UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR LECTURER SHOT BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN HIS OFFICE.

Gunmen suspected to be students, Tuesday, shot a lecturer in the University of Calabar,  Dr  Godwin Iwatt in his office mortally wounding  him.

The lecturer who was shot in the stomach was rushed to the  General Hospital Calabar where he is still in a  coma at the emergency unit of the hospital  with doctors battling to save his life.

An eyewitness who spoke on condition of anonymity said the lecturer was in his office at the Department of Microbiology at about 3 pm when two persons  suspected to be  students went  into his office and opened fire on him.

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EXCERPTS FROM PROF. WOLE SOYINKA'S INTERVIEW WITH CNN.

What did you make of the swaggering, gleeful laughter of this leader when he just sort of appeared with face uncovered to the world and said he was going to sell these girls?  Just give me your impression psychologically of what he’s up to.

Hmmm…most bullies whether on a small scale, on a national or international scale…they bluster, they do more of the same thing when they spite a community or nation state which is on its knees, which doesn’t confront them directly. It’s a normal condition. If you remember, when the United Nations headquarters was blown off in the capital of the nation; you want to go further back when extreme Islamists literally sacked the capital (Abuja) under former President  Olusegun Obasanjo because they claimed that religion was offended because there was a beauty contest going on there…there have been numerous instances like this. And when Yussuf (first Boko Haram leader), remember, a former head of state went on a mission of appeasement to Boko Haram family asking, virtually on his knees, “please forgive and forget.” But these were killers. I mean, those who killed the leaders should have been punished, yes, but you should not go and appease killers.

MICHELLE OBAMA JOINS THE #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS CAMPAIGN.

The First lady of the United States of America has  joined the millions of people worldwide demanding for the return of the 234 Chibok School girls abducted by Boko Haram in Borno, Nigeria. #BingBackOurGirls.

It is rather sad that the Nigerian government led by a certain Goodluck Jonathan waited for a massive public outcry  after 3 weeks before admitting that the security forces in Nigeria do not possess the intelligence to rescue the girls.

America has offered to assist Nigeria to eliminate the sect and put an end to the raging bloodshed especially in the northern part of the country.

NIGERIA'S STOLEN GIRLS - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL.

Three weeks after their horrifying abduction in Nigeria, 276 of the more than 300 girls who were taken from a school by armed militants are still missing, possibly sold into slavery or married off. Nigerian security forces apparently do not know where the girls are and the country’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, has been shockingly slow and inept at addressing this monstrous crime.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Boko Haram, the ruthless Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, abducted more young girls from their homes in the same part of the country in the northeast over the weekend. The group, whose name roughly means “Western education is a sin,” has waged war against Nigeria for five years. Its goal is to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the government. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video released on Monday, “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah.”

EXAMINING PRESIDENT JONATHAN'S MEDIA CHAT.

The best thing about President Goodluck Jonathan’s media chat on Sunday was that it clearly alerted Nigerians not to ever expect a hands-on leadership under his Presidency. Presented one more time with an opportunity to demonstrate statesmanship before distraught Nigerians, Jonathan made a royal hash of it. Rather than use the Presidential Media Chat – broadcast live on radio and television – to reassure a nation reeling from the kidnap of 276 teenage girls, corruption and sundry adversities, the President came across as wimpy at a time the country needed firm and purposeful leadership.  A country that is home to the world’s largest number of Black people should not appear so rudderless.

Watching Jonathan explain issues was disturbing on several levels. For many Nigerians and the international community, the chat was expected to provide a platform for the President to reassure the parents of the missing girls – captured at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by Islamist terrorists three weeks ago – that the security forces were close to rescuing them.

NYANYA SCHOOL BUS HIJACK - POLICE ARREST 2.

THE BUS DRIVER

There was panic in the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday when three unknown gunmen invaded a private school, The Vine Kiddies International Academy, Nyanya,  Kurudu, in a white Golf Volkswagen car.

