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IBADAN—A policeman, Olufemi Ajayi was Wednesday lynched and set ablaze in Ayete, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, for allegedly shooting to death a middle aged man.

The policeman was said to have been lynched by irate mob after allegedly killing the man, identified as Mr. Emiola Kolade, said to be a popular commercial driver over a bribery disagreement  at a check-point.

Mr. Ajayi was said to have shot the commercial driver in the eye. One of his eyeballs was said to have bulged out of its socket.

Though the driver was said to have struggled with death, he died later at a nearby Igboora General hospital. His death was said to have triggered a street protest by sympathisers especially women.

The trigger-happy policeman was said to have been pursued into a nearby bush and was forced to take the driver to the hospital for treatment.

According to an eye witness, angered people on the Idere/ Ayete road were said to have descended heavily on the policeman and set him ablaze.

He said, “The victim was flagged down by the police corporal, who demanded N100. The issue then  degenerated into a hot argument and what we heard later was a gunshot and the commercial driver was found lying on the ground in pool of his blood.”

A staff of the hospital where he was taken to spoke with newsmen on phone that the driver died later due to excessive loss of blood.Speaking, a senior police officer who did not want to be quoted said: “It  is a serious issue. Presently, we are still on the matter. I may not be able to say anything on the matter now. You may please call me back “.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/mob-lynches-cop-for-killing-driver-over-bribe/

Waste of time these ones! Soon they would grow and throw ballon at Niger bridge and claim they have blown it up! See how MASSOB have made igbos look like wanna be

If you'r a Southerner in Kano or you live around a Police Station or Army Barracks, I guess events of the past few months should serve as a warning that you should start making your way out of your location!

Go check the statistics, each time the Army kills one Boko Haram, they smoke out over 50 Nigerians

comes in, looks at the Thread, **yawns**, dashes off to >>>> Politics Section , see you there!

AjanleKoko:
That's another thing. Universities, like most other businesses in Nigeria, don't build for the future. And the reason is not far-fetched: the government is always trying its hardest to dismantle the country, or at least plunge it into another level of wreckage. Would you put down any serious investment in Nigeria today, if you had it?

Yea its so painful to see how the FG has become an agent of underdevelopment and destruction! Even more painful when some of us with vast experience in this field find ourselves in a position to assist but all ur see from those in government is this 'what's in the cake for me' attitude!

Only a foolish government that does not know the gold mine of what Maritime security truly is would hand such over to a private firm! GEJ government is wholesomely crooked

If anything, you create a civilian equivalent of the Navy like you have Civil Defence Corps. Maybe a well defined and fully equipped Marshal Navy

Big shame really 'cos the Aerospace industry is a big money spinner and you can employ just about anybody to work in that sector! Perhaps Nigerian Universities can learn a lesson or two from Universities in India how they help shaped India as a hub for IT! South Africa universities are graudally building their capacity in Aerospace engineering courses and we just seems to pay blind eye to the huge potential having such skilled individual in our economy portends! Think about the millions of Dollars that goes into MRO alone!

klas:
@all, kpmg (actually kpmg and Afemikhe) audit covers up to 2009 while Sada is to cover 2009 to 2011, so they are not the same

Are you really that serious? A government that could not act on an Audit report covering nearly 10years of Graft, is it same that would now have the guts to act on a findings covering just two years? I mean who is fooling who here Beside from the information available, this company DOES NOT have what is takes to audit a multi-facet company/mega entity like NNPC! All they will end up doing is taking the contract sums, 'buy' the services of some other 'firms' and render shoody report that will be ridden with misinformation at best!

Jimmy Boy:
@ch@nges-I try to avoid tribal comments at all cost, but nepotism from that region is no longer allowable. An eastern state sent civil servants from other states parking. We have always protested against fuel prices in Nigeria and south-west have always been at the forefront, even when one of their own was at helms of the affair for 8 years. But GEJ increased price people in the east and SS not deem it necessary to protest. In 1966 coup, major Nzeogwo and co set out to clean the polity, and PM and all premiers were to die. Ahmodu Bello,Tafawa Balewa ,Akintola were brutally murdered, for inexplicable reasons Zik was spared. Go and find out if non-ibos are allowed to own shops inside onitsha market before you start opening your mouth to talk.

God bless you for this post! I was once told the same of How shops in Onitsha is 'Exclusively' reserved first for an Igbo trade before any other ethnic group and I thought this can't be true but my on the spot findings proved this to be very correct! Elsewhere, these same Igbos want to be given equal treatment as indinges.

