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jamex93:
he is not looking for anything rather he is just observing

he is an election observer

march 28 democratic revolution day

itstpia99:
Giraffes are being reintroduced into the wild in Niger Republic. There is a breeding program which aims at increasing their depleted numbers, so its not surprising to have them in Kano.

as you can see, the ones in the picture look fairly young, so its possible they are also part of a breeding program.

i think dats true because av never seen a giraffe in kano zoo before

na dis same english dey cause confusion for our constitution

amakufrancis:
guy you like it or not, Gej will win coming march

We need TRANSFORMATION

what have he transformed with d 6 yrs he had and d excess crude fund

The Jew who got a job offer
from the Nazis
By Lucy Wallis
BBC News
20 January 2015 Magazine
Before World War Two 170,000 Jews
lived in Vienna - by the end there
were just 6,000. One of those who
fled the Nazis was Freddie Knoller -
now 93, he survived a Gestapo
interrogation, Auschwitz and a death
march in sub-zero temperatures.
"I saw two civilians coming towards me.
Each one had a hat on and a long black
leather coat, and I recognised them
immediately, this must be two people
from the Gestapo," says Freddie Knoller.
It was July 1943. Twenty-two-year-old
Knoller, had managed to obtain false
papers and get work in occupied Paris
introducing Nazi soldiers to the
nightclubs and brothels of the red light
district. But that day he was arrested and
taken to Gestapo headquarters.
In a large room with a portrait of Adolf
Hitler hanging on the wall, one of the
officers interrogated him.
"While he was talking, I saw on his desk
a plaster head of a human being and he
saw me looking at it and he said, 'Oh this
plaster head, that's the head of a Jew,
because we were taught how to
recognise Jews by the structure of their
head,'" says Knoller.
"With that he got up from his desk, went
behind me and he took my head
between his two hands, tracing it. I'm
not ashamed to say I wet my pants
because I was so sure I would now be
recognised as a Jew.
"He said, 'Oh yes, I can see you come
from a good German background and I
think you should be joining our
organisation as an interpreter, you will
be earning a lot of money and finally you
will be working with your own people.'
"I felt so amazed, laughing [to] myself…
'Wow what an adventure to be able to
get away from the Gestapo, and they
want me to work with them.'"
But it was a job offer that Knoller had no
intention of accepting. He quickly made
himself scarce.
This was the third time he had found
himself under Nazi occupation. The first,
he had to leave his home in Vienna as a
17-year-old in 1938 when Austria was
annexed by Germany in the Anschluss.
His parents sent him to stay with friends
in Belgium where they thought he would
be safe, but when Hitler invaded the
country in 1940, Knoller had to flee for a
second time.
He chose to go to France. "I read in
these naughty books all about Paris,
about Montmartre, about the Moulin
Rouge with the half-naked dancers on
the stage and this is where I wanted to
go," he says.
But things went wrong almost
immediately. He was arrested at the
French border for having a German
passport and was interned in a camp for
France's enemies in May 1940. After the
Nazis invaded France a month later, he
managed to escape and finally made his
way to the bright lights of Paris.
But his run-in with the Gestapo made
him realise it was too dangerous for him
to stay there.
Instead of taking up their job offer, he
turned to a friend for help and was
introduced to the leader of the French
Resistance. He went to live in the
mountains near the town of Figeac in
southern France, fighting the occupying
German soldiers.
"It was a great joy for me to fight my
enemies instead of earning money from
them," says Knoller.
He learned how to shoot a gun and wire
up explosives to derail an enemy troop
train.
"Our leader… made sure that whenever
we put explosives on to the railway line,
we hid it with leaves, grass, so it
shouldn't be noticed immediately. Then
he told us that we should go and
observe, but quite far away, what is
going to happen, up in the hills.
"The train came, we heard the explosion,
we saw the first engine topple over on
the side and the whole thing just
collapsed, but we ran away immediately
back to our resistance group. I must say
it was wonderful."
Knoller (far left) with his brothers and
parents - he did not learn the fate of
his mother and father until 1995
He soon fell in love with a beautiful local
girl called Jacqueline. But after an
argument, she betrayed him to the
Gendarmes.
They burned his body with cigarettes to
find out more about his resistance group
and when he could not stand the pain
any more, Knoller revealed his true
identity and was handed over to the
Gestapo.
It was September 1943 and the Nazis
had finally caught up with him. Knoller
was sent to Auschwitz where he was
imprisoned until the war was nearly
over. He worked in temperatures as low
as -25C carrying four stone (25kg)
cement bags in the camp and was forced
to run with them - he was whipped if he
was too slow.
"From time to time we were told to line
up in front of the SS and told to walk,"
says Knoller.
"The SS either said to us go left or go
right. I put my chest out and I smiled at
them, more or less to say, 'I'm OK to
continue working.' I wasn't meek at all
about it because I knew if you were ever
taken on the left hand side they would
gas us."
In January 1945, as Russian troops
approached, Auschwitz was evacuated.
Knoller and most of the other prisoners
were sent on a 31-mile (50km) death
march in the freezing cold to the town of
Gleiwitz.
"We walked on that big road on ice and
snow and some people just collapsed of
the freezing cold in our thin clothes,"
says Knoller.
"As soon as people could not walk any
more the Germans, who surrounded us,
shot them. Some people ran away into
the woods, the Germans killed them."
Almost 60,000 prisoners from Auschwitz
were forced on death marches and more
than 15,000 people died.
"I walked and walked without caring
what happened to anybody else. We saw
people being killed, but it didn't affect
me. I'm still walking and I'm still alive,
that's the only thought that I had," says
Knoller.
As the German army retreated,
camps near the eastern front were
evacuated and prisoners sent
westwards
Those who survived were loaded on to
trains and sent to Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp in northern
Germany, where Knoller remained until
liberation by British troops on 15 April
1945. By the end of the war he weighed
just over six stone (41kg).
Afterwards, Knoller travelled to the US
and was reunited with his two brothers.
He met his British wife Freda there and
the couple moved to London.
For 30 years Knoller was unable to speak
about his experience of the Holocaust,
but he was finally persuaded to do so by
his children.
It was not until 1995 that Knoller learned
the fate of his parents. They had been
deported from Vienna in 1942, and by a
strange coincidence were in Auschwitz at
the same time as he was, but they were
killed in 1944.
"I'm proud to have fought for my life,
and proud to be able to tell the world
what has happened," says Knoller.

