donareal: These are photos of street thugs and gang boys caught by local vigilantes on the streets of South Africa shown with their weapons of choice. These boys are responsible for robbing commuters and pedestrians on the streets of Johannesburg.
They carry those knives around at all time, mainly for protection from rival gangs and for robbing people.
See faces. You run into one of these on a dark alley, your own don be. These ones would stab a guy through the heart for 10 rands without breaking a sweat.
fergie001: The National Judicial Council has recommended an Appeal Court Judge, Joseph Oyewole to the Supreme Court
CASES HANDLED BY JUSTICE OYEWOLE At the High Court of Lagos State, Justice Oyewole handled some high profile cases:
- In 2005, he convicted and sentenced Emmanuel Odinigwe Nwude, Nzeribe Edeh Okoli (original perpetrator) and Mrs Amaka Martina Anajemba who were involved in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242m to build a fictitious airport, one of the biggest scams ever in the world, causing the collapse of the Banco Noroeste in 2001.
- In 2007, he convicted and sentenced Pastor Emeka Ezeugo (aka Rev King) to death by hanging, for the alleged murder of a church member, Ann Uzoh. This judgement was affirmed by the Appeal Court and Supreme Court.
At the Appeal Court, he authored and read the unanimous judgement affirming the decision of Justice Omotosho recognising Martin Amaewhule as the Rivers Assembly Speaker as well as voiding the ₦800bn 2024 Rivers budget passed by a faction of the RSHA during the feud between Governor Fubara and his benefactor, Wike.
Controversy Following the retirement of George Olaniyi Ojo as Osun CJ on 8/11/12, Governor Rauf Aregbesola nominated a then mid-level Judge of the Lagos High Court, Justice Oyewole as the Osun CJ, a decision that met serious opposition in the Osun Judiciary. It created a stand-off between the State Government together with the State House of Assembly on one hand and the Osun Judiciary and the NJC on the other. The NJC insisted that one of the most senior Judges, Oyebola Adepele-Ojo or Gloria Oladoke (both of them appointed Judges of the High Court of Osun State same day on 21/12/2000), be sworn-in.
The Osun Judiciary had no Chief Judge in acting or substantive capacity for 10 days before the Rauf-led Government bowed to NJC pressure,. Justice Oyewole later transferred his service from Lagos to Osun Judiciary on 4/12/2012.
Oyewole was the one who sentenced Rev King to death and jailed Bode George, right?
DeepSight: + I can't dispute this, nonetheless I also think the impending change of control to black hands would have been a thought.
Considering the mindset at the time, it's virtually impossible that it wasn't a cardinal factor.
Again, one would wonder at the real logic of destroying your nukes - all of them - simply because of the end of the cold war. Other nuclear powers didn't do that, did they? They only reduced the amounts of warheads.
No country really says, oh, X ideology is no longer a threat, so let me destroy my biggest defenses. No one does that, seriously. Especially when the communist powers remained nuclear armed.
Have you also considered the Israel angle? The apartheid regime was pals with Israel and the ANC was pretty pals with Palestine. There would be no way certain interests would let an emerging ANC Government be nuclear armed and I doubt that fear of communism was it.
DeepSight: + Cold war ended 1990 and four years later Madiba was President - which had already been in the works for a number of years so you can see that it was already foreseeable by the time the cold war was ending.
Besides Communism was never a threat to SA.
I don't think they saw it this way at all. The spread of Communism was seen as a global threat - which was why the Americans paid considerable attention to South Africa. But funny enough, it was home-grown communism that the Afrikaner overlords said they feared and went all out to arm themselves. Not only did the likes of the ANC have communist sympathies, the Pretoria authorities liked to frame every anti-apartheid initiative as Communist. That is why, in explaining his decision to destroy the nukes and end the programme, de Klerk said "... but destroyed them when fears of a COMMUNIST INSURGENCY subsided with the end of the Cold War." (emphasis mine)
I think many influential Afrikaner leaders did believe that local Commies could take the country with the backing of the USSR.
DeepSight: + Ukraine regrets it today. As for SA, they simply wouldn't let blacks control such.
Well, they did say they developed them because they feared communism. And destroyed them when that fear dissipated with the end of the Cold War. I still wonder how much the programme must have cost and lost them.
