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You mean it? Are you boko haram?

Growingboi:
What happened to camel and horse or even legs? I though western education is 'Haram'

You ehn! �

dangotesmummy:
Women with beautiful,sexy and soulful voice when singing and talking are always short-changed in facial beauty.despite the makeup imagine how she still looks

Correct talk!
Seyi is too pompous to act like a leader

Dis he enter or he was murdered. Hope police will think outside the box sha

She's only acting to spice up things

Khafi would have been a top star in this game, but she's seriously carried away. I pity her

A founding member if Kudirat Abiola Initiative for Democracy, fighting against Abacha Junta, despite Abacha being from the same state. He was even locked up in Sokoto by Abacha at so.e point.

Officialgarri:
Shame on Ganduje.


Sanusi is a better activist than Sowore or Kanu.

This is my reason....... Sowore's protest can be attributed to his failure at the polls and Kanu's can be attributed to tribal differences between the President and the Igbos.

However, Sanusi was part of Gej's government, yet he spoke loudly against the level of mismanagement in their government...... He didn't care he was a major part of the government and Jonathan made sure he was sacked....

One could say, he is now an APC agent since PDP kicked him out, yet he seemed to have stood against the re-election of APC in Kano due to Ganduje's excesses.......

Now a glaringly corrupt Ganduje is accusing Sanusi of misappropriation..... Very laughable

Whatever, Operation Damisa is one act that is usually deliberately left unsaid. And, was that really a coup or a mutiny?

APCLyingBastard:
No. This was just a brash reaction to the northern Fulani supremacist agenda.

Ahmadu Bello and his stooge Tafa Balewa were bent on fulanization agenda.

This is what led to the coup.

Funny how the same Fulanis then switched the tables round to accuse the Igbos of trying to dominate Nigeria while they had been doing the same exact thing since 1960!

Thanks.
This is on part that is usually missing in the genesis of the Nigerian civil war.

APCLyingBastard:
Exercise Damisa


Damisa is the Hausa word for “Leopard”. Code-name for the Kaduna component of the January 15, 1966 mutiny

I hear you.

APContherun:
A mistake obviously but does it invalidate the other pictures?
The fact remains that Jonathan established and is funding 9 new federal universities as with the already existing ones. Those universities have thousands schooling in them as well as thousands too employed to work there. Those universities too have created thousands of indirect jobs. I won't even be suprised some of you asking silly questions about them are either students, workers or have relatives associated with the schools. Those schools feed millions of Nigerians and that we give Jonathan credit for.

Ha!
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Thanks.

Ha!
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SEEMS THERE'S A GRAND PLAN TO DISENFRANCHISE THE PEOPLE OF NORTH-EAST IN THIS ELECTION.

VANGUARD IS NOW FAKE!
READ THE ABOVE STORY.

VANGUARD IS NOW FAKE!

Vanguard is Nigeria’s most visited news website and the 17th top Nigerian website in all categories, according to Alexa, the Amazon-owned American company that monitors global web traffic. It also has the most Facebook “likes” of any Nigerian newspaper and is outrivaled only slightly by the Punch as the newspaper with the most Twitter followers in Nigeria. But it is also perhaps the most irresponsible and undiscerning user of unverified social media tittle-tattle in its news stories. That, for me, is a troubling mix.

You would think an Internet- and social media-savvy newspaper like Vanguard would also have the common sense to know that not everything posted on the web is worth publishing without further verification and fact-checking. The paper’s editorial philosophy seems to be that whatever is on the web, especially on social media, is inerrant and deserves to be in the news. These days, the paper’s reporters just scout Facebook and Twitter and scoop any trending gossip from cyberia.

