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CHIBOK: NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY CANCELS TRIP.
A presidential aide confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES at 12:10 p.m. today that the president will no more visit Chibok but would fly directly to France.
“President Goodluck Jonathan will no longer visit Chibok on Friday”, aides have said.
The president had planned to Chibok, the town where over 250 female students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State were kidnapped on April 14. Many political supporters of the President had taken to the social media commending him for cancelling the proposed trip to Chibok as that would have been an opportunity for the terrorist sect to carry out what they termed “the last fight”.
LETS FACE IT AFRICA: LESSONS FROM HIMBA.
Today on Lets face it Africa, I want to tell you an ancient African story. Stop whatever you are doing and read this amazing true life African Story:
There is a tribe in Africa called the Himba tribe, where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it.
And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.
In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.
The tribe recognizes that the correction for anti-social behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.
And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person.
You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.
“Been African means been Humane. Africa is the mother of humanity. It is ‘Unafrican’ to shed innocent blood.” ~First son of Africa, your humble host of Lets Face it Africa.
MUTINY: WHY THE SOLDIERS FIGHTING BOKO HARAM OPENED FIRE ON THE ARMY GENERAL YESTERDAY.
MAIDUGURI—The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Ahmadu Mohammed, yesterday, escaped death as angry soldiers opened fire on his official vehicle when he came to address them at the Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
This came as local villagers succeeded in repelling a Boko Haram attack, killing about 200 of the sect members in the process.
A source said the soldiers went on an operation in Kala Balge council area of Bornu state but they were instructed to withdraw from the assignment and return to Maiduguri immediately. The source said on their way back, they were ambushed leading to the death of some soldiers.
According to the source: “The troops arrived with the corpses of the slain soldiers to Maimalari barracks while the GOC was addressing some troops on the ongoing operation against the insurgency. But when the soldiers sighted the corpses of their deceased colleagues, and learnt about how they died, they condemned the way their superior officers allegedly treated them in the course of the operation, and therefore started shooting sporadically, while others opened fire on the GOC’s vehicle as he narrowly escaped from the scene”.
According to the source, “what angered the soldiers most, was the unnecessary deduction of their allowances and subjecting them to harsh working conditions without proper equipment to carry out their duties and as a result, many of them were being killed like rats by the insurgents”.
A top commentator on Africa Thisday had earlier told Africa Thisday that “some muslim military officers have Positioned themselves in the Nigerian Army at powerful positions and they even allow our gallant troops to be slauughtered by terorrists on dailly basis just because the junior Officers are Non-muslims.” He stated further that “GOCs who are Muslims would pick troops who are mostly comprised Of Christians & non muslims, provive inadequare armunition and make them to face the dreaded islamist terrorist group-Boko Haram”. Another commentator said: “I am angry that the GOC escaped. The soldiers must have realized that the GOC is the real Boko Haram”.
LET’S FACE IT AFRICA with First Son Of Africa.
Read this if the economy of your country directly/indirectly affects you… For about one month, I’ve been crawling through the pages of a book titled: “Capitalist Nigger” authored by Chika Onyeani. Every sentence in this book is loaded with an explosive capable of shattering the high walls of economic slavery raised in the minds of the average African living in Africa or born,raised& living outside the soil of Africa. Never has it mattered to me that ‘none of the natural resources under the soil of Africa is under the control of Africa’. We are a rich people living the poor life. We don’t care that the revenues generated by Four Foreign Oil companies in Africa has surpassed the revenues of ALL the 50 black African countries south of the Sahara combined. I strongly believe that every R3VOLUTION has always been a child of Revelation.
ABUJA BOMBING: CO-MASTERMIND ARRESTED.
The co-mastermind of the April 14, 2014 bomb blast at Nyanya Bust Station which led to the death of over 75 persons Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche has been arrested in Sudan.
Security sources say that Oguche was arrested through the help of the Military Attaché to the Nigerian High Commission in Sudan with the help of international security operatives. Ogwuche, who is a student of Arabic Language at the International University of Africa, Sudan is a British born Nigerian, formerly of the Nigerian Army with service number SVC 95/104 but was said to have deserted the Army in 2006.
IN AFRICA: Tanzania jails 4 Nigerian footballers.
Four Nigerian football players were sentenced to six-months jail by Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s court after pleading guilty of illegal stay in the country. Kisutu is an administrative ward in the Ilala district of the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania.
