₦airaland Forum

Katsumoto:
I support your idea; I also think it should take the place of the tribalism section. Since the section would be focusing on issues that would promote development and progress in our land, we should do away with sections that are incendiary and contribute to weakening our fragile co-existence.

I take it the section you are suggesting relates to Nigerian development. If you mean for individual development to be included, wouldn't that be part of the business/money/finance/job sections?

By Steve Holland Steve Holland   – 50 mins ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House was poised to release a report on Thursday that top aides said will shock Americans about security lapses that allowed a Nigerian man to come close to blowing up a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25.

President Barack Obama, in remarks scheduled for 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT), was set to outline steps the U.S. government is taking to try to shore up airline security, mindful of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States involving hijacked airliners.

The White House was due to release a declassified review of what went wrong to allow the Christmas Day bombing attempt in which Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, is accused of trying to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear.

By releasing the review, Obama may be seeking to limit the political damage to his administration ahead of expected congressional committee reviews of the attempted attack.

Republicans have sought to portray the Democratic president as weak on national security issues. Obama already has acknowledged a security "screw-up" in the December 25 incident.

White House national security adviser James Jones told USA Today of the report: "Once people read it, I think, there's a certain shock to it. ,  The man in the street will be surprised that, you know, these correlations weren't made."

What was shocking, said another official, was the fact that various strands of intelligence were available that, if put together properly, would have made clear that the bombing suspect should have been put on a "no-fly" list preventing him from boarding.

"We know what happened, we know what didn't happen, and we know how to fix it," Jones said. "That should be an encouraging aspect. We don't have to reinvent anything to make sure it doesn't happen again."

Among the lapses was the fact that Abdulmutallab's father had gone to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria and told officials that his son had taken up radical views. This information was never properly acted upon.

A top Yemeni official said on Thursday that Abdulmutallab was recruited by al Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen. Awlaki has been linked to the gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood army base in Texas in November.

'A FEW ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS'

An Obama administration official said on Thursday that Customs and Border Protection officers had planned to question Abdulmutallab upon arrival in Detroit, acknowledging that they had found a record about him in an intelligence database.

"They were going to ask him a few additional questions after he landed before allowing him admission into the country," the official said, noting that no new information about Abdulmutallab had emerged while the plane was airborne.

The official said Abdulmutallab would not have been barred from boarding the plane in Amsterdam or selected for additional screening because he was not on any of the government's watch lists.

"We had in our possession information that likely could have prevented or disrupted the incident on the 25th of December from happening," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

Despite the security lapses and miscues, there has been no sign of any staff shake-up looming, although Obama has heavily criticized the "intelligence community" and said there must be accountability.

The Nigerian suspect was indicted on Wednesday in Detroit on charges of attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction to kill the 300 people on board the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

(Additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Ross Colvin and David Morgan in Washington and Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudan in Yemen; Editing by Will Dunham)

Sagamite:
You are a true ret.ard!

Sagamite:
Where are those that were openning their mouths screaming northern agenda when Sanusi kicked out the bank CEOs?

After the reports we have seen of deep-rooted corruption, I am really keen to see them coming here to open their mouths again.

No2Atheism:
- That is against the norm. . . cus it is against the will of Allah not to kill Christians and Jews . . .hence it is very rare to see a muslim that is willing to go against what Allah says . . .i.e. a muslim that chooses to protect Christians and Jews when Allah says muslims should kill Christians and Jews . . Yes there are muslims that do not that, however the reality is that most a True Muslims would obey Allah first and foremost.

- That is why True Muslims have a natural tendency of being terrorists no matter how innocent they look . . .

- The problem is not education and wealthy . . . Osama bin Laden was educated and wealthy yet he is a terrorist . . .

- Farouk was educated and wealthy yet he ended being a terrorist . .

- Hence the summary of the whole issue is that:

. . . ISLAM ITSELF IS THE PROBLEM . . .


. . . putting lipstick on a pig would not change the fact that it is still a pig . . . hence until the problem of ISLAM itself is solved, there would always be terrorism . . .


. . . . One way of solving the problem of Islam is by telling the truth about ISLAM so that muslims that are yet to be brainwashed can get to know the truth and hence stop being muslims . . . that is why Islam hates it when there is an honest debate or discussion cus islam knows that in an honest debate or discussion, sooner or later muslims are going to start realising that they have been brainwashed.

bawomolo:
the only solution to such extremism is secular education and poverty alleviation.

mbulela:
back to the topic, [b]littering the state with buildings all in the name of development (a disguise for job for the boys) is not the paramount matter.[/b]the more important matter is maintenance, equipment and motivating the staff that are meant to man these health centers.
Last year most primary health centers in the state were manned by NYSC doctors.these doctors were not paid their allowance(not the NYSC 9,500) for 12 months.infact they were only paid two days before passing out.
The NYSC doctors just abandoned their duty post for private practice.
how does fine building solve these and similar problems?

on another note, i hope these developmental projects are integrated?Not just scattered projects that do not serve the same process.
the summary of my post is that there is more to this business of development than just putting blocks together and coating buildings with paint.
the fact that we are saddled with ineptitude those not mean that we should be swayed by mediocrity.
In Nigeria, he who is able to work the media most, wins(Thisday awards is proof to that fact).

Lagosboy:
People forget the allegatiion here is she granted 70% of entire bank loans to herself and children.

That is enough crime to get her hands chopped off  

Epiphany:
Honestly, i am really tired of hearing these things. I am even more tired that NOTHING will be done about all these atrocities.
Is it not just a few weeks ago we heard that Ibori was absolved? What are we really to do? Should we trust the judicial system?

selingel:
Strange things are really happening unnoticed. May GOD help us in this country.

A woman suspected to be a child-trafficker was yesterday caught in a Chanchangi flight 137 from Owerri to Lagos, by passengers who became suspicious when they noticed the lack of bonding and hostility of a five-month-old baby boy to the woman who was pretending to be its mother.

“This baby was stolen by a woman who confessed openly she was into the racket and was identified by Chachangi airline officials. On landing, the woman further confessed she had a man as an accomplice but the man could not be found even after all the passengers had been identified”, an eye-witness told THISDAY.

The baby, on arrival in Lagos, was handed over to a Chanchangi crew member, Anwal Rufai. But Adamu later explained to THISDAY, “A female lawyer from the United States wanted to adopt the child and asked the younger sister to bring the baby from Owerri to Lagos, but the girl did not know how to handle it and when she was arrested at arrival in Lagos, her sister came with all necessary adoption documents. The matter was handed over to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).”

dblock:


Hi I am a Nigerian

I will scam you for break fast, steal your rolex for dessert, use the money to bribe you and then blow you up.

kokoA:
@ poster

You rely on saharareporters as your confirmed source of information? I pity for you!

Sagamite:
Ediot, look at my signature below.

Sagamite:
Another re.tard!

Sagamite:
Sorry, son.

Are you telling me anyone and everyone that knows the foool personally is a or potentially a terrorist?