₦airaland Forum

By Nellie Peyton

Dakar — With the wind farm, Senegal will get 30% of its energy from clean sources, in a push to cut its dependence on fossil fuels

Senegal inaugurated the first large-scale wind farm in West Africa on Monday, a facility that will supply nearly a sixth of the country's power when it reaches full capacity later this year.

With the wind farm, Senegal will get 30% of its energy from renewable sources, which has been a goal of President Macky Sall.

"The energy mix we have today allows us to move past our dependence on petrol," said Papa Mademba Biteye, director-general of Senelec, the national electricity company, at an inauguration ceremony in the rural community of Taiba N'Diaye.

The 158 megawatt wind farm was built by British renewable power company Lekela, which also has wind farms in South Africa and Egypt and an upcoming one in Ghana.

Wind farms remain scarce throughout sub-Saharan Africa compared with solar plants, partly because they can cost more and take longer to build and because strong wind is generally less plentiful than sunshine, said Silvia Macri, an energy analyst at IHS Markit.

"Senegal pushed ahead its renewables agenda quite aggressively," Macri told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Photo: Nellie Peyton/Thomson Reuters Foundation

Senegalese president Macky Sall visits a wind turbine in the rural community of Taiba N'Diaye, Senegal, February 24, 2020.

Senegal's first solar plant came online three years ago, and the country has since built several more. Other countries in the region are following suit with solar but are much further behind in terms of wind, Macri said.

In Taiba N'Diaye, 46 giant wind turbines rise over scrubland about 90 km (56 miles) from the seaside capital. One-third are operating, and the rest are due to come online by June.

Outside the cities, much of Senegal is still not electrified. Electricity reached only about 60% of the 16 million population in 2017, according to the World Bank.

The wind farm will provide enough electricity for 2 million people and prevent the emission of 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, according to Senelec.

"The next challenge is universal access," said Biteye.

(Reporting by Nellie Peyton; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst. The Thomson Reuters Foundation is the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, and covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit http://news.trust.org)

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https://allafrica.com/stories/202002250008.html

Which Dstv channel is showing it pls ?

More pix

As dignitaries pay tribute to Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i on the occasion of his 60th birthday, find below pictures of the event.
The event which is still ongoing has the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsuna Ahned, APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, former APC Chairman, Chief Odigie Oyegun and former Zamfara State Governor, AbdulAziz Yari in attendance.

Others in attendance are: Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, MD of Nigeria Port Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, among others.
https://thenationonlineng.net/el-rufai-has-83-certificates-from-havard-san/

https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/school-feeding-9-cooks-disappear-with-n700000-in-kaduna/ky0cl6khikun
Local Government Education Authority in Kaduna State says it has uncovered nine cooks who disappeared after collecting N692,000 to feed pupils in area in the ongoing National Homegrown School Feeding Programme.

The Education Secretary, Dr Ibrahim Dan Maraya, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Thursday that the names of the cooks had been forwarded to appropriate authorities for immediate action.

Dan Maraya said the four of the cooks collected N336,000 to feed 336,000 pupils in a month, but failed to supply the food, while five others paid N356,000 were nowhere to be found.

“No one knows who they are or where they are,’ the education secretary said.

According to him, the school feeding programme is neither meant for politicians nor a conduit pipe for highly placed individuals or any cook to make easy money.

“It is designed to improve enrolment, retention and completion rate of pupils in our schools, improve local economy and empower our women with job opportunities.

“Therefore, we will not accept anything less, which is why we embarked on aggressive monitoring, to ensure that every cook assigned to cook supplied the food in good quality and the right quantity.

“This is to ensure that every amount spent on the programme reach the targeted beneficiaries.”

Dan Maraya stated that 134, out of the 255 primary schools in the council were currently benefiting from the programme, while 121 schools were yet to be captured.

He noted that the programme had also empowered 208 women in the area, who cook and supply food to the schools.

