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Friday, 6 June 2014

Soldiers confiscate today's edition of The Nation and Leadership newspapers

Going by tweets on the timeline of the Nation newspapers and a report on their site, military men this morning stormed the office of the Nation newspapers in Benin City and Warri and confiscated their publication for today. The soldiers from the 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army at Okwuokoko, Delta State seized a van conveying the day’s newspapers to Warri and Benin City.
 
According to the newspaper, a source close to the soldiers said they are acting on orders from above.  Continue...
 
In a related development, military officials this morning also confiscated today’s edition of Leadership Newspaper heading to the Northwest, Southeast and South-South regions of the country.  A road block mounted by soldiers at the tollgate along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway intercepted the van conveying the Leadership newspapers and confiscated it.
 
No one knows yet the reason behind their actions but some people believe it is because of Tuesday, June 3rd publication on Leadership newspaper where it was reported that nearly a dozen army generals and soldiers on lower ranks had been brought to trial for sabotaging the Nigerian government’s onslaught against Boko Haram. This, the military vehemently denied immediately and even issued a press statement to that effect.

84 comments:

  1. Hmm. Na wa o. I don't understand this country anymore. So no freedom of press again or what? Linda biko be careful o, before they will start looking for you too.

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  2. Ghen ghen...o ti poju. Igboro ti daru. Linda get d full gist ASAP.

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  3. Is this a democracy? Quasi-demicracy, plain dictatorship or a Coup is underway.

    Those chibok girls hv been missing 4 close to 2mths... and military personal r stopping newspaper van.
    Diaris God oo

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  4. This is what you get when the military become politicians as well, politicking and all.

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    1. This people sha.there is God ooooo








      Airtel and Mtn Working Free Browsing Cheat On Android And Pc For June/july. Don't dull activate yours now

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  6. Order.. Presidential order. ENGR E

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  7. uselsess people,na for civilians body dem go dey show power make dem go fight BH for north nau...mtcheeew! shaking my bum-bum for them.

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    1. Let's know ur identity so we can pick u up bloody civilian. Otondo like you.

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    2. Pls dear, just shake it for me.ooo.am interested

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  8. They must have a reason for doing that.

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  9. Hmmm only in 9ja

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  10. If u guys like call Jonathan's name..as on a hear orders from above..even man wey no fit impregnate him wife go say na Jonathan cause am

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    1. Chop knuckle, dats d only sensible comment,here

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  11. Honestly I'm curious, I wonder the type of information they are trying to conceal....diaris God ooo

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  12. They had better have a good reason for their actions.




    CoolDiva speaks!

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  13. i smell rotten skeletons in their wardrobes. possibly a huge can of worms opened and they tryna hide their shit.

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  14. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    This is the reason they did it no doubt... June 3rd publication on Leadership newspaper where it was reported that nearly a dozen army generals and soldiers on lower ranks had been brought to trial for sabotaging the Nigerian government’s onslaught against Boko Haram. God will surely open their nyanch....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  15. Forget it, Nigeria is finished. let us run away

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    1. Oh my Gawd! @let us run away. You're cracking me up sweets...lol.

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    2. Can you please read your comment again ? Did you see that you are not making any sense . You can run away if you like nobody is holding you

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    3. Run away to where? Where u think is better? If the owners have ran away; would you have thought of running towards there cos I sure no bé bush u wan run enter so. Smh

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  16. Make we kukuma do military rule, na.

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  17. A full-blown gestapo.

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  18. Hmm lets watch as events unfold.

    ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

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  19. Nigerian forces are at crossroads. Go to seem border, it costs N300 to stamp out & register one's passport, and N500 at Benin Rep side, so going out and in ll cost N1,600 per head $10. On a land border? Yet government does nothing about it, corruption stings in Nigerian immigration service.

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    1. Hahaha. My friend focus

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    2. If this is democracy shebi if sm1 says sth false abt u, u tk them to court not call military. Sigh!

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  20. Ok #bright bravo#

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  21. Dennis DaManOftheYear*6 June 2014 at 14:36

    I thought they told the media not to report the activities of bokoharam...

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  22. There must be something they r hiding n don't want to go public. Naijjjja

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  23. Why do this soldiers sometimes behave in uncivilised manner? Whatever happened to the court of law!

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  24. Na wa ooo orishirishi.

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  25. Doesn't GEJ administration learn that autocracy is no longer in fashion.

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    1. Ask for wisdom and God wud giv u, GEJ is in aso rock, he is not the governor of edo or delta state or d military head there, you hear order from above and all u tinkof his jonathan,is he d only one dat is d oga at d top in nigeria? Do u bother to tink dat he might not even be aware of dis? Tink bfr u talk, sometimes tins are not exactly d way u c dem, this is how u wud steal and wud say it is jonathan dt said u shd steal

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    2. By definition GEJ is president and commander in chief of the armed forces AKA army. If this has been done without his approval then he is not a president, just a figure head

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    3. Perhaps if u were living in Nigeria u would know that their r people against this incumbent president and they've been frustrating his government WITHOUT any permission okay?

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    4. In ur rush to exonorate GEJ u are twisting d fact. Is he not d C in C? The order surely came frm him.

