Joey82 you are welcome,, any time

Hello Julie,I think the info below will be of use.

Charted institute of logistics and transport.CILT….

Its UK, based but has a local arm here in Nigeria.
CILT(UK) is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport which, as a Worldwide organization, operates through a number of autonomous National Councils, Independent Divisions and Branches.

This means that subscriptions are paid at local rates and in the current local currency

CILT Nigeria Contact to find out more

Greg Llukwe
National Executive Director
c/o Nigerian Railway Corporation Building
Murtala Muhammed Way
Alogomeji
PO Box 152
Ebute Metta
Lagos
Nigeria
00234-8033780239 (m)
gcilukwe@yahoo.co.uk

However, it is recognized that some applicants may still want to apply for membership of the CILT(UK), especially if they reside for a length of time in the UK and/or their business interests operate in and around the UK markets, this is possible, provided you inform the CILT(UK) in writing.

Website: www.ciltuk.org.uk

There are many other foreign credible professional body, that can help in your pursuit to build a career OR take a professional course in transport and logistics. APICS mentioned by @techie is also one of them , Accenture SCM academy is one place you can also take courses ,even online.

Hope this is for will do you some good, jus stay with this tread, U are bounfd to get more useful information.

Prolog consulting in lagos will be runing courses in Transport,logistics and other areas of the SCM functions in 2008. If you will like to know more, just indicate your intrest, i will keep you posted.

A great songwriter wrote succinctly that “If you love Love, then Love loves you too.” What does this mean? Simply that a heart open to love in the world, open to joy, bliss and the wonders and panoramic possibilities of our lives as those glorious creations called human beings, will find love. But those hearts closed off to love, open to hate, endless pessimism and always suspicious of others will find just the opposite. This theory, at least the upside of it, may read like hopeless ebullient Pollyannaism, but there is truth to be found in it. What you give, you surely will receive. As Jesus Christ reminded us, what we sow we will eventually reap, sooner if not later.

The human mind can work like a mirror. What we see in ourselves, we often project onto our fellow humans. A pertinent example would be the pathological liar always believing that everyone else is lying to him. There is hardly a chronic thief alive who is not always paranoid, sincerely believing (if a thief can be sincere) that everyone else is out to rob him blind. This is the reality of our fallen natures. What we see in ourselves will probably be transposed onto the other.

Another gifted songwriter warned us that “Falling in love with Love is falling for make-believe! Falling in love with Love is playing the fool! Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy! Learning to trust is just for children in school!” Let us love Love, but let us never play the fool, either in our personal behavior, or in our quest for love. For a fool can be loved, but never respected, and a lover of truth should be both loved and respected.


In summation, love is to be valued, and even loved lovingly. But other human traits, such as trust, honor and honesty, must be loved just as much. To do any less would be to love Love less. For there is no true love without an object of love, Love Love, but also love truth, wonders, God and Nature. Love the mind and all its treasures.

k9:

Alas they would rather live by "misguided" notions.

@k9, you hit the nail right on the head, ladies should a take cue from gatha, but I will also advise be discreet(Use not only your emotion, use your head) ,,


And like k9 said and am saying same thing again, a lot of the notion women have about most men, are wrong. And U know why? Because most of those notions come from women that had bad experiences with certain men and then pass on that story/notion to other women that man are the devils incarnate. Agreed they are some bad men, jus as we have some bad women… so it’s not a man or woman thing, we jus have” bad people”. The truth be told one bad apple can’t spoil the whole barrel in this case.

For me wrong notion number one is this, " A guy will see you as cheap or take advantage of you, if you try to be honest with your emotions"

Ladies if a guy is really into you, and vice versa. It really makes no difference who comes out the closet first.


So take your chances where you have to, and challenge your heart.

@GATHA,

you really don’t have to regret posting this here, if the average naija girl would be true to herself and don’t let norm or tradition hold them down, but be more willing to take a chance at life just like you are doing and not die in silence, things will/would be a lot different for many of them.
Most women just settle for less, or for an abusive relationship, just because they to scared to go out there and get what they really desire '(a Fulfilling and enjoyable relationships or marriage)

So gatha, since you have made up your mind to go out and seek for what you truly desire, then have no regrets. Keep your thoughts clear and your mind set on what you want, and know what you can give. I bet you he's around the Conner somewhere. In or outside of nairaland.

