As usual a lot of dumbskull young pple will fall for this nonsense and start saying how money attracts money.

It's a wealth glorifying publicity stunt which will mislead simple minded youths to become desperate and scam,steal and kill for money.

Go and pay them dr allowances and leave propaganda.

Dis govs shld stop feeding us dis bullshit abt having little control over security agencies & d army.

Dy use them effectively during elections.

What is the probability of a building collapsing while the multi billionaire owner with real estate investment in four countries is on site?

@OP
Quite foolish & naive opinion.

U're probably one of those that neither read real books nor reflect.

The generation u're referring to as cowards fought soldiers on d streets for years sacrificing careers,family & resources to restore democracy so that pple like u will be able to seat comfortably in ur home and type rubbish.

Jst one confrontation with soldiers at lekki can never be compared to years of struggle by our older comrades/activists.

I also wonder how u expect som1 benefitting immensely from a system/ govt. to start fighting d system.

Elites from every region know how to make the most of any regime.

It is struggling pple like u who shld be asked if u're not cowards for accepting the status quo.

Before opening the thread ,I knew dr wld be no identifiable pictures of the eliminated terrorists.

Only NA can identify 50 bodies from this picture.

We can do better abeg!

This Nigerian terrorism is confusing.

Friends handling projects in Maiduguru claim dy feel very safe within the metropolis and walk around freely 24/7 but we keep hearing of attacks & bombardments.

We hardly see pictures of captured or kiiled terrorists/bandits,even a glimpse of destroyed camps is quite rare despite the heavy artillery being used.

Despite the surrender of thousands of terrorists ,dr are still constant fatal attacks.

Fighters are not being asked to provide Intel in exchange for amnesty as credible info frm that magnitude of defectors shld provide the NA all day need to win the war.

No top ranking terrorists have been captured and brought to trial/interviewed even though dy all live within Nigeria.

Awardee , Awarded and 'Applaudee' all know it's a big fat lie!

Right message in a wrong manner.

Millions will not open it cos it looks like a scam

Why not just use the sms channel pple are used to?

Even the compensation is wack!

What of pple affected by the outage who didn't use data or airtime within the period selected?

Who is advising Karl biko?

What did you do in Abia for 8 good years

Even in an Islamic Country with an Islamic government??

What type of Dr. is this man parading? Thought he submitted WASCE as his highest qualification to Inec?

Travelling across Nigeria has become one of the most difficult,costly and dangerous endeavors no thanks to the terrible state of roads all over the country.

I don't think we have ever had it this bad.

Funny enough the man on whose table the buck stops has a track record of performance at least when his was Lagos governor.

Why hasn't he been able to make any meaningful impact for over six years?

Some of the roads are so bad you start to wonder if heavy machines were actually brought in to do the damage.

There are a lot of alternatives to deliver quality roads on a massive scale.

Concessions
PPP
Tolls
Infastructure loans etc.

Is BRF over-rated? Was he just lucky with Lagos?

DOTian:
Thread for ijiots on steroids..

Use of swear words in an argument is a sign of low I.Q and self esteem issues.

U might want to go for counseling.

I have tried to understand what exactly is happening in SE Nigeria.

Leaders including govs whom I believe shld be above pettiness by virtue of dr position are blaming invaders.

Locals are blaming DSS/IPOB.

FG is blaming IPOB

IPOB has denied involvement,but d killings continue.

Isn't it logical for Ibo leadership to urgently hold a meeting and delibrate on how to stop this senseless carnage?

Can't IPOB step in and apprehend dis killers?

Dy do it in broad daylight for crying out loud!

The videos and pictures we see online are heart wrenching.

What exactly are Ibo leaders of thought doing?

Are dr no vibrant youth groups or local vigilantes who can confront these pple?

Zonal NANS nko?why not stage a protest and call attention to the wickedness & injustice being meted out to ur pple.

So many questions......

I recently joined Nairaland and I must say I'm shocked at the level of ignorance,myopia, superstition and outright stupidity exhibited by a large number of pple here.

Initially thought dy wr joking or being satirical until I noticed the trend was continuous and widespread.

Is this a reflection of the Nigerian people?

How can you not apply common sense to everyday issues and public discuss?

I literarily have headache after reading some users analysis of issues and I've decided to be very careful with pple in this country.

You cannot truly enjoy life if you choose to be foolish most of the time.

Forgive me but I'm just shocked and angry!

And this one too will be posting motivational quotes up and down.

What kind of laziness will make you employ an underage girl as housemaid?

I also partly blame her husband,how can you allow this physco enslave a poor girl under your roof?

Both of them shld be prosecuted ASAP!

OWEI LAKEMFAAUG 30, 2021

Adeola Soetan was a staff of the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Abeokuta when some young student leaders from the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife visited the station. Cladded in black, they came in connection with the annual commemoration of the June 7, 1981 massacre of six students in Ife by the police.



