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These shud be, ....forewarned,.....forearmed......

oloyedayo:
To before warn is to before harm.

Op, forward this to the dhq portal, their fbk & twitter handle. Bubu is not likely to come on nairaland. This is so so wrong.....
Mods do d needful.

I like your "withdrawal method"....its second to none.

Hmmm, then you should check out the new SSG's profile....

Bose253:
This man looks too old for this job na, for God's sake!

Op, nice job but splashing it on NL but it aint enough. Do so on the NPF fb, twitter handles and also their stopthebribe portal. This evil gotta stop and we are supposed to be the ones to start the process....

LadyBoss1:
Police Men at Soloki police station .Almost Everyday this is what they do .(pic)
Is this not ,Illegal?
Some without uniform



https://mobile.twitter.com/fredthomas97/status/636786617982840832/photo/1

Lol. So we plenty for d boat....

shawylux:
Op I would advise you go back to the lady and re-register again or better still go to an etisalat office where you can be sure of the registration being successful. This same thing happened to me with Airtel and it was on a weekend so I had to wait till Monday to register again. And forget all those freebies talk, your account is as empty as.... Mind you after the registration at the office you might be forced to recharge your line with nothing less than a thousand naira.

Buhari should just go ahead with whatever good plans hes got for Nigeria in whatever quest to change the face & fortunes of the country. From the foregoin, it is clear the present NASS, especially the self-ascribed matured clan of the upper chamber are unserious & not ready for the next phase of nation healing/ re-building with the so many discordant tunes blaring within its fold, with the latest parallels being drawn by different factions on the arguements on the probe of the EFCC head lizard, just to mention a few. People may argue its unhealthy for our budding democracy but has the real custodians (the so called representatives of the people) ever done anything both in the interest of the people & that of the country? Truth is, they are fast losing relevance & the thought that people are beginning to think we can actually do without them. Some other school of thought will argue that the present democratic setting as copied from the West & practiced is not best suited for our clime. If only the president will be objective in his quest & pursuit of ground-breaking reforms, that would impact directly on the masses & down-trodden, I'm sure no one would scream blue murder if he flexes a little bit of executive muscle in getting things done, NASS or no NASS, cos as things are at the moment, those gaggle of garbage/ jesters are not ready for the change we all desire.

What actually happened?

Ay92:
Almost the same thing happened to my dad

But I gat to follow what they told me & that is that d money is already there. Its all simple bru, they just dubiously sold ther sim for N100. Thats d simple explanation.

Abugab:
Op it will work after like 48 hours as they have probably not registered the details on the network yet.

Etisalat. 0.00 naira balance!

skyhighweb:
mine guessis different, did u get mtn abi glo, was d sim card empty, many guessing, so wwhich one is it

If the mofos gat no balls to stand against the status quo, they can at least support someone whos gat the balls to do it...

blackfase:
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday disclosed that its National Executive Council (NEC) has approved September 10 as the definitive day on which it will galvanise its members to undertake a one-day nationwide rally against corrupt practices and its perpetrators in Nigeria.


NLC’s president, Ayuba Wabba, stated this in his remarks at the ongoing national leadership retreat of the congress in Calabar, Cross River State. The retreat has as its theme: “Returning to our founding principles.”


Wabba explained that the planned nationwide rally is aimed at notifying elected politicians at both the federal and state governments of workers’ discontent with the spate of corrupt practices in the country.


He also stated that in undertaking the rally, Nigerian workers hope to lend their support to President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts at cleaning up the system from corrupt practices.


While insisting that the rally had become necessary following his claims that there are several interests in the country that are scheming to frustrate Buhari’s anti-corruption efforts, Wabba called on members of the recently constituted presidential advisory committee on corruption to learn from the 22-man Justice Muhammed Uwais committee that was constituted by the last government on electoral reforms, and honestly undertake their tasks.


Also, in support of NLC’s planned rally, members of the House of Representatives, through the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, indicated their willingness to participate in the rally if invited by the congress.


Wabba however said: “It is of course no longer news that corruption has eaten deep into our body polity. We now learnt that in the twilight of the last administration, the nation’s revenues were indiscriminately transferred to individual accounts.
“For us in congress, these funds must be recovered by all means. If we need to employ the services of forensic auditors to uncover the various amounts stashed away in foreign and domestic banks, so be it.”


He then added: “NEC has resolved that come September 10, labour is going to champion a course to ensure that we strengthen the hands of Mr. President and tell our elected officers to do what is needed to make sure that all corrupt officers in and out of office are brought to justice.


