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abumeinben:
No na....every other country closes its borders.

abumeinben:
So let's deploy Project Fair Play: Let the US release a random virus strain in China and let see how they'll handle it.

Smithkafors:
My prayer is that China should fall,these people are wicked!.You brought virus to the world, instead of you to keep quiet you are rubbing it on people's faces.I wish the world will rice up against these people.

sapientia:
This is the view of China.

Don't mind the newspaper.

The Communist Party controls Chinese Media.

Knowing that USA have lost 45k people already to covid 19 is enough to make China panic.

China have been panicking with the rate of USA fatality rate.

Attacking big brother USA is just to intimidate Italy, France, Spain, Germany but they will surely sank their teeth to suck blood once USA takes the first bite.

Once a vaccine for this is found, another round of USA vs China trade war starts.

ValCon888:
Which leads me to my first submission that countries who intentionally committed acts of aggression are yet to pay for their actions. So why should China pay?

ValCon888:
You're not still getting me. War reparations or tribute is a payment the loser pays to the winner. It's a payment that is taken by force and not given willingly. On the flip side, if the Axis powers (Japan, Germany, Italy) had defeated the Allied powers (US, UK, Russia, France) the Allied powers will pay. It is the cost of losing a war.
What I'm saying is, if there's a mistake made by China in relation to the Coronavirus they can't pay because it's a mistake and not a war. That's why I used the example of the Spanish Flu. America didn't pay for that yet the disease killed 500million people around the world.

“If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, then there should be consequences.

He said the Chinese were “embarrassed” and the question was whether what happened with the coronavirus was “a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”

ValCon888:
The essence of what I'm saying is mistakes happen. Should America pay the whole world for bringing about the Spanish Flu?
And Japan, Germany, and Italy did not "pay" per se. It is the norm that when you are conquered in war, you offer tribute to the victors.

ValCon888:
That is bullcrap.

I suppose Poland needs to send Germany a bill of $500billion for the invasion of Poland.

Israel needs to send Germany a bill of $S1trillion for the Holocaust.

America needs to send Iraq a bill of $500billion for the invasion of Iraq in search of a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) that did not exist.

China needs to send the UK a bill of $1trillion for the Opium Wars. Imagine a country officially exporting hard drugs into another country and fighting them because they refused.

China needs to send Japan a bill of $500billion for the Sino-Japanese war and the Rape of Nanking.

I can go on and on. The essence of what I'm saying is; blame games will get us nowhere.

•Order them to cook at gunpoint, abduct victims after eating
•Kill Celestial Church pastor, kidnap eight residents
•Residents flee Okpanam Street, frightened in Ibusa estate
•Police not doing enough- Irate inhabitants

NOTWITHSTANDING the security seal in Delta State, where Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, introduced a dusk-to-dawn curfew, Tuesday, to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, some suspected armed herdsmen have flagrantly undermined the security measures and unleashed a reign of terror on residents at Ibusa and Okpanam communities in Oshimili North Local Government Area of the oil-rich state.

The armed herders between the ages of 18 to 28 years not only intimidate and overawe their victims, who they usually take unawares, they command them when they invade their homes to prepare meals for them (kidnappers). They also demand additional foodstuff and drinks when their families and friends later negotiate ransom to secure freedom for the hostages

At Okpanam, a source revealed that occupants, near the Asaba Airport, have fled their houses, following the siege by kidnappers, who act as if they are above the laws of the land.

”Even when the owners of the homes have fled, they impudently break into their abandoned apartments in search of food items, money and other valuables,” the source added.

The lawlessness of the herders is without restraint at the moment in the state, but effrontery at the Admiralty Neighbourhood Estate, Ibusa is unbelievable. The estate is named after a former Chief of Naval Staff, CNS, under the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan government, Admiral Dele Ezeoba, who owns a sprawling mansion in the under-attack developing area on Ibusa bypass, Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi-Uku Expressway.

