'I can't deliver your letter to Boko Haram leader' - First Lady tells kids

 

Some Nigerian children who paid a courtesy visit to First Lady Patience Jonathan today in Abuja to mark the Children's Day celebration seized the opportunity to hand her letters they wrote to Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau protesting the abduction of the Chibok girls and asked the First Lady to pass the letter to him.

Mama Peace received the letter but immediately told the children that she doesn't know who Shekau is but would give their letters to the Chief of Defence Staff who would help deliver it accordingly..

"Let me thank the children that gave me letter to give Boko Haram. Well, I have received your letter, but I’m not the one to give it to Boko Haram because I don’t know Boko Haram and I have never seen Boko Haram. But I will give it to NSA or Chief of Defence Staff who will submit your letter accordingly. To my children parliament, thank you for your letter. Thank you for your deliberation. I have received what you gave to me. I will make sure I pass it to the president because it is addressed to him and the other one is addressed to Boko Haram. That is why the two are different.” she said

Mama Peace advised the children and Nigerians in general to desist from speaking evil or reigning abuses on the President, saying he is the head of the country as God has made him so. She drew her advice from the bible

"It is bad to abuse our country and the president because God has made him the head. The almighty God commands us to pray for our leaders. We therefore need to pray for the development of our country and the president.

Remember that a child that abuses his father and mother is disobeying God’s commandment because the bible says in Exodus 20:12 that you should honour your father and mother so that you may live long in the land that the Lord your God has given you. The holy Bible is not referring to only biological parents. Any one that is older than you even for a day must be respected. Let us therefore join hands and rebuild our country Nigeria” she advised

Onazi: I escaped Jos blasts by 15 minutes

 

Super Eagles and Lazio of Italy midfielder, Ogenyi Onazi, has said that he narrowly escaped being killed in last week’s suicide bombings in Jos, Plateau State.

Onazi, who was born in Jos, told the British Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday, that he left the popular Main Market in Jos, barely 15 minutes   before the first blast rocked the area.

The first and second blasts at the crowded   market killed at least 150 people.

   “I am very, very lucky, just by the grace of God,”   said Onazi who   is now with the Super Eagles in London as they prepare for Wednesday’s(today) friendly against Scotland.

The footballer added, “It was just like an ordinary day. Happy faces and friendly warmth that make you feel happy to be back home.

“We had gone to the railway market to get something. I think it was 15 minutes later when we heard the loud blast from the place. And suddenly, people were just running.

“There was chaos and pandemonium. There was smoke, I was confused, lost and just wondered what had happened. I had no idea ofwhat was going on and it was scary.

“All my life I have never heard a bang or boom like that.”

Onazi said the unrest in Nigeria had made it difficult for him to focus on football.

“Some will say I should be happy to be alive but I just feel concerned about the security challenges in Jos and Nigeria as a country,” he said.

“I was born and bred in a peaceful Jos. I may be fortunate enough to live outside the place right now, but I still have my family and friends who live in the city.

“I always get worried when there are reports of terrible incidents there on a regular basis. It’s sad and depressing to live with this.

He challenged the Federal Government to quickly “step up security across the country” because “innocent people are dying.”

“Personally, I think there is a need for a holistic approach to solving this problem once and for all,” the player said.

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Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni’s Message To President Jonathan

“I have never called the United Nations to guard our security. Me, Yoweri
Museveni to say that I have failed to protect my people and I call in the UN: I would rather hang myself. We prioritized national security by developing a strong Army, otherwise our Uganda would be like DRC, South Sudan, Somalia or Nigeria where militias have disappeared with school children. It would be a vote of no confidence in our country and citizens if we can’t guarantee our security? What kind of persons would we be?” ~ Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni.

Girl forced to watch her father/brother killed by Boko Haram tells her story

15 year old Deborah Peter, a Chibok indigene who now resides in Virginia, USA, was at the Capitol Hill, D.C yesterday May 21st, where she narrated her experience in the hands of Boko Haram. Deborah was at the US congress in her capacity as a Boko haram survivor, to lend her voice to the #bringbackourgirls campaign, as members of the congress debated on how to effectively win the war against the radical Islamic sect that abducted over 200 girls in Chibok on April 14th.

Deborah told the story of how her father, a Christian pastor who had been asked to deny his faith and her brother were both killed in a singular attack on the evening of Dec 22 2011 by three members of Boko haram. She said the men shot her dad 3 times on the chest and as they deliberated on whether to kill her brother, her dad breathed his last when he heard gun shots fired at his son, Caleb.

Deborah said she was then asked to lie in between their corpses. She laid there until the next morning when she was rescued by a local Pastor who paid for her to be transported out of the region. Sadly, the pastor who assisted her was also killed in 2013 by the sect men.

1979: THE YEAR NIGERIA DIED- Henry Oshikoya

 
Not even Britain thought the 1914 amalgamation would work, but Nigerians took it as reality. The inflicted cracks of the Aguiyi-Ironsi era, the silent hand that laid the foundation for the civil war, was sealed by Obasanjo through cajoles and suppressed military confidentiality - a fit that failed him as a civilian President.
Obasanjo knew that there was no united nationhood in the Nigerian experiment and that the civil war signalled the lifting of the last colonial hoodwink. He knew even at the Oct 1st 1979 handing over parade ground that Shagari would fail. He knew the clogs that would trip the executive and trigger disaffection. He knew too that Joe Garba hated him for what he knew and would do nothing about.
Shagari rode on a nudged Nigerian horse; Buhari-Idiagbon offered a delay manger; Babangida resumed riding an injured horse and tripped it; Sonekan thought it was malnutrition; Abacha thought it was constipation; Abdusallam saw nothing wrong in the horses' prostrate mode; Obasanjo brought the horse back to kneeling position to ride; Yaradua left the wounds and applied worm-killers; Tell GEJ he's riding a dead horse.
Goodbye Nigeria. Goodbye utopia.