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The Chibok girls who escaped from their Boko Haram abductors today June 2nd visited the Borno state Governor in his office today.  The Governor Photo credit: Sahara Reporters

Don Jazzy made the word up. See the meaning of:  EMINADO :  “So far I ve gotten mails from 3 families that have named their babies “Eminado” and it makes me soooo happy. at least i have done something. Eminado means “GoodLuck Charm”. Yes I made the word up. and gave it a meaning. just like people made up all the words we use today. I could have used any sweet word in place of Eminado. Jollof rice, lover girl, lol etc but i chose to create mine. and i am proud of it. At the end of the day. the song sweet. if e dey pain u say i dey make up words. ermmmmm SORRY no vex lol. #MyDearFutureDaughter i ve decided to name u #Eminado b4 dem even carry ur belle. u re pretty special cos daddy came up with d name himself.” DORO Nigerian pronoun that allows you to refer yourself in the third person, especially when saying something that shows how proud you are of yourself. A way of boasting. Instead of saying "I am a crazy ass bookworm; I got the best swagger there is", say, "...

While speaking at the 2014 Hay Festival for Literature and Arts in Wales recently, award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie expressed her reservations on the foreign assistance Nigeria is receiving on the missing chibok school girls. Adichie said the foreign government should focus on solving their own problems and leave Nigeria to deal with theirs "Now we have American drones helping us in this forest and even the French have sent in people – shouldn’t they be fixing their own economy? We can solve our own damn problems. I’m sure that there are hunters in that area who know that forest very well. Why haven’t they been used? Why aren’t we depending on them? What we need is a better equipped military, a better trained military. We don’t need Americans to send people in" she said. Continue... She appreciated the efforts of Michelle Obama and all other international stars in spreading the word about the missing Chibok girls, an action she said made the Nigeria...

Singer Chris Brown was released early Monday from a Los Angeles County jail, authorities said. Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy Tony Moore told The Associated Press that Brown was released at 12:01 a.m. Monday, but he didn't have any more details. Brown had been in custody since mid-March, when he was arrested after being expelled from a court-ordered rehab sentence for violating its rules. And a judge last month ordered the R&B singer to remain in jail after he admitted he violated his probation by getting into an altercation outside a hotel in Washington, D.C., last year. In his May 9 decision, Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin sentenced the singer to serve an additional 131 days in jail, but he had been expected to get out much sooner. Brandlin had sentenced Brown to serve a year in county jail but gave him credit for nearly eight months. The credits include time that the singer has spent in rehab and jail, as well as credits for good behavior while behind ...

In the early hours of this morning, residents in the Government Technical College, Lemna, Calabar, woke up to find a man dried up on PHCN power line poles, electrocuted. One resident said their lights went out very early in the morning and they thought it was the usual PHCN blackout, only to find the man hanging from the poles at the break of dawn. Police and other security agencies have arrived the area and efforts are ongoing to bring the man down and make proper identifications.

Uyo Ukonne pictured above graduated from New Jersey City University on May 15th and then went rafting with friends a week later, only to drown in the Delaware River. (Read story  here ) After searching for his body for many days, his body was finally found yesterday in the Delaware River around 5.45pm. Joe Hinkes, chief ranger of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, told said his body was found 5 miles downstream from where he was last seen Sunday afternoon His death has been ruled accidental drowning. He drowned after jumping into the river without a life jacket while on a rafting trip near Lumberland, N.Y. with friends. Uyo pictured above receiving his diploma at the NJCU Class of 2014's commencement ceremony at the Izod Center on May 15th. He had planned to visit his mother in Nigeria next month. So sad!

LAGOS—President Goodluck Jonathan has reportedly seen a new video released by Boko Haram, where the abducted school girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, spoke about their ordeal in the hands of the insurgents for the first time and pleaded with him to secure their release. Vanguard report say that, the girls were reportedly ill and are in camps located in Chad, Niger and Cameroon, with one of them nursing a broken wrist. The footage, not released publicly but seen by the London-based The Mail on Sunday was taken in a jungle clearing a month after their abduction. More than 250 girls were taken in a raid on their school in Chibok on April 14 by Boko Haram terrorists. However, Cameroon’s military reportedly killed about 40 Boko Haram militants in the country’s northwest last weekend, a government radio reported yesterday, a day after Nigeria labelled the Central African nation the weakest link in its fight against the extremist sect. The clashes lead...

