DONSMITH123:

The mass burial of victims killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in several communities in Bassa Local Government of Plateau State was on Tuesday disrupted by a fresh attack which left 25 persons dead.

Those to be given mass burial today were murdered between Thursday, March 8, 2018 when President Muhammadu Buhari paid an official visit to the beleaguered state, and Sunday, March 11.

During the latest attack which took place by 7:00pm on Monday, 11 houses were also razed down.

Persons suspected to be Fulani herdsmen were said to have killed the 25 persons, including three children and two women, in Dundu Village of Kwall District in Bassa LGA of Plateau State.

The spokesperson of Miango Youth Development Association, Lawrence Zongo, confirmed the casualty rate in an interview with The PUNCH in Jos on Tuesday.

He said, “Very sad! Again, Fulani terrorists killed 25 persons in Dundu Village of Kwall District in Bassa LGA of Plateau State.

“Eleven houses were razed down. The villagers were attacked around 7pm yesterday (Monday). Among the victims were three children and two women.

“Others, including two women, are now receiving treatment in a nearby hospital in the community. This is too bad, as we are planning the mass burial of the last attack.

“So far, we have more than 500 Internally Displaced Persons camp. International organisations should please come to our aid.”

When contacted, the spokesperson of Plateau State Police Command, Matthias Tyopev, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, also confirmed the attack , but said the information was sketchy.

According to him, the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Adie Undie, has ordered a Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations), Taiwo Jebiyisu, to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.

He said, “There was an attack yesterday (Monday) in Bassa; as such, the Commissioner of Police, Plateau State Command, has directed the DCP Taiwo Jebiyisu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Department of Operations, to go to the scene of crime for an on-the-spot assessment.

“As such, he is there now. The information is sketchy. I shall inform you when the details of the attack are made available, please.”



http://punchng.com/breaking-25-killed-11-houses-razed-in-fresh-attacks-as-guests-flee-plateau-mass-burial/

Bubewilson:
Recall that the US. Sec. of State, Rex Tillerson was in Nigeria on 12 March 2018, See thread- https://www.nairaland.com/4394443/rex-tillerson-arrives-nigeria-photos

He was subsequently received in Aso Rock by Nig President Buhari on the same day 12 March 2018- https://www.nairaland.com/4394563/president-buhari-receives-rex-tillerson

Today, 13 March 2018, President Trump just made a tweet about his sack.

The reason for this sack may not be unconnected with the internal politics of the Trump Administration.
See Tweet below

ayusco85:
MIDDLE BELT BY LEGITIMACY
copied
I am Otumala Jeo G
I am from Benue State, Nigeria
When i served as a missionary in Northern Nigeria
The Northerners asked of my state of origin
When I told them I am from Benue
They replied, 'Binue' (in their ascent)
Binue Inyamiri ne(meaning Benues are Ibo(Nyem Mmiri)
When I returned from the north,
I went to Enugu State, (Southern Nigeria) to pick a wife for myself,
They asked me, "where are you from?"
Benue, I responded
They turned to my lady and asked her;
"So you mean you didn't see any man from Ibo land other than Onye ahusa?"
Then i thought to myself,
My father does not understand 'Inaikwuana'
Neither does he know Otutu oma
My greeting is 'Noleyi'-Then, i remembered the great J. S. Tarka
And it quickly dawned on me that, I am not from the North
Neither am I from the south
I am MIDDLE BELT
I remember the story my father told me
About the Bat who has teeth like the dog,
Ears and eyes like the rat and wings like the bird,
On the day of his death,
They searched for his kinsmen to bury him
The Dog came and observed him and he said;
Of a truth his teeth and mouth looks like mine,
But his ears and wings we don't have in my family,
So he is not mine
They called on the rat and he said;
His eyes are my family looks and so are his ears
But we don't have wings in my family neither do we fly
So he is not of my kinsfolk
The bird came and observed him and said;
Surely, he has wings like my family members,
But as u can see, we do not have teeth and ears in my family,
Thus, i can't accept him as mine
There was no man to bury the bat
I am the bat, i am neither of the north nor of the south
But I have an identity, yes, I know I have!
I AM MIDDLE BELT
Why should I be killed as a southner
Or die as a northerner when I can live as a Middle Belter?
I don't need a stray-bullet death,
I have my life to live, I am from MIDDLE BELT
I live to give my children their identity
And die to preserve their prestige
They should proudly say;
I AM MIDDLE BELT
I believe in the Nigerian ideology
But not in the Nigerian political geography
I don't know of anything like North-Central in my geography
When you can't have South-Central
There is only North, South and the Middle Belt
The presidency had been zoned to the North over the years
If i am from the North as purported
Why am I not considered?
Why am I only good as a spokesman for the North and not a game player
I am neither enjoying the benefits of the south
Neither am I enjoying the privileges of the North
I AM MIDDLE BELT
I rise to take my place
I have lived in the illusion called NORTH for too long
A useful idiot I have been
Useful as a political pawn and a game changer
But unuseful in sharing the bounties of political victory
I must wake up to who I realy am
I will not sell my conscience for money
Neither will I sell my purpose for vain alliance
I AM MIDDLE BELT
There is a place called MIDDLE BELT in Nigeria
Where the braves are, there am I
And that's who I am
I AM MIDDLE BELT
By Joe Great Otumala,
Dedicated to the blessed memory of J. S. Tarka and the fourteen Middle Belt States
A speech by Otumala Joe Great
On the Occasion of the Southern Leaders and Middle Belt Coalition Forum
held in Chateau De Victoria Hotels Makurdi, Benue state on 25th Feb. 2018