“Investigations into the looting of our national treasury should not be unduly made a controversial matter. Those trying to engage in semantics on who can and who cannot order a forensic audit to uncover the actual state of the looting spree of our commonwealth, risk being identified as celebrating corruption or trying to team up with the corrupt elements to forestall their being brought to book.”


According to Wabba: “No one should pretend about the fact that corruption is a critical national challenge which needs to be confronted and subdued for our country to make progress and actualise its potential.”


The NLC also reiterated the need for the government to institute a special court for corruption and its related cases, to expedite trails of perpetrators of corrupt practices in the country.


On this, Wabba said: “For us, the situation where cases involving multibillion naira corruption allegations drag on for several years without resolution is clearly unhealthy for the anti-corruption crusade.


“Just like we have election tribunals, we do not see why for instance, the Chief Justice of the Federation cannot work out the modalities and establish these special courts and ensure that they are not bugged down with technicalities which is the case with our regular courts at the moment.


“The maxim that justice delayed is justice denied is applicable in this dragging out of anti-corruption prosecutions,” he added.
While castigating and describing the economic proposals of multilateral economic agencies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as unfit for Nigeria’s use, Wabba requested Buhari to ditch any of such proposals brought to him by the agencies.


He stated in this regards that Nigeria should in its attempt to grow the economy, develop and adapt to specific home-grown economic policies that fit her peculiarities.


Meanwhile, Dogara who was represented by a member of the House, Sanni Zoro, at the retreat, noted the commitment of members of the House to fight corrupt practices in the country.


He stated that if invited by the NLC, the House will galvanise to participate in the rally, adding that the eight House of Representatives will provide legislative support to NLC’s fight against corruption.


“We are irrevocably committed to the anti-corruption struggle and we will be part of your rally if you invite us.
I want to tell you that we are also committed to the restoration of Nigeria to become a strategic economic power. Before nations like India started out in their development, we had started out seriously ahead of them, but today, they are ahead of us in development,” Dogara said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/corruption-nlc-to-support-buhari-with-nationwide-rally-september-10/218492/

Shove this somewher. We've been hearing this since April.

Walahi, no be lie....

I got good reasons to believe anything Al Musty rolls out on Abdulsalam. That the former loathes d latter is this years understatement. Lets see wher this gonna lead to. Can of worms indeed. Nigeria, a theatre of legendary absurdities.....

Exactly my sista. I thought about that angle too & felt I culdv been shaken down for a lot more. However d thrust of my alarm here is to alert peeps to their crookedness. Anyone off here culd walk into them....

Shalomdee:
It could've been worse.

They fraudulently made me part with N200, N100 apiece for d 2 packs. Now its not d cash thats d prob but d veiled deception....

duality:
so what exactly was your loss.

I was on my way out of Festac today, through the Agboju Market thorough-fare when I was accosted by an Etisalat lady marketer with all d trappings & paraphenelia of Etisalat, who thrusted 3 simpacks my way saying "you can have them, they're free". After collecting, hardly had I taken 2 steps when she reached out again about registering. I told her not to bother but her persistence made me reconsider while she was at same time mumbling its got N1000 worth of airtime, 40mb of data but will hav to activate it with a N100 recharge. She later retrieved a pack thereby leaving me with two. She took me to an eighteen sitter bus & I went through all the process & was told it'l go active by 8pm.
Well, roll forward to 8pm & your guess is as good as mine.
Moral of this?....watch out for these bandits on the prowl. Im sure there r many of them scattered around the metropolis. And keeps me wondering if Etisalat is complicit with this shit playing out.

Lalastic ke? No be lala dey run this show here o....lol, check airmark

delectablegyal:
I said it, this thread is gonna be fun. Fans are already spitting venom, keep it coming guys.


It will do good if this thread can make front page. Lalasticlala, where are u?

We r bein grossly misrepped here I tell u. And since its bein mouthed & noised that this is d biggest platform on naija issues, just like u put it, it will b taken as d general microcosm of how d average nigerian reasons. Its disgusting & appalling @ d same time to say d least...

adorable29:
My brother, the painful thing is that google directs a lot of foreigners who need to research one or two things about Nigeria to this site and soon the world will have the impression that we are ONE DISGUSTING UNINTELLIGENT SENSELESS ENTITY!

No thanks to the teenage mofos that are continually ruining this nairaland!


@Poster, don't relent in your parayers. Its a good thing you are spreading the information. Write to as many other social and news media as you can. Our prayers are with you. Meanwhile, be strong for mumsy, ok?!

