#BringBackOurGirls Lays Pressure On Aso Rock!

Protesters on Thursday were taking their call for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram to Nigeria’s president, as US military personnel headed to Chad as part of the rescue effort.
Demonstrators said they were intending to march on Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential villa in the capital,
Abuja, to maintain pressure on the embattled head of state to secure the girls’ safe release.

“It is the wish of this movement that this engagement will catalyse positive action towards (the) quick rescue of our abducted girls,” the #BringBackOurGirls campaign coordinator, Hadiza Bala Usman, said in a statement.



Previous street protests in Abuja have led to meetings with lawmakers at the national parliament, Nigeria’s national security adviser and military top brass.
Thursday’s planned march comes after US President Barack Obama announced that 80 military personnel had been deployed to Chad to help find the 223 girls still missing since their abduction on April 14.

Obama said in a letter to Congress that the military contingent would stay in Chad until their support in ending the crisis that has triggered worldwide outrage “is no longer required”.
“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” he wrote.

- Schools shut -
The deployment marks a significant boost to an existing US military effort which includes the use of surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria.

The Pentagon has criticised Nigeria for failing to react quickly enough to the rise of Boko Haram, who have been blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009.

Jonathan’s administration had previously resisted close cooperation with the West but accepted help from US, British, French and Israeli specialists amid a groundswell of pressure fuelled by a social media campaign.
Nigeria is hoping to tighten the screws on Boko Haram and has asked the United Nations Security Council to proscribe the group, which is said to have links to Al-Qaeda-linked militants in north Africa.
President Jonathan has called the extremists “Al-Qaeda in western and central Africa”, underlining what Nigeria views as Boko Haram’s threat to regional stability.

The United States and a number of other countries have already designated Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation in an attempt to cut off any international support and overseas funding for the group.

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) meanwhile called for schools across the country to shut to allow a “day of protest” against the abduction of the girls from Chibok on April 14.
“We remain resolute in our resolve to continue the campaign… until our girls are brought back safe and alive and the perpetrators of the heinous crime are brought to book,” NUT president Michael Alogba Olukoya said on Wednesday.

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In the last five weeks, Boko Haram has stepped up its campaign of attacks outside the northeast worst affected by the insurgency, leading to fears of an escalation of violence across the country.
Hours before the girls’ kidnapping, the group bombed a crowded busy station in the Abuja suburb of Nyanya, killing 75. A copy-cat bombing at the same location on May 1 left 19 dead.
On Tuesday, two car bombs ripped through a busy market within 20 minutes of each other in the central city of Jos, killing at least 118.

There are fears that the death toll could rise further. The bombing — Nigeria’s deadliest — was seen by experts as an indication of Boko Haram’s intent to export violence and demonstrate their capability to the international community.

“They have sleeper cells all over the northern part of the country and they’re activating them,” said Kyari Mohammed, a Boko Haram specialist and chairman of the Centre for Peace Studies at Nigeria’s Modibbo Adama University.
“That’s what they’re going to do. We should anticipate more attacks, especially if they (the government and the international community) are unable to solve the Chibok problem,” he told AFP.

At the same time, there has been no let-up in the bloodshed in Borno state, one of three in the northeast which has been under a state of emergency since May last year.
More than 50 people were killed in three separate attacks this week. Two were near Chibok on Monday and Tuesday, while the third was near Gamboru Ngala, close to Lake Chad, where a reported 300 people were killed last month.

SHOCKER!!! The First Blast ‘Killed’ Me, But The Second Woke Me - Jos Blast Victim!

A woman made quite an impression in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, Wednesday when she recounted how she died from the impact of the first bomb blast but rose from the “dead” within a few minutes following the second explosion.

As she recounted her harrowing ordeal in the assault that has so far claimed 75 lives, Mrs. Funke Oloyede, an ample Yoruba lady in her early 40s, who is a survivor of the twin blasts that rocked the city Tuesday, said she “died” and rose, and then almost died again before she was rescued and taken to the hospital.


Oloyede, who had been admitted at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) where she was recovering from the shock of the experience, said: “I was in the front of my customer’s shop buying some shoes for my children, when suddenly I heard a loud and deafening blast that shook the market to its foundation.

“And being a high blood pressure patient, my blood pressure shot up and I collapsed immediately. I thought I was dead. My confused customer could not help me as she scampered for safety too.

“As I lay down there dead and looking for help, the second and louder blast went off and buildings started collapsing, which engulfed the entire market in total darkness.

“I then realised it was not time to lie down dead. So I woke up and crawled towards a nearby pole with which I supported myself to stand up and managed to wade through the darkness into the light.

“Then, I collapsed again, but this time in a place where people could help me. This was how I found myself in the hospital. I have no injury on my body; my problem was entirely that of shock.”

