₦airaland Forum

doyinisaac:
When shall thy start making common sense in the land of Nairaland?come ye to the kingdom of "intelligence" and thy brain shall work properly.....bless the lord...

Do you have issues with basic comprehension?

Wait! Apart from Ajalaing the world over and witch hunting oppositions, what else is Buhari good at?

Buhari and his armies are extra judicial killers. A Dullard will always be a dullard.

US accuses Nigerian military of extra-judicial killings, says Nigerians ‘face daunting governance and corruption issues’


The United States f America has listed Nigeria among countries where extra-judicial killing by the military is rife. The accusation was made by both Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Senator Ben Cardin, a ranking member of a panel of US senators at a hearing convened by the Foreign Relations Committee to examine the threat that terrorism poses in Africa. The two spoke during a hearing on Tuesday, according to a Voice of America (VOA) report.

Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey also told the lawmakers that “Nigerian people face daunting governance and corruption issues,” according to the report.

VOA said that during the sitting, Senator Ben Cardin expressed concerns that Washington is giving countries a free pass for human rights abuses or poor governance as long as they are useful counterterrorism partners.

It quoted him as saying: “In Ethiopia for example, they just had parliamentary elections and not a single opposition leader was elected and security forces there have killed hundreds of protesters; in Chad dozens of military officers were arrested because they wouldn’t vote for the president; in Somalia there are reports they are using children for spies; in Nigeria and Kenya there have been extra judicial killings by the military. Yet I don’t see a response by America.”

The report said that Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield responded that each of the arguments made by Senator Cardin was met by a strong condemnation by the US government, explaining, however, that at the same time the US is committed to firmly working with their partners to address efforts to defeat terrorism.

“We can’t draw a line and say we can’t work with you on terrorism because of human rights violation but we reinforce that they must respect human rights and civil liberties,” she was quoted as saying.

VOA reported that while expressing another concern, Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey complained that while Nigerian people face daunting governance and corruption issues, the US is planning to sell the military 29 super Tucano attack aircraft to supposedly fight Boko Haram. He added, according to VOA, that the Nigerian military has a long standing history of human rights abuses including under the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Senator Markey was quoted as saying that just last month, “Amnesty International accused the Nigerian government of killing hundreds of members of the Shia minority sect in December.”

The report said that Thomas-Greenfield responded that the US aid is not moving away from fighting corruption, recalling that last year Washington turned down a Nigerian request for Cobra attack helicopters because “we were concerned about their ability to use those and not have an impact on their communities.”

The report said she argued that the approach, however, has to be multi-faceted, saying: “We have to do security but we also have to do the capacity building, the development assistance, etc.”. http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=23407

Buhari is a perpetual failure

@Slap1

Dont MIND that LOST SOUL.

BOKO HARAM MALU,

alj harem:
i beg sharrp dia

other are laughing u too dey laugh

sharrp again, all u know is biafra and u are a biafra citizen which is an enemy to nigeria and her citizen

OTONDO, EWU AWUSE, ANUOFIA, AGBATA EKEE HOUSE BOY!!!

Am a Biafran, I eat and sleep Biafra, I live in Biafra in Gt.

Since the mention of Biafra is enough for you to go and hang, Hope N20 is enough for your hanging rope? Check your inbox for the dough

Malu AWUSE

Its confirmed, no good thing can come out of this man called OBJ.

It takes those eagle eys to see it.

I forsee Sambo chancing GEJ sooner than later.

Sorry, i thought you are smarter than this (No offence)

So at your age you can still buy that cheap ''crap'' that whosoever chooses to fight the powers that be must be doing it cos he/she is being short-changed?

Am really disappointed!!!!!

No wonder undertone is read into any positive action that any government carries out in this country.

Your point of correcting who I quoted in my quote, I do not understand!

tolu001:
lmao @ your shallow thinking. What makes you think he is redeemable while Bankole is not hmmm? are you on Dino's payroll. Look here girl, the caliber of which these thieving legislooters belong will never repent until they meet their Waterloo. Nobody ever tastes honey to later spits it out at his free will, they have tasted free money, u think they will give that up easily? NO! They will fight with their last drop of blood to protect their so-called investment (Nigerian Treasury) and stay politically relevant until they can fight no more

''Our lives begins to end the day we became silent about things that matter'' . . . . . . . Martin Lutter King, Jr.

