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Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Ngwakwe: 9:01am On Dec 21, 2014 |
omenka: What has moderation got to do with my opinion? Forget about gossips, I don't attach sentiment to moderation. You are free to express your opinion within the limit of Nairaland rules. Just understand that I have come a long way to be a coward and I can't be a second to whoever. You have the effrontery to protest and get personal over my comment that has no bearing on you when your signature says it all. What a hypocrisy. Please for goodness sake, maintain your lane until I infringe on your right which I promise won't ever happen. 4 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by StOla: 9:04am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Scatterboss: QED! 4 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by MoIbrahim: 9:04am On Dec 21, 2014 |
THE WHOLE STORY DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE NAMED SOURCE. SO IT MUST BE FICTION, PURE LIE. Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II and Vanguard’s Internet-Age Junk Journalism By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Vanguard is Nigeria’s most visited news website and the 17th top Nigerian website in all categories, according to Alexa, the Amazon-owned American company that monitors global web traffic. It also has the most Facebook “likes” of any Nigerian newspaper and is outrivaled only slightly by the Punch as the newspaper with the most Twitter followers in Nigeria. But it is also perhaps the most irresponsible and undiscerning user of unverified social media tittle-tattle in its news stories. That, for me, is a troubling mix. You would think an Internet- and social media-savvy newspaper like Vanguard would also have the common sense to know that not everything posted on the web is worth publishing without further verification and fact-checking. The paper’s editorial philosophy seems to be that whatever is on the web, especially on social media, is inerrant and deserves to be in the news. These days, the paper’s reporters just scout Facebook and Twitter and scoop any trending gossip from cyberia. The latest malicious social media gossip that Vanguard gave editorial endorsement to is a tweet from an obviously fake Twitter handle that impersonates Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II. On December 13, a Twitter handle that goes by @Malsanusilamido tweeted that Boko Haram would soon be defeated. The tweet reads: “I say help is on the way. Terror must and will be defeated.” The following day, Vanguard had this headline: “Muhammad Sanusi II says help is on the way, Boko Haram will be defeated.” But Vanguard didn’t only publicize the tweet of a transparently fake Twitter handle; it also editorialized the tweet and implied that the emir was hinting at a Buhari presidency as the panacea to Boko Haram. “Sanusi, Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader, was presumably referring to the emergence of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress in next year’s presidential election,” the story, which has no byline, said. So many things are wrong with this story. First, the emir of Kano isn’t “Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader.” That distinction belongs to the Shehu of Borno. In Sokoto caliphal hierarchy, the second most powerful monarch after the Sultan of Sokoto is the Emir of Gwandu. No Nigerian journalist can defend ignorance of these basic historical facts. But that’s beside the point. What’s even more indefensible, I think, is that Vanguard’s reporters and editors don’t know that the emir of Kano has officially disclaimed ownership of any social media account since August this year. Premium Times, Nigeria’s fastest-growing home-based online newspaper, in an August 14, 2014 news story titled “Emir Sanusi disowns facebook, twitter accounts,” quoted a Kano Emirate Council official to have said, among other things, that “a twitter handle in the name of the emir was frequently used to publish libellous statements in Mr. Sanusi’s name.” Yet Vanguard wrote a news story based on a tweet from this fake Twitter handle. Even if the paper’s editors missed the Premium Times story that says the emir has no social media accounts, which is inexcusable, why wouldn’t the editors ask their correspondents in Kano to confirm with the emirate council if indeed the emir issued a statement on Boko Haram on Twitter? That’s a journalistic no-brainer. In any case, it has been known in informed circles in Nigeria for long that several fake social media accounts have been opened in the emir’s name right from the time he was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. I exposed one such account in my March 30, 2013 column titled “CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Fake