₦airaland Forum

Quality Control Officers, Food Technologists, Biochemists, (OND, HND & B.Sc)
Customer Care Officers, Receptionists (OND, NCE, HND & B.Sc)
Admin Officers, Account Officers, Cashiers, Store Keepers (NCE, OND, HND & B.Sc)
Business Development Managers / Unit Managers (OND, NCE, HND & B.Sc in any field) Salary N60,000 per month
Hotel Managers, Supervisors, Sales Reps, Security Supervisors / Guards, Barmen, Waitress, Waiters, Drivers, Office Assistants (Free Accommodation and Lunch). Salary N45,000 per month
P.A. to the MD / Purchasing Officers
Mechanical Engineers / Civil Engineers / Electrical Engineers / Architects / Chemical Engineers
Metal Fabricators
Marketing Executives /P.R.O
Graduate Trainee (Salary N60,000)
Factory Workers, Cooks, Cleaners

Interested applicants should contact: 08023779867, 08027731778

Aiico Insurance Plc is a leading Insurance services provider in Nigeria. Urgent vacancies currently exist for suitably qualified graduates for the position of:

Marketing Executives

Requirements

Applicants should possess either NCE, OND, B.Sc/HND

Method of Application

Interested applicants should forward their detailed CV to:

adamma2001@yahoo.com

Enquires: 07031824020, 08023023712

(for those residing in Ejigbo, Egbe, Ikotun, Ilasamaja & Isolo axis).

Electrical / Electronics Technicians –
(for 3-in-1 Bottling Machines, Shrink Wrappers and Sachet Water Machines)
• Good knowledge of PLC in the above machines.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in working with Bottling and Shrink wrapping machines
• Good knowledge of Industrial wiring & voltage surge protection.

Production Officers – Water or Flavoured Drinks
• OND – Chemistry or Food Technology etc
• Minimum of 5 years experience

Loading / Maintenance Officer
• OND – Mechanical Eng. Or NABTEB with minimum of 10 years working experience.
• Not less than 30 years old.
• Good knowledge of Diesel Generators will be an added advantage.

Sales Delivery Drivers
• Must possess valid driving license.
• Good knowledge of Lagos Roads.
• Ability to drive minimum of 3 TONS Light Trucks compulsory.
• Not less than 30 years old.

Female Marketing/Sales Officers
• Very aggressive in nature and good knowledge of the Beverage Industry.
• Willing to work on Commission.
______________________________________________________________________________
Apply in Person, with your application and credentials to -
VICBOL Nig. Ltd,
10, Iyabo Titilayo Street, Ejigbo
between the hours of 12noon to 4pm or
forward your application with credentials to P.O.Box 11540 – Ikeja
or
through E-mail to: vicbolng@gmail.com
within 10 days from Publication date.
Tel: 01 7737072, 7768238.

jobs nigeria

Project New Nation is the private sector arm to the fulfillment of the federal Government vision 20:20.

An initiative of a conglomerate of 23 North American companies known as Dukwe & the 21 pillars for global development equity.

Our mission is to bring about the rapid development of Africa beginning from Nigeria in 21 key sector through ventures values and projects.

We are in the process of recruiting young graduates with good communication skills for a very rewarding position known as the:

Client Analyst for Project New Nation in Lagos, Ogun Osun, Ekiti and Ondo offices.

With majority in Lagos offices.

The job of client Analysts is to recruit and manage our distribution networks all across theses states.

Marketers are also needed.

REQUIREMENTS
Must possess an OND, NCE, HND, BSc, MSc degree would be an added advantage.
Good communication skills.
Ability to work in fast paced environment.
Enthusiasm, self motivation self-driven/reliant characteristics.

HOW TO APPLY
Simply send your CVs to:

HR@DUKWE.COM

Orientation, training and interview will be held in Lagos.

Enquires: 08169081415
more jobs available at .com

yes o.
The Nepa people have taken back their light now that the rain have stopped falling.
i tire 4 this country. But i still paid N10,000 bill last month.
No light, yet huge nepa bills

Forex trading could be a lucrative and interesting internet business especially for those who are adequately prepared for this kind of venture.
The forex market is very crowded these days hence the reason why traders loose money easily as too many people are placing orders in similar direction leading to few winners and many losers.

