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Relax101:
Abuja – A 32-year old applicant, Ahmed Hassan, has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for wearing shoes into a mosque in Nyanya.

The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Nkwadimi Buba, however, gave Hassan an option of N2,000 fine.

Earlier, the police prosecutor, Cpl. Silas Nanpan, had told the court that the crime was reported to the Nyanya Police Station on Nov. 26 by one Umar Safe of Tipper Garage, Nyanya.

Nanpan said that the convict on Nov. 25 trespassed into the mosque and lay down there with his shoes on, knowing that the act was un-Islamic.

The convict could not give a satisfactory account of his action, he said, adding that the offence of criminal trespass contravened Section 348 of the Penal Code.

When the case came up for mention, Hassan pleaded guilty to the charge but begged the court for leniency.

Delivering judgment, Buba sentenced the convict to one month imprisonment with an option of N2,000 fine. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/applicant-gets-1-month-for-wearing-shoes-in-mosque/

afam4eva:
The tax should be collected by the state where they work and not where they live. You put your money where your mouth is.

duality:
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley has said that  his country’s government is in support of the planned removal of fuel subsidy in the country.
The ambassador made the statement in Abuja on Monday during a visit to the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu,  bla bla, bla

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/27953-u-s-supports-fuel-subsidy-removal-in-nigeria.html


OK now? its getting clearer .

Beaf:
Damn!

So you don't even know the location, but you are here ranting and walking all over your own tongue?
Wonders! Maybe you are a product of Oyes or OEducate!

So, from what perspective are you making your impish arguments? Na wa!
Abeg, face your front! It makes more sense to argue with rocks and stones than your type.

All hail Aregbesola, the most useless governor!

ekt_bear:
A good move. If they make it transparent (especially the financials), I'd be happy to contribute and encourage my friends to do so also.

Beaf:
Mugu, see your Aregbesola (Mr Tawai! Tawai!!) giving out "free" land at Shasha farm settlement.

http://dailyindependentnigeria.com/2011/11/10/aregbesola-a-unique-agenda-for-osun%E2%80%99s-agricultural-revolution/

Now, they are beating up the farmers.

[size=21pt]419! [/size]

Beaf:
Which step was the right one? Giving farmers land on a forest reservation or beating them off it after they had begun farming their "land gifts?" It looks very well like two wrongs to me. But Aregbe's zeal to make big news with high stories, while doing zero work, is to high to be bothered by a few puny morals.

Obiagu1:
OMG!

Beaf:
The farmers are now complaining, cos Osun state govt sent people to beat them up.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-813360.0.html

[size=21pt]Free land ke? High 419! [/size]

Ileke-IdI:
Really, is that so?

I fail to see how questioning unrealistic propaganda theory as an attempt to stop the world from making a huge U-Turn.


@Koruji
I appreciate your attempt at a professional explanation. But you're simply saying what Jakumo was saying, in a more refined and serious manner. However, I still disagree with the theory.

I think you should question Jakumo on his stance with this issue. Dude really this think this is a boko haram operative (hehee I'm a Covert Affair CIA agent  )

Beaf:
I asked the question on another thread some time ago. What is going on in the SW? The rate at which banks are being robbed there and the levels of violence employed are alarming.

Perhaps, this is Shina Rambo 2.0, regardless, they need to end dead.

@koruji
Well done with your wild, red-eyed boko haram conspiracy theories. One of these days you will win an Oscar.
Imagine suggesting that regions arm up, because of armed robbers. Even in the time of Anini, there were no such nonsensical suggestions; you're bursting the scales, bruv.

Omen100:
Come on guys, I never knew that some highly educated Nigerians can fall for this. I still remembered how the whole Niger-delta crisis thing started like an armed robbery. First this has nothing or little to do with BH, someone from that community knows about that job. No matter how sufficicated a job is, there must be an insider. Somebody somewhere is raising an army. If anyone in this forum has being following up, we all saw how the niger-delta crisis started, the kidnapping in the east, the BH problems up north & now robbery in the west. Please Nigerians, I can boldly say that, somebody somewhere is raising an army.

Ileke-IdI:
That's all the reason you've got to associate this robbery in TB with that of Boko haram, even though same has been happening pre-bokoharam?

You're right about one thing tho, your explanation is just from one rambling to another.

One could easily say that these robbers were copying the boko haram style robberies in order to have people talk like you're doing; posting propaganda theories about the robbery.

koruji: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=762401.msg9168851#msg9168851 Still tied to this idea that you are dealing with a cohesive group that one man can speak for. Didn't u state somewhere else that his killing is enough to show that there is more than one BH. The man acted because he, like the policy thinkers in Nigeria (he he he policy thinkers in Nigeria) thought the BH of yesterday is the same BH of today.