Facebook Account.” Thanks to my exposure, the account, which was particularly brazen, has been deleted now, but several new ones have sprung up and are being used to fleece many gullible and credulous Nigerians. It is apparent that @Malsanusilamido is maintained by the same gang of 419 Internet fraudsters who have mutated from sending unsolicited scam emails to Internet users to cloning the social media accounts of famous people to swindle unsuspecting “mugus.” A quick survey of the handle’s tweets will reveal this to any discerning person. In fact, in replies to @Malsanusilamido’s tweets, several people have imposed on themselves the task of exposing the Twitter handle as an impersonation. Yet, people who earn a living from skepticism, from fact-checking, verifying, and reporting the news, couldn’t, maybe still can’t, tell that @Malsanusilamido is fake. But, as I pointed out earlier, this isn’t altogether surprising. Vanguard, in spite of, perhaps because of, its impressive online presence, is going down the toilet. Its news agenda is now set by social media chatter, not by the reportorial work of its reporters and writers. Remember the paper’s infamously false May 10, 2014 cover story titled, “Chibok: American Marines locate abducted girls in Sambisa forest,” which was also lifted from Nigerian social media gossip forums? (Read my May 31, 2014 column titled “Journalism is Dying a Slow Death in Nigeria” for details of this and other embarrassing social-media-induced fabrications by Vanguard and other papers). Vanguard is in the vanguard of destroying what remains of the credibility of Nigerian journalism. This is disconcerting. If newspapers degenerate to mindless chroniclers of idle gossip on social media why would anybody pay money to read them? Newspapers the world over are grappling with disruptions to their business that have been brought about by the advent of the Internet, but passing off lazy social media chatter as news is one avoidable, self-imposed handicap the Nigerian news media will do well to stop. Postscript After writing this column, I discovered that the story about Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II’s tweet on Boko Haram isn’t original to Vanguard. It was originally written by AFP, the French news agency, and distributed to its subscribers. But this fact doesn’t change the substance of my observation about Vanguard because it’s the only major Nigerian newspaper that republished the story—as far as my research shows. http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2014/12/emir-muhammadu-sanusi-ii-and-vanguards.html Copy and WIN : http:///copy_win
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Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by PStacks(m): 9:04am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Don't Get me wrong ooo! I'm true blood Buhari fan, but if I was Goodluck Jonathan, I would Remove Jega from INEC and bring back Maurice Iwu, because Jega would be More than Glad to Declare Buhari, I don't want it to be a Northerner to declare Buhari winner so they don't say INEC compromised, I want it to be an Easterner. Nigeria is a country divided along many lines and we have been united in all of our diversification. I wonder whoever pegged that Phrase that "Our Unity is From our Diversity" Where on earth do you get unity from Diversity. Like I was saying, Nigeria is a country that is divided along many lines, Religion, Ethnicity, Tribes, culture, Tradition and Region.. Now the Regional Card is playing out, This card must be played out in Full, No single Northerner Must be allowed to vote GEJ, its an Abomination, its a Taboo. Its such a pity GEJ is a Victim of his own circumstances. I pity for the man. 3 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by stevnwigw1: 9:06am On Dec 21, 2014 |
cococandy:plans are underway remember the COAS is from the south. |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by vivalavida(m): 9:06am On Dec 21, 2014 |
huptin: Gambari slave,dont quote me 1 Like |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by dvee2: 9:11am On Dec 21, 2014 |
justi4jesu: This time INEC says its not using corpers, instead it will use AIRFORCE personnel, Navy personnel,custom personnel,prison guards and others. |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by CSTR: 9:11am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Scatterboss:Unfortunately for you, the SS feeds the nation and has earned certain priviledges. What has the north given to Nigeria except 30 years of woeful leadership to warrant their arrogance? Like it or not, a buhari presidency would be frustrated to utter failure. 2 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by HugeMac: 9:14am On Dec 21, 2014 |
