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MOBIL carries the day. There is a mobil filling station at Challenge Bus Stop, opposite Vono foam, Mushin Lagos. Damn the attendants are bloody experts in criminality. I know one of the attendants that was sacked because he didn't erase the one sold before someone else went there. It happened to me twice on this filling station and I swore not to buy there again.

Another one is REM DABSON filling station. The station is along Lucky fibre and Hypo road before you get to Adamo. I will never buy there again.

Rashidi Yekinni. I wish to ask him what he said aftrer scoring Nigeria's first world cup.

Really? Jega will visit all polling booths to conduct the election himself.

amjyk: richest man my foot,all of u dat are stealing d wealth of ds nation God is watching u oh!

Go still your own na abi you no know where Dangote steal his own?

OP. You are looking for big trouble. You don poo already. Expect flies, cockroaches and maggots to feast.

God bless you

killuminati: If to say na church dem attack now, awon oloshi go don dey type rubish out of hatred. RIP to the innocent dead!

What happened to that part of Bible. Could you share some parts of it?

Are you Jamiu?

jmaine: The usual nonsense from a depraved maggot.


Yes, GEJ is the sole reason why all public officials including your god decided not to declare his assets publicly.

Never knew GEJ has the capacity to influence your god to act otherwise.

You are such a worthless maggot . . .

Very Good. That is what you get when you send thugs to school

Thank God for your life.
OP He is not a miracle man. He is very lucky and saved by God's miracle.

Op. How many angels do you know? Name them.

Willy4Willy: You are HIV Virus which is an alien- Virus to Nigerians

I see. U WILLingly became so sad and unwise. Your handle says a lot. Fvck off.

1Willywilly1: nay wah oooo, the frenzy in which Yorubas are ra-ping women is alarming

Hi, when are you going to be wise?

Exactly.

USE -westgate-shopping-mall_kenya2_mainAROUND noon on Saturday September 21, a group of terrorists believed to number 10 to 18 stormed the Westgate Mall in western Nairobi.

By the third day, 69 had been killed during the attack, or died later in hospital. Another 175 had been injured. Today the crisis entered its fourth day. In the evening a downcast President Uhuru Kenyatta, came on TV to give heartbreaking news. The crisis had come to an end, but the three floors of the mall had collapsed from explosions, and the terrorists and an unknown number of people were trapped in the rubble.

Amidst the tragedy, we are about to forget that the first day of the crisis offered quite troubling insights about how we the media view the world.

Some Kenyan journalists, especially TV presenters, inundated their audiences with references to Westgate mall being popular with “wealthy Kenyans, expatriates and diplomats”. It was also referred to as an “upscale mall” “frequented by foreigners”.

Foreign media said the mall was a “hangout for Kenya’s middle class” was “frequented by westerners”. On one TV morning show, a panelist who was honest enough to say he had never been to Westgate, claimed that a cup of coffee at cafes there costs Sh600 (US$7), and that the average cost of a meal at the restaurants there is Sh2,800. Not true. As of the time of the terrorist attack, the most expensive coffee at the “hip” Art Caffe was about Sh300 ($3.5) – and even that for a double Iced Cappuccino. And the average cost of a meal was Sh900 (three times less expensive than the commentator said it was).

Unsurprisingly several presenters and reporters also said the “radical Somalia group Al-Shabaab” had claimed responsibility for the attacks, and some referred to them as “Islamic terrorists”.

Men and women who are more educated and far cleverer than me about these matters, refer to this as “media framing” – how media perceive and report about an event, and the picture they try to paint in the minds of their readers and viewers about the event.

On the face of it seems there is really nothing harmful in this portrait of the crowd at Westgate. After all quite a few expatriates, diplomats, and middle class Kenyans do frequent the mall.

However late Saturday, someone posted a cheeky but telling tweet. He said something like “blessed are the poor, for they don’t go to Westgate”. The unsaid message there was that the privileged, who enjoy a good life, were the ones being hurt at Westgate, and those who are not rich should not bother sharing their pain – after all the wealthy don’t do much to relieve their suffering.

The western media were telling their audiences that, “well, it is Africa alright, and ordinarily we wouldn’t bother you with this story, except that this time you should pay attention because westerners could have been killed”. Indeed, they were, and that sent the western media to town with the Westgate story.

On Saturday evening our daughter came to me and said; “Americans are impossible, you should see what they are saying about the Westgate attack”. She showed me comments on the NBC TV website, where Americans were asking why the network was wasting their time with the Westgate story, “it is Africa after all”.

In common all these were narratives about them versus us, our “otherness” – our different cultures, possessions, religions, citizenships, languages, food, aesthetics, and the colour of our skins.

Debased “otherness” enables us to ignore the pain of others and sleep soundly at night; to discriminate against people who are different without having to trouble our consciences; to persecute those who are not our relatives, fellow citizens, not of our religion, or social station without being afflicted by a sense of injustice. This type of “otherness” is anaesthesia against having to be humane.

