The people are restless and the demands for a demonstration are loud. I am very happy to hear those calls, but once again I must call for caution. The events that took place at #EagleSquare in Abuja and other parts of the country yesterday the 2nd January 2011 only serves to buttress my point: we simply aren't ready…YET.
What started out as a call by Dino Meleye to take down the names and details of volunteers eventually ended badly. Citizens were tear-gassed, bullied, chased, beaten & some where arrested. As I write this, some of them are still in custody. Although I am unhappy with these events, Japheth Omojuwa has pointed the glass as half full for me because the turn out was massive despite just having only 1 or 2 hours to mobilise.
But as much as we want to rush out and demonstrate, we have to do it with reason. Why not use the few days we have left to organise and prepare ourselves? Let me tell you why.
RULES GUIDING THESE PROTESTS:
A written notice shall be delivered to the police, SSS, road safety and other relevant agencies stating the intention for a peaceful protest in accordance to Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with particular reference to Sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40 and 41 of the CFRN which will contain the date, time, where the protest will take place (from which streets it starts and to which it will convene) and the estimated number of people expected.
We shall not stoop to the level of fighting the security forces physically, with arms, or engage them in verbal arguments. They are first of all Nigerians and we have to remember that.
Protesters will not obstruct traffic, or antagonise people going about their normal business.
With crowds, absolute control can not be achieved but we must try our best. Violence is NOT an option. I repeat, violence is not an option. Let's not give this people a reason to turn on us. A single life is too costly-and we've lost too many already. We can do it peacefully and we will. We are going to rely on the educated ones among us to broker & maintain peace in case a disagreement ensures.
We will ensure that every excuse used in the past to intimidate and harass citizens are minimised and if possible, completely extinguished. Hopefully, the police, army, civil defence and co will join us shortly.
Now remember, Mr President has said he is willing to risk civil disobedience by removing subsidy. This tells us that they are ready for us. We not only have to match their resolve, we have to beat them at it.
WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACHIEVE? The demand is short and simple: Return fuel subsidy until our refineries are either fixed or new ones built! My mentor Salim Malami asked me to google 'How To Build A Refinery?' Apparently, a refinery takes between 24-36months to build from concept to completion. This is a fact. Jamnagar Refinery located in India is the biggest refinery in the world and it took 36months to build. The question we should be asking is why isn't our government trying to refine its crude oil? We also want the cabal found and prosecuted, the billions retrieved, and we demand transparency instead of secrecy in the oil industry.
HOW DO WE INTEND TO RETURN SUBSIDY? The ONLY logical way for us to achieve our aim of returning subsidy (apart from certain war) is IF and WHEN the entire government is ground down to a halt. Anything short of this will get us nowhere. Realistically, this can only be done with the help of organised labour. No one will be allowed to go to work: and when everyone from janitors, secretaries, accountants, human resources, gate men, personnel, to support staff, all continue to shun work at ministries, parastatals, airports etc, the government will have no option but to dialogue with us and our demand WILL remain simple from the beginning to the end: return subsidy and we return to work. I know the cynicism people feel towards organised labour and their tendency to sell out. Believe me, I feel it to. My singular consolation is that WE make labour so we will have to sit up and NOT sell out.
Now is the time when we need everyone to be on board; from organised labour, religious groups, professional institutions, unions NUJ, NURTW, ASUU, SUG, NBA, Civil societies, clubs, NGO's, self employed individuals, to your gateman, your househelp, the owner of the store at the corner of your house, the mai-ruwa, the mai-shayi, the brick layer, the saloon owner, the groundnut hawker, the teachers, the nurses, the cab drivers & okada riders to ALL come together and stand as ONE. We must have EVERYONE involved.
WHEN WILL WE START PROTESTING? From the looks of it, FRIDAY 6th JANUARY 2012 will be the date. When it starts, no one expects government to cower immediately. Citizens are expected to use Wednesday & Thursday (4th & 5th January 2012) to make long term plans that will ensure their comfort and that of their families for about 2 weeks to a month.
I expect everyone to share this message via email, print, bbm, twitter, facebook and beyond. We need you all to recruit and engage one another. This protests can not be isolated. We will shock government with our coordination.
WHAT MESSAGE ARE WE PASSING ALONG: we are ONE, we are organised, we do NOT believe in violence, and we will persevere until fuel subsidy is returned.