The latest malicious social media gossip that Vanguard gave editorial endorsement to is a tweet from an obviously fake Twitter handle that impersonates Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II. On December 13, a Twitter handle that goes by @Malsanusilamido tweeted that Boko Haram would soon be defeated. The tweet reads: “I say help is on the way. Terror must and will be defeated.” The following day, Vanguard had this headline: “Muhammad Sanusi II says help is on the way, Boko Haram will be defeated.” But Vanguard didn’t only publicize the tweet of a transparently fake Twitter handle; it also editorialized the tweet and implied that the emir was hinting at a Buhari presidency as the panacea to Boko Haram. “Sanusi, Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader, was presumably referring to the emergence of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress in next year’s presidential election,” the story, which has no byline, said.

So many things are wrong with this story. First, the emir of Kano isn’t “Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader.” That distinction belongs to the Shehu of Borno. In Sokoto caliphal hierarchy, the second most powerful monarch after the Sultan of Sokoto is the Emir of Gwandu. No Nigerian journalist can defend ignorance of these basic historical facts. But that’s beside the point.

What’s even more indefensible, I think, is that Vanguard’s reporters and editors don’t know that the emir of Kano has officially disclaimed ownership of any social media account since August this year. Premium Times, Nigeria’s fastest-growing home-based online newspaper, in an August 14, 2014 news story titled “Emir Sanusi disowns facebook, twitter accounts,” quoted a Kano Emirate Council official to have said, among other things, that “a twitter handle in the name of the emir was frequently used to publish libellous statements in Mr. Sanusi’s name.” Yet Vanguard wrote a news story based on a tweet from this fake Twitter handle. Even if the paper’s editors missed the Premium Times story that says the emir has no social media accounts, which is inexcusable, why wouldn’t the editors ask their correspondents in Kano to confirm with the emirate council if indeed the emir issued a statement on Boko Haram on Twitter? That’s a journalistic no-brainer.

In any case, it has been known in informed circles in Nigeria for long that several fake social media accounts have been opened in the emir’s name right from the time he was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. I exposed one such account in my March 30, 2013 column titled “CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Fake Facebook Account.” Thanks to my exposure, the account, which was particularly brazen, has been deleted now, but several new ones have sprung up and are being used to fleece many gullible and credulous Nigerians.

It is apparent that @Malsanusilamido is maintained by the same gang of 419 Internet fraudsters who have mutated from sending unsolicited scam emails to Internet users to cloning the social media accounts of famous people to swindle unsuspecting “mugus.” A quick survey of the handle’s tweets will reveal this to any discerning person. In fact, in replies to @Malsanusilamido’s tweets, several people have imposed on themselves the task of exposing the Twitter handle as an impersonation. Yet, people who earn a living from skepticism, from fact-checking, verifying, and reporting the news, couldn’t, maybe still can’t, tell that @Malsanusilamido is fake.

But, as I pointed out earlier, this isn’t altogether surprising. Vanguard, in spite of, perhaps because of, its impressive online presence, is going down the toilet. Its news agenda is now set by social media chatter, not by the reportorial work of its reporters and writers. Remember the paper’s infamously false May 10, 2014 cover story titled, “Chibok: American Marines locate abducted girls in Sambisa forest,” which was also lifted from Nigerian social media gossip forums? (Read my May 31, 2014 column titled “Journalism is Dying a Slow Death in Nigeria” for details of this and other embarrassing social-media-induced fabrications by Vanguard and other papers). Vanguard is in the vanguard of destroying what remains of the credibility of Nigerian journalism. This is disconcerting. If newspapers degenerate to mindless chroniclers of idle gossip on social media why would anybody pay money to read them? Newspapers the world over are grappling with disruptions to their business that have been brought about by the advent of the Internet, but passing off lazy social media chatter as news is one avoidable, self-imposed handicap the Nigerian news media will do well to stop.

Postscript After writing this column, I discovered that the story about Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II’s tweet on Boko Haram isn’t original to Vanguard. It was originally written by AFP, the French news agency, and distributed to its subscribers. But this fact doesn’t change the substance of my observation about Vanguard because it’s the only major Nigerian newspaper that republished the story—as far as my research shows.

IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT VANGUARD HAS DESCENDED SO LOW.

http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2014/12/emir-muhammadu-sanusi-ii-and-vanguards.html

Vanguard is Nigeria’s most visited news website and the 17th top Nigerian website in all categories, according to Alexa, the Amazon-owned American company that monitors global web traffic. It also has the most Facebook “likes” of any Nigerian newspaper and is outrivaled only slightly by the Punch as the newspaper with the most Twitter followers in Nigeria. But it is also perhaps the most irresponsible and undiscerning user of unverified social media tittle-tattle in its news stories. That, for me, is a troubling mix.

You would think an Internet- and social media-savvy newspaper like Vanguard would also have the common sense to know that not everything posted on the web is worth publishing without further verification and fact-checking. The paper’s editorial philosophy seems to be that whatever is on the web, especially on social media, is inerrant and deserves to be in the news. These days, the paper’s reporters just scout Facebook and Twitter and scoop any trending gossip from cyberia.

The latest malicious social media gossip that Vanguard gave editorial endorsement to is a tweet from an obviously fake Twitter handle that impersonates Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II. On December 13, a Twitter handle that goes by @Malsanusilamido tweeted that Boko Haram would soon be defeated. The tweet reads: “I say help is on the way. Terror must and will be defeated.” The following day, Vanguard had this headline: “Muhammad Sanusi II says help is on the way, Boko Haram will be defeated.” But Vanguard didn’t only publicize the tweet of a transparently fake Twitter handle; it also editorialized the tweet and implied that the emir was hinting at a Buhari presidency as the panacea to Boko Haram. “Sanusi, Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader, was presumably referring to the emergence of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress in next year’s presidential election,” the story, which has no byline, said.

So many things are wrong with this story. First, the emir of Kano isn’t “Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader.” That distinction belongs to the Shehu of Borno. In Sokoto caliphal hierarchy, the second most powerful monarch after the Sultan of Sokoto is the Emir of Gwandu. No Nigerian journalist can defend ignorance of these basic historical facts. But that’s beside the point.

What’s even more indefensible, I think, is that Vanguard’s reporters and editors don’t know that the emir of Kano has officially disclaimed ownership of any social media account since August this year. Premium Times, Nigeria’s fastest-growing home-based online newspaper, in an August 14, 2014 news story titled “Emir Sanusi disowns facebook, twitter accounts,” quoted a Kano Emirate Council official to have said, among other things, that “a twitter handle in the name of the emir was frequently used to publish libellous statements in Mr. Sanusi’s name.” Yet Vanguard wrote a news story based on a tweet from this fake Twitter handle. Even if the paper’s editors missed the Premium Times story that says the emir has no social media accounts, which is inexcusable, why wouldn’t the editors ask their correspondents in Kano to confirm with the emirate council if indeed the emir issued a statement on Boko Haram on Twitter? That’s a journalistic no-brainer.

In any case, it has been known in informed circles in Nigeria for long that several fake social media accounts have been opened in the emir’s name right from the time he was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. I exposed one such account in my March 30, 2013 column titled “CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Fake Facebook Account.” Thanks to my exposure, the account, which was particularly brazen, has been deleted now, but several new ones have sprung up and are being used to fleece many gullible and credulous Nigerians.

It is apparent that @Malsanusilamido is maintained by the same gang of 419 Internet fraudsters who have mutated from sending unsolicited scam emails to Internet users to cloning the social media accounts of famous people to swindle unsuspecting “mugus.” A quick survey of the handle’s tweets will reveal this to any discerning person. In fact, in replies to @Malsanusilamido’s tweets, several people have imposed on themselves the task of exposing the Twitter handle as an impersonation. Yet, people who earn a living from skepticism, from fact-checking, verifying, and reporting the news, couldn’t, maybe still can’t, tell that @Malsanusilamido is fake.

