Update: How civilians staved off Boko Haram attack, killed dozens

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An update by Dr. Peregrino Brimah of ENDS.ng

More details are coming in on how the Civilian-JTF, civilian vigilantes staved off a Boko Haram attack and possible abduction in Kalabalge local government, northeast Borno state, near the Cameroonian border.

The villagers who were prepared for the Boko Haram attack had dug out trenches for the purpose. The Rann village, located in the middle of a Boko Haram strong-hold, had been attacked by Boko Haram in the recent past. In that attack they had allegedly acquired two light-weight armored tanks and some AK47 rifles. They refused to turn in this ammunition to the government in an increasingly common response as more villages in the north are determined to take up arms to defend themselves in the current state of deadly insecurity.

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Youtube Mobile Views or Video SEO Reveals a Neglected Road to Higher Search Rankings

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Youtube Mobile Views or Video SEO  is really a largely overlooked search marketing strategy. Even while videos continue to get significant traction in the search engines'natural listings, most companies either ignore them, or remain completely unacquainted with their potency. That oversight represents an invaluable edge your company may use to leapfrog your competitors in the organic rankings.

US Blackwater mercenary units behind Kiev regime's outburst in Ukraine

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US mercenaries are controlling the repression of pro-Russian protesters in Ukraine's east by the fascist groups of the NATO puppet regime in Kiev, according to reports emerging from German media. These individuals have been employed on by the group better known as in the past as Blackwater, a large private military contracting company established by ex-US Navy SEAL Erik Prince.

However, it is no longer called Blackwater and was renamed Xe in 2009 with a later name change to Academi in 2011. It has changed its name to most likely avoid the negative association attached to its old name, since massacres of civilians in US-occupied Iraq took place under the name Blackwater.

Photo: The real Abubakar Shekau is dead - SSS Spokesperson

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At a briefing this evening with newsmen in Abuja following the release of a new video by Boko Haram showing kidnapped Chibok girls, spokesperson of the State Security Service (SSS), Ms Marilyn Ogar said the man in the video claiming to be Abubakar Shekau is not really Abubakar Shekau, that the real Shekau who is believed to have founded the dreaded sect, is dead

Obasanjo didn’t win 1999 election –Okurounmu

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The battle for the political soul of Ogun State reverberated on Tuesday at the National Conference in Abuja when a delegate representing the South-West, Senator Femi Okurounmu, told members of the Confab Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government that his kinsman, former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not win the 1999 Presidential election.

He said Obasanjo’s emergence as President was planned and executed by the powers-that-be at the time to reduce tension generated by the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which was said to have been won by the late businessman, Chief MKO Abiola.

Confusion rock Owerrians over Alleged Escape of Lion from Zoo

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There was pandemonium in Owerri for the greater part of Tuesday morning, when news of the alleged escape of a hungry lion from the Nekede Zoo spread like wild fire.
While most residents of community quickly closed shop and ran into the safety of their homes, some parents were seen racing to schools to pick their children.

No one issued Kiev mandate to use UN helicopters, situation requires comprehensive investigation

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Situation with ukrainian servicemen using helicopters with un emblems requires comprehensive investigation, no one issued kyiv mandate to use such aircraft, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said. Russia insists that the situation on the use of helicopters with UN emblems by Ukrainian servicemen, in particular outside Kramatorsk, be investigated and is in close contact with the UN secretariat regarding this issue.

"We are currently sorting this situation out because the use in the purposes - and we do not even know in which purposes but if it was related to some forceful actions against the blocked Ukrainian cities, in particular, Kramatorsk, it is absolutely incompatible with the UN goals and these helicopters should be used solely with the permission of and in accordance with the UN mandate. No one has issued such a mandate on the use of UN aircraft regarding Ukraine," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Interfax.

