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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Chadian troops have seized a strategically located northeast Nigerian town from Boko Haram, but not before the defeated Islamic extremists killed hundreds of civilians, Chad's military said.





The Chadian forces regained control Monday of Dikwa, a town occupied by the militants for weeks, said Chad's military spokesman Col. Azem Bermandoua.

One soldier was killed and 34 were wounded, most by a suicide car bomber, Bermandoua said on national television. Dikwa is at a crossroads to two border crossings with Chad and a route north to Lake Chad.

Separately, southwest of Dikwa, Nigerian troops Monday repelled an attack by Boko Haram on Konduga, killing more than 70 insurgents, according to a Nigerian corporal who helped defend the town. A security official confirmed the attack. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to reporters.

Boko Haram invaded the town between herds of cattle and a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden car, the corporal said. But the military had been warned and were well prepared to drive back the insurgents, he said.

Konduga has been attacked many times in recent months because it is a final defense for Maiduguri, the biggest northeastern city 35 kilometers (25 miles) away that is the birthplace of Boko Haram.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan said Tuesday that "utmost care was being taken by the federal government to avoid collateral damage to the lives and properties of civilians as the military intensifies its ongoing offensive against Boko Haram." The military has been accused of gross abuses including indiscriminate killings of civilians. Jonathan claimed his government has investigated previous reports of abuse which "were mostly blown out of proportion for political reasons."

The United Nations said Tuesday that fighting in the northeast forced 16,000 Nigerians to flee across the border into Cameroon over the weekend. Some 1.6 million Nigerians have been forced from their homes and unknown hundreds of girls and young men have been kidnapped in the 6-year-old Islamic uprising by Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram group.

The Islamic extremists' attacks have spread across borders into Cameroon, Chad and Niger, which are forming a multinational force to fight the militants.

International concern has risen along with fatalities in the uprising: Some 10,000 people were killed last year compared to 2,000 in the four previous years, according to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.


http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-killed-chad-forces-seize-northeast-nigerian-town-130545509.html

pendy79:
Lalasticlala seun obinoscopy maclatunji this information and exposee in this thread is deserving of FrontPage.

The Auditor general is an internal auditor of government income and expenditures

This thread is deserving of front page. The people need to be informed.

Bayswater:
He did not only get a scholarship, he got a scholarship to attend one of the best universities in the world; UCL.

ChinemeOkpan, eye4eye, collynzo419, pendy79 e fit be you o. We need more Nigerian UCL alumnus. The door is always open, if only you will go back to school.

Thank you Mr President, you just made another person's dream come true.

Trust me I will sponsor every soul in your lineage a 2 year sponsorship to any university in the world if they so wish it.

Tell your father to apply too, education has no time limit. Modafucker.

Send pm to me if you need more modality on how to apply.

mekaboy:
In other words there is no diff between Pdp and apc.

No in other words, we need a president who is not ensnared by the spoil of office and lead by example.

The new act passed by the National assembly gives the state assembkies the wherewithal to follow suit. The president has assented to the bill and it is now a law, do you expect them to blind themselves to the opportunity of the peck of office guaranteed by the waste JonaTAN made possible.

Buhari never earned salary in the PTF stating he is already on Army Pension hence he can't earn two salaries from the FG. That is leading from the front, as a leader you do things that will model the ways of your followers.

I choose CHANGE and a new Nigeria, Buhari will seek to repeal all laws that allow wastage of our commonwealth.

You can't give what you dont have.

If the president, vice president, senate president, speaker and deputy speaker of the house of reps could pass same laws at the federal level it is only conmonsensical that all houses of assemblies will follow suit.

They are all elected officials that is why a CHANGE is important to our polity.

Can a president who assent to such luxury for himself query other executive arm officials not toil the same line?

Leadership is by example, if JonaTAN, David mark and tambuwal can enjoy it at federal level then ikuforiji too is deserving since they were all elected.

All state houses of assemblies will pass same laws for their speakers since it is the season of political brigandage. Let JonaTAN drop the law and see others follow suit.

The PDP will see mother of all rallies from next week. They assume the tempo and momentum is dead but they are so so wrong.

They underestimated the APC to their own peril not knowing.the depth to which Nigerians are tired of the PDP and JonaTAN.

Buharism is an idea whose time has come in Nigeria, it is a movement and a fellowship of people sold to the idea of saving the country from the abyss JONATAN has thrown it.

Lalasticlala seun obinoscopy maclatunji this information and exposee in this thread is deserving of FrontPage.

The Auditor general is an internal auditor of government income and expenditures

He that has ears let him hear, He that has eyes let him see.

