A gang of suspected gun-toting kidnapers, who have been kidnapping people unchallenged, by merely shooting into the air and scaring both police and passersby alike, received a rude shock yesterday as their targeted victim, turned out to be a retired general, shot dead one of the gang members.

JOJ Okoloagu, a retired general, was ambushed by a gang of armed kidnappers at the Alaoji area of Aba, on his way to Port Harcourt in company with his orderly and the driver.

Speaking from his hospital bed, Mr Okoloagu said he surprised one of the suspected kidnappers who had come to drag him out of his car when he drew his pistol and fired the bullets at him.

He said that the kidnappers, after blocking his vehicle, started firing into the air while one of the armed hoodlums demobilised his vehicle by blasting the four tyres. The Enugu State born former officer said as one of them subsequently came to drag him out of his car.

“He thought I was a civilian and immediately he let his hands off the trigger, I pumped the whole six rounds into his chest,” Mr. Okoloagu said.

He was also shot and wounded by the startled gang, along with his orderly who was shot in the hand.

Sensing that their mission was a failed one, with one of them down, the gang subsequently fled after commandeering a vehicle which they used to carry away their slain colleague.

Mr. Okoloagu said he managed to escape into the bush with his orderly in the confusion that followed, but regretted that his driver was critically wounded and is now in coma at a hospital.

He called on the federal government to get soldiers involved in arresting the insecurity by rehabilitating abandoned army barracks in the Southeast zone. The Abia state police command’s spokesperson, Ali Okechukwu said he can not immediately confirm the incident

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A gang of kidnappers received a huge shock as their target shot and killed one them.

So Attahiru Jega reckons that the INEC needs N55billion to successfully do the voters register. Well, if you read NEXT, it is 55, if you read Punch it is 72. For the purpose of this write-up, let us work with the smaller sum.

What I find interesting is this: Prof. Jega drew on the example of Bangladesh in making his claims. According to him, and he is quite correct, it took the Bangladeshis eight months to complete their voters' registration. We have four months. He also says that the Bangladeshis completed their registration with 30 000 units of the scanning machine. Then he points out that the machines cost $2000 per unit.

30 000 units at a cost of $2000 each would come to $60,000,000. Multiply that by 150 (converting to Naira), and we get N9,000,000,000. Unless my Maths is incredibly faulty, that is N9billion! Even if we make room for a doubling of the number of machines needed because we have half the time that Bangladesh had, we would still arrive at N18billion. So where does this extra N37billion that would make the lower limit of N55billion come from?

More questions, fewer answers,

Sauce

As is typically Nigerian, we have reacted to our latest national pastime, kidnapping, with a jerk of the knee. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Police have come together to offer registration of SIM cards as a panacea to this trade.

Is it?

There are a lot of things that these people do not seem to understand, and this lack of understanding on their part means that I for one will not at all be in a hurry to hand over my data to them. Now let us consider this scenario, Across the desk from me is a fellow called Olu Jacob, almost the same name as the rather famous actor who appeared alongside Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger in 1980's The Dogs of War.

Think about this, the way Nigeria currently is run, there is absolutely nothing that prevents me from taking a stroll to Oluwole, the forgery haven on Lagos Island, getting a complete set of identity cards made with his name, his address and my picture, then walking over and buying a new SIM card with that name and address. After getting these new toys, I can drive to the British International School and kidnap the child of one of our well-to-do individuals. The calls made from that phone would be traced to Mr. Jacob, and he would duly be ‘gbarbed' by the police. I would continue making calls from different locations, and our officers of the law would be none the wiser.

You see, the hot air being blown by the telecoms companies about being able to trace calls is just that -hot air. Phone calls from mobile phones can only be traced to the base station nearest to the cell phone that made the call. Now, the UN recommends that for a country's civilian population to receive adequate police protection, the country should have a ratio of 400 citizens to one policeman. The last reliable statistic (January 2001) placed the number of policemen in Nigeria at 163,722! Since then, we have had no accurate figures of how many have retired, how many have been killed, how many have been incapacitated, and how many have joined up. Yet these same people want to handle MY personal data?

Now let us go back to the kidnapper scenario. Let us assume that the police with the aid of the telcos are able to trace my phone call after I've taken rich man's child. Remember that I earlier indicated that they would not have traced the exact handset, but the base station of the network, which owns the base station.

Let's get a little technical here: depending on the strength of the transmitter, the distance between base stations is between 3 and 75 kilometres.

That gives a rather large radius of one and a half kilometres for the police to sweep for the person making the phone call at the best of times. At the worst of times, they have to sweep a radius of 38 kilometres. Do the math! Now imagine this: the kidnapper knew a thing or two and so decided to make his calls from different locations at different times all from a moving vehicle!

The current wave of kidnapping will not be solved by gathering data that will not be stored properly. The way these people act, the data would probably end up in the hands of those who will easily be able to trace the addresses of potential victims.

Thanks people. Yes, I'm back to this end. Had a long talk over the weekend that changed my stance on returning, so you'll be seeing some from me from time to time.

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The harsh reality is that despite the fact that Bola Tinubu has become an albatross on the neck of Tunde Fashola, both of them have set a standard for governance in Nigeria. Projects started by the Tinubu administration (most notably the BRT transport service) were completed by the Fashola administration, and are being run creditably. Sadly, this example is not been replicated elsewhere and particularly not in Yenagoa, where the picture of this building was taken.

