Publish Details of Defectors Working for your Governorship Ambition’ – Rivers APC Challenges Tonye Princewill,

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‘Publish Details of Defectors Working for your Governorship Ambition’ – Rivers APC Challenges Tonye Princewill,

The All Progressives Congress(APC), Rivers State Chapter, has dared Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship contender, Prince Tonye Princewill, to make public the list of those who allegedly left APC to join PDP so as to work towards realising his ambition.

The party was replying to last week’s statement by the Media Assistant to Prince Tonye Princewill entitled Crisis Rocks Rivers APC as Legacy Parties Pledge Loyalty to PDP/Princewill’, in which he claimed that several APC members had decamped and joined the Tonye Princewill faction in the PDP

The full text of the APC reaction read:

It has come to the attention of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Rivers State Chapter, that the spate of political jobbery sweeping Rivers State has taken a new and troubling dimension.

Last week, the media assistant to Prince Tonye Princewill of the PDP issued a press statement titled “crisis rocks rivers APC as legacy parties pledge loyalty to PDP/Princewill” in which he claimed that several APC members had decamped and joined the Tonye Princewill faction in the PDP.

On close scrutiny of the 68 names that signed a highly suspect and nebulous communiqué, none belonged to the APC, suggesting that it was a clear fabrication made by the authors for the purpose of seeking pecuniary rewards from Prince Tonye Princewill, who has severally announced his interest to run for governor of Rivers State in 2015 on the platform of the PDP.

For the avoidance of doubts, the APC, Rivers State Chapter would like to state that at no time did any member or members of the APC or of the legacy parties that metamorphosed into APC, defect to the PDP or any other political party.

We strongly urge Prince Tonye Princewill to go a step further by publishing the APC registration numbers complete with photos of those he claimed defected to his faction of the PDP to prove that they have any links with the APC.

We would like to urge the Prince to resist the attraction of involving the name of the APC in spurious schemes he chooses to put in the public domain as he might realise too late that it is always of mutual benefit to let the sleeping dog lie.

Senibo chris finebone

State publicity secretary

June 9, 2014.

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Press Release: Banana Farm: Gov. Amaechi Wanted to Kill Ogoni People With Food Scarcity

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The Movement for The Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) says the forceful take over of 2,000 hectares of farmland in Ogoni claimed to have been paid for by the Rivers State Government was designed to to kill the people with food scarcity, frustrate peasant farmers in Ogoni and and pave way for the resumption of oil mining activities in the land rather than create jobs as claimed.

Chairman of the MOSOP Kingdom Coordinators Forum, Frank Jonah made the accusation today while reacting to Governor Amaechi's claim that the banana farm, which has led to the death over 40 protestors, was designed to provide jobs.

Jonah said "Governor Amaechi cannot be ignorant of the fact that the Ogoni people survive on subsistence farming. For the government to take 2,000 hectares of farmlands from local people in the name of creating jobs for some 250 persons is nothing but genocide against the Ogoni".

"How can anyone consider depriving over 30,000 people of their food sources just to provide employment for 250. What happens to the rest after you have taken very valuable and irreplaceable resources from them?" Jonah questioned.

Jonah further said the governor also knows that all parts of Ogoni has been polluted by oil spills and the only part of Ogoniland with capacity to produce food is Nyokhana.

"For the government  to forcefully take over 2,000 hectares of land from the people is wicked and devilish and a very clear plan to kill the people with food scarcity" Jonah said.

The MOSOP scribe said Governor Amaechi has never hidden his dislike for the Ogoni resistance against Shell which has frustrated oil mining activities in the region and affected government revenue.

