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deomelo:
;Dy

See as Oshiomole disappear for picture....

I raise hand for some mums sha....dem dey try walahi...the kind pikin dem wey dem dey allow suck their breast na wonder....

The love of a mother for her child is indeed unquantifiable....


God bless our mothers

Glad they are still alive for a full debriefing on their M.O and sponsors before a long term in the slammer...

Ugly ogres..

Winter tie wrapper plus gele

I'm going back to school mehnnn...I love education so much...that is my weakest point...

I'm prepared to start from KG 1 so long as this aunty will be in that school...

I love school so much...

If indeed true which i certainly can't doubt, I hope the python is still alive to feed on him instalmentally...First day the reptile swallows the head after constriction and then the head is severed from the body and so on...

Nnamdi Kanu was even cloned and injected by the FG/APC.

Monkey dem.

Every Parents worst nightmare.

My pikin dey Europe

After risking and enslaving yourselves through the deserts and seas you ironically ended up choosing to live in the woods. Were you guys living in the woods in Nigeria?

What a lack of self pride by lazy asses seeking short cuts to quick wealth.
Animals...

You better be happy if you can get 750k for that 18yr old car.

Just unbelievably incredible.

I am very sure the twitter handler is one of our own nairaland wailer who definitely got what he deserved.

Knuckleheads.

Running to the moon still won't save or help some people hide their worthless and shamelessness.

Wow I'm quite impressed at the orderliness even in the midst of such chaos...

See how the cars are all keeping and maintaining their lanes. So unusual for Naija and especially Lagos drivers.

There is indeed hope...

Ndlistic:
What could have made this lady remove her cloth.

But I think maybe heatwave has joined forces with global warming to punish this slay mama at bigbrother Auditions.

See more pics below..

https://thenaijafame..com/2019/02/heatwave-causes-slay-mama-to-go-naked.html?m=1

This was at the Uyi Grand venue in Benin City...had an interview session with the young lady...lol

Ravon:
Many young Nigerians who have attempted the irregular travel to Europe, through the Sahara Desert and across the Mediterranean sea, are back home and campaigning against the practice...

“Don’t assume if you attempt the journey your fortune will change for the better,” a woman says over the public address system in the crowded Uselu market in Benin City, the capital of Nigeria’s Edo State. “Many embarked on the journey and never made it. Many people are dying in the Sahara Desert.”

She was speaking of a journey that many here in this West African nation have sought to go on in the hope of making a better life for themselves and their families. But it entails embarking on a route of irregular migration reportedly fraught with danger, trauma and abuse.

But in an ironic twist of fate, many young Nigerians who have attempted the irregular travel to Europe, through the Sahara Desert and across the Mediterranean sea, are back home and campaigning against the practice.

Using experience to teach about the dangers of irregular migration

Known as Volunteer Field Officers, VFOs, a group of 15 returnee migrants are working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), under its Migrants as Messengers (MaM) Programme in Nigeria.

These VFOs were among the Nigerian migrants the IOM brought home from Libya and other transit countries under the European Union-IOM Joint Initiative For Migrant Protection and Reintegration. Since the beginning of the project in April 2017 more than 11,500 migrants have been returned home after their failed attempt to reach Europe.

Marshall Patsanza of the IOM  described it as a peer to peer advocacy programme under which “migrants who embarked on the journey to Europe through Libya are sharing their experiences, thus informing others of the dangers of the journey.”

It includes a series of messages and videos posted on social media, interviews on community radio stations, and community screenings of a movie on irregular migration.

The campaign has also taken place in the media, at schools and in public places like on busy highways and markets.

A dangerous journey and a sensitive subject

The Uselu campaign starts with the female VFO addressing traders and customers in the market over a public address system.

She tells her audience that irregular migration through the desert to Libya and then over the Mediterranean sea to Europe is highly dangerous and no one should undertake it, irrespective of the hardships they face at home.

But the market turns rowdy when she criticises the widespread practice in Edo State where poor mothers encourage their children to embark on the dangerous journey, hoping that they will earn a lot of money abroad to lift their families out of poverty.

