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Senator Insists Chibok Girls Are “Alive”, Explains How To Rescue Them

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The Senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani, has assured that the missing Chibok girls will be found, but counseled that the Federal Government must negotiate with some persons to “extract” the girls from their current danger.

He also said that current events in the country had revealed that the reign of bloodshed by Boko Haram in the last seven years was sustained by the greed of a few who profited from the situation.

Mr. Sani spoke in Akure on Wednesday as a discussant at a symposium held as part of the 40thAnniversary of Ondo State and the seventh anniversary of the Olusegun Mimiko-led administration.

“Something that has bothered some of us here in line with the insurgency is, when will the Chibok girls be freed,” he asked.

“Someone said the Chibok girls will never be free, but I can tell you that they will be free and they are alive.”

Mr. Sani had in the past been named as a contact person through which the Nigerian government sought to negotiate with Boko Haram.

A civil society leader at the time, Mr. Sani later accused the former Goodluck Jonathan government of not showing sufficient commitment to the proposed talks.

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I Won’t Rest Until Chibok Girls Are Rescued Alive- Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said his government would not rest until the over 200 girls abducted in their school in Chibok, Borno State about two years ago are rescued alive.

Buhari made the submission in a speech he delivered to the parliament of the European Union Strasbourg, France.

A copy of the speech was obtained by our correspondent in Abuja.

Buhari said he remained committed to the promise he made to the parents of the abducted girls that his administration would rescue them alive.

He thanked individual EU member states for their various assistance towards the success of the Nigerian military onslaught against the Boko Haram sect while noting their pledges to support  efforts towards the rescue of the kidnapped girls.

He said, “It may interest you to know that in a recent meeting I had with parents of the Chibok Girls, I assured them that government would not rest until all the girls are rescued alive and reunited with their families.

“I remain fully committed to this pledge.

“Since my assumption of office in May last year, we have re-organised the Nigerian Armed Forces and repositioned them to deal decisively with the Boko Haram terrorists.

“Indeed, all the Local Government Areas that were hitherto under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States in the North-Eastern flank of Nigeria, have been recaptured.

“The Internally Displaced Persons are gradually returning to their communities.  The Federal Government is committed to rebuilding schools, hospitals and other vital infrastructure destroyed by the fleeing terrorists.

“Currently, the activities of Boko Haram have been reduced to the Sambisa Forest and their capacity to launch major offensives has been degraded.

” Boko Haram has now resorted to attacking soft targets such as markets, mosques and churches using innocent under-aged hapless children to detonate locally made Improvised Explosive Devices.”

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See Shark Bite Woman Suffers While At The Beach

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38-year-old Cristina Ojeda-Thies suffered a shark attack while swimming off the popular resort of Gran Canaria. She tweeted a photo showing the scars on her hand where the shark had sunk its teeth,

‘Today I’ve had a face to face meeting with a shark. Things that happen when you swim in the Canaries in December.’ she tweeted.

Authorities feared the incident could impact tourism and downplayed the incident. Fernando Frias, president of Canary Islands Shark Alliance which promotes shark conservation, said the incident is a ‘one-off’. ‘I doubt something like this will happen again in the next 50 years so people shouldn’t be afraid.’

Police Rescues Newborn Baby Found Buried Alive

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A newborn baby was discovered buried alive underneath rubble near a bike path in Los Angeles on Friday.

A woman and her sister told KABC they were walking near the riverbed in Compton when they heard a baby crying. They called 911 and police arrived to discover a baby— believed born 36-48 hours earlier at a medical facility—buried underneath asphalt and debris.

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Sia Features Yet Another Child In New Music Video

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Following the release of her next ?This Is Acting ?song “Bird Set Free,” Sia has shared the music video for “Alive.” As you might expect, she’s not in it, but neither is her “Elastic Heart” and “Chandelier” muse Maddie Ziegler. This time she hired a miniature martial artist in a Sia wig to do her bidding, and yes, you will immediately realize that you will never be as cool as this kid. Sia co-directed the video with Daniel Askill, who was responsible for “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart” as well.

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Kidnapped ‘Chibok Girl’ Reportedly Flees Boko Haram, Says Others Alive

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One of the hundreds of Christian schoolgirls kidnapped 18 months ago by Boko Haram reportedly made it out of the Nigerian terrorist group’s stronghold and told of her fellow captives’ ongoing misery, but a military official disputed the claim.

The April 14, 2014, kidnapping of 276 girls from the northern town of Chibok prompted international headlines and a social media campaign made prominent by First Lady Michelle Obama calling for authorities to “Bring back our girls.” While dozens fled in the initial months following capture, the unidentified girl would be the most recent victim to escape the infamous Islamic terror group’s clutches. According to local reports, she said dozens of girls are still alive, many pregnant from rape and riddled with disease.

“All of us were forced to become Muslims but kept in camps far from each other,” the girl reportedly told The Vanguard. “You can only see and recognize those in your camp as any of us who refused being Islamized was either beheaded or shot at point blank range.”

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Chibok Girls Still Alive, Intelligence Reports Reveals More

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Intelligence reports have revealed that at least half of the Chibok girls are still alive but held in various secret locations in the North-east region of Nigeria and neighbouring countries of the Lake Chad region.

This is coming as the division between the Abubakar Shekau-led faction of the Boko Haram sect and a splinter group led by Mahamat Daoud, who recently claimed to be the new leader of the group, has weakened the resolve of the terrorists to carry on with their mission for an Islamic Caliphate.

An intelligence source vouched that some, but not all, of the Chibok girls were alive.

The source revealed that military intelligence was aware that some the girls were still with the terrorists in different locations, while some had been married off and may never be found again.

“We will never find all the girls again as intelligence findings revealed some have died, and some married away, while the rest are still divided among the terror groups in different locations both within the North-east and some neighbouring countries,” the source said.

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I Am Thankful To Be Alive- Akpabio

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The immediate past Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Sunday,said he was grateful to God for surviving last Monday’s car accident.

“I thank God for my survival and remain grateful to Nigerians for their prayers and display of concern,” Akpabio said in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom.

The Senate Minority Leader was involved in a car accident last week Monday on his way to the airport to catch an international flight.

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Chibok Girls Are Alive- Jonathan

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In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Will Ross in the capital Abuja, President Jonathan said: “I’m very hopeful that it will not take us more than a month to recover the old territories that hitherto have been in their [Boko Haram’s] hands.”

Earlier this week, the Nigerian army said the militants no longer controlled any urban centres in Yobe and Adamawa – two of the three worst-affected states in the north-east.

Recently, the military also pledged that Borno state, the birthplace of Boko Haram, would soon be freed.

However, President Jonathan admitted in the interview that the authorities had “under-estimated” the militants and had initially lacked the resources to fight them.

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Chibok Girls Are Alive- Jonathan

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President Jonathan appearing on a Nigerian Television station for the first time apart from the government owned Nigerian Television Authority spoke on a wide range of issues including his chances of being re-elected in the forth coming election.

President Jonathan admitted during the programme that government under rated the capacity of the Boko Haram sect and this explains why they are so entrenched. Jonathan has assured the parents of the Abducted Chibok girls and all Nigerians that the girls are still alive and his government was doing everything possible to rescue them.

The president who spoke when he appeared on a Live Discussion programme on an African Independent Television (AIT), Kaakaki monitored in Abuja hinged his optimism on the assumption that had the girls been killed, the terrorists would have publicly displayed their corpses in order to induce fear.

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