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SportsRe: Keshi Has Lost It - Victor Ikpeba by rexbuton: 11:06am On Oct 04, 2014
Keshi is an experienced coach and not a good church
EducationRe: Why Aren't There Nigerians in My College? by rexbuton: 6:06am On Aug 24, 2014
Nigerian would serve as antenna for witchcraft attacks... you're lucky to be alone
CelebritiesRe: Breaking News: 2face Idibia’s Father Is Dead by rexbuton: 6:04am On Aug 24, 2014
Rip to the dead...
Nairaland GeneralRe: Nl Official Birthday Thread For Our Celebrants. by rexbuton: 6:01am On Aug 24, 2014
Thank you much very..
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 6:23pm On Aug 23, 2014
Lukaku yet to experience conjugal bliss.. please stay tuned
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 6:21pm On Aug 23, 2014
hello áss-ånal!! I bet the āss hurts
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 6:10pm On Aug 23, 2014
ilotriouzAY: u miss roadhuh?
guy, dis one tough pass arsanal match oo
CelebritiesRe: Top 10 Most Glamorous UNN Campus Babes by rexbuton: 6:07pm On Aug 23, 2014
nice! no4 is a hoe... no5 is a runz gal
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 6:01pm On Aug 23, 2014
86' SAVE: Danladi Isah again rescues Sharks as he
keeps out Chidiebere Okolie's rasping effort. Final
change for... /1hcTVRhSz
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 6:00pm On Aug 23, 2014
never a dull moment with Everton..
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 5:35pm On Aug 23, 2014
Lukaku is the new villain in " My heart beats for Sanchez".. now airing on Telemundo, Saturdays 18.30 CAT
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 5:27pm On Aug 23, 2014
Lukaku plz wear condom before sodomising ass-anal (Bottom-BehindBased = áss-ânal= arsenal)
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Everton Vs Arsenal (2 - 2) On 23rd August 2014 by rexbuton: 5:25pm On Aug 23, 2014
WINDECK over arsenal's match
Nairaland GeneralRe: Construction Companies And Rainmakers: Facts Or Fictions? by rexbuton: 1:02pm On Aug 22, 2014
Castroii: u are right, infact julius berger has an xpatriate in jujuism especially on projects dt has 2 do with water bodies........no mata hw strong d marine spirit dey, berger go put am 4 bottle, den continue dia wrk
This is very true.. My dad worked a Lebanese construction company that designed a major bridge across the River Benue. The water spirit would steal their materials at night, so the engineer struck a deal with the spirit with his life. He placed it in a bottle and even brought it on site. on the day of commissioning the bridge, the white engineer just fell off the bridge and died
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Manchester United Vs Swansea (1 - 2) On 16 August 2014 by rexbuton: 2:44pm On Aug 16, 2014
Man utd have contacted Napoli to bring 'any amount' and collect Fellaini
HealthRe: Ebola: FG To Employ 490 E.h.officers To Man Border Comm. by rexbuton: 5:43am On Aug 12, 2014
Another 490*x naira about to be wasted..
FamilyRe: Is Unconditional Love Practical In Marriage by rexbuton: 5:37am On Aug 12, 2014
Yes
FamilyRe: Right Handedness VS Left Handedness. by rexbuton: 5:36am On Aug 12, 2014
#Leftists
Right guys always beefing us.. Don't throw shade at us! Even our dads couldn't stop us
EducationRe: Secret Cult Activities On Campus Exposed (must Read) + Pictures by rexbuton: 4:55am On Aug 12, 2014
Cybermugu1: Op please, its 'Man fight' not maphite.
is there a group like that?
EducationRe: Secret Cult Activities On Campus Exposed (must Read) + Pictures by rexbuton: 4:49am On Aug 12, 2014
Daring post... Filled with inaccuracies, but worth the time of any aspiring member!
FamilyRe: How Strict Is Your Father?(grade) by rexbuton: 6:14am On Aug 10, 2014
In his own words. " I'm not strict or harsh, civilians are generally undisciplined"
HealthRe: On The Ebola Virus by rexbuton: 5:14am On Aug 08, 2014
No verifiable source on the web.. Get salt and bathe ooo... a trial will confuse you
HealthRe: Ebola Scare In Imo State (bath Salt Water) by rexbuton: 5:11am On Aug 08, 2014
someone just called me too ooo.. Though I'm a scientist and I see no scientific basis, I'd rather be safe than sorry! Wey the salt sefhuh
PoliticsRe: Oshiomole Buys Chips From Child Who Should Be In School by rexbuton: 5:56pm On Jan 09, 2014
Fortune Okeke
The comrade governor did not buy plantain chips from the young girl.
