... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
sect on Sunday invaded Agapalawa and Ngoshe communities, killing two persons.
Ngoshe and Agapalawa are Nigeria's border towns with Republic of Cameroon.
Also, suspected bandidos Monday raided the Pompomari, Maiduguri residence of the state former Commissioner of Poverty Alleviation and Youths Empowerment, Mr. Daniel Ijai Mamza, snatching his vehicles.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves...
the National Assembly is poised to bring to an end the Boko Haram sect insurgency within the next three months.
The Senate Deputy Whip, Hosea Agboola, who disclosed this to news hounds in Ibadan expressed the Senate's concern to the activities of the sect and vowed to put an end to the scourge.
In a related development, Youths in the 19 northern states, under the aegis of Arewa Youth Forum (AYF) and the former leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo yesterday cautioned the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) against any attempt to further fuel instability and disunity in the country through its fresh threat to avenge the Boko Haram attacks.
Besides, another group, Northern Civil Society Coalition, headed by
Mallam Shehu Sani also advised President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
not to adhere to the calls by Arewa leaders over implementing an amnesty programme on Boko Haram that would enrich them.
They pointed out that both the elders and the governors in the North were not entrenched to provide solution to the insurgency in the region.
In the same vein, a socio Yoruba organization, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has reiterated its call for a national conference.
The group described the rejection of the amnesty offer by Boko Haram as a pointer to the fact that Nigeria needed nothing other than to organise a national dialogue where all issues affecting the different nation states would be discussed.
And to check insecurity in the country, the outgoing Anglican Bishop of Lagos West Diocese, Rt. Rev. Peter Adebiyi yesterday charged governments to re-introduce and strengthen the teaching of religious studies in their respective institutions.