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Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.
Tupac Shakur

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation
I hate "change"

but change is only thing that is constant

abeg embrace change.

so @Op u don try all of dem.....


























bad shoter

I just dey laff pdp

dis isn't Ameachi..... abeg make una check well abi una need Google Glass

28 days remaining

Wetin I go talk for dis matter na?

abeg Miss or Mrs go report to police oo

SA and Nigeria dey both need each other... to succeed

barcanista:
Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu

The next Governor of Edo State?

guy you dey sick...
you need help asap

d way bullion van drivers dey drive rough nor be here oo!!!

not enough

this guy go cuba go buy dis expensive car.. . this car isn't cheap o

solve puzzles

blame Goodluck for dis

oga jona running a rogue govt

soe:
Abeg jor...na internet crocodile we go chop

I nor just know wetin i wan jos tell you
but
make i ask u one question, abeg no vex


which meaningful tin u don ever do for your life?

hmmmmm

Nepal quake death toll could reach 10,000....#prayforNepal

Scores of undocumented people arrested in stop-and-search mission in Johannesburg in bid to end anti-immigration unrest.


South African police have arrested 50 "undocumented foreigners" in a massive stop-and-search operation in two areas in Johannesburg, authorities have told Al Jazeera.
The South African Police Services were joined by members of the South African Defence Force (SANDF) and immigration officials during the raids in Mayfair and Hillbrow.
"About 50 people were arrested for being without valid documents in the country," Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, Gauteng police spokesperson, said on Monday.

"It was a stop-and-search operation... It was a normal, crime-prevention operation."
Earlier in the morning, local media reported the presence of up to 100 officials, including police officers, in the vicinity.
Rising anti-immigrant sentiment
The fate of the arrested immigrants now depends on whether they can prove themselves to have been in the country legally.
"Immigration officers are processing those who are arrested, and will ascertain who exactly is illegal or not, and from there they will be taken to the Lindela repatriation centre in order to be deported," Dlamini said.
Monday's raids come one week after President Jacob Zuma deployed members of the South African National Defence Force to quell violence in areas of the country that have experienced anti-immigrant unrest.

'It was a stop and search operation. It was a normal, crime prevention operation' [Khadija Patel]
At least eight foreigners are said to have been killed in the past four weeks as violence spread from the seaside city of Durban to Johannesburg.

The SANDF refused to be drawn into commenting about the operation.
"The police determines which areas need to be dealt with. As you know, we are just a support system for the police," Siphiwe Dlamini, SANDF spokesperson, was quoted as saying by local media.
The raids on Monday came after rumours that foreigners in the city have been arming themselves in preparation for further violence.
However, police spokesperson Dlamini said no illegal weapons were found during the raids in Hillbrow and Mayfair.
Immigrants in Mayfair reacted with panic and confusion at the sight of police and army shoring off streets in the suburb to conduct its stop-and-search operation.

Unsettled
One foreign national, Ahmed Fifa, who took refuge in Mayfair after being displaced from the Ramaphosa informal settlement, east of Johannesburg, 10 days ago, said the arrival of the police and army had left the community feeling unsettled.
"People became afraid because they have problems from the police before," he said.

Researchers too said they were concerned by the inclusion of the army on such raids.
"Soldiers on the streets suggests that government is using very heavy force," said Gareth Newham, head of the Governance, Crime and Justice Division at the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria.
"This is not a sight you want to see in a democracy."
In Mayfair, however, some foreign nationals said the presence of the army had actually deterred the police from the type of abuses usually associated with operations in these areas.

"The way they dealt with this operation was different," said Abdullah Hasan Ahmed, a 37-year-old resident of Mayfair.
He says that police officers who usually raid foreigners in Mayfair, demand to see documentation from foreigners without understanding the type of documents refugees hold in South Africa.
"There are a lot of people here who don't have identification documents because they have not been given these documents despite living here for years. They are not helped and then the police come asking for documents and they don't even know what documents to look for."
Completely legal

The legality of Monday's raids have been questioned by some commentators but experts say the police acted within the law.
ISS researcher Newham said it was not unusual for South African security forces to be targeting foreign nationals.
"Studies have shown that at least one third of police time is spent targeting foreign nationals, to find whether they are here legally or not," Newham said.