The fate of the nation is well above and beyond the aspiration of a single man and his thieving supporters.

GEJ has done 6years, we need a new hand to pilot the affairs of the nation. Nigerians are tired of his colossal inefficiency and cluelessness.

Diehard edit your title properly there is an error in it.

By the 1st of June 2015 when sanity return to Nigeria, the revelation that will be exhumed about the massive corruption and clear cut stealing perpetuated by JonaTAN and his gang of thieves will make mobutu sese seko and Abacha shout praise the Lord in Hell.

A man who once had no shoes but have now decided to " RETRIEVE THE SHOES OF EVERY NIGERIAN" is a shame unto himself and the God he profess he served.

He got 95.5 hectares of land for himself amd his mother, the minister who is not foolish allocated 4000plots to himself too since the president has taken his own share.

Every minister in his cabinet sees him as a conduit pipe to fulfil their own greed all they need do is package his own share or give mama peace the JonaTAN share.

I remembered vividly after the death of Abacha, Michael Ani the then minister of finance returning over $30 million dollars that he took from the CBN treasury saying Abacha gave him as a Birthday Gift.

JonaTAN will go down as the most corrupt amd most heartless president that ever ruled Nigeria. Abacha aside the strike force didn't go this far .

Fellow Nigerians the choice is right there before you, THE AUDITOR GENERAL is a Federal Government employee not an APC or opposition party leader and these are his audit queries for just 2years of jonaTAN being in office, imagine if there was an audit query for 2012-2015.


SECURE YOUR FUTURE, IF NOT FOR YOU BUT THINK ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND THE KIND OF COUNTRY YOU WISH THEM TO LIVE

#ihavedecided to vote a MAN WHO DESPITE BEING A GOC FOR 5YEARS, A PETROLEUM MINISTER AND NNPC CHAIRMAN FOR 3YEARS, A HEAD OF STATE FOR 20MONTHS AND HEADED PTF A MULTIBILLION DOLLARS AGENCY FOR 4YEARS yet still live a modest and pious life that even political opposition and other generals of his clime vouch and speak of his modesty and simple way of life.

Sir Richard Grozney former British Ambassador to Nigeria said about BUHARI " if there is anything that endeared you to me, it was the modesty of your house in Kaduna when I visited, I have visited other leaders and former leaders but yours was a marvel to me because I could not believe a former head of state lived in the kind of house you live"

VOTE CHANGE, VOTE BUHARI/OSINBAJO. we can't continue subsidizing the stealing of our commonwealth by the crooks in government.

Who doesn't know about the graft taking place in NIMASA? Except bigoted followers of JonaTAN. NIMASA swallowed up JOMALIC, GIS AND NMA. But today they have lost focus for which it was established.

Indigenous shipowners who are supposed to benefit from the cabotage vessel funding scheme are left to wallow in hardship while PDP withdraw all funds acruable to the agency for bribing the populace.

The cabotage act has been declared useless since it doesn't not protect indigenous owners from foreign flagged vessels who are ready to pay waivers to ensure the death of the act. Chief jolapamo the president of indigenous ship owners has been in a running battle with the top echelon of NIMASA to ensure the survival of local shippers but we have a former PA of Tompolo as DG of NIMASA who has little or no business in the maritime industry running the affairs of one of the top foreign exchange earner for the country aside NNPC.

I weep for the maritime industry in nigeria with The way the JonaTANians are running it. all prominent and top grade captains in NIMASA are retired or contracts not renewed yet no replacement for them yet in the Agency. Woe betide you of you're a Yoruba captain on contract in NIMASA,

Many indigenous owners are now seeing the sense in going in partnership with foreign partners to jointly own vessels and then register it as a foreign flag ship to guarantee survival since NIMASA now prefer foreign flagged vessels in its waters to local ones cos of the dollars they will be charged. Thank God I saw the sense in that long ago.

Obasanjo who signed the cabotage act into law knew why he did so but this government of JonaTAN with his boys in NIMASA are not ready for the revolution required in The maritime industry but rather they have set the industry back another 20years.

Trailblazer1:

#wehavedecided not to accept the CHANGE offered by the asiwaju of corruption of the federal republic of Nigeria.

The devil has nothing good to offer

But I still wish you GOODLUCK in your CHANGE

the asiwaju fought for democracy in Nigeria when your leaders were undecided and some running cap in hand to sing praises of Abacha.

if he's corrupt, I'm sure the APC isn't in-charge of EFCC and ICPC, what stop his investigation?

I hope folks in Nigeria soon wake up to the reality that is facing the country with GEJ as President, this man is not only clueless but heartless and uncompassionate about the wellbeing and welfare of the people he lead.

