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onatisi: that woud mean that their motive wasnt religion or islam but political power ,i believe that will be the scenario

You can't divorce religion from muslim's politics.

onatisi: i have a question ,what will nigerians say if come 2015 gej loses the re election and a northerner becmes the president and all of a sudden boko haram issue dies down?

It will be a case of "Mission Accomplish".

DammyFx: What is this country turning into?

People's Republic of Jihadism

Killing in the name of God.

Ramadam Kareem

ebamma: islam is still a religion of peace abi?

You also add of poo

ebamma: and after someone will be telling us that bokoharam is not fighting for islam

U de mind those 4kin hypocrites

Ramadam Kareem

[quote author=Mr.chippychappy]https://i.imgur.com/Ic7Pe.jpg[/quote]72 inyarinya won't pass me by.

Aboki de yahoo?

Action packed ramadam

[quote author=ndu_chucks]What makes you people think that Dangote is personally responsible for paying the compensation? If anything, a corporate entity which is legally separate from the person of Dangote, may be accountable. I suspect that payments are slowed down because insurance companies have not yet paid up.

You people should stop maligning Dangote's reputation.[/quote]Aboki and their shallow reasoning.

Very funny

Shame

Africa's progress does depends on itself and not on any superficial relationship with either America or China.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, who is worth N1.7 trillion ($11.2 billion) according to Forbes magazine has, through his company - Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc - refused to respect a court ruling which resulted from the killing of dozens of people by one of his employees, while on official duty.
A driver belonging to the company had rammed a company truck into waiting vehicles, resulting in an inferno which claimed over 40 lives.
The chief coroner, after investigation of the incident, had found the company driver culpable and ordered the company to compensate the families of the victims.
The total compensation to be paid by Mr. Dangote’s company is less than N200 million, about 0.01 percent of what the billionaire is worth.
The ruling
On April 25, in a crowded court room in Lagos, Tajudeen Elias, chief coroner at the Ikeja Magistrate Court, pronounced his verdict on what is, arguably, the longest dragging inquest since the adventof the Coroner's Law in the state in 2007.
The 19-month long inquest, which suffered more than a dozen adjournments, was initiated by Access to Justice (a non-governmental organisation), and Falana and Falana Chambers (a law firm), to determine the cause of a horrific accident in 2010; when a Dangote Sugar Refinery truck rammed into waiting vehicles along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The resulting inferno led to the loss of over 40 lives as human occupants and metallic parts got charred in one of the severest fatalities on the expressway.
Reading his verdict in a capacity filled room, Mr. Elias told the Sugar Refinery Company, owned by Mr. Dangote, to issuea public apology as well as pay a “minimalcompensation” to the accident victims and their families within three months.
Mr. Elias also indicted officers of the Nigeria Police for mounting a roadblock which caused a traffic snarl in the minutesleading to the accident.
Also, the verdict ignored the sugar company's lawyers' claims during the inquest that Salisu Lawal, the driver of the fatal truck, was dead. Mr. Elias mandated them to provide him within three months.
Mum is the word
Three months after Mr. Elias delivered his verdict; the management of the sugar refinery have neither issued the apology nor paid the compensation to the victims and their families.
In May, one month after the coroner's verdict, Access to Justice, one of the parties who instituted the inquest, wrote a reminder to the management of Dangote Industries.
A similar letter was sent to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.
Both letters did not receive any response.
“We made these presentations to Dangote as well as the police. As I speak with you, they have drawn a blank,” said Joseph Otteh, the Executive Director of Access to Justice, a non-governmental organization.
“They gave us the impression that they would (respond), but they still haven't.
“I guess they are testing our resolve, whether indeed we would carry out what we said we would do,” Mr. Otteh added.
In the letter addressed to the Chairman ofDangote Industries, the group demanded N160million as cost of losses suffered by the accident victims and their families.
“Since the 15th of August 2010 when these unfortunate multiple accidents occurred, up till this moment, Dangote Sugar Refinery has not lifted a finger; it has not contacted any of those we represent for anything whatsoever,” the letter, dated May 22, reads.
“At the time of the accidents, your company representatives did not provide emergency first aid care to our clients, did not visit the injured ones when they were hospitalized, or visit families of deceased victims to offer condolences afterwards,” the letter added.
Access to Justice, on behalf of the accident victims, also demanded a N218 million compensation from the Nigeria Police.
They also asked that the officers who set up the checkpoints be “searched out and disciplined accordingly”.
Phone calls to Sunday Esan, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Dangote Industries Limited were not answered. Text messages were also not replied.
Ngozi Braide, Lagos State Police spokesperson, said that she was unaware of the coroner's verdict.
I just resumed at this post,” said Ms. Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, who was appointed in June.
To the courts
In his verdict, Mr. Elias described DangoteIndustries’ attitude towards the accident victims and their families as “appalling”.
“The company ought to show serious concern in the course of its corporate responsibility to the public,” said Mr. Elias.
Access to Justice said that the “only alternative” left for them to press home their demands is the court of law.
“It would have been a lot better if, havingbeen told in non-ambiguous terms that their truck was primarily responsible for that disastrous accident, that they would have, at least, made some efforts for theirsins,” said Mr. Otteh.
“Ever since that accident happened, Dangote has not lifted a finger to even say ‘who are those people whose lives were shattered, traumatized by the acts of our company or those who are employed by us’,” Mr. Otteh added.
Mr. Otteh said that his group has not rushed to court after the inquest because it is “finalising” its court papers.
He said his organisation wrote to Dangoteand the police with the expectation that the two parties would be willing to resolvethe issues, based on the coroner's verdict.
"Unfortunately, they are the ones forcing us into a court action,” he said.


