Acting Governor Of Adamwa State, Ahmad UmaruAppoints SSG

Following his appointment as the Acting Governor of
Adamawa, on Tuesday, Alhaji Ahmad Umaru swore in
Prof. Liman Tukur as the new Secretary to the State
Government (SSG) today, July 16, in Yola.
The acting governor, speaking shortly after the ceremony,
said Tukur's appointment was based on his record of
performances.
He said: "The wind of change which has started blowing in
the state will not be completed without people like Tukur.
"We thank God that today we are in charge of the affairs
of the state and with the support of the people of the state
we are going to deliver,'' Umaru added.
He further urged the people of the state to remain calm and
peaceful, and also ensure they abide by the law.
The newly-appointed SSG, Tukur, who is a professor of
Geography from the Department of Environmental Sciences,
Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, in his
acceptance speech, thanked God for the appointment,
saying recent happenings in Adamawa were a democratic
version of revolution.
He said: "The appointment is a challenge. I promise to be
fair and equitable in discharging my duties."
The Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, who was
accused of misconduct and misappropriation of funds was
yesterday, July 15, impeached, while his deputy, Bala
Ngilari, tendered his resignation letter.
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Pastor Kumuyi Comments On Ban Of iOS And Android Devices In His Church

Pastor Kumuyi Comments On Ban Of iOS And Android Devices In His Church Manuel Ndimele, 3 hours ago 0 0 9 9 5740 Deeper Life Bible Church General Overseer, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi, has come out and debunked earlier reports that he had banned the use of iPads, iPhones and other mobile devices in his church. Deeper Life Bible Church General Overseer, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi The Man of God denied he had ever made such remarks in a bold-titled statement named "THIS REPORT IS FALSE" released on his Facebook page. Pastor Kumuyi denied making such statements, putting a ban on mobile devices and claimed the inital report was HIGHLY MISCHIEVOUS and MISLEADING. He further wrote about the place of technology in our world and how it could be used well (spread of the gospel) and misused.

Insurgents Kill 27 In Borno Twin Attacks

The terrorist group, Boko Haram on Tuesday evening, reportedly killed about 27 people in the Sabon Gari village of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state.

A source, who made this known to Vanguard said, the attack took place around 6:00 p.m yesterday.

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The source said the terrorist killed 20 people in the first attack, while on Wednesday, after regrouping stormed the Sabon Gari cemetery/graveyards, and killed seven more people while they were trying to bury the dead.

Some of the escaped residents said several other people sustained various degrees of injuries during the attack, adding that properties worth millions of naira were also destroyed by the sect.

Related: Don’t Expect A Perfect Nigeria – Former Head Of State

DSP Gideon Jubrin, the state police command spokesman could not be reached for comment on the incident, but high ranking officer who declined being named said: “more than 20 people were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday twin attacks on Sabon Gari village by suspected terrorists”.

The attacked town is about 40 kilometres drive to Biu in southern Borno, and about 145 kilometres away from the state capital, Maiduguri.

The town has been under severe attacks of late, two days ago, some suspected Boko Haram members attacked neighbouring Mandafuma village of Biu local government area and wrecked havoc, with the main bridge linking Maiduguri- Damboa- Madafuma- Biu road blown off by the sect.

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Modem; No Rooting Required, Redux

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Modem; No Rooting Required, Redux

Last year we showed you how to tether your Android phone to your computer, no rooting required. The only catch was that it cost $16—now we’re back with a just as simple but free-as-in-beer solution.
Our original guide was inspired by a reader email, asking us to help configure their Android phone and laptop for tethered browsing, and detailed how to use the robust PDAnet to tether. This guide is inspired by the recent release of Tether, a free application from Koushik Dutta, the brains behind the awesome ClockworkMod package for Android. Read on as we show you how to use ClockwordMod Tether.
One word of warning before we continue; although we found Tether to be a perfectly acceptable alternative to PDAnet, it is still an Alpha release. If you’re worried about hiccups or downtime (and your job depends on you having face and reliable internet access) we’d highly suggest reading our original guide focused on PDAnet as PDAnet is a mature and well tested tethering tool.

