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@Ngwa
Truth is they don't care much unless you have enough dough to blow (invest) then you are game.As foreigners we should just be prayerful for each day in this country.
You will be surprised some people were giving opinionated views to justify the cops murderous actions and not until the second video showed up.
Remember the case of Ogbuaja,right here on this NL some said its most probably he paid for his "drugs" sins which wasnt true.
It has been happening and unfortunately i don't see it ending anytime soon.Next may be a Ghanaian or Zimbo or Malawian....just watch with time.

@Henry
Thank you bro.I had to post this story though it doesn't affect Nigerians but somewhat it does.Hatred towards foreigners,especially africans is limitless here in SA,although I must also include there are SA citizens who strangely,are still accomodative.
In my previous post about the Nigerian 'Murdered' by SAPS in capetown,It was like a prediction when I stated soon,it will be another set of foreigners turn.Lo and behold,it has happened.The painful part was there was no video footage to have exposed these murderers.

A certain local media,even warped the reppport by stating he was struggling with the cops before he was "man-handled" and "taken" to the police state.Absolute lies.If there had been no video footage showing what actually happened,I bet my pension the saps would haver maintained he was a drug dealer or gangster.Have you read in the same story how other people complained about the cops planting guns and drugs on them,and the brutalize them in thereafter?.
We foreigners should be prayerful on daily basis never to fall into the hands of the vast growing vampires in SA.These hordes of animals in the southern hemisphere, are inhuman and have no regard for human lives at all.

JOHANNESBUG — The footage is shaky but
unmistakable. A slender black man dressed in a
red T-shirt, black pants and sneakers is tied to the
back of a police truck. He kicks. He writhes. The
vehicle pulls away, dragging the man behind it.
Police officers run along with him. Cellphone
cameras snap away.
Related
The Lede: Video of Man Being Dragged Behind
Police Van Prompts Murder Inquiry in South
Africa
(February 28, 2013)
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“What did he do?” bystanders shouted.
“It was him who started it,” a police officer
replied.
Late Tuesday night, the man, who has since been
identified as Mido Macia, 27, a taxi driver from
Mozambique, died of head injuries at the
Daveyton Police Station, 27 miles southeast of
here.
In South Africa, where violent crime, vigilante
attacks and police brutality are daily fare, the
video, captured on a mobile phone and first
published by The Daily Sun, a local tabloid, has
incited outrage for its brazen and outsize cruelty.
“We come across a lot of cases of police
brutality,” said Moses Dlamini of the Independent
Investigative Directorate, which investigates
police crimes, in a television interview. “The police
don’t even care that people are watching.”
For many, the video was a reminder of the harsh
treatment meted out to black citizens by white
policemen under apartheid, when South Africa’s
police force was notorious for its harsh tactics
against the country’s black majority.
“If this was apartheid Police we’d riot,” wrote
Zackie Achmat, a prominent social activist, on
Twitter.
Back then, the officers were likely to be white and
at the command of a racial dictatorship. Now they
are almost entirely black, serving a democratically
elected government.
Under apartheid, more than 70 percent of police
stations were in white areas despite the fact that
whites were less than 20 percent of the country’s
population. The job of the white-led police was
clearly to protect whites from blacks, said Gareth
Newham, an analyst at the Institute for Security
Studies and an expert on policing in South Africa.
After 1994, when apartheid ended and the
African National Congress was voted into power in
the country’s first fully democratic elections,
reforming the police force was a top priority.
Millions of dollars were spent on cashing out
apartheid-era officials and recruiting new
members to the force. Its emphasis was supposed
to shift from controlling black South Africans to
serving them.
But a fierce crime wave washed over South Africa
in the years after apartheid. Violent crime
increased by 22 percent. Murder, carjackings and
armed robberies were endemic. South Africa’s
reputation suffered.
The government, under intense pressure to
clamp down on crime, enacted tough new
policies. Huge recruitment drives added 70,000
new officers and administrators to the force.
“You have thousands of people coming in, so the
standard for recruitment dropped,” Mr. Newham
said. “Training dropped from two years to one.
You can’t do proper vetting.”
Supervisors found they were responsible for twice
as many officers, many of them inexperienced
and poorly trained. Discipline suffered.
Meanwhile the national political debate around
crime became more heated. In 2008, the deputy
police minister, Susan Shabangu, exhorted the
police to use maximum force in a speech at an
anti-crime rally in the capital, Pretoria, telling
them, “they have permission to kill these
criminals.”
Her remarks courted controversy, but they were
widely praised.
“I want no warning shots,” she said. “You have
one shot and it must be a kill shot. If you miss,
the criminals will go for the kill. They don’t miss.
We can’t take this chance.”
She went on: “The Constitution says criminals
must be kept safe, but I say No! I say we must
protect the law-abiding people and not the
criminals. I say that criminals must be made to
pay for their crimes.”
Unsurprisingly, the number of people killed by the
police skyrocketed. In 2005-2006, police shot
281 people dead. Within three years the number
doubled.
The message went down through the ranks.
“You are expected to be tough, you decide who
the criminals are, and you will not be held
accountable,” Mr. Newham said.
The past year has been a tough one for South
Africa’s troubled police force. In August 2012,
officers opened fire on platinum miners engaged
in a wildcat strike in the town of Marikana, killing
34 of them in the biggest mass shooting since
the end of apartheid.
The force suffered further embarrassment when
one of its detectives, Warrant Officer Hilton Botha,
bungled his testimony on the stand at the bail
hearing for Oscar Pistorius, a track star who is
charged with murdering his girlfriend, conceding
several major errors. Officer Botha was removed
from the case after it was revealed that he himself
faces attempted murder charges.
Police officials promised a swift investigation. A
press officer for Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega
said that “the matter is viewed by the national
commissioner in a very serious light and it is
strongly condemned.”
And police brutality videos have surfaced in the
past, an emblem of an era in which cellphones
mean that almost everyone carries a video
recorder in their pocket and digital material can
be shared rapidly through social media networks.
A 2011 episode in Vaalwater, a town in Limpopo
Province, was also captured on a cellphone video,
showing a police officer repeatedly kicking a man
who appeared to be bloody and unconscious. In
that case, the crowd seems to be egging on the
officer.
“Hit him, but don’t kill him,” one bystander
shouts.
“Someone is really getting the boot,” another
says, chuckling.
A lonely female voice uttered, “look at what is
happening to God’s children.”
In the case of the dragged man, though, few of
the bystanders appeared to support the police. A
crowd of angry protesters gathered at the
Daveyton Police Station on Thursday, demanding
that the officers be prosecuted.
“They killed one of our brothers like he was a
dog,” said one woman, speaking to a reporter of
ENCA, a local news channel.

