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Crime › Re: Robbery Attack At Lekki: How The Bandits Struck by rafcrown(m): 5:05pm On Mar 14, 2015
ONLY 5 ARMED ROBBERS.POLICE SHOULD DESIGN A STRATEGY OF WINNING AND DEFEATING 100 ARMED ROBBERS,DAY OR NIGHT.
Travel › Re: General German Visa Enquiries Part 2 by rafcrown(m): 3:45am On Mar 14, 2015
I am badly looking for any kind of work in the Bavaria area of Germany.
Just learning the language
I have permission to work.
ANY GOOD PERSON to guide and direct or supply info
rafcrownus@yahoo.com
Politics › Re: What Is Wrong With This Outfit Of President Jonathan? by rafcrown(m): 12:32am On Mar 14, 2015
ALHAJI,PASTOR,EVANGELIST,OLUWO,GEJ?
A DROWNING MAN WILL CATCH AT STRAWS - "A desperate person will try anything to save himself, no matter how unlikely. The proverb has been traced back to 'Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation' (1534) by Thomas More (1478-1535)
Romance › Re: Ladies & Their Craze For Butt Pads... by rafcrown(m): 1:02am On Mar 13, 2015
STREET NAMES
IDI ARERE
IDI MANGORO
IDI OSE
IDI IKAN
IDI OPARUN
IDI ELEGE ETC
Properties › Re: Pls Urgent Response Needed, How Much Will It Cost To Build House Like This(pics by rafcrown(m): 7:01pm On Mar 12, 2015
ralmix:
ibeeeree
wait lemme ask ifa
ANY GOOD REPLY FROM IFA OLOKUN?
Politics › Foreign Mercenaries To Take On Boko Haram by rafcrown(op): 6:55pm On Mar 12, 2015
Nigeria Drafts Foreign Mercenaries To Take On Boko Haram
Reuters
Posted: 12/03/2015 09:21 GMT Updated: 44 minutes ago
BOKO HARAM
* Foreign soldiers spotted in northeast Nigeria

* South African, ex-Soviet soldiers bolster Boko Haram fight

* Nigerian president speaks of "trainers and technicians"

* Pretoria says any deployment 'illegal'

By Ed Cropley and David Lewis

JOHANNESBURG/DAKAR, March 12 (Reuters) - Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give its offensive against Boko Haram a shot in the arm before a March 28 election, according to regional security, defense and diplomatic sources.

Rumors about the use of foreign "soldiers of fortune" against the Islamist militant group gained substance this month when pictures surfaced on Twitter showing armored vehicles rumbling along a street in what was said to be Maiduguri, the regional capital of Nigeria's Boko Haram-hit northeast.

In one photo that appeared on Twitter on March 6, a white man in a khaki tee-shirt and body armor is shown beside a heavy-caliber machine gun on top of one of the sand-colored vehicles as the column drives through the streets at dusk.

A Reuters reporter with knowledge of Maiduguri was able to verify the location of the photo as the Bama road, leading southeast out of the city, near the University of Maiduguri.

Election campaign posters of Borno state governor Kashim Shettima hanging from street lights indicate it was taken recently. The lights, notable for their ornate ironwork, were only installed last year.

In confirming the presence of hundreds of foreign military contractors on the ground, including recently in the city of Maiduguri, security and diplomatic sources put the total much higher than the hundred or so previously reported.

Nigerian government spokesman Mike Omeri declined to comment, referring questions to military spokesman Chris Olukolade, who also declined to respond to multiple requests for comment.

In an interview with Voice of America late on Wednesday, President Goodluck Jonathan said two companies were providing "trainers and technicians" to help Nigerian forces. He did not name the firms, or the nationalities, or give numbers.

But a West African security source and a South African defense source said the foreign troops were linked to the bosses of former South African private military firm Executive Outcomes.

Executive Outcomes was best-known for its involvement in Angola's 1975-2002 civil war and against Revolutionary United Front rebels in an internal conflict in Sierra Leone in 1995. It disbanded in 1998, under pressure from the post-apartheid government in Pretoria to curtail mercenary activities.

The West African security source said several hundred foreigners were involved in running major offensive operations against Boko Haram, and were being paid around $400 a day in cash.

Their impact on the fighting so far could not be quantified, but the general run of the campaign has seen the tide turn somewhat against Boko Haram in recent weeks.

Separately, a South African defense contractor confirmed to Reuters that ex-Executive Outcomes leaders were involved in the deployment, which comes after the six-week postponement of elections in mid-February due to the threat from Boko Haram.

