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Yoruba almajiris. Mu he he he LOL |
"You created all these troubles in the Southwest and also for your information, I did not come here as a member of your party, I am no longer a PDP member," Fayose shouted.Tell it like it is bro. ![]() OBJ should do some paternity on all those he claimed to have fathered. Before he receives some "Abiola-like" shocks upon the reading of his last will and testament. |
Foto trick. Atiku has met with Jega and Waziri in his house and settled them for the Xmas and New Year seasons. All this formality is just to give Nigerians some comic relief and to lend some 'credibility' to the outside viewers. We know our peeps. ![]() |
Sorry, he only surprises Southerners. . . not Northerners or Middle Belters. You cannot out 'trait' a traitor. For every traitor knows his own. ![]() |
stranger:Very contagious I tell you. You mean can't? Or you thinking of sum'un else with? You dirty old fox. ![]() After experiencing that your spambot of a thingy first hand, jiggling its Ekiti girdle-less behind in my face in the past hour or so, I could not even find my key board not to mention see what I wrote. Then there it was. . . you have lost your privileges. If you are not 'spam'. . . we apologize. Please, do not post, wait for your post to reappear. . .huh? ![]() Is this what peeps have been experiencing on this website and it is still unresolved? It would have been asinine for me to have reported such an ongoing problem to "Aunty Jarius" don't yor think? Why report redundancy? Wonders, you are omni-present afterall. Abracadabra. I thought it was easier to sign up another extension like Blazay1 to be as impressive as your royal highness. That too was a daunting task. Tsk. |
http://southasia.oneworld.net/todaysheadlines/slavery-maligns-even-the-most-civilised-societies Slavery in the US a history? Not quite. Scott Bronstein, Amber Lyon and Alexandra Poolos 03 December 2010 Young teenage girls from poor families of West Africa are lured into USA on the pretext of providing them with education and are then, forced into slavery. Human trafficking exists everywhere in the US, the authors claim, and as a trade has become even more profitable than drug-trafficking. 'Nicole,' left, and Zena, right, thought they were coming to the US for an education/ Photo credit: CNN They arrived in the United States from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. But this time, it didn't happen hundreds of years ago. Nicole's journey started in 2002, when she was barely 12, in her small village in western Ghana. She and about 20 other girls were held in plain sight, but always under the watchful eyes of their captors. "It was like being trapped, like being in a cage," said "Nicole," now 19. CNN agreed not to use her real name. "I always have to behave, behave, behave, behave. No freedom at all." The girls' families sent them to the United States after being assured they would receive a better education. But once they arrived, they were forced to work in hair braiding shops across the Newark area - just a short drive from New York City, right in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. The girls, who are now young women, have never spoken publicly before, until now. "It was horrible," said Zena Amevor, who was 15 when she was brought over from Togo. "Sometimes there was not enough food for us to eat. , It was like a prison. I was just stuck there. , It was horrible." For the first time, the former slaves provided details about their horrifying odyssey and an intimate view into the world of human trafficking and contemporary slavery. "Jacqueline" was 13 when her family sent her to the United States, not knowing that a woman she called "auntie" was a human trafficker. It was unclear if the woman was a blood relative. "My dad , worked hard so I could go to school, so when my auntie came and told my family that I could go to a school in the U.S. , they trusted her," she said. "Everyone was happy about it." The girls worked in the salons right out in the open, in front of customers. They were on their feet all day, sometimes for more than 12 hours, weaving intricate and elaborate hair braids, seven days a week. This went on for more than five years. "We stood there all day, just braiding," Jacqueline said. "If they want really small braids, you stay there sometimes until 2 a.m. , That's every day." "When I saw teenagers going around, going to the movies and just being a teen , I just couldn't understand why my life has to be this way , "Nicole, human trafficking victimAt times, they were forced to braid the hair of American teenagers no older than they were -- girls who were free and had no idea the people braiding their hair were slaves. "I wished I could go with them," Nicole said. "Most of the time, I'd end up just breaking down later crying , because when I see teenagers going around, going to the movies and just being a teen , I just couldn't understand why my life has to be this way , " In one of the many ironies in the case, the customers whose hair was braided by the slave girls were mostly African-American women, many of whom could have been descendants of slaves brought to America generations ago. Slavery through trafficking continues widely today in the United States, though often undetected, according to law enforcement officials. Nicole, Zena, Jacqueline and the other girls were held in groups in several houses around Newark and East Orange, New Jersey. The girls were brought to the United States at different times between 2002 and 2007, according to court documents. As the group grew, the traffickers ran out of places to put them and had to rent more living quarters. The homes were always in the middle of residential