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Phones / Re: How Do I Track My Phone That Got Stolen? by onajo2000(m): 11:42pm On Oct 20, 2020
It can be tracked if you have anybody working with any Nigeria security agency IT department
Religion / Re: Pastor Adeboye: "God Created Adam And Eve, Not Adam And Steve" by onajo2000(m): 2:01pm On Oct 20, 2020
All lesbians and gay should be given their own republic and let's see how they will grow or multiply in their number.... Idiots

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Politics / Re: Edo 2020 Governorship Election Updates, Results And Live Monitoring by onajo2000(m): 5:51am On Sep 20, 2020
Make I no go sleep for church
Crime / Re: NDLEA Intercepts 1.6 Kilograms Of Controlled Drugs En-route Turkey by onajo2000(m): 11:32am On Sep 17, 2020
Hard drug
Politics / Re: I Will Never Forgive Buhari For Killing My Brother - Nkem Owoh by onajo2000(m): 9:26pm On Aug 13, 2020
No matter how much you dislike someone, there must be something you like about him.... I'm never a fan of Buhari but if he put that law into existence I will love him

419 and Yahoo yahoo - firing squad
Curupt politicians - firing squad

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Politics / I Will Never Forgive Buhari For Killing My Brother - Nkem Owoh by onajo2000(m): 7:28pm On Aug 13, 2020
"I Will Never Forgive Buhari For Killing My Brother’ - Nkem Owoh


Nollywood actor, Nkem Owoh has spoken about a very painful subject regarding the death of his younger brother Bartholomew Owoh. Bartholomew Owoh was one of the three young Nigerians executed by General Buhari for an offence that allegedly did not carry the death penalty. Bernard Ogedengbe (29), Bartholomew Owoh (26) and Lawal Ojuolape (30) were publicly executed by General Buhari


According to a source close to the Nollywood actor who spoke with Breaking Times, Nkem Owoh and the rest of his family have not recovered from the trauma of the cold-blooded killing of the three young men, particularly their brother and son, Bartholomew Owoh.


The laws of Nigeria at the time the offence was committed did not prescribe the death penalty. When Buhari took over power, he insisted the young men should be executed and they were killed publicly by the firing squad.


According to the source, “Nkem Owoh and his family have not forgiven Buhari for killing their brother at the young age of 26.

Every time Nkem Owoh sees Buhari on TV, he weeps bitterly over his brother. He can’t even believe that Buhari has the nerve to seek re-election as President”. Bartholomew Owoh and others were allegedly arrested for peddling cocaine and convicted for that crime.


A little intro of the comic veteran actor: 

He was born in October 1958, in Amagu Village, Udi town, Enugu state, Nigeria, and is now 58 years old. When he finished his primary and secondary education, he got admitted to the University of Ilorin to study for a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering. While in the University, he started his acting career. He was also a newscaster in the NTA network news Enugu, during the early 80s.


He has acted hundreds of Movies like Things Fall Apart back in 1987 (This is one of his first major movies. He starred this movie alongside the veteran actor, Pete Edochie), Ukwa, back in the year 2000 (This movie gave him the popular nickname “Ukwa”). The movie is about a funny village man Ukwa who travels to the city to meet his rich elder brother, and gets shocked when he is made an ordinary driver. This movie is packed with lots of interesting scenes.

Culled from
https://lk.phx.ninja/2KoP

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Politics / Re: Falae: Fear Of Probe Made Military Manipulate 1999 Election In Obasanjo's Favour by onajo2000(m): 7:15am On Aug 13, 2020
Even Buhari can still say he won obj too in 2003
Foreign Affairs / Re: The Nuclear Mistakes That Could Have Ended Civilisation And The World by onajo2000(m): 9:10am On Aug 10, 2020
Someone above say only America can be trusted with nuclear weapons.... Done forget that only one mistake can be very fatal
Foreign Affairs / The Nuclear Mistakes That Could Have Ended Civilisation And The World by onajo2000(m): 8:11am On Aug 10, 2020
From invading animals to a faulty computer chip worth less than a dollar, the alarmingly long list of close calls shows just how easily nuclear war could happen by mistake.
It was the middle of the night on 25 October 1962 and a truck was racing down a runway in Wisconsin. It had just moments to stop a flight.

Mere minutes earlier, a guard at Duluth Sector Direction Center had glimpsed a shadowy form attempting to climb the facility’s perimeter fence. He shot at it and raised the alert, fearing that this was part of a wider Soviet attack. Instantly, intruder alarms were ringing at every air base in the area.

