₦airaland Forum

Calabar1stSon:
Religion is for the poor and gullible!

Stop trying to sound "sensible " because you are not.

Even Jesus is reported to have said in the Bible that :" it will easy for the camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God."
I guess Jesus was praising the rich to enjoy here and end up in hell there.



Most of your Christians are very dull when it comes to religion and you want to bad mouth us ?!

marvin906:
You should not eat haram earnings..
But almost all northern states collect beer money..
Hypocrisy of the highest order..
Least I forget all our brothers in the senate collecting under table money is what

Just read this dumb claim that all northern states collects beer money.
As if you saw or have any evidence to show that nothern States collectes task from breweries.
Show us one ,if you are not a shameless liar.
As dumb as you are ,you couldn't simply do a research to know that FG collects tax and revenue and disburses these monies as allocation to various states without necessarily telling us what percentage from alcohol goes to which state ,but no, dumb ignoramus like will always show yourself.

And you think this your inept and shallow talk will stop us from supporting the destruction of alcohol.

privaldo:
Oh well, you want really think I have no knowledge on terrorism and counterinsurgency. Terrorist are practically "guerrilla fighters" just like the PLO, you don't fight them conventionally. The State of Israel defeated the PLO because this things were well thought about, the NA can't continue in its conventional method of fighting BH, tactics and operational plans/methods must be changed. The service chiefs need to be sacked because they seem to lack ideas about this things as simple as that.

Comparing Israel to Nigeria is way way out of line..we are dealing with a terrorist group that has a base that can't adequately be combed unless we invest huge amounts in weapons and technology otherwise it will be very difficult to flush to them out.
You can keep changing tract as much as you want ,but if you don't find a way of cutting supplies like weapons and food to them then the problem will persist.
To stop them, like the Army chief said,it requires our collective effort including those of Niger and Chad.
Sambisa forest as I know is bigger than five eastern states.
And how many army personnel do we have?

You need read about how the Sri Lankan government stopped the Tamil tigers.

PLO is way different from BH.
BH is far more deadlier.

thesicilian:
Of course, but that's not an achievement, considering the fact that even a madman can impregnate a madwoman.

Define achievement.
I think that would put your answer in the correct perspective.
Imagine bringing a full human being to this World is not an achievement?
It's in thus generation that educated and supposedly exposed people are vomiting hot air.
Abeg,talk something else.

privaldo:
Here comes the Chief of Army Staff with his glaring incompetency again. Anyone, who thinks the government wants to stop a venture they are profiting from should have his/her mental health examined.

You think fighting terrorism is like your normal war fare.
America with all is military might still can't defeat Taliban in Afghanistan.
It took Sri Lanka 26 years to stop Tamil Tigers from escalating its attack and it's the only country to successfully have done it till date.

Believe me,bringing a new army chief will change things a little,but would only be for sometime just like the way Burutai took over from late Alex Badeh.
It is beyond the army,we all need to join hands to push this monsters back.

Terrorism is way difficult to stop.

ceeceeuwa:
That is a lie! If it were true, you won't be seeing baby factories everywhere. Some mothers even sell their babies for peanuts!

Oga,when we say mothers we are not talking of any being that has a womb and open her legs for anyone who comes calling.
Know the difference now

Preshieben:
I'm gonna give you a straight answer...you can ask for reasons if you wish to

As a lenient and educated person...I'll celebrate the car gift with my daughter in law...

Pretenders!.

Celebrate ko,congratulate ni.

Preshieben:
stop gibbering rubbish sir,its her husband that is in best position to gift her a car not a son with wife and kids

think up bruv

I am really afraid of ladies of today and the way they feel entitled to a man's wealth.

Stop using having kids as basis for your argument, it won't sell.