In order for anyone to boldly enter into the market and last for a couple of years churning out decent profits on a monthly basis, then he or she needs to be adequately prepared for the risks and dynamics of the forex market.

To take on forex trading as a career, you need to be adequately trained and gather lots of experience from actual trading on a demo account.
You also need to be aware of the factors that controls the market like the big banks, the fed, economic news and fundamentals.

You also need the services of a good, honest and reliable forex broker who would act as the right interface between you and the market

You may also want to be interested in automated trading, that is using a forex robot or ea, this is also good but, you need to extensive research in order to settle for the best ea that would guarantee the profits on the long term.

We are Instaforex Nigeria official representatives for Nigerian and West African traders.
Please feel free to ask questions that bothers you about forex, but commiting your hard earned money into the forex market.

We also created a blog where you can find free forex training, latest forex news and trading strategies that would enable you achieve great success from your trading.
the blog is www.forextrading23.com
visit www.instaforex.com to open a trading account
Happy Trading

wat about trying a restaurant business

i think there is a way you can transfer funds from your payza to domicilliary account in Nigeria

Sir, you don't need sending email to anyone in order to get your business registered.
to get everything done within 4 weeks,
simply go to CAC office at Alausa Ikeja, Lagos
and collect a business name registration form, the form should be N200
look for a suitable name for your business and submit the form.
check back in 2 weeks to know if the name is available,
if available, you can proceed to make payment for the name, if not, you wud have to look
for another name.

The process is very easy, i did mine myself.
You should spend more than 5000 in everything. that is if you are registering business name.

LIAR

1) Have real goals and understand what you’re committing to

Having reasonable short-term goals that you can realistically achieve within a short period of time is how you achieve longer-term goals. Unfortunately, most traders become fixated on the long-term goal of “becoming a professional trader” as soon as they start trading with real money. The main problem with this is that just having a big long-term goal with no realistic plan to achieve it, is essentially worthless.

As a trader, a “reasonable short-term goal” might be that you stick to your trading plan for one month. Then, if you achieve that short-term goal you can give yourself a reward at month’s end, whatever you decide that might be. Just be sure you define short-term trading goals that you can realistically achieve, if you want to achieve your big long-term goal of becoming a very successful Forex trader. If you are seriously going to commit to become a full-time trader, you’re going to have devise a plan to get you to that point, just wanting to be a full-time trader is not a plan or strategy to make it happen.
2) Simplify your trading approach & your thoughts

One of the easiest ways to improve your trading that will also work to improve your overall mindset both when you’re trading and when you’re not is to simplify your trading approach. My key philosophy of trading is to ‘keep it simple stupid’. After years of trial and error in my early trading days, I finally realized that I was just making the entire process of analyzing and trading the markets FAR more complicated than it needed to be. When you use a simple trading method like price action, it eliminates most of the confusion, doubt, and frustration that traders experience as a result of being unsure of how to trade their system or strategy. Trading is not technically difficult, it’s emotionally and psychologically difficult; therefore it just doesn’t make sense to use a confusing or complicated trading strategy or system which will make both the technical and psychological aspects of trading more difficult than they need to be or are.
3) Develop your skills and plan before you trade

I am always amazed at how many emails I get from traders who basically tell me they are new to Forex trading and they want to open a live account. For some reason, people seem to think they need very little experience or preparation to make money in the markets. In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Trading a real account is not something you just dive into with no plan or experience behind you.

I personally recommend that all traders have mastered an effective trading method like price action trading, developed a solid trading plan from that trading method, have a trading journal, and trade their plan on a demo account whilst recording their trades in their trading journal for at least 2 or 3 months before even thinking about trading a live account. The markets will chew up and spit out your hard-earned money faster than you can imagine (and you know that already if you’ve been trading for a while), so the more prepared and experienced you are before you start trading live, the better off you’ll be in the long-run.
4) Don’t fall off the wagon

It seems to be in our nature to get really excited and motivated about things only to see those positive feelings fizzle at the first signs of adversity or obstacle. How often have you or someone you know made a New Year’s resolution to get into shape and start eating better, only to find yourself back in the same old negative habits by the middle of February?

