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'Room mates were left mouth-ajared' Naija - I hail thee.

Where is the Baba now? He don drop seed and flee abi. Bragging to his friends about his skills 9 months ago.

They should drag him to that toilet and show him what responsibility means

Only when the astronaut realises (5,000 ft up) that the booster fuel has been sold by the ground operatives to local market women in Epe as cooking oil will we realise the chickens have come home to roost. Or the engine was exchanged sharply for a reconditioned DAF truck engine will naija wahala enter space tori!

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the federal government is to start the training of local astronauts for space travel by 2015.

Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Ewa, Monday announced the government's intention to train astronauts for space travel while giving a report of the achievements of his ministry in the past two years, at a press conference in Abuja.

Ewa who said the ministry was waiting for President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the training programme, added that the country would also collaborate with the Chinese government for the development of a space rocket.

Already, the minister said a launch site with a 20-kilometre launch capability had been set up in Epe, Lagos State, adding that 12 engineers from the National Space Research and Development Agency (NARSDA) are in China for training.

Speaking on the benefits to Nigeria from an improved space programme, the minister explained that once the president has approved the programme, the country would start preparing the launch of two more communication satellites.

According to him, the socio-economic benefits of such deployment of satellites include; security surveillance, flood management, environmental surveillance for pest and diseases infested areas, desertification and pollution, especially oil spillage in the Niger Delta.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201306180284.html?aa_source=sptlgt-grid?aa_source=sptlgt-grid


Our maternal mortality at child birth is off the scale.
If you drive from Lagos to Kano, you put your head on the chopping block for bad road, LASTMA, robbers, Boko
See children who do not have books to read or shoes for their uniform.

With all this, we want to burn money when education, health, travel is not adequately provided for. SMH

Naija psyche is all mouth and no action bros.

Oya, sincere... I am now your London operative. PM me so we can begin global surveillance. Over.

Sincere Naija... you done hit the nail on the head.

She has the atypical, naija 'long throat' mentality. I was in Abuja in Feb and heard directly from a man who had his lands and property confiscated due to political gra-gra that Patience sells 5mins time with her husband for $10,000 USD. The huy had no money then and could not afford to pay. Even if you Boko Haram sef, you can get audience with him as long as your USD is stacked.

He has his plan. You have to make yours on a flow-chart and follow it precisely. Marriage is not prison.

Ideye mess up - Perfect example of Naija selfishness

The average African football player plays in a team but only thinks for himself. You will see European players set up an open goal for a team-mate, na African player wants to boost his ego and look good for himself, family and area. Nonsense. Our mid-90's team would pass to the open player, tiki-taka before the invention of that word. Now, we play an organisational game like each is driving a car through traffic in apapa.

These guys are wasting time. Winning by less than 6 goals will hand Uruguay and Spain the advantage.

Nigeria v Uruguay in Savador, Brasil

It will be a home game as a a large majority of Bahians have African blood and are fierce in their love for the motherland. My only worry is the players may get headache seeing the beauty of the women there. Dey no gree see Naija women again.

Lucky goal. Come on Tahiti. 15-1 correct score forecast at 135-1

270 km my foot na. That would take them 10 hours to do the course at an average of 27 km/h.

The only female bird in this story is your brain, which I fear the guy has been gnashing regularly with his 'bamboo' since he got married.

Visit Okija JUJU to avoid generational curses.

impoverished gun and a dagger. Naija English is too much O!

Only Naija fit turn improvised gun into impoverished one. Gun wey no chop and too poor to afford bullet.

I doff my hat to the journalist/mortician of the Queen's English. You dun give your own personal flavour.

I am now waiting to hear about a 'retarded dagger' or a 'stubborn RPG'.

The ethnic group to which these suspects belong is by all means the most ritualistic in the whole wide world.

Boys are not smiling

Nigeria's population is expected to surpass that of the US by 2050, according to new UN projections that predict the west African country could be the world's third most populous by the end of this century.