The education secretary advised the cooks against sharp practices, saying that anyone caught indulging in fraudulent practices would be dealt with, in accordance with extant laws.

Similarly, the official warned teachers and head teachers in the area against interfering with the school feeding processes for fraudulent purposes, adding that anyone caught would not be spared.

Dan Maraya appealed to traditional institutions, community members and the school-based management committees to assist in monitoring the implementation of the programme, to ensure its success.

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has revoked the Certificate of Occupancy belonging to the Durbar Hotel on Muhammadu Buhari Way by Independence Way in the state capital.

The governor said the property was revoked because the management of the hotel belonging to the late Gen. Sani Abacha family owed the state a ground rent of 19 years.

A high court in Kaduna had on January 21 restrained Governor El-Rufai and the Kaduna State Government from demolishing or taking over the hotel.

The presiding judge had also adjourned the case till February 11, 2020.

However, a letter dated December 31, 2019, and addressed to Mohammed Abacha, which was made available to journalists on Thursday, announced the revocation of the property’s C of O.

One of the late General’s son, Mohammed Abacha, however, said he received the letter on January 29, 2020, but was dispatched on January 24, 2020, after the demolition of the hotel had been carried out.

The revocation letter was jointly signed on January 3rd, 2020, by Governor El-Rufai and the Deed Registrar, Yusuf Muawiyah of the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS).

READ ALSO: Abacha’s loot are tissues of lies, says Al-Mustapha

The letter also accused the Abacha family of “violation of terms of grant; security and safety risk of the people of Kaduna State.”

It added that “In the light of the above, we are hereby notified that the said plot of land has been revoked in line with Section 28 of the Land Used Act, 2004.


https://.com/el-rufai-revokes-abacha-hotels-c-of-o-cites-debt/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

nameo:
Will you keep kwayet.

Restricting Nigerians from travelling to USA is a BIG deal. A very big one. Dont limit it by calling it "...a mere immigration policy".

It is another indication of how low Nigeria has fallen.

I know Trump is crazy. But there are some countries that he would not have done this with. Not this easily. Moreover, the excuse he would give is the terrible security situation in todays Nigeria with Boko haram, ISWAP and herdsmen/bandits killing indiscriminately.

The security situation directly reflects on the President, who is C-inC

The reasons are boldly stated in the last paragraph. Please read again: A United States government official said the administration was adding Nigeria and Tanzania to the list because of the number of people who come from the African countries on a visa and end up illegally staying in the United States. The official said Sudan and Eritrea had not satisfied the administration’s information-sharing requirements.

Oil Prices Soar As Iran Fires Missiles At U.S. Base

In what appears to be its first retaliation strike, Iran has claimed to have fired tens of ground-to-ground rockets at the Ain al-Assad military base in Iraq.

Reuters and AFP news agencies cite a U.S. official that confirms the strike, but also says that there’s no information yet on casualties or damage. Additional reports came in that a military base in Erbil, in the Kurdish part of Iraq has also been struck by ballistic missiles.

Ain Al-Assad base in Iraq: image courtesy ISAF

Major Iranian news agency ISNA reported early on Wednesday morning that "This morning, courageous fighters of the IRGC's Air Force launched a successful operation called Operation Martyr Soleimani, with the code 'Oh Zahra' by firing tens of ground-to-ground missiles at the base of the terrorist and invasive U.S. forces,"

The attacks come shortly after the Iranian clerical leadership vowed retaliation, with spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei suggesting the Islamic Republic would strike against U.S. forces in the region. According to a report from the New York Times, Khamenei showed up to a meeting of Iran’s National Security Council and laid down the conditions for a response to the slaying of Qassem Soleimani.

The oil market responded immediately with WTI jumping 4% before falling back slightly.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Oil-Prices-Soar-As-Irans-Retaliation-Begins.html

If na to recover oyigbo money back, FBI go assist but to help us repatriate our stolen money back to Africa, story go enter.