www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/world/africa/outrage-in-south-africa-after-police-drag-man-behind-truck-and-he-dies.html?_r=0

been waiting now its here.thanks bro

Tgirl4real

My dear...Thank you for this hilarious post .I laughed so hard and was crying,my flatmate had to come and join me to see what was making my laugh and cry.You have made my evening.In fact Naija churches......EISH in ZULU!

kennyosein: 1. If you drop a whole egg on the floor, pour salt all over the egg, let it sit for awhile, then use dustpan, the egg will come right up, without all that mess.
2. Soak stained hankies in salt water before
washing
3. Sprinkle salt on your shelves to keep ants away.
4. Soak fish in salt water before descaling; the scales will come off easier.
5. Put a few grains of rice in your salt shaker for easier pouring.
6. Add salt to green salads to prevent wilting.
7. Test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water; fresh eggs sink; bad ones float.
8. Add a little salt to your boiling water when cooking eggs; a cracked egg will stay in its shell this way.
9. A tiny pinch of salt with egg whites makes them beat up fluffier.
10. Soak wrinkled apples in a mildly salted water solution to perk them up 11. Rub salt on your pancake griddle and your
flapjacks won't stick
12. Soak toothbrushes in salt water before you first use them; they will last longer.
13. Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.
14. Mix salt with turpentine to whiten you bathtub and toilet bowl.

Waoh Kenny this is wonderful...thank you and weldone.

Seun..Thanks for Open Heavens here.

Sapphire86: Dude needed 65 pastors?? He himself cld nt believe what d 1st 64 said den!!!
I ll need 100 pastors 2 tell me 2 marry dbanj o!!!!!

heheheheheheheh....ojigbi jigbi jigbi.......

donnie: Please join me and millions around the world to celebrate this amazing woman of God, Reverend Anita Oyakhilome.

Her passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ, humility and fellowship with the Holy Spirit continue to inspire many.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA!

Happy Birthday Rev Mrs Anita Oyakhilome.Wishing you more fruitful years on earth IJN,Amen.

Ladapo: I live in Winnipeg and I can tell for sure that "some Nigerians" can be very terrible....very arrogant, unsupportive, ready to run you down and willing to leave you helpless....however, there are great individuals who you really would have wished you met earlier. My experience in Canada wasn't a pleasant one, I almost ran back home but for encouragement from other friends...

