tunene66: Mr Boris Johnson has been announced the winner of the leadership contest in the Conservative Party effectively becoming the next UK Prime Minister. The result of the contest was announced at the QEII Conference centre, he had 92153 votes to defeat Jeremy Hunt who had 46656 votes He will take over omorrow after Theresa May tenders her resignation to HM Queen Elizabeth II and advises the Queen to call on him to form the new Government. He will "kiss hands" with the Queen formally assuming the office of PM
Gandollar: That this group even has a military arm means we are doomed in the hands of this pissful religious people in Nigeria. And buhari with his foolish ego is giving them the opportunity to test their might.
sirdouglas: Now before you judge me, I beg you to hear my side of the story. I said my side of the story cos if she is here, she may not agree with everything I have to say. This is a lengthy one but I will try to make it as short as possible. I it is important to note that I am not writing this to be judged or ridiculed. I want matured and reasonable people to help out.
I met this girl in 2017. Can't really remember the month but it should be getting to 2years now. We started dating. As at the time I met her I wasn't struggling, I have my own business and apartment so I wouldn't say she met me when I had nothing. I was a big boy then if I can use that word. She was just 19 or so then. I am this kind of guy that really really take relationship serious and always looking out to see if things can work out. I don't spend on her, I don't do much for her then. I wanted to see the kind of person she is. She doesn't care or even ask of anything. She might ask for something once in a while but I will pretend I didn't hearw her and to my amazement, she will never talk about it again. With time I started noticing something about her that I don't like. First is she is really not smart and educated. I noticed that she doesn't have her own say. She listens to gossip and always bore me with what this person said or that person. I really hate that shit. She is a mama's girl too. Sometimes I wonder if she gives her mom details of our sex life. She won't sweep the house or do anything for me even while the relationship progressed. I started taking care of her and helping out with her needs. I constantly keep wondering if I can settle down with her but I am always stuck with that question.
I ended the relationship when it was clear to me that I can't live with her. I am an ambitious young man and I am not there yet. I want a woman who will be more than a sex mate. I want someone who can confidently handle my business and manage my home when I am not there. She is to naive to my liking. I am tired trying to build her into the kind of woman I want.
There is only one main reason why I wasn't really hard on her. She was one girl who accepted me from her heart and I know it and I respected that too. I suck when it comes to women and I respect women a lot. You know what they say about guys that respect women. They are mostly single � She came back few months later. She wasn't ready to let go. Being that I am a loner. My defence wasn't strong enough. We started dating. I got hold of myself and ask her to go again because I couldn't see a future with her and I can't bring myself to be wasting her time.
She wanted to stay, I told her in plain words that I don't want to marry her and that's why I am setting her free.
She left and came back the third time. We had sex and all that but this time I was determined to let her go. I went to a lab for a test with to make sure I didn't infect her with anything because I treated staph before I met her and I was afraid it may still be there or something. To my utmost surprise, she was the one who infected me with gonorrhea. I treated mine and hers and ask her to go.
I noticed that she haven't seen her period and asked her and she confirmed it. She left and came back few weeks later that she is pregnant. She insisted that she wanted to have an abortion but I wasn't interested. I told her to keep the child. Besides, she has been the one telling me that my sperm us not working. I laughed over it. I became afraid that she will try something stupid so I took her to a pharmacist friend of mine to discourage her.
Her mother got to know and ask her to call me. I went with a friend and told her mother everything. I started suspecting that the child might not be mine because I treated her of an infection she possibly contacted from another person. In fact, I was shocked when she confessed about the infection. She said it is the toilet they use at home but I never believed her.
I told her mother that I am not sure about the paternity but however, I will take care of her. I told her family that I don't want to marry her and I have told her that severely.
We had a long discussion that day and I left. I started taking care if her the more. I made sure that I made my stand clear on the matter. I don't want to be a murderer so I got to do what is necessary. She started complaining about abuse from her siblings and war started. They beat her almost all the time and I wanted to take it personal. Shit do happen at times but that is not enough reason to kill their sister.
When all this is happening, I was processing my papers. In fact, I started processing my papers before she got pregnant and she is full aware of that. I took another group of friends to their home to help beg the brothers to stop beating her so they don't kill her and the child.
