₦airaland Forum

BeeBeeOoh:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/03/08/fg-encouraging-insurgency-by-paying-ransom-to-criminals-says-fayose/

Wish jonathan was able to pay ransom to retrieve the Chibok girls rather he was scammed of a whooping $40m, fvcking clowns

Angelanest:
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West senatorial district in the national assembly has accused the Kogi state government of importing prohibited items such as military uniforms, bullet proof vest, night vision goggles, tactical boots among other things.

According to the senator, a committee which was set up immediately after he notified them - proceeded to the airport earlier today to see the contraband items.

Below is what the senator shared on Facebook;

I raised a point of Order today that Kogi State Govt imported prohibited items. Military Uniforms,bullet proof vest,night vision goggles, tactical boots, military belts etc.

A committee was set up immediately and they proceeded to the Airport. Jerry Omolara SA security to Kogi State Governor is involved. Kogi is in trouble. But God is above man. - SDM

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/03/dino-melaye-accuses-kogi-government-importing-military-items-see-photos.html

cc; lalasticlala, mynd44

Wisdomkosi:
Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu  has bought 7th jet code named  OUK-N7. See photos below

See more photos here : http://igberetvnews.com/431644/orji-kalu-buys-7th-private-jet-code-named-ouk-n7-see-photos/

Mztarstrechy:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan was pictured as he stepped out for Sierra Leone election.He also passed an important message to them and said....

'Out early on election duty in Freetown this morning. My message to the people of Sierra Leone today is the same as my message to democracies all over the world-no one’s political ambition is worth the blood of any citizen. As such we must uphold the sanctity of one man, one vote, one woman, one vote, one youth, one vote today and for all times'

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/03/goodluck-jonathan-steps-out-for-sierra.html?m=1

dederocs:
The Nigerian government has written to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom and the United States of America after discovering hidden assets owned in the three countries by Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. In the letters written to the UAE and USA, Mr. Fowler is relying on the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI), a multi-jurisdictional instrument for exposing hidden assets and incomes, to which Nigeria is a signatory. The AEoI, which kicked in Nigeria on January 1, was conceived to stop illicit financial flows.
The Nigerian government has written to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom and the United States of America after discovering hidden assets owned in the three countries by Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
In the letters written to the UAE and USA, Mr. Fowler is relying on the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI), a multi-jurisdictional instrument for exposing hidden assets and incomes, to which Nigeria is a signatory. The AEoI, which kicked in Nigeria on January 1, was conceived to stop illicit financial flows.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu
Mr. Ekweremadu’s properties in the UAE were exposed by a whistleblower. In the country, the Deputy Senate President owns eight properties. Among... see more at-
https://newsnaija07..com.ng/2018/03/nigerian-politicians-and-hidden-foreign.html

ivandragon:
its not a function of anyone being 'gullible', you have raised a good question but the fact remains, between yourself & Sahara Reporters, who would have a higher rating of believability?



SR ain't perfect, in fact that have been known to embellish stories to suit certain narratives, but they have access to information that might not be in the public domain & recall that a journalist was recently arrested & released by the DSS for revealing sensitive information on the swap deal, information that if say, i had told you about, you would have questioned my credibility.


so until a reliable source can counter SR, it is safe to hold their narrative 'in trust' until it is busted or further clarification is made.



however, it doesn't take away the fact that the BHT exchanged in the swap deal would go back to carrying out operations for BH.

dre11:
https://www.thecable.ng/verge-collapse-13-gencos-drag-fg-court

LourlahSuzanne:
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So gradually Lagos state is turning into London where one pay tax on every single property u own...Just this morning did some govt workers from my local govt council(Agbado Oke Odo) brought a levy notice to my area, Radio and television levy fee, which is compulsory for every residential building in lagos the fee rate are;
ROOMS-#200
FLATS-#500
DUPLEXS-#1500....well d bill now depends on how many rooms/flat u have in a house and yeh their are discounts for bungalow building..the good part of it is that we pay per annun at least we thank God it was not every month

kaluxy007:
And all of a sudden they could no longer dance again instead Boko haram are the ones doing the dancing

Judging from what happened last week where soldiers were tied and executed in their own camp i can confidently say the north has inflicted on itself a great plague that won't stop soon


Unfortunately people from that region will keep on shouting sai baba and when we call them zombies they come for our heads

abiodunalasa:
Bros you can always share your counter views without passing insults and mudslings

Thebest12:
Atiku reacts to Mambilla attack, calls for justice

Former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the attack on Mambilla, which left many dead on Sunday.

About 20 persons were reported killed and 300 cows stolen, following a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence on the Mambilla Plateau in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State, on Sunday.


The former Vice president expressed sadness at the increasing rate of violence in Mambilla

He urged security agencies to ensure that culprits were brought to book in order to avoid a repeat of the same incident.

