Update on Nyanya Student Abduction Rumour

In 9ja: Nyanya Abduction Scare Triggers Chaos, Military, Police Beef Up Security

 

Screen Captured Image from facebook

The suspected armed robbers

HBC: I was surfing through my facebook account and then I stumbled on this info by the police about the alleged abduction of school students yesterday morning in nyanya.

In 9ja: New Boko Haram Video Confirms Parents Fear

Parents of kidnapped school girls

Nigerian parents on Tuesday said their worst fears about their daughters’ fates had been confirmed after Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, threatened to sell the hostages as “slaves.”

Abubakar Shekau, who leads the Islamist group which has killed thousands in a five-year uprising, claimed responsibility for the shocking mass abduction on April 14 in the Chibok area of northeastern Borno state.

In a video message obtained by AFP on Monday, Shekau said his group was holding the girls as “slaves” and would “sell (them) in the market”.

HBC: Now that it has been confirmed that the kidnapping actually happened, Please baba presido, shove the politics to one side and save the kids.

In 9ja: Nyanya Abduction Scare Triggers Chaos, Military, Police Beef Up Security

In the early hours of today, rumour of a school bus, conveying pupils to a school in Nyanya, hijacked by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect has triggered a massive chaos.

Parents had invaded schools in Nyanya to evacuate their children around Nyanya and Maraba as the rumour gained ground of the abduction.
Currently, schools around the area are reportedly being shut.

Though authorities had yet to comfirm the report, a contingent of soldiers, anti-terrorism policemen, security operatives and bomb disposal squad have moved in to beef up security in the area.

#WowTinzIn9ja: First Lady-Orders Arrest Of #BringBackOurGirls Protest Leader, Said No Is Missing

Nigeria's First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan

In the early hours of Monday, Nigeria's first lady Patience Jonathan ordered Naomi Mutah's arrest for alleged impersonation at a stakeholders' meeting held at the Presidential Villa.
Naomi Mutah is a deputy director at the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Abuja and she led the protests over the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls of Chibok, Borno State.

It was discovered at the meeting that Naomi wrote her name in the attendance list as Grace.
The first lady expressed anger that Naomi had claimed to be one of the parents whose daughters were abducted.

"Today, when I sighted her, I said within myself that we'll get to the conclusion today because one of those whose children are missing is here. But to my greatest surprise, when we asked her, she said she is a representative. She wrote down her name as Grace. A whole civil servant impersonating. She should be arrested for impersonation", Mrs Jonathan said.

The first lady therefore directed the Borno State Commissioner of Police, who was also summoned to the meeting, to take action on the matter, saying:

"You've to take this woman to I.G. and the President"

#MustRead: Military Failed To Act On Inteligence - Borno Senators.

R-L Senators Ahmed Zannah and Ali Ndum

HBC: I Culled this report Bioreporters (click the name to read the full news). Its really a disturbing revelation and judging by the way things are going, I don't see the light at the end of this tunnel Nigeria is in. I will just give a summery of the whole detail.

Senators Ahmed Zannah (Borno Central) and Ali Ndume (Borno South) yesterday painted a clear picture of how the country’s military and the Jonathan administration have woefully failed to act on intelligence reports that could have led to the rescue of the over 200 innocent girls abducted over two weeks ago from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok. 

This happened while they where contributing to a motion entitled “Abduction of School girls in Chibok, Borno State” sponsored by Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba and 107 others.
Below are Senator Ahmed Zannah's exact words:

“I have been constantly in touch with the security agencies, telling them the developments, the movement of the girls from one place to the other and then the splitting of the girls and eventually the marriage of these girls by the insurgents. “What bothers me most is that whenever I inform where these are, after two to three days, they will be moved from that place to another and still, I will go back and inform them that see, this is what is happening. “I lost hope two days ago when I found out that some of them were moved to Chad and Cameroon.

#OMG: Jeremy Clarkson begs for forgiveness 12 hours after denying using n-word

Jeremy Clarkson

Update on #OMG: Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear presenter caught on camera using racist rhyme

Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to issue a grovelling apology for using the N-word during Top Gear filming and given a final warning by BBC bosses.
Clarkson initially responded to the Mirror’s exclusive story at 7.06am by denying using the word, only to perform a U-turn 12 hours later “begging for forgiveness”.
After being summoned to face-to-face London showdown talks with BBC bosses he was forced to release a video message conceding it “appeared” to sound like he used the N-word in an outtake from a February 2013 episode.