Jonah Frank
Chairman, MOSOP Kingdom Coordinators' Forum

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Endless lamentations of Kalu

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Kalu’s lamentations will never end. His message read by a very disillusive aide at a retreat in Port Harcourt recently says much about the torments Kalu is passing through. He is in deep melancholy in spite of his stolen riches. We are used to Kalu’s jibes and innuendos but this time, he spoke from the subconscious. I am not surprised at Kalu’s moans. It is his typical refrain. Who are the wolves in sheep’s clothing and animals in human form if not Kalu?
In this same gathering Rochas Okorocha came out with a powerful postulation that suits Kalu like a second skin. According to Rochas ‘who you are before office means a lot. If we elect a criminal into office he will simply become excellent criminal.’ Kalu was simply a fraudster, remember when he donated papers cut into sizes of money, remember his forged certificate that bedeviled him in the first year of his tenure. His enlisting in Abia State University and the retrieval of his unfortunate degree clearly shows that he had no certificates before becoming a governor.

Remember Hon. Ubani’s many articles on Orji. Orji was a dupe that took on many people to the extent that a law court in Lagos seized all his property. It is on record how he got entangled into a drug scam in London and Alex Mbakwe who was surety with his property lost out as Kalu jumped bail.

He never had The Sun Newspapers, Slok Air and other things he is boasting with and all that he claims now. They were all bought with looted money from Abia State coffers. In that same gathering Prof. Jinadu came with another apt situation faced by past governors, those who cannot separate the office and self mostly due to overzealous love for lucre.

That gathering is a good one and Kalu fell into a trap making it clearly obvious that he is still brooding over his loss. We know those who will survive psychologically. Abiola Ajumobi wants to be A PREACHER, Nyako is in a hurry to go back to his farms. kalu wanted to continue ruling by proxy. Kalu is the real animal who did not know that his time in office is gone. He has refused to forget issues in Abia and continue as the evil Godfather. Let him continue. He will get more shocks and embarrassment. Abia people are wiser and have sworn that never again will they elect a no-name howler like Kalu.
.Ibe wrote in from Umuahia, Abia State

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Governor Orji Expresses Shock over Prof. Dora Akunyili’s Death

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Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has condoled with the Akunyili family, the Government and people of Anambra State on the untimely demise of the former Minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, who passed on last weekend at the age of 59 years.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Charles Ajunwa, Governor Orji who expressed shock and sorrow on the death of the one-time boss of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and described  her death as a great loss to the nation.

He noted that during her life time the late Prof. Akunyili was a dogged, dedicated and patriotic woman who discharged her duties with great zeal and lamented that her absence will be felt by her state and nation at large.

Governor Orji prayed God to grant her soul peaceful repose.

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PHOTOS: The New Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Gets Turbaned in Kano

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Against all odds, former CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was finally turbaned today as Emir Of Kano. As emir of the northern city of Kano, Sanusi becomes the second-highest Islamic figure after the Sultan of Sokoto in Nigeria. He replaces Ado Bayero, who died on June 6 at the age of 83 after reigning more than half a century. Gov Kwankwaso, while speaking as the turbaning process said:

The appointment of an emir is not a political issue. It is unfortunate that some enemies of Kano State attempted to politicise this process."

Meanwhile, according to another report on PremiumTimes, Sanusi had on Sunday narrowly escaped being arrested by security operatives at his personal residence in Kano hours after he was appointed to the coveted throne. A source who declined to be named for security reasons told PremiumTimes that the Kano state Government hurriedly sneaked Mr. Sanusi out of his personal residence after receiving intelligence that the Federal Government was allegedly plotting to arrest him to stop him from being turbaned.

 

 
Congratulations To The Emir

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She lost 222 pounds, became a foodie

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(CNN) — Akilah Monifa wasn't a foodie until she lost 222 pounds.

The San Francisco-based communications director says she never used to taste her food. She ate mainly to feed an addiction.

"I ate a lot of junk, and I wasn't mindful about what I ate," Monifa said.

But unlike with drugs or alcohol, where an addict can stop the behavior that they are addicted to, she knew she couldn't stop eating. So she decided instead to stop eating and drinking out of habit.

She gave up diet soda first. For her it was a real sacrifice.

