Poor Turnout As Jonathan Takes Campaign To Kaduna after supporters received N2,000 Each

Poor Turnout As Jonathan Takes Campaign To Kaduna

A half-filled stadium marked the presidential campaign rally of President Goodluck Jonathan  at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna, as the President rounded off his re-election campaign in the North-West zone of the country on Saturday.

 

The 25,000 capacity stadium was half filled as many supporters shunned the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate’s rally.

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Boko Haram Town Bombed By Chadian Air Force

Boko Haram Town Bombed By Chadian Air Force

Soldiers from the Chadian Army at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, part of a regional force that has been fighting Boko Haram militants. 

The Chadian air force bombed the Nigerian town of Gamboru on Saturday, in an effort to drive out Boko Haram militants and allow troops from Chad to enter the northeastern town.

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PDP campaign team Pay Supporters N2,000 Each To Attend Rallies

Parties Pay Supporters N2,000 Each To Attend Rallies

A percentage of the crowd that turn up at election campaign rallies held by political parties for the forthcoming general elections is rented; investigations by Chat212.

Each of those contracted for the rallies are paid between N500 and N5,000. 

 

It was learnt that the amount paid depends on the profile of the event, the distance of the venue and the calibre of people engaged.

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Letter To Jonathan By Niyi Osundare

Dear President Jonathan, let me begin this letter by telling you what you already  know; by reminding you of what you are not expected to have forgotten:  the year 2015 has been predicted to be, and is being widely seen as, the year of Nigeria’s unravelling. The year that Leviathan contraption knocked together by Frederick Lugard for the glory of the British Empire, will totter back to its separate aboriginal parts and drown an already overwhelmed Africa with another swarm of hapless refugees in an unspeakable maelstrom of the typical African misery.

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123 Boko Haram, 3 Chad soldiers killed in Cameroon

3 Chad soldiers, 123 Boko Haram militants killed in Cameroon

N'Djamena Chat212 - Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the Islamist group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon, the Chadian military said.

Twelve soldiers were wounded in the attacks staged by the Islamists on Thursday and Friday near the border town of Fotokol, according to a military statement read out on national television.

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Scores of villager among Boko Haram dead after jets bomb hit Nigerian town

Chadian jets bomb Nigerian town in anti-Boko Haram raid

N'Djamena (AFP) - Chadian aircraft on Saturday bombed the Nigerian town of Gamboru in a raid targeting extremist group Boko Haram, security sources said, as regional efforts to combat the Islamists intensified.

An initial raid was carried out around midday by two fighter jets on the town in Nigeria's far northeast along the Cameroon border, sources from Chad and Cameroon said on condition of anonymity.

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