President Buhari Set To Probe The Killing Of Nigerian Citizens Abroad

The recent wave of deaths of Nigerian citizens in foreign countries has attracted the attention of the presidency.


Speaking on Channels TV last night, the senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa said the presidency is already looking into the issue.

According to Dabiri-Erewa, President Buhari had already instructed her team to look into the issues and ensure that justice is done.

According to her, the president will not condone the killings of Nigerians anywhere in the world.
“This (killing of Nigerians abroad) will not be tolerated by this administration,” she said.
She also reiterated the president’s commitment to citizen’s diplomacy and protection of Nigerians wherever they may be.
Dabiri-Erewa’s remarks came as a result of the the killing of a Nigerian asylum seeker, who was attacked and beaten to death by a racist football fan in Italy.
At the same period, a young Nigerian student in the UK, Folajimi Orebiyi was stabbed to death by youths on bicycles after being pursued.

Families Of Palestinian Attack Victims Sue Facebook

Israeli and American victims of Palestinian attacks sued Facebook Monday, claiming that the internet giant enables the militant Hamas group to use its platform and demanding $1bn in damages.


The civil action was filed in New York by Israeli legal NGO Shurat Hadin in the name of family members of four Israeli-Americans and one US citizen killed since June 2014.



The plaintiffs say Facebook has knowingly provided its “social media platform and communication services” to Hamas in violation of the US Anti-Terrorism Act which prohibits US businesses from “providing any material support, including services, to designated terrorist groups and their leaders”.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of Shurat Hadin and one of the lawyers representing the families, said Hamas members had either perpetrated or endorsed the attacks against the victims at hand.

She said the lawsuit’s goal was to force Facebook to tighten its regulation of Palestinian “incitement”.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Israel’s internal security minister recently said Facebook bore “some responsibility” for the wave of violence, and said he would advance legislation making it illegal to publish “offensive content” that encourages attacks.

But Darshan-Leitner said such a measure, which would necessitate reporting offensive posts that would eventually be removed, would be ineffective because of the sheer volume of Facebook activity.
The only efficient way to deal with Palestinian “incitement” on Facebook is if the measures “come from Facebook itself”, she said.

“They have to be convinced that it is not in their interest to act otherwise,” she said of the internet giant.
“No amount of money can bring a dead person back, but an organisation barricaded in its Palo Alto ivory tower while people are murdered here and cares only about its money, will awaken only if it’s hit back through its money,” she said.

Her group had in October filed a lawsuit against Facebook, demanding that it remove more than 1,000 inflammatory pages and improve its monitoring mechanisms, but did not seek monetary damages. Darshan-Leitner said that case was still ongoing.

A wave of violence that began in October last year has killed at least 214 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.

Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities.

Others were shot dead during protests and clashes, while some were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.

Most of the attackers are believed to have acted on their own, without the organisation of any group.

We Will Continue To Destroy Oil Installations Until Buhari Addresses South-South Problems – Niger Delta Avengers

Separatist group, Niger Delta Avengers, has declared that it will continue to carry out its activities until President Muhammadu Buhari is ready to genuinely address the problems of the region.


The group which has claimed responsibility for several pipeline attacks in the Niger Delta warned that it will continue to impede all avenues to export crude oil from the region.

NDA claimed that contrary to reports, it was not approached by anybody from the Federal Government when a ceasefire was declared, adding that the government did not create any platform to address the problems of the region, Vanguard reports.

The report quoted a source from the ranks of the militant group as saying, “This phase of our struggle encapsulates our determination to ensure that the petro-dollar from the Niger Delta is not used to develop the 97 per cent (95 per cent ) of those President.

“In the first instance, we suspended hostilities in good faith to see if the government of the day was sincerely speaking when it announced its dialogue initiative. That was why for strategic reasons we did not make open declaration of our cessation of hostilities. We wanted to watch and to show Nigerians and the world the insincerity of the government’s dialogue plans.




“Until we resumed operations, nobody reached out to us and government did not establish any genuine platform to address our grievances.

“Until President Buhari takes our demands seriously and set up a genuine framework to address the Niger Delta question, we will continue to obstruct all avenues to export our crude oil to develop his 97 per cent (95 per cent). In fact, whenever we have any contact to establish a genuine negotiation and dialogue, we will not hesitate to let the world know that we are in dialogue with the government and her representatives.

“This is another phase of the Niger Delta struggle to reclaim our resources for prosperity. Some mischief-makers can tag it Ijaw struggle, but our set short, medium and long-term plans are for us the people of the Niger Delta to control our resources and develop our land and pay tax to the central government.

“We have stated our objectives, which are in three categories. It is President Buhari’s responsibility to show political will to address them, we do not want ‘peace of our time,’ we want ‘peace with honour.’ There are no new demands on the table, what every past government has given the people of Niger Delta is graveyard peace.”

BREAKING! Operation Zero Crude Export: Avengers Strikes Again (See What they Bombed this Time)

According update on Niger Delta Avengers website:
At about 7:30pm the Niger Delta Avengers blow up ExxonMobile Qua Iboe 48″ crude oil export pipeline. When will these International Oil companies (IOC) learn to listen. We (Niger Delta Avengers) said no export.
Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo
Spokesperson.

BOMBSHELL!!! Buhari is a Religious Bigot – CAN

Christians Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the 19 Northern states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has accused the Federal Government of marginalization of Northern Christians in its appointments.
Chairman of the group, Rev. Yakubu Pam, urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to be fair in the sharing of political appointments in the country.

In a statement weekend in Jos, the group decried the exclusion of qualified Christians in the appointment into strategic positions by the Federal Government even with the numerous competent Christians from all states in the north.


According to Northern CAN, while there were allegations from the South that the appointment made so far were in favour of the north, facts on ground revealed that these appointments were lopsided in favour of Muslim core north to the detriment of northern Christian community.

Pam advocated for fairness and equity in the appointment of qualified Nigerians into positions of government, insisting that the appointments made so far in the last one year by President Buhari had generated concern among northern Christian community, with the appointment of security Chiefs as typical example.

It advised President Buhari to carry out a review of appointments so far to ensure that all sections of Nigeria were given a sense of belonging.

The group called on President Buhari to act as father of all and not allow the few elements around him to push him into taking actions that would not move the country forward.

Tension: Sen. Akpabio Reacts to Killing Of RCCG Evangelist in Abuja by Islamic Fanatics

The Senate Minority leader reacted to the unfortunate incident on his Facebook wall last night.
Read him below:

“I want to strongly condemn the killing of Mrs Eunice Olawale by unknown Assailants and demand along with all well meaning Nigerians that this killings has to stop. Let us learn to tolerate each other’s religion and shun violence.

I also hope that her killers are apprehended and charged for her murder as quickly as possible . Nobody deserves to die like that. My Sincerest condolences to her family. May her soul rest in peace. Amen.”

Brother Of Redeemed Church Pastor’s Wife Murdered In Abuja Protests Alone (Photo)

It’s sad that a harmless woman could be so gruesomely murdered.

Pictured above is a man on a sole protest at the premises of Oyo State broadcasting corporation Ibadan over the murder of Mrs Mojisola Unice, killed while preaching in Abuja.
The protester, Apata Emmanuel, is the late woman’s brother.