₦airaland Forum

ifenes:
You are always twisting words. I guess you are good with a physical human dying for you. That's some mental issue don't you think?

Winner01 is only trying to defend his belief even when he knows so little about it. I don't blame him

The church claimed Jesus is the light of the world. Esoterically it mean the human soul is the light of the body( temple) chakras. That is according to them, not me. Why don't you guys read?

There are books out there in the store

I enjoyed the God Delusion. Very thought-provoking

cramjones:
This is not the first time we would hear things like "automatic employment" or "automatic scholarships" in Nigeria. It has indeed become a national banter in the Nigerian political space. The latest one being PMB to the family members of the late James Ocholi, SAN. Let us see why this makes the government look bad, and why actions like this continually affirms that Nigeria is a failed state!

Firstly, what does automatic employment really mean? It simply means that whether qualified or unqualified, you would be given "job". This further shows that 90% of the work done in our Ministries are performed by unqualified people. In a country where actually work gets done, would never have any allowance for "automatic employment". Employment in any serious economy is based on merit and capability. The keyword is "capability". Even if you knew someone to get the job, you must be capable.

Secondly, this phenomenum shows that the job position was not needed in the first place. it was created based on emotions and the need to "compensate" a political family. What this means is that there would be virtually no work being done, but salary paid. Perhaps that is why there is no need to prove capability or qualification, because the position is simply created to pay someone salary, and not out of need to drive the goals of the ministry forward.

Thirdly, this attitude brings us to the big picture of the rot in our civil service. I met a young man recently who told me he worked in the civil service in Abuja, and only shows up to work twice a month! There is absolutely no how Nigeria can develop if we see government jobs as places to earn salary rather than to work. When work is not performed nothing moves. Could this be why Lagos seems to be the only city that is a bit insulated by the recession because the work for their money and do not rely solely on oil money where not work is needed?

Could the western world be right about their stereotype of blacks being lazy? Is it by fluke that Japan, South Korea, Germany and the rest of the pack are where they are today, while we wallow in our mediocrity, nepotism and lacadesical approach to work? GEJ did the same "automatic employment" to the family of those murdered as by the past Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, through the immigration employment scam. Rather than bring the killer minister to justice he did the so called "automatic employment".

Can Buhari and his government take a different turn, by bringing to light and fixing our dead emergency response system, dilapidated highways, and most especially fix our comatose, non-functional health care system. Won't this be a much better way to honor the family of the late James Ocholi?

I rest my case

-CramJones

Spot on. I think emotional compensation should stop. Afterall the late minister did not die carrying out his official duties.

Know2020:
I agree with that yorubas are religiously tolerant. My point is yoruba muslims are in control despite being less than christians in population.

Frankly, we don't care. That is why we are religiously tolerant. We see the man before his religion.

GurlFriend:
Be assured of 12 packs after this church program. Lol

www.lailasblog.com/2016/03/have-you-seen-this-hilarious-church.html

The hustle is real.

don4real18:
We will drink Zobo

Lol. Your head dey there.

PassingShot:
I think the combined factors of huge expectations from the govt, numerous promises by APC and the woeful performance of PDP and especially GEJ, are responsible for a rise in agitation from even many informed supporters.

What I am convinced of is that, without mindless corruption that was a common denominator in the past governments, this regime will eventually get us out of the woods.

I am really feeling the Economic crunch. Hell, I had to get a loan off my mum last week but 1 thing I know, with the mindless corruption gone, this regime will get us out of the woods or set us on the right path. It left for us to be patient.

PassingShot:
It's too early for that.

Like he was ever in support of Buhari.

scholes0:
Ki lo kan mi.....

Senseless deaths like this are one of nature's ways of weeding out the most useless members of a productive Society.

Natural selection, lol.

Funkychic:
Barely a month i got employed in a Microfinance bank for my SIWES, and my boss seriously wants a relationship with me!. Though, he's cute and handsome, but i can't just imagine dating someone working in d same organisation with me, not to talk of my boss. I av turned him down severally, but he has refused to take MY NO for an answer. ...what do i do to wave him aside and it wouldn't affect my job? I seriously need ur suggestions pls

You know that is sexual harassment, right?

