earTHMama:

you do well my brother. But, e be like say you dey Afghanistan dey yarn this yarn. Come home now?


I saw the picture you took in Afghanistan, you are hot tho.

zheroes:

@ kobo junkie /dean,
you guys definitely didnt get me right.
while your chances of success stands greater in the US, doesnt mean people arent doing great in naija, was what i meant. i will be the last to die for naija at this moment because the country isnt matured yet. if you believe your success is in the US, you will be in amidst a few great opportunities and will do nothing with it.
if nigerians come back home does it increase my chance of success

diasporian:

@Kobo
These people who live below $1 a day, may end up eating and living a more happy life than people in the west who live on $100 a day.

diasporian:

that people live on $1 a day in Nigeria - say 120 Naira - does not necessarily interprete to "abuject poverty" which you are dwelling upon here - don't you get it?

diasporian:

In the so called rural places, 120Naira is a lot of money, beleive it or not, they can sustain their lifes happily without needing to resort to empty and bufonery life styles like in the west - which obviously you look upon and use as a yardstick to measure the poverty indices or index in Nigeria.

Sweet T:

@Topic

There is nothing funny about this, i really wish most succesful Nigerian abroad can go back home and contribute their own to develop Nigeria but i'm afraid that will never happen. An average Nigerian is very greedy and self centered. The only thing on his mind his to front and boast. If a succesful Nigerian goes home, he is seen as a threat by the elites back home and before you know it he is gunned down by hired killers. Black people amazes me with their behavior, we behave like animals that doesn't think about his actions. And i have noticed that black people all over the world behave alike.

Suspected assassins invade Alaba Lawson’s home, kill guard
By Akin Oyedele, Fidelis Soriwei, Ademola Oni, Sunday Aborisade, Olalekan Adetayo
Published: Monday, 22 Dec 2008
Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins in the early hours of Sunday stormed the Abeokuta residence of the Iyalode of Yorubaland, Chief Alaba Lawson, killing her guard in an attempt to gain access to her apartment in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

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Chief Alaba Lawson

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Emmanuel Ayeni, described the incident as “unfortunate,” hours before our correspondents obtained a crime statistics showing that 33 people were killed by armed robbers in Lagos State between January and September 2008.

Ayeni, who arrived at Lawson’s home on Quarry Road around 12.30pm on Sunday, in company with his assistant, Mr. Yemi Omojola, promised to commence immediate investigation into the incident.

“It is unfortunate that the innocent soul was wasted, but I can assure you that we will work tirelessly to get to the roots of the matter,” he said.

He directed the police division in the area to maintain random security watch of the building and the vicinity.

Lawson, who later spoke with one of our correspondents, said the gunmen arrived at her residence around 2am and started ordering the late guard, simply identified as Alhaji Yussuf, to take them to her bedroom.

She said when the guard refused to obey their instruction, they slashed his throat.

Lawson said, “I then made calls to my children and those I could recollect while they were struggling to force their way into my apartment. At this time, they had forced their way inside and had removed the burglary proof leading to my bedroom.

“The police arrived about 40 minutes later because my children got in touch with them at the Ibara roundabout and the assassins fled.”

Before their escape, however, the gunmen dumped Yussuf’s body beside a generator house in the premises.

Lawson had written petitions to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, alleging threat to her life and plans by some people to dump a corpse around Lawson International School, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta.

The businesswoman cum educationist was removed as the Iyalode of Egbaland by the Alake-in-Council in controversial circumstances in May this year.

In Lagos, the Police Public Relations Officer, state command, Mr. Frank Mba, described the statistics showing that 33 people died in various robbery cases in the state as false.

Our correspondents had unofficially sourced the document from the Mechanised Statistics Department of the command.

“That statistics did not emanate from us (the police command),” Mba, a superintendent of police, said.

Although he promised to make what he called the authentic statistics available the following day, he did not do so as at 9pm on Sunday.

The 33 casualty figure contained in the crime statistics is 24 (or 73 per cent) higher than that recorded between January and December 2007.

Also, the statistics showed that 599 armed robbery cases were reported in the state during the period under review.

This is also against 76 cases reported from January to December 2007.

There has been an outcry of insecurity in the state since the beginning of the year with criminals wielding sophisticated weapons.

In its bid to equip the police, the state government initiated a security trust fund with corporate organisations donating money and equipment to the police.

A joint military/police patrol, codenamed Operation MESA, was also approved for the state to fight crime.

A cross section of Lagos residents who spoke with our correspondents said that a lot more needed to be done to ensure safety of lives and property in the state.

Meanwhile, a teacher was on Wednesday killed by an armed robbery gang which besieged a commercial bank in Oko, Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state command, Miss Olabisi Okuwobi, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said some of the bandits were injured by policemen who engaged them in a shoot-out.

Sources said the robbers killed the teacher simply identified as Ogunwoye when they sighted him making a telephone call. He was until his death, a teacher at the Methodist Primary School, Ijado, near Oko.

In Benin, Edo State, policemen foiled what would have been a major robbery attack on a branch of First Bank Nigerian Plc on Ring Road on Saturday morning.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Command, Mr. Hillary Opara, told journalists that his men gunned down one of the robbery suspects identified as Evans in a shoot-out.

He added that the police recovered some weapons, including dynamite and 21 bags and one of the three vehicles used by the bandits.

He also paraded nine armed robbery suspects arrested in a hideout at the Aduwawa area of Benin following a tip-off.

Opara said that the police recovered some arms and ammunition from them. The items included one pump action gun, two cut-to-size single barrel guns, one locally made pistol, 36 live cartridges, 13 GSM handsets, a Dell laptop, two dynamite timer, and one Peugeot Space Wagon marked Edo AP 409 GGE.

