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Very soon Hollywood will cash in.

You didn't say how he got billions. Definitely not from salary.

Rather the UK should explain how he ended up in their country after he jumped bail.

Sunday Ighoho not only incited violence but has killed innocent herdsmen and could have triggered reprisals elsewhere.
Both of them are birds of the same feather.
All the noise they made has no effect as both of them are cooling their heels in jail.

The kidnapping business in Nigeria from North to east, south and west has been mostly perpetrated by criminal gangs and violent groups. Sadly, it has become such a threat that many are wondering how not to fall victims. To protect yourself and your family, here are tips on how to prevent kidnapping
1. Stop routine movements. Driving or walking through the same route will make it easy for suspecting abductors to gather information.
2. Don’t discuss your family with strangers.
Whatever issues you have with your family must not be discussed with strangers.
3.Do proper checks before employing workers.
Before you employ your new housekeeper, driver or any other employee, please do a proper background check.
4. Maintain a moderate lifestyle.
To avoid being kidnapped, you should check your lifestyle.
5.Don’t discuss money publicly.
To avoid being a victim of kidnappers, another area you must check is receiving phone calls. 
6. Know your neighbors
To avoid living close to a potential kidnapper, get to know that person living close to you well.
7. Don’t get too close to a stranger.
People that you don’t know, try not to share valuable information with them.
8. Keep emergency numbers.
It is important to keep emergency numbers like contacts of Police that you can quickly call.  
9. Be aware of your environment.
One of the major ways to avoid kidnapping is to be thoroughly vigilant
10. Always keep your phone handy.
Keeping your phone with you always is very important as it can be a source of help.
11. When you notice a threat, attract the attention of people.
Whenever you notice any threat of kidnap around you, attract the attention of people around by screaming. 
12. Let someone know where you’re going.
If you must meet a new acquaintance, make sure someone knows where you’re going and who you’re meeting.
13. Do not accept rides from strangers.
Once you get into a stranger’s car, you are at their mercy.
14. Be careful with revealing data on social media.
Be careful not to reveal too much about yourself or your family members via social media.
15. Keep your financial transactions confidential. Kidnappers are known to take people forcefully to demand ransom. They give conditions for the release.
16. Don’t be predictable
When embarking on trips, don’t take the same roads all the time.

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DatIgalaDude:
No imagine am. Na him brothers suggest make them put cows for the Naira.
Other things dey the pishure but why be say na few cow them dey from cover our remaining produce for Naija.
E don tey wey them de do. Buhari na just continuation!

Is another animal suppose de there apart from cow?

Because you didn't uninstall the app. Its at the background consuming your data and battery.

Yeah.
Imagine if its Buhari that put picture of cows on Nigerian naira.
Come to think of it. Even past governments rated cow as the most important animal after man.
What do you think?

DDDEnterprises:
So Nigeria has allies and smooth relations with foreign powers as much as this?

Na there you go fear.
Buhari is the least traveller compared to Jonathan and Obasanjo before him.
But its on record that Buhari received visits by more foreign presidents than Jonathan and Obasanjo put together.
Respect.

MyopicMods:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/ogoni-leaders-cry-for-help-as-armed-bearing-herdsmen-occupy-farms/%3famp

Where are the gun wielding herdsmen and where is the farm they occupy?
We only see cow walking on footpath.

Them no get mind them wan fight almighty Naija forces.
Simple arrest them go sing like birds.

400k cash.

E go be her husband money wey she and Dieazani dey hold.

Peter Oprah mocks Unknown Gunmen.

The insecurity in Nigeria is something that is getting worrisome day by day, and President Muhammadu Buhari has made it clear that he wouldn't tolerate any groups that are bent on causing chaos in the country. Ever since the president issued out stern warnings, security operatives have been going about doing their jobs and fishing out evil perpetrators.

Peter Oparah has taken to Facebook to make a mockery of gunmen who believed so much in charms and other fetish items for protection from evil. Peter Oparah revealed that the Nigerian security operatives deployed to tackle insecurity are becoming a thorn in the flesh to unknown gunmen and hoodlums bent on disrupting the nation's peace.

