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How do we know these are not Boko haram carrying bombs in these backpack?

The soldiers are not searching anything, they just blocked the road completely wasting valuable man hours!

This is not how to counter terrorism!

More people trekking

Taking their destiny into their hands, trecking the whole 6+ kilometer to the central area!

People are already on the road since 4:00 am, no movement all engine switched off!

Untold hardship has been unleashed on the people living in Karu,Nyanya,Maraba and Masaka area adjourning the Aso Rock the nation seat of power.

After the boko haram bomb blast at the Police Headquarters, a checking point was mounted along the expressway connecting these settlement (which is about 6 kilometers to Abuja, though a place like masaka is as far as 20 kilometers) resulting to the worst traffic jam one can imagine.

People going to work has to trek up to 10 kilometers as all vehicle are virtually at standstill.


Is blocking right of pass the best way the government can figure out to curb terrorism?

The people in these areas need urgent help!

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Royal 2010:
Can we all go to the presidents facebook page and report this and all criminal activities going on.The things happening at the passport office and at the Exit points of our Airports.
Nairaland is about the best thing that has happened to Nigeria.Trust me and that is why i detest people that use this site as a place to behave mischievously.Names like 190 amd MMA.I am just sorry to mention some names but that is the truth.A revolution must start from here.I hereby advice ask that Segun should create a section for anti-corruption.Anyone that travels next time should note the name tags on such officers and report on this section.WE must stop this nonsense at one and let us see if Mr president will tackle this problem all at once.

You see what I've been saying, that's God's voice speaking through you to save Nigeria. lets get their names, take their pictures if possible and post it here on the net and the president's facebook page.

let's circulate it to all media house, i have the email of not less than 30 media house in Nigeria, i can offer it here. let it be a topical issue on kakaki on ait, sunrise in channels, nta breakfast show etc. let the revolution start. God is here supporting us.

mallorca:
Only God can save Nigerians

Praying is working in the spiritual

Working is praying in the physical

God will not come down from heaven to save Nigeria, we as the children of God must stand up against evil pratice. if you give bribe, its a sin in itself

alfablondy:
I agree with all posters that refused to give them any dime whether dollar or naira. USD100 is at least N15k, imagine given that to immigration officer for no legitimate reason.
if u are a legitimate traveller they cant intimidate you. No shaking!

I was once refused boarding because I don't have a transit visa through South Africa. I told the Immigration Man that if I found out that that the transit visa is not necessary, he'll loose his job!. He told me to go ahead, when I called some embassy officials that I know, they told me I do need a transit visa which the people that invited me didn't tell me. I went back and apologize to the immigration man.

The point am trying to make is that if your papers or any conditions at all is pending before you travel, please sit at home and don't go looking for how to cut corners to travel at all cost. Nobody gets award for traveling just for the records.

But if you are legit traveler: DO NOT GIVE ANY BRIBE! except you're tipping a fine chick with some sweet behind, which is legitimate. though not a guarantee.

As far as am concern, those that give bribes are either dumb, in possession of fake documents or has some contraband items on them.

In absence of all of these, it is your fundamental human rights to move to anywhere you want to go within your country or to travel as you wish (Article 13 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

What first time travelers need to do is to arrive at the airport on time to have enough time before boarding, remain calm, cool and collected. when they tried to extort money from you. If they insist, demand that you know the reasons you are being delayed and what relevant sections of Nigeria Immigration laws backs that. If they make you miss your flight, press charges against them through a lawyer.

The first time i traveled, my passport was not even stamped, as am to collect the visa at the port of entry in the country am travelling. When the Immigration guys took me away from the queue, i remained unshaken! when they're tired of holding the passport, they gave it back to me.

The secret is, know your rights, stand on it, and don't display any attitude of urgency to travel out of the country, cos if they see how desperate you are, they'll use that to get something from you.

These ways, you'll checkmate them.

Things That Make You Feel Old –

1. Windows XP was released TEN years ago, in 2001.

2. The “new” Millennium is more than a decade old.


3. Pierce Brosnan last acted as James Bond 9 years ago.

4. It’s been 10 years since 9/11

5. The Matrix came out 12 years ago, Keanu Reeves is 46 today

6. Mother Theresa and Lady Diana have been dead for 14 years.

7. Macaulay Culkin is 30 today. “Home Alone” came out over 20 years ago.

8. Terminator 2 is 20 years old. Edward Furlong who portrayed kid John Connor is 33 now.

9. Sean Connery is 80 years old and retired.

10. The youngest Spice Girl is 35, the oldest Backstreet Boy 39, Gwen Stefani is 41, Madonna 52

11. The first Harry Potter book came out 14 years ago!

12. The first season of F.R.I.E.N.D.S was aired 17 years ago!

13. ‘Kids’ born in 1993 can legally drive, drink and vote this year.

