Stop giving oxygen to Boko Haram insurgency - Lai Mohammed appeals to journalists http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2015/12/stop-giving-oxygen-to-boko-haram.html
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
The Senator representing Nasarawa West, Mr Abdullahi Adamu has reaffirmed the determination of President Muhammadu Buhari to diversify the economy.
The APC Senator told News Agency of Nigeria, NAN in Abuja on Monday that the Buhari administration has said it severally that the country could no longer depend solely on oil and gas for sustenance. .
His words:
“Oil and gas have tended, over time, to spoil us. People have got used to easy money but now the wells are drying. Even if they are not, the market is becoming very hostile.
“The price has gone down and the demand for our oil is very low. Even though previous administrations sang the idea of diversifying the economy, they did not do it.
“Buhari has said that he would make deliberate efforts to diversify the economy and bring on board, new attitude toward agricultural production.
“He believes as much as we do that agriculture holds the greatest potential for job creation. ’’
Senator Shehu Sani of the All Progressives Congress, APC has adopted 60 orphans from the Adonai Orphanage home in Kaduna.
Sani who represents Kaduna Central in the Senate will also pay the bills of two students from the orphanage to pursue tertiary education in China.
His words ;
“We owe it to them; to support them and make their lives useful and beneficial to the society.
“And what we can do is to give their lives hope, and to make it possible for them to realise their dreams, these are all handsome and beautiful children. When you see their faces you remember the ones you have in the house.
“We should also take cognizance that any child can fall into this circumstance, so as a senator representing this zone, I formally adopt these children as my own, and we will quarterly send support to this home to enable you feed this children and take proper support of them and work on the possibility of their education.
“I will also like to know if there are those of them that have been able to finish their SSCE, and I will sponsor two children to China to study, so that these two children will serve as beacon of hope to others that will be able to support.’’
Monday, 28 December 2015
A major disaster was averted on Sunday when soldiers on counter-insurgency operation gunned down 14 female suicide bombers intent on entering Maiduguri to wreak havoc.
Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Yushau Abubakar yesterday told reporters that the suicide bombers aged between 12 and 18 years wanted to make their way to the heart of the city to detonate their devices.
“The female suicide bombers of ages between 12 and 18 tried to force their ways into Maiduguri with the intent of causing mayhem, confusion and panic but were intercepted by the troops of Nigerian Army on patrol
“But unfortunately three of the suicide bombers detonated the IEDs killing 25 persons, while 85 others were injured.
“The terrorists intended to carry out massive and coordinated suicide missions through Asmari, Damboa check point, Ali Dawari, Molai Kura, Baderi, Jumari villages all at the outskirts of Maidugri.
“Some of the suicide bombers were gunned down by our troops, three escaped and one arrested which I believe they have averted what would have been a major disaster if they had gained entrance into Maiduguri.
“One of them went to a nearby house and requested for water to perform ablution but instead prepared herself and came to a nearby mosque and blew off herself killing one person while 13 others were injured,” he said.
He urged the people to be watchful report suspicious movements to security operatives.
This and several other attacks have come on the heels of President Buhari’s recent claim that Boko Haram terrorists have been technically defeated, forcing them to resort to sporadic attacks on soft targets.
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