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elizabeth doe lost. there is justice after all

who sang that old song

ashewo no be work o
na management o

does anyone know?

polls or results?

please can they do this quick.

our gene forbids such but majority of these girls are already hookers. dont you have eyes?

hausa and drugs? nawao knew they did guoro and ashewos didnt know they do drugs this much

North worst in drug cases - NDLEA

Kola Oyelere, Kano - 04.11.2008

THE chairman of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Alhaji Ahmadu Giade, has said that the number of drug offenders was higher in the North than in the South, despite the fact that the drugs were not produced in the North.

He said the agency had arrested 42,140 suspected drug traffickers between 1990 and 2007. Giade, at press briefing in Kano, said the agency’s first quarter report revealed that 57 drug suspects with 753, 980 kilogrammes of narcotics were arrested in Kano State, a number which, he said, was the highest in the country.

He said the Ekiti State command arrested 27 drug suspects and made the highest seizure of 53, 438.35 kilogrammes of drugs. Going by statistics, the NDLEA boss said it was glaring that the North had more people with drugs problem than the South, though the drugs were not produced in the North.

While also saying that consumption of other substances like lizard dung was also rampant in the North, Giade said 39,419 males and 2,721 females were arrested by the agency between 1990 and 2007.

He said 2,152,128.73 kilogrammes of Indian hemp and 18,304.25 kilogrammes of cocaine were seized within the period. http://www.tribune.com.ng/04112008/news/news5.html

ANGER + D = DANGER

always avoid angry people

what if you didnt have a car?

Oludave7:
No matter how tainted a brand may be ,if its yours you just have to promote it,we have no other country than this. No matter how much you appreciate another man's child he can not become yours.No matter how we appreciate other nations' domain ours still remain .ng. So the earlier we face this reality the better for us.

which nation owns .com, org, .net or .tv?

why not make your point rather than drag the usual other nations childish arguements into something you know is flawed. how would you feel being in ghana ( nigeria's next door neighbour) getting an email with a .ng extension?

goodluck with .ng

jay bee:
what was the quarel about?

good questionnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

they have been at it for ages in naija. the men who patronise them are not better, they all deserve one another. you cannot go into any good bank or hotel in naija without running into them now. it is not like most of them are hungry but greedy and morally bankrupt

KunleOshob:
very clear to us that tithing as no sound scriptural basis in christian doctrine

oga, what have you done about sound scriptures and christian doctrines? you sure have the spirit of argument with permanent residence permit on the inside of you

how can foreigners out do our own home grown boys at their own game? this is serious

T HE Peoples Democratic Party on Monday came under condemnation for directing governors elected on its platform to contribute a minimum of N50m each at a planned N10bn fund raiser scheduled for November 14, 2008 in Abuja.

According to the national leadership of the party, the N10bn will be used to build a befitting national secretariat for the party in Abuja.

Those, who in separate interviews with THE PUNCH, sternly criticised the governing party over the matter included the National Chairman of the Action Congress, Chief Bisi Akande; the National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, Mr.

Clement Ebri, and the National Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Alhaji Balarabe Musa.

But the National Chairman of the PDP Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, , dismissed the criticisms saying asking governors to contribute N50m each was no big deal.

A visibly angry Akande said the PDP’s directive to its governor was a vindication of his party’s stance that the ruling party was synonymous with fraud and corruption.

He said, “We have always maintained that the PDP is synonymous with fraud and corruption and that our country is unlucky to have the party in power at this point in its history.

“The PDP is like a farmer who decides to eat up his seedlings at the time of planting so there will be nothing for him to sow and therefore harvest.

“The party prefers to share our collective wealth among themselves and use part of the money to bribe the police and INEC in order to sustain itself in power. In the process, they leave Nigerians with nothing to harvest.

“Let me tell you that what the party is now trying to do is not surprising to us. The PDP is founded on a foundation of corruption. It germinated in corruption and has since been surviving on corruption.” Ebri said by directing its governors to dip their hands in the public till to pull out N50m, the PDP was fuelling corruption in the country.

He advised President Umaru Yar’Adua to take drastic measures to stop the PDP and the governors from abusing public funds.

Ebri said, “What the PDP is trying to do is a very unfortunate development. Things like this always sound like fairy tales.