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Saw the same interview, and have waited 12 hours for my South-South friends to come in here to condemn the man since you started this thread. No one has come. This thread was ignored. Goes to prove what I said here and have been saying for months on Nairaland that our South-South brothers would rather look the other way when the crime is being committed by their kin.

In any event, you want to listen to the interview here is the podcast. It is free to air, just click the link. If I can get the full video, I will put it up on my blog. . .

Young man, Linux is the future. . .

By the way, I wonder where Jogego and Niggy are. . .

Neoteny, forget viruses, switch to Linux.

I shake my head in disbelief and wonder where things could have gone so wrong in your lives that you are showing this total poverty of self confidence.

And by 'you' here, I mean Sango, Reverend, Chidichris and all who are behind and/or in support of this totally absurd notion that just because of the colour of their skin that a certain group of people are better than another.

Now, let us educate you.

Skin colour is as a result of the abundance of, or lack of the protein melanin in the skin of said individual, which is the reason that we have albinos for example amongst Negroes. If you take your average day to day albino from Ojoto in Anambra state, clean him up, give him a perm and freight him to Uppsala in Sweden, he would look no different from Sten Sture den yngre.

This goes to prove what the American Anthropological Association says in one of their papers that the different races emerged not as a result of genetics, but as a result of history.

History in the sense that according to modern anthropological thinking, all human beings started from one place. Whether we all started from Ethiopia or from Mesopotamia is a matter of conjecture, but the point remains and hasn't been proven wrong that all humans began from the same gene pool. Genetic variations amongst humans have been shown to be wider within the different races than between the races.

With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind as a single species.

As they were constructing US society, leaders among European-Americans [b]fabricated [/b]the cultural/behavioral characteristics associated with each "race," linking superior traits with Europeans and negative and inferior ones to blacks and Indians. Numerous arbitrary and fictitious beliefs about the different peoples were institutionalized and deeply embedded in American thought.

That we have had more problems in Africa over the last few centuries is a matter of semantics. If you are so smart, why not take a ride back in history with me, back to ancient Egypt. It is easy for you to sit back and take all the crap that the Egyptians were white, but it is on record that there was no white Pharoah of Egypt until the Ptolemy's came to the throne after Alexander III's invasion of Egypt. That implies that all the famous Pharoahs who you know of from your bible, including Rameses II who enslaved the Hebrews was as black s me. His bust shown below bears evidence to this. Notice that the nose is shaped like a Negroes?



Now, at the time of the great Egyptian empire, which lasted for over 3000 years, there was no comparable empire on the planet run by whites. The Greeks came into force as Egypt was declining.

To the starter of this sick thread:

From all I can read, you infer that the people who are fundamental to our progress are the Europeans. You seem to have forgotten (if you even knew that at all) that Europe had its own bad patches. You seem to have forgotten that time was centuries back that Europeans would have paid top dollar (there was no dollar back then) for a shot at life in either the near or far East.

You say that we should open our doors to them without thinking twice, but forget in the same thought that these are people who came to us and plundered our land and resources. Where is your brain?

Thank you Otokx. Easy to make a lot of noise on the pages of Nairaland, but no real action, and the action that someone decided to take got hijacked and turned into a rather lucrative venture.

On a side note, I got to kidnap me some white men. The last set of geezers got $90000 in ransom money. . .

Maybe your DHCP isn't set up properly on your server, also I want to assume that the server has 2 network cards?

If that is the case, then on the one which connects to the network in question, assign the following IP: 192.168.1.1,255.255.255.0

After that, give all the clients IPs in that network, making their default gateway the IP of the server. You shouldn't have problems after that.

A couple went on holiday to a fishing resort. The husband likes to fish at sunrise. The wife likes to read. One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap.

Although not familiar with the lakes area, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and continues to read her book.

Along comes a fishing inspector in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning ma'am. What are you doing?"

"Reading a book," she replies (thinking "isn't that obvious?!".

"You're in a restricted fishing area," he informs her.

"I'm sorry officer but I'm not fishing, I'm reading".

"Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and make a report."

"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault" says the woman.

"But I haven't touched you" says the man.

"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know, you could start at any moment."

"Have a nice day ma'am" and he left.

Fair being fair, it has to be Drogba. . .

Is this sick thread still on?

Neoteny, the file I linked here would do exactly what you've described, so it won't work for him. What I want to know is why he hasn't come back to give us some feedback. . .

L'oggi è compleanno del Alessandro del Piero.

He turns 32 today, and here's wishing him more years of service to the greatest club in the history of mankind.

FORZA JUVE!!!

I'm surprised that your phone issues on Ubuntu weren't solved guy. Anyways, I'd recommend Puppy any day. Though of the light weight distros, Damn Small Linux is my favorite.

If you can, download this file. All you dependency issues would be solved. Problem is that it is 3.1 GB in size. Have the time?

We've been through this on this forum before. You must have noticed by now that you never get this error when the system isn't connected to a network, that tells you that the network you are on is infected.

If you don't have sensitive data, format all the systems. If you can't afford a format, use Zone Alarm. Trust me on this one.

Soledad -- Westlife

While we are all getting happy about Duke, I'd like to know if anyone has a contrary opinion. It would make for a more balanced judgment of the man. . .

Donzman:

@ all the Loyolites, Loyolians, Loyolees or whatever you call yourselves. I just cross checked and I mistook Loyola for Corona. Either way, Loyola students are weak and obsessed with England, you can always see them when you visit silverbird.

You just described at least three people that I know one on one. . .