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Recently documents were made public revealing
President Robert Mugabe’s of Zimbabwe role in
slaughtering 20,000 of his own people. The
massacre known as the Gukurahundi Massacre
began in 1983 and targeted ethnic Ndebele
civilians in western Zimbabwe.

The Gukurahundi Massacre was one of
Mugabe’s first efforts to eliminate political
opposition to what would be his 35 year reign
as President of Zimbabwe. Mugabe famously
said of the political opposition in the
predominant Ndebele area as “needing to be re-
educated.”

According to Stuart Doran, of the Daily Maverick
newspaper in South Africa, “thousands of
historical documents that appear to expose the
perpetrators are now becoming available in a
raft of foreign archival collections. The
documents are wide-ranging and include, among
others, diplomatic correspondence, intelligence
assessments and raw intelligence garnered by
spies recruited from within the Zimbabwean
government. These papers—augmented by the
testimony of Zimbabwean witnesses finding
courage in old age—appear to substantiate what
survivors and scholars have always suspected
but never been able to validate: Mugabe, then
Prime Minister, was the prime architect of mass
killings that were well-planned and
systematically executed.

The most recent documents reinforce previous
investigations and reports that President
Mugabe and “the [ZANU-PF] 20-member-policy-
making group spoke of a decision of the central
committee that there had to be a massacre of
the Ndebels,” according to Eddison Zvobgo, who
spoke to the Guardian UK and was a member of
this group.

This reign of terror was carried out by the
Zimbabwean Army’s Fifth Brigade, which
ravaged communities in western Zimbabwe and
conservatively saw 20,000 Ndebele murdered.
However, scholars and activists believe the
number dead could go as high as 80,000 dead.
Most significantly, these documents also reveal
that these murders were not orchestrated by
outsiders and were “one component of a
sustained and strategic effort to remove all
political opposition within five years of
independence. ZANU-PF leaders were
determined to secure a victory against a non-
existent opposition in elections scheduled for
1985,” according to the Guardian.

Mugabe is the current President of Zimbabwe,
and he has been Head of the Zimbabwe state
since 1980. Mugabe refused to accept his loss
during against opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai in 2008, which provoked violence,
hyperinflation, a destruction of infrastructure
across the country, and international sanctions.

Recently documents were made public revealing
President Robert Mugabe’s of Zimbabwe role in
slaughtering 20,000 of his own people. The
massacre known as the Gukurahundi Massacre
began in 1983 and targeted ethnic Ndebele
civilians in western Zimbabwe.

The Gukurahundi Massacre was one of
Mugabe’s first efforts to eliminate political
opposition to what would be his 35 year reign
as President of Zimbabwe. Mugabe famously
said of the political opposition in the
predominant Ndebele area as “needing to be re-
educated.”
According to Stuart Doran, of the Daily Maverick
newspaper in South Africa, “thousands of
historical documents that appear to expose the
perpetrators are now becoming available in a
raft of foreign archival collections. The
documents are wide-ranging and include, among
others, diplomatic correspondence, intelligence
assessments and raw intelligence garnered by
spies recruited from within the Zimbabwean
government. These papers—augmented by the
testimony of Zimbabwean witnesses finding
courage in old age—appear to substantiate what
survivors and scholars have always suspected
but never been able to validate: Mugabe, then
Prime Minister, was the prime architect of mass
killings that were well-planned and
systematically executed.

The most recent documents reinforce previous
investigations and reports that President
Mugabe and “the [ZANU-PF] 20-member-policy-
making group spoke of a decision of the central
committee that there had to be a massacre of
the Ndebels,” according to Eddison Zvobgo, who
spoke to the Guardian UK and was a member of
this group.
This reign of terror was carried out by the
Zimbabwean Army’s Fifth Brigade, which
ravaged communities in western Zimbabwe and
conservatively saw 20,000 Ndebele murdered.
However, scholars and activists believe the
number dead could go as high as 80,000 dead.
Most significantly, these documents also reveal
that these murders were not orchestrated by
outsiders and were “one component of a
sustained and strategic effort to remove all
political opposition within five years of
independence. ZANU-PF leaders were
determined to secure a victory against a non-
existent opposition in elections scheduled for
1985,” according to the Guardian.

Mugabe is the current President of Zimbabwe,
and he has been Head of the Zimbabwe state
since 1980. Mugabe refused to accept his loss
during against opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai in 2008, which provoked violence,
hyperinflation, a destruction of infrastructure
across the country, and international sanctions.

saharareporters.com/2015/06/02/explosive-documents-reveal-mugabe’s-hand-murdering-20-thousand-zimbabweans

nerodenero:
Look closely, you would see his suit underneath

Lol. That's true.

