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NgeneUkwenu:
Idiotic and deceptive explanation from a useless police formation!


I hope the Police, jonathan and PDP learned from the recent Burkina-faso coup.;PDP should not destroy NIGERIA

So you are now threatening Nigeria with a coup d'etat because your oga or whoever was involved in a fracas today. Abeg there is more to this country than all the nonsense you politicians are dishing daily. Shame on you people.

The fans. For imposing players on the team by sheer press power. Now we see football as team work not the collection of players. Now we begin to realise that a well crafted team of amateurs can beat this group of players who we claim 'score week in week out' for xyz team in europe, asia, america or wherever. That club records and form count for absolutely nothing.

Let us build a team, whether in soccer, politics or any sphere of life. Stop chasing names. Stop elevating individuals above institutions. Stop looking for messiahs. Work together Nigerians. In the ant colony there are no jerseys to swap after matches, no titles to administer but stick your finger in there and understand how effective collective effort is. With a population of 150 million people we should be giving our opponents hell.

It is entirely possible that the building was delibrately brought down. Devices like jet cord will cut through concrete with minimal thermobaric footprint and residue but these are really far fetched and the police have their work cut out before any judge or judicial panel when they have no 'physical' evidence to support their theory. They shoukd know that it is not their responsibility to 'prove' things but to gather evidence for both prosecution and defence in an 'unbiased' manner. It is the judge or jury who decides.

I still hold my view (until proven wrong by physical, tangible evidence) that it was a structural event and due to insufficient or wrongly placed steel reinforcement. And I say so because when high quality reinforced concrete fails it does so explosively. The presence of sufficient and properly located rebars will mitigate this and give sufficient warnings such as deflections (bending, sagging), progressive cracks and resonance (vibrations) long before the structure yields (collapses). But when you stress concrete without reinforcement you will get an explosive release, and yes it is loud, hot, grinding and hell.

It is normal for the police to kick start investigations to rule out intended acts in these days of terrorism but they must understand the weight of responsibility they carry with regards to finding the truth and bringing closure to this matter. What they have done is to cast doubt, stall other potential lines of enquiry and'like most people will speculate, try to bury the matter. We are all watching.

Timah247:
No stripping,no unclothedness,but yet superb and beautiful

Wait till the Americans get at her with the yankee doo doo they entice deprived, desperate and impressionable migrants with. 'Strip!!!' they'll yell and she replies 'how deep'.

Yes. If and only if the hate is removed by Jesus Christ the Redeemer.

These are not facts of love but of lust. Love is a product of deep knowledge or understanding. Not something you discover in four minutes and toss away like a child's toy two minutes later.

berem:
he doesn't care about his people yet he built almost all his industries in his state is creating jobs for them? What more can he do to care for his people?

The only value I see in them is that they generate competition which is the food of a growing democracy. Individually, they are no better than pork rinds to a diseased heart.

berem:
he doesn't care about his people yet he built almost all his industries in his state is creating jobs for them? What more can he do to care for his people?

Built industries, created jobs. Period. Is that is all....you vote for, all your vote is worth. All you trade for the 'downside' of these transactions. Honestly we need to seriously consider elevating our thinking in this country. This is a presidential aspirant of Nigeria we are talking about not some ward councillor in Timbuktu.

slap1:
How did this 'belated young man' become a 'celebrity'? He's neither a musician nor an actor. His mates are forming elder statesmen and he is gravitating towards buffoonery.

....gravitating towards buffoonery....Thats a double....ouch!!

jordanice007:
Agreed Ambrose is an issue.

I think Egwekwe's major problem is his inability to think fast and make quick decisions

Ouch!! Then get Intel involved. Upgrade his chips. Pentium III just does not cut it anymore in modern footy.

Is she being forcibly marched out of camp fully kitted and with all her 'kaya'.

funshint:
This' an attack right at the heart of Eggon people. Al-makura shld not pretend as if he doesn't know about wats going on. His goal has always been to wipe out Eggon people in order to secure his 2nd term ambition. The last time he used the federal forces and SSS; he failed. Now he's using his brothers "fulanis" to systematically wipe out the Eggons. He knows he can't win the election in a united Nassarawa. Thus his goal to create an atmosphere of confusion. Evil man!!!

My friend have you heard of the motion picture titled: 'What if they called for a war and nobody came'.

Why is it that we the people are as dry as the brush in harmattan that just about anyone or anything ignites us in a whisker. It is so easy to incite us, misuse us, abuse us, mislead us. Are we so mentally weak in this country or what. How can democracy ever work well when the horse always rides the jockey. What is it about the Nigerian that makes him this mentally lazy and bone headed. Who has done this great harm to us.

No matter how you twist it, this country is just not set up to work the way it is structured. We really need to sit down and restructure this country or else we will be spending almost all our budget, our income, our collective wealth on the military and law enforcement. It is becoming too expensive to live peacefully in Nigeria. The fabric of the Nigerian state is weakening every passing year. We the people must just have to sit down and talk, negotiate our way out of this nonsense.