4kDdullard:
A terrorist now leading Nigeria.We told the Afonja pigs but they never cared to listen.Nigeria is now better than America according to Ewedu eaters

Omeokachie:
And they said military, police, and all security agencies on the ground, yet these marauding killers are walking freely with arms and ammunition.

Yet some are clamouring for a continuation of this state of affair and the failed people to continue to govern!

dainformant:
Troops of 707 Special Forces Brigade conducting EXERCISE AYEM AKPATUMA arrested 5 suspected cultists on Sunday 25 February 2018 at Katsina Ala local government area of Benue State. Preliminary investigation conducted revealed that the suspects were said to be students of College of Education, Katsina Ala who were about to be initiated as new members.

Troops acted on credible information followed by raid operations which led to their arrest. The suspects arrested are, Mr Dennis Victor Terfa, Mr Emmanuel Daniel Akpagher, Mr Akuse Jacob Aondongu, Mr Kpo Isaac and Mr Idika Kelechi.

Similarly troops operating at Sector C of same Exercise carried out cordon and search operations at Ukum Local Government Area which also led to the arrest of gun runners and cattle rustler.

Among the suspects arrested is a 55 year old weapon Instructor, Mr Samuel Gaza, who is a member of the Livestock Guard confessed to have been rustling cows for over 4 years before he was recruited by the state government,while Mr Jato Aontoseer, confess that he is a gun runner, Mr Avaatyough Aontoseer is a weapon fabricator.

Items recovered are: one Fabrique National rifle, 3 Fabrique National and AK 47 magazines, one locally made pistol, 3 dane guns, 4 mobile phones and one axe, military belt, lanyard and a beret, charms, some quantity of Indian hemp.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/02/troops-arrests-suspected-cultists-and-cattle-rustlers-at-katsina-ala.html

Quelle:

This is really funny, what a coincidence. Nigerian man meets his boss at job interview he attended after taking sick leave at work.

According to him, not only did he meet his boss at the interview; he was also among the panelist interviewing them.

He wrote in his tweet;
"I was scheduled for an interview today, so I called my boss yesterday informing him I wasn’t feeling fine & that I would love to visit the clinic. He advised I go for proper checkup & he gave me 2 days off; I was shocked when I saw him among panelist interviewing us this morning!"


https://gistrealm.com/man-meets-his-boss-at-job-interview-he-attended-after-taking-a-sick-leave/



Cc lalasticlala mynd44 Dominique

naijastoryz:
yeah

Firstpage:



https://independent.ng/igbo-intimidating-buhari-biafra-get-appointments-sagay/amp/

xtophy:
PLEASE, WHAT IS THE MORAL LESSON OF THIS STORY?

deji17:
Dasukigate: EFCC grills Nigeria’s former Army Chief Ihejirika

February 21, 2018

Samuel Ogundipe


Mr. Ihejirika, a retired lieutenant-general, arrived at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja around 11:00 a.m. Wednesday and was subsequently ushered into an interrogation room, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

Mr. Ihejirika, 62, led the Nigerian Army from September 2010 to January 2014 when he was dropped by President Goodluck Jonathan over his handling of the Boko Haram war.

