₦airaland Forum

Nigerian troops engaged in cordon and
search in Baga continue to discover more
arms of various background and shapes
abandoned in some houses and
surrounding communities by fleeing
terrorists, the Nigerian defence
headquarters has said.
The spokesperson for the Defence
Headquarters, Chris Olukolade, a Major
General, said heaps of weapons, most of
which were strange looking or destroyed,
were still being gathered.
Many abandoned or destroyed motorcycles
have also been discovered, Mr. Olukolade
said.
He said a soldier was stabbed while
another was shot during a close quarter
battle which ensued as troops involved in
cordon and search caught up with some of
the fleeing terrorists Saturday evening.
Mr. Olukolade added, “A number of
individuals who claimed to be residents
are also being interrogated in order to
ascertain their identity and motive. The
group consisting mostly women continued
to hail and cheer the troops as they
conduct thorough search in the area.
“Wanting to be sure the group was not
working for the terrorists despite the
excitement, they had to be placed under
watch.
“The cordon and search as well as patrol
of the localities continue while the
offensive on terrorists is progressing in
other areas of the theatre of the counter
terrorist campaign.”
Nigerian troops had on Saturday reclaimed
Baga and other surrounding communities
after days of fierce fighting.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177332-nigerian-troops-uncover-heaps-of-arms-abandoned-by-fleeing-boko-haram-terrorists-in-baga.html

Unknown gunmen struck again in Rivers State, kidnapping the
one of the aides to the State Governor, Mr. Freddy Ndigbara.
Ndigbara, who is an anchorman for Governor Rotimi Amaechi
events inside and outside Government House, Port Harcourt,
was whisked away on Sunday by hoodlums in Kaani
Community, Khana Local Government Area.
It was gathered that Ndigbara, who is popularly called Freddie
by Government House workers, was accosted and forced into a
waiting car by the gunmen during a ward rally organised by the
All Progressives Congress in the area.
Oblivious of the danger lying ahead of him, the kidnap victim
was said to have travelled from Port Harcourt to his home town
to be part of the rally.
The hoodlums, according to an eyewitness, had stormed the
rally with a red Toyota Highlander sports utility van, made a
quick search for their target before forcing him into the car.
It was gathered that the organisers were planning to arrange
the canopy for the rally when the kidnappers struck.
The PUNCH learnt that Ndigbara’s abductors immediately sped
off to an unknown destination, just as members of the party in
Kaani, Ward Six, took cover to avoid being shot by the
suspected kidnappers.
Speaking on the incident, a former Chief Press Secretary to
Amaechi, Mr. Blessing Wikina, said a group of gunmen,
suspected to be thugs working for the Peoples Democratic
Party, invaded the rally and took Ndigbara away.
State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad,
confirmed the incident, adding that effort had already been
intensified to ensure that the governor’s aide was released.

http://www.punchng.com/news/gunmen-kidnap-amaechis-aide-at-rivers-rally/

Blitz888:
Very true sir. My mum needs to hear this gospel. I love her allthe same.

Plz preach d gospel to her... I hv been doing so to my mom

SMH for d kinda threads making front page these days... Change is needed in d moderating unit of Nairaland.
Change is needed in Nigeria

Vote for GMB

Ok

Blitz888:
Anambrarians can't do without their mums... Don't blame us.

Wen we get married, dey shd leave us alone. A man shall leave his dad n mum n live wiv his wife n d two shall become one

laudate:
Come here and collect a royal handshake for telling the truth, while others are still living in denial!!

Royal handshake collected

Disadvantage of public bathroom n toilet

These mods r being biased. I posted this thread earlier bt it dint make front page n here it is after someone else posted it after I did... This z d kinda things we need change for... Say NO to PDP

Sai Buhari
March4Buhari

sleekangel85:
A friend of mine has being dating a guy for some years now. She's not an Anambrarian. She's a very lovely lady,beautiful, kind, down to earth and she loves the guy so much.

I'm worried because the guy hasn't proposed and he is from Anambra state . I don't know if he'll eventually marry her because I've heard and I've seen a lot of people from Anambra state marrying from their tribe.

I need to know why they do that even when most times it's against their wish. What's your advice for her? Don't you think that the guy may eventually leave her for an Anambra Lady?

Thanks

As an Anambrarian, lemme tell u da truth, u r not only entitled to marry an igbo gurl bt most tyms, d girl must also b an Anambrarian n not too far frm d guy's village. But as for me. I no care

Wen will all dis come to an abrupt end!