"I would drink maybe six to eight Diet Cokes a day. I know people think it's OK to drink since it doesn't have calories, but I realized I never really had it on its own," Monifa said. "I was usually rinsing down a big bag of chips with it."

So she gave up chips.

After that she stopped eating the M&Ms, their bright colors always taunting her from the bowl at a woman's desk outside her office door.

The tipping point

At her heaviest, Monifa weighed over 400 pounds. She says there was no one moment when she realized she needed to lose weight. The knowledge came in small waves.

Her daughter complained she walked too slow.

She couldn't join her friends on rides at the amusement park because she exceeded the weight limits.

When she flew she had to use a seatbelt extender and actually got bumped once from a flight. When she got off the plane the gate agent told her he would put it in her profile that she had to buy two seats.

Monifa, 57, doesn't know exactly how she put on the weight. She just knows she gained about 10 to 15 pounds a year after the age of 15.

"I don't know at what point I remember thinking, 'Woops, I'm over 200 pounds now,'" Monifa said.

Subconsciously, she may have been avoiding situations where she'd have to confront it.

"I then started telling myself things like, 'I'll never weigh more than 200 pounds. Then it became I'll never weigh more than 250, then 300, then 350. Then it became 400," Monifa said.

Her mother, and then her partner, bought her clothes. She stopped weighing herself when she got to 389 pounds. She later realized she had even stopped looking in the mirror.

"There was a window on a department store, and I remember seeing someone out of the corner of my eye and thinking 'Who is that big fat person behind me?' It slowly dawned on me. That was me."

The surgery

She decided she had to do something drastic. She looked into gastric bypass; a friend had lost 110 pounds with the surgery. With gastric bypass, doctors create a small pouch at the top of your stomach and bypass the rest to send food straight to the small intestine. The walnut-sized pouch can only hold about an ounce of food.

"Right when I was thinking about it, I got a call from a friend who said that woman had passed," Monifa said. "I put the surgery off. I wasn't losing my life over it."

Three year ago, she worked up the nerve to look into it again.

Her insurance covered a program at Stanford. It started on the right note with a lecture from the physician who would do her surgery. He said he had done 2,000 surgeries and had no fatalities. He was also from Alabama, which is where Monifa grew up.

"I took that as a sign that it was going to be OK," she said.

In August 2012, she had surgery. She weighed 330 pounds.

The first two weeks weren't bad. She didn't mind the liquid, high-protein diet. She soon graduated to eating small quantities. But then she slipped into an old habit.

She was running late on the way to the gym. She stopped at a drive-thru. After one bite she threw up.

That's when she gave up fast food for good.

By the time she went back to work in October she was down to 280 pounds. "None of the clothes I had fit, so I posted that on Facebook and people started giving me clothes in vast quantities. People were so incredibly supportive."

They were also confused.

"It's funny, when people hear that you have had gastric bypass, it's almost like they think you've had liposuction and had the fat removed, but that's not the case," Monifa said. "A lot of what helps you lose weight afterward are all the changes you have to make."

She eats five or six small meals a day and takes advantage of San Francisco's reputation as an inventive mecca for foodies. She now enjoys fresh vegetables from the farmer's market or a new take on a classic Asian dish. She'll eat anything baked, broiled or grilled. She eats slowly to enjoy the taste and the smell and the quality. And if she does get a craving, she'll eat a tiny amount of something rather than the entire container.

"I bought a quart of vanilla ice cream when I moved into my place a year ago, and it is still there," Monifa said.

Group therapy helped. Setting exercise goals did, too. Her step counter reminds her to get at least 10,000 steps each day. And she didn't just join one gym, she joined two. A 24-hour facility by her house in Oakland and a gym right down the street from work in San Francisco.

"Since that one is a lot of money, it motivates me to go every day," Monifa said. "And it feels like a treat. It's that fancy. I feel like a woman of luxury on the scene."

Socializing now is about activity, rather than food. She takes walks with friends and plays basketball with her son. She plays tennis and swims.

