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Celestialsword:
It was a mistake,in so far it has been corrected

It was not a mistake, it was deliberate

Miss Universe 1st runner-up Chidimma Adetshina is making headlines against the backdrop of her big wins at the beauty pageant.
Miss Denmark Victoria Theilving was crowned Miss Universe 2024 at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City on 16 November.

The beauty queen was crowned with the first Filipino-made crown, which boasts the Philippines’ South Sea Pearls.

CHIDIMMA ADETSHINA’S MISS UNIVERSE MOMENT
Outgoing Miss Universe Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua had the honour to crown the new Miss Universe 2024.

However, fan favourite Chidimma Adetshina was the first runner-up. She became the first Nigerian to achieve this feat at the Miss Universe

However, Chidimma Adetshina was also crowned Miss Universe for Africa and Oceania.

Mexico’s beauty queen Maria Fernanda Beltran was crowned the second runner-up, with Thailand’s Opal Suchata Chuangsri settling for third. Venezuela’s Ileana Marquez was named the fourth runner-up.

After the finale, the Miss Universe’s Facebook page shared photos celebrating the winners, but one post has since thrust the organisers into the top trends.

Taking to Facebook, Miss Universe posted photos of three of the four runners-up at the beauty pageant and congratulated them, but Miss Universe Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina was not included in the post.

Miss Universe’s Facebook posts. Images: Facebook @missuniverse
Part of the post reads, “Meet our remarkable runners-up!

2nd Runner-up: México
3rd Runner-up: Thailand
4th Runner-up: Venezuela
“Congratulations on an unforgettable journey!”

Miss Universe started with the second runner-up, with Chidimma not anywhere on the list. However, fans across the globe were quick to criticise the beauty pageant.

FANS REACT: ‘WHAT ABOUT THE VERY 1ST RUNNER-UP’
Fans questioned Chidimma Adetshina’s omission from the list, while others alleged that it was on purpose and unashamedly. One user asked, “Where is first runner-up Miss Universe?”

Another user was quick to answer, “My question exactly. What discrimination is this? Where is Miss Nigeria in this post? Miss Universe, where is the FIRST RUNNER UP? Did you conveniently forget?”

Another user commented, “What about the very 1st runner-up, the beautiful Miss Universe Nigeria?

However, after noticing the omission through a backlash, Miss Universe made another post that included Chidimma Adetsina on the list.



https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/celeb-news/local-celebs/miss-universe-forced-to-congratulate-chidimma-adetshina/

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Where is that stupid boy called Reno Omokri to come and talk on this one

Akacollins7:
He is the new Hamas Head. Please don't use Nigeria problems to disturb him, as he has a bigger job

His friend Reno is becoming more popular than him these days

TooMuchStuff:
He's lost in Gaza Israel fracas. Yeye man 👨 😪

Loquacious vermin of Chameleonic proportion..

wait o...na me de sound like igodomigodo like dis 😳

FFK na looser in the game of Jagaban of Nigeria

No appointment for him ...

I think hunger must be showing him siege by now

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Since this administration came in, I have been searching for our one and only loquacious and garrulous FFK. But it's like he is on a sabbatical. Can someone please confirm if he is still aliv.e

I have no idea Yoruba people are still demanding and campaigning for Oduduwa Republic after Emi Lokan became president of Nigeria. Na wa o. If this group na Igbo group we for no hear word for social media.

yoruboid:
Why won’t they protest when all our developers go there to do is engage in drugs and criminality

Yorubas have been living in the UK, Canada and USA where they are the most dominant migrants from Africa for decades with no issues

A notorious Instagram influencer from Nigeria has been jailed for more than 11 years in the US for his role in an international fraud syndicate. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63542573

yoruboid:
Why won’t they protest when all our developers go there to do is engage in drugs and criminality

Yorubas have been living in the UK, Canada and USA where they are the most dominant migrants from Africa for decades with no issues

Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale murdered Rigby

Their crime was one of shocking brutality. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale first ran down soldier Lee Rigby in a car, then hacked him to death in a frenzied machete and knife attack.

