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I passionately hate christianity.

Chale! I can never be a xtian. Xtianity my faeces

Kill yourself op

And being a muslim is a pleasure

1. Because Jesus never asked christians to call him God.

2. Jesus never told christians that he was son of God

3. Christains mode of worship contradicts Jesus mode of Worship

4. The true bible has been replaced with hogwash versions.

5. More than 50,000 errors in bible, Awake Magazine.

Jesus will himself feel sorry for foxbell on the last day

There are some people that believe that killing all the politicians will solve the problem. I say that is a big lie because you can't possibly kill all. If you manage to kill a considerable amount, what about the new politicians that will resurface? Take a clue from SUG in our Nigerian Universities.

To solve this problem. There must be considerably reduction of public holders, politicians etc salaries. I propose:

1. President 500,000 naira per month. Exclusive of any other remuneration.

2. VP: 450,000 naira

3. House of Assembly: 300,000,

4. House of Rep. 270,000 naira

5. Governors: 250,000 naira

6. Chairmen: 170,000 naira

7 councilors: 100,000 naira. Etc

(No other allowance, remuneration for all).

With this, only sane and serious minded people who are not thieves will be found in politics. People like atiku will refuse to contest again. Gej will hate presidency. Tinubu will face his hotel business. Obj will go back to farm.

Sorry gej! U have lost it already. No going back.

^^tell me the something about the tussle between US and France concerning who shelled Libya first.

Amin

Ali is no longer a boy and Simbi is now a woman, infact she has 2 kids. Edet no longer lives in Calabar, he has moved to Lagos.Agbo dey hustle for Canada now, he is no longer in the town of Lagoon. Eze no longer goes to school, he is now a graduate, Even Oliver Twist don grow, but e dey jail, Mr Salamı ıs no more a farmer, he ıs now a member of the House of Representatıve and he ıs no more stayıng ın Sapele but he ıs now ın Maıtama, FCT. Things are changing. Just a matter of time. What has changed about u?

BEAF! DO U COLLECT SALARY FROM GEJ?

Ode remo, if the question is too big for beaf to answer, you can help him out. Are you his gateman? Just curious again!

Hey Beaf! Do you collect salary from gej? I am just curious!

^^^have it

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/popular-nigerian-comedian-baba-suwe-granted-bail-alleged-drug-trafficking-case

Popular comedian  Babatunde Omidina -"Baba Suwe"- made his first public appearance today at a Lagos high court in Ikeja as directed by a judge.

Justice Yetunde Idowu had ordered that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) produce the comedian in court after his lawyer filed a human rights enforcement lawsuit at the court.

At today's hearing the Lagos judge granted Baba Suwe bail in the sum of N500,000 with the condition that the bail will only take effect immediately after a 15-day court ordered detention that lapses on November 4.

The judge ordered that Baba Suwe must be released by the NDLEA on Novemeber 4 2011 if no drug is found in his body.

The NDLEA had approached a federal high court to obtain an order to further detain and observe the comedian after the agency carried out tests which showed the strange pellets suspected to be hard drugs ingested by the comedian were still squelched inside his stomach.

The NDLEA arrested Baba Suwe after an airport full body scanner flagged him at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport on October 12 2011 as he made to board an Air France flight to Paris

Baba Suwe's   counsel,  Bamidele Aturu, told SaharaReporters that he was processing the bail terms as at the time of writing this report.

babaowo:
inspiration is from heart.

In the world of GEJ, Inspiration is from the sheets of paper

Dame must eat the life of head na. Beaf pls come defend your mistress

hello reader,

I came back to Nigeria 2 days ago from Wales. Unfortunately, My e-passport was seized saying that the chip was not working during scan. I have been to Ikoyi, Lagos office and was referred to Ikeja. At Ikeja, we were told to proceed to Abuja to get the passport back

Pls is it possible to get it back in Lagos because my days are limited. Secondly, hope there wont be any problems again in case i decide to have a new passport letting go the seized one.

Thank you for your candid opinion and assistance.

i always enjoy NL. i come here most times to see the actors, laugh and laugh and laugh my head off. Immediately headache sets in due to the laughter, i carry myself comot .

Ijogz K:
You better don't kill yourself on another persons war

u be their agent?

afam4eva:
Kai, these people are wicked.

very very wicked indeed.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Western oil companies are eager to jump back into Libya, but without strong oil laws there they are hesitant to invest the billions of dollars needed to boost production.

Before the fighting broke out, the country produced about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. Of that, the Libyan National Oil Company controlled about 1.1 million.