“It breaks my heart that the Mambilla has lost its serenity to violence and avoidable deaths.

“It is important that we bring culprits to justice else others will be emboldened to thread the same path as the resurgence of violence in Mambilla has shown,” Atiku tweeted.
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Source: http://www.rationaltv.com.ng/2018/03/batiku-reacts-to-mambilla-attack-calls.html?m=1
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bidexiii:
He was a giant. His commitment to the causes that he adopted, and there were
many, was beyond unique.

He was commander that led from the front...

Rest in peace BIG BOSS LT COL WEHLA MAMUDU.

bidexiii:
If you're wondering why the UN and other development agencies evacuated.. Here's why... Boko Haram is a deadly terrorist group .

ManirBK:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/2019-atiku-to-formally-declare-in-two-weeks.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3037619506

tdayof:
Exclusive: Nigeria interested in acquiring Russian S-400 ground-to-air missile system.

The Nigerian defence minister confirmed the interest in buying S-400 missiles from Russia, the same missile defence system was recently sold to its allies, Iran and Turkey. Nigeria interest in this air defence systems will make her the first user in Africa with Algeria operating older versions.

Nigeria is interested in purchasing the same Russian missile defence system recently sold to Iran and Turkey, Nigeria's defence minister revealed.

Nigerian military authorities have voiced an official interest in buying advanced S-400 air and missile defence systems from the Russian Federation. Nigeria's efforts to enhance its defensive strategic military capabilities is necessary as the country do not posses a strategic missile defence system. For some years now it has sought to have a long-range missile defence system of its own, as it is currently relying on old Roland air defense systems.

nemesis4u:
That is not advisable , one of the rules of intelligence never eliminate potential sources in bed with undesirables etc. They r move valuable active than inactive.

keeping them under surveillance without tipping them leads to potential intelligence which otherwise is impossible to collect.

Why do u think terrorist chatrooms , known profiles , IDs r not shut down becz they r under heavy surveillance.

barineh:
How this woman is free speaks lots of our security situation. I've been reading lots of her interviews and she seems to be in bed in Boko Haram.

jakeporeshenko:
Not a single sentence in this is wrong IMO. It’s like a simple rule of thumb, an insurgency (any type) cannot exist in an area without being embraced by the local people ! Why is the North West (sokoto and it’s surrounding environs) relatively safe today ? Because the elites came together and rejected this ideology from the start!

We don’t need to fool ourselves here

Xbee007:
BHTs have always enjoyed tacit supports from its hundred of thousands of sympathizers in the North which is why any Imam that publicly criticize the group, for its atrocities, is automatically signing his death warrant. Even if BHTs don't necessarily have foot soldiers in that locale.

Take Kano and Kaduna for instance, dozens of Imams have been assassinated by the group's sympathizers. We shouldn't forget the Kano 2014 bombing that saw well over 200 souls lost just because Sanusi Lamido spoke against BHTs.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/bomb-blasts-kill-200-kano-central-mosque/

I can recall the premature explosion that occurred in a built-up area in Kaduna several years ago. The bomb maker, his toddler, wife and some family members died when karma struck them in their home(that doubles as IED making factory. The bomb maker was just a civilian who suddenly decided that he would be making bombs for BHTs. He did succeed in killing hundred of people.

There are homes you will see in the North with glaring anti-west graffitis written on their walls, typical of terrorist organizations. The North fostered and nurtured Boko Haram, especially the fundamentalist Muslim population in Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto and Borno. And the only reason they are screaming blue murder now is because BHTs focuses most of its attacks on Muslims population.

Walahi, if it had been Christian and other minority groups bearing the brunt of this psychoes alone, they wouldn't have given enough hoot.

CaptainStephen:
oga I understand you well, I am speaking about some of these ROOT causes traceable to the early fifties before AQIM, MAJAO and others came to light. These are after shocks and more will still come in my own opinion. Don't mix the growth of terrorism in Nigeria to the Sahel. Unlike the Sahel where clamour for independence turned insurgency by indigenes seeking for a state of AZAWAD, the Libyan and Sudanese connection giving birth to AQIM, Ours have steamed from roots involving religious intolerance, perpetually encouraged indoctrination allowed to continue due to ignorance and poverty.
These were all cracks on the walls which finally lead to the collapse of what we sadly have now. I could go on and on but there is a limit to what I can say before I end up somewhere nasty.

CaptainStephen:
He has a point actually. Majority of the core BHT started from their participation in some of these religious violence. The house rat simply invited the bush rat inside.

like I advised him, research about intl terrorism, what you for example what we call boko haram is actually an assortment of ISWA, AQIM & FLM just to give you a clue, you may be at the fore front,however, you may not have an idea how big what you are dealing with.

