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Celebrities › Re: Jim Iyke's N15M Scandal by executinal(m): 10:30am On Jul 21, 2012
But why should this woman invest (15M)with this guy did he promise to be your sugar boy because you are sugar mummy already. There is still more to this. I can't believe you woman even if Jim iyke is your immediate junior Brother you won't be so kind and generous to him this way. undecided
Jokes Etc › Re: Who Is Drunk?? by executinal(m): 3:19pm On Jul 20, 2012
kay9: ^^umm, trade?? grin grin grin i be engineer o!
Were did you see trade grin grin
Politics › Re: Soldiers Go Wild After Fashola’s ‘Humiliation’ Of Colonel? by executinal(m): 6:22pm On Jul 19, 2012
deshclones: Musiwa please tell us about the satellite pics....thanx
Take very close look at the satellite picture, you will see that Military men is very angry and untile they remove western Niaja army from nigeria, western naija will not rest. I will keep on saying it. . . . Even the U.S talked about this last time but Fashola refuse to listen. Now see the result of the satellite picture grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Jokes Etc › Re: Who Is Drunk?? by executinal(m):
kay9: Bro, all u had to do was follow me and drink the friggin' whiskey, did u have to break them darned eggs too?? grin grin grin
Sory do not intend to derail ooh.. . but some people always seek attention. I will join you shortly grin grin
Jokes Etc › Re: Who Is Drunk?? by executinal(m): 5:46pm On Jul 19, 2012
booqee: @kay9. Now dis is some crazy joke! Really funny.....


c'mon! Dis joke's damn too stale! Wtf??
Get life, if is stale you walk over and stop the silly rant
Jokes Etc › Re: Pictures Dat Wil Make U Lafff ( Pls Try Post Urs ) by executinal(m): 5:27pm On Jul 19, 2012
more

Jokes Etc › Re: Pictures Dat Wil Make U Lafff ( Pls Try Post Urs ) by executinal(m): 5:26pm On Jul 19, 2012
very nice

Jokes Etc › Re: Who Is Drunk?? by executinal(m): 1:08pm On Jul 19, 2012
A friend of mine bought half a crate of eggs and discovered that there was nothing inside , Just shell he went to where he bought them and broke all the eggs and all was found empty .THen they went to d poultry to complain, some chichkens came out and started lavghing and said ''see these fools, they don't know that we too have started using condom.hahhahahah!!!
Politics › Re: $620k Lawan Probe: Journalist Detained For Obtaining Classified Info by executinal(m): 3:09pm On Jul 18, 2012
Hope they are not looking for scapegoat grin grin
Politics › From The New York Times: What Life Would Be Like Under Boko Haram Rule by executinal(op): 2:42pm On Jul 18, 2012
Jihadists’ Fierce Justice Drives Thousands to Flee Mali
Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

MBERA, Mauritania — The vast desert expanse of northern Mali has become a magnet for Islamic extremists who have tightened their grip on Timbuktu and other far-flung towns, imposing a strict form of justice that is prompting tens of thousands of people to flee what some are likening to an African Afghanistan.

Rattled recent arrivals at a 92,000-person makeshift camp here at Mauritania’s remote eastern edge describe an influx of jihadists — some homegrown and others possibly from afar — intent on imposing an Islam of lash and gun on Malian Muslims who have long coexisted with Western tourists in the fabled town of Timbuktu.

The conditions here in Mbera are grim, with many of the Malians sick, hungry and bewildered. But that is better, refugees said in interviews Tuesday, than the grueling life turned upside-down that an unexpected Islamist military triumph inflicted on their lives in a vast region in the heart of West Africa.

Refugees from such places as Timbuktu, Goundam, Gao and Kidal described witnessing repeated whippings, beatings and other punishments in the streets, ostensibly for having violated strict Islamic law, and some of those who fled said they had been subjected to this harsh justice themselves.

“They said: ‘You are thieves. Why are you out walking at this hour?’ ” Mohamed ag el-Hadj, a 27-year-old former soldier in the Malian Army recalled. He and a friend out for a stroll at 7 in the evening found themselves surrounded by two carloads of well-armed men. The men tied the friends’ arms behind their backs, bound them to a tree and forced them to kneel, bending forward, for the evening. In the morning, “everything was swollen.”

