₦airaland Forum

nextprince:
RIP. But I don't understand. From the rank of LANCE CORPORAL towe BRIG GEN? How did he join from the rank of LCpl rather than Private? And was he commissioned? Even if he was commissioned as executive commission, how did he rise to that rank as an EC officer? I'm aware SSC officers can get as high as that but EC?

homosapien:
Even two years after Gej electoral loss, some people are still bitter to the extent that their common sense has been eroded because of hatred.

It is well with you people. Please remember to also blame Buhari if you can't have an erection.

Abeos:
They made it look like he fell into a single wall when however he actually fell between two walls close to each other

Flyingngel:
Why Nigerian plenty as Judges for there, and to think that one of us is d chief Judge of d country. Is it that Gambian don't have qualified legal practitioners?

CFCman:
This proposal should definitely come with strong checks and balances to prevent Governors from abusing the law. I'm afraid the governors could essentially turn the state police commands into their own private armies; gubernatorial opponents could be arrested on the flimsy orders of an incumbent governor.

I'd limit the powers of the governor to issue orders to the police to convening a security meeting with the Commissioner of Police, DCPs and ACPs, and reshuffling police officers to areas where policing is adequate.

Furthermore, I also believe the appointment of the Inspector General of Police (and Deputy Inspectors General of Police) should be subject to the advice and consent (confirmation) of the Senate. This would ensure that the IGP and the DIG's aren't simply lapdogs of Aso Rock.

Also, the Commissioners of Police (or a DCP, if the CP isn't available) should be required to brief members of the state houses of assembly on a quarterly basis, on the general security condition of the respective states.

agabusta:
The cult boys may have shown their hands too early.

The odds favour the security operatives to cut them to size before 2019.

ourema:
Do you think that the new crop of President in sub Sahara Africa are doing well in the advancement of democracy in Africa?
The likes of GEJ and now in Ghana where the incumbent called the opposition to congratulate him on the election victory?

sirpatrick:
1 The country with the largest number of
WWII causalities was Russia, with over 21
million.


2 For every five German soldiers who died
in WWII, four of them died on the Eastern
Front.


3 It is estimated that 1.5 million children
died during the Holocaust. Approximately 1.2
million of them were Jewish and tens of
thousands were Gypsies.



4 Eighty percent of Soviet males born in
1923 didn’t survive WWII.



5 Between 1939 and 1945, the Allies
dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, which
averaged to 27,700 tons per month.



6 Russia and the Red Army were accused
of several war crimes, including systematic
mass rape (over 2 million German women
aged 13-70 were allegedly raped by the Red
Army) and genocide.



7 Even after the Allies arrived, many
concentration camp prisoners were beyond
help. In Bergen-Belsen, for example, 13,000
prisoners died after liberation. Nearly 2,500 of
the 33,000 survivors of Dachau died within six
weeks of liberation.



8 Most historians agree that WWII began
when Germany invaded Poland on September
1, 1939. Others say it started when Japan
invaded Manchuria on September 18, 1931.
And some scholars suggest WWII is actually a
continuation of WWI, with a break in between.
WW II began on September 1, 1939 when Hitler
invaded Poland


9 Max Heiliger was the fictitious name the
SS used to establish a bank account in which
they deposited money, gold, and jewels taken
from European Jews.



10 The longest battle of WWII was the
Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted from
1939-1945.



11 The original abbreviation of the
National Socialist Party was Nasos. The word
“Nazi” derives from a Bavarian word that
means “simple minded” and was first used as
a term of derision by journalist Konrad Heiden
(1901-1966).



12 Approximately 600,000 Jews served in
the United States armed forces during WWII.
More than 35,000 were killed, wounded,
captured, or missing. Approximately 8,000 died
in combat. However, only two Jewish soldiers
were awarded the Medal of Honor in WWII.



13 The Battle of the Bulge is the largest
and deadliest battle for U.S. troops to date,
with more than 80,000 American casualties.



14 More Russians (military and civilians)
lost their lives during the Siege of Leningrad
than did American and British soldiers
combined in all of WWII.



15 The Nazis murdered approximately 12
million people, nearly 6 million of those being
Jews killed in the Holocaust (“whole burnt”).