http://premiumtimesng.com/news/6320-Dangote-police-disregard-coroners-verdict-compensate-accident-victims.html

Waiting for those that will say BH members are not muslims.

Am sure they were preparing for ramadam massacre.

Islamists in control of northern Mali said they forced a man anda woman into two holes and stoned them to death for committing adultery in the lawless region.
Witnesses watched quietly as Islamists executed the two by pelting them with rocks in the remote Aguelhok town, according to a local resident.
"I don't know how many rocks they threw or for how long it went on before they were both dead," said Haman Maiga, a resident of Aguelhok who witnessed the stoning. "No one dared to try and stop the Islamists."
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The woman had two small children, a boy and a girl, according to Maiga.
A leader of a radical Islamic group in the region said Sharia law condemns relationships outside marriage.
"The man and the woman, who were both married (to other people), were having an affair," said Aliou Toure, the Islamist commissioner in Gao. "They were stoned to death, the punishment for infidelity, according to Sharia, Islamic law."
The stoning Sunday is the first reported Sharia killing since al Qaeda-linked Islamists took control of the north.
Read more: Is this al Qaeda's 'last chance' for a country?
Mali has been in a state of Chaos since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
The coup leader stepped down in May and transferred power toa civilian transitional government, but uncertainty looms.
Ethnic Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants have taken advantage of the chaos to seizecontrol of the northern portion of the country.
Mali becoming bitterly divided
Aguelhok was among the first to fall when Tuareg rebels aided by Islamist groups occupied the region this year.
Months later, two groups with ties to al Qaeda hijacked the separatist uprising by the local Tuareg movement. The two groups now control two-thirds of northern Mali, an area the size of Texas that includes the towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.
Islamists have since imposed a harsh form of Sharia law that bans drinking, music and sportson television. Most residents in the area are Muslims, but have protested against the strict form of Sharia as Islamists remain determined to apply it.
"We don't have to answer to anyone over the application of Sharia. This is the form of Islampracticed for thousands of years," Toure said. "The fact that we are building a new country on the base of Sharia isjust something the people livinghere will have to accept."
In addition to the killing, Islamist militants have gone on a rampage for months, destroying sacred tombs in the region and vowing to target more.
Read more: International outrage grows over destruction of Mali shrines
In July, they ordered residents to leave the area and razed twotombs in Timbuktu. Two monthsprior, elderly men kept watch over the main library after Islamists burned a different tomb in another attack in the same town.
Islamist militants regard such shrines as idolatrous and thus prohibited in their religion. Theyespecially target Sufi shrines, which they believe are sacrilegious. Sufism is a mystical dimension of Islam considered offbeat and frownedupon by Islamic hardliners.
Defense official: U.S. needs to 'accelerate' effort to help Mali

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-08-02/africa/world_africa_mali-couple-stoned_1_islamist-militants-ethnic-tuareg-sharia-law

I thought we are done with the farouk episode.