The situation escalated remarkably quickly. At nearby Volk Field, an air base, someone flicked the wrong switch – so rather than the standard security warning, pilots heard an emergency siren telling them to scramble. Soon there was a frenzy of activity, as they rushed to take to the skies, armed with nuclear weapons.

It was the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis and everyone was on edge. Eleven days earlier, a spy plane had captured photographs of secret launchers, missiles and trucks in Cuba, which suggested the Soviets were mobilising to strike targets across the United States. As the world knew only too well, all it would take was one single strike from either nation to trigger an unpredictable escalation.
As it happens, on this occasion there was no imposter – at least, not a human one. The figure skulking around the fence is thought to have been a large black bear. It was all a mistake.
But back at Volk Field, the squadron was still unaware of this fact. They had been told there would be no practice runs, and as they boarded their planes, they were entirely convinced that this was it –World War III had begun.
In the end, the base commander figured out what had happened. The pilots were intercepted by a quick-thinking official, who drove a truck at them as they started their engines on the runway.

Fast-forward to today and the atomic anxiety of the 1960s has all but been forgotten. Nuclear shelters are the preserve of eccentric survivalists and the ultra-rich, and existential worries have shifted to other threats such as climate change. It’s easy to forget that there are roughly 14,000 nuclear weapons out in the world, with the combined power to extinguish the lives of around three billion people – or even the extinction of the species if they triggered a nuclear winter. We know that the prospect of any leader intentionally detonating one is extremely remote; after all, they would have to be mad.

What we haven’t factored in is that it could happen by accident.
All told, there have been at least 22 alarmingly narrow misses since nuclear weapons were discovered. So far, we’ve been pushed to the brink of nuclear war by such innocuous events as a group of flying swans, the Moon, minor computer problems and unusual space weather. In 1958, a plane accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb in a family’s back garden; miraculously, no one was killed, though their free-range chickens were vaporised. Mishaps have occurred as recently as 2010, when the United States Air Force temporarily lost the ability to communicate with 50 nuclear missiles, meaning there would have been no way to detect and stop an automatic launch.

Despite the staggering cost and technological sophistication of modern nuclear weapons – the US is expected to spend $400bn (£306m) on its capabilities between 2017 and 2026 – the historical record tells its own story and shows just how easily the safeguards we set up can confounded by human error or curious wildlife.

On 25 January 1995, the then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin became the first world leader in history to activate a “nuclear briefcase” – a satchel which contains the instructions and technology for detonating nuclear bombs.

Yeltsin’s radar operators had noticed that a rocket had been launched off the coast of Norway, and they watched uneasily as it rose into the sky. Where was it headed – and was it hostile? With the briefcase in his hands, Yeltsin frantically conferred with his top advisors about whether to launch a counter-attack. With minutes to decide, they realised it was headed out to sea and was therefore not a threat.
It later emerged that this was no nuclear strike, but a scientific probe, which had been sent to investigate the northern lights. Norwegian officials were left baffled that it caused such a commotion, because the launch had been publicly announced at least a month earlier.

Crucially, it doesn’t matter whether a nuclear strike is initiated because of a mix-up or a real threat – and once it’s been sent, it’s irreversible. “If the president responds to a false alarm, then he will have accidentally started a nuclear war,” says William Perry, who served as the US Secretary of Defense under former President Bill Clinton and the Undersecretary of Defense for the Carter administration. “There's nothing he can do about that. The missiles cannot be called back and they cannot be destroyed.”

Why have there been so many perilously close shaves? And what can we do to prevent another one happening in the future?

How nuclear attacks unfold

At the root of the potential for mistakes are the early warning systems set up during the Cold War. Instead of waiting for nuclear missiles to strike their target – which would, naturally, provide concrete proof of an attack – these aim to detect them early on, so that a retaliation can be launched before their own weapons are destroyed.

To do this, you need data.

Unbeknown to many Americans, the US currently has a number of satellites silently watching over it at all times, including four which operate from 22,000 miles (35,400 km) above the Earth. They’re in “geosynchronous orbit” – located in a sweet spot where they never change position relative to the planet they’re circling. This means they have a more or less constant view of the same area, so they can detect the launch of any potential nuclear threat, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

What satellites can’t do is track a missile as it travels. For this, the US also has hundreds of radar stations, which can determine their position and velocity, and calculate their trajectories.