AMINDA:Never in my life have I seen such naïve individual , even in the face of glaring truth , you still want to blame PdP, even if u can't learn from History , You should know that 95% of people who will vote buhari and GEJ wil do it out tribal and religious sentiments , |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by MoIbrahim: 9:16am On Dec 21, 2014 |
VANGUARD IS NOW FAKE! Vanguard is Nigeria’s most visited news website and the 17th top Nigerian website in all categories, according to Alexa, the Amazon-owned American company that monitors global web traffic. It also has the most Facebook “likes” of any Nigerian newspaper and is outrivaled only slightly by the Punch as the newspaper with the most Twitter followers in Nigeria. But it is also perhaps the most irresponsible and undiscerning user of unverified social media tittle-tattle in its news stories. That, for me, is a troubling mix. You would think an Internet- and social media-savvy newspaper like Vanguard would also have the common sense to know that not everything posted on the web is worth publishing without further verification and fact-checking. The paper’s editorial philosophy seems to be that whatever is on the web, especially on social media, is inerrant and deserves to be in the news. These days, the paper’s reporters just scout Facebook and Twitter and scoop any trending gossip from cyberia. The latest malicious social media gossip that Vanguard gave editorial endorsement to is a tweet from an obviously fake Twitter handle that impersonates Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II. On December 13, a Twitter handle that goes by @Malsanusilamido tweeted that Boko Haram would soon be defeated. The tweet reads: “I say help is on the way. Terror must and will be defeated.” The following day, Vanguard had this headline: “Muhammad Sanusi II says help is on the way, Boko Haram will be defeated.” But Vanguard didn’t only publicize the tweet of a transparently fake Twitter handle; it also editorialized the tweet and implied that the emir was hinting at a Buhari presidency as the panacea to Boko Haram. “Sanusi, Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader, was presumably referring to the emergence of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress in next year’s presidential election,” the story, which has no byline, said. So many things are wrong with this story. First, the emir of Kano isn’t “Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader.” That distinction belongs to the Shehu of Borno. In Sokoto caliphal hierarchy, the second most powerful monarch after the Sultan of Sokoto is the Emir of Gwandu. No Nigerian journalist can defend ignorance of these basic historical facts. But that’s beside the point. What’s even more indefensible, I think, is that Vanguard’s reporters and editors don’t know that the emir of Kano has officially disclaimed ownership of any social media account since August this year. Premium Times, Nigeria’s fastest-growing home-based online newspaper, in an August 14, 2014 news story titled “Emir Sanusi disowns facebook, twitter accounts,” quoted a Kano Emirate Council official to have said, among other things, that “a twitter handle in the name of the emir was frequently used to publish libellous statements in Mr. Sanusi’s name.” Yet Vanguard wrote a news story based on a tweet from this fake Twitter handle. Even if the paper’s editors missed the Premium Times story that says the emir has no social media accounts, which is inexcusable, why wouldn’t the editors ask their correspondents in Kano to confirm with the emirate council if indeed the emir issued a statement on Boko Haram on Twitter? That’s a journalistic no-brainer. In any case, it has been known in informed circles in Nigeria for long that several fake social media accounts have been opened in the emir’s name right from the time he was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. I exposed one such account in my March 30, 2013 column titled “CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Fake Facebook Account.” Thanks to my exposure, the account, which was particularly brazen, has been deleted now, but several new ones have sprung up and are being used to fleece many gullible and credulous Nigerians. It is apparent that @Malsanusilamido is maintained by the same gang of 419 Internet fraudsters who have mutated from sending unsolicited scam emails to Internet users to cloning the social media accounts of famous people to swindle unsuspecting “mugus.” A quick survey of the handle’s tweets will reveal this to any discerning person. In fact, in replies to @Malsanusilamido’s tweets, several people have imposed on themselves the task of exposing the Twitter handle as an impersonation. Yet, people who earn a living from skepticism, from fact-checking, verifying, and reporting the news, couldn’t, maybe still