A family member who took us in when we arrived in Winnipeg with my wife and a little daughter made life very unbearble for us and this guy who is supposedly a family member exploited us in many ways, through us out out in the cold at an instance and almost sniffed life out of his wife cos of us....first, he took six months rent well ahead of time from us in cash (this is not the practice in Canada)....the guy was all about all the money he could get from us, knowing we are jjc....he eventually moved out of town and guess what, he sold the bed we sleep in and a few furniture to us at 1200 dollars, something we could get for less....he wanted me to buy his car for 8000$ but when I refused, he became a roaring lion ....I asked him for receipt for all the money I paid him totaling about 6400 dollars but till now, that is history and to think this guy claims to be a pastor....now I have learnt my lessons, people moving out of Nigeria into foreign lands should be mindful of friends and family members they relate with....you need people to survive but pray to meet the right people.

My bro,thank you for the summary.There is a big problem with most of our citiznes abroad.And i could deduce GREED,ENVY and JEALOUSY is the main reason behind the evils perpetrated towards fellow citizens.It doesnt matter which tribe.I remebered vividly well what my tribesmen had done to me,while we work in the same industry together here in South Africa.As such,i cut off from so many and kept just two,and the two are not even in the same province as I nor in the same field.Where i am now,im certain Nigerians here cant be more than 6-8 in total and we dont even mix.Its a surburb.
When abroad,learn fast.Just because someone hosted you and sound all religious doesnt mean he/she wishes you truly well abroad.
Cheers my people and all the best.God Bless.

He passed on right on "service in The Lords vineyard".What about you and I,and other religious leaders? where will death meet us?Very important.

emmasege: What's ur problem with oritsejafor?. was it a crime to be there as CAN President, who undoubtedly must have been invited. Why all this noise-making about the man of God?. There wasn't this noise when the Catholic (Onaiyekan) was CAN president. I don't know why catholics are never comfortable with the protestant/pentecostal piloting the christian affairs, and why they hardly get along with other christians. You (catholics)said CAN has become an appendage of the govt, may I ask u what all these catholic bishops were doing at the gathering. In what capacity were they there? Did u ever see Oritsejafor in such gatherings when he wasn't yet the CAN president?. As far as i am concerned, only three men of God had a business in that place- CAN President, Anglican Primate (since GEJ is an Anglican) and of course GEJ's chaplain.

Thank you Bro.Its all about politics and the benefits therein.How many Nigerian spiritual leaders are genuinely concerned about the state of our nation?. All they play is politics at par and seeking recognition..*saddened*

funny but no rent and no landlord wahala.But i wonder what if spiritual konji hol am ?na where e wan carry woman come?

This is the result of attacking Al-qaeda in MALI...Bros Jona,wipe out this people once and for all abeg.

abi d boy whizkid don taste soweto toto? heheheheheh ol boy dem dey do jazz here well well o.Forget all the paparazi, Jazz na im dem dey call MUTHI for here and e dey strong.

weti concern FFK for southy mata? hmmmm when the feminist from that part of the world descend on you,You go hate your mama for giving birth to you as a MAN cos dem go chop you raw on all the world medias. FFK you are on your own.

My brothers,if you get second or third wife,no do gragra for them o.Hell hath no fury like a scornful woman.Just dey pet them je je

rodeo0070: Curiosity. That was the main reason for choosing to ride in Ms. Aisha Umar’s taxi in the Federal Capital Territory on Friday. RASHEED BISIRIYU reports his encounter with the first female taxi driver in Abuja

Ms Aisha Umar has been a taxi driver in Abuja for over five years. Her handling of the vehicle is professional. She calls out for passengers and attends to matters relating to her job cheerfully and promptly too. She is never shy; and almost every day, she has had to answer questions, especially from many inquisitive male passengers. That, she does, courteously.

According to her, taxi business was the last thing on her mind when she dropped out of the university over 10 years ago.

She was in her second year studying Public Administration at the University of Abuja when she became pregnant.

Her initial plan was to take a break for one year to have her baby and then return to the school to complete her studies.

But the plan failed and that changed her course.

Today, Aisha, a 33 year old single parent, is a taxi driver in the FCT. She is the first lady taxi driver in the nation’s capital.

She was the only woman in the business for over five years until about six months ago when another lady took up the job at the FCT, apparently impressed by Aisha’s success.

And business has been good, she admits.

According to her, she pays her rents and takes care of the family with what she makes from the taxi.

