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It's Ton Dazzy again!

kekerazi: My Broda,we in Nigeria did not hear of any Kidnapping in Lekki.I wonder were you got that news from.And from Your post You'll be Residing in Lekki when you come Back.I can assure you Lekki is safer and more comfortable Than were you are staying in S.A - I might not be too sure though-

In all honesty GTB has gone from one of the most trusted and reliable banks in Nigeria to one one of the most fraudulent if the not the most fraudulent.Hardly a day goes by someone doesn't make a complaint on Facebook,Twitter,Nairaland or some other social site.It's pathetic..really

Get a lawyer to offer some legal advice & follow up the letter to the CBN. Copy EFCC,CIBN & other bodies that might prove crucial to the end decision.
This reminds me of an experience that was posted here a while back;

Story, story, I was home on a saturday morning only to receive 4-text messages from GTB. The first was welcoming me to "a new service" - dollar mastercard. The second was a notice that the amount XYZ had been deducted from my meagre Naira account because of #1. The third was to inform me about a new account number created on my behalf. The fourth was information on the amount in US$ that was credited into my new account.

I thought the whole thing was 419, and even disregarded the text messages; only for me to appear in a GTB branch on Monday morning and explain myself. I showed the lady at the counter the text messages, she checked on her PC and with a smile, replied "yes sir, you are welcome to our new service". I had to cool my temper, filled up their complaint form and left the place as I was boiling with rage already, considering that I did not request for the service.

Long story cut short, I sent them several mails about the issue, but they stubbornly replied that they cannot reverse whatever was done, even if I didnt need the DollarMastercard.

Can you believe that a staff of GTB actually called me to suggest HOW TO AMICABLY RESOLVE THE ISSUE!. I was happy, thinking she was going to say something sensible. She said they were sorry about the "MIXUP", but that I could look at things positively. So I replied "how".

Her reply went something like this: sir you know, now that we have issued you a Dollar mastercard, at least the next time you go abroad, for example to the UK, you dont need to carry cash", etc. Then the silly lady even asked me if I had family members in the UK.?

I had to physically hold my phone in front of my eyes just to confirm the nonsense I had just heard. I was like, what tha?

Long story cut short, I wrote them a 5-page letter, threatening a serious law suit, called up / copied the letter to the ICPC, the EFCC, the police, a lawyer and an army officer contact.

I dont know what transpired between the ICPC/EFCC and the GTB, but I got a call from someone at the ICPC and then like 8-GTB staff/managers called me to apologize rainfall and deepwater. For the first time in my entire life, I felt as if Nigeria has hope.

A lot of rhetoric & posturing. Let's just get this over with already. Time to put all those classified gizmos to the test.

Reports of Mandela's death have been greatly exaggerated!

Much ado about nothing really. Next thing I know they'll be asking for royalties


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvvM9mf8deo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Pls i need one. Have they got dealers anywhere or does one have to go to the factory?

Mahatma Ghandi: did you see goldie after she died ? i guess not, well thats how we all will look when we are gone, just picture an earthquake happening and how quickly things will change, anything that wont be important to you in a life and death situation may just be a waste of your time, swag is an illusion, but death, that shit is real.

And your point is....?

@op,do we have to feel sorry for you?After all said and done you'll still end up in Canaan land next Sunday.You'll still pay your taxes..guess you'll call it tithes.You'll still scream Oyedepo's praises & claim he's the best thing that ever happened to you since the wheel was invented.Religion has ingrained docility so deep in our minds we can't even begin to fight the plethora of social injustices that plague us.So what exactly are we supposed to do now?Abeg jor!Unto the next one

It's a definite Hit for me. One doesn't have to conform to conventional norms in order to 'fit in'. Dare to be different

N3000? Butu y kogi why? This is so sad i honestly want to wring somebody's neck

I think we have a good idea how the Bible was crafted

This

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday stormed Afaka village in Kaura local government area of Kaduna state killing 19 people.

The unknown gunmen took the community by surprise as they attacked in the early hours of Easter Sunday leaving 19 people dead and many others injured.

The village shares borders with kaduna and plateau.

An eye witness said the gunmen numbering about 30 invaded the village in the early hours of Sunday shooting sporadically at people’s houses before the villagers with support of a neighbouring community were able to repel the attack.

Confirming the incident to Channels Television, the Kaduna State Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Aminu Lawan said the gunmen took the villagers by surprise and started shooting people.

He added that the identities of the gunmen are yet to be known while the police has commenced investigation into the attack.