can’t, tell that @Malsanusilamido is fake. But, as I pointed out earlier, this isn’t altogether surprising. Vanguard, in spite of, perhaps because of, its impressive online presence, is going down the toilet. Its news agenda is now set by social media chatter, not by the reportorial work of its reporters and writers. Remember the paper’s infamously false May 10, 2014 cover story titled, “Chibok: American Marines locate abducted girls in Sambisa forest,” which was also lifted from Nigerian social media gossip forums? (Read my May 31, 2014 column titled “Journalism is Dying a Slow Death in Nigeria” for details of this and other embarrassing social-media-induced fabrications by Vanguard and other papers). Vanguard is in the vanguard of destroying what remains of the credibility of Nigerian journalism. This is disconcerting. If newspapers degenerate to mindless chroniclers of idle gossip on social media why would anybody pay money to read them? Newspapers the world over are grappling with disruptions to their business that have been brought about by the advent of the Internet, but passing off lazy social media chatter as news is one avoidable, self-imposed handicap the Nigerian news media will do well to stop. Postscript After writing this column, I discovered that the story about Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II’s tweet on Boko Haram isn’t original to Vanguard. It was originally written by AFP, the French news agency, and distributed to its subscribers. But this fact doesn’t change the substance of my observation about Vanguard because it’s the only major Nigerian newspaper that republished the story—as far as my research shows. |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Greatomotoy: 9:16am On Dec 21, 2014 |
BlackSEER:i will let this pass. 1 Like |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by MoIbrahim: 9:16am On Dec 21, 2014 |
VANGUARD IS NOW FAKE! READ THE ABOVE STORY. |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by jaymichael(m): 9:17am On Dec 21, 2014 |
dcaliph:And also not forgetting burning of APC flags 2 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by keyremotes(m): 9:21am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Abiola and Abacha had to go for this great Nation to stand. GEJ and/or GMB are not greater than Nigeria. If it means both of them going, the owner of life will call them both back home. FOR A FEW DAYS NOW I HAVE WATCHED THE WAR IN SYRIA ON YOUTUBE AND I CAN TELL YOU WAR IS NOT A GOOD THING O!. EACH TIME A DRIVE OUT I TRY TO IMAGINE WHERE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL EXPENSIVE CARS ON OUR ROADS WILL GO TO AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THE MANSIONS. THESE POLITICIANS HAVE ALL SENT THEIR FAMILIES ABROAD AND HAVE VISA'S TO TRAVEL AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. AND HAVE STOLLEN AND TRANSFERRED MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY ABROAD TO SURVIVE. THEY ALL HAVE HOMES IN DUBAI, SA, UK, US, GHANA, CANADA AND SO ON. HOW MANY NIGERIANS HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THESE "ESCAPE ROUTES" EXCEPT THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY OUT? WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE. 2 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by bettercreature(m): 9:22am On Dec 21, 2014 |
My Igbo brothers should stop bluffing,nothing will happen if Jonathan lost the election,Nigeria will not break! You will weep and stop after a week and if Jonathan refuse to comply, he Will end up like gbagbo 2 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by StOla: 9:24am On Dec 21, 2014 |
BlackSEER: I guess your lecture has to do with lamentations on how a westerner emerged as the western premier, instead of a covetous easterner wanting to lead a region he does not belong to in an era of regionalism? 1 Like |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Scatterboss(m): 9:29am On Dec 21, 2014 |
CSTR: Enough of this feeding of the nation story......Do we get paid from the proceeds of the Oil? We pay taxes, pay for electricity, pay for almost everything and you talking about feeding us. Its only lazy folks that think that way, tell me what you have benefited from this oil. Bayelsa is not Eldorado, Ondo state is not heaven, Delta is not Dubai cos of Oil, so what are you talking about? 3 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by StOla: 9:30am On Dec 21, 2014 |
CSTR: privileges existing in your imagination? What is the SS giving to the nation at the moment in terms of leadership? Frustrate a Buhari Presidency to failure? I laugh, you must think yourself a Rambo. You and your cohorts just like to e-blab. 1 Like |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by CSTR: 9:32am On Dec 21, 2014 |