Edo is the Nigerian state with the highest incidence of irregular migration.

Data gathered from the IOM under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative shows that about 50 per cent of migrants returned from Libya under the initiative since April 2017 are from Edo State.

It is here that the VFOs are most active, many times going the extra mile to ensure a successful campaign. And it is what they do now in Uselu market.

“Many of our mothers here, some of them have sent their children to the Libyan route, it is bad, you should advise yourselves because there is nothing in the Libya route,” the female returnee migrant says.

Economic recession leads to support for irregular migration

But angry women shout her down and engage the VFO team in a war of words. They insist that irregular migration has become inevitable in the face of the economic situation in the country, which has left many families extremely poor. In 2017 the country began recovering from the worst economic recession in a quarter of a century. But rising inflation and a slowdown in the oil sector are among the contributors to sluggish growth.

“Many of the good houses in Benin [City] were built with money sent home by those who went abroad through Libya,” one woman says. Another argues that it is unfair to ask people not to travel to Europe through the desert and the sea when they are not allowed to travel by air.

Such deep support for irregular migration from parents accounts for the widespread practice of it in Edo State.

This and the long history of irregular migration in the state, which started in the 1980s following a downturn in Nigeria’s economy, makes the work of the VFOs challenging at times.

Personal, traumatic stories and photographic evidence change minds

But the personal stories of the VFOs remain an effective tool in their campaigns. They are also armed with posters and handbills that illustrate their near-death experiences when they attempted the journey to Europe.

VFO Jude Ikuenobe says when confronted with a situation similar to the one faced at Uselu Market he always tells people about his imprisonment in Libya. He supports this by showing people photos, taken shortly after his return from Libya, of how emaciated he was due to his imprisonment.

He also tells people how his friends died while crossing the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean sea.

Because traditionally people from Edo State are buried near their loved ones, Ikuenobe often tells people how sad it is to die in a place like Libya or how tragic it is to have their bodies thrown away in the desert, rather than being buried by their loved ones at home. He says when people hear his first-hand experience and see his photographs they often become discouraged to attempt irregular migration.

The VFOs use their new communications skills with a good result at the Uselu market. Tensions soon calm down after people see the photographs, posters and handbills.

A safe space to share own stories of tragedy

Some people in the market even feel safe enough to share their own stories. One lady admits her young, beautiful friend drowned at sea as she attempted to cross from Libya to Europe.

One man, Chinedu Adimon, says two of his friends also drowned making the same crossing. “One of them had two young daughters,” he recalls.

Many in the market whose relatives have embarked on irregular migration, and whom they have not heard from since are sobered by the reality of the dangers. They wonder what could have happened to their loved ones.

Pius Igede bursts into tears.

He says his daughter recently made the irregular journey to Europe and he does not know her whereabouts.

“She only made a phone call that she is out of the country. I don’t even know where she is now, whether it is Libya or any other place I don’t know,” he explains.

He adds that he suspects some of his other children are planning to travel to Europe as well.
And for him, the VFO’s posters and handbills may be the saving grace to convince them to remain at home.

“I want to collect the posters to show my children to discourage them from going to Libya,” he says. “I got scared when I saw the posters. I am frightened [that] my children will secretly travel without my knowledge.”

Closing a vital information gap

Osita Osemene of the Patriotic Citizen Initiatives, a non-governmental organisation campaigning against irregular migration, says the VFOs were able to convince people in the market about the dangers of irregular migration because they have the first-hand experience.

“It would have been very difficult to convince anyone in the market if the VFOs were just ordinary people who had no experience of irregular travels,” says Osemene, who is himself a returnee migrant.

He explains that lack of information about the true impact of irregular migration is a serious problem as many people assume those who attempt the dangerous journey to Europe actually arrive there and attain success.

“They were surprised when we showed them some of the things people go through, how people cross the sea in boats that can easily sink,” he says.

Ikuenobe says as VFOs they are working to close a vital information gap.