A handful of Western oil companies, including Italy's Eni (E), France's Total (TOT) and ConocoPhillips (COP, Fortune 500), Marathon (MRO, Fortune 500), Hess (HES, Fortune 500) and Occidental (OXY, Fortune 500) account for most of the remaining oil, with Eni being the largest player.

But under Moammar Gadhafi the terms of those deals were strict. The dictator effectively imposed a 93% tax on any oil the companies produced in Libya.

Libyan peace could bring oil bonanza

"This 93% is a joke," said Fadel Gheit, a senior energy analyst at Oppenheimer. "Not even Russia has that."

A more palatable rate would be something like Norway's 75%, said Gheit. A U.S.-style 50% would be a downright gift.

As Libya's oil production begins to come back online, the new government has kept the terms and conditions from the Gadhafi era law, for the time being.

No one is expecting a reduction to a 50% rate, but some changes are expected.

A debate is taking place within the National Oil Company over how much control should be ceded to the international oil firms, said Ross Cassidy, a Libyan oil analyst at the energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. Generally, the lower the tax rate, the more the Western firms will be enticed to invest.

There's certainly incentive for Libya to want to attract foreign investment.

The 1.6 million barrels-per-day production was apparently enough to satisfy Gadhafi, said Gheit, who let very little of that wealth trickle down to his people. He also did not reinvest much of that money back into his oil fields.

As a result, the equipment is aging and the fields are not producing as much as they could be.

But the potential is there. It's thought that with the right investment in the old fields, plus an aggressive exploration program to comb the 90% of the country that has yet to be explored, Libya could double its pre-war oil production level to 3 million barrels a day.

At current prices, that would bring in $300 million of much-needed revenue a day.

The companies are there. The firms currently operating in the country have pledged to help Libya modernize their existing fields. And heavyweights BP (BP) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) have committed to billion-dollar exploration programs in the years ahead, said Wood Mackenzie's Cassidy.

Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500) also took at stab at finding new oil reserves in the Libyan desert a few years back, but abandoned its effort after drilling a few dry wells. But that doesn't mean the company won't come back if the right conditions materialize.

In statements to CNNMoney, many of the firms already operating in Libya say they are eager to resume production, as soon as conditions on the ground make the country safe for employees.

But analysts say it's not even the violence that's keeping the big investments on the sidelines.

"The oil companies have been operating in violent regions for decades," said Anas Alhajji, chief economist NGP Energy Capital Management. "What matters at this stage is the legal framework and the sanctity of the contracts."

It's hoped the new government is easier for the companies to deal with than the Gadhafi regime, but for now many are taking a wait-and-see approach.

Many of the new government's leaders are former members of the old regime. And judging by the way in which Gadhafi met his demise, the new leadership isn't exactly confidence-inspiring.

"The new regime, they are not angels," said Gheit. To top of page

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word!

I’m sorry.”

That’s what Bidemi Bello, a 42-year-old Nigerian woman, told her two victims in a United States courtroom earlier this month.

US. District Judge William S. Duffy, Jr. convicted Bello, a once successful London-educated businesswoman, earlier this month to 140 months in prison. Duffy also ordered Bello to pay $144,200 in restitution to her victims. Bello will be stripped of her U.S. citizenship—she was naturalized in 2004.

Her victims are two Nigerian girls, known as Laome and Dupe, who were brought to the United States by Bello. Both girls are now 27-years-old.

Bello had recruited Laome and Dupe from Nigeria to come to the United States to work as nannies. She had promised to treat the girls like family members and to send them to school, according to the Office of the U.S. Attorney.

However, Laome and Dupe were forced to work as slaves without pay, faced to endure physical and verbal abuse.

In 2001, Bello had recruited Laome, who was 17 at the time, from Nigeria. Laome worked in Bello’s large home in an upscale neighborhood in Gwinnett County, Ga. from October 2001 through March 2004.

Laome eventually escaped, reportedly, with the help of one of Bello’s friends, who hid Laome in the back of car and covered Laome with blankets.

Bello then went back to Nigeria, to find another “house girl.” She recruited Dupe, who was 19 at the time. Bello brought Dupe to Georgia, again promising to send Dupe to school. Dupe worked in Bello’s home from November 2004 until April 2006 until she gathered enough money to escape by taking a taxicab to a church, where pastors assisted her.

Laome and Dupe were given T-visas, which authorized their stay in the United States to assist in the prosecution of Bello. T-visas http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7, give victims of human trafficking a “T” nonimmigrant status.