I read response ^^^ and I begin to see why the south east part of Nigeria has some of the worst kind of governors prevalent in Nigeria. if a Theodore orji and martin elechi can be governors for two terms in the SE then we should not be concerned why GEJ enjoy more support from the SE than any other region in Nigeria.

a working nation is for the benefit of all.

Let's try a new direction.

CHANGE is the hope of restoring Nigeria to greatness

The battle line is drawn and it is a battle for the soul of Nigeria. it is either we want Nigeria to remain in this conundrum of the PDP and what it represents in 16years and GEJ's worst ever presidency in Nigeria's history or make a giant leap of HOPE and seek a new direction in the wind of CHANGE that a Buhari government represents

#ihavedecided to seek CHANGE

ObeyaFriday:
What matters in life is the right time. God chooses he who he wants to choose.

APC, you people should be very careful; PDP has planned to assassinate Buhari. Read full story www.successbaseng..com

That's a tall dream that they wont try to do again, the mere fact that they tried it in 2013 but God preserved the life of the General for a simple reason. " to lead Nigeria out of the quagmire it found itself" the PDP wont dare try it again.

Buharism is an idea whose time has come in Nigeria and nothing on Earth can stop it, PDP's boko haram branch is facing enough onslaught by the Chadians hence they can't hide under the cloak of Boko Haram again to try to assassinate GMB because that won't fly again like it did in 2013.

PDP knows it and wont dare.

taharqa:
You are a BLADE LIAR

-- GEJ didn't go and commission Omotosho should recently
-- Olorunsogo 2 that he commissioned was already producing some small amount of power since last year when it was finished
-- At no time did the Gov say that we're were now generating 5500MW, but there we had the capacity to generate that much but for gas constraints Mai lyrics due to vandalism
-- GEJ did not meet 4500MW generation, but less than 2500MW when he took over from Yar'adua


By the way, maybe in your silliness or haste to propagate your hatred you didn't read the article you posted properly. Seplat temporarily shut down its One Gas plant in a pre-announced operation in order to expand the facilities and capacity in the plant so that they can supply MORE gas to their considers esp power plants. That is a very good thing

OLODO

you mean you didn't read about that PDP and GEJ said they have now improved power to 5,500mw after he said he re-commissioned the fathom olorunsogo II power project.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday inaugurated the rehabilitated Unit 6 and the overhauled Unit 4 of the Egbin Power Station in Lagos, which effectively added 240 megawatts to the national grid and also restored the power plant to its full capacity of 1,320 megawatts. With the completion of the projects, the country’s power generation capacity now stands at 5,500 megawatts for the first time in history


http://www.freepress.com.ng/content/nigeria%E2%80%99s-power-generating-capacity-now-5500mw-0

hope I have educated your stupidity and ignorance. if the government states it is generating 5500mws but vandalism is cutting it back I don't know who has the responsibility to catch the vandals.

stop exhibiting stupidity and argue with fact behind you.

NATIONAL leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, on Monday, lashed at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign spokesperson, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for alleging he planned to be president through the back door.

He denied planning to become president through the back door, saying that if he wanted the presidency, he would go through the front door.

In a statement by his media aide, Sunday Dare, the former Lagos State governor said both Fani-Kayode and his paymasters were on the loose.

According to him, “Tinubu is not scheming to become president through the back door. He, just like any qualified Nigerian, has the right to walk in through the front door if he so desires.”

He was also confident that his party would dust the ruling party in the forthcoming general election, adding that the vice presidential candidate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, remained the party’s choice.

“The PDP campaign continues its descent. This is to be expected. Because the truth stings them harshly, they have become a factory of lies. A few days ago, the agent of character assassination, who doubles as the busy hatchet man of the PDP, accused Bola Tinubu of plotting to be vice president, then president through subterfuge.

“Clearly, he has exposed the confusion and contradiction within his party and has veered off from the real debate. But he cannot avoid the storm of change already unleashed by the APC.

“However, the only subterfuge involved in this entire episode is that eating at Fani-kayode’s mind. His mind is an agent of mayhem and a foreigner to facts. The last time we looked, the APC ticket was a Buhari/Osinbajo one. That is what is and that is what shall stand...

“Fani-Kayode is on a futile journey to shield the populace from seeing the failures of his paymasters. His statement, taken in context, indicates that his paymasters will lose the election. They are now worried about what will happen thereafter.

“The majority of Nigerians have concluded that they have done enough damage to our politics, economy and security; and cannot be tolerated any longer. Rather, they should be voted out by the people. Their journey of lies and deception is at its terminal point.