His visit to the EFCC comes about 20 months after President Muhammadu Buhari said Mr. Ihejirika and others should be prosecuted after they were indicted by a panel of inquiry that probed the arms scandal, now widely dubbed the Dasukigate.

“He is being questioned as related to the procurement of arms and ammunition during the time he held sway as Chief of Army Staff,” an EFFC official told PREMIUM TIMES under strict anonymity because he was not an authorised spokesperson for the anti-graft agency.

“He will be released on administrative bail as soon as preliminary interrogations are over,” another source under anonymity said.

EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren did not respond to requests for comments.

Mr. Ihejirika said he didn’t immediately have answers to some of the questions thrown at him and sought the permission of his interrogators to go back home and retrieve more details relating to the arms purchase affairs, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

The arms panel suspected Mr. Ihejirika of using family members and fronts to procure arms contract.

Mr. Ihejirika was eventually released on administrative bail on Wednesday night. He was asked to return on Thursday, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
He was not removed because of his handling of Book haram, this is far from the truth
Rather GEJ kept him while he has reached retirement age before one APC lawyer went to court.
In fact he performed brilliantly against bokoharam while buhari was shouting attack on bokoharam.is an
attack on the north. Because of his achievement he was once accused of revenging Biafra war
Haba it is too early to forget.
Let me warn the efcc will soon be targeting retired senior army officer of IBO origin in preparation
of what they wan to unleesh after the election.
A wise prayer that will come from any enlighten human is God save me from my friends
and leave my enemy to me. We are waiting.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/breaking-military-rescue-abducted-yobe-schoolgirls-inside-bush.html

BrainnewsNg:


https://punchng.com/soldiers-frogmarch-pupil-to-death-for-lateness-as-zamfara-teacher-flogs-another-to-death/

priceaction:
Something is going on underneath that some smart people of the south needs to unravel. It is glaring. Bh own will be child's play. Southern people should brace up speedily. Have you ever asked why so called Fulani herdsmen have not been killing in mostly Muslim dominated part of the north? Why south, and middle belt. If you don't know, this is BH extension .

Opinionated:



The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has released a press statement in which it claims that the Management of the Nigerian Law School is provoking Muslims with its alleged insistence that Muslim ladies should not wear hijab to its customary dinner. Read the press release next:

NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOLS PROVOKING MUSLIMS

Although the dust is yet to settle on the call to bar hijab saga featuring Amasa Firdaus, the six Nigerian Law School campuses across the nation may not allow female Muslim students due for Bar Part II to wear their hijabs during the 2017/2018 First Term Law Dinner, which started yesterday, Wednesday, 13th February, 2018. The dinners will run till tomorrow, Thursday, 15th February, 2018.

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) warns that any attempt to bar female Muslim law students who wish to use hijab from doing so is an infringement on Allah-given fundamental rights of those students as entrenched in Section 38 (i) & (ii) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Already, MURIC has received reports of a number of female Muslim law students at the Agbani, Enugu, Lagos and Abuja campuses who are allegedly being threatened with disciplinary measures should they use the Hijab at the Law Dinner.

We remind authorities of these Law School campuses of the provisions of Section 42 of the Nigerian Constitution which prohibits the placing of any citizen under any internally formulated restriction. We also call attention to Section 13 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act (1991) which forbids officials from taking any action “prejudicial to the rights of any person knowing that such act is unlawful or contrary to any government policy”
We affirm clearly, emphatically and unequivocally that whatever emanates from any circular in any Nigerian institution (the Law Schools included) must comply with the dictates of the Nigerian Constitution which is the font et origo of all laws, rules, regulations, provisions and directives in this country.

MURIC warns that certain campuses of the Nigerian Law Schools are deliberately precipitating crisis by stereotyping female Muslim students on the issue of hijab. Those who seek to play God in the lives of Nigerian Muslims are religious fanatics bent on intimidating, oppressing and persecuting Muslims.
This is a dangerous situation capable of snowballing into a religious crisis whose consequences no one can predict. The Qur’an affirms that oppression is worse than killing (Qur’an 2:191). This verse underlines the gravity of the hijab phenomenon. Female Muslims are being persecuted in order to give undue advantage to non-Muslims. It is religious apartheid. It is unacceptable. We will rather be free men in our graves than live like puppets and second class citizens.

Those who make rules and regulations impossible to obey make it impossible not to disobey. Law Schools where anti-Muslim dressing codes are issued in a multi-religious Nigeria do not belong to decent and accommodating communities of men and women.