14. Jurassic Park is older than Justin Bieber.

15. Bryan Adams’ cult song “Summer of 69″ was released 26 years ago.

16. Kids whom you remember in their diapers are now posting their pics on Facebook.

17. Facebook has been around for 7 years.

18. Email is forty year old today. Yes! 40, four and zero. Stay focused! Time is not ya friend

Destruction of the soul is its vanity!

Destruction of the poor is their poverty!

Tell me why 70% of you will not engage in something dubious just to be on this ship!

Kadata:
. . . And it will end up being more talk and less work.

, and more lives lost on daily basis! this is the man who is planning to become the next president of Nigeria!

You just carried out an inspection of the Senate, are we ready for sitting?

We are. Are there not seats in the chamber?

We are tidying it up for tomorrow (today’s) session.

Are you satisfied?

It is ok.

What are we expecting tomorrow?

We are expecting to sit.

I am talking in terms of communication from the President?

Well, I am sure he will send some list to us, ministerial list. I hope he sends it.

Are we expecting to get the full list of principal officers?

I think so. We should.

Which zone is producing the Senate Leader? We hear there is a division in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the matter?

But where did you say the division is coming from? If you do know the zone producing the Senate Leader, how did you know there is division? I do not know about that. That is not my understanding of what is happening.

Are you debating Boko Haram issue tomorrow?

If it is matter of urgent national importance, it will be discussed.

What about the governors’ stand on the new minimum wage?

Why? Allow me to do what is legislative. Am I a governor?

Sir, are you worried about the Boko Haram attacks?

I am not worried by anything. I am just worried by the way we are going to move forward as fast as possible and I sure you are also worried about that.

Tell us, who you are going to work with as Senate Leader?

I will work with whoever the leader of the Senate is.

A task force of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) shielded by fierce-looking police and soldiers, heavily armed, yesterday torched a slum otherwise
called Tora Bora located on rocky areas Apo District in the Abuja.

The settlement, which has over three thousand residents, was suspected to be the hide-out of criminals and also feared to harbor terrorists.

The officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the Development Control Department stormed the area marked by dirty run-down housing in the early hours of yesterday before they set the entire settlement on fire.

Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and those of the Department of Road Traffic Services worked in conjunction of police and soldiers to cordon off the area after chasing away its inhabitants.

The houses in the squalor were built mostly with wood and corrugated roofing sheets and the area was crammed full of people from different places. Alice Abine was a resident of the slum and said she moved to the area three years ago with her husband and eight children. “I have a shop where I sell alcoholic drinks and food but t it was burnt down.” Theophilus Abine is Alice’s son and also a student of College of Education, Akwanga. He owned a barbering salon, which was also torched during joint security operation.

Moses John, another resident, said his house and shop were burnt by the security agents and one person died in the process. “He was sleeping in the house when it was set on fire. His body was taken away by those who burnt the houses.” He said bars located around his shop loaded with bottles of alcohol were burnt down.

One of the army officers told this reporter that undercover security agents had found the area to be full of miscreants and drug dealers.

There were people with antisocial attitudes including prostitutes living in the slum. Bags of Indian hemp were sold here, apart from other criminal tendencies, he said.
The area needs to be cleared due to recent explosions, he said. The exercise will be conducted in other suspected slums in Abuja, he said.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Abuja, Superintendent of Police Moshood Jimoh said the area was identified as a hide-out for criminals including robbers, bag
snatchers, drug pushers and people selling stolen properties.

“The police recovered guns and sacks full of Indian hemps as well as other forms of drugs in the areas after a raid. The guns recovered included three AK-47 rifles and other locally made pistols,” he said.

Based on the findings of the police, the FCT authorities were advised to take decisive action to dislodge the illegal settlement. The Chief Press Secretary to the FCTA Muhammad Hazat Sule said the Administration recently set up special task force to rid Abuja of slums and prevent unlawful activities and traffic congestion, street begging, hawking as well as illegal structures within the Abuja metropolis.

“The FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Biodun Nathaniel Olorunfemi has constituted special task teams to be located at different strategic flash points across the Federal Capital City to tackle such municipal menace. The FCT Administration intends stop the progress of repulsive incidences because, if allowed to degenerate further,
will pose serious security and safety problems to all and sundry irrespective of age, class, religious and cultural background.”

Sule quoted Dr Olorunfemi as saying the special task force will be in operation for three weeks with a mandate to take all necessary measures aimed at achieving the
set objectives. The Public Relations Officer of the AEPB Samuel Musa said the Board was co-opted into the exercise and tasked with ensuring sanitation.

The chairman of second-hand goods traders, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, said the FCTA authorities had issued quit notices to the people living in the area and after three days, the settlement was raided and burnt down.

“I began packing my properties, but I couldn’t finish. The officials burnt down my wooden store and my ware, estimated to be about N900,000.”

