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Phones / Re: NIN: NIMC IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE BVN-ISSUED NIN by Petenoir(m): 7:13pm On Dec 27, 2020
padi94:
There is a simple explanation for this. The so called NIN you generated on your sim when you have not registered is not your own.

Why is this or how come I have NIN without registration.
If you have heard about recycled lines, a situation where networks return old and abandoned numbers into the market for being dormant over a period of time as new lines that will be bought and registered by a new user.
Now the former owner of that line might have used it to register their NIN in the past and that is what is on the database of NIN. if the new user of that line dials the NIN checking code, it will bring out the NIN number of the old user.

SO IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED FOR NIN AND YOU HAVE AN NIN ON YOUR LINE, JUST KNOW ITS NOT YOURS.
NIMC does and has not linked BVN details to create NIN for people who don't have as they are two different agencies CBN & NIMC.

Let's be guided

I've been using my line 2005. It was on Econet, so it's not a recycled line.
Phones / NIN: NIMC IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE BVN-ISSUED NIN by Petenoir(m): 8:02am On Dec 27, 2020
Without going for registration, when you dial *346# on your BVN-linked number, it brings up your NIN with the message - This is your NIN 67000000000. Thank you.

How did the number got generated? Did it popped up from nowhere?
It's either NIMC does not know what's going on or they are confused on what to say to the public.
I think NIMC need to come out with a better explanation on why we are getting the NIN without going for registration.

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Politics / Re: Picture Of Christmas Celebration In Badagry In 1923 by Petenoir(m): 4:37pm On Dec 26, 2020
JidennaJason:
That dude lying on the floor with cap is Bola Ahmed Tinubu's father....


Popularly known as "Shakiti Bobo" in Badagary, he made a name for himself by being one of the loyal and dedicated slave to his European masters.

Shakiti Bobo rose to prominence when he left Badagary for Ikoyi to serve another influential European master.... He was later ordained as the chief slave and became wealthy.
You're very seriously sufficiently MAD

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Culture / Re: Delta Community Conducts Traditional Cleansing, Curses Cultists, Criminals (Pix) by Petenoir(m): 9:35am On Dec 21, 2020
You will be surprised that these things work but immediately. I pity the children of the perpetrators of these evils.

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Phones / Re: Help! Google Is Not Accepting My Debit Cards. by Petenoir(m): 5:28am On Nov 24, 2020
Deicide:
it doesn't matter the type of card he is using Google would never accept it since he is from Nigeria....he would have to do some walk around to get it to accept
What type of walk around. I don't understand pls.
Phones / Re: Help! Google Is Not Accepting My Debit Cards. by Petenoir(m): 5:27am On Nov 24, 2020
Godson19:
Get yourself a Google play card instead... I'm certain u will b able to purchase whatever is needed
How do I get a Google card?
Phones / Help! Google Is Not Accepting My Debit Cards. by Petenoir(m): 3:45am On Nov 23, 2020
I tried adding my card on Google Play store to enable me make payments to buy or upgrade some Apps but it's been impossible. I keep getting same messages for all the cards I tried adding. I've contacted Google support but they couldn't help. Pls anybody experiencing same issue here?
Travel / African Migrants 'left To Die' In Saudi Arabia by Petenoir(m): 6:53pm On Aug 30, 2020
African migrants 'left to die' in Saudi Arabia’s hellish Covid detention centres

“Plenty of inmates are suicidal or suffering from mental illnesses as a result of living this for five months,” said one prisoner

Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest countries on earth, is keeping hundreds if not thousands of African migrants locked in heinous conditions reminiscent of Libya’s slave camps as part of a drive to stop the spread of Covid-19, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found.

Graphic mobile phone images sent to the newspaper by migrants held inside the detention centres show dozens of emaciated men crippled by the Arabian heat lying shirtless in tightly packed rows in small rooms with barred windows.

One photo shows what appears to be a corpse swathed in a purple and white blanket in their midst. They say it is the body of a migrant who had died of heatstroke and that others are barely getting enough food and water to survive.

Another image, too graphic to publish, shows a young African man hanged from a window grate in an internal tiled wall. The adolescent killed himself after losing hope, say his friends, many of whom have been held in detention since April.

The migrants, several displaying scars on their backs, claim they are beaten by guards who hurl racial abuse at them. “It’s hell in here. We are treated like animals and beaten every day,” said Abebe, an Ethiopian who has been held at one of the centres for more than four months.