BatmanIsWatching:
Read the story carefully. He didn't steal the car.

Did he ask for the owner's permission before taking the car? If the answer is no then technically he stole the car.

BatmanIsWatching:
Read the story carefully. He didn't steal the car.

Did he ask for the owner's permission before taking the car? If the answer is no the technically he stole the car.

jimharry21:
The only reason i love Buhari is because he is Buhari! There is nothing anybody can do about it. He is too rich ( morally) to be bought or sold. So am expecting some criminals in government to start voluntarily resigning there offices. God bless PMB and may God continue to bless Nigeria!

Make I start to dey dust my cv. E be like say vacancy go dey yapa soon.

Ekawu:
These criminals deserve a room in kirikiri

Make them pack them inside only one room abi? I am in total support.

peacengine:
She must be a witch

Have you ever heard of Post natal depression?

vybzkartel:
She wakes up at 6am

sometimes after 6 am

and i believe a virtuous wife should be waking up earlier

I am often up by 4am or 5 am

She wakes up late and doesnt pray

I have been diplomatic, harsh and all...but she hasnt changed. what do i do?

So your problem is that she doesn't pray? SMH, there are other ish going on in the world and all you can think of is that your wife gets up late and doesn't pray. Oh the religious mind.

Faith111:
Human beings always want to bite the finger that Fed them..
I remember how my mum took some relatives from the Villa who could not even say a word in English to School while helping with domestic needs...They were loyal and grateful until after about 2years when they knew their route and had gathered enough resource..immediately , thet started acting like they were doing us a favor, rented a room apartment and started feeling like they've arrived...
My mum just ignored them and before we cud say Jack, dey started dropping out of Sch.

Their younger ones keep calling me like they wanna stay with me I just keep them for cooler.
I prefer using outsiders and pay them monthly to ppl I know..
Those you know most times end up biting u.

Bros, something happens to your mum. Suspect them first.

doctokwus:
Tompolo is surely and steadily being moved to prison.
-He initially vehemently refused to answer any summon,the summon by efcc was made legal through a court charge.
-Next he threatened to wage war against the state if anyone dare comes anywhere close.Pipelines were blown off in his name.The govt stood its ground.
-He again ate the humble pie and lied that the bench warrant was pasted on d wrong address.Nothing changed.
-After realising the fruitlessness of all his schemes,he again ate another pie and got a SAN to today appear for him.Another warrant has been issued.
The logical next stage after tompolo was initially ill advised is for him to now advice himself that his appearing next in court himself is the only way out,less what happened to Asari in 2003 or so wud be child play.
I will advise tompolo that when he is coming he shud come with enough boxers,and shirts, a pack of toothpaste,spare mouth brush,a pack of bar soap and ogogoro,if allowed,because no judge is going to give him bail,and if any judge is drunk enough to mistakenly give him one,EFCC has a plethora of charges to continue rearresting him till the next election.

You forgot shaving stick.

KunleOshob:
@kx
It makes more sense to start a church under the RCCG umbrella since it is already a well known brand and with a little marketing effort customers would start flowing in, but with starting a new church attracting members might be a bit of a challenge. Only problem is that you would have to pay royalty [100% of tithes collected] to the RCCG franchise owners.this would basically reduce your profits but the bright side is that a few years down the line when you become popular you can dump the RCCG brand a start up your own brand with the clients you would have acquired using the RCCG brand like Pastor Bakare and pastor Rapu did when they left RCCG to start there own brands.

You forgot Ituah.

AreaFada2:
Abi o. Some fans follow Super Eagles to matches worldwide. Some follow Adele, Beyoncé & others too.

But do they ask Adele, Beyonce & others to help themm secure visas? The answer is a big no.

Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using London as a gateway into Europe.
It's 08:00 in the Catalan Police Headquarters on the outskirts of Barcelona and Xavi Cortes, head of the anti-trafficking unit, waits patiently for his 22 teams to confirm they are in position. Finally, he gives the order.
Two-hundred-and-fifty officers quietly climb out of their police vans. Single file, each team approaches a residential building watched by a few surprised neighbours.
On reaching the door, one of the masked police officers uses his fingers to count down. Three, two, one. The door is knocked down, the silence shattered, the officers rush inside.
The raid results in the arrest of the leaders of a Nigerian-based group running an international sex-trafficking ring in Barcelona. It's known as the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC), or the Air Lords, and 23 people are now behind bars, with European Arrest Warrants issued for those who have left the country.
This operation was 18 months in the planning and involved monitoring more than a million phone calls, tapping dozens of mobile phones and months of surveillance.
Cortes and his team first came across the group in 2011 during a forgery investigation, but quickly discovered it was a huge network trafficking women and drugs.
He asks me to look at his screen. On it is a map detailing all the locations they have identified where members of the SEC operate. Cities are marked in Europe, North, West and East Africa, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia.
Eiye in Yoruba, the main language of south-western Nigeria means "bird". The group's insignia is an eagle and each city containing members is called a "nest", with the "mother nest" in Ibadan, about 100km (60 miles) north-east of Lagos.
The group was started at the University of Ibadan in the 1970s, and the original intention was to make a positive contribution to society. Over time, however, many members went astray, committing violence in Nigeria and delving into crime abroad.
The group now traffics human beings and narcotics (cocaine and marijuana) and forges passports. It has also facilitated the transport of stolen crude oil into Europe.
"They are able to earn money in many ways, but we are focused on human-trafficking and the victims," says Cortes.
His second-in-command, Alex Escola, then tells me something remarkable.
"You know, one of the tappings showed us that last year, on 7 July, around 400 members of SEC met in Geneva. They had a big meeting, all together."
It was an audacious display of arrogance. In a city where many of the world's global institutions are headquartered, including numerous UN agencies, a global criminal institution held its own parallel international gathering and no-one tried to stop it.

Benin City, Nigeria, is a human-trafficking hub, and a good place to observe how the criminal operation works.
After long negotiations, our team manages to speak to a recruiter, whose job it is to find girls. The recruiter explains that they either approach girls directly or through their families offering fake jobs abroad in a supermarket, or as a cleaner.
However, not everyone is tricked. Many women approach the recruiters themselves, often in full knowledge that they will be working as a prostitute in Europe. Some parents, also aware of this, approach recruiters on behalf of their children.
Destiny, who was 19 when she was trafficked to Spain three years ago, told me she knew sex would be involved but had never imagined she would be turned into a sex slave.
"If you live in Benin, there are many girls who came back from [Spain] with lots of money. They told us they had to have sex sometimes," she says. "We are not stupid but I did not know I would be beaten and raped and have to have sex every night of the week."
NGOs in Benin City say many of the recruiters now look outside the major cities in order to find girls who have not heard their warnings about the reality of life for trafficked women, or the stories of those like Destiny who have returned and are now alerting others to the dangers.
Once recruited, the girls are then taken to Lagos or to northern Nigeria where they are picked up by men known as "coyotes" or "trolleys".

The journey to Europe is perilous. Wire taps reveal how coyotes transporting women were stopped by armed groups in the deserts of Niger or southern Libya demanding thousands of euros for them to pass.
"One phone call from a coyote to SEC showed how a coyote was saying, 'I have a gun on my head and they want money,'" says Cortes.
A woman who was herself trafficked tells me about other horrors.
"The journey took weeks," says Sarah, who arrived in Spain in 2013 at the age of 21. "One of the girls kept asking for water. The men did not like it so they threw her out in the desert in Libya. They left her and we continued the journey. They told the boss on the phone that she was killed by terrorists. We were not human beings. We were animals."
Once girls are trafficked across the desert, they are then taken to "keepers", who often rape them before they cross to Europe.
"When we got to Libya they put us in a house," says Sarah. "This is when I knew we would not be working in a supermarket. One man was taking care of us. He would have sex with us, rape us. Then I became pregnant."
Women who insist they will not work as prostitutes are tied up in a position called "the crocodile". Their hands tied to their feet, they are left for days with no food or water. Some are left to die as an example to others.
Keepers often get the women pregnant prior to making the crossing to Spain. With a child or pregnant, they stand a better chance of not being deported, and the men can use access to the child as a form of blackmail to keep the women under control.
Two years ago, at a time when the coyotes reported Libya had become too dangerous, recorded phone calls show that the girls were taken instead to Greece, via Yemen, Iran and Turkey. And today, as the Mediterranean becomes more difficult to cross - and the authorities try harder to detect traffickers - the SEC has begun to use airports in the UK more frequently.
"This is a more expensive option for the group," Cortes tells me. "They use forged documents and passports from Nigeria to fly into places like Gatwick. The language is also easier for them. These documents are expensive though and need co-operation of people working in the government to get."

