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So Nigerians' Economic Salvation is now in MALI

When you denigrate Nigeria as shiit poo country, some of your sisters and brothers are listening to you.

So they take a jump to MALI, the new promised land

The plights of some Nigerian girls sold as as sex slaves in Mali have been brought up to the notice of the ECOWAS parliament by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP.

NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli, while speaking at a presentation to members of the ECOWAS Parliament. revealed that Nigerian girls were being sold for between N210,000 and N240,000 to work as prostitutes, Vanguard reports.

https://lailasnews.com/nigerian-girls-sold-as-sex-slaves-in-mali-for-n210000-naptip/

My goodness. Another way to open old wounds.

So it was Nigerian soldiers that disguised as Biafran soldiers killing people in the South-South?

Fortunately, Effiong, the second in Command to Ojukwu brought it up with him, he wrote that he was ignored.

What about the Mid-West, they must be Nigerian Army too, disguised as Biafran Army.

The same Army almost head to Lagos until Iluyomade and his quick civilians soldiers raised on the spur of the moment stopped them at Ore!

The same soldiers Isaac Boro fought, abi?

Patriotic Igbo are watching children of hate spread outright lies to start what they cannot finish.

Igbo Nigerians, if you do not stand up and stop this, you will have yourselves to blame. This guy is being fed by his parents from the comfort of their home in the US.

One does not have to reply everyone, especially you. But I will.

Dunkun:
Your only concern now is how to loot more from ss to develop your region the more.

For 6 years or more, you convinced Ebele with reasons and statistics like the one presented here that the West by voting twice as much for him as they voted for Ribadu, hated him and Igbo.

If you could not transform South-south or South-east with all those powerful positions into your promised Land and even left both places worse than you met it;

Which fool is going to give you another stab?

Oh, may be your traditional partner in power, the North! Didn't you make Dansuki Father Xmas?

Double post

You may be right. It explains why I am not a politician and will never be.

Oshigun:
Buhari who wined and dined Tinubu to be the head and oga pata pata of his 2019 campaign in his quest for a a second term is not aware of this bullion van? He will now "get Tinubu" over it using EFCC? Sentimental folks like you will never understand Nigerian politics.

Chei! See logic.

You see how some people think? This guy presented his number twice to us and only God knows how many times he read it before that.

Ebele got twice as many votes by his number, he still believes the West did not vote for Ebele Azikiwe.

Yoruba should just give up and choose their Igbo friends carefully.

Odingo1:
You are not getting the point, visit the Inec link, Igbos gave Jonathan more than 5 million block vote.

Yoruba shared their vote and did not clearly vote for Jonathan.

South West vote for Jonathan PDP =2,786,417
South West vote Tinubu Ribadu ACN=1,369,943

difference= 1,416,474, ACN almost got half of what Jonathan has in South West, so how did SW vote for Jonathan in 2011 .

You shared your vote into two and be shouting that you voted for that person. Had it been that Ribadu won you will start shouting how you supported him to win, sitting on the fence and be waiting for the winner to emerge so that you will dive to the winning direction.

Well written.

I did not see where YORUBA caused your problem in there. Yoruba gave Ojukwu hero's welcome in Lagos.

Ojukwu came back and joined NPN parading himself as the "beautiful bride" (courtesy Zik) all over the North to Emirs. All is forgiven, abi?

But he lost his election in his home as a Senator to unknown. Later embraced Abacha as his roving diplomat all over the world.

If you hate the North so much, Scorpion Adekunle gave Ojukwu Army arms and ammunition to cross over to the North and fight their enemies.

Oti o! They cross over to rape the Mid-West.

Yet, this Yoruba na your enemies. The only place you got all your properties back after the War. No even Port Harcourt gave you your properties back.

Look, I taya for una.

gidgiddy:
You are a product of the fact that Nigerian history is not taught in schools. If the history of the war had been taught, you would realise how wrong you are.

