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Kriss216:
Yoloba moslem is the second problem we have in Southern Nigeria.

Only problem

Most people do not know okeogun/ibarapa/ Ogbomoso axis of oyo state. Youths are daring in that areas due to belief they have been fortified spiritually. Ogboju baba ogun. Also, most security agents who believe in African bulletproof visit the areas to get mystical powers. I am very sure Sunday igboho knows some of those security agents. If FG deploys soldiers to south west, it would be bloody not in the towns but in the bushes. It would be jungle war not against soldiers but genocide. Future is scaring

Tobrasky:
So apparently two persons died in the clash yesterday between Sunday Igboho’s men and the Fulani, but an excerpt from the report on the clash indicated that the Fulani's actually fought back and killed a indigene including four others who were injured... Igboho's men killed a Fulani woman.
Here's the excerpt:

Although Igboho could not be reached as calls to his telephone line indicated that he was out of reach, residents of Igangan however said that at least one youth from Igboora was killed by Fulani fighters while two others sustained injuries from gun shots.

So despite the warnings from Igboho, this Fulani animals still armed themselves and killed an indigene... the sheer effontery shows these folks have gone too far in their conquest mentality.

That was reason why seriki fulani properties were destroyed

LaIabobo:
Lol. See bullet proof

Blackpanter

Military coup

ChoCho54:
Helinues is from ogun state but his mommy is Fulani. So you guys should understand his frustration.

Ok

naijadrivablog:
Enough Is Enough: Not All Parts Of Imo State Is Expensive To Marry From

I have read several misconceptions on social media over the years that all parts of IMO State is expensive to Marry from. Even recently, a lady who is supposedly from IMO State made a viral video of how men from IMO don't marry "them" (ladies from IMO State).

I write this article to clear the air about this generalisation about marriage in IMO State. I am a married man from Imo State and well travelled individual and take it from me when I tell you that NOT ALL parts of IMO State is expensive to marry from. Stop the ignorance and stop peddling lies.

Also, I noticed that most people mistake Bride Price to be the only money paid in traditional marriages, as you can hear one say, "IMO bride price na 1 Million Naira", etc.

Bride price in an Igbo Traditional marriage is the agreed sum (by law, it is N50 but families can state the amount they want) paid by the groom or his family member to the family of the bride. This has both physical and spiritual implications as the authority over the bride is passed to the groom and his family via that sum and other rites performed during traditional marriages. Even if you, in a traditional marriage, kill 100 cows, give your inlaws both gold and diamonds but haven't paid the bride price of a woman, YOU ARE NOT married. Most times, a family may charge, for example, N10,000 but will return a sum from it to the groom, while saying that they are not selling their daughter and other pieces of advice.

Apart from bride price, other items like goat, yams, snuff, kola, garden egg and so on are written on a MARRIAGE LIST usually given to the prospective groom, upon acceptance of marriage proposal and Introduction of both families of the groom and bride.

It is true that some parts are expensive to marry from but this article will focus on the largely unmentioned areas that you can marry from without spending an arm and leg.

I must state here that whatever items any part of the Imo State or any other place in Nigeria require as traditional marriage rites to give out their daughters' hand in marriage is their prerogative.

Below are some of the areas in IMO State where you won't spend an arm and leg to get married (traditionally):

1. Orlu (Ihioma, Umuna etc)

2. Oru West and Oru East (Amagu, Mgbidi, Akata, Ubulu (formerly called, Ubulu Ihejiofor), Nempi etc)

3. Orlu LGA (Awo Idemili, Amannachi, Amaebu, Umuhu Okabia (Cubana Chief priest's village), etc
4. Isu/Njaba axis (Ekwe, Ofekata Orodo etc)

5. Onuimo LGA

6. Nwangele LGA (Linda Ikeji's place)

7. Ideato South and Ideator North (Akokwa, Osina, Obodoukwu etc)

8. Even some places in the feared Owerri is cheap, eg. Agwa

I know that some villages/towns in these Local Government areas may be "expensive" to marry from but you can add other areas that you know are cheap to marry from.

This is a new year, find love, go for what you want. IMO ladies hardly abandon their husbands when things are tough (there are exceptions though), most are hardworking, Most are God fearing, they are the most beautiful, they HARDLY marry and remarry or engage in extramarital affairs, they are sociable, they are ambitious and so on.