But, as I pointed out earlier, this isn’t altogether surprising. Vanguard, in spite of, perhaps because of, its impressive online presence, is going down the toilet. Its news agenda is now set by social media chatter, not by the reportorial work of its reporters and writers. Remember the paper’s infamously false May 10, 2014 cover story titled, “Chibok: American Marines locate abducted girls in Sambisa forest,” which was also lifted from Nigerian social media gossip forums? (Read my May 31, 2014 column titled “Journalism is Dying a Slow Death in Nigeria” for details of this and other embarrassing social-media-induced fabrications by Vanguard and other papers). Vanguard is in the vanguard of destroying what remains of the credibility of Nigerian journalism. This is disconcerting. If newspapers degenerate to mindless chroniclers of idle gossip on social media why would anybody pay money to read them? Newspapers the world over are grappling with disruptions to their business that have been brought about by the advent of the Internet, but passing off lazy social media chatter as news is one avoidable, self-imposed handicap the Nigerian news media will do well to stop.

Postscript After writing this column, I discovered that the story about Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II’s tweet on Boko Haram isn’t original to Vanguard. It was originally written by AFP, the French news agency, and distributed to its subscribers. But this fact doesn’t change the substance of my observation about Vanguard because it’s the only major Nigerian newspaper that republished the story—as far as my research shows.

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THE WHOLE STORY DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE NAMED SOURCE. SO IT MUST BE FICTION, PURE LIE.

Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II and Vanguard’s Internet-Age Junk Journalism By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Vanguard is Nigeria’s most visited news website and the 17th top Nigerian website in all categories, according to Alexa, the Amazon-owned American company that monitors global web traffic. It also has the most Facebook “likes” of any Nigerian newspaper and is outrivaled only slightly by the Punch as the newspaper with the most Twitter followers in Nigeria. But it is also perhaps the most irresponsible and undiscerning user of unverified social media tittle-tattle in its news stories. That, for me, is a troubling mix. You would think an Internet- and social media-savvy newspaper like Vanguard would also have the common sense to know that not everything posted on the web is worth publishing without further verification and fact-checking. The paper’s editorial philosophy seems to be that whatever is on the web, especially on social media, is inerrant and deserves to be in the news. These days, the paper’s reporters just scout Facebook and Twitter and scoop any trending gossip from cyberia. The latest malicious social media gossip that Vanguard gave editorial endorsement to is a tweet from an obviously fake Twitter handle that impersonates Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II. On December 13, a Twitter handle that goes by @Malsanusilamido tweeted that Boko Haram would soon be defeated. The tweet reads: “I say help is on the way. Terror must and will be defeated.” The following day, Vanguard had this headline: “Muhammad Sanusi II says help is on the way, Boko Haram will be defeated.” But Vanguard didn’t only publicize the tweet of a transparently fake Twitter handle; it also editorialized the tweet and implied that the emir was hinting at a Buhari presidency as the panacea to Boko Haram. “Sanusi, Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader, was presumably referring to the emergence of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress in next year’s presidential election,” the story, which has no byline, said. So many things are wrong with this story. First, the emir of Kano isn’t “Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader.” That distinction belongs to the Shehu of Borno. In Sokoto caliphal hierarchy, the second most powerful monarch after the Sultan of Sokoto is the Emir of Gwandu. No Nigerian journalist can defend ignorance of these basic historical facts. But that’s beside the point. What’s even more indefensible, I think, is that Vanguard’s reporters and editors don’t know that the emir of Kano has officially disclaimed ownership of any social media account since August this year. Premium Times, Nigeria’s fastest-growing home-based online newspaper, in an August 14, 2014 news story titled “Emir Sanusi disowns facebook, twitter accounts,” quoted a Kano Emirate Council official to have said, among other things, that “a twitter handle in the name of the emir was frequently used to publish libellous statements in Mr. Sanusi’s name.” Yet Vanguard wrote a news story based on a tweet from this fake Twitter handle. Even if the paper’s editors missed the Premium Times story that says the emir has no social media accounts, which is inexcusable, why wouldn’t the editors ask their correspondents in Kano to confirm with the emirate council if indeed the emir issued a statement on Boko Haram on Twitter? That’s a journalistic no-brainer. In any case, it has been known in informed circles in Nigeria for long that several fake social media accounts have been opened in the emir’s name right from the time he was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. I exposed one such account in my March 30, 2013 column titled “CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Fake Facebook Account.” Thanks to my exposure, the account, which was particularly brazen, has been deleted now, but several new ones have sprung up and are being used to fleece many gullible and credulous Nigerians. It is apparent that @Malsanusilamido is maintained by the same gang of 419 Internet fraudsters who have mutated from sending unsolicited scam emails to Internet users to cloning the social media accounts of famous people to swindle unsuspecting “mugus.” A quick survey of the handle’s tweets will reveal this to any discerning person. In fact, in replies to @Malsanusilamido’s tweets, several people have imposed on themselves the task of exposing the Twitter handle as an impersonation. Yet, people who earn a living from skepticism, from fact-checking, verifying, and reporting the news, couldn’t, maybe still can’t, tell that @Malsanusilamido is fake. But, as I pointed out earlier, this isn’t altogether surprising. Vanguard, in spite of, perhaps because of, its impressive online presence, is going down the toilet. Its news agenda is now set by social media chatter, not by the reportorial work of its reporters and writers. Remember the paper’s infamously false May 10, 2014 cover story titled, “Chibok: American Marines locate abducted girls in Sambisa forest,” which was also lifted from Nigerian social media gossip forums? (Read my May 31, 2014 column titled “Journalism is Dying a Slow Death in Nigeria” for details of this and other embarrassing social-media-induced fabrications by Vanguard and other papers). Vanguard is in the vanguard of destroying what remains of the credibility of Nigerian journalism. This is disconcerting. If newspapers degenerate to mindless chroniclers of idle gossip on social media why would anybody pay money to read them? Newspapers the world over are grappling with disruptions to their business that have been brought about by the advent of the Internet, but passing off lazy social media chatter as news is one avoidable, self-imposed handicap the Nigerian news media will do well to stop. Postscript After writing this column, I discovered that the story about Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II’s tweet on Boko Haram isn’t original to Vanguard. It was originally written by AFP, the French news agency, and distributed to its subscribers. But this fact doesn’t change the substance of my observation about Vanguard because it’s the only major Nigerian newspaper that republished the story—as far as my research shows.

