Deltatoto:
im bitter that life’s were lost in such manner.i blame Apc and Yoruba ppl.they put us in this mess if more Yoruba ppl don’t die they will vote Apc again next year so I don’t pity them

Wow!!! An actual human being actually wrote this? A human being that has no control over his life or how he might die actually spewed this nonsense. Wow!!!! See arrogance at its most extreme.

I cant see myself looking at those videos and pictures that have been circulating regarding this incident since yesterday. You hardly see westerners throwing their dead bodies aĺl over internet, it is really sickening in my own opinion.

ericsmith:


shut your trap n read to understand ,,what is wrong with us ,demented youths everywhere ... what the OP wrote would make 100% sense to any sane human ,, he suggested all measures to curb the situation, as if he knews nigerians; said if you conclude their is nothing you can do to save the situation ,,have human feelings n cry which is optional instead of recording ,some even took selfie with victims burning .... madness

Hold up, did the OP just say people should use fire extinguishers to quench a raging inferno?? Is this guy high?? I saw videos of that thing it looked like a scene straight out of hell and you want people to stop and get fire extinguishers (very few Nigerians own one in the first place) and move close to that unbearable heat and unbreathable fumes and try to put out a fire that seems to spreading and growing uncontrollably?? Wow! Clap for yourself Mr. Genius.

Henitan24:


You're happy the evil is befalling APC states, Smh for you. You should have known that definitely it is not only Yoruba's that lost that lives in that incidence. My Deltan neighbour four kids are involved so you need to be more happy, dance, share testimony, play music etc. Silly being!

Sorry for your loss,may God console the family of the bereaved.
@deltatoto you are mentally sick,hatred is a mental sickness,what makes your case worse is that you have passed the curable point, my condolences to whoever wasted his resources in your upbringing.

It's mental sickness to write long articles on trivial issues

NIGERIANS ARE SO INSENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZEN. MY HEART BLEEDS

ikorodureporta:


not everybody wld b bold or conscious enough to record the event. Its jst like taking vehicle plate numbers in an accident scene, or recording a robbery event...... It doesnt mean heartlessness

That's why the OP said to leave the Press and law enforcement to do their jobs. They are trained for this things and would show a little professionalism and discretion.

I see pictures of naked accident victims plastered all over the internet. How do you expect their family members to feel? Seeing thir loved ones in such degrading images at their final moments?

Greatzeus:

Sorry for your loss,may God console the family of the bereaved.
@deltatoto you are mentally sick,hatred is a mental sickness,what makes your case worse is that you have passed the curable point, my condolences to whoever wasted his resources in your upbringing.

mugu when d thgs I have done for ppl that raised me u can’t do it till u die in tanker inferno.

davidif:


Wow!!! An actual human being actually wrote this? A human being that has no control over his life or how he might die actually spewed this nonsense. Wow!!!! See arrogance at its most extreme.

shut up I’m only warning Yoruba ppl to stay away from the jihadist

tracytream:


I don't think you are of sound mind. Please check yourself because you are a calamity in the making.

Talking APC, South South when lives are lost. People like you are the problem of Nigeria. One more thing I blame cheap DATA for your problem

cheap data ke?me that empower ppl?where did u see such life lost in south south we didn’t vote Apc we can’t die this way

seanmozilla:

My bro, sense is far away from you. May thunder strike that your mouth and hand. We are talking about human lives here, do you need to bring politics into it? Or is there a place in Nigeria where sad events like this are not happening? When things like this happen, it affects everybody or are you telling me that it's only one tribe that met their unfortunate death in the accident? Just use UR BRAIN bro. Use UR BRAIN!!!

we will never experience such here we didn’t vote Apc what u sow is what u rip.

davidif:


Hold up, did the OP just say people should use fire extinguishers to quench a raging inferno?? Is this guy high?? I saw videos of that thing it looked like a scene straight out of hell and you want people to stop and get fire extinguishers (very few Nigerians own one in the first place) and move close to that unbearable heat and unbreathable fumes and try to put out a fire that seems to spreading and growing uncontrollably?? Wow! Clap for yourself Mr. Genius.

he was making out rescue suggestions , hence why he said if all rescue option lack capacity to save the day people should show human sympathy rather than taking selfies in such events.
must we turn mis interprete every speech or good intentions,,these is not even buhari speech o!! we are so engrossed in criticising & blaming that we donnt even ask logical questions anymore.
a tanker got burnt taking lost of lives,, who owns the truck?? what is the status of the truck before been used?? that should be the question of the day

ImaIma1:


Everything is not about APC and PDP. It is about bad leadership since 1960...about leaders boycotting instead of putting things in place to avoid tragedies like this. It is about leaders enriching themselves instead of caring about the masses.

All the people we see in APC, were many of them not in PDP? People that just switch parties anyhow...the same recycled leaders. And what can APC do in 7 years that PDP couldn't do in many years?

Please let us stop the blame game and look beyond all that and see that people who are meant to be protected lost their lives in a very painful way. And i don't wish that for you.

buhari came in 1983 and brought problem to this nation he has come again now c.u ppl are just too blind to notice d man has bad luck.na una no o the only man that has taken us to recession twice

sick

Nigerians would see their fellow's car getting burnt and would rather record it

Deltatoto:
we will never experience such here we didn’t vote Apc what u sow is what u rip.

So, those people that die voted APC. Seriously? Do you reason at all?

seanmozilla:

So, those people that die voted APC. Seriously? Do you reason at all?

no sir I don’t but I no apart from ekiti south west is Apc so the tragedy in the north is welcomed der

Deltatoto:
buhari came in 1983 and brought problem to this nation he has come again now c.u ppl are just too blind to notice d man has bad luck.na una no o the only man that has taken us to recession twice

I can see that you stuck on Buhari and are unable to see beyond that.