From the post, Duncan mighty was simply stating that neglect of mother over a girlfriend who can dump you at anytime should not be your outmost priority rather give your mum the same comfort she battled hard to give to you when you were young.
My experience with ladies has made this fact known to me that ladies of this generation are not to be totally trusted .
You lack most of the things our mothers had and you feel a man owes you his life for marrying you?

If I decide to gift my mum a car,while we(myself and my wife) have a car it should not be an issue.

You women can leave your husband without thinking twice when conditions changes, but a Mother will never abandon his son no matter what.
And you are there comparing them?!

Fussion1000:
Not until you Start sending more money for ur mother on monthly basis to ur mother than your wife, if not you are most hypocrite man on earth, if your mother demands you give her more money than your wife, such mother is most wicked on earth and if you don't care you won't have peace and you go to the grave earlier.

From the word go, your arguments were flawed.
No man in his right senses compares his mother to
his wife.
There is no basis for comparison.
Same way I would not stand up and say I am to be compared with my wife's father.
No way!
The love I have for my mum is more of compassion,respect and empathy since she's no longer as energetic as she use to be when she brought me up, but a wife finding issues with caring for my mum is not worthy to be called a wfe or she just a pretending self professed demon.

In the name of love, some of you behave like dogs on a leash because you failed to tell your wife her position.

I love and will love my wife,but that should not make her start setting her self up as a contender to my mum.
You can replace as many wives as you want ,but you can NEVER EVER replace your mum.

Biglittlelois:
Duncan is the one trying to bring problems here, not me, I'm just being factual, there should be no competition between wives and mothers, one is not above the other, they should both have their own space in the son's/husband's heart.

Some of you vomiting this nonsense are obviously not married.
You can replace a wife, but never you mum get that..

saaphiere:
Lack of care and attention make most women cheat in their marriage. It's good to help your mom but never place her above your wife.


God bless you Fussion1000. I least expected this raw truth from a male.

You and fussion1000 are sick people.
Imagine the years of sacrifices, the pain she went through and all she did to make me who I am today and one fool because she's a woman claim I should love her more ?
when she is totally out of her mind.
You people should stop comparing a wife to a mother.
This argument alone is stupid,foolish and irresponsible.
Even a good wife will know that she has a limit in trying to come between her husband and his mother.
Only fools and useless entitled slay queens will request such stupid comparison.
Whether in heaven or in hell ,a wife can NEVER be given the love and attention my mum needs.

saaphiere:
The earlier men understand that their WIVES need more attention and caring than their moms the better for them. Something like 60:40.
If you want to experience hell in your marriage, buy something for your mom first before buying for your wife or give your mom a quality item than your wife.

As for Duncan laying curses on men because the take care of their wives than their mom, I really don't blame him. Anyone is entitled to do or say dumb things to trend. Just of recent a child made a fool of his parents just to trend by telling them their TV is touch-screen.

I am not saying you should not take care of your mom. I am not saying you should wait for your mom to beg you for things before you give her.
I am saying you should take care of your mom and wife but never give your mom more than you give your wife if you want peace in your home.

God bless you. What most of them don't know is, most wives are the pillars of their homes these days. What if the wife made the man who he is?

Not in this case. If the mom is sick, a sane man should use his money and take his mom to the hospital. You can't compare life with car. But in the case were both mom and wife are healthy, invest more in your wife. Your wife is the one you return home to meet everyday.

If a lady is not well and mentally sick,why should she even compare herself to my mum.
On what planet?

Ladies of these days feel themselves too much that's why you don't last in marriages these days.
You seek unnecessary attention.
And I can bet some of you talking this nonsense are not even married.
The love for my mum is very separate and dear to me that even if a wife bore all my my children she will never come close to.
Whatever's I decide to give to my mum should not be her business.

We love our wives no doubt, but you can never replace a mum no matter what.

Let's even test what some of you claim;if push comes to shove you will very likely leave your husband than a mother would do.
We have seen it several times, when conditions are good you claim love ,but when the conditions are testing you bad mouth the man to point of depression what a mother would never do.