When she does dine out she looks at the menu online and decides what healthy option to have ahead of time so she's not tempted. She cuts her meal into a smaller portion and takes the leftovers home.

The true transformation

The 5-foot-11-inch woman is down to 179 pounds. Her goal used to be 190.

"I feel good, and I feel healthy," Monifa said.

Her sleep apnea equipment and high blood pressure medicine are gone. Her lower back and joint pain disappeared.

And she takes the time to celebrate what she calls the NSVs: the little non-scale victories. Signing up for a charity walk, she relished when the staff insisted she take a medium T-shirt rather than her request for "the largest size you have." She tucks in her shirt now, showing off her waist.

She has even started to date. And finally, after all these years, she looks in the mirror.

"I've never felt good about myself, about my looks. Now I feel like I could attract someone. My friend from college jokes that it is time I should be in a lesbian power couple, but really now I just want someone who can hold their own with me in this world.

"I finally see that I'm worth it."

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SANUSI: Why Opposition Party APC is Jubilating… How he may have got the ‘job’

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''In July 2012, the Emir of Kano fell ill and travelled to London for treatment . There were rumors that he was in Coma. A certain governor of central bank and Islamic Scholar from the University of Sudan, was dishing out billions all over Kano in populist gestures . He allegedly gave 1 billion naira each to all those that mattered in the emirate .

It's instructive to note that this CBN governor was rumored to have been detained by Sani Abacha on accusation of mobilizing fundamentalist who beheaded Gideon Akaluka, put his head on a pole and went round Kano, killing defenseless Igbos in December 1994.

This fellow is a teacher of the Hadith as espoused by the Wahabbists. Wahhabism is an extremist Pseudo- Sunni movement. A radical movement among fundamentalist with an aspiration to return to the fundamental Islamic sources, Qur`an, Hadeeth and Scholarly consensus (Ijma)) Islamic believers. Wahhabism is a fundamentalist movement instigated by an eighteenth century theologian, Muhammad ibn Abdal-Wahhab (1703–1792) from Najd, Saudi Arabia.

In July 2013, the European Parliament identified Wahhabism as the major source of global terrorist activities in the world and a threat to traditional Muslim cultures

Fast forward to18th January 2013. The late emir of kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero's convoy was attacked and riddled with bullets. Two of the emir’s sons, Ciroman Kano Alhaji Sanusi Ado Bayero and Turakin Kano Alhaji Nasiru Ado Bayero, who were on the convoy, sustained gunshot injuries in the hand and leg, respectively. It was a targeted assassination attempt to wipe out the Emir and his sons .

A few months later in April , three suicide bombers stormed the Emirs palace with Keke na pep on the day the Emir and his sons were meeting at the palace. One of the bombers died instantly as his bomb exploded close to the palace gate , while soldiers shot the other one dead. The third was mobbed to death by Kano youths .It was a second attempt to wipe out the Emir and all his sons .

Who wanted the Emir dead in a hurry? Why is the APC, whom their ex member FFK described as the Muslim brotherhood,celebrating as if they just won the Presidential election ? Why is El Rufai taunting Jonathan as if the Emir of Kano is now the Emir of the world . Is the APC saying they are the direct beneficiaries of the death of Ado Bayero? Why are there riots in Kano just because of the turbarning of a mere traditional ruler whom a governor appoints and can depose easily ?

But Im happy that this appointment has made the APC members happy.

Congratulations APC!!!

Thanks for letting us know that your member seats on the emirate throne in Kano. So I can choose to treat and perceive him like a political emir. Why should any other party member visit an APC Emir. So when next Jonathan visits Kano, he can choose not visit your throne . It's not compulsory !!!''

Ken Agala

Do You Agree?

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SANUSI Sudden emergence: Did All Progressives Congress do it?…

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Did the All Progressives Congress, APC, push for the emergence of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new Emir of Kano?