One Abuja-based diplomat said the South Africans were backed by soldiers and hardware from the former Soviet Union in an alliance against Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in its six-year campaign to establish an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria.

"It's an incoherent mix of people, helicopters and random kit from all sorts of different sources, but there is an element of internal cohesion from the Nigerian army," the diplomat said.

"It appears to be a desperate ploy to get some sort of tactical success up there in six weeks for the electoral boost," the diplomat added. The numbers of soldiers involved were in the "low hundreds," the diplomat added.


"NO BUSINESS TO BE THERE"

John Stupart, editor of African Defense Review, identified the troop carriers as Reva III, manufactured by a Pretoria-based company called Integrated Convoy Protection.

After reports of South African military trainers first surfaced in the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper in January, Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapise-Nqakula made clear her displeasure, saying any deployment would be illegal under 1998 anti-mercenary laws.

"They are mercenaries, whether they are training, skilling the Nigerian defense force, or scouting for them. The point is they have no business to be there," she was quoted as saying in domestic media this month.

South Africa bans its nationals from participating directly in hostilities for private gain. Georgia, seen as a major source of mercenaries, has laws before parliament criminalizing participation in a broad range of foreign military activities.

Reuters was unable to reach the former bosses of Executive Outcomes through military contacts in South Africa.

The appearance of foreign private soldiers comes four months after Nigeria's ambassador to the United States said Washington was not helping the struggle against Boko Haram, and had failed to share intelligence and sell Nigeria the weapons it needed.

The presence of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union adds to the broad array of forces lining up against Boko Haram, which has emerged in the last few years as sub-Saharan Africa's biggest security threat.

Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin have committed troops to an 8,700-strong regional force. This week, Chad and Niger launched a joint military offensive deep into Nigerian territory.

U.S. and European special forces have just completed three weeks of war games with regional counterparts near Lake Chad, one of boundaries of a Boko Haram sphere of influence thought at one time to be the size of Belgium. (Additional reporting by Tim Cocks, Isaac Abrak, Julia Payne and Lanre Ola; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Travel › Re: How Much Does It Cost To Get Police Report From Alagbon? by rafcrown(m):
THANKS A LOT.
Travel › Re: How Much Does It Cost To Get Police Report From Alagbon? by rafcrown(m): 8:09pm On Mar 10, 2015
Please how can I get the Police Clearance Certificate fast ?.I am not based in Nigeria-I want it to be a genuine one and wish to have my fingerprints there to make it a standard one.Please your advice is badly needed.
Travel › Re: Nigerians In Netherlands by rafcrown(m): 2:16pm On Mar 10, 2015
How can I get any kind of job in the Netherlands?ANY JOB AND IN ANY PART of the country.I am officially qualified to work.
Crime › Re: Gov Al-makura’s Aide Daughter's Head Beheaded By Suspected Ritualists by rafcrown(m): 1:21pm On Mar 10, 2015
THEY KILL WITH PERFECT IMPUNITY.POLITICIANS.
Politics › Re: Boko Haram Has Not Killed Chibok Girls - President Jonathan by rafcrown(m): 3:44pm On Mar 05, 2015
ANOTHER CLUELESS POINT
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RAPING THEM AND THEIR GENERAL SAFETY/WELL BEING.
Crime › Re: Female Student Raped By Boys After Touching Her With Ring by rafcrown(m): 2:22am On Mar 05, 2015
TRAINED IN INDIA ?
Politics › Re: "Never Again "- Latest Slogan In The Camp Of Nigerian Army by rafcrown(m): 9:22pm On Feb 27, 2015
Rich4god:
Never again will an old man rule us...
NEVER AGAIN WILL ANY BELOW AVERAGE ,CLUELESS ,SLEEPING,LEADER RULE US.
Politics › Re: Military Takes Delivery Of Two Jets Loaded With Weapons by rafcrown(m): 10:18am On Feb 27, 2015
FOR BOKO HARAM OR THE DELTA RATS OR FOR 2015 ELECTIONShuh?
Politics › Re: Photos 4rm The Mass Burial Of Bayelsa Women Who Died After Visitin Dame Jonathan by rafcrown(m): 12:01am On Feb 27, 2015
POLITICIANS AND BLOOD,BLOOD AND DEATH AND VICTORY LATER ON.BLOOD SHARING?DIAA RIIS GODU OOOOO !!!!!!!!!!
Politics › Re: Fayose Describes U K Hospital Where Buhari Is Receiving Treatment by rafcrown(m): 7:49pm On Feb 22, 2015
RECOMMENDATION OF CERTIFICATE OF MENTAL FITNESS BEFORE BECOMING A GOMINA/GOV.
Politics › Re: 615 Terrorist killed In Both Air And Ground Attacks In Sambista Forest - Pic by rafcrown(m): 9:26pm On Feb 21, 2015
lol,nice observation.
helphelp:
Could this be stagedhuh

