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Politics / Re: Governor Dakwanbo Took 8 Months To Swear In His Cabinet In 2011, 12 in 2015 by LRNZH(m): 1:57pm On Sep 01, 2018
Dankwambo na correct man.
Leave these propagandists.
Politics / Re: Video Emerges On FG's Railway Scholarship Scandal by LRNZH(m): 5:49am On Jun 30, 2018
The more you look in Nigeria.....

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Politics / Video Emerges On FG's Railway Scholarship Scandal by LRNZH(m): 5:45am On Jun 30, 2018
How Buhari’s ministers, officials shortchanged my child in railway scholarship – Mother


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yccsQVfOEF4

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/video/274297-video.html?

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Crime / Re: VIDEO: Armed Fulani Herdsmen With Ak-47s Chanting "Sai Baba Buhari" by LRNZH(m): 10:40am On Jun 28, 2018
Lalasticlala... ngwanu. Odiro easy on...

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Crime / VIDEO: Armed Fulani Herdsmen With Ak-47s Chanting "Sai Baba Buhari" by LRNZH(m): 7:25am On Jun 28, 2018
Video trending on Twitter and other forms of Social Media shows Fulani Herdsmen armed with AK-47s moving in groups and chanting praises to Buhari in Hausa language.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydAk7VLrTBM

cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Mynd44

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Crime / Re: Who Will Protect Nigeria’s Northern Christians? - The UK Spectator by LRNZH(m): 8:29pm On Jun 25, 2018
Lalasticlala, ishilove, Mynd44 food don finish o

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Crime / Who Will Protect Nigeria’s Northern Christians? - The UK Spectator by LRNZH(m): 3:23pm On Jun 25, 2018
Every week, there are more massacres, but nobody seems to mind — not even their own government
By Douglas Murray



More than 2 million people have been displaced by violence in Nigeria


Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to be their neighbours — and who are now cleansing them from the area. The locals daren’t collect the freshest bodies. Some who tried earlier have already been killed, spotted by the waiting militia and hacked down or shot. The Fulani are watching everything closely from the surrounding mountains. Every week, their progress across the northern states of Plateau and Kaduna continues. Every week, more massacres — another village burned, its church razed, its inhabitants slaughtered, raped or chased away. A young woman, whose husband and two children have just been killed in front of her, tells me blankly, ‘Our parents told us about these people. But we lived in relative peace and we forgot what they said.’

For the outside world, what is happening to the Christians of northern Nigeria is both beyond our imagination and beneath our interest. These tribal-led villages, each with their own ‘paramount ruler’, were converted by missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries. But now these Christians — from the bishop down — sense that they have become unsympathetic figures, perhaps even an embarrassment, to the West. The international community pretends that this situation is a tit-for-tat problem, rather than a one-sided slaughter. Meanwhile, in Nigeria, the press fails to report or actively obscures the situation. Christians in the south of the country feel little solidarity with their co-religionists suffering from this Islamic revivalism and territorial conquest in the north. And worst of all, the plight of these people is of no interest to their own government. In fact, this ethnic and religious cleansing appears to be taking place with that government’s complicity or connivance.

Every village has a similar story. A few days before any attack, a military helicopter is spotted dropping arms and other supplies into the areas inhabited by the Fulani tribes. Then the attack comes. For reasons of Islamic doctrine, the militia often deliver a letter of warning. Then they come, at any time of night or day, not down the dirt tracks, but silently through the foliage. The Christian villagers, who are forbidden to carry arms (everyone is, in theory), have no way to defend themselves. With some exceptions, they also tend to believe what they were taught about turning the other cheek.

The village of Goska was attacked on Christmas Eve. In a temporary shelter nearby, a young man describes how he ran towards his home when he heard the attack start. There he found his mother lying dead on the floor. Uniformed Fulani militia were everywhere. He fled across the fields: ‘I ran and ran until I realised my feet could not carry me any longer.’ The first bullet that hit him passed through the sole of one foot; the second through the back of the other leg with that clean felt-tip mark Kalashnikov bullets make on entry. The exit wounds are less neat —the second exploded out through his right kneecap. On the ground, he realised why he could no longer run, but also that he was still alive. ‘My day was not over,’ he says, brushing his hand across his better leg.

