A Journalist declared wanted by the Nigeria military authorities, Ahmed Salkida has said that he did not deserve the treatment he is getting from Nigeria in view of the great personal sacrifices he had made over the years to secure the release of Chibok girls.

“Clearly, my status as a Nigerian journalist who has reported extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the Boko Haram menace in the country since 2006 is an open book known to Nigerians and the international community. Equally, my total allegiance and sacrifice to the Federal Republic of Nigeria is self evident. I have stayed within the creed of professional journalism in my work.”

Salkida, who reacted, in a statement, to the news about his being on the wanted list list of the Nigerian Army, said that as a testimony to the credible and professional values of his access, since May 2015, he had been to Nigeria three times on the invitation of Federal Government agencies.

“I made personal sacrifices for the release of our Chibok daughters,” Salkida said, adding that the Army is aware that he is not in Nigeria presently.
“In the coming days I will seek to get a flight to Abuja and avail myself to the Army authorities. Indeed, my return will be hastened if the Military sends me a ticket.” [myad]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to political leaders in Guinea Bissau to embrace unity and avoid any act that could plunge the nation into further crisis.
Speaking while receiving the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Guinea Bissau, Mr. Modibo Toure, at the State House on Monday, President Buhari decried the lingering political crisis in the West African country.
Buhari advised the people to accept responsibility for leadership to stabilize the country, adding that it is only the country’s political leaders, not outsiders that can effectively resolve the political crisis.
President Buhari said that Nigeria would welcome increased support from ECOWAS and the United Nations to stabilize the country and prevent breakdown of law and order.
He said that Nigeria had a responsibility to the region and the rest of Africa and assured: “we will not shirk on our responsibility, in spite of the hardship confronting us.”
The UN representative, Modibbo Toure, had requested Nigeria to use its clout in ECOWAS to break the deadlock in the country.
He warned that Guinea Bissau is facing a very grim future if the country continues without a functioning government. [myad0]

Director of Information in the State House, Aso Rock, Mr. Justin Onuorah Abuah is dead. He died, aged over 56, on Sunday after a brief illness.
A statement by the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, said that late Abuah had a long and rich career at the Presidency, where he served seven past Nigerian leaders since 1986 when he joined the State House media office from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Abuah was born on January 29, 1959 in Asaba, Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State. He is survived by his wife, Loretta and three children (Chinedum, Chike and Amaechi).
His many colleagues, friends and admirers will fondly remember him as the man behind several presidential statements and speeches who demonstrated a rare sense of calmness and candour in service.
Meanwhile, President Buhari has sent a condolence message to the bereaved family even as burial arrangements are being arranged, to be announced later by the family.  [myad]

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group agitating for the Biafran Republic in Nigeria has claimed that it has fanatical followers all over the world.
In a statement, the group described itself as a global phenomenon, unprecedented in the history of freedom fighting anywhere on earth.
“We are all over the world with fanatical following. IPOB rank and file is with their leader, Nnamdi Kanu and we speak with one voice.”
The text of the statement goes thus:
We want to categorically state that we and our brothers the Niger Delta Avengers (N.D.A.) are inseparable in our quest for Biafra restoration.
Just as N.D.A. stated in their demands which the Nigerian Government is very much aware of but has chosen to ignore, there will be no negotiation if there is no freedom for the leader of IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Nigeria will avert imminent doom only if Buhari is compelled by civilized nations to obey existing court orders and release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.
Trying the discredited divide and rule tactics of using the media to claim Nnamdi Kanu denied N.D.A. in order to engineer acrimony and hatred between him and N.D.A. has failed woefully.
South South and South East are united in this noble quest for freedom and no amount of media manipulation can alter this fact.
Only if Buhari knows who Nnamdi Kanu truly is or the amount of influence he commands among the people of South East and South South he won’t listen to the lies Lawal Daura of DSS and Ohanaeze Ndigbo have been feeding him.
Although we acknowledge that our lawyers spoke out of turn in a recent press conference, we are also aware that Mr. Rochas Okorocha who parades himself to the contrary as an Igbo man has been working as a front man for Muhammadu Buhari to penetrate and compromise IPOB governing structure and our lawyers.
We are aware of the grand conspiracy orchestrated by Rochas Okorocha to penetrate IPOB by all and any means necessary.
We know that one of our lawyers has been meeting with Okorocha clandestinely in the past few weeks just like Buhari through Lawal Daura of DSS has been doing through inducements and threats.
Some of our lawyers are currently being investigated by the EFCC at the behest of Daura of DSS over a land case settled years ago, in order to unsettle them sufficiently to turn to DSS informants and ultimately undermine the legal defence of our leader as was the case with Vincent Obetta.
In spite of all these shenanigans by Buhari through Daura of DSS and his co-jesters in the media peddling falsehood about negotiations that our leader never consented to, IPOB worldwide is unwavering, determined and resolute under the supreme command of Nnamdi Kanu.
No other person dead or alive has the right to command or can command IPOB whether that person is residing in Government house in Owerri or from a private hospital in Nnewi.
Only Nnamdi Kanu can tell us in IPOB what to do and we obey. Anybody else attempting to do so will be comprehensively disgraced.
IPOB rank and file is with their leader Nnamdi Kanu and we speak with one voice.
Our decision remains that there will be NO negotiations with Nigeria until Buhari obeys court orders for the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu.
We would like to remind everyone that whatever statement or information is provided by IPOB either through our spokespersons or live on Radio Biafra broadcast by our Deputy Director is exactly the mind of our leader Nnamdi Kanu because he trained us to always put the needs of Biafra restoration first and never to retreat nor surrender.
From the time of the arrest of our leader till date he has never at any time disputed publicly or in private, through his wife or family members any press statement issued by IPOB official spokespersons.
Furthermore, IPOB is aware that Buhari is planning to kill our leader Nnamdi Kanu and is doing so with active connivance of some Igbo politicians with certain executive members of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
We warn Buhari and his cohorts that the murder of Nnamdi Kanu will spell doom not just for Nigeria but the entire sub-region because the fall out will be too disastrous for a sane mind to contemplate.
Anybody from the government of Nigeria or Ohanaeze Ndigbo that thinks that Nnamdi Kanu can be another Ken Saro-Wiwa or M.K.O. Abiola is digging their own grave.
IPOB is a global phenomenon, unprecedented in the history of freedom fighting anywhere on earth.
We are all over the world with fanatical following.
That IPOB has vowed to maintain a peaceful approach to liberating Biafra from the contraption called Nigeria does not translate to allowing Buhari and his conniving so-called Igbo elites to assassinate Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and go scot-free.
That will never happen.
We would like to state that IPOB is aware of the fact that all over the world terms for self-determination is always negotiated.
But what we insist on is that for Buhari to start any negotiation with IPOB on a peaceful exit of Biafra from Nigeria he must first obey court orders on the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu.
Buhari should also release all Biafrans illegally detained in various prisons in Nigeria.  [myad]