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2nd Term In Office Is No Longer A Birth Right– Obasanjo

Nomso Obiajuru, 2 hours ago

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Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has tasked president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to prioritise all sectors as he assumes office in the next 9 days.

Speaking at a press conference organised as part of events to mark African Day in Germany, Obasanjo urged Buhari to take all sectors in need of attention very serious, noting that none can be discarded in favour of the other.

When asked which areas he would want Buhari to prioritise, he said; “If I say employment, what of power, security, education?  If he takes up one and ignores the other, do you think he will complete his first tenure in office.”

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari

Urging the president-elect to deliver as he has promised, Obasanjo stated that the outcome of the recently held elections in the country is an indication that securing a second term in office “is no longer a right.”

In a report published by Daily Trust, the ex-president noted that, prior to the recent elections, most leaders in the country and on the continent thought that, securing another term in office was a birth right, “in fact it was considered impossible to lose.”

He said: “The people’s wish prevailed and I am proud to say it here that Nigeria got it right this time around. 

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“The elections may not have been perfect, but it was a reflection of the people’s wish. Even where there were manipulations, it did not affect the results. Attempts to rig did not yield any positive results. I think with what happened, people will no longer be eager to manipulate elections.”

Obasanjo urged people in leadership positions to be mindful of their actions adding that: “ When we started the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) many people thought and even voiced it, that the party will rule forever, but look at it today. It is only 16 years down the road and the PDP is already an opposition party.”

The ex-president further revealed that, the development was very good for Africa, because “if anything goes well in Nigeria, that is a quarter of the continent going well.”

Meanwhile, the ex-president had before now recommended a way forward for the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari in governing a new Nigeria.

NIGERIAN ARMY NABS BOKO HARAM SPONSOR

Nigerian Army Apprehends Boko Haram Sponsor In Bauchi

Clement Ejiofor, 2 hours ago

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The Nigerian military claimed on May 19, that they had arrested Aliyu Hussaini, a suspected Boko Haram sponsor, in Bauchi State in the course of an army raid.

Aliyu Hussaini

Hussaini, who pretended to be a serving general in the army, was apprehended by soldiers from 33rd Artillery Brigade.

See the statement as provided on Tuesday on the official site of the Nigerian Army:

“The 33 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army has recorded another land mark success in the ongoing Operation Zaman Lafiyah as troops of the Brigade recently arrested one Aliyu Hussaini, popularly known as Colonel, a suspected Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) member and an Impostor who has been parading himself as a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army.

“The troops who were acting on a tip off, said Aliyu Hussaini was a sponsor and also a member of the Boko Haram Terrorist organisation, carried out a raid operation which led to the successful arrest of Aliyu and another suspected BHT member, one Ibrahim Mohammed who is also known as Yuram. It was later gathered that Aliyu had been defrauding innocent citizens in the belief that he was a general in the Nigerian Army.”Meanwhile, Kashim Shettima, the Borno state governor, yesterday disclosed that the insurgents were likely to be holding the missing Chibok girls in Sambisa Forest bunkers. Therefore, he urged the military to “carry out their operations beyond the surface earth.

BOKO HARAM HOSTAGES REVEALS TRUTH ABOUT CAPTIVITY.

Boko Haram Hostages Reveal Truth About Captivity

Clement Ejiofor, 6 hours ago

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Meriam, one of the hostages recently rescued from Boko Haram, has spoken about her time in captivity. In particular, she described how the insurgents train abducted girls and women for suicide missions. Other abductees also recalled their shocking ordeal.

Meriam

The 36-year-old victim who is currently at a Maiduguri camp for displaced people spoke with the New York Times.

Meriam described the process of preparation for the suicide bombings in detail.

“The Boko Haram would recite the prayer for the dead. Then they would put on the hijab,” covering the suicide belt.

“They said, ‘God will forgive us,’ Then, they would enter the vehicles, and they would send the women away.”

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Chibok girls

The former captive also said she had seen some of the Chibok girls at Gwoza hospital adding that they had apparently been given special status by Boko Haram.

Other victims speak up

The interviewed females said they had been kept in groups and forced into sexual relationships with the militants. Sometimes the aim was to impregnate the abductees.

Hamsatu, aged 25, said “they married me” and revealed she was four months pregnant by a Boko Haram member.

“They chose the ones they wanted to marry. If anybody shouts, they said they would shoot them.”

Yahauwa, 30, who tested positive for HIV after the rescue, asked the relief doctor with her eyes full of tears:

“Is it from the people who forced me to have affairs with them?..

“When they came, they would select the one they wanted to sleep with. They said, ‘If you do not marry us, we will slaughter you.’  ”

A young woman Yana, who could not even recall her age, was kept together with 50 other women in a house in Bama, Borno state.

“If they want to have an affair with a woman, they will just take her to a private place, so that the others won’t see.”

The relief workers said she had been raped so often that the psychological trauma was devastating.

Borno authorities

Kashim Shettima, the Borno state governor said that many of the women had been impregnated intentionally for another generation of the insurgents to emerge.

“The sect leaders make a very conscious effort to impregnate the women. Some of them, I was told, even pray before mating, offering supplications for God to make the products of what they are doing become children that will inherit their ideology,” he said.

Abba Mohammed Bashir Shuwa, an official from Maiduguri, added:

“It’s like they wanted to have their own siblings, to take over from them.”

The claim was confirmed by Hadiza Waziri, a relief representative.

