gratieao:
Even the so called amnesty international are useless. Why did they not use there so called useless satellite map to locate the whereabout of chibok girls?
If army kills BH useless amnesty international will complain, if they refuse the same useless people will complain

What's your problem? It seems that foolishness is dished out for free in the streets and villages of Nigeria.

Duch2010:


What has that got to do with how other African nationals see you.? Do the real research and find out if they don't see you as rapists, drug addicts, women beaters (kwame inclusive),grossly irresponsible! If the Zulus were so powerful, why was South Africa colonized till 1994 when other african countries gained independence in the 60s and even Zimbabwe in 1980? It shows how weak, mentally and physically black South Africans are! In Olympics, the black majority race(80% of the population)wins only less than 1% of the total medals won by South Africa. The rest of the medals are won for you by whites and Indians!the fact remains that black South Africans are the most useless people on Mother Earth!

DUDE, YOU ARE A RACIST R'ETARD AND A LUNATIC!!!
YOU ARE AN EXTREME SATANIST!

The moral of this article is, IF YOU DO NOT GIVE PRIORITY TO EVENTS IN ONE'S COUNTRY FIRST, WHY SHOULD SOMEONE ELSE DO?
Whilst Pres GJ was dancing in a political rally; over 2000 Nigerian citizens got maimed mercilessly by Boko Haram. Are human lives cheap in Nigeria? I don't expect anyone commenter here to say, leaders take interest when a few French are killed, but when thousand of Nigerians get killed they remain silent. The question should be what have you done yourselves? When did you organised even 50 000 people to a mass gathering?

Strangely so, none of all Nigerian news media platforms have carried a story on this mass killing by BH over the weekend and yet expect the world to take notice and act.

RSA, Europe, USA etc aren't the CAUSE. But the problem is right there in your own minds and hearts, which shape one's character then priorities. This will dictate where your political leaders' priorities lie, and that of your general populace. It is time that all should look inward first and less outward.

Toye Olori, Peter Fabricius and agencies

Lagos/Johannesburg - As the world’s attention was focused on the huge March for Unity in Paris, responding to the Islamist attacks there last week, Nigeria was reeling from a blizzard of attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist extremists that have killed an estimated 2 000 people over the past week.

In a new twist, Boko Haram is increasingly resorting to child suicide bombers to carry out its lethal attacks in the Islamic north-east of Nigeria.

On Sunday, two young girls of about 10 years old blew themselves up in mid-afternoon in an open market selling cellphone handsets in the town of Potiskum in Yobe state, killing at least three people.

The town has frequently been attacked by Boko Haram.

A trader at the market, Sani Abdu Potiskum, said: “I saw their dead bodies. They are two young girls of about 10 years of age… You only see the plaited hair and part of the upper torso.”
Copy of ct nigeria-explosion done Explosives strapped around the torso of a 10-year-old girl exploded in a busy marketplace in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Two more young girls suffered the same fate in Potiskum. AP

Another witness, who accompanied the ambulances taking casualties to hospital, said three people, excluding the bombers, were killed and at least 26 people were wounded.

The town was hit by a suicide bomber in November when at least 48 people, mainly pupils, were killed during a school assembly.

On Sunday, a bomb exploded at a police station in Potiskum, apparently detonated by a person arrested by the police. One policeman died, police said.

Sunday’s explosions came a day after a bomb, strapped to a girl aged about 10, exploded in a busy marketplace in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, killing 20 people including herself, according to State Police public relations officer Gideon Jibrin, who said 18 others were injured.

This is the third time that that market has been attacked by teenage or child bombers.

A Maiduguri journalist, who feared being named, said children were often asked to do errands for adults in this area and did so unquestioningly. He was sure they did not know they were carrying bombs.

Boko Haram has also carried out large military-style attacks on several villages and towns in the north-east over the last week, including Baga in Borno, on the shores of Lake Chad, where 14 soldiers were confirmed killed in a surprise attack on their military barracks. The sect has also invaded some villages near Damanturu, the Yobe state capital, about 130km away.

Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states have been the main theatres of war between Boko Haram and the joint military force comprising soldiers from Nigeria and neighbouring countries fighting them.

Reacting to the latest attacks and invasion of Baga and Damanturu, the Nigerian military said on Sunday that troops were still busy with mopping-up operations around Damaturu after successfully foiling and containing the terrorists’ attempt to occupy parts of the town.

