{"id":26268,"date":"2014-05-07T04:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=26268"},"modified":"2014-05-07T04:32:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:32:10","slug":"chibok-girls-jonathan-accepts-obamas-offer-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/chibok-girls-jonathan-accepts-obamas-offer-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Chibok Girls: Jonathan accepts Obama&#8217;s offer for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  20px; color: #333333; font-family: Droid,Geneva,Tahoma,Arial; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0welcomed and accepted a definite offer of help from the United States of America in the ongoing effort to locate and rescue the girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok three weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  20px; color: #333333; font-family: Droid,Geneva,Tahoma,Arial; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The offer from President Barack Obama which was conveyed to President Jonathan by the United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry in a telephone conversation which began at 15.30 Hours today, includes the deployment of U.S. security personnel and assets to work with their Nigerian counterparts in the search and rescue operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  20px; color: #333333; font-family: Droid,Geneva,Tahoma,Arial; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Kerry assured President Jonathan that the United States\u2019 is wholly committed to giving Nigeria all required support and assistance to save the abducted girls and bring the reign of terror unleashed on parts of the country by Boko Haram to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  20px; color: #333333; font-family: Droid,Geneva,Tahoma,Arial; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanking Mr. Kerry for the call and offer of further assistance, President Jonathan told him that Nigeria\u2019s security agencies who were already working at full capacity to find and rescue the abducted girls would appreciate the deployment of American counter-insurgency know-how and expertise in support of their efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  20px; color: #333333; font-family: Droid,Geneva,Tahoma,Arial; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After speaking with the United States Secretary of State, President Jonathan today met with the Chief of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs and heads of national security agencies in continuation of the national efforts to find and rescue the abducted girls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The President received updates on the ongoing search and rescue effort, and gave approval for reco<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0welcomed and accepted a definite offer of help from the United States of America in the ongoing effort to locate and rescue the girls abducted from the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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