Never seen him in anything other than suits

As I write this piece, I cannot help but
remember the words of the “Hall of Fame”
music idol, late B.B. King in his once-in-a-life
time album titled “The thrill is gone”.
The first 100 days of the change Nigerians
massively voted for on March 28 and April
11 could be a pointer to whether or not the thrill
and the enthusiasm for the APC and Buhari and
Osinbajo would still be there in 4 years. A
struggle that took 55 years to achieve must not
be allowed to fizzle away just like that
I appreciate the fact that the new President has
refused to let the Governors submit to him the
names of their nominees for Federal job s and
the determination of Buhari to not let the Local
Governments and the State Government spend
Federal subvention any way they want. Whoever
pays the Piper should have a right to dictate the
tune. It was the right thing to do and Buhari
must not let up on that decision. There is too
much corruption at the three levels of
Government. If the amount stolen by anybody is
too much, the culprit must be probed and
brought to book regardless of his position in
Government. The suggestion by Jonathan that
Buhari cannot probe him until he has probed the
other Heads of State is arrant nonsense. If it is
established that Jonathan or his first lady has
stolen money they must be made to face the
full force of the Law just like each of the
Ministers.

The number of Ambassadors and overseas
missions would need to be drastically reduced
just like Awolowo as Finance Minister had
advised General Gowon and Okoi Arikpo, the
Foreign Minister to do in 1968 while the Biafran
war was still on.
I knew about the move first hand because I was
among the last batch of Foreign Affairs officers
appointed in November and December of 1967.
My group was supposed to be posted to some
of those missions. That was how I ended up
being posted to the Army Headquarters as
Assistant Secretary Grade 2. That was how I
briefly served under Alhaji Damcida from
Katsina, and Yusuf Gobir from Ilorin as
Permanent Secretaries and B. G. Popo from
Warri as Deputy Permanent Secretary and Mr.
S.A. Ogunleye from Ijebu Ode as Senior
Assistant Secretary.

It made no economic sense for Nigeria to keep
some of those useless missions at a time
Nigeria needs all the money it can get to fight
and defeat Boko Haram and the Niger Delta
militants within our country.
President Buhari who flew British Airways during
his last trip to London must reduce the number
of aircrafts in the presidential fleet as a matter
of principle. Some of those aircrafts can be
sent back to form the nucleus of the new
National Carrier he intends to bring back to
Nigeria.

I am happy he has tried to check the excesses
of praise singers who massage the ego of our
men in power by calling the “Your Excellency”
and shouting “Power, Power” when they go
around town or attend public functions in their
convoy of cars with dispatch riders and sirens
all over the place. I noticed with huge
satisfaction that President Buhari did not allow
that eye service at his inauguration.
We hear from the grapevines that civil servants
in many states like Osun, Ekiti and so many
other states have not been paid their salaries.
Buhari has to liaise with the Governors Forum
to know why that is the case. Unless those civil
servants are paid, the euphoria we all feel today
about Buhari could be short-lived. The 19 APC
legislators who were driven out of Ekiti by
Governor Fayose and denied their salaries and
allowances all fall within the same show of
shame.

There are a few things that cannot wait. The
first 100 days are very critical. The Government
must be seen to be up and running very
efficiently. Part of it is finding money to replace
the empty Treasury left behind by President
Jonathan. Those who are known to have looted
the treasury and ministers like Allison Madueke
must immediately release back to Government
the aircrafts they have bought for their
Ministries. Nigeria has not yet reached the same
level with the United States where the
Secretary of State has his or her own plane.
That is a misplacement of our priorities.
There are little things the President could do as
mere gestures without endangering himself like
Murtala Mohammed made when he started
coming out of his car to start directing Lagos
traffic because he was fired up and ready to go.
But he went too far and was taken out in a ray
of bullets by Dimkar and his gang of coup
plotters at Alagbon Close very close to my
office at Ikoyi when I was assigned to the Udoji
Salary Review Commission next door to the
Federal Secretariat. My staff and I were the
first witnesses to the assassination because it
happened less than half a block from our office.
Many Nigerians job analysts and Salary Review
experts trained at the Journal Building at
Ottawa, Canada who used to work for the Udoji
Salary Review Commission and the Federal
Ministry of Establishments and the
Administrative Staff College in Badagry are still
around and some of them can be tapped to
review the salary structure of our Legislators
and public servants in Nigeria.
Our leader at the Commission at the time was
one Mr. M.A. Soneye from Shagamu who later
became the Director-General of ASCON in
Badagry. The man is still alive and he is now a
Barrister in Lagos. He can help the new
President fish- out some of his staff who are
still able to help the new President and his
Administration.