Yola – The Adamawa Police Command has confirmed 14 people dead and 12 others injured in a bomb explosion which rocked Mubi town on Sunday evening. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Usman Abubakar, confirmed the incident in Yola. Meanwhile, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, Director, Defence Information, said that two suspects had been arrested inconnection with the blast. He, however, said that one of them later died in the hospital following an injury he sustained during the attack. A resident of the town, who simply identified himself as Solomon, said that the explosion occurred in Kabang area of the town in Mubi South Local Government Area.

If America can release five Afghanistan prisoners for "just" one American soldier, then I wonder why some of us are saying the Presidency should not swap our girls with Boko Haram members or their wives. This American soldier already signed to die by joining the military yet his country still negotiated for his release. How come Nigeria can't negotiate to free innocent girls who don't even know anything about this madness? According to reports, five Taliban leaders have arrived in Qatar after being freed from Guantanamo Bay by the US authorities in a swap deal for an American soldier held in Afghanistan for nearly five years. The five men were swapped for 28-year-old army sergeant, Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by the Taliban since June 30, 2009. The prisoners were flown by US military C-17 aircraft into the Gulf on Sunday. They were named on Saturday as Mohammad Fazl, Mullah Norullah Noori, Mohammed Nabi, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Abdul Haq Wasiq. Th...

The battle against the deadly Boko Haram sect recorded some level of success at Cameroon border on Sunday as their security forces killed about 40 Boko Haram fighters in the country’s far north. According to Cameroon state radio, the exchange of heavy gun fire occurred shortly after the release of two of the Italian priests and a Canadian nun suspected to have been held by the Islamist group. Cameroon, which has been criticised by Nigeria for not doing enough to fight the Nigeria-based terrorist group, deployed over 1,000 troops in the far north last week to tackle the killer sect and it is now paying off.

14 year old killer child-bride Wasila Umar who is currently facing murder charges at a Juvenile Court in Kano state for killing her 35 year old husband and 3 others, has cried out to the court to release her and let her go home as she misses the love and attention she gets from her family members. While speaking with a Vanguard  reporter before her hearing at the Kano state Juvenile court recently, Wasila said she been to three detention camps since she killed her husband and has not seen her mum. "I miss my mum who has not been allowed to visit me in a strange land. What, however, keeps me going is the fact that my family are with me at this critical point in my life, and I am highly comforted by their prayers. My dad and aunt visited me a few days ago and conveyed my mother’s message but the vacuum created by  her absence can not be filled by anyone. I have been receiving help from the people I did not know from Adam, I mean women ...

The situation of our girls kidnapped by the deadly Boko Haram sect is going from bad to worst as some of them in custody of the group have taken ill, according to a prominent Australian cleric, Dr. Stephen Davis. Dr. Davis, a clergyman and hostage negotiator, according to the British newspaper, The Mail, was hired by the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, to broker the release of the girls. In his words:  "One of that small group of girls is ill and we had hoped we might convince the commander of the group holding her that she should be released so we could give her medical treatment.  "There are other girls who are not well and we have come close to having them released but their captors fear a trap in which they will be captured in the handover process.  "One girl has what I assume is a broken wrist as they demonstrate to me how she holds her hand. I have been told that others are sick and in need of medical attention." Dr. Davis, who was once the C...

Henry Chukwuma Okoroji, a Nigerian match fixer has been indicted in a match fixing scam after he was caught on camera telling an undercover UK Sun Newspaper reporter, Mahzher Mahmood, he could arrange a yellow card during the World Cup games for more than 41,000pounds and a penalty for 81,000pounds. Daily Mail  reports that Okoroji spoke with the reporter in company of his associate, Joe, in a hotel room in Milan, Italy. He was recorded saying he could facilitate different outcomes on the football field, including a red card, depending on the amount the reporter was willing to pay. He was reported to have said that he was working with two other Nigerian players as well as a senior official of the Nigerian Football Federation in the match-fixing scam, who he said could help influence the Nigerian squad in the world cup. Continue... In a bid to prove his credibility, Okoroji was said to have invited a Nigerian/Lazio footballer, Ogenyi Ona...