₦airaland Forum

riyaq: Three Somalis have been killed this month and the Somali government has requested the South African authorities to do more to protect their nationals.

About 200 people took part in the protest, holding a banner reading: "Everyone is a foreigner somewhere."

Correspondents say xenophobic attacks have increased recently.

Some of the protesters accused the authorities of not doing enough to prevent attack on foreigners, especially Somalis, or prosecute those responsible.

Two Somali brothers were allegedly hacked to death with an axe in the northern Limpopo province on Thursday night.

Last week, Abdi Nasr Mahmoud was stoned to death in Port Elizabeth.

Mohamed Aden Osman told the BBC that criminals saw Somalis as "soft targets".

According to the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, South Africans are becoming "increasingly desensitised" to attacks on foreigners, The Sowetan newspaper reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3UiWo3EE

ebankole: Damn...i knew this wasn't about nigerians over there its the trend of these dude(s) over there.

i fink this is gettin outta hand o

This has always been beyond about this so called south africa solely against Nigerians(which is just hype to a extent), some south africans particularly black south Africans are against foreigners period in their country, especially from other black african countries. One big reason is they believe foreigners are stealing their jobs, so they are attacking anybody black african or foreign but the failure of them not having jobs is mostly on their government and their history in general which they refuse to accept not foreigners.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T8JWng_df0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jvBHAoPMQ

bknight: A 16yr old stabbed an almost 80yr oldwoman 33 fvcking times? Got into trouble 23 times while in prison? I bet her sister was being sarcastic with her comment. A 16yr old isn't a 3yr old. 16yr definitely knew what death meant.

c/s 100%

some people are lost causes and a complete mess and she is a perfect example of it. She knew what death was and the consequences of what she was doing when she stabbed and killed that 80 year olde woman 33 times.

[b]"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term that was shortened after the state Supreme Court intervened.

Paula Cooper's death sentence at such a young age sparked international protests and a plea for clemency from Pope John Paul II. Now 43 years old, Cooper is being given a second chance at her life.

Cooper was 15 when she and three other teenage girls showed up at Ruth Pelke's house on May 14, 1985, with plans of robbing the 78-year-old Bible school teacher. Pelke let Cooper and two of the teen's companions into her Gary home after they told her they were interested in Bible lessons.

As the fourth teen waited outside as a lookout, Cooper stabbed Pelke 33 times with a butcher knife. Then she and the other girls ransacked the house. The four girls fled with Pelke's car and $10.

Cooper's three accomplices were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 25 to 60 years. But Cooper, who confessed to Pelke's slaying, was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair. At the time — in 1986 — she was the youngest death row inmate in the U.S.

Some people believed Cooper deserved to die, but the punishment enraged human rights activists and death penalty opponents around the world, including those who viewed the teen as a victim of a racist criminal justice system.

Pope John Paul II urged that Cooper be granted clemency in 1987, and in 1988 a priest brought a petition to Indianapolis with more than 2 million signatures protesting Cooper's sentence.

The Indiana Supreme Court set Cooper's death sentence aside in 1988 and ordered her to serve 60 years in prison after state legislators passed a law raising Indiana's minimum age limit for execution from 10 to 16. The state's high court also cited a 1988 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court barring the execution of juveniles younger than 16 at the time of the crime.

Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court has found it unconstitutional to execute anyone younger than 18.

"People still know about this case," Indianapolis attorney Jack Crawford, who was the Lake County prosecutor during Cooper's murder trial, told The Indianapolis Star. "The name Paula Cooper still resonates, and she's going to attract some attention when she is released."

But, he said, Cooper has done her time and may yet contribute to society. Crawford said he has come to oppose the death penalty since Cooper's conviction.

Cooper's sister, Rhonda Labroi, said she hopes people will see Paula as more than a killer. After getting in trouble 23 times during her time in prison, Paula Cooper turned to education, earning a bachelor's degree in 2001.

