₦airaland Forum

See them, threatening to disturb the peace of Lagos. Eko Oni Baje.

God pass una

1 shortblackboy: I think this is a valid argument

Organisations might be forced to downsize

ifihearam: Is your father not a hungry man??
Since you don't support it,go stop it. Anu ofia

Don't mind d ezi ofia

nagoma: You may sound snobbish or even arrogant to some, but the evidence before us confirms that you are indeed right.

Your comment just confirmed the age long believe that you urgently need to borrow common sense

Maxymilliano: For the record, the Weapons, Bomb-making devices were found in the home of Hon. Hussein Dei Dei, one of the Councillors in a local govt in Kaduna.. He is a member of CPC and has recently joined the newly formed party called APC!...

Chei , Buharistans foot soldier.

Blessed family

Chei, no Howard Webb to save them

DrChatNuff: D fool on d left ....or pinhead in d middle or dimwit d other end

Shame on you.

[quote author=~Bluetooth]Jonathan is a liar and a bloody opportunist. . . . .ghetto kid.[/quote]HateKillz bro

shymexx: When I was complaining about the Ndigbo Nairaland nonsense, everyone thought I was being a tribalist... However, did you lot notice that after they decided to appoint "Secretary of Defense" - the politics section is now back to where it was last year?? This guy is an igbo poster posting under a Yoruba ID just to continue the tribal war...

These guys are in their 40s, yet they act like kids in primary school fighting e-tribal wars like ret.ards - freaking coons smh...

*Spits on the thread*

See acute whining

So the Tunde Oyeshola's of this world are into kidnapping? Wonders they say shall never end.

Front page please.

What's keeping the drones

#GodBlessTeamGarri

God forbid, they must be defeated.

Haters gradually converging

Dirty hog

Saint mark , as if he's not actively involved.

dridowu: What is the Governor doing that he cannot approve construction of borehole ?

Up CPC

dominique: What is the governor doing? after all its a state univerity. Hope the project is completed sha.

You mean the CPC abi APC governor?

Evil satan worshippers

A clear case of murder has turned into a macabre game of Whodunit. First, our “friends” the police, represented by Mr Frank Mba, their spokesman, was reported to have said:
“The policemen that went to the scene only cleared the expressway that was blocked by the students. Two students were killed and seven others were hospitalised for injuries sustained during the violent protest”.
He went further to say: “Any question on the killing should be directed to the Army. They have their Public Relations unit; the police were not involved in the shooting.” Fine.
Now the Army, which spoke through Brig. Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, Director of Army Public Relations. Attahiru reported to have said: “I categorically say that our (Army) troops were not involved. Nigerian troops in Keffi did not shoot any of the students. Our troops were not deployed for peace mission in Nasarawa State. They were deployed for patrol. It is the responsibility of the police to quell riots in Nigeria.”
Listening to both sides as they laboriously deny their culpability in the killings, one is wont to appreciate the underlying factors responsible for the seeming hostility that defines what relationship that exists between the Nigerian police and the Nigerian army. Cloaked in every statement is a deep seated disdain both sides hold against each other.
For a start, it is an established fact that the students of Nasarawa State Univerisity did not embark on a shooting spree neither were they seen clutching guns. Inferentially therefore, they couldn’t have been the ones shooting themselves. It is also a fact that no one got killed, at least at the time the protest was started, until the policemen showed up to “clear” the expressway. Yet, the same Nigerian police have the audacity to look at us, and declare, in the most insensitive manner “we are not responsible”. I mean, it couldn’t have been worse than that.
Similarly, while the protest was on-going, not a single student had a scratch. Not one, until the Toyota Hilux belonging to the military, bearing armed personnel came passing, according to Attahiru, on a routine “patrol” before two students lay dead.
In explaining this unfortunate killings Attahiru, while smiling, said “the Nigerian Army has introduced Counter Terrorism and Counterinsurgency (CT COIN) training for all officers of the rank of Major and below, in line with its new strategy to increase combat efficiency”, as if that is enough to absolve the army of complicity in the killings he went on to say “I categorically say our troops were not involved”.
And while this is going on, two students, Emmanuel Buba Nyam, a 300-level physics student and Aminu Usman Usuko, a 400-level geography student laid dead in the morgue with gun-shot injuries. Even for untrained PR personnel, this is crude. A simple statement such as “we have received report/information of an allegation involving our men. We sympathise with the parents of the deceased. The Nigerian Army/Police is currently investigating the matter and will do everything within her power to ensure the culprits are brought to book” would have provided a soft landing for those involved. To outright deny involvement is akin to saying nobody got killed and those poor students with gun-shots wound may as well be armed robbers.
It is disheartening to note that the arrogance displayed by both the army and the police is precisely what feeds into the distrust that has characterised civil-police, civil-military relations over the years.
On the other hand, the deafening silence on the part of the education minister is, to say the least, disturbing. It is expected that the minister should have shown some empathy by either paying an on-the-spot visit or simply issuing a strongly-worded statement to assuage the feelings of the bereaved parents and to reassure the students of her commitments to protect them, if for nothing else, at least for the fact that she is a mother, and most importantly because this whole brouhaha is within her purview. The argument that it is a state university does not hold water. This is hoping, the federal government sets up a judicial inquiry to unravel and bring to book those responsible for snuffing the lives of these promising Nigerian students. At least we saw and applauded U.S. President Barack Obama’s response when those kids were shot in Connecticut.


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/opinion/51774-so-who-killed-them

The prophetess is also culpable

info@nysc.gov.ng, try sending NYSC email. You never can tell where your help might come from.

Not funny, when a friend misplaced his, it took several years before he was re-mobilised. Just make sure you follow it up from your school and NYSC end.

Cash and carry, no long thing

solomon111: I am sure Gbawe 'the chronic' sadist will avoid this thread.

Fire burn the E-witches and wizards that are about to invade this thread.

Chei! Una no de tire

Seems some persons are wickedly desperate to celebrate Nigeria's short comings.

In-law issues are often petty issues