Ndata:
If i may ask the poster which Hausa traders?goat sellers?Those who had since relocated to Asaba in the eve of the reprisal attack several years back.And Yoruba traders??Please what do Yoruba traders trade on please?Lets not forget this bridge head hosts the popular Onitsha drug market.

Why do you guys always like to live in denial? Why can't you just see this as a wrong policy move by the government and it needs careful handling, otherwise Igbos might be the end looser of this tic for tac game?

phreakabit:
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Anti-Igbo Journalism at its finest. Perpetrated by none other than the Yoruba (Adimike George et The Nation newspaper).

This thread was started by ONOME" 'ASIKE" . You Yorubas are very smart indeed. first it was Alj Hareem and now ever since the "supposed alliance" between the SE & SS , I have noticed an increase in users claiming to be part SS and Yoruba, or just plain SS. Saying bad things about the Igbos. . . .  I just laugh you guys off. Everyone can easily identify your antics.

BTW when this was done to IGBO traders in Lagos, as in the case of Alaba Int and Ladipo market why wasn't it written in BOLD fonts on the the frontpage of all these tabloids?You can't tell me that Igbo traders and traders from other ethnicity too. . . .  So why does it only say Yoruba and Hausa?

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Do not be fooled in thinking South-South people do not know where to hinge their shoulders as regard the ethnic composition in Nigeria. A typical South-South person like myself, is more inclined towards the South-West rather South-East 'cos of our History and more importantly we think alike on several issues and we tend to see Nigeria in much of what we do. That cannot be said of the South-East who seems to forever habour a cladestine mindset that they are not part of the entity called Nigeria!

Haven said that, I still think ethnicity and tribalism has no place in modern society. If by any measure, and to say what Lagos did to Igbo traders in Lagos equates ethnic cleansing is very very foolhardy indeed! In fact, Lagos has been very very accommodating of Igobs and much more than any other group, Igbos have been given due recognition in Lagos. Even where market stores are destroyed and rebuilt elsewhere, the Igbos are by certain measures compensated but I wonder how many times we have heard or seen same done to other ethnic groups in South-East?

Reading the comments posted by 'supposedly' posters of igbo extraction leaves me with a soured and bitter taste! I for one is not against any tribe nor ethnic group in Nigeria, but the Igbos must understand that when other ethnic groups are the target of a seemingly unfair Policy or act of government, it is pertinent that such is condemed!

Each time a bomb blast occurs somewhere, the cry in here has always been that IGBOS are the target, forgetting also that other NIGERIANS are victims of these bombings! In summary, I think IGBOS  should stop playing 'I am the victim' game, remove the log in their own eye and come clean!

Anambra State government, whatever their intention is in repossing that Land, is WRONG in doing so a this point in time knowing how sensitive such move is and wrongly it could be interpreted. Imagine what happens when such news filter in to the core North?

i4dey:
Hello.

I wish to apply for spousal visa too. Will a church marriage certificate be accepted? Or do I need to take my husband to go do a court wedding? The church that issued the certificate is CAC at Abuja. Please let me know

Official marriage certificate is much appreciated and leaves no room for doubt. But if you have lots and lots of pictures to go with your church marriage with contacts for verification, that would nail it in.

Did you go to court to sign marriage register at your local council? If yes, then go get your registration certificate and put that as part of your application supporting document. Make sure it is original please.

oh South East are now complaining I thought they said they own the oil in Nigeria? Abeg they should buy the Fuel for N200 jor! Next time when others are standing for Justice, they should not keep silent like COWARDS , To ALL SE/SS GEJ is your person so enjoy his poison !!!

^^Werperi, Senior Special Adviser Spin -II (states)

Thank God for people like T.Bakare, Femi Falana, the 'vultures' in Nigeria wouldn't have waited till mid night to 'eat' Nigerians raw! May God raise more of thier type in the land and never again shall a child be born after the spirit of GEJ in Nigeria !

Whos is the Special Adviser on "Big stouting and peppersouping" to General GEJ

chaircover:
Credit or debit card?

These are OPODO prices for BA that I quoted and I dont belive that opodo charge card fees. Still I dont think that anyone will charge £40 on fees alone.

Sorry you are even quoting the wrong source for BA fees! Just did a quick check, a return ticket on BA is averaging £600 and on Arik Air £644, so I can't see much of the difference you were screaming about! Mind you I did not process the BA booking upto to the point they would charge my card for handling fees and they havent added their fuel surcharge yet! So I think at the end both airliners fees comes out just about where flght fees to Lagos at this time of the year would be!

Jonathan, the last democratic dictator Nigeria will ever have! Fresh air indeed !!!