What's even the bases for comparison.
Only sick people will compare a wife to a mum.

Thelife:
Smile seems an average moslom are tend to be an illiterate, I guess you people don't have a dictionary or you are in pain because your prophet was a gigolo that marry a woman old enough to be his woman just because of wealth

Smile, you think we want terrorist like you to follow our religion, so absorb, you can't be a moslom and still be sane.

I am still asking does a gigolo live a life of austerity or a life of opulence?

Read about his life style with his wife and check if he was even close to rubbish you bumbling idiot
keep regurgitate any time we have a discussion like this.

When I said you are an ignorant idiot I am not saying it as an insult, but stating the fact that you irredeemably fit the description.

You say I am illiterate.ok.
Do you know what an illiterate mean?.
Can I read and write?
Now,go look yourself in the mirror and see how empty headed you are.
You keep using words that you either are wholly ignorant of or you are just sounding like a brainwashed pig who repeats words like a toddler.

I know you have a thing called a brain in that pangolo of yours..
It is divided into two halves.
On the left,there is nothing working right and on the right, there is nothing left.

Yenefer:
https://punchng.com/endsars-we-sold-two-policemens-skulls-for-n1000-say-suspects/?amp=1&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

I can now say without fear or favour that the youths including most of those who supported the endsars protest are mostly beast with human bodies.
Imagine the first two mentions.

I will not be this stupid because things are not going well to lose my sense of rationality, dignity and humanity to start blabbing like drunken idiot.

i agree that most of our leaders are not good,but the set of irresponsible, stupid and directionless herd will be worse.

Webmannigeria:
Dont sound as if it cna't ne dome

Stop being childish!

googlepikins:
Set of useless almajiris in government.

In a sane country like Ghana, all these almajiris won't be allowed to be councilors let alone ministers.

But see how lucky they are in a shit hole country that is sinking year in year out.

Simple.
Go and meet your people in Ghana!

Thelife:
And Muslim are worse than an idol worshipers because they worship a black stone is kabba, smile, they even believe in a book that there gigolo fake prophet claim it exist but can't prove it existence.

This mop head, use words he does not understand and thinks he making sense whweaa is making a took of himself.

What does the word gigolo mean?
Let's start from there.
You use words that don't match the person you are trying so hard to defame when you are not even able to match me.

Christians like you are so pained that we don't follow you very illogical way of worship.

Thelife:
so that's the reason why your Allah create a porn hub for you in the name of paradise, still trying to point who is more foolish between yoou and your gigolo fake prophet

Do you know what the is porn?
Idiots like you use words you don't understand.
So every sexual inter course is now seen as porn?
Blimey!
I have been asking Bible thumping Christians like you, do you even understand English at all?!
You use words so loosely and you expect serious minded folks like us to take you serious?!
God have mercy.

Paradise is a place for enjoyment hence whatever one desire that is good will be gotten there.
We don't do that "taqiyyah" ignorant folks like you use to black mail ua into silence.
Oh!.In your mind,uiyu think I will tell you we won't do any of that in paradise.
You go wait taya till foul grow teeth

And why should sex be seen as a taboo.

Yes,we will have as much of it as we want.
And if you don't mind, I can even tell you more.

This deluded nincompoop want to shame us with what we already expect.
We know you will mock us whereas you are the clowns to be mocked at.

Do you even clean yourself properly when you use the toilet?

How can someone who lacks common basic hygiene tell us how life and Paradise should be.
Go sort yourself out.

TruthHurts1:
Thanks for the offer, but my generosity won't allow me to accept Just like we are happy to allow you guys have the majority of terrorism, poverty and wretchedness, we are more than happy to let you fúck virgins for eternity!

And you think you just said something funny and sensible not knowing you just revealed the depth of your shallowness and foolishness.
How can someone like you be this dump?!.
Are we discussing terrorism,poverty and wretchedness.
Even at that a poor wretched muslim is way better than you in understanding life than you ever will.

