DZTech: you would think that by now, producers of alcohol would have learnt their lesson. but it seems common sense is far from common. who goes into business and ships products to where they are guaranteed to be destroyed?!
abi e get wetin we no dey see?
in fact, these companies should stop paying vat at the federal level- delist from the NSE, break up into state firms and only pay vat in States where they operate. I'm sure investors/shareholders will go for such a plan.
meanwhile, hisbah- more grease to your bulldozer. smh...
Tell the foolish northern Muslims to stop drinking beer & other alcoholics in their urine kettle
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has explained why the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will continue to harvest defectors from the opposition parties.
Lawan said people were beginning to appreciate the fact the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari had done so much with so little resources.
Lawan spoke in Abuja when he led Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo and fellow defector from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa to the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, according to a statement by his Special Adviser (Media) Ola Awoniyi in Abuja.
Yobe Governor, Mai Mala Buni, who is chairman of the Caretaker/Extra Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, led his team to receive the new defectors.
The Senate President said the more people in opposition appreciated the giant strides of the Buhari government, the more the harvest of defectors into the ruling APC.
“We believe that we haven’t seen anything yet. We will see more coming from the opposition parties.
“Only last week, the Governor of Ebonyi State left PDP for the APC. Yesterday (Wednesday), the youngest Senator in the current dispensation, having consulted very widely, deeply with his people at home decided to leave PDP for APC.
“This is what we expect from leaders. When you see a government trying hard with so little to ensure development in our country, in our communities, and society, the best thing to do is to be part of that effort. That is patriotism.
“We came in 2015. We inherited everything but poor governance. But thank God, the President came with determination and focus to ensure that this country works for citizens of this country.
“That government resources are prudently and efficiently and economically applied for the benefit of the people.
“Though we inherited empty treasury, the price of crude went down so badly, yet the little resources we started with provided a lot more of infrastructure, of services to the people of these country.
“So any right thinking politician, when you see prudence, when you see integrity and sincerity, when you see purposefulness in leadership, the best thing for you to do is not to be left alone.
‘’It’s for you to join forces with such leadership for the benefit of people you represent or lead.’’
Lawan, who is also the leader of the APC caucus in the Northeast geo-political zone, said the party would ensure it captures Adamawa and other states in the zone controlled by the opposition by 2023.
Linx1234: Northern Elders Forum and the Chairman of Maje Foundation, Alhaji Rufai Mukhtar Danmaje, has asked the former Governor of Lagos state and current Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola to honorably resign his position for failing to complete any projects since his assumption of office as Works Minister five years ago.
Danmaje said it is no longer story that for example in the entire Northern region, no single project embarked upon by the Minister has been completed despite the huge tax payers money allocated to his ministry.
drinoayo: Ban On 'Black Friday' By Kano Hisbah Is A Disgrace — Aisha Yesufu
Co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign Aisha Yesufu has knocked Kano State Hisbah Board over its letter written to a radio station in the state 96.9 Cool FM, directing it not to use the term ‘Black Friday’ anymore, Igbere TV reports.
Many on social media have mocked the board over the error-filled letter which has been shared severally on social media.
In her reaction, Mrs Yesufu argued that Black Friday is related to giving because goods are sold at discounted prices, adding that Islam preaches giving.
Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The term is used worldwide to mean a day for promotional sales where goods are sold at discounted prices.
Islam is akin to terror. I know that it's only fools and nonentity that will argue or join issues with me on this.
Abdulazeez99: Senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity Garba Shehu has shared a photo of his granddaughter Jiddah who paid him a visit on his 61st birthday, Igbere TV reports.
Mr Shehu shared her picture on Twitter on Friday, thanking his followers in advance for “being nice” in their comments.
I just don't know why even, the highly place sultan should chose to be a purveyor of fake news. As far as we know, the north is the most peaceful and safe place to live in. The sultan should stop distracting the government with his unfounded stories of insecurities in the north.
Okoyeaniche: In a sad report, the Olufon of Ifon in Ose local government area of Ondo State, Isreal Adeusi has been reportedly shot dead by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.
He was shot dead while returning to Ifon from Akure after a meeting today, Thursday, Nov 26. He reportedly ran into a barricade set up by the kidnappers along Elegbeka area.
According to the TRIBUNE ONLINE, his driver attempted to maneuver his way to avoid the kidnappers, however, he never succeeded as they...SEE MORE HERE
Ondo is APC. APC loves kidnapping & terrorism Ondo people voted APC including the Olufon Of Ifon Ondo people should sit back & enjoy their Next Level of madness
Nigerian leaders are indeed shameless thieves and confirmed criminals. While, going out this morning, I saw a green colour Volkswagen Passat car fully loaded with bags of rice around State Housing, entering the street directly opposite the "Amog" Headquarters in Calabar Cross River State. And a good looking man, whom I reasonably suspect to be either a top government official or a politician was on hand to direct the car driver that convey the goods to his compound. Now, what actually caught my attention and arouse my curiosity, is that on the bags of those rice was the boldly written words " Palliative Rice". From my thinking, And, I may be correct to say that, government at various State in the Country were actually hoarding this goods to share it to their thieving croonies during the festivities.
