I came online and saw a post from one 'Arresa" regarding the authenticity of a picture of decomposed bodies of soldiers making round social network as that of the bodies of our 105 missing Soldiers. His comment was a screenshot of a newspaper headline which reads “VANGUARD, Nigeria: 46 Soldiers perish in auto crash 23 MAY 2008”.

With all due respect, his internet screenshot, which laughably has no link to the report is fake, photoshopped, not from Vanguard and a grand plot by the APC media to cover up this shameful national tragedy

Here are my observations:

1) Why would a Nigerian news media reporting an incident that happened in Nigeria, use the word NIGERIA as a prefix to the incident? It’s absurd. You only do that when you are reporting an incident that happened in another country. Immediately I knew something was wrong about this screenshot.
Our news has never read “Nigeria: 23 killed by Boko Haram”. It only does so when it’s being reported from outside the country. Thank God for Google, immediately I set to work.
Search for “May 23 2008” on the Vanguard website was not successful as they couldn’t generate any information from their archive.
Also, search result for “Vanguard newspaper May 23 2006/8” on Google couldn’t find that paper or any link to it. Remember, I am dealing with a screenshot, which means it must have been created within the last 36 hours against the backdrop of the missing soldiers news.
This begs the first question,
Where did they get that news to screenshot? Definitely not from the Internet.

2) I searched “46 Nigerian Soldiers perish in auto crash after returning from Darfur” on Google, while the date May, 2008 matched the accident, it will interest you to note that NO SINGLE NEWS CHANNEL THAT CARRIED THE NEWS OF THE ACCIDENT HAS ANY PICTURE OF DEAD/DECOMPOSED SOLDIERS ATTACHED TO IT.
Not even Fox News has any image with the news.
This can only mean one thing – the screenshot of “VANGUARD, Nigeria: 46 Soldiers perish in auto crash 23 MAY 2008“, being peddled in some quarters to debunk the picture of dead soldiers that is claimed to be that of our missing soldiers, IS A PHOTOSHOP.
They just took the picture in question and slotted it into an unrelated news in order to discredit the picture and deceive Nigerians. And the fact that the said screenshot originated from the APC camp on Social Network means that the APC is deliberately trying to deceive the Nigeria public and the world at large while trying to cover up the brutal killings of Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram.

3) The Army uniform in the APC Vanguard Newspaper screenshot was not what the army was wearing to combat as at 2008. So it’s as stupid as, a 2008 newspaper with an advert for iPhone 6.

4) The picture that is claimed to be bodies of the 105 soldiers reportedly missing IS NO WHERE ON THE INTERNET.
It is clear that there is a big conspiracy to cover up the killings of Nigeria Soldiers by the Boko Haram sect by the Nigeria Army (who has repeatedly issued contradictory statements regarding this attack), the Nigeria press and the APC.
The questions every Nigerian should be asking right now are:
How many cases of missing soldiers did not get reported?
How many of our soldiers have died without us hearing about it?
How many attacks on the army by Boko Haram has been covered up by authorities?
If Premium Times had not reported this news EXCLUSIVELY, would we have known it ever happened?
And finally, time has come for us to really ask ourselves and the government in power, what is really going on with the Nigerian Army in the North East of Nigeria fighting against the Boko Haram?
This deception must stop.

Apc is a demonic party

Apc is a demonic party

It's a shame
Nigeria is now a dead county

They can lie to us but for a period of time.

APC is the worst thing to ever happen to Global politics.

brb

Bobbystanley:
They can lie to us but for a period of time.


APC is the worst thing to ever happen to Global politics.

Hm

Whoever is working hard to cover this dastardly act is an unpatriotic soul. We know it's a war situation and anything can happen and we need to know so as to intensify the call for support to our troops. We can not be denying the obvious in this case. The Major that was reported killed has not been disputed why are they denying that of the soldiers knowing fully well that before a military major died many soldiers must have died as well. God help our troops. The political aspect of the war is even worst.

Here is where we found ourselves
Meanwhile Buhari have borrows $3b without doing anything www.nairaland.com/2753120/buhari-far-borrowed-3b-without

Let the families of missing soldiers come out to complain immediately. Buhari wants to avoid Bring back our soldiers mantra

Aresa is an ewu awusa domicile in alausa but sent to Nairaland by lai mohammad to come and test the waters. The zombie miscalculated and tested with both feet.

We voted Buhari to bring back our girls but now 105 soldiers are missing. Buhari,you can keep the girls just return the 105 soldiers. We don't want your girls again.

Xetima:
Those soldiers, throats were slit one by one. Nigeria is a dead country. How can a country survive with these lies.
Please,anyone whose family member is fighting in Bornu should begin to contact them because many would have been killed by Boko Haram

If that picture is true then the best explanation is that a chemical gas was used on them. I guess sulphur mustard gas. Thats why their skins appears burnt but no visible sign of fire on their clothes. Boko haram has been affliated to Isis and Isis have been using mustard gas of late.with the recent ranking of boko haram as the top terrorist organistion in the world your guess is as good as mine.This might just be a test run thats why it took the NA unawares.You can do a google search on mustard gas


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/613810/Islamic-State-jihadi-banned-chemical-agent-mustard-gas-Iraq

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-and-iraqi-officials-isis-is-working-to-produce-chemical-weapons-2015-11

Chubhie:
Aresa is an ewu awusa domicile in alausa but sent to Nairaland by lai mohammad to come and test the waters. The zombie miscalculated and tested with both feet.

That guy is a disgrace to Nigeria. In short he is Nigeria's no.1 enemy.

lies and propaganda has always been a norm in Nigeria, thank God for premium times if they didn't report that issue exclusively Nigerians would have been in the dark......I strongly believe that there is more to this issue than what the media is throwing to us even a bigger conspiracy regarding the fight against boko haram

am not hating on the Nigerian government but they owe us the truth at least its our lives the soldiers were protecting and we don't want them keep missing like pin

IAMTHEHERO:

That guy is a disgrace to Nigeria. In short he is Nigeria's no.1 enemy.

Even lai mohammad have not known sleep for four days counting. He's been busy editing and re editing cos Nigerians are a lot wiser now. Apprentice aresa should be e-chained. Where is the whistle blower sanusi lamido and the midget el rufia? Such hypocrisy.