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There was this recent report on intra-tribal fight in Ogbomosho or Oyo in Oyo state where many were killed
Please find it and post.

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I dey laff ohh

Bluetooth go soon commit suicide

This Day (Lagos)
Nigeria: NURTW, RTEAN Clash in Ado-Ekiti

Toba Suleiman


Ado-Ekiti — One person was feared dead, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries yesterday, during a clash between members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), over control of a new motor park in the state capital.

The new motor park was said to have been built by Ado-Ekiti Local Government for RTEAN members, who were not operating in any park.

Frosbel

I have no problem addressing the problem in Ebonyi
I have  a problem with this in bold coming from a know bigot such as bluetooth.

I hope jonathan can extend his state of emergency to iboland too.And these are people that claimed to[b] belong to the same ethnic group ?[/b] Huh This is madness.

All the SW states are fraught with deaths from motor park tout fights
Coming with the remaining states.

http://www.nigeriadailynews.com/latest-additions/31256-20-feared-killed-in-ogun-nurtw-clash.html

20 feared killed in Ogun NURTW clash
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Amosun orders 30 APCs as banks close shops over robbery threats

NO fewer than 20 people were feared killed yesterday morning in Sango-Ota, Ogun State, as two opposing factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) turned the boisterous town to a theatre of war over the control of the Sango Motor Parks.

Yesterday’s mayhem occurred barely three weeks after a similar incident in Ifo and Ijebu-Ode, which claimed the lives of six people, leading to the disbandment of the NURTW in Ijebu-Ode. A few days before then, there had been a similar clash between factions of the union in Ijebu-Igbo in which lives were also lost.

The Sango clash came just 24 hours after an Abeokuta State High Court struck out an application challenging the conduct of a proposed election by a faction of the union in the state.
Also, following last Thursday’s fatal robbery incidents at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, and a deep-seated feeling of insecurity, banks in that university community and across major towns in Ijebu area of the state have shut their doors against their customers for three working days, starting last Friday.

The Guardian learnt that the banks took the step on the advice of the State Police Command.

According to a banker in Ijebu Ode who asked not to be named, “the police told us to shutdown our operations pending the time the Ijebu Bankers’ Forum would meet with Governor Ibikunle Amosun to discuss the security situation in the whole of Ijebu area, which is now under siege by armed robbers.”

The situation has created a huge cash crunch problem for residents of Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu-Igbo and Ago-Iwoye as their funds are trapped in the banks, whose ATMs have also ran dry.

Meanwhile, Amosun has pledged to wage “total war on armed bandits” in the state.

He made the pledge yesterday while receiving leaders of the Ijebu Bankers’ Forum in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Consequently, the governor has ordered 30 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to assist the police and other security operatives in combating armed banditry and other violent crimes in the state.

Ten of the APCs, according to a statement by Funmi Wakama, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Communication) to the governor, would soon arrive the state.

Amosun tasked security operatives in the state to be more active, stressing that the frequency of armed banditry in the state did “not speak well of the competence of the security men.”

Chairman, Ijebu Bankers’ Forum, Olusegun Olusoga, informed the governor of the security challenges facing their operations and appealed for government’s assistance.

Pandemonium broke out in Sango on Monday night when a faction of the union took steps to forcefully overthrow a faction of the NURTW in the town.

This met stiff resistance and clashes ensued all night, with sporadic gunshots.

Yesterday morning when the police doused the tension, 10 people have been killed. One of the victims’ remains were left under the Sango bridge, which is still under construction, in the pool of his own blood.

Scores of other people were seriously injured in the mayhem, including an employee of the construction giant, Julius Berger Plc, who was stabbed on the neck.

There were, however, conflicting figures of casualties as some said eight while others claimed the number had risen to 20.

When The Guardian visited the scene, commercial activities in the area was grounded, as shops were under lock and key. All the banks also locked out customers in the area.

Armed police personnel drafted to the scene frisked passersby who were ordered to raise their hands up as they passed on.

But despite the security beef-up, the fracas spread to the neighbouring Ogba Iyo in Ijoko, a suburb of Sango around 11.00 a.m. and residents of the area were forced to run for their lives.

When The Guardian visited the Sango Police Station to confirm the number of casualties, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) was reportedly on the field to monitor the situation.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident.

