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Or they are not paying her any attention

Why are you so bored aloib, I thought you said somewhere you're on vacation, you should be living it up

What is Port-Harcourt turning into?

http://odili.net/news/source/2007/aug/12/699.html

Residents Flee
• Azazi, Okiro Meet Omehia
• Expatriate Dies In Militants’ Camp

Unrelenting bandits in Rivers State continued their onslaught on Saturday, bombing two vital public institutions in Port Harcourt and killing no fewer than 15 persons, four of them riot policemen on the sixth day of their attacks on the state.

The trigger-happy youths detonated dynamite on the 16-pump Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mega Station and the nearby Radio Rivers on Degema Street, less than a kilometre to the Government House before dawn.

The gunmen killed a security guard at a house adjacent the radio station but could not gain access to the transmitters of the station, which appeared to have been their main target.

As the news of the attack spread on Saturday morning, the insurgents moved towards the main industrial area of the state, Trans-Amadi, where they slew three riot policemen at their duty post as well as another one and a civilian at Garrison.

Sporadic gunshots rented the air as residents woke up to take part in this month’s sanitation exercise between 7am and 10am, forcing residents to flee in different directions.

At daybreak, no fewer than 15 bullet-riddled corpses had been recovered and deposited at the state-owned Braithwaite Memorial Hospital near the Government House in Port Harcourt. Four of them were riot policemen while the rest were innocent persons felled by stray bullets.

The death toll had on Friday been put at 30 by independent sources, although the police confirmed only six died.

The action of the militants forced the Nigerian Army to move in soldiers to check the festering security situation in the capital.

The soldiers deployed from the 2nd Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt immediately mounted roadblocks from the entrance of the Government House to the Old Port Harcourt Township and frisked motorists and pedestrians.

The police came out with more Armoured Personnel Carriers and deployed their men in all the roads to curtail the excesses of the militias.

As the stop-and-search operations began, soldiers intercepted a Carina Toyota car loaded with arms and ammunition just as it was heading towards the Government House. The occupants reportedly opened fire and wounded a soldier on the leg while the soldiers in turn killed two of them and destroyed the car.

The relic of the car was left at the Government House Road Junction and was later towed away by policemen from the Governor’s Office.

Some posters of a former member of the state House of Assembly were reportedly found in the car used by the militants and taken away by security agents.

It was not clear at press time if the former lawmaker had been questioned but we gathered that the police authorities are under intense pressure from the Presidency to contain the rampaging gangs in the state.

While the Police High Command at Abuja is taking the heat from the Presidency, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone Four and the state Commissioner of Police have in turn been directed to arrest the situation without delay.

Sunday Independent can confirm that memos were dispatched to the AIG and CP from the office of the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, on Wednesday on the ugly development.

Sources said Okiro, who is an indigene of the state, is worried over the development and not leaving anything to chance to tackle the wave of banditry in the state.

He was said to have held several meetings with both his senior aides and officials of sister security agencies on the need to pool human resources together to confront the challenge.

As the police strategise on how to curb the situation, the authorities have received thousands of requests from prominent indigenes and residents seeking for police protection in their homes and offices.

But only a few of such letters (applications), we gathered, have been given attention just as prominent indigenes of the state have expressed serious concern over the continued inaction of the Federal Government in the face of the rampaging invasion of the state by gunmen.

They wondered why the situation had been allowed to degenerate to the current level despite the military and security formations in the state, and Port Harcourt in particular.

Port Harcourt hosts the One and Second Amphibious Battalion (Bori Camp), a Naval base, Police Command headquarters, including MOPOL 19, and the regional headquarters of the State Security Service.

There is also the 212 Artillery Battalion at Elele.

It was gathered that the state government spends at least N35 million monthly on military and security agencies in the state as motivation to ensure security as well as on other logistics. Recently, the government acquired three sophisticated assault boats for Naval patrols, one of which was blown up by militants.

"With all these support, we still find ourselves in this kind of mess, and the Federal Government is treating it as a local affair. Let me tell you, this matter is more serious than we think. It is even under-reported in the media. We have a very big problem on our hands and if we do not act now, this country will live to regret it," a prominent indigene said.

Worried by the worsening situation, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Andrew Azazi, and Okiro flew into Port Harcourt and held a closed-door meeting with the governor, Sir Celestine Omehia, on the development.

The two security chiefs met with Omehia for about 45 minutes and later moved over to the headquarters of the 2nd Brigade of the Nigerian Army, where they held another round of meeting with army, air force and naval officers for about two hours.

Addressing journalists at the end of the meeting, Okiro said the security agencies were set to battle the criminals in Port Harcourt and bring an end to the killings in the state.

Okiro warned that the killings were unacceptable to the Federal Government and that the government was all out to put an end to the lawlessness in the city.

"We want to confront these hoodlums head on. On the lawlessness we see in Port Harcourt, we are here to make sure that it is stopped. The hoodlums have been confronted by the JTF (Joint (Military) Task Force) today," he said.

The police boss, who attributed the violence which started in Port Harcourt since last Monday to rival gang clash, disclosed that the JTF had drawn up strategies to deal with the growing insecurity in the state.

The IGP said that the situation on the ground did not warrant the declaration of a state of emergency, as the security agencies were in full control of the situation.

