JONATHAN AT IT AGAIN

 

1. "I believe that the kidnap of these girls will be the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria," President Goodluck Jonathan said. In his speech, he also thanked China, the US, the UK and France for their offers of help to rescue the girls. Their kidnapping three weeks ago has caused outrage worldwide. At least 1,200 people are estimated to have died in the violence and security crackdown this year alone. The schoolgirls were kidnapped from their boarding school on the night of 14 April from the town of Chibok in Borno state. In a video released earlier this week, Boko Haram's leader threatened to "sell" the students, saying they should not have been in school in the first place, but rather should get married. It is believed the girls are being held somewhere in the forested areas which stretch from near Chibok into neighbouring Cameroon.