Confronted with gory closed-circuit TV footage, grueling witness testimony and Adebolajo’s own defense that he had “no choice” in Rigby’s killing, as he was “a soldier of Allah,” the jury took only 90 minutes to convict both defendants of his murder. They were cleared of the attempted murder of a police officer.

But what led Adebolajo, 29, and Adebowale, 22, both born and raised in Britain by families of Christian Nigerian origin, to kill on London’s streets in the name of Islam?

There seems to be no simple answer to that question.
Adebolajo was the only one to give evidence in court. He denied the charges of murder and attempted murder of a police officer, on the grounds that he had acted from religious conviction. He converted to Islam in 2002 to 2003, while at a university, and adopted an Islamic name, Mujahid Abu Hamza.

“I am a soldier of Allah,” he told the jury. “It is a war between Islam and those militaries that intervene in Muslim lands.”

Adebowale, who did not take the stand, converted to Islam more recently, in 2008 to 2009.

A closer look at their backgrounds reveals that both were already known to police and that both showed earlier signs of radicalization.

In a news briefing, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick said police had had contact with the two men, as both victims and offenders, over a number of years – in Adebowale’s case for drug offenses, and in Adebolajo’s case for a handful of incidents involving violent crime.

Both were at a demonstration in 2006 outside the Old Bailey in London. Adebolajo was subsequently convicted on two counts of assaulting a police officer and spent 51 days in prison, but Adebowale was not arrested. Adebolajo still pleads innocence in that case, denying he punched a female officer in the face and a male officer in the groin.

Both men also participated in a protest in 2012.

On the witness stand, Adebolajo said he attended demonstrations but was not specific, describing them as a way “to let off steam.”

Extremism trigger ‘difficult to pinpoint’

He said he had listened to speeches by Anjem Choudary, a controversial British Muslim cleric, but did not agree with him. “I think he is a good man, however he encourages his followers that jihad in this country is not allowed at this moment,” he said.

Adebolajo said that he had tried to travel to Somalia in 2010 because he wanted to live under Sharia law but that he was stopped by Kenyan authorities and returned to the UK. After that, he reportedly had frequent contact with MI5, the UK domestic security agency.

Despite these incidents, what might have pushed them over the edge into violent extremism is “very difficult to pinpoint,” Dick said.

While Adebolajo “talks about grievances in foreign policy,” Dick said, authorities don’t know where he got his radical views.

Little extremist material was presented to the court as evidence, although materials on “martyrdom” were found in Adebowale’s home in Greenwich, southeast London.

Dick, who watched tapes of police interviews with Adebowale, described a “troubled young man” who “was very changeable, emotional and many times very aggressive. He did spit at officers and several times this required restraint.”

There were some indications that Adebowale was associated with a street gang in 2008, she said.

Adebolajo: ‘I was disgusted’

Asked in court what he thought of al Qaeda, Adebolajo said: “I love them and I consider them my brothers in Islam.”

Adebolajo also told jurors he was against British foreign policy but did not believe his Islamic views led him onto the path he had taken.

“Even before I became Muslim, I did not agree with foreign policy,” he said, then describing an early memory of watching the Iraq war on television.

“‘Operation Shock and Awe’ – I saw it unfold on BBC and CNN what not, and I was disgusted, you know. It was reported as if it was praiseworthy,” he said. “I knew that every one of those bombs was killing someone. I was disgusted.”

Adebolajo, who is married with six children, said in his police interview, shown in court, that he didn’t like blood. He maintained that he posed no threat to civilians, only to the British military because of its actions overseas. He tried to cut Rigby’s head off because it was the proper method under Allah, he said.

“It brings me little joy to approach anybody and slay them. Can you believe me? I am not a man who gains enjoyment from watching horror films,” he said.

His defense lawyer, David Gottlieb, sought to define Adebolajo in his closing argument as a man who was “motivated by a noble idea” rather than being a psychopathic murderer.

