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The Nigeria Police has ordered detention and orderly room trial of operatives involved in the handcuffing of a bus driver, Odozi Kester, to a police van in Benin.

It was gathered that the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Abubakar Adamu Muhammed, gave the order.

A statement signed by the Zone 5’ Public Relations Officer, Emeka Ihenacho, and made available to journalist in Benin, described the conduct of the policemen involved as unprofessional, adding that it does not depict the ethics and core value of the Nigeria Police Force.

The AIG said, “full scale investigation into the matter has commenced while the officers involved would undergo orderly room trial. Those officers involved would be appropriately sanctioned.”

While assuring that justice would be done in the matter, he urged the public to continue to support the police in it task of sustaining peace and security.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/police-operatives-to-face-orderly-room-trial-for-handcuffing-man-to-vehicle/198577.html

It is official, Kwarans are worshippers of Saraki.

babyme1:
Please house i need help. My mum is in her early 60s. She isnt diabetic and her BP is normal. There is no medical history as far as i can remember. She suddenly developed this severe headache around the ear region. At first she thought it was ear pains. She went to an ENT doc and a comprehensive check was done but nothing was detected.

She has been to the Ibom Specialist Hospital where d Indians there did a scan on her head but nothing was found. She was given lots of medications but the pains doesnt stop. The pain is so severe she weeps sometimes.

We have done all in our capacity but mum isnt ok. I just spoke with her on phone now and im actually crying bc i can feel the pain over the phone. What could be the cause of this? What should we do? We dont want to loose her pls. Thanks

I don't know if this may be of any help but I feel I should share. I watched this documentary about a woman suffering from severe ear problem. Hitherto to her illness she had a job supporting her husband, she is very healthy do most of the house chores at home. Her children are well look after, but when this illness came it changed her life forever.
The pain in her ear is so severe the slightest noise will send her weeping. The sound of cars, bikes, children laughing, metal clanking, lawn mowers, etc will send her in serious pain. It changed her life forever, she quit her job, could no longer take proper care of herself let alone her children, goes about the house wearing ear plugs. Meanwhile, she has gone to different otolaryngologists.
Done several test and scans yet they could not detect her problem cos eeverything appeared alright. At a point the doctors felt it was perhaps all in her head. Maybe, they thought, she was loosing control of her sense.
She resigned to fate and knew she will have to live as a liability to her family for the rest of her miserable life as her condition degenerated. She could no longer speak cos the sound of her voice is too loud for her. She contemplated suicide as they move from one doctor to the other.
Eventually, they got to a young doctor who detected her problem in less than a minute after looking at her MRI Scan. Alas it was a tiny hole in some part of her hear which all seasoned doctors managed to overlook. An operation was done and hole was blocked. She fully recovered and enjoyed the rest of her life with her family.

The hungry bloggers have done it again. Spreading falsehood just as they usually do.
Cc. Lalasticlala Mynd44
Lord save us from this liars. They are more dangerous than terrorists.

A report by online news platform, Naij.com quoting the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, as granting an interview to Channels Television on the President’s health is not true.

Mr Mohammed did not make any such comment on Channels TV.

Naij.com had stated on its website that the minister had the intention of speaking on made-in-Nigeria goods but accidentally admitted that the president is in a London hospital.

Source: http://www.channelstv.com/2017/05/20/naij-coms-erroneous-attribution-channels-tv/

WTF!

chkil0:
Search an rescue exercise , Algeria

Is this real or just simulation?

Ishilove:
You see why we shouldn't always believe everything we read online?

Bloggers have a very special place in hell

No doubt, I remember one that posted a gory picture of a dead lady claiming it was her younger sister in 2015. After 5pages of sympathies from Nairalanders they realise she was probably fake and viciously came for her head. She deleted her account sharperly.

The best option is just to declare a full scale war. Imagine them as an enemy invader threatening the sovereignty of Nigeria.
Give them everything we have got and finish this once and for all.
All this slow and expensive operations they are conduction daily is not yielding the wanted result. The longer BHT continue to exist the stronger they will get. Fact!

bidexiii:
NA

U created new account?

sarrki:
Baba let's refer the traitor back to history

It's in their DNA

Are you referring to the entire Yoruba race with this your comment?

andrewza:
Sorry that gun is rusted baddly. The gun crew is not doing there job.