Nigeria faces enormous challenges. We must
not succumb to hopelessness and defeatism as
rightly observed by the new President with his
inaugural address. Yes, the President can
delegate a lot of things but he must be able to
back up such delegation with authority before
the thrill is gone as reminded us by B.B King.
Nigerians want to see action from the President
and his team and the time is now!
I rest my case.

saharareporters.com/2015/06/01/thrill-and-popular-support-buhari-could-evaporate-easily-dr-wumi-akintide

Ronaldo has four major titles with Real. Two of them were won by Gareth Bale, and the Liga title under the tactical genius of Mourinho.
Should Real still cling on to their false pretence that Ronaldo makes them a better team?
Yes, his goals make a difference. But any leading winger in the world would have produced results with players like Di Maria, Modric, Alonso, behind and around him.


You sir are a slow poke..... Any leading winger in the world would have produced results with those players.?... Like seriously?.. Not even Lionel messi can come up with those numbers on the wings

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Funny thing is some people still attacked the writer. So pathetic... SHUT UP AND DO SOMETHING

Nawa o... " ku oro omo"

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Lol... E pain am..... Sorry bro

Come on guys.... I'm not gay.

Lol... No I ain't gay.... Read it somewhere and just felt I should share it with you guys.

Why is it that, after such an intimate, heart and soul opening sex experience, that a man pulls away so damn quickly?
And there you are…Raw, open, vulnerable. Screaming inside…Both at him for his blatant disconcert with your sexual emotion and at yourself for letting him in. You wait for him to call, but nothing. You’re fuming, embarrassed. You’re confused.You’re fuming… DYING even.
Your impatience and intolerance gets the very best of you, so you send a text.When your text goes unanswered, you send another her and then another.
When all three text have been so hurtful ignored, you call. He doesn’t answer.He’s ignoring you after you opened yourself up in the most intimate, vulnerable way…And he doesn’t effing care enough to check in with you .

Okay

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@Op I think everyone will have the same thing to say about their school. No school is easy... Coming from a FUTA student

Though there are many variations of the story,
every prevaricator seems to agree on a couple
of facts about this fictional football match. Each
storyteller agrees that;
1. This match ended with India scoring 99 goals
and Nigeria scoring just one goal.
2. Nigerians where unable to kick the ball
because the football kept turning to a lion (or
something scary) to prevent them from playing
the soccer ball.
3. The Indians later agreed that if Nigeria could
score a goal, they would concede defeat
4. Samuel Okwaraji scored the winning goal and
lost his life in the process.
5. FIFA banned India from soccer because they
used black magic in that very game
With the help of common sense (not that it was
absent back then), quick access to information
and the internet, every right thinking Nigerian
has come to realize that such a story should be
filled under “Blatant Lies”.

Why Did This Story Thrive For So Long?
Most people like to pass off this story as true
with the fact that no one has ever seen India in
an International Football Match. Since no one
actually saw India participate in most
international soccer games, this gave a little
credence to the story. India
Another reason this lie could thrive for long was
the fact that credible information was not
readily available at our finger tips. It not like
every Emeka, Audu and Ojo could visit Google in
a matter of minutes and tell our ominous
fabricators that they should stop spreading toxic
lies.
And to be honest we have a tingling feeling that
this lie was concocted by an elder of a
community because, let’s be honest who
questions the words of the elders in Nigeria.
Remember, what an adult sees sitting down a
child will never see even if he consults Google,
Siri or Cortana. The Element of Truth In This
Story
On the 12th of August 1989, Nigeria lost Sam
Okwaraji.
Sam Okwaraji was the player rumored to have
lost his life in that game when in truth he died
during a FIFA World Cup qualifying game against
Angola in the 77th minute.
He collapsed and died of cognitive heart failure.
May his soul rest in Perfect Peace. AMEN
So that is the only truthful thing about that
story, the fact that a Nigerian player died during
a football match. That’s it. The match was not
against India, we did not lose the match and as
you must have guessed, and there were no lions
either. What Is The Deal With India Anyway?

India qualified for the 1950 FIFA world cup as a
result of the withdrawal of their scheduled
opponents. But the Indian football governing
body, the All India Football Federation (AIFF)
decided against going to the world cup, being
unable to understand the importance of the
event at that time.
Some of the Reasons shown by the AIFF
included the cost of travel, lack of practice
time, team selection issued and valuing the
Olympics over the FIFA World cup. It should be
noted that FIFA agreed to bear a major part of
the travel expenses, but it did not really help
their decision making. Was India Banned For
Refusing To Play Barefoot?
No.