16 During WWII, the Japanese launched
9,000 “wind ship weapons” of paper and
rubberized-silk balloons that carried incendiary
and anti-personnel bombs to the U.S. More
than 1,000 balloons hit their targets and they
reached as far east as Michigan. The only
deaths resulting from a balloon bomb were six
Americans (including five children and a
pregnant woman) on a picnic in Oregon.



17 The swastika is an ancient religious
symbol. It derives from the Sanskrit name for
a hooked cross, which was used by ancient
civilizations as a symbol of fertility and good
fortune. It has been found in the ruins of
Greece, Egypt, China, India, and Hindu
temples.
The swastika is a sacred religious symbol in
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism and dates back
to before the 2nd century BC


18 The Japanese Kamikaze (“divine wind”)
tactic was suggested on October 19, 1944, by
Vice-Admiral Onishi in an attempt to balance
the technological advantage of invading
American forces. Though the numbers are
disputed, approximately 2,800 kamikaze pilots
died. They sunk 34 U.S. ships, damaged 368,
killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded 4,800.


19 In 1935, British engineer Robert
Watson-Watt was working on a “death ray”
that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio
waves. His “death ray” instead evolved into
radar—or “radio detection and ranging.



20 Many Jews were subject to gruesome
medical experiments. For example, doctors
would bombard the testicles of men and the
ovaries of women with X-rays to see the
impact of different doses on sterility. Nazi
doctors would break bones repeatedly to see
how many times it could be done before a
bone could not heal. They hit people’s heads
with hammers to see what their skulls could
withstand. Experiments were conducted to
determine the effects of atmospheric pressure
on the body. Prisoners were injected with
different drugs and diseases, and limbs were
amputated and muscles cut for transplantation
experiments. Today reference to or use of the
Nazi research is considered unethical.



21 Dr. Josef Mengele (the “Angel of
Death”) used about 3,000 twins, mostly
Romany and Jewish children, for his painful
genetic experiments. Only about 200 survived.
His experiments included taking one twin’s
eyeball and attaching it on the back of the
other twin’s head or changing the eye color of
children by injecting dye. In one instance, two
Romany twins were sewn together in an
attempt to create conjoined twins.



22 In addition to Jews and gypsies,
Jehovah’s Witnesses were also persecuted
and murdered in German concentration
camps.




23 The decision to implement the “Final
Solution” or Die Endlosung was made at the
Wannsee Conference in Berlin on January 20,
1942. Heinrich Himmler was its chief
architect. The earliest use of the phrase
“Final Solution to the Jewish Problem” was
actually used in an 1899 memo to Russian
Tzar Nicholas about Zionism.



24 Many historians believe that the Battle
at Stalingrad (1942-1943) is not only arguably
the bloodiest battle in history
(800,000-1,600,000 casualties), but also the
turning point of WWII in Europe.
Nearly 40,000 Soviet civilians lost their lives
during the Battle of Stalingrad


25 WWII ended on September 2, 1945,
when Japan signed a surrender agreement on
the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.



26 Anne Frank and her sister died at
Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, one month
before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
During its existence, nearly 50,000 people
died. After evacuating the camp, British
soldiers burned it to the ground to prevent the
spread of typhus.


27 In his book The Abandonment of the
Jews, David Wyman (1929- ) argued that the
failure to bomb concentration camps was a
result of the Allies’ indifference to the fate of
the Jews rather than the practical
impossibility of the operation.


28 Despite the risks, thousands of people
helped save the Jews. For example, the
country of Denmark saved its entire
community. And individuals such as Raoul
Wallenberg (1912-1947), Oscar Schindler
(1908-1974), and Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986)
saved thousands of lives.


29 From 1940-1945, the U.S. defense
budget increased form $1.9 billion to $59.8
billion.



30 The Air Force was part of the Army in
WWII and didn’t become a separate branch of
the military until after the war.


31 In 1941, a private earned $21 a month.
In 1942, a private earned $50 a month.



32 German U-boats sunk 2,000 Allied
ships at a cost of 781 U-boats destroyed.[2]
33 More than 650,000 Jeeps were built
during WWII. American factories also produced
300,000 military aircraft; 89,000 tanks; 3
million machine guns; and 7 million rifles.

