Sam Milla:

LAGOS, Nigeria – The U.S. diplomatic mission in Nigeria said Sunday it had received reports of plans for a possible attack against its consulate in the southern city of Lagos.

Officials said in a circular sent to U.S. citizens that Nigerian police had increased their vigilance around the consulate and were closely monitoring traffic nearby. The mission called on U.S. citizens to report any suspicious activity there.

The circular from the Abuja-based embassy and the Lagos consulate gave no further information. A U.S. Embassy spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

In September 2007, the U.S. Embassy said it had received information that Western and U.S. interests were at threat from a terrorist attack in Nigeria. The U.S. State Department said it was not responding to any specific threat.

Nigeria, which is a major supplier of crude oil to the United States, has never suffered a terrorist attack. The population of 140 million people is evenly split between Christians and Muslims.

The U.S. maintains a large consular services office in Lagos, a chaotic, crime-ridden city of 14 million people on Nigeria's southern coast.






http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_us;_ylt=Am_7AVEvBodnq.tQrVByxkK96Q8F

Sammy107_d:

Must they end every bloody piece with this self-gratifying show of idiocy?

davidylan:

where they lying?

Sammy107_d:

Because South Africa has problems with HIV doesn't mean that it's okay to end all articles pertaining to the world cup with lines like "South Africa: An AIDS ravaged nation of 40million people"

Gbam!

Sammy107_d:

Must they end every bloody piece with this self-gratifying show of idiocy?

B.O.S.S.:

Can you give your own version of how you think the report should end then?

The U.S. maintains a large consular services office in Lagos, a beautiful, easy-going, crime-free city of 9 million people on Nigeria's southern coast.

tpia:


see why you have a problem?

Can you ever end a report on anywhere outside your vetted list of "approved places", like this:

The U.S. maintains a large consular services office in Lagos, a chaotic, crime-ridden city of 14 million people on Nigeria's southern coast.

No2Atheism:

1. Crime, Gun problem, Corruption in Nigeria is nothing compared to what is happening in the US, however the US/Western owned media would never mention that because :
    - They are trying to protect American/European Image and tarnish Nigerian image so that US/Western image would relatively better
    - Wall Street, US Senate Corruption, US Congress Corruption is more serious than that of Nigeria its only that you would hardly find it reported in the news, e.g. the TARP fund was a corrupt arrangement between US politicians and Global Elite Banks.
    - US criminals after US and the World, while Nigerian criminals only affect Nigeria in most cases.
    - America is a country dominated by Whites and Whites always try  to make every other race look inferior by their propaganda.
    - America looks good if they keep implying that Nigeria looks bad.
    - It is a silent form of racism (i.e. silently denegrading the other race to ensure that they always feel physically and pshychologically inferior)
    - They would never do that to south africa because although blacks are ruling south africa, yet it is still a "white upper class" dominated economy, hence it would go against the interest of white south africans to point out the obvious (there is far more crime in South Africa than Nigeria, there is far more crime in the US than Nigeria).

2. Let us remember that the NeoCons (Neo Conservatives i.e a war mongering group of predomonantly white people intent on continuing the world domination by White people). One that the NeoCons achieves this is by constantly creating a war in a country that they want to control its resources so that such a country would be destroyed developmentally and so that those NeoCons would then be able to controll that country's resources during the time of war and after the war and unrest .e.g. Iraq, Kuwait.
Hence that is mainly the reason why they were trying to setup up the military unit known as Africom. Fortunately Nigeria is one of the countries that opposed AfriCom hence the NeoCons via the US Government is doing everything possible to undermine Nigeria so that they can then use that to bring about AfriCom and thus use AfriCom to control African Resources (e.g. Oil and other Raw Materials). However most African countries have rejected Africom being stationed in Africa because most Africans have common sense and thus they know that AfriCom would just be another form of slavery under an occupying force of US origin. That is why the US is using every possible means to instigate violence in Africa, make the image of Africng and Nigeria look bad by lying about the extent and gravity of crime and corruption, pretend as if Africa and Nigeria is under a terrorist threat. This is all because it would then give US an excuse to invade Nigerian soil under the excuse of protecting Africans and US embassies in countries like Nigeria.