The 1948 London Olympics was India’s first
major international tournament, where a
predominantly barefoot Indian team lost 2 -1 to
France.
Following the 1948 Olympics FIFA imposed a
rule banning barefoot play.
The belief that the Indian team refused to play
because they were not allowed to play barefoot
is not entirely true according to the then team
captain who said it was just a story to cover
the disastrous decision of the AFIF.
After the 1950 fiasco, India has never come
close to qualifying for the World Cup.
The reason you do not see India in World Cup
competitions is because they do not qualify So
Does The Indian Team Wear Soccer Boots?
Yes.

In the 1952 Olympics, the Indian team lost 10 –
1 to Yugoslavia (talking about taking a beating).
As a result of this magnanimous defeat the
AIFF made it compulsory for its team members
to wear boots Is it Possible to win a match with
a 99 – 1 match margin?

Yes.
It is absolutely possible to rake 99 – 1 from a
single football match. Let’s take a walk down
memory lane and see how this is even possible.
Now allow us to digress.
The highest scoring soccer game was 149-0!
You’re probably wondering how a soccer team
could be so bad that they let 149 goals be
scored, but the truth is it was a form of protest.
The event occurred in 2002 after a 2-2 draw
between rival teams Stade Olympique de
L’emyrne, or SOE, and AS Adema of
Madagascar, which resulted in the referees
awarding a penalty causing SOE to lose the
game.

During a match fixing debacle in Nigeria, the
Feeders scored 72 of their 79-0 victory in 45
minutes of play. Police Machine scored 61 of
their 67-0 victory in the second half. At one
point, they scored four goals in a minute.
Arbroath won Bon Accord 36 – 0 in 1885. It held
the largest margin of victory in professional
football where both sides wanted to win.
So, yes, given the “right circumstances”, a team
could actually receive 99 – 1 beating without
any black magic whatsoever.

Thieves

And what's all the noise about VECTOR. I don't feel that dude

Thavybe:
You have to listen to
1. J.cole
2. J.cole
3. J.cole
4. J.cole
5. J.cole
6. Kendrick lamar
7. Eminem ft dido - STAN (his best rap song of all time)
8. Lupe fiasco
9. Blaq bones
10. Macklemore,Nas, M.i,Vector, and d only female rapper i recognise Tesh carter

No sir.... STAN isn't his best.. Not even in his top 5

Okay

Now this is getting boring

Now that's bleeped up.... Damn!

mogentle:
This doesn't remove the tag of Tout from him. Where was this magic when he contested for senate and lost? Poverty in Ekiti is the weapon he's using. Give them 1,000 naira and you've solved their problem to become their god. By the time the reality dawn on them, they'll hate him more. Till then, let him enjoy the moment of sympathy vote. Ekiti people are hard to please. Fayose must have spent billions to achieve this. REALITY is knocking!!!

Insulting their person cos they didn't vote APC?.... Ain't cool bro

rodbel:
Lol.... Fayose's kinsmen from the far east are already rooting for him to be the SW leader. They never learn. Ekiti and SW are two different entities.

He did well bullying ekiti people. State of timid electorate

He bullied them three times?
1. 16-0
2. 16-0
3. 26-0

Brugo:
Fayose cannot sit comfortably until the inauguration of the new house of assembly.

Ekiti people actually want Fayose because he gives them short term enjoyment. Many of the resident citizens (if not most) are civil servants. Fayemi handled them with a strong hand but Fayose will allow them have a field day.

They want to resume work late and close early. They want to be paid salaries without showing up at work. They know Fayose has no moral right to demand diligence from them so they'll choose him and give him whatever he wants.

However, there is a new government at the centre. No federal favours for Ekiti state; well, unless their federal reps and senators decide to serve their various constituencies. But we know that reps and senators don't remember their people until election time is near.

The state can only progress if the state government works it's butt off. That however will never happen with a thug in office.

apply Vaseline where it hurts. Dem say na who dem want, you dey there dey hate

The question should be why they love that guy so much... barring his excesses HE MUST BE SPECIAL.
1. 16-0
2. 16-0
3. 26-0?....Lol

uselessgoat:
I HAVE A 10 INCH DICK. THANKS TO A LOCAL HERB I BOUGHT IN KATSINA CALLED BURANTASHI. ANY NAIRALAND BABE WEY I HANDLE NOW GO USE ICE BLOCK TO COOL HER PUSSSY. #TEAM BIG DICK

Chai!.... You be useless goat true true

Lol... That's how it should be. We don't have to take everything serious. Nice one basket mouth