Israeli ambassador: We’ll support Nigeria to end insurgency

The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Uriel Palti, has condemned acts of terrorism in Nigeria, especially the kidnap of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State. Palti called for the immediate release of the abducted girls and assured the Federal Government of Israel’s support at putting an end to the acts of terrorism in the country.

The ambassador said this during a visit to Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson at the Government House, Yenagoa, on Sunday. “The state of Israel condemns the kidnap of over 200 school girls in the northeast of Nigeria. We demand their immediate release. We will support the Federal Government in its efforts to end terrorism in the country,” he said.

Dickson and his wife, Rachel, were presented with two different awards by the visiting Israeli ambassador and his team. The governor was awarded with the title, ‘Jerusalem Ambassador’ while the wife was presented with the ‘Mother in Israel in Bayelsa’ award.

Horrible story: How Boko Haram butchered my father and brother - survivor

Deborah Peter, 15, recounted how the Nigerian Islamist group had butchered her father and brother as Congress mulls how to counter the group that has abducted over 200 schoolgirls

Deborah Peter, a 15 year-old Nigerian, has a horrible story.

On the evening of Dec. 22, 2011, she saw her father, a Christian pastor, shot three times in the chest by three members of the Islamist radical group Boko Haram. While her father lay on the floor of his home, the men debated whether or not they should kill her brother Caleb. As her father breathed his last, they killed Caleb too. The men made the young girl lie between the corpses and she stayed there until the next morning, when a local pastor paid for her to get out of the region. That pastor was killed in 2013 — again, by Boko Haram.