My visa took time so she was almost due for delivery before I left. I sent money to her account and bought some things I felt she would need even the unnecessary ones and left.
My problem now is that she contacted me few days ago to tell me that the scan said she is having twins now not a boy. I can't explain in details because I don't know but the bottom line is that she is now having a twins. I feel for her like I always do.
I don't want to marry out of pity. I don't want to live a promiscuous life. I don't want to marry this girl honestly and having a twins for me just complicated the matter the more.
She said the doctor said she will be delivering this month. I am thinking of sending my uncle and younger brother to her family house to do the iku aka or whatever that is called so I can lay claims to my kids.
Her family is so messed up that I will never want to do anything with them on a normal day. They are from onitsha in anambra and I swore never to marry from that state. That's one of the reason I kept chasing her away. When I say messed up, I am really not that good with English to find the right word to define how disorganized it is.
I am feeling like a monster already. I need all the help that I can get. I never expected this to happen. I never wanted to complicate her life but here I am in the middle of all this.
Should I marry her out of pity and save her the embarrassment or give her money and make sure she comfortable and go ahead with my life. Honestly I don't know what to do.
take her far from her family and settle her,rent a place and let her lern a hand work to look after the kids.thano God she is not the bad luck type.8no visa no money and hardship)
ahahnow: My vagina is smelling. Why won't it stop smelling? I bath everyday. I some times use wet wipes but it is still smelling. I was even bathing with detol but no change. I even stop wearing umderwear to allow breeze to blow it. What more can I do? Should I use soap and water to clean it every time I go to the toilet? This smell must stop o. My future husband can't come and meet me like this. Please help me
u want it to stop?ok go market buy a bulb of galic,them at night when u r about to go to beg,insert it inside the v.sleep with it in the morning it will fall out et vois la the smell is gone.
chelseaimmortal: Osabuohien Ehigiator, a Nigerian Mafia boss arrested in Palermo
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 centres.
Investigators and justice officials say the Nigerian mafia, as it’s called here, has capitalised on a half-decade of historic migration – a scenario merging crime and migrants in a manner 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. Italy’s most prominent politician, Matteo Salvini, 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.”
A street in Palermo, Italy. Nigerian mafia said to hold territory from Turin in the North to Palermo in the south
For the far-right’s opponents, the Nigerian mafia has proved to be a trickier case – a problem that is politically risky to downplay, but that they say is being exploited as a cudgel against all migrants. They note that the Nigerian mafia primarily occupies immigrant neighbourhoods, preying on those residents in a way that might feel familiar to Italians who have lived under the mob.
In an April speech, 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,” Francis said.
Nationalists and strongmen have long portrayed migration as a source of danger, saying people crossing borders might be intent on terrorism. Data from some countries, such as the United States, shows those claims are overstated. But the emergence of a new foreign mafia strikes at some of the most emotional chords in a country still traumatised 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.
police in Palermo leading the crackdown on Nigerian mafia
Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because it has a behavioural code and uses the implied power of the group for intimidation and silence. Nigerian members have been sentenced on mafia-related charges that were drawn up by Italy decades ago in its fight against the homegrown mob.
Though 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 groups. Others are recruited after arriving.
Members of Salvini’s League party have emphasised some of those dangers, and politicians in a smaller far-right party, the Brothers of Italy, 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 held 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.”
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 murder, 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 jailed, one after the next. The group has grown quieter, less openly violent, and over the past decade, a new wave of people have 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, or 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 might 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 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 hairdressing 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.”
Because of those oaths, it is rare for women to come 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, colour-coded blue and yellow outfits – a telltale of the Eiye group, one of the main Nigerian mafia clans. Del Grosso showed the woman some headshots 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 versus the Italian mob.
“It’s where all the biggest clashes took place,” Del Grosso said.
Instead, he found a job with a window into Sicily’s immigrant crime world, and the neighbourhood where much of that crime takes place is a short walk from his office.
One day last month, just before lunch hour, he took a walk with a deputy through the Nigerian mafia’s Palermo hub, a neighbourhood of dilapidated buildings, tight alleyways, 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. Del Grosso’s 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.”