Stalwert: The report by Cable News Network (CNN) on the shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos was a “poor” hatchet job targeted at the Nigerian Army, the International Institute for Investigative Journalism (IIIJ) has said.
In an electronic statement signed by special rapporteur, Francois Deburoiche, on Wednesday, the IIIJ said it came to this conclusion following a careful investigation on the events that led to the escalation of violence at the toll gate.
After forensic analysis of CNN’s report, the International Institute for Investigative Journalism noted that there were some missing details in the American television channel’s piece.
According to the institute, the report was carried out in poor taste, lacking professionalism and objectivity.
It added that the claim of use of live bullets and testimonies of victims were all tales.
The institute, however, advised the television channel to retract and admit error in the documentary.
Read the full statement below:
[b]The International Institute for Investigative Journalism is issuing this press statement with the best of intents after a careful investigation on the events that led to the escalation of violence at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos Nigeria during the EndSARS protest.
A team of investigative journalists with extensive experience in conflict situation interrogated the various claims made by the American Cable News Network in its report on the Lekki Shootings and came up with a comprehensive analysis that found gaps that were not filled in the CNN documentation of the events at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos Nigeria.
Our statement:
The CNN documentary on the EndSARS protest in Nigeria was released to the general public with lots of inaccuracies. These accuracies were detected after an extensive forensic investigation by the International Institute for Investigative Journalism.
It is thus our opinion that the report was carried out in the poor taste, lacking in professionalism and objectivity. This is a great betrayal on journalism by the CNN, which indeed violated the known tenets of journalism.
The videos and images used in the CNN report were not subjected to adequate scrutiny. Consequently, it lacked credibility for use by an organization of repute such as the CNN. This fact was also buttressed by the fact that the CNN report was very hasty in its conclusion by indicting the Nigerian Army of culpability in the events at the Lekki Tollgate.
Our position remains that the CNN erred substantially in its report that was highly misleading to the general public in Nigeria and other parts of the world. The documentary also failed woefully to highlight the events that led to the reign of violence in parts of Lagos state but instead rehashed the issues under different subheadings with minimal evidence that indicts the Nigerian Army of wrongdoing at the Lekki Tollgate.
The International Institute for Investigative Journalism concludes that the CNN documentary was prejudiced in its analysis as well as presentation which fall nothing short of a poor hatchet job with the undeniable intent to discredit the Nigerian Army operation at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos Nigeria.
The analysis by CNN in the documentary was hasty in its categorization with regards to the use of live bullets by soldiers at the Lekki Tollgate. The report attempted to portray the use of excessive force by soldiers, while the accompanying videos and images did not depict such.
The credibility of those interviewed in the documentary was also suspect with the choice of words and the facial and body expressions of the victims as well as their relatives. Thus much was revealed by forensic analysis as the emotions portrayed didn’t match their words.
Conclusion:
The International Institute for Investigative Journalism is of the considered opinion that the CNN carried out a hatchet job that is targeted at the Nigerian Army institution. We as a result of this classify the CNN documentary as highly misleading and with the capacity to cause disquiet in Nigeria.
The CNN must retract and admit error in submission in its documentary on the Lekki Tollgate shootings.
The International Institute for Investigative Journalism faults the CNN documentary in all ramifications.[/b]
We don hear. But the only thing you this cash and carry international nonsense group fail to tell us is how much Mr. Liar robot & dulladinho fc captain paid you to writer this beautiful nonsense.
Yenefer: Justice Okon Abang is doing this because Maina is a Northerner. If Goodluck and patience are living freely. Maina should also be free. After all he worked under Goodluck. Probably he siphon the money for him. That's why he let him go free
ebenezer202l: It's a pity Nigerians fell in for APC's manifestoes in 2015 but revoting this useless Government in 2019 shows how dumb most Nigerians are. I really regret supporting this regime
Your confession serves you right. You're one those dumbest zombies who supported and voted this calamity upon this Nation
Liar. I'm not a prophet, but quote me, you can never be a President of this Country. I thought you said, God gave you a vision to Marched in 23rd December, 2009 and 2nd January, 2010. So the marching of 2012, where did you got the vision from from "politigod" maybe
I’m not a fan of Kanu but these are two entirely different cases ffs.
You release someone on bail and then send soldiers to attack his home and cause havoc and you expect him to stay? Would you?
Let’s try and find out facts before we just come out to speak anyhow.