The UN report World population prospects: the 2012 revision, published on Thursday, predicts the world's population, now at 7.2 billion, will reach 8.1 billion in 2025. By mid-century, the world's population is expected to top 9.5 billion, reaching nearly 11 billion by 2100.

More than half of the growth predicted between now and 2050 is expected in Africa, where the number of people is set to more than double, from 1.1 billion to 2.4 billion. Africa's population will continue to rise even if there is a future drop in the average number of children each woman has, says the report, which predicts the number of people living on the continent could reach 4.2 billion (or more than 35% of total global population) by 2100.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/13/nigeria-larger-population-us-2050

Good time to be involved in pikin bizness!

Nowhere is perfect, however there are regional variances that deserve our attention. The killings of 'foreign nationals' falls into that category. Trying to point to Zambia/Kenya for 'anti-Somalian' sentiment looks like you are putting your head in the sand. I grew up watching SA tribal wars on television (see below). Township violence is endemic and has a long history As it is now, the ANC govt is happy for the SA underclass to kill and maim foreigners as it means they can continue to plunder freely. The ANC has ended up in the same place as the NP.

The news below is from 1991.

Many South Africans are convinced that the massacre of 23 Inkatha supporters on September 8 was carried out by covert elements of the South African Defence Forces.

They believe the aim was to reignite violence within the black community to take the heat off the de Klerk regime. The violence allows defenders of apartheid to argue that majority rule will lead to the violation of the human rights of minorities.

In the week following the attack, more than 100 people, mostly residents of townships surrounding Johannesburg, were killed by Inkatha supporters.

Unidentified killers shot up passenger trains, killing and wounding many. Several passengers were killed when they jumped from moving trains to escape. Black workers waiting at bus stops were gunned down.

The September 8 massacre occurred as 300 hostel dwellers in the township of Thokoza were marching to an Inkatha rally. Three killers stepped out of surrounding houses and opened fire with automatic rifles.

Without evidence, senior Inkatha leaders in the Transvaal immediately blamed the ambush on the African National Congress, encouraging their followers to launch reprisals.
- See more at: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/616#sthash.iAS7Cga6.dpuf

With a 7million dollar bounty on his head I wonder why my Igbo brothers never enter the hunt

Boko Hunting is now business...

..........Aa-ah, the boys are not smiling. Some of us never left, we went undercover knowing that if we entrench ourselves, the profit margin will be plenty. Please do not blow our cover again. You can catch me on the ring road selling oranges and reconditioned 4 x 4's.

Hello Don, am just one of those who stand for truth oo and I know some may think I am not patriotic. I love my country but I hate the evil that has consumed us.

Patriotism does not mean that you back all the ills of your country, that is called foolishness. However, many Africans are still bamboozled by the countries they live in, despite it all being created by fascist white men in the 1880's.

God moves in mysterious ways!

They will go free. C.R.E.A.M

#Freeamigohezbollah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEviIcjWkM

Ignorance is allowed to flower there like a vine. They were brutalised for so long by afrikaners and the english, that they fully understand and know how to brutalise others.

Surprising points :

1) Population of the North = 17 million
2) Oyinbo stated the 'economic importance' of keeping the three regions together (at all costs mentality)
3) Workers within the Kano native administration were armed and took part in these riots
4) Attacks took place in 'strangers quarters = sabon gari', so local youths went and attacked southerners.

Same ish, different year

NIGERIA (KANO RIOTS)
HC Deb 20 May 1953 vol 515 cc2082-5 2082

§ The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:

80. Mrs. WHITE

To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what information he has about the recent disturbances at Kano; and if he is satisfied that proper arrangements are made for the holding of meetings by persons who do not necessarily share the views of the ruling authorities.

§ The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkinson)

With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and the permission of the House, I will now answer Question No. 80.