“They do not come through the entrance to the estate, they sneak in through the farmlands behind the developing neighbourhood. Those committing this havoc are in their teens and twenties,” one of them said.
A worried contractor, Mr Lawrence Ojeashi, abducted about 9.00 pm , April 8, told our reporter: “I was outside in my compound playing with some of my children when we heard our dog barking uncontrollably. As I moved to check what was going on, two of them, Fulani, by the language they spoke, intercepted me.”
“They marched me into my house, locked my son and I in one of the rooms and asked my family to prepare them food to eat. It was rice that my wife cooked for them , after eating rice, they asked her to make eba for them.

“After eating, they took me with them, nobody had the guts to raise alarm. They were taking me to the bush when they saw a generator that was on in another compound, they pulled out the wire to make the owner come out, but his family raised alarm when they saw them, which made them to move away faster with me into the bush.

“The way they meandered the bushes, it is like they have a map of the area. We first stopped at a farm hut and stayed there for over three hours. In fact, they used me as pillow to sleep so that I will not run away.
“They woke up to continue the journey, manoeuvring through different routes in the forest. They clearly knew where they were going. When they got to the point where they knew it was safe to talk to me, they asked me how much I wanted to pay them.

“Really, I had no money and a bank alert of N1,000 just came to my phone, which they had confiscated. I told them that they just saw the alert on my phone, that I had only N1,000. They slapped me, asking me if I thought they were joking.

“They threatened to kill me if I joked with them. I said I could call some friends and relatives. They became interested and inquired how much they would pay. I said I did not know, but they might raise up to N100,000. They pounced on me again like wounded lions, shouting angrily if I thought they took me hostage for mere N100,000.

“My abductors subsequently took me to a valley, brought out sticks and started whipping me on my head and other parts of the body as if they were flogging an animal. They kept asking about how much I would pay as they flogged me.

“I insisted that they should allow me call my friends and relatives, but one of them said they should cut off my head and the other brought a sharp cutlass, placed it on my throat and made moves as if he actually wanted to slice off my head. I pleaded with them that money would come before they left me that period and went to sleep.

“About 6.00 am the next day, they took me further into the bush, deeper into the valley and they allowed me to make phone call.

“They first placed the ransom for my release at N10 million and later came down to N3 million when they saw from my calls that such amount would not come. I knew that pastors and many others were interceding at that point.

“At about 3.00 pm, they said they were giving me and my people a deadline of 5.00 pm to bring ransom. By 5.00 pm when they called, it was N150,000 that they raised.

“The kidnappers said they would tell them where to bring the ransom, but they should buy food, drinks, Suya, water as they come with the ransom.

“They were giving them directives on phone on where to pass as they drove. When they arrived with a car, they searched each of the person that brought the ransom and the car for money. They also checked the food and drinks they brought.

“They brought me out from where they hid me and joined us in the car to be dropped off at another exit. We saw some herders on the way and they exchanged pleasantries , showing that they knew themselves.
“They took us through a different route entirely to leave the place so that we would not recognise the place,” Ojeashi told us. He was still in fears when he spoke.

A resident of the estate, Emmanuel Ironbar, abducted with four others, March 30, said he was returning home with his Supervisor and another worker, all working for their boss , Frank Nwabudike, when the incident occurred.

“We saw a vehicle facing the bush and a boy lying face down and we thought he was hurt. As we stopped to find out what was wrong, the kidnappers lurking around pointed gun at us , along the farm road. Two of them wore mask , they seized me, my supervisor, Victor and two others. We were five.

“They took the five of us into the bush, we were seeing the zincs of some buildings at Okpanam and the Navy School in Ibusa from where they kept us. They asked all of us to lie down when we got there and used my phone to call my director in Lagos.

“They were the ones telling me after they called my director that he said there was no money. They beat Victor and one other hostage before Victor people brought N100,000 ransom. They searched my supervisor and took the N30,000 in his possession.