Ify05: A 48-year-old pastor, Abayomi Adegboyega, is seeking dissolution of his 16-year-old marriage, alleging that his wife always demands `bribe’ from him before sex.
Adegboye told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Wednesday to end the marriage on grounds that his wife, Risikat, denied him sex.
“My wife starves me of sex, she will never allow me to sleep with her unless I give her money or buy her a gift,” he said.
He said that he would kill himself if the court would not dissolve the union which produced four children.
“Risikat should never come near me, I do not want to have anything to do with her again.
“She is irritating me, I will kill myself if the loveless marriage is not dissolved,” he told the court.
The petitioner also alleged that his wife cooked his food late and tarnished his image in public.
“My wife wants my ministry to collapse, she defames my character before my members and others; people who want to help me refuse because of what they hear from her,”he said.
He added that Risikat fought his church members.
However, 39-year-old Risikat, denied all the allegations and accused her husband of threatening her life with charms.
“My husband told me that he would use charm to destroy my life; indeed, after few weeks, I was very sick; everywhere my family took me to, they said it was a spiritual attack, the trader alleged.
The mother of four claimed that she never denied Abayomi sex not cooked his food late.
She also denied fighting her husband or members of his church.
Beverlyjean: Good day nairalanders , am new on this forum and I actually registered here so that I can get a credible and mature solution to my lingering emotional and relationship problem.
It goes like this; I have a bf that I have been dating for a year now and he is a very wonderful Person, he is my first love and I really love him so much because he gives me a different kind of feeling that I have never felt before , but my dilemma is that I met another guy a month after I accepted to date my bf , we were normal friends for the first one month though I never told him I had a bf until he surprisingly made his intentions known to me . This other guy has been an angel in my life and we started hanging out frequently due to my bf not being around because he traveled out of the country , this other guy has been the most loving and caring guy that I have ever met, he is always there for me and showers me with so much care love and time . He then introduced me to my introduced me to his family ( his mum and dad inclusive) and they loved me at an instant and started welcoming me and calling me their daughter . Now this other guy is 30 while I turned 21 in December and my guy is 23 . This other guy has a great job and ready to settle but his not rushing me saying that he will wait till I am ready . The problem is that I don't have the type of love he wants me to have for him , the thing is that I love my bf so much and I am not ready to let him go . My bf missed my graduation , my birthday and Val's because he had some pressing issues though he sent me my gifts through mail but the other guy was there for me , came for my grad at gwagwalada, took me to a lovely restaurant on my bday and surprised me with a lovely gift and also spent time with me on Val's day and it was so lovely. My bf is around but I see him only 3 times a month and I don't complain but this other guy sees me like 4 times a week .
I have been in a romantic relationship with the new guy although we have done something's apart from direct sex because I am a virgin . This other guy has sacrificed a lot for me but I wanna let him go because he really want me to leave my bf and stay permanently with him , but I love my bf so much and my feeling for him is not strong . He said the reason why I don't love him is because my heart is somewhere else and the moment I leave my bf , I will start loving him as long as I concentrate solely with him.
He also said that even if I leave him and my bf should later find out what I did with him , that my bf will dump me , if not now but later and I will loose the opportunity of everlasting happiness with him ( the other guy)
I care a lot about the other guy and I have feelings for him but I love my bf a lot , even though he loves me more that my bf does.
The other guy also said my bf is still young and might disappoint me in the future . I believe my bf will not because I can guarantee that he is not cheating on me and will not .
The following are the questions that keep on giving me sleepless nights :
1. Will my bf dump me if he eventually finds out bout what I did with the other guy. 2 . Will my bf or me fall out of love as we grow due to the age 3. Am I sure that he is not cheating on me or later leave me for someone else 4. Should I loose my virginity to him to prove my love 5. Will I find another lovin guy like the other guy later in life if my guy leaves me 6 . Will I leave to regret leaving the other guy 7 . Should I follow my heart or head because my heart says my bf but my head says the other guy 8. Will I fall inlove with the other guy if I stop seeing my bf?
