SonofDevil:
Supreme Court messed with wrong state, bayelsans re ready for the worst. They re not chest beaters like yanmiris.

Are you a Bayelsan?

The old man is very good holding unto the last rope. You will never see him at the battle line. It is when nerves have calm down you see him roaming about looking for recognition.

FrLukas:


You mean like they demanded for and got Amotekun while your people are still begging to get theirs?

Lol. You are hilarious.

Amotekun is an overrated security outfit that cannot do a better job than what the Nigerian police force and Army have been doing and that is intimidating civilians and mounting road blocks and collecting their daily illegal N50 and N100 on major roads.

aremuforlife:

Can you explain how the YORUBA'S behave

They don't have the balls to demand for something. They act like they don't want to offend someone.

Are you guys sure they are Yoruba group. You people should check very well oO because the Yorubas I know use to behave some-how

Sometimes people easily forget how they started. Okereke should man up and settle the agent.

Buhari stop killing us in name of Islam

For me o I don't see Amotekun lasting up to a year, today is 29/01/2020 mark it somewhere, knowing Yorubas and their nature, one day we will be seeing cow chasing Amotekun up and down.

What is this mother fu*ker saying? How can you pay respect to a homosexualist. he was caught severally selling his black ass from door to door to his fulani masters at the expense of his people.

tck2000:
You guys have started again.

Bakassi Peninsula was sold by General Yakubu Gowon to Cameroon in 1968. Yes, Yakubu Gowon in August 1968, had been requested by Ahmadu Ahidjo, the then President of Cameroon to sell part of Nigeria, especially the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon as the condition for supporting Nigeria to win the civil war against Biafra. Recall that before then, Bakassi was used as the outlet to the Atlantic to bring in food to the Easterners. The then Finance Minister, the very Obafemi Awolowo had asked Gowon: how long do you continue to feed your enemies?

Rattled by the question, Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, Martin Adamu, Theophilus Danjuma, Hassan Katsina with the tacit approval of Sultan Mohammed II and Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano swung into action. Gowon wanting to score a point did not even discuss this with the then Supreme Military Counsel, though they quietly approved of it.

He contacted Alhamadu Ahidjo, and the Meeting was scheduled in Marua Town of Southern Cameroon in August 1968, that day Gowon, using stone, standing on Cameroon side “threw a stone” saying that wherever the stone landed should be given to Cameroun, west ward to the Peninsula. The stone landed at the very point of entry of the Peninsula called Reo Del Ree.

Hence, General Yakubu Gowon, on the advice of Obafemi Awolowo, used a stone to sell Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Others is history.

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Ndibunna:


Shut it.

As far as we concern EEDC has been living up to expectations in giving us light..

It might not be 24 hours a day but at least 12 to 15 hours a day..

We should really thank EEDC for jobs well done.

There is light now..

You are a sycophants. You go about spreading falsehood for a mere crumb.

EEDC is fraudulent and I have complained about their activities many times . Emeka Offor is a 419ner, a thief and the highest criminal we have down here in the South-East. The man is so dishonest in any business he owns. We buy transformer, poles and high tension wires with our money and we still do not have light.

Bloody Nigerian. I tell you if we don't kill all these politicians we are going nowhere.

Next to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.

As head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.
He was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.

Charismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.

He had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.
As far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East".

When his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him , at the direction of US President Donald Trump.

The assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.
The US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.

Tensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.

Rise of militias
Soleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.
After becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.

Over the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.

After the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.

He is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.
Soleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.

He also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.

In April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.

The Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.

In a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been "actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region".
"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more," it added.

DonFreshmoney:
Well. Snakes and reptiles thrive in bushy and dirty environment.. she must be very dirty for a snake to hide inside her WC and await the smell of her poo.. In as much as it led to an untimely death of the woman, I would suggest the family should take solace that she was killed by a snake. The husband should endeavor to marry another immediately...

Lalasticlala.. you know what to do.. it's a snakey something

African snakes behave like human beings, they are cold blooded reptiles, they love the sun, shades and warm environment. They hate cold weather. It is not about clean or dirty environment.

Us killed a terrorist in iraq and the Northern part of Nigeria are turning it into a religious war.

All this people bashing the op. If US strike Nigeria President na who among unna won turn avenger.

GhettoG1:
This jst sounds like a joke jare, a whole manager alighted frm d bus, d second bus too left u, then you chasing em bus nd no one could heard u...
On the topic, well i always thought it was all rumour of human eater in d south bt Mr Ibu confirmed it nw .. . Em still spoke d same language... Jst Negodu

No be joke o.

unbitchable:
SE are only playing a second fiddle to the SS and With the recent happenings in the SS, Southeast is almost becoming weaker.

The other regions play politics of jumping from one party system to another. It is like photocopying an original document in a white sheet knowing fully well that the information being displayed on the original copy and the photocopied are the same.

unbitchable:
When push comes to shove SE would easily fall to APC

Would easily? I don't think you have been to South East o. For many years PDP could not win in anambra state na APC go win. What about Enugu that is PDP state. That APC won in imo state was because rochas decamped while he was a sitting governor but imo state is back to PDP. South East only knows two party APGA or PDP.

I have never seen a school as corrupt as Abia State Polytechnic. The lecturers would make you steal, kill, beg, and lie to meet up with their demands of having to submit every assignment with N500, Test with N1000, Exams with N5,000 - N10,000 depending on the grades you want.

Let me just blow a small whistle, you see that woman they call Mrs Benson in Engineering Department/Computer Science Department, she is black in complexion between 5ft5 tall, yes o the one that rumor have it that her husband is a pastor, I believe by now she should be competing with Dangote as one the richest in Africa.

