OAM4J:



We have been very busy in the mod section deliberating over important NL affairs. I believe all is well now.

Am sorry for my inactivity for the past few days, am around to serve you all now.

Demdem:

Are u adding to the rules or not, we need more freedom to express ourselves better.

OAM4J:

No new rules, but we need to enforce the present rules.

OAM4J:

No new rules, but we need to enforce the present rules.

Tolexander: Welcome Mukina2!

OAM4J:



We have been very busy in the mod section deliberating over important NL affairs. I believe all is well now.

Am sorry for my inactivity for the past few days, am around to serve you all now.

Mayor_of_Lagos:

Muki who, where is she

Aww, I miss my babe.

Pataki: https://www.nairaland.com/1587613/apc-blames-presidency-pdp-over

Afam, oya do the needful to this topic and if need be, ban the poster.

donphilopus: Do you not know Afam? He can never do that! Rule 8 clearly states that members should not post force information, yet a member created a thread that "Oduah has resigned" (NTA News). Did the Mods ban the poster?? Was the thread deleted?? NO.

Anti-Gbagaun:

Anti-Gbagaun:

Gboliwe: Iya Trustee, your diary is the funniest. Since I can't tell you this in the diary section, I am saying it here. Keep it up.

Mazi_Omenuko: Please mods, when you wake up, kindly move these threads to frontpage:

https://www.nairaland.com/1586070/b-r-e-a-k-i-n-g-news-stella-oduahs-cv
https://www.nairaland.com/1585818/official-cv-stella-oduah-confirms#20767555

The senate finally vindicated Odua by publishing her cv which she used to secure the job; and all the allegations are false. Nl wasn't hesitant in moving the threads filled with false allegations and insults to her person on the frontpage, so it wouldn't be difficult moving this one to clear the air.

suggestion some sets of people are currently using Nl as a tool to achieve their selfish ambition; much to the detriment of this nice site. Some of us are starting to see this website as a tool for selfish desires of some peeps. They claim to be whoever they are and post ridiculous items here only for the mods to take such to frontpage without further verification. Maybe you guys believe its a thing of immense honour to have such creatures in this site; unless they are paying handsomely for the publicity and propaganda they are using the politics section and nairaland as a whole to do, then I say they are doing more harm than good.

Take the case of odua; barely 24 hrs after the ridiculous news was published all over the net and Nl, senate has cleared the air. What would it have cost the mods if they waited that long b4 moving such threads to frontpage?

There seems to be a pattern on NL. A fully sourced article will grace the front page, generate a lot of traffic, and then a few days later UNSOURCED and CONTRADICTORY claims will hit the front page.

This is confusing to many people. Prime example, is the letter writing saga.

A sourced thread quoted an article in Vanguard. That article contained the contents of Iyabos letter to OBJ. It hit the front page and about 97% of us believed it to be accurate.

A few days later, an UNSOURCED and uncomfirmed post claimed that Iyabo did not author that letter to her father.

We were all confused, and it took a few days to sort out the truth. Nairaland created national confusion, single-handedly, by pushing that unsourcred thread to the Front Page.

There have been even worse instances where threads are "jokes", but presented as truth just to gain views. I am thinking of the Ngige crying over 2bn thread, and Lagbaja removing his mask. Many people STILL believe those threads were truthful.

Shockingly, this pattern is repeating itself again with this latest Oduah scandal.

A story hits the front page with multiple sources and several media outlets are reporting the story. All of us believe the accusations are true.

Then an UNSOURCED and UNCOMFIRMED thread hits the front page, that is completely contradictory. I am of course talking about this post:

theoctopus: B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News!!! Senate Releases Stella Oduah's CV. The Nigerian Senate have released the Curriculum Vitae (Resume) which Princess Stella Oduah the Aviation Minister used in securing her appointment. According to the release, they confirm that the Aviation Minister's CV was in line with her claims, against what some media outfits have been writing in the last few days. They warned that the online news outlets Sahara Reporters and Premium Times should stop giving out false and malicious information that might lead to breakdown of law and order. Sahara reporters have already accepted misleading Nigerians and still refuse to apologize for their malicious allegations and frivolous claims.

https://www.facebook.com/hopefornigeria?ref=stream

From the very beginning, that person claimed to have gotten their information directly from a public statement released by the Senate. It was an obvious lie when I first saw the thread, because the pictures of Oduah's CV that OP posted had a very prominent PREMIUM TIMES logo on it. I didnt take the thread serious, and expected it would be deleted as trash. Now it seems that OP figured out that the GIANT PREMIUM TIMES LOGO, was a dead giveaway that they dint get the CV from the Senate, so they changed it. They downloaded the CV from the Premium Times website (where it doesn't have a logo), and reuploaded it to Nairaland. Hilariously, they decided to photochop a pic of Stella' face onto the resume.

Lets be clear.

1. The Senate is on vacation until January 14th. It is IMPOSSIBLE for them to have released anything.

2. OP did not list a single person from the senate that released it. WHO FROM THE SENATE GAVE OP ODUAH's resume? It might have just as well been ghosts.

3. OP claims (quite fraudulently) that the Senate released a "statement". (Where is this statement, has anyone seen it?)

4. OP claims that the Senate "confirm[ed] that the Aviation Minister's CV was in line with her claims, against what some media outfits have been writing in the last few days. They warned that the online news outlets Sahara Reporters and Premium Times should stop giving out false and malicious information that might lead to breakdown of law and order." SINCE THIS "SENATE'S STATEMENT" DOESNT EXIST, THIS IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE.

5. OP's only source is the facebook page of some random PDP fan site. Where is this Senate Statement?

6. From what I can tell, there is no mention of Oduah AT ALL on that Facebook page. Can anyone find where they mentioned what OP claimed? In fact, I think that post was WRITTEN by the owner of that Facebook page, and that they included the link to their facebook page as a PROMOTION and not as a source. Did any mod even click on the link to verify OP's claims?

Anyway, I was SHOCKED to see that thread on the front page today. It is an obvious fraud. The question I have, is what are the standards this website uses?

I am not a fan of Sincere9gerian, but he always uses sources, so I respect him. When other's on the politics section discuss issues, we like to use SOURCED articles to bash each other. When I post threads, I always use a source. Personally, this level of yeye journalism is against the politics section culture, and should be stopped. If we cant trust NL, then what is the point?

Lastly, let us all wait until the government resumes on Jan 14, when the investigation into Oduah will formally start. These unsourced, and uncomfirmed, claims from the "Nigerian Senate" (which is currently on vacation) will most likely be exposed as fraudulent. In the mean time, this concerned Nigerian would like to know what determines whether or not a thread is front page worthy. Thanks and good day.

muchbeauty: Ever since i joined nairaland, i have not been able to read messages sent to me from fellow nairalanders.

Seun: Pls check your spam folder.

eggheaders: damn!!!!! where all y'all my political eggheads can't wait to get back to the game.