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Romance / Re: Girls:can You Fight Your Fellow Girl Because Of Boy. by OneNaija(m): 10:43pm On Jun 28, 2009
Yes I have heard and seem twice when I was in school.
Romance / Girls:can You Fight Your Fellow Girl Because Of Boy. by OneNaija(m): 10:39pm On Jun 28, 2009
I like to know because Most Girls fight because of boy.
Romance / Re: 45 Things A Girl Wants But Wont Ask For: by OneNaija(m): 10:58pm On Jun 27, 2009
If na all this i go do to keep her by my side. She better go because I get better thin to do.There many fishes in the river
Travel / Re: Please Post Pictures Of New York Only by OneNaija(m): 10:30pm On Jun 27, 2009
@blackspade Thanks you.I been looking for this for long time now. I feel relax looking at it
Music/Radio / Re: Your Favourite Michael Jackson's Song by OneNaija(m): 11:49pm On Jun 26, 2009
Mine Is Speechless It so Amazing.I feel Jesus Inside me when listening the song
Politics / Re: Militants Bomb Shell’s Pipeline (fresh News) by OneNaija(m): 5:06pm On Jun 26, 2009
@biola44 Why don't you try or are you not a good citizen slowpoke
Celebrities / Re: Michael Jackson Died: Cardiac Arrest by OneNaija(m): 4:04pm On Jun 26, 2009
@Elgaxton I support your Comment. I will say America don kill that guy finish after so much Accusation.Now He is Dead with debt of 400 Millions USD. let them go collect the money from he three children s. breast living in America.
Politics / Re: Militants Bomb Shell’s Pipeline (fresh News) by OneNaija(m): 9:55am On Jun 26, 2009
No Need for that my dear. The Mill ant don't need to come face the soldier they need their cat and mouse Hidden. I support Mend carry on
Celebrities / American Have Succeeded In Killings Michael Jackson. by OneNaija(m): 9:32am On Jun 26, 2009
Moved: Michael Jackson Is Dead At Age 50

Yes The American Have Succeeded in Killings Michael Jackson after so much pain and suffering Jackson face doing Surgery to change his Colors to White just to make the peoples in the world love Black and White. Is he the only man on earth? They frustrated him until he died of heart attack. American lies to get their own share of his wealth before they finally kill him. They lie that He moles Kids which is a big lie God know that. They said he want to kills him own child by throwing him from 6 storey building and God know that is a lie because No man on earth can do such things even a Pop star like Michael Jackson to do such things. Just Yesterday morning when I was watching Channels O His Manager sues him to court for 40 millions American Dollar. What on earth can he get that money from? They succeeded in killings the only person I love so much in the world. American is wicked. Now they are happy he is dead.
Celebrities / Re: Michael Jackson Died: Cardiac Arrest by OneNaija(m): 12:09am On Jun 26, 2009
Very Bad News for Me Oh God. I love Speechless That Music Is Touchable.I love you Micheal. Until We meet again.Peace
Politics / Re: Jackson Dead by OneNaija(m): 11:48pm On Jun 25, 2009
I pray Not. God Save Him just for me.
Politics / Re: We Need Matches Or Tomtom Industry In Delta State (State Gov. Help) by OneNaija(m): 3:10pm On Jun 25, 2009
If they say Delta state then Everyone this is a Kidnapper and a Mill ant , slowpoke you need to wake Up fool. Even Timaya say It. If I say I be Bayelsa Na one na Millant .
Foreign Affairs / Shocking Video From Iran,neda by OneNaija(m): 3:01pm On Jun 25, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyscrapercity.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D38779250&feature=player_embedded&v=kBvPAZZAoVM
Travel / Re: Please Post Pictures Of New York Only by OneNaija(m): 7:02pm On Jun 24, 2009
If you don't have picture to post then better leave my post please
Politics / Hitler Falls For Nigeria 419 Scam by OneNaija(m): 6:41pm On Jun 24, 2009
Travel / Please Post Pictures Of New York Only by OneNaija(m): 6:24pm On Jun 24, 2009
I and my Family Will be relocating to America Beside New York soon. I need you to Post me Picture of New York Only.I dream I was there because We are preparing to go there.Guys I will wait for your Pictures Mostly Downtown and Restaurant and other Attractive stuff.
Politics / Re: Abacha’s Son Set To Join Pdp : May Contest 2011 Guber by OneNaija(m): 11:13am On Jun 23, 2009
Nigerians can never wake up from their Dream. Keep Dreaming until the Nation Will fall Inside Wells.
Politics / Re: Call For Justice. A Nigerian Killed In China by OneNaija(m): 9:59am On Jun 22, 2009
Nonsense Comment Coming from Outside Nigeria. don't worry you will also be Kills when walking along.
Politics / Re: Are You A Militant? by OneNaija(m): 9:23am On Jun 21, 2009
Then Let the sleepily Dog Ly
Politics / Re: Life Sentence For Protesting Soldiers: 'Cheating In Army Ruined My Career' by OneNaija(m): 9:53pm On Jun 20, 2009
Esther Smart in her army fatigue before she was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Romance / Re: Immorality edging towards a gravy apex of societal decadence in Nigeria by OneNaija(m): 9:33pm On Jun 20, 2009
@Poster Change your Topic Does not Sound Nice. Have you ask yourself Is America Or Canada Coming To The Edge Of Being Another Tsunami or Sodom and Whatever? Better Change the Topic Cow
Sports / Re: Nigeria(0) Vs Tunisia(0) on Saturday June 20th by OneNaija(m): 6:51pm On Jun 20, 2009
Guys Where can i Watch the Match Live in Dstv. or link I can watch the match It is very Important because if i nur watch the match i fit die oo. My blood dey hot
Politics / Re: Will U Support N Delta Millitant If They Start Assasination Of Corrupt Leader? by OneNaija(m): 11:56am On Jun 20, 2009
Hold On I will feed you with List.
Politics / Re: Will U Support N Delta Millitant If They Start Assasination Of Corrupt Leader? by OneNaija(m): 11:23am On Jun 20, 2009
Yes I support you Bleep them all
Travel / Re: Pictures Of Nigeria - Show Us Nigeria Through Your Pictures by OneNaija(m): 11:14am On Jun 20, 2009
Cool