"This security operation has shown that the objective is not to build relations with other African nationals but rather it was meant to show South Africans that the force of the state, including the military, will be used to identify undocumented nationals."
Some immigrants, however, welcomed the raid to disprove stereotypes of criminality among foreign nationals living in South Africa.
Abdirizak Ali Osman, national secretary of the Somali Community Board of South Africa, said the raid was an opportunity to prove foreigners abide by South African law.

"We feel the police must come and search each and everyone because there is a lot of misconception about crime and drugs in this area. So the police and the army must come here and see how people are living here, and how they are abiding by the law," he said.
Police say the stop-and-search operations will continue in the rest of the city in the coming days.
"These operations are continuing and you will see them in other areas," Dlamini said.

Source: Al Jazeera

“We move like a big river,” smiles Issa wryly, a young Gambian migrant whose country is itself one long sliver of land hugging an eponymous waterway as it feeds into the sea. “You stop us here, we go there,” he says making leapfrog motions with his hands to emphasize the determination migrants have in making their journeys. “You stop us over there, we go over here!” He repeats.

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Six months ago, Issa left his home in Banjul, Gambia, and has slowly made his way to the town of Agadez in northern Niger where he now rests as he waits for his family to send the money needed to carry him farther north to Libya. He won’t be stopped in his journey to Europe, he says, his smile gone, his eyes hard and impenetrable, and neither will the thousands of other migrants passing through this small desert town.

For West Africans headed north to Europe, the vacuum of power following Libya’s revolution and ensuing collapse has provided ample space for smugglers to maneuver its borders unchecked. Niger has come to play a central role in that flow.

Agadez, a dusty, windswept town in northern Niger, has long been a crossroads for the Sahara. Sitting on the cusp of the desert’s barren landscape, it has now become the final jumping-off point for West African migrants headed to Libya, their sights set on Europe.

Fed by an intricate network of smugglers coordinating across West Africa, hundreds stream into Agadez daily by bus, van and private car. Each Monday, as the relentless desert sun begins to arch back towards the horizon, migrants pack into the backs of white Toyota pickup trucks and begin a five-day journey north to the Libyan town of Sabha. Smugglers coordinate their departure, forming a loose caravan in the hopes that traveling in numbers will provide some semblance of safety in the increasingly lawless desert where hijackings, kidnappings, and executions have now become one more risk inherent to the journey.

Within the span of a few hours more than 100 trucks, each packed with 20-25 migrants, barrel out of town and across the parched and cracked earth, dust erupting from the tires, bare feet dangling from the sides.

They cling desperately to the back of their truck and some modicum of hope that life will be more livable than the ones they’ve left behind. The following week 2,000 more will follow, a number that isn’t likely to wane anytime soon and that doesn’t even include those moving through Chad and Sudan.

Sailing season is only ramping up and more migrants will follow, fleeing the fear of waking up without the means to provide for their families, with an angry hunger burrowing deep into the belly of a son or a daughter. The fear of one more hour of war. These fears have been lived, their memories now embedded and palpable like the ridges of bone beneath skin — and so people hope, and each and every Monday thousands more will continue to climb into the back of overcrowded pickup trucks and strike north.

abeg we dey look for cyclists ooo to rep us in tour d France

speechless

temitemi1:
Baba let d probe begin... We need actions n nt all these noise. I hope baba also look into these pple's case“. Obasanjo, atiku,tinubu, bukola saraki, in short all the so call progressives . GEJ my HERO! FAYOSE my ROLE MODEL!!

Robot

Edo state chief of staff. dis man yearn pigin die






Edo state next governor

temitemi1:
Buhari is now Nigerians president n not apc president, so any nigerian can visit him!

bros hafa naaa....... you don dey support Buhari
abeg help me hala your role model for me oo








haters go die hating BUHARI

hope say she isn't planning how to divorce GEJ

Strong decoder tin... freebie

baba OBJ.... d hatred you get for GEJ nor here oo....

anyway GEJ F na 9ja F am back

Themaingate:
if you have a pc running on window 7 and you have battery issue .i.e battery running down too fast or window running too high or bottom of pc is getting too hot or your pc fan is blowing very high , install window 8.1 and you would thank me , as per window 10 , i have use the preview before now but window 8.1 is still better except for the fact that window 10 would be coming with contana which i so much love

thanks bro.