Once there are enough indications that an attack is underway, the president is informed. “So perhaps about five to 10 minutes after the launch of the missiles, the president will get word of that,” says Perry. They have the unenviable task of deciding whether to strike back.

“It's quite a complicated system and it works nearly all the time,” says Perry. “But we’re talking about a low probability, high consequence event.” It only needs to happen once.

Wayward technology

There are two kinds of error which can lead to a false alarm – technological and human (or, if we’re really unlucky, both at once). A classic example of the first happened while Perry was working for US President Jimmy Carter back in 1980.

“It was such a shock,” says Perry. It started with a phone call at 3:00, during which the watch office of the US air defence command informed him that surveillance computers had discovered 200 missiles headed directly from the Soviet Union to the United States. By then, they had already realised that it wasn’t a real attack – the computers had somehow got it wrong.
They actually had called the White House before they called me – they called the president. The call went through to his national security advisor,” says Perry. Luckily he delayed for a few minutes before waking the president, during which time they received the information that it was a false alarm.

But if they hadn’t waited – if they had woken Carter up immediately, the world could be a very different place today. “Had the president got the call himself, he would have had about five minutes to decide whether to launch or not. This is the middle of the night, no chance to consult anybody,” says Perry. From this moment on, he never thought of the prospect of a mistaken launch as a theoretical problem – this was a genuine and alarmingly realistic possibility. “I would say it was very close,” he says.

On that occasion, the problem turned out to be a faulty chip in the computer running the nation’s early warning systems. It was later replaced for under a dollar. A year earlier, Perry had experienced another close shave when a technician inadvertently loaded the computer with a training tape, and accidentally broadcast the details of a highly realistic (but nonetheless fictional) missile launch to the main warning centres.

Had the president got the call himself, he would have had about five minutes to decide whether to launch or not
Which brings us to the issue of involving the deeply flawed brains of bipedal apes in a process involving weapons with the power to flatten entire cities. And clumsy technicians aside, the main people we have to worry about here are those who actually have the power to authorise a nuclear strike – world leaders.

“The US president has complete authority to launch nuclear weapons and he's the only one that does – sole authority,” says Perry. This has been true since the days of President Harry Truman. During the Cold War, the decision was delegated to military commanders. But Truman believed that nuclear weapons are a political tool and therefore should be under the control of a politician.

Like all those who went before him, President Donald Trump is followed everywhere he goes by an aide carrying the nuclear “football”, which contains the launch codes for the nation’s nuclear weapons. Whether he’s up a mountain, travelling in a helicopter or sailing across the ocean, Trump has the ability to launch a nuclear strike. All he has to do is say the words and mutually assured destruction – “MAD”, where both the attacker and the defender are totally annihilated – could be achieved within minutes.

As many organisations and experts have pointed out, concentrating this power within a single individual is a big risk. “It's happened a number of times that a president has been heavily drinking, or subject to medication he's taking. He may be suffering from a psychological disease. All of these things have happened in the past,” says Perry.

The more you think about it, the more disturbing possibilities emerge. If it’s night time, would the president be asleep? With minutes to decide what to do, they’d barely have time to regain consciousness, let alone refresh themselves with a cup of coffee; it seems unlikely they’d be functioning at their highest level.
In August 1974, when US President Richard Nixon was embroiled in the Watergate scandal and on the cusp of resigning from office, he became clinically depressed and emotionally unstable. He was rumoured to be exhausted, regularly binging on martinis and generally behaving strangely – a Secret Service agent apparently once saw him eat a dog biscuit. Nixon had reportedly always been subject to rage, drinking and potent prescription drugs, but this was much more serious. And yet, he still had the power to launch nuclear weapons.

(Intoxication is also a problem among the military personnel who guard the nation’s nuclear arsenal. In 2016, several US air-crew working at a missile base admitted to taking drugs including cocaine and LSD, and four were later convicted.)

How to avoid a catastrophic accident

With all this in mind, Perry recently co-authored a book – The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump – with Tom Collina, director of policy at the nuclear non-proliferation charity Ploughshares Fund. In it, they outline the precariousness of our current nuclear safeguards, and suggest some possible solutions.

First, up, they would like to see an end to sole authority – so that decisions about whether to launch these weapons of mass destruction are made democratically, and the impact of any mental impairments on the decision is diluted. In the US, this would mean holding a vote in Congress.