TruthHurts1:


We Christians are very generous. We are willing to give up Islamic Janna so that muslims can enjoy it alone

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You are not even going close to it if you don't become Muslim.

If you are still pained by this,we have ruling on how to pleasure our wives if they are menstruating.

We are even taught his to use the toilet.
As in,how to shit.

Are you still angry?

Yes ,we are also/taught about how we even perform sexual inter course.

If you don't mind, I can teach you.

Charleys:
Gowon ruled for 9 years, he must have anticipated what will happen. A coup, And stock up for the rainy day.

All still assumption.
You don't label people simply because you have a hunch.
It's just not reasonable.

felixzo1:
he is not a Nigerian politician, I believe he has his facts before making his statement,corruption did not start in Nigeria today ,politicians have become more aggressive with their stealing.

If this is how some of you argue simply because an outsider said so I wonder how you sleep at night.
Or,you think this white folks who lied about Saddam Hussain possessing WMDs won't lie?!
C'mon man!

DesChyko:
Interesting.
So other news networks like MSNBC, abc and CBS e.t.c. are watched more than CNN?
Very interesting

It's always very interesting to be ignorant.
To people like you, ignorance is blss,because you never care to check facts.

slimghost:
How old are you? Go and ask Donald Trump how far with CNN. And oh, they released another documentary today on the massacre.
The world has seen Buhari’s government for what it truly is.

Who cares about age when even old men now lie .
If you don't know CNN is the least watch news channel amongst Americans.
So ,quit that thing you maybe smoking.

Stalwert:
The report by Cable News Network (CNN) on the shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos was a “poor” hatchet job targeted at the Nigerian Army, the International Institute for Investigative Journalism (IIIJ) has said.

In an electronic statement signed by special rapporteur, Francois Deburoiche, on Wednesday, the IIIJ said it came to this conclusion following a careful investigation on the events that led to the escalation of violence at the toll gate.

After forensic analysis of CNN’s report, the International Institute for Investigative Journalism noted that there were some missing details in the American television channel’s piece.

According to the institute, the report was carried out in poor taste, lacking professionalism and objectivity.

It added that the claim of use of live bullets and testimonies of victims were all tales.

The institute, however, advised the television channel to retract and admit error in the documentary.


Read the full statement below:

[b]The International Institute for Investigative Journalism is issuing this press statement with the best of intents after a careful investigation on the events that led to the escalation of violence at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos Nigeria during the EndSARS protest.

A team of investigative journalists with extensive experience in conflict situation interrogated the various claims made by the American Cable News Network in its report on the Lekki Shootings and came up with a comprehensive analysis that found gaps that were not filled in the CNN documentation of the events at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos Nigeria.

Our statement:

The CNN documentary on the EndSARS protest in Nigeria was released to the general public with lots of inaccuracies. These accuracies were detected after an extensive forensic investigation by the International Institute for Investigative Journalism.

It is thus our opinion that the report was carried out in the poor taste, lacking in professionalism and objectivity. This is a great betrayal on journalism by the CNN, which indeed violated the known tenets of journalism.

The videos and images used in the CNN report were not subjected to adequate scrutiny. Consequently, it lacked credibility for use by an organization of repute such as the CNN. This fact was also buttressed by the fact that the CNN report was very hasty in its conclusion by indicting the Nigerian Army of culpability in the events at the Lekki Tollgate.

Our position remains that the CNN erred substantially in its report that was highly misleading to the general public in Nigeria and other parts of the world. The documentary also failed woefully to highlight the events that led to the reign of violence in parts of Lagos state but instead rehashed the issues under different subheadings with minimal evidence that indicts the Nigerian Army of wrongdoing at the Lekki Tollgate.

The International Institute for Investigative Journalism concludes that the CNN documentary was prejudiced in its analysis as well as presentation which fall nothing short of a poor hatchet job with the undeniable intent to discredit the Nigerian Army operation at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos Nigeria.