If you lived in an area riddled with crime and a time comes when the combined cost of losses and that of security outstrips earnings, no one should tell you its time to leave. Many parts of Nigeria are simply gangrenous, decaying and dying. Its time to say enough is enough. People should simply sit down and talk.

Oh...I thought Pe.nile Captivus was the Roman General who was ambushed and beseiged by the babarians in east Germania in 435 BC...

Do you want to know what befell him. How the story ended...

vacanci:
I thought it should be HEAD-TO-HEAD before Goal Difference. Pls enlighten me.

I think Africa still follows the Brits in splitting by goals. CFC please enlighten.

Onmason:
More comedy. The GIANTS OF AFRICA can't produce weapons? Too bad. The reasons given here are rubbish. U.S knows the weapons are not meant to fight boko haram. So America should come and defeat boko haram when we have been told that every attack strategy discussed is leaked to boko haram by some Nigerian soldiers? Some of the uniforms and weaponsused by BH belong to the Nigerian. Army! Let's wake up from this slumber, GOVT is not SERIOUS about fighting boko haram. PERIOD!!

The fact there is no united front in fighting this terror is not a government fail mark but a Nigerian one. That is why I always preach about restructuring. It is the foundation on which nations are built. Right now the nation comes last in the considerations of the average Nigeria, self, tribe and religion well ahead. When I say this problem has no military solution, I know what I'm saying.

Its plausible but unreasonable to think that. Yes we are piss poor at maintenance but who buys arms for the long term anyway. We just want our military to put down the insurgency (not my idea), clear our heads then take a comprehensive look towards rebuilding the entire security forces. The choppers to me are merely a stop gap.

Secondly just how sophisticated is the Cobra. The platform is mid fifties, upgraded several times since. It has an excellent combat record and is favoured by the marines to deploy and extract under pressure. But we donot have 'marines'. Its not our TRADOC. We don't operate that way.

When you consider what we have, the russian Mi-34's its family, they are more rugged, equally proven, much cheaper to buy and run and very importantly is and remains the best hovering weapons platform in the world. The down side. Speed, agility and ergonomics are poor. So great for infantry, terrible for marines.

The question is. In view of this new type of assymetrical warfare we are waging. Is our military on the throes of evolution. If so the Americans are wrong. We will get to use their equipment, if not let us just stick to what we are familiar with. Even when a man is completely blinded. It doesn't take hunger for his hand to find his mouth.

The more the merrier. Say no to consensus.

Few are sold out to excellence. My neighbour does it so I do.

Frankenstein:
The explosion didn't burn the grasses at the crash site?

Good observation and didn't shred the wreckage to bits. And what is a chopper doing ferrying explosives. Are explosives now the weapons our forces are using. Many things simply do not add up.

That's why we say so called love is not the first and centre in marraige but purpose and the quest to attain it.

'Love him but I don't like his....' sounds a lot more hollow and childish than 'this will not take me where God has sent me'.

efobiugochukwu:
passion follow. But it isn't the only to be considered my dear. There is more than one profession everyone have passion for. Just take on the right one.

He is right. For ordinary (non christian) folks passion is what you need to start with. Passion leads to excellence. Excellence creates room and brings wealth. There are far too many hustlers and average Joe's in Nigeria riding on the backs of the very few passionate, creative, determined ones.

Passion sustains you in the years of incubation, in the years of vulnerability. I know of several young people who started off studying what they loved, graduated, went after survival and got lost in the rat race. Some are 'making it' but what you see on their faces are permanent scowls typical of jungle animals they have become.

Why would I want to trade what my heart and my head can produce together with what only my head can. I never want to be served by someone who only does it for the notes in my wallet. Never.

dROC1:
Point of correction, your military is not adequately equipped else we would not be talking of the army being routed by Boko Haram 70% of the time in combat. Those brave young men have shed their blood enough. Why don't you go and fight BH and find out better?

But the President doesn't directly equip the military. Like every organisation there is a chain of authority responsible for procurement. Goodluck Jonathan is unlikely to know the difference between a 9mm, 7.62mm or a 5.56mm (NATO) round in combat or how many 150mm shells NACA has in its inventory but he should know someone who knows all these and rely absolutely on their professional advice. What we can hold him responsible for is putting the square peg in the square hole, evaluating the progress of the campaign and in my opinion balancing the budget in such a way that the campaign is sustainable because without food all the arms and ammunition in th world is useless in battle. It is so easy for an economy to collapse at the instance of heavy military spending. History is awash with many, many tragic examples and to strike a balance between fighting fire and rescuing your goods is exceptionally difficult.

If the insurgency hits our economy in our quest to end it quickly by an arms spending spree then we are done anyway. As I type this the news wires say the naira has just experienced the steepest decline in 3 years no thanks to the falling oil prices which is now below the budget benchmark (something Okonjo Iweala warned about at the turn of the year but she was derided by the Lower house, governors and mischievious Nigerians). Now we have to spend more on a war you cannot budget for.

We are in for it. Period.

egift:
First Nigeria will not scatter. Secondly, Jonathan is not transparent and excessively corrupt - nobody in his right mind make a deal with such person.