He said: “There was a minor fracas in the morning and it was caused by NURTW members over the control of the motor park, but the command has drafted its men to the scene.

“We are even sending more men there; we are sending additional 40 men to that place. We are trying to make some arrests. We must arrest some people for peace to reign in that place. That is what the command is trying to do now.”

On the number of casualties, Adejobi said: “I don’t know the number of casualties. For now, I don’t have the exact number. Nobody can say somebody is dead; a medical doctor has to certify. The CP has not given us the exact figure. We have deployed APC. Everybody should go about their lawful business.”

The Guardian learnt that the incessant clashes by the NURTW factions could not be unconnected with an alleged failure of the union leaders to conduct an overdue election for new leaders for the group.

According to sources, the tenure of the current union leaders in the state had expired, “but they have refused to conduct election for new leaders.”

For this, some aggrieved members of the union went to court and Judge Peter Onamade of the State High Court, Abeokuta, ruled that the union leaders whose tenure had ended should give up their positions for the conduct of fresh election to elect new leaders.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/3-die-another-nurtw-clash-ogun

3 die in another NURTW clash in Ogun
The fracas, which erupted at Epe Motor Park, involved factional leaders identified as Aweda and Efele
Article | November 2, 2011 - 10:58am | By Funso Ajewole

A renewed clash between rival leaders of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, has left three people dead.

The fracas at the Epe Motor Park[b] yesterday, [/b]which came barely five days after three people lost their lives in an earlier clash, was said to involve factional leaders identified as Aweda and Efele, who are in a battle for supremacy.

According to a report, the violence was a reprisal attack carried out by one of the factions, in a bid to avenge the death of one of its supporters allegedly killed in an earlier rivalry clash.

The state's Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muytiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident, said the Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, had ordered all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and Area Commanders in the state, to deploy security agents to parks and garages.

Adejobi, who said investigations are ongoing, confirmed the death of two non-NURTW members and one member of the NURTW (Gbenga Odubona).

[b]Recurring [/b]violence by drivers’ union
Friday, 09 December 2011 00:00 Editor Opinion - Editorial

Tokyo

IN a space of six months between June and November this year alone, the country lost no fewer than 30 lives to the violent activities of some lawless motor park operators under the cover of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). The pervasive air of terror unleashed at will by rival gangs, amid greater terror in the country by the Boko Haram group, is in part a commentary on the value the touts place on human lives and the capability of relevant law enforcement agencies to fully and comprehensively address challenges of insecurity in the land. Nonetheless, it is time the authorities stopped the lawlessness of the NURTW men, to save law-abiding citizens who are often victims of such violence, and to enthrone a regime of peace and order at motor parks.

More often than not, the recurring mindless violence stems from the struggle for control of the motor parks by rival union groups who are motivated by the huge cash benefits from park fees and extortions by union officials daily. The temptation to crush any challenge to the constant flow of the non-taxable, easy money is high. Elections into union offices are akin to going to war. This should not be permitted.

On June 6 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital alone, 20 deaths were reportedly recorded in a single incident of motor park terror, causing untold sorrow to many families whose relations were caught in the crossfire along the Iwo Road major park. That followed closely on the violence recorded a week earlier on May 30, with many seriously injured. Scores of vehicles were torched on both occasions.

The wave of violence shifted to neighbouring Ogun State in October where at least three casualties were reported in the clash for control of Ifo town garage. By November 1, the Epe motor park in Ijebu-Ode boiled over to send the city into turmoil - the result of another union gang rivalry, which again cost three lives, two of them innocent passers-by. Two weeks later, tempers flared again in Sango Ota in a dawn mayhem that paralysed movement and all commercial activities, well into the day. At the end of the saga, four persons lay dead before the police rallied to restore normalcy.

By statistics, Lagos has no clean record on this matter because the mega city has had its fair share of destruction, maiming and deaths similar to these recent clashes especially at the notorious Oshodi parks. That sector seems to be the biggest around, as enormous cash is raised for union officials at the parks.

Unfortunately, the activities of the touts and officials or backers cannot be divorced from their hobnobbing with politicians and some police officers who give cover, and who fail to diligently prosecute for murder and breach of public peace. A governor and a former police commissioner in Oyo State were for instance openly accused of supporting the activities of an influential NURTW factional leader. A rival union leader lost his life in a gruesome manner in the power-play. Such bestiality is against norms and values in civilised climes and stands condemned.