areas with manicured lawns and nice houses, often near churches, schools and community buildings. "I think it's hard for people to believe that in 2010, we have people who actually put people in slavery," said Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, whose office successfully prosecuted the case. "It's the most fundamental and intolerable violation of human rights." The traffickers convicted in this case were a mother, father and son who also came from West Africa, according to court documents and law enforcement officials. Nicole, Zena and Jacqueline described living in fear shortly after they arrived in the United States, forced to work by day at the hair salons and sleeping in groups on the floor at night. "When I got here , I asked her if I was going to school, and she said there was no school," Jacqueline said, referring to her auntie, the trafficking ringleader. "I said, 'I'm not going to school?' [and] she said, 'no' , and that was her decision and she wasn't going to change it." The captors controlled the girls by beating them, withholding food, keeping them separated from anyone else and, at times, through sexual abuse, according to court documents. The young women who spoke to CNN described years of cruelty, physical abuse, beatings with wood or metal objects, extreme isolation and sleeping on mattresses on floors in filthy conditions. Even their phone calls back to their families were monitored by their captors. "I always thought of running [away], but I know nobody," Zena said. "I don't know where to go, didn't have [any] friends, nobody to talk to, so it was kind of hard. , I had nowhere to go to." Five years after the girls began arriving, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents received a tip and began extensive surveillance on the houses where the girls were kept. After months of surveillance, the ICE agents raided the houses in 2007. Inside, they found the girls and mattresses on the floor. The traffickers had hidden bags of cash and the girls' passports. Peter Edge, who led the team of agents, said none of the girls' customers ever called officials to help. "Hundreds of people came into these salons, they probably witnessed things out of the ordinary," said Edge, special agent in charge of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations in Newark. "These girls were shielded from the outside world, virtually hidden in plain sight , from everything else that was around them." Edge and the girls said several customers asked about the girls' ages, and the girls -- following the orders of their captors -- lied and said they were 18. "I wish one of my customers , would have gone to police," Nicole said. "I wish they would have helped me." In the 2007 raid, the ICE agents found a notebook the girls used to track the tips they received, but couldn't keep, at the hair salon. Ironically, on the cover of the notebook was a picture of the Statue of Liberty. More than two years later, Akouavi Afolabi; her husband, Lassissi Afolabi; and their son, Dereck Hounakey, were convicted of running the trafficking ring. Akouavi Afolabi was the ringleader, while her husband and son were accomplices, according to court documents. In September of this year, a Newark court sentenced Akouavi Afolabi to 27 years in prison, while her husband received 24 years and their son received 4½ years. The girls had to testify against the Afolabis in court. "I remember crying. All I did was cry. It was overwhelming," Nicole said. "I told myself, 'She finally got what she deserved' , she did really, really wrong. She treated us bad. And she was heartless , and I'm happy she was caught." Court records show the Afolabis knew many of the families whose girls they lured away to become their slaves. They had an elaborate scheme to lure the girls: Mrs. Afolabi would approach families of young girls in Ghana and Togo, where she had connections, and tell the families she would give the girls an education in the United States. They then used fraudulent visa papers to sneak the girls into the country. Experts say the main reason for most modern-day human trafficking is money. "Human trafficking is extremely profitable," said Bridgette Carr, a law professor and a national expert on human trafficking. The customers at the hair braiding salon where Zena and Nicole were forced to work would sometimes pay as much as $200 to $400 for elaborate braiding that would take many hours to complete. "It's so profitable that we are seeing some drug traffickers get out of drug trafficking and into human trafficking,"Bridgette Carr, law professor and trafficking expertThe traffickers took every penny made by the girls, both in tips and payments for their hair braiding. They made about $4 million, according to court documents. "It's so profitable that we are seeing some drug traffickers get out of drug trafficking and into human trafficking," said Carr, who teaches law at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. Carr heads a clinic that is helping Nicole and many of the other girls move ahead with their lives. "Sadly, the work of our clinic is necessary in every community in America," she said. "Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery, exists in big cities, in small towns, in rural areas with no towns, exists in restaurants, in hair salons, in hotels and in farmwork. "Almost every industry you can think of, there is an opportunity there for someone to be exploited. This is everywhere in the U.S." Today, Nicole, Zena, Jacqueline and the other girls are trying to move on with their lives. Several are in high school, and one has recently been accepted into college. Most of the girls have not been able to return home to see their families in West Africa. When asked why she agreed to finally talk out about such a painful chapter of her life, Nicole said she wanted to raise awareness about what other young girls may be going through. "I want to tell people that slavery exists," she said. "It's huge, and it's really happening here." Source : CNN |