“It was scary,” Mr. Hadj recalled. “They insulted me, called me a savage, an unbeliever.”

When they found a cigarette pack in his shirt pocket, they beat him about the face. “For nothing,” the young man said. “These are their punishments.”

Living under rows of dirty blue-and-white United Nations tents or under makeshift sheet-and-stick shelters, refugees spoke of heavily armed men of numerous races, nationalities, and languages — “black, brown, yellow, white,” one said — now controlling the streets. One spoke of encountering Afghans, Pakistanis and Nigerians.

American counterterrorism experts express concerns that Mali could turn into a magnet for international terrorists, but they say that such reports have not yet been corroborated. The turmoil in northern Mali has likely drawn extremists from the region, though, experts say.

“The concern is that these local groups will further establish a safe haven in northern Mali to serve as a base of operations,” said a United States official who asked not to be identified while discussing sensitive intelligence matters. “Then maybe northern Mali could become a destination for foreign fighters from the wider region and even further afield, but it isn’t there yet.”

The Islamists in Timbuktu have destroyed at least a half-dozen venerable above-ground tombs of holy men revered in the ancient city, proclaiming them contrary to Shariah, a legal code based on Islam. The destruction provoked outrage among the citizens and in international organizations. “The day they destroyed the mausoleums, they put sentinels everywhere,” said Hassan ag Sidi, a refugee.

Ali ag Diaba, a traveling musician who fled northern Mali last weekend, said he witnessed citizens being whipped and undressed in the streets of Goundam by the Islamists, who are taken aback by the Malians’ Sufi sect. Many Malians follow a line of belief that posits a more mystical, personal relation with the deity. “They persecute and torture people, under the guise of a false religion,” he said.

Speaking in the shade of a tent, he explained that “When they beat people and others approach” to protest, the Islamists “fire in the air to disperse them.”

The extremist ministate in northern Mali is the unexpected fallout from the collapse of what had been regarded in the West — mistakenly — as a stable African democracy with functioning institutions in the capital, Bamako. In late March, army officers angry over the government’s handling of a rebellion by nomadic Tuareg rebels in the north rose up in a coup d’état, installing a military junta under an American-trained officer after two decades of elected governments.

The military junta has since ostensibly stepped down in favor of an appointed civilian government. But it continues to wield undue influence in the eyes of outside governments, and beatings and arrests — particularly of critical journalists — occur regularly in Bamako, while the Malian Army from which the junta arose is in disarray, unable to respond to the loss of half of the country’s territory.

The Tuareg rebels, largely armed by the remnants of deposed Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s arsenal, have since been pushed out by their onetime allies, the Islamists, proving no match for the firepower and determination of the jihadist fighters who now reign uncontested over northern Mali. Some of those Islamists are homegrown members of Ansar Dine, a group that has been supported by Al Qaeda, experts say. Others are believed to be part of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affiliate known by the initials A.Q.I.M. that has a presence throughout the Sahel.

“A.Q.I.M. is composed of people from all over the world,” said a Tuareg leader in the refugee camp here, Mohamed Toutta. “We can’t fight the whole world.”

His son Mohamed, a soldier in the Tuareg M.N.L.A. army, said the Islamists were fewer in number, but better armed.

Sidati ag Mohamed, who once worked in Timbuktu’s tourism industry, said: “We don’t know these people who have come. There are a lot of Arabs and blacks from somewhere else. It’s like the United Nations. The M.N.L.A. can’t defend us.”

The African Union, through the regional Ecowas group, has discussed sending a military force to reunify Mali. Ramtane Lamamra, the African Union’s peace and security commissioner, told reporters this week that negotiations with terrorists had been ruled out but that officials remained open to outreach with other armed factions. “We do encourage Ansar Dine to distance itself from Al Qaeda and come to the table as a Malian national group,” he said, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, the women of northern Mali are particular targets. Aishatta Abdou, a 30-year-old mother of six who left a week ago, was chased off the street at gunpoint in Timbuktu for walking without her husband. She described them as “well armed.”

“It was after that that we decided to leave,” she said. “When I understood that I could not go out anymore, I said, ‘Life is not possible for me here.’ ” Her friend, Fadimata Ouallet, seated near her under a tent, was forced out of a car by gunmen because she was the only woman in it, even though the men were relatives. They pointed a gun at her and said, “Get out or we will kill you,” she said. “I trembled all night, with the fear,” she said. “I can still see them.”

