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Shalomc:
See painment.... like madridguy justtoodark Cc salamrushdie lzaa immhotep pointzerom iceberg3

ToriBaze:
Seventeen Nigerian migrants who survived a deadly sea crossing last year have filed a lawsuit against Italy for violating their rights by supporting Libya’s efforts to return them to North Africa, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

Nigerian migrants The plaintiffs, two of whom have returned to Nigeria, petitioned the European Court of Human Rights last week, Violeta Moreno-Lax, a legal advisor for the Global Legal Action Network, told reporters. She was among four lawyers and several humanitarian groups involved in the case.

The migrants, who were not identified, said Italy violated multiple articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, including that people not be subjected to torture, held in slavery, or have their lives put in danger.

The United Nations, rights groups and news organizations say migrants face these conditions in Libya.

According to Global Action Network, on 6 November 2017, the Libyan Coast Guard interfered with the efforts of the NGO vessel Sea-Watch 3 to rescue 130 migrants from a sinking dinghy. At least twenty of them died.

The Libyan vessel was donated by Italy a few months before. The intervention was partly coordinated from Rome by the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre (MRCC), an Italian Government agency. An Italian navy ship was nearby, part of the Mare Sicuro operation which has operated in Libyan territorial waters facilitating interceptions by the Coast Guard.

The Libyan Coast Guard ‘pulled back’ the survivors to Libya, where they endured detention in inhumane conditions, beatings, extortion, starvation, and rape. Two of the survivors were subsequently ‘sold’ and tortured with electrocution.


The two Nigerians said they were starved of even basic food and healthcare, before returning to Nigeria with the International Organization for Migration.

All the plaintiffs were rescued at sea, but at least 20 migrants drowned when a part of their rubber boat deflated.

German humanitarian ship Sea Watch 3 rescued 59 people that day and collected the body of a small child, all of whom were brought to Italy.

The Libyan naval vessel, which had been donated by Italy and was operated mainly by a crew trained by the EU, returned 47 to Libya. In a video shot by Sea Watch, the Libyans are seen beating the migrants they intercepted with a rope, and the vessel then speeds off with a man clinging to the side.

This is the first lawsuit to be filed against Italy for its decision to back the Libyan Coast Guard. The country lost a case in the same court in 2012 for directly handing over migrants intercepted at sea to Libyan authorities.

The legal process can take up to three years but should the migrants win they can be awarded damages, and Italy would be forced to abandon its policy of equipping, training and coordinating the Libyan Coast Guard, Moreno-Lax said.

“Using the Libyan Coast Guard as a proxy to turn back migrant boats is just a new way of camouflaging (Italy’s) strategy of fighting irregular migration in the Mediterranean by trapping them in what the Italian Foreign Ministry itself has qualified as ‘the hell’ of Libya,” Moreno-Lax said.

The lawsuit highlights a stand-off between humanitarian groups seeking to save lives on the open seas and Italian authorities backed by the European Union who are trying to stop people from making the dangerous crossing in the first place.

A spokesman for Italy’s Interior Ministry, which has spearheaded the policy, had no immediate comment.

Libyan naval spokesman Ayoub Qassem said the coast guard does its job within the terms agreed with Italy.

“Regarding the abuse and violations against the migrants, these are all considered as individual acts … We can’t say Libyan state institutions commit these acts,” Qassem said.

SEA CROSSINGS DOWN Italy has supplied Libya with seven refurbished vessels so far, and three more have been promised, while the EU has trained about 190 Libyan coastguards.

Italy is also coordinating communications with the Libyan Coast Guard about possible boats in distress, according to court documents filed recently in Sicily.

Between 2014 and 2017, more than 600,000 migrants arrived on Italian shores, but crossings have fallen dramatically since Italy and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at stemming the migration flow in February of last year.

