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I can still remember the panic and chaos that greeted you. At the mention of the name General Sani Abacha.

A very crafty, strict, ruthless and corrupt military man. In the height of his glory Abacha wanted to metamorph from military to civilian president.

Abacha had initiated a return to cilivian government with guide lines that were too stringent to follow. Many activist had protested about his policies and modus operandi. But like the biblical pharaoh. Abacha would jail them and the courts would support this tyrant.


In april of 1998, the unthinkable happened
Prominent figures in Nigeria started to campaign for Abacha, notably was

Oba of Lagos Akiolu
Lamidi Adedibu
Arisekola Alao

Abacha over night became a savior, even a one million man match was organised for Abacha by one fraudster Daniel Kanu who made a shocking statement that if Abacha doesn't contest he will commit suicide.


Then in April the unthinkable happened, out of 6 political parties 5 adopted Abacha as their candidate paving the road for a ONE PARTY STATE..

The EU, UN, US condemned this development and imposed sanctions on Nigeria but the tyrant never gave a damn.

With the political opinion rating of Abacha very high, many suggested Abacha would win by a land slide.

Just as campaign was ongoing, monies where being shared for propaganda, paid con artist like Oba of Lagos Akiolu organised yoruba obas to support Abacha.while this fanfare persisted The unthinkable again ocured.

That day it was crazy, June 8 1998, Federal broadcasting Corp of Nigeria Airs the news of Abachas sudden demise.

The. Journey of a one party start ended, will history repeat itself. Only time will tell.

Good for them. Bunch of rotten apples

Six Nigerians have been deported from the United States of America, USA, having been charged with various crimes in the country.
It was gathered that their deportation was in connection with a decision by the US government to deport at least 3,000 Nigerians, who had been involved in various crimes in the country.

The deportees arrived on Wednesday via a Delta Airlines flight at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, just before 9 a.m.
They were received by officials from various Nigerian government agencies, who will determine the next line of action.

Under the Donald Trump administration, the U.S. government intends to carry out more deportations in line with its policy of streamlining immigration in the country.


President Donald Trump had launched an unprecedented mass immigration crackdown within his first 100 days in office, detaining more people for immigration violations and allowing arrests outside schools and courthouses.

He said he would ramp up workplace raids to find undocumented immigrants. On Monday, he signed an order directing his Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to compile a list of so-called “sanctuary cities” that, according to administration officials, are not cooperating sufficiently with federal deportation efforts.

The number of immigration arrests at workplaces has tripled since Trump took office, according to Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan. “It’s going to triple again,” Homan said. Trump had vowed on the campaign trail to reinstate workplace raids, which had been largely curtailed under the Biden administration.

With the new executive order, Trump is threatening to cut federal funding to cities and states his administration deems uncooperative in his mass deportation efforts. In the order,Trump gave Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a May 28 deadline to publish a list of cities, counties, and states obstructing “the enforcement of federal immigration laws.” He also directed every federal agency to identify funds “for suspension or termination



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/us-deports-6-nigerians-for-various-offences/amp/

Please PFN stop this nonsense already. Most of you are just highest bidder.

Most General overseers won't complain, they have member that can bring money for them.

If you want to see how the church can work ban offering an tithing.

Pity this one. Is celestial church a Christian church.

That is so so evil. I pray he ruts in jail with other gun loving lunatics.

Blood is the highest currency in the US, you buy a gun today someone says things you don't like. Kaboom, you send the person to hell.

Hmm. I don't think lagos state have a governor.

APC always good in probability.

Nigerian Army is full of shit. Why wait until they procure drone.

OK why not get yours and obliterate them. Giving excuses will prolong this senseless blood mill. And put lots of monies in the generals pocket.

I feel sorry for the recruits. They are just sacrifice on the altar of evil.

The truth most. Prevail. In Nigeria people hate the truth. They find lies convenient but the end they will be ashamed.

When people are attacking some one for standing for good just know that they will scandalise such.

Just like how peolpe attack Peter Obi.

This is heart breaking.. Suicide rate under APC junta is astronomical. Is like there's nothing to hope for.

RIP to the deceased.