CHIBOK: Our Daughters not in B'haram Video - Parent

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Some parents of the girls abducted at Goverment Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists have distanced themselves from the latest video purportedly released by the leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau who claimed that the kidnapped students, particularly the Christians have converted to Islam. They said they could not identify any of their daughters in the video obtained by AFP.

It would be recalled that Governor Shettima ordered the mass production of the video for possible identification by parents after he saw the clip on the BBC world service. The governor thereafter directed the mass duplication of the video to be shown to parents, some abducted but freed students, teachers and management staff of the school among others.

Civilians Launch Massive attack, kill 200 B'haram Terrorists in Borno Yesterday

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Article written by Dr. Peregrino Brimah for ENDS.ng 

The rise of the civilians against terror took the Boko Haram saga to a new turn in the early hours of Tuesday morning when citizens of Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge local government area, Borno northeast, who had fore-knowledge of an impending Boko Haram attack, decided not to remain sitting ducks but prepared for battle.

#BringBackOurGirls: Tunde Bakare Confirms Boko Haram is an American idea, calls out CNN's Isha Sesay, Patience Jonathan, others

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During his sermon this past Sunday May 11th, pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly, went hard on the American government and their offer to assist Nigeria to fight Boko Haram.

Watched the video and here's a summary of what he said. According to Bakare, CNN media crew coming to Abuja a few weeks ago to cover the Chibok girls story took him back to a vision God showed him during a conference he had in 2005 at Adebola House in Lagos. He said in the vision, he rode on God's back into former US President Bush's war room and saw the former president plotting on how to destabilize Nigeria. He said he immediately started praying at the conference declaring that Nigeria is not Iraq and that Bush would be burnt in the bush while Condolezza Rice would end up in the cooking pot. He played the video of his preaching in 2005 where he shared the vision to the conference attendees.

About Isha Sesay of CNN, pastor Bakare said she's been very disrespectful to Nigerian Government officials who she has been interviewing since she came into the country, making a whole Minister of Information Labaran Maku look like a school boy and showing no regard for his office or even the government he represents. He said to some extent we would say yes she should give it to him because all of a sudden it appears we have no government. Continue...

US deploys surveillance aircraft over Nigeria in search for kidnapped schoolchildren

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The US has deployed manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria to assist in efforts to find schoolchildren kidnapped in April by Boko Haram extremists, a senior Obama administration official told journalists.

"We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government's permission," the official said.

Pistorius mental health in question, athlete portrayed as 'manically obsessed'

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A judge will rule on Wednesday whether Oscar Pistorius will be committed to one month of psychiatric tests to establish if he has a "general anxiety disorder," as his murder trial reaches its climax. 

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel formally asked the court to have Pistorius committed Tuesday, after defence psychiatrist Meryll Vorster claimed the sprinter's deep-seated anxiety would have given him a heightened fear of crime.

During two months of trial, Pistorius's lawyers have sought to portray him as manically obsessed with safety after a difficult childhood and in the face of high crime levels in South Africa. Those factors, they argue, help explain his reaction on Valentine's Day last year when he allegedly believed his girlfriend to be an intruder and shot her dead through a locked toilet door.

Russia finds sanctions highly regrettable and unworthy of EU - Russia's deputy FM

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Russia finds the sanctions imposed on it by the European Union to be highly regrettable, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters here Monday. For instance, the EU has added Crimean Chief Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya to its sanctions' list of individuals.

"We regret to see the sanctions train rolling downhill as if it doesn’t have an engine driver," he said. "It's an absolutely thoughtless and irresponsible policy that doesn’t match reality in any way."

China blames toppling of legitimate gov't for Ukrainian crisis

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The toppling of the legitimate Ukrainian authorities by Maidan protesters is the main cause of the Ukrainian crisis, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told Russian reporters in Beijing on Tuesday.

"Concerning the ongoing violence in Ukraine, I think this is the result of the toppling of the legitimate authorities of this country in the course of disturbances and provocations staged on Maidan," the deputy minister said.  