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honeric01: I hope you still know Hezbollah and Hamas? i hope you know they also formed a govt even though they are seen as a terrorist group?

These groups never posed any direct treat to America. Besides you must understand that America's policy makers must have weighed the option supporting the rebels or otherwise. There is hardly an y option that doesn't come with its own challenge or setback.

mmmustapha: U fooools dis is d work of ur fellow xtians

Really, I know cruelty is an hallmark of your religion but I never knew that stupidity is also part of it.

Anasko: u educated illiterate jesus followers are brain washed.

it appears that the unsuccessful D&C your parent had when they conceived you only succeeded in damaging your brain.

shymmex: Annan never went there solve anything - he was just a stooge used for logistics reasons by the neo-cons... The Russians/Chinese/Iranians know the game...

The old man just resigned because the real war is about to start - the road leads to Tehran... And the Iranians are ready for attack on their nuclear sites between September/October...

The world is definitely going to hell soon because America and Israel will be humiliated..

Humiliated by who? You really underestimate America

manny4life: I never said there wasn't American intervention, what I'm saying is sending CIA to arm rebels with weapons isn't intervention anymore, that's more like encouraging WAR. Believe it or not, those rebels will withhold unto these weapons and sooner or later, they will become a thorn in U.S. with modern day terror financing. How do you think most of these terror groups came into existence?

America's concern hasn't been because he was relying on their allies for assistance, they already know that, America has been concerned with primarily removing Assad from regime. They tried using covert activities to dis-stabilize his government, while that worked, Assad is a strong man like Gaddaphi, he did not budge, my ONLY CONCERN is that America has come out openly saying we're supporting rebels which are more likely to turn out terrorist.

You can't draw a parallel between these rebels and Al Qeda, cos the rebels will likely form the Government in post Assad regime. Unlike Osama Bin Laden who was used to fight the Soviet after which was abandoned.

Blackteeth: Yeah. As long as there is something to benefit.

Yeah, there should be something to again. Actors in the International System are no Santa Claus, ask your Colonial Masters. Its only a Country like Nigeria that sacrifices its soldiers in the alter of peace keeping without having an ulterior motive.

manny4life: Stand by and do nothing? In what world have you been? America has been doing underground work long before now, just that the Assad regime wasn't budging and the U.S. just declared their intentions OPENLY. Thanks to their Russian Allies, that have voted "CONTINUOUSLY with A NO" to Syrian sanctions. Let me ask you, all the diplomatic and military defection in the Assad regime, you think diplomats and generals just thought it was nice to defect? Come on man, live in reality. Assad was committing a Human Right violation but he did not pose any threat to other nations like having nuclear weapons like Iran does...

Asking the CIA and probably in the future sending military artillery down there with spiral the events of what's gonna happen. Ain't no telling just like Libya, Syria WILL NEVER remain the same. I love America, but I got to say the truth sometimes, American leaders are doing too much, in this case work with sanctions and diplomacy not arming rebels with sophisticated weapon that U.S. may never get back or even control.

At least you agree with me that their is for America's intervention, don't you also think that since Assad has been relying on it Russian and Chinese ally to stay power, that America has no choice but to employ other means to remove Assad from power.

manny4life: ^^^

Don't worry the opposition will get what they wish for now that Obama has signed the secret order directing agencies like CIA to support them with weapons. CIA is about to create another Al-Quaeda in Syria, I weep for Africa.

Do you expect America to stand by and do nothing?

dasparrow: Yes, I read that too. America always causing confusion and war in far away countries. One day, they will bite more than they can chew because when God's wrath comes upon them, they will regret the day they became a nation.

I beg to disagree, America is helping to make the world a safer place.

He has no business remaining there since both parties have resolved to settle their differences through the barrel of the gun.

I just wish the opposition can get the necessary international support to capture Aleppo. That will hasten Assed's going the Gaddafi's way.

I just like my aboki brothers for this.