Our mumu don really do.

noble71:
he was making sense till he mentioned Toyota Avalon

My friend, Avalon is a very strong and reliable car. I have been using an old model (2003) since 2015 and i always prefer to travel with it when it is long journey till tomorrow even though i have alternative.
Low fuel consumption and Zero cost of maintenance apart from routine maintenance.
It also has second hand value
I will recommend this beast to anyone who is looking for a low budget reliable car.

FlyoruB:
They should check them well because they could actually be Igbo 'herdsmen', in disguise.

When they hit and escaped, they are called herdsmen but their true identities are revealed when they are caught.

Next level. Buhari, why now?

Nigerians are reacting on Twitter
https://twitter.com/thenewsfeedng/status/1156517382921314309?s=19

He does not know me, i have never met him but he is someone that i can trust without a single doubt.
He is a man of virtue.

In the just concluded MPC meeting, the following were the resolution reached by the Monetary Policy Committee Members;

Monetary Policy Rate was retained at 13.5%
Cash Reverse Ratio Was retained at 22.5%
Liquidity Ratio Was retained at 30.0%
Asymmetric window was retained within the corridor of+200 and -500 basis points around the MPR

Happy birthday Seun !
Keep on doing the good work..

Bomboclad:
Whats happening to Access, any results out; 5% is a lot for 1 morning!?

What about First bank ?

A foreign mafia has come to Italy and further polarized the migration debate

By Chico Harlan and
Stefano Pitrelli June 25

In a country that has fought for decades to weaken its homegrown mafia, a foreign crime group is gathering strength.

The group’s members are Nigerian. They hold territory from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. They smuggle drugs and traffic women, deploying them as prostitutes on Italy’s streets. They find new members among the caste of wayward migrants, illicitly recruiting at Italian government-run asylum centers.

Investigators and justice officials say the Nigerian mafia, as it’s called here, has capitalized on half a decade of historic migration — a scenario merging crime and migrants in a manner that nationalist politicians in Europe and beyond have long warned about.

As Italy’s politics swing to the right, the country is contending not only with a foreign mafia but also with a divisive question: Are long-held migration fears coming to fruition?
For the leaders who won control of Italian politics with pledges to stop the “invasion,” the Nigerian mafia helps justify the lock-the-doors border approach put in place last year. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s most prominent politician, recently used Twitter to highlight one Nigerian crime case after the next, writing that the “African” crime bosses pose “a growing threat that needs to be eradicated immediately.”

For the far right’s opponents, the Nigerian mafia has proved to be a trickier case — a problem that is politically risky to play down but that they say is being exploited as a cudgel against all migrants. They note that the Nigerian mafia primarily occupies immigrant neighborhoods, preying on those residents in a way that may feel familiar to Italians who have lived under the mob.

In a speech in April, Pope Francis — whose migration advocacy runs counter to the Italian government’s stance — made the case that delinquents can be found anywhere and that the mafia is “ours — made in Italy.”
“It was not Nigerians who invented the mafia,” he said.

Nationalists and strongmen have long portrayed migration as a source of danger, saying that people crossing borders might be intent on terrorism. Data from some countries, such as the United States, show those claims are overstated. But the emergence of a new foreign mafia strikes at some of the most emotional chords in a country still traumatized by its so-called mafia wars.

There are no reliable estimates of how many members of the Ni­ger­ian mafia operate in Italy. But interviews with detectives, prosecutors, aid workers and human-trafficking victims, and a review of hundreds of pages of investigative documents, show that the Nigerian mafia has built Italy into a European hub, smuggling cocaine from South America, heroin from Asia, and trafficking women by the tens of thousands.

Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because it has a behavior code and uses the implied power of the group to intimidate and silence. Nigerian members have been sentenced on ­mafia-related charges that Italy drew up decades ago in its fight against the homegrown mob.

