Chibok Schoolgirls: I am not weak, Jonathan says

“I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan critics…”

Worried by local and international criticism, President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday explained his government’s seeming inaction in rescuing the over 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

Mr. Jonathan, in an article he wrote for the Washington Post, said he was “deeply concerned” about the abduction. He said he knows his silence on the abduction “is being misused by partisan critics to suggest inaction or even weakness.”

“I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators to find the girls kidnapped in April from the town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram,” the president said. “I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan critics to suggest inaction or even weakness.”

The Nigerian leader said his “silence has been necessary to avoid compromising the details of our investigation.”

Abuja Explosion: Jonathan talks tough, vows to bring perpetrators to book

“… as a President, I may not go to everywhere I would have loved to go, these are some of the challenges I have to face.”

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday assured Nigerians that the perpetrators and sponsors of the bomb explosion that occurred in Abuja on Wednesday would be “brought to book.”

Mr. Jonathan spoke after he visited the scene of the explosion and a hospital where survivors are being treated.

“The perpetrators of this, those who are directly involved and those who sponsor them will surely be brought to book,” he said of the blast that occurred at EMAB plaza and killed at least 21 people and injured several others.

The president also asked Nigerians to be prepared for some inconvenience that may be caused by improved security operations.

High-level corruption rocks $470million CCTV project that could secure Abuja

Since the installation of the CCTV cameras, criminal have launched violent attacks on Abuja without being detected.

The failure of the National Public Security Communication System, NPSCS; otherwise known as the CCTV project, has heightened the level of insecurity in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, PREMIUM TIMES checks have revealed.

The project which was initiated by late President Umaru Yar’Adua, was conceived to help security agencies in the Federal Capital Territory check the growing insecurity in the federal capital.

But since the installation of the CCTV cameras and allied equipment, criminals and insurgents have over and over again launched violent attacks on the city without being detected.

Between 2010 when the project was initiated and now, Abuja has come under seven deadly attacks, leaving scores of people dead and properties worth billions of naira destroyed.

The sun shines brightly on CONCACAF in Brazil

Regional hosts have turned out a great performance at Brazil 2014, much better than their European opposition.

It was a simple message from the president of CONCACAF, but it said it all:

Very proud of @CONCACAF teams and their quality of play at #WorldCup. Let's keep going #WeAreCONCACAF

This incredible World Cup is likely to end with a South American narrative. It is their tournament in their backyard. I expect Brazil and Argentina to be there at the end. There is a possibility a European side, most likely Germany, will triumph on this

Nigeria hires U.S. lobby firm for N195 million to launder image over handling of Chibok abduction

The Nigerian government has come under local and international condemnation over its far-from-impressive handling of the Chibok abduction.

In order to whitewash its inept handling of the kidnap of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, the Goodluck Jonathan administration has awarded a N195 million ($1.2 million) contract to U.S. Public Relations and lobby firm, Levick, to help change “international and local media narrative” surrounding its efforts to rescue the girls, Washington DC based newspaper, The Hill, is reporting.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. UBONG JACKSON

Everything good comes to those who age.

“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”

~ Amy Grant

Your life is beautiful. Only wisdom and experience can show you this undeniable truth.
Happy birthday Mr. Ubong Jackson!

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Why I buried ex-customs official, daughter alive ─ suspect

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday paraded a 64-year-old native doctor, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez, who confessed to have killed a retired customs officer, Mrs. Angela Kerry, and her 10-year-old adopted daughter, Obiagulum, on May 10, 2014.

Our correspondent had reported on Monday that the decomposed bodies of the woman and her daughter were found in Azeez’s house in Ire Akari Crescent, Ajuwon Akute, Ogun State by operatives of the Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police subsequently marked the building as a kidnapper’s den.

Azeez, an Oyo State indigene with three wives and five children, said he was forced to kill the customs officer and her daughter after she threatened to kill him over a sum of money.

He explained, “I have been a trado-medical doctor for about 30 years, but I knew Angela over five years ago. She initially came to me for protection from family attacks. One of her friends called Lizzy introduced her to me. The relationship began to grow, and she kept patronising me for one thing or the other.