You’re not alone here; it’s human nature to be this way. However, we are equipped with very powerful brains that give us the power to overcome our human nature and evolution to the point where we can rise up above our peers and create positive habits rather than the negative ones that dominant many people’s lives. I can promise you that trading does not reward lazy people or people who cannot manifest the motivation to stay disciplined and follow a plan for a long period of time. It’s not difficult to get motivated about trading and create a good forex trading plan, what is difficult is digging deep within yourself and sticking to that plan and following your edge with ice cold discipline week in and week out.

Most traders fall of the wagon; they end up trading when there’s no trade, forgetting about their trading plan and gambling their money away in the markets. Don’t be one of the sheep; be the leader, be different, do the things you know you should do even when you don’t want to, persist and be disciplined even in the face of constant temptation, these are the things you must do to be a profitable trader.
5) Stop trading if you’re frustrated or confused

If you’re frustrated with your trading results or confused about your trading strategy, it’s best to simply take some time off from trading. This simple exercise can work wonders on your mindset and will restore passion and motivation into your trading routine. Clearing the markets from your mind for a while is sometimes the best thing you can do to improve your trading. Especially, if you just suffered through a series of emotion-fueled losing trades, you need to take some time off from real money trading to regroup and collect yourself.

Even if you are just feeling a little frazzled one day in the midst of a successful run in the markets, it’s still better to just stop for the day and come back the next day after a good night’s rest. It’s very easy to get caught up over-analyzing and falling victim to the temptations of the market, without even noticing. If you find you’ve been at your computer for an hour or two just analyzing the markets and trying to find a trade, you’re probably better off removing yourself from the markets for a while. Finding your trading edge in the market should be a relatively quick and easy task after you have mastered trading your edge. It should be readily apparent if your edge is present in the markets after just 15 or 20 minutes of browsing. So, when in doubt, walk away from the markets until the next day or however long you need to calm down.
6) Trade less than you are now, much less

I talk a lot about over-trading, and for good reason, but I won’t get into it too much in today’s lesson, except to say that most traders trade way too much. I get a lot of emails from traders asking me things like “How many trades can I expect per week”, etc; when in reality it really doesn’t matter. Traders should be far more focused on quality of trades rather than quantity of trades, as you can make a good return each month with only 1 or 2 big winners.

It’s OK if you don’t trade for a week, you need to understand that. Many traders feel like they need to be in a trade all the time or they are “missing out” on an opportunity. Well, the truth is that just because the market is sitting there and easy to access, it doesn’t mean it’s an opportunity to make money. In fact, you should think about the market as a way to both lose and make money, this will help you to avoid jumping in the markets when your edge isn’t present. There’s only an opportunity when your trading edge is present, if you trade when your edge is not present you are simply gambling. It’s a proven fact that high frequency trading is less profitable over the long-run than lower frequency trading. Traders who take a swing-trading approach where they are holding positions for 3 or 4 days or a week on average, tend to keep themselves in business as traders, whereas day traders keep the brokers in business with all the spreads and commissions they generate for them. Unfortunately, day traders and short-term scalpers often up putting themselves out of the trading business simply because they are gambling, not trading.
7) Stop thinking so much and so hard, it’s bad for you

Whereas thinking and brainstorming are generally good things in almost every other profession in the world, in trading they can actually be counter-productive. The reason being is that often it’s best to just not do anything in the markets. Whether that means not entering a trade you know isn’t quite meeting your trading plan guidelines, or not interfering with a live trade, traders do a lot of damage to their trading accounts by thinking too much about what they should do next.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not telling you that you don’t have to think at all to be a good trader. What I’m saying is that most traders think more than they need to, there’s a big difference. Obviously, you need to think to become a successful trader. But, once you determine exactly what your trading edge is and you know how best to trade it, there isn’t a whole lot more to think about. After you know how to trade your edge, it really just comes down to scanning the markets quickly each day to see if your edge is there and then either trading your edge or walking away. This type of approach is best implemented as an end of day trading strategy; however you can also use it on the intra-day charts.

