Monday, 23 May 2016
Friday, 20 May 2016
HEADLINES FOR THE DAY
1. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DRAWS UP ANTI-OIL THEFT BATTLE PLAN
2. EFCC DENIES DETAINING JONATHAN COUSIN ILLEGALLY
3. SUBSIDY SHOULD BE REMOVED SAYS ASIWAJU TINUBU
4. ANOTHER CHIBOK GIRL SARAH LUKA RESCUED AND 35 TERRORIST KILLED
5. ALLEDGED ASSAULT: COURT ADJOURN VERDICT IN 500 MILLION NAIRA SUIT
AGAINST METUH TO FAVOUR WIFE
2. EFCC DENIES DETAINING JONATHAN COUSIN ILLEGALLY
3. SUBSIDY SHOULD BE REMOVED SAYS ASIWAJU TINUBU
4. ANOTHER CHIBOK GIRL SARAH LUKA RESCUED AND 35 TERRORIST KILLED
5. ALLEDGED ASSAULT: COURT ADJOURN VERDICT IN 500 MILLION NAIRA SUIT
AGAINST METUH TO FAVOUR WIFE
Chibok-Girls: Season 4 Continues
Just when Nigerians had laid to rest the lies and many conflicting statements from the government in respect of the said kidnapped girls who were to be writing WAEC exams in Borno-Chibok precisely, we were awoken with another episode of Chibok girls surfacing one after another from the same Sambisa forest which was said at first to be dreaded because Boko-haram camped there, that once it had been searched and traces of the girls were not found- Now they tell us that a girl surfaced with a man and a child who they say are her husband and child...
My question is where is this husband?
Is he a Bokoharam member?
Where did he get her from?
Like seriously, Whats the connection that has made it impossible for him to be questioned?
Who saw them when they came through this said forest?
Below is the story as told to us- Nigerians read carefully;
My question is where is this husband?
Is he a Bokoharam member?
Where did he get her from?
Like seriously, Whats the connection that has made it impossible for him to be questioned?
Who saw them when they came through this said forest?
Below is the story as told to us- Nigerians read carefully;
At least one more former Chibok schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram militants in 2014 has been found, Nigerian army Col. Sani Usman said.
Serah Luka was rescued about 5 p.m. local time Thursday during a military operation against the ISIS-affiliated militants, Usman said.
A total of 97 women and children were freed, he said. At least 35 Boko Haram fighters were killed, he added.
Luka is the daughter of a pastor, Usman said, and had only started at the boarding school in Chibok a little more than two months before the Boko Haram raid. She was taken to a hospital.
But activists and residents of Chibok are disputing the claim and asking for more verification. They say Luka's name is not on the list of those missing.
As many as 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped at gunpoint from the school in northeast Nigeria, on April 14, 2014. Thursday's news came two days after government officials said another kidnap victim, Amina Ali Nkeki, was found in northeastern Nigeria.
Amina met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday.
During the emotional meeting, President Buhari held the baby Amina gave birth to while a captive of the terror group.
"Like all Nigerians and many others around the world, I am delighted that Amina Ali is free, but it is tinged with deep sorrow with what she had to go through," Buhari said.
Amina was accompanied by her family and Borno State Gov. Kashim Shettima, whose residence she had visited the previous night.
Shettima had treated Amina, who was limping and severely malnourished when she arrived with her baby at his home, like a "VIP guest," a state government official told CNN.
"She is receiving high-level medical attention and the best doctors in the state are attending to her. The governor ordered for her release from the military as he wanted to make sure she and her baby daughter received urgent medical and psychological attention," he said.
Separated from 'husband'
Amina made world headlines Wednesday when news broke that she had escaped the Islamist terror group after enduring more than two years in its clutches.
She was the first of the so-called Chibok girls to escape since the 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped at gunpoint from their boarding school in northeast Nigeria.
As many as 57 girls were able to escape almost immediately, but more than 200 have remained missing since then.
When Amina escaped, she was accompanied by a young man who said he was her husband and the father of her baby. He said he had been kidnapped by Boko Haram and taken to their forest stronghold, where he married Amina.
But a government official told CNN that Amina had been "completely detached" from the man, who remains in military detention and is being interrogated.
Bittersweet reunion
Amina was briefly reunited with her mother on Tuesday night at the family home in Mbalala before being held by the army, CNN learned.
A neighbor who witnessed the emotional meeting told CNN that her mother, Binta Ali, was very distressed when she first saw her daughter.
"The mom was very disturbed," said the neighbor, who did not want to be named.
"She was full of happiness but at the same time seeing the situation of her daughter, who is a Christian, with a baby and a Boko Haram husband and wearing a hijab, she was just crying bitterly," said the neighbor.
"Even Amina was comforting her mother saying she should be happy to see her alive. She was very happy to see her but she was also very sad."
Taiwan swears in First Female President
Taiwan inaugurated its first female president Friday — who is also, as The Associated Press notes, "the first woman elected as head of state in Asia not related to a prominent male politician."
As we reported after Taiwan's elections in January, Tsai Ing-wen faces a delicate balancing act.
The self-governing island of Taiwan functions like an independent country, but China regards it as a rogue province.
Tsai's party has previously called for formal independence from China. Beijing has threatened war in response to any claim of independence, and hinted at a possible economic backlash to smaller policy shifts away from China. (Taiwan is highly dependent on trade with the mainland).
Many Taiwanese are comfortable with the current situation, NPR's Anthony Kuhn has reported, and uninterested in openly provoking China. That doesn't mean there's support for unification: the last president lost power because voters thought he was "too chummy with Beijing," Anthony says.
"So Tsai and her party have moved to the center," Anthony says. She's signaled that she would largely focus on domestic issues.
Beijing, skeptical of Tsai, wants her to publicly acknowledge the "one-China" policy.
In her inauguration speech, she entirely avoided references to the issue, the AP reports:
In more subtle ways, her inauguration ceremony de-emphasized ties with China, Anthony reported on Morning Edition:
Tsai's speech praised Taiwanese democracy and spoke of addressing economic and judicial issues.
After the inauguration, China responded with a statement reiterating demands for unification.
"Today, our determination to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity is unshaken, our capability is strengthened and we will resolutely contain any 'Taiwan independence' separatist acts or plots in whatever form they take," Beijing said, according to the AP.
The U.S. officially recognizes China's policy, Anthony reports, while quietly cooperating with Taiwan's military.
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