In 9ja: Taraba Senator Claims Helicopters Transport Insurgents Into Wukari

NAF helicopters air droping forces

HBC: In recent months, I have read several reports of helicopters either supplying food, weapons or ferrying terrorist in troubled regions like Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
Elders in Yobe cried out in the media last month that helicopters fly in and out of the bushes delivering supplies of food and weapons to insurgents. Some of the kidnapped school girls that escaped from Sambisa in Borno State claimed they saw helicopters delivering food stuff to the camps of the insurgents and yesterday, Senator Abu Ibrahim from Katsina State, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha representing Taraba south and Senator Alkali Jajere from Yobe state told the senate that Helicopters air-drops armed insurgents in their respective states.
The million dollar question here is, Where did the insurgents get a helicopter? I believe it more logical to say that the Helis belong to a bigger force than Boko Haram because I doubt if Boko Haram can afford and maintain a Helicopter. Maybe it belongs to the military of one of our neighboring counties and its also very possible that it could be ours too. *hmmm* This is a total nightmare I must say.
Insurgency is becoming worst by the day and its obvious that the Federal Government is poorly managing the problem.

Kindly read the news below.
Source: Daily Trust.

Helicopters were seen air-dropping insurgents in thick forest around the Wukari local government area in southern Taraba State, which has been witnessing violent attacks lately, the Senate heard yesterday.

This is the second time in two months that Senators would be told of such activities by gunmen operating in the north East of Nigeria.
On March 20, Senator Abu Ibrahim from Katsina State had also informed his colleagues that locals in the areas that were attacked by armed bandits had reportedly sighted helicopters air-dropping armed fighters in forests days before attacks that left over 100 people dead in the zone.
Senator Emmanuel Bwacha representing Taraba south told the red chamber that communities around Wukari have reported suspicious movements of helicopters in the area.
Scores of people have been killed and many others displaced due to violence in Wukari and its environs in the last three months.

“I want to say that our attention has been drawn to a suspicious movements and activities around Dakar in Taraba state and it is believed also that a helicopter is dropping materials and personnel around there and we fear that this may be another Sambisa that is in the making in Taraba state,” Bwacha said.

He requested for the establishment of a military barrack around the flashpoint in Wukari to safeguard lives and property.
Bwacha also recalled that last December, Senator Alkali Jajere from Yobe state had informed them of reports about helicopters suspected to be supplying food and weapons to insurgents in the dreaded Sambisa forest in Borno state.
Ruling on the matter, Senate President David Mark said order 43 does not require any debate and promised to take up the matter with the authorities.

#OMG: Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear presenter caught on camera using racist rhyme

Jeremy Clarkson during the shoot when he began singing the rhyme

The £1million a year Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is seen, in an unseen footage which was later edited out of the show, swinging his finger between two cars, while reciting a racist version of a children’s counting rhyme.
Clarkson can be heard chanting: “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a nigger by his toe, when he squeals, let him go, eeny, meeny, miny, moe”.

A lawyer Lawrence Davies blasted:

“Clarkson has to be sacked, no matter how much money he makes for the BBC. Use of that word is not acceptable.”

Clarkson was trying to compare two cars after he had cruised them separately around the Top Gear race track and while delivering a review of how they performed, he said:

“Both cost the same, they have the same bodies and the same interiors with the same equipment. They are even built by the same people in the same factory. You might imagine then that it’s quite hard to chose between them, but actually, it isn’t. Watch, because this is how you do it.”

The presenter rolled up his sleeves and then recited the rhyme and muttered the n-word before pointing at one of the two cars and shrugging.

But in the version aired by the BBC in February 2013, the offensive term was not used. Clarkson recited the rhyme, but this time used the word “teacher”.

HBC: He is too matured to for such stupid jokes.

Breaking News: Another Explosion Rocks Nyanya... [GRAPHIC PHOTOS}

-Reports just reached us that another blast hit Nyanya again this evening at about 8:30PM.
-Security agents are currently trying to deactivate bombs on the scene of the incident.
-Explosive where loaded in the hood of a golf car.
-The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command told reporters that 12 people were killed, 19 injured while 6 vehicles including the one with the bomb were destroyed.