The journey to Europe is perilous. Wire taps reveal how coyotes transporting women were stopped by armed groups in the deserts of Niger or southern Libya demanding thousands of euros for them to pass.
"One phone call from a coyote to SEC showed how a coyote was saying, 'I have a gun on my head and they want money,'" says Cortes.
A woman who was herself trafficked tells me about other horrors.
"The journey took weeks," says Sarah, who arrived in Spain in 2013 at the age of 21. "One of the girls kept asking for water. The men did not like it so they threw her out in the desert in Libya. They left her and we continued the journey. They told the boss on the phone that she was killed by terrorists. We were not human beings. We were animals."
Once girls are trafficked across the desert, they are then taken to "keepers", who often rape them before they cross to Europe.
"When we got to Libya they put us in a house," says Sarah. "This is when I knew we would not be working in a supermarket. One man was taking care of us. He would have sex with us, rape us. Then I became pregnant."
Women who insist they will not work as prostitutes are tied up in a position called "the crocodile". Their hands tied to their feet, they are left for days with no food or water. Some are left to die as an example to others.
Keepers often get the women pregnant prior to making the crossing to Spain. With a child or pregnant, they stand a better chance of not being deported, and the men can use access to the child as a form of blackmail to keep the women under control.
Two years ago, at a time when the coyotes reported Libya had become too dangerous, recorded phone calls show that the girls were taken instead to Greece, via Yemen, Iran and Turkey. And today, as the Mediterranean becomes more difficult to cross - and the authorities try harder to detect traffickers - the SEC has begun to use airports in the UK more frequently.
"This is a more expensive option for the group," Cortes tells me. "They use forged documents and passports from Nigeria to fly into places like Gatwick. The language is also easier for them. These documents are expensive though and need co-operation of people working in the government to get."

But clients, mostly tourists, may pay as little as 20 euros (£15) for sex, so this is often impossible.
After a night's work, girls return home and divide their earnings into three. One part goes to pay for the flat, the second to pay for food and the third goes to the SEC. If they are not earning enough or refuse to work, the madames may beat them.
Higher-ranking madames collect money from their subordinates to pass on to local SEC leaders known as ibakkas. Always men, the ibakkas run the whole operation. They facilitate payment through the hawala system - a form of money transfer based on trust and one that is difficult to trace.
Ibakkas make sure that if any of their girls step out of line, their families back home are threatened. Family members have been known to be abducted and "disappeared" when girls refuse to pay their madames.
One woman, Jessica, who was trafficked to Spain in 2009, says two of her daughters, now in their early 20s, left home in Benin to escape the gang. One is in Dubai, the other in Morocco waiting to cross to Spain.
But in escaping one group of traffickers, they have put themselves in the hands of another.
"In order to pay the debt, they will be prostitutes too," says Jessica.
Tragically, this is not an isolated case.
It's a few days after the raid and Cortes seems content. Back in the office, dressed in full uniform, he details the large quantities of phones, computers, fake passports and documents seized at the time of the arrests.
Despite that, there is a hint of frustration in his smile.
"The size of the network means those arrested will be replaced," he says.
According to recent wire taps, one of the major European co-ordinators of the group is looking to restructure the gang. The ibakka, based in London, was trying to get his 95 other European counterparts together for a meeting.
This kind of organised crime cannot simply be tackled locally. Arresting madames and taking women off the streets merely increases the demand for more women from Nigeria. This is an organised crime group, run by men, operating across the world. This is a network which requires a global police response.