Andrew Okoro and Chiku Odia appeared before Magistrate Frank Moshi and after pleading guilty they were each fined 100,000 Shillings or serve a six-month jail term. The duo opted to jail terms after failing to pay the stated fine.
Two other Nigerians Chikereke Messaiah and Onyekwu Daniel also had to serve six-month jail after each failed to pay fine to the tune of 50,000 Shillings having pleaded guilty of illegal presence in the country. Magistrate Gabriel Mirumbe had no option other than to hand them the jail sentence.
The accused Okoro claimed that he came Tanzania for trials with relegated top flight side of Ashanti United but would not make a breakthrough.
Okoro claimed that he was supported to gain access into the country by his manager Aishi Shaban who took his passport and $500 before flying to South Africa.
Accused Odia who was a football player with Mwanza-based first division club of Toto Africa said he lost his passport and reported to the police station only to be advised to check with his embassy for assistance.
Reading the facts, prosecutor from immigration department Patrick Ngayomela told the court that the accused admitted after being arrested that they were to join Ashanti United but their bid failed to materialise.
He added that the accused Odia was in the country since 2012 and he had been playing for Toto Africa but since the team was relegated he has failed to secure another registration.
According to the charge sheet, the accused Okoro and Odia were arrested at Shayo Guest House in Tandika while Messaiah and Daniel were arrested at TIG Church in Chang’ombe surburb.
So while western countries were rallying round Nigeria to rescue the abducted school girls, Tanzania, an African country is having fun jailing Nigerians for finding safety in their nation.
SHOCKING: World’s 10th Most Evil Man Becomes a pastor. Video will shock you.
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This is a video of the confession of an ex-warlord whose regime was more fierce than the reign of Abubakar Shekau, leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram. He was named as the tenth most evil man who lived on earth. Milton Blahyi is a former feared rebel commander in Liberia’s brutal civil war who was initiated as a tribal priest and participated in his first human sacrifice at the age of 11. During the course of the ritual, Blahyi says that the “Devil” told him that he would become a great warrior and that he should continue to practice human sacrifice and cannibalism to increase his power. Later, the Krahn elders appointed him as high priest, a position that would lead him to become the spiritual advisor to Liberian President Samuel Doe.
Milton Blahyi was notorius for killing children and eating their heart and liver to gain spiritual power.
Blahyi stopped fighting in 1996, saying God appeared to him and told him that he was doing Satan’s work. So, he became an Evangelist preacher. Blahyi is now the President of the End Time Train Evangelistic Ministries Inc., with headquarters in Liberia.
Watch video and comment if Milton should be forced to face the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
ABUJA BOMB BLAST: NIGERIA SECRET POLICE Parades Five Suspected Abuja Motor Park Bombers
The Nigerian secret Police has paraded the suspected masterminds of the Abuja Bomb blast. Below is a copy of the official statement by the security agency, SSS:
Recall that 14th April 2014, at El-Rufai Motor Park Nyanya , a bomb explosion occurred which resulted in the death of 74 people, leaving several other injured. As investigation was ongoing another bomb blast occurred on 1st May, 2014. Following these incidents and in line with the Security Forces commitment to bring to book perpetrators of evil in our society, a thorough investigation was initiated which led to the arrest of some suspected masterminds of the attacks. They include:
(1) Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR
(2) Muhammad Sani
(3) Adamu YUSUF
(4) Yau SAIDU
(5) Anas ISAH
RUFAI ABUBAKAR—was arrested on 22ndApril 2014 at Gwantu Sanga LGA of Kaduna State by a Joint Security team. He is a forty-three (43) year old indigene of Yarimawa , Kazaure LGA Jigawa State.
He has admitted that shortly after the bomb blast of April 14, 2014 one Rufai Abubakar Tsiga now at large confirmed to him that he (TSIGA) and other members of the Boko Haram sect carried the attack at Nyanya Motor Park to retaliate the killing of a sect member at the same Park eight (8) days earlier.
The said Rufai Abubakar TSIGA hails from Angwan Gabas , Gidan Mammai Tsiga Town ,Bakori LGA Katsina .
Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR confirmed that Rufai Abubakar TSIGA sent him recharge card credit of N800 after the bombing incident.
That it was later discovered that the phone of one Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ was used in sending him the credit.
According to Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR, (A.K.A Maiturare ) , Rufai Abubakar TSIGA also told him that Boko Haram National Leader had directed that all members of the sect should relocated with their families to “Gaaba” (Boko Haram forest camp)in preparation for mass attacks against the Nigerian State.
