership with unwavering focus and will, scourging and wiping out masses of morally corrupt leaders (political, economical and religious) we will slowly degrade and rot into oblivion .. we are slowly experiencing the gangrene of a nation, rather than treat it FAST!! we are busy making political and sentimental noise about it.. by the time it has eaten too deep and we need to cut off something of Critical National Importance.. only then shall we realize that we are getting to Rwanda's situation

My Brother this is a true talk which I concurred to. We can not experience the change we want for the urborn generation if we all stay in our confined and peaceful corner of it doesn't matter as long as my family member is not involve. One day the west and east will experience this heat the north are experiencing so it is better now or never.

While I was reading this piece I wept bitterly within me. We need to go to sambisa forest and rescue the girls ourselves. This military had failed woefully. If you are in support press like.

Yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan personally assured the aggrieved parents of the still missing Chibok girls of his administration’s persistent efforts to bring their daughters back alive and well. Today, Dr. Peregrino Brimah of the Every Nigerian Do Something initiative marks the grim 100 day anniversary since the abduction by imagining what the girls may have gone through in the hands of Boko Haram terrorists.

For the first ten days, we nourished on disbelief. We said, "This could not be happening." Though we woke up every next morning to see their ugly faces, we slept again each night in denial, hoping that when we woke, we will be in our beds – at home. We pinched ourselves… it did not work; we hardly believed it would. As we moved and responded to their orders those first days, we were sometimes stubborn, some of us got hit. This was because we still believed we were valuable, humans who could not be subjected to such a harsh reality.

The next ten days was our rude awakening. We realized this was no dream. We had gotten used to our captors’ names and faces. The forest as a new home was becoming familiar to us. This was real. We were abductees, forceful guests of the terrorists’lair.
We realized these days that we were not by any chance the first abductees of Boko Haram – there were girls here, abducted years ago. Mothers who’d had kids in these camps. Young men, abducted and forced to fight for Boko Haram. We realized that things will never be the same again.

We started to settle. We realized we had to be nice. And when some of us died – from snake bites, from rape, infections and being shot, – we realized our destiny did not have the pleasant stories of life in it, the sweet ending tales, but that ours was to be a story written with pain and blood. In these days, we cried. We thought of home and saw our parents shriveling away. We felt them die. We knew they were dying. Lord have mercy on them.

By the third ten days, we had begun to adapt. With cold hearts, we teased ourselves. "You are his wife, I will be his wife," we played. There was no fighting here. Though we wished to die and that death would give us peace as it had given some of our more fortunate classmates, a primordial instinct of survival kept most of us from giving up. Some of us cut ourselves, attempting suicide. We watched as their failed attempts left them worse off for it; their wounds treated with what they had of bandages and antibiotics, and new wounds made in their backs with the cane, for trying to take their lives.

In these days, we had a new inkling of hope… We had heard a rumor that the Americans had come. We kept looking to the skies, hopeful of some stealth copters flying in and some Navy Seals picking out our captors and leading what was left of us to freedom – for whatever that would be worth.

By the fourth ten days, our hopes of rescue dissipated into the reality of our new chores. It was a life of little food and much work. This is not the type of work we would like to write about. Cooking and cleaning for the camps was the best part of it. At night, swallowing tears, we warmed their beds. We will never get used to this life. This is not the kind of life you wish on your worst enemies. This was not what many of us saved our virginity for. This was not what our parents taught us chastity for. This was hell.

Where was our rescue? Does the world know we are here? We hated the world. We could not understand why the world would leave us here. Something must have happened. Have they forgotten us? Perhaps a catastrophe had wiped out all of humanity… Because we could just not imagine how nothing had yet happened to free us from this. People could simply not just be living their day-to-day lives in Nigeria and across the world, abandoning us schoolgirls to this life with these beasts. All we had was God. All we have was God. We prayed God took us to Him.

By the fifth ten days, we started to smile. It was uncanny. Something had started to change. Was it resignation, or perhaps desperation? Some of us had not seen their periods. Some of us had decided to make the best of our situation, of our series of sexual partners.

By these ten days, we had accepted our fate. We were going to make the best of our new heartless lives. By this time, some of us had made alliances with our captors, some of us had even set-up others among us, elevating themselves, getting less work and stable partners while working against others of us. We understood. We lived with beasts, this was a beasts’ world. We forgave them, we forgave ourselves.