According to the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, the terrorists had launched a massive attack from different directions on the town on Friday evening, but troops were quickly mobilised to repel the attack that lasted the night.

He said Boko Haram had suffered heavy casualties before retreating. He said five soldiers had been seriously wounded but the number of civilian casualties was still being determined. The town was being reinforced with more troops.

Damaturu was last attacked in early December when air strikes were called in to halt advancing militants.

Olukolade said the military would regroup before mounting an effort to retake the town of Baga which Boko Haram had raided twice and occupied over the last week. On Friday, the government said it had launched ground action backed by airstrikes to reclaim the area.

“The Nigerian component of the Multinational Joint Task Force and more of the troops are regrouping for necessary debrief and briefing for subsequent missions,” Olukolade said.

The Nigerian government and military have been widely criticised for failing to protect civilians in the north-eastern states and the issue has become highly politicised ahead of national elections next month where President Goodluck Jonathan is seeking re-election.

On Sunday the presidential candidate for the opposition All Progressive Party, General Muhammad Buhari, slammed the government, saying: “It is high time the federal government reviews its counter-terrorism strategies. I am embarrassed by the fact that Nigeria has now become a sitting duck for terrorist attacks.

“This season of death must be brought to a complete stop.”

Many African and other commentators have been angered by what they regard as the world’s indifference to the massive Boko Haram atrocities, while focusing so much attention on the Islamist terror attacks in Paris, which killed 17 people.

About 40 world leaders joined French President Francois Hollande for on Sunday’s huge “March of Unity” in Paris in solidarity and sympathy with the cartoonists and journalists of the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo and other victims of the attacks in Paris by jihadists apparently linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and/or to the Islamic State.

South Africa was represented by its ambassador Rapule Molekane.

The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (“I am Charlie”) has gone viral and sympathy demonstrations are being held around the world, including in Johannesburg and Cape Town at the weekend.

Monyela tweeted: “The situation in #Nigeria though... fellow Africans dying daily in numbers. I don’t see any emergency UNSC meetings.”

“Has the world even taken notice?” tweeted Levi Kabwato. “Where are the African hash tags? The outrage?”

Cape Times

To Duch2010 + all4naija take this:-
You give Nigerians a bad name and you are embarrassing your people and country. Your rantings doesn't help Nigeria's immigrants in SA and elsewhere other than fueling further antagony. I know I'm not directing this to sane people cos you are probably not unless you prove me otherwise.

Some of us are exchanging intelligent comments not knowing that, probably, we are engaging with 419 and drug dealers - who do not have fiber of morality left in them.

Follow this link which will sum it up for you - http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/paris-marches-nigeria-burns-1.1803682#.VLNwyXsfiHE

Your President was dancing in a political rally whilst over 2000 of your people got maimed mercilessly over this past weekend alone!

How do you people sleep at night. It seems that your Pres is your reflection, to a certain extent, of what you are. Human lives seems to mean nothing in your country yet you brag about being GIANT...giant of scum. How foolish that now you even believe your own lies!!!

I think you should just direct your comments at BH and the failure of your FG to protect vulnerable citizens. You must focus more on commenting about your your dilapidated road network, endemic corruption, bad schools and hospitals, cultism etc. RSA should be of no concern to you, just leave it to its people to deal with.

You have even failed to decipher the title of this thread which in itself is misleading and a gross exaggeration. Who ever wrote it is a RE.TA.RD as he/she amplified a meaningless tweet from a young lady who is moving on with her life whilst you are busy ranting against SA people. Is this the kind of thinking that some of your bloggers carry, then it's no more than pit toilet reasoning and gutter blogging.

Bonang & D'banj dating or not is a matter between the two, and has nothing to do with SA girls or men and you must just leave us alone. I can say a lot about the appearance/conduct of your women but I won't. I don't want to insult innocent people because of your stupidity and carelessness.

BluIvy:


Don't be an A$$, only vulnerable, ignorant and trashy slum dwelling South African girls dates your dirty armpit stinking a$$es. How many girls do you think date Nigerians? You people are dumb as nails, just becouse a few desperados date you, you think all SA girls want your stinking drug peddling and ritualist a$$es?

Think again dude!

OUCH!

Apologies to our fellow right thinking Naijas though
You don't fall into the same category.

