ArodewilliamsT:


After GEJ won in 2011, you wished him well by bombing and killing people. You are right.

You can also start bombing and killing people too, lets see if President Buhari will call you his brother.

mmsen:
When people leave Nigeria and realise that the rest of the world sees you all the same that is when most people realise how stupid the whole tribe/linguistic division nonsense is.

In countries were Nigerians commit a lot of crimes, they know the difference between igbo, hausa or yoruba. i.e South Africa, Thailand, Malaysia US UK etc.

phantonce:

like the skycrapper in onitsha or aba? mtcheeew.
u guys av taking this joke too far.

like WTF?

Have y'll heard of mademe aproko?






Sorry, madame tussauds.SMH

Prince Buruji Kashamu, a wealthy Nigerian businessman with a checkered past, has surprised many in the southwestern Ogun State by winning a senate seat for president Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP lost most of the seats it contested in this weekend’s elections.
But that isn’t the most remarkable thing about Kashamu.

For 17 years he has been wanted in the United States for allegedly acting as the kingpin of a drug smuggling and money laundering ring. It was the same operation that landed American author Piper Kerman in jail for a year and inspired her memoir Orange Is The New Black. Kashamu strenuously denies the charges and claims it’s a case of mistaken identity; he says the US really wants his late brother.

There has been talk at times in Nigeria about extraditing him to the US. But being a strong supporter of the PDP, which has run Nigeria for the past 16 years, the move always seemed unlikely. Although former president Olusegun Obasanjo wanted him kicked out, he never managed it. Now Kashamu is going to sworn in as a senator, making the possibility even more remote.

Kashumu has proved an extremely slippery figure for US authorities, as the Chicago Tribune reported in 2013:
The case has frustrated prosecutors here, in part because they once had Kashamu in their grasp but lost him. English authorities arrested him when he landed there in 1998 and held him for five years during extradition hearings. Ultimately, however, British courts let Kashamu go after ruling that Chicago prosecutors had tainted their eyewitness identification evidence by failing to disclose that one of his co-defendants failed to pick him out of a photo lineup.

Kerman’s 2010 book about her time in jail was adapted into the critically acclaimed Netflix series of the same name. Most of the characters in the TV show are inspired by her experience, but her bosses have not been portrayed as Nigerian. However, Kerman’s book references a Nigerian kingpin known only as “Alaji”:

A little bit of Web research revealed that the man I knew as Alaji was a wealthy and powerful businessman-gangster in Africa, and I could certainly imagine that he might have connections that could make pesky things like extradition treaties go away.

Typically, “Alhaji” is a title used by Nigerian Muslims who have made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Kashumu is a Muslim.
The US government’s most recent offer for Kashumu to answer his charges included some helpful travel advice, according to the Chicago Sun-Times:

If the Nigerian politician and businessman who was the alleged kingpin behind that ring wants the case to finally go away, he’ll have to hop on a plane to Chicago, a U.S. Appeals Court has ruled.

And the 7th Circuit was even nice enough to give fugitive Prince Buruji Kashamu a hint where he can find “reasonably priced flights” from Lagos to Chicago—including a link to priceline.com.

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http://qz.com/372395/the-alleged-drug-kingpin-behind-orange-is-the-new-black-has-won-a-nigerian-senate-seat/

Na real [size=15pt]force alarm[/size], yeye moderators.

"Seeing that it hasn’t fulfilled any shining promise, our government distributes and publishes statistics and makes nothing of the baselines. But you can use that to catch them." I. Dooba


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Fashola's waterworks....





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Akpabio's waterworks... SMH....

Yea!!! Clap for ibo people.

nl dey cray?

The Cardiac and Renal Centre (CRC) at Gbagada General Hospital, Gbadaga, Lagos built by the Lagos State Government and commissioned by the Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

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Mogidi:
Yet Buhari said Abacha didn't steal any money, so much for an anti corruption crusader.
In Buhari's warped mind, only southerner's steal, the money belongs to the north isn't it?

shut up

Soldiers were there to give them protection and supervise them as they go on rampage.

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And the insulation in those mud houses is exceptional, natural oye pumping.

I'm not sure about the word count part though. 40 - 48 thousand words for a paper

These are Patience Jonathan's kind of youths "Young person work and buy good car, dey we complain". Biotch!!! What does he do to be able to afford that kind of car.

JjayTtee:

i don't understand y sumpple ,don't hv respect fr dea. Leaders,everytin dat happens to sum 1 is jonathan or pdp,bt let don't frget 2years back no complains lik dis.everybody expectin Mr precident to cum lay food infront of him or her.we all. Nigerians let's try $ support our present govt.

Can't help you.

No one benefits from your ProBomb. Mama pess pikin

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https://www.nairaland.com/2195295/when-common-sense-not-common

What nairaland rule did this topic violate?

Na today? Imagine going back to the pre six weeks state after the election for another 4 years.

SOUTH Africa was one of the first countries in the world to ban mercenaries but remains a major supplier of military instructors, some of them from the time of the brutal apartheid regime.

Former Koevoet officer Leon Lotz, who was relatively well-known in South Africa, was one of them.