Also, don’t over-think your trades once they are live. The “default” trade management strategy that I use is to “set and forget” my trades, then I will check in on them periodically and if there’s any obvious price action showing me that the market bias is changing against my position, I might manually close out my trade. But, I never manually close a trade simply out of emotion or because I thought about it for too long and convinced myself of something that the markets weren’t actually reflecting, this is what many traders do.
Accept that you don’t need indicators

I like to think of my website as one of the few true trading websites that focuses on price action and on real trading strategies, rather than the thousands of trading sites out there talking about indicators. If you’ve been following me for a while now you know that I focus primarily on trading off pure price action, with a couple of moving averages sprinkled in sometimes. However, if you want to know exactly why I think trading with indicators is a bad idea, checkout this article on forex indicators. Indicators are for those “lost sheep” traders still searching for some Holy-Grail trading system that simply doesn’t exist. The sooner you wake up to this reality the sooner you can get on the track to learning real Forex trading strategies.
9) Use your brain wisely

You’re not a caveman, it’s 2012, there is no excuse in today’s world not to read, not to be educated and not to make a real effort, LAZY won’t work. Too many traders want to buy a trading system or attend a trading seminar and magically start printing Benjamins from their computers. Unfortunately, this is not how it works. Trading takes time and effort to learn, and you have to use the large mushy area between your ears to become good at it. Many traders never invest in an effective trading education or take the time to learn and really develop their trading skills; instead they just jump in the markets with little to no formal trading and start throwing around their hard-earned money. There’s so much information at your fingertips these days, there’s no reason not to put in the time to learn how to trade effectively.
10) Ditch the fundamentals and news

I know that a lot of you guys spend hours reading economic news, reading forums over on forex factory, or whatever else. The truth is, you are wasting your time. You really are; you need to just accept the simple fact that all fundamentals and forex news variables are reflected via the pure price action on your charts. I’m not going to say too much about this topic in today’s lesson because I have discussed it in other lessons quite a bit, and there’s really no better way to sum it up except to say that every single piece of economic news and all things that affect a market are visible and reflected in that market’s price action. So, if you learn to read the price action you also learn to read the fundamentals.
11) Trust your gut, not another’s

When it comes to trading, trusting your gut is something you’re going to have to learn to do. Unfortunately, there’s no mechanical trading system out there that will stay effective over changing market conditions. Despite what you read on some trading websites, you need to use your brain, your eyes, and your gut instinct when trading the markets. Your intuition and gut trading feel are things that can be harnessed and improved upon if you develop them by learning a strategy like price action.

Turn off the TV, stop reading the business section in newspapers, and don’t listen to the opinions of others, instead learn to listen to yourself. A good gut trading feel will only come from experience and confidence, so you first need to really master a trading strategy like price action and then practice trading with it on demo. Once you do this for a while you will begin to develop your gut trading instinct and to get a feel for a price action strategy worth trading versus one that’s not, etc. Ultimately, you are the one pulling the trigger on your trades, so you need to trust yourself and not confusing yourself by listening to other people and taking in too many outside opinions. All you really need is a sound knowledge of price action trading, your brain, and the charts.
12) Keep your day job, and work hard at it

Don’t set out to be a professional trader from day 1, instead, your first goal should be to gain experience and knowledge and become a good trader, then once you’re making consistent money in the markets you could quit your job if you want to. Most traders go about this with the wrong mindset, they think they are going to quit their job after a month of trading and they might even start slacking off at work as a result. This is the wrong attitude to have and the wrong thing to do; you really need to already be financially sound and relatively happy with your life before you start trading with real money. Many traders look to the markets as a way to solve all their problems, when in reality the markets are not there for this. They are for mentally sound people to potentially profit from, so if you are trading the markets just because you hate your job or you “want to be a millionaire”, you probably have the wrong forex trading mindset already.
13) Be organized and clean (hygienically too)

I am a very organized and clean person, and I firmly believe this has contributed to my success at such a young age. Without trying to sound arrogant or cocky, many people simply don’t have the motivation to maintain an organized and clean lifestyle, and I think it’s very hard to be a consistently profitable trader if you live this way. Everything from having the files and content organized on your computer to having a clean and organized place to trade is important to your overall trading mindset. One of the reasons why many people fail at trading is because they aren’t organized and disciplined, trading seems easy on the surface, but if you aren’t exited about developing positive habits and about being patient and disciplined, you’re probably not going to make it as a trader.
14) Don’t be stupid

A lot of traders simply act like fools in the markets. They shuffle around their charts like lost souls desperately in need of a trading signal, panicking if they don’t find one and ultimately entering the market anyways. Biting off more risk than you can chew and generally behaving like gambler in the markets is not the way to make money, in fact it’s simply stupid, to put it frankly. You need to think like a businessman or woman and act accordingly, that means managing risk and having a plan.
15) Learn to love patience

For many people, patience brings up images of boredom and things they would rather not do. However, in trading, you need patience more so than in most other professions. You need to have patience to sit on your hands when your trading edge is not present, and you need to have patience to see your trading edge play out over a large series of trades, rather than getting emotional after hitting a few losers. Indeed, if there is one “key” ingredient to success as a trader, it would definitely be patience.

