₦airaland Forum

Realsman405:
Lol .
That is an epitome of 'equal right for both human and animals'. But my dear country care less.

There are employed dogs in Nigeria to...so your point is pointless

Mzansian:
This is xenophobia and racism. Why are these lazy and jealous Brazilians arresting a hardworking innocent Nigerian? I know it's because they know we run their economy and take their women. Without Nigerians that country would fall. Slave Brazilians . The Nigerian government should do something about this, our brothers are being mistreated everywhere and Buhari does nothing because it's not a fulani or Hausa person that is at the receiving end of this xenophobia .

Everywhere they go , same old stories .

I feel a little bit sad about this post... obviously you are a troll and i ordinarily wouldn't glance at your post a second time...

But to think that you are actually so obsessed and bothered that you had to sign up on a Nigerian forum to troll Nigerians over serious issues that concern the loss of lives... Where is your basic human decency?

Btw i am very sure that 98% of Nigerians do not even know or care to know what South Africa's largest forum is called... we live you to do your thing in peace coz we have no animosity towards anyone. Why are you so filled with hate?

JideAmuGiaka:
Useless Buhari that deceived his zombies by telling them that he won't travel with huge crowd or family for official duties.

I'm not a Buhari fan but come one you don't have to lie to make an unnecessary point.

He said he wont travel with a huge crowd; you slyly added "or family" which he never said, and which in this case is certainly not a huge crowd.

Try to maintain basic human decency.

The stats sound off to me...

If Nigeria has such a low rate of people who go for testing it suggests that Nigerians generally would avoid testing, which the article itself points to.

If that is true, then of those who go for testing, a high percentage probably were forced to do so because of health reasons.

If that is the case, then the high prevalence of positive cases among the tested could be attributed to the fact that healthy Nigerian generally do not get tested so the results will inevitably be skewed.

For now, the sample population is not reflective of the larger Nigerian population.

@ salamrushdie

inaccurate.

the one in front is meant to have tipped the scale already going by the position of the one behind.

there is no mystery here...the one in front falls first

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I have something to say about this.

Cutting Off Their Nose To Spite Our Face


On October 18th 2007, legendary South African musician and reggae icon, Lucky Dube, was shot dead in the course of a carjacking. The global sense of loss was overwhelming, as was the sense of outrage at the mindlessness of the crime: why kill the innocent victim when you have successfully disposed him of his property? Police investigations would uncover a shockingly sinister motive: the assailants believed that the victim was a Nigerian. I expect that the sheer magnitude of the implications of this fact—that a victim’s Nigerian identity could even be brought up as an extenuating factor in a murder case—will have hit you hard in the face.

The background to this frightening piece of information is the fact that Nigerians in South Africa are generally perceived by a lot of people as being drug pushers and criminals, which of course as a generalization is patently false. Nigerians in South Africa largely are either highly educated professionals, hard-working business owners who pay taxes that contribute to the South African development efforts, or students who collectively spend millions of dollars on tuition and living expense yearly. Unfortunately, there are also Nigerian engaged in serious crimes, just as there are South Africans, Kenyans, Zimbabweans, British, Russians, and etc., also carrying out various crimes in South Africa. But to carelessly paste the label of ‘criminal’ on all Nigerians, and to use that as the justification for committing outrageous acts of aggression is entirely reprehensible, and alien to the concept of rule of law upon which modern governments are founded.

Even if one has committed a crime, is this sufficient justification for them to be extra-judiciously executed? Worse still, in many of the cases of murder against Nigerians, the victims were merely suspected of committing crimes. In August this year, a 27 year old man, Kingsley Ikeri, was arrested along with a friend, on the suspicion of being a drug dealer. To obtain evidence from him, Ikeri was suffocated with a plastic bag wrapped around his face. There was no evidence that he was indeed a drug dealer. Just this week, another young Nigerian, 25 year old Ibrahim Olalekan Badmus was murdered in his own home. He was placed in handcuffs and beaten to death by a South African police officer. His landlord and neighbor who attempted to intervene was brushed aside and informed that Ibrahim was “a drug dealer and must bring out the drugs”. Just how exactly a man in handcuffs is meant to bring out any drugs is a mystery.