However, by the evening of Sunday, references to “Islamic terrorists”, to a Westgate that was “popular with wealthy Kenyans, expatriates and foreigners” had died out. Why did the media suddenly drop these descriptions?

Because reality challenged the media stereotype of the Westgate attack. There were several ordinary folks who had been killed, or were bloodied and injured. It didn’t add up, they were not supposed to be in Westgate. Then, there were too many children—surely, they didn’t deserve to be killed. And, there were a little many Asians and mzungus (Caucasians) helping black Africans into ambulances, and even carrying and running with them to safety.

And everywhere you looked there were many black Africans sprinting with Asian and mzungu children and women to safety, and nursing the wounded ones.

And then there was an awkward wrinkle – Muslims too were among the dead. That was not supposed to happen, you know, how come “Islamist terrorists” were killing other Muslims? One of the survivors said he watched in horror when two terrorists asked some women to cite verses of the Quran to prove they were Muslim. They did…then the men shot them at point blank range. Some terrified people who were lying on the ground screamed; “why did you shoot them?”

One of the gunmen replied, “because they were not wearing the hijab”. So, it seems, misogyny and patriarchy trumped religion.

And Kenyans died, in the same way Ghanaian, British, and French nationals did.

Come Sunday, unbelievably long lines had formed in places around Nairobi where the Red Cross was taking blood donations. The city had never seen anything like this. Most of the donors were the “poor”, the humble, the working class, lining up to donate blood for the supposed upper class that patronisesWestgate.

None of this fitted the script. Vulgar “otherness” had been put to shame by the people’s common humanity and decency.

So perhaps it is time to pause and reflect. The outcome of the Westgate terror attack seemed to tell that not all contests between those who have and those who don’t are a Lenist class war. Not every contest between cultures, religions, or races is a battle for conquest and domination. That they are well-meaning negotiations for space, for respect, for a little share of the pie, for some of the air, for a bit of the limelight, not a tango of death.

lakhadimar: No PDP in aso rock in 2015

Lol. Assuming PDP is pushed out of Aso rock in 2015, what will be the next handle the PDP warlords will adopt. I can't wait though.

^^That is the speaker Lagos State House of Assembly.

Yes. I mean next Lagos State Governor is Adeyemi Ikoforiji. Quote this thread when it is officially announced. Source: An insider.

Musiwa. I need to see you face to face. Let's arrange. Thanks.

If amnesty is the only way their future could be secured then grant them immediately. I remember some criminals were granted amnesty alas! They were sent abroad for education. Some are pilots, some make millions per month. So what are we talking about here.

Huh? Do you know how much I bought ny beetle ni?

moshino: No talk am loud o, else those 2 will combine and see bad vision 4u o! But if you get any 2014 Bombardier Jet, maybe they'll consider better vision 4u.

Plutarch: Are u a learner? The former will likely accept it but Oyedepo will reject telling you that his God is not poor.

You mean Adeboye worships a p**r God? Shall Wonders Never End

itsmayiela: "The god we serve is not a poor god and so i will reject your gift"

"Sow as much as God has given to you, pay your tithe, i shall not collect this meagre gift because you are a multimillionaire that can afford a Lamborghini"

LMAO. These pastors are fvckers. The tithers are the fvcked. No offenseis.

I have VW beetle for Mr Adeboye and Peugeot 504 (300, 000km) mileage for Oyedepo.

God bless him. I wish GEJ could do this in 2015

Supergal01: It's lady actually.

As per your question, Google it.

Google says he is a scammer

Supergal01: I see a lot of myopic people on this thread.

If you are poor or still hustling, it is not
Mr Oyedepo's fault. Last I checked, he did not
put a gun to anybody's head to drop tithe and/or
offering. Private Jets, luxury cars, fat bank accounts,
it is not your business, that's between him and God.


For arguments sakes lets even say this man is a 'thief'
(I do not agree with this), have you been to Canaanland?
or Landmark?
Do you realise the thousands of people that are
employed and get their daily bread from these institutions and
their subsidiaries?
Do you know how many families are fed?
Do you know the number of businesses that have sprung up in Ota
because of Canaanland/Covenant University?
Do you know the number of Ogun state indigenes given employment
in CU?
Do you know the number of indigent students given full scholarships
yearly?
Do you know the number of widows, orphans and physically challenged
supported by the mission?

How little you know!

Yet you vote for foolish politicians who grab all and give nothing back.
Bells University is a stone throw from CU, the road that leads there is
a monumental shame to OBJ, the owner, who was a 2-term president.

Before you talk rubbish, ask yourself, how many lives have I touched?

Guy! could you simply tell me his profession that gave him so much wealth?

Gmail suscks. You will know when you have mail tray. To trace out an email na big wahala in a tray

emusmith: No wonder you can't really make a simple sentence in English. I'm sure you're just assisting the crowd to malign. He's not in your class.

I can never be in his clasd because I work. I don't dupe people in the name of God. I am richer than any thief. He is not in my class.