He however disclosed that more armed policemen and soldiers have been deployed to the area to maintain law and order.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/04/01/gunmen-kill-19-in-easter-attack/

Homegrown crystal meth industry sparks west Africa crime wave
Clandestine methamphetamine laboratories discovered in Nigeria signal disturbing new chapter in regional drug trade


Crystal meth (methamphetamine) is being manufactured in west Africa, in a disturbing new development in the international drugs trade. Photograph: Mikael Karlsson/Alamy
One May evening last year, as a tropical downpour lashed Lagos, Nigerian drug enforcement agents received the tipoff that would lead to a game-changing bust. Hours earlier, Baez Benitez Milan, a car dealer from Paraguay, had entered the country, telling airport officials that this, one of Africa's most notoriously gridlocked, chaotic cities, was ideal for plying his motor trade.

Instead, he drove to an unfinished, weed-choked building on the deserted outskirts of town, and holed up there for weeks. When agents eventually stormed the building, they found an amphetamine-producing factory capable of churning out 25kg of white crystal meth powder, or "ice", every few hours. Benitez Milan was, in fact, a Colombian drug runner named Gonzalo Osorio, whose skills in the rapid setup of clandestine laboratories commanded a $38,000 (£25,000) weekly fee. The factory, one of an intended three, was among the earliest to be discovered in west Africa, and signalled a disturbing new chapter in the regional drug trade.

For the past decade, west Africa's creek-lined coast has been a pipeline for trafficking South American cocaine to Europe and Asia. About $1.25bn of illicit trade has passed through annually, responsible in part for destabilising huge swathes of the region, from Mali's recent turmoil to the narco-state of Guinea-Bissau. But now homegrown criminal syndicates that previously earned cuts by providing mules for Latin American cartels are cooking up their own slice of the global drug pie. Their narcotic of choice is methamphetamine, a highly profitable powder concocted using readily available and legal ingredients.

"This is the next niche for criminal groups in west Africa because you can easily cook it at home, and you can easily adjust it for supply and demand. It is slowly but surely spreading in the region," said Pierre Lapaque, head of the United Nations office on drugs and crime in west Africa, whose latest report highlights the rising trade.

Four large-scale crystal meth labs have been discovered in Nigeria. Shipments of precursor chemicals have been seized in neighbouring Benin and Togo and in Guinea officials discovered huge vats used to cook MDMA, a similar synthetic drug.

Bola, a lanky drug baron with twitching hands who is based in downtown Lagos, said only local wrestlers bought synthetic drugs when he started peddling eight years ago. "It was difficult to sell. Now the guys selling [meth] to big boys and foreigners in the VIP dens can no longer come to areas like this because they will be robbed. Everybody knows they make big money," he said.

Behind Bola's stifling, corrugated iron shop selling dusty cartons of soft drinks is a warren of cramped brick-walled rooms barely high enough to stand up in. Ghoulish in the occasional shard of sunlight piercing through the haze, dealers and glassy-eyed users slump on wooden benches, hunch over chessboards or incessantly chop and wrap mounds of crystalline powder.

Most international orders come from South Africa and more recently Asia "because many people are afraid to go. The punishment there if they should catch you … " Bola mimed a knife across his throat, indicating the death penalty.

A kilo of meth exported to south-east Asia, where some countries have reported a 250% increase in traffickers from west Africa arrested over five years, brings in $45,000. In Bola's den, poorer users pay $1.20 for a single hit.

Crystal meth was traditionally brewed by US biker gangs but laws were tightened in 2005, curbing production. Thousands of miles away, there was unintended fallout. "Cocaine trafficking was falling because we were making record seizures. Suddenly we started making more and more interceptions of methamphetamine leaving the country, but nothing at all was coming in. We realised criminals had started making it within our borders," said Mitchell Ofojeyu, an official at the heavily guarded headquarters of Nigeria's drug enforcement agency.

Some worry the effects of this new trade will spill over into local communities, raising the spectre of rising crime and health problems.

"The warning signals are there that this really is a problem that could run amok in years ahead if comparable resources aren't devoted to the human consumption side," said Alan Doss, a senior adviser at the Geneva-based Kofi Annan Foundation.

For now, widespread unfamiliarity among the local population has sometimes got in the way of curbing the trade. When Nigerian officials discovered their first meth factory, they wanted to storm the site immediately.

"We didn't realise the chemicals were so poisonous. It was our international partners who told us: 'Look, you basically have to kit yourself up as if you're going to the moon'," said Ofojeyu.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/29/crystal-meth-west-africa-crime

israel007: There's nothing God can not fix. Turn to Him

Really?The way some Pentecostals pray when they've been 'arrested' by the Holy Ghost is nothing short of being in an epileptic state.So what's your point?

buchisom1: Abeg mak smbdy tell dis man to go and do somtin meanful wit his time and stop dis em imaginary world of 16years again

The dude is busy making his pepe.You're here talking nonsense!