“The party lied to Nigerians and the international community that elections had to be shifted first because of the PVC issue and later it became a security ambush to change the date, thus aborting Nigeria’s date with destiny at the polls.

“That Fani-Kayode is the best a ruling party can do as a spokesman speaks volumes about the PDP. They are bereft of talent and character. They are filled with lies and chicanery. FFK is simply the worst and most outspoken of a bad lot. However, we welcome his interventions. They are of such low quality and base character. His utterances frighten people, but not in the way FFK intended.

“Instead of scaring the people away from the APC, his work scares people that someone so unfit is so close to the seat of power... Most Nigerians are fed up with this government and desire change. They await eagerly that opportunity at the polls. They cannot tolerate four more years of a Fani-Kayode or his paymasters and his utterances.

“Unable to make headway against Buhari and Osinbajo, he now wants to run against Tinubu. This plot will not work.

“Yemi Osinbajo is fiercely independent. A brilliant mind of great character and a consummate reformer and legal crusader. The APC ticket is of people of great resolve... APC is a party with people of impeccable character, courageous and patriotic leaders who are out to rescue our nation.

“If FFK cannot recognise that Tinubu is a talent seeker, man of vision, one who creates opportunities for the best minds to thrive and serve the public, then he deserves our pity. Tinubu’s hand is etched large in the brand of good governance pervading the South-West and other parts of Nigeria.

“He is a hunter for talents as exemplified in Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, who has redefined governance; talented and hardworking Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State; indefatigable Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State; eclectic Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo; relentless Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of Edo and, until recently, Kayode Fayemi, who served Ekiti well. Yemi Osinbajo belongs to this tribe of excellent public servants.

“The APC still parades other governors who continue to excel across the country. The likes of Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso in Kano, the tireless Governor Wamakko of Sokoto and other governors in Borno, Rivers, Yobe, Kwara – all of them – committed to bringing change to their people.

“Tinubu helped build the great platform for change, wholeheartedly worked and supported the APC ticket, because he believes it is the last best hope to rescue Nigeria from the disaster of FFK and his ilk waiting to continue to rule us if allowed.

“I pray Nigerians will not allow them to misgovern us a day past May 29. If FFK pretends not to know of Tinubu’s efforts to build and support the APC, it comes as no surprise. Fani-Kayode tried before to be part of the party, but left when he found out there was no room for his games. Because APC could not help to free him from EFCC and aviation fraud, he ran back to the party that blocked the EFCC on his behalf.

“I will not dignify FFK’s outrageous lies with any reply. All I know is that Nigerians know that he is a peddler of falsehood and millions of Nigerians are with APC and its leaders.

“The fiction of a thousand Fani Kayodes cannot stop an idea whose time has come. The APC is committed to upholding and respecting the tenets of democracy and of bringing a new government that will usher in a new day for a new Nigeria. And that is what Fani-Kayode and his party cannot handle. Please pack up. It is time to go,” the statement read



http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/30963-i-will-go-through-the-front-door-if-i-want-to-be-president-tinubu

blackfase:
Where's Muazu?.... We are waiting for another press release, citing APC as the cause. Useless morons...

let them continue to deceive those that are tuned to being deceived. A government that is riddled with brazen theft of the commonwealth of the people and then tell lies to cover their tracks and yet we have idiotic bigoted followers believing the lies being shun out from the gutter mouth of an insincere and clueless presidency.

God will help Nigeria.

Afrobeat singer and son of legendary afro beat Artiste, Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti took to Facebook to rant about how Senator David Mark ‘teargased’ him while he was only ten years old and how IBB and David mark are Anti democracy;

IBB and Davis Mark and all the PDP Chiefs were anti democratic rule just 20 years ago. They killed and maimed the people that fought and marched for democracy. Any party that has imposed David Mark on our senate ( that man tear gassed me when I was ten years old in 93) and Babangida as its founder I mean it’s time we bury this party seriously.

A certain fan then asked him how much he was bribed by APC to say this and he subsequently went on to say;

The same amount they paid all ur generations for the years u hv been quiet nd not done shit for ur country.

it is the biggest folly to believe there is an angel in hell. Obasanjos tearing is not about that at all. It’s the usual obasanjo way of always forcefully imposing his own narrative. Underneath it all he is to blame for 80% of the problem

Now that’s the real question. Is BUHARI the change. I do not believe that one inch that’s why I am not seriously campaigning for him and against GEJ. I believe that a change from PDP will inspire the change we need. Young people can now see that we are not represented and we can no longer wait. We shall create our own platform for change

Jonathan has been the worst special interest driven president in the history of Africa. I don’t think Mobutu was this wicked. 365 days of scandal a year. I travel all over the world and people talk to me like I am stupid because of what happens in my country and there is no alarm.