"She was just a child at the time that happened, and now she is an adult and people should wait and see and give her a chance," Labroi said. "Give her an opportunity. Maybe she'll do some wonderful things for children who are growing up and aren't so fortunate, like she was.

"There are second chances," she said. "It seems like God has given her another chance. I think if people give her a second chance, she'll do fine."[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/ind-woman-sentenced-die-16-released-182419951.html

Rossikk: Sorry you cannot say "ignore him". His IP can and should be banned. You cannot have someone throwing vile racist insults against Nigerians and you say ignore him. That is NOT how it works on forums or on any communication platform. I have been banned for two weeks in the politics section for telling a guy to go to hell. The mods didn't "ignore" me. WHY should HE be allowed to keep calling Nigerians monkeys and apes and be left alone?

I agree but what can we do when the moderators are sitting ideally not taking action against that nutt-case, they banned him twice from what I heard from other threads in nairaland under different names, and he still manage to pop up again. All we can do is ignore him for the meantime

Rossikk: Can the moderators please tell us WHY we have to put up with 'somalia9' or 'somalia5' etc - this character, who routinely comes in here to racially abuse and insult Nigerians?

He routinely refers to Nigerians as monkeys, apes, ugly gorillas etc etc. On a daily basis. He promotes a racial superiority concept placing his Somali people as racially superior to other Africans etc. All accompanied by reprehensible racial assaults on our dignity that are more akin to utterances by neo-nazi, kkk, white supremacist groups.

WHY IS HE ALLOWED TO DO THIS?

WHY IS HE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS?

WHY HAS HE NOT BEEN PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THIS FORUM?

MODERATORS TELL US.

Actually Somali9 has been banned two times before, under other names but this time moderators leave him alone. I feel the reason for this is because it is known knowledge Somali9 is a troll in nairaland that seeks attention, majority to almost all don't respond to him or his nonsensical & irrelevant threads. What makes it worse is he sounds pathetic, he goes on a nigerian forum and claims he hates them, and labels them Bantu when that is not a label used to identify west africans or associated with them.

My advise to people is just ignore him, he seems like a lonely and foolish troll that bashes people to make himself feel good. Once he finds out about this thread he will twist what we commented about him and say that he is superior and feel that we are obsessed with him. Just ignore the TROLL people

[b]"We fully expected craziness from the latest episode of "Celebrity Wife Swap." We didn't expect that one of the "wives" -- Coolio's girlfriend, Mimi -- would swap herself out of Coolio's life six weeks after the show taped.

Not that we didn't see the signs when Mark McGrath, his wife Carin, and their two-year-old twins switched households with Coolio, Mimi (who does eeeeverything around their house), and her three kids. Mimi did have a bit of trouble adjusting to the McGrath household -- Mark, a classic "helicopter dad," catered to the twins' every need and hovered while she dressed the kids.

But over at the Cooliohaus, we saw Carin struggling with the insane demands on Mimi, including scrubbing toilets and floors while Coolio snored away in bed...and when Mimi informed Coolio at the post-swap summit, "Our relationship sucks, it really does," we had to agree with her. Mark might hover, she pointed out, but Mark is there; Mark is around; Mark is involved. More to the point, Mark acknowledged how much Mimi takes on with two jobs, three kids, and no help.

Coolio copped to his selfishness...but too late. A chyron at the end of the episode informed viewers that Mimi had taken the kids and moved out. (And started school, because she's awesome.)

There was more craziness before that, too; below, a rundown of the 10 nuttiest moments (and our pitch to give Mimi her own show)."[/b]
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/11-craziest-moments-from-mark-mcgrath-and-coolio-s--celebrity-wife-swap--episode-031758665.html?page=all

Check out the 10 nuttiest moments and videos of it by clicking the link

Yes, I think so, Omotola is getting older but I know she will be in the nollywood industry for a long time but Damilola is a fresh face in years to come that will replace Omotola when it comes to hot yoruba actress in the English Nollywood industry.
http://africansweetheart..com/2013/05/gorgeous-actress-damilola-adegbite.html#.Ua5qntiOnbg

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]Rwanda is progressing. [/quote]True

Andyforte: U quickly take up this confused position because of ur hatred of america. U guys better go and read the real story of Osama. What u have here is incomplete.