Migrants are scarred following beatings by the guards
Migrants are scarred following beatings by the guards CREDIT: Telegraph exclusive
“If I see that there is no escape, I will take my own life. Others have already,” he added via an intermediary who was able to communicate on a smuggled phone.

“My only crime is leaving my country in search of a better life. But they beat us with whips and electric cords as if we were murderers.”

The images and testimony have sparked outrage among human rights activists, and have particular resonance in light of the global Black Lives Matter protests.

"Photos emerging from detention centres in southern Saudi Arabia show that authorities there are subjecting Horn of Africa migrants to squalid, crowded, and dehumanising conditions with no regard for their safety or dignity,” said Adam Coogle, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in the Middle East, after being shown the images by The Sunday Telegraph.

“The squalid detention centres in southern Saudi Arabia fall well short of international standards. For a wealthy country like Saudi Arabia, there’s no excuse for holding migrants in such deplorable conditions," Mr Coogle added.

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has long exploited migrant labour from Africa and Asia. In June 2019, an estimated 6.6m foreign workers made up about 20 per cent of the Gulf nation’s population, most occupying low paid and often physically arduous jobs.

The migrants work mainly in construction and manual domestic roles that Saudi nationals prefer not to do themselves. Many are from South Asia, but a large contingent come from the Horn of Africa, which lies across the Red Sea.

The detention centres identified by The Sunday Telegraph house mainly Ethiopian men and there are said to be others packed with women.

Over the last decade, tens of thousands of young Ethiopians have made their way to the Gulf state, often aided by Saudi recruitment agents and people traffickers, in a bid to escape poverty back home.

They have been trapped partly as a result of the pandemic but also by the ‘Saudization’ of the kingdom’s workforce, a policy introduced by Muhamad Bin Salman, the Crown Prince who took power three years ago.

Dozens of emaciated men crippled by the Arabian heat inside one of Saudi Arabia's detention centres CREDIT: Telegraph exclusive
The testimonies gathered by The Sunday Telegraph directly from migrants on encrypted channels about the conditions they now find themselves in are harrowing.

“Plenty of inmates are suicidal or suffering from mental illnesses as a result of living this for five months,” said one. “The guards mock us, they say ‘your government doesn’t care, what are we supposed to do with you?”

“A young boy, about sixteen, managed to hang himself last month. The guards just throw the bodies out back as if it was trash,” said another.

When the pandemic struck in March, the Saudi government in the capital Riyadh feared the migrants, who are often housed in overcrowded conditions, would act as vectors for the virus.

Almost 3,000 Ethiopians were deported by the Saudi security services back to Ethiopia in the first ten days of April and a leaked UN memo said a further 200,000 were to follow. A moratorium was then placed on the deportations after international pressure was brought to bear on Riyadh.

The Sunday Telegraph has found many of the migrants who were slated for deportation five months ago have been left to rot in disease-ridden detention centres. “We have been left to die here,” said one, who said he has been locked in a room the size of a school classroom and not been outside since March.

“Covid19? Who knows?, he added, “There are a lot of diseases here. Everyone is sick here; everyone has something.”

The images smuggled out show many of those held are plagued by disfiguring skin infections. They claim they have received no medical treatment.

“We eat a tiny piece of bread in the day and rice in the evening. There’s almost no water, and the toilets are overflowing. It spills over to where we eat. The smell, we grow accustomed to. But there’s over a hundred of us in a room, and the heat is killing us,” said another young Ethiopian man.

A short video clip smuggled out shows several rooms covered with filth from an overflowing squat toilet. One Ethiopian man can be heard shouting out: “The toilets are clogged. We tried unblocking them, but we’re unable to. So we live in this filth, we sleep in it too.”

“To [the Saudis] or even to Abiy, it’s like we’re ants. When we die, it’s as if an ant died, no one cares or pays attention,” the man added, referring to Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Saudi Arabia is deeply stratified by race and cast. African migrants enjoy few legal rights and many complain of exploitation, sexual and racial abuse from employers.

New laws further limiting the rights and employment prospects of foreign labourers were introduced in 2013 and crackdowns have continued under the rule of the young Crown Prince Muhamad Bin Salman, who took power in 2017.

The Sunday Telegraph was able to geolocate two of the centres. One is in Al Shumaisi, near the holy city of Mecca and one is in Jazan, a port town near Yemen. There are believed to be others housing thousands of Ethiopians.

