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Politics / Re: Hamisu Abubakar, The Man Trekking From Lagos To Abuja Now In FCT by arnold75(m): 6:00pm On Apr 20, 2015
Hmmm, singing e be like say they want tell us another story again ooo. Has anyone trekked for 3 hours consistently, how many kilometers did you cover?, A man who isnt into sports trekks for 20 days and bam! he is in abuja. Unverifiable, where did he charge his fone? did he make any arrangement for motels? it is a good thing he achieved the feat but i doubt how truthful he was all the way.
Politics / Re: Peace Talks Split Boko Haram Into Two Groups by arnold75(m): 3:59pm On Oct 20, 2014
abdulabbakar:



See this Man talking bout Maitatsine...So you don't know Maitatsine was from the VERTICAN city
#AskOritsejaFuck#

Thanks, if Maitatsine is from the Vatican, then the sharia crisis, zaria and kaduna crisis is from where? i guess....... Jerusalem.
Politics / Re: Peace Talks Split Boko Haram Into Two Groups by arnold75(m): 8:40am On Oct 20, 2014
BRAV0O:
Yeye dey smell grin , jonathan pdp boko haram vs the real boko haram ,

Alarm don blow grin

*modified* FG pdp gej should stop boboing us , we'll know north region start it all, but fg cannot tell us they don't no about those powerful boko haram sect , now fg govt boko sect drop their weapon , the question is why this sudden cease fire ? Gej , why sudden negotiation to keep peace with this deadly sect ? If not that u ar calling ur sect to order cus u now realize it impossible for u and ur co hurt to reduce north region population by bombing them , gej is a disease to nigeria


U saTANiods can attack me and say what ever , I don't care ' gej himself is boko haram ...

So Jonathan's bokoharam reads koran and shout allau akbar? shame!, i think some people should be wiser. Now i understand why some people think that this whole stuff is a huge scam.It has been confirmed that bokoharam (whether real or political or tribal or cross boarder)has a common book they read and since they are not in the business of collecting ransome, but believe that dying a maytr will present 72 black eyed virgin. Then it is obvious that some people are either not following this trend or does not know the religious cleansing that has been going on in the north right from the time of matasene. Ask questions if dont know, but for some of us, we know what they have been doing for a very long time now.
Sports / Re: Any Mathematical Chance For Nigeria's Qualification To AFCON 2015? by arnold75(m): 12:47pm On Oct 14, 2014
Segadem:
Super Eagles have played 11 games buildup to d one in abuja on Wednesday.
Let's check d stats:
11 matches
5 draw
5. losses
1. (fake)win.

Hmm, it is 13 matches now after AFCON...
2 wins (BHG & THT)
4 draws
7 losses
And some die hard keshi fans still want him to continue. He has broken more records thank Moyes
Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs Congo: Player Rating by arnold75(m): 8:31pm On Sep 06, 2014
Nigerians enjoy victory by chance or fluke, keshi has never impressed me. Cracks when he faces good oppositions, being saved all these while by sheer brilliance of individual players and he had been taking the glory. Now the players whose brilliance gave him a good name iddnt come to party today. What was keshi's pattern today? What wad his formation? What was his plan b, smh he needs to upgrade his tactics as we might face more humilations in the hands of SA. A 38 yrs old record broken today i hope we have not become man utd in the hands of moyes.

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Politics / Re: Boko Haram: 50 Lawyers To Storm The Hague For Prosecution Of Sheriff, Ihejirika by arnold75(m): 7:41am On Sep 06, 2014
Why on earth should they bechasing shadows? Who is davis? Dont you think that he should have given a press conference to the world on this matter?why arise tv and not cnn,bbc,aljazeera or even bbc hausa?hmmmm, why do you think a terrorist would receive any form of help from an infidel? This is not adding up based on the ideology of bokoharam.maybe they have changed their isignia to something else.there is more to this
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Sponsorship: We’ve Been Vindicated – APC by arnold75(m): 9:07pm On Sep 03, 2014
I am surprised that a terrorist group like BH will allow an infidel like ihejirika to sponsor them, except if the group is different from the one that owns the popular insignia wc includes two crossed sword....... I cant be fooled. Iam not supporting anybody but i knw how oyibo does their things, the man would have given a press statement and not to an unknown tv station. Voice over things.....with what i know about islamic groups, ihejirikas connection is a hoax.#myonepence.