WHY ARE WE DOING IT THIS WAY? Because having little 150-200 disorganised rallies will not help anyone. If every group organised their rallies & demonstrations, they would be ineffective, uncoordinated, and the security operatives will end up bullying, intimidating & arresting protesters. The rest will be lucky to flee for their safety, returning home dejected & discouraged having lost energy, time and effort. Labour is ready, willing and able to shut down the entire country. We will join them to ensure that they not only do it, but they do it right. Once again, I need to remind us all: this is not the time for ego's, popularity, fame or fortune. Our strength lies in our unity and our planning. There will be no winners if we refuse to work together. This is not the time to be alone, or prove that you can do it on your own. ONLY IF WE ARE TOGETHER ARE WE UNBREAKABLE!
WHERE WILL WE DEMONSTRATE & PROTEST? In all 36 states of the federation + FCT. The most delicate ones are the four with state of emergencies (Plateau, Yobe, Niger & Borno) but we are doing our best to keep them involved.
(Tentatively) Protests are expected to kick off simultaneously at 10am in all states (most venue's are yet to be finalised) and we will continue our peaceful demonstrations all over the country until the subsidy is removed.
You all asked for a chance to prove your worth, a chance to contribute your quota to your Nigeria. Well this is it…so please don't blow it. Read, share, retweet, email, print/circulate, and orally recruit more people. If each of us recruited 10 neighbours & family members, and each of those 10 people recruited 10 more persons, we will well be on our way to taking back this country from our oppressors. No number is too much and none is too little. Emails can still be sent to xeenarh@gmail.com with phone numbers & location to help with easier co-ordination and to aid in faster sharing of information. "IF WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT WE MAY WIN. IF WE DON'T WE HAVE ALREADY LOST." (Unknown)
What were they thinking?
From their uniforms, they must be in the same school.
I'm not sure if the girl knows when this pix was taken. Looks like she does anyways.
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concerned Nigerians, stakeholders, and activists.
LASU students had earlier in the week protested around their campus along Lagos-Badagry express road, against the hike in their school fees from about N30,000 to about N250,000.
In a recent chat with a celebrity blog, Kate Henshaw whom was also among protesters was quoted: "If we are all thinking about safety then we will be quiet forever. If Mandela was thinking about safety then Jacob Zuma won't be there now. If you don't stand up for something, you'll fall for anything. I'm not doing this for myself; I'm doing it for my children. They can't just throw things our way and have us take it
like that". she said.
Governor Babatunde Fashola had on November 14, this year, while presenting the 2012 Appropriation Bill to the Lagos State House of Assembly, disclosed that the state has so far spent N4 billion as compensation to the Lekki
Concession Company (LCC) Limited for suspending toll collections on the road last year.
Investigation revealed that the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) Limited is allegedly owned by former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.
Bola Tinubu is said to be quietly and stealthily perfecting a scheme that will transform the economy of South West states an extension of his business empire.
Asiwaju's business interests is said to span Real estates, Construction, Aviation, Hospitality and Communication.
The toll rates charged are as follows: Motorbikes - N50. Sedans - N120. Vans/small buses/Suvs - N150. Commercial buses - N80. Light trucks and two axle buses - N250. Heavy duty trucks - N350.
Mr. Simon Elisha a Lagos-based human resource consultant said "We are now in a country where we come out and are afraid of so many things, especially our security. We cannot even drive our cars because of what is happening now. I can't imagine myself going to the Island for example and I have to pay toll three times. When I am coming back, it has to be the same thing. I will pay N150 for tolling and it amounts to about N450 going to the Island alone; coming back, I think it is another N450. That means in a day, I am paying about N900 for tolling. If I forget something at home, I have to come back and pay again and it will be N1800 a day.
Findings revealed that Police shot rifles and fired tear gas at protesters who were demonstrating against toll roads on Saturday.
Two residents are said to be in critical condition following the police crackdown while 25 protesters were arrested and are being detained at the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Alagbon.
Police officers also used batons to assault an Associated Press photographer who was covering the event. His camera equipment was taken before he was thrown into the back of a police truck.
The photographer was released several hours later without charge, and was treated for blunt-force trauma injuries to his neck, shoulder and knee.
