One of the things this covid 19 has exposed in Nigeria is that we are a very poor country.

People begging poor celebrities for giveaway, begging companies for freebies, even the govt begging Tesla for what they can afford.

We are all 'beggers' in this country. Its now so bad, that after begging, we mock, insult and curse these companies for not giving us 'their' own money


Ppl don't even realize that these companies are running into massive losses, for instance the Telcos have their share prices crashed so badly that they are now rated as junk.


Its crazy.

It doesn't matter how much their services cost, how difficult the times, may God help us scale thru without begging or suffering.

One of the things this covid 19 has exposed in Nigeria is that we are a very poor country.

People begging poor celebrities for giveaway, begging companies for freebies, even the govt begging Tesla for what they can afford.

We are all 'beggers' in this country.

Its crazy.

It doesn't matter how much their serviced, how difficult the times, may God help us scale thru without begging or suffering.

Everytime, presidency says the president has done this or that.


Is the president dumb? Can't he speak for himself?

SavageMaster:


He urged them; the government cannot force them.

It would be a nice gesture if they do. But then, many of these network providers are just opportunists

Are they really? The govt tax this guys to death, did the govt consider reducing their tax so they can reciprocate?

Mtn for instance power all govt communications since the corona virus issue, power their teleconference, power all ncdc calls and SMS, gave them sims with unlimited calls and data.

What has the govt ever done for them?

Tax them to death, fine them for any issue, sieze their equipments.


Let's be realistic, the true enemy is the govt not companies whose shares have crashes globally, who still power their own base, diesels and co

Can't we just say Mogonu or Kyari suspends him? The president doesn't exist.

magicminister:
Reading these comments made me sad.

Rape that happened 100 years ago is still rape. You can’t tell a victim when and how to face their abuser.

While I’m not taking sides, I believe all sides need to be head.


I cant explain how I ended up in same country as the average Nigerian. So backward and hateful!

The guy they even defend hate us with a passion. Maybe Nigerians are wired to love their oppressors.

The religious angle is even more ridiculous, hr don't even give a damn abt Christianity, Just using it to move himself forward

Richdad50:


PDP is like a man who lost his job but goes out every morning with a suitcase and a tie pretending to his neighbors as though he's still in the job. PDP is dead unless they change name and reorganize.

Richdad

Everyone got a price and I guess you got bought. You always posted stuffs that made sense, always eager to learn from your post, then politics happen and u started posting craps and insignificant nonsense.

BiafraforTrump:


Thank you my brother, these miscreants complaining here don't know the stress it takes to handle a transport business, one even complained that the drivers don't apply enough speed, while on this forum I have heard someone complain that the drivers ply with reckless speed. Can one really please human beings really??

Miscreants? Wow at your choice of words.

NGpatriot:



It is not difficult, you Just can not support your claim with facts.

How hard is it to give 1 single example?

You that is capable of calling black white, of what use will an example be?

NGpatriot:




Governors in Abia, Imo, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Kano, Plateau and Nasarawa won elections even in PDP states after aggreing to hire AB? Even in Ghana and other West African countries?

You people need to slow down with your super stories.

Guy calm down, nobody is fighting with or arguing with you.

You have the field, defend, argue, win, rinse and repeat! It always never change the truth from what it is and mind you. Evil doesn't triumph over good for ever!

NGpatriot:



Please, explain or show us the conflict of interest.

There's also conflict of interest in Abia, Imo, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Kano, Plateau and Nasarawa and other West African countries where AB operates?

You are not making any sense.

Its difficult to explain such stuff to you since your focus isn't on understanding what it is neither is your mind opened to other views that differs from yours.

All I can see Here is that Tinubu has a lot of guys in his payroll to defend him.

AB auditing Lagos is massive conflict of interest and shouldn't happen.