On Wednesday, he was killed in a friendly fire incident in northeast Nigeria, where a regional force has been battling Boko Haram insurgents.

The Koevoet was a South African special forces unit tasked in the 1980s with putting down the Southwest African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) liberation movement in occupied Namibia.

Lotz was 59 when he was killed, according to Netwerk24, one of the few websites written in Afrikaans, the language of the white South African minority.

His wife, Almari, was quoted as telling the site that her husband “was with some of his brothers-in-arms who have walked a path with him for many years”.

The family has since then refused to speak publicly.

The silence is all the more understandable given that providing unauthorised military services abroad is illegal in South Africa—and that Lotz may have been paid by the Nigerian government.

Nigeria has refused to comment officially on the reports that foreign mercenaries are involved in the counter-insurgency but President Goodluck Jonathan has hinted at their presence.

In an interview with Voice of America published on Wednesday, Jonathan said “foreign technicians” were present in northeast Nigeria to assist the military but did not elaborate.

100+ South Africans?

Lotz is far from being an isolated case, even if the exact number of white South African former soldiers popping up elsewhere in the world remains unclear.

“The short answer is we don’t know (how many there are), they don’t talk,” the managing editor of the African Defence Review, John Stupart, told AFP.

But he estimated that there may be more than 100 South Africans currently in Nigeria, with reports that Georgian and Ukrainian mercenaries are also on the ground.

“‘Mercenaries’ is the common name, I call them ‘private military contractors’. It’s the most neutral term,” said Stupart.

“The skills of these South African veterans are actually very, very good.

“Their reputation as counter-insurgency specialists… during the bush war during the apartheid years… makes them highly valuable.

“To be honest, I don’t think they are being used anymore in combat… simply because those guys are pushing 60 or 70.”

The United Nations has said that since apartheid ended in 1994, “many South Africans with extensive military skills and expertise have been unwilling or unable to find employment in South Africa.

“As a result, they have offered their services abroad and many have been employed by international private military and security companies,” the Human Rights Council said in a 2011 report.

“Some have become involved in mercenary activities.”

Others have also joined private US military companies such as DynCorp, which was involved in African conflicts, according to the most recent Africa in Fact, looking at the continent’s armies.

‘Political window-dressing’

Between 1995 and 2000, the number of men in the South African National Defence Force dropped significantly from 120,000 men to 82,000, the publication said.

An anti-mercenary law—the Foreign Military Assistance Act—was swiftly implemented in 1998 after the end of apartheid.

The law notably saw the dismantling of the notorious “security and military consultancy” Executive Outcomes, which was founded in South Africa by a former army officer in 1989.

It worked for the government of Sierra Leone during the brutal civil war and in Angola.

Pretoria moved to strengthen the law following a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004, which implicated a former British Special Forces soldier Simon Mann and more than 60 others.

But according to Stupart, the law is political window-dressing.

“(It) has never been really enforced and to be honest, I don’t think it is enforceable because it’s very blurred,” he said

Several thousand South Africans worked in Iraq in 2011 and 35 were killed between 2004 and 2010, according to the UN report.

A French-born South African, Francois Rouget, was one of the first people to face the anti-mercenary law.

In 2003, he was convicted of having recruited former members of the apartheid-era South African army in 2002 for the Ivory Coast government of Laurent Gbagbo.


http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-03-14-s-africa-apartheid-era-mercenaries-help-nigeria-fight-boko-haram-some-things-dont-change#.VQRMF66sViE.facebook

freshness2020:
you guys should sharap abeg ....
there's nothing in the gibberish you are spewing APC...
..FOR YOUR INFORMATION.. THE REASON THIS FEAT IS COMING NOW IS BECAUSE THE PROCUREMENT OF THE
MILITARY EQUIPMENT S WERE STALLED BY YOUR BOKO HARAM SYMPATHIZERS IN THE SENATE... but thank God we are winning the fight..
awon oniranu
GOD BLESS THE NA
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS THE PRESIDENT..
GEJ 2015...

What equipment? armoured personnel carriers? The government deliberately used tactics that wasted the lives of young Nigerian soldiers by making them sitting ducks for bokoharam until 4 weeks ago when they started going after them instead of the way it use to be.

kaorama:
Oyinbo was rather a derogatory remark made by the early white slave merchants to refer to an Ibo slave. It was transliterated Onye Ibo which means Ibo man. The early Whit slave merchant could not hide their preference for Igbo slaves whom they saw as hardworking. To register that preference, the whites usually asked for Onye Ibo which they themselves mid pronounced as Oyinbo. I have researched widely on this and can prove the word has its root in the Igbo history.

una don start, that word has nothing to do with ibo.

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!!

GEJ until you have sense

Ikwokrikwo:
Yoruba people who want northerners to continue dying so that they will use it for political gains are the only ones complaining about this.

ote

nwafuluozoh:
Desperate times and desperate measures. This will help curb internal sabotage.

No amaount of desperation will win Jonathan this election. no reasonable Nigerian will vote someone who has taken their dignity away.

DEATHMACHINE:

where

The north east.