Travel / Re: Pictures Of Nigeria - Show Us Nigeria Through Your Pictures by OneNaija(m): 11:12am On Jun 20, 2009
Lagos Is Looking Good Surely.

Foreign Affairs / South Africa: Xenophobia Still Smouldering by OneNaija(m): 1:15am On Jun 20, 2009
Cape Town — "My worry is that my children are going to be slaves because they won't have anything. These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car. Where do these foreign people get this money?"

Small business owners are venting their frustrations on 'foreign nationals' - among them many Somalis - who own shops in the country's townships, causing experts to warn that xenophobic violence could increase.

Businesspeople from four of Cape Town's impoverished communities - Delft, Masiphumelele, Samora Machel and Gugulethu - held several meetings in late May and early June to discuss ways of ridding their communities of foreign-owned shops.

The meetings echo those held a year ago in the Gauteng townships of Atteridgville and Alexandra, shortly before over 150,000 foreign nationals were displaced by a wave of xenophobic violence that swept the country, killing 62 people with thousands more beaten or raped.

On Jun. 14 this year, an unidentified man delivered letters to all 'Somali' shops in Gugulethu, giving the shopkeepers until Jun. 20 to leave the area.

The handwritten, photocopied letters purported to come from the Gugulethu Business Forum, and even though some members distanced themselves from the letters, others accused Somali shopkeepers of having a deliberate agenda to 'kill off' local business.

"Somalians want to be the cheapest business people in town. If they see that am also pricing my goods like them they are going to find ways to undercut me," said one woman shopkeeper who declined to be named for this story.

Fear and loathing in the Western Cape

Foreign nationals who own shops are not the only ones at risk. John Kwigwasa arrived in South Africa from the DRC eight years ago. He has legal refugee status and doesn't own a shop but says he has been attacked over seven times since 2002 - most recently when he was shot in the hip in Gugulethu at the end of May.

Since last May, Kwigwasa has lived at the Blue Waters displaced peoples camp, which city authorities want to shut down. Aware that the camp will not be open forever, Kwigwasa has been looking around for alternative accommodation for his family.

He told IPS "the city is forcing us to reintegrate so I decided to get a job and look for a place in Gugulethu. I was with my friend, Rajab Ramazani, when a group of local guys told us 'why don't you go to your country, you are taking our jobs and driving nice cars'. Then one of them shot me in the hip".

"They drove away with Rajab and kept in the boot of the car all night. They took him to a railway track early the next morning. While they were deciding to kill him or not, he ran away and they shot him in the leg" said Kwigwasa.

Kwigwasa and Rajab are recovering from their injuries as best they can in the cold, windswept Blue Waters camp.

"At the end of the day there is going to be a lot of trouble in my township. If I had money I would have left long time ago because there is no peace here. And those boys from Somalia have come and created more troubles," said another, who identified himself only as 'Boyce'.

Add the plans to remove 'Somali shopkeepers' to the steady number of attacks and murders of 'foreign nationals' and the mix becomes deadly, says Loren Landau, director of the University of the Witwatersrand's Forced Migration Studies unit.