What You’ll Need

Accept for a quick download, you should have everything you need on hand already. For this tutorial you’ll need the following items:

• Your Android Phone
• Your laptop, netbook, or desktop computer
• A USB sync cable for your Android phone
• A copy of Clockwork Mod Tether Alpha (Available for Windows/Mac/Linux)

Once you’ve downloaded the appropriate copy for your OS, you’re ready to rock. Let’s get started!

Installing Tether

 
After downloading the installation app, launch it. Although you won’t have to do anything too fancy to install tether you will need to approve a variety of system changes—the warnings look serious but that’s just because Windows Vista/7 is particularly aggressive about warning users.
Click through the installation process, about halfway through a command prompt window will pop up and the installation process will prompt you to approve the installation of an unsigned driver. Approve it.

At the end of the installation process Tether will launch your default web browser and direct it to Tether Drivers sub-page of the ClockworkMod site. If you already have the most up-to-date USB drivers for your particular Android phone, you can skip this step. For everyone else, take a moment to grab drivers for your phone. Don’t see your phone listed? You can always check out the driver list provided by Google here. At any rate, you’ll need to make sure your drivers are up to date before continuing.
If you’ve previously used PDAnet on your computer (whether the trial or the full package) you’ll need to uninstall it before continuing. Tether will not work if PDAnet is installed. Once your drivers are up to date and you’ve confirmed PDAnet is uninstalled, it’s time to fire up Tether.

When you first run it there isn’t much going on, it simply sits by idle waiting for you to start the process. Now is the time to plug in your Android phone’s sync cable and tether the phone to your computer. You’ll need to have Debug mode enabled. Take a moment to navigate, on your Android phone, to Settings > Applications > Development and check USB Debugging. Once you’ve confirmed debugging is on and your phone is connected, click Start in the Tether interface on your computer.
Tether should spring to life; don’t worry too much about the output whirling by in the Tether Log window. Tether will automatically install the Tether application on your Android phone (if it doesn’t you can find it in the \ClockworkMod\Tether\Common\ folder and install it manually).
At this point the USB logo on both the Tether desktop app and the Tether Android app should be green like so: 

And that’s it! You’re connected to the internet via your Android phone. No more hunting for Wi-Fi nodes, you’ve got a easy to use tether right in your pocket.

Troubleshooting Your Tether Installation

Although we had a painless Tether installation, it’s still an Alpha release app. We’ve rounded up some solutions to common problems here.
First, when in doubt, restart both your computer and phone. Second, use the task manager to kill all instances of tether.exe and node.exe before restarting the tether.exe—some users report that the first time they run Tether it doesn’t work but after killing the process and starting it again everything is fine.
Getting a DUN Null error? Make sure you’ve uninstalled PDAnet—double check even if you think it’s not installed, maybe you tested it out years ago and forgot.
Connection hangs between phone and computer? Make sure your USB drivers are up to date. It’s possible to have just-good-enough older drivers that get the phone and computer talking but fail to completely connect the two together.
Installation failed? Run it again as administrator and make sure to approve the driver requests it makes.

How To Backup and Restore Your Android Phone with Titanium Backup

How To Backup and Restore Your Android Phone with Titanium Backup

If you want to get serious about backing up your Android phone, including everything from system app data to saved Wi-Fi nodes, Titanium Backup can help. Read on to learn how to backup your Android phone from A to Z.

Why Bother With a Third Party Backup Application?

Android phones already come with some handy backup features; anyone who has purchased a new Android phone and plugged in the Google Account login they were using on their previous Android phone has surely been impressed with the ease in which their old contacts appeared. Newer versions of Android (2.2+) even have some extra backup features like the ability to backup your wallpaper and some applications (if the developer allows it).
While that’s great and certainly eleventy-billion times better than dealing with transferring contacts from phone to phone in the age of “dumb phones” it’s not a perfect or complete solution. If you want fine control over your backup process and the ability to backup every application and its associated data, system settings, and more, you’re going to need to rely on a third-party solution. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to backup all data with the powerful and popular Android backup app Titanium Backup.