Funny enough, some of these men causing chaos in the country came out publicly to say that they can't be destroyed and bullets can't penetrate them because they have been fortified with charms and diabolical items. This is what we normally refer to as "Odeshi" back then as a kid.

Many of them have been gunned down, some arrested despite all the charms and diabolic they had in their possession, and this tells you that only God is all-powerful.

Peter Oparah mocked those who were humiliated by the Nigerian security operatives despite boasting of having charms that could protect them from all forms of danger.

In his words;

"They trusted on charms and dead gods. They failed them so badly even before the war they asked for started."

Many of them have been arrested, some killed despite having charms and all kinds of fetish items at their disposal. This tells you that power belongs to God alone.

From Opera News

AJAYI TEMITOPE WRITES:

Two days ago, a very good egbon wrote here in a Facebook post that the Igbos have been mindlessly marginalised in Nigeria. After reading the post, I asked him to explain how the Igbos are marginalised.

I am well aware we have many who binge on elite conspiracies which are just mere grand design to pollute the waters for personal advantage. With an open mind, I asked my good egbon to educate me on how the Igbos have been marginalised because I really want to know. Let me say I am still waiting to be well schooled on how badly Nigeria has treated Igbos.

For decades, many people, including the media have perpetuated wrong narratives in this country because of the way falsehoods have been mainstreamed. There is no part of Nigerian history from 1958 when we had the first all Nigerian cabinet headed by a Nigerian elected Prime Minister, preparatory to independence in 1960, that supports the false narrative of marginalisation of Igbos.

For those who may not know, the first indigenous Federal Permanent Secretary even before independence was an Igbo man, Mr. Francis Nwokedi.

Mr. Nwokedi and Dr. S.O Wey, who later in 1961 became the first Secretary to the Government of the Federation, were the first two indigenous Federal Permanent Secretaries in the colonial government. The two men were the doyen of Nigerian civil service. Mr. Nwokedi was promoted as Permanent Secretary about two weeks ahead of Dr. Wey.

To make Aguiyi Ironsi the General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army, Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa broke rank with his Northern People Congress colleagues and Sir Ahmadu Bello. NPC and Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Region wanted a Northerner as the GOC.

The last British General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army, Major-General Christopher Welby-Everard in his recommendation to the Prime Minister raised a number of issues against the then Brigadier Aguiyi Ironsi who at the time was the most Senior Nigerian Army Officer and concluded Brigadier Ironsi was unfit to lead the Army of a brand new country.

For fairness and to preserve the tradition of seniority in the Army, Balewa ignored General Welby-Everard’s recommendation. He appointed Ironsi as the first indigenous General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army.

A stubborn fact of history is that the Igbos dominated the top echelon of the Army and Federal Civil/Public Service for many years from 1958. Till date, Abia, Anambra and Imo State have largest number of indigenes in Federal Civil Service.

If we all agree our country has historical animus we must, therefore, be honest to acknowledge them and confront them. If it is about trading blame of who did or caused what in Nigeria, no tribe or group will smell like roses.

In confronting our demons, we must also reject this persecution mentality many Igbos have carried for far too long. It is distorted version of history that is fueling anger in Igboland since the civil war broke. However we choose to dice it, Nigeria has been good to all tribes. Each tribe can only complain of not having enough but no one can honestly complain of having the short end of the stick. Like other countries, our union is not perfect. It remains a work in progress.

Let's go back to our history and let history guide us. There is no strong argument to support the marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria beyond what exists in the imagination of those who constantly mine the Biafra franchise to amass private wealth from brainwashed people and politicians who use same for political bargain.

I can conveniently say that Igbos have had the best of Nigeria more than any other tribe. Blackmailing the country with victim mentality is not a strategy. Today, many Southern politicians and so-called activists built their public credentials on constant agitation for restructuring of Nigeria. If indeed there is anything wrong with the current political structure of the country, the blame should be more on Igbos.

Who promulgated the Decree 34 that abolished 1963 Federal Constitution and unitarised the Federal structure? It was Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi as Military Head of State. With scant regard to other tribes, Igbos dominated the security agencies and the Federal civil service in the first Republic.