3. Remember the British intentionally handed over power to the Hausas in nigeria because they know that it would always create instability and hence it would always hamper the growth of Nigeria and hence it would always allow the Western World to control Nigerian resources via proxy.

4. US is completely bancrupt financially (i.e. they owe about 14billion dollar debt overall when one includes all levels of government) hence they are always looking forward to steal (through wars) the resources of any country (e.g. Nigeria, Iraq etc) they can get so as to remain afloat ,  (hence the Iraq War, to control the Oil and create more money via military spending, hence the Iran bickering in other to instigate war and control their oil and also please the Arabs us of their money, iranians are not arabs by the way). Even China is fed up with the US debt, hence they want to stop lending them money.

nuzo:

Who send you message
Abeg, we talking about the writer's last statement in the article which some nigerians like tpia disputed. These mad nigerians couldnt counter it or even find a suitable ending to it due to the stark reality in it.

Maybe, you should start another thread and educate us on how USA have refused the nigerian government to function.

The U.S. maintains a large consular services office in Lagos, a chaotic, crime-ridden city of 14 million people on Nigeria's southern coast.

No2Atheism:

1. Those who have ears would hear,

2. Nothing happens in isolation in politics and global policies,

3. My post only tries to show the understanding readers the connection and reason for such a propaganda statement against Nigeria.

4. Hence it is left to those with understanding to connect the dots themselves,

No2Atheism:

This statement above is just pure propaganda,


Question: Is there crime and corruption in Nigeria.
Answer: Yes

Question: Is there crime and corruption in Europe
Answer: Yes

Question: Is there crime and corruption in South Africa
Answer: Yes

Question: Is there crime and corruption in USA
Answer: Yes

Question: Should they have used the statement "The U.S. maintains a large consular services office in Lagos, a chaotic, crime-ridden city of 14 million people on Nigeria's southern coast" at the end of the original post
Answer: NO

Question: WHY
Answer: Because that statement had no connection to the original message and reasonable reason for it to have been used

Question: Why do you think it was used.
Answer: For propaganda purposes

Kobojunkie:

Roflmao!!! The mediocity dance continues!!!  No need to pay attention to the main message at all. The problem here is some american writer somewhere has mentioned something unfavourable, even though true, about Nigeria, so we need to get in attack mode. The potential attack is no big deal!! lol

Kobojunkie:

Roflmao!!! The mediocity dance continues!!!  No need to pay attention to the main message at all. The problem here is some american writer somewhere has mentioned something unfavourable, even though true, about Nigeria, so we need to get in attack mode. The potential attack is no big deal!! lol

nuzo:

Propaganda ke!!. . . . . lol.
Everything seems to be propaganda to nigerians even when the issue at stake is pure truth.

nuzo:

Propaganda ke!!. . . . . lol.
Everything seems to be propaganda to nigerians even when the issue at stake is pure truth.

B.O.S.S.:

@ No2Atheism : Don't you think with that analogy of California, the city is though known for those you mentioned but it's more known as the city of palm trees and celebrities' haven etc. I think the writer could be biased however since Lagos is not known as the city of angels, how else could he have ended the article? What's your recommendation?

By the way, I'm not saying I'm on the writer's side.

No2Atheism:

1. That is why the media is good at brainwashing people , with the kind of images they want people to remember.

2. Dooh, exactly, california is known as a city of hollywood and palm trees and celebrities, because that is that side of California that the media constantly wants people to see,

IF THE MEDIA WAS CONSTANTLY BOMBARDING US WITH IMAGES OF EARTHQUAKES, DRUG ADDICTION, CRIME, CORRUPTION, HOMOSEXUALITY, INSTEAD OF PALM TREES AND CELEBRITIES, OFF COURSE MOST PEOPLE WOULD ALSO THINK THAT IS WHAT CALFIFORNIA IS ALL ABOUT.