As the first item on the list suggested the message of eliminating him was to let the FG know that he was not in command of BH - at least the one carrying out the most deadly attacks at this point. This group has been directly taken over by another element. Methinks it is either al-qaeda or the fifth columnists of our armed forces. These are the people with the wherewithal to command assets of this nature. There is no doubt some politicians are complicit in this, but I bet they don't like the direction this is going at this point.

If there is really a politician within Nigeria commanding this type of assets then Nigeria's condition is even worse.

As I said elsewhere, GEJ needs to identify these groups (my list includes 4 but there may be others), their individual end games, and their network of operation (there are potentially 15 different ways these 4 groups may be combining efforts).

http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2011/11/26/explosions_gunshots_in_northeast_nigeria_city/
By Njadvara Musa and Jon Gambrell
Associated Press / November 26, 2011
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Sending your articleYour article has been sent. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—Explosions and heavy gunfire echoed Saturday night through a city in northeast Nigeria that's home to a powerful politician, witnesses and officials said, the latest major attack in a region home to a radical Muslim sect.

It wasn't immediately clear if there were any casualties. The attacks began at 7:30 p.m. Saturday (1830 GMT; 1:30 p.m. EST) in the city of Geidam in Nigeria's Yobe state, which sits near the country's arid border with Niger, authorities said.

Witnesses told The Associated Press that many in the city hid inside their homes after the fighting immediately following evening prayers.

"We started hearing a deafening blast -- boom, boom," said witness Grema Umaru, 39. It followed "with sporadic gunshots near the police station."

Umaru said she believed the attackers also targeted a nearby First Bank PLC branch, though she remained hidden inside of her house to avoid being wounded.

State police commissioner Sulaiman Lawal confirmed the city came under attack, but declined to offer any further details. The city is the hometown of Yobe state Gov. Ibrahim Geidam, who uses the city's name as his last name as is customary for many in Nigeria's Muslim north.

While authorities declined to say who they suspect in the attack, it mirrors other assaults recently carried out by a radical sect known as Boko Haram. The group has launched a series of attacks against Nigeria's weak central government over the last year in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across the nation of more than 160 million people.

Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a Nov. 4 attack on Damaturu, Yobe state's capital, that killed more than 100 people. The group also claimed the Aug. 24 suicide car bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria's capital that killed 24 people and wounded 116 others.

Little is known about the sources of Boko Haram's support, though its members recently began carrying out a wave of bank robberies in the north. Police stations have also been bombed and officers killed.

Boko Haram has splintered into three factions, with one wing increasingly willing to kill as it maintains contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia, diplomats and security sources say.

Recently, Nigerian authorities arrested a member of the country's National Assembly and accused him of being involved with the group along with other politicians. However, even politicians with ties to Boko Haram can no longer consider themselves safe. Politicians in Maiduguri, the city that is Boko Haram's spiritual home, and other places in the northeast now surround themselves with security and live in apparent fear of the sect.

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Jon Gambrell reported from Lagos, Nigeria and can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jongambrellap

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Saadatu Mohammed in Gombe also contributed to this report.

© Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Kobojunkie:
An African village with even half those amenities you mean.

Akanbi_edu:
Since whatever he says is either seen as hausa/fulani or Islamic agenda, is it not better to keep quiet? It was easier to speak against Yar'adua.

Besides, I guess his opinion should support. He is not an elected official afterall. Jonathan has the mandate of the Nigerian people, so whatever Jonathan decides is the voice of the people.

13volts:
you guys shud look inward and stop blaming BH for everything that happened. Use of dynamite to blow bank vault or police apc  Is a common practice in the southeast and southsouth. infact in Aba a year ago money were only moved with the use of helicopter and even at that they the armed robbers threaten to use rocket proppel grenade. sending notice prior to a robbery has been happening in the SE AND SS. maybe you guy are seing this kind brave commando robbers for the first time. Mind you most of the banks robbed in the north attributed to BH took place in rural areas. None has taken place in even a semI urnban area.

Ask those that witness the incidents if they saw one Single mallam  all na nbati people

13volts:
just as BH have graduated into full blown terrorist organization, you expect Nigeria armed robbers especially those in the southwest to have perfected American style robbery.
by the way do you guys think no banks exist in the north or you think all the banks in kano or kaduna don't carry enough cash that will tempt BH to cash on. or you guys think BH are fools by risking  going to an unfamiliar territory just to bundle some millions. pls think twice

Jakumo:
By the miracle of modern technology and the Global Village, I can share this exclusive blow-by-blow account of the Thanksgiving Day turkey shoot that went down in Shagamu, Nigeria on November 24, 2011.  

