Jashub: I wonder o. But on a more sincere note, I look forward to the UK giving sanctions to our politicians. At least it will put them in a position to admit they messed up big time.
Jashub: A balanced story is can't be found in this narrative. And the fact still remains : The Nigerian government gave direct orders to shoot an unarmed ENDSARS protesters.
Thank you, i just don't know what is hard in telling the truth by saying they ordered the shooting and they are sorry for their actions.
they are busy lying like Lai Mohammed like as if the youth don't know what and who did what.
You want amunike to do the work and the glory go to rohr ...of course amunike will not accept
And the plan. B
Sanusi that was banned by FIFA for taking bride .....have
Is there no other person
Amaju.,..?
upon seeing your post i did a quick search on the second option and this is the result,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisu_Yusuf I cant understand why our leaders at all levels seems to be daft and lack creative thinking.Why not think of Kanu/okocha in the first place before inviting yobo? Honest the rohr guy to me is just not it, just my opinion
debbiebianca2: A Nigerian lady, Olaide Oluwo is demanding justice after she was allegedly assaulted by Nigerian Army personnel in Sangotedo, Lagos on Wednesday, November 25.
According to a video shared online, Olaide said she was assaulted by the military personnel because she did not greet them
something is not right about this story, the guys don't look like solders and if at all they are which i still have my doubt ,they must be errand boys in the NA serving one oga house around the area. However, the issue must be investigated to ascertain what transpired between the duo. In saner clime army were not suppose to be outside barrack on unofficial engagement/arrangement or under any disguise but obodo naija na upside down.
I am seeing a second wave of protests but this time,not even the agent of government will be spared but I pray that a lot of our leaders make speedy restitution with this generation and find a way to ameliorate the suffering of the masses before its too late. The will of the people can't be subverted for too long.
Kwanza: Read the full letter by the Nigerian government below:
23 Nov. 2020
Mr. Jonathan Hawkins
VP, Communications
CNN Centre
Atlanta, Georgia
U.S,
RE: HOW A BLOODY NIGHT OF BULLETS QUASHED A YOUNG PROTEST MOVEMENT
Our attention has been drawn to an ‘investigation’ by CNN, entitled ‘How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement’ and aired on 18 Nov. 2020, in which the international news organization said it had ”uncovered that Nigerian security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters” at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, Nigeria, during the #EndSARS protest.
We write to put on record that the report did not just fall short of journalistic standards, it reinforces the disinformation that is going around on the issue, it is blatantly irresponsible and it is a poor piece of journalistic work by a reputable international news organization.
In the first instance, the report did not live up to the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness. According to the website www.ethics.journalists.org, ”balance and fairness are classic buzzwords of journalism ethics: In objective journalism, stories must be balanced in the sense of attempting to present all sides of a story. Fairness means that a journalist should strive for accuracy and truth in reporting, and not slant a story so a reader draws the reporter’s desired conclusion.”
Rushing to air such a momentous story without presenting the government’s side is inexcusable and indefensible. CNN said it contacted over 100 protesters and family members, but did not speak to one official of Nigeria’s federal government. While CNN said there was no response from the army and that officials of Lagos State would not speak in view of the Judicial Panel that is investigating the matter, it did not say what effort it made to speak with any official of the federal government.
The truth is that CNN did not even attempt to reach the federal government. Nima Elbagir, who presented the report and most probably led the investigation, is conversant with the Minister of Information and Culture, who is also the Spokesman for the Federal Government of Nigeria, yet did not say that she even tried to reach the Minister. It is therefore strange, to say the least, that she would rush to air such an important ‘investigation’ report without getting the government’s side. In other words, Nima, and by extension CNN, breached the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness.
Another serious breach by CNN, in its ‘investigation’, is that the network relied heavily on unverified footages it harvested from social media.
CNN was not present at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of the incident. Neither its reporter nor cameraman was there, but it relied on eyewitnesses. Well, this is fraught with danger. While experts say eyewitness testimony is a potent form of evidence, it is also subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases, Unlike CNN, a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Pidgin Service, Damilola Banjo, was at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night in question, and was quoted as saying soldiers shot sporadically into the air and not at the protesters – a direct contradiction of the position taken by CNN who relied on second and third-hand information.
In airing its ‘investigative’ report, CNN conveniently forgot that on Oct. 23rd 2020, it emphatically tweeted, from its verified twitter handle, that the military killed 38 people when it opened fire on
peaceful protesters on Tuesday, Oct. 20th 2020. Almost a month later, the same CNN – after a supposedly exhaustive investigation – is now reporting only one death from what the world was made to believe was a massacre. Is CNN not embarrassed by this sharp climbdown? Has CNN owned up to this and apologized for its faux paz?