General Ishola Williams was at peace with himself that Friday afternoon when the Vanguard team arrived at his office, in the Iju area of Lagos.

This was the man who made news in 1993 when he walked out on the army and General Sanni Abacha on the premise that the army takeover was immoral. Far removed from the life of pleasure and putrid abundance that is the lot of many other retired generals, the Vanguard team met the general engrossed in his research work in peace and conflict studies.
General Williams, erstwhile head of the Nigeria chapter of Transparency International, is presently on the faculty of the Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group, a forum he is using to espouse issues that generate conflict in Africa among other development issues.
Given his exchange with Gen. Abacha and another squabble when as a colonel he queried a chief of army staff, General Williams was asked whether he considered himself a troublesome officer. In responding to the contrary, he nevertheless admitted that he may be controversial. Undoubtedly so, as is revealed in this interview during which he spoke on the rot in the army, the fight against corruption among many other issues. Excerpts:
What have you been doing since leaving the army in 1993?
Since I left the army, I have been engaged in the running of an organization that was initially into peace and conflict issues in Nigeria, West Africa and Africa for some few years. We are also looking at how Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS) can situate itself in a very good position to be able to mediate conflicts happening in Liberia, Sierra Leone at that particular time.
When President Carter left as the President of the United States, he created the Carter Centre and he started coming into African nations. His centre went into two major areas; health and democracy and governance issues. He came to discover some of the challenges of governance, elections and elements leading into conflicts and after looking at the studies that were conducted by so many compatriots, he discovered that there was need for Africans themselves to study those conflicts to be able to cover the gaps and for Africans themselves to be re-involved in mediating those conflicts.
At the time, African countries were dependent on the United States academically, intellectually and even for mediating its own conflicts.
So they told us that if we are not very careful, our own people will believe we cannot resolve our own conflicts and we must not get ourselves into such situations. So we were advised to form a group of people that can do these studies since several Nigerian students then studied in the universities abroad.
We then formed a group with some people from the Institute, some of them at the universities and with some few military officers interested in West Africa.
Did your group envisage the crises gripping the country now?
(Cuts in) No, no, no. You did not even need to envisage that because I was in the military when we had this Maitasaine all over the place and the Army had to call in the Air Force to bomb places like Kano even within the urban areas. As we were dealing with them in Kano, they were coming up in Maiduguri, Yola and other places. Maitasaine taught us a lesson but did we adopt the lesson? And even if we did, did we make use of the lesson? Some few years after that, when I was Commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), I wrote a letter to the commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy, (NDA) and the Minister of Defence then that we need to learn a lesson from Maitasaine. We were lucky to overcome them then because we had far superior arms and the people of Kano did not like Maitasaine. The rich people living in Kano then could not understand what Maitasaine was about, they were wearing expensive wrist watches and couldn’t accept their teachings of don’t do these or that.
The situation was like that of governors who wanted to introduce Sharia, of course the rich Muslims in those states didn’t want it.
I remembered in my letter to the military authority then, I told them that we must learn from it. The thing about us is that we don’t look at events from outside and how they can affect us. We have not been having thinking governments. What we have are governments that only live for today, so if there is a problem, government cannot deal with it because there are so many issues that have been swept under the carpet.
I will give you an example. See the Ogoni issue that President Buhari has just assented to. How long ago have they submitted that report? Why was it neglected? Something that is as important like that and the Ogoni people have been protesting about it and even said they will not allow Shell in, nobody cared. One sentence, ‘I will do it’ and that was all.
See the victims of Boko Haram in the North East. The Federal Government promised to contribute N5 billion. What is a N5 billion in a trillion budget? How can you delay that kind of thing when your fellow human being is suffering? So in countries where people are thinking and people are compassionate, once such reports come, you act. So sometimes I do not believe those in government are human beings, it is either they come from Mars or they come from Venus.
There is no system for incubating good ideas in Nigeria. No system at all, how much more to want to talk of the future. Why? Because once you become a permanent secretary, what you are thinking of is how to make money, you think of when to retire and you don’t want to retire a poor man. So in putting that first, you will first think of things that will bring money for you that will enable you to retire comfortably. And if you are a permanent secretary and you have two children studying in Ghana or United Kingdom and you require about $30,000 or $40,000 to pay school fees, put that to naira, where does he or she get that from? These are the dynamics of corruption. So even if you see what is good that can benefit us today and the future, you don’t care because you are more concerned in your pocket first. It is just like a popular saying in Nigeria when people ask what is there for me.
So, why did the army not respond to your letter?
As a Commander of TRADOC, I looked at the situation and said, see, we need to restructure the Army such that it will be able to tackle such problems in the future and we need to change our ways of thinking before the civil war to a new type of war that we have to face in the future. But instead of them to look at the letter, they pushed the letter aside and that was the end of it. What did the retired Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh say recently when leaving office? How can a whole Chief of Defence staff of a country talk about its own military like that?
Some would have expected him to have resigned. Why do you think he did not resign?
Integrity. It is an integrity matter.
What do you mean?
Integrity is simple. When you see that your boss wants you to do something that is wrong, you tell him sir, you are going the wrong way, then you put in your papers. But that is not common in Nigeria.
If you were in his situation, what could you have done?
(Cuts in) I could have left. That was the situation I was in 1993 when General Sanni Abacha came into power through a coup and I said no, it was wrong for us to have a coup d’état and he said, no don’t worry. It took me three days to leave, the coup happened on the 24th and on the 27th, I just left.
When you were putting in your papers, did you not have pressures from family, friends and colleagues?
It was not the business of my family; it was the Army that was putting pressure on me not to go. Even General Abacha himself wrote me a letter not to leave but I said no because I believed the coup was wrong and I knew we were heading for a disaster.
Did you respond to Abacha’s letter?
No I did not respond to him.
Did he speak to you or did you call him to tell him what he did was wrong?
There was no need to call him. He understood why I left because I worked with him at the Ministry of Defence, with General Diya and he understood my position.
It was very clear. He knew there was no way he could change my mind. I left the Army with an empty bank account. I left because I told myself I must leave and thirdly, I must use my head to find a way.
So how did you and your family cope?
My wife was lecturing at the university then. So we were able to manage through. Once you don’t get used to the life army wants to provide for you, you will not have any problem.
Are there men of such minds still in the military?
That is what I am saying that there is no organization in the world where you don’t have some thinking people but unfortunately, those thinking people don’t get to the top. Life is very interesting and that is why you have this word people call “destiny”.
Have you asked this question that what kept driving President Buhari over four times for over 16 years? What kept driving him and eventually ended up winning. And how many people have attempted before him and had given up? That’s life.
Do you think President Buhari is a thinking man?
I don’t know because I have never worked with him.
And you never crossed his path in the Army?
No we never crossed each other’s path. Buhari was an infantry officer and I was in the signals. So we never crossed each other’s path.
Can you compare the military of your time and that of now?
What has been happening in the military is very sad. Like everything in Nigeria, it has been very wasteful.
I was in charge of research and development in the Ministry of Defense for about three years, every proposal that I put across was killed. Even to produce ordinary military uniform, I got the textile firms to do some research for the type of uniform our military will wear, we will have only one textile material and the colour will be different for the various services, we don’t need to import anything at all.
I was taken to Panama by the United States Army to go and see how they test the materials used including camouflage.
I wrote the report and came back and gave it to a textile firm in Nigeria and they were ready to produce it, that could have saved this country millions of dollars but no, they refused.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/how-the-rot-in-the-army-started-gen-ishola-williams/

