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 Crime › Three Dead, Two Injured In Fresh Plateau Violence by baqina(op): 6:32pm On Aug 18, 2012 |
Three persons were killed while two sustained injuries as unknown gunmen attacked some Fulani herdsmen in Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau State, North Central Nigeria on Friday. A statement issued by the media officer of Special Task Force (STF), Captain Salisu Mustapha, the assailants attacked the five Fulanis on their way to Sho village in an ambush while they were returning from an outing within the community. Two persons were killed on the spot while the third died in the hospital while receiving treatment. The STF also confirmed that there was a bomb scare at Bukuru, Jos South local government area early Saturday morning following a report of an abandoned bag in the area but the anti-bomb squad discovered that the abandoned bag contained personal belongings of a traveler. The STF reassured the public of its commitment to ensure a hitch free Eid el Fitr celebration adding that it would leave no stone unturned in fishing out the perpetrators of the dastardly act. Captain Mustapha warned citizens bent on fomenting trouble with the aim of truncating the peace of the state to desist from such acts. http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/08/18/three-dead-two-injured-in-fresh-plateau-violence/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter |
| Politics › Re: “I Removed A Governor For Stealing N300,000 by baqina(m): 11:50am On Aug 18, 2012 |
"I participated in virtually every operation from 1964 till I left office". We know including d coup "He added that people should be sincere and accept that President Goodluck Jonathan needed support of every Nigerian." ..So that has been d problem all ds while |
| Politics › Re: Picture Of Nigeria Divided: Is This The Future? by baqina(m): 10:59am On Aug 18, 2012 |
| Politics › Re: Picture Of Nigeria Divided: Is This The Future? by baqina(m): 10:06am On Aug 18, 2012 |
Hmmmmm, I see the regions along d atlantic becoming economic stable e and powerful coz all other parts will access there goods through ds regions i.e lagos, Calabar and possibly Warri. Some regions are going to be interlock island. I don't think this break up will be possible looking from economic point of view, some regions will not agree to it. Some regions will depend so much on odas, not in terms of oil and gas or Mineral resources but in terms of accessibility. Some part will never concur to ds. It is well.
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| Politics › Re: Why Nigerians Ridicule Nigeria by baqina(m): 8:08pm On Aug 15, 2012 |
Ki-Katanga:Am already doing that, what have you contributed to the development of Nigeria? Ki-Katanga:Am already doing that, what have you contributed to the development of Nigeria? Ki-Katanga:Have already done that, what have you contributed to the development of Nigeria? |
| Politics › Re: Why Nigerians Ridicule Nigeria by baqina(m): 6:14pm On Aug 15, 2012 |
occam: You are living in cloud cuckoo land. wake up man we're talking of Nigeria here. Remember the GIANT of Africa.No country in d world is a paradise, just like you have kids in your neighborhood regretting they were born in Nigeria, we also have kids of other nationals regretting where God created them, this is pure case of self esteem not of origin. We have Nigerians that are today the best in there chosen careers. Gone are d days when passport was d most lucrative department at Nigeria Immigration Service but now it is d CERPAC, you will be shocked when you see the amount of other nationals turning Nigerians especially the Americans and the British. |
| Politics › Re: Why Nigerians Ridicule Nigeria by baqina(m): 5:30pm On Aug 15, 2012 |
It depends on how you look at it. In terms of corruption,Nigeria can not be compared to the likes of India, Thailand etc Armed robbery and insecurity, we have countries like South Africa topping the charts. So many nigerians have been killed in the US and UK by robbers and teenage rascals. Education, we might not have d best education systems but the products of our institutions are among the best in the world with Nigerians being d most educated group in UK and USA. The highest I paid as undergraduate was #15,000 as school fees and with that I just used it to gain admission to 2 universities in the Uk, I was even thinking they would ask mi to start from Pre masters level. Health, some people think our hospital is a shame but the president of Ghana died after being discharged from American hospital, Stella Obasanjo died in Spanish hospital,A crown prince of Saudi Arabia recently died in German hospital, Michael Jackson died of overdose prescribed by an American doctor etc. In America and Uk, we have citizens of this countries feeding from the trash cans and some homeless and jobless.I have never seen or heard of anybody combining 2 or 3 jobs to survive in Nigeria. For those crying foul, Nigeria owe us nothing, it is we Nigerians dt owe her something and gratitude to God for making us Nigerians. For those that care to know, a lot of foreigners are turning Nigerians daily. I love my country and am proud to be a Nigerian. 2 Likes |