Although perhaps lesser known than organized-crime syndicates of Japan, Russia and China, the Nigerian group has become “the most structured and dynamic” of any foreign crime entity operating in Italy, the Italian intelligence agency said this year. Some Nigerian members sneak their way into Italy with the intention of joining the criminal group. Others are recruited after arriving.

Members of Salvini’s League party have emphasized some of those dangers, and politicians in the Brothers of Italy, a smaller far-right party, have pushed in Parliament for tougher oversight of foreign mafias, while accusing the left of looking away from the threat in the name of political correctness.

But leaders in at least one city where the Ni­ger­ian mob has gained a foothold have tried to push back. In the Sicilian city of Palermo, Mayor Leoluca Orlando, a 71-year-old who keeps a Koran in his office and calls Salvini a “little Mussolini,” said he refuses to distinguish one kind of criminal from the next on the basis of ethnicity or “blood.” Several Nigerians in Palermo have organized news conferences and rallies, holding signs that say not all Nigerians belong to the mafia.

“Just like with the Sicilians,” said Samson Olomu, the president of Palermo’s Nigerian Association, “not all of them are mafia.”

'If you don't repay the debt, you die'
The Nigerian mafia has had a presence across Europe since the 1980s. In recent years, it has not only expanded but also pushed into the one Italian territory where no foreign mob had dared to go.
Sicily was conquered and raided by Greeks, by Byzantines, by Normans. But for much of the past century, the island’s overlords have been Mafiosi, members of the Cosa Nostra group who specialized in racketeering, gambling and killing, and who have not typically shared their turf.

“In the 1980s, 1990s, this never would have happened. Never,” Giuseppe Governale, the head of Italy’s central anti-mafia agency, said of Cosa Nostra sharing territory with outsiders.
Today’s Sicily is different. Cosa Nostra is hobbled. Its leaders have been imprisoned, one after the next. The group has grown quieter, less openly violent, and over the past decade, a new wave of people has come — hundreds of thousands of Africans, arriving in Sicily, Italy’s de facto front door for migrants until Salvini closed ports last year. Many of the migrants have moved on to other parts of Italy, and even Europe. But some have stayed.
Investigators say they first saw signs of the Nigerian mafia presence here in 2013 with an uptick in violent assaults. Two years later, evidence emerged that the new group might be cooperating in the drug trade with Sicilian mafia: A taped conversation showed two Cosa Nostra higher-ups describing the Nigerians as “tough young’uns” who are dangerous but know their place. That peace between the groups has held ever since.

Authorities say that may be because the Nigerian mafia has built much of its business on the one thing Cosa Nostra has never shown an interest in: prostitution.

Some experts say that as many as 20,000 Nigerian women, some of them minors, arrived in Sicily between 2016 and 2018, trafficked in cooperation with Nigerians in Italy and back home.

“Think of the port — hundreds [of women] pouring in every day,” said Sergio Cipolla, the president of Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, a Palermo-based nonprofit organization that deals with migrants, describing that ­period. “The women would be taken to government reception centers. But they weren’t forced to stay there. They would flee and vanish.”
According to documents, investigators and personal accounts, the women come to Italy on a promise, agreeing to pay a steep fare — 20,000 or 30,000 euros — for a life in Europe with a job. Before leaving Nigeria, most swear to repay that debt during a voodoo rite. But women arrive in Italy to find out there is no child-care or hair-stylist position awaiting them.

One Nigerian trafficking victim, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution, said she was handed a short skirt and a pack of condoms and told to go to work. Within several months, she tried to kill herself by swallowing bleach.

“I believed the oath,” said the woman, who is 23 and came from Nigeria’s Benin City. “If you don’t repay the debt, you die.”

'They are criminals'
Because of those oaths, it is rare for women to go to the police — but when they do, the payoff for investigators can be significant. Francesco Del Grosso, the head of the foreign crimes section at the national police unit in Palermo, was at his desk in 2017 when a Nigerian woman showed up, saying she was afraid but ready to talk.
She described several years of sex and coercion — a pregnancy, being forced back onto the street — and she said she was being sheltered by a charity group. People were looking for her.