Five years is a lot of time to perfect the commercial driving act and most people are not surprised that the lady handles the steering, driving around the city, picking and dropping passengers with a high level of dexterity.

Aisha, a mother of two, told our correspondent why she had to abandon her trading business and went into taxi business. She said it started by accident.

She had returned from Algeria, leaving her husband behind when it was obvious that the marriage would not work. She came back to Abuja with two kids, a boy and a girl.

She immediately went into trading and was dealing in clothing materials.

As a lively woman, many liked to patronise her.

She bought a car, a Nissan Sunny. It helped her to move the wares around, supply interested friends while she collected money later.

Only few paid for the materials on delivery; many bought on credit. The debt kept mounting and it was beginning to affect the business. She was fed up but she could not call it quits because there was no other means of survival.

One Saturday, she set out to meet some of her debtors. It was all stories, Aisha said. She became dejected. The fuel in her car was running low and she needed to top it up but there was no money.

As she was driving back home, dejectedly, a middle-aged man who appeared stranded, having waited for a cab for about an hour, flagged her down. Aisha stopped, almost absent-mindedly.

The guy asked if she could take him to Asokoro. She agreed and got N350 for the effort. And as soon as the man alighted from the car, another man entered and paid N400 for a journey of about the same distance. That was how it started.

She said, “At Wuse, a man stopped me and asked if he could help get more passangers into the car at N50 each and I accepted. And I got N250 on the short trip.

“That first day, I went home with N1,700, that was after I had filled my tank with N2,300 worth of fuel.”

The next day, she hit the road very early. And since then, she has not looked back.

Aisha has changed her car. It was in 2008, a year after she started the taxi business. She bought another Nissan Sunny for N650,000. It was an imported used car, but a newer model.

She has not set eyes on her estranged husband since they parted many years ago. But she is not bothered about that. As long as her taxi business is not hampered in any way that will affect the upkeep of her children, she is happy.
SOURCE: www.punchng.com/business/transport/why-i-operate-a-taxi-abuja-female-driver/

This is the kinda inspirational stories i love to read to inspire me on daily basis.Imagine a lady from the north as energetic and enterprising as this.WHO TALK SAY YOU NO GO MAKE AM IN LIFE? NA LIE.I GO MAKE am devil like it or not.Thank you Punch and Nairaland.

dayokanu: Is this not Italy? Berlusconi Mafia?

Something tells me she might meet with a domestic accident soon. Either fall from staircase, Mistakenly disappear or hit by an unidentified drunk driver

Exactly what i was thinking.The easiest way to sort her out and stop the huge cash flow is to take out her lights,POP!Otherwise,he might as well just consult native doctors from africa.....e no cost,e cheap well well.... Na African remote control go settle the case straight

And on whose behalf was he signing?for himself abi for Nigerians?? See ALL these politicians needs wiping out,Simple.Trading with almost 170 million destinies on paper agreement.

bankyblue: Members of Chukwuemeka Ezeugo’s church, have warned Nigerians to be prepared for dire consequences, if their General Overseer, popularly known as Reverend King, is indeed killed by hanging.

This warning emanated from the last Sunday service held at the church, Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), located at Ajao Estate, Lagos. “It will be absolute tragedy in this country if they touch our Holiness, they are just ignorant of this,” the goatee-spotting acting general overseer, Reverend Elijah King, threatened on the pulpit.

DailyPost observed during the course of the Sunday service, held on February 3 at the church premises, the acting general overseer also read a weekly message purportedly sent from prison by the incarcerated Reverend King, in which the beleaguered clergy urged his followers not to be deterred by their recent setback. “You must continue in the faith which I have taught you,” a line from the prison notes read.

Despite his incarceration, the affairs and activities of the church still run smoothly. Investigations during recent visits revealed that preparation is in top gear for King’s birthday celebration this year and members are being urged to pay certain amount of money for the undertaking. An insider disclosed that apart from money donated by the church members, generous donations come in every week from some rich and influential people in the society, who are secret followers of the embattled man of God.

Last year, his birthday was marked with roaring publicity, as members of his church bought several advert spaces in one of the prominent daily newspapers in Nigeria, where they showered praises on him, even to the point of comparing him to Jesus Christ.

Aside the contribution for his forthcoming birthday, other financial obligations that church members must fulfill, include a weekly toll which will be for “His Holiness’ welfare,”. This is often sent as a lump sum to the imprisoned church founder for his upkeep in jail.

