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cpu2006:Babalawo is a Nigerian and he has the right to contest under the constitution which guarantees freedom of worship. |
Some of the Inventions African Americans created in America and their contribution to the advancement of America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvLbuw0Pi8 |
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AdamsAbubakar:Rape is widely underreported in Islamic countries because of fear of Honor killings by family members(males),forced to marry the rapists.The victims is blamed,I once spoke to a Saudi lady who was raped in her home by three men but she never told her parents. Virginity is a big deal to Arab women,if she marries without being a virgin she could be killed so they go for hymenoplasty, is a simple procedure that will repair a torn hymen or build a hymen that is not present.The surgery will not restore virginity, but it will allow for women to tear and bleed the first time they engage in intercourse after surgery. How come your Nigerian sisters are getting raped by Saudi/lebanese/Qatari/Emirati employers while serving as housemaids in their homes.? Will men become rapists in a community simply because everyone is naked like the Amazonians or Himba tribe of Namibia? Victims of Rape and Law: How the Laws of the Arab World Protect Rapists, Not Victims https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2017/05/mais-haddad-arab-world-laws-protect-the-rapist-not-the-victim/ Iraq sex files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZVQrY_AF8 bacha bazi boys, Afghan 'Dancing Boys' Tell Of Rape, Abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU6q6EaXBlM |
OritaIbadan:You can still support her education.She could be sleeping with these men for extra cash to help her family. |
Around the world, rape and sexual abuse are everyday violent occurrences -- affecting close to a billion women and girls over their lifetimes. But if rape is to be understood to the point where it can be dealt with, we need all the information we can get. And one piece of information that is missing is Why Men Rape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglDQy_o9zo |
RapistOnBail:True talk.Religion is a tool of the elite and occult to control the masses.Divide amd conquer is the rule of the game. Religion brought Slavery to Africa,discrimination,hypocrisy etc. I wish the world will only practise humanity and spirituality alone. We as humans must learn to love ,respect and tolerate each other.We must ignore our differences but focus on our common goals. |
BY CHARLOTTE METCALF ON 1/09/15 AT 3:22 AM EST The woman who greets me at Addis Ababa airport is very different from the traumatised girl I last saw in 1998. When I hugged Aberash Bekele goodbye 16 years ago, I had just finished filming a BBC documentary about her called Schoolgirl Killer. At 14, Bekele was kidnapped by a gang of horsemen, raped and then put on trial for killing her abductor. Her story forced Ethiopia to confront its brutal customs and change its laws. Today she's the mother of a 10-year-old son; she's plumper, her hair is hennaed and styled, her shoes sparkly, her nails varnished gold. Her story has now been made into a feature film called Difret. Executive produced by Angelina Jolie, Difret has already won awards at the Sundance, Berlin, Montreal and Amsterdam film festivals and Bekele is once again the talk of the nation. Bekele is one of 11 children (now aged between 52 and 19) by the same mother and grew up outside Kersa, a small remote town in Arsii, southern Ethiopia, where her parents are subsistence farmers. She was on her way home from school when horsemen with whips and lassoos surrounded her, grabbed her, threw her over a saddle and took her to a hut where she was locked up and raped. Her rapist then announced he was her husband-to-be. In Arsii it was the custom that if you wanted a wife you went out and kidnapped one and it's estimated that, in 1998, 30% of marriages were initiated this way, with varying levels of violence. Bekele escaped, stealing the guard's gun. When her abductor and his men gave chase, she threatened to fire but they ignored her. So she pulled the trigger. Bekele was nearly murdered by the furious mob that gathered but was rescued by family friends, then arrested and put on trial. She became the first cause célèbre for the Ethiopian Women Lawyers' Association and was finally released on the grounds of her youth and acting in self-defence. Despite her release, Bekele was exiled by the Kersa elders who didn't recognise the courts. Unable to return to her family, and in danger from revenge threats by her dead abductor's family, she fled to Addis. When Schoolgirl Killer aired on the BBC in 1999, it struck a chord with the British public, who sent in enough money to send Bekele to a safe boarding school to finish her education. I lost touch with her until last year when an Ethiopian cameraman alerted me to Difret. I went to see it at the London Film Festival. Centre stage, as the main character, rather than Bekele, was Meaza Ashenafi, the then head of the Women Lawyers' Association, whom I had interviewed for Schoolgirl Killer. The producers had changed Bekele's name, but some scenes in the film were almost identical to Schoolgirl Killer. I found Bekele and flew to Addis. Bekele now works there for Harmee, an NGO that aims to eliminate violence against women in Arsii. Dr Daniel Keftassa, who founded