A young couple, whipped in the street in Timbuktu for walking unmarried, “were in tears,” recalled Hassan ag Sidi, a merchant who arrived in the camp in recent days. “But the Islamists didn’t stop,” he said. “In the end, they had to be taken to the clinic.”

For now, what refugees are describing as an Islamist reign of terror runs unchecked. Western and African governments cannot make up their minds on whether to intervene, despite repeatedly denouncing the situation in the north. The Malian government and the Tuareg rebels are similarly frozen in place. “They have completely turned our way of life upside-down,” Mr. Sidi said. “They have imposed a kind of religion on us we have never seen. You can’t even walk with your wife. We’re like prisoners.”

He and others said that even the spartan conditions at the camp are preferable. “The people who are still there, they are practically dead,” said Mohammed el-Mehdi, a former tour guide in Timbuktu who arrived across the border from Mali on Tuesday.
source http://www.naijapundit.com/news/from-the-new-york-times-what-life-would-be-like-under-boko-haram-rule

Christianity Etc › Re: T.b.Joshua Revelation: Another Plane Crash Looms In Nigeria by executinal(m): 3:13pm On Jul 17, 2012
Why should this MOD always send unconfirmed story to front page?? No source to this cooked up story.
God help Seun with his team of Moderators
Politics › Re: N32b Pension Fraud Trial: EFCC Seizes 45 Mansions by executinal(m): 9:48am On Jul 17, 2012
. . . . . and this again?? whats up with Farouk and Ote$ stuff angry angry
Celebrities › Re: Your "Goodbye" Or "Welcome Back" Message To Goldie. . . by executinal(m): 12:28pm On Jul 16, 2012
Fuc,k Goldie, Fuc,k Prezzo Fuc,k BBA. Also fuc,k Keitta and Ghana for their role in Goldie exit.
Politics › Re: Oshiomhole Wins By Landslide by executinal(m): 9:41am On Jul 15, 2012
Adams is very active in delivery his mandate to Edo people.He is always loyal to GEJ and Oba of Benin. So i am not surprised he was declared winner. Osho baba never forget your people and complete the good work you have started.
Jokes Etc › Re: Aboki by executinal(m): 8:45pm On Jul 14, 2012
OLD SKOOL
Politics › Re: I Am Disappointed In Jega – Oshiomhole by executinal(m): 4:47pm On Jul 14, 2012
Lets see the outcome first.
Jokes Etc › Akin My Good Friend by executinal(op): 1:40pm On Jul 13, 2012
My friend Akin gets into a pharmacy & says 2 d pharmacist, "Hello,
could u give me condom? I'm going 2 my girlfriend's place 4 dinner &
I think I may b in with a chance!" D pharmacist gives him d condom
& as he was going out he returns & says, “Give me another condom
... because my girlfriend's sister is very cute too, she always crosses her
legs in a provocative manner when she sees me & I think I might
strike a luck there too."grin pharmacist gives him a second condom & as
he was leaving, again he turns back & says "Give me one more condom
because my girlfriend's mom is still pretty cute & when she sees me
she always makes eye contact & since she invited me 4 dinner I
think she is expecting me 2 make a move. During dinner, Akin sat with
his girlfriend on d left, d sister on his right & d mum facing him.
When d Dad walks in, Akin lowers his head & starts d dinner
prayer."Dear Lord, bless this dinner & thank u 4 all u'v given
us".10minutes after, my friend Akin was still praying "Thank u Lord 4
you kindness." Another Ten minutes gone by & he is still praying,
keeping his head down, very close 2 d table. They all looked at each
other surprised, & his girlfriend was even more surprised than
others. She gets close to him & whispered, "I didn't know u'r so
religious."Akin replies, "I never knew your dad was a pharmacist!” See
wahala!!! If you were Akin...what will u do
TV/Movies › Re: Some Funny, And Really Nice Nigerian 80's Shows by executinal(m): 9:25pm On Jul 12, 2012
Naty and jegede was my best actors then grin grin
Celebrities › Re: P-Square's Mother - Josephine Okoye - Is Dead by executinal(m): 9:05am On Jul 12, 2012
R.I.P
Foreign Affairs › Re: Parents Charged In UAE After Hidden Baby Found In Carry-on by executinal(m): 11:00am On Jul 11, 2012
The Father and the mother must have smoked some wrong grace before taking such decision.
Nairaland General › Re: Today Is World Population Day! by executinal(m): 10:56am On Jul 11, 2012
Billyonaire: Mukina2, what does the satellite picture say ?
Lmao, just a minute Musiwa will come and explain better for you grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Politics › Re: Akwa Ibom Wins 76 Oil Wells Case Against Cross River by executinal(m): 12:13pm On Jul 10, 2012
But are they not same people huh
Computers › Re: Windows 8 Computers To Go On Sale In October by executinal(m): 11:21am On Jul 10, 2012
3 months very short, lets see
Politics › Re: Herdsmen Kill General On Lagos-ibadan Expressway by executinal(m): 11:03am On Jul 10, 2012
Why is everything in 9ja turning upside down? i still remembered back in the days when we have emergency responds in-case of accident,fire outbreak or other emergency that require urgent attention, if i still remember correctly, they call them 09 or 01 and they respond instantly. If this program was still in place, it will save alot of life. Just take a close look at this incidence maybe this man could have been saved, but the distance of rushing the patience to hospital, and hospital attendance respond to the emergency, the person will even gone. Nigeria need total rehabilitation in all sector.
Business › Re: First Bank, GTB, Zenith ,4 Others Listed Among Top 1000 Banks by executinal(m): 6:34am On Jul 10, 2012
Were is JAIZ BANK ? angry
Oya SLS i need answer sharp sharp
Politics › Re: Senator Gyang Datong Killed In Jos by executinal(m): 8:56pm On Jul 08, 2012
He who kills by gun
Also dies by.. . . . .. . . .? Option (A) boko haram (B)Bomb (c) Gun (D) Non of the above.
Answer the correct answer and get bomb vest
Sports › Re: Nigeria Moves Up In FIFA Ranking by executinal(m): 4:49pm On Jul 04, 2012
Naija we no dey carry last na. Even Cameron is behind us grin grin
Jokes Etc › Re: Breaking News Another Plane Crash! by executinal(m): 2:13pm On Jul 04, 2012
Op you no well at all.
AMEN SHA cheesy cheesy
Politics › Re: Audio Of $3M Conversation Between Lawan & Otedola (Part 2) by executinal(m):
Which evidence do we need again?? Job Weldon Ote$
Facrook, Start gathering information from OBJ about that side he came out from last time.Because your lawyer plus others can't help you now grin
Travel › Re: Why Are There So Many Lizards In Nigeria? by executinal(m): 8:27pm On Jul 03, 2012
redsun: Honestly,i was talking to an english lady about those lizards this evening,how i missed them running around the house,even though they are suppose to be wild. When she asked me their names in english,i couldnt tell her because we just use to call them lizards. Though, we have native names for them,but i wouldnt make sense to her.