During the first five months of this year, arrivals from Libya fell more than 80 percent versus last year to 6,700 during, official data show. Over the same period, the Libyan Coast Guard intercepted almost 6,000 migrants and refugees. In 2017, the Libyans turned back almost 19,000.

http://toribaze.com/naija-news/17-nigerian-migrants-sue-italy-returning-libya/

HonSuQMaDIQ:
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Shalomc:
This is Justtoodark...
Cc
Lzaa immhotep pointzerom iceberg3

Iceberg3:
When coneheads hear RAT POISON D
Lzaa

Reelectbuhari:
maybe sorry though

just feel no more for such sugar coating of words
sorry for the mix maybe my guess u wasn't the right person
no offence

immhotep:
First season need to finalize Ibadan emirate LoL
Cc lzaa onyeoga Madridguy itsmeaboki Bamoski shalomc Madridguy

Reelectbuhari:
u can add semi colon....but very igbo and when I mean igbo....i mean SE....knows that Biafra would hv been achieved in SE if not for una double face.....

no time again to sugar coat words...

Reelectbuhari:
I hate it wen u guys from SS talk about biafra....which u people has constantly sabotaged with una tricks and devilish gimmicks....



very pathetic.....

what an irony of life.....professing hatred in form of love

SashaBanks:
Nnam I know what am telling you when I say that we don't! Am not saying East is empty. Nope.

Am only saying there is no place in the East you have a high concentration of human beings like Kano or Lagos. Maybe PH. Igbo land is populated but not highly concentrated.

I know what am telling you when I say high concentration. My only grievance is that the people that form a huge number of that population in the places mentioned are Igbos.

If the Igbos in places like Ibadan, Kano, Lagos, Sokoto and Abuja should come back... You will understand what am talking about.

But its a pity that most of them bought the propaganda that nothing is happening in the East. Which is a pure lie!

YorubaAssasin:
Suicide watch to dem dem ooo

Wey dem dem developers so? Dem "Lagos Land-lord"? Dem no born their papa well.

Yoruba 4 Life!

Lzaa

IgboBasthard:
Cc Immhotep lzaa
Come hear this one ooooo!

Iceberg3:
Which jihad,amala jihad or ewedu jihad or ogogoro jihad? Coneheads,let them hear tyre burst or one small pikin throw banger now and you will see them disappear sharp sharp to Mowe/Ibafo IDP camp.
Una better prostrate and dobale for your Fulani lords and masters for your own good

Coneheads

Lzaa immothep

SashaBanks:
We have no country yet! I write this from the bottom of my heart. Each time I travel out, I see how Germans, Canadians, Italians and even Ghanaians are proud of their country and are always waving their flags. Same goes to Switzerland and Netherlands. Some of these countries too are Landlocked but are more viable and super rich than Nigeria that has unlimited access too Sea!

There is something Super creative Nigeria is killing in the Igbo's. They are doing this tactically. Its very slow but in the next 50 years if not put in check, the heartless Hausa Fulani may have succeeded in their evil plans. Do you know that the Federal government be it an Hausa or Fulani Or Yoruba even Igbo eventually is in power, has an inate fear of the Igbos and they have machinations to keep them in check? Do you know that every federal government that comes to power has an unwritten, hidden plan to underdevelop Igbo land and Biafra as a whole? Do you know why? They need not have structures in Igboland because if the Federal government has super structures in Igbo land, it will mean pumping more money into Igboland and pumping more money eqautes to being super economically viable. Being super economically viable implies that the mass migration to develop other cities won't be there!

If you doubt me, go to Igbo villages during the year and most of our developing townships! Its like a ghost town because we have all run away. Not because we are poor or suffering. No. Its simply because we are not aware that there are plans to always subdue our regions and make us migrate to other peoples region. Funny enough, you see some nematodes argue here that Igbo's are not developers or plenty as we claim. But go to their regions during the Christmases and Easter times when Igbos migrate back home. You will notice that their regions have become ghost towns with little or no economic activity. I say this with 100 percent certainty! This prooves that Igbos are the economic fulcrums of their lands and without them, their lives becomes boring. Umunnem believe me when I tell you this!

