tundetire:

Truequest, can you imagine what Edo State would lose today with respect to Business, Education, commerce. All banks are closed in Benin, what a live these ediots have confined us to? All of them are Educated illiterates, who needs to be taught the act of governance.

dnex:

Dear Quotacyst, what exactly is your obsession with visualizing everybody masturbate? Does it have to do with the way your uncle touched you during your childhood? I am from the NigerDelta and I don't need MEND to fight for me or rape 8 year old half-caste kids or 28 NYSC members all in the name of fighting for me. I don't need Nkyo Briggs or Chris Ekiyo coming on TV to lie for me. I have my own lips. And I especially don't appreciate you having sexual fantasies about me. I gat my own bitch!

ow11:

Do you guys sincerely believe that it is impossible for ordinary Nigerians who have no business with freedom fighting to take advantage of breakdown of law and order to commit crime?

BLAME should be put at NYSC's desk for sending corps members to an insecure area.  

BLAME should be put on MEND and other freedom fighters for breakdown of law and order in the area. If they want to fight the Army and Police, they should police the area!!!

It is a sorry thing to happen but this action goes to show that if an uprising isn't well managed, people would fail to believe what you are fighting for. Many of the NLanders believe that MEND,IYC and othe IJAW freedom fighters took part in the rape as the Nigerian media has failed to let people realise that regular career criminals have long existed in the ND area like other parts of Nigeria and will use any opportunity to unleash their terror.

Some unidentified gunmen suspected to be militants on Thursday raped 28 female youth corps members in Abonnema, a town in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

A source said the militants invaded the residence of the corps members, who were posted to the town on primary assignment, and rounded up the ladies. He said the suspected militants went into every flat, raping the women at gunpoint after which they fled through the waterfront. He noted that Abonnema residents had been constantly terrorised by gangsters who relocated to the area after they were sacked from some of their locations in the creeks.

He said, “These boys are not fighting the Niger Delta cause. How can they fight the Niger Delta cause, when they continue to terrorise the people they are supposed to fight for? Abonnema has become a war front and people are fleeing their homes. Now, they rape women and threaten elders. They invaded homes of some female corps members and raped them at gunpoint.”

A security source told our correspondent that the Joint Task Force had deployed troops in the area to forestall the breakdown of law and order. He admitted that gunmen invaded the community and attacked defenceless persons, noting that the people had cried out to the authorities to intervene in the matter.

Our correspondent, who visited the Rivers State Secretariat of the National Youth Service Corps in Port Harcourt, was told that the state coordinator was not on seat.

However, a senior official of the organisation, who would not want to be named, said the NYSC was yet to receive a report on the incident from its field staff in Abonnema.

He said, “We have not heard anything like that. But we hope that if it happened, our staff in Abonnema will brief us before the end of the day.

“I will make contacts with them to know what transpired because we would have expected the affected corpse members to call us and report such incident. We gave them our telephone numbers before they left the camp.”

When contacted, the spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, said troops had been deployed to Abonnema and Degema in Asari Toru Local Government Area of the state. He noted that the JTF Commander, Brig. Gen. Sarkin Yaki-Bello, ordered troops to move into the two towns as result of the increasing activities of militants, which tended to threatened peace and security.

Musa also noted that the naval component of the task force on Thursday had an encounter with militants along the Cawthorne Channel, which resulted in the killing of five gunmen. According to him, two AK 47 rifles and one speedboat were seized from them, adding that none of the soldiers sustain injury in the attack.

He said, “The Commander of JTF, Gen. Sarkin Yarki-Bello has decided to deploy troops in Abonnema and Degema areas of Rivers State. The decision to deploy troops in the above mentioned areas is based on undeniable report that these communities have high concentration of militants and related criminal acts.

“Above all, some militants’ camps are located in the general area. Community people were killed terrorised, maimed and in some cases, women were raped by the militants. Practically, people are begging for JTF’s intervention, hence the decision to deploy troops to the affected areas.”

effect1991:

can a fresh Graduate come over 2 submit CV as well?

Peter, 28, was apparently angry that the conference was conducted mostly in German and responded by answering the few English questions posed to him in Nigerian.

nyabinghi:

If it is true it shows he is a damn illiterate. Is Ibibio the official language of Nigeria. Why not translate samul and peters to ibibio too.

dayokanu:

How can Lagos with 15million economically viable people have the same number of Local govt as Bauchi state with less than 5 million people mainly peasants?

Countdown To Lagos L.G Polls: 23 Parties Vie For Positions, As PDP, ANPP Opt Out

At long last, the Lagos State Local government elections which had been dogged by litigations, postponements and intrigues, will hold tomorrow in 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

The last local government election in the state was held in 2002, and by the three-year constitutional tenure of the third-tier of government, an election should have been held in 2005.

The controversies that trailed the Lagos council administration, is not unconnected with the battle of wits between the former governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

The battle of the titans, however turned into blessing to the local government political office holders who spent more years beyond their tenure in different capacities. From Executive chairman to Executive Secretary.

Now, the die is cast with 23 political parties presenting candidates for chairmanship and councillorship positions in 20 LGAS and 37 LCDAs.

According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), Mr. Raheem Ajao, 31 parties collected nomination forms, 25 filled and submitted the forms, while 23 took part in the validation exercise.

He revealed that ANPP never showed interest from the outset, saying PDP has officially written LASIEC to inform it of its withdrawal from the race.

With this development, the battle will be between the Action Congress (AC) Action Alliance (AA), People Progressive Party (PPP), All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), National Action Council (NAC), Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ), Citizens Popular Party (CPP), Justice Party (JP), Alliance for Democracy (AD) and United Nigeria Peoples Party (UNPP) among others.

While LASIEC is busy perfecting the strategy of ensuring a free and fair election, the Lagos State Governor, Barrister Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has assured Lagosians of adequate security to protect lives and property throughout the duration of the exercise.

As at Thursday, foreign observers, which included journalists and researchers have arrived the country. They paid a courtesy visit to the chairman of LASIEC, Hon. Justice Abdul’Fatai Afolabi Adeyinka (rtd). Meanwhile, the Lagos State government has restricted movement tomorrow between 8am and 3pm, during the voting exercise.