There may be some decent and focused leaders in the union but so far, the image of the NURTW has been uncomplimentary. A union whose members regularly operate like organised thugs against the common good of the society, and against acceptable trade unionism ethos should be called to order. NURTW’s numerical strength should never be a deterrent to decent behaviour by the membership.

Unionism having come a long way in the country, its aim should primarily be for the advancement of the welfare of members, and not to promote anti-social behaviours. Union leaders ought therefore to curb the ills identified or associated with their members. The exhibited characteristics of touting, extortion, violence and gangster-like activities should not be identified with a serious union.

Passengers of commercial vehicles have a right to be transported safely to their destinations as a binding contract. Two, the parks are not killing fields for residents. Three, elections into union offices, or any office, should not be a life and death affair. The leaders have the obligation to cooperate with law enforcement agents to rid their union of bad eggs.

Police should fully assume their interventionist role to maintain peace at the parks and to prevent outbreak of violence, through intelligence units. States and local councils also have onerous task to ensure that law and order is maintained in their domains. They should stop being complicit in drivers’ unions affair, while erring unionists should promptly and diligently be prosecuted.
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Yoruba on Yoruba killing

IKEJA – Three persons were feared dead, yesterday, as factions of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for control of a motor park at Mafoluku/Airport Road area of Lagos State, leaving several others with severe injuries.

The clash, which grounded vehicular activities on the ever-busy Airport Road, leading to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, lasted for hours, as hoodlums from Mafoluku-Oshodi, stormed 7 and 8 Bus-Stop, on Airport Road, in a bid to take over the park and unleash terror.

Vanguard gathered that efforts by the invading hoodlums to take over the park sparked off violence, as they met stiff resistance which degenerated to a free-for-all.

Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the warring factions fought themselves with dangerous weapons , while several vehicle windscreens were shattered.

A roadside mechanic, Jide Babalola, who spoke with Vanguard on the incident, said hoodlums from Mafoluku-Oshodi area, who were allegedly led by members of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, stormed the area about 9 a.m. yesterday, in a bid to take over the park.

He said: “They came this morning with dangerous weapons to take over the park at 7 and 8 Bus-Stop, but the union there refused to relinquish it and fought back.

“We learnt that the people from Mafoluku-Oshodi, who attacked this park today have been asking for a share of proceeds from this park and they couldn’t get it.

“I think that may have necessitated the forceful takeover of the park,” he added.

One Charles, a motorcycle operator, said: “I saw several people with injuries while the fight was on and about three of them lying motionless in blood. But, it was the police that ended the fight.”

Lagos State Police Command Spokesman, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, said normalcy had been restored to the area.

He said: ” Policemen from Akinpelu, Mosafejo and Makinde were drafted swiftly to the area and they have restored normalcy; the roads are free and people are going about their business peaceful.”

Jinadu , who could not confirm the number of casualties, said the case was under investigation

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/3-feared-dead-over-control-of-lagos-park/

~Bluetooth:
Fighting over desert land.bloody mor-ons !

You mean Ife fought Modakeke over desert land right?
You are right I have been there; such a drab God-forsaken place.

Why are Yoruba touts killing Yoruba NURTW?

Touts (Yoruba) And NURTW (Yoruba) Are Fighting In Lagos - many dead

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-715739.0.html


More to come

Based on your first post, everything will be on the table, including the 100s of [b]Yoruba-on-Yoruba [/b]killings in your motor park tout fights all over the SW states even after 100s of reconciliatory meetings.

Who be Tokyo and Eleweomo again sef? Mo-ron.

Bluetooth, how many times have the problem of the NURTW being resolved in the whole Yaribaland and they still kill themselves till today?


Night of terror in Ibadan: •20 feared dead in NURTW clash •50 vehicles vandalised; 20 shops razed •25 NURTW members arrested - Police •Govt may proscribe union today

Written by Adebayo Waheed and Dare Adekanmbi Monday, 06 June 2011

NO fewer than 20 people, among them a pastor, were killed with several others sustaining gunshot injuries in a renewed clash between members of the factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early hours of Sunday.

Also, about 20 shops were razed down while 30 others were looted and vehicles numbering 50 were vandalised by union members during the clash which lasted five hours.