NOTE: In every 12 Apostles, there must be a Judas so, pray and understudy your prospective wife.

Expensive traditional marriage can be when you spend 600,000 Naira to 1 Million Naira or more TO FULFILL ALL the REQUIREMENTS IN THE MARRIAGE LIST (decoration, band, DJ, Aso Ebi and other things in a traditional marriage event not inclusive)

While an affordable marriage is when you spend 50,000 Naira to 300,000 or less to FULFILL ALL THE REQUIREMENTS in the MARRIAGE LIST (DJ, Aso Ebi, food, etc not inclusive)

If there are areas that I didn't cover, please add.

What about mbano?

Paretomaster1:
Shutup, that Civil war will be fought in your kpotor republic, not here.......

So wa ok?

ObiOfOnistha:
Of course, I am in Ibadan

I live in Ibadan too. Let us be frank to ourselves, fulani war is looming in south west. I do drive often . Fulanis are everywhere.

ObiOfOnistha:
You think? This is not baby factory, that can be easily submerged with threats, your eyes will soon clear we don't pamper criminals like Ebonyi state governor dolling cash to herdsmen chairman.

Do u live in south west?and which part?

SouthNigerian:
If this report is true... the fulanis are bringing the war to our lands.
What Effrontery.

Fulanis have already invaded yoruba land. It is only civil war that can dislodge them. Future is scaring

SuperBold:
His father is Igbo

Alawada

FlutterDollar99:
It will be better if the phone number and call logs screenshot can be posted. There should always be evidence to back up narration like this

So that they can kill them?

SuperBold:
u expected a lot from ipob propaganda

Fisayo soyombo , the journalist who investigated the matter is an ipob?

Dabiraoluwa Adeyinka was in the middle of a fiery conversation with friends in the final week of October 2020 when her phone rang. An unknown number was calling.

“Who do you want to speak with?” she asked quite curtly, impatient to rejoin her friends. What followed for the next one minute left her astounded.

“I don’t understand English,” the caller warned. “Calm down and listen carefully to what I have to say.”



He had kicked off the conversation by chillingly blurting “hello” thrice without uttering anything else, before consistently warning Dabiraoluwa to “back off”, his husky voice intermittently fading with the glitch that has defined mobile telephony in Nigeria.



“If you need your life… if your life is any valuable to you, stop all these things. I have your photo… if you ‘do anyhow’, the punishment for sin is death. People have died already. You have no hiding place. We were told to give you a warning before we come to deal with you; that is why I’m calling you,” the caller threatened. “Do you understand? Stop all your agitation. This country was in existence before your birth and you won’t be the only one to exist in it. You can’t be causing problems for those of us currently benefiting from government. This is Lagos; back off! I have warned you!”




This was the second time in a week that Dabira was being verbally threatened.

THE GENESIS


Dabiraoluwa… warned by a strange caller that the punishment for her actions is death

Dabiraoluwa was one of the protagonists of the Lagos end of the #EndSARS protests that raged in many states across Nigeria in October. Naturally, she was present when soldiers arrived at the Lekki toll plaza on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, firing shots while protesters were present, leading to the deaths of a yet unknown number of persons and injuring scores of them. Those who were present at Lekki on that day or have seen footage of the occasion will remember Dabira as the dark-complexioned lady on the stage along with DJ Switch telling protesters to sit rather than stand, in order to avoid getting hit. When the army subsequently denied that live bullets were shot, insisting at first that “no soldiers were at the scene”, Dabira — having witnessed the shooting and interacted with the soldiers and an army general — has been working round the clock to ensure the truth is not buried. She has been coordinating the general care for some of the injured victims of the shooting and, more importantly, spearheading in-country calls for justice in compensating the victims and prosecuting those who ordered the soldiers to open fire on unarmed protesters.

“The shooting by the soldiers was in two patterns,” recalls Dabira, who said she would have died had someone else not shoved her aside and taken a bullet aimed at her. “They were shooting into the air and directly at people. With my own very eyes, I could count six lifeless bodies on the ground.”