I mean, no single blood...or dem bath dem
Crime › Re: Nigerian Woman Gangraped In Delhi Indian by rafcrown(m): 7:16pm On Feb 21, 2015
INDIAN MEN RAPING INDIAN WOMEN,No great concern to me,though rape is a great crime,to me.But when they trespass to another nation-its more than a crime.Hang them all-SHAMELESS RAPISTS.
Family › Re: Wife Brings Fake Father To Represent PZ’S Baby Moment Winner by rafcrown(m): 7:04pm On Feb 21, 2015
THAT MAN MAYBE THE SOURCE OF HER RUDENESS.The new lover?
Politics › Re: Governor Fayose Accuses Buhari Of Embarking On Secret Medical Visit Abroad by rafcrown(m): 7:37pm On Feb 20, 2015
SOME POLITICIANS WILL VERY SOON REGRET ever been born or delving into politics.
Travel › Re: I Came To Nigeria To Eat, Marry – Illegal Immigrant by rafcrown(m): 7:35pm On Feb 20, 2015
POTENTIAL BOKO HARAM MEMBERS.TO EAT AND FIGHT and marry CHIBOK GIRLS?
Jobs/Vacancies › Why You Should Never Swear At Strangers On The Train... by rafcrown(op): 7:21pm On Feb 20, 2015
Commuter told to go 'f*** yourself' on Tube interviews abuser an hour later

Why you should never swear at strangers on the train...

By Ruth Doherty, Feb 20, 2015

Britain Subway StrikeASSOCIATED PRESS


A HR executive travelling to work on the Tube was told to go f*** himself by a fellow passenger - who he later interviewed for a job.

Matt Buckland was the victim of the angry rant as he took the Tube in the morning rush hour.

He was barged out of the way and verbally abused as the man rushed to get off the train at Monument station.

According to the Metro, Matt said: "I explained I was getting off too but he pushed past and then looked back and suggested I might like to go f*** myself."

The later that day the same man turned up for an interview with Matt.

And he took to Twitter to relay the incident. He wrote: "Karma - the guy who pushed past me on the tube and then suggested I go F myself just arrived for his interview...with me..."



The man did not immediately recognise Matt but came to realise his mistake, which Mr Buckland had a good sense of humour about.

Speaking to the Mirror, he said: "I hinted at it and eventually he realised.

"Laughed it off and carried on. The Tube makes everyone cranky smiley."

Matt said the man did not get the job, but not because of the incident, just because he was not right for it.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he said: "It would be easy to hold something like this over someone in an interview, but for me interviews aren't about that.

"When you interview you are looking for a read of skills but also to know if that person is a real human being, it's about that connection.

"By the end of the interview we laughed it off and were both happy."

And, if you're looking for a job, Matt's still looking for an applicant - just don't swear at him on the way to the interview.
Politics › Re: Battle Of Party Headties, Who Wore It Better by rafcrown(m): 5:29pm On Feb 20, 2015
APC-SIMPLE AND CLOSE TO THE MASSES STYLE
PDD-CLUELESS AND EXTRAVAGANT STYLE.
MAMA PEACE-WELL FED AND Wish to enjoy more and more.Give others chance to grow big too.
Politics › Re: Battle Of Party Headties, Who Wore It Better by rafcrown(m): 5:23pm On Feb 20, 2015
ANY FEED BACK FROM IFA? OR U CAN ASK GOOGLE IF IFA IS SILENT?
firstolalekan:
Well, lemme ask ifa first.
Politics › Re: Why I Directed PDP Ward Leader To Tear My Membership Card - Obasanjo by rafcrown(m): 1:57am On Feb 20, 2015
I always give total support and respect to OBJ,EBORA OF AFRICA.
Sports › Chelsea Fans 'prevent Black Man From Boarding Train In Paris' by rafcrown(op): 1:49pm On Feb 18, 2015
Chelsea Fans 'Prevent Black Man From Boarding Train In Paris' In Shocking Footage
PA | Press Association
Posted: 18/02/2015 08:24 GMT Updated: 3 hours ago


Chelsea Football Club has said it is prepared to ban fans who prevented a black man getting onto a train in Paris before they declared: "We're racist and that's the way we like it".