-Another unconfirmed reports says the explosion was heard around a Bus Stop very close to the Motor park that was hit in the last explosion that occurred on 14th April this year.More details coming later.

#WrongMove: President GEJ canceled FEC Meeting To Honour VP Sambo’s Late Brother

HBC: I got is news from Premium Times website with the title "Nigeria cancels cabinet meeting to honour VP Sambo’s brother" so I asked myself "Who is Nigeria?" and after reading the news, the answer became crystal clear to me but that is not what is bugging my mind right now.
First of all, Our (HBC) condolences to the VP and his family over their loss and may his soul rest in perfect peace, Amin.
In my opinion, I think that this move made by the President is noble but I also think that the recent incidents that occurred back-to-back should have been given a similar gesture.
Almost 100 Nigerians died in a bomb attack and more than 250 school girls were kidnapped from their hostels in Chibok. These two National Tragedies did not deter Mr President from attending a campaign rally in Kano State and a birthday party in Ibadan because I believe the event are of utmost importance to "Nigeria" at that point in time, Why should this be different?
The only way anyone would translate this action is that "Nigeria" considers the death of the 80+ Nigerians in the Nyanya bomb Blast incident less important than a Birthday party and a campaign rally and the Federal Executive Council meeting is less important than ....
And since the VP's late brother had a national event cancelled in his honor, it also means that his death matters more than that of the victims of the bomb blast and the abduction of  over 250 nigerian girls.
Below is the write up I culled up from premium times.

In 9ja: Nyako Comments On Gulak's Sack

Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako

Update on In 9ja: President Goodluck Sacks Ahmed Gulak


-Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako spoke through his Director of Press, Ahmad Sajo, said he sympathized with Gulak, expressing sadness over the reported jubilation in Gulak town in Madagali in response to his exit from office.
-Nyako said that the sack should teach the former political adviser to the president a lesson about the transient nature of power.

-He opined that Gulak turned himself in to the spokes man of the presidency instead of discharging his responsibility as an advisor to the president.

 “But today, the real presidential spokesman has spoken by showing the exit route to him (Gulak) unceremoniously”, he stated.

 He advised Gulak to learn a lesson from his exit as regards the transient nature of power.

HBC: The people from Ahmed Gulak's home time celebrates his sacking??? LWKMD...Why???

In 9ja: Chibok Women Protest Abduction Of 230 Girls, Storms National Assembly Abuja (PHOTOS)

Women Protest

Aggrieved mothers and other indigenes of Chibok, Borno State, staged a protest to demand the immediate rescue or release of the more than 200 secondary school girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on April 14.

They converged at Eagle Square in Abuja and then they marched to the National Assembly to submit a protest letter. The women were led into the premises of the national legislature by a group of senior female police officers.
Senators Barnabas Gemade and Helen Esuene received the protesters, telling them that the Senate was considering a motion in relation to the abducted girls.

 One of the women Mrs Naomi Mutah, said:

“Our daughters were carried away by the insurgents like cows into the wilderness. If they are dead; we want to see their corpses.

“For the past two weeks that the incident occurred, nobody has talked to us; has the government thrown away the bath water with the baby?’’

“We have come here to express our dismay, probably if the government sees us like this; it may ginger them to do what they are supposed to do.

“We want government to rescue our daughters from their abductors’’

Sen. Barnabas Gemade, who addressed the women said:

“I want to assure that the Senate is not sleeping, senate is not reneging on its responsibility but is working very hard that something is done very urgently on this matter.’’

HBC: "the Senate was considering a motion in relation to the abducted girls"...Considering??? What have they done about it all this while then? OMG... this is soooo sad!

#WowTinz: Baby Born Without A Brain Celebrates Second Birthday

An X-Ray image showing Noah's Head

-Born March 6, 2012, Noah, was born with very little brain. The child’s mother, Shelley Hall and Dad Rob learnt about child's abnormality during pregnancy.
-The fetus had a large accumulation of fluid in the brain. For this reason, Shelley repeatedly offered to terminate the pregnancy but they didn't so Noah was given a chance.
 -The child has a very rare chromosomal abnormalities – virtually no brain. Doctors told the parents that the child had no chance of survival so after shelly gave birth, the family prepared themselves for for the bad-day and even bought a baby coffin.
-Ten days after birth, the mother and child were discharged from the hospital, but they had to constantly visit a medical center to pump fluid from Noah's head.
-Now, to the surprise of doctors, Noah was two years old. He shows the ability to learn, even goes to the pot for the next portion of chocolate.
-Despite all the difficulties, the Wall family is very happy and still enjoyed each day of Noah’s life.