http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2014/12/emir-muhammadu-sanusi-ii-and-vanguards.html

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it's a shame how we "educated" Nigerians cannot conceptualize unity even in our minds. At a time when people are saying "discrimination is too much here, let's come together as one in the name of European Union, “educated” Nigerians are saying "discrimination is too much here, let's break up". IS THAT THE MOST INTELLIGENT SOLUTION THAT WE CAN THINK OF? IN THIS MODERN AGE? Haba!!!!

Hhmmmm, citizenY is spending time trying to educate fellows like Edoyad.
CitizenY, remember that there is a saying that "a dog that is determined to get lost does not hear the whistle of it's master". so all these things you are saying to this Edoyad of a guy is just a waste of time. i think you should concentrate on more intelligent people because this Edoyad of a guy does not sound educated. he claims the north has almajiris everywhere and is poverty-ridden then he goes elsewhere to say the southerners are sufferring while the northerners are enjoying. and he does not even notice the contradiction in what he is doing. You should know from your earlier argument with him that he is not intelligent enough to understand all the things you are saying.

we need less of people like for Nigeria to move forward.

So forget him.

‘REMI OYEYEMI’S COCKTAIL OF CONTRADICTIONS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY
A few weeks ago, one ‘Remi Oyeyemi placed a write up in this forum titled “Jonathan Goodluck: Vice President In Uthman Dan Fodio’s Estate”. My take on this is that it's a shame how some "educated" Nigerians like ‘Remi Oyeyemi cannot conceptualize unity even in their minds. Is it the North that makes the people of Aguleri and Umeleri in Anambra State or Ife and Modakeke in Oyo State, all the same lineage, language and Culture, kill one another and keep demanding that justice be done by separating them from their brothers?