Footage posted online shows the commuter apparently trying to board a metro train in the French capital but a group of football fans are shown shouting at and gesturing to him before pushing him out of the carriage when he steps in.

On a second attempt he points to a space where he could stand but is pushed away again as he steps forward, before the group of males erupt into a chant while other commuters look on from the platform bewildered.

chelsea fans

The fans push the man out of the train

The supporters are thought to have been travelling to the Parc des Princes ground for the Champions League match against Paris St Germain last night which ended in a draw.

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Chelsea released a statement condemning the incident and said it will take action if members are found to be involved.

"Such behaviour is abhorrent and has no place in football or society," the club said.

"We will support any criminal action against those involved, and should evidence point to involvement of Chelsea season-ticket holders or members the club will take the strongest possible action against them, including banning orders."
Politics › Re: Jonathan Sends Ministerial-Nominees List To Senate by rafcrown(m): 11:13pm On Feb 17, 2015
NEW MINISTERS TILL MAY 2015.OR THEY WILL CONTINUE IN OTUEKE.WELCOME PARTY IN PROGRESS
Politics › Re: Thugs In Army Uniform Attack APC Members, Kidnap 4 (Pics) by rafcrown(m): 6:43pm On Feb 15, 2015
GEJ TILL 2015.FROM 2015-2019 OTUEKE.
ozoigbondu:
Another trash from lying APC.Even if it did happen it was a clash between APC and PDP nobody knows who started it.
APC might have even staged the attack on themselves to gain sympathy votes any way the police is still investigating


GEJ till 2019
Politics › Re: Goodluck Jonathan Visited Me In A Dream by rafcrown(m): 6:23pm On Feb 15, 2015
BEWARE OF BAD LUCK.PERIOD
Politics › Re: Buhari Supporters In London Campaign In The Streets With Their Brooms (Pics) by rafcrown(m): 2:20am On Feb 15, 2015
GEJ TILL 2015.2015-2019 OTUEKE.
Jobs/Vacancies › Fired For A Tweet - Before Starting The Job by rafcrown(op): 2:36am On Feb 11, 2015
Fired for a tweet - before starting the job
Pizzeria owner not amused
By Emma Woollacott, Feb 10, 2015
The tweets from Cella and Robert Waple@Cellla_ / @Robertwaple / Twitter

It takes some doing to get fired from your new job before you've even started. But one Twitter user going by the name of Cella has managed it.

She'd bagged a job at local pizzeria Jet's Pizza in Texas, and was due to start last week - but wasn't pleased. "Ew I start this f*** a** job tomorrrow," she tweeted, with no fewer than seven thumbs-down emojis.

Her friends sympathised - but one person didn't.

"And... no you don't start that FA job today! I just fired you! Good luck with your no money, no job life!" replied prospective boss Robert Waple.

It seems that one of the pizzeria's other employees, who knew Cella, had screen-grabbed the tweet and showed it to the boss.

"I got fired over Twitter," tweeted Cella - with three laughing emojis.

"Working register (the till), taking phone orders, making subs/salads. Eating free pizza. How hard would that have been?" Mr Waple later commented.

"I would've just called her and fired her, but I wasn't at work and didn't have her number... probably one of the dumbest things to say about a job you haven't started yet."

The exchange has now gone viral on social media, and has even hit the news in places as far-flung as Norway and the Bahamas. Some Twitter users criticise Mr Waple for his harshness; others mock Cella for her stupidity.

But Cella is by no means the first person to lose a job because of ill-advised posts on social media. Five years ago, Essex teenager Kimberley Swann managed it almost as quickly as Cella.

"first day at work. omg!! So dull!!" she posted on her first day at Ivell Marketing & Logistics - after having added some of her co-workers as Facebook friends. Her boss said it was "unfortunate that we didn't come up to Miss Swann's expectations", and fired her immediately.

And just a couple of weeks ago, survival expert Ray Mears also managed to get himself fired from a job before even starting.

He'd accepted a gig speaking at the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show later this month. However, in January, the BBC aired an episode of Room 101 featuring Mears - and in which he described his utter loathing of caravans.

"There was no way we can now have him come along to speak at our event, commented one of the organisers. "He shouldn't have taken the job if he has fundamental issues with caravans."
Food › Re: Why Do Most People Forbid Okro Soup Especially At Parties??? by rafcrown(m): 9:58pm On Feb 09, 2015
WHAT IS KITTY CAT?
dancok:
a lady that give everyone kitty cat.

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