“This would slow down the decision about whether to launch them,” says Perry. It’s commonly assumed that a nuclear response must happen quickly, before the ability to strike back is lost. But even if many cities and all land-based missiles in the US were wiped out by nuclear weapons, the surviving government could still authorise military submarines to launch. “The only kind of retaliation that’s warranted is one where you know they are attacking. We should never respond to an alarm that could be false,” says Collina. And the only truly reliable way to make sure a threat is real is to wait for it to land.

We believe that the chance of false alarms has gone up with the increased danger of cyber-attacks
Moving at a calmer pace would allow countries to keep the deterrent benefits of mutually assured destruction, but with a significantly lower chance of blundering into a nuclear war because, say, a bear is climbing over a fence.

Secondly, Perry and Collina make the case for nuclear powers pledging to only use nuclear weapons in retaliation – and never being first. “China's an interesting example, because it already has a no first use policy,” says Collina. “They've announced that they will not use nuclear weapons first in a crisis, and there's some credibility in that policy because China separates its warheads [which contain the nuclear material] from its missiles [the delivery system].” This means China would have to mate the two together before launching an attack, and with so many satellites constantly watching for this, presumably someone would notice.

Notably, the US and Russia have no such policy – they reserve the right to launch their nuclear weapons, even in response to conventional warfare methods. Adopting “no first use” was considered by the Obama administration, though they were never able to reach a decision.

Finally, they argue that it would be beneficial for countries to retire their land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles entirely, because they could be destroyed by an incoming nuclear attack, these are the weapons that are most likely to be deployed in haste if an attack is suspected, but not confirmed.

Another possibility would be to enable nuclear missiles to be cancelled, in the event that a provocation turns out to be a false alarm. “It's interesting because when we do test flights, they can do this,” says Collina. “If they go off course, they can self-destruct. But we don't do that with live missiles, because of the fear that an adversary will somehow get the remote controls and be able to disable them.”

And there are other ways a country’s own technologies could be used against them. As we become more and more reliant on sophisticated computers, there is growing concern that hackers, viruses or AI bots could start a nuclear war. “We believe that the chance of false alarms has gone up with the increased danger of cyber-attacks,” says Collina. For example, a control system could be spoofed into thinking that a missile is coming, which could mean a president is tricked into launching a counter-attack.

The wider problem, of course, is that nations want their nuclear weapons to be rapidly responsive and easy to use – available at the push of a button. This inevitably makes it harder to rein in their use.

Though the Cold War is long gone, Collina points out that we’re still set up for a “bolt out of the blue” unprovoked attack – when in reality, we now live in a radically different world. Ironically, many experts agree that by far the biggest threat comes from the very launch systems that are supposed to be protecting us.

Culled from:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200807-the-nuclear-mistakes-that-could-have-ended-civilisation

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Politics / Re: What's Your Say About This Pictures by onajo2000(m): 8:26am On Jul 30, 2020
Is this country going to change for good at all or going down the more
Politics / What's Your Say About This Pictures by onajo2000(m): 7:57am On Jul 30, 2020
What do you think about this pictures

Politics / Re: Oshiomhole: Giadom’s ‘Take Over’ Makes No Sense by onajo2000(m): 9:02am On Jun 18, 2020
So This man knew there is God

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Nairaland / General / Re: We Need Our National ID Cards by onajo2000(m): 10:32am On Jun 11, 2020
dasanchez1:
What if person no get guarantor nko?
International passport don't need you to bring guarantor
Education / Re: Buhari Asked To Sack Godswill Obioma, NECO Registrar, Replace With A Northerner by onajo2000(m): 9:40pm On Jun 06, 2020
If their request is granted I see something terrible is about to Nigeria because the silent Niger Delta will rise again to fight the Nigeria government again because of the one-sided employment in top positions in NNPC

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Sports / Re: Premier League Announces Substitute Rule Change by onajo2000(m): 8:02am On Jun 06, 2020
The dull moment will soon be over
Business / Re: Oil Production: $4 Per Barrel In Saudi Arabia, $3 In Russia, $21.2 In Nigeria by onajo2000(m): 2:26pm On Jun 02, 2020
These thieves will not stop looting because the people can't resist anything thrown at them..... Suffering and smiling in FELA's voice

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Premier League To Resume On June 17 by onajo2000(m): 4:50pm On May 28, 2020
Let the game begins
Politics / Re: Idahosa: We Won't Allow Oshiomhole Have His Way In APC Primary by onajo2000(m): 8:11am On May 26, 2020
Like for direct primary, share for indirect primary....
Let's see who will win

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Politics / Re: Edo: Oshiomhole Backs Ize-Iyamu, Dashes Odubu, Ogiemwonyi, Airhiavbere's Hope by onajo2000(m): 8:08am On May 26, 2020
Like for Governor Obaseki, share for osho

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Politics / Re: FG Threatens To Dismiss Workers Leaking Official Documents by onajo2000(m): 7:58am On May 26, 2020
Hidden agenda goes to the public domain
Politics / Re: Obasa: 64 Bank Accounts Linked To BVN Of Lagos Assembly Speaker- SaharaReporters by onajo2000(m): 6:16pm On May 23, 2020
Okoroawusa:
I get 9 accounts with the same BVN. That one no be news.