MUHAMMADU SANI ISHAQ—Sani was arrested on 24th April 2014 at Utako village behind Julius Berger Yard Utako following the disclosure made by Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR(A.K.A Maiturare). He is a thirty (30) year old indigene of Balari village Ajingi LGA of Kano State.
Sani was a sale boy in Rufai Abubakar TSIGA’s patent medicine store at Utako called “Kishi Clinic “ a structure which also served as a base for Boko Haram’s convert activities in the FCT. He revealed that two day before the Nyanya blasts, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA his boss , informed him around 4.00pm after prayer that there was a plan to bomb a facility in Abuja but stated that he was never informed of the exact location.
He further revealed that Rufai TSIGA later informed him that the bomb to be used for the blasts were being coupled at the residence of one Adamu YUSUF.
According to SANI , a day before the Nyanya bombing precisely 13th April 2014 he and TSIGA drove the car laden with explosives and parked it behind four (4) buses inside the Nyanya Bus Park overnight after which they left the area.
He revealed that before 7.00am the following morning Rufai TSIGA went and detonated the explosives.
According to him, two (2) cars were wired for attack. He claimed one was used for the April 14th 2014 incident which was a retaliatory attack on the motor park by the boko haram sect whose member was mobbed and killed a week before the bombing incident
When h was intercepted with firearms at the Nyanya Motor Park, (However, this story of killing of a boko haram member at the Nyanya Motor Park a week earlier would appear untrue but was fabricated by TSIGA to elicit the interest of SANI and other sect members used for the attack).
YAU SAIDU —Yau was arrested on 29thApril 2014 at his village Dandambo, Tsanyawa LGA Kano State. He is twenty-eight (28) years old.
Before his arrest, SAIDU was an apprentice under Rufai TSIGA at his medicine store in Utako village maket.
Although he denied membership of the boko haram sect, he claimed that his uncle , Rufai Abubakar TSIGA and Muahmmadu Sani ISHAQ attempted to enlist him several times.
He identified the perpetrators of the Nyanya bomb blast as Rufai Abubakar TSIGA Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ and Aminu Sadiq OGWUCHE.
He also disclosed that on 13th A pril 2014 about 11 hours, a day before the Nyanya bombing, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA and Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ drove out from Utako village market in a back-coloured Honda Accord car and returned about 15 hours . Later the same day, they went out again in the same car and did not return until the following day, 14th April 2014 about 11 hours after the Nyanya bombing incident had occurred.
He alleged that when TSIGA learnt of Muhammadu Sani ISAQ’s arrest he fled Utako to an unknown location and left his business in his care.
TSIGA equally sent a message to his wife, Hauwa on GSM 07067434122 directing her to pack her belongings and flee the area.
ADMU YUSUF —-Was arrested in Bauchi on 5th May, 2014. He is forty-three (43) years old . He confessed that he is member of the boko haram. Adamu was a cleric at Finance Quarters Mosque, Wuye, Abuja.
Muhammadu S ani ISAHQ disclosed that Rufai Abubakar TSIGA confirmed to him that the bombs used for the Nyanyan incident were coupled in a bush near the residence of Adamu Yusus.
Adamu YUSUF however claims that even though he knows Rufai Abubakar TSIGA, the mastermind of the Nyanya bombing, he did not take part in the bombing incident. He mentioned other members of the sect known to him to be;
Rufai Abubakar TSIGA
Imam Ahmad Rufai Abubakar
Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche
Anas Isah
He claimed to be an apprentice under Rufai Abubakar TSIGA along with Anas ISAH.
ADAMU claimed that on the day of the Nyanya bomb blast, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA, called and told him that he heard of the bomb blast and that it was a job well done.
ANAS ISAH—-Anas was arrested on 3rdMay, 2014 at Unguwar Yan-Tagwaye village, Katsina LGA Katsina State. He is 22 years old and indigene of Tsiga Bakori LGA Katsina.
Anas came to Abuja in 2011 and hawked yoghurt for about one (1) month before going back to Tsiga. He returned to Abuja in in 2012 and worked as a sales boy in a pharmacy located at Ruga near Wuye Market.
In 2013, Rufai Abubakr TSIGA invited ANAS to join his Clinic at Utako village. He identified Mohammadu Sani ISAHQ and Rufai Abubakar TSIGA as member of the sect especially as the latter had confided in him his membership of the boko haram sect.
