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PointB:
Buhari do something ooo!

Boko Haram is taking over Nigeria, while your honker around without substance.

Kill Boko Haram, all of them. And deal with the Fulani cattle herders while at it! That's what you were elected to do, not to gallivant and talk!

barcanista:
Timeline of BH Attacks From May 29 till Date
-Friday, May 29, 2015: Boko Haram Rocket kills 7 in Maiduguri(Premium Times)

-Saturday, May 30, 2015: 26 Killed, 30 injured in Boko Haram suicide attack in Maiduguri Mosque(CNN)

-Tuesday, June 2, 2015: Over 50 killed in Maiduguri Market to BH Bomb Blast (Reuters)

-Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Bomb -planted in Maiduguri Commercial Area kill many (PremiumTimes)

-Thursday, June 4 2015: Suicide Attack at Military Check point, Maiduguri (Premium Times)

-Thursday, June 4 2015: Over 31 -killed in Adamawa state to Boko Haram Attack

Total Number of Death:±100

Rexyl:
El rufai comments make me wonder how he managed to be elected as a governor... He was well known for bias, sentiments and reckless comments on sensitive issues before the last general elections.

anwo247:
And Buhari is yet to kill one!

I'm still laughing in Otuoke

niceguy7:
For crying out loud its jst 4days in office......

donnypool:
i actually saw this coming, i knew the wont give him a breathing space. and if buhari end boko haram, they will come up with another thing.

it will go on and on till PMB tenure is complete

gratiaeo:
The death toll from two blasts in northeast Nigeria rose to 35 on Friday, raising the total number killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks to 82 during President Muhammadu Buhari’s first week in office.

Rescue officials in the Adamawa state’s capital Yola said 31 people had been confirmed dead in the explosion that ripped through a market on Thursday, with another 38 wounded.

The Yola blast followed a suspected suicide bombing in Maiduguri, capital of neighbouring Borno state, that killed at least four people when a truck carrying firewood rammed into a checkpoint outside a military barracks.

The violence on Thursday came as Buhari ended his first foreign trip since taking office.

He visited Chad and Niger, which with Cameroon are Nigeria’s key allies in the battle against an Islamist uprising blamed for 15,000 deaths since 2009.


Buhari urged closer regional security cooperation, thanking troops from Nigeria’s neighbours for their efforts to date while demanding more action from a multi-national force battling the insurgents on the frontline.

He vowed to crush the Islamists when he was sworn in one week ago but the spate of bombings through his first week in office highlighted the severity of the challenge.

Boko Haram has been weakened by a four-nation offensive launched in February but the extremists have proved resilient in the past.

A new video released by the group — its first for several months and first under the banner of the “Islamic State in West Africa” — insisted the rebels were still to be reckoned with.

– Toll rises –

Yola had been seen as a relative safe haven in Nigeria’s embattled northeast, with no confirmed Islamist attacks in several years.

The fresh explosion hit the popular Jimeta Main Market at about 7:40 pm (1840 GMT), as traders were finishing business.

“So far, we have 31 dead victims and 38 people in hospital receiving treatment”, the National Emergency Management Agency’s coordinator in the city Sa’ad Bello told AFP.

An inital toll from the Adamawa state police said two people were killed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the blast bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram who have frequently targeted crowded markets.

The Maiduguri explosion outside the Maimalari Barracks at about 5:00 pm killed four people and also resembled past strikes by the insurgents, who have made suicide attacks the military a key feature of their uprising.

– Regional cooperation –

Buhari was on Thursday in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, for talks with his counterpart Idriss Deby after visiting Niger on Wednesday.

“Your troops have stood shoulder to shoulder and fought gallantly with ours in the fight against the forces of evil,” the 72-year-old former military ruler told Deby.

Deby for his part “reaffirmed Chad’s involvement and availability” to work with Nigeria, according to a statement from his office.

Anglophone Nigeria has typically viewed its Francophone neighbours with suspicion, which has been blamed for the lack of a joined-up approach in tackling the militants.

On Wednesday, the military in Abuja announced that a Nigerian officer had taken charge of the new African Union-backed Multi-National Joint Task Force based in N’Djamena.

The 8,700-strong unit, made up of military personnel, police and civilians from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, had been due to be deployed last November.

Buhari said “sustained and robust” regional cooperation was essential because of the cross-border threat posed by Boko Haram.

– Deadly week –

Buhari has ordered the military’s command centre be moved from the capital, Abuja, to Maiduguri, where Boko Haram was founded in 2002 and which is regarded as its spiritual home.

The army has since been tested with two rocket attacks on the city, as well as an explosion opposite a military facility on Wednesday, which left at least 18 dead.

There were also two suicide bomb attacks — one at a mosque on Saturday that killed 26 and another on Tuesday at a cattle market, in which 13 people died.