How can one justify smuggling money to South Africa to procure illegal arms when there legitimate ways to get it? Why is Jonathan afraid of the Front gate? Why must he always enter his good neighbour's house by jumping over the fence at the back-yard? Why is he exporting his Stealing-Is-Not-Corruption style of Government to other countries?

The Zoologist must be voted out before he sinks this nation with anarchy and corruption.

Removing sentiment and some good points there are a few errors. One. Arms purchases are always clandestine particularly in time of conflict for very simple reasons, intelligence and sabotage. You cannot afford to have such information on purchases in public domain. You cannot disclose their import and deployment. The fact that there are moles in the security system makes secrecy imperative. The trade-off however is that secrecy is incubator of corruption and scandal.

Nigerdeltaboi:
Nice one from the ambassador,this same americans will go around to provide arms for countries with human rights issues like Eygpt and saudi arabia.WE NEED TO FACE THE EAST

What have we been saying for long. We should have been looking east since the civil war ended but a serious lack of vision and purpose has kept us 'babyfied'. Now mommy is saying no more free meals and free laundry, go get a place to stay and settle down. I don't blame them. We are simply irresponsible. Surely a country aspiring to be within the top 20 economic powers in 6 years time should be able to forge spears and shields.

America is obviously jealous and threatened by our prospects but what they see in us we obviously don't see in ourselves.

I've always been surrounded by women. Lots of them. Right from birth and that virtually all of them were strong, independent goal- getters who raised their profiles significantly themselves over the course of their lives makes the concept of a strong woman a given for me.

I just cannot see myself living with any other specie of the female gender.

OP. With due respect to your credibility I have never watched a political advert on CNN International since I started watching it in 1989. Not even of American politicians and either party.

Right step. There is simply no military solution to this problem. Only fools will think otherwise. They are Nigerians. Make them stakeholders. Bring them them back.

Yet again the rotten underbelly of this administration is exposed. Just how much is the proposed re -election going to cost us. Shame and pity.

READINGLIFE:
Spare me the sermon dude. The number of years you've walked with GOD is immaterial. I could school you on spiritual matters. Truth breaks bones. Once again I echo it categorically that a red light must have been beaten, a red line must have been crossed, a red flag must have been ignored. What a miserable death for an entire "priesthood" family in one day! (1Samuel 2:27-36; 4:17-18; Acts 5:1-10).

And add to that Romans 8: 31 - 39. Perhaps the entire chapter, Romans 8 for context.

Christianity is not about 'ifs', 'buts' and all manner of speculation. The God we serve does not kill His children because of the love Jesus Christ (our intercessor) has for us who gave His life for us and served punishment for whatever sin we have and may ever commit. You need to understand the God who you serve. He is our FATHER. Which father kills his children because they make mistakes. Certainly not the one I serve. The bible says clearly 'therefore there is NO CONDEMNATION for those who are in Christ Jesus'. The bible also says that God honours Jesus (the Word) above even His Name (His Authority). So even if God was mad at you (for some improbable reason) He CANNOT touch a strand of your hair as long as you remain in Christ.

This was simply a tragic accident. No more.

babyosisi:
You have spoken well
Some things we will never understand In this earthly existence.
Let us live to say ,if we live we live for Christ and to die is gain

Do you still love the Lord despite these things. With tears in my eyes I say, yes I do. That is christianity.

READINGLIFE:
Simple! Almost certainly, a red light must have been beaten, a red line must have been crossed, a red flag must have been ignored. What a scorching death this is for a carrier of the Cross!

Very little understanding of the things of God. Christianity is and remains a faith. I always say this. It is not the 'results' that matter. It is the process. I often hear people say, they only live to make heaven. Well the bible says of Jesus. This is my Son in whom I'm well pleased, speaking of Jesus. There is no Christian, Christianity or believer in heaven. What makes us is our faith here on earth. That despite these things we remain resolute in our trust, walk and worship of God Almighty.

Contrary to popular belief, my opinion after several years of walk with God is this: there is nothing on earth a Christian cannot possibly experience. Ours is not a faith that shields from any and every eventuality all the time. Trials and temptations do and will come in various ways but the truth is that we glorify God by being His DESPITE it all.

God knew this will happen to the Munroes before they were born. He is the same God that made Munroe what he is today so we cannot say He was partial, insensitive or wrong not to warn him of it or as some say prevent it. If Munroe had a calendar before him with a set date with death will he have been the Munroe we know, certainly not for his life will not be one of peace, joy, faith, love and other beautiful fruits of Christianity but that of constant fear, dread and sadness at the coming calamity. His life will be messed up. This is another misconception in Christianity, that Jesus died and by violence so no Christian should. What do we say of Paul's writings to the Romans then. What God did in Christ that we are exempted from is the dread of death that only Jesus ever had to endure by 'knowing' when and how it will happen and still trusting God at His Word. No Christian today has to exercise that sort of faith thanks to Christ.

We have a chance at trusting God and walking by faith because there are certain things we cannot know and cannot do. Anything contrary is just spiritual rascality. No matter how loving you are as a parent you will never be able to tell your child everything about life and living but you will want that child to trust you in every decision even though sometimes it hurts.

Faith pleases God.