Suggestions to that effect were rife yesterday because of the heavy presence of chieftains of the party in Kano, following the death of Emir Ado Bayero.
Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso of Kano State, who joined the party last November, Vanguard learnt, came under serious pressure from the APC chieftains who stayed over after the burial of the late emir.

Yesterday, senior party officials were jubilant over the emergence of a renowned critic of President Goodluck Jonathan as the traditional ruler of the city with the highest number of votes in Northern Nigeria.
“It is a welcome development,” a member of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party said yesterday, on the condition of anonymity pending an official party reaction by party spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The deputy national secretary of the party, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai was ecstatic yesterday tweeting “SLS (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) is the Emir of Kano. Jonathanians can go jump into the lagoon.”

…Regional influence
Besides being the traditional ruler of the town with the highest number of votes, the Kano emirate also wields major influence over the Northern region and across the country.
Sanusi as emir is not expected to project the interest of President Goodluck Jonathan who removed him from office as CBN governor four months before the expiration of his term.

…‘APC delegate’
The APC delegation in Kano was said to have mounted pressure on Governor Kwankwanso in favour of Mallam Sanusi. The delegation was led by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and included the 2011 presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Senators Bukola Saraki and Danjuma Goje, Governors Rotimi Amaechi, Aliyu Wamakko and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Rivers, Sokoto and Kwara states, respectively, former national chairman of the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, and erstwhile national chairman of the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP.

The delegation reportedly came into Kano late on Saturday and remained till Sanusi was announced as emir by Governor Kwankwanso, yesterday.
The delegation, according to sources, met privately with Kwankwanso and subsequently with the former CBN governor.

Before the private meeting with Governor Kwankwanso, Tinubu, during a courtesy call on the Kano governor in his office, said that his delegation was in Kano to commiserate with the government and people of the state, adding that “Nigeria has lost a bridge builder,” in the person of the late Bayero.

Shortly after the courtesy call, the governor ushered them into his private office where they held a marathon meeting that supposedly culminated in the announcement of Sanusi as the new emir.

…As CBN gov
Though the new Emir of Kano had in the past claimed to be apolitical, his last minute actions as CBN governor, and notably, the allegation of a missing N49 billion from oil receipts, pricked the Jonathan administration.

When he returned to Nigeria from Niger Republic where he went to represent Nigeria at a regional meeting of central bank governors, Sanusi was received in Lagos by the deputy national secretary of APC, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.

Sanusi, who maintains a home in Lagos and has fraternised with the Lagos political class since his school days in the nation’s former commercial capital, also has strong relations with some members of the APC national executive, including Mallam El-Rufai.

…El-Rufai on social media
El-Rufai, noting the faux pas by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, earlier in the day when it released a statement congratulating a son of the late emir as successor, had disparaged PDP on his Facebook page.
He wrote: “The PDP, out of fear and hatred of my brother SLS (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) began circulating the falsehood that someone else had been appointed Emir of Kano.

“Then they congratulated the Emir that had not been selected by the constituted authority.
“Earlier, they had enlisted several PDP sympathiser-traditional rulers to put pressure on Governor Kwankawaso to discourage him from selecting SLS, who was recommended on merit among the aspirants by the kingmakers.”

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South East Governors Condemn Attempt To Topple Enugu Govt

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Governors from the south-east geo-political zone converged yesterday in Enugu under the aegis of South-East Governors Forum to condemn in strong terms the failed attempt by Biafra Zoinist’s Federation,BZF, to topple the Enugu State Government and hosit Biafra flag at government house on Thursday, June 5.

 

Chairman of the Forum, Chief Theodore Orji of Abia State while addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting at Enugu Government House said, “We condemn the attempt by the so called Biafra Zionist Fedreation led by Benjamin Onwuka, who earlier attempted to gain entry in to government house,Enugu.

 

“We condemn their attempt to hoist their flag at the government house and their invasion of Enugu State Broadcasting Service,ESBS, in their quest to take over the media house and declare a state of biafra.