While MURIC advocates non-violence in its interventions (based on its avowed motto, ‘Dialogue, Not Violence’), Nigerian Law Schools should not wait until radical and anti-dialogue elements hijack the initiative and start disrupting Law School Dinners. They may even do more. The fact that these anti-Muslim antics are not attempted anywhere in the core North suggests tactical conspiracy against Nigerian Muslims by authorities of those Law Schools where the profiling and persecution of Muslims have become the stock-in-trade.
Finally, we call on the Federal Government and the National Assembly (particularly the House of Representatives where the Amasa Firdaus case is still being investigated) to turn its attention to what is going on in the Law School Dinners across the country. Muslims are not being violent now but they are being persecuted. Those who fail to listen to the dialogue group may have cause to regret it sooner or later.

Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)

source: http://www.opinions.ng/muric-nigerian-law-school-stop-provoking-muslims/

sarrki:
Brains of PDP online miscreants won't be able to comprehend

What he means is

It will only cause more havoc

snowden9:


https://www.channelstv.com/2018/02/06/wike-blasts-okorocha-for-granting-amnesty-to-wanted-cultists/

unbitchable:
Can't believe Tinubu hasn't learnt his lessons

hopilo:
The PRO displayed what l see as plan to protect herdsmen against Benue indigenes.

Blue3k2:
It always amazes me how NE has less poverty in these indecies than NW. Some needs to explain why regions that produce the food do worse in these stats. I believe it's because southern regions can import more and generally have more disposable income.

Front Page: lalasticlala

Reelectbuhari:


https://independent.ng/breaking-igp-orders-afegbuas-arrest-anti-buhari-statement/amp/

Angelanest:
A Nigerian man named Fakorede Sola, has taken to Facebook to lament his loss after his farm was set on fire by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Ekiti state. According to the distraught man, he invested his live savings on the farm because of the passion he has for farming before it was set on fire by the herdsmen because they were warned to stop their activities on the farm.

Read what he shared online;

Four Years ago, I went back to to the farm.Invested my life savings and borrowed more money from friends. Took bank loan. Considering the future and invested in my passion. Got labour from locals and also employed few from Benin Republic.

Planted over 4,000 stands of palm tree; over 2,000 stands of plantain; over 500 stands of cashew and about 300 stands of Cocoa.

I was always excited traveling to Ekiti twice a month from my base in Lagos to monitor the progress of my passion and investment.

Unfortunately, my hope was dashed this morning when I got the call that Fulani Herdsmen set my farm ablaze last night. Just because they were warned by my workers to stop their activities on the farm.

Is this how we will continue?

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/02/mans-farm-set-ablaze-by-fulani-herdsmen-in-ekiti-state.html

uba1991:
useless ipob.they don gather a litle population they want to sacrifice to the pyton the way coward ojukwu sacrifice 3000000 pigs to gallant nigerian soldiers

dre11:

South East is not the only IPOB states, it include Benue State,
Just find a way of reconciling with these people instead of blowing trumpet of threat
they have gone beyond what you can ever imagine in your life time. They have reformatted their
earlier mode of operation. You could have allowed them with their Biafra noise internally while they are
closely being monifored, with time people will get fedup with them. (If people are engaged and your army
are not carrying out genocide in the middle of the night under the name cattle heards men
because they want to take over people land for cattle colony, all these wouldnt have started, so leave
treasury looter out of it because you nigerian politicians are all looters.)The problem with us in this country
is that our intel lack experience. Now they gained the sympathy of those who initialy was agaist them
including people like you to mention just a few.
Just tell your Fulani master to drop this idea of cattle colony before sympathercers start
arming them. Which ever way, we prefer one Nigeria were there is equity and justice.









http://thenationonlineng.net/fg-accuses-ipob-using-fake-videos-hoodwink-international-community/

vicktwitt:
GO GET YOUR PVC NO BE TODAY WE DON DEY HEAR THAT SLANS ABEG WHO U WANT VOTE ABI NA PEOPLE DECEIVE PEOPLE (PDP) OR NA APC OR NA THE THIRD FORCE OBJ BRING U NO SEE SAY UR VOTE IS ALREADY DIVIDED MAKE I MAKE AM CLEAR COME 2019 BUBU GO RETAIN ASO ROCK NOW WETIN WE GO DEY TALK NA FOURTH FORCE APART FROM POLITICS OR VOTING HOW WE GO TAKE STOP THIS FAI WEY WAN CONSUME NAIJA UNA DEY TALK TO VOTE BUBU COMMOT I BET IF IM COMMOT MAKE WE BRACE UP FOR WETIN GO HAPPEN AFTER THE LOSS

ayusco85:
Get your PVC. Get your PVC. Do you know how hard it is to get PVC?

agbonkamen:
Death penalty too for herdsmen

Okwyla:
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has disclosed that the Nigerian Army would soon deployed its personnel to various parts of the country to contain ongoing threat to security in the country.

