Nigeria Women Stage One-Million-March For The Release Of Abducted School Girls at Chibok

Women all over the country will on Wednesday stage a one-million-women protest march in Abuja to press for the release of the girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram gunmen at Government Secondary School, Chibok.
Prof. Hauwa Abdu Biu disclosed this, yesterday, during an emergency meeting convened by the First Lady of Borno State, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima on the way forward for the release of the school girls.

Akwa Ibom 2015: It’s PDP vs PDP

WITH virtually all electoral slots from the wards, the state and the national levels in the kitty of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Akwa Ibom State can arguably be described as a core and complete PDP state.

And with the massive achievements of Governor Godswill Akpabio in the state, which he has dubbed ‘uncommon transformation,’ the PDP, ordinarily, is not expected to have problems retaining its electoral laurels. At least, not from the opposition parties, which have a very high hurdle to scale, if they were to make any appreciable inroad into the state christened ‘Land of Promise.’

However, the PDP may not have it easy, if the brewing intra-party squabble is not amicably resolved ahead of the election. Currently, what is panning out as PDP versus PDP electoral battle may present the opposition with an unexpected electoral gift.

Currently, some elders, stakeholders and founders of the PDP in Akwa Ibom are at daggers drawn with Governor Akpabio over the control of the PDP structure and zoning of electoral offices ahead of the election.

Eight-year-old girl found with mouth, legs, hands tied under policeman’s bed

A serving mobile policeman, Gbuchenge Augustine, attached to Mobile Police Unit 22, Ikeja, Lagos State, has disappeared after an eight-year-old girl, Amarachi, was found under his bed with her mouth, legs and hands tied.
When Amarachi was discovered, she had a broken skull, twisted neck and was very weak, unable to speak and motionless.
Augustine, with force number 400823, was said to have fled as soon as he got wind of the fact that the missing girl had been discovered in his one-room apartment, under his bed.

I’ll not stop Fayemi’s Dagrin Corps – Bamidele

In a continuation of his town-by-town campaign visits to communities and towns across Ekiti State ahead of June 21st election, the Labour Party’s governorship candidate and member representing Ado Ekiti/Irepodun/Ifelodun Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, has promised that he would not phase out members of the Ekiti State Traffic Management Agency, popularly known as Dagrin Corps.

The story of Sambisa forest - Inside Boko Haram’s Hideout:

Sambisa is a vast area of land located south of Borno State. The thick forest area with swampy condition during rainy season is believed to be harbouring make shift- camps of suspected members of Boko Haram Islamists.

It has boundaries with Chibok, Askira Uba, Damboa, Gwoza, Konduga, Dikwa, Bama and other local government areas of the state.

There is a games reserve situated in the heart of Sambisa forest,  but when members of the terrorist group were dislodged by the military and vigilante youths from Maiduguri, Borno State capital, most of them relocated to the Sambisa and destroyed the games reserve last year killing some of the staff and settling there.

South Africa draw bogey team Nigeria

Africa Cup of Nations defending champions Nigeria were grouped with South Africa and Sudan when the 2015 qualifying draw was made in Cairo Sunday.

The Group A line-up will be completed by the winners of a preliminary tie involving Namibia, Congo Brazzaville, Libya and Rwanda.

Nigeria can be confident of making the 16-team finals between January 17 and February 8 in Moroccan cities Agadir, Marrakech, Rabat and Tangier.

They are a bogey side for South Africa — never losing a competitive match to Bafana Bafana (The Boys) — and Sudan have struggled lately.

Every draw creates a ‘group of death’ and Group G fits the bill with Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal and one from Burundi, Botswana, Central African Republic and Guinea-Bissau.

Egypt have lifted the Cup of Nations a record seven times, hosts Tunisia triumphed in 2004 and Senegal were the strongest third seeds.

Nissan rolls off First Patrol Jeep In Lagos

Nissan has become the first major manufacturer to build a car in Nigeria in response to the Federal Government’s new  Automotive Policy.

According to a statement from Stallion Motors, Nissan representatives in Nigeria, the inaugural vehicle, a black Nissan Patrol, rolled off the production line at the Lagos assembly plant, marking a key milestone in the company’s continued wave of expansion into the high-growth markets.

In addition to the Patrol, Nissan also plans to produce the Almera and NP300, starting in early May and followed by mass production in August. With these three models, Nissan aims to be a significant player in the Nigerian automotive sector.

MORE CONFESSION: Kidnapping children for battle, from Uganda to Nigeria

Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for extremist causes.

It happened this (last) week in Nigeria, when heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 200 girls from their boarding school.

And it has been happening in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other neighbouring countries for decades – the work of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour covered Kony’s sick work 16 years ago, for 60 Minutes, when she reported on the abduction of 139 girls from their school.
She spoke with their teacher, Sister Rachele Fassera, who begged for the children’s return.

“He (Kony) bent down and on the ground he wrote, ‘The girls are 139. I will give you 109.’ He wrote, ‘I keep 30,’ Sister Raquelle told Amanpour at the time.”

Simon Kolawole Joins online newspaper Business

A former Editor of ThisDay newspaper, Simon Kolawole, has concluded arrangements to float a world class media group.
Kolawole, in an email on Sunday morning, said this comes to him naturally having put in 22 years into journalism.
Kolawole, known more by a lot of his people as Simon Kolawole Live because of his incisive back page column in ThisDay on Sunday, said the process will begin with the launch of an online newspaper, TheCable.
Operating at www.thecable.ng, the online newspaper intends to “deliver knowledge-driven journalism in the pursuit of Nigeria’s progress”.

Abia First Lady Donates Materials Worth Millions of Naira To People Living with Disabilities.

Wife of the Abia state governor, Chief Mrs Mercy Odochi Orji has promised to use God given resources within her care to better lives of the less privileged people in the society.
She said this at a function to identify with the physically challenges, visual impaired person, cripple and other people with deformity in Umuahia, urged Nigerians to reach out to the disable in the bid to rid the nation off poverty and other notable social vices,
Mrs Orji who expressed disappointment in the ways and manners people with disability are being treated in the society, therefore called on the citizen to have a change of perception towards these special people in the nation.
She donated materials and equipment worth millions of naira to the group and promised to always identity with them to make the country a better place for all and sundry.