Just tell me, what is in Biu, Kafanchan, Potiskum, Nasarawa, Kogi etc that will make Igbos migrate there in there hundreds of thousands? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

We can argue that Igbos go there to make money and bring back home. But in the long run, the places that have more human concentrations is where investors will like to put money and thats where it affects Igbo land a lot. Let me use one of our successful sons as an example.

Ask yourself why Beloxxi cream crackers will leave his fatherland and go as far as Ogun to establish factory? Simply because of the factors I listed above! Call him anything and say he is unpatriotic to Igboland but he is just saving his business due to the wicked policies always put in place by successive wicked federal governments. If its you, would you like to have a factory in Onitsha but your target market is Kano or Lagos? Continue reading.

This implies that you have to pay more in logistics and haulage! Because Beloxxi is smart enough to know that Lagos that has up to 18 million human beings will finish his biscuit more faster than Onitsha that has less than 3 million people. Do you know who Beloxxi will now pay taxes to? Ogun state as their factory site and Lagos as their cooperate headquarters! Do you know who make up a good percentage of the people found in Lagos? Igbos! This implies that Lagos and Ogun will now have more money to take care of their people and citizens because there is inflow and circulatory cash.

But the reverse is the case in Igbo land. Due to wicked policies, our people have now run away to other countries and regions in search of "greener pastures". I know why I put greener pastures in quote because is it really a greener pasture? I have seen an Igbo man that is living an average life and suffering in Lagos which is no different from what is obtainable in some parts of the East. Why then are you based in Lagos if you are not a king there? Why be a slave in the " city " than a king in the township? Why not migrate back home and make our region concentrated with human beings? Do you know that we can recreate Dubai in Onitsha?

I see you shaking your head! It takes good leaders in Biafra to achieve this! If you all can come back home like me, we will organise ourselves and seek for a referendum or take Nigeria to the cleaners!

The Federal government of the Hausa Fulani has made life so terrible for the Igbos that you now see our people engage in not so good hustles to make ends meet. Funny enough, these people after they make these dirty money, come back home and we celebrate them. Abomination! Aru!

Take for instance, Igbo land of old is not known to condone evil or engage in habits that are known to offend the gods of the land. But these days, the reverse is the case. It seems the more evil you are, the more you are celebrated. People no longer care about how Igboland or Biafra will be in the next 100 years! Mention Biafra to the so called Elite Igbo's and a percentage of them will laugh in scorn. They think that this struggle is about those who never made it in Nigeria! LOL.

Even you that made it, why are you always going on vacation to Dubai? London? New York? At the worst, most of you so called stuppid elites run away forever while sending money home to maintain businesses in this jungle of a nation! Why can't we make Igbo land a small Island nation surrounded by shytholes like Nigeria and Niger republic?

Umunnem Ka odiba! Sasha writes from the core East!

Shalomc:
You mean justtoodark? Cc Pointzerom iceberg3 lzaa immhotep

Shalomc:
Exactly party justtoodark

bakaredc:
The Popular host of political talk show.."FOCUS NIGERIA" which airs every week day between 10am to 11am on AIT has been relieved from anchoring the show, Gbenga Arulegba made this known in a series of tweet released from his official twitter handle @gbengaaruleba..No official reason has been given for this sudden development.

hollah123:
y must u show your tribal bigotry, so it's only Yoruba's that voted buhari from south right? so no igbo person voted for buhari?just politely replace d Yoruba in your sentence with nigerians

Shalomc:
Pointzerom lzaa immhotep iceberg3....who is this?

olusledge:
read it somewhere that kloop drives the opel insigna because he is their brand ambassador and is only allowed to drive the car

GOATandYAMtheory:
So? what is wrong with what he has said? If he says Buhari has headache now, the never-do-wells controlling the media will say he said the President has Brain Tumor.