The school is located a few kilometres from the scene of the first and second bomb blasts that occurred on April 14 and May 1, 2014 respectively.

The three gunmen, according to the security guard of the school, arrived in the area at about 6 a.m. in the car and parked a few metres away from the school gate but waited until  8am when classes began.

The security guard, Gabriel Fishing, told our correspondent that no harm was done to any of the pupils during the attack.

BOKO HARAM MURDERS 300 AND ABDUCTS 11 GIRLS IN BORNO.

In another daring operation, members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Monday night killed about 300 people in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State. Gamboru Ngala is a border town with Cameroon.

The Boko Haram insurgents also abducted 11 more girls in Warabe and Wala communities in the Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State late on Monday.

The insurgents reportedly drove into Gamboru Ngala in armoured vehicles.

It was learnt that the insurgents, who seemed to have targeted a local market, shot sporadically at traders at the market before proceeding into the town to wreak more havoc.

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NIGERIA ANNOUNCES 30-MAN PROVISIONAL WORLD CUP SQUAD.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has invited 30 players in his provisional squad for the 2014 World Cup that starts on June 12.

The reigning African champions will be making their fifth appearance at football's showpiece and have been drawn in the same group with Argentina, Iran and Bosnia.

Usual suspects Vincent Enyeama, Mikel Obi, Efe Ambrose, Godfrey Oboabona, Ahmed Musa and Victor Moses are called, as well as dark horses Ramon Azeez, Michael Babatunde and Azubuike Egwuekwe while midfield ace Joel Obi and Peter Odemwingie return after several months in the international wilderness.

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BOKO HARAM: THE ESSENCE OF TERROR.

There are many groups listed by the U.S. State Department as terrorists. But few fit the classic definition -- threatening and inflicting terror on a civilian population -- better than Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. What's more difficult to work out, beyond Boko Haram's hatred for everything modern and secular, is its ideology, structure and affiliations.

Boko Haram's modus operandi is all too clear: brutal and indiscriminate killings of both Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria, the bombings of churches and suicide attacks in the federal capital, Abuja, including the devastating car bombing of the U.N. compound in 2011. Recent attacks in the northeast, mainly in rural areas of Borno state, have left dozens dead. Victims are shot at point-blank range or stabbed and mutilated. Some attacks have lasted hours without any police or military intervention.

In the first three months of this year, Amnesty International estimates, Boko Haram was responsible for the deaths of more than 1,500 people.

ANOTHER DELEGATE DIES AT NATIONAL CONFAB.

LATE DR. JUMARE

The National Conference sitting in Abuja was on Monday hit by another sad news of the death of a delegate, Dr Mohammed Abubakar Jumare, from Kaduna State.

 The confab had earlier lost retired police AIG Hamma Misau from Bauchi state

Dr Jumare who came to the Conference as an Elder Statesman died in the early hours of Monday in Abuja and was buried later in the day in Zaria.

FORMER LAGOS GOVERNOR "SIR OTEDOLA" DIES AT 87.

Former governor of Lagos State, Sir Michael Otedola, has passed on. He died in the early hours of yesterday during a protracted illness, aged 87.

His widow, Lady Doja, who confirmed his death on behalf of the family, said funeral arrangements would be announced later.

Otedola, who may have suffered a stroke that had kept him out of the public for the past five years was born on July 16, 1926 into a Muslim family at Odoragunsin, Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Having completed his elementary school, he moved to Lagos to pursue further education and won a scholarship to study Journalism at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he graduated in 1958.

He began his career as a teacher before working as a reporter at the St. Pancras Chronicle and later sub-editor at The Guardian and The Times both in England.

SECURITY BEEFED UP AT SHERATON HOTELS IN LAGOS AFTER US TERROR WARNING.

Security has been beefed up in and around the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos and Four Points By Sheraton, Lekki, Lagos.

This followed the warning by the United States Mission in Nigeria that “groups associated with terrorism” were planning to mount “unspecified attack” on the hotels.