Besides, Osama had a dirty dealing with a generation of government, why then kill innocent people?

Don't know why somebody would defend osama

joopdoop1: This is really awesome and i love that.. This is very unique thing you put on that post.. Thanks for sharing... Read

Your a fan of Bollywood?

[quote author=stargal_ameena]DIS IS ONE ACTRESS I SOO ADMIRE RIGHT FROM "I NEED TI KNOW" DAT EDUCATRIVE PROGRAMME DOS DAYSSS....I LOVE HERRRR SOMEONE PLS TELL HER..AND ALSO JACKIE APPIAH.....[/quote]Yeah Funke akindele is very talented

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]There are many if us in UK, UAE, etc. .[/quote]I guess they don't make themselves known

chinosxl: Nelson is sexy and okoro is beautiful. I will party with Nelson all day/week/month/year then when i'm ready to settle down and marry i will go for Okoro's fine self.

Interesting

toshmann: Someone is accused of murder and all you could say is strong black woman?

Lol

Never knew they can fly in the first place lol, I thought that only existed in Harry potter

Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osNAy1DNkOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di0UoNWEdnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4S-2sMS5w

brownredwhite: Hello everyone I am a ? I don't know wether to use the term African-American or Black American but I've had 3 dna test done and I know its excessive but I just wanted to know for sure where my ancestors came from and aside from being 13% various European admixture including eastern European jew .7% native American and the biggest was 84% Sub Saharan African and the people that did my last test said my dna most likely came from with 84% the Yoruba. I'm happy that I finally have found this out for myself and my maternal side of the family... most of us African-Americans in my mind are messed up in the head because we don't know where we come from or our history. . I'm proud to be an American I'm just glad I have another people to connect with and learn about as much as I can. Sorry for all that ...but... I wanted to ask you two things 1 is if you think I look like a person who could be a Yoruba or from what tribe? and please can someone tell me good things about the Yoruba I've read the history on line but when I read this site I hear a lot of trash talking I asked my doctor who's Nigerian and he said its like how the English men talks about the French men... just smack talking... well thanks for entertaining my obsession.

YORUBA

Ancient Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI8xPplSeQ

Ancient religion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3FLThp7sdI

Festivals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U1iSSnGKFI

Wedding and engagement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y9ePmMyuuc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xffiEDc3s4
http://www.bellanaija.com/2012/12/20/love-today-forever-tolu-odukoya-olumide-ijogun-wed/

Oyo Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyo_Empire

Yoruba film industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfOEG5YBm4&wide=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGOGE8fpmM&wide=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcUGIk84Is&wide=1

bobthebuilder99: [img]http://4.bp..com/-yPlcTnBbRvQ/UaDEIKuN41I/AAAAAAAAAzE/Sf2ziukTgnc/s320/eni-764899.png[/img]

There is a difference between "big and beautiful" and just being overweight.

Juliet Ibrahim is what most men mean when they think about sexy thick girls.

[img]http://2.bp..com/-zb9s-w6yypI/UW5WuBsvWlI/AAAAAAAAqNc/WUgNhbMeayk/s1600/Lunch-With-Juliet-Ibrahim-35.jpg[/img]

She has shape! This other one has arms bigger than her legs.

c/s 100%
I would use the world obese or overweight for Eniola and curvy and thick for Juliet

here the link to page 2: http://bossip.com/749387/real-or-racist-a-tweet-from-kim-kardashians-twitter-page-about-nigerians-looking-like-apes-sets-off-angry-african-backlash-43081/2/

and all you need to do is press "next page"(with a arrow pointing right) and it keeps showing posts from the fake kim tweeter. It seems like the person who responded on this thread doesn't know how to keep pressing next page, so when he/she saw the first page and didn't see anything, the person posted and said something is not there.