The analysis by CNN in the documentary was hasty in its categorization with regards to the use of live bullets by soldiers at the Lekki Tollgate. The report attempted to portray the use of excessive force by soldiers, while the accompanying videos and images did not depict such.

The credibility of those interviewed in the documentary was also suspect with the choice of words and the facial and body expressions of the victims as well as their relatives. Thus much was revealed by forensic analysis as the emotions portrayed didn’t match their words.

Conclusion:

The International Institute for Investigative Journalism is of the considered opinion that the CNN carried out a hatchet job that is targeted at the Nigerian Army institution. We as a result of this classify the CNN documentary as highly misleading and with the capacity to cause disquiet in Nigeria.

The CNN must retract and admit error in submission in its documentary on the Lekki Tollgate shootings.

The International Institute for Investigative Journalism faults the CNN documentary in all ramifications.[/b]

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/lekki-shooting-cnn-carried-out-a-hatchet-job-on-the-army-international-journalists/


lalasticala
mynd44

When we were calling those educated dumb fools who were busy twisting the narrative to suit their wicked agenda egged on by one shameless clout chasing liar called DJ witch sorry Switch they thought they were smart.

Nonsense!
When I said we had simpletons in this space some idiot thought we were just being childish.
Just look how those educated fools gathering likes like rains by each mention look now.
Look?!

DREAMZZZ:
igbo women top the list of the most desired in Nigeria...oga

Based on what metric(s)?

Are you talking about people who hardly close their legs before marriage?!

IamD18:
Bride price is bride price regardless of how much you spent. The fact remains that you paid something.

You people should allow Igbos with their traditions. Face yours.

You don't expect Igbos to behave like a particular tribe that accepts 2 cups of red oil and Cameroon pepper of 230 Naira as bride price.

You don't expect Igbos to behave like some tribes where the man will have to take 100+ strokes of cane as bride price.

There are levels to qualities and standard in everything. Igbo women are standard, that's why people leave their tribes where you can marry with just pepper and oil, come down to Igbo land to spend more than half of a million for bride price.

Adaeze and Achalugo nwanyi oma is different from Nwanyi ofe mmanu! The quality is the difference and the difference is the quality.

Which quality?! You see why men now see your girls as commodities on a auction market.

If we talking about quality wife material, i can bet you IBO ladies does not top that list.

Zetty177x:
Since I didnt see video of Abacha eating apples with virgins.. then I believe he is still alive. .. which evidence are u looking for again to believe massacre took place?

Stop being delusional.

You are just here to make noise not to make points.

CzarChris:
I'm sorry to say this, but most of our government officials are just daft. These people are just digging deeper graves to bury this government.

SMH.
Trying to reason with some of you is a waste of time

Clergy20:
So many commenters were basically attacking Lai Mohammed but refused to speak to the facts and logics he’s presented. You can hate the messenger, you can even hate the government, but never hate and dismiss the truth. I needed to see people speaking to the facts to confirm that there was actually a massacre on the 20th of October at Lekki Toll Gate. Unfortunately, attacking Lai and PMB doesn’t speak to that truth. Lai has faulted the report of CNN, fault his response with facts. Let’s leave sentiments and talk facts. Bring facts to counter Lai, that’s when the truth can be revealed.

Bros, you think these thick heads who have made it their daily routine to bad mouth anything about the government would state facts?!

Their hatred have imprisoned their common sense that's why many of them are so dense that they forget facts is the main crux of any argument.

IamPlato:
They Are Really Taking This Serious Sha.


This Same CNN wey Americans hate, trump Even Banned Them From White House Press Conference because They Go Out And Twist Every Thing He Says


Na This Same CNN nigerians Won Worship.


CNN is Not Your Friend.

Especially many dumbos in the space.

No serious minded person watches CNN for unbiased news.