They should tell. Alia. He will pay the ransom dude is very generous, docile and daft.

Awoniyi needs prayers. His injury prone spell will ruin is fading career.

D.... Like his music can cure Nigeria sickness.

Pay your band members Wells.

They are very much around. Many are on nairaland. Still languishing. But are afraid to ask for help.

kingsways:
If you compare the situation today with that of 2012, there was absolutely no need to protest

The so-called protesters, where are they now. Are they all dead? That’s the question Obi asked, a valid question

Some brainless people will argue that Nigeria was making more money then than now.

That the corruption of then is what is affecting now

And that if they did not protest then we won't be enjoying now.

What they are enjoying I don't know.

Bobloco:
Those who organized, sponsored, and financed the 2012 Ojota protest against subsidy removal have now taken credit for removing the very subsidy they once opposed. This development underscores one clear reality: their actions were driven by political motives rather than genuine patriotism

Mad. Oh
The. Fatty frog jump. Go funny.

This. Sandra duru must be a female vampire.

H

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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters taken into custody after demonstration at Columbia University library



CNN
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Dozens of people were taken into custody by the New York Police Department at Columbia University after a pro-Palestinian protest in an area of the main library on campus Wednesday.

The large demonstration comes as universities including Columbia face the threat of funding cuts from the Trump administration, which has canceled hundreds of international student visas following the wave of protests against Israel’s war in Gaza that swept campuses last year.

Columbia University officials asked the NYPD to help secure Butler Library Wednesday night, after protesters’ actions caused “substantial chaos” and “posed a serious risk to our students and campus safety,” acting university President Claire Shipman said in a statement.

“I spent the late afternoon and evening at Butler Library, as events were unfolding, to understand the situation on the ground and to be able to make the best decisions possible,” Shipman said.

“I arrived to see one of our Public Safety officers wheeled out on a gurney and another getting bandaged,” Shipman added.

“As I left hours later, I walked through the reading room, one of the many jewels of Butler Library, and I saw it defaced and damaged in disturbing ways and with disturbing slogans.”

“Violence and vandalism, hijacking a library—none of that has any place on our campus. These aren’t Columbia’s values,” Shipman said.

At least 80 people were taken into custody, the Associated Press reported, citing the police, though it is unclear how many of those people came from the protest inside the library building.

Charges are pending against the individuals, the NYPD said earlier. It’s unclear what charges they may face.

CNN has reached out to the NYPD for further details.

Columbia had earlier said there was a “disruption” in reading room 301 of Butler Library – about two days before final exams are scheduled to begin at the university. Protesters entered the room around 3:15 p.m. ET, CNN affiliate WABC reported.

Video from inside the library earlier Wednesday shows public safety officers confronting protesters, who were being blocked and pushed from the library doors as some yell, “let them out!” “Stop! You’re hurting me!” one protester is heard shouting.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on X around 7 p.m. ET that “NYPD is entering the campus to remove individuals who are trespassing.”


At the direct request of Columbia University, the NYPD responded to an ongoing situation on campus where individuals have occupied a library and are trespassing,” an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. “Multiple individuals who did not comply with verbal warnings by the NYPD to disperse were taken into custody.”

Videos from the scene showed officers escorting at least 15 people from the building in zip ties and taking them to an NYPD bus down the block. Officers with crowd control gear, including riot helmets and batons, are seen as the crowd chants “Free Palestine.”

In one video, at least one public safety officer bent an individual over what appears to be a desk, handcuffing them. Another person assisting with the detainment approached the person recording the video, saying “Back up!”

Protesters – who are asking for the university to divest from companies that have ties to Israel – called for the library to be renamed the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” according to a Substack post from Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Al-Araj, a Palestinian activist, was killed in an Israeli raid in 2017.


At the direct request of Columbia University, the NYPD responded to an ongoing situation on campus where individuals have occupied a library and are trespassing,” an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. “Multiple individuals who did not comply with verbal warnings by the NYPD to disperse were taken into custody.”

Videos from the scene showed officers escorting at least 15 people from the building in zip ties and taking them to an NYPD bus down the block. Officers with crowd control gear, including riot helmets and batons, are seen as the crowd chants “Free Palestine.”