Unknown arsonists, early Sunday, burnt
down the secretariat of the Peoples
Democratic Party in Obi Local Area of
Nasarawa State.
This happened 48 hours after the party
held its 2015 general elections campaign in
the area.
The spokesperson for the Nasarawa police
command, Ismaila Numan, who confirmed
the incident, said 18 suspects have been
arrested in connection with the crime
while police officers have been deployed to
the scene of the incident to prevent further
breakdown of law and order.
Mr. Numan said the office was burnt a day
after youth of the All Progressives Congress
and those of the PDP clashed over
vandalisation of billboards and campaign
materials.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the
arsonists allegedly came with petrol in
gallons, poured it on the roof of the
secretariat and then set the building
ablaze.
Witnesses say the arsonists also drove
away the security man before torching the
building.
The incident was a spillover of the Friday
clash between the supporters of the PDP
and the APC where gunshots were
exchanged, leaving casualties on both
sides.
One witness, Ibrahim Kasimu, said the
incident started when youth suspected to
be APC supporters began to destroy
canopies and chairs used by the PDP
during their campaign in Obi Local
Government Area.
PDP youth, who responded to the attacks,
took to the streets destroying every APC
property in sight.
The rampage happened a day after
political parties in the state signed a code
of conduct for the 2015 general elections in
the presence of heads of security agencies
in the state.
The signing of the accord was organised by
the state police command at the police
officers mess along Jos road Lafia.
The State chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Yunana Iliya, who also confirmed the
burning of the party’s office, said all documents and
valuables in the office were burnt.
He asked security agencies in the state to take note of the
attack on its members and property and to, as a matter of
urgency, provide security for its members and supporters.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177313-pdp-secretariat-burnt-down-in-nasarawa.html

Even in FCT

Syphax:
This shows that GEJ is supported by all.Nairaland APC should stop feeding us lies,South West isn't for Buhari!

My fellow supporters of GEJ,come lets put these Buhari supporters to SHAME.

Click "LIKE" for Buhari and "SHARE" for GEJ

GEJ till 2019.

As u can see Buhari has more likes

Ahead of the March 28 and April 11 general elections, the
Independent National Electoral Commission has procured
about 20,000 backup card readers and 35,000 backup
batteries.
The procurement of the backup devices is part of the
precautionary measures by INEC to forestall challenges that
may arise during the accreditation process of the elections.
Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman,
Attahiru Jega, confirmed the development to PREMIUM
TIMES.
Mr. Idowu said the Commission had learned from the
Ghana experience where card readers for election could
not work due to battery problems.
In the case of Nigeria, although the card readers could
work for 12 hours when used continuously where as
accreditation process is to last for only five hours, he said,
yet the Commission has procured about 35,000 spare
batteries, “so that if, for whatever reason, there may be a
challenge with the battery, one can replace it”.
Further, he said several integrity tests for the machines
had been carried out in the United States, saying they
don’t fail easily and are of highest quality.
“In spite of that, we have bought nearly 20,000 spares, in
addition to 152,000 active card readers, so that if for any
reason the card reader malfunctions and can no longer
continue, the spares would be deployed at the wards for
the exercise,” he added.
Similarly, Mr. Idowu noted that if a card reader cannot be
replaced before the time for accreditation is over that day,
the exercise would be repeated the following day.
He said this option is preferred to reverting to manual
accreditation by political parties because human error
would always arise in such an arrangement.
He also said poor mobile connection would not be a
challenge as the card readers make use of sim cards,
adding that the machines are designed with built-in
memory due to poor network coverage that may be
experienced in some areas.
Mr. Idowu said there were no challenges of data
manipulation and use of fake permanent voter cards.
He said all the cards are preconfigured for respective
polling units and added that after the accreditation of
voters, INEC’s central server would receive real time
information on the exercise, including the number of
accredited voters before the casting of ballot proper would
commence.
The process, Mr. Idowu said, will check over voting.
While briefing the Senate Wednesday, Mr. Jega had said
wherever total vote casts are higher than accreditation
figure, election would be cancelled in such polling unit.
Mr. Idowu further ruled out data manipulation as a
challenge, explaining that INEC would receive real-time
information on the accreditation exercise and that the
system is fool proof.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177304-inec-procures-additional-20000-card-readers-35000-batteries.html