“When they brought the N100,000 ransom for them, it was with plates of rice, meat and ‘pure’ water. They later took us to a cassava farm, they saw a motorcycle rider, bailed him up and collected N5,000 from him.
“They ran into a Benin man and his wife, who they kidnapped and left us that night. They seized my phone and since then, I have not been able to buy a new phone,” he added.

His words: “We are living in fear in this estate, we are not secure, police come in the night since abduction escalated in this estate, they blow horn when they pass from one end to the other, reverse their car, come back to where they started and depart.”

“As I speak to you, I hardly sleep in my house for fear of abduction by Fulani herdsmen, we know they are Fulani because that is the language they speak,” he added.

Another resident, Ebenezer Ejimogha, a timber dealer, who escaped abduction after armed herdsmen pulled the wire off his generator, April 8, asserted: “As they removed the wire, I came out from inside my room and asked one of my sons to put off the generator since it could not supply light anymore. But one of my daughters ran inside to alert me that they were intruders in our compound.”

“I want out to peep, they saw me and ordered me to open the door and let them in. Already, my wife was shouting and my family was making phone calls. I used force to close and lock my door and started making calls myself. While they were threatening and went to the back of my house, trying to force the door open, I told them Army and Police would soon arrive to catch them.

“I got my son in Asaba on phone , who drove down and went to the Police Station at Ibusa for policemen to come to rescue us. They asked him to make entry, after he made entry, they told him that they would not be able to come that night. He contacted one of the local vigilance groups, which told him that the members would not intervene since police refused to move.

“We were in the house frightened to our pants for five hours when my son, tired of the antics of the police, finally drove to the house to discover that the marauding Fulani herdsmen had left. It was when we heard his voice asking us to come out that the abductors were gone that we came out,” Ejimogha said.

A community leader in the area, Mr Joseph Okonmah told our reporter: “Life here has been very miserable for us because of Fulani herdsmen. We know they are Fulani herdsmen from the narratives of the victims they have kidnapped, people from at least five households. Really, we feel frightened, we do not sleep with our two eyes closed.”

Okonmah stated, “We have reported our plight to the the police in Ibusa and alerted some of the vigilance groups, but there is no good response from the police.”

“We plead with the the appropriate authorities and government to disarm the herdsmen and disperse them from the illegal locations they are occupying in the bush and inside the town from where they launch attacks on us every now and then,” the community leader asserted.

“Residents have held meetings to address the issue, met with the police, the Obuzor of Ibusa and other well-meaning individuals and groups. In fact, after the meeting with the DPO, Ibusa Division, he pledged that his men would patrol the place and we have put in place an internal security committee to handle the emergency,” he added.

However, tension heightened in the neighbourhood when barely 24 hours after residents met with the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Ibusa, Thursday, last week, and got assurance of protection from the police, armed Fulani men stormed a Celestial Church on the said Asaba- Ibusa expressway, not far from the police station, and shot dead the pastor, reportedly holding a prayer vigil and counseling session.

In fact, there was confusion in Admiralty Neighbourhood Estate when the rampaging herdsmen, who have made the estate their looting joint, broke into the Breakthrough Cathedral, Ibusa, Parish 1 and shot dead Most Senior Evangelist Stephen Akpor.

According to Omezi, “We had a meeting with the DPO, penultimate Thursday , and the next day, Friday, a Celestial Church pastor was shot dead by the same group of marauders. This has heightened tension and made people more agitated than ever, as it calls for serious attention by the authorities “

“There is need for more concerted efforts to address the menace so that people can live here peacefully.
“To the residents, what is happening is double jeopardy, we are at home because of the lockdown, we do not move about , but herders breach the law with impunity and go about with arms unchallenged,” he said
Reports said that armed Fulani herdsmen besieged the Celestial Church at about 8:30 pm when Evangelist Akpor was praying and counselling five of his members in front of the church hall. The deceased transferred from Calabar, February, last year, according to sources, had a wife and five children.

