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Billyonaire: How many Nigerian men do you know ?

Billyonaire: Dont do that. Its offensive and personal.

phreakabit: ROFLMAO! Sahara Reporters is a political tool. If they were the ones who reported this incident, I bet they would have "unintentionally" ommited the part about the robbers speaking Yoruba due to oversight.

Wislet: THIS THREAD REEKS OF INSECURITY IN ITS ALARMING PROPORTIONS.
Makes you wonder why some folks take the time to date if their partners aren't worth it. And the moral decadence in the world today- where everyone is a suspect(male/female).
Be faithful to your relationships people!
Change that conniving, player-like, deceitful character that breeds distrust, hate and makes u a suspect where your partner is.
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It's funny as Nairaland is an anonymous forum. We could have two people in a serious relationship outside of Nairaland who both have IDs here, saying a capital NO to each other without knowing. Lol.
What a joke we make of so-called 'love' and 'relationship'.
Abeg disband and stay alone. Make una no dey deceive unaself.

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DJTee: Sorry about the traumatic experience.

Please take this case to the Office of the Public Defender (Lagos State Ministry of Justice). This matter should be taken up with the IGP especially as the Policemen were(are) bent on extorting you.

Meanwhile lets all be extremely cautious in these "ember" months please.

Stay safe guys!

pappilo: Boss, please no vex. I am just hoping you will say something like April fool. I actually left Nigeria because of insecurity. Got robbed 3 times in 6 months in the same damn house. I always dread when I have a trip planned and this your story is just making me reconsider my December trip.

oyb: it has little to do with frustration and plenty to do with laziness and the desire for easy money.

those who r-aped and killed cynthia and sold her phone - are they also frustrated?

it is not so much that they are ready to die as it is that they know nothing will happen.

you think if everybody had a gun they would be brazenly breaking down people's doors

do you want to tell me that robbers etal in the rest of the world are also frustrated?

how much do you think they made in that operation? how long do you think that money will last?




aren't you the broke arse nigga from the uk slums? come to naija to form big man?

Jarus: Omho, fear catch me with your story o

I have to stop being outside beyond 10pm now o

Nigerian forces making Islamist insurgency worse: Amnesty
Thu Nov 1, 2012 9:34am GMT

By Joe Brock

ABUJA (Reuters) - Human rights abuses committed by Nigeria's security forces in their fight against Islamist sect Boko Haram are fuelling the very insurgency they are meant to quell, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Boko Haram says it wants to create an Islamic state in Nigeria and its fighters have killed hundreds in bomb and gun attacks targeting security forces, politicians and civilians since launching an uprising in 2009. The sect has become the No. 1 security threat to Africa's top energy producer.

The Amnesty report said Nigeria's security forces acted outside the rule of law and their brutal tactics could build support for Boko Haram outside its extremist core.

A Nigerian military spokesman contacted by Reuters rejected the report as "biased and mischievous".

"The cycle of attack and counter-attack has been marked by unlawful violence on both sides, with devastating consequences for the human rights of those trapped in the middle," said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

"Every injustice carried out in the name of security only fuels more terrorism, creating a vicious circle of murder and destruction."

The report is likely to add to calls for Nigeria's military to change its heavy-handed approach to tackling the insurgency, which critics have long said is driving desperate youths into the arms of Boko Haram.

It details cases of abuses stretching back to the start of the Boko Haram uprising in 2009.

The report said a "significant number" of people accused of links with Boko Haram had been executed after arrest without due process, while hundreds were detained without charge or trial and many of those arrested disappeared or were later found dead.

"People are living in a climate of fear and insecurity, vulnerable to attack from Boko Haram and facing human rights violations at the hands of the very state security forces which should be protecting them," Shetty said.

Amnesty said it had spoken to witnesses who described seeing people who were unarmed and lying down with their hands over their heads shot at close range by soldiers.

In one case, a widow described how soldiers put a gun against her husband's head three times and told him to say his last prayers before shooting him dead. They then burned down their home. She now fends for her seven children alone.