Adeola Soetan
The students looked so young, yet articulate and confident while being interviewed, that he decided in furthering his studies, to attend the OAU. So in 1986, he was admitted into the institution for a five -year course in Agriculture. He was aged 25.But when he got to the campus, the student union that attracted him, had been banned over protests against the student massacre at the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU.

On campus, he started writing and pasting articles why student unionism should be restored. His articles carried his name and room number. One day, two young students, Yinka Odumakin, later a national figure in Nigerian politics, and Kola Odetola visited and invited him to join a student journal,‘Ripples’. A month later, they invited him to a student seminar where he met young students discussing how to revive the student union and intelligently analysing national and international politics. That was how he joined the radical students movement.

About three months later, during the university convocation, the representative of the Visitor, Admiral Patrick Koshoni, was stoned by students protesting the trial for treason of eleven electricity senior staff who had gone on strike in protest against the neglect of their sector. Soetan was not present when this happened. He had attended an all-night social party the day before, and slept most of the day. So when Koshoni was stoned, he was sound asleep in his room. About 9.30pm, Odumakin and Odetola came to his room and asked whether he listened to the NTA Network News. No he hadn’t. So they informed him he was one of the students the university claimed to have identified stoning Koshoni and has therefore been rusticated indefinitely. He was just four months on campus!

Soetan an orphan since 19, was sponsoring himself in school with help from his sister, Rosalyn Soetan. She seemed so devastated and exclaimed: “How could you go and stone the Minister?” He replied: “ I did not stone the Minister, I was not even there.” She responded: “Ah! Iro ni”(Ah! It is a lie).

Soetan went to court to prove he was not physically present at the convocation and was not given any hearing. Also, to point out that three of the eight rusticated students were pen names, so how could the university claim people whose identity they do not know, were seen stoning the Minister? Additionally, that one of the remaining names, Seni Ajayi was served his rustication letter in Ondo whereas the person served had graduated and left the university! So, it was clearly a case of mistaken identity. Soetan lost the case but the reinvigorated student union asked the rusticated students to resume classes, and the university turned a blind eye.

In April 1990, Soetan was elected the student union President. Shortly afterwards, there were national student protests and the OAU students union was banned and the school closed down for one month.

Then there was an attempted coup in the country on April 22, 1990 and state security agents invaded the campus and abducted two lecturers, Professors Omotoye Olorode and Idowu Awopetu. In the process of spiriting the lecturers away, one of the agents in his car lagged behind, was apprehended by the students and beaten. The university authorities wanted to save the life of the security agent from the thousands of angry students, but could not persuade them, so they appealed to Soetan.

He asked in what capacity he was to intervene since the union had been banned. But the university denied the union was banned. So he spoke to the students and assured them that the union was capable of handling the situation. Later, the university wrote the students inviting them to meet government representatives who were threatening to storm the campus unless the agent was released. The students rejected the letter, insisting it should be properly addressed. Two hours later, the university unbanned the students union and returned with a letter addressed to the President of the students union. So the students agreed to the meeting. The security agent was released after spending 12 days in the students custody.

In 1991, the National association of Nigerian Students, NANS, ordered a nationwide students boycott of classes in furtherance of its demand for a N2,000 bursary for students and the right to education. When a student congress was called in OAU to mobilise for this protest, a cult group, the posted notices decreeing: “No Rally. No protest on campus. Be warned.” When Soetan led the student congress that held in Awolowo Hall, there were disturbances.

His supporters guided him to safety in his Room 273, Awolowo Hall. Then the armed cultists smashed his door, dragged him out, broke a flower vase on his head and brought him to the ground floor. It was at that point students realised what was going on and came to his rescue. The cultists broke into a run, fleeing into the hills. But one of them ran to the bar of the Student Union Building, SUB, from where he flung bottles at the students injuring a number. The students retaliated likewise and he was severely injured. He died while being taken to the teaching hospital.

The university was closed down for two weeks. On resumption, Soetan was invited with some students to write a statement on the incident at the More Police Station, Ife. Eighteen of them were detained and later taken to police cells in Ibadan. After about one month, Soetan and three others were brought back to Ife, and amidst police-student street battles, were charged with conspiracy and murder before a magistrate court. They were remanded at the Ilesha prisons where they spent seven months (June 12, 1991-January, 1992) before the police discontinued the case.

On return to campus, Soetan was again expelled, this time for failing to register for two semesters which was impossible as he was in police cell and prison for eight months. The struggle to get him recalled went on for over two years.

Soetan, even without failing his examinations, spent 13 years in OAU for a five-year programme. He passed through four Vice Chancellors: Professor Wande Abimbola who first expelled him; Professor Adeniyi Osuntogun, the next to expel him; Professor Wale Omole, the third to expel him; and Professor Makanjuola Roger who signed his certificate. Yesterday, Sunday August 29, 2021, this indomitable fighter, turned 60.

The following countries have Christianity as their official religion. Nigeria with almost a 100m adherents of the Christian faith and over 15,000 churches is however officially a secular country.

1. England
2. Denmark
3. Costa Rica
4. Georgia
5. Vatican
6. Tuvalu
7. Ethiopia
8. Dominican republic
9.Zambia