In one video, at least one public safety officer bent an individual over what appears to be a desk, handcuffing them. Another person assisting with the detainment approached the person recording the video, saying “Back up!”

Protesters – who are asking for the university to divest from companies that have ties to Israel – called for the library to be renamed the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” according to a Substack post from Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Al-Araj, a Palestinian activist, was killed in an Israeli raid in 2017.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/07/us/columbia-university-library-protest

If Akapbio does not see natashas period he will not rest. Sm

The word ACCIDENT is English. When things like this happen, to know who is at fault matters.

frankson1:
The same functional system killed him

Why una no dey apply small reasoning sense

When a system is functional, the law will prevail.

Not like Nigeria by now adjournment mean the case will die prematurely.

The way insecurity is going in Nigeria. It will take more than academy to fix.

If the state actors and non state actors are not thoroughly dealt with.

The use of police or army will just be for show off.

Borno state is that not the vice president state.

VP shettima is a boko haram sympathiser,

NA can not defeat BH without shetimmas consent.

You have said your own side.

Now can you go to a restaurant, after eating, they add 3 or more customers bill to yours and ask you to pay. Will you pay.

With prepaid meter there's no need for subsidy crap..

Why people have apathy for discos is( NEPA)
Not Enough Power Always.

nairalanda1:
The fact is, most of the country is underpaying your local disco.

It costs N160-170 to make one unit of electricty. Band A consumers are the only ones who pay above that, and they form less than 20% of consumers and not all of them pay

Most of the country pays subsided bills. And at least 37% do not pay anything naitionwide, or drastically underpay, or bypass their meter...because 'we are poor'.

THat means discos lose money. And thus cannot provide you with improved service, or attract investment that would bring in improved service.

The EEDC like other power disco company in Nigeria are mad

People are just paying for darkness in this country.

EEDC staff need military treatment, I mean. Enuf beating.

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Russia’s Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine




Moscow
Reuters
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President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons.

Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe’s biggest ground conflict since World War II and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed or injured and US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the “bloodbath” that his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia


In a film by state television about Putin’s quarter of a century as Russia’s paramount leader titled “Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years,” Putin was asked by a reporter about the risk of nuclear escalation from the Ukraine war.

“They wanted to provoke us so that we made mistakes,” Putin said, speaking beside a portrait of Tsar Alexander III, a 19th century conservative who suppressed dissent. “There has been no need to use those weapons … and I hope they will not be required.”

“We have enough strength and means to bring what was started in 2022 to a logical conclusion with the outcome Russia requires.”

Trump has been signaling for weeks that he is frustrated by the failure of Moscow and Kyiv to reach terms to end the war, though the Kremlin has said that the conflict is so complicated that the rapid progress Washington wants is difficult.


Former US President Joe Biden, Western European leaders and Ukraine cast the invasion as an imperial-style land grab and repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine.

Putin portrays the war as a watershed moment in Moscow’s relations with the West, which he says humiliated Russia after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 by enlarging NATO and encroaching on what he considers Moscow’s sphere of influence.

Trump has warned that the conflict could develop into World War III. Former CIA Director William Burns has said there was a real risk in late 2022 that Russia could use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, an assertion dismissed by Moscow.


Putin in power
Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 by an ailing Boris Yeltsin, is the longest serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, who ruled for 29 years until his death in 1953.

Russian dissidents – most now either in jail or abroad – see Putin as a dictator who has built a brittle system of personal rule reliant on sycophancy and corruption that is leading Russia towards decline and turmoil.

Supporters cast Putin, who Russian pollsters say has approval ratings of above 85%, as a savior who pushed back against an arrogant West and put an end to the chaos which accompanied the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/04/europe/putin-speech-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-intl-latam

Audio reserve. Cardoso the LAPO banker cum CBN governor under tribal nepotism.

Cadoso lacks substance under your watch naira is useless.

Our Dollar reserve has dwindled due to mismanagement.

The next step for cardoso is for CBN to collect Ajoo.

What a DAFT.