The protest rally led by the Chairman of the Lekki Phase 1, Residents Association, Chief Wole Akala with other members of the executives and hordes of protesters including residents, civil rights activists and student bodies in tow, began from Epe axis of Lagos in the early hours of Saturday.
Among the journalists who had a raw deal with the policemen include a reporter with Channels TV, whose camera was destroyed while a reporter with LTV was beaten up and his camera seized. Mr. Suleiman Hussein, photographer with
Compass had his camera seized by policemen.
An unconfirmed report however had it that one of the protesters whose identity was yet to be known suffered a fatal injury and bled to the death.
Is Tinubu and Fashola are intentionally impoverishing the people and mortgaging the future of Lagos State? Only time will tell.
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Lagos State, watching them having sex in the night has confessed that he was not a thief neither did he attempted to harm the couple but only watching them to derive sexual satisfaction.
The accused, Raymond Obi Eze, 36 was arrested and handed over to the police at
Idimu Station who arraigned him before the
Ejigbo Magistrates' Court, Lagos on a two-count
charge of unlawful entry and attempted murder.
The complainant told the police that he caught
him under the bed while sleeping with his wife.
Witnesses who assisted the couple to arrest the
accused told the police that they believed what
the complainant told them that the accused was
watching him and his wife making love.
In his statement, Mr. Chigozi told the police that
he was injured in the face when he grabbed the
accused to prevent him from escaping.
At the station, the accused denied that he was a
thief and pleaded for leniency. He allegedly
confessed that he was only watching the couple
and did not attempt to harm them.
The matter has been adjourned till 18 January,
2012
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Issues Presidential Memo. What's Obama's ish with Nigeria, don't forget that there are some states in the US that forbids same-sex marriage. The whites shouldn't interfere with our laws. We make our laws.
The British Prime minister was also blabbing some days back. They just like to ride Africans.
You dare not kiss your spouse on the streets in Arab Countries, what did d west say about that. Noting.
Its not their fault, its because as big as we are, our stupid leaders still beg for financial aids from them.
But to me, I don't think we should criminalise the act, they claim they love themselves and besides, its their right.
But if our law makers says they don't want such, its their job. I just plead that they listen to the voice of Nigerians.
The US President released a memorandum directing agencies to:
*Combat the criminalization of LGBT status or
conduct abroad.
*Protect vulnerable LGBT refugees and
asylum seekers.
That's cool, they should take all Nigeria Gays to their country and leave our laws alone.
Am so much concerned about our laws not being influenced by external forces.
I just don't want the double standard, no morals westerns to override our laws.
I have no problems with gays. Am not gay o.
United States, protested the passage of a bill by
the Senate banning same-sex marriage.
They gathered in front of the Nigeria House to
express their displeasure over the bill which will
not become law until its passage by the House of
Representatives and assented by President
Goodluck Jonathan.
If it becomes law as passed by the senate,
offenders will get up to 14-year jail sentence. One of the organisers of the event, Ifeanyi Orazulike, presented a petition with 57 signatures to the Nigerian Consulate. The petition addressed to the President reads:
"My name is Ifeanyi Orazulike, and I am not
illegal.
"As a Nigerian citizen, and a public health
advocate, I call upon you to stop the draconian,
anti-human rights, anti- HIV/AIDS prevention and un-democratic legislation just passed by the
national Senate.
"If this bill is approved, Nigeria will place itself
outside the community of democratic nations, in
a moment in which the country is facing serious
internal and external anti-democratic threats. The implications of the bill with its recent modification would affect tireless and long years of work in the protection and promotion of human rights, HIV/ AIDS prevention, and the entrenchment of democracy in our country.
"As the elected guardian of the human and civil
rights of ALL Nigerians, I urge you to show
respect for the diversity in our great democracy,
and refuse to sign this bill.
"Respectfully,
Ifeanyi Kelly Orazulike
Director, International Center for Advocacy on
Right to Health (ICARH)."
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FHM India insists the photo wasn't touched and say they can prove the actress had excitedly posed for the magazine. Who do you believe? The photo doesn't look 'doctored' to me.
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of Vanity Fair. The "Born This Way" star was shot by Annie Leibovitz for the magazine and appears in a variety of different settings and poses. One of the shots features Gaga nude (wearing Chanel
sunglasses) as Tony Bennett (with whom she
sang a duet for his latest album) sketching her in the background.
