Last night at about 8:30pm, I alongside my neighbors heard a loud bang which shook the walls of our lodge but momentarily thought nothing of it. A couple of minutes later, our gateman (whom we assumed was at his station - our gate obviously) returned claiming it was a bomb explosion and he had seen dead bodies on the floor, coupled with limbs belonging to various victims of the said explosion which took place just a little less than 200 meters away from our place of residence.

There was no way I was going to spend the night in the same place where such had happened nearby, so I could either relocate temporarily or confirm the incidence myself. Of course, I did the latter, with only a torch in hand and my alertness system as companions. On getting there, one could see motorists still plying the various routes and that was my first point of negation of a bomb explosion. Moving further, I saw onlookers and by-standers and being the illiterates I knew them to be, decided to ask the policemen surveying the site what had happened.

Apparently, a particular shop where petrol and gas were being sold was the source of the explosion.

CAUSE: Overheating.

DID ANYBODY DIE? No.

WERE THERE LIMBS LITTERING THE STREETS? No.

According to the policeman, the men of the fire brigade responded promptly and had the situation under control. They obviously did.
I rode through the same place on a motorcycle this morning and saw that the roofing of the affected shops had been repaired and business was said to resume in few days.

MORALE OF THE STORY:
1. Our gateman is a complete idiot.
2. People like him (plus internet access) are the ones who feed Sahara Reporters and their kin with all sorts of fallacious news (without authentic pictorial evidence) in a bid to incite public outrage against the government.
3. You are what you believe.

Lol....I love dis


The gateman sha

@ OP d Gate man is a certified idio.t.. a professor emeritus of idiot.s for dat matter! U should have asked him to go bring one of the limbs he saw! Smh!

Nice one OP....nigerian journalism is trash..na juts money they look for,not facts...yeye

K

This is actually a Nigerian thing. We treat every aspect of our lives based on assumptions and fairy tales. Our curiosity has been clouded by fear, the "god did it" factor, our village people or some other nonsensical explanation. It is truly annoying

Iroyin



Eleje



Bloody news

This is the basic truth about the life we live right now. What you see is not always what you get

except for the bashing of Sahara reporters, nice writeup.

Fake news will surely sets the country ablaze someday

I have long ago learned not to believe information / news from people again. They tend to add salt/ pepper/ Maggi to their information

It has been our character in Nigeria to run when not been chased

Your gate man sha oooo

True.
Naija and fake news are 5&6
You wonder between the truth and their twisted versions and you are like whaddafuuck?