Harmee in 2006, picked me up from the airport with Bekele and we made the five-hour drive to Kersa, where Harmee has its headquarters, and where Bekele's family still lives. On the way, she told me about the film. She was never consulted during its making, and when she found out about it and confronted Ashenafi and the producers, they told her the film was not about her. Rounds of legal negotiation followed but no-one agreed to put Bekele's name on the film. So, on the night of the film's première, she obtained a last minute court injunction to stop it being screened. The producers had just screened Jolie's televised address, in which she said that Difret was based on the "untold story of Aberash Bekele," when she arrived with the necessary papers. Bekele ultimately signed an agreement, which means she feels unable to complain or take further action. Meanwhile, the film was temporarily released in Ethiopia but blocked again by the children of Bekele's defence barrister. The film's producers did not respond to a request for comment nor did Jolie's personal assistant acknowledge receipt of emails. Bekele, Keftassa and I arrived in Kersa. Apart from a new mosque, it's the same shambles of mud and corrugated iron shacks strung along a few dirt roads. We went immediately to see Bekele's family, who live a walk away from a new dirt road in a thatched hut on their farm. After eating, we sat around a fire under the stars. The grandchildren began dancing as one of the daughters beat out a rhythm on a plastic jerrycan and the family sung traditional Oromo songs. Bekele looked happy as she sat in her father's embrace, a small nephew on her knee. Her brother told me about the day she was abducted. He was in the same class at school and went home early. As he cradled his infant son, it clearly still haunted him that he was unable to protect his sister. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3it3fMR-To |
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Senator Says 17 Foster Children May Be Among Jonestown Dead SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16,1979 — Initial inquiries show that perhaps as many as 17 foster children that the California authorities had placed with members of the People's Temple may have died in the mass deaths in Jonestown, Guyana, Senator Alan Cranston said here today. The Senator's remarks at a news con?? were based on a report to him by the General Accounting Office, the investigating agency for Congress. He emphasized that the report was preliminary and that the investigation was continuing. The investigators have been combing county welfare files for three weeks because Senator Cranston said at a Washington hearing that his staff had been told that perhaps as many as 150 foster care children died at Jonestown. That estimate has since been discredited. When he was pressed to give details of the investigation, Senator Cranston said that he could not be positive about the findings because the records were so scattered and because errors in assessing files had already turned up. For example, jive names were taken off the list of foster children thought to have died in Guyana when it was found that they left the foster care rolls before going to Jonestown. They may have died there, but not as foster care beneficiaries. “Some of the children were being supported by foster payments, averaging $200 a month, for as long as four months after they were moved to Guyana,” he said. “Others had their payments stopped, or may have been assigned a legal guardian within the cult, and it is not yet clear whether support payments from California continued. “Some children simply disappeared. We don't know if they died, ran away and escaped, thereby saving themselves, or if they came back before the mass suicides.” Senator Cranston said that only three children receiving foster care had been positively identified as dead in Jonestown. One of these, Vincent Lopez of Hay. ward, Calif., had been previously identified by reporters. Mr. Cranston did not name the two others, nor did he give the names of those whom investigators have identified tentatively as foster care children who may be among the unidentified bodies. Identification of 635 bodies taken from Jonestown was made through fingerprints, but most of the children in the People's Temple had not been fingerprinted. Senator Cranston said that 227 persons under 18 years of age had lived in the commune and had not been Identified. The 17 children who are on the tentative list were from 5 to 18 years old. Senator Cranston said that Federal investigators had found records showing that there were still 12 active cases of foster children with People's Temple families that had not gone to Guyana. He said that he had notified Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of California of this so state agencies might check on the children. Suspicion Not Substantiated Mr. Cranston was asked if there was evidence that the Rev. Jim Jones's followers had placed children in foster homes that the People's Temple controlled so the Temple could collect the foster care payments. “I don't have evidence to substantiate that suspicion,” he said. At another point in the news conference, he said, “I have heard rumors about people who were working for one level of Government or another who were also members of the People's Temple. It is quite possible that this shaped their judgments in ways adverse to the welfare of the children involved, and that is being looked into at the present time.” It was in his work as chairman of the Child and Human Development Subcommittee of the Senate Human Resources Committee that Mr. Cranston began to inquire into the possible misuse of the foster care program by the People's Temple. Moving of Cult Bodies Urged SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (AP) — A court‐appointed interfaith group recommended today that the 570 unclaimed bodies of members of the People's Temple be trucked to the San Francisco area for burial, at a cost of about $302,800. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/17/archives/senator-says-17-foster-children-may-be-among-jonestown-dead-not.html |