Brace yourself for another four years of bitterness except there is a stronger opposition against him for 2019.

ImaIma1:


I can see that you stuck on Buhari and are unable to see beyond that.

Brace yourself for another four years of bitterness except there is a stronger opposition against him for 2019.

wetin concern me?its north and west that will be getting more deaths na.im not from there I don’t go der I’m tanda for south south dey do my pdp thg.maybe next year Fulani herdsmen will kill u then minus one for nairaland

Yes, people can be madt about dt!!

spicyuzo:
It is heart-wrenching to know that the first thing that comes to the mind of someone who finds himself/herself close to an accident scene, or a mishap of any form is to start taking pictures and making videos.

Pictures and videos from the incident at the OtedolaBridge today penetrated all over social-media and news platforms just within a few hours, with different versions of reporting. This threw me into thoughts of how much we Nigerians have degenerated far away from humanity.

What has become of us fellow Nigerians?

Is it a clamour for popularity? Is it an appeal for likes and shares? Is there a bragging right or an award for live reporting from an accident scene? Or just maybe, is there a subtle innermost feeling of joy or satisfaction derived from reporting loss of live and properties directly as it is ongoing?
Please leave the reporting job to the press. Must you be a harbinger of bad news?

I ask you dear Sir or Madam Reporter, is there nothing else you can do to salvage the situation besides running live commentary?
What right do you have to take a video or a photo of people's lives and properties going up in flames?

Did you atleast even try to call the emergency and rescue authorities if that is the least you can do?
In fact, that phone which you are using for your live streaming news service, do you even have the hotlines or emergency numbers of the fire department, police, emergency search and rescue, ambulance service etc, stored on the phone?

What would have happened if most or all the cars travelling along the other lane had stopped, and brought out their car fire extinguishers. Wouldn't it have helped no matter how small, someone probably may have been saved, just one life atleast, or maybe even 1% of the fire may have been extinguished before the arrival of the fire fighters.

Let's now assume someone else called the emergency services, let's assume there is nothing you could do, atleast that is the deceit conviction you have given yourself, does this still justify you to start taking pictures?

You may ask, what then can I do?

Here is your answer.....Cry!!!!
Raise your voice and Cry!!!! Weep my dear brother and Sister.... Scream on top of your voice and weep until you run out of tears...

Weep because that cry you hear in the fire maybe the voice of the breadwinner of an entire family...

Cry because that cry in the fire may be the voice of the only graduate a family has ever produced, or it may be the voice of the only successful business man/woman who is the light of a family..

Scream because that smell of people burning in the fire maybe a group of students returning to their already awaiting family, or a spouse joyfully returning to the arms of his/her loved one after a stressful day.

Weep because while other people battle with maintenance of life quality, we are still battling with low live expectancy rates in Nigeria.

Cry because, just about anything, Anything is a threat to the life of a Nigerian.

Most of all, Hit your chest and weep for Nigeria...
Weep because most of the reasons why thousands of lives are lost in Nigeria, is not even a threat to the life of a stray animal in other countries..

Weep because the people we have entrusted to serve us, fix the potholes on our roads, provide us with alternative routes, provide us with basic amenities, ensure good town planning etc, are now the same people that will fly over our heads in helicopters and jets, while we burn and roast on the roads that are dilapidated and in utermost disaster.

Weep because while an entire force can be reshuffled and interogated for the loss of life of one citizen in some countries, we are conducting mass burials on daily basis here in Nigeria, and no one is held responsible for such impunities.

Fellow Nigerians, let it be clear to us that we are in no way better than those that lost their lives today or have lost their lives in situations like this in the past.
Let it be known to each and every one of us that we are in no way entitled to live even one minute longer than any of those people who lost their lives today.
No sane person goes out of his home with plans of dieing along the way, it is in no way by our power or our might that we are alive. It is strictly by the mercy of God that we are saved, let us therefore not take pleasure in taking pictures and videos from scenes, when people are in pains and anguish.

May the souls of those who lost their lives rest in the bossom of the lord, and may God grant the families the fortitude to bear the loss. Amen

We are humans, we are sensitive to the plight of fellow humans, we are different, We are Nigerians.
God save Nigeria!

this is kinda BS taking pics is not the first thing people do
most of them scream and have already tried to save lives by calling the emergency services the rest then record to let us that aren't there see things that reporters who might have arrived late won't have seen
I have been helped several times to understand situations by videos and pictures sent to me by on site passer by

and please stop sounding like an ancient being ,snapping and taking videos wont undo the accident or make it worse
in fact it actually helps that everyone records things now

Deltatoto:
shut up I’m only warning Yoruba ppl to stay away from the jihadist

By wishing them death? Wow, how godly of you.

Neofingerz:
eyyyyyyy oya shhhhh oya go meet the OP
no cry for my head

Na u first cry for another person head!

spicyuzo:
It is heart-wrenching to know that the first thing that comes to the mind of someone who finds himself/herself close to an accident scene, or a mishap of any form is to start taking pictures and making videos.

May the souls of those who lost their lives rest in the bosom of the lord, and may God grant the families the fortitude to bear the loss. Amen

We are humans, we are sensitive to the plight of fellow humans, we are different, We are Nigerians.
God save Nigeria!

One of the best write ups I have ever read on this forum. I think Seun and his mods could do something about it by not posting topics that show accident or murder victims. Everyday on this forum there are at least three topics on the front page that include graphic pictures. I never click on those topics because I believe that even in death people should be shown respect. We as a people have become so desensitized to the pain and suffering of others that we do not think about how the relatives of victims feel seeing the final moments, or corpses of their loved ones splashed across the internet.

Deep and powerful