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abokibuhari:
I go fvck empress this night for today dream

IVORY2009:
Yes, it is sad, but be dat as it maybe, Nigeria as a country should have gotten a world wide television station that can be use to portray the good image of the country to the international community, just like BBC to the United Kingdom, CNN to the United States, SABC to the South Africans etc I think this will help alot too.

IVORY2009:
You're right, another thing is the media, CNN for example does not report anything good about Nigeria, and most of those peeps oversees, tend to listen to CNN news alot, and watever dey hear is wat they believe.

vislabraye:
Some people are chronic zombies

IVORY2009:
She did well by keeping a low profile, on like dressing in a bling-bling kind of clothing, kidnapping is real bro, Mark jogging @ the Ikoyi link bridge does not still portrale dat 9ja is safe oooo, similarly my sis in Us came last december, due to the time difference, she usually comes back late @ 2am and sleeps late, I later warned her the danger of doing so, not too long she was almost kidnapped, if not for God.......The Nigeria of today, in terms of security is a no go.....

able20:
You're right, the first time I brought my kids home, all extended family members told me it was too dangerous I should rather send them Western Union that we are safer in Europe.

neocortex:
You can't blame them, those who suffered a great deal to make money
are more likely to be fearful of losing their money or their life.

Imagine the pain of a man who just returned from the U.S after five years only to
have his wife and one of his children kidnapped and ending up losing the wife in
the process.
Such stories are common and they travel fast.

That is why I advise anyone coming home especially those planning to travel to villages
to move around with heavily armed security guards.

It is better to be safe than sorry.

fuckyouallmods:
Stop fvcking lying!!!!! it's not good for ur health.

AsoRockz01:
Lol....you sef how you take know say na the canvas I dey talk about.

New reports by an international aid organisation, Mercy Corps, have revealed how Boko Haram insurgents use informal micro credit schemes and promises of safety to recruit hundreds of youths and pupils as fighters.

The beneficiaries, the reports funded by the Ford Foundation added, received amounts ranging from N10,000 to N1m in order to buy motorcycles, restock their trading stores and grow their small-scale businesses.

The reports, presented on Thursday in Lagos, also highlighted how repression from the military and access to interest-free finance, among others, had perpetuated terrorism and elicited sympathy from communities in the North.

However, the Lead Researcher and Global Director, Conflict Management for Mercy Corps, Rebecca Wolfe, said many of the locals did not know that the credits were from the insurgents.

The reports noted, “Roughly one out of three respondents had completed secular secondary school and about the same number had completed some sort of Islamic schooling.”

Titled, “Motivations and Empty Promises: Voices of former Boko Haram combatants and Nigerian Youth and Gifts and Graft: How Boko Haram uses Financial Services for Recruitment and Support,” the reports revealed that peer pressure and the availability of girls were also incentives to the beneficiaries.

According to Wolfe, 47 former members of the insurgent groups, comprising 21 females and 26 males, 45 community members and seven others, who refused the sect’s incentives were interviewed during the study.

She added, “Sometimes the people did not know. It is usually something like a friend coming to give them money for their business and they later find out that the friend is a member of Boko Haram. I asked them, ‘Don’t you people know?’ But it turned out that sometimes, they did not know what they were getting into.

“One male recipient shared how he was complaining to a friend that he wanted a job so he could better provide for his parents. The friend then liaised with Boko Haram leaders to secure a motorcycle to allow the recipient start a business,” she said.

Meanwhile, the reports recommended that the government should, in the post-conflict era, “increase the quality, availability and diversity of financial services, particularly to youths with small, informal businesses. Increase transparency and accessibility to government-led economic programmes. Explore financial services to help youths achieve their ambitions, among other interventions.”

A member of the team, Ballama Mustafa, who urged the government to make its presence felt in remote communities in the region, added that interventions should be interest-free and should not exclude locals, who are not literate.

He added, “There are diverse paths to membership. Some were abducted and some joined because they had friends who were insurgents. Some joined to avenge the deaths of their family members or friends. When the military invades a community after a terrorist attack, you find that the military arrests people indiscriminately. But Boko Haram also does that. When they go into a community, they can kill parents who have prevented their children from joining them. One of our recommendations is that communities and schools should create counter-narratives to dissuade youths and pupils from joining the sect."

Kyase:
Lol
Then use your money buy rope die your die na

Kyase:
No worry I go free rope for you, I go send am the through bill

AsoRockz01:
I no fit laugh abeg

AsoRockz01:
Lwkmd4h. Please who noticed the guy on blue in the 5th and 6th pix?

Kyase:
After you die who go pay me

loomer:
You for still add Muhammad buhari again. Cos na 2times the man dey

Kyase:
And there's nothing you can do, go hang yourself.

Beress:
My dear those pple are clowns

HungerBAD:
PDP actually owe Nigeria an Apology for the 16 yrs of stealing.

What is the guy below me talking about?

Beress:
Fear "North"

So they expected GEJ to be the president of the Niger Deltan alone

By the way, Hausa Fulanis has been the President of this country since independence, does that stop them frm begging on our streets?

Rapmoney:
Romantic fraud!

TonyeBarcanista:
me sef no talk anything bro

TonyeBarcanista:
LOL see where you don reason go