Kalapizim:
Don't get me wrong oh, yes Muslims are also targeted but the main genesis of this conflict has roots from previously condoned religious conflicts which several government administrations failed to prevent. It sad to see irresponsibility of the past snowballing into what we have now.

Xbee007:
Jpphilips, this people don start their stupid religious war again. They are the major reason we can't have state police in Nigeria.

tdayof:
Half Of Dapchi Schoolgirls Taken To Niger Republic 

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/half-of-dapchi-schoolgirls-taken-to-niger-republic.html

Can someone tell me how long after the kidnap ops started did the military get to know about it? ISR should have been deployed immediately. IMO, first response should have been immediate deployment of ISR platform. Later deployment means we will need additional Intel especially HUMINT which may not be readily available.

In as much as I praise the Nigerian military for their action and grounds towards ISWAP and BHT, it's no doubt that they really flopped. An abduction will either lead to a SWAP or ransom except you're willing to make them a statistics of collateral damages.

lionel4power:
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STANDING OVATION AT THE BOLDED.

APPLAUSE

Xbee007:
Look, I am not saying Federal Police should be abolished, even though they have failed time and again and are not performing their core mandate. State Police will exist under the jurisdiction/oversight of F.P.

Ironically, the states that are viciously objecting to S.P are those that are always prone to barbaric inter-ethnic violence. They are the one that are quick to slaughter other countrymen just because of some stupid Charlie Hebdo in France or Denmark's Miss World. I am sure you still remember those incidents.
And the likelihood of the civil war happening would have been greatly reduced if they didn't turn the North to slaughterhouse of other countrymen!

They said they are scared of Politicians turning State Police Officers to their personal thugs, so we should be stuck with this messed up system. Can you sincerely tell me that the Federal Police we have now are not personal thugs of politicians and civilians alike? Just this afternoon, I heard a story of how a wealthy "Madam" locked a 17yrs old teenager in police cells just for purportedly stealing less than 50cent worth of yoghurt. The boy was tortured right in front of his helpless and uneducated parents. (Me, I think they are just plain stupid cos I will never watch some overzealous buffoons treat my children bad.)

Obviously, there are States that are overripe for State Police in Nigeria, FG should use them as a pilot scheme to test run the proposal.

If it's State Police and True Federalism that will break Nigeria apart, then it simply means we should never have been together in the first place.

it is one thing to identify a problem, it is another to have the ability to solve it, what you just said is not a solution to the problem you earlier mentioned. State police was instrumental to the civil war you fought between 1967-1970, going back to a problem solved over 40yrs ago is proof you have very little knowledge about how we got here.
I have noticed lately that young people in our country who missed history lessons jump to the media to attack the structure of governance with no knowledge how and why it is the way it is at the behest of selfish politicians who careless about their interest.

Borno state vigilante/police may help you protect Dapchi girls in Yobe state today, when yorubas or igbos disagree on a subject, you will realize that localized force will easily take sides in every conflict, that is why the Nigerian security apparatus is decentralized, first proposed during the Aburi conference, carried over to the 1979 constitution till date, a brilliant panacea to our ethnic charged society, Americans don't have ethnicity problems therefore they can afford NYPD unlike Nigeria like most dolts advocate.

While the Lazy governors are planning how to use those state structures as legal thugs to rig elections, civilians like you give a voice to their !diocy founded on poor understanding or outright chicanery to manipulate the structure that favors them. While singing their opinion to us, it is smarter to ask what is in it for you?
If there is a misunderstanding between Igbos and Yorubas in Lagos state, on whose side will the Yoruba dominated state police be?
in a decentralized system, a Northern commander is deployed to maintain peace and order. This structure is the only fabric that has glued together our fragile ethnic charged society, in pre 66, when we ran the structure you proposed, we ended up in a civil war, why will you want to replay such tragedy out of ignorance? Im sure you think the COAS is a Borno man by accident right? well, the current structure gives us the opportunity to send a man from Borno who is hard hit by BHT tragedy.
In countries that operate state policing there is a structure called inter agency cohesion, that is practically non existent in Nigeria but citizens like you dont ever see the big picture but the myopic picture presented by selfish politicians fighting for their economic future.
State police will Destroy Nigeria!

Xbee007:
On the Dapchi School Girl Kidnapping.
Nigerian Government has succeeded in overstretching its military capability. Currently, there are just very few states in our country where one form of military activity or the other isn't ongoing. We adjudicate police work to military personnel as we sink deeper into this abyss of nonsense.

So, when smart and progressive folks suggested State and Community policing, some dotards were drooling "state folice my foot." Well where were the military and Federal police when the state and the community needed them most

What if we have State Police with each state training and arming its officers according to its immediate need? Do you think they would abandon their children so BHTs could easily capture them

Food for thought.