| Family › Chris Okotie Verbally Attacks Ex-wife Stephanie During Church Service by baqina(op): 10:23pm On Aug 14, 2012 |
This happened in his House Hold of God Church just two days ago...during his sermon on Sunday August 12th. According to some members of his church that attended the service that Sunday morning, pastor Chris Okotie threw caution into the wind and verbally attacked his estranged wife, Stephanie Henshaw, comparing her to Jezebel in the bible and saying that he was free to judge her because of what he suffered in her hands. (He didn't say what). He was also quoted as saying that Stephanie was free to go to CNN or BBC to talk about him but he will never take her back. Those who listened to him said he sounded so bitter and had never spoken about her like that before. Pastor Chris has also taken back the two expensive cars he gave Stephanie during their four year marriage; a Benz S Class and a BMW X6. http://www.lindaikeji..com |
| Family › Chris Okotie Verbally Attacks Ex-wife Stephanie During Church Service by baqina(op): 9:55pm On Aug 14, 2012 |
This happened in his House Hold of God Church just two days ago...during his sermon on Sunday August 12th. According to some members of his church that attended the service that Sunday morning, pastor Chris Okotie threw caution into the wind and verbally attacked his estranged wife, Stephanie Henshaw, comparing her to Jezebel in the bible and saying that he was free to judge her because of what he suffered in her hands. (He didn't say what). He was also quoted as saying that Stephanie was free to go to CNN or BBC to talk about him but he will never take her back. Those who listened to him said he sounded so bitter and had never spoken about her like that before. Pastor Chris has also taken back the two expensive cars he gave Stephanie during their four year marriage; a Benz S Class and a BMW X6. http://www.lindaikeji..com |
| Politics › 1000 Bombs Recovered By Nigerian Police In Kano  by baqina(op): 4:16pm On Aug 14, 2012 |
The Anti-Bomb disposal unit of the Kano State Police Command recovered and defused 996 different calibre of Improvised Explosive Devices (EIDs) from 20 January to date, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris disclosed today, wondering how many lives would have been lost in the ancient city had the owners had the chance to use them. Idris explained that the EIDs, which were recovered from different parts of the state, were successfully detonated without causing any injury or damage whatsoever. “If these items had gone off, only God knows the magnitude of devastation they would have caused in the state,’’ he said. He also said that the command had, within the last two weeks, arrested 108 suspected miscreants, popularly known as `Yan’daba’ following raids at various black spots and criminal hideouts in the metropolis. He said items recovered from the suspects included nine long knives, six cutlasses, 200 packets of rubber solution and 600 wraps of suspected Indian hemp. Idris said after screening of the suspects, 92 were charged to court while the remaining 16 were released. According to him, the command has also arrested nine suspected armed robbers within the last two weeks in the state. “During the period, the police also recovered 50 rounds of ammunition, two pistols, 13 pump action , 226 cartridges, nine double barrel, 11 motor vehicles, one AK47 rifle and two AK 47 magazines, among others. Kano experienced multi-attacks by Boko Haram terrorists on 20 January, with over 200 people killed. |
| Travel › MMIA Rated Amongst Top 10 Biggest Airports In Africa by baqina(op): 3:56pm On Aug 14, 2012 |
The Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria has been rated among the 10 top Biggest Airports in Africa. The report featured on Ventures Africa by Tom Jackson described the MMIA Airport as a major airport in Africa, serving the country, with 6.3 million passengers a year. The airport’s international terminal modeled after Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, officially opened in March 1979, and today is the main base for Nigeria’s flag carrier airlines, Air Nigeria, First Nation and Arik Air, Jackson said. The article also featured four South African airports with over 22.1 million passengers passing through each year (OR Tambo International Airport, Cape Town International Airport, King Shaka International Airport, Durban, and Port Elizabeth International Airport) have been described as Africa’s biggest and busiest. The Egypt airspace was not left out as the annual passenger records is put at a 35.5 million. The three airports (Cairo International Airport, Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport and Hurghada International Airport) has over the years established a reputation as Africa’s premier international award-winning airports, consistently performing among the best in the world in terms of customer service, the report noted. Crucial to Africa’s economic development is its infrastructure, particularly its transport network. And with the potential boon of tourism, African nations must make sure they have top quality airports to attract and deal with large numbers of visitors. Many are already in place, according to Jackson. By Citizensplatform http://www.ventures-africa.com/2012/08/the-10-biggest-airports-in-africa/ |