It is completely unacceptable for Nigerian citizens to be murdered on the basis of mere suspicions. Senior Aide to Nigerian President, Abike Dabiri claimed, in February this year, that 7 out of 10 murders of Nigerian citizens in South Africa over the past 2 years, were committed by South African police officers! To provide some context, Ms. Dabiri, at the time, claimed that at least 116 Nigerians had been killed in just two years, in South Africa.

Whereas an unofficial state attitude that permits the killing of ‘Nigerian criminals’ is bad enough, the fact that these murders are actually being carried out by South African police officers, usually without repercussion, is staggering, and drastically increases the weight of the crimes being committed against Nigerians. We are not talking of sporadic acts of hate crimes any longer, but rather a pattern of genocide is appearing.
Many might scoff at this notion, and claim that the number of Nigerians being killed in South Africa is not yet on the scale of Genocide; however, this is not the position of Article 6 of the Rome Statute, which in part reads:
‘"genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;’

There is no minimum threshold for the number of deaths that is necessary for a claim of genocide. It is sufficient that there is a demonstrable behavior of killing members of a particular community (that is either national, ethnical, racial, or religious). Is it not time for the Nigerian government to refer the conduct of the South African state to the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court? South Africa and Nigeria are considered two of the continents giants, with diplomatic relations that go way back to the apartheid days, when Nigeria was a staunch supporter of the anti-apartheid movement. The two nations are also Africa’s top two economies by size. While referring South Africa to the International Criminal Court might appear to be an act of washing one’s dirty linen in public, Diplomatic measures have been employed in the past, to no avail, and economic warfare may do more harm than good to both parties. If the South African government continues to play the Ostrich while young, brilliant Nigerian husbands, fathers, brothers and sons are unjustly killed, then it may be time to take the ugly but necessary step of taking recourse to justice at the hands of the International Criminal Court.

The language and conduct of the South African government has not given any confidence that they recognize the problem and intend to take steps to resolve it. Quite on the contrary, the response from senior South African officials has ranged from denial to subtle justification. Home Affairs minister, Malusi Gigaba is quoted as having said that, “there was nobody in SA who has attacked someone on the basis of them being from another country”, a strange attempt at denial in a country where citizens have openly attacked and rioted against foreigners with significant destruction and loss of life and property, such as in April and October 2015, and most recently in February 2017. If minister Gigaba at least bothers to deny the fact that South Africa has a grave xenophobia problem, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu actually provides justification for the latest round of xenophobic attacks, by accusing foreign owned small businesses of hoarding their knowledge, claiming “ They cannot barricade themselves in and not share their practices with local business owners”.
The implication of Minister Zulu’s statement is that foreign business owners must share their practices and thus strengthen their competitors (which is not considered good business practice anywhere in the world), in order to receive the goodwill of their host communities, and enjoy the right to life.

How long will this continue? Have South Africans forgotten so soon what it feels like to have the precious lives of your loved ones extinguished, unlawfully at the hands of the police? One would have thought that years of suffering under the brutal apartheid regime would have taught South Africans the value of the rule of law. This is a call to the South African people, the South African government, the Nigerian government, the wider international community, and to all people of good conscience around the globe: the murder of Nigerian civilians and other nationalities, is a reprehensible act of genocide, and must not be tolerated any longer.

Richy4:
I don't even Understand your Number 16... maybe u should make me understand..

Based on your number Nine, so u have not encountered some one that says I am sorry all the time but doesn't mean it?

Most times those phrase is as common and as loosed as "I love you".. anyways.. Goodluck

People that won't sit down and read their Bible... How will you understand? ehn Richard? Always pressing phone

oderinde151:
how do I appy for football scholarship ?

