FEGNO: Its either 1. Aboki don finish or 2. The appointments he will announce soon will leave us shocked so these apointments have been made to create the argument that " didnt he just appoint two easterners the other day?" And I can bet that scene 2 is what is most likely to occur
TheArchangel: It is not safe to have anything tied to your head except your helmet as an army officer. She is just risking her life to be praised on social media.
So you think she is in the war front now with a can of Pepsi fizzy drink ( and not gun) to scare the enemy?
medpren: Her yoruba people wanted 'One nigeria' forever at all cost with the fulani mohammedans. Why shedding crocodile tears? How many yoruba muslims condemned the killing? Ishaq Akintola and other yoruba stooges of the fulani sultanate definifely does not give a damn about her death.
RIP woman your people think they can leave peacefully with mohammedans forever, and that demented belief contributed to the reason why the fulani (your people want to live with at all cost) think your life is worthless and dispensable.
RIP once more! I pity yoruba 'one nigerianists'.
You are obviously an Ipob anarchist.
*Nigerian Media: Truth versus Reality*
I'M FORWARDING THIS AS RECEIVED.
In the past few days, the hearts of genuine citizens of our great nation have bled over the news of the killing of a female Christian preacher by alleged Muslim fanatics in Kubwa area of the FCT, Abuja. I was actually alerted by a friend's ext message because although i reside in the affected area, i was far away in Ibadan, Oyo State, as at the time of the incident.
As an average concerned Nigerian, i thought, when will this nation be free from religious and ethnic crises? But as a journalist and one with eye for investigation, i knew i had a duty at hand. So, on my return to the city, i visited the particular street, the particular spot, conducted personal investigation and secret interviews, and made several findings. I became sad! Why? Most of the information doled out by our media are NOT TRUE! For the avoidance of doubt, there was no evidence of anyone present when the woman died. Witnesses only said they met her dead.
Secondly, i did not find anyone to confirm that any part of the woman was missing or mutilated. I talked with one who saw the corpse early that morning, with two policemen, before the news went viral.
Thirdly, there was no mosque in that street or behind the spot.
Fourthly, the vicinity had been under the torment of cultism in the past few months, in fact, two separate persons were found killed and dumped in the area recently, one of them on the street adjacent this particular one.
The police is actually on the trail of s notorious cult who is believed to have sneaked into and hiding in the area. The police is insisting that they met the corpse body intact.
But, alas! What my colleagues wrote were terrifying. In fact, it revived hatred, instigated religious intolerance and personal mistrust. I am sure many of you journalists who wrote the story were not in Abuja, you just received the news from friends and forwarded to your headquarters, which also did not verify before going to press. I also know that many of those in Abuja then did not visit the place, nor conduct proper investigation. For an issue as critical as religion and ethnicity, most of you goofed!
The media is an indefatigable player in nation building, and no society is firmly built on negligence and mistrust as being displayed by our journalists. But, the media houses too are at fault. Most of them pay peanuts for staff while the few at the top swim in affluence. Where, then, is the resource and motivation for the reporter to carry out investigative reporting and due diligence. To survive, many journalists are pipers in the hands of politicians, religious leaders and businessmen and even government, who dictate their tune.
Yet, the masses are at the receiving end because they naturally hold on to the news from the media. It is a hell a times, to change the people's perception on issues, over which our media had made serious blunders. I had had to show identity cards to some, before they agree to reason along the right perspective. The corruption on the media is much, but our colleagues can just help hold on to the truth.
The fracas between commercial drivers and police happen regularly in lagos and in all parts of Nigeria , why is the OP Nbote desperate in making it look like a tribal issue, must you Nigerians always hate ?
Mintayo: I don't know or understand what a woman of 50years will gain by cheating on her husband. What will she gain by lying? With all the things she must have heard and seen.?
Yes what's wrong with that. Women and girls have worn trousers since time immemorial in the north , especially in the North-east.They may not be jeans but they are still trousers.
The same Pastors labeling children as witches and murdering them. The same pastors raping married women in their congregations. You still follow them . You will remain primitive all your life my friend.
joyousmother2016: Its indeed sad that a paramount ruler could be murdered by these herdsmen. Barely 3 weeks ago the Bokkos youths issued a communique rejecting the idea of ranches/reserves in Bokkos land and the entire Plateau state. Now these same herders have murdered the ruler, his driver, his aides and some villagers..
Get your facts man before this hateful incitement.
Still orchestrating wars to break the North. They will never succeed. Monarchs are murdered by beneficiaries to throne, you can't blame phantom " herdsmen " just to incite hatred and war. A crime was committed , allow an investigation and prosecution.
DIKEnaWAR: They only came to office to wear starched agbada, smile for the cameras and be called 'Your Excellency'. This is what an average northerner lives for.
A people who don't believe in merit, yet want to be at the top always. It is high time Niger-deltas are allowed to control their resources. If you want to be called 'Your excellency' in a flowing agbada, use your brain and create wealth.
Ipob working for Niger Delta. Struggling for crumbs .
UndisputedBosom: If i were the person that picked the phone there are nine chances out of ten that i may return the phone (i've done it b4 so i don't see it as a big deal) but is not every Nigerian that is thinking like that besides the bad economy under the so called "change" has made some people to bearly meet up to two square meal a day, now tell me if a man that bearly feeds properly twice a day picks the phone, so do you expect him to return the phone? Believe you me, from the text message you can be able to define that man, if things were good with him am 80% sure he will gladly return the phone without even asking for anything in return... Hope i made some sense here
That phone cannot belong to him simply beacause he is poor. It belongs to someone else and the right thing is to return it, period.
UndisputedBosom: He's not a thief at least he didn't collect/rob the phone from you at gun point.
Everyone has a different heart you don't expect him to return your phone by fire by force.....besides there's hardship in the land, him picking that phone he counts it as blessing. So as he said take heart, ogadinma ma emesie...
Typical ! So the phone now belongs to him. This may appear minor , but How can we build a country like that?
I also remember another one written by Cyprian, about an old man struck with a spell of the wandering disease. Each time someone mentions Sokugo, the old man loses his senses and starts wandering upandan distant lands. I have forgotten the name but the plot has stayed with me all these years.
Ekwensi also wrote," People of the City" and " Jagua Nana" which was mainly in Pidgin English. You must also remember "Toads for Supper" by Chukuemeka Ike.
I also remember another one written by Cyprian, about an old man struck with a spell of the wandering disease. Each time someone mentions Sokugo, the old man loses his senses and starts wandering upandan distant lands. I have forgotten the name but the plot has stayed with me all these years.
The book you wanted to remember is " The burning Grass". It's funny you only remembered " sokugo" and not too well either. It was a Fulani herdsmen story written so well by the master writer Ekwensi. I wish he was here to write what is going on now - to his hero - Rikku of the thousand cattle.
"The court said the case before Justice Allagoa bothered on alleged forgery or falsification of tax certificate and receipts for 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 by Dr. Ikpeazu." You mean boardered?