What You’ll Need

For this tutorial you’ll only need two things

• A rooted Android phone
• A copy of Titanium Backup

Why a rooted phone? Rooting an Android phone simply means modifying your phone so that applications can have root (administrator) access to the Android operating system. Titanium Backup requires root access to Android in order to effectively backup every aspect of the system. If Titanium Backup did not have root access it would not be able to access systems files to backup system data and it would not be able to access restricted applications in order to copy the application itself and (sometimes) the data for backup.
Phone-by-phone rooting instructions are beyond the scope of this tutorial but don’t worry. If your phone isn’t rooted already there are some excellent resources available to help you root. One of the best resources around is the XDA Development forums. Search for your specific phone/carrier for detailed guides on how to root your device. In the process you’ll learn more about your phone than you ever thought possible. Avoid simply searching Google for a rooting guide as many guides are outdated and will lead to big headaches—XDA’s forum posts and guides are frequently updated and it’s easy to make sure you’re looking at a current version.
Finally, a word on Titanium Backup. It comes in two flavors: free and premium ($6.56). We’ll be using the free version for this tutorial; it’s a more than adequate program loaded with great features. The premium version adds in some additional features power users may find useful like versioned backup, backup encryption, unlimited backup scheduling, and such. You can compare the free and premium features here.

Installing Titanium Backup

If your phone is rooted and Superuser is installed, installing Titanium Backup is a breeze. If you’ve skipped the rooting process and/or installing Superuser, jump back to the previous section and check out the XDA forum to read more about your device. If you’ve done the prep work grab a copy of Titanium Backup from the Android Market and install it.

There’s only two things you really need to pay attention to during the installation process to make sure your future Titanium Backup use goes smoothly. First, you’ll get an initial prompt to elevate Titanium Backup’s user privileges. If you’re going to be using the schedule feature for automated backups (and you should be using that feature) you’ll want to check the Remember box here so that Titanium Backup doesn’t need your attention every time it goes to backup. Second, if you haven’t enabled installation of application files from unknown sources (which Titanium Backup needs in order to restore your apps from backup later) make sure to enable it.
Now that Titanium Backup in installed a small caution is in order. Do not just start clicking willy nilly around menus. Titanium Backup is a powerful application designed for power users. Unlike nearly every other application on your phone where it’s hard to even make an error let alone a really serious one, Titanium Backup gives you direct access to your system in a way that makes it significantly easier to send a wrecking ball through the guts of your phone. Read every item twice before clicking it and when you have even the slightest bit of doubt about what a function does, refer to the detailed Titanium Backup wiki for clarification before proceeding.

Performing Your First Backup

Once Titanium Backup in installed and you’ve repeated “I will not click on buttons that perform unfamiliar tasks!” three times, you’re ready for your first backup. Click on the Backup/Restore tab. Click the Menu button on your phone. From the menu that pops up at the bottom of the screen select Batch. From the large Batch menu select [RUN] Backup all user apps + system data. You can opt to only backup user apps or system data by themselves, but we installed Titanium Backup so we could do fast and total backups of our entire system and we suggest you do the same—it’s no fun to find out one data catastrophe too late that the thing you really wanted backed up wasn’t.

Once you select your backup roster, you’ll be prompted one more time. Titanium Backup wants to know if you want to kill the active apps or exclude them. You can also choose not to include certain applications in the backup. Since we have nothing pressing going on in any of our active applications we opted to Kill active apps and left all applications checked. Comprehensive backup is where it’s at. When you’re done with the batch selection menu click Run the batch operation.
Depending on the processing power of your phone and the number of applications you have installed the initial backup process can take anywhere between a minute or two to a quarter hour or more. Plug your phone in to charge and leave it be until it’s done. When’s complete you’ll see the Backup/Restore menu again. Now instead of a bunch of caution triangles beside each application (the not-backed up indicator) you’ll see a variety of smiley faces and check marks. If you’re curious what each smiley face and other marks means, click the Menu button and then click Legend to get a run down. If you see all red/M, yellow/M smileys, and check marks, everything was backed up as intended. If you see caution triangles mixed in there it’s time to run the batch again—unless the missing backups are the apps you didn’t want to kill and/or excluded from the batch list.