Check individual school's websites to see if they have a scholarship program. If they do, one of the major criteria they will look at is whether you play in decent team at the moment, and they would want to see a decent video of you playing at a relatively high level.

All you need to know can be found here:

http://www.athleticscholarships.net/how-to-get-recruited-scholarship.htm

oderinde151:
Good evening sir, you are one in a million I really like and appreciate that sir..can I have your phone number in case sir?

I'm sorry I have to decline on the number. I'm not based in Nigeria anyway...

But I do wish you all the best in your endeavor.

A final piece of advice: Follow Matt Sheldon on Youtube. Search for Become Elite. The guy is a professional player in the US and he gives a lot of useful tips and advice.

ybalogs:
From what I heard, learnt a son of a naval officer was involved and that all the policemen in the station including the DPO was arested and given the beating of their lives till they confessed. Hearing this now means the story is either cooked or the NPF has totally gone rogue. I hope not sha.

Do you think such a thing is possible without the name of the "top" Naval officer and the DPO coming out?

blackbeau1:
Beht y ? No bra day should be restricted to people with small and sightly shapely breasts mbok

There is nothing sightly about small boobs!

oderinde151:
gud mornin sir
Am in my department team
so I shoud graduate first and then chase it? won't it be late by that time? I would be 20 to 21 years then

Morning.

No... I'm saying chase it right now but you don't have to drop out of school to do that.

Being in your department team is a good start. What you can do now is work on yourself, improve your skill, and try to get a sports scholarship. Since you are already in your department team you can take videos of your games which will be used in your scholarship application.

If you have financial backing there are more options.

oderinde151:
thank you sir, really appreciate this
are you a footballer or a coach?
should I quite school? or too late after spending?

Well I'm not quite either of the above options but im somewhere in-between. I have coached an amateur side for about a year. Also, I've played with professionals both local level and quite a few who played or are currently still playing abroad in countries like Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia and Israel. I was highly promising myself but life got in the way. That being said if I still want to play I have access to the game at least at 3rd division level.

So I can say I understand the game. I also played county league in England and they put me in the team after just one training session. Lol.

I would say do not quit school..instead use school as a platform. At 18 you can still earn a sports scholarship to US universities. Are you in your school team?

I don't think school stops you from training or doing what you have to do.

IamLEGEND1:
Nice!
Operation Save yourself.
Take a minute to look at the burning wreckage and tell me how exactly he was meant to pull her out of there. He probably escaped with his own life by a hair's breadth.
She was already a lost cause...... Anyone so much as goes near that car is suicidal or at best wake up in the ICU 4weeks later with 3rd degree burns.
Unless they had a suicide pact, leaving her in there was the best course of action.
Men are a lot of things, but we're not fireproof.

Stop. You are looking at a picture...a representation, literally, of one milisecond in time.

Lets rewind:

1. They were in the car together...

2. That flame pictured is too intense for anything to survive

3. He survived

4. Therefore the flame was not always that intense!

If he got out with his shirt still tucked in, what are the chances that he actually did anything to help the girl?

Further, he did nothing to alert emergency responders of her distress.

oderinde151:
Pls guys I need your advice
Am a 200level student studying chemistry and also 18years old
how do I fulfil my dream, I want to become a footballer..how do I go about this?
Am a talented young guy..

1. Honestly assess yourself. Do you have any standout trait? Are you fast? Tall? Exceptionally technical? Exceptionally calm under pressure? We can trap, run and pass. What extra thing do you have about you. Mine is that from a very young age I have always been exceptional ay winning the ball at every level I have played at, even when I played with people way older than I was.

2. If you do have a standout talent, and skill to it. Identify the skills that are important for your position and practice them relentlessly.
Buy a ball and train on your own for two hours every day.

3. Join a team and become the coaches favorite by obeying all his instructions

4. Be sure to make videos of your games.

5. Reach out to coaches an agents with your videos.

Good luck.

Biety:
Develope Rivers United and the whites will also come portharcourt to watch football.