BlackPikiN:
May thunder strike that your stupooid mouth!


You are very sick. I mean too sick to your brain.
I will prove to you other ethnic group got a large group of idiots too.
You want proof and I will bring as many as you want.
Tribalist morafoka!

Someone who has a username like the one you've got can not be regarded as a sane being nor be taken serious! So I would leave you to wallow in your shallowness. I do not trade words with disgruntled element with snared minds! This is my last reply to your stu.pidity.

CarlosVent:
if they go thats good but they have thought you how to be wise in working and also business. an igbo man anywhere have the brains of business to survive and not for lazy yoruba people you have there. who even do you think brought development in Lagos , are they not the igbo's visit lagos any top business/service you must find an igbo man leading there or being the owner. they are not dull they are working.

To be sincere I have avoided tribal comments in here for obvious reason but more so 'cos I am a Niger Deltan and I know that weak minds play ethnic, tribal or religious cards when their opinion is rejected by the vast majority!

However, I think I would reply your comments with this: An Igbo man is the least individual any sane Nigerian wants to do business with and most of them claiming to be doing business are only doing so 40% and 60% they are into criminiality! The truth remains that the Yorubas are super class administratively, hence one of the reasons their region is the most developed in Nigeria.

Looking ahead, with the hope that Nigeria remains a single entity, going by how the South East leadership conducted themselves, they should forget about the Presidency come 2015! They have just blown out their initially dimming candle! I await their Biafra protest by this time in 2015!

executinal:
Real brutalise See the poor Aboki with his caftan opportunist face the music
Breaking news El-rufai was demolished in Abuja

Don't cry river when you get the breaking news of your masters demise! Remember the last person that made Nigeria go through pain like this, He left Aso Rock in coffin!

Since SS and SE claim they have oil, maybe it is time to send them home from Lagos, Benin and much of the North

DaraAlina:
I'm stuck with them because I made a deposit

I think your worries are out place to be honest! The aircraft without inflight entertainment is on the Lagos-London route and not the one on the New York -Lagos route.

I flew Arik from Lagos back to London and everything was spot on except for the inflight entertainment, which I really did not bother myself with.

chaircover:
Dont get me started LOL

BTW As of this morning ARIK is £40 more expensive than Virgin and BA from LHR to Lagos. . . .

That airline never ceases to amaze me. . .

hope you have included the cost of booking by card on BA website?

Assasination of GEJ very near

The stu.pid beaf is spewing rubbish again! Nigeria army has not cyber capability and hacking their website is only symbolic! However, the next phase of attack might involve shutting down the Banking IT network or taking one of the telecoms off air if your stu.pid GEJ decide to intimidate Nigerians with the ARMY!

dancewith:
This is a bit tricky. I assume the new information concerns an application made prior to the commencement of finger scans but with same or varied name combination and date of birth. Before they are convinced you used deception (which is a serious immigration offence) they must have cross referenced details in the old application with the new one, including picture matching. They have sophisticated software for this and it is hard to believe they made a mistake in this case considering the visa was already issued but later withdrawn when the new facts came to light

My gut feeling is that no mistake was made and poster must have lied about a previous visa refusal. In my time I got refused severally but later got issued with several NIV and later an IV. It only requires being honest at all time. No need muddling up facts as this could be the result

While I may not know for sure if the poster is lying or not, I am aware similar issue has played out before with the US Embassy. After much pressure by way of letters/e-mail, the applicant was called back to come for the visas but at that stage He was already in the UK for His studies. So yea, I can not say the consulate refused the visas after due verfiications! You only need to see how they treath Immigrant Visas applicant for you to know they Americans really do not want to give out visas to Nigerians anymore! I am making this statement from experience of some one I know that I followed down there last year to get His Immigrant Visas issued!

5columnist:
The perception that the Minister is neck deep in corruption may not be accurate. It is well known fact that since the KPMG report, Oniwon and co has shielded the content from the view of the minister up till date. NNPC is a rot so it is OK if people think everybody interfacing with them is soiled as well.

Subsidy regime has been on for as long as we can recall. She is barely two years on the job. Cynicism cannot take Nigerians anywhere. We must give government a chance before judging those that has presented themselves to service to this country. I mean she could be part of the cabal but at least she has taken a path and stand with the Nigerian masses.

Very stupid comment indeed! In a sane and civilized clime, the Minister would be asked to step aside or placed on suspension without pay while an independent body with judicial commission-like powers carry out the investigation within a month and publish their findings after which the National Chief prosecutor would review the report and proceed to prosecute those found wanting!

But like we know, for now, Nigeria is not a sane clime nor is it led by sane people!