[b]"Tears stream down 11-year-old Ntombizanele's face and drip on to the coarse blue wool of her school uniform. She looks down at the dirt floor of the corrugated iron shack which she shares with her mother and four siblings, and begins to speak.

"I tried to get away, and begged them to leave me alone," she said, her voice wobbling. "He dragged me to the floor and did dirty things to me. I tried to get away, but I'd started bleeding. I was so scared."

Raped by two local teenagers, Ntombi suffered physical and mental wounds that were exacerbated by the treatment she received from the police and neighbours. Ostracised by friends in the large South African city of Port Elizabeth, many of whom believe that she should have kept quiet about the incident, Ntombi has since been threatened with further violence by her attackers, who were released on bail by police.

"One of them said he's going to murder me," she said, wrapping her skinny arms around herself. "It hurts so much when I see them."

While Ntombi's story is disturbing, in South Africa it is also commonplace. The country has the world's highest incidence of rape; a girl born there today has a one in three chance of finishing school, and a one in two chance of being raped. The stories behind these statistics are explored in the documentary Dispatches: The Lost Girls of South Africa, to be screened next Sunday at 9pm on Channel 4.

Like a third of the 200,000 children who are raped in South Africa every year, Fuzeka, 12, was attacked by a close relative. Staring straight ahead, she recounts how her father indecently assaulted her, and told her that when he slept with her he would use a condom as he is HIV positive.

"I can't believe my father wants to sleep with me," said Fuzeka, close to tears. "I stay awake to be sure that he doesn't come into my room."

Her mother, her gaunt face a sign of Aids, also weeps as she recounts her husband's justification: "My child cannot sleep with other men until I have slept with her first."

In order to get away from her father, Fuzeka's mother moved her and her younger sister into a tiny wooden shack with no electricity, running water nor toilet. Like eight million South Africans, they are forced to live in a crowded, informal settlement. Some experts believe that such living conditions – with children sharing rooms and beds with adults – and high levels of drug and alcohol use are two factors facilitating the sexual abuse. Social attitudes towards sex are also thought to contribute to the high incidence of rape.

"For many men, sex is an entitlement, they've de-linked it from love and pro-creation; it has become about one's own gratification," said Joan van Niekerk, a manager for Childline South Africa. The charity says that 80 per cent of the rape cases it deals with involve victims under 13. "We need programmes for boys which celebrate masculinity from a point of view of protecting, caring, and managing appetites."

A 2009 survey by the country's Medical Research Council found that one in four men admits to raping someone; while 62 per cent of boys over 11 believe that forcing someone to have sex is not an act of violence, with a third believing that girls enjoy rape.

The government – led by President Jacob Zuma, who was tried for rape in 2006 – has been criticised for not tackling the problem and police and judicial failings have been highlighted.

But for many victims, worries that their rapist will go unpunished are secondary to a much bigger fear: that they may have contracted HIV. South Africa has the highest number of people infected with the virus in the world – 5.7 million people have HIV or Aids.

The eyes of the world will be on South Africa next month, when more than 350,000 football fans will arrive for the World Cup. Many charity workers fear that this will make children even more vulnerable to sexual violence and a national campaign by Unicef will try to raise awareness of the issue.

Deborah Shipley, the director of the Dispatches documentary, said that the girls who took part were also hoping to highlight the issue: "They felt very strongly that it is an outrage which should be stopped, and by talking about it they could help."[/b]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-africas-shame-the-rise-of-child-rape-1974578.html

googlepikin: pls nairalanders don't click on dis OPs website cos there is noting there. If you wan waste mb go ahead.

actually there is, and that is not my website, it is a link to the article showing the fake tweeter on page two of the link