Most of the victims were said to be passengers, who were waiting for night buses at the Total petrol station on the Ibadan-Ife road.

An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the people were taken unawares by the NURTW members, led by Mr Mukaila Lamidi, also known as Auxiliary, who was said to have gone to reclaim the motor park, which was taken over by members loyal to Alhaji Lateef Akinsola Oluwatoki, also known as Tokyo, last Monday.

It will be recalled that last Monday, a faction of the union, led by Tokyo, had clashed with the other faction at the Iwo road interchange, during which one person was killed and 10 others sustained injuries.

Eyewitnesses disclosed that the hoodlums had arrived at the motor park around 11.45 p.m. and started shooting sporadically at the filling station, during which people were killed and others injured.

It was learnt that 33 people were taken to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and that 14 had been discharged.

A police source told the Nigerian Tribune that causality was more than last Monday’s.

“Where were journalists when the corpses were still on the ground?” a policeman had asked.

When Nigerian Tribune visited the Iwo road interchange during the clash, some of the shops torched were still smouldering.

An official of the state fire service, Mrs Olunike Olayinka, said they received distress call around 9.30 a.m. and by 10.00 a.m., when they arrived, the shops were still burning.

According to her, 20 shops were burnt with property worth millions of naira destroyed in the inferno.

She said that the arrival of fire-fighters halted the spread of the fire to the adjourning shops at the park.

No fewer than 50 mobile policemen with eight patrol vehicles and four Armoured Personnel Carriers were on the ground to restore, law and order.

At the time of filing this report, mobile policemen had taken over the control of the park while both human and vehicular traffics were being checked, as people were being ordered to raise their hands.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Oyo State Police Command, SP Olatunji Ajimuda, who confirmed the clash, said that about 25 members of the union had been arrested in connection with the incident.

Speaking on the number of people allegedly killed, he said he was not aware of the number of those killed but that some people were taken to the UCH.

Meanwhile, state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, on Sunday, said his administration might reconsider proscribing the state chapter of the NURTW in the interest of peace in the state.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/23075-night-of-terror-in-ibadan-20-feared-dead-in-nurtw-clash-50-vehicles-vandalised-20-shops-razed-25-nurtw-members-arrested-police-govt-may-proscribe-union-today

~Bluetooth:
Ife and modakeke had long been resolved but this particular ibo tribes are always killing themselves after several resolution .why ?

Did Ife people kill 100s of Modakeke people and vice versa? Answer or keep your hypocritical mouth shut.

^^^^
Like Ife and Modakeke, right? You are so shameless. Bloody hypocrit.

Does anyone here (for e.g., Beaf) have the president's ears?

If so, please tell him that the BH guys will attempt to do one obvious thing in response to the SOE in some northern states:

They will try to bomb some states in the south to force him to declare SOE in those places too

If they succeed, and if he does not declare SOE in the south, they will try to play on the emotions of the North to make GEJ look like a biased, sectional leader,

GEJ needs to anticipate this and have a plan to forestall such a scenario.

NB: This is a free public service thinking.

GEJ should make sure sympathetic soldiers are not deployed to those areas. Those areas must be leveled liked Odi and Zaki Biam. Yes, I said so.

Good job, Mr. President However, SOE in those places alone may not solve it. The murderers are already spread in all nook and cranny of the North.

Ignorant Bishop. Which Ojukwu declared war?

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Re: Breaking News: GEJ Declares State of Emergency in selected LGAs in Borno, Yobe, Niger and Platea
« #12 on: Today at 04:49:04 PM »

Quote from: Demdem on Today at 04:45:43 PM
Not the whole states oooo. Just few LG areas.

Thats not good enough. I dont see why the whole Borno and Yobe state cant be placed on State of emergency

OBJ did it to Anambra, Ekiti and Plateau

Another of your poo-filled lies eh? When did that happen in Anambra? You lie all your life?

gists:
This question is a non-issue. The opinion of the northern muslim about their southern counterpart is immaterial. I have asked this question b4 and I'll ask again since no one has answered. Since when did the northern muslims became the standard by which other muslims must be measured against? Should the Ghanaian muslims and other muslims around the world lose sleep simply because their northern nigerian brothers consider them as inferior? As far as I am concerned their opinion is inconsequential as we do no pray to them nor to any human for that matter. So, this topic should be dropped as like I said its a non issue. But of course you are free to debate it for as long as you want if its going to make you feel better. Just remember whatever your conclusions are remains your opinion and it does not mean anything to anybody.