We were no longer chaste. We prayed. Yes, we prayed. Every day, we prayed. While we worked, while we served them, we had found a way to resign to silent corners within our hearts where there was peace and serenity. Rooms of prayer within. There was solace in those corners of us, and we had developed a superhuman ability to resign into these peaceful corners at the same time as we discussed, made laughter, ate and were violated. We had developed dual personalities. The beast with a little piece of peace. It was during these ten days that we realized we will never be the same people again. It was these ten days that we rather we were not rescued. These beasts did not deserve to go home. There was nothing left here to take home.

By the sixth ten days, we were angry. These were the angry days. These were the bitter days. By these ten days, something had changed. We hated the world, we hated ourselves. Some of us asked to be taken on terror missions. Some of us wanted to go out and kill. We had completely lost faith in ourselves and in the world around us. Some of us still had faith in God, but frankly, some of us just did not any more. Our captors saw this in us. They commented that we had become more deadly than them.

Our conversations were cold. We laughed when they talked about their campaigns of carnage. We discussed life with them; we discussed their plans with them. We discussed death with them.

The next ten days were the days of quiet. Were we remorseful? Had we been acting-out earlier? Things were spiraling. We were quite quiet. Energy was gone. We hardly ate, we hardly played. We hardly talked with one another. Faces were heavy and long. We were not getting anywhere. This life was full of pain.

By these seventh ten days, some of us had confirmed we were pregnant. These were the days when reality hit. These were the days when we thought about the reality of birthing for barbarians and the reality of death. Several of us had died; we had come to know and be friends-of-sorts with barbarians who had gone out on missions and not come back alive.

Life suddenly seemed to be moving pretty fast. These were the days when we aged. No longer children, this unsolicited right-of-passage transitioned us to adulthood. We would have to be responsible. We were the mothers in these camps; some of us were soon going to be mothers anyhow. This was our new reality.

By the eighth ten days, we took charge. We directed affairs and barked commands. The camps listened. They knew by this time that we were immune to their cane. They knew by this time that we no longer feared death. We were responsible women of the camp. We were the mothers of the jungle.

We worked together as one family, but they were no longer the bosses of us. They had come to respect us. We had come to honor them duly. These men are barbarians, but they were the only men in our world. These men are barbarians, but the world outside us had no men. None had come to rescue us. We were in these same jungles of Borno and none had come for us. The world outside these camps ceased to exist. What world will leave its damsels in the jungle for 80 days?

This was our life and we will make the best or worst of it as we please. We the youth are leaders of tomorrow, you say after all; we guess this is our tomorrow.

By the ninth ten days, bellies could be seen protruding with bulges of fetuses. There was harmony in the camp. We had settled. We now thought again of the world outside us.

By the ninth ten days, we spent a lot of time praying for our parents. We spent a lot of time praying for you. We felt empathy… no, pity actually for you in the world outside. You see, our fate was pretty simply laid out. We had done what we could, considering our predicament. We had been brave and fought the terrorists; some of us were killed trying. We had negotiated with them. Our destiny was determined, harsh, but circumscribed.

But how are you? How is your world? Your world full of wickedness, corruption and politics. How do you sleep at night? By these ninth ten days, we wished not to return to your wicked world – a world where you could abandon your children in the forests with very very bad men and were able to sleep at night, able to go to work the next mooring, to eat, drink, have sex, laugh and play, purchase nonsenses: a world where you could do and did nothing; a world where you could feel and felt nothing; a world where you could choose and chose nothing.

You made these men. You made this world. You created this terror and you left it this way, afraid, unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Boko Haram was your reward. We felt empathy for you, who could live with yourselves knowing what you had created and that you failed for 90 days to come here and fight or die fighting to rescue your children. In these ten days we prayed for you and for Boko Haram. We prayed for the world.

By the tenth ten days, we did the things normal people do: we cooked, we tidied, we ate, we slept, warmed beds and we prayed. We planned our future, our next days, ten months and ten years in these camps. We would want our lives to be as comfortable as possible, so we have to plan, hope you understand.

Life was OK. We prayed for our parents and friends and sent word out to them to get rest; we are fine here. They should take care of themselves, stay safe and protect their health and the rest of the family.

"Do not kill yourselves worrying about your daughters, we are fine." It all ends for you and for us when death comes knocking, sooner or later. Pray that when it does, you will be pleased with the account of how you spent your time here and what you did or did not do, and pray that you will be admitted through the Pearly gates. We wish you peace in your world.

Do you think these bitter thoughts could have crossed the girls’ minds? While the whole Nigeria prays for the girls’ safe release and hopes for the best, Naij.com readers have raised and discussed the uneasy topic of how the captivity might have affected the girls.

Please note that views expressed in this article belong solely to Mr. Brimah and do not necessarily mirror those of Naij.com editors’ team.

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