Across the surviving Christian villages of the north, thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. In those villages and the IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps to which many have fled, you can see the same wounds from the same bullets. In the remote village of Sho, where the attacks have been going on since 2001, a girl of 12 — in her Sunday best — embarrassedly shows me the scars of the bullet which entered and exited her elbow recently while she played behind her house.

An eight-year-old girl balances on one foot to point out the bullet wound on the other, a hallmark of the snipers sitting in the hills around us. Villages have been persuaded to keep records of the attacks to show anyone who cares. One of the very few from outside who does — Britain’s own Baroness Cox — came here recently. Her vehicle was spotted by the Fulani, who came out hunting for her and only just missed their target. Because of attacks like this, almost nobody comes. Just one more reason why these atrocities do not attract the West’s attentions.

The task of chronicling the outrages continues nonetheless. Village leaders keep ring-binders of their dead. Some have photo-graph albums of what their villages have been through: old women set alight; young women raped and shot; babies hacked to death.

The Nigerian government, led by a Fulani president — Muhammadu Buhari — clearly does not wish to protect these people. Even more than under Buhari’s incompetent Christian predecessor, the army fails to perform its most basic duties. As you get into the more dangerous and remote areas, sullen young soldiers at army road blocks hustle you for cash at gunpoint.

A villager takes me to the bridge where the village leader and 13 others were recently gunned down in a Fulani ambush. Nigerian army troops watched the whole thing from their base a couple of hundred yards away — just as they did the destruction of another Christian village, the remains of which sit, burned out and silent, right opposite them. The army seems to have no interest in protecting the Christians, while the government in Abuja appears to care more about passing new laws on cattle-rustling than on protecting human lives. When challenged after a massacre, soldiers often claim that they didn’t receive any orders — or had been commanded not to intervene.

In a line that’s parroted by some NGOs, the government says that this is a land or agricultural dispute. Yet it is the Christian communities who are being systematically forced off it. If anybody wanted to find the culprits, they could find them living and farming on the land they have stolen. But such arrests never happen. The complicity between the army and the Fulani is obvious. Between Barakin-Ladi and Riyom — in sight of another army post — is a sacked Christian village which locals say now acts as a Fulani arms dump. The world’s indifference gives the Nigerian government the advantage in what looks like a quiet effort to rid northern Nigeria of its Christians.

The moment three years ago when Boko Haram abducted 300 Christian schoolgirls from the north-east and ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ briefly trended on Twitter was the closest this situation has come to catching the world’s attention. But the moment passed. Those girls are still missing and the story of Boko Haram has receded from the headlines. But similar atrocities go on all the time. At an IDP camp Deborah, 31, describes the 18 months she spent held captive by the group. When they burst into her village, the Islamists killed her husband and the rest of her family, forcibly converted her and ‘married’ her off to one of their 20-year-old fighters. He complained about her bad temper and argumentativeness, but he still raped her, producing the nine-month-old boy now suckling at her breast. A Christian pastor has urged her to love and cherish the boy as though he was her murdered husband.

The first time she escaped from Boko Haram, she was recaptured and lashed 80 times as punishment. At least she is now unafraid of death. ‘What sort of death would I be running from?’ she asks. ‘I have already died once.’ At night, she says, a military plane would sometimes appear over Boko Haram’s camp and drop off supplies. ‘Look what powerful friends we have,’ her husband would boast as he pointed to the lights in the sky above. Even if the Nigerian army does not support Boko Haram, elements of it certainly do. Whenever an actual operation against the group is planned, they are always tipped off by forces within the country’s security apparatus.

Nigerians have their own view as to what is really going on: a suspicion fuelled again as I leave one IDP camp at sunset and news comes in that another camp to the east has just been bombed by the Nigerian military, killing and maiming scores of people.

The army later apologises for this ‘error’.But the bigger picture is not about error. If the international community meant anything by its promises such as the UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine, then what is happening could not go on. But the international community is uninterested. Governments like ours are uninterested. The world’s media is uninterested.