The state government, also, immediately reacted to calls for the declaration of a state of emergency, and the fleeing of residents in the city, saying the situation did not warrant it.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Paulinus Nsirim, who spoke on a special radio programme in Port Harcourt on Saturday, said those calling for a state of emergency were disgruntled elements bent on discrediting the state government.

Nsirim insisted that the governor was operating an all-inclusive government and had taken steps to improve the security situation in the state by setting up the Peace and Rehabilitation Committee to assist repentant cult members.

He also assured that the state was safe and urged the people to go about their normal and lawful businesses, as security is being beefed up to guarantee their safety.

The Commissioner for Works, Mr Emmanuel Omah, who also spoke during the programme, said the current disturbances were not isolated scenario, but have been part of the Niger Delta crisis, which, according to him, would take time to resolve.

"If you want to achieve peace, you have to embark on reorientation, and this process takes time before yielding result," he said.

In neighbouring Bayelsa, the corpse of an expatriate, who reportedly died in the camp of a militant group headed by one Africa in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, has been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa,

Workers at the hospital said the name of the dead expatriate is John but refused to give further details ostensibly for fear of being attacked by the militants.

I witnessed something like this in warri some years back. A lady probably in her 30's maybe 40's was stalking a woman who was in her shop with her baby nearby, when the lady noticed that the baby strayed some few metres away and the mother was in the shop busy attending to customers, she made for the baby and took off with an Okada waiting nearby, but luck ran out of her as the mother immediately noticed that her baby was no where in sight, she immediately screamed and people gathered and before you could say Jack Robinson, the crowd got hold of the baby snatcher and beat her mercilessly, tore her clothes to shreds, used all kinds of objects to hit and poke her, then they finally got hold of some used tires, placed it round her neck and set her ablaze. it was plain horrible, it was the most horrific sight I had ever seen. There was even a camera crew from delta tv on the scene prior to when she was burnt, so the whole thing was caught on tape, before the mob set her ablaze, the journalist convinced the mob to allow him interview the victim, he asked her if it was true she tried to steal the baby, with pains she kept saying, " carry me go police station, na me do am". It was on the news the next day.

After that event, I regarded people as animals until proven otherwise because descending on a human being in that way was crazy, the glee in their eyes, the brutality, I just can't imagine any sane person partaking in that kind of behaviour.

which carnival is that up there

ell77:
stalk who! I looked at who's online to see what posts are interesting and saw someon viewing my own profile!

you're the stalker!

How are we sure you're telling the guy the truth, you said you faced the same situation until you did this and that, why you no show your picture make we compare and contrast.

last year

wwtlt you went to the swimming pool

You're a stalker, man

Obalende suya, Tinubu square, hmmnnn Nigerians don colonise london

was that an incomplete thought

@doyin13
no let oyibo corrupt your mind o!

PTH:
in short dafman, he is oldschool. nothing we can do will remedy the situation. there must be an oldschool chic somewhere.

lmao

In summary dude you have three things to worry about.

1. face looks older than his age

2. style of dressing is oldschool

3. mode of posing is oldschool.

Take care of these and older women will stop hitting at you

Ok, I'm waiting, make sure you walk through the pathway in your profile

I dey smile as I dey here so, If you get camera there you fit snap me

PTH:
poor you, your face does look old and your style of dressing from what i can see does need some help.
It doesnt matter, u're still good enough for at least one girl out of 6 billion humans on earth, take heart.

The guy is trying to get encouragement on his face now you've added dressing to it haba

The next thread he will start is " does my style of dressing make me look too old"

You're not looking in the right places

Bros I hail O!, anything wey you talk I go do, make I go look for one picture wey I smile well well

Where dat road dey go

Hey Omogenaija, how u doing

thinking what is wrong with my YIM

This is what I got, I can see me somewhere in there

http://www.findyourgo.com/avatarreturn.php?mid=22918440

Really? I might as well try it, anything to reduce the pain

Ballers ball - if you know what i mean

PTH:
not just you dafman, i hurt my eardrums in december and spent two weeks shouting just to hear myself.

That's good to know, I thought there was something wrong with my ears, I experienced that for some days.

naija girls are very modest compared to what obtains here, girls wearing shorts that look like panties at airports, on campus, everywhere. Naija is still good jor.

How una dey

My First Adult trip was from Lagos to New-York, everything was okay till we approached JFK and the plane started it's descent, I felt like my ear-drums were going to burst, it was so bad I had to cover my ears with my hands and still no respite, funny enough the people around me seemed okay. I had to endure this scenario three more times because I took three flights same day to get to my final destination in Texas.

nobody seems to have this problem here, is it only me?

Kai Mallam Jay-Z

Osama's coded Message to Bush After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive", Osama himself decided to send George W a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message:

370HSSV-0773H.

Bush was baffled, so he typed it out and emailed it to Colin Powell. Colin and his aides had no clue either so they sent it to the CIA. No one could solve it so it went to the NSA and then to MIT and NASA And the Secret Service.

Eventually they asked Britain's MI6 for help. They cabled the White House: "Tell the President he is looking at the message upside down.

Coool, we need stuff like this in naija, this is what entertainment is about, not playing music videos all day long.