His client was intelligent and totally sincere in his beliefs, and had shown “absolute honesty and moral conviction,” Gottlieb said.

“He did what he did because it was divinely ordained,” he said, adding that he considered Adebolajo should have been charged with treason or terrorism rather than murder.

The defense lawyer for Adebowale, Abbas Lakha, echoed the argument that the men intended to kill a British soldier because they were soldiers of Allah, and that this was not the same as intent to murder.

The testimony heard in court suggested neither man expected to live after the attack.

Both defendants intended to make police feel threatened because they wanted to be shot, Lakha said.

He said a note that Adebolajo handed to a bystander at the time of the attack was a joint missive, and it could be regarded as a suicide note, since part of it read “If I live beyond this day. …”

Paramedics who treated Adebolajo after he was shot in the arm by police said that he told them: “Your government is all wrong. I did it for my God. I wish the bullets had killed me so I can join my friends and family.

“This arm belongs to Allah, and you can do what you want with it.”

Police: ‘It’s a complicated story’

Critics may ask why these two men, given that they were known to the police, were not monitored more closely – and so perhaps prevented from committing Rigby’s murder.

Many in Britain will also want to know whether Adebolajo and Adebowale were operating alone, and whether a continued threat exists.

With those questions in mind, the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee is reviewing what was known about them before the attack.

The two men attended mosques across the capital but, Dick said, police “are not aware of anyone else being aware of what was going to take place. We are not aware of anyone else engaged in the planning of this attack.”

She said the two men “were in different parts of London, with different people, exposed to a variety of extremists.”

She suggested those hoping for all the answers are likely to be disappointed.

“We may never know the full picture,” she said. “I don’t mean to trivialize this, but becoming radicalized is not like becoming pregnant. Having contact with extremists is a theme. But it’s a complicated story.”

Asked about the risk of other “lone wolf” attacks, Dick said the Metropolitan Police “have a very good record at stopping attacks,” citing other terror trials held this year.

“But, sadly,” she said, “our ability to reduce the risk to zero is not there.”


https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/19/world/europe/uk-soldier-killing-profiles/index.html

sreamsense:
So, you want to tell me you never saw worse than that in any your five tiny states of Biafra? It is not about what you saw in Lagos, it is about hatred in your Biafran DNA that shows hatred, envy, bitterness and complaint on daily basis. You acted out of inferiority complex to find comparison. I knew before I called you Nwachukwu because I have detected that Biafra hatred from your gene via online DNA test despite how much you formed mr Londoner. Richest men in Nigeria and foreigner leave in the same Lagos which is far better than you village in Biafra land. Even ask around you will find out many of your villagers are now in the same Lagos.

Don't be surprise, they may even be the one begging you for small change since hunger sent them to Lagos. The truth is that you only wanted to show up because of small change in your pocket. Well, enjoy your money, but make sure you are not also spending drug money to show up, otherwise; those people are even better than you because by the time NDLEA bounce on you, your own will even be worse than people you are using style to insult.

You're a very bitter person and tribalist. I didn't do the writeup to castigate the Yoruba tribe or the Southwest, just an observation of an ill in a cosmopolitan city like Lagos, just like anyone else can also observe some ills about a city like Abuja or any of our cosmopolitan cities and then make mention of it. But here you are with your bitter and darkened heart trying to turn it into a tribal war. You are so deficient and shallow in reasoning for me to be responding to your comments. Good bye hombre amargado.

stuffs4me:
IP0B trying to demarket Lagos.

You must have been living in a slum for you to be surrounded by beggars.

I have lived in both US and UK and I saw beggars in those countries

Locas tribalist, you have been spotted, just shift to the next thread and continue with what you guys are known for

onatisi:
This is more like a general Naija issue oo. Even in Oyo State ,I think. All major cities . I don't think it is like that in the rural areas but in almost all major cities and towns in Naija that is the syndrome. Once you have something and they feel or see you as ok, they will tax you or ask you for money

After I left Lagos, I visited Port Harcourt too, and did not notice the same begging culture there, and that means it is not a general issue.

sreamsense:
Nwachukwu, when did you leave Nigeria that you are now forming Londoner? I am not saying you are exaggerating, but did they force you or offered to beat you if you did not give them? If you willingly give them, why complaining? Are you not matured enough to make your decision and stand by it? Even where you are, are there not less privilege?

