CHIBOK GIRLS: US DEPLOYS 80 SOLDIERS TO CHAD

THE United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad, to help regional efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.
“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” Obama said in a letter to Congress.
This came as Boko Haram, in the early hours of Wednesday, attacked Alagarno village in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, killing 48 people and carted away food items after setting ablaze almost all the houses in the village.

Soyinka Swallows Up His Word Against Patience Jonathan.

Literary icon Professor Wole Soyinka in a statement released yesterday to media houses said that while he may have publicly chastised First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, he has never referred to her as an illiterate. He said his name is being falsely used to disrespect the first lady and will take legal action once he finds out the source of the lies. I recall him referring to Patience Jonathan as that woman on his CNN interview with Amanpour though. Anyway, his statement reads in part below;

Jos Bombing: PDP Criticises APC For Holding Political Rally In Ekiti

Abuja – The PDP National Working Committee (NWC), has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) for holding political rally in Ekiti a day after the May 20 twin bomb explosions in Jos.
Mr Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary of the party, at a news briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, said the APC had remained “hypocritical in the face of loss of lives caused by the insurgents”.
Metuh, who spoke at the end of a meeting of the NWC, expressed shock that while the nation was still mourning the death of those who died in the Jos and Kano bombings, the APC was engaged in a political rally in Ekiti.

Breaking News: Thai army chief announces military coup on live TV

Thailand’s army chief announced in a televised address to the nation on Thursday that the armed forces were seizing power after months of deadly political turmoil.

“In order for the country to return to normal quickly, the National Peace Keeping Committee comprised of the army, the Thai armed forces, the Royal Air Force and the police need to seize power as of May 22 at 4.30 pm,” army chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha said.

Breaking News: 48 killed in fresh Borno attacks

No fewer than 48 people were killed by insurgent group, Boko Haram, in Shawa and Alagarno villages of Askira Cuba and Damboa local government areas of Borno State, respectively.

The attackers also carted away food items after setting ablaze almost all houses in the villages.

Shawa is about three kilometres south of Kwapchi village which came under attack in the last two weeks, where 12 people were killed with several residential houses set ablaze, while Alagarno village is about 30 kilometres to Chibok town, where about 275 female students of Government Secondary School were abducted by the insurgents and about 117 kilometers from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

BOKO HARAM SURVIVOR TELLS STORY ON CAPITOL HILL

Deborah Peter, 15, recounted how the Nigerian Islamist group had butchered her father and brother as Congress mulls how to counter the group that has abducted over 200 schoolgirls
Deborah Peter, a 15 year-old Nigerian, has a horrible story.
On the evening of Dec. 22, 2011, she saw her father, a Christian pastor, shot three times in the chest by three members of the Islamist radical group Boko Haram. While her father lay on the floor of his home, the men debated whether or not they should kill her brother Caleb. As her father breathed his last, they killed Caleb too. The men made the young girl lie between the corpses and she stayed there until the next morning, when a local pastor paid for her to get out of the region. That pastor was killed in 2013 — again, by Boko Haram.

There Will Be Chaos If Jonathan Does Not Contest 2015 Election– Dr.FASEHUN

The leader of Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, has stated that there might be crisis in Nigeria if out of pressure President Goodluck Jonathan drops his ambition for second term in office.
Fasehun who is also the National Chairman of the newly registered Unity Party of Nigeria, said the president has a constitutional right to contest the 2015 presidential election.
“Since there is a provision in the constitution for a second term in office, Jonathan has the right to re-contest and nobody should mount pressure on him to drop the ambition,” he said.

Free Meriam Yahia Ishaq

MERIAM Yahia Ibrahim Ishaq, until recently an unknown 27-year-old pregnant Sudanese mother, is on the death row, after a court in her country convicted her of adultery and apostasy. She was sentenced to 100 lashes of the cane and death by stoning. 

Tension Over Choice Of Jonathan's Political Adviser

A row has broken out among stakeholders of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State over the recommendation of Felix Tangwame as the new Political Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Tangwamen is being touted by some forces, including one of the aides to the president, as successor to Mr Ahmed Gulak, whose appointment was recently terminated.
Although, the president has made up his mind to pick another politicaladviser from Adamawa, some PDP stakeholders were opposed to Tangwamen, on the basis that it would be a violation of Federal Character Principle.

9 Fulani herdsmen gang-rape 15-yr-old girl, 2 housewives

 

No fewer than nine suspected Fulani herdsmen, yesterday, allegedly gang-raped a 15-year-old girl and two housewives (names withheld) at gunpoint, in Tse Ikyuer, Yandev, Mbagwen in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
Two of the victims, who narrated their ordeal to Vanguard in Makurdi, the state capital, said after beating and raping them, the herdsmen also made away with their N60,000 and two phones.
According to the women, who could barely walk, “one of us (the teenage girl) was raped repeatedly, after being thoroughly beaten by the herdsmen. At the moment, she is neither able to walk nor talk.”