DANJUMA
Following the state of insecurity in Nigeria due to the activities of the Boko Haram sect, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) has stated that nobody in the country should be allowed to breakup Nigeria.
Gen. Danjuma, who spoke yesterday in Lafia, Nasarawa State, when he was conferred with the traditional title of “Barde Babban Lafia”, which means a fearless warrior of the emirate, said “nobody has the mandate to scatter Nigeria and nobody must be allowed to scatter Nigeria”.
Blaming past governments for not doing enough to ensure a secure future for the youths, the general said it was partly responsible for the insurgency witnessed in the country.
Blaming past governments for not doing enough to ensure a secure future for the youths, the general said it was partly responsible for the insurgency witnessed in the country.
He said Nigeria “is in a season of sorrow and mourning posed by decades of neglect of a sizeable segment of our society and now our people are dying in thousands in needless battles and conflicts”.
Painting a bleak picture of where Nigeria has found itself due to incompetent leadership, Danjuma said: “Our society and economy are in tatters in a highly competitive world; our children are missing out in getting qualitative and functional education; the masses of our people are chained down in dehumanizing and grinding poverty while we continue to maintain a few islands of false prosperity in a turbulent ocean of penury and squalor.
“There cannot be peace and harmony where there is wide disparity between the few rich and multitude of the poor.”
Gen. Danjuma made a passionate appeal to Boko Haram to release the over 200 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls: “I want to make a plea to Boko Haram, whoever they are – some of them may be here – to please release our girls; let them go back to school.”
He described the action of Boko Haram as un-Islamic and called on those who have some form of contact with them to prevail on them to release the schoolgirls.
Gen. Danjuma made a passionate appeal to Boko Haram to release the over 200 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls: “I want to make a plea to Boko Haram, whoever they are – some of them may be here – to please release our girls; let them go back to school.”
He described the action of Boko Haram as un-Islamic and called on those who have some form of contact with them to prevail on them to release the schoolgirls.
“What they are doing is un-Islamic. One of the leaders, Gen. Buhari, has already said so and nobody challenged him. To capture young girls, take them away, and convert them into Islam at gunpoint is un-Islamic.”
He called on religious leaders to speak out, explaining that when the United States of America wanted to brand Boko Haram as a terrorist organization “there was uproar, meaning they have friends in some quarters”.
“I urge you to use your influence wherever you are to try and bring sanity in our socio-political life,” he urged the dignitaries who turned out to witness the event, adding that “very soon, Boko Haram permitting, election dates would be announced and already some of the pre-election violence cases are showing themselves all over the place, and this is a worrisome situation”.
Northern govs beg former Nigerian leaders to help end insurgency
The chairman of Northern States Governors’ Forum and governor of Niger State Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has solicited the assistance of former northern Nigeria leaders to help the northern governors to end insurgency in the region within three months.
The chairman of Northern States Governors’ Forum and governor of Niger State Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has solicited the assistance of former northern Nigeria leaders to help the northern governors to end insurgency in the region within three months.
The governor spoke yesterday at the maiden convocation ceremony of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, where former head of state General Abdulsalami Abubakar launched the university’s endowment fund as its chairman.
Aliyu said: “We all aware of the prevailing security challenges especially in the northern states. General Abdulsalami Abubakar, I appeal to you to invite General Gowon, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Alhaji Aliyu Shehu Shagari, TY Danjuma to come together and really help us the Northern Governors’ Forum to bring sanity to our part of the country.”
The governor said “it is not a failure that I invite you to do this for us; it is because of your experience and knowledge of this country. We need you to give us the political will and to also help the federal government to make sure that we fight Boko Haram and defeat it within the next three months”.
The security challenges, he noted, have tarnished the image of the region and given Nigeria a bad name, to the extent that “our citizens have been killed because they said we killed our own by ourselves”.
Because of insecurity many people prefer sending their wards and children to IBB University where there is peace and security, Aliyu stated.
According to him, the state government subsidized university education for at least N400,000 for each student in IBB University, making the university the cheapest in the country.
According to him, the state government subsidized university education for at least N400,000 for each student in IBB University, making the university the cheapest in the country.
Earlier, former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar had announced that the school’s endowment fund had reached N250 million even as the fund had lined up projects worth N3 billion to be executed in the school.
He said that the N250 million was made up of donations from the state government and local governments as well as individual private donation from Mr and Mrs Folorunsho Alakija.
He said that the N250 million was made up of donations from the state government and local governments as well as individual private donation from Mr and Mrs Folorunsho Alakija.
IBB announced, as part of his contribution to the endowment fund, the completion of the Senate Building and the central administrative block.
Nigeria Yet To Understand the Complexities Of Terrorism – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has explained that the federal government is finding it hard to win the war against Boko Haram because, terrorism being a new phenomenon, the country is still grappling to understand the complexities involved in it.
President Goodluck Jonathan has explained that the federal government is finding it hard to win the war against Boko Haram because, terrorism being a new phenomenon, the country is still grappling to understand the complexities involved in it.
The president stated this in Lafia, yesterday, in an address delivered on his behalf by the minister for special duties, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the ascension of the Emir of Lafia, Alhaji (Dr.) Isah Mustapha Agwai (I).
He however restated the federal government’s commitment to bringing insurgency in the country to an end. “I want to reiterate our deep commitment towards ensuring that citizens in our cities and villages become much more secure and safe as we remain more conscious of our primary obligation as a government,” he said. “We as a government would do whatever it takes to ensure that we rid our country of the activities of insurgents.”
He assured that “the federal government will continue, with the active support and collaboration of the international community, to take drastic steps that will not only see to the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls but also those abducted before the incident”.
Alhaji Tanimu solicited the support and cooperation of Nigerians towards forming a common front to defeat insurgents in the country.
Alhaji Tanimu solicited the support and cooperation of Nigerians towards forming a common front to defeat insurgents in the country.
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