"This is the direct cause of the crisis," Cheng said.

As IGP tasks Zonal AIGs, CPs to protect citizens’ Rights

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Deeply concerned about the increasing tendency by some citizens to resort to extra-judicial killings - Jungle Justice - against those suspected to have committed one crime or another in Nigeria, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR, NPM, mni, psc has warned citizens to desist from such reprehensible acts. Noting that every Nigerian citizen is entitled to the Fundamental Right of fair hearing, the IGP insists that none is guilty except a law court of competent jurisdiction expressly says so. He therefore has directed Zonal AIGs, Command CPs and other field Commanders to take adequate measures to ensure that the rights of every Nigerian citizen, including those of suspected criminals, are protected. The IGP warns that any person found to be involved in any acts of impunity or jungle justice must bear the full wrath of the law as two wrongs cannot make a right.

President GEJ seeks six months extension of emergency rule in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa

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 President Jonathan today May 13th sent a request to the National Assembly seeking an extention of the State of Emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by six months.

In a media chat on May 4th, the president had hinted that there would be an extension of emergency rule in these states since peace has not been restored there.

Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states have witnessed high rates of attacks by Boko Haram and have been placed on emergency rule since May 1st 2013. The new proposed extention if implemented would elapse in November 2014, three months before the general election.

Nigerian police/Lagos state government warn against jungle justice

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Happy news! The Lagos State Government has warned residents of the state against taking the laws into their hands, saying the full weight of the law would be brought on people caught engaging in jungle justice, I.e beating, burning or killing any suspect, whether alone or in a mob

In a statement released last Friday, the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, said;

"The full weight of the law would be brought to bear on anyone henceforth caught engaging in jungle justice, no matter what the alleged criminal could have done. The mob may well be wrong and the helpless victim may be anyone’s child or relative. Even if they did commit the alleged offence, there is a process for prosecuting and showing the evidence in court so that proven criminals can be properly punished according to law,”

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Police also released a statement this morning, saying anybody caught engaging in jungle justice will bear the full wrath of the law. 
See the press statement after the break..

#BringBackOurGirls - CHIBOK Is A SCAM Asari Dokubo insists, leads protest against the girls.

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Despite a video released yesterday by Boko Haram showing the kidnapped Chibok girls, ex-militant Asari Dokubo is still insisting it's all a scam. He led an anti-bringbackourgirls protest yesterday and shared photos and the message above on his Facebook page. At the very least our president believes these were kidnapped...that's what matters most. See more photos bellow and see how a Political Scientist analysed it.

Chibok: Federal Government rejects B'haram’s proposal

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The Federal Government has said it would not negotiate with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau  following the demands he made this morning in a video he released showing the kidnapped girls.
In an interview with AFP, Interior Minister, Abba Moro, said the issue in question is not about Boko Haram giving conditions.  Also speaking at a press conference of security heads and other stakeholders following the release of the video, the DG of the National Orientation Agency, Mike Omeri, said FG would explore all other options to rescue the girls but would not negotiate with terrorists

"All options are on the table and open, we are interacting with the military and intelligent experts who are already on surveillance in the North Eastern part of the country. We will adopt all available options to get the girls out, but we will not negotiate with the sect"

The real Abubakar Shekau is dead - SSS Spokesperson

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At a briefing this evening with newsmen in Abuja following release of a brand new video by Boko Haram showing kidnapped Chibok girls, spokesperson of the State Security Service (SSS), Ms Marilyn Ogar said the man in the video claiming to be Abubakar Shekau is certainly not Abubakar Shekau, that the actual Shekau who's believed to have founded the dreaded sect, is dead

"Boko Haram has become a franchise, anybody can assume and lay claim to any name. What I know is that the original Abubakar Shekau is dead; the person claiming to be the national leader now is not the original Abubakar Shekau. If security sources tell you that somebody is dead, you don't have to come out and doubt that" she said.