NIGERIA: DID YOU HEAR THAT...............

500 traditional hunters armed with homemade guns, poisoned spears and amulets have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills and what they believe to be supernatural powers to help find nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists?

Nigeria police said on Monday that they thwarted a fresh attempt to detonate a car bomb in Kano, a day after a bombing killed four people in an area of the city attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram?

Two bomb blasts hit Jos Terminus Market  in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, and about 200 citizen  reportedly killed by the incident?

Ms Ann-Kio Briggs said that the Niger-Delta wants resource control or nothing?

The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Mustapha El-Kanemi, declared yesterday that the leaders of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, are not indigenes of the state. He added that “What is happening now is unfortunate. It’s entirely new to us. None of the leaders of Boko Haram is from Borno. They cannot claim to be from here. The problem was brought to us from elsewhere,”?

 MEND insisted that  “the entire Amnesty process is a fraud on the people of Nigeria who are being promised peace in the Niger Delta, in the absence of justice”?

 Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has dismissed a statement credited to the  leader of the Movement for the Actualisation  of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, that he was instrumental to making him the governor of the state?

The former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timiprey Silva, apologized to all Nigerians on behalf of the Niger Delta region in February 2014, in Yola, Adamawa State capital for producing an incompetent leader in the person of President Goodluck Jonathan ?

 "The word – corruption – was first used by Aristotle and later by Cicero who added the terms “bribe” and “abandonment of good habits”?

The Yoruba race has threatened to break away from Nigeria if the ongoing National Conference does not grant them regional autonomy?

Boko Haram terror, at the weekend, raged in Borno State where 16 persons were feared killed in a fresh attack.Five policemen attached to Banki, a border town with Bama and Cameroon Republic, were attacked ; 16 persons were feared killed when some gunmen  allegedly attacked Ngubdala village near Ngurosoye  community in Bama Local Government Area of  Borno State. While the killing of the Chinese and abduction of the 10 others, reportedly took place at an encampment used by the Chinese road workers to Chibok where some school girls were kidnapped April 14.?



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