“But if it is true, we are in trouble and corruption will never go away from our country. It is like the PDP is telling the governors to dip their hands in the public till.” Also speaking on the matter, Musa said the PDP’s directive to its governors was a clear manifestation of the “stealing” that the ruling party had been using its platform to perpetrate.

“Can you imagine anywhere in the world where the political party in power will ask its governors to bring out N50m from public funds for its use knowing that the money will be taken from the public till?” the former governor asked.

But Ogbulafor said, “The fact is that we want to raise funds to build our secretariat and we have given the governors a target. We believe it is better to do it through the governors rather than the state chapters of the party.

“The N50m we have asked them to contribute is not too much of an amount as far as we are concerned. The governors can raise the money through party faithful, businessmen and wellwishers. They can do it whichever way they decide.” The immediate past leadership of the party had already released N1bn for the commencement of work on the building of the 12-storey secretariat.

A Fund Raising Committee led by Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has been mandated to raise the balance of the contract cost.

Already, the committee has contacted state governors and other political office holders asking them to make financial contributions to the project through a designated account in Zenith Bank.

A project committee under the chairmanship of the Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, inaugurated in October 2007, is coordinating the construction of the proposed secretariat.

The financial commitment expected of the governor came at a time when the governors have agreed to build a N6bn “permanent secretariat” for the Governors’ Forum in Abuja and have each agreed to contribute N85m each in two installments. http://www.e-punch.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=04_11_2008_011_002&mode=1

these theives at work again

looks like a primary school site

Armed robbers lay siege to Lagos
Olalekan Adetayo

THIS may not be the best of times for residents of Lagos as armed robbers have literarily taken over the metropolis, unleashing terror on citizens.

In the last one week, it had been different tales of woes from most part of the state.

Mostly hit are highbrow areas such as Ajao Estate end of the International Airport Road, Ire Akari Estate in Isolo, Apapa GRA, FESTAC Town, Omole, Ogba, Ojodu, Ilupeju, Agege, Egbeda, Ogudu, Ikorodu, Yaba and Ketu among others.

The popular LagosIbadan Expressway known for the presence of the prayer camps of various religious organisations has also turned to the devil's haven as a result of the operations of men of the underworld.

While the National Chairman of the Action Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, escaped such a raid on that road on Thursday, a middleaged man (name withheld) is yet to recover from the trauma he went through during a similar encounter.

Investigations carried out by THE PUNCH showed that the mode of operations of the hoodlums is similar or the same in almost all the areas where cases of robbery were reported in recent times.

The armed bandits are either operating on motorcycles to dispossess unsuspecting members of the public of their valuables where there are traffic snarl or they gain entrance into residential building using a resident as bait.

In all these, however, victims say the hoodlums operate unhindered irrespective of the proximity of some of the crime scenes to police stations or the number of distress calls placed through to security operatives.

For instance, at about 2am on Sunday, armed bandits invaded the Ilupeju residence of a Lagos-based senior journalist who did not want his name in print.

During the operation that reportedly lasted for about one hour, valuables such as jewelry, telephone handsets, wristwatches and money were stolen from residents of the house at gunpoint.

The News Editor of a Lagos-based newspaper swallowed his own bitter dose of the men of the underworld's operation on Sunday evening shortly after he closed from work.

He arrived at his residence in the Isheri-Idimu axis of the metropolis about 11pm into the waiting hands of armed robbers who were already lurking around the premises.

Immediately the journalist's wife opened the gate of the house and he drove in, the hoodlums swooped on him, and locked him inside his car's trunk.

They reportedly drove the black Toyota Corolla car towards Iba-LASU Road before he was left off the hook after dispossessing him of his valuables, including the car, his telephone handsets and money.

"They pushed him out of the car and later gave him money enough to take him home for cooperating with them and drove the car away.

They are still searching for the car as I am talking to you now," a close associate of the traumatised journalists told our correspondent on Monday.

About four hours before that incident, an eight-man armed gang had invaded a house located on Aina Road, Ire Akari Estate, Isolo.

After dispossessing residents of one of the flats in the house of their valuable, the armed men left with a 2008 model dark grey Toyota Corolla car belonging to another resident.

A resident told our correspondent that although the car marked FX 847 EKY was later sighted when the robbers were finding their ways out of the area and the case reported at Ire Akari Police Station, policemen on duty claimed that they did not have enough weapons to confront the fleeing robbers.