President Goodluck Jonathan has accused
former President Olusegun Obasanjo of
ridiculing Nigeria before the international
community and of scaring investors away
from the country by his consistent
criticism of his administration.
In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune,
Mr. Jonathan said Mr. Obasanjo, by his
utterances, was creating the impression
that Nigeria is a country on the verge of
collapse.
Mr. Jonathan therefore advised the former
president to be civil in his criticism so as
not to create the impression that the
country is in crisis.
“For one reason or the other, Obasanjo
may disagree with me as his first political
son. You can even disagree with your own
biological children, as a human being, not
to talk of disagreeing with your political
children. So, he can agree or disagree with
me, but the utterances have to be
managed in a way that it does not affect
the economy and security of this country.
“But I will use this opportunity, because
you asked, to just plead with my father
that he is a leader, a former president of
the country. He has led the country more
than anybody — eight years of democratic
governance and almost four years of
military governance. No other person has
that kind of record.
“The stability of this country is critical in
terms of the economy of this country.
Rating agencies downgrade countries that
are going into elections because the feeling
is that there would be crisis. When you
paint the colour of instability for your own
nation, you are doing so much injustice to
the country because it affects the economy
of the country, not just affecting the
country in terms of security and social
issues alone. It affects the economy
directly. So, I plead with very senior
citizens that Nigeria is dear to us; we don’t
have any other country than Nigeria.
“So, actions and inactions, or utterances,
should be guarded so that we don’t expose our country to
the international community as if it is a country in danger,
a country that is about to collapse. You are frightening
investors, especially those who invest hot cash, to pull out
their money from the country and that would affect the
stock market and it would affect the economy.”
Mr. Jonathan however insisted that he remained a political
child of Mr. Obasanjo, saying he owes his rise to political
prominence to the influence of the former President.
“First and foremost, Obasanjo is a father to me. By divine
providence and the grace of God, I am the President of
Nigeria today. It is not by my strength. But God uses
human beings to actualise His own blessings on human
beings. And he used so many Nigerians, including former
President Obasanjo, to play one role or the other for me,”
he said.
“I became the deputy governor of a state, became the
governor, the vice president and president. I have no
issues with him, and I really don’t want to join issues with
President Obasanjo. I think it is not necessary,” he added.
The relationship between both men worsened after Mr.
Obasanjo’s wrote an 18-page open letter to Mr Jonathan on
December 2, 2013, blaming the president for failing to
deliver on his promises to Nigerians. He also accused him
of making no effort to check the growing corruption in the
country and allowing insecurity to degenerate.
In the letter, Mr. Obasanjo also accused Mr Jonathan of
hounding prominent members of the Peoples Democratic
Party opposed to his second term ambition.
Since then, Mr. Obasanjo has relentlessly criticised the
Jonathan administration and all efforts by party chieftains
to reconcile both of them have failed.
Matters got to a head last Monday after Mr Obasanjo, who
apparently got wind of a plan to expel him from the party,
dumped the party before the plan was executed. On the
occasion, Mr Obasanjo, not one to leave without creating a
spectacle, asked the PDP ward leader to tear his
membership card.
He also announced his retirement from active politics and
expressed his desire to be a statesman.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/177307-jonathan-tackles-obasanjo-your-utterances-ridiculing-nigeria-scaring-investors.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

For birth control

OK

Nemesis has definitely caught up wiv dem

dejt4u:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/177051-why-i-directed-pdp-ward-leader-to-tear-my-membership-card-obasanjo.html

OP, u beat me in d race of posting dis thread.

I hear

Hehehe

OK

xynerise:
That wasn't a mistake from him but a gbagaun

Na gbagaun u dey search for?

Cool

Guarding my territory incase it hits front page

Here2BustnScrew:
I promised to continue in exposing these evil men and their plans. Jonathan has proven to Obama that he is nobody's puppet. USA and Britain wanted him to legalize same-sex marriage but he refused, they threatened to sanction NIGERIA. next Obama planned to spread to Ebola using the man from Liberia, he wanted Ebola to spread through out Nigeria so that Jonathan would have to sign the bill in exchange get cure for Ebola. But GOD intervened and his planned failed. next USA and British refused to sell arms to Nigerian to fight Boko haram. now their plan is to frustrate Jonathan because he refused to do their bidding and then support BUHARI who will be their puppet and legalize gay marriage... Nigerian Beware.. Do not be deceived by these evil men's false promises. They have evil plans, but GOD will disgrace them.
http://www.naij.com/303967-jonathan-to-meet-obama-cameron-over-arms-refusal.html

OP, ur madness z incurable. So it's dis sharia GMB dat wud legalize it, ba?

OK

OK

OP, what's dis?