Duch2010:


You can only speak for yourself. You have no right to call anybody kids because he expresses his view and opinions! Stop this apologetic behaviorism

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS GOOD AMBASSADORS LIKE @Nobleval IN ORDER TO PROGRESS AND BECOME POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, AND SOCIALLY STABLE. YOU GIVE NIGERIANS A BAD NAME, NOT UNLESS YOU REPENT.

THE LIKES OF YOU BEHAVE LIKE SPOILT KIDS THROWING TOYS OUT OF THE COT.

USA, BRITAIN, ITALY, FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS JAPAN, DUBAI ETC ETC - THEIR PPL AREN'T INSULTING OTHER CITIZENS OF OTHER COUNTRIES. THEY HAVE FOCUSSED THEIR THINKING ON INNOVATION TO PROVIDING A BETTER LIFE FOR THEIR CITIZENS FIRST. LOOK HOW DEVELOPED THEY ARE . IN THAT PROCESS THEY DIDN'T MIND IMPORTING SKILLS FROM THE LIKES OF YOU . KEEP ON CONDEMNING SA AND ITS PEOPLE AND SOON ENOUGH YOU'LL FIND THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY ANYMORE, BECAUSE YOU WERE OCCUPIED WITH MINDING OTHER PPL'S BUSINESS AND NEGLECTING TO LOOK INWARD.

HENCE THE LIKES OF YOU LIKE TO FLOCK OVER THERE . AND THE LIKES OF YOU WHEN THEY GET INTO THOSE COUNTRIES - MUST OBEY THEIR LAWS AND SHOULDN'T GO ABOUT FINDING FAULT AND TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INSULT. YOU CAME INTO OUR COUNTRY, AND AFTER WE FED YOU, TAKEN CARE OF YOU - YOU BIT THE HAND THAT FED YOU. THIS OLD ADAGE STILL RINGS TRUE, DON'T DEFECATE UNDER A TREE AS YOU WILL NEED ITS SHADE ON YOUR WAY BACK.

Duch2010:


It's commonplace. You talk about it as if it hardly happens! Women are being battered, impregnated and abandoned on a daily basis in SA! 10million kids without fathers is no joke my dear! My maths tell me that's a quarter of the whole population! And perhaps three quarter of the total number of children in SA!
Read what I said earlier, I have worked in SA before as an expat and still travels down on work related issues. The country reels of ignorant, violent fools who perhaps can be saved by education and a reduction in alcohol intake!

MYOPIA ALERT
SELF RIGHTEOUS NIGERIAN
I HAVE READ WORSE THINGS IN YOUR BACKYARD AS REPORTED IN YOUR OWN - VANGUARD, THIS DAY, TRIBUNE, THE PUNCH...numerous blogs. I was gonna weep and pray if I was you
YOU AREN'T ONE OF RARE "RIGHT THINKING" NIGERIANS ALTHOUGH YOU SEEM TO BE A WELL TRAVELED EXPAT
YOU KEEP FOCUSSING ON PETTY ISSUES, SOCIETAL IN THEIR NATURE. TELL ME A COUNTRY THAT IS HOLY

GOOD BYE

Duch2010:



I challenge you to ask a Cameroonian, an Egyptian, a kenyan an American and a British and even your next door brothers- Zimbabwean.I promise you there will be just one answer- black South Africans are slow, lazy, uneducated slowpoke. For your info the multinational company I work for once transferred me to SA from the UK. I was surprised to see South African whites and some foreigners(Africans inclusive) get along very well. The black South Africans are neck deep in inferiority complex that they couldn't socialize with other nationals at lunch time and end of year functions! In one year of working in SA, nearly three quarter of the the work force requested for a transfer to another country. The attitude of black South Africans was more appalling than horrendous! I am an ardent reader of News24. The bashing of black South African is commonplace!

You are still proving my point though. You cannot be believed with any trick you are conjuring here. Even if it was the truth, how does that sample of workforce of your employer represent all characteristics in the whole of SA? Smart people know that every company is unique with its own corporate culture everywhere. A company isn't a country or nation.

And you better get internal politics out of this discussion, they are irrelevant. There are dynamics at play there like where the majority rules. Should I go around blame you for voting Pres GJ who has failed dismally to develop your country and provide security for all its citizens. No, I won't. I'm smarter than that.