33.More than 650,000 jeps were built during WWll,
American factories also produced 300,000 military aircrafts,
89,000 tanks,3 million machine guns,and 7 million rifles.


34 The Enola Gay became well known for
dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
but few people know the name of the B-29
that bombed Nagasaki. It was Bock’s Car,
named after the plane’s usual commander,
Frederick Bock

ourema:
We can find a way to get the best form of government if the masses can rise up and fight for freedom. But that is more of talk to us. Because we are enmeshed in fear and slave mentality

ourema:
Very insightful reasoning but let me ask you a question.
Could it be that African leaders and Africa in general are yet to define the form of leadership that best suits the people.?
Could it be that democracy is a wrong system of governance for Africa?

otokx:
Thanks for the reminder.

UuzbaGuuzba:
Do you know that you were once inside your mother's womb? And back then ALL you ever knew was the inside of that womb? You didn't even know what your own mother looked like because you were inside that womb. You didn't even know that your mother was a woman and there ere other women and men and children inther world OUTSIDEyour mother's womb. What makes you so DEFINITE and sure now that it all ends here? Guy you are greatly ignorant as every baby inside their mother's womb. Humbel yourself and learn. There is Godd. Do not wait to be born out of this womb of the world to meet the reality of eternal life. You cannot see it does not mean it is not there.

donphilopus:
In Akoko Edo, the result announced by INEC at the Igarra collation centre was APC's 24k votes and PDP's 13k votes and that was the same result they announced in Benin. So where did they rig the election? Una no get sense!!

If you ain't accusing APC of buying votes, you'd be accusing them of rigging the election. Which do we believe now?

halmeyd:
hahaha baba weyrey!! i knew u would surely find one watery logic sha

DIKEnaWAR:
What's the difference between her and Obasanjo, Tinubu, Ibb, GEJ, Buhari?

modsmustdie:
Ghana ran a general election... there is no public holiday declared... it was just like every other day..., no fight, no police and military on patrol. ... everything was peaceful and normal as every other day. ..yet just a local election in PH, everything has turn into war... what a useless country called nigga area or junglized zoo...spit

Chukazu:
as much as I do not see any sense in what he has done, I Really blame the USA for been threatening the guy with with been tried at the Hague(I.C.C) for human rights abuses, i mean they should have allowed him to step down first before such threat

by the way, it seems ICC is only meant for African leaders alone

SIRmanjar:
The dayz ar evil sister things ar happning ad one haz to be very careful,4 d fact d boy iz unclad shows its not an accident.
Dem dey always dey unclad whn dem catch dem.

nextprince:
Exactly what I was about to say until I saw yours. Actually, from brig gen to gen and above, it is political (region and zone things), but for other ranks, it is purely based on meeting the requirements in terms of seniority on rank, having good records from unit etc. Some people are just in the habit of spreading falsehood.

bigFOOTcaveMAN:
Goats!

firstking01:
Lwkm....The dude stirring be like "make she open maka kuku shuk am inside".

Fundamentalist:
I don't believe the house is responsible for anything. It saden's me that people who claim to believe in God still follow such superstions and yet claim to be believers in God.IT IS ONLY GOD THAT CAN DO AND UNDO. If you are indeed a believer in God nothing can bring harm or benefit you except as He will. The claim that people are still deep in traditional beliefs is still very true . consider the example of two friends whom both graduated with first class and yet graduate A was more successful than graduate B . the later didnt offend God , its just life. Take a deep look at your life and you would discover that despite your present predicament you are still better off than many of your peers. If you want to feel God's grace look at those below u not above you.

There is only one constant thing in life , its Change. Even the so called wwealthy amongst us they undergo difficulties in their daily life. For example , I will suppose you are in a state of good health many wealthy people don't enjoy such luxury. Health cannot be bought. Life is full of challenges any body preaching a perfect life is just fooling people.

giantstrides:
all you stated above can't be done in a twinkle of an eye, it needs to done gradually, right now he's creating an atmosphere where people are scared of stealing, this cannot be said about the GEJ government . The major grouse i have with him is his Tribalism, nepotism and unclear state of handling the economy .