Please help me with very mature answers because this will play a vital role in my life in the future .
Ladies that have experienced this come forth and guys that understand the way guys reason should help out pleaseeeee , because am still a novice when it comes to relationship issues. Thank you
wait until your wedding night, just pray God will help.
Pascopele: MY WIFE IS KILLING ME WITH SEX PLEASE HELP ME.
My wife & I were raised from a strong Pentecostal background. We met in the university and decided to get married after school. As Christians we decided never to have sex until after marriage though neither of us were virgins before we met. (long story)
After school we prepared for 2 more years & got married. I have a *Big Challenge*. My problem Now is that *MY WIFE HAS A VERY STRONG DRIVE FOR SEX*. At our honeymoon I almost fainted... Just after each round she will just hop back on and try to arouse me for another one.
Sometimes she gets angry when I deny her because I am trying to explain to her that the *Male Organ* does not work that way... And she would not *Talk* to me for days.
In the evening after work as soon as she gets home she wants sex, whiles I am still eating dinner she wants sex on the dining table... After dinner she wants sex while we are about to sleep.. & at midnight she wakes me up for sex, then at dawn she wants sex... Just before I leave for work she wants sex... Sometimes she would call me if she can come to my office for quickie.
Sometimes I am so weak that I can't even erect but she still finds her way around it..... Now sometimes going home from Work is a problem because *MY SEX DRIVE IS NOT AS STRONG AS HERS*.
*She recently asked my permission to have a boyfriend aside the marriage so that the pressure on me can reduce*. Am even scared
PLEASE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME OR HER? AND WHAT SHOULD I DO...? Should I grant her permission?
Please help me.
do you know that in school when u said no sex, she been d nak for ur back.u need to meet up,
A year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin defied the World to open Europe’s longest and most controversial bridge, a 12-mile (19km) connecting Crimea to Russia’s mainland.
The $3.7 billion (or N1.3 trillion) four lane bridge, designed to withstand ice floes in winter, overtook the Lisbon’s Vasco da Gama Bridge as the longest in Europe.
During the opening ceremony, Vladimir Putin - who said the bridge was a dream of the tsars and Stalin but was finally achieved under his rule - personaly drove a Kamaz trip-truck in a convoy of construction vehicles which includes cranes and other heavy-duty vehicles across the crimean bridge.
In comparison, Lagos eight-lane 3rd Mainland Bridge has a total length 11.8 km. It was the longest in Africa until 1996 when the 20.5 km 6th October Bridge located in Cairo was completed.
To commemorate the date in honor of all the hard work put into the project, a stunning 2 mins 50 secs timelapse, produced from the footage taken throughout the 27 months of construction, was recently released.
While the bridge is already operational, the second part, a two-lane railroad bridge, is still under construction and will be ready next year.
Prominentp: Lemme try and be brief here. I dated this young lady last year and things didn't go well. We dated for 8 months and eventually broke up. The thing is, it's been like 6 months since we broke up but yet she still stalks the hell out of my life. Is there any technique I have not used to chase this girl away??... There's none I can think of. I have said very bad things to her, ignored her and all, yet she still comes back after a while after leaving me. She's still preaching to me on how much she loved me and still loves me. She's emotionally blackmailing me like I ditched her but she caused the breakup. I don't know how else to handle the issue anymore. I have told her we can be friends but she doesn't want that, she's insisting on having back the relationship. Pls, what do u guys think I should we do??
if you want to know,if a bird really belong to you.l let it out of it cage and if it comes back to you know that it is yours.
On the 8th of June this year, last weekend precisely, I composed a write-up titled "Stop Calling Jesus God" which I intended posting on Nairaland but because there was no network at that instance, I had to leave it on my notepad pending when network would be back.
My intention was to prove to the world, using my own misconstrued ideas, that Jesus was a mere messenger of God and not God Himself; what stopped this publication was beyond my imagination: my Samsung Galaxy Tab A suddenly became so hot like it never had been. So terribly hot even without putting on the internet.
I began to wonder what was really happening. It later occurred to me to wipe off the write-up. Behold! When I deleted the piece, my tablet that was previously so hot returned to it normal state. This led me to believe that my opinion could be wrong. My new position now is that 'JESUS IS LORD!'. I now have no doubt about that!