No matter how we try to put it, the fact simply is no soldier should allow any form of rust on his weapon. Moreover, there could be rust not just outside the gun but inside too. It is any soldier worst nightmare for his/her gun to break down in the heat of battle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U

Henry240:
He has the right to air his opinion. You don't have any right whatsoever to shut him up/ or throw aggressive comments at his opinion, whether you disagree with him or not.

I am not shutting him up, I am just guarding him against making of overgeneralization comments. You can't state for a fact that all of them don't speak English. It is not only erroneous but also devoid of basic logical reasoning.

giles14:
218 girls dat don't hear or understand English wants to right waec exams but were kidnapped by BHT.
naija continue

In essence you are assuming that all of them don't speak English. U are one very ignorant dude!

Marie Le Pen should bury her head in shame after those bitter stunts she pulled during campaign.

Go and tell Aregbesola that he is a bloody liar!

victorazy:
fake news. he couldn't even answer simple question

Seriously, this isn't fake news. Saw the mangled car myself with blood on the steering wheel.
Even the guy that asked the question had already provided the answer so he was suppose to simply answer yes or no which he did. Read carefully next time.

charles009:
Brothers for life, all gone.

Chai jesus

Saw the vehicle yesterday on Kubwa express close to Arab road junction. Guess they where over speeding.
May their souls rest in perfect peace sha.

Oga Seun
Abeg, I wan make this suggestion.

Please, I will like to suggest that the "follow" or "un-follow" button at the beginning and end of posts should be changed to "save" and "unsave".
This will reflect the reality because we "save" news to read later not "follow".
Please, I will be very glad if this is considered.
Urz truly, XBEE007.

dadavivo:
what an insult, how can you compare Efe fame and Joshua's fame together. Your brain dey pain you?

I am sure you have been hunting for opportunity to use this your meme.

As released by NAF.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxe8ApoCPk

Oh, Henry beat me to it.

The strike was a success I must say.

@OP What u need is this.
Don't tell me that is the money.

In short the man should just resign and go tend to his cows in Daura. Perhaps, seeing his cows will rejuvinate him.

sarrki:
Farouk you are a traitor

We heard about your ambition to contest for Senate 2019

Go and sit down

You must be a f*cking r*tard for calling him a traitor. Just because he stopped drooling over Buhari now warrants you guys to insult him.

Well, he has my vote if he ever decide to contest for senatorial post.

A version of this article was published in my June 21, 2014 column. It is still relevant today.

The other day I was reflecting on Nigerians’ new favorite pastime: endless griping about the increasingly disabling dysfunction of the country. And I realized that one theme that often stands out when we bewail our present conditions is that we almost always sentimentalize the past.

In other words, many Nigerians find relief from the worries of the present by taking a mental escape to the past.

For instance, when Nigerians bemoan the “indigene/settler” dichotomies in many states of the country, they like to recall, for example, that as far back as 1956, a Fulani man from Sokoto by the name of Malam Umaru Altine was elected the first Mayor of Enugu, the political capital of Eastern Nigeria. His religious and ethnic identity didn’t stand in the way of his election—as it certainly would in contemporary Nigeria.

They also remember that when the late Alhaji Abubakar Rimi was governor of Kano State in the Second Republic, he appointed many non-Kano indigenes, including Christians from the South, as advisers and directors. There are several other examples of inclusiveness from the past that we invoke to deplore the politics of intolerance and exclusivity of the present.

And when Nigerians bemoan the worsening insecurity in the country, especially in the northeast, they never fail to recall that Borno State, the main theater of Boko Haram’s unceasing carnage, used to be so peaceful that its license-plate slogan is “home of peace.” Now, that slogan reads like a cruel joke.

On almost every imaginable subject—infrastructure, electricity, standard of education, tolerance, security, governance, leadership, etc.—our past has become our refuge from the scourge of our present. About the only area that Nigerians don’t look to the past for inspiration is telecommunication. No one looks back to the days of NITEL with nostalgia even in the face of the crappy GSM services that private telecom operates provide now.

I know of no society that valorizes its past, in even the most trivial indices, with as much wistfulness as Nigeria does. Here in the United States, to give just one example, rather than a sentimental longing for the past, I notice a tendency toward chronocentricity, that is, the notion that the present is superior to anything that preceded it.

For instance, when Americans discuss race relations, they look back at their past with disdain. Even though they are far from achieving racial equality, they all seem to agree that they have come a long way; that every subsequent generation is more racially tolerant and broadminded than the one that anteceded it.