At morning service in the city of Jos, the congregation sing and pray using the 19th-century hymnals and prayer books by which their faith was delivered. When we reach the plea to ‘Deliver us from the hands of our enemies’, the closely packed room hums with the literalness of the words. The Christians of Nigeria are alone. Even if we do not care about this, we ought to know.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/who-will-protect-nigerias-northern-christians/

cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Mynd44

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Politics / Re: Bisi Fayemi Allegedly Reacts To Buhari's Comments About Her Husband's Chances by LRNZH(m): 6:01pm On Jun 16, 2018
SamuelAnyawu:



An APC Ekiti state Facebook will surely not have 15 likes bro... in as much as i support a PDP Candidate in my state not every Nairalander is a Dummy grin You guys should improve on your Media machinery

APC media machinery is a joke no doubt. grin

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Politics / Re: Bisi Fayemi Allegedly Reacts To Buhari's Comments About Her Husband's Chances by LRNZH(m): 5:22pm On Jun 16, 2018
SamuelAnyawu:



Right there they said its a fake APC Facebook account. Should i screengrab comments?

How do we prove the comments? Let Bisi deny it or sue the APC Ekiti Chapter account. We na news we carry.

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Politics / Re: Bisi Fayemi Allegedly Reacts To Buhari's Comments About Her Husband's Chances by LRNZH(m): 5:18pm On Jun 16, 2018

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Politics / Bisi Fayemi Allegedly Reacts To Buhari's Comments About Her Husband's Chances by LRNZH(m): 4:35pm On Jun 16, 2018
According to 'APC Ekiti Chapter' Facebook Page

"I read what the President said yesterday, insinuating that my husband may not win the governorship election and I am more than disappointed. Is he saying that as President, he does not know what to do to make sure that his party man wins an election? Why is the federal might that he promised to deploy?

"The President should just make sure my husband wins or we leave his party for him. After all, we know how he got those votes from Kano and other places in the North."

~ Fayemi's Wife (Bisi), reacting to President Buhari's comment of yesterday insinuating that Fayemi may not win the July 14 guber election while meeting with APC LGs Women Leaders today.

cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Mynd44

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Travel / Re: Pictures Of The Collapsed Mokwa-Jebba Highway Bridge by LRNZH(m): 3:25am On Jun 11, 2018
For more credible work will be done if we bring in competent folks..

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Travel / Re: Pictures Of The Collapsed Mokwa-Jebba Highway Bridge by LRNZH(m): 2:35am On Jun 11, 2018
This is Chanji for you.
After one year of repairs an FG bridge collapses.

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Politics / Re: President Buhari In Morocco. Pictures. by LRNZH(m): 2:33am On Jun 11, 2018
Vote Muhammadu Buhari for Chanji

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Politics / Re: President Buhari In Morocco. Pictures. by LRNZH(m): 2:29am On Jun 11, 2018


Vote Donald Duke for progress, unity, security and economic development.

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Politics / Re: Thousands Of Moroccans Welcome Buhari (photo) by LRNZH(m): 1:57am On Jun 11, 2018
Vote Muhammadu Buhari for Chanji

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Politics / Re: Thousands Of Moroccans Welcome Buhari (photo) by LRNZH(m): 1:55am On Jun 11, 2018
Vote Donald Duke for progress, unity, security and economic development

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Politics / Re: Pictures Of President Muhammadu Buhari In Morroco by LRNZH(m): 1:25am On Jun 11, 2018
Aka Judas Buhariot grin

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Politics / Re: 2019: APC Endorses Mannaseh, Passes No Confidence Vote On Dogara by LRNZH(m): 10:12pm On Jun 10, 2018
TonyeBarcanista:

Danjuma Goje (Gombe) and Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna) were the best in that era.

N/B Goje is now a serving Senator under APC

That's how another person was arguing with me yesterday that Abubakar Audu grin was the best.
I insist Duke was the best. Make everybody just hold their opinion.

Long time bro

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Politics / Re: 2019: APC Endorses Mannaseh, Passes No Confidence Vote On Dogara by LRNZH(m): 10:05pm On Jun 10, 2018
agabaI23:
Been a while really. I guess Gen Buhari's expected misfirings chased most of his fans a way.

