₦airaland Forum

Henry120: This is plaigarism now, why did dailypost.com not quote their source. They just copied and pasted the nationonline.net (nation newspaper), without even acknolwedging them in the report. This is just bad.

exxell: Is this the version of English we are using now or the one yet to be commissioned by GEJ in 2015 when the amount of half-baked graduates and undergraduates in Nigeria must have tripled? Please, this thing resembles broken German or even Russian. Its very far from English!

Ileke-IdI:
You've been hating on me, but I love you o.
Just saying.
Right now you're annoying ppl with your hate on this thread, but I love you lmao.

Beaf: Gbawe, I command you to post ya epistle.

Ileke-IdI:
Ouch!!! You just wan kill that guy sha

texazzpete: I don't know if you've got more money than I do. What I can say for sure is that you suffer from intellectual poverty which is a more virulent form of poverty.

190: They should switch off GLO and MTN netwrk tomorrow too

texazzpete: Another m0r0n.
I can't recall where anyone put a gun to your head and forced you to pre-order this phone. I can't also remember when you were anointed as the person to speak for everyone else.

I hope as investment crazy as you are, you take time out to remember just WHY you're investing.

mowk: Mukina2, you should desist from asking people to spend unwisely on this trash... We shd know how to double capital through wise investments, create multiple streams of income at a young age and not show offs. HEAR WORD!!!

texazzpete: It's not her fault that you're a poor man.

Let go of this bitterness in your heart and maybe the stranglehold of poverty will loosen its shackles on you.

playah P: The suspect is a nigerian! Be it Yoruba, igbo or hausa!!!!! We all nigerians!!!

Korrection: BY Ndahi Marama

MAIDUGURI—A heavy rainfall in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, from Wednesday evening till the early hours of yesterday, has displaced over 10,000 residents, with property worth millions of naira destroyed.

In Jajeri Moslem Cemetery in Maiduguri and Jere Council Area, over 500 dead bodies were washed up from their graves. A 10-year-old, who was buried two days ago, was also washed up.

The rainfall, which started at 5.00pm, Wednesday, stopped at 7.00pm; continued again by 2.00am till 6.00am, yesterday. The down-pour was said to be the heaviest in the state since the commencement of the rainy season.

The most affected areas are: Bullumkutu, Ajillari, Jajeri, London Ciki, Polo, Bolori, Ummarari, Maduganari, Gomari Airport, Gwange and Mary wards of the metropolis. Most of the residents in these areas had to stay indoors. Others were seen evacuating their property and laying the items under the sun and on trees to dry.

Mallam Bukar Maina, a resident, said the affected people have met and unanimously endorsed a letter to Governor Shettima to come to their aid.

Maina said: “This is not the first time we have taken our complaint to the governor on the devastating effect of flooding in the area due to our proximity to River Gadambul. But all our cries fell on deaf ears. We hope this time around the governor will listen to us.”

One of the victims of the flooding in Bullumkutu, who is a senior civil servant(names withheld), said the state government, under Governor Kashim Shettima, was paying lip service to the environment sector.

A woman, who gave her name as Hajiya Asabe Umara in Bolori area, described the situation as very pathetic and destructive.

She said: “It is by the grace of Almighty Allah that I was able to deliver a baby boy in our house this morning(yesterday).
“The massive flooding prevented any vehicle from coming to take me to a nearby hospital.”

Meanwhile, Governor Shettima has said the state government has awarded contracts worth N14 billion for the construction of roads and drainage in Bullumkutu, Dala, Abuja Talaka, Bullumkutu Tsalake, among other wards of the metropolis, to check flooding.

He said there was ongoing planting of over 10 million Arabic trees/seedlings across the 27 council areas of the state.
He said there was need for Borno State government to embark on massive construction of roads and drainage networks in the flood-prone areas of the state.

He said: “It is unfortunate that apart from some of my valuable documents and property which were destroyed, some section of my only hard-earned two bedroom bungalow was brought down by the flood. I am now totally confused as I have nowhere to go to with my family of 10.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/downpour-displaces-10000-in-borno-washes-up-500-bodies-from-graves/

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BY OLA AJAYI

IBADAN – It was a big shock, yesterday, at the palace of Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana, when the most- dreaded masquerade, Oloolu, and its entourage besieged the monarch with injuries allegedly sustained in a fracas between them and men of the state security outfit, Operation Burst.

The melee, which started Tuesday, worsened, yesterday, leading to the arrest of no fewer than 20 followers of the masquerade.

The masquerade which dismissed reports that it had been killed, complained bitterly about ”unprovoked attack” by some Islamic scholars.

How Oloolu was unmasked

Some parts of Ibadan city were embroiled in crisis when some muslims who were observing the eighth day fidau prayer of a colleague, at Popoyemoja, advised the masquerade and its supporters not to come to the area because there were women there who the masquerade should not see, according to their belief.

But the masquerade and its adherents allegedly ignored the warning.

The trouble, which later spread to Idi-Arere and Beere, among others places on Wednesday night, generated much tension in the affected areas.

The leader of the Oloolu family, Chief Ojetunde Asoleke, who led the team to the Olubadan Palace, appealed to the monarch to prevail on the police and the personnel of Operation Burst to release 20 of their men arrested.

He claimed that the mask of Oloolu was seized and later released to them.

He said: “We feel saddened by the report that our man was killed as this was farther from the truth. No doubt, he was badly wounded as you can all see (showing the wounds sustained by the Oloolu on his arm and head), but was not killed.

”The costume seized by the men of Operation Burst has been retrieved and the festival would resume in earnest.”

They threatened to come out today, but were prevailed upon that it negated the normal tradition.

amaham: What an ill fated metropolis. Durin de dry season is as hot as hell,if it rains it floods,durin harmattan is a combo of sandstorms,freezing temperature and flies invasion while all year round is a battle ground of terrorists.

bayooooooo: Sounds funny!