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Politics / Re: The Real Interview That Elrufai Twisted.culled From Thisday by arnold75(m): 9:25pm On Aug 28, 2014
Now we can separate the wheat from the chaff

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Politics / The Real Interview That Elrufai Twisted.culled From Thisday by arnold75(m): 9:24pm On Aug 28, 2014
This man, El-Rufai doesn't fear God at all. First of all this interview was granted to ABC news not Arise TV. Second, Stephen Davis made no mention of any name as sponsor of Boko Haram but said sponsors are 'mainly' Nigerian opposition politicians. This is the report by Thisday paper:
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Australian Negotiator: Politicians Funding Boko Haram

A Perth-based international adviser, Dr. Stephen Davis

A Perth-based international adviser, Dr. Stephen Davis, who survived months of extreme danger to try to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram, has alleged that one of the primary sources of funding for the terror group is Nigerian politicians.

THISDAY had exclusively reported that one of the key federal government negotiators trying to secure the release of the Chibok girls from the clutches of Boko Haram was Davis.

Davis has worked in Nigeria in the past with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Head of the Church of England, Justin Welby, to negotiate the release of kidnapped oil industry workers in the Niger Delta.

Speaking yesterday in an interview on ABC News, an Australian television station, Davis, 63, said he had realised the only way to stop the kidnappings was to stop the sponsors of Boko Haram.

While Al Qaeda was involved in training Boko Haram recruits, Davis said one of their major sources of funding - aside from raiding banks - was Nigerian politicians.

“That makes it easier in some ways as they can be arrested, but of course the onus of proof is high and many are in opposition, so if the president (Goodluck Jonathan) moves against them, he would be accused of trying to rig the elections due early next year,” he said.

“So I think this will run through to the election unabated. These politicians think that if they win power they can turn these terrorists off, but this has mutated.

“It’s no longer a case of Muslims purifying by killing off Christians. They are just killing indiscriminately, beheading, disembowelling people - men, women and children and whole villages.

“I would say it's almost beyond the control of the political sponsors now. Terror groups are linking up in Somalia, southern Sudan, Egypt and we have fairly strong evidence they are talking with ISIS members.

“They will link up with ISIS and Al Shabaab and I think that what we are seeing in that region is the new homeland of radical Islam in the world,” he told his interviewer.

Davis, who returned to Australia after a four-month sojourn with rare footage of the intense fighting in Nigeria's North-east, as Boko Haram stepped up efforts to establish an Islamic state, said he established extensive contacts with tribes and terrorist groups in Africa, including three small cells of Al Qaeda, while working as a troubleshooter for oil and gas company Shell in the Niger Delta.

When news broke in April about the girls’ kidnapping from a school in the village of Chibok, near the Cameroun border, Davis, who had recently moved to Perth from London, decided he could not sit on his hands.

During the journey in North-eastern Nigeria, his life was threatened more than once, but his Australian passport saved him.

“When confronted by groups with an AK-47 in my face they'd say, ‘you are American, we have to kill you’,” Davis said.

“When you say, no I’m not American, they think you are British, and say you will still die, but when I said I’m Australian, they said that’s all right. I have no idea why but it’s certainly been helpful.”

The devout Christian managed to smuggle out of the country footage of a handful of schoolgirls who escaped from Boko Haram.

They detail the atrocities they endured, including being raped almost on a daily basis.

Following media reports that nobody knew where the girls were, he decided to reach out to his contacts.

“I made a few phone calls to the Boko Haram commanders and they confirmed they were in possession of the girls,” he said.

“They told me they’d be prepared to release some as a goodwill gesture towards a peace deal with the government, so I went to Nigeria on the basis of being able to secure their release.”

Arriving in Nigeria, Davis quickly set up talks with commanders and he believed he had brokered a deal.

Fearing being arrested, the Boko Haram commanders - holding the girls across the border in Cameroun - had a list of conditions.

They wanted the military to stand down and promised to drop the girls in a village before phoning to give their exact location.

Davis said they lived up to their promise, but in a region ravaged by war and corruption, the rescue was sabotaged.

“The girls were there, 60 girls, there were 20 vehicles with the girls,” he said.

“We travelled for four-and-a-halfhours to reach them, but 15 minutes before we arrived they were kidnapped again by another group who wanted to cash in on a reward.

“The police had offered a reward of several million naira just 24 hours before we went to pick them up.

“I understand, from the Boko Haram commanders I spoke to, the girls eventually ended up back with them.

“I don't know what happened to the group that took them but I suspect it wasn't good,” he disclosed.

Davis said a young man kidnapped by Boko Haram and used as a driver later helped a handful of girls to escape.

One kidnapped girl, who managed to avoid having her mobile phone confiscated by turning it off and hiding it in her bra, managed to call her family while hiding in bushes, but had no idea where she was or which direction she should be heading.

After being told to walk west by following the sunset each evening, the four girls managed to cross the border from Cameroun and into Nigeria before being reunited with their families.

So far they are the only girls to have escaped from a Boko Haram camp.

When Davis later tried to contact, via text, the young man who helped them, he received a sobering reply.

“The person you are trying to contact has gone on a journey from which there is no return,” the reply read. “He was an infidel.”