On his usual routine inspection around the city centre,street traders and street hanwers were on the run,avoiding being arrested,because the governor was against street trading and hawking.
But the little girl stood confused on the next action to take.
The governor walk up to the little girl,and brought out a cheque book from his pocket and issued a cheque of one million naira to the little girl for her schooling.
The governor then threw the plantain chips into the air which onlooker scampered to catch them.
He didn't buy the plantain chips.
I live in Benin city and the event took place in my very eyes.
Christianity EtcRe: Okotie Buys N120m Rolls Royce To Mark Pastoral Anniversary by rexbuton: 5:22am On Dec 22, 2013
Test all spirits...
Christianity EtcRe: "Celebrating Chrismas Is Idolatory". by rexbuton: 5:12am On Dec 22, 2013
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Nairaland GeneralRe: LAWRENCE ANINI, The Robber. The Gangster That Seized A Nigerian State by rexbuton(op): 11:10am On Dec 21, 2013
Anini bowed to the royal intervention. In another
letter to the bank which it received on September
24, Anini said: “I am no longer interested in your
N10,000 as I earlier wrote you. I am doing this to
respect the Oba of Benin, following his appeal.”
He copied the letter to the commissioner of
police, the “- + group,” + Group,” the Ugbowo
Unit,” Ikpoba Hill Unit,”“Sakpoba Unit, etc.” And
Anini became the most notorious bandit in the
history of Nigeria, for in August, at the Supreme
Ruling Council’s meeting, the President, Ibrahim
Babangida, had publicly asked the Inspector
General of Police, Etim lnyang: “My Friend, Where
is Anini?”
And the police moved. Plain clothes police officers
combed and mingled with the rural population of
Oroghbo and Evbueisi, Anini’s paternal and
maternal home and villages respectively. The
intention was to pick him if he made the mistake
of going to see his people. Though this did not
yield the required results, the police continued to
mount vigil in his home front believing, perhaps,
that such home coming was a needed
psychological prop for a man under intense
pressure.
But right in Benin, the police instruments of
counterattack appeared quite enormous. They
declared a night curfew, stretching from 10 p.m.
till dawn, and as an incentive, announced a N
10,000 reward for anyone who could give
information leading to the arrest of Anini. The
force also printed wall bills (poster) declaring Anini
wanted.
Mini’s reply was a show of contempt. He derided
the police offer by making one of his own. He
boastfully promised that he would give N30, 000
to whoever could get him arrested. But the police
poster could hardly be seen anywhere in Benin
because ‘Anini is too hot to handle.” -
At the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Benin,
where some were pasted, Anini reportedly visited
the gatemen and threatened to annihilate them if
he ever saw the poster again. The Poster
vanished within an hour. There were no private
homes in Benin that would readily allow the
poster to be placed on their walls. Even in public
buildings, they were rare, a fact which led to
hundreds of the poster lying unused on the floors
of police headquarters.
What Anini was doing, in effect, was to counter
the police offensive with a reign of terror that had
further swelled the balloon of myths around him.
His various daring attack have overawed the
city’s population. In the resultant reign of fear, his
powers were imagined to be more than human.
This discouraged those who knew about his
whereabouts from squealing on him. Anini
seemed to bask in the infamy that a mention of
his name and, more seriously his presence, gave
rise to in the city. He operated with a panache that
befitted his lawlessness. For instance, he went
about town in the uniform of a police
superintendent and in a show of how much the
symbols of state can be commandeered to
praticalise his criminal impulses, Anini in early
September, seized at gun point a Bendel State
government car with a BDSG registration and
heeded for the Wire Road petrol station. He shot
the station manager in the thigh and made away
with a large sum of money which exact amount
the Attendants said they did not know. Like
Robinhood, Anini threw the money into the air
for the passers-by. Most of the time, he
continued to throw money to the people, saying,
I rob for the masses.”
Nairaland GeneralRe: LAWRENCE ANINI, The Robber. The Gangster That Seized A Nigerian State by rexbuton(op): 8:01pm On Dec 20, 2013
And true to his word, he was around elsewhere
in the city that day. This time, though, he wasn’t
too lucky. He ran into a full force of the police that
was battle ready. Rather than give fight, he
dashed into the nearby Ekiosa Market where he
mingled with buyers and sellers. The police wary
of wounding or killing innocent citizens could not
shoot and eventually gave up the chase. It was a
close call for the king of the underworld.