Have u read our constitution? It’s not a democracy this was unilaterally created by the military and given to the people. Read it it’s there in the first page of the constitution. This is the pdp arrangement. People are shouting Tinubu as if IBB is not in pdp. IBB the enemy of democracy. Abacha family the killers of democracy advocates is now better than Tinubu a member of NADECO and a life long advocate of democracy. I know when this men were fighting to save this country. Where was Jonathan and all this pdp boys then? All enjoying life with the military now they want to change history right before our eyes? This democracy was fought for and its enemies are now the ones enjoying it.

I am getting sick and tired of this noise. Tinubu at one point has put his life on the line for this country. With my uncle dr beko Ransome kuti who never healed from the struggle and died a few years after. I lived with my uncle in his house and I know all those involved with NADECO

one thing I have realized is never to join issues with people using fake names. If u are confident of ur stance u will be able to defend it with ur identity not anonymously. FOI bill and independent efcc but bode George ex convict is still leader of pdp lagos. Now those years u are talking about military dictatorships we got third mainland bridge and second mainland bridge during military era. Petrol was less than 30 $ a barrel. Please over 16 years of pdp with 100 dollars a barrel minimum and u are shelling out mediocre projects. Abeg use ur real name then let’s take u can’t be God jungle boy and I discuss with u

I said Tinubu fought for nigerias democracy back in the day. Sacrificed his freedom and safety when it was most dangerous to do so. 8 years and 5 of it was run without federal allocation to the start because he was the only Yoruba leader to stand up to obasanjo who was ready to destroy us a second time for the northern agenda. And who killed bola Ige?

Now they are seeking votes not coup. And this is a democracy no one can decree anything. That’s a naive conclusion. Tinubu is not the same as IBB, never. I will not accept that

it is the biggest folly to believe there is an angel in hell. Obasanjos tearing is not about that at all. It’s the usual obasanjo way of always forcefully imposing his own narrative. Underneath it all he is to blame for 80% of the Yoruba troubles and 50% of nigerian troubles. So u can see how at the twilight of his existence he I desperately looking for glory. That is selfish it’s not collective. GEJ is not change.


http://dailytimes.com.ng/seun-kuti-blasts-ibb-mark-says-jonathan-is-the-worst-president-ever/

Before the shut-down, power generation was said to have hovered around 3,800 megawatts due to the persistent acts of vandalism on the gas supply pipelines

GEJ went to olorunsogo to say he was re-commissioning a new power plant and then off to omotoso and did same and next day the PDP said we were now generating 5500mws of power to gullible followers who didn't know they were being fooled by a LYING PANICKY GOVERNMENT.

GEJ met 4200mws of power and today after spending billions of dollars we are retrogressing rather than improving our power generation, today we are hovering around 3,800mws and yet he is shouting he has delivered his promise on power

God will deliver Nigeria from jonaTAN and the PDP

The break down in electricity generation in the country has been attributed to the 10 days shut-down of the Oben Gas Plant by Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, which is a joint venture between Seplat and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The 10-day long shut-down, according to the company, will enable it to tie in its expansion unit with the existing plant which will reduce gas supply to the country’s power generating plants by 135 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (MMSCF).
Before the shut-down, power generation was said to have hovered around 3,800 megawatts due to the persistent acts of vandalism on the gas supply pipelines.

It was also said that Power generating plants consume gas at different rates and that 135mmscf per day generates an average of 528 megawatts of power.
The Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Petroleum, operators of NPDC/Seplat Joint Venture, Mr. Austin Avuru, said in a statement recently that the shutdown, which will end by March 5, will enable the company to tie in its newly installed, 2 x 75 mmscf/d unit into the company’s existing gas plant.

“Post tie-in operation, SEPLAT will have a single homogenous plant consisting of 2 by 45 MMSCF and 2 by75 MMSCF trains and will be able to deliver 240MMSCF/D WAGP (West African Gas Pipeline) specification gas post-commissioning, from the Oben node. This facility expansion and upgrades will bring the company’s overall daily gas production capacity to slightly over 300mmscf/d,” he said.
Avuru further explained that during the shutdown, Seplat’s current daily production of 135MMSCF, from Oben node will “not be available, however, the company will maintain gas availability of 60mmscf daily from its Sapele node.”
He noted that the shut-down will provide the company an opportunity to enhance its current gas delivery into the national gas grid, adding that this achievement aligns with Seplat’s short to medium term domestic gas commercialisation strategy, while facilitating greater power generation in the country.