For exposing and not keeping quiet like others when it mattered most, Dino has proven to be a redeemable Devil unilke BANKOLE and his cohorts who kept quiet while at same time trying very hard to intimidate those who have chosen to expose the evil deals taking place in the house.

Am not afarid of sinners who are willing to turn a new leaf. Am only afarid of sinners who claims to be saints with their supporters.

Does supporting the truth means being in someone's payroll? . . . , With your mindset am not surprised that Nigeria will never make any progress in the fight against corruption.

I heard the FG has blamed the thift on HENRY OKAH just like the independence bomb blast.

This is same GEJ that we all fought tooth and nail to be made the acting president? Same dude that they promised us had the ''magic goodluck'' to turn around all Nigeria challanges in a matter of few months? I seriously have my doubts!!!!!

OBJ's protege. . . . . . . . I dey laugh o!!!!

alj harem:
mumu girl

can i ask what truth

The TRUTH that you are a LOST SOUL who can only try but will never stop the actualisation of a soverign state of BIAFRA. Neither can millions of you stop ''US'' from being and living as Biafrans.

Kobojunkie:
Creepy stuff!

It maybe a creepy stuff but that does not stop it from being the truth.

tolu001:
^^^ Imagine the Nigerian mentality. . . what is progressive in a thief?, a thief is a thief once the definition of the word thief remains unchanged. So wake up girl, nothing good comes from evil. They all the same, I'm sure Dino might be even worse if in Bakole's shoe.

What a mentality that you have . . . . . . . .Do you know that some thieves are redeemable? while others are not? I prefer that a devil that is redeemable that an Angel who is yet to recognise that not all angels are Godly.

robbing peter to pay paul

CORRECTION @POSTER

The title of your thread should have read:: ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND NIGERIANS & BIAFRANS DIED. . . . . . . . . . . .COS most of those that died on Biafran part died as Biafrans and will never be Nigerians even till the end of the world.

jason12345:
i still think it would reopen old wound. i think the next generation would harbour hatred for nigeria and nigerians. for example, look at ordinary NL people like ezeuche, matazzagi and co already hate nigeria because of the fairy tale story passed on to them by their fathers, then imagine 10 million of them harbouring the same level of hatred . i believe it would also be devastating to the psyche of the young kids because we all know that kids in school might try to take the piss! i believe it would do more harm than good.imo

Was the bolded written by a grown up?

MUZBO:
Even if I contest against Ribadu, I'll vote for him!!

Are you kidding?

god forbid!!!!!!!

1025:
@beaf and co,
nigerians are not interested on who and who are confused now rather we are interested in who stole the ddc machines.
the last time inec machines got lost like this, they were found in late adedibu's house and we knew adedibu to be a friend to the president then.
please i beg u in God's name, tell your brother(joe) to bring out those ddc machines as that can only dent his image.
it is not a good thing for nigerians to start thinking that we have another president that is a thief like obasanjo who stole a siezed ship and inec machines.

I DEY LAUGH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Those i support i do not love, those i oppose i do not hate.

. . . . . But the truth must be told.

Free and fair election starts with free and fair stealing of date capture machines. Its a sign of what to expect

Even if Dino Melaye is a thief, he is still a progressive thief compared to the ever retrogressive thief called BANK-OL.

Is it a crime to be born a Nigerian?

jamace:
Plateau State Police Commissioner, Mr. Abdul Rahman Akano said it was just an accident? He said the lady fell into the well accidentally?
If truely the police commissioner said these, then there is serious rivalry between the military and the police. All is not well there. Probably, that's why the killings have continued unabated.

[b]Poor woman's blood shed because she is from Plateau State. Hm[/b]mnnn.

Maybe the hands of her husband are not clean?

RICHIE BOI:
Haba! why is dino behaving like a thug? why cant he just wait till after the appeal case. this is totally unbecoming of a parliamentarian.

Wait for which appeal? The appeal that holds no water?

Ijele-igbo:
@chosen, haba what re u insinuating? despite d fact u hate soludo doesnt give u d right to accuse him.