Ibime:Only Uncle Jarus? Aunty Aisha2 nko? You want to send my posts and those of Krendo's to where? Without sending the whole thread to blazes to burn to ashes? With senile goons like the ONLY Dapolarbear of Africa(F.O.U.C. . .freak of unnatural causes )and "Beafloaf" or is it Meatloaf brain of Ekiti infertile bush running around NL and on this thread? Frankly my dear, there must be madness in your liver and kidneys. Too bad it is in the latent stages. Watch out for greater manifestations. |
Nsiman:And who cares a drop of rancid rat's pisss? ![]() You are even more silly(or should I say more sillier according to excanny) , the one and only Ogundipe of NL than I fathomed.Your IQ must really be sub-zero. You most definitely must be seeking a 'black' card from those posters to marry your sorry ars*e of a behind to escape abject poverty from Malawi. Keep impressing them. I hope your tongue does not fall off with gangrane one of these days, while you go a-kissin' those hemorrhoids you mistake for tongues behind those posters huh? Where in the world did you get the idea that the north 'think' that ruling Nigeria is their birthright? ![]() Listen up you Kermit the Frog, you ain't no Pasuma Wonder by any given standards. Not by any long shot or wide margin. |
9ijaMan: ![]() Please, please, please, I could not get beyond these 2 words. If you are gonna write my name at all, if you must, you have to use correct tenses and grammar. You can correct me too. Did your daddy ever supervise your homework? Or, was he too busy doing the wild things with the birds and the bees in the trees of Ogbomoso? Oh dear! You must be related to excanny or whatshisface? |
But what about Nigeria and Africa as a whole?Brownteeth of course. |
We know IBB. You are not from Southern Nigeria, the den of traitors. |
http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/latest-addition/11100-pictures-Lagos-rubbish-dump.html Welcome to Lagos. The only city in the world where humans worship dirt next to pigs. Each day, 3,000 metric tonnes of rubbish are filtered by hand,[size=15pt] keeping 500 people in full-time employment.[/size] They pick the most valuable discarded items to trade. Perfume containers, for example, are worth nine Nigerian naira (four UK pence; six US cents). |
I am in charge of the roads in Aba. How can I help you sister Trilingual or is it Trinigal? You better go and learn how to cook Oha soup/Ofe Owerri from scratch and don't worry too much about it. ![]() I can't stop laughing today on NL. Here goes: You mean you married someone without visiting his hometown in Nigeria? 20 children later, you are quarreling about the state of Aba roads? Not even the size of his manhood? Your husband must be neglecting his duties. Come to daddy baby. Let me make you feel better. |
There we go. The usual suspects. Nasty things. No wonder the whole place is infested with "spambots". |
Sweet T:LOL Typical yoruba. ![]() I think you must be suffering from incurable, undiagnosed, cyber halitosis. Slim shady the thrashy rapper Sweet T:OMG. LOL Nna mheeeen, There are some disgusting beings on this NL of a space and you happen to be the most aggravating today. You are really very silly for starting such a thread. Just wondering why the topic of the thread originally presented changed to cover your stinky butt for what it really is. You piece of thrash. abadaba:Tell me about it. What a poodoofus. stranger:The reason I have come to respect you. You do not hide what you are. Much regards amigo. Naa, you need to break away. Biafra has been left for Yoruba peeps. Go and risk your own 3 million for sacrificial cleansing. I think the Igbos have tried in that regard. Abiola's neck is not enough. |
stranger:Sure. Natural born killers. Poor Bola Ige and co passionately murdered in cold blood for rituals. |
krendo:Mu he he he I dey laugh o Like OBJ, like[b] ilung[/b]a-long throat |
The first one in a Nigerian church. Big mistake. A complete disaster. Totally blind and naive. Claimed to be a virgin too. Not that she was asked. Ha! Story for another day. I will spare the world the gory details. Glad to have gotten rid of her. Got my children too. Good grief. My sweetie? Like IBB and Mariam IBB of course. In a Reggae bar. Totally intoxicated and completely inspired. From the men's bathroom to the altar, it was a marriage fit for the gods. I will die without her. ![]() What she does, she does so well. An all-rounder. What can't she do? Ask me again. This woman is amazing. Hmm Singing the gospel according to one of them 'Fela' boys. . . wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder, o. will Africa ever unite? wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder. . . o. |
ilugunboy:You should be thanking me. His/Her computer got some healing today. No more double posts. Sheeeeeeesh. At least I got your attention. ![]() |
Yes. I thank you on his behalf. He does not need your attention. Could you please, take that your rotten, Nigerian, ever-fading, carcinogenous, filthy, made-in-Aba gutter stamp too. Shut the door behind your please. Thanks. ![]() |
Say it again "daddy-go-daddy"! Your people still doubt you. Methinks you need to start writing in the 'Egba' lingo so some will understand. English is not the language of proficiency. |
appletango:Well, in that case. I beg to take my leave. For I see that has started on this same thread. I will not be caught dead with a Beaf/faeb contaminant in it. Thanks for the info. Back to IRMO(in read mode only).