Since the second of the two threats to her life, Dabira has lived like a fugitive in her own country, her house no longer a place she can go anywhere close to.

“You have to stay alive first to be able to fight for others,” she says.

‘THREE ARRESTED, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN’


Daylight — as he is fondly called — and his friends were having some late-morning idle chat on the last Thursday in October 2020 when he noticed a young man moving from point to point in the shanty, speaking with people. If this was a journalist, then he wanted to be interviewed. As a witness to the controversial events of October 20, Daylight had decided he must render his account. As you will read in the next instalment of this series, Daylight made bold statements on the casualty toll and the soldiers’ mode of operation.

Those who died that night were more than 70,” he says in an instance. “I saw it happen but my phone was almost out of battery charge: three percent.”

“I saw it happen with my naked eyes. As the soldiers were shooting, people were running and falling — because there were straight bullets — and anyone who fell was moved into the trucks… because they came with trucks, many trucks. Anyone who fell down and died, they threw him in.”

Just two days earlier, Osoba Olaniyi, the acting deputy director, 81 division army, public relations, had dismissed pronouncements that the soldiers’ actions at the plaza bordered on a massacre.

“The attention of Headquarters 81 Division Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral video on social media in which it was alleged that civilian protesters were massacred by soldiers at Lekki Toll Plaza,” Olaniyi said. “This allegation is untrue, unfounded and aimed at causing anarchy in the country. At no time did soldiers of the Nigerian Army open fire on any civilian.”




But Daylight insists he was in front of Oriental Hotel as the shooting went on, and promised to confront anyone who persecutes him for his revelations.

“If they’re looking for me, I’m here,” he tells FIJ. “I won’t run. God is with me. Whatever they want to do, I’m a youth.”

Fast-forward three weeks later, the journalist was back in the neighbourhood to track Daylight who, by then, had stopped answering calls to his phone. To the greatest shock of the journalist, Daylight asks to be left alone. Three people in the neighbourhood had been arrested by “government” shortly after speaking with the media about the October 20 deaths, he explains, and they hadn’t been seen ever since.

“Please leave me alone,” he barks. “In fact, what I told you three weeks ago, I didn’t say them anymore. I withdraw them. You know, I don’t have money and I struggle to feed daily, but just coming out to inhale fresh air like this is an opportunity I am not yet willing to give up.”

TWO FRIENDS ‘KILLED THREE DAYS APART’ AFTER VISITING SURVIVOR


Again, in the next installation of this series, you will read about Joshua Ossai, who was hit while fleeing from the rain of bullets at the toll gate. He eventually ended up in Ikorodu where he was nursed by a Good Samaritan before he was reunited with his family after two weeks. Once Joshua returned home, two of his friends paid him a visit. Shocked and angered by the sight of their recuperating friend, they hit social media to publicly criticise the army for “lying” (at the time) that no live bullets were shot at the protest ground.

The two friends were said to have been killed three days apart.

The deaths, revealed during a phone call between a humanitarian worker and a friend of Joshua, came after a phone call from someone “from the government” dangling help with healthcare.

“You call and say you’re from the government, you want to help… you want to help with healthcare. And at the end of the day, you send men to come and kill them,” Joshua’s friend can be heard while rejecting the aid worker’s offer of help. “We are trying to be very careful in giving out information about Joshua’s location. Trust me, I’ve been receiving a lot of calls from different NGOs, especially the journalists; they have been asking for video interviews but we don’t want.”

Weeks after the incident, the mother of the second friend was still in coma. This child reported to have been so cruelly taken from her was her only son.

FIJ attempted to speak with Joshua’s relatives but the response was overwhelmingly dismissive.

“We are not interested in the whole Lekki saga, so I will like you to excuse me from any other questions concerning it,” one of them said. “The most important thing is we found Joshua.”

‘YOUR MOBILE PHONE HAS BEEN TRACKED, YOUR LIFE IS AT STAKE’


On October 27, exactly a week after soldiers sprayed Lekki toll gate with bullets, 30-year-old Perpetual Ibeh Kamsi received a phone call from an unknown number. The caller was mum for the first 15 to 20 seconds, during which Kamsi was already becoming irritated.

“You think you are smart and you have evidence that you can use against the government? Just have it in mind that your lives are at stake,” Kamsi, a barber and tennis coach, recalls the caller saying.