Note of warning - a lot of people , will say or post things that will hurt or tend to discourage you, but like they say “determination knows no bound”, so stay focused on what you want, and not what you don’t want.

You are woman and one thing i think most women have a natural skill at is separating the wheat from the shafts,

So go for Gold, i truly believe we have some of em here on NL

That’s crime she still a minor , so you’re a pedophile




Trash, garbage, rubbish

Welcome snappy your dreams of Nairaland are about to be Fulfilled ,

cherrio

Good going! Sister , men like women that are Honest about there inward emotions,, but don’t you think you ought to start off looking for male Friends, rather than Just taking the so called bull by the horn, I bet even amongst the serious people that may reply you outside of nairaland,, some might just be men looking for a woman to keep, at home and then still do the things they do outside, and lets say you get the “Right man “via this your post, What are the chances that … he wont refer to this post someday in the future when you guys are now married and an argument comes up, Because those times surely will come once you’re married.

I presume you might be in a rush, Maybe it’s the biological clock thing or as u said, You friends are all getting hitched, But looking for friends and starting off as friends gives you a better chance to scrutinize all intending fellows, and yet most wont really know what you have on your mind and you better off making your judgments then.

And one more thing, marriage is all about sharing, What you are bringing to the table is also important, how do you expect a “right man” to take you serious, I mean really serious, if all you have posted is what you need in a man, what about what you can give?, I must say that this e dating /marriage thing is an unconventional method to meeting people but there’s nothing wrong in doing this. Honesty, openness, and willingness to take an adventure , is the key

Wish you the very best of the pack soonest.

Intrested


One @ Tats


Two @ Olaakande

Great @Tats.

you number one on the list.

THANKS a lot Sir.

Further to my last mail on networking, I will also like to say that for anyone this is interested and I believe we have a lot of people in and out of this forum that are interested. A foremost SCM/Logistics consulting firm will soon be carrying out training on a wide spectrum in SCM.

Interested participants should contact me via this thread for more details.
Please do not post your emails or numbers here. Just indicate interest, I will figure out a way to get to you, and get you the details.

Tats:

Hi Guys, its nice to have found this thread. My functional area is Supply Chain Management in the ERP consulting business - Purchase management and Supplier relationship management("Source/procure to pay processes". Very interested in it as there is a great future for SCM in Nigeria.

Hello @Tats,
Glad you ran into this thread, from the little profile info you dropped, I figure you will be an asset to this thread, we have a lots of young Nigerians that are interested and some already building a career in this fields (Procurement, logistics/SCM), and so your advice/knowledge / expertise will be most welcomed.

Also, I think its about time we start building a more formal networking structure, outside of Nairaland, while still retaining this thread and making regular post.

I already have made contacts with, about 3 other professionals in the field, two of them in the UK, one a Student, the other a Logistics supervisor in TotalfinaElf- UK and the 3rd person the CEO of Prolog consulting.


So if you are interested, just signify, I will try and put structure in place that we can make it possible for everyone to know our varying needs, career prospects, and see how we can build synergy to help ourselves.

No need for email addresses or numbers yet, just signify with (Interested), once the Numbers of interested folks is up to 10 or more, then we can start a more closed up forum.

Hoping, to get favorable responses from all interested Folks.

Question.

What do you intend to bring to the table, that you think will impact on our bottom line?

@onwuzuam, u can always send prolog an email via the website to find out, i bet they will get back to you. As of now i dont know anywhere else, but when i do i will be sure to let you know.

@olaakande, Thanks for sharing.

Onwuzuam, Glad you can join us.

To your major concern “the prospects of engagement of Logistics and Supply Chain practitioners as independent Management Consultants in Nigeria".

I think now ,this is limited due to the view by most major organistaions that theres a dearth in expertise in this area locally, but I think there is great opportunity for this to happen now and in the future, to be honest I have my heart set on doing something in this line in the future as I grow to that point in the profession

Some Organization will rather outsource this function or at least require some professional input where they lack that in-house, and are in the process/need of repositioning their Logistics and Supply Chain function.

So far i think there two companies that I know of that are into Logistics and Supply Chain independent Management Consultancy and services in Nigeria. You can visit the site below.
Fill out the request form with your questions I am sure they will get back to you.

http://www.prologconsulting.net.

Cheers , Your Post is always and most welcomed.

@ Olaakande Welcome, my Brother, and Thanks for the words of appreciation. It’s the least we can do, helping, sharing and also seeking knowledge in the process .