There have been waves of massacre of Igbos in Nigeria such as the the Jos massacre of 1945 and the Kano killings of 1953 where hundreds of Igbos were butchered in cold blood by Northerners. It did not end there, in 1966 alone, over 50,000 Igbo men, women and children were massacred all over Nigeria, mainly in the North. As more and more Igbos were being killed, many Igbos ran to Ojukwu who was then Military Governor of the Eastern Region and they asked him to pull the Eastern Region out of Nigeria since the Government of Nigeria was doing nothing to stop the killings. Ojukwu refused and told Igbos to remain patient. As the call to secede from Nigeria grew, and as millions of Igbos ran back to Eastern Nigeria, Ojukwu risked his life to travel to Ghana and have a meeting with Gowon to keep Nigeria one. After two days of meeting, Ojukwu and Gowon reached an agreement and signed this agreement in front of then the President of Ghana, General Ankrah.


When Ojukwu returned to the Eastern Region he showed Igbos the agreement signed in Ghana that would usher in peace and keep Nigeria as one. As a gesture of good will, Ojukwu asked Igbos who had ran back home, to return to the North since the dispute had been settled. Ojukwu even personally escorted some of them to the boarder between the Eastern Region and the North. Do you know what happened next? Another wave of massacre occurred and those that returned to the North were massacred in greater numbers. The final straw was when Gowon broke the agreement he signed in Ghana with Ojukwu

It was then that the scales fell from Ojukwu's eyes and he realized that there was nothing like 'one Nigeria'. It was then that Ojukwu realised that what the North wanted was the political domination of everyone in Nigeria.

In the face of continued massacre of Igbos and the breaking of the peace agreement, Ojukwu did what any sane person would have done, he asked all Igbos to return home and declared their independence. I dont know if you expected Ojukwu to fold his his arms and watch as his people are murdered and turned into slaves without a fight?

After Ojukwu declared Biafra, Gowon declared war on Biafra and sent Soldiers to the East where Igbos were enjoying their new country, to fight. Ojukwu fought against all odds for three years to maintain the independence of his people, and when he could no longer continue, he left and the war ended.

If there is anybody to be blamed for the war, it is Gowon who refused to keep to the agreement he signed.

The truth about it all is that Ojukwu did everything he could to avert war and keep Nigeria one, but the North made it impossible.


When Ojukwu died, he was given the greatest burial ever seen in Igbo land because the vast majority of us Igbos know that he fought for our liberation and independence

That's why the federal government does not want to teach the history of the war, doing so would expose the ugly truth that the Northerners led by Gowon caused the war in their quest to dominate Nigeria

I hope this is true.

Sooner or later, Buhari will get Tinubu. It is the only way Osinbajo can run for President.

This Dino guy no get brain.

Igbo are too obsessed with retributive politics. They love Israel's enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Unfortunately, Yoruba children will not have any of the empathy their fathers share with Igbo. Those days are gone.

Igbo hijacked the Government of Ebele Azikiwe as if they owned it. Fine, they owned every powerful position in his Government. They stole so recklessly because they were ready to retributively finish Nigeria.

They convinced Ebele that he had no friends but Igbo. No stake in Nigeria. The Patriotic Igbo have no weight or say.

Right now, even South-south have regrets. If Igbo could run Ebele Govt. audaciously, can you imagine what Igbo Government would be like?

Nigeria will hardly survive. No part of Nigeria dey trust Igbo again. They are too vegeanceful against only Yoruba their best friends in Nigeria but no ethnic group trust them.

Even if Igbo separate, nobody cares anymore, they will come back and invade Nigeria the way they invaded the Mid-West.

Solution - new group of Igbo leaders willing to work with others as Pa Clark said.

Oil pussy, my dear. How you dey

If one can simply resist answering some people.

Has the support for white South Africans stopped either in Israel or Western world?