Kamsi didn’t take him seriously. If only she knew what was coming.

Actually, she should have. Since joining the protest at the toll gate on its fourth day — October 11, 2020 — Kamsi didn’t miss a single day until it was eventually brought crashing down, nine days later by soldiers’ bullets. As she narrates, everything unravelled before her very eyes: the bullets, the bloodshed, the injuries, the victims’ agony, the deaths. And in the days that followed, Kamsi joined a few courageous protesters in scouring hospitals for dead and injured protesters.

She quite naively seemed not to know she was a target — because she told the caller “you don’t know me or where I live”, to which he responded: “Your mobile phone has been tracked and I know your whereabouts.”

She hurriedly terminated the call. Still, she dismissed it.

A week later, a second number and different voice called. This time, the caller went straight to the business.

“If you people don’t take time [sic], we will take you out one after the other,” he bellowed.

That was when Kamsi knew her life was indeed under threat. She has had to flee her home.

“Ever since then, I have been living in fear,” she tells FIJ. “Everyone around me is a suspect because I don’t know who is for the government and who is for us or for the people. Whenever I’m in the public, my eyes work like magnet because I don’t know who is watching.”

Kamsi is not the only one living in fear. She knows witnesses to the October 20 “killing” who do not want to speak about it for fear of endangering their lives.

“A lot. A lot of them are scared,” she says. “They don’t want to talk; they don’t want to come out. If you’re not confident and bold, you cannot come out.

“A lot of them are scared to even speak because they have been threatened. When you don’t have anybody to speak for you or defend you, when you don’t have anybody in power, who will stand for you? What do you do? You withdraw into your shell and ask God to fight for you. You say ‘okay, we have lost one child, let that one be it; we don’t want to lose another.’”

Kamsi continues to deal with the trauma of all she saw that dark night. Her sleep is no longer peaceful. She still sees a therapist. She still has nightmares about the dead bodies. She still slips into trances graced by injured protesters and projectile bullets. And in addition to all that, her life is not safe.

‘WE DON’T WANT TO FIGHT GOVERNMENT’


Sumbo George was in a bus en route to Lagos Island from Yaba one sunny afternoon in the penultimate week of December when passengers began to argue about the #EndSARS protests. As always, the subject was whether or not protesters had been killed and whether the casualty toll is high enough to be dubbed a massacre. It was a rowdy affair. To those giving the thumbs down to the death claims, one important question had remained unanswered: where are the families of the supposedly slain protesters and why are they not talking?

Silent for much of the conversation, Sumbo couldn’t hold it any longer. Her cousin was a victim but her uncle didn’t want any family member to publicly discuss it “because he doesn’t want to fight government”.

An interested passenger exchanged numbers with Sumbo before passing it on to a non-governmental organisation (NGO) offering financial and material support to families of slain protesters. Surprisingly, when the NGO contacted Sumbo, she insisted the family would not publicly comment on the death as it would invite the government’s wrath.

“My uncle is not interested,” she says. “He doesn’t want any trouble.”

Trouble? It’s an NGO willing to help.

“He said we should forget about it,” Sumbo adds. “The lady who gave you my number, I met her in a bus; something cropped up and I had to tell her my uncle’s son was killed, but he doesn’t want any trouble; he doesn’t want any need to start running helter-skelter, especially as it involves government.”

An effort to explain the nature of the requested conversation didn’t fly either.

“It’s NGO but this #EndSARS movement involves government,” she adds. “If we start telling you what led to his death, they [government] will trace us. That is what he was explaining to me, that he doesn’t want anybody to trace him and he’ll start running helter-skelter. Government won’t overlook it because it’s NGO. You know what I’m saying; he knows it.”

After much pressure, Sumbo reluctantly agreed to send her uncle’s number to the caller. Fifteen days after, she still hasn’t.

A MIDNIGHT RAID BY THE DSS — JUST LIKE ARMED ROBBERS




Imoleayo Michael joined the #EndSARS protest in Abuja for only two days, but he spent 41 days in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in return. On the day he was picked up, DSS officials tracked him to his house at about 2:30am, literally broke into his bedroom, blindfolded him and whisked him away to their headquarters. This was the exact fear Sumbo expressed — exactly why her uncle would never tell the press about his slain son.