“They beckoned on him to come back but he ignored them. At that point, those of us lying down were marched into the bush and they ordered us to remove our garments and lie facing down.

As we were about complying, one of them realizing that they had left one person at the church , again led us back to meet with the pastor. When we got back, they again ordered us to lie down while one of them went to meet the pastor in the room.

“Next we heard was an argument as the pastor refused to open the door. At that point , the second one joined them and they started shooting inside from the window after they removed the net, that was when we had the opportunity to escape into the bush.

“He was gunned down through the window. Before police got here and took him to the General Hospital, Ibusa, he gave up the ghost,” Temitope explained.

Patron of the Church, Mr. Peter Lotobi who spoke on phone, said; “As soon as I got wind of the sad development, I got in touch with the police when I saw them around Kefas Road in Ibusa and alerted them about it, but before we got there it was already too late.”

A medical doctor at the Ibusa General Hospital, Ibusa, said: “The bullet shots were devastating, there is practically no way he would have survived except God ruled otherwise.”

Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed the incident, adding that the Police have commenced investigation into the matter.

She said the Police and local vigilante were on the trail of the suspected hoodlums, expressing hope that the suspects would be apprehended and brought to book.

From our findings, the situation at Okpanam is quite scary. Two of the quarters were said to be in strong contention over an area, which a very powerful personality ceded a portion to Fulani herdsmen to spite the other side.

An informed villager hinted: “Like anywhere that you have Fulani settlement, once you give them a little space, they expand and once some miscreants come to join them, it is finished.”

He, however, said that the authorities of Oshimili North Local Government Area had waded into the boundary dispute between Obodoogba village and the other warring village in the community with a view to identifying landmark boundaries to resolve the problem.

While the feuding parties await the authorities whose intervention has been hampered by the lockdown, residents, who believed they bought houses from the genuine owners of the land are hounded by armed men, forcing them to flee their homes.

Before abducting victims for ransom in Okpanam, they also ask them to prepare food for them. A man identified as Joseph had his own baptism when some suspected armed herders stormed his home, asked him to instruct his wife to cook food for them. After eating, they abducted the couple. They couple fled the area after their release. They were yet to return as at yesterday when we filed this report.

An indigene of the town in a viral video, showing several homes deserted by the owners in the controversial Okpanam street, accused some community leaders of collecting money and using Fulani herders to cause unrest.
He reigned curses on them, saying they will face the evil they have unleashed on their people.

Kingrefreshed:
Nigerian Keyboard warriors association (Nairaland chapter)

Fuel is now 12.6 dollar per barrel thats about 27 naira a litre now.


Can we protest for the first time in our lives?? Lets use this time ,join forces together and make our voices heard.

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The Nigerian police force has released a photograph of the men responsible for the murder of Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, leader of Pro-Yoruba group, Afenifere.

In a statement on Thursday, the police also released the names of the murderers.

“Police Operatives have arrested the killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the PAN-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti.”

“The suspects are:

i. Lawal Mazaje ‘m’ 40yrs from Felele area of Kogi State

ii. Adamu Adamu ‘m’ 50yrs from Jada area of Adamawa State.

iii. Mohammed Shehu Usman ‘m’ 26 years from Illela area of Sokoto State

iv. Auwal Abubakar ‘m’ 25yrs from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State

The statement signed by Force spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, revealed how the criminals were captured.

“After months of relentless efforts to apprehend the killers, the Police Team, on 4th March 2020 during a follow-up action on a case of a high-profile armed robbery and kidnap for ransom that occurred in Ogun State, arrested one Auwal Abubakar ‘m’ 25yrs, an accessory after the fact of the crime, along Sagamu-Ore expressway in Ondo State.”

“The arrest of Auwal Abubakar led to the arrest of two (2) other members of the gang, Mohammed Shehu Usman and Lawal Mazaje in Benin, Edo State from whom cache of ammunition was recovered and one other Adamu Adamu in Akure, Ondo State.”