He said the troops would be deployed under Special Forces, such as Operation Python Dance III in the Southeast, Operation Crocodile Smile III in the Niger Delta and Southwest and Harbin Kunama III in the North to contend cattle rustling in that part of the country.

Buratai spoke in Abuja, yesterday, after leading officers and men on an annual 15-kilometre route match that culminated at the Mogadishu Cantonment in the city, tasked officers and men to be on alert, as they could be deployed any moment there was any need for that.


He reiterated that some officers and men could be deployed at short notice to assist what he called “civil authorities” to contend insecurity in any part of the country and charged them to be prepared for the task.

The army chief could not, however, give a clear picture on whether the troops would carry out similar exercise in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states, following incessant herdsmen/farmers clashes in those states, which have resulted in several killings.

He said: “Well, we are not thinking of any particular situation; we are going to train on general areas, which could include that aspect as well.

“But our focus will be to ensure that security is provided across the country.

“So, definitely, expect Harbin Kunama III, Crocodile Smile III and Egwu Eke Dance III and probably another exercise coming, which will be made known at the appropriately time.”

Operation Python Dance I & II, Operation Harbin Kunama I and II were among others conducted in 2016 and last year, respectively, to deal with the menace of cattle rustling and herdsmen/farmers clashes in parts of Northwest and North-Central, while Crocodile Smile and Egwu Eke Dance were conducted in the Niger Delta and the Southeast, respectively, last year to tackle pipeline vandalism, oil theft and piracy, violent agitation and kidnapping.

http://www.akelicious.com/2018/02/army-to-begin-operation-python-dance.html

Ecstasy154:
The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity told journalists in Abuja on Friday that many media organisation are guilty of reporting hate speech as it concerns the report of clashes in Benue State.

“The growing lack of respect for journalism ethics and press laws in the Nigerian media, especially regarding the clashes in Benue State is very unfortunate.

“The frequent expression of hate speech published by newspapers, in news stories and especially in columns is indeed a source of concern to all.

“We want to state emphatically that a segment of the Nigerian media is sinking deeper and deeper into the mesh of hate speech in spite of repeated appeals by recognised and reputable media bodies, the Government and concerned Nigerians.”

The presidential spokesman said also condemned a publication in a national newspaper which said ‘‘President Muhammadu Buhari was the first to endorse the Benue massacre’’ on New Year Day stating that this is inciting members of the public.

Shehu also cited example of a national newspaper with the headlines: ‘Expect More Blood in Benue.’

“Apart from the basic tone of respect expected from an individual who is supposedly intelligent and educated enough to know better since they have been granted space to write in a national newspaper, there is the risk of inciting the public to actions that will have gory consequences for the entire nation for generations to come.

“Those beating the gongs of war and fanning the embers of discord must remember what prevailed in Rwanda before the genocide of the early 90s, during which hundreds of thousands of lives were lost as a result of consistent hate speech spewing from that country’s media,” he said.

He appealed to the media to express criticisms without resorting to name calling.

“We must learn to express our grievances and criticisms without resorting to gutter language or to name calling, and the press has a responsibility to maintain that even if it means calling their columnists to order.

Calling for respect for the position of the President, Shehu said President Buhari according to the constitution has the primary duty of protecting life and property and that is what he has been doing in Benue and across the country.

“Calling him a murderer is not only grossly disrespectful but unfair, especially when the President has written a letter to the Senate detailing his efforts to quell the crisis in Benue State, including dispatching the Minister of Interior and the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of operations for an on the spot assessment of the situation in the aftermath of the unfortunate incident; and receiving a direct briefing from the IG the following day.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/02/02/killings-presidency-laments-hate-speech-demands-respect-for-buhari/

kcmichael:
How many death have been recorded since trump became president.Thousand of people died even during GEJ era.this nwabueze needs medical check up

Emyogalanya:
THE COMMUNITY THINKS THEY DO WELL. THEY WILL STILL COME AND AVENGE THIER COWS.

Nogodye:
Men of Excellent...Ride on