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Lola Rae sizzles in the video for her single Fi Mi Le which was shot in the UK sometime this year.
With Iyanya delivering a verse, this video is one you wanna watch.
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PDP Women Leader, Kema Chikwe questions Chibok high school girls abduction by Boko Haram militants
Mrs. Kema Chikwe, the National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today publicly questioned the story of the abduction of teenage school girls in Chibok, Borno State.
Speaking at a prayer session held for national security at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, Mrs. Chikwe said there were many unanswered questions concerning the kidnap.
Among them, according to her, are: “How did it happen? Who saw it happen? Who did not see it happen? Who is behind this?”
Towards obtaining answers, she demanded that the principal of the school should release the names and photographs of the abducted girls.
Mrs. Chikwe was tabling her controversial queries on the same day that many indigenes of Chibok, including anguished mothers seeking answers from the government, staged a public protest in Abuja to demand the immediate return of the girls, who were abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents over two weeks ago.
Converging at Eagle Square in the federal capital, the women, most of them members of the Kibaku Development Association in Chibok, marched to the National Assembly, where they submitted a grievance letter.
During her comments at the PDP Secretariat, Mrs. Chikwe to several of Nigeria’s security issues, including Boko Haram, kidnapping, and armed robbery.
“There is no newspaper that does not carry news of rape [sic] even babies,” she said. “There is hypocrisy about corruption among individual Nigerians.
“The last straw that broke the camel’s back was the kidnap of Chibok schoolgirls.”
She then went on to question whether the girls were actually abducted in the first place, suggesting a conspiracy scenario the PDP government has yet to speak about.
Mrs. Chikwe however described those behind the crimes as “lovers of darkness rather than light,” and called on God to touch their hearts.
Also speaking at the occasion, the chairperson, Senator Helen Esuene, stated that women are noted to stand for peace.
In comments that seemed to disagree with those of Mrs. Chikwe, she described women as the home builders, the ones who go through the pains of labour, and the ones who carry the children in their wombs.
“There is not much we can do than to pray because prayer is the answer to every problem”.
As the National Women Leader, Mrs. Chikwe is a central figure in the mainstream of the party. It is unclear if her comments today represent the thinking of the party or its government, which seems frozen in time about the abductions in Chibok.
Culled from SaharaReporters
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There has been so much tension and unrest on social media over the 234 abducted girls who were kidnapped in Borno State, Nigeria.
A hostage negotiator has moved to broker a deal between the government and Boko Haram for the safe release of the more than 200 girls abducted by insurgents from their hostel in Chibok, Borno State.
A United Kingdom -based television station Channels 4 News which disclosed this on Tuesday did not say if the negotiator is acting on his own or on behalf of the federal or Borno State Government.
Although the station quoted him as saying that the girls’ release was “within reach,” he also warned that their fate rested on a knife-edge because of the fear by the insurgents that the military might try to forcibly free them.
“The girls, we believe, are alive but they have been moved from the location to which they were originally taken,” he said.
“It would not be hard to engineer a deal. It looks like they want to release them. They want a way out, “added the intermediary, whom Channel 4 News credited with having a long experience of dealing directly with Boko Haram in previous hostage crises.
The negotiator, who wanted to remain anonymous for reasons of personal security, said the group was demanding a ransom but added, “we are hoping they will soften their stance.”
The kidnappers had warned, however, that attempts by the military to use might to secure the girls’ freedom “may result in the death” of many of them.
He stated that some members of the sect group were arguing over what to do with the girls, who were forcibly married off with a bride price of just N2,000 after they had been converted to Islam.
The negotiator stated that “the danger now is that the military will get involved and that can only end badly.”
“They have a problem. They have over 200 captives and moving them around cannot remain hidden. There is good, reliable, local knowledge as to their location. The military knows where they are,” he stated.
He added that the hostage-takers had been asked for a list of the girls’ names as proof-of-life.
There were reports on Tuesday that the insurgents had taken the girls to Chad and Cameroon.
The headteacher of the government secondary, Mrs Asabe Kwambura, had said on Tuesday that 10 more girls had been “recovered.”
“For now, the total number of girls we have recovered is 53 while many others are still missing,” Kwambura said.
When one of our correspondents contacted the Director of Defence Information, Maj.Gen .Chris Olukolade, for his comment on the issue, he referred him to the Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Information.
He said, “Please you can direct your inquiries to the Presidency or the Ministry of Information.”
But efforts to get reactions of the Federal and Borno State governments on the engagement of the negotiator did not succeed.
The Minister of Special Duties and Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, Alhaji Taminu Turaki, did not pick calls to his mobile phone neither did he respond to an SMS sent to him.
Attempt to speak to the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, proved abortive as calls to his mobile phone and that of his media aide were not picked.
Also, calls to the Special Adviser to the Borno State Governor on Media, Mr. Issa Gusau, did not go through.
• Mark leads 21 senators to Jonathan
Meanwhile, the Senate President, David Mark, has raised a 22-member team to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan over the Boko Haram activities, especially the abduction of the schoolgirls.
Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi had during Tuesday’s plenary by the Senate, suggested that a delegation be sent to the President on the disturbing phenomenon.
The idea was unanimously adopted by the senators in view of the local and international reactions to the girls’ abduction.
Mark, on resumption of plenary on Wednesday, read out names of the 21 senators.
They include Boluwaji Kunlere, Babafemi Ojudu, Zainab Kure, Alkali Jajere, James Manager, Helen Esuene, Chris Anyanwu, Ali Ndume, Ahmed Zannah, Mai’na Ma’aji Lawan, Nenadi Usman, Mohammed Magoro, and Emmanuel Bwacha.
Others are Ahmed Lawan, Barnabas Gemade, Sola Adeyeye, Bindowo Jibrilla, Ehigie Uzamere, Bello Tukur, Bukar Ibrahim, and Eyinnaya Abaribe.
Mark said, “You will all recall that we agreed to a suggestion by one of the distinguished senators during our debate on the motion on the abducted girls yesterday (Tuesday) that a delegation of the Senate should meet with Mr. President on the issue.
“I have called the president on phone and he said we should come by 10pm today(Wednesay). I will suggest that those concerned should come to my residence so that we can go to the Villa in a bus or two.”
It was learnt that the meeting would, among others, enable the Presidency and the Senate to exchange ideas on how best to free the girls.
It is also expected that senators from the affected states in the North-East would seize the opportunity to open up to Jonathan on the real situation in their zone.
• Parents want Jonathan to lead search team
However, two of the parents of the abducted schoolgirls have called on Jonathan to lead the military search team for their children in Sambisa Forest.
They said they were making the call because it had become very glaring to them that nothing serious had been done by the government to free the girls.
According to them, the best way for Nigerians and the rest of the world to know that the country had not yet given up on the search was for the President to get directly involved.
One of the parents, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The President should learn the act of motivating his citizens. Let him first visit the school where the girls were abducted and then wear his military uniform as the Commander-in Chief of the nation’s armed forces and lead a team to search for our children.
“Some women the other time told Nigerians that they were willing to storm the Sambisa Forest in search of the abducted schoolgirls and the rest of the nation applauded their courage.
“ The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, should also get involved, What stopped her from volunteering to lead the search party.
“Let her stop all this adverts on the television portraying her as “Mama Peace” and lead by example by leading the women who she claimed to be leading to look for their daughters.”
Another parent said, “If I am the President, I will wear my military uniform and lead the military into the Sambisa Forest.”
Two other parents, who spoke on the telephone, said they were fast losing hope that their daughters might return to them.
One of them, said, “It is now 15 days after the incident and we are still in the dark as to the efforts being made to get our children freed. All we have been hearing is that they have been married off and sexually maltreated.”
Another parent asked, “Do we have government in this country at all that could be relied upon to protect all of us?”
“My daughter and over 200 others are in the hands of a couple of hoodlums in a specified forest for 15 days now and we pride ourselves as having one of the strongest armies on the African continent.
“How strong does a military need to be to free over 200 schoolgirls from the arms of a couple of disgruntled ragtag militants?” she asked.
• Soldier backs parents’ call on President
A soldier, who spoke anonymously with journalists in Maiduguri said he was in support of the call by the parents on Jonathan to get directly involved in rescuing the girls.
He said, “His (Jonathan) presence even in Maiduguri let alone Chibok could do some magic as the troops will definitely know that they are on an important mission for fatherland and will be ready to even sacrifice their blood.”
“If the President now go the extra mile and wear the military camouflage even to the periphery of Sambisa Forest, the entire Armed Forces will not be under any illusion that this is a sectional battle but a war that the country must win.
“This will equally tell the service chiefs and all heads of security agents that there is no more hiding place and that the President mean action.”
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Outspoken Nollywood actress and female child activist, Stella Damascus has come forward to speak on the kidnap of the 234 girls in Borno state.
With the #BringBackOurGirls, social media has been buzzing about the situation. Celebs are also speaking out on the issue.
One of the many is Nollywood actress Stella Damasus. In a series of posts via her Instagram page @stelladamasus, she speaks on the trending topic.
How safe are we? As 2015 elections are approaching so are the dangers that come with politics. Too much hypocrisy going on with this abduction. The people who can really put a stop to this are busy with plans for 2015.
How come we don’t have a “secret extraction unit” who are properly trained. What about the jobless graduates roaming the streets looking for work. The money to be used for creating work and agencies to help the citizens of the country, is being used for parties, unnecessary political psA, giving huge sums of money to heads of industries and departments to increase votes, buying mansions all over the world, private jets, ghost contracts and their grand children’s trust funds.
If they are telling me that this is not political, then why did they not abduct boys in school? How come they are against western education but they are using western video equipment to send their message? How come they are using western ammunition to commit these crimes? How come they know how to make bombs? Trust me these people are more intelligent than most of our graduates. They have been properly trained. So what is the real deal?
Bring back our girls please. #bringbackourgirls”
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