For exampled, the only side of Mexico being reported in the news today is the "Drug Wars", the American media makes it look like the "Drug War" in Mexico is so bad that the real Mexican Natives are now running away from Mexico,


THE POINT I AM MAKING IS THAT THERE IS ALWAYS A BIG PICTURE, hence Africans and Nigerians should never be naive enough to not see beyond the surface and motive of why a particular news is allowed on the air or news print in the western media.

B.O.S.S.:

Very true. But we all watch the documentaries about the gang culture which Los Angeles is being famed for and there's no hiding place when it comes to this as no amount of spinwould do it any good really however as much as the media still try to put a spin to a story, would you at least say how you think the report should have ended?

You should know controversy sells and the media themselves are tryign to sell papers so they have no choice but to use the very left winged choice of words which would paint the very picture they want people to see. Either way though,I don't think there's any form of propaganda in the report.Though I think the motto of journalism is being taken to the extreme by trying to milk the negativity of Lagos State to the extreme but come on now, you can't say we readers are too naive to say the problems being reported in Nigeria are that subtle that we should now try to crucify the messenger and ignore the message.

you can't say we readers are too naive to say the problems being reported in Nigeria are that subtle that we should now try to crucify the messenger and ignore the message.

No2Atheism:

1. I am not a politically correct person, hence i tell the truth the way it is.

2. I am not saying all readers of the original post about Nigeria are naive, instead what i am saying is that those readers who read the original post about Nigeria, then went ahead to claim there was no problem with the propaganda at the last statement of that original post, are the ones who are naive about past and present global politics, about past and present global policies, about past and present economic policies.

3. Go through all my posts on this thread you would notice that I never said Nigeria did not have problems.

4. Instead I clearly said that Nigeria had crime and corruption problems

5. I also clearly said that Nigerian crime and/or corruption problems is small compared to the global scale or seriousness of crime and/or corruption in certain Western countries like the USA and certain African countries such as South Africa. (e.g. Bernie Maddoff $50 billion ponzi scam to say the least)

6. Above all, the point I am making is that the report in question had no reason to include the statement about the crime problems of Lagos Nigeria in their report, simply because such a statement had absolutely nothing to do with the initial "terrorism" case they were trying to present with regards to their Nigerian US Embassy.

7. Hence the point I was making was that including that statement about "Lagos being riddled with Crime" is just a propaganda statement meant for ulterior motives and nothing more.

8. Then i finally went ahead to show the possible reasons why the western media has been using propaganda statements.

No2Atheism:

1. I am not a politically correct person, hence i tell the truth the way it is.

No2Atheism:

2. I am not saying all readers of the original post about Nigeria are naive, instead what i am saying is that those readers who read the original post about Nigeria, then went ahead to claim there was no problem with the propaganda at the last statement of that original post, are the ones who are naive about past and present global politics, about past and present global policies, about past and present economic policies.

No2Atheism:

3. Go through all my posts on this thread you would notice that I never said Nigeria did not have problems.

No2Atheism:

4. Instead I clearly said that Nigeria had crime and corruption problems

No2Atheism:

5. I also clearly said that Nigerian crime and/or corruption problems is small compared to the global scale or seriousness of crime and/or corruption in certain Western countries like the USA and certain African countries such as South Africa. (e.g. Bernie Maddoff $50 billion ponzi scam to say the least)

No2Atheism:

6. Above all, the point I am making is that the report in question had no reason to include the statement about the crime problems of Lagos Nigeria in their report, simply because such a statement had absolutely nothing to do with the initial "terrorism" case they were trying to present with regards to their Nigerian US Embassy.

No2Atheism:

7. Hence the point I was making was that including that statement about "Lagos being riddled with Crime" is just a propaganda statement meant for ulterior motives and nothing more.

No2Atheism:

8. Then i finally went ahead to show the possible reasons why the western media has been using propaganda statements.