If everything looks good, what now? Navigate to /TitaniumBackup/ on your SD card; there you’ll find all your backups. Copy the entire directory to your computer for safekeeping, sync it to your cloud storage, or otherwise back it up. Titanium Backup is only worth as much as the backups you keep. No backups after a catastrophic data lose (that may or may not have taken your SD card with it), no restoration points to work with.
That’s it! Your first backup is complete! From here you can Schedules tab and schedule a weekly backup (upgrade to Pro to enjoy a more flexible and unlimited scheduling system). You can also tap on an individual app in the Backup/Restore list at any time to perform an immediate and one-off backup.

Restoring a Backup

When it comes time to restore there are several options. Just like you can batch backup everything on your phone you can also batch restore everything. Navigate to the batch menu you as you did above by going to Menu-> Batch while on the Backup/Restore screen. Scroll down until you see the Restore subheading. There you can select the option that suits your batch restoration needs just as you did for your batch backup needs—see the first two panels of the above image.
A less drastic approach, let’s say you just want to restore your Angry Birds unlocked levels that have gone missing in action, is to tap on an individual application in the Backup/Restore list and click Restore—see the last panel above the above image.
In 99% of the situations restoration is a snap. For the more complicated restoration procedures like restoring data when you’ve updated your phone with a custom ROM or migrated to a new phone make sure to check out the Titanium Backup wiki for pointers.

How To Block Web Sites at the Router Level for Network Wide Filtering

How To Block Web Sites at the Router Level for Network Wide Filtering

A comprehensive network filtering system is overkill if all you want to do is block a handful of web sites. Read on as we show you how—with nothing more than your router—you can selectively block and temporarily restrict individual websites.
For many people a massive commercial internet filter is overkill. What if you just want to block Facebook when your kids are supposed to be doing their homework or Reddit when you’re supposed to be getting work done? You don’t need a huge system for that, all you need is the access restrictions module in your router. Today we’re looking at how you can quickly and easily block traffic on your network using router-based access restrictions.

What You’ll Need

For this tutorial you’ll won’t need much and you won’t have to spend a dime. Before proceed make sure you have the following things:

• A Tomato compatible router
• A copy of Tomato on the router
• Administrative access to the router

We’re going to go through the tutorial as using a Linksys router running Tomato custom firmware. The steps we’re taking are largely equivalent to the DD-WRT system (you can read about selective domain blocking for DD-WRT here). If you don’t have Tomato installed on your router check out our guide to installing Tomato here. If you have it installed and you have administrative access (you know the login password for the control panel) then you’re ready to proceed.

Setting Up URL Filters in Tomato

For our example we’re going to setup both a total ban and a time-based ban on the social news site Reddit. Reddit fans among us will attest to the fact that the site, as fun as it can be, is an enormous time sink and a great productivity killer. First let’s take a look at the Access Restriction module in Tomato. Navigate to your router control panel, typically an address like http://192.168.1.1 and plug in your credentials. Once you’re in the main panel navigate to Access Restriction in the left hand menu—seen above. Click on it to enter the sub-menu. If you’ve never used the feature before all you’ll see in the Access Restriction Overview section is a disabled example entry like so:

Just beneath the example entry, to the right, is the Add button. Click that now to create your first entry.
For our first entry we’re going to make a filter, called Reddit Killer, which blocks Reddit all day, every day. Change the description name from New Rule to Reddit Killer, check All Day and Everyday, leave Applies to as All Computers/Devices, and then uncheck Block All Internet Access—if you don’t check this part, you won’t be able to specify what exactly you want to block. It should look like this:

When you unchecked Block All Internet Access, an entire new portion of the menu unfolded beneath the initial entry. Within this portion of the menu is where we’re going to specify the sites we want to block. 

Leave the Port/Applications section alone (these settings allow you to get more granular control over your filters such as filtering only BitTorrent or a specific port). In the HTTP Request section enter reddit.com and then, at the bottom right corner, click Save.

