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Bigoted posters are blaming Muslims, though the Muslims were physically attacked by the barbaric Oro cult. SMH

Its time to destroy those Oro shrines where human sacrifices and other horendous activities take place. Its time to leave these outdated, animalistic, and outright uncivilized practices behind us. This is 2012 for goodness sake.

I am highly disappointed by the display of religious intolerance and bigotry by some of my Igbo brothers starting with their dumb Eze Igbo NL gburubguru Onlytruth.

Can't we all just get along? Rodney King (RIP)

Onlytruth: IMHO, this is the most ENLIGHTENED judicial ruling to come out of Africa -nay the world- in MANY years. A lot of governments are basically abusing the powers of state by muzzling citizens' right to freedom of speech and association. As we enter a new era of enlightenment in the world, more and more agents of state who violate citizens' right of free speech and association will be help PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE for such crimes against humanity.

One great moment of pride for African jurisprudence.

This is like comparing Apples to Spoilt grape fruit. The aggrieved Kenyans are trying to secede in a civil manner, unlike Onlytruth and his crew, who went to war, lost the war, and continue to live in denial.

As they say, "Perception Is Reality". In the Lagos case, the state government proper;y managed the demolition and most residents of Lagos including the muslims perceived that the demolition was the right thing to do.

In this case, the state government has mismanaged the demolition plan as well as the expectations of the muslims. The realities is that, muslims now perceive the planned demolition of their primary place of worship as an act of aggression.

This is the biggest mosque in Onitsha. Their are no more than 2 other places of worship in all of Onisha big enough to hold more than 50 worshipers These state government decision makers should use wisdom to avert escalation of already tense adversarial relationships in the state.

@Onlytruth, as usual you display your foolishness. hapu moslems and their main place of worship. Nigeria is a secular society, olodo

Most of the posters so far are quite vain. Beauty is much more than facial beauty enhanced with fake hair, fake nose, fake breasts e.t.c.

These girls have natural beauty and I'm sure that some of them have wonderful personalities, are quite intelligent, and can probably Bleep better than the ugly and fake lovers of most of you. SMH.

I'm glad the offending officer has been fined for his offense. What's now left is for Fashola to publicly apologize to the Army for publicly embarasing a commisioned officer for cheap publicily when the whole affair could have been dealt with without the drama.

This story can't be true, these officials cannot be this senseless, incompetent, and roguish .

One could come up with various scenarios wherein a person could be the president of Nigeria for 10 years, 15years, or more if the constitution is interpreted literally. Thus GEJ could argue that he is eligible to rule Nigeria as the President for 10 years - his 8years plus 2 years after Yar'Adua's death. If yar'Adua had died 1 day after he was sworn in, then GEJ could argue that he has a constitutional right to rule for 12 years!!

To avoid these kinds of inconsistencies, the Supreme court will look at the intent of the authors of the constitution along with other issues. I believe any sane Supreme court would rule that the intention of the framers of the constitution is for a president to serve for no more than 8years total, under any condition. In that case, GEJ may contest in 2015 but will not be able to serve out the 4 years. The best thing to do then, would be for GEJ not to contest at all in 2015.

We'll find out soon enough how wise our supreme court is.

Cut the crap out!!!

Here I was, expecting to see GEJ in a nice suit or some other non Ijaw attire, and you show me dreadlocks?? kai dis boy get me well today.

This must be the work on Boko Haram

dasparrow: Why should TB Joshua halt the service just to conduct a special prayer to avoid the impending doom in far away america? Mtshew!

Are you a Christian at all or an (TD Joshua)idol worshiper? Your question does not seem like one a Christian would ask. Many of you people seem to have more faith in TD Joshua than in the real God. I hope you remember that thou shalt have no other gods before Him and that He is a jealous God. A word is enough.

This is a great marketing and/or advertisement campaign.

My own question for the good pastor is this: why did he and his congregation not pray about the inpending tragegy? He called upon the people of America to pray but I find it telling that he and his congregation did not halt the service momentarily to conduct a special prayer to avoid this doom.

superior1: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is not making use of the investigative report on the fuel subsidy management conducted by the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee led by Mr. Farouk Lawan.

Investigations show that the[b] EFCC leadership views the Lawan committee’s report[/b], which is enmeshed in a $620,000 bribe controversy involving Lawan and oil magnate, Femi Otedola, as a mere fact-finding exercise lacking the force for prosecution.