You are now a budding professional in the field, so I think we can learn from you too, lets hear a little of your experience .

I will also advice you go for CIPS, it’s one of the Premier professional body  for buyers, and professionals in the SCM field and what’s more its qualification has a global acceptance.

So check out cips at www.cips.org.

Welcome to the tread on logistics and SCM

Have added u to my messanger lets chat, i might be able to give you s
ome insight.

Good afternoon Good people of NL,

Please I will need some info from any one in the of MARKETING and SALES, or from some one with a vast knowledge and experience in this Business Function.

I will like to have write ups, information or any Idea of a business marketing Plan, and the steps to follow to make it work.


I will be most grateful, for any assistance anyone can render in this regards.

Cheers and God bless.

Manoy,
Good to have you, be sure you hear from Me and a lot more others from this tread,

WELCOME!!!

Hello again @shaddie, sorry it took a while for me to respond, it’s the pressure @, my place of work. I am most humbled by your comments I must say, the truth is that, just like you I am a budding SCM professional, I know I still have a long way to go from where am standing today, to where am hoping to be in the profession in the near future.
So don’t feel like you’re an alien. Like I side, its step by step process, SCM, Logistics, and procurement is a very broad field so don’t think you will know all at once.

I feel as a student member of CIPS or ISM, studying towards the MCIPS and CPM qualifications respectively you will learn a lot, and acquire some of the knowledge on the role ICT plays in the business, but as for working or hands on experience with any SCM / Inventory mgt software that’s a different ball game. I don’t think you can read that up anywhere, you just have to be trained to use them.

Send me your email, so I can add u to my messenger, then we can have a chat sometime.
@hello, you too can do same, I think as a graduate in education , u can pursue a career in procurement and SCM, but be sure that’s what you really want to do

Ladapo:

I have been thinking of developing a career on this line and have been doing some research work too.

You can check cilt.co.uk and let me know what you think.

@ Ladapo, it will be great if you can share some of your research work on this tread, it will be helping more people , than you can imagain.

Welcome on board@Shaddie, and Thanks for waking this thread once more from comatose. 
You are on the right part already towards building a career in SCM, and I think starting off as a Buyer and moving your way across functions will get you well grounded in all aspect of SCM. 
Time / and expertise in the Field plus the relevant professional qualification  is what will take you to the Top of the field and more especially in the oil and gas sector, How to chart that course, is what we are all here to share ideas about. There’s is strength in networking so let’s use it to the fullest.

Fell free to leave your suggestions, challenges and career prospects in the filed; someone is bound to give you sound advice. .WELCOME once more

aisha2:

Why not, after all I don't have a car. So on what basis am i Judging a guy without a car

True Talk my Sister, true TALK!!!

yimiton:

Before Nko? Shopping for me of course and maybe, sometimes, him!

I guess what your saying in essence is  this,  all the money your guy should have saved up to buy a Ride, he use em to shop for  you!,  no wonder U don’t want to date a guy with a car!

@diva_naija.
Under the circumstances its not meant to be funny, so far on this tread I think we have two sets of people, those shoring up more support for NB and the GUS and those saying crucify NB for the lackadaisical death of this young man, I fall into the latter group.

That depiction in my last post, is what I have been saying all along, NB cares less, and so do some NB apologist on this forum, all they care about is let the show continue and lets get our drink on.

Anthony just happens to be the victim here; something like this was jus waiting to happen going by the shady and poor preparations for this so called reality show.

Attn, people.



Curfew imposed in PH, 7am to 6 pm.



Coming in to Ph please , take note

I guess this is what NB…., is saying

Update – 1430hrs – Confirmed reports that gangs have taken over Marine Base, Lagos Bus Stop, Aggrey Road , Waterline and Eleme Junction. JTF has suffered casualties, numbers unconfirmed but reports indicated between 12 – 20. Military is now using helicopter gun ships in the area to repel the attacks. Military checkpoints are now being mounted in areas throughout PH.



Update – 1200hrs – Reports of serious clashes close to the proximity , Eastern bypass/Marine base area. No further details at this time.



Update 1030hrs – The Police HQ Station at Borokori is being attacked at this time.



Update 0915hrs – Extensive fighting going on between the JTF and gang members in Woji, Old GRA and Borokori areas. Fighting is reported to be moving towards PH Central Police Station area.