Oga some of these stupid comments writers are so chronically sick in the head. And no matter what you say, they will continue to reason like the real fools that they truly are. Just leave them to stew in their foolhardy and continue to wallow in their ignorance. I'm done talking.
lindareep: I wouldn't want to sound rude by saying you should carefully read through their write-up.
You haven't still said anything though! And by the way, what baseless write-ups are you still making reference to If you're wise at all, you ought to have known that, the scenario involving Senator Abaribe's surety and the one involving Senator Ali Ndume are entirely different in all material substance and fact's. Besides, when Senator Abaribe was asked to produced MNK in Court, Abaribe, taking into cognisance the circumstances that led to Kanu's jumping his bail, filed a separate suit in Court, and was able to exculpate himself from further responsibility to produce MNK in Court. Sometimes, if you don't know a thing, ask questions, you wouldn't die for asking, it's better than reasoning irrationally. Don't bother quoting me, because I do not have that luxury of time responding to kids.
Kwanza: Read the full letter by the Nigerian government below:
23 Nov. 2020
Mr. Jonathan Hawkins
VP, Communications
CNN Centre
Atlanta, Georgia
U.S,
RE: HOW A BLOODY NIGHT OF BULLETS QUASHED A YOUNG PROTEST MOVEMENT
Our attention has been drawn to an ‘investigation’ by CNN, entitled ‘How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement’ and aired on 18 Nov. 2020, in which the international news organization said it had ”uncovered that Nigerian security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters” at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, Nigeria, during the #EndSARS protest.
We write to put on record that the report did not just fall short of journalistic standards, it reinforces the disinformation that is going around on the issue, it is blatantly irresponsible and it is a poor piece of journalistic work by a reputable international news organization.
In the first instance, the report did not live up to the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness. According to the website www.ethics.journalists.org, ”balance and fairness are classic buzzwords of journalism ethics: In objective journalism, stories must be balanced in the sense of attempting to present all sides of a story. Fairness means that a journalist should strive for accuracy and truth in reporting, and not slant a story so a reader draws the reporter’s desired conclusion.”
Rushing to air such a momentous story without presenting the government’s side is inexcusable and indefensible. CNN said it contacted over 100 protesters and family members, but did not speak to one official of Nigeria’s federal government. While CNN said there was no response from the army and that officials of Lagos State would not speak in view of the Judicial Panel that is investigating the matter, it did not say what effort it made to speak with any official of the federal government.
The truth is that CNN did not even attempt to reach the federal government. Nima Elbagir, who presented the report and most probably led the investigation, is conversant with the Minister of Information and Culture, who is also the Spokesman for the Federal Government of Nigeria, yet did not say that she even tried to reach the Minister. It is therefore strange, to say the least, that she would rush to air such an important ‘investigation’ report without getting the government’s side. In other words, Nima, and by extension CNN, breached the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness.
Another serious breach by CNN, in its ‘investigation’, is that the network relied heavily on unverified footages it harvested from social media.
CNN was not present at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of the incident. Neither its reporter nor cameraman was there, but it relied on eyewitnesses. Well, this is fraught with danger. While experts say eyewitness testimony is a potent form of evidence, it is also subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases, Unlike CNN, a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Pidgin Service, Damilola Banjo, was at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night in question, and was quoted as saying soldiers shot sporadically into the air and not at the protesters – a direct contradiction of the position taken by CNN who relied on second and third-hand information.
In airing its ‘investigative’ report, CNN conveniently forgot that on Oct. 23rd 2020, it emphatically tweeted, from its verified twitter handle, that the military killed 38 people when it opened fire on
peaceful protesters on Tuesday, Oct. 20th 2020. Almost a month later, the same CNN – after a supposedly exhaustive investigation – is now reporting only one death from what the world was made to believe was a massacre. Is CNN not embarrassed by this sharp climbdown? Has CNN owned up to this and apologized for its faux paz?
It is also interesting that while CNN obtained footage showing when the vehicles carrying soldiers left their barracks and arrived at the Lekki Toll Gate, it could not obtain any footage showing the bodies of those supposedly killed in the ‘massacre’. After all, forensic ballistic experts will most likely testify that firing military grade weapons into a crowd will not leave anyone needing a microscope to look for blood or bodies at the scene.
CNN has said it stands by its story, and that ”our reporting was carefully and meticulously researched”, This is baffling, considering that the story lacks fairness and balance, as we have pointed out, and that the organization relied heavily on manipulated social media videos. This resort to an escapist cliche seems more like a face-saving measure by an otherwise respectable news network caught in the blinding glare of ‘fake news and disinformation’ headlamps. Or how else does one explain the arrogant defence of an international news network that would not even respect the most basic principle of journalism?