Gaga recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about posing nude for Bennett and Leibovitz, explaining: "I walked in and said, 'Well Tony, here we are' and I dropped my robe and I got into position. I felt shy and thought, 'It's Tony Bennett, why am I naked?'"
Other shots feature Gaga wearing an evening
ballgown and fur stole in a laundromat, wearing a black-and-white Victorian suit while basking in the sun on a gondola, and Gaga wearing a red
layered crop top and suit (complete with a giant
red hat), the latter of which appears on the cover of the issue
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ladies were assaulted/ molested for allegedly
stealing a Blackberry Phone. Pathetic right? every week, we get horrible photos like this, but we could only publish a few.
Nigeria citizens now take laws into their hands and disregard the police totally, yet they get away with it in most situations.
But really, someone has to stop this. #ItsBad #Stopit
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BlackBerry phone and was stripped and molested by guys. This is insanity, and it must stop!!!
Is the new trend of treating phone thieves?
Some days ago we publish a similar story.
Read here
Nigerian Girl Stripped Naked For Allegedly Stealing a Phone
British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that his country will consider withholding aid from countries that do not recognise gay rights.
Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu has passed
on.
He died in a London hospital last night. He was 78 years old.
more details coming soon, may his soul rest in peace
That's the idea behind rape-prevention
condoms by RapeX. Basically, if you feel like you
may be in danger one evening — exploring a
foreign city alone, getting walked home by a cute stranger you just met — you put the device into your nether regions with an applicator, and
anything that gets all up in your space will be
gnarled by the barbs. They're made of plastic,
but those suckers have a nasty bite and will need to be surgically removed.
We hope you'll never have to test out the RapeX,
but we can pretty much guarantee the jerk on
the receiving end won't get very far once his man bits are being ripped open by your hidden
defences
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We get all sorts of emails these days, some we post some we don't, but we just decide to posts this one to show our readers what Nigeria is turning into.
Warning: Explicit Sexual Content and ….
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armed robbers yesterday killed the younger
brother of ex-super eagles player and super
eagle's assistant coach, Daniel Amokachi.
The two men in Okada stormed 23 year old
Emmanuel Teyimbi Ayuba's GSM shop
located in front of his family home at Zuba
Road, close to Police College in Kaduna and
tried to rob him. As Teyimbi made to run, the
robbers shot him in his right thigh. He died
later in the hospital. So sad. May he RIP
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We got this from linda Ikeji's blog and she an she explains her view on the matter.
The girl was stripped naked, kicked to the
ground, they were mostly guys surrounding
her, touching her, some slapped her buttocks... someone tried to put his finger in her vagina...you know, just de-humanizing stuff..all because she allegedly stole a blackberry phone.
You can see her face clearly in the video so I won't bother you all with the video so I don't spoil your Monday afternoon...but it's such a sad thing to watch.
I don't know how some people can be so
callous. What's wrong with us? Where's our
conscience? If someone steals, abi you call
the police, get them arrested. Why strip her
naked, take pictures, film it and just strip her
of her dignity.
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Gomorrah of the ancient time, Zimbabwe seems
to be the best match. The rate at which men are
being raped by women is alarming and the police authorities have advised men to stay off the streets for their own safety.
Another syndicate of two female rapists was
reported to have abducted a man last Friday
evening and drove him to a quiet suburb where
they took turns to sexually abuse him after
drugging him. Police spokesman, Leonardo
Chabata said female rapists are using every trick
in the book to lure men into their grip before
drugging them.
"They allegedly met on Friday in Harare and the
man introduced his accomplices as his friends
telling them he had secured employment for the
victim in Mutare.
They drove in a white Toyota Land Cruiser from
Harare and just after Msasa they bought drinks.
As they were drinking, one of the alleged female
rapists did not finish her drink and gave it instead to the victim who drank it not knowing that she had put a drug in the can.
He felt dizzy and started sweating before falling
unconscious only to wake up and find himself
having sex with one of the women," said the
police chief.
After uncounted rounds of sex, one of the rapists
observed the man was producing blood and thus advised her syndicate that the victim was no longer useful and was dumped in the bush left for dead. After regaining consciousness, the victim crawled to the roadside where he was assisted by Samaritans who took him a nearby hospital where he was treated for exhaustion and bruised penis.
Police said investigations have been launched,
but advised men to be careful of accepting a ride from women especially those travelling in groups.
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