Take note of advisory . Limit all movements

PH boils again


Dear all,



The Joint Task Force is currently engaged in a fierce shootout with highly determined militants in Port Harcourt. You are please strongly advised to avoid the old township area of Port Harcourt. Also to be avoided are Marine Base, Amadi Ama, Trans-Woji Slaughter, and Borikiri. As at time of this mail, reinforcement is being expected from military formations and other Mopol units. The target of the attack appears to be the Rivers State police headquarters as dynamite and sporadic gunshots are fired towards the headquarters. Latest information said the attack is a result of alleged killing yesterday night of a major militant leader.

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Bluestream:

What were the chances of anyone dying or getting maimed during BankPHB's TV show 'The Intern'?, but lets leave that alone.

I feel so strongly about it that I have instructed my broker to offload every single share of NB in my portfolio.

@Bluestream , WORD!

For 6 days now PH is a war zone, people are dying on everyday and the military says “they won’t use excessive force;” oh my God what kind of a country are we living in.

The reports are every where, masked man on bike, spring up from different parts of the city shooting, some times the report is, say its cult groups fighting each other, but what’s the reason for this fighting ?


Early this morning at about 5 am I heard explosions, later on I was trying to go out to beat the 7am deadline for commencement of environmental clean up exercise and met a road block at the slaughter axis of town, evidently they where some shooting already .

I had to just change my mind and direction and come to the office, where it’s a lot safer , as I write am getting different and even freighting reports of happens in certain part of town.

NNPC mage station attacked, the state radio station attacked, even though these are unconfirmed reports, I have a strong sense its true.

Its very sickening , one minute its Ok the next there’s chaos , at Eleme / oil mill junction on Wednesday I witnessed the panic and the way people where running, seconds after we drove past, we got a call from friends still stock back at eleme junction that gun shots are being heard.

so far the federal government is not saying anything or taking any action, I didn’t say state government because if for 6 days now they and the police cant control or stop this violence and senseless death due to stray bullets, then the federal government should take action.

We don’t know for real, what is going on, Why the killing, the cult clashes and why the attack on govt properties .

It’s a shame, it’s a real shame .
God almighty save us from this situation that is fast turning into anarchy




see Diffrent NEWS media reports below



Violence in Niger Delta expands into gang war
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Kidnappers in Nigeria's oil heartland release a Bulgarian and a Briton
Deadly gang fight in Port Harcourt enters its third day
Violence in the Niger Delta expands from targeted attacks for political reasons
Now, wave of abductions for ransom, armed robberies and gang wars
CNN -08/11/07


PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Kidnappers in Nigeria's oil heartland released a Bulgarian and a Briton after a month in captivity on Wednesday, but elsewhere in the anarchic region a deadly gang fight entered its third day.
The two employees of British oil company Exprogroup had been abducted on July 8 from a barge near Calabar in Cross River state, prompting Britain to add the previously peaceful state to a list of no-go areas in Nigeria.
Further west in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state and the main city in the vast Niger Delta oil region, residents said street gunbattles had broken out for the third day running as criminal gangs fought a bloody turf war.
"We're into the third day of shooting. The skirmishes have been breaking out in several locations around the city. Most of the people killed were innocent bystanders," said a human rights activist in the city who did not wish to be named.
The Rivers state police commissioner declined comment. He was quoted in Wednesday's edition of This Day newspaper as saying eight people were killed in the first two days' violence.
The gang fighting is typical of the way the violence in the Niger Delta has broadened from targeted attacks by militants pressing political demands to an uncontrollable wave of abductions for ransom, armed robberies and gang wars.
Violence escalated in early 2006 when armed groups demanding control over oil revenues and an end to neglect by corrupt politicians started blowing up pipelines and oil wells and kidnapping foreign oil workers.
The unrest shut down several major oilfields and output from Nigeria, the world's eighth-biggest exporter, has been reduced by at least a fifth and at times up to a third. The disruption has helped push oil prices to record highs on world markets.
Hostage taking, however, has over time become a commercial enterprise for copy-cat criminals.
The politically motivated rebels have been much quieter since a new government took office on May 29 promising negotiations and better governance in the impoverished delta, but abductions for ransom and other forms of violence continue.
Over 200 foreigners have been kidnapped since early last year. Most have been freed in exchange for money. Thousands of expatriate workers and their families have fled the Niger Delta, slowing the execution of some oil and infrastructure projects.
The Bulgarian foreign ministry said its released national was expected to arrive in Sofia via Paris on Thursday. The British embassy in Nigeria confirmed the Briton seized at the same time had also been released.
After their release and that of six Russians whose two-month hostage ordeal ended on Tuesday evening, there are at least four foreigners left in the hands of various delta armed groups