Eyewitness accounts from the scene of today's carnage describe an operation conducted with clockwork coordination and overwhelming force of military arms.  Interestingly, smoke grenades were deployed at one or more of the bank locations set upon by this large, well-equipped gang.   Under cover of the resultant curtain of dense white smoke from the grenades, demolition explosives were used to remove the entire front walls from each of the three targetted banks, exposing the bank lobbies to the street outside, whereupon technicians moved in and detonated more charges to blow vault doors off.

Along with this first-time use of smoke grenades to obscure the view of bank raids in progress, one or more long-range snipers accompanied the gang on this foray, placing shots from distances estimated at several hundred yards, which killed the driver of an approaching vigilante group vehicle, and shattered the leg of the group leader sitting beside the dead driver, to the utter disbelief of witnesses.   With the available police teams having fled the scene when the first dynamite charges went off, and the bullet-proof magic talismans worn by the vigilante leader so dramatically exposed to be absolutely ineffective, all remaining vigilante men fell back in panic, leaving the field open for the gang to load up a dedicated SUV with heavy bales of cash from the bank vaults.

With the afternoon's agenda concluded to the satisfaction of the invaders, they departed, firing continuously as they slowly drove off in three vehicles - a sedan loaded down with the bulk ammunition supply, a passenger bus to carry the large contingent of gunmen, and the SUV strictly to convey the cash harvest.   Smoke clouds from the grenades reportedly hung in the air for a solid hour after the visitors had taken their leave.  Over twenty civilians were hit by stray shots fired at stampeding crowds by the gang, and of those, an unknown number have died.  Reports that an additional four vigilante men were cut down remain unsubstantiated for now.

Even by Nigerian standards, this was one humdinger of a robbery, to say the least.   The terrorist connection must not be ignored by Nigeria's security agencies, especially in the context of recent terror attacks and similar robberies by fundamentalist types in the north of Nigeria.

oyb:
sending letters ahead of time is not an unusual tactic of nigerian armed robbers, especially when the police are either uesless cowards or active co conspirators

the incompetence of our fg, and the period(ember montghs) have emboldened armed robbers

there was a report this morning about how banks in ondo were all shut.

i also believe that soldiers are often members of armed robbery gangs.


the same ish is happening in ph from what i hear

crazy fking country

adamabdul:
The guy arrested was never a boko haram member but some fools sitting probably in lagos wil come and argue that he is

freezy:
Its already in the news. . .

http://lindaikeju..com/2011/11/blood-bath-in-sagamu-ogun-state-armed.html?m=1

This is hideous

namfav:
sss is targetting the wrong people, they are miles away from the root problems and i speak from studying this, if we had smart people the problem would have been deal with in 2005, in a more effective way than what we've been seeing in recent years, nigeria has to brace herself for worse, we've allowed ourselves to be weak and ignorant of existence of society, this can only bring us closer to an all out war as this is becoming more regionalised and more generaised

[size=14pt]Nigeria sect 'spokesman' claims Al-Qaeda links[/size]

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A purported spokesman for Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed on Thursday that the group, blamed for attacks including the suicide bombing of UN headquarters in Nigeria, has links with Al-Qaeda.

"It is true we have links with Al-Qaeda," the man identifying himself as Abul Qaqa told reporters in a phone conference in the Hausa language spoken throughout Nigeria's mainly Muslim north. "They assist us and we assist them."

Abul Qaqa has claimed to speak on behalf of Boko Haram on a number of previous occasions. He did not provide further details on the supposed link.

He said "any Muslim group that is struggling to establish an Islamic state can get support from Al-Qaeda if they reach out to them."

There has long been speculation, particularly among Western nations, over whether Boko Haram has formed links with outside extremist groups, including Al-Qaeda's north African branch.

Boko Haram has been blamed for scores of attacks in Nigeria, including the August suicide bombing of UN headquarters in the capital Abuja that killed at least 24 people.

The group is believed to have a number of factions with varying aims.

Nigeria's secret police alleged this week that some Boko Haram members have links to politicians following the arrest of another alleged spokesman for the group.

Abul Qaqa refuted the secret police claims during the phone conference, while also threatening to kill a political figure in the northeastern state of Borno as well as attack political party offices.

He issued the threat against Baba Basharu, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Borno, because of comments he reportedly made linking Boko Haram to former Borno state governor Ali Modu Sheriff.