“Having established sufficient physical and forensic evidence linking the suspects to the killing of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the investigators, determined to clear all doubts relating to their findings, on 8th April, 2020, conducted an Identification Parade at the Federal SARS Headquarters, Lagos which led to the positive and physical identification of three (3) suspects, Adamu Adamu, Lawal Mazaje and Mohammed Shehu Usman by a survivor of the earlier crime. The survivor gave a clear description of the roles each of the identified suspects played in the killing. At this point, the suspects capitulated and voluntarily offered a no-holds-barred confession on how Mrs Funke Olakunrin was killed.”

“Investigations so far reveal that the operation that led to the killing was carried out by eight ( fully armed kidnap/robbery suspects led by one Tambaya (other name unknown) who is currently at large. While four (4) of the suspects (mentioned above) are in custody, effort is being intensified to arrest the four (4) others still on the run.”

“The 8-man gang has their operational base and membership spread in the south-western part of the country and Edo State.” the statement read

lukui:
Dear Mr Putin, mind your business, face your own country's problems, leave Africa alone, as far as I know, you Russians are racists, you don't like coloured people, so why you are now making a statement at this time is baffling.

As for those kissing Putin's boots, he's got nothing to offer. We have got guys worse than Putin in Africa, so next time you see him, give him your "middle finger".

Xisnin:
Fake news from a lazy blogger. Ignore Fake news!!!

mhizsimi:
Hi, the name is Simi, presently in Kogi State, I need friends, I am a christian and in my late 20's. Don't bother sending a message and talking about sex, I am not interested. Send an email if interested.

Olominira:
You're right. We don't need any foreign millitary base in Africa.

HundHunter:
Free electricity for two months, after which there will be a monumental increase in the electricity tariff?

gigabytes:
2 months extension for Coronavirus. Ghana announced 3 months of free water.
Watch out.

The Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) on Wednesday said they have aligned with the federal government to provide a two-month rebate of free electricity to their customers nationwide.

In a statement by the Executive Director, Research and Advocacy at the Association of Nigeiarian Electricity Distributors (ANED), Barrister Sunday Oduntan, said the decision was in recognition of the challenging effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the economic and daily lives of the customers.

Oduntan, who is also the spokesman for the DisCos, said: “We are also completely aligned with the plans to ensure palliative measures, including free electricity supply to all Nigerians for two months, to make life easier, during the lockdown period. Details of implementation to come soon.”

Oduntan also said the initiative is a fulfilment of the DisCos’ commitments to the nation as they align themselves with the efforts of the National Assembly and the Federal Executive to mitigate the hardships that are currently being borne by their customers and Nigerian citizens.

The DisCos commended the lawmakers, the Executive arm and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for their initiative adding that they are committed to working with them to ensure more efficient power supply within the difficult period.

The power firms also reiterated their commitments to improving service delivery to the nation during this COVID-19 pandemic period and thereafter as they advised their customers to stay at home and stay safe.

Daily Trust reports that the House of Representatives had on Saturday called for the supply of free electricity to Nigerians for two months as part of measures to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila made the call at a meeting between the National Assembly leadership and the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmad, and the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, among others.

Charleys:
Apart from lockdown, what other advise do you have to give to Oyo state governor?

SweetCunt97:
How? Not everything is about ready made and this Op is independent. Abeg don't bring that nonsense argument here abeg

SweetCunt97:
@GreaterGod124, The man is married. Only God in heaven will punish all these married men deceiving and impregnation single ladies.

Vortex369:
They are not really attacking 'them', they are attacking the 'information'.

........ And from time immemorial, truth has always been under attack. So, guess the gender that are spiced up with adrenaline for fight and flight ? The masculine gender, so now you can deduce why it is men that attack, and why they attack and what they are actually attacking.


Know this truth, and you will never suffer. You must learn to decouple sex from friendship and how to couple it back if need be.