Didn't you see the part we it says that he was there TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT WITH REAL MADRID TO BUILD AN ACADEMY back in Rivers?

Is it by force to criticize?

all these small girls looking for 6 pack won't come here to see what they have been looking for o...its to be harassing innocent young men upandan

On a more serious note... one part of me wanted to say, "Cameroun shall find what they are looking for" but then i just remembered the type of government and leaders we have.

Probably we'll be erecting a statue of Paul Biya any moment from now.

sotall:
Can someone point to a law in the Nigerian constitution that says oloshoism is a crime.

If not ,why arrest them ?

Case of misplaced priority.

Such laws will have no place in the Constitution...check in the Criminal Code... Most Common Law countries have made prostitution a crime.

lumzybo:
I can't believe mama is doing the #mcm thingy.... best guess na the handler job. All the same sha... #weldonma

Finally someone using his brain.

I bet you that tweet will be take down shortly.

This is the actual definition of genocide...something is very very wrong here

This is the utmost act of betrayal... a govt tasked with protecting its people is complicit in their death, after luring them into a false sense of security, upon the fact that these poor souls where already driven from their homes.

Men, women and children not spared.

The crimes of Northern Nigeria are piling up and stinking to the skies!

Innocent blood has been crying out against Northern Nigeria since 1967, and there must be a day of reckoning!

Not even every man has the liver to sink a knife into flesh...Stabbing takes mental guts

Yet this woman could stab her beloved

one scantily clad woman and a naked attention seeker

Something is very off about this story coz in the first place an individual or a group cannot file a case before the ICC...they are not subjects of international criminal law.

Only one of:

1. A recognized state
2. The ICC prosecutor
3. The UN Sec. Council can refer a case to the ICC

So I wonder what pranks are being player here

madridsta007:
An arrest warrant is enough for the UN to start considering sanctions against the country.
Like we saw in Abacha's time, sanctions can be extremely crippling.

The UN Sec. Council is chock full of Nigeria's allies...

They will never approve any sanctions. Don't even dream of it.

Why do these people like to waste their time... even if you issue an arrest warrant against PMB and his general, how do you propose to effect that?

Who will you send to arrest them? Nigeria's allies such as the US and UK? OR is it the Biafra National Guard?

Lol.

"landed in prison for 10 years and still counting"

If the governor really said that, his speech writer should be fired immediately.

Statsocial:
Lol I totally take an exception to his attack on pentecostals. I have always tried to restrain myself when Catholic bishops in Naija talk so we do not muddy the name of God in public.

How can the catholic church with about 170 billion USD in annual spending and also wealthier than the top 3 corporations in d world put together be accusing Pentecostals of prosperity gospel.

The US treasury department recently pressured JP Morgan to shut Catholic church accounts, what about the number of cases of financial misappropriation by catholic bishops. A catholic bishop is currently under investigation in Australia for for financial discrepancies.

Is it offering, the catholic church collects. I guess they collect tithe too. There own schools are also expensive. Infact Loyola Jesuit Tuition is about thrice of Covenant's own. So lets not be hypocritic here. Don't try to validate your own church by invalidating others.

Also I am pretty sure the likes of catholic, Anglican etc even passes more offering envelopes than the the so called pentecostals in one service. I lived as an orthodox christian for close to 20 years and I know that the number of offering envelopes passed in some services far outnumber what the likes of Living Faith do.



**for those asking about my source for catholic wealth you can check this links
https://douglasbeaumont.com/2015/07/13/catholic-wealth-and-spending/amp/

http://www.economist.com/node/21560536

Nigerians like you are the problem we have today! It is almost as if you deliberately refused to understand what the man said just so you could have an us vs them moment. All that you posted here has nothing to do with what the man said! Can show me where he criticized pentecostostals?

What he said was that the prosperity gospel makes Nigerians believe they can get rich without doing the necessary hard work. What does that have to go with whether or not this church or that church collects offerings and tithes?

Do you have a comprehension problem??