While Maiduguri residents have come to expect relentless bombings, a surge of violence in Yola will create new challenges for Buhari as he strives to pacify the northeast.

The city has been home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting elsewhere in the region.

Hundreds of women and children kidnapped by Boko Haram have also been brought to camps in the city after they were rescued during recent military operations in the rebels’ Sambisa Forest stronghold in Borno.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/scores-killed-in-nigeria-presidents-first-week-in-office/

Descartes:
By elementary mathematics:7days =82 lives, then 365 days will be equal to 4276 lives(approx). Hmmm...

Chigold101:
why is Buhari afraid of visiting bornu state to appease those wholost loved ones but sent osinbajo to anambra state to see victims of fuel tanker accident.

Chigold101:
why is Buhari afraid of visiting bornu state to appease those wholost loved ones but sent osinbajo to anambra state to see victims of fuel tanker accident.

hangzhouro:
Nigerians are watching the progress of this administration very closely...

Descartes:
By elementary mathematics:7days =82 lives, then 365 days will be equal to 4276 lives(approx). Hmmm...

Oh good Lord have mercy.

We hope the mathematics will not come true oooooooo-o-o-o-o

Presido Buhari needs to do something faaaaaaaaaast

niceguy7:
Ws there no bh attacks b4 he came in?
He needs time to tackle this.....all this over sabi newspaper sef

Decibel:
Some sychophants of the present administration have already flooded this thread with excuses like "Government of how many weeks?", "What's wrong with today's youth?",...

barcanista:
Timeline of BH Attacks From May 29 till Date
-Friday, May 29, 2015: Boko Haram Rocket kills 7 in Maiduguri(Premium Times)

-Saturday, May 30, 2015: 26 Killed, 30 injured in Boko Haram suicide attack in Maiduguri Mosque(CNN)

-Tuesday, June 2, 2015: Over 50 killed in Maiduguri Market to BH Bomb Blast (Reuters)

-Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Bomb -planted in Maiduguri Commercial Area kill many (PremiumTimes)

-Thursday, June 4 2015: Suicide Attack at Military Check point, Maiduguri (Premium Times)

-Thursday, June 4 2015: Over 31 -killed in Adamawa state to Boko Haram Attack

Total Number of Death:±100

joseph1832:
The same reason GEJ never visited the town of Chibok, Mobi and other towns ravaged by Boko Haram.

dckelvin:
BECAUSE AFTER THE 30th may Biafra fallen Hero memorial day,they were afraid that the Igbos want to Brake away from nigeria.
so they have to make make us change our mind by making it look as if they care about the Igbos.

niceguy7:
We pray God to help our soldiers to combat this menace

cuteboy2:
He said he was ready for the job. He had more than enough time to plan for all major problems in the country. In fact he was itching to step into the office.

He said he had a magic solution to BH menace, which he refused to disclose to previous govt.

He has the office to himself now. So what is he waiting for. Just hope I did not make a wrong choice voting or this man.

Firefire:
Thanks bro.,

A deafening shout-out to Ogbeni PassingShot

You made this post 9:03am On Jun 03



Today is June 6th more than 72 hours after your comment above, a week / 168 Hours since PMB was sworn-in!

- Can you tell the house the level of your vexation now, in a scale of 0 - 100 ?

- What are your thoughts on this continuous delay, procrastination and rigmarole from the "party in power" APC ?

Thank you for your prompt and honest feedback.

PassingShot:
You dey amuse me really. What can I say?

To be honest with you, I am disappointed that PMB has not announced his SGF and COS at the least. I understand why he cannot name his full cabinet of ministers but I find it extremely annoying that SGF, COS and other Special Advisers have not been named.

I have posted on the president's twitter handle to voice this unacceptable delay and I hope that the next week will be more fruitful.

Notwithstanding, I am still giving him the benefits of the doubt on the grounds that GEJ didn't hand over necessary documents until a day to his exit.

My level of vexation is still around 4-5 on a scale of 10. Happy?

strongerthaneva:
Mr man go sit down for bar beach and be thanking God for ur life well spent than condemning what u ursef if given chance can't achieve at all.see the scores is 82 now but bet u can never reach the scores of tanoids president jonathan number am telling u confidentially cos I know who God have elected for us..If u want to condemn why not continue calling buhari boko haram now cos that's just the only song in all tanoids voice they gave nothing gud to over..Insha Allahu for God liveth president buhari will conquer all his enemies and prevail over all haters..who God has bless no man can cross...Gift for the wise..

STANPASQUAL:
I hope for ur sake n all our sake that by d time we realise d Puppet we elected, it won't be too late!!

Chigold101:
Buhari and Osinbajo are afraid of boko haram.

Instead of them visiting maidugiri after so many boko attacks. Osinbajo rushed down to anambra to visit the scene of tanker accident.

Lolzzz... GEJ is clueless but PMB seems brainless...