Migrants in each of the centres said there were hundreds of them in each room. Satellite imagery shows there are several buildings at both centres, meaning there may be far more migrants in each centre who are uncontactable.

Several of the migrants said they had been rounded up from their homes in various Saudi Arabian cities before being placed in the camps. Others are African refugees from war-torn Yemen.

Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch reported that Houthi forces used Covid-19 as a pretext to expel thousands of Ethiopian migrants into neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

Testimonies gathered by the NGO say that the Houthis killed dozens of Ethiopians and forced others at gunpoint over the Saudi border. Saudi border guards then fired on the fleeing migrants, killing dozens more.

“Saudi Arabia, a wealthy country, has long held undocumented migrants including many from the Horn of Africa in conditions that are so crowded, unsanitary, and appalling that migrants often emerge traumatised or sick,” said Mr Coogle.

“It’s fair to question whether Saudi authorities are purposefully allowing these detention conditions to exist in order to punish migrants,” he added.

The Sunday Telegraph approached the Saudi Arabian embassy in London for comment but had not received any at the time of going to press.

A representative of the Ethiopian government in the Middle East was also unsuccessfully approached for comment.

*Migrants' names have been changed to protect their identities.

© Telegraph Media Group

Romance / Re: Discovered My Husband’s Secret Lifestyle: An Accident Or Divine Revelation? by Petenoir(m): 9:32pm On Aug 20, 2020
La click la homosexual
Crime / Identity Thieves Inflict Tears, Losses On Nigerians by Petenoir(m): 9:54am On Aug 14, 2020
Identity Thieves Inflict Tears, Losses on Nigerians

Nigerian financial system has been jolted by a new wave of cyber threats targeting Nigerians, banks, e-commerce and other daily financial activities.

This is as the COVID-19 pandemic forced drastic changes in e-commerce and mobile banking ;creating along an entirely new target set for malicious actors to exploit weaknesses in remote corporate networks, merchant e-commerce sites and financial institutions dealing with massive increases in mobile banking transactions.

Identity fraud and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) scams are now so rampant that banks, switching companies, the police and users are having sleepless nights.

They are the works of organized crime groups who are leveraging specialist providers of cybercrime tools and services to conduct a wide range of crimes against financial institutions, including ransomware campaigns, distributed denial of service attacks, business email compromise scams and access mining

In simple term, identity theft otherwise known as identity fraud is the misappropriation of another person’s identifying information (birth date, address and maybe phone number , pin numbers and so on) for financial gains.

Nigeria CommunicationsWeek investigations revealed that using what is known as phishing, the criminals would send fraudulent SMS and email to victims directing them fake Web sites where they are asked to input sensitive data.

In the emails, the criminals had attachments that, when clicked, secretly install “spyware” that can capture personal information and send it to third parties over the Internet.

With the information supplied by victims, the criminals successfully break into the victims’ bank accounts leaving tales of woes and losses.

In other cases, they disguise themselves as bank representatives, and also use the palliatives from the government as bait to collect customers BVNs and other key banking details. Nigerian banks have implored customers to be vigilant.

They said that they have observed a worrying increase in reports of fraudsters targeting unsuspecting customers. Victor Etuokwu, executive director, Retail Banking, Access Bank Plc., said that “Access Bank is imploring its customers to be wary of any message, demanding their personal or bank details. Customers must remember that the Bank will never ask for their BVN, full card PAN, PIN, mobile app activation code, OTP or password as it is readily available to the Bank via its database.

“Any call, email and text message, claiming to be from Access Bank demanding for any of these details is certainly a scam,” he concluded.

A source at the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) said that the development was being monitored and that the Commission is inviting useful information that would help burst the ring.

Copyright © 2020 Guardian Newspapers.

Foreign Affairs / Re: The Woman Who Won $12m Fighting Lead Battery Poisoners by Petenoir(m): 10:57am On Aug 02, 2020
Texman21:
Let's hope the mod grace the fp with this woman inspiring story.

There's no snake or slay queen's unclothedness here so no fp for this story.
Foreign Affairs / The Woman Who Won $12m Fighting Lead Battery Poisoners by Petenoir(m): 2:34pm On Aug 01, 2020
After a decade of campaigning, Kenyan environmental activist Phyllis Omido won a court ruling that awarded $12m (£9.2m) to a community poisoned by lead pollution from a nearby factory, as the BBC's Basillioh Mutahi reports.