FINDINGS
Rufai Abubakar TSIGA , a boko haram Leader is a mastermind of the bombing incident of 14th April , 2014 at El-Rufai Motor Park Nyanya, Abuja. TSIGA is currently at large.
Rufai Abubakar TSIGA was actively aided by a co-mastermind, Aminu Sadiq OGWUCHE, a student of Arabic Language at the International University of Africa, Sudan. He is from Orokam, Ogbadigbo LGA of Benue State. Aminu is currently at large.
In the night of 13th April 2014 Rufai Abubakr TSIGA and moved the explosives laden vehicle to the position from where he detonated the explosives.
Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ who took part with Rufai Abubakar TSIGA in positioning the explosive laden vehicle that exploded at Nyanya Motor Park , killing scores of Nigerians , is in the custody of this service. Altogether, five persons who are privy to the bombing incident have been taken into custody and they are :
(1) Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR N(A.K.A Abu Ibrahim /Maiturare
(2) Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ
(3) Yau SAIDU ( A.K.A Kotar Rama )
(4) Anas ISAH and
(5) Adamu YUSUF
Rufai Abubakar TSIGA (a.k.a Dr. TSIGA) and Aminu Sadiq OGWUCHE are currently at large and are hereby declared WANTED .the sum of Twenty-Five million naira (25M) is hereby announced as reward for anybody with useful information on their whereabouts.
It is noteworthy that UK born Aminu Sadiq OGWUCHE with Service Number SVC 95/104 deserted the Nigerian Army in 2006 . He served in the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Army at Child Avenue Arakan Barracks Lagos between 2001 and 2006 and was posted to the Nigerain Defence Academy in 2006.
Aminu Sadiq OGWUCHE was arrested on 12th November 2011 at Nnamdi Azikwe 2011 International Airport (NAIA)Abuja on his arrival from the United Kingdom for suspected involvement in terrorism-related activities but was released on bail on 15th October 2012 to his father ,Col.Agene OGWUCHE(RTD) following intense pressure from human rights activists who alleged human rights violation.
CONCLUSION
Nigerian security forces shall not rest on their oars until every individual or group of persons involved in the Nyanya bombings are brought to book. However our findings raise critical issues that demand the collective sensitivity and support of the general public if we must win the war on terror. Terrorists element are disguising daily by taking up various businesses and menial jobs in Abuja and its environs, Therefore, security awareness of the public and prompt response to information sharing will continue to play pivotal roles in the war on terror.
We hereby enjoin fellow Nigerians to be very vigilant and collaborate with law enforcement agencies as we together strive to protect our nation from the antics of criminals within and outside shores .
Accordingly we urge Nigerians to be patient, to trust and support the nation’s security forces as all seeming security mysteries in our country will be resolved.
MARYLYN OGAR,msi
Deputy Director, Public Relations,
National Headquarters Abuja
May 12th 2014.
BREAKING: Boko Haram shows off Abducted Girls in Hijab.
A new video released by the Boko Haram sect showed around 100 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Borno State, last month.
The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the girls would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed.
He said the girls had converted to Islam. The video, released on Monday, showed them praying.
Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from Chibok on April 14 and threatened to sell them.
The BBC reports that Boko Haram’s comments showed signs that the group was willing to negotiate.
Three of the girls are shown speaking in the 17-minute video, obtained by French news agency AFP, wearing the full-length hijab.
Two girls said they were Christian and have converted to Islam, while the other said she is Muslim.
“These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with… we have indeed liberated them. These girls have become Muslims,” Abubakar Shekau said in the video.
It is thought the majority of the abducted girls are Christians, although there are a number of Muslims among them.
The BBC reports the girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been harmed.
There is no indication of when or where the video was taken.
It is estimated to show about 130 girls – just under half of the 276 pupils abducted from their school in Borno State.
B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News!!! ISRAEL ARMY TO JOIN SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRLS & FIGHT AGAINST BOKO HARAM
The Israeli Army have confirmed their readiness to join the search for the Kidnapped Chibok School girls and the fight against the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram in Nigeria.
A statement obtained by Africa Thisday said that Netanyahu, currently on an official visit to Japan, made the proposal in a telephone call to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Israel expresses its deep shock at the crime against the girls,” it quoted the premier as saying.
“We are prepared to help in locating the girls and to fight the cruel terror which has struck you.”
Boko Haram, whose name is literally translated: “Western education is forbidden” kidnapped the girls from their dormitory on April 14, and has threatened to sell them.
The abduction caused worldwide outrage as celebrities and foreign government officials protest.
AFRICA THISDAY 