The woman described details about the men she had seen around her: ritual handshakes, color-coded blue and yellow outfits — a telltale of the Eiye group, one of the main Nigerian mafia clans. Del Grosso showed the woman some photos of Nigerian men he already had on file, and a new investigation opened.

Nineteen months later, 14 Eiye members were arrested on mafia and drug charges, including the suspected Sicilian Eiye boss, Osabuohien Ehigiator. Del Grosso said all 14 people had come to Italy “on boats” in the past several years.

Soon after the news broke, Salvini tweeted his thanks to the investigators.

“One more blow against the Nigerian mob,” he said.
Del Grosso said he has to keep politics out of work. He never intended to fight foreign crime. He graduated from the national police academy and requested a transfer to Palermo “because of what it represents” — a holy land in the fight of the state vs. the Italian mob.

“It’s where all the biggest clashes took place,” he said.

Instead, he found a job with a window into Sicily’s immigrant crime world, and the neighborhood where much of that crime takes place is a short walk from his office.

One day last month, just before lunch hour, Del Grosso took a walk with a deputy through the Nigerian mafia’s Palermo hub, a neighborhood of dilapidated buildings, tight alleys, food vendors, motor scooters zipping by.

Del Grosso came to a wider street and stopped, noting the places where he had made arrests and the dozen or so prostitution houses hidden away in upper floors. His deputy pointed out a building that, until recently, had been used as a drug den.

“This, for Italy, is a new criminal phenomenon,” Del Grosso said. “But from my perspective, it changes nothing. They are criminals.”

Criminals, he said, have always crossed borders.

“When Italians went to America,” he said, “they brought crime, too.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-foreign-mafia-has-come-to-italy-and-further-polarized-the-migration-debate/2019/06/25/377cf978-8235-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6a07057abc2c#click=https:///canhLA60tG

A foreign mafia has come to Italy and further polarized the migration debate

By Chico Harlan and
Stefano Pitrelli June 25
In a country that has fought for decades to weaken its homegrown mafia, a foreign crime group is gathering strength.

The group’s members are Nigerian. They hold territory from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. They smuggle drugs and traffic women, deploying them as prostitutes on Italy’s streets. They find new members among the caste of wayward migrants, illicitly recruiting at Italian government-run asylum centers.

Investigators and justice officials say the Nigerian mafia, as it’s called here, has capitalized on half a decade of historic migration — a scenario merging crime and migrants in a manner that nationalist politicians in Europe and beyond have long warned about.

As Italy’s politics swing to the right, the country is contending not only with a foreign mafia but also with a divisive question: Are long-held migration fears coming to fruition?
For the leaders who won control of Italian politics with pledges to stop the “invasion,” the Nigerian mafia helps justify the lock-the-doors border approach put in place last year. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s most prominent politician, recently used Twitter to highlight one Nigerian crime case after the next, writing that the “African” crime bosses pose “a growing threat that needs to be eradicated immediately.”

For the far right’s opponents, the Nigerian mafia has proved to be a trickier case — a problem that is politically risky to play down but that they say is being exploited as a cudgel against all migrants. They note that the Nigerian mafia primarily occupies immigrant neighborhoods, preying on those residents in a way that may feel familiar to Italians who have lived under the mob.

In a speech in April, Pope Francis — whose migration advocacy runs counter to the Italian government’s stance — made the case that delinquents can be found anywhere and that the mafia is “ours — made in Italy.”
“It was not Nigerians who invented the mafia,” he said.

Nationalists and strongmen have long portrayed migration as a source of danger, saying that people crossing borders might be intent on terrorism. Data from some countries, such as the United States, show those claims are overstated. But the emergence of a new foreign mafia strikes at some of the most emotional chords in a country still traumatized by its so-called mafia wars.