Trading seems to naturally tempt peoples’ ability to be patient, and the more you can maintain your patience by waiting for valid instances of your trading edge, the better you will do. As humans, we have not been wired by evolution to be patient in most situations; when we are hungry we need to eat now, etc. So, as traders, we need to override these “caveman” urges which cause us to over-trade and risk too much, by planning ahead and not becoming emotional as we trade.
16) Don’t expect to win every trade

I’m going to let you guys in on a little secret that all pro traders know; you don’t have to be right to make money trading. In fact, you can actually be wrong on THE MAJORITY OF YOUR TRADES and STILL make money. Yes, that’s right. If you want to see how, click the article I just linked to.

The point is this, you can’t freak out every time you lose a trade, EVEN IF you think it was a “perfect” trade setup. I get a lot of emails from traders sending me charts of setups they took that they said are “perfect” and that they just “don’t understand why the trade lost because it was so perfect”. Well, the cold hard truth is that it really doesn’t matter why the trade didn’t work! Also, why do you care so much? Have you risked too much on that one losing trade? Do you expect to win every trade? If you do expect to win every trade you are in for a lot of struggle and strife as a trader. The sooner you accept losing as part of being a trader and devise a realistic plan to deal with it, the sooner you can get on to making money in the markets.
17) Enjoy Losing – Each loss brings you closer to a large win

Similar to the point above, you have to actually learn to enjoy losing. I know that sounds strange, you’re probably thinking “How can anyone enjoy losing?” Well, if you are really passionate about being a trader, and you’ve already accepted that losing is part of being a trader, then at the very worst you should not make a big deal out of a losing trade. You have to learn to embrace your losers and think of them as just one trade closer to a winner. I always tell my students to “stop trying to avoid losses”, as losing is a big part of winning a trader, and the more you try to avoid losing trades, the more of them you are probably going to have. Think of losing trades as a coworker you really don’t like but that you have to work with everyday. If you take a bad attitude with this coworker and try to avoid them, it’s probably going to hurt your chances of a promotion and thus make you less money in the long run.
18) Be consistent

You just had 4 losing trades, what do you do, remain calm and collected, following your trading plan as usual? Or, do you freak out and jump back into the market to try and make back the money you just lost? If you lose your confidence and stop trading your proven trading strategy, you are probably going to miss out on the next trade that would have been a big winner. Trading is the ultimate test of being able to brush off and ignore obstacles that are in your way now for a longer-term reward. If you crumble at the first sign of adversity or hardship, you are probably going to become very emotional after a losing trade or two and start making stupid trading decisions.
19) Read, study, and improve…Always

Great investors, traders and business people, read, study and educate themselves on an ongoing basis. You need to invest in yourself because it’s the most important investment you will ever make, and it will lead to direct growth in your knowledge and skill as a trader or personal fund manager.

I am always amazed at how many traders think they don’t need to educate themselves about the markets or on a proven trading strategy. Many of them tend to think they can just dive in head-first to real money trading, with no formal trading or education, and that somehow they are on the right track. Well, that’s not the case, trading takes time, effort, and education, like anything else. The trick is to make sure you learn an effective trading strategy like price action and that you learn how to trade from a genuine and honest source.
20) Daily Trading Affirmations

A secret formula of many successful people has been to verbally reinforce the most important goals in their life. For a trader, having a wall poster or post it notes with important goals and phrases will help. We did a great lesson on this some time ago and it’s worth a read for any of you looking to take your trading to the next level…this stuff really does work and anybody can practice it…you can check out my trading affirmations lesson here.