Back at the main screen you should see the new filter, Reddit Killer, with it’s rather encompassing “Everyday” schedule. Let’s take a look at Reddit and see if our filter is active:

Reddit is down? Well then. We’d better get back to work. Our filter is great success.
If you’re not quite ready for a full Reddit fast but you’d like to at least keep it shut off while you’re trying to focus on work, you can easily modify the scheduling component to, say, restrict access between 8AM and 5PM on the weekdays. Let’s click on Reddit Killer now so we can edit it.

Uncheck All Day and Everyday, then in the new options which have appeared, select 08:00-17:00 and Monday through Friday. While we’re at it, let’s update the Description to better reflect the purpose of the filter. Since we’re restricting access to the evenings, we’ll call our new filter Reddit Tonight.
To register the changes, click save down in the lower right corner. If you wish to further massage the settings (such as applying the restrictions to only certain computers) you can pull down the Applies To menu and create white/black lists of computers that are restricted or unrestricted. You can also easily expand your filter by adding new lines into the HTTP request box. Instead of just a Reddit Killer it could be expanded to include all the web sites you routine kill time on (Reddit, Facebook, Fark, and so on). In addition to filtering web sites you can also set up keyword filters. In short, if it’s travelling through your network you can find a way to filter it in the Access Restrictions menu.

How To Backup Your Text Messages to Your Gmail Account

How To Backup Your Text Messages to Your Gmail Account

Backing up your text messages from your Android phone to your Gmail account is so simple there’s no reason to not back them up and make them search-friendly in the process. Read on to see how you can turn your Gmail account into an SMS vault.

What Do I Need?

It’s easy to lose your text messages. Everything from switching phones to fumble fingers can drop your messages in front of the digital reaper—just last night I managed to accidently delete a massive SMS thread when I really only intended to delete a single message that refused to send.
Backing up your SMS messages to your Gmail account is so simple, however, there’s no good reason not to do it. For this tutorial you’ll need three things:

• Your Android phone
• A free copy of SMS Backup+
• A Gmail account

Got all that? Let’s get started!
Note: Technically, you can dig around the advanced settings of SMS Backup+ to reconfigure it to work with any IMAP-enabled email server. However, since it was designed to work with Gmail and works so well with Gmail’s search, threading, and starring functionality, we’re not going to mess with a good thing.

Configuring Your Gmail Account for IMAP Access

SMS Backup+ requires IMAP access to your Gmail account to function. Let’s take a moment and hop over to the Gmail account we’re planning on using with the application and check the status.
Login to your Gmail account and navigate to Settings –> Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Check Enable IMAP. Scroll down and click Save Changes. That’s the only configuration you’ll need to do within your Gmail account.

Installing and Configuring SMS Backup+

With our Gmail account IMAP features toggled on, it’s time to install SMS Backup+. Hit up the Google Play Store and download the app.  After the application is installed, it’s time to get configuring. Launch the application. The first screen you’ll see will look like the following:

The first step is to set up the connection to your Gmail account. Tap Connect. The default browser on your Android phone will launch and you’ll be prompted to login to the Gmail account you want to use for backing up your messages. After you login you’ll need to authorize SMS Backup+ to utilize your Google account like so:

Click Grant Access. You’ll be prompted to begin a backup immediately or skip the initial backup:

Click Backup; we didn’t come all this way not to back things up! If you hit Skip then all the messages on your phone will be flagged as already backed up and will be ignored.
The backup process will start, and depending on how many messages you have, will take anywhere from a minute to a half hour to complete. It clips along at about a message per second:

You don’t even have to wait until the process is finished to jump over to the Gmail account and check the progress. Login to your Gmail account from a web browser. You’ll see a new label in the sidebar, SMS. Click on it:

Success! SMS Backup+ automatically backs up your SMS messages as well as your MMS messages. Not only are all of our text messages there but the pictures we’ve sent back and forth are backup up to Gmail along with the messages. Now that we’ve got everything humming along, let’s look at some advanced options.