There are no reliable estimates of how many members of the Ni­ger­ian mafia operate in Italy. But interviews with detectives, prosecutors, aid workers and human-trafficking victims, and a review of hundreds of pages of investigative documents, show that the Nigerian mafia has built Italy into a European hub, smuggling cocaine from South America, heroin from Asia, and trafficking women by the tens of thousands.

Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because it has a behavior code and uses the implied power of the group to intimidate and silence. Nigerian members have been sentenced on ­mafia-related charges that Italy drew up decades ago in its fight against the homegrown mob.

Although perhaps lesser known than organized-crime syndicates of Japan, Russia and China, the Nigerian group has become “the most structured and dynamic” of any foreign crime entity operating in Italy, the Italian intelligence agency said this year. Some Nigerian members sneak their way into Italy with the intention of joining the criminal group. Others are recruited after arriving.

Members of Salvini’s League party have emphasized some of those dangers, and politicians in the Brothers of Italy, a smaller far-right party, have pushed in Parliament for tougher oversight of foreign mafias, while accusing the left of looking away from the threat in the name of political correctness.

But leaders in at least one city where the Ni­ger­ian mob has gained a foothold have tried to push back. In the Sicilian city of Palermo, Mayor Leoluca Orlando, a 71-year-old who keeps a Koran in his office and calls Salvini a “little Mussolini,” said he refuses to distinguish one kind of criminal from the next on the basis of ethnicity or “blood.” Several Nigerians in Palermo have organized news conferences and rallies, holding signs that say not all Nigerians belong to the mafia.

“Just like with the Sicilians,” said Samson Olomu, the president of Palermo’s Nigerian Association, “not all of them are mafia.”

'If you don't repay the debt, you die'
The Nigerian mafia has had a presence across Europe since the 1980s. In recent years, it has not only expanded but also pushed into the one Italian territory where no foreign mob had dared to go.
Sicily was conquered and raided by Greeks, by Byzantines, by Normans. But for much of the past century, the island’s overlords have been Mafiosi, members of the Cosa Nostra group who specialized in racketeering, gambling and killing, and who have not typically shared their turf.

“In the 1980s, 1990s, this never would have happened. Never,” Giuseppe Governale, the head of Italy’s central anti-mafia agency, said of Cosa Nostra sharing territory with outsiders.
Today’s Sicily is different. Cosa Nostra is hobbled. Its leaders have been imprisoned, one after the next. The group has grown quieter, less openly violent, and over the past decade, a new wave of people has come — hundreds of thousands of Africans, arriving in Sicily, Italy’s de facto front door for migrants until Salvini closed ports last year. Many of the migrants have moved on to other parts of Italy, and even Europe. But some have stayed.
Investigators say they first saw signs of the Nigerian mafia presence here in 2013 with an uptick in violent assaults. Two years later, evidence emerged that the new group might be cooperating in the drug trade with Sicilian mafia: A taped conversation showed two Cosa Nostra higher-ups describing the Nigerians as “tough young’uns” who are dangerous but know their place. That peace between the groups has held ever since.

Authorities say that may be because the Nigerian mafia has built much of its business on the one thing Cosa Nostra has never shown an interest in: prostitution.

Some experts say that as many as 20,000 Nigerian women, some of them minors, arrived in Sicily between 2016 and 2018, trafficked in cooperation with Nigerians in Italy and back home.

“Think of the port — hundreds [of women] pouring in every day,” said Sergio Cipolla, the president of Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, a Palermo-based nonprofit organization that deals with migrants, describing that ­period. “The women would be taken to government reception centers. But they weren’t forced to stay there. They would flee and vanish.”
According to documents, investigators and personal accounts, the women come to Italy on a promise, agreeing to pay a steep fare — 20,000 or 30,000 euros — for a life in Europe with a job. Before leaving Nigeria, most swear to repay that debt during a voodoo rite. But women arrive in Italy to find out there is no child-care or hair-stylist position awaiting them.