Do you know how Zimbabwe turned into basket case?

omoiyamayor:
Netanyahu became israel pm in 1996 and apartheid ended before then so what are you talking about now

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-leaders-still-ache-deport-african-refugees/26431

Rossikk:
Which Russia is ready to revive what? Is it not because of the deliberately shoddy job they did in the first place that Ajaokuta remains largely non-functional? Now you're here calling them 'mother'. I really don't know who will cure you people of this blind trust you have in oyinbo. Even after they fuc.k you up in order to keep you dependent, you still worship them. Tufia.

If you had common sense, you would say, ok, since Russia messed up this project - deliberately - then they have NO BUSINESS coming anywhere near Ajaokuta again for anything. Even if it means handing the complex to China to fix.

Thanks, you took it out of my mouth.

Someone fu you up for all these years, you tell them because you enjoy it so much, you want them back. Russia dey laff o!

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-leaders-still-ache-deport-african-refugees/26431

Israeli leaders still ache to deport African refugees

David Sheen The Electronic Intifada 15 January 2019
Women wearing winter clothing stand in a queue

Refugees from Sudan and Eritrea queue at the Israeli interior ministry in order to renew their visas or submit asylum requests in the early hours of 4 February. Oren Ziv ActiveStills

The year 2018 was one of the most critical for African refugees in Israel. Under threat of imminent deportation, the community and their local supporters took to the streets, pleading for their rights to be recognized.

The mass deportations did not materialize.

First, it became clear that African governments were unwilling to accept refugees who had been forced out of Israel. That prompted Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to reach a deal with the United Nations aimed at resettling African refugees in the West.

Netanyahu scrapped that deal after being criticized by lawmakers in Israel’s ruling coalition who viewed the arrangement as insufficiently tough on refugees. The lawmakers objected to how the deal was contingent on allowing approximately half of African refugees to remain in Israel for five years.

Despite shelving his most merciless anti-refugee plans, Netanyahu continued attacking Africans living in Israel. He remains among Israel’s top 10 leaders in its war against African refugees.
10. Ayoob Kara, communications minister

In January 2018, Ayoob Kara, a government minister, suggested that African refugees were a health hazard.

He used that eliminationist language during a conference of Likud – the party led by Netanyahu – in Eilat, a Red Sea resort. Kara was seeking credit for overseeing a policy – then as a minister for regional cooperation – to fire Africans from that city’s hotel industry.

The policy had been implemented after Africans across Israel went on strike in early 2014. A week-long strike was called as part of protests against Israel’s jailing of refugees.

Hotel owners in Eilat lobbied Israel’s government to substitute African workers with people living in Jordan. Under the plan, permits were issued so that hundreds of workers could enter Israel from Jordan each day and then be bussed back to Jordan in the evening.

The Israeli government insisted that an African be fired each time a worker from Jordan was recruited.

According to Kara, the objective of the plan was to “save tourism in Eilat.” Its effect, he added during his 2018 speech, was that “we expelled the illegal [African] workers that burst in here and were a sanitary nuisance.”

Kara, a member of the Druze religious minority, is now Israel’s communications minister.
9. Nissim Malka, rabbi and politician

As mayor of Kiryat Shmona – a town in northern Israel – Nissim Malka used his position to muzzle anti-racist campaigners.

In March, staff and students at Tel-Hai College were scheduled to hold a comedy evening to raise funds for fighting the deportation of refugees. Right-wing local residents had threatened to converge on the venue – a cooperative bar linked to the local authority – and break up the event.

Rather than condemn those threats, Malka banned the event, accusing its organizers of “trying to create unnecessary arguments and divide our city.”

It was not surprising that Malka would, in effect, side with racist bullies. He has previously campaigned against Africans who fled vigilante violence in Tel Aviv and moved to Kiryat Shmona.

In 2012, Malka announced that the authorities “would carry out major enforcement activities” against “the infiltrators that are living in Kiryat Shmona and are working at businesses in town, especially in the food industry.”

Malka, who is also a rabbi, marked 10 years as mayor in 2018. He no longer holds the post after losing an election later in the year.
8. Gadi Yarkoni, local authority chief

Gadi Yarkoni, head of Eshkol regional council in southern Israel, was instrumental in having Africans moved from accommodations provided to them.