Baby Noah

In 9ja: President Goodluck Sacks Ahmed Gulak

Ahmed Gulak

-President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, with immediate effect, presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati, has said.
Mr. Abati, in a statement posted via his twitter handle @abati1990, quoted President Jonathan as thanking Mr. Gulak for his services to the present administration and wishing him success in his future endeavors.

Did You Know That...(Some random facts/events that will blow your mind).

1. Full name of the famous Barbie doll is Barbara Millicent Roberts

2. The heart of a blue whale is so huge that people can easily navigate through the arteries.

3. Honey never spoils.

#MustRead: Abducted Girls allegedly moved to Chad, Cameroon; marries them off on N2,000 bride price each.

News is spreading today that most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls that were abducted from their school by Boko Haram have been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after which they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each.

The girls were taken from their hostels at the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok two weeks back and so far about 40 had escaped in the days after the incident. Parents and school authorities said at least 234 of them were yet to be found.
Dr. Pogu Chibok told Daily Trust yesterday that

“They ferried them in canoes to Cameroon and Chad republic after they were wedded off to Boko Haram members who bidded (sic) and paid N2,000 each as dowries on their heads,” Bitrus said.

“The dowry was paid to their captors, the very people who abducted them from their school. One of them who married one of the girls took her to a border town close to Cameroon where villagers saw her.”

#TechWorld: Apple and Samsung Alert Customers on faulty New Products.

The two phone giants Apple and Samsung have issued warnings about faults on some of their latest phones iPhone 5 and Galaxy S5 respectively.
 

S5 & iPhone 5

-Some of Apple's iPhone 5 handsets have a faulty sleep/wake button so Apple has begun a replacement programme for such phones.
The faulty button is believed to affect iPhone 5 handsets manufactured before May 2013.
In the US, the replacement programme begins today 28 April and worldwide on 2 May. Customers with affected handsets can either post their device to an Apple repair centre or drop it off in person.  In an effort to help is customers Apple has set up a webpage on which Customers can enter the serial number of their phone to see if it is in the affected batch.

-Similarly, Samsung has revealed that some of its flagship Galaxy S5 handsets have been shipped with a non-functioning camera so anyone who buys a Samsung S5 with a faulty camera should contact Samsung's customer service or their mobile operator to get the phone replaced.
Samsung said in a statement that it said it had traced the cause of the problem and had taken steps to ensure it did not re-occur in future production runs.

"We have discovered that the issue has been seen in a very limited portion of early production Galaxy S5 units, and was caused by complications in the Read Only Memory component which stores the information necessary to operate the camera,"

HBC: Now you see why its best to stick with the old faithful Nokia 3310 phone...lolzzz

In 9ja: 40 Terrorists, 4 Soldiers Killed In Gun Battle In Borno State

Nigerian Military in a forest of Borno State

Suspected Boko Haram sect on Friday morning attacked a military formation at Bulanbuli, Damboa, Borno State.
 The Director of Defence Information, Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, confirmed that there was an encounter between the troops and some insurgents in the area.

In his statement, he said the battle was caused by the arrest of suspected leaders of the sect.

“The capture of a number of terrorists believed to be the ringleaders of those operating around Alagarmo, has sparked off a major fight in the outskirts of Bulanbuli, Borno State last night,”

“Over 40 terrorists died in the encounter while 4 soldiers lost their lives and 9 were wounded.” 

“more than 16 rifles and a substantial number of assorted calibres of ammunitions, Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) materials, SIM Cards and electronic items have so far been recovered.”

“Two of the terrorists were earlier arrested at a local market two days ago while trying to procure foodstuff while others were spying on the military base in the area. Others still being trailed include a terrorist medic who was on a mission to procure drugs for use by his colleagues.”

He explained that Bulanbuli is between Alagarmo and Sambisa Forest “where the terrorists have been attempting to establish a stronghold in their campaign