When, in 2009, Ms Omido explained to her employer that their business of battery recycling could "end up killing" the people living near the plant, she was asked never to talk about it again.

This was the first of many times she was told to be quiet, but she did not do as she was told.

At 31, the business management graduate had just joined Kenya Metal Refineries, a firm in the coastal city of Mombasa which was recycling car batteries to extract the lead.

Toxic fumes
She had been asked to commission an environmental impact assessment, but when she presented the expert's report the company directors did not act on its findings.

The battery melting process emitted both toxic fumes and a discharge that seeped into the neighbouring densely populated Owino Uhuru community. It affected both the air and the water, causing illnesses the residents could not understand.

It also had an impact on the employees.

But at that point in 2009, Ms Omido did not know the extent of the problems - or the level of damage to the environment.

From childhood, she had always loved nature and had wanted to study something to do with the environment at university.

But her guardians in Mombasa - where she had moved after the death of her mother 15 years earlier in western Kenya - urged her to take a course that would enable her to get an office job.

A mystery illness
The problem was that the office job she had taken was with a company that did not seem to care for what she loved.

Despite concerns, Ms Omido continued working for the company and in 2010 her two-year-old son fell ill. He underwent treatments and tests, but he did not get better and the problem could not be identified.

Things got so bad that he was admitted to hospital and it was then that a friend suggested that the child should be tested for lead poisoning.

It turned out he had dangerously high levels of lead in his blood.

Blood and kidneysas well as other organs call all be affected

Childrenare particularly vulnerable to the impact on the brain

Battery recycling,e-waste and paint are among the biggest sources of poisoning

The discovery that her son had lead poisoning - perhaps ingested from breastmilk - shocked her.

Ms Omido was angry. She quit her job, while pushing for the company to pay for her son's treatment.

She also had tests done on three other children from the community. Her fears were confirmed.

Armed with the test results, Ms Omido started writing to government agencies seeking action to stop the pollution.

They ignored her, she says.

The National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) "in fact wrote back to me and said what I was saying was fictitious and they were ready to defend it in a court of law", she told the BBC.

Nema had been partly responsible for licensing the factory in the first place.

She wanted to prove that it was no fiction so with funding from an environmental organisation, she organised for more lead poisoning tests to be done.

Ms Omido then felt she had the evidence, but her determination to make her case led to frequent run-ins with the authorities.

"I just took it a day at a time. We were just depending on goodwill. When I was arrested for instance, I didn't even have money for bail. And I had 17 people to bail out."

She was detained for one night in 2012 and charged with inciting violence after organising a march in Mombasa.

Two legal charities, Front Line Defenders and the East African Law Society, helped with the money and defence. The campaigners were acquitted because of a lack of evidence.

She was often scared because of being harassed by the authorities. An attack by unidentified armed men just outside her home terrified her so much that she went into hiding for months.

"I only survived because my neighbour arrived at that time. His car lights shone on the place where I had been hit and had fallen on the ground, and my son was screaming," she says.

At one point, members of Ms Omido's family were also unhappy. They argued that she was not being fair to her son, who saw her being mistreated by the authorities.

But the campaigner says she felt indebted to the community because "there were so many people who believed in me and paid a very high price for that".

She remembers one "heart-breaking" incident in 2011 when the police arrived and fired tear gas after a community meeting.

"They then ransacked people's houses on the pretext of looking for illegal substances," she says.

"These are poor people who earn so little. I wish they would have arrested me instead."

Despite the setbacks, Ms Omido fought for more than 10 years to get the case to court and get a decision to go the community's way.

The $12m award is supposed to be paid jointly by the government agencies that were found to have been negligent as well as the directors of the company, which shut down in 2014.

The judge also ordered the government to clean Owino Uhuru within four months, saying failure to act would result in a fine.

Ms Omido says that "money cannot even compensate" for what the 3,000-strong community has been through. Nevertheless, the funds can be used for treatment and medication.

But this may not be the end of the journey as she does not believe the money will be immediately forthcoming as the government has a poor record of paying compensation ordered by the courts.

It has until the middle of September to pay up. If it fails, then Ms Omido will not keep quiet.

Copyright © 2020 BBC.

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Car Talk / Re: Toyota Camry Begins Shipping Their Kekenapep Product To Nigeria by Petenoir(m): 1:28pm On Aug 01, 2020
Thelucifer666:

What do you people gain from spreading false news?