Serious rioting, the exact origins of which are not yet clearly established, broke out at Kano on 16th May, after the Native Authority had cancelled all permits for political meetings in view of prevailing tension. The rioting was largely confined to the strangers' quarter outside the city walls and did not spread to other parts of the Region. Originally the main participants in the riots appear to have been lawless hooligans, but the fighting soon took on an inter-tribal character, with Northerners fighting Southerners. Some of the rioters were equipped with firearms.

Following a curfew on 16th May the fighting died down but broke out anew on the following day. Substantial reinforcements of police and troops were flown to Kano that day and a state of emergency was proclaimed throughout the Region the following day, the 18th. My latest information is that the situation is now well in hand and the opposing factions have been separated by a barbed wire barrier. Casualties among the rioters according to latest reports total 43 killed and 204 injured. In addition three Native Authority police have been injured.

No troops have been used in action so far. Information is not available at present whether there has been significant 2083 damage to property. I am sure that the House will join with me in deploring this savage outbreak and in enjoining restraint on all political parties and groups in Nigeria in order that an opportunity may be given to repair the damage done to Nigerian unity by this useless violence.

As regards the second part of the Question, I would refer the hon. Lady to the answer given by my right hon. Friend on 18th March to the hon. Member for Leek (Mr. Harold Davies). But I should add that the Emergency Regulations made on 18th May apply inter alia to meetings and processions.

Mrs. White

Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether any special police precautions were taken before Sunday? Since notice of this meeting had been given and the meeting was cancelled and Kano is a well-known centre of communal dispute, I should like to know whether any special police precautions were taken in a situation which was likely to be troublesome. Secondly, as allegations are being made by the Action Group, who sent me a very long cable within the last half hour, that workers within the native administration were armed and took part in these riots, will the right hon. Gentleman ask his right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary to see that an independent inquiry is made into the circumstances?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I have no information about special police precautions, but I have no doubt that the Lieutenant-Governor, who is extremely competent and who knows the situation there very well, will take all the necessary measures. With regard to the second part of that supplementary question, I have no information at the present time and I think that I had better await a further report before promising anything definite in the way of an inquiry.

§ Mr. J. Griffiths

Whilst agreeing at once with the Minister that we all deplore these riots and hope that there will be no repetition of them, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman that there should be a full inquiry into the immediate circumstances, particularly into the arrangements which are made before a meeting? Would the right hon. Gentleman find out whether it would be possible for the 2084 Governor to make an appeal, with which we would all like to be associated, to all leaders of parties in Nigeria at a time of political controversy to join together in appealing to their supporters to allow meetings to proceed peacefully without regrettable incidents of this kind? Do Her Majesty's Government propose at an early date to make a statement on the constitutional position and the arguments about it?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I will certainly make inquiries about police arrangements and inform the House as soon as I can. As to the constitutional issue, of course there is no doubt whatever that these events had their origin in political troubles and dissensions which we so much regret and which came to a head in March. I am hoping that as a result of my own visits there and the subsequent meetings of the two Southern Houses—the meeting of the Northern House is to take place today— and of the inquiries which have been going on, we shall be able to make a full statement of the intentions of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the constitutional issue in Nigeria before we rise for the Whitsun Recess.

§ Mr. Griffiths

Will the right hon. Gentleman undertake to see that an appeal is made to all political leaders to ensure that when they hold meetings the rival supporters do not come together?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

Certainly.

§ Mr. Tilney

Even though the recent riots tend to accelerate the centrifugal feelings of the three regions, will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the immense importance economically of keeping the three regions together and not letting them Balkanise themselves?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I am fully aware of all these matters and hope to cover them in my statement.

§ Mr. Hobson

Is the Minister satisfied that there is police protection for the Moslem majority in the North?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

There are 17 million people in the North of whom 13 million are Moslems.