Advanced SMS Backup+ Configuration

If you do nothing else before leaving this tutorial, you need to turn on the automatic backup feature. Leaving things up to manual backup in a sure fire way to forget. From the main screen tap Auto backup to turn it on and then tape on Auto backup settings to configure the frequency. The default configuration is a bit aggressive. You may wish to, as we did, decrease the frequency of backups and even set it to only backup one Wi-Fi if you’re backing up a lot of MMS and don’t want to burn through your mobile data quota.

After you’ve set up the automatic backup, return to the main screen and head into Advanced settings. There you can change the settings for backing up, restoring, and notifications. Under Backup there are some useful settings you may wish to toggle include turning off MMS backup (again, to save on data consumption, and creating a whitelist of contacts you want backed up (instead of the default where every single message is backed up).
There isn’t much to look at under the Restore settings, but you can take advantage of a handy Gmail-centric trick. When SMS Backup+ stores your messages in Gmail it creates a thread for each contact. You can tell SMS Backup+ to only restore the contacts with starred threads which allows you to quickly select which conversations are important enough to restore via the star system in Gmail.

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So there you have it! All your text messages (including multimedia attachments) are backed up within Gmail where you can easily search them and restore them to your handset should the need arise.

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HOT!! How to browse with your BIS using your computer

HOT!! How to browse with your BIS using your computerTether is another software which can be used to share your BIS internet connection to your PC. Though, you might have heard about it before now but right now you will have the full tutorial on how to make it work with your BIS.

Tether also works like PdaNet Which I earlier posted, It is an application that allows you to have full Internet access on your PC anywhere using your smartphone’s data plan (i.e BIS, BES etc.).
How to Use Tether
Download Tether on your Windows PC by Clicking Here
After downloading, Install it.
Then, you need to install Tether on your BlackBerry. DOWNLOAD it too by
Clicking Here please. Use your BB default browser
To download, then goto your blackberry Settings –> Device –> Advanced System Settings –> TCP IP –> tick APN Settings Enabled. Then  Configure it with the below info:
For GLO
APN: blackberry.net
Username and Password: flat
For MTN
APN: web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
Username and Password: web
Now Run Tether on your computer and on your BlackBerry smartphone.
You will be prompted to select either USB or Bluetooth. Select USB on the smartphone and computer.
Next connect your BlackBerry to your computer with the USB cable. You should now see data/packets flowing on Tether. That means you’re connected
Enjoy!

Kano State to Free Indigenes out of 486 Boko Haram Suspects Detained in Abia State

Boko Haram suspects arrested in Abia State
Kano State authorities intend to set free Kano indigenes
among the 486 persons detained by security operatives in
Aba, Abia State, NAN reports.
On Sunday, June 15, hundreds of travelers from the Northern
regions of the country were arrested on the allegations of
belonging to Boko Haram terrorist sect. Most current reports
from the Aba city police indicate 87 sect's members were
indetified among the suspects, including a notorious kingpin.
However, many Nigerians have expressed doubts in the
validity of the operation, alleging the suspects' innocence.
Speaking in Kano today, the state's Commissioner for
Information, Danburan Abubakar, said the delegation are
currently in Abia having talks with the state government
officials and security agents, aiming at determining the exact
number of Kano indigenes and the nature of their offences.
Another goal of the delegation is to ensure that adequate care
is taken of the Kano indigenes.
"We directed the team to secure their release, if they were not
found guilty of any offence and bring them back home.
"We will not accept a situation where the fundamental human
rights of our innocent citizens are infringed upon.
"The committee has been directed to immediately report back
its findings to the government for necessary and appropriate
action," Mr. Abubakar said.
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How The World Quickly Stopped Caring About The Kidnapped Nigerian Girls In 3 Simple Charts