| Family › 11-year-old Girl Married To 40-year-old Man by baqina(op): 4:14pm On Aug 07, 2012 |
11-year-old girl married to 40-year-old man By Samuel Burke Before their wedding ceremony begins in rural Afghanistan, a 40-year-old man sits to be photographed with his 11-year-old bride. The girl tells the photographer that she is sad to be engaged because she had hoped to become a teacher. Her favorite class was Dari, the local language, before she had to leave her studies to get married. She is one of the 51 million child brides around the world today. And it’s not just Muslims; it happens across many cultures and regions. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair has traveled the world taking pictures, like the one of the Afghan couple, to document the phenomenon. Christiane Amanpour spoke with Sinclair about a book which features her photographs called, “Questions without Answers: The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII.” Amanpour asked Sinclair if the 11-year-old Afghan girl married in 2005, and others like her, consummate their marriages at such an early age. Sinclair says while many Afghans told her the men would wait until puberty, women pulled her aside to tell her that indeed the men do have sex with the prepubescent brides. Sinclair has been working on the project for nearly a decade. She goes into the areas with help from people in these communities who want the practice to stop, because they see the harmful repercussions. In Yemen, a similar picture. Tehani and Ghada are sisters-in-law photographed with their husbands, who are both members of the military. Like most of the girls, Tehani didn’t even know she was getting married, until the wedding night. She was six years old. Tehani describes how she entered the marriage, “They were decorating my hands, but I didn’t know they were going to marry me off. Then my mother came in and said, ‘Come on my daughter.’ They were dressing me up and I was asking, ‘Where are you taking me?’” Sinclair says, “This harmful, traditional practice of child marriage is just so embedded in some of these cultures that the families don’t protect them as they should.” The subjects do know they’re being photographed and Sinclair tells them the topic she is working on. She does tell them that there is teen pregnancy in places like the U.S., but for the societies she’s photographing it’s even worse that 13-year-old girls are pregnant and unmarried. Another one of the photographs Sinclair took is of a Yemeni girl named Nujood Ali. In a rare turn of events, Ali managed to get a divorce at age 10. “A couple months after she was married, she went to the court and found a lawyer – a woman named Shada Nasser and asked her to help her get a divorce, and she was granted [it],” Sinclair says. “It’s definitely rare and Nujood became kind of an international symbol of child marriage, because she was able to do this. And I think she’s inspired a lot of other girls and other organizations to support these girls, to have a stronger voice.” Sinclair has documented the practice outside of the Muslim world. In a Christian community in Ethiopia, she captured the image of a 14 year-old girl named Leyualem in a scene that looks like an abduction. Leyualem was whisked away on a mule with a sheet covering up her face. Sinclair asked the groomsmen why they covered her up; they said it was so she would not be able to find her way back home, if she wanted to escape the marriage. Sinclair travelled to India and Nepal, and photographed child marriages among some Hindus. A five-year-old Hindu girl named Rajni was married under cover of night: “Literally at four o’clock in the morning. And her two older sisters were married to two other boys,” Sinclair says. “Often you see these group marriages because the girl and the families can’t afford to have three weddings.” In the five-year-old girl’s case, Rajni will continue to live with her own family for several years. Girls aren’t always the only ones forced into marriage. Sinclair wanted to photograph child marries in India and Nepal, because sometimes the boys entering a marriage are also young. “And often they’re victims just as much of this harmful traditional practice,” she says. Sinclair told Amanpour that she hopes her photographs would not only highlight the problems to westerners, but also show people in the areas where this takes place that if the girls continue to be taken out of the population to forcibly work at home, that their communities suffer as a whole. “It’s a harmful traditional practice that is slowly changing. We just want to have it change even faster.” http://on.cnn.com/OZ5gQM |
| Sports › Re: Blessing Okagbare Places Last In 100m Finals by baqina(m): 7:49am On Aug 05, 2012 |
nijanigga: When I said Nigeria may not win any medal,many were cursing and saying rubbish.Nigeria is a failed state, you can't give what you don't have.We exported what we have to London olympics;Failure.@nijanigga..In wat way(s) have u contributed to the development of the country?These are young men and women using their talents to advance the development of d country and u are here on nairaland condemning them and spewing rubbish. |