States who agree to use AB usually either they genuinely believe in the firm- which is a good thing or are coerced to- some politicians once they beg for Tinubu's support during elections are told to use AB and forfeit a certain percentage for the support.

dabossman:


Okay, fair enough. However, a lot of mass enlightenment needs to be done in this regard; even for the security personnel. Period of dormancy before a number can be issued to a new user and what happens to the data of the previous user. Otherwise, someday, someone somewhere will commit a crime with a certain number, disposes it and several months later someone else gets arrested once the number becomes active again after being reissued to a new user. I doubt if our policemen will bother to cross-check the history of the said number before picking up an innocent person and asking him to produce the owner of the number. It's a jungle out here.

Which is why this case is a good precedent, though Mr. Okolie had to suffer unnecessarily.

I get your point and it all fall on incompetence by the security personnel..


The dormancy period an all that is determined by the NCC

dabossman:


You do know that you can make your point without being cocky. Nobody is a reservoir of all knowledge. If someone buys a sim and registers it before selling to me, whose biometric data is then stored against the number with the telco?

I'm not interested in the politics of this matter, but as an individual who has been using the same number since 2001, yet had to register it 3 different times, I'm worried about how well telcos manage my biometric data.

Considering the fact that most people receive bank alerts on their registered numbers, would the new user start receiving these alerts too. Maybe even receive OTP's too?

Obviously this information is not as clear cut as you make it sound.

OK, here's the thing.. The registration was forced by NCC under strict timelines and done in haste by several others to avoid fine.. Some were done by roadside guys that didn't get uploaded.. Long and short, the data was seriously dirty, some had entire database corrupt. Which necessitated request for red registrations..


There were instances that NCC inspect the data and discarded it for multiple reasons such as improper data capture, unclear image etc. When that happen, registration had to done again.

But the case here, the sim was abandoned and the dormancy made the telco Reprovision it.

OBINERO:
When this okolie was released by dss, he was interview and one of his testimony that I recalled was that dss made him sign some papers, one stating that he will neither sue dss nor FG after his release. Now, with his signature on those papers this his N500m law suit is useless. He should'nt have signed those papers. I just hope he told his lawyer this, so that he don't go embarrassing himself in the law court.

Forcing someone to sign under duress invalidates the document in the court of law. Sorry but no shortcut after extreme wickedness.

DEROX:
He is maddened for the fact that he is an okolie or okoro he is done for does he think they cant turn the case in court why didn't he report why recieving different calls from unknown number? It happened to me when airtel gave free sim and i broke it always recieving alert of someone else see mr man ask sowore he will tell you any attempt to disrupt buhari goverment will be defeated osinbanjo has even been coperating sef i want to see what will happen if he goes to jail bastard

It doesn't matter if he get paid or even jailed.. eveil does not triumph over good continuously.

Even you, your time will come when you'll get repaid for the stuff you write here whether it be good or bad, your conscience will tell you right away if its not yet sealed.

dominique:


Is it not too early to be making dumb comments? A line that was bought in 2002 but got lost in 2004. I called it in around 2007/2008 when I heard networks reassign numbers and someone else picked it. Was there anything like borrowing of airtime during that time period? I had to read your post twice to phathom if it's possible for an human being to be this incredibly daft. Your attempt to be funny only exposed your sheer idiocy.

Its completely ridiculous sometimes how people reason. I guess he was trying to be funny because I don't believe a human will reason in that angle even if he's paid to

Maybe he's joking.

PatrioticNaija:


This is how you people deceived Atiku, Nnamdi Kunu, Sowore, Saraki, Dino, and co. Kwantinue

Free your mind from mental shackles of political inclinations and face reality.

Someone kept in underground cell for weeks and later released and forced to sign NDA, he has a right to sue, even if he loose.

If you're patriotic indeed, your focus should be on right and wrong, not non crumps that forced you to tilt.

dabossman:


If networks reassign numbers all the time, then what is the point of NCC's campaign warning Nigerians not to buy pre-registered sim cards? Well, I'm happy MTN is included in this suit. Let them come and explain themselves before somebody else suffers unnecessarily.

Stop spewing this ignorance in public.