No wonder they have lots of old single sisters

HISTORY 101
30 FACTS I BET YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT
AFRICA
1. Gambia has only one university.
2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only Spanish-
speaking country.
3. South Africa is the most visited African
country.
4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in
Africa.
5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid
Footballer of all
time, he received about £350,000 weekly in
Russia
in 2011.
6. A person from Botswana is called a
Motswana,
the plural is Batswana.
7. A person from Lesotho is called a
Mosotho.
8. A person from Niger is called a Nigerien.
A
person from Burkina Faso is called a
Burkinabe.
9. Nigeria has won more football cups than
England.
10. Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Gabriel
Mugabe
is the world’s most educated President with
7
degrees, two of them are Masters.
11. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest club in
Africa.
12. Didier Drogba is Chelsea’s highest goal
scorer
in European competition.
13. Johannesburg, South Africa is the most
visited
city in Africa.
14. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play for
Algeria, but
the selector rejected him, saying they are
already
many players like him in the team.
15. President Jacob Zuma was once a
referee in
prison.
16. President Robert Mugabe was jailed for
11 years
for fighting for freedom.
17. President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s
oldest Head
of State and the world’s second oldest Head
of
State. He was born 1924.
18. The Seychellois are the most educated
Africans.
Seychelles’ literacy rates (Adult: 92% ,
Youth: 99%)
Zimbabwe is 2nd (Adult: 91.2%, Youth:
99%).
19. Rwanda is a better country for gender
equality
than England and USA.
20.Somalia got its first ATM on October 7,
2014.
21. South Africa has the most Grammy
Award
winners in Africa.
22. Ethiopia has the most airports in Africa.
23. Ethiopia’s economy is growing faster than
China's.
24. Eritrea’s President, Isaiah Afwerki is the
least
richest President in Africa.
25. Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent
country,
it has existed for over 3,000 years without
being
colonised.
26. Haile Selassie 1 was the 225th and last
Emperor
of Ethiopia.
27. Nigeria has the most monarchs in the
world.
28. Angola has more Portuguese speakers
than
Portugal.
29. President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has
ruled
Angola since 1979.
30. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Mbasogo is
Africa’s longest serving Head of State. He
has ruled
Equatorial Guinea since August 3, 1979 when
he
overthrew his uncle, Francisco Nguema. His
son,
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is his Vice
President and will succeed him

hayoakins:
BTW, the driver in the picture looks like the author of "MY WATCH" ie. OBJ


A must read for every parent
#Bad Nannies# Her Experience With St. Catherine's Nanny And Maid Services, Okota
https://www.nairaland.com/2047260/bad-nannies-experience-st-catherines

guy ur eye dey see too much

when there was oil excess fund we did nt hear any thing but nw dat there is a decline they are telling us to prepare because nw our suffering will continue

Vivipop:
Na wa o! What kind of dirty story is this? How did they come to the conclusion that she died of Marathon sex? Our people and half baked/cooked up stories. Like they always say,the dead tells no story. RIP to the woman and her unborn baby.