"The robbers were not on speed because the owner of the car had already demobilised it with his phone. They only managed to move it with 'gear one'. But the policemen said they could not confront them.” "The irony is that we had to be moving from one police station to the other because they kept telling us that the incident did not happen under their jurisdiction. We ended up visiting three police stations: Ire Akari, Isolo and Aswani Police stations," the source added.

A female resident of Egbeda told our correspondent that she was contemplating relocating from the area because of the siege laid by robbers.

She said, "Do you know that we only have one police station: Gowon Estate Police station, in that stretch of Akowonjo-Egbeda Road? The robbers' siege is real. On Ogunlana Street alone, cars are being snatched at gunpoint daily with impunity.

Something urgent should be done by the police authorities as we approach the Christmas and New Year celebrations."

Despite these visible signs of a state under siege however, the Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Mr. Frank Mba, said that what was being witnessed was not a breakdown of law and order but "occasional challenges."

Mba, a superintendent of police, said such challenges became more pronounced and attract headlines when the victims were "celebrities or members of a critical sector."

He said when such "isolated cases" occurred, the authorities of the command return to the drawing board and review its strategies.

He said, "Overall, crime rate in Lagos is reducing.

However, we will look at these complaints with the view of finding out their veracity and mapping out fresh strategies to meet the challenges.

"Some of our current measures are the gradual improvement in training and logistics, improvement of intelligence capacity, increased motorised patrol, intensive collaboration with members of the public and high visibility policing."

These ugly developments are coming a few weeks after the Lagos State Government, through its Security Trust Fund, donated 10 Armoured Personnel Carriers, 1,000 AK 47 rifles, 1,000 bulletproof vests and helmets as well as ammunition to the state Rapid Response Squad to combat crime.

The command had a few days after the donation organised an exercise tagged "Show of Force" where they paraded the major roads of the metropolis showcasing the equipment.

The incidents are also coming in the wake of the introduction of joint militarypolice patrol codenamed "Operation Mesa" in the state. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-191427.0.html#msg3035572

Foreigners now rob freely on highways
By Sunday Aborisade, Ibadan
Published: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2008

Armed robbers suspected to be foreigners have taken over major highways in the country unleashing terror on innocent Nigerians after dispossessing them of their valuables.

Investigations by our correspondent in the last one week revealed that the robbers were usually armed with sophisticated weapons suspected to be pump action guns.

Eye witnesses who sighted them near the Ogere Toll Gate area of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway last Wednesday explained that the men of the underworld dressed like the Arabs.

A traveller, who escaped from their attacks last week and monitored their modus operandi from a short distance, said the robbers, numbering about 20, wore police uniforms.

Recounting his experience in an interview with our correspondent, an Ibadan chief who craved anonymity, said the incident occurred between noon and 1.00pm last Wednesday.

He said, “I was on my way to Lagos last Wednesday when I sighted the robbers operating on both sides of the Road near the Ogere Toll Gate. I saw people turning. I turned too.

“One of the occupants of my vehicle jumped down immediately and hid himself in the bush, watching the activities of the robbers. He witnessed the whole drama live!

“Many of the travellers attacked were shot and wounded after the criminals carted away their valuables worth thousands of naira.

“The most painful aspect of the unfortunate development was that the robbers operated freely for one hour only for the police to surface few minutes after the robbers had gone,” he lamented.

The Ibadan Chief, who said the incidence will linger in his memory for many years to come, noted that it was his first experience since he had been travelling on the highway.

He called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as the lives and property of Nigerians were no longer safe on the road. http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200811042591489

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* I ve met ex arm robbers in my travelling and according to the guy and with what i see b4 he actually told me he use to be a armrobber,all he was looking for is money to supress the oppression he gets from pple that have have and are oppressive the likes of Bankole buying bullet proof cars,other pple like that .STOP the oppression and pple will work and earn money legally.

Posted by: Ade , on Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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* hmmm 'the police arrived a few minutes (as if on cue)after the hour long robbery by robbers dressed in police uniform'. are we sure the police and the 'armed robbers dressed in police uniform' are not coordinating with each other.in other words the armed robbers are actually policemen.food for thought.

Posted by: Airlord , on Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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* Mr IGP where are ur men. Well done all what u know how to do is to chase shadows, Leave Ribadu alone except u want the wrath of God, a word is enough 4 d wise

Posted by: Kalakuta , on Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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* Tth problem ais that our borders are too porous,I can tell you that up to a thousand foreigners enter the country through the northern borders without proper documentation monthly at least that of Maigatari in Jigawa state .We should tighten our borders and prevent incursion of the neighbouring foreigners who will even compete for the little resources available includig employment

Posted by: BANKY , on Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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* Answer: A FAILED STATE

Posted by: BIAFRAN POUNDS, OWERRI , on Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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* were are the high way patrol police men?