Bros, it's for the clicks. La click La Benderize grin

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Investment / Forex And Gambling by Petenoir(m): 12:50pm On Jul 28, 2020
Which one is safer between Forex and Gambling?
Over to you guys...
Phones / Re: My New Techno Camon 15 Showing Earpieces While There Is None by Petenoir(m): 9:36am On Jul 25, 2020
Hope you didn't buy a cloned phone?

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Crime / Re: Hushpuppi In Tears: Looks Like Been Released From US Prison(pix,video) by Petenoir(m): 4:31pm On Jul 23, 2020

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Technology Market / Re: List Of Required Audio Equipment For Nightclubs In Nigeria by Petenoir(m): 11:01am On Jul 23, 2020
Do you offer instalment payment arrangement? I'm really interested
Phones / Re: . by Petenoir(m): 8:29am On Jul 23, 2020
Your memory card is corrupted (damaged) . Get another one fast
Politics / Re: Don't Share The Video Of Boko Haram Shooting The 5 Aid Workers - Reno Omokri by Petenoir(m): 8:16am On Jul 23, 2020
XXXXTENTACION:
too bad cry



our leaders will not take this boko haram serious until one prominent politician is killed .


fu€king headslamers.


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Boko Haram can never kill any prominent Nigerian, forget it. Why will they kill their sponsors?

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Crime / Re: Police Arrest 25 Kenyan Teenagers For Shooting Pornography by Petenoir(m): 6:39pm On Jul 22, 2020
overdrive:
grin

Fakest of the Fakest Story grin
Family / Couple Name Son Lucifer Despite Objections From Registrar by Petenoir(m): 5:59pm On Jul 22, 2020
Couple name son Lucifer despite objections from registrar over satanic connotations
Father says he did not expect to get 'so much grief' over name associated with Devil
A couple has claimed they were told their four-month-old son “would not succeed in life” after they tried to officially register his name as Lucifer.
Dan and Mandy Sheldon, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, said they lodged an official complaint against Derbyshire County Council over a registrar who tried to discourage them from choosing the name, which is often used as a moniker for the Devil.
Mr Sheldon claimed the couple thought it was a “unique name” and said they did not expect to get “so much grief about it”.
“We were really excited to go and get him registered but the woman looked at us in utter disgust,” he told The Sun.
“She told us he would never be able to get a job, and that teachers wouldn’t want to teach him.
Most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2018 revealed
“I tried to explain that we are not religious people, and Lucifer in Greek means ‘light-bringer’ and ‘morning’ but she wouldn’t listen.”
He added: “She even told us that it was illegal to name a child that in New Zealand and that maybe we could name him something else but refer to him as Lucifer at home.”
The UK does not have laws banning specific names but those which contain obscenities or numerals can be rejected by a registrar.
New Zealand, which has tougher restrictions on naming children, had Lucifer on a list of banned names published in 2013, along with “Christ” and royal titles such as “King”, “Prince” and “Princess”.
A spokesperson for Derbyshire County Council said the registrar had done the right thing by raising her concerns about the couple’s choice of name before allowing it.
“Our registrar felt it was her duty to ensure the couple were aware the name Lucifer had negative connotations and that their son may encounter issues with the name through his life due to its associations,” the spokesperson said.
As the couple were unhappy with the advice, the spokesperson said the registrar contacted the General Register Office for further guidance.
An official at the General Register Office agreed she had acted correctly in advising the parents “with the best interests of the child in mind”.

“Despite the advice, the couple said they still wished to proceed and name their son Lucifer, and the registrar continued with the registration,” the spokesperson added.

“We apologise if they were offended but it is the job of our registrars to advise in these matters as sometimes people are not aware of certain meanings or associations around certain names.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lucifer-baby-name-derbyshire-county-council-satan-dan-mandy-sheldon-a9632751.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1595434469

Family / Re: Reason Why Rema Is Disrespectful by Petenoir(m): 9:01pm On Jul 16, 2020
Most of artistes sing rubbish these days. This is just another thrash to the collection.

No more respect for the elders. How can you mention your Grandma's mate full name in a derogatory manner?

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Sports / Re: I Need Help! Bet9ja Has Finished My Life. by Petenoir(m): 8:27pm On Jul 16, 2020
Totoscatter212:
17 year old boy who won millions in bet9ja is now building house its indeed a game of luck

A story proudly sponsored by bet9ja.

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