Our correspondent who visited Four Points By Sheraton, on Monday observed that a team of soldiers attached to OP MESA were stationed at the entrance of Simeon Akilonu Crescent, which is some 150 metres away from the hotel.

Also, policemen from the Maroko Division of the Lagos State Police Command were seen strategically positioned on Prince Alaba Oniru Road, where the major entrance into the hotel is located.

#10BNJETSCANDAL - REPS STALL HEARING ON DIEZIANI MADUEKE'S SUIT...

Failure of the House of Representatives to honour the summons issued against it by the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, stalled hearing on the suit by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed had, on April 29, directed the lower House to appear before him yesterday to explain the origin of the restraining order it said stopped its Public Accounts Committee, PAC, from investigating allegation that the Minister spent N10 billion on chartered private jets.

Members of the committee, led by its Chairman, Solomon Olamilekan, had at a press conference held on April 28, said they were served with a restraining order from the court, stopping further investigation into the allegation against the Minister.

They accused the judiciary of attempting to usurp their oversight function, saying they would suspend the investigation to study the said restraining order with a view to responding accordingly.

(VIDEO) THE COMEBACK THAT RUINED LIVERPOOL'S TITLE AMBITION."CYP 3 LIV 3"

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Brendan Rodgers believes that Liverpool's Premier League title challenge is over and expects Manchester City to be crowned champions after the Reds slipped to an incredible 3-3 draw against Crystal Palace on Monday.

The visitors were three goals up with less than 15 minutes to play at Selhurst Park thanks to finishes from Joe Allen, Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez.

But an unbelievable comeback from the hosts, who pulled level through Damien Delaney and a Dwight Gayle double, saw the points shared, with Rodgers predicting Manuel Pellegrini's side to wrap up the title with two home wins.

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I WILL SELL ABDUCTED CHIBOK GIRLS - BOKO HARAM LEADER SHKAU SPEAKS.

The terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Monday claimed responsibility for the April 14 abduction of over 267 pupils of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State.

The Agence France-Presse quoted the leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, as making the claim in a video the agency said it obtained.

Shekau, in the video, also threatened to sell off the abducted girls in defiance of international outrage that greeted the kidnapping of the girls from their hostel.

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Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the seizure of the girls barely 24hours after President Goodluck Jonathan told the nation that no group had claimed responsibility for the abduction.

(HILARIOUS VIDEO) PATIENCE JONATHAN'S WEEPING VIDEO TURNS INTERNET SENSATION... Chai Chai Chai

The catchphrase – “There is God ooo” – went trending on major social networking sites on Monday. The catchphrase was the statement the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, used repeatedly on Sunday night, while holding a stakeholders’ meeting over the circumstances surrounding the abduction of about 276 female pupils of  the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

A video clip showing Patience charging at some attendees of the meeting before bursting into tears has since gone viral online.

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TIWA & TEEBILZ REPLIES TO ETCETERA'S ARTICLE.

An article written by musician/columnis, Etcetera, titled "Female celebs prefer second-hand husbands" which was published yesterday has caught the attention of newly married diva Tiwa Balogun and her husband who doubles as her manager, Tunji Balogun (Teebilz).

Maybe they should have ignored the article like TuBaba does all the time... Moreover, the writer didn't mention names.... 

Read below their responses below.....

Female Celebrities Prefer 2nd Hand Husbands - ETCETERA

Some days ago I was at a friend's place and was asked by his sisters if I was traveling abroad for the wedding of a colleague that is still being talked about on blogs and on all social networking sites in Nigeria and I said no I wasn't. But what struck me as odd was when one of them asked me "is she getting married to a brand new husband or a 2nd hand husband"? I stared at her in shock and confusion because up until that moment, I had never heard of a phrase as "brand new or 2nd hand husband. It became a heated debate amongst people in the house that day. 'wow', I never thought a phrase like 2nd hand can be attributed to a human being. I know it is only applicable to objects.