“We are going to have another set of Boko Haram. Most of these women now, they don’t want these pregnancies. You cannot love the child.”

More killings and abductions recorded

Meanwhile Sabongari town in Madagali LGA of Adamawa state was stormed by the Boko Haram militants over the weekend. The fighters killed many people and abducted six women, Vanguard reports.

Musa, one of the locals, said that the insurgents had arrived at about 10 pm Sunday night and started shooting sporadically.

The attack comes amid a series of successful anti-Boko Haram operations carried out by the Nigerian military in the northeast.

However, Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect, yesterday criticized the army over their inability to protect Nigerians calling such a situation shameful

OBAMA PRESSURED TO ATTEND BUHARI'S INAUGURATION.

Obama Pressured To Attend Inauguration Ceremony

Oluwatobi Bolashodun, 15 minutes ago

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With the inauguration of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President-elect, Yemi Osinbajo fast approaching, the White House is under pressure on who to represent the United States at the May 29 event. 

United States President, Barack Obama

A pro-Africa U.S. lobby group in Washington DC and the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN) are requesting President Barack Obama to attend the event himself, while the immediate past U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Johnnie Carson, is asking the president to send his deputy, Vice President Joe Biden, to lead the American delegation to the event

Carson over the weekend in a statement, advised the U.S. President to visit Nigeria in July while heading out to East Africa as already announced.

According to a White House spokesperson, Natalie Wozniak, said the U.S. President is not ready to announce a delegation to the Nigeria’s presidential swearing-in ceremony.

READ ALSO: Obama To Send High-Powered Delegation To Buhari’s Handover Ceremony

Because such an announcement is expected in the forthcoming week based on traditional practices by the White House.

With regards to the Buhari-Osinbajo inauguration, Ambassador Carson noted that “President Obama should send a high level delegation to President Buhari’s inauguration in Abuja on May 29.”

However CANAN and another leading U.S. group released separate statements asking President Obama to be personally present at the event in Abuja.

The group-Constituency for Africa- is considered one of the leading organizations in the US “committed to educating and mobilizing the US public on matters pertaining to Africa.”

CANAN’s president, Melvin Foote, in the statement argued that “last month, Nigeria completed its election process in a peaceful and transparent manner. While the U.S. applauded this positive feat, our involvement cannot conclude just yet. In fact, in some ways, it is only just beginning — which is why I strongly urge President Barack Obama to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Mohammadu Buhari on May 29.”

“By attending the inauguration personally, Obama will cap the whole affair graciously and end the controversial fallouts of the exclusion of Nigeria in his prior visits to Africa. CANAN wishes the President take a very deep reflection on this matter and add a great spur to the ferment of change that is ongoing in Nigeria by being personally present at the Buhari-Osinbajo inauguration on May 29. It will set a new tone not only in US-Nigeria relations, but in US relationship with Africa as a whole.”

He suggested that by sending a high powered delegation to the presidential inauguration in Nigeria and then dropping by in Nigeria on his way to East Africa in July, President Obama can bring about a new beginning between Nigeria and the U.S. with the emergence of the Buhari-Osinbajo presidency.

There were reports earlier that President Obama is planning to send a high-powered, presidential delegation possibly led by his wife, First Lady, Michelle Obama, the VP,  Joe Biden or the Secretary of State, John Kerry.

11 ARRESTED FOR SERVING HUMAN PART IN RESTAURANT.

According to reports by CCTVAfrica, police in Nigeria on Thursday arrested a hotel owner, six women and four men for selling human meat
The operation carried out by Onitsha police led to the arrest of 11 people after they discovered 2 fresh human heads wrapped in a cellophane bag.
The police also discovered two AK47 rifles and forty rounds of live ammunition and cellphones from the unnamed hotel.
Some residents had observed strange activities going on in the hotel and tipped off the police.
A Pastor who was among the people who tipped off the police on Thursday said: I went to the hotel early this year, after eating, I was told that a lump of meat was being sold at N700(GHC14), I was surprised. So I did not know it was human meat that I ate at such expensive price.”

I KNELT DOWN AND BEGGED TINUBU TO FORGIVE ME.

I Knelt And Begged Tinubu To Forgive Me - Amaechi

Oluwatobi Bolashodun, 1 hour ago

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Rivers state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed that he knelt and begged the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on the need to settle their disagreement they had during the elections.

Bola Tinubu and Rotimi Amaechi

The governor disclosed this during his book launch “Dynamics of Change: The Amaechi Years” on Thursday.

Amaechi said feared he would be jailed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if Muhammadu Buhari had lost the March 28 presidential election.

“I knew I was going to be in trouble, anything that would cause that change not to take place, I was ready to make that sacrifice. One day Asiwaju got angry with me, he was very angry, i went to his house with El-Rufai, i went to his house and knelt down saying please let’s not disagree, lets win first and then we can disagree”, he stated.

Amechi described his and his co-travellers political triumph over the PDP as a “civilian coup”, which Tinubu had helped to bring about.

This comes after an earlier report that acclaimed Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka revealed he was told to warn the Rivers state governor before the 2015 general elections.

Meanwhile the poilitical war between President Goodluck Jonathan’s and Rotimi Amaechi may have finally ended.

CHECK OUT PICTURES FROM OSHIOMOLE'S WEDDING

Gov Oshiomhole with his new bride. Photo Credit: team lorenzo reporters from linda ikeji

Oshiomhole is re-marrying five years after he lost his first wife, Clara on December 8, 2010. She died after several years of battling with cancer.