“I was just in my house in the middle of the night and I noticed my dogs were barking,” Michael says in an interview with FIJ. “I got up to see what was happening. I saw some gunmen, heavily-armed, in my compound. I thought they were armed robbers.”

Michael fetched his whistle and started to blow it relentlessly. The DSS officials tore the net of his window, pointed a gun inwards and ordered him to release the whistle and open the door. When he complied, seven of them rushed into his living room, one instructing him to unlock his phone. Once they confirmed that the phone number in their possession was Michael’s, they whisked him away.

They blindfolded him until he got to the DSS headquarters, where he ended up in an underground cell. This was in the small hours of Friday, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that officials retrieved him from the cell for the first time.

“I was in custody from Friday but it wasn’t until Tuesday that I knew why was I arrested: #EndSARS protests,” Michael says. “They interrogated me about how I participated in the protests, whether I was paid for anything or I sponsored anything. Those were the questions they wanted answers to.”

The interrogation continued intermittently for two weeks — two weeks of denial of access to relatives or a lawyer. Thirty-six days into his detention, Michael was suddenly summoned and told he would be arraigned in court.

“I was taken to court in handcuffs,” he recalls. “I couldn’t see anyone that I knew. At least, I should have a lawyer. The prosecutor said I shouldn’t worry but to keep quiet.”

Michael was arraigned on a three-count charge of public disturbance for participating in the #EndSARS protests. Five days later, he was released on bail after a total of 41 days in detention. And for 36 of those, his family didn’t even know if he was dead or alive.

‘WE WILL NEVER KNOW’

Beyond the deaths threats and claims of deaths, the unique demography of the people killed on October 20 handicaps anyone seeking to establish the exact casualty toll. So says Femi Ojeniyi, a Lekki-based architect with an extensive knowledge of the Island due to his job specification and length of practice.

“Many of the victims came to the protest ground from the slum parts of Jakande,” says Ojeniyi in an interview with FIJ. “They are not sophisticated in that sense. They only joined the protest to show their displeasure with what the government of the day has become.”

Ojeniyi identifies them as “semi-illiterates and secondary school dropouts”, a claim exemplified by the educational status and occupation of those victims eventually tracked by FIJ.

“They’re not people who watch their backs; some of them left home and haven’t returned but no one knew they went to the protest ground in the first place,” he insists.

“Almost all empty sites between Lekki Phase 1 and Oniru and Jakande have slum settlements; people just pay some money to sleep per night. They usually have their own logs with which they construct their makeshift beds before moving to another place. So, tracking them down might be difficult; they are nomadic. They don’t have a place they call home.

“Many of them don’t have parents looking after them. That’s why if you went to the toll gate in the evenings, these were the kinds of people you found there. In the morning, more elites. But in the evening, these poor people. They are practically people without Facebook or Twitter accounts; they just live their lives as it comes, and that is why they could take the risk of protesting at night.”

Ojeniyi believes some of the reported deaths are not public yet because the people around them may not have proof or the courage or wherewithal to openly challenge what went wrong.

“Let’s face it, we will never know exactly how many people died that night,” he says. “Even the army doesn’t. We never will.”

Tranquillity360:
DJ SWITCH deserve insults she is getting from people like this.




This is result you get when Igbo man join foolish people in their protest.


Is she the only one that lead the protest,but today she carry all the blame.

Is she not a lagosian? Is she not paying taxes to state government? Is she not a Nigerian?
Auctioning of vehicles should be penalty for traffic offences ? Fine for any traffic offence should not be more than 5% of national minimum wage. Non-monetary fines should be alternatives for monetary fines in poverty capital of the world.
Monetary fine is another reason why many people are rotten in jail . They could not pay fine.

Esseite:
The honest truth is "Covid is real" but there are other severe bitting issues to an average/poor Nigerian than covid.

We have to stop money and time wasting social gatherings especially in the wake of economic recession

Philipponzaghi:
It’s not possible.

APC would not be that inconsiderate to offset the political space with a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

However if they eventually succeed with that ticket, it will be a game of religious numerical strength between Christians and Muslims coz people will vote along religious lines except the SW.