Don't buy sim preregistered means, don't buy a sim and start using it without registration. In this case someone registers a sim and sell it to you.


In the case in question, the sim is dormant.. The telco reprovisioned it and sold. The new user registered it afresh.. Its not a preregistered sim. Its a fresh registration but sim was once used by someone else.

dabossman:
I'm glad MTN is included in this suit. We keep doing SIM registration, yet they seem to never have the data available when required. How can a second individual register a pre-registered sim card without it being flagged by the telco? I just don't get it.

Its been reprovisioned, you canrderegister it and the telcos have all the data.

So what don't you get?

If no activity on your sim and its not on the network for a given period NCC authorized them to resell it.

Basher8583:


The question you will ask yourself is how did the DSS know that Hannas number had been assigned to someone else if he hadn't used it for a dubious act.
I hope his lawyers have explained to him what perjury is. It wont end well for him if discovered he did not acurately state what lead to his arrest in his case file

Seriously, can't you guys just keep quiet when you have no defense?

If he used it for dubious act, why was he not arraigned? Why force him to sign an NDA?

You can defend your party, your religion, your people etc, but don't let common sense become superpower while you are at it.

luluosas:
Oh! I am loving this. MTN should have been sued too

They were. But think logically, what was their offense?

A sim was reissued because it was abandoned, what's the offense of the telco?

APCNig:
It's because he was released, DSS will pick him up again and we shall see how many Flattinos will be ready to die for him.

Its a matter of time, evil happen to all like a crescendo, yours will come


How on earth do people wish evil on others without a rethink.

DaBullIT:
lol , you seem to be hurt by the fact that your brain is too slow to process this possibility , but i know your type so i am not bothered

he recieved calls and probably sms , he ran away from him own home before his family member was arrested , if you do not commit any crime , you do not run

how did dss know he was meeting someone so that they arrested the person before he arrived ??


he may not have succeeded in the scam but he was about to

this is a sting operation by dss

simple

How low can you stoop from your reasoning? If he had defrauded anyone or even attempt to, will they release him? Think man, its not illegal yet

The earthquake there two weeks ago wasn't handwork of God but the one today is.. Wtf is wrong with Nigerians.. Unnecessarily religious

zoedew:


I see you don’t see reasons to be civil. You don’t appear to know it is one strategy by a politician who is set to make a come back to have a lawsuit or two pending in court so he can be visible in the eye of the public before the next round of elections when he can make a fresh bid. That is my drift!

Now you're coming out plain on how you detest the man.. Screw them both, but let's face reality on the accusation.

You're too old to spew incoherent conspiracy theories.

zoedew:


Just keep your fingers on it and be civil about your comments. It should add value to you!

I do understand you but it's difficult-extremely difficult to be civil when supposed intellectuals spill craps.

Its usually obnoxious and could only be a reflection of an inherent shit, such as lack of mental reasoning before spewing vain conjectures.

Now read the crap you wrote again, think it thru and you'll see where you missed it.

So even SARS was sent to go arrest a Lawyer? An ASP too?

Wtf is going on in this country?

In the words of a great philosopher-Tupac "There'll never be peace"!

zoedew:
The point is that Abubakar Atiku has got to stay in the news. He needs the visibility to keep in the public glare as he looks at the next round of elections. Personally I think it is a misadventure because the FG who the Defendant works for and has enormous intelligence at its disposal might rake up murk against him in setting up a defence of justified publication.

Come on bro, it takes nothing to keep quiet when you don't understand issues.


She said he was on the watchlist of UAE, he just got back from there man.. She said he was shopping for terrorists...

Think na, its not illegal yet.

Those craps are figments of imaginations of Lauretta and FG has no hand in it.. It will most likely end in out-of-court settlements with the govt begging

Smalldick123:
With the way event is unfolding. Very soon GEJ will contest chairmanship position and loose it

Sometimes some people just open their mouth to spill gibberish.. Luckily, this one is typing it.

Emperor!! They should order the power company to give constant power or the diesel suppliers to supply for free