Hayes Brown, an editor at Think Progress and a blogger
conducted a research dedicated to the kidnap of more than
200 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in the
town of Chibok, located in Nigeria's northeast Borno state by
militants from the terrorist group commonly known as Boko
Haram on April 14, 2014.
The research is based on 5 Goggle trends charts. Here's only
the part of the article that may be interesting for Nigerian
readers:
The girls are still missing. Their mothers still protest in
Nigeria's capital. International assistance is flowing into the
country to aid in the search. Despite that, the interest in the
plight of the nearly three hundred school-aged girls taken
over two months ago has plummeted since the story first
became the latest cause célèbre on the Internet. It's a common
enough assumption as to become cliche that interest in news
stories, barring large flashy developments, tends to fade over
time.
But the data backs up that idea, particularly in the case of the
story of the three hundred girls from the Government Girls
Secondary School in the town of Chibok, located in Nigeria's
northeast Borno state. According to the data, that interest
lasted for roughly a week before sharply dropping to the
levels seen today. Since the kidnapping finally made its way
into the international press, the story has been shared and
tracked on social media through the hashtag
"#BringBackOurGirls, serving almost as a brand for the
abduction, an easy way to refer to the complex situation
unraveling.
Google offers a service called Google Trends which can be
used to examine how many people worldwide search for
given terms compared to other points over a certain period.
Plugging #BringBackOurGirls into Google Trends, modeling
the last 90 days of search traffic, shows a surge of interest in
the term peaking on Fri. May 9, before a sharp drop-off the
following Monday.
Interest over time. Web Search. Worldwide, Past 90 days.
View full report in Google
Trends
The hashtag originated in Nigeria roughly two weeks after the
girls' kidnapping. Searches for the hashtag on Google
skyrocketed the third week of the girls' kidnapping. A drop-
off in interest into the hashtag doesn't necessary mean that
interest in the story writ large is also falling. As a way to
minimize the chances of that, ThinkProgress also ran a query
for the term "Nigeria girls," a simple shorthand for the story.
The results are similar in terms of a clear peak followed by a
substantial drop-off in interest.
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APC National Chairman Reveals Ploy By PDP to Rig Ekiti Elections

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC)
John Odigie-Oyegun has revealed a ploy by the Peoples
Democratic Party(PDP) to rig the Ekiti gubernatorial elections.
John Odigie-Oyegun, APC's national chairman
Speaking at a press briefing held in Lagos yesterday, Oyegun
alleged that the large number of security operatives deployed
to the state for the elections holding today is a ploy to rig the
elections.
"It is unfortunate that under the guise of providing security,
Ekiti State has been turned into a war zone. It has been over-
run by armed security personnel with the intention of
intimidating the opposition and the voters as well," Oyegun
said.
Expressing doubt over the ability of the Jonathan-led Federal
Government to conduct a free, fair, credible and transparent
election in Ekiti, Oyegun said the PDP is too desperate to
capture Ekiti by every means.
He particularly criticised the alleged prevention of APC
governors and supporters by security agencies from entering
the state for the party's rally on Thursday which according to
him was a well orchestrated plan by the PDP to intimidate
APC chieftains and swing the election in favour of the PDP
candidate.
"Our electoral laws are clear that every polling unit should
have one unarmed policeman and the military should have no
role in the election. But in Ekiti, armed police and military
personnel have been deployed in their numbers and the
question we are asking is whose purpose are they going to
serve?
"If the PDP were popular, they would not have any need to
militarise Ekiti State. But despite what is happening, we are
confident that we would capture Ekiti State. We have done
our survey and we know that we would win ," Oyegun said.
The PDP is too desperate to capture Ekiti by every means and
in view of this, we have deemed it fit to alert Nigerians to
their antics.
The APC chieftain therefore called on the international
partners to condemn the growing impunity by the ruling party
and the government it controls at the centre.
Meanwhile, the PDP had yesterday denied APC's accusations
of turning Ekiti state to war zone, saying the accusation was
absolutely wrong as the government is committed to one man,
one vote; and one woman, one vote.
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President Orders School Operators to Provide Adequate Security Measures