Saharareporters should go n sit down. Good investigative journalism is coming out with evidence that those accounts contain proceeds of fraudulent means and how much each account contains.

I have 3 accounts in 3 banks with nothing inside but with the same BVN.
You have 9 account with same name is not a crime but with different names and dob

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Politics / Re: Chinese Doctors Were Not Invited By FG, Minister Exposes in Video by onajo2000(m): 1:29pm On May 20, 2020
No source for this story, Nigerians are known for lying about anything they see or hear
Politics / Re: COVID-19: Nigerians Blast Buhari Govt As Chinese Doctors Turn "Engineers" by onajo2000(m): 1:04pm On May 20, 2020
These lies from the government will not end here because more lies are on their way to the public domain

Who is to be blamed
Lie Mohamnmmed or minister of health who don't know their whereabouts?

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Health / Re: Please What Can I Do About These Black Spots On The Face? (Photo) by onajo2000(m): 9:53pm On May 18, 2020
Avoid fatty food

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Crime / Re: Stephen Akinkunmi, Ogboni Leader Killed In Ondo by onajo2000(m): 5:28pm On May 15, 2020
There are many ways to kill a rat... Even when you think you have the necessary charms to protect yourself but don't forget that whosoever want you dead has to prepare too for it

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Crime / Re: Have You Ever Been Scammed? Share Your Experience!! by onajo2000(m): 8:01am On Apr 24, 2020
I have been scammed in Nairaland in 2008 by gloaded
Crime / Re: Lockdown: Gunmen Kill Poly Student, Kidnap Couple In Kaduna by onajo2000(m): 10:18pm On Apr 20, 2020
I prayed God should give the family to bear the loss
Crime / Re: Lockdown: Gunmen Kill Poly Student, Kidnap Couple In Kaduna by onajo2000(m): 8:32pm On Apr 18, 2020
Even the young guy is a very happy person all the time

This is the happy young man.... Always happy

Crime / Lockdown: Gunmen Kill Poly Student, Kidnap Couple In Kaduna by onajo2000(m): 8:26pm On Apr 18, 2020
Some gunmen in the early hours of Friday invaded Gbagyi Villa in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing a polytechnic student and kidnapping two others.

The incident took place between 1am and 2am, an eyewitness said, adding that those abducted by the hoodlums were a couple.
The latest attack is coming as the state is on lockdown aimed at curtailing the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the state. The eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the residents alerted the police when the incident occurred.

“When the police arrived at the scene, they got another distressed call from a nearby community and left immediately,” he said.

It was also gathered that a National Diploma student in Zamfara State, who came out on hearing the cry of the couple, was shot dead by the gunmen.

Chairman of the Vigilance Group in Gbagyi Villa, Emmanuel Martins, confirmed the incident, describing it as disturbing and unfortunate.

The Chairman Gbagyi Villa Property Owners Association, Mr Chris Obodumu, appealed to the government to beef up security around communities in the state.

He said, “The gunmen in large numbers broke into the home of the couple, Mr and Mrs Jack Uwenke and abducted them. They left their children crying.”

“A National Diploma student at Kaura Namoda Polytechnic, Gusau, Zamfara State, Stephen Sebastin, who was a neighbour to the abducted couple, came out on hearing noises to help but was shot dead in the process.”

https://punchng.com/lockdown-gunmen-kill-poly-student-kidnap-couple-in-kaduna/

Politics / Re: Wike To Buhari: I Don’t Take Orders From Abuja But Rivers People by onajo2000(m): 10:01pm On Apr 17, 2020
Yenefer:
Idiot when u are sober u will realize ur mistake. ExxonMobil is bigger than Africa talkless of Rivers
Big mumu

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Health / Re: White Tongue After Unprotected Sex: Please Doctors In The House I Need Your Help by onajo2000(m): 10:02pm On Apr 14, 2020
Covid-19 no go kill you but kpomo will kill you... Mumu

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