 

“We have resolved to work jointly to tackle insecurity in the region especially kidnapping, armed robbrey.

 

“Our heart felt sympathy goes to the people of Kano emirate and government of Kano state on the demise of the Emir of Kano, Alh. Ado Bayero.

 

“We equally express shock and sorrow on the timely death of the former Minister of Infomation, Prof. Dora Akunyili and commiserate with her family, government and people of Anambra state.

 

“We commiserate with the family of the deceased jurist, Chukwudifu Oputa and will participate in the burial ceremony.”

 

Governors in attendance were host, Sullivan Chime,Enugu state, Martins Elechi, Ebonyi state, Deputy Governor, Anambra state, Dr. Nkem Okeke and Deputy governor, Imo state, Eze Madumere.

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I may be carrying Abubakar Shekau’s baby” escaped abductee of Boko Haram

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In this exclusive interview, IQ4News’ Prince Dickson spoke with *Meenah Dawah, a teenage girl abducted by Boko Haram for 27 months.

Meenah, who escape when the Nigerian army attacked a Boko Haram camp early this year, was just 17 years old when she was forced to watch her parents being shot dead by the Boko Haram insurgents in her village in Konduga town, northern Nigeria. She escaped after 27 months with a baby she claims may belong to the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.

As a person who has seen torture, rape and abuse, Meenah has learned quickly to hold her tongue even in the face of appalling acts of atrocity.

While in captivity, she had to care for children born to Boko Haram commanders and members, and would tremble in fear as she heard girls scream as they were raped, and in some cases watch how girls were tortured for refusing to change their faith. 

She described how on occasions some top leaders of Boko Haram would come, and she was asked to entertain them.

It was on such visits she insists that Abubakar Shekau, Nigeria’s most wanted man, and Boko Haram leader, slept with her.

 “He would just appear from nowhere like a ghost,” she narrated.

"He seems to be panicking all the time and issuing instructions. 

“He is a softly spoken man – it is almost as if he whispers, if you are meeting him for the first time, you would never be scared of him.

“But I soon learned that after every whisper something dangerous would happen somewhere in Nigeria.

“Depending on the camp, some of the camps have everything, electricity, water and television, with different kind of electronics.

“He once asked me if I was willing to fight for the cause, to which I answered no, he told me I could be a fighter and a domestic slave. 

"I didn’t want to speak to him in case what I said offended him.

"All it would take was one wrong word and he would have had me killed. I thought he was drinking or taking something whenever he came, one could notice maybe he lost men or something was not right.

“We moved a lot and depending on the camp, my role varied, it was so tough travelling around with a baby strapped to my back. 

"Abu has many kids from many different women.

“Some of us women would go to Maiduguri to buy things when we have shortage and a commander or two would follow us, and we acted a decoy when villages are ambushed.

"I’d be sent in to talk to people, then they’d move in behind me and start killing.”

“Some of us girls would also have to carry guns, and often bombs too, there was this girl, she was forced to carry a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on her shoulder, then we had few men in that particular camp.

Meenah managed to escape when she was badly wounded by a bullet, after the Nigerian army attacked their camp. She was left for dead.

The bullet in her leg was only recently removed at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno state.

She has an uncle as a sole surviving relative, and it has not been easy as her uncle has not receive a warmly.

“My uncle will not have me because he is ashamed of my child whose paternity is not only questionable but is dangerous if it is Shekau,” she says. 

Many, like Meenah have nowhere else to turn.

“Before my parents were shot in the attack on our village, my dad had made plans for to go and finish my secondary school in Government Girl Secondary School Shaffa, where we have a distant relative, but she was also killed in an attack on her way back from a market in that area.

“I know I am intelligent and willing to learn, but where do I start from?

After years of bloodshed, what will happen to the likes of Meenah if Boko Haram ends?

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Anthony-Claret Ifeanyi Onwutalobi

Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
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