This map showed that just before 2006 here, Nigeria is not a failed state yet! Could we have made a mistake by not giving OBJ a third term. Because, from the Analysis here, it seems the country started falling in 2006, when his third term bid was thrown to the dustbin, and maybe he decides not to serve Nigeria again.

Did OBJ planned all that is happening now?

Is he the best President so far since the return to civil rule?

What has ever happened to the people they've been arresting ever since?

We only hear of arrests but the aftermath is not made public!


As we speak, high-level negotiations are going on behind the scene, once the police are settled with their asking prices, they release them again!

I got this excerpt somewhere!


Clause 23(1) of the Bill, allows the security agencies to enter, search and remove evidence from any property, without need for a search warrant, where applying to a judge would delay.
Also clause 24 of the Bill empowers the Director General of the State Security Service or other authorized officer to direct a communications provider, including telephone companies, to provide the communications data of any person over any given period. The Bill describes data to mean: information generated, sent, received or stored that can be retrieved by electronic magnetic, optical or any similar means”.
The Bill also allows the security services to detain any person on suspicion of terrorism for 48 hours without any access to any person, including lawyers, and may only allow access to a medical doctor provided by the security services.

Under the Bill, a person may be held without charge for up to 2 months – a clear violation of the fundamental rights provisions guaranteed under the 1999 Nigerian Constitution of Nigeria.
Any person found guilty will be sentenced to death by hanging!

THE BIG QUESTION IS: DOES JONATHAN GOVERNMENT HAVE THE GUT TO CARRY OUT ALL THESE!

ABUJA, June 19 (Reuters) - Nigerian police have uncovered 20 corpses hidden in a tunnel in the southeastern town of Onitsha, and suspect they were victims of armed robbers.

Police said they happened upon the hideout on Saturday while responding to an attempted sexual assault in Onitsha's Upper Iweka district, where commuters are often prey to muggers riding motorbike taxis known by the trade name Okada.

"The 20 corpses were at different stages of decomposition. Some have become skeletons," said Onuora Ikonso, head of the state police task force.

"We suspect the bodies are victims of armed robbery attacks and were dragged into the tunnel, waylaid and killed."

He called on the local government to extend an Okada curfew, which currently begins at 7 p.m., "to ensure the safety of travellers".

Onitsha is a busy trading port on the banks of the Niger river in southeastern Anambra state, north of the oil-producing wetland swamps of the Niger Delta.

(Reporting by Ijeoma Ezekwere; writing by Joe Brock; editing by Dan Williams)

james-t:
Just when one is getting ready to come back home,  now I'll be justified to seek asylum
God help us!!

Brave men stays at home to protect it!

ABUJA, June 16 (Reuters) - Dead bodies were being carried from a police car park in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Thursday, the Red Cross said on Thursday, after an explosion set dozens of vehicles ablaze and sent thick black smoke into the sky.

"We are evacuating the dead bodies, it is too early for us to judge how many. Our priority is to treat the living casualties right now," a Red Cross spokesman told Reuters.

(Reporting by Joe Brock)

http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFLDE75F16T20110616

debrief08:
Then please arrest Atiku et all and successfully prosecute them, thats what good governments do, when you pull a stunt like this they get you and not just go about pointing fingers trying to blame others for your carelessness and total dullness in handling security

You don't just arrest them, they have to obtain evidence to arrest them at this moment. As they were not arrested when they made the statement, on what ground are gonna be arrested now!

ABUJA, June 16 (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber was killed and many vehicles were destroyed in an explosion at a police station in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Thursday, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.

"A suicide bomber died in the incident and many vehicles were destroyed," a spokesman for NEMA told Reuters. "NEMA has successfully cordoned off the motorpark site of police headquarters where the explosion occurred"

(Reporting by Joe Brock)

http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFLDE75F15M20110616?feedType=RSS&feedName=nigeriaNews

we  don't have to forget Atiku statement too
that they'll make the country ungovernable!

The blast was actually a car bomb, detonated from the Police car park! some part of the building were damaged seriously!

Just heard the story now! confirmed!
These Gboko Haram are getting daring!

they'ye being sworn in everywhere now!

May 11 was Bob Marley's day!

The am-BAD-saddor simply had an overdose of Indian hemp and rehearsed "NO WOMAN NO CRY" on his wife!


They should just go ahead and jail the brute!

Unemployment, lack of focus are the causes!
Some peeps knows all the players in all the clubs in EPL, they don't stop in watching the match, they wake up the following morning and spend  several hours arguing who did what and what happened when in last night match.

Some of these players they admire cannot even point at Nigeria in world map, but I've heard some fools stab others over EPL arguement.

Am not against watching football, but the unusual attention paid to EPL is not worth it.

Nigerians are so stupidly crazy about EPL that they brand their cars, belt, towel, wears after the club of their choices.

I guess very soon, banks and other corporate organizations will soon be including "YOUR EPL CLUB"------- in their customer registration  form

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This is a real picture my guy, you can see the GEJ Soap clearly imprinted on it