During 2018, 15 students from South Sudan were housed in Avshalom, a short distance from Israel’s boundary with Gaza. They were studying agriculture in Ashkelon Academic College as part of a program sponsored by the Israeli government.

It was something of an exception: Israel had begun deporting refugees from South Sudan en masse in 2012 – less than a year after that state was established. Yet even this rare act of official benevolence was too much for Israelis living in Avshalom, who closed the gate to the village, preventing the African students from entering it.

One resident went so far as to describe the students as “human trash.”

Although the police ordered the gate’s reopening, Yarkoni intervened to urge the college authorities that the students be moved. Deceptively, he suggested that local residents were simply afraid of having 15 young men living in the same house and would have reacted the same way if the students were Israeli.
7. Amir Ohana, lawmaker

Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia – neighbors at loggerheads, often violently, for more than two decades – may finally be improving. Leaders of the two countries held talks in July, committing themselves to a peaceful future.

Despite the breakthrough, Eritreans – who comprise the majority of Africans living in Israel – would face considerable risks if they were expelled by Israel. Their country remains a dictatorship.

Amir Ohana, a Likud member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has implicitly recognized such concerns are valid by saying that the situation in Eritrea could deteriorate. His “solution” is “removing the infiltrators” before the situation in Eritrea “changes for the worse again.”

Speaking at a Knesset committee meeting during the summer, Ohana said “we’re going to push with all our might” for the mass expulsion of Eritreans.
6. Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir, pranksters

Followers of the late Meir Kahane – a notorious firebrand who urged that all Palestinians be expelled from their homeland – are known for their extreme violence. Baruch Goldstein, who committed the 1994 massacre in Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, drew inspiration from Kahane.

Two of Kahane’s most high-profile followers displayed a warped sense of humor during 2018.

As the Netanyahu government announced plans – subsequently dropped – to force 37,000 Africans out of Israel early in the year, some extremists sought to worsen the confusion which the refugees encountered.

Itamar Ben Gvir and Baruch Marzel, leaders of the party Strength for Israel, plastered signs across south Tel Aviv, in neighborhoods with high concentrations of Africans. The posters offered aid to people facing deportation.

מה שנראה כתעלול על חשבון אריתריאים של איתמר בן-גביר וברוך מרזל, הסתיים במבול שיחות לחברת מערכת "כאן חדשות" @Shira_HN. איך זה קרה? צפו pic.twitter.com/DEQEzxzEDY
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) January 29, 2018

Eritreans who read the notices, which were printed in their native tongue Tigrinya, were led to believe that they were being promised refuge in the homes of Israeli citizens.

But when the Eritreans dialed up the phone numbers on the posters, their calls were answered by Israelis who had no knowledge of what they were attempting to communicate.

It appears that the whole thing was a prank orchestrated by racists, who wished to make fun of people in distress.
5. May Golan, campaigner

May Golan, a political activist in Tel Aviv, once declared she was “proud to be a racist.”

In 2018, the newspaper Haaretz exposed how she had fabricated data about the number of Africans entering Israel for scaremongering purposes.
Men and women wear tape over their mouths and shackles around their writsts and necks

Asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea hold a mock Libya slave auction outside the embassy of Rwanda in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, in a protest against the Israeli government’s plan to deport refugees to third states in Africa, presumed to be Rwanda and Uganda, 22 January. Oren Ziv ActiveStills

Golan – another follower of Meir Kahane – conceded as much in a follow-up interview with the TV channel Reshet 13.

Time will tell if being outed as a liar causes any damage to Golan’s political ambitions. She is hoping to be selected as a Likud candidate in April’s parliamentary elections.
4. Oren Hazan, lawmaker

In early 2018, Oren Hazan, a novice lawmaker, received a six-month ban from taking part in Knesset debates. He was punished for a series of insults directed at fellow politicians.