Your incessant mention of whites/blacks/Indians confirms your slave mentality or rather your reasoning is still colonized. That's a problem, you are still caught by a mentality that celebrate colonialism and imperialist tendencies. We have resisted all that, and I will never let the likes of you to sneak such through the backdoor using the slave master mentality.

When you start throwing insults, it confirms a fact that your thinking trajectory is very weak and unimaginative. You can't start anything meaningful with your life.

Nobleval:
excuse me please. you really took out time to write these nonsenses? Most of them are true tho,but I think your views are biased I'll reply this post at the appropiate time dear.

Maybe you are one among numerous right thinking Nigerians who believe in globalization, and respecting other people's way of life whilst acknowledging that difficulties exist in each country. So I'm fully aware of that. My comment isn't for you then, but I don't take kindly to having my country being insulted by the likes of Duch2010 who are armed with no facts.

Let's be fair. I've also been to your country. There are things I appreciated but there lots of other things I didn't and still don't appreciate and those that would make me return home quickly.

Let's just mind our own problems and respect each countries sovereignty. In my country, they speak bad of BH to what they are doing to your people. We are wondering why is your government moving on with business as if lives of other citizens matter lesser. It's not commendable to use one's trouble against her, but it's up to the country's citizens and leadership to refrain from passing scorn to others when they themselves don't have much to write home about.

In the past I've read comments from one of your government leaders threatening to impound SA companies doing business in Nigeria. I was shocked and asked myself what kind of foolishness and thuggery is this as there are bilateral trade agreements in place. Don't these mean anything? But this is a topic for another day.

Having sad that I don't think it's appropriate for you to put fuel into this. I've already exonerated you if you are real.

Duch2010:


I can see I have been chatting with(or as they incorrectly say in SA"chatting to"an intelligently bankrupt person! You have failed to name just ONE person who has internationally been recognized in a given profession! There is something innately and inherently wrong with black South Africans. United Nations should officially declare(or relegate) you guys to the status of sub-humans! For the sake of emphasis, I repeat- I have never met a black South African who is intelligently sound, a fact attested to by other nationals and even South African whites and Indians! Please read comments on News24 to have a full grasp of what I am talking about! Maybe bluivy would have changed the status quo but alas! She's Botswanan!
Bye Sweetie!

How typical. That's why BH will annihilate the whole lot cos you got your priorities in all the wrong places.
Your comment has proven my assessment of the whole lot of you as it is motivated by myopia, jealousy, backwardness, false sense of pride etc.
Who are you to have traveled the length and breadth of SA to meet 40m of black South Africans? Even in my own work place, there are enough intelligent black people than you could find in your whole village in Anambra. The difference is that we aren't loud and arrogant like your men are, but prefer to mind our business and focus onto what's important - innovation.

There are many other news platforms in SA, therefore News24 doesn't represent views of all citizens. However, go and spew your garbage about SA as a Nigerian in the same news platform - you'll see patriotism like you never before in your life. Nonetheless, your comment is noted as insane and a silly provocation.

Nobleval:
@BluIvy,you're always on South African matters like its your country.

Can't I be in Nigeria yet being a South African. So strange!

It is so shocking how envious some Nigerians are of SA and its people to the extent that they have resorted to segregationist tendencies! Probably an insignificant number of Nigerians are disappointed that there is peace in SA. Black African people in SA have suddenly become immigrants in their own country according to a few narrow minded Nigerians . You are motivated by nothing but jealousy

@duch2010 and others, you know deep down that you are no match with SA, and we don't go around exposing your unclothedness. Many of our citizens got killed in a collapsed building of Scoan on Sept 12th, but did we insult your country, no? But we fetched our own with dignity an silently. Our leaders were calm and objective throughout this ordeal created by your government which has a poor record of caring for its own people. I feel sorry for all reasonable thinking Nigerians that they have to be impacted by these exchanges in this thread fueled by a few myopic crooks of the Naira.

We care for our own, do you? Where are the 200+ Chibok girls? Have they been brought back? Why has BH been attacking villages in the North non-stop? Where are your security forces? Are the Northern ppl less Nigerian? What will happen when BH starts attacking the South of your country incl Lagos? I bet you wouldn't be sitting behind your screen spewing all your garbage of narrow mindedness, but you'd rush for a visa to SA or elsewhere in Southern Africa or other safe havens.