Hmmm so the northern muslims thinks I'm a fake muslim -SO, BIG DEAL ABI?

Is this a roundabout way of admitting to the issue in question?

tpia@:
Some parts around that side.


Dont know the specifics.

Some rumor, right?

Jonathan will soon make me give up on him . Such fanatics are left to say what they like and get away with it? If Jonathan is afraid to tackle these northern elements ( I have said 20% of the blame for lack of security is on him while the rest is on the perpetrators) he should cal for a division. I wont mind allowing him finish his term in a southern Nigeria.

tpia@:
The nupoid parts were heavily inlfuenced by nupe during slave times.

The nupes used to raid the areas for slaves.

Then after the abolition, nupes introduced Islam into those areas.

The ebiroid influences stem from proximity no doubt. Could also be the slave trade.

In addition, some areas seem to have[b] non-black admixture from unknown sources.[/b]

Who are the non blacks admixture?

They better take this one very serious
The feds, the state Govt and the residents all better not treat this with kid's glove
It will be disastrous to everyone if this is allowed to occur.
Lagos is too important to everyone.

dayokanu:
She is from Aghenebode but she lives with me in Texas,


A SAMUEL Ladoke Akintola was killed

A FESTUS Okotie Eboh was killed, Brigadier SAMUEL Ademulegun, Lt Col JY Pam were casualties

And now that Okoro, Obi and Chukwuma have been killed, it is not anti-Igbo killings, right? Logic Nigeriana.

Relax101:
There's no doubt about that.
It's been proven.

By whom?

I will like to hear instead from Yoruba, Edo and other southern muslims.

The trend is clear that Igbo are a target but not the only target
Christianity (of which Igbos are largely) is also a target as is Jonathan's govt

Brings again to the front burner my claim of ethno-religio-political dimensions of the Boko Haram menace

I have heard so many unconfirmed stories that southern Nigerian muslims are not regarded as equal to their northern counterparts

I came across an ongoing debate on this topic on facebook.

Here are a few relevant comments from participants. What do you think?


Mitt Okorie :The case is simple: we must first understand that for Northern muslims, their Southern counterparts r not muslim enough. They can't even lead prayers in a mosque located in d North.

Aliyu Mohammed Musa Dantakum ‎
@Mitt Okorie say what u know,the boko haram are confuse group of killers who's goal then was to avenge the death of M.Yusuf but seems they are hijacked or they are confuse now. point of correction Max Siollun Boko haram of then had a little silly plan to kill Ali Modu.

Kayodeyemi GreatBilal
‎@Aliyu Mohammed Musa Dantaku: I'm sorry to burst your bubble, the truth is, Mitt Okorie is not far from the truth. The Northern muslims just don't see the Southern muslims being faithful enough. I live with them and see them all the time.

Not only are they not going to let a southerner lead their congregation in prayer in the north as put forward by Mitt Okorie, in the South here, the northern muslim will avoid praying behind a Yoruba Imam. He will rather pray on his own which is less rewarding than line behind a southerner leading the salat. And where there are more than one of them, willy nilly, they'll form their own congregation (jarma).

So bad is this that, they even formed their own ratibi mosques where they observe their own Jummat service. And even their own "id" ground separate from the regular where they praying during salah.

Bottom line, they just simply consider us less muslim than them.

VoodooDoll:
It is not only Igbos that go to catholic church, it is statements that have such sentiments are what dehumanises Nigerians.

My condolences to the families of the bereaved, may they be consoled and may justice be meted out to the perpetrators .

Igbos are not the only catholics (nobody has said that here) but they are by far the main catholic church goers in Nigeria? Do you doubt that?
Common sense tells you that Igbos are the most christians in Nigeria, ruling out 70-80% (if not more) of northerners, and 50 or so % of the SWners who are muslims.

I digress from the topic of this thread.

~Bluetooth:
And you concluded every Nigerians knows that a large percentage of nigerian catholics are ibos including the much taunted boko harams that are regarded as highly illiterate ?

Highly illiterate in what? Illiterate in knowing Igbos are the most catholics in Nigeria, but not highly illiterate in making bombs and selectively killing people with them, right?