Now let's send him to Otuoke sorry Daura. Lol

Welcome back wink


We are readying our Arsenals for 2019. The Daura Dullardin will not find it easy.

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Politics / Re: 2019: APC Endorses Mannaseh, Passes No Confidence Vote On Dogara by LRNZH(m): 9:42pm On Jun 10, 2018
MrJanuzaj:


Donald duke will not even win cross river his state

Wise men speak because they have something to say. You know the rest. - Plato

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Politics / Re: 2019: APC Endorses Mannaseh, Passes No Confidence Vote On Dogara by LRNZH(m): 9:18pm On Jun 10, 2018
agabaI23:
You? You? Hahaha
Bros good morning!

How far na longest time o.
No permanent friends or enemies but permanent interests. Nigeria must succeed.

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Politics / Re: 2019: APC Endorses Mannaseh, Passes No Confidence Vote On Dogara by LRNZH(m): 8:29pm On Jun 10, 2018
gurunlocker:


Lol.... GEJ is an errand boy to OBJ? Really? Things change so fast, you forgot what brings about the fall out between obj and gej? It's because he doesn't bow down to OBJ demands, doesn't allow obj to control him, that was what caused their clash.

Now you are talking bullshit as usual! grin

We already know him. Always dropping useless comments.

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Politics / Re: Only South East has all her States Enjoying Federal Govt free School Feeding by LRNZH(m): 8:03pm On Jun 10, 2018
A lot of fake pictures from different countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, Ghana etc

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Politics / Re: Kogi Borrowed Billions From Banks Despite Paris Club Refund & Bailouts (Photos) by LRNZH(m): 7:42pm On Jun 10, 2018
greatman247:



Good one from you jare... I support you on this. OP Why leaving out PDP governors as if na only APC governors do borrow after Paris Club Refund? What of that useless noise making bastard of a governor, Fayose? Most Nigerian governors are bunch of useless idiots anyway.

We will open thread for each of them. This one is for Yeye Bello. Be patient.

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Politics / Re: President Buhari Departs Abuja For Morocco (Photos) by LRNZH(m): 7:23pm On Jun 10, 2018
Terrorism on the run.
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is correct in pronouncing Buhari a failure and lazy man.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXErY-9PTe4

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Politics / Re: 2019: APC Endorses Mannaseh, Passes No Confidence Vote On Dogara by LRNZH(m): 7:13pm On Jun 10, 2018
DIKEnaWAR:




Your MCM is a snitch and sell out.

Go to Cross river and ask people that know how he ran the state with an iron fist. Killing and maiming those that were against his government. He is just a creation of the media.

All this because he opposed GEJ? Duke was the best performing governor under OBJ (1999 - 2007)

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Politics / Re: Kogi Borrowed Billions From Banks Despite Paris Club Refund & Bailouts (Photos) by LRNZH(m): 7:01pm On Jun 10, 2018
vedaxcool:


I am not defending Yahaya whom I have always condemned but I am exposing the op lack of integrity which pretends to stand for good governance when it only knows PDP as good.

Show me one proof where I supported PDP as being good. I'm waiting.

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Politics / Re: School Feeding Programme: Over 8.2m Pupils Now Being Fed In 24 States by LRNZH(m): 7:00pm On Jun 10, 2018
docadams:


That I know. From your tone, you are admiting there is a verifiable feeding program currently going on that cut across all the regions in the country against your earlier claims. I didn't filter the pics so as to compare what obtains in Nigeria with what is being practised in other countries.

Of course the video and picture and from Kano is from the school feeding program. So no one is arguing that there is a program. But the quality if it is deplorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTRARm3v_c

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Politics / Re: Kogi Borrowed Billions From Banks Despite Paris Club Refund & Bailouts (Photos) by LRNZH(m): 6:47pm On Jun 10, 2018
vedaxcool:
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With the sort of integrity you have, you clearly are living a lie but continue... Very soon you will be all up Atiku behind like bees on nectar

Well, you're here fighting for Yeye Bello. Even Atiku is better than him.

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