Posted by: Aniekan , on Monday, November 03, 2008

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* Nigerians are slaves in their own country. If you do not get killed by armed robbers, the police will get you if one refuse the N20:00 tollgate. Further the lawmakers are solving this robbery problem by purchasing N82.8million bullet-proof cars each for themselves. The civilian population are in for more mayhem on our highways.

Posted by: Edmund Mushay Ezurike , on Monday, November 03, 2008

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* AND THIS IS THE MORE REASON WHY WE MUSTNT ALLOW BANK-OLE & HIS CO-CRIMINALS TO SOLVE ONLY THEIR OWN SECURITY PROBLEMS AND ABANDON US ALL, BY BUYING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF NAIRA WORTH OF BULLET-PROOF VEHICLES FOR THEMSELVES. IF THEY FEEL BULLET-PROOF CARS ARE THE ONLY SOLUTION THEY HAVE TO OFFER NAIJA 4 THE INSECURITY WAHALA IN NAIJA, THEN , THEY SHLD SHARE SAME OUT TO ALL NIGERIANS. SHIKENA !

Posted by: AUSTIN NWACHUKWU , on Monday, November 03, 2008

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* Its long happening in Agbor ,Delta state.

Posted by: oyedo , on Monday, November 03, 2008

another is selling it for 500Naira

abuse is always inevitable if we dont know the use/importance of anything. nigerians generally dont like paying for anything.

the question is what is a good woman worth? can you really pay a family for their daughter? most family are only asking for acknowledgement for a job well done and that the lady you met where ever is someones child. is that too much to ask for?

Infoseye:
The National Youth Service Corps [NYSC] has lamented the way banks in Nigeria use corps members posted to them for prostitution to woo customers.


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He said banks caught in this web are always rejecting any male corps member posted to them for the compulsory one year service, irrespective of the academic brilliance of such members.

Speaking yesterday at the meeting the press forum organized by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State council, the coordinator of the scheme, Anthony Ani, said his office had picked unending disagreement with some notable banks because of the way female corps members are being abused.

He said the concerned Banks often compel the corps members sent to them to undergo another test before being considered for acceptance, but would ensure that only females are given acceptance letter.

He said: "Banks are using our female corps members as prostitutes to get clients. We noticed that it is only our females that often have their needed ‘statistics’ no matter how good the males are."

Recalling his experiences with the banks, he said: "When I just came to Lagos State, the identified banks were rejecting our male corps members but secretly issuing acceptance letters to our females, I stopped the practice by refusing to post any corps members to banks."

He, however, the secretariat had reconciled with the banks after it was obvious that they had shown remorse, "They have come to me for reconciliation because obviously my action had eaten deep into them."

Ani condemned the attitude of some parents who always lobby and influence the posting of their wards to choice companies, saying such attitudes run in sharp contrast to the aims and objectives of the founding fathers of the scheme which was to make every Nigerian youth available and acquaint himself with other environments other than his immediate society.

He said though the scheme had achieved a lot within the last 35 years of its existence n, "There is still room for improvement because all we are talking about is developmental which is not static," he said.

He defended the high population of corps members in Lagos State, saying it was influenced by the high absorptive capacity of the state characterized by the large number of companies including the concession often given to married memberes and those with disabilities.

What do u think?

Lord have mercy. are they not using some of them for what they are already used to. what is the big deal?

naija "brand" is a brand i wont sell enemies. it is a tainted brand

spiked and ify. no fighting pls. tks

Cayon:
send a cold chill down ma spine

have not cried for ages. heard that live about 7:40am this morning. knowing a small 13yrs girl that needs protection can be so brutalised by adults in the presence of 1000 souls is unbelievable this day and age

olabowale:
A thirteen year old, regardless of her sexual history is just aperson to be forgiven. She may not have reached puberty, yet. But to have been raped, also, there isnt any justification for her losing her life for acts performed on her by individuals who are worse thn cattle!