Hazan, who represents Likud, has proven adept at finding platforms other than the Knesset chamber for airing his bigoted views. He is perhaps best known for boarding a bus transporting Palestinians to see relatives in prison during 2017, telling one woman that her son was a “dog” and an “insect.”

Interviewed by an Australian activist in 2018, Hazan described Africans who had come to Israel as “fake refugees,” alleging they “don’t even have culture.”

“In the end of the day, those people that came from the black lands, came from Africa, all the way to Israel, they did it only for one reason. They came here to search for work, for jobs, they came here to search for a future,” he said.

Complaining about how Africans were having babies, Hazan concluded the interview with eliminationist language.

“If you will not deal with the problem right now, you will suffer in the future,” he said. “If you will not kick them out right now, they will kick you out in the future. If you will not wake up, you will wake up not just in a dream – in a nightmare. You need to destroy the problem when it’s still small.”

Hazan is a resident of Ariel, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
3. Moshe Edri, police chief

In late January 2018, just before he stepped down as Tel Aviv police chief, Moshe Edri issued a frightening directive. Expecting that Africans would be rounded up for expulsion, Edri told police officers that they would soon be unleashing physical force against the refugees.

“The scenario that really worries me the most is large public disturbances. We have absolutely no advantage over them, and therefore the swath of police tools must be available to the station. In other words, very quickly we will have to switch to shock grenades, water cannons, exerting force,” said Edri, according to Israel’s Channel 10.

Sometimes, I wonder why it took so long for folks within Edo to come out and tell the real stories the most prominent Bini historian wrote.

Pathological liars have distorted his great work just to sit on the shoulder of their Oba father and claim he is their son.

We have heard the truth for so many generations from the Urhobo to Ijaw to Ishan prominent son, Enahoro (personally).

Yet, they keep on repeating the same lies.

Please, let us move on so that we can hear more from other Edo people. The story of Ekhalerhan from Ughoton was just as moving and compelling because he was popular there and no soldier from Bini would dare capture him among his people until his death.

Please let us hear from more people in the area and learn history of our people.

Thanks.

Ubenedictus:
Evian dislodged the ogiso dynasty after the last ogiso died with only one banished son.

Evian killed a monster disturbing EDO and was made chief by popular acclaim bringing the ogiso period to an end and necessitating a mass migration for people loyal to the ogiso system.

The chiefs tried to play a fast one after the death of Evian, they made sure his son didn't ascend the throne and invited the banished son of the ogiso to rule. They wanted to unite the kingdom.

But that only caused more problems, oduduwa was already old and he sent oramiyan, the son of Evian took full political power and made sure oramiyan could never set foot in Benin. Oramiyan ran away when he couldn't make headway after he had impregnated a princess.

It was eweka his son with the help and training of the chiefs that defeated Irabor the son of Evian and formed the eweka dynasty. He had truce with Irabor who "sold" Benin to him, to be renewed whenever a new oba is installed.

After eweka took power those loyal to Evian also migrated.

There was another migration during the time of Ewuare and also Ozolua.

Some people are so blinded by lies, they ignored the obvious. Who conquered OGISO?

Almost 200 years after the departure of the Uokha people, another group left Benin. While the Uokha represented the conquered Ogiso people, Ora emerged from the political establishment of the kingdom. Ora formed a community, a cluster of six villages and numerous wards or quarters.

This is not a religious issue but this man is too divisive and controversial.

A stuanch supporter of Apartheid South Africa

I do not think most Yoruba love Tinubu, certainly not Lagosians, as much as Nigerians think.

What most Yoruba enjoy is the fact that they can send Fire to Fight Fire and if that is Tinubu, Great. Sincerely Tinubu has not even got close to what Most Yoruba would be proud of as a leader.

As long as he instills fear in the minds of those that do not wish Yoruba well, they will celebrate him. The only support Tinubu has right now is the fear of Tinubu. The more you hate him, the more his supporters love him.

There is something about this lady.

She showed the modest house she bought for her mother once and where she lives. I was worried about her safety.