Kwanza:
Read the full letter by the Nigerian government below:

23 Nov. 2020

Mr. Jonathan Hawkins

VP, Communications

CNN Centre

Atlanta, Georgia

U.S,

RE: HOW A BLOODY NIGHT OF BULLETS QUASHED A YOUNG PROTEST MOVEMENT

Our attention has been drawn to an ‘investigation’ by CNN, entitled ‘How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement’ and aired on 18 Nov. 2020, in which the international news organization said it had ”uncovered that Nigerian security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters” at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, Nigeria, during the #EndSARS protest.

We write to put on record that the report did not just fall short of journalistic standards, it reinforces the disinformation that is going around on the issue, it is blatantly irresponsible and it is a poor piece of journalistic work by a reputable international news organization.

In the first instance, the report did not live up to the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness. According to the website www.ethics.journalists.org, ”balance and fairness are classic buzzwords of journalism ethics: In objective journalism, stories must be balanced in the sense of attempting to present all sides of a story. Fairness means that a journalist should strive for accuracy and truth in reporting, and not slant a story so a reader draws the reporter’s desired conclusion.”

Rushing to air such a momentous story without presenting the government’s side is inexcusable and indefensible. CNN said it contacted over 100 protesters and family members, but did not speak to one official of Nigeria’s federal government. While CNN said there was no response from the army and that officials of Lagos State would not speak in view of the Judicial Panel that is investigating the matter, it did not say what effort it made to speak with any official of the federal government.

The truth is that CNN did not even attempt to reach the federal government. Nima Elbagir, who presented the report and most probably led the investigation, is conversant with the Minister of Information and Culture, who is also the Spokesman for the Federal Government of Nigeria, yet did not say that she even tried to reach the Minister. It is therefore strange, to say the least, that she would rush to air such an important ‘investigation’ report without getting the government’s side. In other words, Nima, and by extension CNN, breached the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness.

Another serious breach by CNN, in its ‘investigation’, is that the network relied heavily on unverified footages it harvested from social media.

CNN was not present at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of the incident. Neither its reporter nor cameraman was there, but it relied on eyewitnesses. Well, this is fraught with danger. While experts say eyewitness testimony is a potent form of evidence, it is also subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases, Unlike CNN, a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Pidgin Service, Damilola Banjo, was at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night in question, and was quoted as saying soldiers shot sporadically into the air and not at the protesters – a direct contradiction of the position taken by CNN who relied on second and third-hand information.

In airing its ‘investigative’ report, CNN conveniently forgot that on Oct. 23rd 2020, it emphatically tweeted, from its verified twitter handle, that the military killed 38 people when it opened fire on

peaceful protesters on Tuesday, Oct. 20th 2020. Almost a month later, the same CNN – after a supposedly exhaustive investigation – is now reporting only one death from what the world was made to believe was a massacre. Is CNN not embarrassed by this sharp climbdown? Has CNN owned up to this and apologized for its faux paz?

It is also interesting that while CNN obtained footage showing when the vehicles carrying soldiers left their barracks and arrived at the Lekki Toll Gate, it could not obtain any footage showing the bodies of those supposedly killed in the ‘massacre’. After all, forensic ballistic experts will most likely testify that firing military grade weapons into a crowd will not leave anyone needing a microscope to look for blood or bodies at the scene.

CNN has said it stands by its story, and that ”our reporting was carefully and meticulously researched”, This is baffling, considering that the story lacks fairness and balance, as we have pointed out, and that the organization relied heavily on manipulated social media videos. This resort to an escapist cliche seems more like a face-saving measure by an otherwise respectable news network caught in the blinding glare of ‘fake news and disinformation’ headlamps. Or how else does one explain the arrogant defence of an international news network that would not even respect the most basic principle of journalism?