Seplat recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministries of Petroleum Resources and Power, in conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Electricity Regulatory commission (NERC) as well as NNPC, and Gas Aggregation Company Nigeria Limited for gas supply.
“The company’s investment to develop its gas infrastructure buttresses our commitment to boost gas supply to the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) and support the Federal Government’s commitment to the reform of the Power Sector,” Avuru said


http://dailytimes.com.ng/power-generation-drops-as-seplat-shuts-oben-gas-plant/

notable words of people in the original thread on the YAHOO NEWS HOMEPAGE

Tripple O 1 hour ago



It looks like a script is being played out here. In short what the coalitions are doing is to ensure no escape to their countries. But if there is no push within Nigeria then there will be no need to escape.

Is Boko Haram the creation of Nigerian government? Looks like it because the government is not really interested in fishing them out, this government has been in denial in the face of monumental damages. What is there to gain? Simple - Through out the history of the world incompetent government have been creating diversionary means to pay attention to them.

I read their President has said many times that he doesn't give a damn. There is manipulation to ensure the election is not hold.

This government traded the blood, lives and souls of its citizens to seek political and financial gains.

it is wicked, heartless and soulless to allow Boko Haram flourish for upward of 6years and then the same Military that could not combat the mythical boko haram have finally when it became obvious that they could not stop the election using Boko Haram as excuse and a glaring defeat to the jonaTAN and the PDP, the military have now gained in 3weeks what they could not achieved in 5years.

How did we arrive at a situation where Chad a country not up to Lagos state in population and economic index lead the charge against Boko Haram and make remarkable progress and victories? if GEJ himself went to meet Idris Derby to ask for help, why then is his Military commanders stalling the Chadian Advance? if we have lost our prestige and the glory of our Military in the fight against Boko Haram why not allow them to end the insurgency since he had gone to them for assistance. Chad is a country of 12million people or thereabout, with an annual budget less than our Military Defence spending alone yet its less funded military have turned around the fortune and gains of Boko Haram. the weapons our soldiers are using today weren't just manufactured, somebody just deliberately allowed Boko Haram to gain ground

Anybody still in doubt about the culpability of the NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT led by the wicked, heartless and soulless jonaTAN needs his head examined and checked.

Thank God YAHOO is not owned by TINUBU or APC.

It is a glaring and wicked plan of the Governement with collaboration of some top military generals to use the Boko Haram Insurgency for stealing Military Budget allocation and also deplete the population of the North East for Political gains and then turn around to use it as an excuse to extend the life of the Government stating we were at war, " this plan failed because Tambuwal defected to the APC and PDPs plan to remove him by force and impose Ihedioha failed due to police mishandling of the invasion of the Green chamber and the heroics of Lawmakers who jumped the fence to enter the chamber and thus prevented ihedioha from going ahead with the impeachment plan"

It took a clear impending election loss for wicked jonaTAN to decide to finally do what he ought to have done over 5years simply because the plot to allow the insurgency grow and then use it as an excuse to prevent election would not work again.

The question any reasonable Nigerian should be asking is "were the weapons used in fighting Boko Haram in the 3weeks just manufactured in 2015" what made soldiers ran away leaving their armoury and cache of arms for Boko Haram to come loot? the commanders directed tactical withdrawal for political reasons and arming the insurgents to allow them linger.


Is CHAD doing us a favour because it loves Nigeria and hence ready to lose its own soldiers for an insurgency that the Nigerian government allowed to flourish and gained grounds? the answer is well documented in the Habre invasion of Nigeria in 1982. the Chadians aren't doing this for love or fun of war, there is something in it for them and so far our Government gave them the blank cheque of official inviatation, then the same foolish government that invited Idris Derby to come fight its war for it should not be blocking the advance of the soldiers if the goal is to end the INSURGENCY not mindful of who did what


Why is the government scared of the Chadian advance if the CinC flew to N'djemena to beg the Chadian president for help, Didn't Buhari quelled Maitastine with Nigerian soldiers alone? didn't he fight the chadians invasion in 1982 with solely Nigerian soldiers? do we need the help of a country less than a state in our country to fight Boko Haram in the first place?

N'DJAMENA/YAOUNDE (Reuters) - [b]When battle-hardened Chadian troops overran a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria last week, they wanted to press deep into territory controlled by the Islamist group but Nigeria refused to let them.

Having defeated al Qaeda in Mali two years ago, Chad's military believes it could could finish off Boko Haram alone. It has notched up victories that have pushed the Nigerian militants back from the Cameroonian border.