AMINDA: 9 million dollars for 6 months with a renewal clause for an additional 6 months. This government is more concerned with optics than result. Offering appointments to clerics and genocide amplifiers, paying and negotiating with bandits in so-called peace deals, etc. Anything to gain temporary reprieve in order to win re-election. Disgraceful!
It's not this government. It's how we are. Always more interested in form than substance. They're wasting money not knowing that those they're "communicating" to have their sources and follow our media.
Onetechnews: If you must soak rice, limit it to 20–30 minutes
Right. Soaked rice should not be refrigerated. 20-30 is sufficient if it's polished rice. But for brown (ofada) rice, you need 3-8 hours. No fridge please.
MufasaLion: That is not the solution. The NPF needs to be decentralized and state policing should be implemented. Also, the police officers and new recruit must undergo thorough background check and solid orientation on importance of human life.
Brilliant.
Before recruit you into the force in serious countries, they will interview your former neigbours and your grandmother and do other deep dives into your background.
In a related operation in Ubiaja, the Command recorded another major operational success as Bush combing strategy yielded success. The Divisional Police Officer, Ubiaja personally led a coordinated bush-combing operation around Akwocha Camp and adjoining forest corridors, in collaboration with the Nigerian Military and the Edo State Security Corps (ESSC). A concealed forest enclave identified by the drone squadron through intelligence generated from air surveillance as a suspected kidnapping and logistics base, was stormed. This resulted in the arrest of eleven (11) male suspects believed to be members of an organized kidnapping syndicate. Exhibits recovered include twenty-four (24) Dane guns, seventeen (17) cutlasses, three (3) battle axes, gun powder, torchlights, mobile phones, solar panels, assorted charms, one Daylong motorcycle, and the sum of ₦209,700.00 cash, among other exhibits.
Westman001: That is Russia for you. They escalate things. The ship seized was not even theirs. It just claimed Russia in other to survive.
The US seized their ships, they went far ahead to bomb America ships.
Shouldn't the best thing Russia could have done was to seized the cargos and use it at the diplomatic table. Come and get your cargo ships when you release our oil ships. Simple.
I hope people, including Trump now sees the ways Russia thinks. They are not to be seen as friends at all.
America took their ships without loss of lives and damage to the ship. Russia is bad and those that support them are just unwise.
Which Trump? Putin has his man at the White House. He will get away with anything. The Europeans are sleeping. Well, they've just woken up, but they better hope there's time to get their act together before full-scale war breaks out between them and mad Vlad.
seunmsg: About time Russia also start showing some real strength. They’ve been acting so weak in the face of recent American aggression all over the world. The world need some counterforce to put Donald Trump in check.
That's like calling for Satan to take over because some pastors are misbehaving. Better THINK about the things you ask for. How is bombing a CIVILIAN CARGO ship and killing a civilian seafarer a counteranything Trump has done? You're beginning to sound like WriteerNg who's completely amoral like his bosses in Moscow.
hollas2jnr: It's never a good idea. A working thermostat CAN NEVER hurt the engine, no matter the climate condition... It's meant to open when the engine reaches its optimum temperature and close when it drops. This gives room for a better fuel consumption and your radiator fans would last longer.
NOTE: I've been using thermostat in all the cars I've used since i started driving. I even sell them off with the thermostat in it.
Carmadesimpe: That is a major Engineering Sin. Removing the thermostat is a shortcut that leads to a long-term engine funeral.
Your engine is designed to operate at a specific Optimal Temperature. Without a thermostat, the engine stays too cold for too long. This causes: 1. Sludge Build-up: Oil doesn't reach the temp needed to flow properly. 2. High Fuel Consumption: The ECU(brainbox) thinks the engine is still cold and keeps dumping extra fuel. 3. Accelerated Wear: Parts don't expand to their intended fit.
If your car is overheating, fix the cooling system (radiator, fan, or pump). Don't castrate the engine by removing the thermostat.
SixSeven: That's not true. That's the excuse they just make to justify what they are doing. You do realize that even food delivery workers demand tip? Have you seen the video of the man who brought a gun to the customer's house because he wasn't given a tip? So if it is about the cost, what cost is the delivery person saving or costing?
Whatever you have paid for is what you have paid for. Any other cost is extortion and that is what it is. It's corruption. QED
Huh? The pizza delivery guy is underpaid too. (That means he learns less per hour than other people doing comparative jobs in the same economy). Like the waiter, the pizza delivery guy is underpaid because paying him comparatively well would make the cost of pizza to be very high.