It is also interesting that while CNN obtained footage showing when the vehicles carrying soldiers left their barracks and arrived at the Lekki Toll Gate, it could not obtain any footage showing the bodies of those supposedly killed in the ‘massacre’. After all, forensic ballistic experts will most likely testify that firing military grade weapons into a crowd will not leave anyone needing a microscope to look for blood or bodies at the scene.
CNN has said it stands by its story, and that ”our reporting was carefully and meticulously researched”, This is baffling, considering that the story lacks fairness and balance, as we have pointed out, and that the organization relied heavily on manipulated social media videos. This resort to an escapist cliche seems more like a face-saving measure by an otherwise respectable news network caught in the blinding glare of ‘fake news and disinformation’ headlamps. Or how else does one explain the arrogant defence of an international news network that would not even respect the most basic principle of journalism?
One of CNN’s star eyewitnesses in its ‘investigative’ reporting is DJ Switch. Unknown to CNN, DJ Switch’s story on the Lekki Toll Gate shooting has changed several times. From claiming she counted 78 bodies of protesters who were supposedly killed by soldiers on the night of the Lekki Toll Gate incident, she has twice, at least, changed the casualty figure from 78 to 15 and then to 7, without a shred of evidence. CNN cannot pretend not to know that for anyone to act as a witness, his or her credibility must be unimpeachable. DJ Switch’s credibility does not meet that threshold.
In one of social media videos of DJ Switch that was used by CNN (see attached link 1), the lady (DJ Switch) claimed she and some unnamed persons carried dead bodies and dropped them at the feet of the soldiers. She also claimed she spoke to their Commander before the soldiers threw the bodies into the vans. Curiously, for someone who was streaming live on Instagram during the Lekki Toll Gate incident, there was not a single video or picture of the dead bodies. Not even Godson (Uyi), another CNN star witness whose video was also used by the network, or any of the hundreds of protesters, all armed with smart phones, at the scene recorded a video or shot a picture of dead bodies being carried away by soldiers.
Talking of Godson, despite claiming to have analyzed hours of footage, it is curious that CNN conveniently left out key parts of Godson’s 57-minute, 5-second video (see attached link 2). For example, 13 minutes, 40 seconds into the video, there were voices, in street lingo, in the background telling Godson that the gunshots were not from the soldiers (na boys dey shoot, that na local gun sound….it’s boys, meaning touts and hoodlums, who are shooting.
That’s local gun). Some 20 minutes,14 seconds into the video, Godson confirmed that the boys had brought out their guns and were shooting (local okah, he called it). Some 23 minutes, 14 seconds into the video, Godson said ‘wait, all these boys dey shoot’ (meaning gunshots rang out from the touts/hoodlums). CNN, in its rush to nail soldiers and tell a ‘radically different story’, conveniently left out these parts of the Godson video, which could have shown that armed hoodlums invaded the Lekki Toll Gate that night, and could have hit any of the protesters as they shot sporadically. This is clearly a ploy by the CNN reporter/presenter to manipulate viewers of its ‘investigative’ report and force them to draw the reporter’s desired conclusion! Another video showing an armed protester at the Lekki Toll Gate (see attached link 3) was apparently not among the footage reviewed by CNN!
It is shocking that all through its ‘investigation’, CNN did not for once mention the fact that six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed during the #EndSARS crisis, which also left 196 policemen injured, not to talk of the monumental destruction of government and private properties across the country. Instead, the network is fixated on the massacre that never happened. Are security agents not human beings too? Are they not entitled to the protection of their human rights?
For the record, this is not the first time that CNN has carried an inaccurate or hoax story about Nigeria. In February 2007, Nigeria accused CNN of staging one of its reports from the country’s Niger Delta region, showing gunmen holding 24 Filipinos hostage. Of course, CNN and its then Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange flatly denied the charge, saying the network did not pay for any part of the report. Later, in an email reportedly sent to a friend, Mr. Koinange was quoted as saying: “Of course we had to pay certain people to get the story… You do not get such a story without bribing.” So much for denials!
As a form of remediation, Nigeria’s Federal Government demands an immediate and exhaustive investigation from CNN into its ‘investigative’ report on the Lekki Toll Gate incident to determine, among others, its authenticity, whether or not it met the basic standards of journalism and also the selective use of unverified social media videos to manipulate public opinion. While it is up to CNN to accede or not, please note that the Federal Government reserves the right to take any action within its laws to prevent CNN from aggravating the #EndSARS crisis with unprofessional, irresponsible, one-sided, inciting and sensational reporting that is capable of pitching Nigerians against themselves and setting the country on fire.
