₦airaland Forum

SalafRider:
No freedom of speech

Does freedom of speech mean insulting people's integrity? Sometimes we are just blinded by what I don't know. How can you wake up and start calling someone a thief? Don't he know the process to follow?

Thermodynamics:
This Country is not practicing democracy, the average black man with power in Nigeria is a tyrant. Look how the boss of most private businesses treat their employees, look how our university lecturer walk around feeling like a demi God.

Let us be realistic here, if someone wake up to call you a thief in the eye of the whole world and you will just keep quiet? I believe even as you are not a public figure like fintiri you won't accept that. People should also know that this public figures are humans, they have children and loved ones. How will I feel if my children are reading that I am a thief and father of all thief? Not okay. If the man had any evidence he stole, there are proper channels and procedures to follow

How come a matter in Anambra is being decided in far away far north states of jigawa and Kano? Are there no courts in Anambra or what? I don't understand this

Eastcoastboy:
Poor editorial.

Very poor indeed

guy222:
it is either you did not read the right up or you dont understand how to read, a blind man that want to teach a cripple how to cross a road.

All the 13 PDP governors attended the meeting. Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki who was expected to flag-off the PDP e-registration exercise at the party’s National Secretariat, did not attend. The function was performed by Secondus.

Maybe the reportage is the problem

What an opportunity for a reasonable party to fill in the gap at the time the two calamities are having it rough

Nkpitime:
See police station na wao

I tire. Which kind of disgrace is this? This is very annoying to say the least.

tiswell:
Jega the man who sold out our collective intelligence for a plate of porridge

Jega sold nothing and stop deceiving yourself. PDP was a massive failure and people voted APC, only for them to prove any better than the PDP. Jega is very right about the two good for nothing failures

The two clownish parties dancing naked on Jega's head, what a pity

inoki247:
lol all na no go confess until dem release all na conversation Transcript nd u guys sef go cast...

"The Commission had called 10 witnesses and closed its case. But rather than enter his defense, Mompha filed a no-case submission which was overruled by the Court and called upon to open his defense."

Rareoil:
Oga CIA have picked world leaders from there home countries in the past.

meaning you are supporting how DSS and co pick Kanu in Kenya?

PAWG:
Please what’s Abba Kyari’s involvement in this hushpuppi’s case?

Collecting money from HUSH to arrest and keep his associate in jail abuse of office and he should be punished by the police, BUT that doesn’t make him an accomplice in this hushpuppi’s fraud case.


EXCEPT of course if the FBI is hiding other details from the public.

My thoughts exactly. I have read all the topics on this subject matter and I find it difficult to understand how kyari should be declared wanted by FBI. I also feel his offence base on the weight of the information we are readingshould be treated internally and not extradition. Maybe, the FBI have some information they don't want to disclose as you said.

143WaZoBia:
But not a single word about Kyari

Who told you? Police have already announced that they will set up a panel to investigate him, and promised update. Even efcc said FBI wrote them but they told them that, the case is for the police to handle. What else do you want to hear?

DankemzI:
Loud warning
This is best for the image of Cubana
Remember how they tried to rubbish the owner of Air Peace just because of his region?.
With the previous estravagance show of wealth in Oba having in attendance this bad cop in attendance and other people of questionable financial history, they'll go after Cubana and leave this super cop now money launderer.
This man things the world is operating quota system, who the bleeped wrote this He paid directly to the designer and the clothes/money/loot came to your office Nigeria police force quarters before proceeding to hush puppy? So NPF now operates courier/logistics service ?
I weep for our nation, corruption has eaten deeper than we thought.
The president is corrupt, tribalistic, nepotistic, terrorisism enabler
Men & brethren behold the Islamic republic of Nigeria come 2023

You mean south easterners are hated and a target as far as in America? It was America that indicted air peace boss and not Nigerian government. If anything, the man is still walking the streets of Nigeria free, doing his business and even supported by the same government you are attacking. In as much as the Nigerian government is bad, some of our comments don't make us look better than what we accuse people in power of.

Too many twists

—Witnesses to the shocking public kidnapping of Nigerian and British national Nnamdi Kanu—head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group—told The Daily Beast that the separatist leader was stepping out of his car at an airport when a group of heavily armed men forcefully seized him to arrange his transfer to Nigeria.

In June, Kanu—who faces multiple charges in Nigeria, including treason—had driven into the underground parking lot at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. He had barely exited his two-door Audi TT when seven gun-wielding men rushed him and dragged him to their waiting vehicle, according to an airport staffer who witnessed the incident.

“Their aim was to capture him,” the airport staff told The Daily Beast. “They didn’t ask him any questions. They just grabbed him.”

As Kanu screamed for help, a number of people who were at the parking lot walked up to the scene and asked the armed men why they were taking the Nigerian, bystanders said. The men then allegedly responded by saying Kanu was a terrorist working for the Somalian jihadist group, al-Shabaab, after which they forced him into their vehicle and drove away.

“They didn’t all look Kenyan, and those that spoke didn’t have Kenyan accents,” an airport staffer, who didn’t want their identity revealed as they are not authorized to speak on the matter, said. “I’m not entirely convinced they were from any of Kenya’s security agencies.”