On this Sunday, the presiding reverend frowned at what he called insult offerings to the Holiness. “We see N100 notes in the envelopes of the Holiness Welfare, if I catch that person…” he threatened.

This further confirmed the report that the on-death row King lives like a king inside the prison, courtesy of the resources squeezed from his loyal church members.

DailyPost investigation revealed that in spite of Reverend King’s six-year absence, nothing has really changed in the operation of his church. A first-hand experience by SE showed that high-handedness still persists in the church. For instance, latecomers to Sunday service on February 3, were still subjected to kneeling outside by macho-looking ushers.

The controversies notwithstanding, the Anambra State-born reverend still commands absolute loyalty from his followers.

A member asserted: “I have no problem with the church, this is my second year in this church and everything has been going on well.” Another also affirmed: “Brother you were in the church service, you can see how we cherish and respect him, he is Christ to us. We don’t care what other people say.”

Reverend King was convicted by Justice Joseph Oyewole of Lagos High Court and sentenced to death by hanging on January 11, 2007, for the alleged murder of a church member, Ann Uzoh. He allegedly poured petrol on the deceased for what he called “acts of fornication,” and set her ablaze, alongside others. The victim eventually died as a result of injuries sustained from the burns. Arraigned on September 26, 2006 on a six-count charge of attempted murder and murder, to which he pleaded not guilty, King was found guilty by the trial judge.



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Tehehehehehehehehehehehe ojigbi jigbi jigbi wetin man eye no go see for my kontry NAIJA.

So the gal was married? Ehn hen,wow..Shuo!

gidiMonsta: All this self loathing peeps who sees nothing good in themselves are at it again.

Yes we do have our problems but despite these unfortunate circumstances we have a lot of positives that we should be proud of. The reason other Africans feel Nigerians r proud is because we tend to excel at wat we do no matter d condition. The best black doctors in d us r nigerians, d most educated immigrants in d US r Nigerians, Nollywood is d most recognised movie industry in d black world despite d horrible quality of movies churned out, d music industry u ignorantly insulted is numero uno in Africa, even in francophone DRC; the Nigerian auto-parts market is top, Nigerians are the major driving force behind the Ghanaian nd Gambian economy, MTN became the top telco in Africa after they invested in Nigeria, Airtel Bharti bought over Celtel because of d Nigerian market, EMTS paid thru their noses to set up in what u call a shit-hole. Yes we have scammers and drug traffickers but we are not even among d top ten countries in these vices.

Italy is not defined by its mafia, South Africa is not defined by its mercenaries, Russia is not defined by its corruption so why should we allow the vices a few bad eggs commit to define who we are?

Gbam Two Thumbs UP!

[quote author=haka_nai]Me thinks on a serious note alot of nations dislike Nigerians and have little respect for us.This is obvious when you say Nigerian or display a green passport internationally.The screw ups some foolish Nigerians do outside the nation has destroyed everything called good name for us.Why do you think Dora Akunyili was working particularly on re-branding the nation?
The Nigerians that go outside the nation often get desperate and decide to do things that hardly helps.Also we sit in Nigeria and damn ourselves to stupor!!! Anything that happens we want to act is us against them and naked ourselves until the world hear us and mark us for that.Once you leave the land of Nigeria,That's when you will know you bear no name than Nigerian.So if you like abuse other members of the nation all you like.you will still share in there negative publicity.It still will be called Nigeria.We talk evil against ourselves often and publicly in our local media.We also act wrongly in our deals often when outside the country because of being rich any how even at the expense of the nations name and profile.
List our known negative images and you will be amazed is largely self inflicted.from scamming,fraud,violent crisis,smuggling,drugs,human trafficking,laundering,treats of chaos,robbery,disobedience to laws or rules we find ourselves govern by.The problem is not about Government alone its our attitude.People don't trust us resulting in why they don't like us,simple!Always resulting from information,impressions or experience gotten from Nigerians.
You are right.

We are only good to the world as for contributing our men to peace keeping,making cheap wealth from the nations resources by fraudulent expatriates/foreigners of certain nationals,using our votes internationally and probably population influence.That we are respected or loved because they love our dealings,skills,attitude,environment generally etc i doubt!!!!.We are even introduced as the most populous nation full stop.Not democratic not industrious,not naturally endowed, nothing just population?Google Nigeria and see results.Negative news everywhere.Na only us get problem?[/quote]You are right

Can someone be good enough to refer Majek to The Man in The Synagogue please??/ That is one talent that has degenerated into a WASTE.Lawohwoh help him.