There will always be poor people among human even in the country where you are. Since nobody forced you, stop generalizing Lagosians. Did Dangote daughter or Otedollar walked up to you to beg? Since they never opened up to you while concluding for them or think all of them are begging for money?

It is because you have some money with you to show you are now a big guy. If you are left with only your transport that is not even complete and thereby unable to give despite their gesture, will they eat you raw? So, Mr man; calm down, it is you that showed yourself as big guy that made you those attention around you

When something is a norm in a society, you don't need a magnifying glass to notice that it is prevalent. After Lagos, I traveled to Port Harcourt but did not experience such begging culture.

JagabanB:
From the look of things, u probably returned from Benin Republic, Ghana or somewhere broke, I don't understand how someone who claims to return from another country will be meeting people who requests for money after giving a simple direction, u haven't met half of the people in Lagos, u probably went to an area at your level and u are complaining.

I wanted to respond to you, but, first I decided to check out your profile and discovered that you only opened your nairaland account just yesterday the 18th just to comment, so let me just forgive your ignorance.

yommen:
Lies!!! Was it almost everybody in Lagos you came across and spoke to? How many people did you speak to that made you decide virtually everyone in Lagos is a beggar? Going through your previous chats, it's obvious you are Igbo and your aim is to tarnish Yoruba people's image. We Yorubas never claim we are angels. If you are, congrats to you. But we are not. I hope you don't shit sha. Cos if you do, it doesn't smell like jollof rice, mr angeli.

Why are you people so tribalistic? So, everything now has to be viewed through tribal lenses? What brought Yoruba tribe into this discussion now? Are Yoruba the only ones living in Lagos? It's like someone saying something he observed about Abuja, which is a cosmopolitan city and some Abawa, Basa, Gwandara, Gbagyi (Gwari) persons who are the indigenous of the Federal Capital Territory will come and say that they are attacking them, you can never see something like that. But because you are beclouded by tribalism, you see everything through tribal lenses, you really need to be pitied.

uzohrome:
Try to stop being stingy... here in lagos we give from 1k to 5k atleast to street guys or area boys. Stop being stingy and give something tangible or kindly stop giving 💯

Me being stingy? You don't know what you are saying, I am a chronic giver any day anytime. But the culture of an able-bodied man begging anyhow does not look good at all. If it were one or two people noticed doing it, it could be ignored, but when the whole society see such behavior as a norm, then it's bad and shameful.

blackpanthar:
You visited a slum... a poor section in LAGOS.... not IKOYI or better places

NOW YOU FEEL YOU HAVE AN OPINION THAT DESCRIBES THE ENTIRE STATE?

Pls be reasonable.

NEXT TIME YOU'RE TRAVELING ANYWHERE, always know the good, bad and great places SO YOU WON'T HAVE A MYOPIC opinion

Bro, I visited mainland and it's the same thing

I traveled to Nigeria and stayed in Lagos for two weeks, and there's a funny culture I observed there that is not common to every other place. In Lagos almost everybody is a beggar. Even if you ask a person for direction, after directing you, he is expecting you to give him something. It was really weird for me to see adults begging anyhow, it's really shameful. I gave some money to this guy that begged me money, this guy actually did nothing for me, but do you know that this guy was bold enough to tell me that the money I gave him was small, that it cannot even buy him a plate of food. This happened more than three times with different people. Even in the hotel where I lodged, people there will be looking at you as if you owe them something.