Basharu reportedly said Sheriff had allied with the group, but then the two sides had fallen out, causing Boko Haram members to turn against the then-governor.

Nigerian politicians have long been accused of using gangs as muscle or to help rig elections, and links between Sheriff and Boko Haram members have been alleged a number of times.

"The Borno state PDP chairman Baba Basharu should note that he is now on our death list for claiming that we had a link with former governor Ali Modu Sheriff," Abul Qaqa said. "We are going to eliminate him."

Sheriff is a member of the All Nigeria People's Party, currently in power in Borno state. The PDP dominates politics nationally, but is the opposition in Borno.

Abul Qaqa also said that "our next targets of attack will be political party offices , and all buildings where political party posters are posted will also be targets.

"We are calling on members of the public who have rented out their buildings to political parties to immediately convert them to other use. All posters, flags, logos of political parties should be removed from the buildings.

"Similarly, anyone who adorns his house with the symbol of any political party should remove it or else the building will be burnt down."

The purported spokesman said Boko Haram had two conditions for dialogue with the government, describing them as "implementation of sharia in Nigeria and the withdrawal of troops from Maiduguri."

A military task force has been deployed to the northeastern city of Maiduguri in a bid to stop Boko Haram, but soldiers have been accused of major abuses, including killing civilians and burning their homes.

Islamic sharia law is in place in 12 states in northern Nigeria, but it is selectively enforced.

[size=14pt]. . .just ploys by the SSS to discredit the name of the group and create distraction in its activities[/size]

EzeUche:
This is nonsense! What gives him that right?

I can see how this law can be abused. Politicians will enrich themselves.

Saint Fashola doesn't seem like a saint anymore.

Olowojègúrè:
Very soon the Americans will invade nigeria once it perceive that that Nigeria is no longer being a loyal slave or any chronic threat that may obstruct the flow of oil from Nigeria to the United State. I know you these mugu will sit down and be looking at them

igbo2011:
There are some more videos of Rivers State here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Li6GOpzcI&feature=channel_video_title


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3gvIxcae_Y&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3hVyBwTUc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1rjXx7DEl8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Olowojègúrè:
How can you be calling a criminal syndicate an Islamic group! You should know that they are two different thing, probably you are one of those desperate christain propagandalist. Sorry o! I dont intend to insult you.

BIGER BOY:
as much as i respect your concern, i still dont buy that logic.

even in the up north u talk about, lots of crime go on unchecked due to the lazy azz law enforcement authorities and to some extent electorate. these days in other to shelve further investigation every crime is just generalized as BH, case closed! yes there are BH crimes and there are the usual political assasinations, bank robbery etc and other crimes that have here with us since b4 BH. but if we continue to support this lazy azz popos by acepting hook line and sinker without investigation or infact evidence that every crime can be conviniently called BH, then we r in for a long one.

going by the logic, BH normaly clames responsibility they dont need romour mongerers for that, and if they need money couldnt they have conviniently make 'withdrawals' up north, or is the bank the most populated place for mass maiming, or is thier plan to drive with all that cash back up north, or deposit it in the nearest bank of the north?

common lets not encourage lazy policing by our security outfits, lets demand progress of investigations, and evidence for claims,

BIGER BOY:
JAKUMO, haba i thought you were smatter than this now,

so every tom Joystick and harry criminal is now BH? I now see why the SSS came up with their wild goose chase, because they knew they will have pple to believe such crap.

and since when were certain acts more criminal than others? just because robbers used to rob bank without killing anyone (which is far fetched) it means they are SW approved robbers while the latest is NE approved or BH? what a way of deductive reasoning

when news papers published some times back some travellers who were trampled upon with luxirious bus by armed robbers because they had no money on them, so they were also BH robbers.

they say if you know your problem you are half way already to solving it. But it seems some pple dont have the slightest idea what our problems are?

Jakumo:
There was nothing imaginary about what went down in that town, Bawws.  The numerous injured bystanders who ultimately survive their gunshot wounds will certainly remember today as one of pure, unrelenting terror, while the dead have become alarming statistics that describe an entirely new level of brutality being inflicted by bandit militias, who in the past were clinical and merciful to onlookers during the course of their robbery operations. 

The only conjecture I will concede centers on the IDENTITIES AND MOTIVES of these terrorist gangs now raiding banks in southern Nigeria, and what on earth they could possibly hope to achieve by using bystanders for target practice with military hardware.    The reputation of Boko Haram is blood-soaked enough already, so there is no harm engaging in a little deductive reasoning with respect to their next level of escalation, and whether these recent bank robberies are in fact the handwork of terrorists rather than mere thieves, as growing numbers of observers now suspect.