Speaking about the casualties at the state Specialist Hospital, the information officer of the hospital, Mrs. Talatu Angi, said the hospital had received 55 corpses and 35 injured patients from the blast, adding that the hospital was working at full capacity to cope with the pressure.
At the hospital, there was a large crowd searching for their loved ones. Some ended up seeing corpses of family members, others saw their injured relations, while the rest hurried away to other hospitals to continue their search.

Students of the University of  Jos also raised the alarm that they had not seen many of their colleagues.

One of the patients in the hospital, Miss Hadiza Ajiji, who narrated her ordeal, said: “I was inside a Keke (tricycle) with two other passengers when the bomb went off and threw the Keke to the opposite side of the road. We were all thrown out as the Keke was lifted by the blast.

“That was all I knew when I became unconscious. I don’t know what became of the other passengers; I only regained consciousness here in the hospital.”

Ajiji said she had gone to the market on Tuesday to shop for her brother’s wedding. The doctor on duty said she would have to be operated upon as the flesh in her legs had all been taken off.

Ibrahim Yunusa, at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital, whose stomach was ripped open thus forcing out the intestines out of his charred stomach, was immediately wheeled into the theatre for surgery. He was amazed he is still alive: “When I saw my stomach giving way and my intestines pouring out, I thought that was my end. But these doctors did miracles to bring me back to life.”

He said he was inside a moving bus when the bomb went off and shattered the vehicle.
Mr. Stanley Edward Ngene, a shoe seller whose forehead was pierced by an iron rod, said he got injured while he was trying to escape from the confusion that ensued at the scene.

Meanwhile, rescue and emergency workers yesterday cleared and combed through the rubble of the bomb attacks in which the federal government said 75 people were killed.
Emergency services picked through the burnt-out remains of vehicles and collapsed buildings in the New Abuja Market area of the city, where two car bombs exploded within 20 minutes of each other on Tuesday.

In Jos, where Boko Haram had attacked before, the governor’s spokesman said the bombing bore the hallmarks of the Islamist extremists.

“This is not a Berom-Fulani attack,” Pam Ayuba told AFP, referring to the long-standing ethnic violence between Christian farmers and Muslim herdsmen that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the state in the last two decades.

“The investigation is still ongoing but this is clearly an extension of the terrorist activity that has affected the North-east of the country, the Boko Haram insurgents,” he added.
Kyari Mohammed, a Boko Haram specialist and Chairman of the Centre for Peace Studies at Modibbo Adama University in Yola, Adamawa state, also blamed the Islamists. “They’re the only ones capable of doing this. Every other rebel or fringe group can use bombs but not of this scale or sophistication,” he said.

“I have the feeling that what they want to achieve is to escalate things because of the international pressure which has built up (because of the kidnapping),” he added.

Rescue workers were among those who were caught up in the Jos bombings. As they tended to the injured from the first blast, then the second detonated. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were hidden in a minibus and truck, the military said.

Owing to the twin blasts, Jos streets were deserted yesterday, with an uneasy calm pervading the air.

True story behind 80 year old woman accused of being a Flying Witch in Ajegunle

Yesterday, i published a post about an 80 year old woman accused of being a flying witch bird.She was saved from lynching by the police.Her sons have surfaced and she is not a witch but got missing.She wandered off from their Iju Ishaga home some days ago and her family had been looking for her.They were shocked to see her in the newspapers..
A policeman told Punch

“This morning two men came to the command claiming that they were the sons of the woman. The men said their mother was not a witch and were very angry with the manner the rumour was spreading. They said they were shocked that youths could attack an old woman in her 80s and they were even asking for justice because the woman sustained bruises on her head.”

Police PRO Ngozi Braide said ...

Yes she has been released to her son. The family said due to her old age, she was very ill and was brought from Ibadan to Lagos to stay with one of her sons. The woman’s daughter-in-law said she went to buy drugs for her nearby, but by the time she returned home, the woman had left the house.”

Direct your protests to the terrorists not Government-President Jonathan

President Goodluck is advising those protesting against the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls to direct their protest to the Boko Haram terrorists and not the government.

He said it in a speech delivered on his behalf by the FCT minister, Olajumoke Akinjide, to a team of #BringBackOurGirls campaigners, led by a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwezili.....

He said 

“It is wrong and most unfair to suggest that there was a slow reaction to this kidnapping. As Commander-in-Chief, Mr. President meets with the security chiefs almost daily and he is on constant consultation with regional and global partners on this terrorists’ threat. We must be careful not to politicise the campaign against terrorism. When a bomb goes off in Kabul, Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan do not blame the government, they blame the terrorists.When a bomb goes off in Bagdad, Iraq, the people of Iraq do not blame the government, they blame the terrorists. When a bomb goes off in Islamabad, Pakistan, the people of Pakistan do not blame the government, they blame the terrorists.When a bomb goes off in Nigeria, we must all unite to fight the terrorists.”