Wonders shall never end in our dear country until many of these incompetent fools are dealt with severely. According to the bolded text above, the EFCC was planning to use the Lawan committee report as the only tool to be used to prosecute the subsidy thieves.

How else must any sane person view the report if not as a mere fact-finding exercise? The lazy, corrupt, and incompetent EFCC was supposed to use the report and any other pertinent report as a starting point in their own investigations and evidence gathering exercises. It is irresponsible of EFCC to completely ignore pertinent information contained in the Farouk committee report or any other report. They are all a bunch of corrupt and compromised goats.

What is the sense in announcing to the world that the Farouk report lacked force of prosecution when it is a very obvious thing? Lazy fools. SMDH

PDP has to go!!! No other party could posibly be worse than this party. Give me any party besides PDP and I'd be fine. At this pointI'll even vote for APGA candidate if it will result to the ouster of PDP in 2015.

Some of our past leaders deserve to be lined up and dealt with in an unflattering manner.

alienware: why will u call people online fools ? People should learn to say their opinion without insulting people here & as for u, u are so stupid that u stared at an orange juice box because it says concetrate. Don't insult anybody here or else........

First of all, I simply stated a undisputed fact that there are some online fools lurking around NL, possibly including you.

You, on the other hand called me stupid. Pray tell, in your infinite wisdom, which one of us stated facts and which one did the insulting.

Onlytruth: One really gets the true sense of how BAD things are back home when one reads this type of
So, we are basically fked because our soldiers must be appeased, even if they s.hit in the streets, and if you don't let them do that then you are not smart?
So, who is smart in Nigeria: a man who insists on the law, or another who support lawlessness simply because soldiers are involved?
I cannot REMOTELY connect these Nigerian army men with the quality of the men we had in army in the 60s. How things have changed!
Quite sad.

Eze, mechionu gi. Why did you ignore all the posts where I refused to condone the actions of the soldiers who violated traffic laws?

They need to find ways to enforce the laws without resorting to publicly humiliating the very few Army officers who violate them. It makes common sense. We all agree that violating any law is bad and should not go unchecked.

If I were you, I wouldn't disparage our fine officers because of the actions of a few bad apples. These officers have fought on our behalf and some died in the process, when they go out and represent us in peace keeping and other operations. Many return without limbs and others return as decorated heros.

Most of you online fools and warriors will never come closed to making 0.0005% of the sacrifices made by most of the fine Army officers you are villifying here. Egbe ndi Israeli piafuka gi isi to all of una.

Fashola should thread very carefully. Smart leaders keep the Army on their side at all times, at all costs.

afam4eva: Almost every politician has stepped on toes, so does it mean those that have been indicted are innocent too?

nwanne, can you read at all, who claimed that anyone is guilty or innocent? If Sanusi been charged with an offense or crime; accuse of wrongdoing; then let the courts determing his guilt or innocense. you go soon fall my hand, at the rate you are going.

Una well don o. House of representathieves, pranksters, and jokers. Sanusi stepped on some big toes which are trying to fight back, but at the end of the day, the truth will come out.

May her soul RIP.


The wives of government officials who were sent to London on training must return to base ASAP. There may be millions of naira in allocation to be shared for burial attire and after party.

One would hope that Ajimobi will stick to strict Islamic practices in this affair. He should bury his mother promptly if he has not done so already. No need to use the dead as another excuse to distribute state funds

This charade by Fashola's PR operatives may backfire in the most unexpected manner if care is not taken. Despite the public gestures by the Army in Lagos, top ranking officials do not appreciate the humiliation of one of them by a 'bloody' civilian.

You don't want to plant bad belle when it is completely avoidable.

10,000 people homeless

Lets hope the President releases emergency funds to help these people and avoid a worse human disaster. Lets also hope that he'll visit the area and give people hope.

naptu2: That has already been done.


There's a body called the Lagos State Security Council. The Governor is the chairman of the council and the Brigade Commander, 9th Brigade Ikeja, Commander NNS Beecroft, Air Force Commander, Lagos State Police Commissioner, State Director SSS and other security chiefs are members of the council.

They have issued orders banning security officials from using the BRT lane. They've also banned army, navy and airforce stickers, since it was discovered that people use them as a cover to break laws. Yet we still have law breakers such as this colonel.

Why are you bent on defending mediocrity. You have to have enforcement mechanisms in place for the order to be meaningful, what are those mechanisms? Are you implying that this security council is made up of incompepetent people?