During the investigation, Bello had left the United States and was arrested upon re-entry at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas.

Evidence from the case shows that Laome and Dupe were routinely beaten for not responding quickly enough, not cleaning to Bello’s liking and for other perceived infractions. Case evidence revealed that wooden spoons, shoes and electrical cords were some of the items used to beat the girls. Bello had also beaten one of the girls with a rolling pin and had punched her in the mouth.

“When she called me and I didn’t answer in time, she would slap me,” Laome said after the sentencing in court, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/gwinnett-woman-sentenced-to-1200147.html

The girls were forced to sleep on the floor or couch and were not allowed to shower, but were made to bathe with a bucket. Bello, reportedly, gave them food that had already spoiled.

United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said of the case, “forcing young women to work without compensation for their services is modern-day slavery. The laws of the United States protect all victims from such abuse, regardless of where they came from or how they came to be in the United States.”
http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2010/atl092010.htm

Bello was indicted in September 2010, and later convicted of eight charges: two counts of forced labor, two counts of trafficking for forced labor, one count of alien harboring, two counts of making false statements in an application to become a U.S. citizen and one account of “document servitude.” She had taken the girls’ passports and government documents to prevent them from leaving. A federal jury had delivered the verdict back in June after a one-week trial and deliberations that lasted an hour and 10 minutes, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/woman-convicted-of-forcing-974199.html

“The use of violence, threats and intimidation to force individuals to work is reprehensible and illegal,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “In our country, we have the right to choose to perform or not perform labor or services, and the Department of Justice is committed to persecuting individuals who force persons to do work against their will. http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2010/atl092010.htm

Angela Blackwell lives behind Bello’s former home in Sugar Hill, Gwinnett County. Blackwell told a local television reporter that she was very concerned when she heard screaming coming from the house and had even called the police.

“We heard someone say, ‘die, die, die,” Blackwell said.

“It was so shocking we were thinking surely we didn’t hear that…we heard some whipping or slapping noises and then we heard some crying…I have three children and to think we were playing within a few feet of all of this going on is just disturbing—I mean, this is America,” Blackwell told the reporter.

However, Bello’s attorney, federal public defender Suzanne Hashimi said that Bello was also once a house servant who had suffered from abuse. Hashimi has asked Duffy to reduce the sentence in consideration of this information.

ello’s courtroom address revealed a sense of remorse. Her only daughter reportedly has moved to Nigeria.

“My actions have cost my daughter the opportunity of being raised here,” Bello said. “There is so much shame.”

But Bello is not alone in her “shame.” Other U.S. -based Nigerians have been found guilty of similar charges.

Last year, a Nigerian married couple in Arlington, Texas, Emmanuel and Ngozi Nnaji were convicted by a federal jury of “engaging in a nine-year scheme to compel the labor of a Nigerian victim as their domestic servant,” according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/February/10-crt-118.html

The FBI reported that the couple had lured a Nigerian widow with a false promise of a salary and support for her the widow’s six children.

Evidence showed that Emmanuel Nnaji, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had sexually assaulted the widow.

Emmanuel, who was 50-years-old at the time of the sentencing, will face 20 years in prison. His wife, who was 40 and is a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced to nine years in prison.

“The involuntary servitude and mistreatment that this victim endured is intolerable in a nation founded on freedom and individual rights,” said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez in a statement.

In another case, Nigerian-born doctor, Adaobi Udeozor of Maryland, was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $110,249 after being convicted of conspiracy and harboring a 14-year-old girl. Udeozor’s husband, who had allegedly raped the 14-year-old, had fled to Nigeria to evade trial. He was later sentenced to over eight years in prison, according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. http://www.justice.gov/usao/md/Public-Affairs/press_releases/press08/For,

Lastly, there was Emeka and Ifeoma Udogwu, a married couple arrested and charged in New York in1999 for forcing a Nigerian girl to be their servant for nine years. A Manhattan federal court had accused the couple of conspiracy, involuntary servitude and witness tampering.

The fact is what may be perceived as a cultural norm in Nigeria will not be tolerated in the United States—the maltreatment and forced servitude of “house help.” What is referred to as human trafficking has become the fastest growing crime in the world. Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers lure individuals with false promises of employment and a better life. A reported 12.3 million people, mostly women and girls, are presently facing forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery, according to the International Labor Organization. The United Nations reports that the global enterprise has an estimated total market value of $32 billion.

U.S officials take these cases quite seriously.