NIGERIAN ARMY LAUNCH INFORMATION ALERT SYSTEM TO TACKLE TERROR

The Nigerian Army has launched an online information system that will track and tackle terrorist threat in the country within fifteen minutes. The information processing system commissioned on Wednesday by the Chief of Transformation and Innovation, Major General Ibrahim Sani, will alert a network of security agencies nationwide of any terrorist activity reported by any Nigerian via email or text message.Major General Sani explained that information on the network system cannot be compromised and will respond confidentially to all distress and emergency calls.The Nigerian Army Information Processing System can reached via the following email addresses:Nigerianarmytips@yahoo.com Nigerianarmytips@gmail.com SMS can also be sent to the following dedicated numbers:08160030300 07053331230 8181555888 Many have questioned the inability of the government to adequately tackle the increasing threat by members of Boko Haram and other widespread security concerns. But the Nigerian Army has risen to the challenge with the use of information technology to address the issue using information processing system. The system is designed to speedily alert the Police, the State Security Service (SSS) and other security agencies of any terrorist action observed in any part of the country.Major General Sani maintained that basic training of skilled operators on the system has already begun, adding that issues of power failure or hacking into the network will not be a challenge as the system will be powered by an inverter and managed by professionals. The Information Processing System,according to the army, also allows communication in local languages as long as the information is clearly described using the right medium.

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Funny thing is the act will still be perpetrated without any hitch.Sad

Not bad at all. And all these illuminati freaks should give us an effing break abeg!Ah ah una no dey tire?Wetin sef?

Y'all gats to chill,it's a fake.Kim K's account is verified this one is not.Not a fan anyways.

Can't blame these guys though.Some of them put as much as 12-15 hours a day including weekends and bank holidays with no hope of taking a vacation.So half an hour or an hour's sleep never hurt anyone.

The dude must be seriously minted https://www.nairaland.com/377802/ayiri-emami-man-most-expensive

I recall there was a thread on this same dude some years back.2010 or thereabout.Lemme see if I can dig it it up

What is wrong with the black man?

Lilimax: You be Prophet of doom? Are you saying that beautiful women does not have good characters? Wish them well so that good fortunes will come your way.

Even with 3 smileys after the comment you still missed the joke. Smh!

Yeah for better for worse until someone is seriously hurt or at worst the death of either one or both parties. Religion should not be an excuse for stvpidity. Some common sense is required. Divorce remains a sensible option in extreme cases

Please!By all means.Because I can categorically tell you that man has no idea what he is saying

NSCDC Accuses Nairaland Of Recruitment Scam

Ok so I was watching all the numerous 'Oga at the top' videos and I came across a particular one where a Civil Defence Corp member was reeling out names of websites used for scamming unsuspecting applicants. And the first name to roll out of his tongue was Nairaland! Like seriously? Anyways, you can watch it here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQZCqPAuwqU

www.NSCDC:
Of the various Internets that have been designed for the purpose of fraudulent acts by nefarious persons. And among one of the Internets we have the Nairaland, the www.NSCDC.wapka.mobi. We also have another one which was opened in the name of the ministry of Interior, and several other Internets which have been designed and people have been using to collect money from innocent Nigerians under the guise of giving them jobs with the Nigerian civil defense corps as well as other agencies of government thereby demanding for money from applicants. And as a matter of fact, most of these fraudsters have designed their own way. Some do not only collect money using Internet, but they've also make it that they get phone numbers of persons that they know are looking for job and they call them, send text messages to them asking them to come and pay so-so money for form, come and pay so-so money for them to be given employment. All these are false because the Nigerian security and civil defense corps has never involved itself in the sale of forms, or in the sale of selling scratch cards for the purpose of online filling of forms. The Nigerian security and civil defense corps has never used the internet to advertise for her jobs. Our single process of advertisement is through the mass media and not the social media. Which means when it is time and government says we should recruit, we use the daily newspapers and advertise for applicants that are willing to work in the system to apply through a written application, not through agents and not through consultants

[s]Uploading the youtube clip is proving to be a bit of a headache. Anyone who can, should please upload the vid.[/s] Thanks.

My thoughts exactly. Nigerians just love to revel in mediocrity. Even calling on NBC 'to do something'. I laugh in Swahili! @Stallion84 & co please go watch any episode of Hardtalk on BBC & see how guests are grilled by Jonathan Mann until they begin to squirm

kobikwelu: look at this man oo....Instead of wondering how such an incompetent semi-illiterate officer is in such an exalted position, you are pointing fingers at the Journalists who did an excellent job!!

Besides,
the journalists did nothing wrong, infact they wanted to get real answers for a lingering problem..lots of people have complained about multiple spoof websites that have scammed innocent folks trying to apply for a job in NSDC, and the journalists wanted a definitive answer from the man as to a very simple question..WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR ORGANISATION'S WEBSITE....

and by the way, was he not aware of the questions earlier on? why did he not take time to do some basic research since he was comming on National tv??..

Infact, he should be sacked....

and you are asking NBC to do something??...its a pity...