§ Mr. Fenner Brockway

Will the right hon. Gentleman make not merely a Departmental inquiry but a very thorough, penetrating inquiry in view of the loss of 2085 life and certain very disturbing circumstances such as that the Lieutenant-Governor was warned five days before these riots and that members of the national administrative staff there had been given special leave so that they might attack a meeting which was being held?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

As soon as we have further information on these matters I have undertaken to inform the House, and I shall certainly do so. I am not aware of the fact that members of the administration were given special leave.

§ Mr. Fenner Brockway

I have had very definite information.

§ Mr. Alport

In view of the fact that Her Majesty's Government maintain strict impartiality in these matters, will my right hon. Friend ensure that the ex parte statements that have been made in various quarters of this House are not given more weight than they deserve?

§ Sir H. Williams

On a point of order. We have now exceeded Question Time by 35 minutes. Can we have the Ballot?

§ Mr. Speaker

I am grateful to the hon. Member for his assistance.

Mr. Dugdale

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman one simple question? Can he tell us how many police there are actually available now in Kano and district and whether he is satisfied that the number is adequate?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I cannot say exactly how many police are there, but there are also troops who have been flown in and we are satisfied that the number is at present sufficient.

Some Ghanian women are very strong and fierce O! Imagine two Michael Essien's joined together at the hip = na one plantain seller in Accra market. Some of the men are very strong two, but the slim/skinny ones no get chance, at all.

Plus Ashanti culture is matriarchial in the sense women pass on names, have more power than any women in tribes in Nigeria. Ghanian women are very industrious, that is well known and through their economic vibrancy can tend to eclipse the guy.

No wahala!

Dem like fierce, pro-active, aspirational Naija man well though...Na London...na Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Salone women dem price Naija women out of the market. Go Hertfordshire, there is one Naija man - Sierra Leone woman village there.

Even see small schoolboy wey carry rock and land blow on head rather than read book.

Somalia's president says he "wants answers" from South Africa after the brutal murder of a Somali man in Port Elizabeth, Al Jazeera has learned.

The Somali man, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, was stoned to death on May 30 by a mob. The violence was captured on a mobile phone and shared on the internet.

Sheik Mohammed, Somalia's president, called on his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma to "act immediately" to arrest those responsible.

Kamal Gutale, chief of staff in the Somali presidency, told Al Jazeera on Monday: "The president has asked Mr Zuma and his foreign minister to look into the matter and investigate the brutal killing and violence."

The murder is the latest in a number of attacks on Somali immigrants in South Africa. Police are investigating the death but no one has been arrested.

Graphic footage

The Somali presidency said the issue was raised on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tokyo on Sunday, after the Somali community was hit by a series of attacks in South Africa over the last week.

The graphic footage shows the bare-chested Good lying in the middle of a street while a mob pelts him with rocks and boulders as pedestrians and vehicles pass by.

Local media said Good was attacked while trying to protect his shop from looters. He was also stabbed in the violence.

The Somali community in South Africa, which numbers a few hundred thousand, reacted with outrage.

The Somali Association of South Africa (SASA) told Al Jazeera that at least five other Somalis have been injured and about 40 shops have been looted in the four provinces across the country.

Government inaction

"At the time, President Zuma was not aware of the incident and expressed surprise," Gutale said.


The South African president promised to look into the matter, he said.

But SASA said that the South African government has repeatedly failed to act on this and previous attacks on foreigners.

"This is not the first time; this is happening over and over again. The South African government is not taking action, the community is angry and every time this happens, nothing is ever done," said SASA spokesman Ismaeel Abdi Adan.

The South African presidency was unavailable to comment.

The African Centre for Migration and Society at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, said in a report released in 2012 that Somali-run businesses suffered disproportionately from crime, including attacks by competing South African traders.

The South African government has said that previous violence against foreigners was a result of criminality and not xenophobia.

In 2008, more than 50 foreign African nationals were killed in a spate of violence against foreign nationals across the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEviIcjWkM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEviIcjWkM

Ombatse - Bolivia branch.