It’s important to read through these affirmations everyday before you trade, I would even incorporate this into your trading plan. Doing so, will get your daily trading routine started off on a positive note.
Instaforex Nigeria Representatives

i know of a guy who is a professional betonmarket expert having made millions from betting. reach me on 08065167701 let me link you

can u find a profitable venture to invest this amount. can u try doing maybe pure water or ice cream business or have a shop where you can sell petty goods

i don't think so, have been using liberty reserve to send and recieve money for my forex trading business a long time now, and i have never had any problem with them or poor customer service.

good work chap, congrats
the sky is your limit

but how can we get your ea?

good,but i would like to see more results

Oh my God, this is unfortunate, for him to have died on this period
forextrading23.com

How about getting paid to post of various online forums. many forex forums out there would pay to post topics online and pay you. guys can try them out

But is there really much profit in this recharge card business, as i feel there are too many people are already in the market making little money

Lagos – An Agege Customary Court on Tuesday sentenced a 39-year-old man to 14 days imprisonment for contempt, following his disobedience to the court order to maintain the peace with his estrange wife.

“The court hereby sentences you, Ibukun Oluwadamilare, to 14 days imprisonment for contempt of court for beating up your wife.

“I believe that if you get there, you will learn one or two lessons and you will control your temper thereafter,’’ the Court President, Mr Emmanuel Sokunle, said.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the court, had at the last hearing, ordered the couple in the divorce suit to maintain the peace.

However, the wife, the petitioner in the suit, informed the court a day later that the respondent beat her, in spite of the order.

The petitioner, Adesewa, 33, had filed the suit in September, asking the court to dissolve her 12-year-old marriage to Oluwadamilare over battering and threat to life.

Adesewa, who lives at No. 18b, Kayode Joseph St., Powerline, Oke- Ira, Ogba, told the court: “My husband had wanted to make love to me in the presence of our children but I refused.

“He then beat me mercilessly to the extent of removing one of my teeth. If my husband has money, he won’t give me and the children.

“He prefers to go to the club and declare surplus and when the money is finished, he comes home to steal my money,” she alleged.

The mother of three children, aged between five and 10 years, also added that her husband often malign her before their children by making unsubstantiated allegation that she was promiscuous.

“We live in one room but my husband won’t wait till midnight when our children will be asleep before drawing my pants.

“My husband started going to a white garment church in April, and so, brings home different colours of candle.

“He left the church we were both going because he accused me of going out with our pastor and I am fed up with all of his behaviour,” she said.

Adesewa told the court that she wanted the marriage to be dissolved and also wanted the custody of the children.

In his testimony, the estranged husband denied some of the allegations.

“My wife flirts with different men. She even goes to the extent of sending money and recharge cards to them from my money.

“I traced her to where she was going one day and saw her entering a hotel but she had told me that she was attending a night vigil in church,’’ he said.

Ibukun also told the court that if his wife was ready to reconcile with him, she had to be three months pregnant for him.

“I told her in April that I still want a fourth child and she denied me access to herself. I am ready to take her back if she agrees to my terms,” he said. (NAN)
forex trading

why is this pastor getting all the money to build this multi-billion naira universities.
this one pass tithe and offering

why are they running away? are they not happy he is still alive

yeah. there is good money to make in forex trading. anyone interested in forex trading can reach me via 08065167701.
i offer training,i also trade for people.
there are a lot of opportunities for people to make good money from forex. all you need is the right strategy and trading plan, and the pips would come your way.
i have created a forex training blog where you can learn how to master the art of forex trading.
visit forextrading23.com

The war of words between the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, Borno State and a senator accused of sheltering a Boko Haram commander took a dramatic turn on Monday.

The embattled Senator accused the JTF of killing 15 boys playing football on a field in the city, an allegation which this newspaper was unable to confirm yesterday because of the tense security situation in the Maiduguri.

Senator Ahmad Zannah (Borno Central) made the grave allegation while denying a report credited to the JTF that Shuaibu Bama was arrested in his house. Zannah, who had said that the suspect was arrested in the house of a former governor of the state, also blamed the JTF for the escalation of violence in the city.

Our correspondents report that though the JTF has been accused of extra-judicial killings in recent times, it wasn’t clear if the Senator’s allegation was an attempt to shift attention from himself or get back at the task force.

Two weeks ago, there were reports that soldiers had gone on the rampage after a bomb believed to have been detonated by Boko Haram killed an army officer in the city.

Eyewitnesses had told journalists that soldiers opened fire on residents indiscriminately and burnt houses and shops. An Associated Press reporter, who went round the city after the alleged killing, said he counted 30 bodies. Nurses at a hospital in the city later told a Reuters reporter that they saw 30 bodies in civilian clothing after the shooting.