Military: We Won’t Use Excessive Force
From Ahamefula Ogbu in Port Harcourt and Juliana Taiwo in Abuja, 08.10.2007




N’Delta Crisis
As rampaging cultists continued their siege on Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, the Directorate of Defence Information has said that the military is capable of protecting the people of Niger Delta but has chosen not to use excessive force.
The military is neither weak in any way in the discharge of its duties nor is it incapable of protecting Niger Delta citizens, Director Defence Information, Col. M. D. Yusuf, said.
It was again a different scenario yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, as policemen went on the trail of cultists who had virtually taken over the city rendering it prostrate since Monday.
Many deaths were said to have been recorded in the chase of the rampaging cultists.
Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Ireju Barasua, confirmed to THISDAY that their men chased the cultists round the city but denied knowledge of any death from the encounters which lasted the whole day.
But when THISDAY went to Slaughter Area of the city yesterday morning, no fewer than two corpses, apparently hit by stray bullets in the exchange of fire between the Police and cultists, were seen near the road.
At Artillery, the corpse of a young man was noticed near the rail lines.
The cultists attacked people in Trans Amadi, Slaughter and Woji Road, forcing residents of Ogbogoro and Rumuolumeni to vacate their houses.
The Director of Defence Information said dialogue and peaceful means remained the key elements needed to resolve the agitation of the Niger Delta, explaining that if the Armed Forces were to show excessive force, innocent souls in the region would fall victims.
“The Nigerian Armed Forces are not at war in the Niger Delta,” he said, adding that there was a Joint Task Force comprising the Army, Navy, and the Air Force set up by the Federal Government to provide security for law abiding citizens to go about their normal business.
“The Government has put in place machinery to dialogue with the stakeholders in the region for a lasting solution. The Armed Forces have the wherewithal to provide the necessary weaponry that can wipe out the militants in no time.
“But if the Armed Forces use excessive force, innocent ones in that region will also fall victims. The Nigerian Armed Forces are not at war in the Niger Delta,” he said.
The Armed Forces spokesman said there was no doubt that only few criminally minded elements in the community in the Niger Delta were responsible for the unrest and reckless behaviours, killing or kidnapping of innocent people including children in the name of militancy and agitation.
The cultist attacks also led major oil companies in the city like Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Chevron and other organisations to change their regular security from police to military men drawn from the Joint Military Task Force.
Public Relations Officer of the Second Amphibious Brigade in Port Harcourt, Major Musa Sagir, said the use of the army to provide security to some companies was not abnormal.
A miffed Governor Celestine Omehia addressed residents of the state late Wednesday night saying the government would not sit by and allow cultists to take over the state.
Omehia’s movement from the Air force Base to the Government House on Wednesday was with extra security.
In his broadcast, the governor warned that what the attackers were engaging in purely criminal activities and that he would no longer tolerate them.
“It is clear that what is happening in the state is not for the freedom fighters, we are no more seeing people fighting for the emancipation of the Niger Delta and in particular, Rivers State. This is certainly not in the interest of our people; it is therefore not acceptable by Rivers people, more so by the government of Rivers State,” he warned.
He said after a due consultation with all security agencies in the state, he came to a firm resolve to handle the matter decisively.
He called on all parents and guardians to restrain their children from engaging in senseless intimidation and violence.
“The Government cannot and will not allow the current situation in which criminal element roam the streets of Port Harcourt with guns, knives and other dangerous weapons to intimidate and humiliate other free citizens of the state. Government has a responsibility to protect citizens from acts of random violence such as we have witnessed within three days running now.
“On assumption of office, we made it clear that some of our brothers who may have been misdirected would be pardoned as long as they renege, confess, we are ready to rehabilitate them, the government has responsibility to rehabilitate all of them and fund their economic wellbeing but from what we have seen since Monday, it is like deliberate act by the people who are not willing to see to the progress of people in Rivers State and indeed the success of this government.
“Henceforth, anyone who engages in indiscriminate use of firearms, kidnapping, cultism and all the activities inimical to the development of the state will have himself or herself to blame,” he said.
















