Nigerians are very funny people. As soon as news breaks out, no one bothers to authenticate or verify figures. Everyone just rushes to be the first to bring out the "news". Since yesterday media houses have been awash with the news that "2000" boko haram fighters have chased Nigerian troops out of Marte town in Borno State. While I'm not saying that the news is true or false, I'm just asking who was it that stood and counted the boko haram fighters and got their figure to be 2000? I know 99% of the newspapers are in Lagos and not in Marte. Even the Nigerian soldiers who were been chased cannot tell you they stayed and counted 2000 BH before fleeing. So were did the figure come from? Even so called eye-witnesses are a sham because as BH attacks towns, people are running helter skelter. So which eye witness will stay and count 2000 almajiris before fleeing. Let's spread facts please, not rumours.

na me

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we don't have investigative journalism in nigeria, what we have is stomach journalism!

the other day journalists visited a collapsed church building, and came home with N50k each, case closed.

Trust bloggers, once the figure is big, it is believed to draw traffic.
Just put it on the headlines and watch the hits on your site, whether it is true or not is none of their concern

I had an arguement on dis issue & my friend called me a pdp agent (when he knew i openly supported prof sonaya of KOWA)d truth is that most Nigerian accept any news without VERIFYING THE AUTHENTICTY OF SUCH NEWS & the Nigerian media keep on spread such doubtful news

I'm still waiting for the person that counted the almajiris to show proof of 2000 fighters.