One Nigerian trafficking victim, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution, said she was handed a short skirt and a pack of condoms and told to go to work. Within several months, she tried to kill herself by swallowing bleach.

“I believed the oath,” said the woman, who is 23 and came from Nigeria’s Benin City. “If you don’t repay the debt, you die.”

'They are criminals'
Because of those oaths, it is rare for women to go to the police — but when they do, the payoff for investigators can be significant. Francesco Del Grosso, the head of the foreign crimes section at the national police unit in Palermo, was at his desk in 2017 when a Nigerian woman showed up, saying she was afraid but ready to talk.
She described several years of sex and coercion — a pregnancy, being forced back onto the street — and she said she was being sheltered by a charity group. People were looking for her.

The woman described details about the men she had seen around her: ritual handshakes, color-coded blue and yellow outfits — a telltale of the Eiye group, one of the main Nigerian mafia clans. Del Grosso showed the woman some photos of Nigerian men he already had on file, and a new investigation opened.

Nineteen months later, 14 Eiye members were arrested on mafia and drug charges, including the suspected Sicilian Eiye boss, Osabuohien Ehigiator. Del Grosso said all 14 people had come to Italy “on boats” in the past several years.

Soon after the news broke, Salvini tweeted his thanks to the investigators.

“One more blow against the Nigerian mob,” he said.
Del Grosso said he has to keep politics out of work. He never intended to fight foreign crime. He graduated from the national police academy and requested a transfer to Palermo “because of what it represents” — a holy land in the fight of the state vs. the Italian mob.

“It’s where all the biggest clashes took place,” he said.

Instead, he found a job with a window into Sicily’s immigrant crime world, and the neighborhood where much of that crime takes place is a short walk from his office.

One day last month, just before lunch hour, Del Grosso took a walk with a deputy through the Nigerian mafia’s Palermo hub, a neighborhood of dilapidated buildings, tight alleys, food vendors, motor scooters zipping by.

Del Grosso came to a wider street and stopped, noting the places where he had made arrests and the dozen or so prostitution houses hidden away in upper floors. His deputy pointed out a building that, until recently, had been used as a drug den.

“This, for Italy, is a new criminal phenomenon,” Del Grosso said. “But from my perspective, it changes nothing. They are criminals.”

Criminals, he said, have always crossed borders.

“When Italians went to America,” he said, “they brought crime, too.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-foreign-mafia-has-come-to-italy-and-further-polarized-the-migration-debate/2019/06/25/377cf978-8235-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6a07057abc2c#click=https:///canhLA60tG

Mcy56:
These Wema crossings, hhmmm. Una dey see am o.
It means one cannot move 100M at a go in NSE. I've not read the rule on this sha.

The crossings were executed at N0.64 yesterday but at N0.61 today. A price drop is an indication someone is offloading because the supply is above the demand.

CTND

Bukola made an attempt to maintain the senate president tweeter handle @SPNigeria.
Many Nigerians reacted and condemned the act. FG has taken the right and necessary action to retrieve the account from Saraki.
See Nigerians reactions on tweeter

https://twitter.com/toluogunlesi/status/1139148189984907264

Have you noticed 21m bids on UBA shortly before market close ?

6. Monies deposited into the e-wallet cannot be withdrawn afterwards. And if a bid is won, the money in the e-wallet cannot be used for payment. So deposit what may be enough per time for bids to be placed.

The above condition 6 is somehow not clear to me. Please can anyone clarify this ?

The more you look the less you see....
https://twitter.com/nsenigeria/status/1130605264032473090

Please has FCMB released result?

here is an incident of fire outbreak at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, also known as Imo State Airport.

Facebook user Owell Chukwu confirmed the incident, sharing a picture revealing thich flames over what appeared to be the arrival hall of the airport, with a few passengers seen scampering to safety.

More to follow...




http://saharareporters.com/2019/04/08/breaking-fire-breaks-out-imo-airport