Professor Ben Nwabueze who is now the chief priest of restructuring drafted the unification decree as Legal Counsel to General Ironsi. Igbos who literally ran the Federal Government then executed the unitary arrangement for domination and ethnic advantage.

Who plotted first coup that decimated South West and Northern political establishment? The fallout of that misadventure led to the civil war in 1967. The mainly Igbo officers who masterminded the coup didn't kill any political leader from their tribe.

Some Igbo leaders talk about the Civil War as if Nigeria started the war against them. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu started the war not Major-General Yakubu Gowon. Gowon had a duty to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nigeria.

Even with all the noise about all that is supposedly wrong with Nigeria, who are the biggest beneficiaries of Nigeria's diversity today? It is still igbos. Every part of this country welcomes them.

They prosper more across the country outside their ancestral homeland. Igbos are probably the biggest real estate owners among all Nigerian tribes. In fact records show they own more than 60% of houses, Plazas, hotels and housing estates in Abuja.

They play big in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, and Port Harcourt - every part of Nigeria. I need someone to tell me the number of Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Ijaw, Kanuri, Tiv man or woman etc that currently have lands, houses or any business that can employ 50 people in any part of South Eastern Nigeria the same way Igbos do in South West, South South and in the North. Do they sell land to non-Igbos in South East same way they freely buy land and own properties in other parts of Nigeria?

Under President Jonathan, the government they seem to have invested heavy emotions more than Jonathan's own Ijaw tribe, Igbos got key federal appointments through Senator Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Did other tribes bitterly complain the way Igbos now do over appointments? In any case, which statutory appointments have they been denied by current government despite rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari and his party in 4 elections? Let’s get real here.

Igbos really want to get all top appointments in a government they rejected and have shown unimaginable hostility despite the government offering them the best deal in Nigeria in terms of real development no administration offered them since 1960. It is on record Buhari, in two presidential contests, made top Igbo politicians his running mate. Let’s face it.

Which government in Nigeria has taken on the quantum of Federal government-funded infrastructural projects that are going on in the South East than this current FG since 1960? If we analyse the Federal Budget from 2016 when President Buhari presented his first budget, the current FG has possibly spent more money developing SE in 6 years than it has done in Buhari's own North West if we consider FG's spend on Infrastructure per region.

It will appear Igbo elites prefer appointments that only benefit individuals and their hangers-on more than real development that benefits majority of citizens of that region.

They covet appointment of an Igbo person as Chief of Army Staff more than Second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Port Harcourt Express, Awka-Enugu Express, Owerri-Port Harcourt Express, Port Harcourt-Aba and other dead Federal highways that are being reconstructed across the region.

For all the special intervention supports by Federal Government to all States of the Federation, I am not aware President Buhari denied South Eastern States what is due to them because Igbos didn't vote for him.

Question: how did all the appointments held by Igbos before the Buhari administration including Chief of Army Staff, Comptroller General of Immigration, Deputy Senate President, Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Inspector General of Police, Minister of Aviation, Director-General of Pension Commission, Executive Chairman of National Electricity Regulatory Commission, Minister of Power etc improve the lives of Igbo people.

Stella Oduah and Osita Chidoka as Ministers of Aviation couldn't even fix Enugu Airport in 5 years or did Dr. Sam Amadi, Professor Bath Nnaji and Professor Chinedu Nebo who superintended over the power sector for 6 years supply more electricity to Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi?

Having Igbo sons leading the power sector for 6years could not even resolve the legal logjam between Emeka Offor’s, Enugu Distribution Company and Geometric Power owned by another Igbo man to supply regular electricity to Aba.

Whereas a Federal government being led by a man they rejected in every election since 2003 has done, in 6 years, what the Igbo adopted political party could not do for them in 16 years. It was Buhari that gave Ariaria Market, the biggest market in the region uninterrupted electricity supply.

The main point here is the fact that Igbos cannot continue to claim they are the only good people or tribe in Nigeria while others are the evil people holding them down. Certainly, hate and insulting other tribes can't be a strategy for engagement in addressing any grievances if at all there are genuine ones.

Even though the Nigerian constitution does not allow for referendum, let the Federal Government allow it to see if majority of Igbo people will vote to leave Nigeria. I am sure majority wants to remain citizens of Nigeria because they know Nigeria serves them better.