This is a bewildering case ofone murder, two government agencies, different culprits
The police and the State Security Service,the two security agencies investigating the murder of late Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Secretary to the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, are holding two different sets of suspects, a development that has set off speculationsthat investigations into the murder would most likely be bungled.
While the Edo Police Command has some suspects, including a human rights activist in custody, the SSS is holding an entirely different set of suspects (which ithas labeled armed robbers) at its Abuja headquarters.
The development appears to vindicate claims by critics that Nigerian security agencies were too uncoordinated to be effective.
Last Friday, a team of armed operatives ofthe Federal special anti-robbery squad (SARS) stormed the office of a Benin City-based rights activist, David Ugolor, a close friend and associate of the late Oyerinde, and arrested him after the police claimed that one of the suspects arrested in connection with the murder had mentioned one "DAVID" as his sponsor.
Before taking him away, along with some items, the police team had also ransackedMr. Ugolor’s private home, holding every occupant hostage throughout the over three hours duration the operation lasted.
The police had claimed one of the suspects in its custody had, on interrogation, named Mr. Ugolor, who is the Executive Director, African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a vocal environmental and human rights non-government organisation, as the man who gave him N200,000 as part payment for an agreed N20million price to hire late Oyerinde's killers.
But during cross examination the suspect reportedly could not remember the exact location the transaction took place, neither did he know the way to Mr. Ugolor's office, house address nor his cell phone, apart from the mental picture of him always appearing on television to criticise government.
Just as friends and associates of Mr. Ugolor in the civil society declared a day of action in Benin City, Abuja, Lagos and other parts of the country to protest his continued detention and demand his immediate release, the State Security Service (SSS) came up with a twist that highlights the palpable lack of coordination among the country's securityagencies in the handling of crime investigations.
According to the SSS, contrary to claims by the police that hired assassins killed the late governor’s aide, the killing was by armed robbers.
Parading the suspected killer robbers, none of whom included the man that claimed Mr. Ugolor hired him to do the killing, the spokesperson of the SSS, Marilyn Ogar, said the murder was the outcome of a robbery operation that wentawry.
According to Ms Ogar, it was a careless statement by the late Oyerinde's security guard that caused the criminals to pull the deadly trigger.
“Careless statements made by Ali Ihade, the security guard of the late Oyerinde, atvarious times about his master's position in government, attracted the attention of the prime suspect, Mohammed Ibrahim Abdullahi,” Ms Ogar told reporters in Abuja.
She named the suspects as Mohammed Abdullahi, Raymond Origbo, Chikezie Edeh (who claimed to be a deportee from France), Saidu Yakubu (aka Imam), Sani Abubakar and Hassan Bashiru.
Ms. Ogar listed some of the items stolen from the deceased to include four Blackberry phones, one ipad, two galaxy tab pads, one laptop, a wedding ring, and an unspecified sum of money belonging to late Oyerinde's brother-in-law, Adeyinka Oletubo.
According to the SSS deputy director, three of the suspects were directly responsible for the murder, while the others are associates who are “habitual buyers of stolen items.”
“Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde was murderedin cold blood by the trio of Mohammed Ibrahim Abdullahi, Raymond Onajite Origbo, and Chikezie Edeh,” she said.
“On the day of the robbery, Abdullahi specifically instructed other gang members to tie up Ihade before they entered Comrade Oyerinde's residence sothat Ihade will not see his face.
Ms. Ogar explained that Mr. Oyerinde wasshot and killed by the prime suspect, Mohammed Abdullahi, when the deceased ran into his bedroom and attempted to go underneath his bed.
“Abdullahi said he believed Comrade Oyerinde was reaching out for a gun under the bed and therefore shot him,” she said.
She said the weapons used in the robberyoperation, comprising three guns, have been recovered, while the suspects wouldbe handed over to the police for prosecution.
But Tunde Akanni, a relative of the late activist, says the parallel investigative reports by the SSS and the police “clearly shows that the entire security network in this country is a total mockery”.
“It means no one is save in this country if the agencies paid by the same government could be parading two different sets of culprits for the same crime,” Mr. Akanni, a lecturer at the LagosState University said.
“There are lots of missing gaps and we just don’t know whose story to believe,” he added.


http://premiumtimesng.com/news/6307-police_sss_parade_different_suspects.html

The day Buhari will condemn BH, that's when their demise begins