In Islam, Allah spoke about mercy and forgiveness more than punishment and revenge. Allah emphasises that age of maturity is 40. We see that this late young soul was way less than 40. May Allah the Almighty forgive her and make her from th people of Paradise. May He strengthen her parents and her people to accept the loss and use her as a means of mercy and forgiveness for them, her loved ones.

I hope those vigilantes can have the backbones to do "justice" on the perpetrators of the evil act on her. I hope too that they search their soul and show anyone, either from Qur'an or Sunnah their justification for what they did. Considering the rulings that surrounds illegal sexual act, a person raped could not have been qualified as a willing perticipant of this illegal sex act! Even, if they have the most overwhelming evidence against her, the very fact that she said she was raped, nullified every shred of evidence.

Finally, Somalia has become a lawless society. Proof; is there a place for highsea piracy, which is the same as hijacking? Yet you see in the news segments where these people indulge in such evil. Could they be people who make the muslim prayers in full concentration? I doubt it, because they must be always ready to attack or be anticipating attacks from many quarters.

Not all acts have its grounding in Islam. The rape, and the killing of the raped, and hijacking are just some of these evil acts.

meaning not in the name of islam? i want you to read what your brother from kano said below and tell me which of the islam says yes they should be stoned to death? listen to that BBC link of the eye witness and tell me how any sane human being can bury a fragile 13yrs old for stoning.

muhsin:
If she was married and later (or eventually) captured having an illigitimate affair with another man, then yes, she should rightly be stoned to death.

muhsin:
I'm truly a Muslim. And I do believe in everything thats in the religion, Shari'a included. Yet, I see nowhere where a 13 year old girl would be lawfully stoned to death. Although, the stroy is not that lucid to tell us either that girl was married before or not. If she was married and later (or eventually) captured having an illigitimate affair with another man, then yes, she should rightly be stoned to death. But, if she is not, they did utterly wrong. And I darned well know and believe Allah will not let their devilish action unpunish now or then (hereafter).

do you do drugs or you have blue blood running through your system? are you supposed to be on some medications you forgot? how do you say madness in kano?

only £2?

listen to an eye witness to this barbaric crime being interviewed on the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7707000/7707683.stm

nigerians generally dont like paying for anything and take advantage of someone's goodness

Dis Guy:
I don't think you know much about nigeian poperties and income
you can't expect people to pay more than the prevaling rate especially
when facilities provided by the homeowners are just standard and in some cases
below standard even in the 'high brow' areas what with door handles coming off
no furnishing, loud noise doors, dark mouldy walls etec

what would be a prevailing rate to you dear sir? we give 24hrs electricity in some of our houses and you get some tenants talking about not having money to pay. yet they have money for food and petrol

my advice is if you can give your property to agents and dont get personal with tenants

nanayisha:
As a Muslim I have to be careful of my response with this post. firstly, I would like to say that I do not have full knowledge on this story, thus I can not give an opinion regarding the story. We always have to keep in mind that there is always two sides to a story. We only of one side which is based on according to.
secondly, I do belief this post belongs here. it is more suitable for the political forum, because this story has nothing to do with Islam. I don't know what the posters intention was, but i have to disagree with the post being here. Somalia as we all know, and I quote " is among the world's most violent and impoverished countries". There is no real leadership in Somalia. All Institutions have broken down and the country I believe resembles a country of lawlessness. I believe the Rape and the stoning if this events did occur is a symptom of the problems that is going on in Somalia. It is not natural for gang rape to occur in an organised Islam society, and then for jungle justice to be carried out is even more un-Islamic.
Thirdly, People who have real Knowledge of Islamic Law and Justice will know that such sentence can not be passed if events occurred as reported. There is either more to the story that we are unaware of, the people who ordered and carried out the stoning where totally wrong and there will have to answer to Allah, or the story was a fabrication
I reserve judgment and comment because I don't want to speak out of ignorance, please let us all try a little bit of that.

READ YOUR WRITE UP AGAIN AND SEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE WHO CLAIM ISLAM AS A RELIGION. you dont need to be religious to know this is wicked and evil. you are hoping the christians or hindus in somalia did this.

imagine for one sec you get an email requesting for business from an address bukky@sunshineltd.com.ng

hope it is not too expensive. most .com are $10. IF YOU SELL YOURS MORE THEN YUOU ARE LIKELY TO BE ON YOUR OWN.

GOOD LUCK

how did you guys kill this so young? sister nwando where arth thou? hope you and the family are well? God bless

of course i know that. very stingy. i know that.