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The Peoples Temple was, as David Talbot notes in Salon, successful in part because it was politically useful: “Jones could be counted on to deliver busloads of obedient, well-dressed disciples to demonstrations, campaign rallies, and political precincts.” There were already signs, however, of a sinister undercurrent to the Peoples Temple. Followers were expected to devote themselves completely to the church’s utopian project: they turned over their personal wealth, worked long hours of unpaid labor for the church and often broke contact with their families. They were expected to raise their children within the commune. As a show of commitment, Peoples Temple members were asked to sign false testimonials that they had molested their children, which the church kept for potential blackmail. In his 1980 study of Jonestown, the writer Shiva Naipaul, younger brother of VS Naipaul, argued that the Peoples Temple was at heart a fundamentalist religious project – “obsessed with sin and images of apocalyptic destruction, authoritarian in its innermost impulses, instinctively thinking in terms of the saved and the damned”. The result, Naipaul wrote, “was neither racial justice nor socialism but a messianic parody of both”. Jones, who had long believed the US was in danger of imminent nuclear holocaust, had been searching for a place where his church would be “safe” during an apocalyptic event. A magazine article alleging abuse in the Peoples Temple spurred Jones’s desire to relocate. He chose Guyana, a former British colony in South America whose socialist regime was politically sympathetic. In 1977 the Peoples Temple moved its headquarters to a remote area of Guyanese wilderness. Here, Jones declared, they could build a utopian society without government or media meddling. Battling an oppressive tropical climate and limited resources, they began to convert the dense jungle into a working agricultural commune, soon known as “Jonestown”. The church delivered Jones’s rambling monologues to Jonestown’s inhabitants by megaphone as they worked. In the evenings they attended mandatory propaganda classes. Jones’s writ was enforced by armed guards called the “Red Brigade”. Jonestown had little reason to expect interference from Guyana – a “cooperative republic” whose government happily ignored signs of the cult’s authoritarian and paranoid bent. Back in the US, however, parents of Jonestown inhabitants – concerned by the strange letters, or lack of letters, they received from their children – had been lobbying the government to investigate. After a family in the US won a custody order for a child in Jonestown, paranoia escalated. The commune became an armed camp, ringed by volunteers with guns and machetes, threatening to fight outsiders to the death. During the (imaginary) siege, Black Panthers Huey Newton and Angela Davis spoke to Jonestown inhabitants by radio patch to voice solidarity. Davis told Jonestown inhabitants that they were at the vanguard of revolution, and right to resist what she called “a profound conspiracy” against them. Sometime during this period Jonestown began drills called “white nights”, in which inhabitants would practice committing mass suicide. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/17/an-apocalyptic-cult-900-dead-remembering-the-jonestown-massacre-40-years-on
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An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown massacre, 40 years on More than 900 people, many of them children, died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978 by drinking cyanide-laced punch at the order of cult leader Jim Jones. Four decades ago this Sunday, the Rev Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of an American cult in the Guyanese jungle, ordered his followers to murder a US congressman and several journalists, then commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced fruit punch. The Jonestown massacre was, before 9/11, the largest single incident of intentional civilian death in American history. More than 900 people died, many children. It was also a devastating cultural trauma: the end of the last strains of a certain kind of 1960s idealism and 1970s radicalism. Jonestown’s legacy lives on in the ironic phrase “drink the Kool-Aid”. (In actuality it was Fla-Vor-Aid.) Although he would later become a symbol of the darker side of the west coast counterculture, Jim Jones was born to a poor family in Indiana. Described as an intelligent and strange child, Jones was instinctively attracted to religion, especially charismatic Christian traditions like Pentecostalism. He cut his teeth as a street preacher, and was, unusually for the time and place, a passionate advocate for