Part of this account of the incident corroborates the description given by Kanu’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on how his client was arrested. Ejimakor, who heard directly from Kanu on how he was seized in Nairobi, had told the BBC that his client was “grabbed” in “a very physical and rough way” at Jomo Kenyatta Airport by a group of “well-armed” men. According to Ejimakor, the men drove him to a private residence, where he was “chained to the floor” and “tortured” for eight days, before being blindfolded and flown to Nigeria’s capital of Abuja in a private jet on June 27, without having to pass through Kenyan passport control.

“The people that abducted him said that they were told by their sponsors that Kanu was a Nigerian terrorist linked to the Islamic terrorists in Kenya, presumably al-Shabaab,” Ejimakor told Premium Times, a Nigerian newspaper. “But after several days when they discovered his true identity, they tended to treat him less badly. Despite that, they told him they felt committed to hand him over to those that hired them.”

The Nigerian government has refused to provide details on how Kanu was apprehended. When Attorney General Abubakar Malami first announced his arrest and detention on June 29, he said the separatist leader was “intercepted through the collaborative efforts of the Nigerian intelligence and security services,” while Information Minister Lai Mohammed told reporters days later that Kanu’s capture “was made possible by the diligent efforts of our security and intelligence agencies, in collaboration with countries with which we have obligations.”

The silence by the authorities in Nigeria as to how Kanu—who’s also a British citizen—was arrested seems to give weight to speculation that the armed men who seized him in Nairobi were mercenaries hired by the Nigerian government, more so as the Kenyan government has denied it was involved in Kanu’s arrest and extradition. Britain has even had to wade in by asking the West African nation to explain how the IPOB leader arrived in detention.

“If due process was followed in the arrest and extradition of Kanu, the Kenyan government would have been happy to announce it,” a senior Nigerian military official told The Daily Beast privately. “There’s something fishy about this.”

Indeed, Kenya has never shied away from revealing details about deportations. The March 5 deportation of Isaac Sturgeon—an American national who fled to Kenya after participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—was quickly confirmed by Kenyan authorities after the country’s immigration and police were informed he was in Nairobi. Sturgeon, who is accused of picking up a metal barricade at the Capitol and using it to shove back police officers who were guarding the building, was immediately arrested by the FBI on arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City the following day.

“As for Kanu, it just looks like this was a job done by mercenaries [hired by the Nigerian government],” the military officer said. “That explains why the government is refusing to provide details of his arrest and extradition.”

In recent years, Kanu had become a thorn in the side of the government, using social media to advocate for Biafran independence and constantly taunting Buhari, who is from the predominantly Muslim northern region of Nigeria, whom he accuses of ethnic bias, especially towards the Igbo people who make up the southeast region.

In fact, it was in reaction to the agitations of pro-Biafran separatists that led Buhari to threaten to “deal with” people in the southeast in a social media post over a month ago, when he wrote that “many of those [referring to IPOB supporters] misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”

The post, which Buhari shared on both his Facebook and Twitter accounts, was deleted by social media companies for violating their policies on abusive behavior. In reaction, the Nigerian government banned Twitter in the country over what Information Minister Lai Mohammed described as “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.”

Mohammed later implied that Twitter’s lack of action against Kanu’s tweets contributed to the ban.

Kanu, who spent much of his adult life in the UK, was first arrested in Lagos in 2015 on an 11-count charge bordering on terrorism, managing an unlawful society, treason and illegal possession of firearms, among others. He was jailed for more than a year despite a number of court orders ruling for his release. The IPOB leader was eventually released on bail in 2017 but fled abroad, where he continued to advocate for the secession of Nigeria’s southeastern region. A prior secession attempt was made in 1967, under the name of the Republic of Biafra, triggering a three-year civil war in which nearly three million people died.

Biafra, which represented the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo ethnic group, was reunited with Nigeria after the war ended in 1970, but widespread outrage by the Igbos, who felt they were being marginalised by successive Nigerian governments, led to the creation of IPOB in 2014 with the sole aim of restoring the Republic of Biafra.

But while the government is bent on ensuring that Kanu, who’s spearheading the campaign for Biafran independence, is tried in court and convicted, his attorney believes he is a victim of an “abduction” and has no case to answer.

“Kanu’s trial is supposed to be opposed,” Ejimakor tweeted. “If any trial occurs, it’s those that renditioned him that will be on trial.”

https://news.yahoo.com/inside-shocking-airport-abduction-top-075138020.html

This Bennin self. So they want to tell us that DSS or court or whatever in Nigeria even tried in giving access to 10 media houses for kanus trial. Hmmm

I agree with you OP. Most of them don't pay salary but commission strictly, which also baffles me. Like you say, they should at least start with something as salary

Antoeni:
That is Africa for you!!!
No time
A citizen slap President in France, they didn't killed him, he was only jailed for four months.

Let us be honest, there are few countries, if any, that you try to assassinate the president and live to tell the story, especially a country run by detectors. It is not Africa for you here. Try this in China, Russia, even USA etc and you are shot on the spot.
And Please, don't compare a slap with assassination attempt.