tomiobj:
1.after party 2.look uche face 3.sha carry (his only song that makes sense) 4. Drake and meek mill diss 5. Hello. According to him. It Is his song. Adele did the cover

No 5 has got to be the funniest thing I have read this year!

dre11:
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/my-wife-is-more-sexually-responsive-after-i-beat-her-up/

Simple. Talk to her.

yinkuscious:
This is interesting #Some people won't get it

Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Palindrome sentences.

iliyande:
On hearing the news of Mourinho's sack, this embittered Chelsea fan burned his Chelsea jersy kit, denounced his support for chelsea and joined Arsenal.

Below is what he posted along with this photo

I'm fed up of Chelsea's sacking expedition. Now that Jose Mourinho has been fired. What am I still waiting for? Time to return to Arsenal, my first love afterall they never chased me & they will be proud to have me back. Goodbye Chelsea ! Goodbye Stamford Bridge ! Au revoir Roman Abrahamovic. Thanks for the memories..time to return home #Change

http://www.genechy.com/2015/12/chelsea-fan-quits-chelsea-burns-his.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

Lalasticlala

He should become a politician. Na so so decamp.

First of all, go down low (sorry I couldn't help it). You can always look up google to get tips on how to take care of a bird. Secondly whenever you are at home you need to take him/her from the cage. Yes, at first it would be difficult getting the bird back to the cage incase you want to go out, but practice makes perfect. Parrots from what I have read are quite loyal depending on the level of training they have had in their formative years. And they make lovely side attractions whenever you have guest around. Have fun and don't make let lovely bird die. Already you are distressing it by taking pics of it in the dark.

A Dutch appeals court ruled on Friday that Royal Dutch Shell can be held
liable for oil spills at its subsidiary in Nigeria, potentially opening the
way for other compensation claims against the multinational.
Judges in The Hague ordered Shell to make available to the court
documents that might shed light on the cause of the oil spills and whether
leading managers were aware of them.
Friday’s ruling overturned a 2013 finding by a lower Dutch court that
Shell’s Dutch-based parent company could not be held liable for spills at
its Nigerian subsidiary.
The legal dispute dates back to 2008, when four Nigerian farmers and the
campaign group Friends of the Earth filed a suit against the oil company
in the Netherlands , where its global headquarters is based.
“Shell can be taken to court in the Netherlands for the effects of the oil
spills,” the court ruling stated on Friday. “Shell is also ordered to provide
access to documents that could shed more light on the cause of the
leaks.”
The case will continue to be heard in March 2016.
Judge Hans van der Klooster said the court had found that it “has
jurisdiction in the case against Shell and its subsidiary in Nigeria”.
Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of
Nigeria Ltd (SPDC), said in a statement: “We are disappointed the Dutch
court has determined it should assume international jurisdiction over
SPDC.”
“We believe allegations concerning Nigerian plaintiffs in dispute with a
Nigerian company, over issues which took place within Nigeria, should
be heard in Nigeria,” it said.
Shell has always blamed sabotage for the leaks, which under Nigerian
law would mean it is not liable to pay compensation. But the Dutch court
said on Friday: “It is too early to assume that the leaks were caused by
sabotage.”
In January 2013, the district court in The
Hague ruled that one of the farmers in the
original suit was eligible for compensation
from Shell’s Nigerian division for spills on
his land in the Niger Delta, the heart of
Nigeria’s oil industry.
The farmer appealed over whether the parent company should also be
liable.
Friends of the Earth Netherlands director Geert Ritsema said Friday’s
ruling meant the three other farmers could proceed with claims for
compensation for income lost due to the spills.
“There are 6,000km of Shell pipelines and thousands of people living
along them in the Niger Delta,” he said. “Other people in Nigeria can
bring cases and that could be tens of billions of euros in damages.”
In a separate case, Shell agreed in January to pay out £55m ($82 million)
in out-of-court compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008, after
agreeing a settlement with the affected community in the Delta.