But with presidential elections this month, Nigeria is keen to press ahead with its own military campaign against Boko Haram, aiming to push it out of major towns before the March 28 ballot.

In a country proud to be a major African power, it would be an embarrassment to President Goodluck Jonathan as he seeks reelection for a smaller nation to tackle Nigeria's security problems, diplomats say.


In their forward base in the town of Gambaru on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, Chadian soldiers displayed dozens of guns seized from Boko Haram and a burnt-out armoured vehicle painted with black and white Arabic script.

"We turned back because Nigeria did not authorise us to go any further," army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermandoa said[/b].

Nigeria's spokesman for operations in the northeast, Mike Omeri, said cooperation between Chadian and Nigerian forces has brought some major military successes and any issues would be resolved via existing command structures.

But the Chadians say there have been no joint operations between the two forces. Chad's offer to join a Nigerian offensive to capture Baga, site of one of Boko Haram's worst atrocities in January, was rebuffed, Bermandoa said.

Officials from Chad, Niger and Cameroon say lack of cooperation from Nigeria has for months hampered efforts to put together a regional taskforce against Boko Haram. Chad was compelled to take unilateral action in January, under a deal that allows it to pursue terrorists into Nigeria, after Boko Haram violence started to choke off imports to its economy.

With Niger and Cameroon deploying thousands of troops on their borders, blocking escape routes for Boko Haram, the tide may be turning. In what Nigeria has branded a sign of desperation, the Islamist group has carried out wave of suicide attacks and threatened to disrupt the election.

Francois Conradie, analyst with South African-based NKC Research, said that if the current offensive can be sustained, Boko Haram could quickly be driven out of the remaining towns it holds. It would, however, remain a deadly rural guerrilla force.



OPPOSITION CRITICISES RELIANCE ON CHAD

Many in Nigeria ask why it took so long to act. Boko Haram killed thousands last year and kidnapped many more in its six-year campaign for an Islamist emirate in Africa's largest oil producer.

Niger, Cameroon and Chad say Nigeria neglected the uprising in its economically backward northeast, an opposition stronghold. Borno state is home to two percent of Nigeria's 170 million people.



But in recent months, Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who is running as the presidential candidate for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), has gained popularity with voters desperate for tough policies both on corruption and Boko Haram.

Amid pressure from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria's electoral commission announced a six week postponement to the Feb. 14 election, to allow the army to tackle the security situation in the northeast so voting could go ahead there.

Ernst Hogendoorn, Crisis Group's Africa deputy programme director, said the government appeared to have engineered the delay in the hope the APC would slip up or the military could boost Jonathan by defeating Boko Haram.

"Boko Haram has certainly suffered a strategic setback ... Clearly this improves Goodluck Jonathan's chances somewhat," said Hogendoorn. "The question is do any of these forces have the ability to maintain this tempo, particularly the Chadians and to a lesser degree the Nigerians?"


With Chad already squeezed by a slump in the price of oil, its main export, the government says it can only sustain the offensive in Nigeria for a short time, diplomats say.

Buhari, however, has already criticised Jonathan for relying on Chad to push back Boko Haram, saying his government would tackle the problem alone. Many in the military and the government are keen to limit foreign involvement on Nigerian soil, diplomats say.

When Chadian forces last month entered the town of Dikwa, they were told to leave by Nigeria's military, which said it was planning air strikes, Bermondoa said.

After Nigeria's army retook Baga last month, Army Chief Major General Kenneth Minimah said his soldiers would recapture a handful of remaining towns before the elections, listing Dikwa as one of them. “The war is almost ended," he said.

TENSIONS HAMPER REGIONAL FORCE

Boko Haram was long regarded by neighbouring countries as an internal Nigerian problem, but attacks in Cameroon and Niger last year prompted the regional response. Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Benin and Cameroon agreed in May to join forces against the militants.

Since then, however, distrust and misunderstandings have stymied preparations for the force, due to take effect by the end of this month. Nigeria initially sent low-level representatives to planning meetings, angering its allies.

Cooperation between Cameroon and Nigeria has been dogged by long-running border tensions, while Niger accused Nigerian troops of cowardice.

"Nigeria must get involved and honour its promise of providing between 2,500 and 3,000 to the multinational force," said Cameroon's defence spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck.

Cameroon has stepped up its activities since July, when Boko Haram attacked Kolotafa, the hometown of its deputy prime minister, killing dozens and kidnapping his wife.

The government has boosted its security forces in northern Cameroon from 700 to around 7,000.