I traveled to Nigeria and stayed in Lagos for two weeks, and there's a funny culture I observed there that is not common to every other place. In Lagos almost everybody is a beggar. Even if you ask a person for direction, after directing you, he is expecting you to give him something. It was really weird for me to see adults begging anyhow, it's really shameful. I gave some money to this guy that begged me money, this guy actually did nothing for me, but do you know that this guy was bold enough to tell me that the money I gave him was small, that it cannot even buy him a plate of food. This happened more than three times with different people. Even in the hotel where I lodged, people there will be looking at you as if you owe them something.

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asangoli:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvBIyaHh2uU

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LegendHero:
Catastrophe zone.

But come to think of it, Zamfara seems to be less chaotic than South East currently.

I will never go to the SE. You can just be at your POS store in the main city and a mentally handicapped person will gun you down for nothing.

These Yoruba youth coppers were very safe in the South East but were kidnapped when they arrived Soth West. You see that you guys are the pure example of "Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."


Abductors of five corps members in lfon town, Ose council area of Ondo state, have threatened to kill them if their families failed to pay N15 m ransom.

Recall that the corps members were reportedly abducted last weekend along the Ifon-Owo highway in the Ose Local Council Area of the state.

During the attack, two other persons, the driver of the vehicle as well as a female passenger were killed when gunmen opened fire on their commercial vehicle.

Vanguard learnt that the corps members were on their way from Enugu State, where they had undergone the mandatory orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

No fewer than 15 suspected kidnappers attacked the commercial vehicle.

The gunmen made the threat after contacting one of the families of the victims at the weekend.

A brother of one of the victims, Lawal Happiness, said that the kidnappers, had reduced the ransom to N1 million from N30 million per victim.

Lawal added that ”they have suddenly demanded that a N3 million ransom be paid for each of the victims.

According to him “My name is Lawal Happiness, a brother to the corper member kidnapped on her way back from Enugu Camp to Akure, whose name is Adewole Paul Oluwaseun, an indigene of Akure and a graduate of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE).

”Alongside four other corp members [Oluwadara Feranmi (f), Andrew Patience (f), Oribamise Taiwo (f), and Ajayi Lekan (m),.

“After they were done with their NYSC orientation programme, they reported to their PPA accordingly in order to come home to get her stuff for proper resumption.

“They embarked on this journey on July 18, 2024, and left Enugu State at 9 a.m.

“We monitored her movement to Onitsha, where their bus was slightly delayed, and they later continued their journey to Akure.

“That was around 3pm on 18th July 2024. They left Onitsha around 3 p.m., got to Asaba around 5 p.m., and got to Ifon by 10:15 p.m. After that, we couldn’t get connected to them.

“On July 19, 2024, at 7:45 a.m., we got a call from the kidnapper telling us she had been kidnapped and asking for a ransom of N30 million per head.

“We have reported to different security agencies, but without any positive results.

“As of 7:00 p.m. on July 19, they reduced it to N3 million per head, and we have been pleading for help.

“At 3:00 p.m. on July 20, 2024, the kidnapper agreed to N1 million per head, but as of 1 p.m. on July 21, 2024, they said N3 million again.

“If we don’t provide that before 9 p.m. on July 21, 2024, they will call us to inform us where we will see their corpse.”
https://www.nairaland.com/8161520/bandits-demand-n15m-ransom-5

Wolechidera:
https://dailypost.ng/2024/07/22/be-patient-tinubus-policies-need-more-time-to-materialise-oshiomhole-tells-nigerians/

The same thing you said during the Buhari regime, we waited until he finished his 8 years but saw nothing that came out of it. And today you are still coming out to tell us the same story.

Islie:
Former Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, has rejected his appointment as Chairman Senate Committee on Tourism. Senate President Godswill Akpabio had given Ndume the…



https://dailytrust.com/breaking-ndume-rejects-akpabios-fresh-appointment-says-god-is-on-my-side/

I am beginning to like this man called Ndume

seanery:
Always Igbo

So Inegbedion is Igbo for you. This shows that you are an ignorant fellow. If actually you are an educated person who is informed about the nation where you say you belong, you would not make such sentence.