Even SW to an extent will be polarized under such circumstances.

Maybe that will clear the doubt about the most populous religion in Nigeria shar.

Apc would still win unless unforeseen circumstance overtakes it.

LoyalHustler1:
Nonsense!!!!!
All Biden's appointments will not hold because joe biden can never be president of America

President Donald trump will complete his second term.
If you think otherwise and you are man enough then quote me and let us make a bet of any amount.

by the order of Ishawuru.

Alawada

bligs:
Executive order and you talking about lawsuits, the order supersede any lawsuit.
Lifting travel ban on naija and other African countries to follow.

More people will apply for visa. More money for US treasury- visa fees. Number of Visa issues to potential immigrants may not be increased even with more applicants.

ashacot:
Luck ran out of a man after he was caught by no other person than LASTMA General Manager himself on third mainland bridge. In the video, the man was seen begging the manager to have pity on him


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEKOuFGMrc

Watch the drama that followed after the General Manager of @followlastma apprehended these guys driving against traffic on third mainland bridge! Some Nigerians can just be impossible. One-way driving on 3MB? Watch the begging format.@lagostraffic961 @Gidi_Traffic @trafficbutter pic.twitter.com/dB5Ufu3v2x

— Gboyega Akosile (@gboyegaakosile) January 16, 2021

Thief caught traffic offender!!!!

To reduce sexual harassment in university , students should not visit lecturers of opposite sex without chaperone just as it is ethically wrong for a doctor to examine patients of member of opposite sex.

AfonjaMuslim:
In reality, Buratai doesn't answer to him. It's a ceremonial position

Only in lawless country

Anything that is named after an animal will behave like animals. Amotekun are predatory animals. Men of Amotekun corps are animals.

VictorUSA:
And poverty is death

Everybody dies

Materialism is disease.

ubmech:
50 million naira or civil service job, which one will you choose?

What is civil service or slavery?

Habby222:
Advice needed pls.

I've been with this guy for close to four years now and its not really been a perfect relationship. Lots of ups and downs due to what I can term insecurity. At some point we're cool and the next minute issues arises just like every other relationship.

He's a good guy to some extent as he showers me with love ( my thoughts)and a lot of times he gives gifts not money though. I've had to give financial assistance to him alot of times, he returns some if he deemed it necessary and doesn't return if he so wishes. I've never complained about this and still always willing to help him out whenever he is in need. Pls note that we're both financially ok.

This gesture of me offering him financial help stopped when I realise he doesn't do same to me. I've had to test him on serval occasions that I needed financial help and he has never for once helped out on those request despite knowing he has. I never needed the money though, I made those request to know if I could actually fall back to him if I'm in need.

Last year October, I told him about my plans of getting a new car as I got tired of the one I was using. Pls note that I did not request him to buy for me neither did I ask for any support whatsoever. I contacted my source in the US with my budget and spec, was able to find one in a short time and I paid for it. All of this moves were known to him. By December, the car arrived and cleared accordingly with every expenses incurred payed by me. He gave some moral support though.

A week after getting the car, he called me one morning and started apologising for not supporting financially in getting the car which I told him I had no issues with that. I told him I wasn't expecting more than moral support from him since I could afford getting the car on my own. I also made him realise he doesn't owe me no apology as I wasn't t his responsibility since we weren't married and that even if we were married, ill always want to get my stuffs myself as long as I can afford it. The next I heard was him ranting on phone that he doesn't expect less from me, said I'm a proud and that he knew I wasn't going to be a good wife. He said he has always known I wasn't going to be a submissive wife and a whole lot of other derogatory words despite not having issues whatsoever prior to that time. I ended the call as I was so surprised he could say those mean words to me.

All through that day he didn't call back and I did not as well cos I was expecting him to realise I was hurt by his actions. A week pass and still no call from him so I decided to call him and he didn't pick. I'd sent a lot of of messages to him and has not replied to any. I'd gone to his house to check up on him and not met him too. Its been three weeks now and we haven't spoken and seen despite all of my effort to talk to him and or see.

Guys please I'm confused and do not know how to handle the issue. Pls advice.

4 years wasted in the name of love and you are still begging him. He would pick the calls after you keep begging him for the next 4 years