@op, u wanna correct d heading. U left out a word like ....Obat Oils owners', CEOs', Presidents', Chairmans' mother..... Its incomplete as it is.

There r so many disgusting fellows on this nl thing, its actually putting me off d site big time. U'd think they were actually raised by baboons in real life. They hav no moral compass or an iota of reasoning. There r plenty of them, sickos I call them.

thoollz:
there are some heartless pricks on this forum, imagine, someone's sister is missing and all u can ask is why she initially entered a one chance bus? Dumb question. will I see fire and put my legs in it?

Another lady like her is also saying 'make I do make up small'. For real? when we r talking about a life threatening case. It's better u don't give comments than showing how shallow your brain is when it comes to reasoning. SMH.

OP, it's good u gave details, don't worry she'll b found in one piece, the sensitive ones on this forum can help.

sampaiolukap:
Make Una no Push PMB pass hin Boundary ooo Or Else, those people at the Upper Chamber will Just Canvass 72 Senators For Him to go..

The Parliament is the Strongest Body in a Democratic Setting and No one try Shit with them.

....and they dare not try it. Thats when they will feel d real urge of nigerians for change. That ther chambers will b too hot for them to sit & do anything. D violent rage thats been welling up in nigerians will b let loose, trust me

chymystique:
The Thunder wey go Strike Tinubu's teeth still dey gather in the clouds!

^^^^^^^ lwkmd!...bad mama. That really got my arse choking loooool

Very rubbishy here in Badagry, always has been for more than 15yrs.

Sub that number 4 for Di'ja abeg.....