Meanwhile, a former Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ralph Osanaiye, has blamed the rising armed robbery cases on the quality of information available to the bandits.

He spoke on “Re-occurring armed robbery cases in Nigeria, roles and challenges of private guard companies,” at a forum organised by the Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, in Ibadan, on Friday.

He described as unfortunate, a situation where poorly-armed policemen confront well-armed hoodlums with better information gathering technique.

According to him, the country’s security agencies lacked manpower, information, technology, money and knowledge which are the five cardinal prerequisites for combating crime.

He advised against granting approval to private security guards to carry arms in order to guard against proliferation and abuse of arms.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Emmanuel Ayeni, described the incident as “unfortunate,” hours before our correspondents obtained a crime statistics showing that 33 people were killed by armed robbers in Lagos State between January and September 2008.

Lawson said, “I then made calls to my children and those I could recollect while they were struggling to force their way into my apartment. At this time, they had forced their way inside and had removed the burglary proof leading to my bedroom.

“The police arrived about 40 minutes later because my children got in touch with them at the Ibara roundabout and the assassins fled.”

The 33 casualty figure contained in the crime statistics is 24 (or 73 per cent) higher than that recorded between January and December 2007.

Also, the statistics showed that 599 armed robbery cases were reported in the state during the period under review. This is also against 76 cases reported from January to December 2007.

There has been an outcry of insecurity in the state since the beginning of the year with criminals wielding sophisticated weapons.

sley4life:

2 b frank, Nigeria is another hell on earth, i will live & die a Nigeria no matter where i go but things arent right somewhere

hedges007:



@dreelde

I hate it with passion when i see, read or hear some bastards sitting some where called Diaspora, only to run down the great motherland with   their rotten mouth like (7-days left over burger)  all because of the little opportunity they were given. Funny enough, these are people who are yet to make any meaningful achievement compared to other folks in Naija. They brag as if they have visited heaven and therefore, gotten the license to do and undo, as if  they have done what no man has done. The way we see naija and what we say about our motherland, same or even worse shall be viewed by outsiders. Its quite defined, that Naija might be a struggling Nation overloaded with so much negativity, But surely, i know we going to get there one day, after all Naija is only 48, compared to US or other European countries we all cherish. As for me, Motherland is not as bad as most  idiots in camera portrays it to be.

As for me, "Out of Naija, still from Naija"
Ajoo ole dabi ile (No place like home)
emi o ni fi owo osii juwe ile baba mii.

Ebony-Silk:

[s]Dreeldee, I got ur txt. olodo, I was not "busy", I explained.[/s]

@post
true true, my mom has been talking about going back home. She's waiting for her children to finish college, she says.

dreeldee:


_{lol i know, what happened to you?}

I don't know why some people have a great admiration of the life abroad. Like my mum always says:"London is just like Lagos" You hustle your way through and work the living day out of ass even when you're a professional. I have traveled to some parts of the world particularly Europe, but not to get a job. But believe me, Nigeria is not as bad as many spoilers make it. We wont have any meaningful progress if everyone starts to talk against a system that is not believed to be moving. I can never travel to the US to make some bucks, not at the time things are really falling apart. Why must you endure this hardship when I know personally of many Americans who complain about the situation their country? I feel so sick when I heard one guy I know very well traveling to the States (3 weeks ago) to make money. He wants to marry an American for a card. Must you become a slave to a minority controlling the affairs of the States?

Am coming back to Nigeria, but believe me, when people say you come to suffer- I can't but marvel at their ignorance. We need to change the way our country is and the way people think of this country (Nigeria). I know some people suffer harshly, but how do you help the situation when your labor only goes to the selfish, inhumane, and autocratic governance of the US?

**I know many will say we are free there*** Free indeed.   

Ebony-Silk:

Nothing really, am fine.

I should be asking u na

angelina08:

Let them go back to where they are coming from, we don't want them in Nigeria, let them go to a country like chad - they will be more than welcome.

I advocate every returnee to have their heads painted with red paint, so we can recognise them from afar - they are to be dreaded.

angelina08:

Let them go back to where they are coming from, we don't want them in Nigeria, let them go to a country like chad - they will be more than welcome.

I advocate every returnee to have their heads painted with red paint, so we can recognise them from afar - they are to be dreaded.

Let them go back to where they are coming from, we don't want them in Nigeria, let them go to a country like chad - they will be more than welcome.

I advocate every returnee to have their heads painted with red paint, so we can recognise them from afar - they are to be dreaded.

Sweet T:

Oh i see, little' morenike has found a boyfriend. But it look like have seen the guy on the tv before. I think i saw him on that NBC show with chris Jenkings "How to catch a yahoo yahoo boy". Ask him for me if he's been on the tv before.


And i see your new profile too. E be like say "agba ti nde". But take it easy sweetheart, don't be in a rush to grow. Looking all buff and bumped. Have you been eating too much cheeseburgers or drinking a lot of milk?

earTHMama:


Na waah for this kin bad belle. Wetin the pepper you about Nigerians in the diaspora?. Are they slaves returning home or what?. Instead of you to organize a 1M man match to welcome them, you are hating on them. Only God knows how you will treat some of them if they become your work colleagues.

yemmyse:

Ebony ma sweetart, long time no see.

Ebony-Silk:

Lmao!!! That show was about you and your girlfriend
fimisile jor Boyfriend ko boyfriend ni.
Males/females can't be friends anymore. . . .oga fun you Nigerian men sha

@post
No, I'd rather stay here.

Ebony-Silk:

see why I love my ekiti men. . . .knows how to make a woman feel special


Ehrrrm, wey DZ?