You dnt knw 9ja police mayb d tortured d dead woman till she confess

NYSC SITE IS BACK

ba7man:
At least he died living the diamond life...........unlike millions of Nigerians that die screamin in poverty.

RIP dude.

living a diamond life with our stolen money, people like you encourage corruption.

pls anybody with information about 2014 graduates from part time degree programmes NYSC EXCLUSION CERTIFICATE.

broken english

Nobel Laureate Soyinka’s Daughter Dies
Dec, 29 2013, 3:12PM — siteadmin
By SaharaReporters, New York
Iyetade Soyinka, a daughter of Nobel laureate Wole
Soyinka, has died. Ms. Soyinka, who was born June 6,
1965, died at the University of Ibadan Teaching
Hospital where she was being treated for an
undisclosed ailment.
The death was disclosed in a statement signed by
Jahman Anikulapo, an aide to Mr. Soyinka, one of the
world’s foremost dramatists and winner of the 1986
Nobel Prize in literature. The statement noted that
the late Iyetade Soyinka was a student at the Staff
School and Queens School, Ibadan before she studied
Medicine at the University of Ibadan.
Mr. Anikulapo’s statement described the deceased as
“affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious,” adding
that she “struggled with her health in recent years.”
Despite her health woes, the late Iyetade Soyinka
“greeted every day with a smile and doted on her two
children.”
The statement, which was issued on behalf of the
deceased’s family, revealed that Ms. Soyinka “took ill
quite suddenly and passed away while being treated at
UCH, Ibadan.
“Iyetade leaves behind two children, both parents,
numerous siblings, nieces and nephews.”
No funeral arrangements were announced in the
statement. SaharaReporters was unable to reach
Professor Soyinka before press time.

Piyke: To further nail the diagnosis, does the whine increase when you turn the steering to any side at startup?
Does the whine reduce after the car has heated up?
Does the sound return with full force after the car has cooled down and you start it again no matter the time of day?

If the answer to all these questions are yes then the most likely cause is PS inlet o-ring (This is the hose that goes from the reservoir to the pump. loosen the size 10 bolt and you'll find the o-ring). I got mine from the US but I'm sure if you take it to a parts market you should be able to get it. Best of luck. It would not take up to 10mins to replace

tnx alot all d answers to ur questions are yes, i will try to get d o-ring.

Piyke: I have now performed all above listed DIYs. That for the coolant flush can be found in this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/1541197/coolant-drain-flush-refill-diy

I will open a thread to deal with the Power steering rebuild and the replacement of my Automatic Tensioner. Watch out for it if interested!

pls wer can i get d o-ring of honda accord 2005 V6,the power steering pump makes a whining noise every morning and d fluid reservior hav small bubbles.

1.honda civic brake master cylinder re-kit
2.adding of extra speakers.
3.bleeding of golf 3 brake system.
4.making all 4 wheels of golf 3 brake active,because d back brakes wer blocked wit nails by road side mechanics.
5.changing of oil and filters.
6.removing and washing of fuel tank.

tnx alot i stay in kano, where n when would the trainning be

pls anybody into egg hatching business,pls share your experience,tips and suggestions .

Ms_Steph: the 1 i hate is guys who piss on the road. u will just be walking and u just jam dem urinating. cant u just hide and do that

wetin carry your eye go there cnt u see n shut up or hide your eye

@op first of all look 4 money (i mean get productive)n i bet u d rest is history @girls i dnt mean an insult but we no u all like good things n only money can buy dem.

ZIM DRILL: why would want to rebuild a power steering pump ?

based on UK standards i have never heard any mechanic saying he wants to rebuild a steering pump as long it is working fine leave it alone

as long the pump has enough fluid it should be fine if it dies most due to wear and tear get a replace

tnx my power steering is so soft but makes alot of noise i drain n replace it wit abro transmission fluid it d noise stopped for a while n continued

Piyke: This Saturday I was able to pick up the rest of my items for my upcoming DIY (Coolant flush and Power Steering rebuild). Here are some pics

pls how do i rebuild power steering pump as i plan on doing such for my golf 3.

like i av always said if boko haram is an islamic or terrorist group it would av been history bt because i believe govt has a hand in it dats y dis group still exist.How long did it take Nigeria to win d biafran civil and y is boko haram so difficult to conquer,my fellow Nigerian read between d lines i believe dia is more to boko haram than dia religious propaganda...