Rem22:
Even,An Igbo President cannot do more than what Buhari is doing in South-East

And what is he doing

Here is what you need to know about the matter:

1. Who lodged the complaint?
The case was lodged on December 27/12/2019 in the US District Court for Columbia by a group of US law firms on behalf of 385 Americans, including the families of US servicemen killed or wounded in Afghanistan by the Taliban and al-Qaeda between 2009 and 2017. Court documents name over 100 killed or injured US servicemen, or their family members, as plaintiffs.

2. Since when has MTN been doing business in Afghanistan?
MTN's Afghan subsidiary MTN Afghanistan has been operating in the country since 2006 when MTN bought Areeba - a Lebanese telecoms company that won a licence to provide cellphone services. When MTN entered the market, it was the third-largest cellular-service provider. By 2010 it held the greatest market share - 32% - of Afghanistan's four cellular phone providers, according to the court filings.
"By 2012, MTN had a presence in virtually every province in Afghanistan, including many that were under Taliban control or influence," the documents read.
According to its 2018 Annual Report, MTN had 6.4 million Afghan subscribers at the end of 2018.

3. What is MTN being accused of?
MTN is among several multinational businesses named in the lawsuit for allegedly supporting or aiding the Taliban by making protection payments. According to the plaintiffs' court filings, the defendants paid off the Taliban so that their business interests would not be attacked.
"Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans."
"The payments saved defendants money: it was cheaper to buy off the Taliban than it would have been to invest in the security necessary to mitigate the terrorists' threats," the plaintiffs allege.
According to the plaintiffs, MTN made protection payments to the Taliban from 2006 when it entered the market. Referencing newspaper articles, the lawsuit states that the protection payments were in the region of $2 000 per cell tower per month. The plaintiffs say the mobile operator has around 1 300 cellphone towers in the country.
The lawsuit claims that the Taliban made payment demands via so-called 'Night Letters' which it sent to mobile phone operators.
"MTN was a particularly aggressive practitioner of protection payments. Rather than invest in expensive security for its transmission masts, MTN purchased security by buying it from the Taliban."
The plaintiffs further allege that not only did MTN make protection payments, but it also on occasion deactivated its cellular networks at night at the request of the Taliban.

4. What would be the impact of shutting off cellphone towers?
According to the plaintiffs' filings, MTN allegedly switched off cellphone towers at the request of the Taliban, which undermined the counter-insurgency efforts of the US.
"By 2010, the Taliban was 'using the cellphone system as an instrument of war against the Afghan government and the US-led coalition,'" the suit states.
The plaintiffs argue that while the Taliban relied on cell phones for communication and to coordinate attacks, US intelligence could track phone signals and detect attacks.
Deactivating cellular networks made it difficult for the US intelligence to track insurgents.
"By agreeing to shut down its transmission masts, MTN knowingly deprived coalition forces of that vital intelligence," the plaintiffs allege.

5. What has MTN's response been?
In a shareholder notice on Monday morning, MTN said it is reviewing the details of the report and consulting with its advisers. It added it remains of the view that it conducts its business in a responsible and compliant manner in all its territories it operates and intends to defend its position "where necessary".
The group said it would not be issuing further comment on the matter at this stage.

6. What are the plaintiffs asking for?
The plaintiffs want the court to find the defendants liable under the anti-terrorism act.
Furthermore, the lawsuit seeks damages under the US anti-terrorism act, on behalf of the American service members, civilians and their families who were killed or wounded while serving the US, in Afghanistan.

Africa's largest mobile operator MTN says it is reviewing allegations that it paid protection money to militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan.

The allegations, made in a legal complaint filed in a US federal court on Friday, say the firm violated US anti-terrorism laws.

It was filed on behalf of families of US citizens killed in attacks in Afghanistan.

Five other companies were also named in the filing.
The complaint alleges MTN paid bribes to al-Qaida and the Taliban to avoid having to invest in in expensive security for their transmission towers.

The alleged payments helped finance a Taliban-led insurgency that led to the attacks in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2017, the accusations say.

It is alleged that the money helped to provide "material support to known terrorist organisations," thus violating the anti-terrorism legislation.

The South African telecommunications giant says it remains of the view that it conducts its business in a "responsible and compliant manner in all its territories".
MTN is Africa's largest mobile operator and the eighth largest in the world, with more than 240 million subscribers.

In 2015, the firm was fined more than $5bn (£3.8bn) by the Nigerian authorities for failing to cut off unregistered sim cards - a figure that was reduced to $1.7bn after a long legal dispute and the intervention of South Africa's then President Jacob Zuma.

In February, a former South African ambassador to Iran was arrested in the capital, Pretoria, on charges that he took a bribe to help MTN win a $31.6bn (£24bn) license to operate in Iran.

That's good o, in fact they should replace every Yoruba people there.

Azubuike Ihejirika was accused of sponsoring bokoharam by the North, Goodluck Jonathan knew the allegation was false, but because of the pressure from the north Jonathan had no choice but to retire Azubuike Ihejirika. If Dr Faith Robert claims not to have knowledge of this, then l have no choice than to believe he is also taking orders from the North.

Johans1991:
Is a pity some people preferred to believe someone that was not born at that time. But refused to believe the person that was present and participated in that event.

I don't expect that silly old man to tell the truth. Everything he had or have ever said are all lies.

The last time I checked, Sowore the lion of Oduduwa when caged automatically became a cat.