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/18/dutch-appeals-court-shell-oil-spills-nigeria?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnafrica

Dinocarex:
He must have closed his palm with the knock out. Cuz holding the knock out at the tip won't amount to this damage.
Sorry boy!!

The boy has not watched Armageddon before.

bigben431:
Not taking any sides here but if Dino has a good lawyer he should sue the Clinic for releasing client information. Client confidentiality especially here in the US is very sacred.

Yes, he can sue the clinic. But the deed has been exposed. It is left for the CCB to take up the allegations. SR has done their job.

Zinicc:
SR, no matter how crazy you guys can be sometime...
You guys are too much!

More elbows to your grease..

I am a journalist. But men, SR sets the bar so much high. They set the standard investigative journalism should reach. Have you noticed despite all the threats nobody has actually sued them. Cos they get their facts right before publishing. The sad thing is that our law enforcement agency are complicite that's why majority of their scoops are not persecuted.

dam4sam:

That means the Senators are just wasting their time!

Sai Baba has KILLED THE LAW even BEFORE IT IS BORN.

Now we know who the real democrat is.

Thank you, President Buhari. Nigerians really love you, honestly

For a supposedly despotic military dictator, President Buhari is doing a credible job as a democrat. My father would always tell me our country wouldn't have been in the state it is now if Babangida and his cohorts hadn't ousted him in 1985.

Okimski:
https://www.thecable.ng/wada-won-poll-audus-votes-died

When your communications manager can't even spell his name right and you hired him. Shows how dense you are.

Richirich713:
Yes God knew and had a plan to grant man salvation.



What did u succeed, u haven't show why it's impossible for God to exist nd for evil to exist.



Well that of course depends on Peter reasons, for if his friend had a nuclear bomb nd planed suicide I'm sure u wud have a difference in opinion.



And where is the argument? Are u just saying since suffering exists , it proves there's no God?

Yes God can have Good enough reasons since he is not limited to time, space etc like us, he sees from the beginning to the end.




Again u assuming God doesn't have Good reasons for allowing suffering.



1st I don't believe virgins births or talking animals are normal nd natural things, it's not possible to the laws of nature unless God interferes with the laws of the universe as he did with the Virgin birth nd talking donkey.

Actually more like God made them go, the penguins never had self understanding as u suggesting.



Correction God never created man evil, he created him Good and gave him everything on the earth.




How I wish u were more open minded about ur views on atheism nd theistism instead of being closed minded about both.



Yet u keep repeating the problem of evil nd suffering questions.




Is this really a argument for showing there's no God? Seriously?



U just don't get it, there's no true purpose if there's no God .We do good and right things only because God has given us true morals.

Erm do ants have morals ?



Actually if I didn't believe in Good I wud still be kind nd nice to people just like some atheists I know.

For u believe I'm claiming that people cannot be good without believing in God.

But that's not wat I claimed instead people cannot be good without God, meaning if God didn't exist for if he didn't there wouldn't be truly a good or evil, right or wrong.



And do u believe ur morality is subjective, meaning it's only ur opinions, like deciding which apples taste good. Or objective, meaning that certain apples are true Good evens if everyone disagreed, for example the Nazi holocaust was truly wrong nd evil evens tho the Nazi thought it was right.



Again is this a opinion like tasting a apple? Or do u believe in objective morals and values?



If u belive in subjective morality then that statement makes no sense , for u basically saying it's in ur opinion that God is morally wrong.

It's just like saying " this chocolate tastes the best, so it's is truly the best evens tho its just my opinion"

And if u believe objective morals, then u will have to show me where God is morally wrong.



He did forgive Adam nd eve.

And eye for and eye was the law then.

He actually created hell for the devil nd demons.

I learn a lot from God actually, he tells me to love others as I love myself.

I love other like I love myself and am an atheist, so what's so special about that?