PRAISE THE LORD!
all along it was Jesus,any place u see the Lord in New and old testament.he is The Lord of Lords.
DennickSoftman: I run a business between Nigeria and Cotonou so I am always frequent in Cotonou. Though am a single guy, I met a girl that sells in one nice bar I usually love to chill when I am in Cotonou and you know how conji is a bastard sometimes especially when you know say prick no go school, I decided to have this girl as my conji cure anytime am in Cotonou.
The problem is we only started this sex thing not long ago and I believe it has not been more than three times and before I know she said she is pregnant. I was confused but I had promised myself I would not want any lady to commit an abortion except she does such without my knowledge.
I decided to take responsibility of the pregnancy and see her parents. When I visited her parents I realized I don enter one chance because the juju I was seeing everywhere from their compound to even their living room got me worried.
The girl goes to church and likes to pray but how can you do that when you are living inside juju house. So now her parents gave me list of things I would buy in acceptance that I am the father of the child and they said after doing that I can now come for another list for her hand in marriage. My people God know say I no fit marry inside that kind of juju house, but if you know about Benin Republic people very well, they don't joke with juju matter.
I really don't know what to do about this situation anymore.
Dagger111: Russian President Vladimir Putin hits Africa Again!
"Africa will never be independent, Africans believe in Europeans, Americans, and Chinese more than themselves. They don't trust themselves at all, African technocrats/Engineers aren't given the platform to practice what they studied instead they hire Chinese to construct roads for themselves.
A white man will commit a crime in Africa but no action will be taken because the African authorities view us as Demigods, far from the truth. A black man can be abducted in Europe get harassed and even be killed but no African authority can even question. Africans present themselves as weak people with no hope, especially when dealing with Europeans and Americans.
They are their own enemies. They hate each other and this gives their colonial masters the opportunity to continue exploring their resources. As far as I know, Africa is more of God's chosen continent, its a blessed continent and its time for Africans to Realise they are in a place where Americans, Europeans and Chinese are jealous of and wish it should be them there...You can't compare African weather with any other weather...African soil can feed the whole of Europe, America, and Asia but their problem is just one, "THEIR LEADERS". As far as I am concern their best president ever was Gaddafi".
To me, it is left to the Africans to forget the emotion and try to understand the challenges attracting all these insults (though it not actually an insult but a reality). Keep shame and unnecessary pride aside, analyze the situation and think of what to do.
Please do share these articles to others; not to make fun, mockery or entertainment, but to create further awareness within our society. Let the end-time of God not meet us in this state of inferiority and less significance on our own God-given continent.
softwerk: And I just finished having sex with 2 guys now!
I however checked both their manhoods........no snakes!
Also I didn't let them cum inside my VJ!
cyrilamx: Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara”
More than three decades after his assassination, Burkina Faso is celebrating Thomas Sankara with a new monument. Two years ago the revolutionary leader once again became the face of a popular movement, and the new statue unveiled over the weekend in Ouagadougou formalizes his place in a new political era.

The five-meter bronze statue, which stands on a four-meter base, depicts Sankara in his army fatigues, ready to take a step forward with his arm raised and his face to the horizon. It is exactly the kind of leadership Sankara has come to represent to a new generation of Burkinabé and across Africa.
Sankara is memorialized along with the busts of 12 of his comrades who were also killed in the 1987 coup. The monument was designed by Burkinabé sculptors who answered a public call to artists and architects to contribute to the project and was led by renowned artist Jean-Luc Bambara. The statue will form part of mausoleum, museum, gallery and conference space, all of which are are the result of a national effort to revive the legacy of Thomas Sankara.
Below are a few of his legacies:

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself.
– Changed the name of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means “the land of upright men”
– Killed in mysterious circumstances by a group of soldiers in October 1987
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If you breach your side of sending her to school, you should also pay certain amounts....
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Boris Johnson Is The New Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom by dnawah(m): 12:35pm On Jul 23, 2019
the way it's now, Ebonyi state is likely to have the best structure/ infrastructure in the nearest future