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appletango:Ouch! ![]() Have mercy please. They would probably be cooking with it and all die from cancer blaming the idle witches of Akwa Ibom jungles. I am having a laugh today all dressed up in my pajamas with no hat on of course. Ready for my "Sunday" Lewinsky treatment. |
appletango: ![]() See corrrrrrrect strokin'! |
krendo:Gbam, Gbam, Gbamology. Jeeeeeeeeeeeez, the state of Texas has oil and no one ever hard of 'our' oil in Texas. You may hear of 'Texas Tea'. . . used to build at least one airport in every state in the US, not to mention NASA and these local Nigerians are talking about 'our oil' with no roads to their villages. 13% derivation the slow pokes cannot even manage effectively. . . they are agitating for more. Well, how about that? Rivers waters or Deltas waters? Is it Warri waters or the waters from the Bonny Islands. . . where no one can point to from any world-map of the world? ![]() |
appletango: ![]() Like Jonathan and Patience, still chewing dry kpo-kpo garri with their salivary glands as the only availble source to quench their thirsty throats. The dude only lasted 2 years in the customs. No liver to chop bribe sef. What a wimp. Very cowardly and un-Nigerian. Who ever heard of a Nigerian "carrying" last in bribe-taking? Only with the likes of GEJ of course. Olodo rabata! Olodo banza! |
Is he really the best the south south has to offer?I am not from the South-South. . . Thanks to Allah/God/Buddha/Satan/Sango/Sopono. . . . . But the answer is Yes. South-Southerners do not have the autonomy or discipline to rule Nigeria having been schooled by the grand fathers of political thuggery. If you doubt me, name one. No one South-Southerner has the courage to rule Nigeria. Too cowardly too. Prove me wrong. |
So much love between the the most cursed and loving it. Difficult to say Cain and Abel at war. More like 2 Esaus or 2 Cains at war Just can't wait stab each other in the backs or laugh at each others' misfortunes while failing to celebrate each others successes. I think someone referred to it as 'healthy rivalry' on NL. Thank the lord for small mercies. With friends like these who needs assassins? ![]() |
Is that what he stated? Or a "Northern" politician stated that? A second term agenda by proxy sounds good to me. Next Atiku article please. I can't get enough of him. Also while some members of this group have chosen to either remain silent or sit on the fence, one man who had decided not to hide his feelings is Chief Abu King Shuluwa. The former Plateau State PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman who is a staunch believer in Suswam has said that even though he agrees with Suswam on every other matter, he will not and can never agree with him on this matter of zoning.Don't you just love politics without bitterness? Not a single gunshot like we have in the wild, wild west. God bless Adedibu and co. |
Nsiman: Nsiman:Amazing. I understand that computer 'glitches' do 'appen sometimes. Your case sir, is kinda different. Do you by any chance patronize the services of the "braille" feature of your computer? Just wondering why you always process your words in EXACT, unpoetic, "rhyming couplets". 'Your whole computer or portions of your keyboard afflicted with some form of cyber Turret's syndrome by any chance? Does your computer have a manufacturer's, defective, stuttering problem that needs a-fixin'? ![]() I think you need to take them all back to Otigba or Alaba for routine maintenance or a refund. Even if today is Sunday, and you missed the mosque by any chance this past Friday evening. Just sayin'. Healing might be in the cards for your computer today. If only you believe. No offense meant please. |
^^^ Where is your list Ali Baba? Please, you Yoruba peeps should stop distracting us with your Mad If you do not have proof, shattap once and for all and let your learned superiors continue to work towards the betterment of Nigeria irrespective of how your OBJ has rap-ed the country with legs wide still wide open and insides hanging out for the world to see shamelessly. Go and hide your heads or your nappy-tails for once please. http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/06/25/us-imposes-travel-ban-on-aondoakaa/ http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=952:barack-obama-withdraws-us-visa-from-some-cameroonian-politicians&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=67 http://allafrica.com/stories/201010250109.html This Day (Lagos)Did you see Atiku's name on this list? ![]() If there is a list you know-alls on Nairaland are hinding in your boxers, could you please share it with us or shut your lousy traps. I have searched everywhere on earth for this your list of ban-ees from the US and I can't even find one for Nigerians not to mention one with Atiku's name on it. OBJ the chief Halliburton culprit is free to enter the US having been manipulated by the US and you are here chanting Atiku is banned from the US. . . Atiku is wanted by the EFCC. . . this and that. Somebody, please wake me up when next Atiku utters a word. Or if he raises his 'agbada' to pee on OBJ's head for the final baptism and confirmation to kiri-kiri. . .not just a broom and and umbrella. ![]() Back to bed. |
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