racial equality. Although Jones’s followers would later be stereotyped as sinister, brainwashed idiots, the journalist Tim Reiterman argues in his seminal book on the subject that many were “decent, hardworking, socially conscious people, some highly educated”, who “wanted to help their fellow man and serve God, not embrace a self-proclaimed deity on earth”. The Peoples Temple advocated socialism and communitarian living and was racially integrated to an exceptional standard rarely matched since. In 1965, when Jones was in his mid-30s, he ordered the Peoples Temple moved to California. He drifted away from traditional Christian teachings, describing himself in messianic terms and claiming he was the reincarnation of figures like Christ and Buddha. He also claimed that his goal all along was communism, and, in a twist on the famous dictum that religion is the “opiate of the masses”, that religion was merely his way of making Marxism more palatable. By the 1970s, the Peoples Temple, now based in San Francisco, had gained significant political influence. Jones’s fierce advocacy for the downtrodden earned him the admiration of leftwing icons like Angela Davis and Harvey Milk and the support of groups like the Black Panthers – a tragically misguided political affinity, given that more than two-thirds of Jonestown’s eventual victims were African American. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-FkTLPrAw&t=624s
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Kösem Sultan, (born c. 1589—died September 2, 1651), Ottoman sultana who exercised a strong influence on Ottoman politics for several decades at a time when the women of the palace enjoyed significant, even formalized authority within the palace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Db7iU1x4WU Kösem entered palace influence through her marriage to Sultan Ahmed I. Like many royal brides, she was said to have been of Greek origin and beautiful when young. Her particular beauty helped gain her favouritism from Ahmed and, combined with her intelligence, was able to earn her considerable authority and influence in the palace among his wives. Upon Ahmed’s death in 1617, she used her influence to support the claim of his brother, Mustafa I, to the throne. He was considered mentally ill, and Kösem was able to exercise power through him, but he was declared incompetent and deposed after only three months. Mustafa was replaced by Osman II, Ahmed’s son through another wife, and Kösem was sidelined, but Osman’s reign was cut short after a revolt of the Janissary corps in 1622 ended his life. Mustafa was temporarily reinstalled. Kösem’s son Murad IV became sultan in 1623, giving Kösem the prestigious position of valide sultan (“mother of the sultan”). This powerful position—complete with pomp and circumstance—had gained considerably more authority in recent generations, especially as the authority of the grand vizier had waned. Kösem’s position was all the more powerful as she enjoyed full regency for the first five years of Murad’s reign, when he was still a minor. When he came of age, he ruled with a heavy hand but was occasionally known to consider input from his mother. He continued to rule until his death in 1640, thought to be related to chronic alcohol consumption. The throne then went to İbrahim, Kösem’s only remaining son. His rule was marked by neglect and mismanagement as Kösem lost his ear and left the palace. Though absent from the palace, her relationships and influence in court remained intact. In 1648, with the empire in a sad state, she and other court officials conspired against İbrahim, and the Janissaries overthrew him. Mehmed IV, İbrahim’s six-year-old son, was his successor, and Kösem once again exercised regency. The title of valide sultan naturally passed to Mehmed’s mother, Turhan Sultan, but Kösem remained her superior with the new title büyük valide (“grandmother”). A rivalry ensued between the two, as Turhan began to form her own faction within the palace and among the military. Kösem conspired to unseat Turhan Sultan by deposing Mehmed and replacing him with his half brother, whose mother would not pose a threat to her authority. Turhan Sultan learned of this plot and preempted her. On the night of September 2, 1651, Kösem was strangled in her bed by men in Turhan Sultan’s entourage, who reportedly used either her own braids or the strings of her bed curtains to kill her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6sem_Sultan |
Divine89:If your story is true and you have truly repentened from your old ways.Try to relocate to another country like the UK or Ireland and start a new life and family there.You can also change your name in your new country to avoid french social service tracking you to your new country. |
Abbeylanre15:No wonder unemployment is on the increase in Nigeria. People tend to forget that the Govt alone cannot provide employment for its Citizens in any country. This entitlement mentality of Ngerians must stop!!. In Europé the employees treat the businesses like their own,you will see companies established in 1914 still running up till now.Anyone who curses the politicians are cursing themselves because the politicians are a mirror of the Nigerian society. |
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seems to be taking things for playing. The same Iwo is where u will see baba alawo contesting for chairman position. They should please be serious at least 2 hours in a day.