As former President Obama said in one of his speeches, the fact that racial incidents like the Trayvon Martin murder case captured the national imagination and became the subject of intense national debate speaks to the unusualness of such cases and indicates how much progress has been made in race relations.

Although Americans also complain about declining standards in education, it isn’t as much a national obsession as it is in Nigeria. In fact, studies now show that young Americans actually read more print (and—obviously—electronic)books than did previous generations.

In many societies, people say things like “this is the 21st century, for God’s sake!” to rail against people who are narrow-minded, who are ensconced in their primordial cocoons, who are opposed to progress. Implicit in this utterance is the idea that the current age is an improvement on the previous ones; that history proceeds in a progressive, not recursive, direction. Of course, this is not entirely accurate, but it does capture a certain level of confidence about the present—and optimism about the future.

Nigerians don’t have even this illusory luxury. The past is a lot more comforting than the present and is therefore a better template for the future. But why wouldn’t it be? As a nation we seem to be moving from bad to worse in almost every sphere. At a time when most closed societies are opening up and open societies are becoming even more open, we are becoming more wedded to subnational loyalties than ever before. Citizens of Nigeria habitually get “deported” from parts of the country where they are not considered “indigenes.”

Corruption has reached such crushing heights that even former president Goodluck Jonathan said stealing was not corruption, and current President Buhari worries about corruption only when it is committed by his political enemies. His corrupt close associates can do no wrong—unless they fall out of favor with him. And stealing of public money no longer makes headlines news unless it’s in millions or billions of US dollars. What is more, we have become so desensitized to death that unless people die in their hundreds newspaper editors don’t put it on the front page.

Even universities that are called “ivory towers” because of their putative insulation from the reality of everyday life are affected by this national culture of worshiping the past. University teachers look to the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to reclaim the idea of the university. I have never heard or read any Nigerian university teacher brag about improvement in scholarship and pedagogy in the universities in the course of the years.

No future can be envisioned out of this depressingly dark present. That is why we glorify and idealize the past. But a country whose past is better than its present in most indices of human development is in a bigger trouble than it realizes. And, most certainly, a country whose future lies in its past has no future.

Source: http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2017/04/nigerias-future-is-sadly-still-in-its.html?m=1

SupremeCourt:
You should rather doubt if Nigeria has surplus USD $ 600 million to splash like owambe party spray money on the Super Tuscano aeroplanes in this hour of biting economic recession.

MoD and NAF budgets 2015 supplementary, then 2016 and 2017 budgets all talk about only Superb Mushak light planes, you see any Tuscano inside three consecutive budgets?

Since 2015 Buhari has travelled to USA to renew demand for the Tuscano plane did you see defence budget USD $600 m in 2016 budget or 2017 budget? Buhari will slap America mouth juju collect the planes waka commot for free?

Only if Trump does not fall for Buhari tactics using Abacha loot $550m will change story to looking for money to pay in small pieces. NAF say they are ready for the planes now, so show us budget provision USD $600 million for Super Tuscano 2015-2017

The reason why I said I doubted the authenticity of the news in the first place was that it sounded too good to be true. Plus, I don't think Americans will ever be willing to give back such money to us. They prefer it remain domicile in their country.
I pray the news is real myself sha.
Anyways, extend my greetings to Justice Nkanu Walter Onoghen for me.

kozmokaz:
As in

The army recovered back the ammunitions that boko haram sized from them in the first fight

And still have the nerve to show it up?

Which army does that?

Foxyn:
where are the corpses in the picture?

this our 'gala' soldiers self

continue deceiving yourselves

by the way, I heard buhari will be going out for prayers tomorrow..

can't wait to shoot his head with my catapult

It is not something dimwits can comprehend. First, Nigerian Army don't field long range shilka Anti aircraft gun. They probably got it through Libya.
Secondly they stopped displaying corpses of dead terrorists because of backlash from Amnesty International and HRW.

A very bad day for Russia. They just managed to sink their spy ship off the coast of Turkey. All naval officers rescued alive.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39734998?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

nemesis2u:
MI35 and SUPER TUCANOS

Nigerian Dream!

SupremeCourt:
What we here from some Fed. Minstry staff here in Abuja is that...

I seriously doubt the veracity of such news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GnghBbIZc

Pls, Nairalanders share so no one fall victim to this.
Or better still share your opinion on this matter.