The American CIA estimates that between 15,000 to 17,500 slaves are brought into the U.S. every year. About 50,000 of them work as domestic servants, farm workers or prostitutes.

Atlanta is said to be the No. #1 hub for human trafficking in the United States. That’s one of the reasons why Georgia passed a bill that will discourage the illicit enterprise. It calls for those convicted of using coercion to traffic someone under the age of 18 to a 25-year minimum sentence. The law went into effect July 1, 2011. http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/sum/hb200.htm

“Human trafficking is a repugnant crime that is growing like cancer in our society,” said Ga. Governor, Nathan Deal in a press release. http://www.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,165937316_170988643_171040, “Signing this bill into law, I join my fellow Georgians in declaring moral outrage and vowing to fight human trafficking here in our state. These criminals rob their victims of freedom and human dignity, and they destroy lives. With this bill now a law, we will find these criminals and we will punish them harshly.”

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“House help” Gone Bad: U.S. Convicts Another Nigerian Of Trafficking By Chika Oduah
Posted: October 24, 2011 - 04:10
Bidemi Bello
Chika Oduah
By Chika Oduah

“I’m sorry.”

That’s what Bidemi Bello, a 42-year-old Nigerian woman, told her two victims in a United States courtroom earlier this month.

US. District Judge William S. Duffy, Jr. convicted Bello, a once successful London-educated businesswoman, earlier this month to 140 months in prison. Duffy also ordered Bello to pay $144,200 in restitution to her victims. Bello will be stripped of her U.S. citizenship—she was naturalized in 2004.

Her victims are two Nigerian girls, known as Laome and Dupe, who were brought to the United States by Bello. Both girls are now 27-years-old.

Bello had recruited Laome and Dupe from Nigeria to come to the United States to work as nannies. She had promised to treat the girls like family members and to send them to school, according to the Office of the U.S. Attorney.

However, Laome and Dupe were forced to work as slaves without pay, faced to endure physical and verbal abuse.

In 2001, Bello had recruited Laome, who was 17 at the time, from Nigeria. Laome worked in Bello’s large home in an upscale neighborhood in Gwinnett County, Ga. from October 2001 through March 2004.

Laome eventually escaped, reportedly, with the help of one of Bello’s friends, who hid Laome in the back of car and covered Laome with blankets.

Bello then went back to Nigeria, to find another “house girl.” She recruited Dupe, who was 19 at the time. Bello brought Dupe to Georgia, again promising to send Dupe to school. Dupe worked in Bello’s home from November 2004 until April 2006 until she gathered enough money to escape by taking a taxicab to a church, where pastors assisted her.

Laome and Dupe were given T-visas, which authorized their stay in the United States to assist in the prosecution of Bello. T-visas http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7, give victims of human trafficking a “T” nonimmigrant status.

During the investigation, Bello had left the United States and was arrested upon re-entry at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas.

Evidence from the case shows that Laome and Dupe were routinely beaten for not responding quickly enough, not cleaning to Bello’s liking and for other perceived infractions. Case evidence revealed that wooden spoons, shoes and electrical cords were some of the items used to beat the girls. Bello had also beaten one of the girls with a rolling pin and had punched her in the mouth.

“When she called me and I didn’t answer in time, she would slap me,” Laome said after the sentencing in court, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/gwinnett-woman-sentenced-to-1200147.html

The girls were forced to sleep on the floor or couch and were not allowed to shower, but were made to bathe with a bucket. Bello, reportedly, gave them food that had already spoiled.

United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said of the case, “forcing young women to work without compensation for their services is modern-day slavery. The laws of the United States protect all victims from such abuse, regardless of where they came from or how they came to be in the United States.”
http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2010/atl092010.htm

Bello was indicted in September 2010, and later convicted of eight charges: two counts of forced labor, two counts of trafficking for forced labor, one count of alien harboring, two counts of making false statements in an application to become a U.S. citizen and one account of “document servitude.” She had taken the girls’ passports and government documents to prevent them from leaving. A federal jury had delivered the verdict back in June after a one-week trial and deliberations that lasted an hour and 10 minutes, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/woman-convicted-of-forcing-974199.html

“The use of violence, threats and intimidation to force individuals to work is reprehensible and illegal,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “In our country, we have the right to choose to perform or not perform labor or services, and the Department of Justice is committed to persecuting individuals who force persons to do work against their will. http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2010/atl092010.htm

Angela Blackwell lives behind Bello’s former home in Sugar Hill, Gwinnett County. Blackwell told a local television reporter that she was very concerned when she heard screaming coming from the house and had even called the police.