HugeMac:That is right. All these 'change' mantra is just a smokescreen. I remember when there were rumours that the APC VP seat would be zoned to the SS, many SW indigenes both offline and online kicked against it because they felt it would not appeal to their tribal sentiments and garner enough votes. Anyway, let buhari get to aso-rock first. By the time the SS is through with buhari, his govt and this country, the north will practically be begging for separation. 1 Like |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by CSTR: 9:34am On Dec 21, 2014 |
StOla:We will see. |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by AMINDA: 9:39am On Dec 21, 2014 |
HugeMac:You are obviously not smart. I made my comment based on the supposed article. Is the North comprised of a single tribe or religion? Read the original article again and tell me where or how the "North" has moved against Jonathan. 2 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by WOCKHARDI(m): 9:41am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Nigeria cannot continue with this type of animosity and then hope to achieve greatness. Will power returning to the North affect crude oil price, the value of the Naira, pacify Boko Haram, create jobs, and resolve all the other problems facing Nigeria? Their leadership of this country is the major reason we are in this sorry state. I doubt if they have a genuine plan for developing the country short of "It is our turn to RULE and control the treasury as we have been doing since Britain handed over Nigeria to us Northerners" Or is the unity of Nigeria not by force and because some people benefit more therefrom? |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Elan83(m): 9:41am On Dec 21, 2014 |
dcaliph:u dnt've a head, do u? Geraway wt ur myopic reasonin! Ce! If d north lyk mek dey hang demslves, power'll not leave d south til 2027,we shal resist dem frm d poll 2d battle ground! We're superior 2 dem incase dey dnt kno! Fvvcck d headless,slowpokes called northerners! |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by BlackSEER(m): 9:43am On Dec 21, 2014 |
[quote author=StOla post=29070900] I guess your lecture has to do with lamentations on how a westerner emerged as the western premier, instead of a covetous easterner wanting to lead a region he does not belong to in an era of regionalism? [/quote] you are ignorant |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Elan83(m): 9:44am On Dec 21, 2014 |
OtunbaJega:2 work u? Ar u a tokumbo car! |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by fr3do(m): 9:44am On Dec 21, 2014 |
omenka: leave him alone and stop callling seun! He hasn't banned any buhari supporter unjustly. He is a mod but he also has his personal opinion. |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Elan83(m): 9:46am On Dec 21, 2014 |
iiiyyyk:God punish u 2geda wt ur ancestors! Ozu! |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by PerfectFortune: 9:59am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Ngwakwe: You are one big bigot. I wonder how you got to be a mod on this forum. SS/SE started this whole nonsense (threatening Ameachi and Rochas for pitching tent with the APC) and am yet to see a post from you comdemning it and now that it has been retaliated by the Northerners, you have this sudden urge to speak. Mmnnnn... 2 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Elan83(m): 10:02am On Dec 21, 2014 |
nagoma:wot're u insinuatin? |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by omenka(m): 10:04am On Dec 21, 2014 |
Ngwakwe:I don't think you know the meaning of that word. Who are you that one shouldn't protest over your comment?? My signature is my signature, deal with it. My problem isn't even about your opinion, it is about you deploying your powers as a mod to clamp down on people that refuse to accept your narrow narrative about events as they concern Nigeria. Trust me, if you think you have "come a long way" you are doing yourself great injustice. You are on a 3million miles journey and have yet to cover a mile. Like I said, I challenge you to a any debate your choice. Drop your powers as a mod and let's see "how far you've really come in life". 1 Like |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by Elan83(m): 10:09am On Dec 21, 2014 |
xcolanto:D northerners 're usin d wealth of d southerners 2 sponsor internationl terrorism! Ask urslf wot've dey used all dis oil money 2 achiev in dis con3, d whol wlth iz channelled 2 terrorism sponsorshp! 4 Likes |
Re: North Moves Against Jonathan: Northern Pro-jonathan Governors Get Threat Message by BotherMleeper(m): 10:10am On Dec 21, 2014 |
noblezone: The balkanization of any country involves a great deal of bloodshedding. You think its possible to peacefully and quietly split? Isnt Ukraine a recent example? |
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