President Goodluck Jonathan said Boko Haram terrorists
were able to kidnap the 276 girls from their school's
dormitories in Chibok, Borno State, because of lack of
adequate security measures.
As he was receiving the report of the fact-finding committee
that was set up in early May to investigate the April 14
kidnap, Jonathan said, in part:
"If we had just five security personnel in the compound that
night, although they couldn't have stood the firepower of the
invaders, they could have alerted the girls and they wouldn't
have been deceived ... Most of them [the girls] would have
been able to escape and probably the number taken would
not have been up to 30.
"But because there was no security at all, there was nobody
to even warn the girls that there was danger."
"The story was that they came in military camouflage and
deceived the girls that they were soldiers, who came to take
them on protective custody because Boko Haram was
invading the community, and they followed."
Jonathan then ordered that school operators, notably of the
North Eastern boarding schools, ensure security for their
students.
"Let me charge everybody, whether corporate bodies, federal
and state governments or individuals that own schools
especially in the north east, that if we must keep students in
hostels, there must be some basic security that should be
provided," the President said, adding: "While I am not
expecting school owners to put an army battalion on guard,
at least basic security arrangement should be made to protect
their students."
Further, the President said that the Federal Government would
rebuild the Chibok school using army engineers after the girls
are rescued and hand it over to the Borno State government to
manage.
The fact-finding committee has determined the exact number
of abducted girls (276), saying 219 are still in the hands of
captors. On Friday, photographs and names of almost all
missing girls were published in the ThisDay newspaper.
Despite the emergency rule imposed in Yobe, Borno and
Adamawa states over a year ago, the area has often been
targeted by Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram Terrorists Fear Their Commanders, Flee Camps in Sambisa Forest

Nigerian Army soldiers patrol Sambisa Forest
Two Boko Haram terrorists have left the camps in Sambisa
Forest for Bama local government area of Borno State out of
fear of being killed by their commanders.
According to DailyTrust, Boko Haram leaders are neutralizing
fellow members in every case they show resistance, inclusing
those who joined the sect willingly and those who were forced
to
Bama youths say the two fugitives are known for their ties
with the sect, and, upon sighting them, tried to capture them.
However, one of the suspect managed to flee.
Upon interogation, the caught terrorist has revealed they have
run away from Sabisa Forest out of fears for their lives.
Recall that a few days ago, aide to President Goodluck
Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has shared some
photographs of Nigerian Army soldiers combing the vast
territory of Sambisa Forest.
The area is notorious for serving as a perfect hide-out for Boko
Haram fighters.
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Stephen Keshi Commiserates With Families of DamaturuExplosion Victims

Stephen Keshi commiserated with families and friends of the
21 victim who lost their lives in the explosion that occured at
a football screening venue in Damaturu, capital of Yobe
State, AP reports.
Fans were watching a World Cup Brazil-Mexico match on June
17, the day after the 0-0 draw between Nigeria's Super
Eagles and Iran's national team.
Speaking on Friday at a press conference held at Cuiabá's
Arena Pantanal (the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato
Grosso), Keshi said:
"It's not a pleasant thing, seeing people dying for no reason.
It was like a double jeopardy - after our game most Nigerians
weren't very happy we had a tie against Iran, then the bomb
blast wasn't pleasant at all.
"It's very tough for Nigerians, our heart goes out to them and
we will do everything possible to ensure we can put a smile
on their faces tomorrow."
Captain of the Super Eagles, Norwich City defender currently
on loan to Turkish side Fenerbahce, Joseph Yobo also voiced
his condemn of the attack and hoped Super Eagles could
cheer Nigerians up a bit:
"We are very sad about the news. We understand the
situation. I think without the fans football wouldn't be
enjoyable.
"Players understand why we''e here at the World Cup, to win
games, and then hopefully everyone will be happy. All we
can try and do is perform well for our country."
Nigeria plays their next Group F game against Bosnia in
Cuiaba on Saturday. Previously, the team's media officer Ben
Alaiya has said the players were obviously saddened by the
attack and had vowed to do their best.
Although police have put the death toll of Tuesday's incident
at 14, medical sources report there were at least 21 deaths.
Nigeria's police warned fans against going to public venues
showing matches.
This is not the first terror attack on football viewing centers, as
in late May, a bomb went off a venue in Jos, capital of
Plateau State. The police said three persons, including the
bomber, died.
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