One of CNN’s star eyewitnesses in its ‘investigative’ reporting is DJ Switch. Unknown to CNN, DJ Switch’s story on the Lekki Toll Gate shooting has changed several times. From claiming she counted 78 bodies of protesters who were supposedly killed by soldiers on the night of the Lekki Toll Gate incident, she has twice, at least, changed the casualty figure from 78 to 15 and then to 7, without a shred of evidence. CNN cannot pretend not to know that for anyone to act as a witness, his or her credibility must be unimpeachable. DJ Switch’s credibility does not meet that threshold.


In one of social media videos of DJ Switch that was used by CNN (see attached link 1), the lady (DJ Switch) claimed she and some unnamed persons carried dead bodies and dropped them at the feet of the soldiers. She also claimed she spoke to their Commander before the soldiers threw the bodies into the vans. Curiously, for someone who was streaming live on Instagram during the Lekki Toll Gate incident, there was not a single video or picture of the dead bodies. Not even Godson (Uyi), another CNN star witness whose video was also used by the network, or any of the hundreds of protesters, all armed with smart phones, at the scene recorded a video or shot a picture of dead bodies being carried away by soldiers.

Talking of Godson, despite claiming to have analyzed hours of footage, it is curious that CNN conveniently left out key parts of Godson’s 57-minute, 5-second video (see attached link 2). For example, 13 minutes, 40 seconds into the video, there were voices, in street lingo, in the background telling Godson that the gunshots were not from the soldiers (na boys dey shoot, that na local gun sound….it’s boys, meaning touts and hoodlums, who are shooting.

That’s local gun). Some 20 minutes,14 seconds into the video, Godson confirmed that the boys had brought out their guns and were shooting (local okah, he called it). Some 23 minutes, 14 seconds into the video, Godson said ‘wait, all these boys dey shoot’ (meaning gunshots rang out from the touts/hoodlums). CNN, in its rush to nail soldiers and tell a ‘radically different story’, conveniently left out these parts of the Godson video, which could have shown that armed hoodlums invaded the Lekki Toll Gate that night, and could have hit any of the protesters as they shot sporadically. This is clearly a ploy by the CNN reporter/presenter to manipulate viewers of its ‘investigative’ report and force them to draw the reporter’s desired conclusion! Another video showing an armed protester at the Lekki Toll Gate (see attached link 3) was apparently not among the footage reviewed by CNN!

It is shocking that all through its ‘investigation’, CNN did not for once mention the fact that six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed during the #EndSARS crisis, which also left 196 policemen injured, not to talk of the monumental destruction of government and private properties across the country. Instead, the network is fixated on the massacre that never happened. Are security agents not human beings too? Are they not entitled to the protection of their human rights?

For the record, this is not the first time that CNN has carried an inaccurate or hoax story about Nigeria. In February 2007, Nigeria accused CNN of staging one of its reports from the country’s Niger Delta region, showing gunmen holding 24 Filipinos hostage. Of course, CNN and its then Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange flatly denied the charge, saying the network did not pay for any part of the report. Later, in an email reportedly sent to a friend, Mr. Koinange was quoted as saying: “Of course we had to pay certain people to get the story… You do not get such a story without bribing.” So much for denials!

As a form of remediation, Nigeria’s Federal Government demands an immediate and exhaustive investigation from CNN into its ‘investigative’ report on the Lekki Toll Gate incident to determine, among others, its authenticity, whether or not it met the basic standards of journalism and also the selective use of unverified social media videos to manipulate public opinion. While it is up to CNN to accede or not, please note that the Federal Government reserves the right to take any action within its laws to prevent CNN from aggravating the #EndSARS crisis with unprofessional, irresponsible, one-sided, inciting and sensational reporting that is capable of pitching Nigerians against themselves and setting the country on fire.

Lai Mohammed

Hon. Minister

Fantastic response.
Only a raised fool will not see CNN for what it is.
I know we have on this platform those who will never agree to this incisive and well crafted write up by the minister.

CNN has been causing problems here and tger not today and we can see it now more clearly.