#BringBackOurGirls. And bring back our country, President Jonathan

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/07/bring-back-our-girls-nigeria-president-jonathan-boko-haram

I watched the first lady of my country, Nigeria, shed tears for theabducted Chibok girls over two weeks after they went missing. I didn't actually see the tears fall: she covered her face with a large tissue.

Mr President, it's not too late for you to become the leader we elected you to be. Take your eyes off the 2015 elections and focus on the matter at hand.' Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters

200 girls are missing in Nigeria – so why doesn't anybody care?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/23/200-girls-missing-nigeria-care-sewol-tragedy

Every morning for a week the news has been dominated by the South Korean ferry tragedy. The terrible grief of the parents, the shocking response of the crew to the unfolding disaster, and the inexorably rising body count.Two days before the South Korean students boarded their ferry for a study trip to the nearby island of Jeju, terrorists broke into a girls' school in Chibok, in the remote state of Borno, in north-eastern Nigeria. They shot guards and abducted about 200 students, who were loaded into trucks and, it seems, taken off into the forest. Two groups of the girls, perhaps 30 in all, managed to escape. The rest have simply disappeared.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/19/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/

Boko Haram leader claims bombing, stays mum on kidnapped schoolgirls

• The Boko Haram's elusive leader claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria's capital of Abuja that left dozens dead, but said nothing about the group's reported mass abduction of school girls that took place the same day as the burst. about 129 girls were kidnap , 84 still with there and 45 are released already according to a source.

Nigeria becomes Africa's largest economy

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/04/nigeria-becomes-africa-largest-economy-20144618190520102.html

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy after doubling its gross domestic product to more than $500bn, data from the statistics office showed. Nigeria as  Africa's most populous country with 170 million people, has been growing as an investment destination owing to the size of its consumer market and growing capital markets for years .Despite its rapid  growth of recent years and now a bigger GDP, Nigeria still following  South Africa in basic infrastructure - power and roads - which are needed to take people out of  people out of poverty.

Nigeria's President Criticizes Northeast Governors

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigerias-president-blames-northeast-governors-23116908


President Goodluck Jonathan blamed governors in Nigeria's northeastern states for the country's Islamic uprising, saying their failure to provide social services created more room for the killers of  more than 1,000 people so far this year, Jonathan lashed out at the governors, all from the opposition, at a rally in northern Bauchi state on Saturday. Governors also have suggested the violence is intended to weaken the northern vote ahead of February 2015 elections in which Jonathan's party faces its stiffest opposition since winning power in 1999 elections that ended decades of military dictatorship. Most northerners are Muslims and Jonathan is a Christian from the south. I guess the next in election will be a political wall in Nigeria.

Nigeria stars set to receive $1m bonus for Nations Cup win

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26517071

Africa's wealthiest businessman Aliko Dangote is set to fulfil his promise to reward Nigeria's team with $1m for winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations

 . Earlier this month he became the first African to be listed in the top 25 of Forbes magazine's annual ranking of global billionaires, with a net worth of $25bn. His wealth has been accumulated from a business empire that he founded in 1977 and now includes the number one sugar production company in Nigeria, a cement factory and textile products.

After a public appeal by Super Eagles captain Vincent Enyeama, it seems Dangote is about to come good.He told BBC Sport: "We've been waiting for Nigerian officials to collect the money but nobody has written to us."We will write to them, asking for the account numbers of the players, then we'll make the transfer immediately."

Article 1 - Dencia attacks Lupita

http://www.ibtimes.com/african-pop-star-dencia-attacks-lupita-nyongo-twitter-white-man-owns-her-1559745


Cameroonian pop star Dencia took to her Twitter account on March 1 to express her distaste for the stirring speech Nyong’o gave at the 214 Essence Black Women In Hollywood event on Feb. 27.
In her speech, the actress shared her thoughts on beauty and race. Nyong’o also read a portion of a letter she received from a dark-skinned girl who revealed she was inspired by Nyong’o to love her skin tone and not buy Whitenicious skin bleaching cream to lighten it. Nyong’o told the crowd that the letter reminded her of “a time when I too felt unbeautiful” and how witnessing the monumental success of supermodel Alek Wek helped her finally see the beauty of her skin tone.  

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Henry Oluwaseyi Agbanigo aka Indo

Indo is a Nigerian crew manager, artist, songwritter base in Maryland, United States.  "I am married to music, my wife is the rhythm and the song in me is the youngest son of mine... The world makes my wall blue, in that my heart is forever greeen." -Indo