REMI should stop being naive, OBJ was and is not anybody’s puppet. If OBJ was a puppet, how come he was able to HAND PICK a sick Yar’adua and not the healthy IBB, Buhari or Atiku. These are all Northerners, each with two functional kidneys! Or is it his so called Uthman Danfodio Estate that “master minded” this process?

If we look more critically than Remi is looking at these issues, we’ll see that the things playing out in the name of marginalization and demands for political space are just symptoms and that the real disease is neither tribalism nor ethnocentrism, but selfish individualism. He was talking about Sanusi. How many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? How many scholarships has Alameisiagh awarded in South- South? How many scholarships has Yar’adua, Atiku or IBB awarded to Northerners? We should join hands in asking these INDIVIDUALS to be more accountable and not be fighting one another.
Where was REMI when Sanusi was fighting for Abiola against Abacha? Why was Sanusi a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND) when people like ‘Remi Oyeyemi existed in the South-West? . Was Abiola or Kudirat from the North? 

At an age when countries like USA are bringing races together to form superpowers and the Europeans are telling each other "let's stop discriminating and come together as European Union", "educated" Nigerians are telling each other "let's end discrimination by parting ways". Is that the most intelligent solution that we can think of?

Finally, REMI should correct the following impressions: (1) total population is always determined by total fertility rate (average number of children born by a woman in her lifetime) and it does not have to be published in PARROT or WEST AFRICAN PILOT for demographers to know that it is higher in the North than in the South (2) there is an obvious skip in REMI’s recount of past events in Nigeria; he jumped from 1963 to 1973 as if nothing of significance happened during this period. And some unsuspecting commentators say he's recounting history correctly! (3) the Beroms are indigenes of Plateau State, but are not natives of Jos North or Jos South like REMI claims.



I agree with REMI, one of the greatest maladies of ignorance is to be ignorant of one’s own ignorance”.

It's a shame how some "educated" Nigerians cannot conceptualize unity even in their minds. Is it the North that makes the people of Aguleri and Umeleri in Anambra State or Ife and Modakeke in Oyo State, all the same lineage, language and Culture, kill one another and keep demanding that justice be done by separating them from their brothers?

REMI should stop being naive because OBJ was, and is, not anybody’s puppet. If OBJ was a puppet, how come he was able to hand over to a sick Yar’adua and not the healthy IBB, Buhari or Atiku. These are all Northerners, each with two functional kidneys!

If we look more critically than Remi is looking at these issues, we’ll see that the things we see as marginalization and demands for political space are just symptoms and that the real disease is neither tribalism nor ethnocentrism, but selfish individualism. How many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? How many scholarships has Dangote awarded to Northerners? We should join hands in fighting corrupt INDIVIDUALS and not be fighting tribes or regions. Are there more rich people in the North? Isnt there poverty in the North? So you think "the money" is on the streets of the North. There are poor people and there are bad people everywhere. There are rich people and there poor people everywhere? There are bad politicians and there are good politicians everywhere.

Where was REMI when the Sanusi he talked about was fighting for Abiola? Why was Sanusi a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)? [please verify this]. Was Abiola or Kudirat from the North?

At an age when countries like USA are bringing races together to form superpowers and the Europeans are telling each other "let's stop discriminating and come together as European Union", "educated" Nigerians are telling each other "let's end discrimination by parting ways". Is that the most intelligent solution that we can think of?

Finally, REMI should note the following errors: (1) total population is always determined by total fertility rate (average number of children born by a woman in her lifetime) and it does have to be published in PARROT or WEST AFRICAN PILOT for demographers to know that it is higher in the North (2) there is an obvious skip in REMI’s recount of past events in Nigeria; he jumped from 1963 to 1973 as if nothing of significance happened in this period. And we say he's recounting history correctly! (3) the Beroms are indigenes of Plateau State, but like the Jarawas the Beroms are not natives of Jos North or Jos South like REMI claims.



I agree, one of the greatest maladies of ignorance is to be ignorant of one’s own ignorance.