The male ones are bigger and red headed,while the female are smaller and greyish all round. That was as far as i could describe them to her. Can somebody please name the species in english?
@ Bolded is called the AGAMA LIZARD, for the female, i can't remember for now
Travel › Re: Why Are There So Many Lizards In Nigeria? by executinal(m): 8:23pm On Jul 03, 2012
LizyL: Ever since i moved here last year, i noticed the amount of lizards all over the place. Why are there so many?
Ask Mr and Mrs Lizards. grin grin
Physicist: Your name is LizyL. Your name is Lizard? LOL.
grin grin grin grin
ismhab: BECAUSE NIGERIA IS HOME OF LIZARDS.
really. grin grin
mrkels: Wtf front page? Seun don dey drink too much alomo bittaz n smoke too much ganja grin grin
@op ask the lizards jor, who even dey notice that sh*t these days?
seun go ban you ooh grin grin grin
I can't stop laughing funny trade with funny responds. Even op is confuse with the responds he / she is receiving. grin grin
Family › Re: Husband Taking Meat From The Pot Of Soup/stew: Whats Ur Take On This? by executinal(m): 8:12pm On Jul 03, 2012
Every day i get good laugh in nairaland. Once i am angry the next step is to log into nairaland before i will scroll through three topic somebody will surely make my day.
@Op thanks for this your topic i can't stop laughing. grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

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