Corruption? Ha. I think you should check the dictionary meaning of the word.
No, I don't support compulsion or bringing a gun to the matter.
If the cost is going to be high, let it be high... Those who can't afford the meals can go elsewhere or cook their damn meals.
If the pay is too small, then the waiters should look for other professions.
Tipping should be personal and not even morally compelled or manipulated.
Well, this is one way of looking at it. But I don't think those working in that industry will agree with you. Higher foods mean lower patronage. That means fewer people employed and all.
SixSeven: Na oyinbo people rinse corruption, call am another thing 🤡
They won't pay their workers well, they expect the customers to pay for their own negligence as employers. They have no shame that they have even institutionalized it into the payment system. They have almost made it impossible to remove it. What a rip off! Forced gratitude.
I think you misunderstand it. It's because restaurant waiters are underpaid. They're underpaid because paying them well would make the cost FOOD too high for most people. So the system reasons that: keep the cost of eating out affordable but let the diner tip based on their ABILITY and DISCRETION. I don't think it's such a bad thing. Yes, it has its downsides - like everything else. In Nigeria, you're underpaid and no culture of tipping.
Mabuggi88: Imagine say this happened in a direct South East state, Make I no talk sef, they deserve what they got, Everytime Fulani Fulani, they born them born crime? Innocent Goats, but waitoo, you want to show grievance and you are looting, what makes you different from what you accuse them
Rapmoney: Angry youths in Ekpoma, Edo State have attacked Fulani settlements in the town over numerous cases of kidnappings, which they accused the state governor, Monday Okpebholo, of inaction towards the issue.
Violence erupted yesterday, Saturday 10 January when the youths took to the streets to destroy properties belonging to Fulani people. In a video trending online, the youths are seen attacking a goat market where they descended on the goats, killed them and took them home to eat. In another video, the youths were seen bringing down the billboard of the state governor, Monday Okpebholo.
Jakumo: It is possible that quite a few of our less than well-informed Nairaland discussion respondents have no idea how powerful the magnification is on the surveillance cameras of drones and satellites. Those spy satellite and drone cameras can read the brand name written on a discarded packet of cigarettes lying on the ground in a remote Sambisa Forest outlaw encampment, even while the airborne observation platform is thousands of feet above the ground, and far out of earshot.
For strategic and tactical reasons, the US military has evidently decided to keep all details of their Christmas 2025 precision missile strikes in northern Nigeria OUT of the public realm, which is fine by me, so long as terrorists are being exterminated like so many cockroaches by those missiles. A dead terrorist remains dead regardless of whether onlookers see the roasted body or not, so one can only look forward to more of the same bombardment .
That's puzzling in this case: Dominique is easily one of the smartest people on Nairaland.
Carmadesimpe: I’m noticing the harmattan haze shifting. Light here in Abeokuta and heavy in some states.
As a Lube Engineer and your Car Concierge, I want to address a part 90% of drivers ignore: The Air Filter.
Most people think servicing is just oil and oil filters. They forget the engine breathes air.
Why you should care: 1. Fuel Consumption: A clogged filter is like running a marathon with a mask on. Your engine works 10% harder and burns 10% more fuel. 2. Engine Longevity: Harmattan dust is fine silt. If the filter is full, that silt goes into your combustion chamber and scratches your cylinder walls. This is the silent killer that leads to smoky engines and thousands/millions of engine swaps.
Where to find it (DIY): You don't need a mechanic for this. 1. Open your hood. 2. Locate a black plastic housing/box usually located to the left or right of the engine. 3. Snap off the metal clips (or unscrew it). 4. Lift the filter out. If it’s filled with sand or is dark gray/black, it’s dead. Replace it with a genuine OEM part immediately.
In 2026, we are spending less time at the mechanic and more time enjoying the drive. That starts with Engineering Certainty.
Got questions about your specific car model? Drop them below and I’ll tell you exactly what to look for. 🛠️
Drive safe, drive simple.
I have a question. Is it a good idea to remove the thermostat from your car?
Politics › Re: PMS: Importers Face N1.77trn Loss Over Marketers’ Preference For Local Products by JuanDeDios: 3:54pm On Jan 15