One of CNN’s star eyewitnesses in its ‘investigative’ reporting is DJ Switch. Unknown to CNN, DJ Switch’s story on the Lekki Toll Gate shooting has changed several times. From claiming she counted 78 bodies of protesters who were supposedly killed by soldiers on the night of the Lekki Toll Gate incident, she has twice, at least, changed the casualty figure from 78 to 15 and then to 7, without a shred of evidence. CNN cannot pretend not to know that for anyone to act as a witness, his or her credibility must be unimpeachable. DJ Switch’s credibility does not meet that threshold.
In one of social media videos of DJ Switch that was used by CNN (see attached link 1), the lady (DJ Switch) claimed she and some unnamed persons carried dead bodies and dropped them at the feet of the soldiers. She also claimed she spoke to their Commander before the soldiers threw the bodies into the vans. Curiously, for someone who was streaming live on Instagram during the Lekki Toll Gate incident, there was not a single video or picture of the dead bodies. Not even Godson (Uyi), another CNN star witness whose video was also used by the network, or any of the hundreds of protesters, all armed with smart phones, at the scene recorded a video or shot a picture of dead bodies being carried away by soldiers.
Talking of Godson, despite claiming to have analyzed hours of footage, it is curious that CNN conveniently left out key parts of Godson’s 57-minute, 5-second video (see attached link 2). For example, 13 minutes, 40 seconds into the video, there were voices, in street lingo, in the background telling Godson that the gunshots were not from the soldiers (na boys dey shoot, that na local gun sound….it’s boys, meaning touts and hoodlums, who are shooting.
That’s local gun). Some 20 minutes,14 seconds into the video, Godson confirmed that the boys had brought out their guns and were shooting (local okah, he called it). Some 23 minutes, 14 seconds into the video, Godson said ‘wait, all these boys dey shoot’ (meaning gunshots rang out from the touts/hoodlums). CNN, in its rush to nail soldiers and tell a ‘radically different story’, conveniently left out these parts of the Godson video, which could have shown that armed hoodlums invaded the Lekki Toll Gate that night, and could have hit any of the protesters as they shot sporadically. This is clearly a ploy by the CNN reporter/presenter to manipulate viewers of its ‘investigative’ report and force them to draw the reporter’s desired conclusion! Another video showing an armed protester at the Lekki Toll Gate (see attached link 3) was apparently not among the footage reviewed by CNN!
It is shocking that all through its ‘investigation’, CNN did not for once mention the fact that six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed during the #EndSARS crisis, which also left 196 policemen injured, not to talk of the monumental destruction of government and private properties across the country. Instead, the network is fixated on the massacre that never happened. Are security agents not human beings too? Are they not entitled to the protection of their human rights?
For the record, this is not the first time that CNN has carried an inaccurate or hoax story about Nigeria. In February 2007, Nigeria accused CNN of staging one of its reports from the country’s Niger Delta region, showing gunmen holding 24 Filipinos hostage. Of course, CNN and its then Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange flatly denied the charge, saying the network did not pay for any part of the report. Later, in an email reportedly sent to a friend, Mr. Koinange was quoted as saying: “Of course we had to pay certain people to get the story… You do not get such a story without bribing.” So much for denials!
As a form of remediation, Nigeria’s Federal Government demands an immediate and exhaustive investigation from CNN into its ‘investigative’ report on the Lekki Toll Gate incident to determine, among others, its authenticity, whether or not it met the basic standards of journalism and also the selective use of unverified social media videos to manipulate public opinion. While it is up to CNN to accede or not, please note that the Federal Government reserves the right to take any action within its laws to prevent CNN from aggravating the #EndSARS crisis with unprofessional, irresponsible, one-sided, inciting and sensational reporting that is capable of pitching Nigerians against themselves and setting the country on fire.
Lai Mohammed
Hon. Minister
All this silly, stupid and long talk na for what na So this lying machine cannot just place an indefinite ban on CNN again Una no go know wetin hit una, no be CNN?
lindareep: The beginning of wisdom is when you speak up over what is wrong.
They made a point, only if their brother see, read and address their concerns.
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Na only complaints una sabi complain anytime una meet una mate, but if na harmless & peaceful protesters, na im una dey show una sef. I no get 0% sympathy for una. Mek una park well joor!
valentineuwakwe: will this visit and taking care of the family bring the dead man back to life?
I suggest two things in our constitution;
a policeman who kill or murder an innocent citizen after thourogh investigation shall also be murder, even if you say na mistake or trigger happy man on duty!
any citizen being it normal or armed robbers, pick pocket or kidnappers etc who kill a police officer in anyway shall be put to death...no law court shall over rules these decisions!
when these is done, then things will be normal in the country again!
Mr.man before you comment, read well first, it will sure help you. When did the SSS (DSS) agent becomes the police The killer is a DSS agent and not the police this time okay!
Politics › Re: Stop Shipping Alcohol To The North! by Whoube99(f): 4:25pm On Nov 27, 2020