Ijele-ndi-igbo,

U are free to prove me wrong if i am wrong. Didnt all the looting take place under his supervision?

I dont hate him. He is the person that hates Anambra. What investment has he in the state, he claims to love some much?

A man who entered the gov'ship race out of anger doesnot deserve to govern my state at all.

^^^And his banking consolidation brought our economy to where we are 2day. He allowed the rot in the banking sector cos he choosed to turn blind eyes to the uneventful looting of the banks by their CEOs.

I heard immediately he collected his share of their loot, he become blind, thus couldnt see the looting while it lasted.

I cant forget Soludo telling nigerians that our economy will not be affected by the economic meltdown when he was still the CBN gov. All na lie

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A 16-year-old girl pulled from the rubble more than two weeks after a deadly earthquake was in stable condition Thursday, able to eat yogurt and mashed vegetables to the surprise of doctors, who said her survival was medically inexplicable.

Hundreds of thousands of other survivors hoped for a breakthrough of another kind — the delivery of badly needed food aid.

Key players in the Haiti earthquake relief effort, in what may prove to be a pivotal meeting Wednesday, decided to better coordinate by dividing up the shattered capital, giving each responsibility for handing out food in certain areas.

Food distribution thus far has often been marked by poor coordination, vast gaps in coverage, and desperate, unruly lines of needy people in which young men at times shoved aside the women and weak and took their food.

"These things should be done in a systematic way, not a random way," Dr. Eddy Delalue, who runs a Haitian relief group, Operation Hope, said Wednesday of the emergency food program. "It's survival of the fittest: The strongest guy gets it."

Wednesday's rescue of teenager Darlene Etienne from a collapsed home near St. Gerard University, 15 days after Haiti's great quake killed an estimated 200,000 people, was the first such recovery since Saturday, when French rescuers extricated a man from the ruins of a hotel grocery store.

Etienne is stable, drinking water and eating yogurt and mashed vegetables, said Dr. Evelyne Lambert, who has been treating the girl on the French Navy hospital ship Sirocco, anchored off the shore of Port-au-Prince.

Lambert said that Etienne has a 90 percent chance of survival.

"We cannot really explain this because that's just (against) biological facts," Lambert told a news conference. "We are very surprised by the fact that she's alive. , She's saying that she has been under the ground since the very beginning on the 12th of January so it may have really happened — but we cannot explain that."

Etienne may have had some access to water from a bathroom of the wrecked house, and rescuers said she mumbled something about having a little Coca-Cola with her in the rubble.

Experts say it's unclear how long people can survive with little or no water.

"It depends on so many variables — on temperature, on how hydrated she was when she got into this situation," said Randall Packer, a biology professor at George Washington University and an expert on salt and water balance. "Being a 17-year-old is definitely on her side because we're all a lot tougher at that age."

Even when fluids are withdrawn for terminally ill patients, "it can take a week or a little bit more for them to die," Packer said.

Her family said Etienne had just begun studies at St. Gerard when the disaster struck, trapping dozens of students and staff in the rubble of school buildings, hostels and nearby homes. "We thought she was dead," said cousin Jocelyn A. St. Jules.

Then — a half-month after the earthquake — neighbors heard a voice weakly calling from the rubble of a private home down the road from the destroyed university. They called authorities, who brought in the French civil response team.

French search and rescue team member Dr. Claude Fuilla walked along the dangerously crumbled roof, heard her voice and saw a little bit of dust-covered black hair in the rubble. Clearing away some debris, he reached the young woman and saw she was alive — barely.

Digging out a hole big enough to give her oxygen and water, they found she had a very weak pulse. Within 45 minutes they managed to remove her, covered in dust.

"She was in very bad shape," Fuilla said Thursday. "We had to rehydrate her for 15 minutes" before flying her by helicopter to the Sirocco. "Now, her condition is stabilized. She ate. She is speaking , She is not very lucid, but she is OK."

At least 135 people buried in rubble have been rescued by search teams since the quake, most in the immediate aftermath. An Israeli team that earned international praise for its rescue efforts in Haiti returned home Thursday with a 5-year-old boy in need of urgent heart surgery.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake