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data-scaytid="3">Haram</span> On The Army and Jonathan </b></u></span></span></h1> <h3> <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>By <span data-scayt_word="Farouk" data-scaytid="5">Farouk</span> Martins <span data-scayt_word="Aresa" data-scaytid="6">Aresa</span></strong></span></h3> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>It is dishonest for anyone to pin the <span data-scayt_word="Boko" data-scaytid="2">Boko</span> <span data-scayt_word="Haram" data-scaytid="4">Haram</span> terror on the Army or Jonathan. 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The source of funding for religious massacre, ostentatious living and social abuse of victims must be suffocated by regulations, levies or outright phasing out at inception unless verified for charity.</strong></p> <div class="jcomments-links"><a class="readmore-link" href="/web/20160819192557/http://africanoutlookonline.com/index.php/columnists/farouk-martins-aresa/8127-starve-state-religion-fund-workplace-and-school-uniformity" title="Starve State Religion, Fund Workplace And School Uniformity">Read more ...</a> </div> <div class="item-separator"></div> </div>  </div> <div class="span6"> <div class="item column-2" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <h2> <a href="/web/20160819192557/http://africanoutlookonline.com/index.php/columnists/farouk-martins-aresa/8093-akwa-ibom-must-produce-the-next-president-or-else"> Akwa Ibom Must Produce The Next President Or Else...</a> </h2> <ul class="actions"> <li class="email-icon"> <a href="/web/20160819192557/http://africanoutlookonline.com/index.php/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&template=simplycity2&link=6cd8d3d8b90fc635220b74fa5806beb0da9ae524" title="Email" onclick="window.open(this.href,'win2','width=400,height=350,menubar=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;" rel="nofollow">Email</a> </li> </ul> <h1> <span style="font-size:54px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><b><img alt="" src="/web/20160819192557im_/http://africanoutlookonline.com/images/stories/goodluck_jonathanrt.jpg" style="width: 412px; height: 274px; float: left;"/><span data-scayt_word="Akwa" data-scaytid="1">Akwa</span> <span data-scayt_word="Ibom" data-scaytid="4">Ibom</span> Must Produce The Next President Or Else...</b></span></span></h1> <h3> <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>By <span data-scayt_word="Farouk" data-scaytid="7">Farouk</span> Martins <span data-scayt_word="Aresa" data-scaytid="8">Aresa</span></strong></span></h3> <p> <strong><span data-scayt_word="Akwa" data-scaytid="2">Akwa</span> <span data-scayt_word="Ibom" data-scaytid="5">Ibom</span> State in south-south Nigeria, is made up of about 5 million people mainly <span data-scayt_word="Ibibio" data-scaytid="9">Ibibio</span>, <span data-scayt_word="Annang" data-scaytid="10">Annang</span>, <span data-scayt_word="Oron" data-scaytid="11">Oron</span>, <span data-scayt_word="Ibeno" data-scaytid="12">Ibeno</span>, and <span data-scayt_word="Eket" data-scaytid="13">Eket</span>. <span data-scayt_word="Uyo" data-scaytid="14">Uyo</span> their major City is <span data-scayt_word="95km" data-scaytid="15">95km</span> to <span data-scayt_word="Calabar" data-scaytid="16">Calabar</span> the Administrative headquarters of Nigeria before Lagos. 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You would think that with so many provoked and unprovoked wars, dictators killing their own people, domestic violence, hunger and diseases; humans would not engage in self-destructive behaviors mimicking Russian roulette. 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