"Violence against foreigners is rapidly becoming fully integrated into the standard politics of some townships," says Landau.

In May 2008, over 150,000 foreign nationals were displaced by a wave of xenophobic violence that swept the country, with thousands being murdered or raped.

But since the "officially recognised" outbreak of xenophobia ended last June, police have not kept official statistics of xenophobia-related murders, claiming instead that any deaths of foreign nationals are the result of South Africa's generally high crime rate.

This itself has fuelled xenophobia, says the Somali Association of South Africa.

"There is a culture of impunity developing. When Somali traders are murdered the police don't act on it. There is a perception that if people kill or do whatever to Somalis, nothing will happen to them," says the Somali Association of South Africa's Western Cape co-ordinator Hussein Omar.

Omar's fears appear to be borne out by recent events - in the last fortnight, two young Somali shop assistants were burnt to death, one Zimbabwean and one national of Bangladesh murdered, three shop assistants injured with gunshot wounds in Delft, and another 'Somali shop' in the Cape Town suburb Khayelitsha set alight.

Omar is investigating the deaths of the Somali shop assistants - Omar Josef and Hazim Amad, who died when their shop - where they sleep - was set ablaze at two a.m.

The local police told IPS they have already ruled out xenophobia even though the investigation is still under way. Somali residents in the community say the shop was doused with petrol before being set alight but the investigator, Detective Constable Eldoret van der Merwe, would only say "at this stage we can't say how the fire started".

In Gugulethu, a local activist group - the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign - tried for three weeks to convince the Gugulethu Business Forum not to vent their anger on Somali shopkeepers, but instead to ask government why it was not doing more to support small business.
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But the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign's Mncedisi Twalo says after the businesspeople delivered the threatening letters to 'Somali' shops, he was forced to ask the police for a guarantee that they would protect the Somali shopkeepers.

The police have since arranged meetings between local businesspeople and the Somali shopkeepers, which they have closed to the media.

Omar fears that the actions of small groups of local businesspeople could become a catalyst for other people to vent their frustrations on 'foreign nationals'.

And Landau says that as people come to accept that it is legitimate to plot against "foreign" business people, "the violence will only spread".
Politics / How Nigeria Can Be Like Japan, By Chime by OneNaija(m): 1:05am On Jun 20, 2009
From Paul Ibe in Osaka, Japan, 06.19.2009


Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime, has said that Nigeria could be transformed from its current state of underdevelopment to a robust economy if heed is paid to enthroning a regime of rule of law, zero tolerance to corruption, indiscipline and the culture of impunity and a firm commitment to the development of the country.
Also, he said that the country stands a better chance of attracting investments if efforts are made at putting in place basic infrastructure, providing security, instilling trust and confidence in the prospective investors and creating an investment friendly environment.
Governor Chime told THISDAY shortly after making a presentation at the 2nd Nigeria-Japan Business and Investment Forum (NJBIF) in Osaka, Japan, yesterday that Nigeria should take a cue from the success story of the Japanese transformation by focusing on the basics.
"First of all, we have to have that commitment; we have to believe in ourselves, shun corruption, and enthrone a new regime of rule of law and discipline. There is no how we can move this country forward if we are too interested in ourselves to the detriment of others. We must start thinking of the community and see ourselves as one people. There must be concerted efforts to develop this country, a full commitment to that purpose. There can be no shortcuts," he said.
He said Nigerians need to eradicate the culture of impunity by ensuring that people comply with the laws and defaulters punished to serve as a deterrent to others.
"Human beings ordinarily do not like compliance with rules except you have sanctions and you are in a position to enforce those sanctions. If somebody commits a crime and he is not caught or punished when caught, he is encouraged to commit a crime tomorrow. But here, the whole place is under surveillance; they have cameras throughout the whole country.”
So, when you break the law, you are caught and punished," he said.
Politics / Re: Are Nigerians Ready To Protect Their Democracy Come 2011 By Any Means. by OneNaija(m): 12:51am On Jun 20, 2009
My Friend If you keep having Faith Like that. I believe you wont Move this Country Forward I swear.Do you see What Happen In Iran?If We Nigeria can Openly Protest against those Thief Who called themselves their Leader Not my Leader. I think we will get an Answer
Politics / Are Nigerians Ready To Protect Their Democracy Come 2011 By Any Means. by OneNaija(m): 12:39am On Jun 20, 2009
I will like to Hear your Opinion. I Will Like You to Answer Me With Yes Or No and More Detail Why you should Not to Or want to Protect Their Democracy come 2011.
Politics / Re: World Bank Gives Nigeria $600m For Power by OneNaija(m): 10:03am On Jun 18, 2009
That Nation Is Thief

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