Her gestures are so modest. We have seen those making less than her blasting money on vanities, not this girl.

I just hope she keeps it up and save for her old age instead of demonstrating like those that have nothing but pretend they have it all.

Alexandro15:
I have not merely asked, but I have done.

I have performed my duties and obligations as a citizen. I have payed my taxes and levies. I have voted during elections despite the killings and insecurities. I have obeyed all her rules and laws. I have been a good citizen.

Now I ask again, what are the perks of being a Nigerian citizen?

Very well, you don tiria. So have many others.

Usually, we are asked to leave the place better than we met it. It is not so much what you have done for yourself but what you have done to uplift your environment like your community, people and beyond.

Personally, my pride still remains my service to every state when they were not so many. But it is a pride I still brag about today.

I will not spill it here though.

Congratulations, you have tried but Nigeria is no longer what it was.

Water don pass gari and every man, every community and people no longer brag about what they have done for others.

It is tough but do not make it worse by blaming the wrong people.

The day the youths realize it is their future and come together to disrobe their looters instead of protecting them because they belong to your ethnic group, NIGERIA would move on.

Again, start from your community, one block at a time.

Thanks for your reflection on my comment sir.

hollah123:
bro 80% of Nigerians in South Africa are into illicit business n crime. if u never go dere u no go know, not that am heartless but it's what I have seen n majority of Nigerians who commit crime in South Africa are igbos. if they gave us his name u will know what's up.

Assuming arquendo, the penalty for such crimes is not lynching.

There was a time it was claimed that in most cases, it was Igbo against Igbo.

Now tell me if it was Zimbabwean against Zimbabwean or Kenyan against Kenyan?

This is the worst form of Xenophobia in Africa. We do not hear or see it regularly in other African countries.

Unless I am missing something. There is no doubt that we need to do more to educate all Nigerians the risk they expose themselves to when they shamelessly condemned their place of birth and head for the gallow outside.

Of course some of us wish we were the children of Dantata to evolve into Dankote. Guess what?

Make the best of where you come from.

Alexandro15:
I have been thinking about this for a long time. Just what is the benefit of being a Nigerian?

What are the perks of being a citizen? What can be used to convince one to perhaps, proudly and enthusiastically register to be a citizen?

Very good question my bro.

I think an American President saw your question coming.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Have you asked how you can benefit your village, town, city and Nigeria?

I will not say all those that died became the fault of South Africans.

But enough Nigerians and other Africans have died to raise serious attention at the African Union. It very rare for Africans to go after Africans that are not from their country like this. Definitely, South Africans that would not dare touch whites either among them or from other countries are killing fellow Africans.

They have been encouraged by lack of outcries from other African countries.

Yes, Nigerians kill one but not on a daily basis and with such venomous attitude. Even then, we condemn it regardless of who the victims or perpetrators are.

As repulsive as killings are in Nigeria, do we want worse killings anywhere in Africa?

Enough is enough. No Africa country kill other Africans as they do in South Africa.

Well, well.

INNOSON just won a lottery ticket.

Use it wisely by employing more people at your base.

Congratulations!

Arda1000, okay.

Israel is a new nation and all the test disclaimed any relationship with you.

Have you heard about "operations" used to airlift Ethiopians to Israel? They don't know you sir.

As for this Hell called Nigeria, tell us about the hell where you were born and why you are running away. Charity begins at home or hell begins at home.

We have seen other region developed many First in Africa without any help or begging for the help of Nigeria.

You may be better off turning your beautiful village into attraction for others instead of running out.

When you refused to listen to your respectable parents, it is up to your children to discipline you.

If Kemi has not gone astray beyond redemption, she should listen to her children or grandkids.

I do not know this lady from Adamu but she embarrasses me in the comfort of my home.

Please stop dancing naked in the market.

Olu17,

I was looking for that case and forgot about it. I saw it somewhere online recently too. But it is not every time one wants or has the time to take these liars on.

Thanks.