“So many mothers are not educated, so many mothers are desperate to see their children succeed, but we have to make them understand that irregular migration would not bring success,” Ikuenobe says.

For Patsanza the performance of the VFOs at Uselu Market shows how effective they can be in the fight against irregular migration.

Ikuenobe says the campaign is being conducted continuously in order to educate as many people as possible.

“The message is that even if things are bad at home, that is no justification for people to go and commit suicide. It is like going to kill yourself when you attempt to travel to Europe through the desert and sea.”

SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/2019/02/05/nigerians-hear-how-migrating-irregularly-is-like-killing-yourself/

Let's keep the sensitization going especially with a book like the one on the link from someone who made across and into Europe. The book needs to be made a part of the school curriculum to begin at re-orientating the young ones and changing the narrative.

https://www.nairaland.com/4405326/nigeria-europe-through-desert-a-true https://okadabooks.com/search?term=peterson+ojieson https://www.books2read.com/u/4EyEA0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G32DCP4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718004850

I'm here writhing in anger and rage. What evil...

So sadistic and inhuman...

Jose my man...

Sometime when things wan go wrong for man even water wey e drink dey hang am for throat.

She has been repeatedly dead according to our mumu bloggers.

I'm thinking of suing mine for rushing into the bedroom and snatching me before Bill and Melinda Gates could copulate.

I was jejely waiting for them o then these Naija people come do overtaking wey person no send dem..lol

Jokes oo...love my parents to bits and would wish to have them as my parents over and over again...

Thunder fire poverty and lazy girls wey fit kiss monkey so long as say monkey pocket deep.

Sickos and weirdos...

Nigerian journalists and bloggers are a disgrace to the English language and responsible journalism.

How can you report someone who has down-syndrome as "a demented man"

Na wa for wire road. ..

Kaiiii

What a heart rending picture...

Such a pretty lady with an infectious smile...

I've long stopped bothering or scared about death...

The ground is indeed a consumer of the choicest of bodies...

What a life...

Lol...na PDP wey no know themselves wey our God don decide to help us disgrace make Keyamo dey feel like one kain political czar...

What an aberration. .

Dirkcoyt:
You’re a liar

Dem no dey tell pikin make e no grow big big teeth...dem dey only dey advice am to grow big lip join to fit take cover am.

By what time you realise how much of a waste you have caused your life by believing you could build anything lasting on the back of other people's sweats, I'll always be here to help and advice you on how to pick whatever is left of your life and start anew. I won't begrudge you for calling me names trust me...

Hmmm...

I hope she'd literally be zipping it up this time.

Hm

Hmmm

mysticwarrior:
my I hear word jare, go and read how Europe underdeveloped Africa, the came enslave us killed alot of us loot our artifacts, steal our natural resources and treated us like subhuman, now let me tell you the descendents of the whitemen are reapping what their ancestors sow, that is Karma.

I hear you...keep deceiving and encouraging yourself in perpetuating evil and the un-justifiable.

Europe enslaved, under-developed and killed you abi...that's so a broken record that has been over played.

No one is forcing you into changing your ways and living right, at least no one forced me...my conscience did the trick and I am forever thankful I heeded to that still voice of reasoning in that good time.

Europeans are your reason for the lazy life you chose but you don't excuse the Americans, Asians, Oceanians and even your fellow Africans whenever they take your lying bait.

I once thought like you do now just to justify my sorry thieving life style, but guess what..

The first client I ever met as an apprentice one on one and collected about 30,000 € from was a Nigerian. He was just unfortunate to have been born in the UK hence his naivety...hope you see your folly now..

Hmmm...

Nairaland gave me a voice, face and exposed me and my story to the world.

Greatful for the platform and exposure...

The Mods needs educating though...they come insulting and riling people uo with varying monikers and banning them when given back that which they instigate..

majesty05:
. I am with you on this. This is an elaborate scam and the so called foundation is the real perpetrator

Very obvious scam no doubt....the wolf crying by the ao called foundation is simply to diffuse attention...