"We have to do whatever it takes to make sure the sect does not occupy any town in Cameroon," said Colonel Joseph Nouma, in charge of Operation Alpha, the mission against Boko Haram.

However, Nouma said he has orders not to enter Nigeria, and Cameroon has denied Nigerian troops the right to pursue insurgents into Cameroon.

Along its 400 km (250 miles) border with Nigeria, Cameroon has created 14 new bases, with heavy artillery batteries. It has also deployed surveillance drones, a senior intelligence officer said.

Another senior Cameroon military figure said they were attempting to choke off Boko Haram's revenues, including the trade in fuel with Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

"All of this looks to be paying off," the officer said, with no incursions since mid-February.






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barcanista:
I wish Tinubu was like the Man.

Tinubu is the president of?

Noviolence2015:
You are empty... Your first line of thought sold you out. Igr is more or thereabout 40billion Naira in Lagos.
Please don't be blinded by sentiment.

If you have nothing to say just stfu. Lagos IGR is more or thereabout N40billion, you know because your uncle is the Accountant General of Lagos.

If the total budget for Lagos state is N489billion for 2015, and from your stupidity it earn N40billion/month then that should translate to earning N480billion alone from IGR for this year.

Then from the entire federal allocation for this year, Fashola will just take N9billion to add up the balance and thereafter share the remaining federal.Allocation.with Tinubu right?

I hate my mention quoted by daft senseless people, pls if you don't have commonsense pls wakapass my post.

The stupidity of those who brought the yeye news to AIT is glaring, Lagos makes 40billion monthly? From where?

For argument sake let assume it is true, is it wrong if a company works and then charge fees for the work it does?

Alphabeta helped lagos to move it IGR from 8-9 billion monthly to about N26billion and highest of N29billion I think in June 2013 don't know where AIT got it fugure of N40billion IGR when the state has a budget of N489billion this year, does it mean the state didn't include its Federal Allocation to its Budgetary plans.

When you lie without commonsense, your lies won't add up. If anybody is bitter about the job Alphabeta is doing in Lagos, sorry we indigenes of Lagos aren't, it is earning an agreed % for the marvelous job it is doing and it marvelous in our eye. Anyone not happy with Alphabeta collecting his tax can pack his bag and baggage and return to his or her village,.there is no rope tying anybody's yansh to Lagos.

EUROBOMBER:
(1) Ok, we agree that buhari got his WASC. Now what stops buhari from reaching out to Cambridge to provide a certified-true-copy of his WASC since the original is not available?

(2) If buhari was an Igbo man, would you have written all these grammer to defend him or would you have been shouting 'Where is your WASC' just like it was done to Stella Odua?

(3) When yorubas voted massively for obasanjo against buhari did they not have the interest of Nigeria in mind?

So the certified true copy that the school attached to the statement of results is from where? Go to premium news website if you missed the news?

Comparing Stella Oduah daylight stealing to Buhari's WASC issue is lack of something to argue about, Cambridge has come forth to say it organised Hausa Language as a subject in 1961 when the PDP said they didn't, they equally said the only mandatory subject that must be passed to earn a certificate was English language when PDP said you can't get a certificate if you fail mathematics, that should tell you the issue of not attending school is just a distraction by the PDP to hide their uselessness.

Ojukwu was a candidate in the 2003 election, why didn't the igbos vote massively for him? The Yorubas voted massively for Olu Falae in 1999 against Obasanjo knowing him well and rejected him, the igbos and Hausas voted him, the yorubas had a choice between their son and an igbo or Hausa. They chose their son, while you rejected your son. Who is thr slave here?

Someday I hope some igbos on this forum will realize that saving Nigeria and restoring it to the path of accountability will be a collective benefit for all.

Who in his right senses will assume Buhari doesn't have a certificate if not delusional and gullible idiots who can't reason with their own brains but needed to be fed with stories.

If some idiotic people could believe the house shown on this thread belong to the Osinbajo's despite having two sons as SANs who were Attorney General in different states at almost same time then the mindset of the GEJ till 2019 crew could be understood. They are daft and lack commonsense.

The next election isn't about Buhari being Hausa or muslim, it is about looking at the present situation of the country and asking if we should allow it to continue, GEJ won in Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti, oyo and ondo states in 2011, are you saying the people who voted for him then were Aliens or Ghanians?

The next election is a referendum of the achievements of GEJ in the last 5years and an evaluation of the PDP in the last 16years. If you think it is about the zone GEJ came from or the church or religion he profess then it is your problem and your choice.

Pls don't quote me in your mention next time in this kind of thread.

Nigeria needs a new direction and a CHANGE, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO CONTINUE THIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY OF HOPELESSNESS.