Anini’s anthology of violent robberies included the
mid-day attack in Benin City on Ogbogbovmen II,
the Ovie (traditional ruler) of Ughelli, Bendel state’s
second largest oil town. The date was September
1 and the Ovie, who had some business in town,
was seated, bedecked in his royal beads and
other paraphernalia of office, in his Mercedes Benz
200 car, BD I HA, when Anini was said to have
struck. The hapless traditional ruler was dragged
out and subjected to some indignities before he
was made to part with his car. He went back to
his domain in a hired taxi wondering, perhaps,
whether it wasn’t all a dream.
Of all his atrocities, the selective attacks on
policemen stood out as the most remarkable. It
was the popular belief in Benin City that Anini
would kill anything from 50 to 120 policemen
before the end of his crusade against the security
agents. He had told some that the police incurred
his wrath because of a certain business between
him and the police which went sour.
It was all about Kingsley Eweka, whom Anini
fought tooth and nail to free.
Believing with a touch of naivety that once he
bought over the police, Kingsley would be freed,
he was said to have given an undisclosed but
huge sum of money to some officers in the state
police command. Kingsley could not get the
expected freedom as he was later executed. Anini
became livid with rage and swore to kill as many
policemen as suited his fancy.
Police authority denied it, and said they could not
get any details about him.
His address the police had was, ‘’Law
Ovbiudu (the lion-hearted), of No. One
Million, Anywhere Street, within Benin
City, Bendel State!
If the Law’s background was elusive, so also was
his person. In Benin City and its environs, a
thousand and one myths erected an impenetrable
wall around Anini’s personality. He was variously
known to be extra-ordinarily fearless and imbued
with wonderful supernatural powers the like of
which could put their possessor in the class of
the gods. Several people in the city said that Anini
had the supernatural means to vanish into thin air
whenever he liked. They also claimed that the
robber had spiritually-derived bullet-proof body
that allowed him to operate in .the thick of battle
without fear of injury.
It was also generally believed in Benin City that
Anini relied on a mirror of immense magical
powers which he used as a crystal ball. Before he
went on operations, Anini was said to see them
in his mirror and immediately took preemptive
measures to assure his safety. With all these
stories flying around, Anini seemed invincible.
For fear that he would come around and kill them
immediately, no one wanted to talk about him,
except, probably the Oba of Benin, and the police
too were now soliciting the help of the monarch
to get to him. They said it was the “juju- men” of
Benin that were providing him with charms, and
if the Oba would talk to them, Anini would be
history.
The police were saying this because Anini had
become arrogant and once wrote to the manager
of the New Nigeria Bank in one of his show of
terrorist power, that he would visit his bank and
that a sum of N 10,000 should be set aside for
him. The frightened banker sent a save our souls,
SOS, message to the Oba who, in a radio and
television broadcast, appealed to the underworld
King not to do so.
Nairaland GeneralSacked US General 'drank On Trip' by rexbuton(op): 3:57pm On Dec 20, 2013
The general in charge of the US Air Force's
long-range nuclear missiles was sacked for
conduct "unbecoming of a gentleman"
during a business trip to Russia in July, a
report says.
The newly declassified document says Maj
Gen Michael Carey drank too much and met
"suspect" foreign women.
He could not recall significant events or was
"untruthful", the report says.
Gen Carey's removal came days after the Navy
sacked an admiral overseeing nuclear forces over
illegal gambling.
The two dismissals follow several other incidents
affecting the US military's nuclear establishment.
In August, a nuclear missile unit at Malstrom Air
Force base in Montana failed a safety and security
inspection, after which a senior security officer
was relieved of duty.
In May, it was reported that 17 officers in charge
of maintaining nuclear missiles were sidelined
over safety violations at Minot Air Force base in
North Dakota.
Forgetful?
Michael Carey, a two-star general in the 20th Air
Force, was responsible for maintaining
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at three
bases across the US - a total of 450 missiles.
He is now special assistant to the commander of
Air Force Space Command.
No details were given when he was removed in
October.
The internal report by the Inspector General of the
Air Force is based on interviews with the general
and members of the US delegation to a nuclear
security training exercise.