Davis said the longer he stayed in Nigeria the more it dawned on him the kidnappings would not end.

“It became very clear that if I was able to get 50 girls released, then another group would kidnap 70 or 80 more. So by freeing 50 you were consigning 70 or 80 more to the same fate,” he explained.

Davis said initially journalists from around the world including CNN, the ABC and BBC flocked into the country, but they concluded it was far too dangerous to send any crew into the North-east of the country.

He said since then, the violence in North-east Nigeria and the threat of foreign journalists being kidnapped and beheaded, there has been limited coverage of the crimes being committed by Boko Haram.

“Boko Haram used to telephone Nigerian journalists and give them a story, but that doesn't happen anymore,” he said.

“They go straight to social media. They post their own material and they’ve learnt to become very savvy on social media and use it as an instrument to terrorise.”

Davis, who has a PhD in political geography, has worked as an adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

He also worked for Shell in Nigeria in an advisory capacity between 2002 and 2004.

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Politics / Re: Female Suicide Bomber Dies In Failed Attempt to bomb University In Kano by arnold75(m): 3:59pm On Jul 27, 2014
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U have been completely brainwashed. I just wonder who sold all this lies to u just an attempt to potray Islam -vely. Any righteous person won't believe this lies! Islam is completely opposite of what u stated.
May Allah forgive U!
I know that it is to big for you to handle.. have ever heard of "abuja declaration 1989" pls google and you will notice that the original copy on wikipedia has been edited to deceive people but check the original copy posted on nairaland. google will help you. no insults or slights intended but a piece of useful information which will gradually reach the hands of every nigerian.

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Politics / Re: Female Suicide Bomber Dies In Failed Attempt to bomb University In Kano by arnold75(m): 3:49pm On Jul 27, 2014
CaptainBomb: I think BH is not Hausa, Muslim or Christian. Not even a Nigeria Group.
I will only agree with you if you will explain why they shout allau akbar when they are doing this killing bc that language is strange to the christians and possible known tribes and extractions

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Sports / Re: FIFA Suspends Nigeria by arnold75(m): 8:01pm On Jul 09, 2014
Syenite: You people saying goodnews need ur head re-examined. U people are d real enemies of Nigerian football.
Do u know our U17 team is scheduled to play DR Congo in U17 WC qualifiers next weekend? Do u know our Falconets have travelled to Canada where dey will take part in FIFA U20 WC?

I pray our chalk brained authorities do d needful and get FIFA to reverse the ban.

Haba was Nigeria the only country dat had a disappointing WC ounting?

Going by our reactions in Nigeria, English, Spanish and Italian fans should have murdered all their players and officials by now.

The other day some Nigerians were happy that France beat Nigeria. I don't understand these people. angry
I think you are missing some things out. Massive fraud was uncovered and there is a court case which apparently has nothing to do with govt.i guess they need to fill us in with all the news. For the ban? We have nothing to loose, thatz my penny.
Politics / Re: I Didn't Say "The Poor Don't Get It" - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala by arnold75(m): 10:41pm On Jan 09, 2012
I dont knowy nairaland is filled with isi okukos that cant just wait to read what the poster just posted, rather they choose to expose their unocordinated lifestyle on this wall by trying to comment on treads. Is it compulsory to respond to any thread?, you guys should go back and re-read the thread and the link thereof to get the import before making clueless responses.
Religion / Re: Where Is Bishop David Oyedepo? by arnold75(m): 11:21am On Dec 26, 2011
@Nimshi or whatever you call yourself, cant you go and get a life somewhere? you have been in the vanguard against men of God and now you are reporting that he is not present in his church, are you God? or i hope it is not what i am thinking.ASSASIN!, "a child that does not know the meaning of dances ends up dancing to the tune of the dead".Pls dont stop, tell us about what is happening in his bed room,probably that he has deserted his sleeping place too.
Crime / Re: The ABSU Video Is A Hoax - Abia Commissioner by arnold75(m): 3:58pm On Sep 22, 2011
For some doubting thomases like johndoe, there is a picture of one of the alleged perpetrators of this crime (the guy that she was calling uche, and was saying biko,biko to.).
The truth is gradually coming out, i know he isnt guilty until proven but clues are pointing his direction and the picture of others are on the way i bet!
Crime / Re: The ABSU Video Is A Hoax - Abia Commissioner by arnold75(m): 2:22pm On Sep 22, 2011
Johndoe100:

You see why people have to be careful, 3 guys volunteer to help find these guys and some slowpoke gets mixed up and now they are rapists. It's better not to get involved with Nigerians.
I dont have a problem with this, but how come the names mentioned by the investigators have the first names of the guys that the girl kept calling during the rape incident?
Crime / Re: The ABSU Video Is A Hoax - Abia Commissioner by arnold75(m): 2:04pm On Sep 22, 2011
Hoax ko! rumor ni!, someone has identified three of the guys with their real name and all other info about them.The three so far are students of ABSU.i saw the video too,What are we talking about? if the girl was their daughter, will they ever let it slip through?"anoda man head na coconut"mmmmmtsheeeeeeeeeew!
Politics / Cpc Wants Buhari To Be Declared The Winner Of April Pool? by arnold75(m): 9:06am On Aug 12, 2011
I dont really understand this or do they want it to be by force again? http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/aug/12/newsbreak-12-08-2011-001.html
Business / Re: Sanusi Will Ruin Economy If Allowed To Carry Out Liquidation Of Banks by arnold75(m): 3:35pm On Jun 28, 2011
There are obviously a lot of i-diots on this website. Sanusi is doing his job. The banks can either recapitalize on their own or merge with another bank. Sanusi's actions are simply to protect depositors' money. You clowns must have forgotten when the banks were cooking their books and Nigerians ended up losing money with their worthless stocks. The Nigerian and Brazilian banks have a similar history. Right now, the Brazilian banking system in one of the best in the world and Sanusi's reforms are a child's play compared to the regulations in Brazil. When all the US and UK banks almost went under during the repression 2-3 years ago, the Brazilians banks fared the best. If you want a good thing, you have to be willing to sacrifice to do things the right way.
@ Genius100, i really feel that people like you dont listen to news and get their import. You didnt give the shareholders opportunity to recapitalize their banks or merger rather you offered them straight jacketed solutions, "allow yourself to be sold or be liquidated". Haba! it is only in nigeria that we can see this kind of injustice. If your father or you are a major shareholder in such banks would you go home and say "let it be so"? answer this question genuinely.
God will answer sanusi terribly atleast for the tens of thousands that he threw out of job. Common inflation that he promised that he will fight till it's reduced to a single digit kept increasing each day (a reason why he should resign honorably). It is if this sanusi's "worm in the apple" tactics have not affected you directly or indirectly (negatively) that is only when you come out here to sing. I am waiting for you, one day when the truth is unveiled, i hope you will be bold enough to stand by him.
Politics / Re: Buhari’s CPC Sues Jega, INEC by arnold75(m): 5:53pm On May 08, 2011
I know PDP and GEJ are not sleeping, presenting videos and pictures of over 2 million underage voters alone will disqualify this dishonest claim. What MB of defunct BB saying. He who comes to equity must do so with clean hands. cikena
Romance / Re: I Am Doing Something Abominable And I Know But I Need Help by arnold75(m): 8:23am On Jan 21, 2011
We r throwing stones up and down, this gal needs help q.e.d. It could have been anybody but thank God she is realising that she needs help. I advice first that you make a conscious decision to leave your inlaws house, seek God's forgiveness and promise God not to try it again. You would have to seek forgiveness from your sisters but that will be later. Tell your inlaws what your decisions are and tht you are moving forward. sad sad sad
Religion / Re: Redeemed Church Opens World's Biggest Auditorium, Costs N7.7b by arnold75(m): 9:48am On Dec 13, 2007
khai khai, i think you need to be duely informed, Adeboye isnt and will not be the owner of RCCG, because he isnt the founder of the church,he is the 2nd General Overseer in the history of RCCG. Ask for more info before you say things you'll regret. For charity ooo, he is deep into it,how much of G O do you know?
Religion / Re: Redeemed Church Opens World's Biggest Auditorium, Costs N7.7b by arnold75(m): 9:40am On Dec 13, 2007
I am so surprised that some people would want to claim to know what they dont have dept knowledge of.Solomon's temple for God has the best architectural design in its days and was laced with gold and precious stones.Think about it and place value on it,wont it be well over the amount you are screaming for.Lets talk as nigerians,how much is Abacha's loot, ex-military presidents' loots.between 1999 till date how much money do you think our governors has looted.Are there not so much people in need their state?
Lets come off this hypocrisy,you would like the members on convention to stay under a canopy? or to stay in ur house.Lets be honest and objective in our criticism.
Religion / Re: Redeemed Church Opens World's Biggest Auditorium, Costs N7.7b by arnold75(m): 9:36am On Dec 13, 2007
I am so surprised that some people would want to claim to know what they don't have dept knowledge of.Solomon's temple for God has the best architectural design in its days and was laced with gold and precious stones.Think about it and place value on it,wont it be well over the amount you are screaming for.Lets talk as nigerians,how much is Abacha's loot, ex-military presidents' loots.between 1999 till date how much money do you think our governors has looted.Are there not so much people in need their state?
Lets come off this hypocrisy,you would like the members on convention to stay under a canopy? or to stay in your house.Lets be honest and objective in our criticism.

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