If the Nigerian government won’t allow a referendum, can the South East governors agree and fund an informal referendum to even give us a scientific basis to know if the Igbos want to live as citizens of Biafra, after all, Lagos State, in 2003 or so, conducted its own census independent of the Federal Government.

The Igbo elites must summon courage to counter the IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu's hate mongering. Igbo elites have tolerated Kanu too much without considering their own hard work, sweat and investments in Nigeria. Whatever our country is today is what we all made of it.

If we now need to press the reset button it should be done in a manner we all can listen to ourselves. We must not yield the space to the mad man and his specialists in IPOB..."

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“Once your app is removed, the published version of your app won’t be available on Google Play until a compliant update is submitted.”



Peoples Gazette

The lie in the write up is that Adamu Garba's app has been launched long before the suspension of Twitter.

FreedomWinsNow:
See the Fulani warning letter to Delta Governor https://www.nairaland.com/6602112/fulanis-warning-message-governor-okowa#102700353

Jihadists' Bomb Threat: Niger Delta Militants Vow To Take 10 Fulani Lives For Every Life Killed In Delta



http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/14/jihadists-bomb-threat-niger-delta-militants-vow-take-10-fulani-lives-every-life-killed

Handiwork of IPOB.
Niger Deltans should look beyond that letter critically and they will know the real people behind it.
IPOB are on a relentless propaganda campaign for annihilation of the Fulani. The herdsmen are being hunted down and killed in the east and yet they didn't send a letter to any eastern governor.
The recent massacres of innocent people in Benue was equally committed by IPOB to fool the Benue people and aggravate an already precarious situation.
They also want to cow the Ijaw into submitting to a fraud called Biafra.
One plus one equals two.

Curious345:
The price we paid to return to peace was

(1) 5000 innocent Igbo youths killed by army police DSS DMi NiA Nscdc

(2) 15,000 innocent youths abducted by army police DSS tortured and summarily executed in underground prisons as far as katsina

Name them.

Amotolongbo:
https://punchng.com/security-agencies-were-informed-of-planned-igangan-killings-falana/?amp&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

The attack on innocent people is condemnable.
But its normal to expect a reprisal after Igangan youths razed down herdsmen settlement and killed many of their members. Falana did not talk about that. Are they not human beings?

Northernblood3:
Yorubas and Igbos ought to unite to fight our common enemy Fulani.

Those 50 fulani killers on bike didn't fall from heaven, they are living among u, pretending to be hardworking citizens. This is not a time of being diplomatic or being a good accomodator, this is a time of taking an eye for an eye, a time to send clear message that it won't be tolorated any longer

May the dead rest in peace.
But what evidence proved that it was Fulani and not IPOB trying to divide and capture?

(1) On the occurrence of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety, the Commission may-

(b) withdraw either totally or partially the use of any service or network facility from any licensee, person or the general public.

This has said it all. The government is justified to ban Twitter in the interest of public safety. The ban on Twitter stands as the government are more aware than you, or any noise maker, of the legal implications and how it will end up.
Twitter seemed to have ganged up with state enemies to destroy Nigeria. They might have been engaged by John Campbell to prove his doomed prophecy that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015.
It was disrespectful and partisan for twitter to delete our President's tweet which promised to pay anarchists with their own coin.
This is the Buhari we voted for.
No nonsense.

OpatolaEsq:
On June 04, 2021, the Federal Government issued a notification through the office of the Minister for information, Lai Mohammed, that "The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,” He further directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria.


Burning Legal issues

1. Under which Law does FG suspend Twitter?

The Said proclamation of the Minister for Information cannot stand under the Law, it is at best a mere tweet without legal force or backing.

Which Law is being exercised by the Federal Goverment?

It is a legal abberation and goes contrary to legal standard and cannot stand the test of judicial scrutiny. Under which Law did the honourable minister claim that the Federal Government purportedly ban Twitter, none was stated. Is it under the Terrorism Law or what? No gazette or Executive Order, except the words of the Minister for information and Culture. Tweets and declarations are not Legal instruments and does not exercise the powers of any Law.