I love the way Femi Adeshina has responded to these questions

We the BMC zombiefied youths have found nothing wrong with this statement. Get us something better to masturbate over

ichommy:
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina on Tuesday said it is only President Muhammadu Buhari that can reveal his ailment or details about his health.

Adesina said this during a phone-in-interview on Channels Television Breakfast Programme, Sunrise Daily while reacting to question about the President’s ailment deserving another trip to London, United Kingdom.

According to him, details about the President’s health is private and personal.

“That is something private and personal. The fact that a man is a President does not remove his right and privileges to privacy. So, unless Mr President comes out voluntarily and willingly to tell the country that ‘this is what I have suffered from, this is what I have been treated for’…even the medical doctor does not have the right to say it.

“It is in the Hippocratic oath that the medical doctors take. They cannot disclose the ailment of the patient without the permission of that patient,” he explained.

Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu announced on Monday that President Buhari will on Tuesday embark on a four-day trip to the United Kingdom to see his doctor.

This has generated mixed reaction with many making references to President Buhari ‘technical stopover’ in London during his recent US-trip.

The recently announced UK trip is coming barely nine months after he returned from a medical vacation on August 19, 2017, spending more than 100 days.

Adesina in the interview on Tuesday, however, allayed fears, saying there is no cause for alarm.

“There is no cause for alarm because he (the President) is up and about and doing his duties. What he is going for is a review. We all need that from time to time. There is nobody that is 100% healthy. He is just going for a review. I want to believe that he will come back on Saturday as planned,” he said.

Giving itinerary of Buhari’s trip, the Presidential spokesperson said Buhari after his return from the UK will visit Jigawa State.

“The President is going to receive some letters of credence from some new ambassadors posted to the country, that will last till about early afternoon. After that, he will get set to go to London just for a medical review. He will be away for four days. He will back in the country on Saturday by the grace of God.

“On Monday and Tuesday, he will visit Jigawa state.”

When questioned of the guaranty if the President will not exceed four days in the UK, Adesina said, “When you talk of guarantee, man cannot guarantee. Nobody can guarantee anything.”


http://www.emmanuelbabatunde.com/2018/05/it-is-only-buhari-that-can-tell.html

Shalomc:
Lol...na madridguy way.. Cc lzaa immhotep pointzerom iceberg3 salamrushdie

Bhelamblog:
A batch of 218 Nigerians, which included seven pregnant women on Tuesday, 8th of May 2018 voluntarily returned from the volatile North African country of Libya where they had been stranded enroute Europe. The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos about 3.44 a.m. aboard a chartered Libyan Airlines Airbus A330-200 aircraft with registration number 5A-LAU

They comprised of 46 adult females, five female infants, 161 adult males, two male children and four male infants.

The returnees were brought with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU).

Speaking to newsmen, one of the returnees, Ms Titilayo Kayode-Owojori, from Ile Ife, Osun who is pregnant regretted embarking on the ill-fated journey but thanked God for returning home safely.

She said:

“Nigeria is far better than where we thought we could get better lives. The Libyans live with the sweat of the blacks.

“If the Arabs see us working and collecting wages, they wait and burst our houses to collect the money. If they don’t see any money, they will kidnap us and ask us to call Nigeria to send us money to free ourselves. If we can’t raise money, we will be sold or imprisoned.”

The returnee, therefore, urged the government to fulfill its promise of creating an enabling environment for Nigerians to thrive in order to reduce the urge to seek greener pastures outside the country.


News From Ebiwali--
http://www.ebiwalisgossip.com/2018/05/nigeria-is-far-better-they-say-as-7.html

IgboBasthard:
Omo ale, igbo ass licker
Cc Immhotep lzaa

IgboBasthard:
Igbo presidency WILL never happen..........relax bro. That is the day the yorubas will opt out of Nigeria. Igbo presidency ba wo?



cc Immhotep lzaa madridguy CSTR1003

bamoski:
It is buhari till 2023 and there's nothing you and your fellow children of hate can do about it

bamoski:
Lzaa and his gay friend immhotep