Nigeria: Port Harcourt - Siege On the Oil City













Vanguard (Lagos)
28 July 2007
Posted to the web 28 July 2007
George Onah
Port Harcourt
For many residents, the capital of Rivers State, hitherto the Garden City where life was lived to the fullest is no longer the place to live in as rivers of blood flow ceaselessly following an unending siege by militants, kidnappers, cultists, and criminals of other hue
Violence in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has gone full circle and the guns are still booming. The casualties are pilling, even as blood of defenceless citizens flow endlessly. Neither the Police nor the government have answers to the brigandage. Security outfits do not have official figures, record or reliable estimates of casualties in the Rivers State orgy of killings.

Even the number of deaths during the Nigerian Civil War had a consensus of informed opinion on the number of deaths, on both sides, which hovered, realistically around 600,000 and below. But the rapidity of casualties in the onslaught by gunmen on Rivers State cannot simply be pigeonholed. The currency of killings is alarming and the growth of the economy of the state is heading for the deep.
The pattern of the crime ranges from kidnapping of expatriates and children of wealthy parentage, to outright violent robbery. Cultism and political vices equally occupy a frightening position on the crime chart. The volatile atmosphere appears to have annulled whatever achievement of the peace and reconciliation committee of the government.
Tragedy stalks merry makers
The most bizarre and complicated of such criminality took place last Monday, July 23. Time was 6.10 pm. The sun was descending in the horizon and was being replaced by a shallow moon. There was a crowd of jolly, merry go-lucky young and old people, clustered around a small house. Music blared from the loudspeakers of car radios, parked along the busy Lumumba/Ojike Streets, in the densely populated Mile I, Diobu area.
By the way, Patrice Lumumba in honour of whom the street was named, assumed leadership in his country in the 1960s, as the first prime minister of post-independent Republic of Congo. He was a politician just like the son of the owner of No 4 Lumumba Street, Port Harcourt. Lumumba died violently and some Hell's Angels planned a similar fate for the newly sworn-in Commissioner for Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Eldred Billy Braide. The man is counting his blessings now.
Braide and his folks were in party mood, in the family house, over his appointment as commissioner. The house itself, cutting the features of colonialism, is tucked at the intersection of two streets and overlooking the United Evangelical Church, in the opposite direction. With two entrances, punctuated by face-me-I-face-you tenement rooms, the house opens up into a modest courtyard that is lined by bathrooms and conveniences whose doors are made of corrugated roofing sheets.
Gunmen on bikes mount attack
As the party freaks mill in and out of the house, bottles and glasses in hand, a band of five AK-47-clutching young lads rode up and down along the busy street, peeping into the crowd each time they rode past. Then suddenly, Saturday Vanguard gathered that, the five motorcycles rode into the premises and in a flash, the five men, who looked to be in their early 30s secured the place.
"Three of them blocked the busy road, stopping every movement along the street, shooting into the air as they took positions. Two others ransacked the crowd, which gathered at a small drinking place attached to the building, dispossessing them of their phones and money," an eyewitness said. But the unfolding drama totally removed suspicion of robbery as the major reason for the onslaught. It was learnt that shortly after the operation outside, accompanied by rapid burst of gunfire, scores of the party crowd ran into the compound. While the tenants in the house scampered into their rooms, shutting themselves in, the visitors simply wandered about in the yard, searching for space to hide, following which they decided to perch behind drums used in storing water. It was like the ostrich hiding its head in the sand and concluding that it cannot be spotted.

The men and women who used the drums as their shield and thought that they had escaped the gunmen, thought wrong. As the two-some breezed into the compound, they headed straight for the corner where three of the erstwhile merry-makers hid themselves. Standing atop the concrete slabs of a septic tank, the monstrous men pointed the nozzle of their AK-47 riffles at the men, frantically squeezing the triggers and pumping volleys of bullets into them at very close range.
Sitting ducks; mistaken identity
They were defenceless and mere sitting ducks at that instance. When the dust settled, two men, Opali Braide and Obawariboko Iyalla, lay dead. The gunmen casually strolled away, without as much as asking or taking anything away from them. The killers did not search the rooms either, after which they mounted their motorcycles and rolled off towards Uruala Street, also in Diobu. One of the murdered men, Opali, was said to have had a striking resemblance of robust physique with the commissioner. The instant shooting of the man, may have triggered the theory in the city that the men came for the commissioner and not to rob