2. Section 148 (1)(b) NCC Act: Is Twitter now a Public Emergency in Nigeria?

The Nigeria Communications Act is the principal legislation that governs telecommunications services (including internet services), while the National Broadcasting Commission Act governs broadcasting.

Section 148 1(b) of NCC Act provides for an emergency provision, that:
(1) On the occurrence of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety, the Commission may—

(b) withdraw either totally or partially the use of any service or network facilitie from any licensee, person or the general public

The above emergency provision can only be wielded in circumstances Public emergency or public safety only by the Nigeria Communication Commission itself.
Banning Twitter under the broad cover of public emergency and public safety is legally dubious. We understand that the ban stems from the fact that somebody's fragile ego was bruised.

We are presently in the age of Data and Smartphones. The 1999 Constitution stipulates human rights of citizens in Nigeria and provides for right to privacy and right to freedom of expression, right to freedom of association and assembly, and thought conscience and religion.

Yes, as expressed in DOKUBO -ASARI V. F.R.N. SC.208/ 2006, these right are not supreme but yet a Goverment body cannot derogate from these rights on its whims, where ever it does, such can be challenged in Court. We are a Nation of Laws and legal principles.


3. Doctrine of public forum and right of expression

A fundamental principle of Right to Freedom of expression is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more.

In Nigeria, on various occasions the Courts has protect the right speak in this context. A basic rule, for example, is that a street or park is a quintessential forum for the exercise of right tonfreedom.of expression. Even in the modern era, social media such as Twitter are places are essential venues for public gatherings to celebrate some views, to protest others, or simply to learn and inquire.
In this digital age, the most important place for the exchange of ideas today is “the vast democratic forums of the Internet and social media in particular. The internet is the modern public square, of the same.consequence with traditional public forums such as streets, town hall meetings or parks where speech has historically been granted the highest protection.

Furthermore, social.media apps suvjbas Twitter has been the most important places for the exchange of views, banning outrightly or suspending it without an exact law empower such is tantamount to infringing on the Constitutional right to freedom of expression.

Nigeria is a signatory to importantb international treaties that expressly provides that Social media is a right such African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, International UN resolutions and instruments on cybersecurity. Any unilateral ban will violate rights of citizens both economic and social rights.


Conclusion
In conclusion, the decision of the federal Government as contained in the Minister of information's statement on the banning of Twitter amounts to gross violation of human rights. Such declaration itself is not law until it is exercised under an existing provision of our Laws, yet such cannot stand as it infringed on Constitutional Rights of the Citizens.



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Report to Nnamdi Cownu.

Lilimax:
I just discovered this morning that Twotter is working.
Seems they could no longer cope with the level of backlash they're getting from left right and centre

OR

May be because I downloaded VPN

Yes o.
It has been unbanned by Nnamdi Cownu.

To hell with Twitter.

peteregwu:
Look at the man the Muslims gathered in support of. They prefer an idiami of Uganda to rule over them than an "infidel".

You see where you all have landed us in this country. Your so called "Messiah" from "Allah" has totally ruined this country. I could remember a particular imam in a mosque behind my street always making noise about buhari saying that, "if we lose buhari now, who else do we have? Let us gather around him and support him". And this man is a yoruba muslim. And I would just be wondering that this Muslims love bondage and they don't reason to chose what is right. They can support a Hitler even if he is a Muslim.

Now, the man is ashamed of himself. And their eyes has not even cleared. He keeps shouting that it's better to have a Muslim no matter what than having an "infidel" to rule over them.

These guys need help! What's the difference between them and the almajiris?

We are watching your madness.
Action speaks louder than voice.

Is this a confession that you follow steal the roasted cows?

obembet:
Technology has moved to another level. Watch this electronic Electronic Toilet WC. It can automatically flush it self


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3CVnJihLRs

This toilet no be for IPOB youths wey no de wash their yansh when they shit.

Kwanza:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/04/black-friday-in-awka-as-lorry-kills-8-hawkers-irate-youths-burn-lorry-load-of-cows/?amp&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

And after they stole the roasted meat. I bet.

powerfulguy:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=319224419609772&id=100045666493301

Nigerian bar of criminals.
You are the number one problem of our democracy.
Social media must be regulated.