Lai Mohammed
Hon. Minister
This man don buy market,just watch by the time they will respond to this letter, Mr Minister will hide his face. He thought its NBC that he will cow with his threat sorry ooo
Binarytimes: My girlfriend is beautiful but she has lot of issues. First, she likes engaging in activities that she can not finance by herself and then drags me into it. One time, i was duped because a guy promised her big ambitions if she apply for his pagentry show which she did with my money even after i objected it, she had to cry to make me agree only to find out later that it was a scam.
Ever since we started dating, we have been eating out, she doesn't cook and she always like being right at all times ..
She complains about being tired when i asked her to do anything including washing my clothes, even sex. She would complain when we want to have sex and the funny thing is, sex is the only thing i see that she offers. She doesn't even sweep the house except on rare occasions. I wonder how a girl would be comfortable in a rough environment.
So, i was going out and told her to watch some of my sandals. One to be specific, since i wanted to match my outfit that morning, it was around after 11 and she was still sleeping, she refused washing them that she's tired. I had to do my things on my own, and while i was taking my bathe, i reflected on everything. We have been dating for like two months now and what the hell ?
I told her to take her dirty clothes out of house if she doesn't want to wash them, because i won't even dare wash anything for her. Then finally, i followed her to her place to take some of my clothes that i gave her a week before to wash which are still unwashed. She was even frowning like she was right and i did wrong.... Deep down, she thinks i would call her to come.
This is an official breakup because i have to put my life in order.
debbiebianca2: Viral video of Nigerian Christians praying for Joe Biden's votes to be upturned in Donald Trump’s favour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB8g7KhoGo A video showing an unknown pastor and his congregation praying for US president-elect, Joe Bidens' votes to be upturned in Donald Trump’s favour, has gone viral on social media.
It's unclear where in Nigeria this was held, but many on Twitter are reacting in anger, with one user writing: 'There is always a point when religion becomes a mental illness.'
This is gross irresponsibility and lack of purpose.
some50686: Hi Everyone, i got married in 2018, We are both working class.. I am in my 34 while my wife is in her late 28. My wife has been denying me sex, we rarely have sex. sometimes we can go for over a month without sex. Whenever i ask for sex, she just complains she is tired and that is it. Sometimes i would plead and try yet she wont accept. What pains me the most is the way she react when i try to approach her. She would yell and begin to shout what nonsense is this, who is this now? To the point i only could initiate sex, sat morning and even with that she still refuses. Before we got married I sat her down and told her about this issue, that i hear about it from my married friends and dont want to experience such, she assured me and said our wont be like that but our is now worse. I am not sure we had sex more than 12 times the whole of last year.
The first time i sat her down, i asked her why she is doing all this to me, she complained i dont show her enough love, that she wants me to do more house chores, and also take her to eat outside and watch movies. I told her i will try. Although i knw am not the most romantic guy around, but i try the little ways I can, we sometimes go to see the movies. I do laundry on sat, help with ironing all the clothes she would wear during the week and cook a very few time. I ensured we got a maid so she wont be pressure by house chores. I also gave her my only car so she doesnt need to enter public transport, buy food from great eateries and even icecreams, almost every other week. But she has not changed, the last major fight we had was about 3months ago and it was about sex cause she denied me for no reason. Sex has always been the source of our quarrel. She was even telling me to go meet the maid since i am always so nice to the maid one time i tried to have sex. I really feel pained, like she is taking me for a ride because of my cool and easy going attitude. I have never raised my hand on my wife or even used abusive words. I even try to ask her how work is and gist with her to increase our bonding, yet all to no avail. I am someone who doesnt like going out to share and i believe the issue can only be fixed by the both of us, but this one is begining to drag for too long and from the look of things i am the one at the loosing end. I will go to my inlaws place and smile, nobody know how mean their daughter is to me, i too feel very ashamed raising the matter with my father inlaw. Last week i tried to initiate sex the same rejection, she is tired. I felt very frustrated and am now seriously considering cheating even though i am a Christian. Cheating is not right, cause it is expensive and emotionally draining, exposes one to STDs and it is against my Christian faith but what can i do? Sometime i have had to masturbate to suppress my sexual urge, but for how long can one continue to do this? I feel very ashamed coming to nairaland but what can i do. But dont get me wrong o, my wife has her good sides but this sex issue is really beginning to hurt and it does nt look like she would change anytime soon from the way she has been behaving.