Is the DSS or the courts. It is very hard to get authentic and genuine news in this country. Almost everything is biasly reported

Timoleon:
I would have thought that if he despises the Israeli so much, this would have been a chance to prove himself and whatever he stands for as superior to whoever or whatever the Israeli stands for.

I believe he has just lost a big opportunity to make a positive statement and this decision would haunt him forever even in his career as he may be fined or given even more severe sanctions.

Thanks man. My thoughts exactly. He had an opportunity to at least pour his Vernon on an Israeli and bet him silly for revenge, but he chicken out easily. What a missed opportunity to make a statement. This to me is an act of pure cowardice

Gaddafi1:
PDP is still a disorganised party and this is quite sad considering the fact that Nigerians are seriously looking forward to ejecting APC from government.
Now we are stucked with APC and its cluelesness till 2027 hopefully a formidable opposition would have been formed.

What of other parties? Must we go for the two useless parties? How I wish Nigerians are united in burying the two curses called PDP and APC

I wonder why air force first denied the news categorically. It means if this guy died, everything would have gone quiet as if nothing happened

humilitypays:
Buhari and Fulanis chasing shadows.


I dont blame Buhari nor his blood.sucking Fulani tribe, I blame the rest of Southern Nigeria who cant let go of their differences and join force together to tell Fulanis that they are inconsequential terrorists from the Sahel

You are totally right. Just read the comments of their useless minions even on this thread and you will the south is hopeless

Mangekyo:
Damn too bad

Edit: if this man gets killed today, Yorubas wont do anything. But if MNK gets touched, only God knows what would happen to Nigeria thereafter.

That's the difference BTW two of em

The two of them are actually useless and senseless, especially their idiotic youths here on nairaland who know nothing other than throwing tribal tantrums while the common enemy has a field day. Kanu was arrested and the western youth here were jubilating like they have won a jackpot, Igboho is arrested now and is the turn of the easterners to pay back, while the Fulanis are maiming both of them. The only area in south that has some respect is the south south. They are at least united in a way against tyranny

Sunnypa11:
Dem no sabi play ball like Dinho.

How una go pack criminals of the same gang into the same cell.

The government na mumu

those prisons are full of rival gang members, the most viable way of curtailing murder in prison is to keep members of gangs together. Isolate them and mix them with other gangs, you will have to be picking dead bodies daily.

The numbers are going up now

Commendable from Lagos state government. People keep calling Lagos a glorified slum but all evidences point otherwise. If other states are doing half of what Lagos is doing, Nigeria would have fared far better. I wonder if my state governor reads news like this

What kind of useless old man in this?

I wish the two most useless parties in the world in PDP and APC will just vanish from the surface of the earth. The same old story with two of them, fight for power, attain it and then corruption, insecurity, suffering of the masses continue.

Arrewa:
If he's guilty of any crime...He should face Justice!!

Why are Africans overating Israel??

Before Christ, Romans conquered Israel, even during his time, Israel was occupied by the Romans.

At little after Jesus the Jews made the Romans angry and they massacred the jews, drove them away from Israel. for about 2000 years from then, the jews were second class citizens every where they go.

The christians persecuted them for what they did to Chris, the Arabs were flogging their yansh any time they deemed fit. Hitler did his own. Till the Europeans decided to have mercy on them and create a state for them.

The so called 6 day war only succeeded because the Arabs just gained independence and didn't had any air force nor good military. The Europeans trained and gave Isreal weapons, especially their air force.

The only time Israel met a strong force Hizbollah backed by Iran they lost.

Israel look strong around its Arab neighbors, beyond that, its a different game entirely.
You see, the Persians or Iranians (as they are called today) aint arabs, they walk the talk, if u know what I mean...for far too long now, they've been daring Israel to stop barking and attack them as it has been saying it would for God knows how long now.

But nothing has happened, you know why? because Israel dont have the balls to fight a formidable opponent without bigdaddy USA military support. And the support is not forthcoming either, because a war with the Persians is too risky even for the US.

US can not sacrifice the lives of its citizens to go die for your "mighty" Israel over Iran. So the US snubbed Israel and chose to dialogue with the Iranians over their Nuclear program.

The only hands preventing isreal's defeat are those of America, Britain and the western world. If US remove their support, Israel is dead!!


Anybody that really thinks that God loves some other people more than he likes him or that some other people are more of Gods children than him is a sophisticated Akuya!!

you were sounding a bit coherent until your statement about the six days war. It is totally misleading. Check Wikipedia for the history of the war. To save you some time, see an extract of the personnel and weapons each group went with in the war.

ISRAEL
Strength
50,000 troops
214,000 reserves
250[5]–300 combat aircraft[6]
800 tanks[7]

Total troops: 264,000
100,000 deployed

ARABS
Egypt: 240,000
Syria, Jordan, and Iraq: 307,000
957 combat aircraft
2,504 tanks (mostly Soviet-made)[7]
Lebanon: 2 combat aircraft[8]

Total troops: 547,000
240,000 deployed