“We heard someone say, ‘die, die, die,” Blackwell said.

“It was so shocking we were thinking surely we didn’t hear that…we heard some whipping or slapping noises and then we heard some crying…I have three children and to think we were playing within a few feet of all of this going on is just disturbing—I mean, this is America,” Blackwell told the reporter.

However, Bello’s attorney, federal public defender Suzanne Hashimi said that Bello was also once a house servant who had suffered from abuse. Hashimi has asked Duffy to reduce the sentence in consideration of this information.

Bello’s courtroom address revealed a sense of remorse. Her only daughter reportedly has moved to Nigeria.

“My actions have cost my daughter the opportunity of being raised here,” Bello said. “There is so much shame.”

But Bello is not alone in her “shame.” Other U.S. -based Nigerians have been found guilty of similar charges.

Last year, a Nigerian married couple in Arlington, Texas, Emmanuel and Ngozi Nnaji were convicted by a federal jury of “engaging in a nine-year scheme to compel the labor of a Nigerian victim as their domestic servant,” according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/February/10-crt-118.html

The FBI reported that the couple had lured a Nigerian widow with a false promise of a salary and support for her the widow’s six children.

Evidence showed that Emmanuel Nnaji, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had sexually assaulted the widow.

Emmanuel, who was 50-years-old at the time of the sentencing, will face 20 years in prison. His wife, who was 40 and is a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced to nine years in prison.

“The involuntary servitude and mistreatment that this victim endured is intolerable in a nation founded on freedom and individual rights,” said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez in a statement.

In another case, Nigerian-born doctor, Adaobi Udeozor of Maryland, was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $110,249 after being convicted of conspiracy and harboring a 14-year-old girl. Udeozor’s husband, who had allegedly raped the 14-year-old, had fled to Nigeria to evade trial. He was later sentenced to over eight years in prison, according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. http://www.justice.gov/usao/md/Public-Affairs/press_releases/press08/For,

Lastly, there was Emeka and Ifeoma Udogwu, a married couple arrested and charged in New York in1999 for forcing a Nigerian girl to be their servant for nine years. A Manhattan federal court had accused the couple of conspiracy, involuntary servitude and witness tampering.

The fact is what may be perceived as a cultural norm in Nigeria will not be tolerated in the United States—the maltreatment and forced servitude of “house help.” What is referred to as human trafficking has become the fastest growing crime in the world. Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers lure individuals with false promises of employment and a better life. A reported 12.3 million people, mostly women and girls, are presently facing forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery, according to the International Labor Organization. The United Nations reports that the global enterprise has an estimated total market value of $32 billion.

U.S officials take these cases quite seriously.

The American CIA estimates that between 15,000 to 17,500 slaves are brought into the U.S. every year. About 50,000 of them work as domestic servants, farm workers or prostitutes.

Atlanta is said to be the No. #1 hub for human trafficking in the United States. That’s one of the reasons why Georgia passed a bill that will discourage the illicit enterprise. It calls for those convicted of using coercion to traffic someone under the age of 18 to a 25-year minimum sentence. The law went into effect July 1, 2011. http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/sum/hb200.htm

“Human trafficking is a repugnant crime that is growing like cancer in our society,” said Ga. Governor, Nathan Deal in a press release. http://www.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,165937316_170988643_171040, “Signing this bill into law, I join my fellow Georgians in declaring moral outrage and vowing to fight human trafficking here in our state. These criminals rob their victims of freedom and human dignity, and they destroy lives. With this bill now a law, we will find these criminals and we will punish them harshly.”

Other states have similar laws. The state of California enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2005 to “establish human trafficking for forced labor or services as a felony crime punishable by a sentence of 3,4 or 5 years in state prison and a sentence of 4, 6 or 8 years for trafficking a minor.”

The state of Massachusetts also recently approved an anti-human trafficking bill, along with Maryland, New York, Texas and others.

Nigerians like Bello, the Nnaji’s, the Udogwu’s and the Udeozor’s are now among the many convicts sentenced in the United States to pay the price of human trafficking of what many of ‘our people’ refer to as “common house help.”

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Chika Oduah is a news associate at NBC News in New York City and a reporter for SaharaTV. For more about Chika, visit www.chika-oduah.com



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demdem, u mean one is beef and other is pork?

Tell me more

Some say he is Accursed, some call him PDP agent,, some even go afar giving him the worst of adjectives one has even seen.

Drop your opinion about him maybe you can change my perception about him.