Even if she doesnt find me attractive, should that be enough reason to continue to deny me sex after 3 months. Right now we are not speaking at the moment, cause i am mad with her. The next day after all she did, she come to greet me in the morning and acts like nothing happen. This is how she does and most time i always over look it, but the one from last week really hurt the most. I feel I have made a mistake marrying her. She also doesn't really care about my eating, most time she is only bothered about what our son and the maid will eat. I always have to go to the kitchen and look for what to eat, sometimes i get food outside. Even though i always drop food money. since we started quarrelling she has stopped cooking for me. Just very frustrated.
To the experienced married men in the house, what can i do the address this issue. I am considering collecting my car, not that it would be of any use to me , just to frustrate her
Oga if you don't want to die young look outside, her brain will go back to default quickly.
Let any mofos quote me wrongly and hug transformer.
Zzor: You are just not mentally ready because weddings are still holding every Saturdays and Sundays. You will grow. Quit smoking weed it's dangerous to your health. shalom
How many weddings are holding on weekends self,and out of those you known, how many of them still waxing strong after 5yrs. Guys aren't looking anymore and the menace is all over the world, I just hope some ladies in naija stop seeing our niggas as meal ticket but a complement.
[quote author=Zzor post=96223046]You are just not mentally ready because weddings are still holding every Saturdays and Sundays. You will grow. Quit smoking weed it's dangerous to your
how many weddings are holding on weekends self,and out of those you known, how many of them still waxing strong after 5yrs. Guys aren't looking, anymore and its all over the world, I just hope some ladies in naija stop seeing our niggas as meal ticket but a complement.
SUFFERInSMILIIN: Don't even bother of giving anybody your account number name of account of bank information these days because they are all sorts of dubious people some of them are even paid by the government to cause havoc on social media. The government wants to cost as much havoc on social media in the country
Drinokrane: Controversial Onitsha-based preacher Prophet Odumeje has announced he is working with highlife pop singers Flavour N’abania and Phyno on a new song, Igbere TV reports.
black americans are not distinguished as an ethnic group in the U.S so opportunities that are meant for them are giving to people that look like black americans and this makes and leads to black americans been poorer than other groups/nations within U.S.
every black person is not black american but will be treated as a black american legally.
The more they try to create diversity instead of merit, the more disaster they create.
The more they try to please everyone, the more they please no one and create lot of conflict.
Diversity is a scam.
You still can use diversity to your advantage, maybe you should dig deep into the background of those selected candidates for the job before arriving at this condition. However I am not condemning your assertion but maybe another look at capabilities of those in the board,those are renowned experts in their field and are people of colors who have immensely contributed alot in their areas of expertise to human endeavors especially here in United States ��. It just boils down to putting the round peg in the round holes.
Untainted007: Broken relationship is better than broken marriage. The fact that the man went cold doesnt mean u shud stereotyped a particular tribe. If you are gud yourself why didnt u marry the other tribes u dated befr meeting this particular yoruba man. He might av seen some traits or attributes in you he can't go ahead with in term of ego, manner of talking, or even not been appreciative by simply saying thanks after he might as spent on you; being appreciative goes a long way than u may think. Sex is nt paramount in relationships, but u felt cos u didnt allow him to av anything wit u made him back out. You may be wrong in that aspect. There are ladies that will even be emphasising on sex while men may be turning them down. Don't see urself as being justified. Search for why u are still single within or to ur village people stop causing tribal war around. An adage in Yoruba u are trying to taint says "Obínrin so ìwà nù, óní óun lórí oko" meaning A woman lacks character and she's saying she doesn't av luck for husband.
Thanks for this piece.
She has ego problem.
She's even quick to remind the readers how bless she is small,who cares, somebody like me don't really care about your achievements but character which is scarse nowadays among our women. The next thing you hear them saying is mens are jealous of them .
Bluntemperor: Did you read the the misinformation you just typed at all? The Arizona and Georgia States are not Joe Biden ground but mostly and exclusively Republicans for years,infact 28 years? So why did you just come to derail the tread? Many Nigerians just seat at the corners of their rooms or shops and unbundled so much irrelevance or may be you are Trump's brother.Go and meet him in America!
I am here and can tell you that some mail inn ballot were actually recounted which caused some of the delays, sit with your TV and tune in to cnn bro.
As for Georgia and Arizona been republican strong hold for years that was in the past and if you truly listen to Cindy McCain this morning on CNN you will have a second thought on your statement.
Politics › Re: Lekki Shooting: Nigeria Will Never Spare CNN, Others For Spreading Fake News –FG by kunle75(m): 10:24pm On Nov 27, 2020