Eziachi: I don't think nations like South Korea, Malaysia, Japan read or knew anything called 1Timothy 2:1 to have good and honest leaders. God is not a Nigeria and neither is he stupid.
Pray as you like, Dr Pepper will never taste like Coca cola. That is a fact.

^^^^ @ the bolded.

[quote author=tpia@]Do the soldiers not have superiors and what makes you think the superiors themselves are in support of their juniors violating the traffic laws?[/quote]Look, these people are not serious about solving this problem. All Fashola had to do was invite the commanding officers to a meeting, cozie up with them and give them a great incentive to enable them to issue an immediate order to their subordinates not to use BRT lanes unless in an emergency. Violators would be disobeying orders from their superiors and the punishment for that is clear to all.

With such an order, the menace will stop instantly. Photo Ops will never resolve the issue. Shi kena.

OP is a noise maker in a tunnel buried 200ft beneath the earth. Alariwo

This great Nigerian go soon fal1 my hand.

NOBEL Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has supported calls for regional co-operation and autonomy, devolution of powers from the centre, community policing and the non-posting of Youth Corps’ members to violence-ridden areas.

He, however, disagreed with the condemnation that has trailed the appointment of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, as a Permanent Secretary by the Bayelsa State Government, arguing that “after all, the lady in question is not constitutionally disqualified from the office.”

Prof. Soyinka condemned the Boko Haram insurgency, describing it as “a manifestation of a virulent religious backwardness.”

He called for the streamlining of education in Nigeria especially at the tertiary level.

Soyinka spoke at a lecture he delivered at the Banquet Hall, Government House, Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State.

In his lecture titled “Celebration of Good Governance,” Prof. Soyinka lauded the Akpabio Administration for what he called “the quantum leap in development” of the state he last visited 12 years ago.

He commended the Governor for not differentiating between Federal and State roads in road construction and advised other states to emulate “the same pattern of development.”

The Deputy Governor, Nsima Ekere, attributed the uncommon transformation of the state to the remarkable leadership provided by Governor Godswill Akpabio.

Speaking after the lecture, Ekere stressed that good leadership was the real ingredient to good governance as demonstrated by Chief Akpabio.

The Deputy Governor also stated that the Governor was able to achieve so much because of the team he had painstakingly chosen.

“What we are witnessing in Akwa Ibom State is because the team is led by a very focused and committed captain of ship,” he said. “In Akwa Ibom State, the leadership painstakingly chooses the other team members.”

Mr. Ekere thanked Prof. Soyinka for acknowledging the development strides of the Akpabio Administration after taking up the Governor’s challenge to visit the state and see things for himself.

He assured that the State Government will make good use of the advice given by the Nobel Laureate in the course of his visit.

The Deputy Governor supported Prof. Soyinka’s call for healthy competition between State and Local Governments “so that we can develop together and move this country forward.”

He called on all Nigerians to support the fight against corruption which, he said, was devastating and eating deep into the fabric of the nation.

Mr. Ekere explained that the State Government organized the interactive session between the students and Prof. Soyinka to enable the students to learn from the Nobel Laureate and advised them to read and study Prof. Soyinka’s books, shun all forms of cultism and strive to become responsible citizens of the country.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/mobile/news-update/54317-soyinka-backs-jonathan%E2%80%99s-wife-as-perm-sec.html

afam4eva: I'm not certain that's the bk boys but who else would want to bomb lagos?

Answer your own question first before making insinuations which could incite anger towards innocent Nigerian residents in Lagos.

afam4eva: We're talking of boms here and not JT. Btw, why does it seem as if you're defending bokoharam like your life depends on it.

I was hoping to redirect your line of reasoning so that you will not inadvertently endanger the lives of innocent Nigerians living in Lagos with your baseless, unfounded, and irresponsible rumours.

afam4eva: Where did i mention military? I meant the boko boys.

The same Boko boys who are not responsible for the Jos attacks? Small time you will blame Boko boys when ya prick no gree stand.

afam4eva: At least for now, the people i'm referring to are the only people licensed to carry bombs in Nigeria.

Can you prove that the military is involved in terrorism? Abi MASSOB and MEND are now licensed to carry bombs ni?

afam4eva: This is unbelievable. So, this people have made their way to Lagos. Thank God the self contain i rented in Ghana is still in order.

err, which people are you referring to, pally?

Don't be surprised to find out that subsidy thieves may now be targeting each other in hotels to silence those of them with incriminating info.