However, the army had debunked the report, saying that its men did not harass or kill civilians on the day of the incident.

Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman for the JTF, had told AFP that, “there was no incident involving the killing of 30 civilians. Also, there was no arson and harassment by the JTF troops in Borno State.”

On Friday, the JTF had said that Bama, who was high on its list of wanted terrorists, was arrested by task force troops in a serving politician’s house in the Damboa Area of Maiduguri.

But Zannah, who admitted that Bama is his nephew, said that the JTF wanted to frame him up because of his stand against the task force’s excesses. He then cited the killing of the young football players as one of such excesses.

He said, “They are not operating in the way they are supposed to operate in that state. I’m sure you must have read a little of what has been happening: the burning of some houses and shopping plazas. This is just a small portion of what is happening, because all these things are not exposed.

“Let me tell you something, just the day before yesterday (Saturday), without any provocation, they went and killed innocent boys playing football at a field – about 15 of them. They just shot them all, everybody ran away and they took their bodies to the hospital.

“The constitution does not allow them to kill people at will. I have started exposing them. We have been quiet for some time and when we saw that nothing was happening, nobody is restraining them, so we had to speak out because people are just being killed unnecessarily.

“They don’t consult the leaders in Borno State at any given time. They went there and just started harassing people from the outset. They have never contacted or tried to sit down to discuss with the leaders of Borno. I am ready to stick out my neck to do anything that will bring security to this country.”

The lawmaker accused the JTF of teaming up with his political opponent in the last election to smear him. He vowed to seek redress.

“I will seek redress in court. The allegation is grievous and I will go to court to clear my name. My historic defeat of the former Governor of Borno State, in the person of Ali Modu Sheriff, at the poll has not and will not go down well with many forces and individuals in this country.

“Therefore, this latest campaign by the Military Joint Task Force in Borno State to disseminate falsehood against me is a campaign to rope me into the JTF dragnet, declare me a Boko Haram member, financier, sympathiser, or even activist and declare my seat vacant.”

The senator insisted that though his house was searched on the day Bama was arrested, his nephew wasn’t found there.

He said, “They searched my house, they brought out all the men inside my house, asked them to sit down outside the scorching sun of Maiduguri and then asked them whether they knew Shuaibu Bama. So, one of the boys volunteered to take them to the place…eventually, they went and arrested the man in that (another politician’s) house.

“That was exactly what happened. But I was really surprised to see that these people have started saying that they arrested Shuaibu in my house, which is not true, and I will not take it lightly.”

Zannah said he did not know Bama as a member of Boko Haram, even though he knew him to be of a “bad character”.

When contacted, the Director Army Public Relations, Brig-General Bola Koleosho, insisted that the JTF arrested the terror suspect in Zannah’s residence.

Koleosho said that the senator’s claim that the JTF wanted to set him up because of his criticism of the military was flawed. He urged the Senator to own up.

Koleosho said, “Sincerely speaking, you don’t call a dog a bad name to hang it. Please does it add up? We are all stakeholders in this Nigerian project. There is nobody in JTF that can do that. Of course except if he is saying that everybody in JTF is mad.

“When does it become an offence or an illegality to play football? While we don’t want to join issues with the senator, this doesn’t simply add up.

“Look, the JTF has been in Maiduguri for quite some time and we have been facing the problem. What the senator is saying that the JTF wants to set him up because of his criticisms is not true. He has admitted that the boy is his nephew. He should own up that the boy was found in his house.

“The JTF still stands by its word that the boy was arrested in the senator’s residence; the JTF insists that the wanted terrorist leader was arrested in his house. You see, we are all Nigerians. What are we setting him up for? There is no need for that. Seriously speaking, the JTF cannot come down to such a level.”

But Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, described Zanna as a “drowning man”.

A statement issued on Monday by his Special Assistant, Mallam Umar Duhu, accused Zanna of desperately “looking for somebody to hang for his sins” on.

The statement says “It is also on record that the State Security Service has invited Senator Zanna to clarify his involvement with the suspect and his links with Boko Haram.

“Given his recent political encounter with the immediate past governor, now the BOT chairman of ANPP, Senator Ali Modu sheriff, he appears desperate to settle scores by dragging Ali Sheriff into the controversy.”

Punch