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  26. O ga o but are they actually allowed to do that because Nigeria isn't under military rule so who are they to prevent newspapers from being sold . Their is obviously something they don't want us to read which will expose them, Jonathan needs to speak up o and tell us who is oppressing him . I think the military are going beyond their juristruction but some people will still come out and say they want the military to rule us . They should just publish it online so we can see it

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  27. My be you should keep news like this on a low. Cos it seams your doing the oposit of what they r doing

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  28. I hope they are not trying to lay a siege on the government........#mikkybrizz

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  29. ahn an...y wud dy do dat.ds z a democratic govt..mehn it luks lik military wana tak over.mtchww..its nt dr fault.
    stylecast OAU

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  30. BH is out there and you are not fighting them. It is unarmed civilians you are going after.

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  31. Hehehehe..Ok nah.. Na tey e go tey. Stammerer go talk im papa name.. Are we going anywhere? We dey Kampke !!!

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  32. I am sure there is a GOOD reason for it.

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  33. My God. What is dis country turning into?

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  34. na wa but I have the nation newspaper here with me. which one did they confiscate?

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    1. You hv all d printed copies with U I suppose. Senseless talk.

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  35. you will want to wonder....eyes open,ears more open...

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  36. For what??? Anoda avenue for curuptn... I fear dis our govt no be smal

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  37. Propagandas like this needed to be checked before they cause havoc to d populace

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  38. I THINK SOMETHING FISHY WAS WRITTEN ON TODAY'S NEWS.



    via official intercom

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  39. Are we back to military rule now? Since when Biko??

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  40. I thought this was a democratic dispensation?

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  41. I guess nigerian coward soldiers are not afraid to to do that bcus they heard boko haram is not driving the van. Useless soldiers. Go to Cameroon, your neighbours and see how the stump boko haram down and put them 6 feet below where the belong. And you call your selves soldiers in nigeria. Boko haram stump you and disgrace any time they want. Now you want to make noise.

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  42. Order from which above? Hope nobody will call GEJ..that is strictly military business. Army issued a statement that no general is being coirt marshaled why write falsehood?

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    1. Otondo like U, who controls D millitary?

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  43. Hmmmm that's what the supposed 'brown envelope' media of Nigeria get! When you collect money from these Godless Nigerian leaders is like making a pact with the devil! You don't get to change the rules when it suits you. You can't have your cake and eat it too! The leaders have no respect for Nigeria media nor the masses! Nigerian's are cowards!

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  44. Which way Nigeria. Remains me of the days of General Abacha.

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  45. THERE IS NO SMOKE WITH OUT FIRE.THERE COULD BE FALSE NEWS PUBLISHED INORDER TO BLAME THE GOVERNMENT.

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  46. one word - o ga
    peace



    BORN TO SHINE!!!

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  47. Civilians.......................... problems unlimited. Go volunteer Una refuse. Kai the only thing Una sabi na talk. It's a matter of time. Mschew.

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  48. Devil at work. God have mercy!

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  49. I wonder how ppl jump to make conclusions. Read the full story here: thenationonlineng.net/new/soldiers-confiscated-newspaper-vans-dhq/

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  50. Heard dt some army generals and some commisioners name where mentioned in the papers, dt they are the boko haram sponsors..... I heard about it 3days ago...


    XDON D DON

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  51. Like a revolving wheelchair, we are back to Abacha era. God bless Nigeria!

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  52. This is crazy and unacceptable.

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  53. Let's keep our fingers crossed I know dey must have dere reason

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  54. 9ja wit dere many magic, we know dem & dere various uncivilise way of acting... God will expose dem soonest

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  55. The truth is the press av been reporting a lot, even news dat are supposed 2 be hidden 4 security reasons, so they may av a good reason sha

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  56. Which reason?but they refused to go to chibok!na civilians body dem de get power.

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  57. Well..lets look at bright side, its possible they are trying to conceal intelligence report that may have been leaked in the paper so that BH no go know thier moves

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    1. Finally someone uses his brain here.

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  58. What happened to freedom of the press?

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  59. Se na the civilian send the military men? Make una no too complain...this days everybody the talk pass as them suppose.

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  60. This is absurd i mean where is that freedom of speech.

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    1. Brenda you be baaaad girl oh. Chai. I luv your pics. Especially with the white outfit girl. Yous a bad thang.

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  61. NA THEM SABI ! As far as there is LINDODO NWA IKEJI,Am covered,tori must flow anytime,anywhere and anyhow !

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  62. The Media needs to be proffessionals,there are always full of negative and bad news.infact most of the accurate news are gotten from the international media house.

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  63. Am not supporting the move, but there should also be sensible journalism on the part of our journalists. Captions like "Bloodshed in Nigeria".... War in Nigeria etc aren't nice.

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  64. If they publish news that affects military operations cos people who want to sabotage the operations leaked it to dem den the military can confiscate dia papers n trucks. I think publishin d news about d generals and soldiers under investigation wld hv jeopardized a sting operation. But well nigerians dont think they just talk.

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  65. Soldiers, na only una get this country? This fishy thing wen una dey do in this country.... There is God oooooo
    Why una what hide the truth from us NAL?

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