"Maj Gen Carey consumed alcoholic beverages to
the extent that it impacted his conduct," the report
says. It adds that this included briefings, banquets
and other events.
It goes on: "Maj Gen Carey engaged in
inappropriate or improper behaviour when he
chose to meet up with and continued to associate
with the foreign national women... especially
given his own acknowledgement that the women
were suspect."
He had met them at a restaurant and danced with
one of them a day after, it says.
The investigators interviewed Gen Carey, but he
appeared to have forgotten substantial parts of
what had happened in Russia.
Their conclusion was that the general "either had
a poor recall of significant events, perhaps due to
his alcohol consumption, or was untruthful
during the interview".
The general had been rude to the Russian hosts
and to members of the delegation, they said.
And he had complained that his forces "suffered
from low morale".
Gen Carey has made no comments following the
release of the report - the result of a Freedom of
Information request.
Before being sacked, Gen Carey was in charge of
9,600 people at three operational wings, had
served in operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring
Freedom. and had received 13 major awards.
US Navy Vice-Adm Tim Giardina was removed
as second-in-command of US Strategic
Command two days before Gen Carey was
sacked.
He had overseen the nation's nuclear weapons
forces.
He was accused of using counterfeit gambling
chips of "a significant monetary amount" at an
Iowa casino.

Nairaland GeneralUgandan Mps Pass Life In Jail Anti-homosexual Law by rexbuton(op): 3:45pm On Dec 20, 2013
Uganda's parliament has passed a bill to
toughen the punishment for homosexual
acts to include life imprisonment in some
cases.
The anti-homosexuality bill also makes it a crime
punishable by a prison sentence not to report gay
people.
The prime minister opposed the vote, saying not
enough MPs were present.
The bill has been condemned by world leaders
since it was mooted in 2009 - US President
Barack Obama called it "odious".
The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Kampala says
the government knows there will be an
international outcry, which could see some
countries suspend aid to the country.
She says that Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi
might follow up on his complaints about a lack of
quorum, while it remains to be seen whether
President Yoweri Museveni will sign the bill into
law.
The private member's bill originally proposed the
death penalty for some offences, such as if a
minor was involved or the perpetrator was HIV-
positive, but this has been replaced with life in
prison.
Miniskirt ban
The MP behind the bill, David Bahati, told the AFP
news agency: "This is victory for Uganda. I am
glad the parliament has voted against evil."
"Because we are a God-fearing nation, we value
life in a holistic way. It is because of those values
that members of parliament passed this bill
regardless of what the outside world thinks," he
said.
The bill also bans the promotion of
homosexuality.
"I am officially illegal," Ugandan gay activist Frank
Mugisha said after the vote.
The bill's supporters say it is needed to protect
traditional family values, which they say are
under attack from Western-inspired gay rights
groups.
Its critics say the bill has been pushed by some
US evangelical Christians.
Uganda is a socially conservative country and on
Thursday passed an Anti-Pornography Bill, which
bans miniskirts and sexually suggestive material
such as some music videos.
Human rights activists say the bill highlights the
intolerance and discrimination the gay
community faces in Uganda.
One gay activist was killed in 2011, although the
police denied he was targeted because of his
sexuality.
Meanwhile a local newspaper has been
condemned for publishing the names and
addresses of people it said were gay.
Briton Bernard Randall is facing prosecution in
Uganda
Holidaymakers and visiting foreigners are not
immune from prosecution under Uganda's
existing anti-homosexuality laws.
A retired British man is awaiting trial in Entebbe
on charges of possessing a gay sex video after
thieves found images on his laptop.
Sixty-five-year-old Bernard Randall, from Kent,
faces a possible two-year prison sentence if
found guilty.
His friend Albert Cheptoyek, a Ugandan national
with whom he shares a house, has denied a
more serious charge of carrying out "acts of
gross indecency", which could see him jailed for
up to seven years if found guilty.
CrimeSt.theresa Xmas Bomber Kabiru Sokoto Gets Life Imprisonment by rexbuton(op): 3:25pm On Dec 20, 2013
A federal high court in Abuja, Justice Ademola
Adeniyi has found Kabiru Sokoto guilty of the
crime of terrorism and murder. Sokoto was the
mastermind of the deadly Christmas day
bombing of St. Theresa Catholic church that killed
at least 44 people in 2011.
Sokoto was a member of the Shura council of
Islamist sect Boko Haram according to his
personal testimony during the trial.

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