Your narrow views against SA ppl reflect a bad image and perception of Nigerians in general as; suffering from INFERIORITY COMPLEX, JEALOUSY, MYOPIA, UNCOUTH, ARROGANT, LOUD AND EGOCENTRIC. Why don't you imitate the Chinese; shut up and focus on developing your country's infrastructure, diversify your economy, and develop your social services especially in hospitals and schools to world's standards.

Don't ever mention anything about being giant of Africa - a false sense of pride. Population wise, yes at 170m people.

IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A GLASS HOUSE DON'T THROW STONES

So typical of some Nigerians, who resort to name calling to sound reason. Is it about your emotional or social insecurity or pure envy at SAcans? How can one relatively unknown twitter user managed to make you all jump up and down to a non-issue.

Back in SA that is nothing; it's only your bloggers that are making this an issue which has exposed your intellect. Bless those Naijas who have disapproved this nonsensical story!

Don't you have anything else to do than scavenging here to add fuel to latest gossips?! Some of your bloggers like Linda just want nothing but to get attention. And oh boy she got it cos she knew the kind of FEED for your insatiable appetites wherever the name SA is mentioned, and there you go on a feeding frenzy.

Your country got lots of problems, why don't you just dedicate your time to that whilst we mind our own. You still have over 200 girls being kidnapped somewhere in the Sambisa forest, and who knows what is happening to them daily (you know what I mean). Some of these same girls have now been brainwashed to be used as suicide bombers! And yet you have the audacity to come here and brag 'Giant of Africa'...my foot. This shows some of you peoples' mentality and false self esteem. You are a careless and insensitive lot. What a shame!

Most of your (especially) men are arrogant, talk too much and think less or don't think at all. You believe in hype and scorn. Don't insult SA men as you know nothing about them except for your skewed perceptions emanating from your false egos of your men. If one Nigerian man or woman can find sense in this message, he/she's good to becoming a model of sound reasoning and a behavioral ambassador.

Some Nigerians are really stupid

hopeforcharles:
Good riddance to Bad rubbish , who knows if America hand no dey for this insurgence wars self? anyway Nigeria should be ready for some bad belle pokes and manipulations from America, what a wicked and manipulative Country name America

[quote author=MadCow1 post=28184320]


[b]There is no written law on the signs a building MUST exhibit before it collapses.

You may see signs, you may not...

If the cause was from the foundation... EXAMPLE: A geological phenomena known as Creep: Then you may not get any signs before hand.

I for one dont hate TB nor have any ill feelings towwards him.. But the fact that his building was illegal takes precedence over every other secondary event.

MzansiBeat writes:-
That is where you are wrong. Being illegal doesn't mean that poor standards were followed. Your reasoning is flawed and dangerous because it then channels you on how to investigate thus missing valuable clues. Models should have been developed already, they will assist to mimic different ways that a building will behave under certain conditions i.e weak pillars, poor foundation etc. All probabilities must be looked at before reaching a conclusion that is, if there is any justice left in left in Nigeria.

All the way from RSA, I keep on wondering on why you guys fail to see that the building didn't come down on its own in the manner that it did. One does not need to be an expect to see that. Your hatred against TB Joshua from some of your people has clearly affected your objectivity.

The police must also conduct forensic investigation by picking up any pieces of evidence from the debris. Not unless they lack this valuable expertise, meaning they should have come down from their high horses to contract this service from RSA considering that many of our citizens were affected.

A building with structural defects will first give a warning before collapsing. It will crack and walls will gradually peel off. One side will be affected more than others. There won't be smoke like cement dust flying into the air. It will not fall down in 3 seconds like a stack of lose bricks. I've seen in the pictures that this building was reinforced. Therefore the assumption that additional floors were added hence the collapse is a distant fact.

The plane flying past may have been a co-incidence but the correlation of events shouldn't be ruled out without careful investigation. I say this considering the big time difference between last seen to the time this fateful event occurred.

Nigerians must accept a huge security breach and that must be a worry to your country. Your expects mustn't be lazy and conduct a white wash, but must investigate this thing properly so, otherwise seek additional help from RSA or alternatively from other countries who are well equipped period!

How sweet that was to have super chickens for supper . They were totally outclassed and were made to look ordinary, but the ref, where the heaven did he get those 5 minutes from!!! Pasop.

Nigerians must learn that you play first before talking and history means little in football. You got your lesson 101 now. You guys got them big mouths and arrogance.