Defense spokesman Colonel Mohammed Yerima said that Nigerian forces only kill Boko Haram suspects during gunfights, never in executions

"We don't torture people. We interview a suspect, if he is not involved we let him go. If he is involved we hand him to the police," he said. "I totally disagree with this report. It is biased and it is mischievous."

Amnesty said it had sent a delegation to the states worst affected by the insurgency, Kano and Borno, between February and July to investigate reported atrocities.

Gunmen kill 20 in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state

KADUNA, Nigeria | Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:31am GMT

(Reuters) - Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have killed 20 people in a village in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, authorities said on Wednesday, a similar attack to one in June.

Dozens of men armed with guns stormed Kaburu village early on Tuesday morning, demanding money before shooting and hacking people to death, local residents said.

"They were all shot to death while the village head was slaughtered with a sword," local government spokesman Salihu Anga told Reuters by phone.
At least 27 people were killed in June when suspected armed robbers attacked several villages in Zamfara.

Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed hundreds across the north this year in its campaign for an Islamic state in a country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.

Boko Haram mostly attack in north-eastern Borno state and its capital Maiduguri, the sect's base, but a recent military crackdown there has pushed its insurgency into other areas.

On Sunday, a suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a church in Kaduna, about 70 miles (113 km) from the Zamfara border, killing eight people and triggering reprisals that killed at least two more.

A breakdown of law and order has created opportunities for armed gangs driven more by money than ideology.

Nigeria's mainly Muslim north celebrated the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday at the end of last week. Violent crimes often increase in Nigeria around holidays when people carry more cash.

Zamfara, at the base of the Sahel in the far northwest of Africa's most populous nation, shares a border with Niger.

(Reporting by Isaac Abrak; Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Williams sisters urge African women to play tennis

Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:29pm GMT

* Serena, Venus in Nigeria to promote women's empowerment

* Sisters teaching tennis to children then playing match

By Tim Cocks


LAGOS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - For many African-American celebrities, visiting Africa satisfies a yearning to return to their distant ancestral homeland. Not so for tennis player Serena Williams.

"I'd love to say I'm from Africa, but we're from the United States and we're proud to be from there as well," she told reporters in Nigeria's business hub of Lagos on Wednesday, after a Nigerian reporter asked if perhaps she was originally from Nigeria.

"But my Mom named my sister (Venus) after an African name," she hastily added.

The Williams sisters and their mother are in Nigeria this week to promote women's tennis and empowerment of women on the continent. For Venus, it is her first time in Africa.

Taking their own successes in women's tennis, a sport which before them was dominated by white players, the sisters want to inspire women in the African continent to take up the sport and, more generally, to pursue their dreams despite whatever odds they face in male dominated societies.

"We were able to break the mould and win a lot of grand slams and change the face of tennis ... when tennis was very dominated by white people," 31-year-old Serena said three days after beating rival Maria Sharapova in the final of the WTA Championships in Istanbul.

"It doesn't matter what your background is and where you come from, if you have dreams and goals, that's all that matters," she added.

The sisters later conducted tennis classes with some children at a Lagos sports club. On Thursday, they will visit a school to discuss empowerment of girls then on Friday they will play an exhibition match against each other.

"We're very excited to be playing tennis here," Venus said. "Of all the finals everywhere ... this will be our final here in Nigeria.

"I don't know who's going to win but Serena just won the championship so I know she's ready. I'll have to play my best tennis." (Editing by Mark Meadows; mark.meadows@thomsonreuters.com; +44 20 7542 7933; Reuters Messaging:; mark.meadows.reuters.com@reuters.net)

ujchief: u got a 16 month contract job at N110k per month and all u thought of was buying a Camry? 16 months and all u could boast of was a Camry? U couldnt use the money to start up something of ur own when ur contract runs out?? U bought a camry? U were a teacher, earning 15k, then had a litle oppurtunity to help urself and u bought a camry? Did u say u're looking for a new job? What for? Why not drive around town wit ur 'camry' everymorning and retire to ur house? If u were my younger brother, i would have electrocuted u, no jokes! When others wash their camry to take it to work in the morning, u stil wash urs to drive it to where? Someone else's office to submit an application for work? I HATE YOU!