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France plays down Italy's reparation payment to Libya

Paris, France - France says the excuses and compensations Italy has promised to pay to Libya for its colonial occupation of the African nation cannot be a precedent.

"This is strictly an arrangement between Italy and Libya which we regard as moves to enhance relations between Libya and the international community, including European," declared Eric Knight, a representative of the spokesperson of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry.

"The said developments relate to a particular aspect of the bilateral relations between Italy and Libya," he told newsmen here.

Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi and the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Saturday in Benghazi signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation regarding compensations for the Libyans for the losses they suffered during the colonial period.

Under the treaty, Italy will also build a coastal motorway to connect Libya's western and eastern parts of the country, and clean up the Libya of land mines.

Rome is also committed to provide Tripoli with information on the fate of about 5,000 Libyans who went on exile (living in uninhabited Italian islands) during the Italian invasion of Libya.
http://www.afriquenligne.fr/france-plays-down-italy%27s-reparation-payment-to-libya-2008090211899.html

Paris - 02/09/2008

American Journalist Arrested in Nigeria

By WILL CONNORS

Published: September 2, 2008

LAGOS, Nigeria — An American documentary filmmaker and his translator working in the volatile Delta region of Nigeria have been arrested and accused of spying, according to Nigerian government officials and media watchdog groups.

Andrew Berends, a New York-based freelance journalist who was working on a film about the oil-producing Delta region, was arrested on Sunday and held for 36 hours before being released. Mr. Berends's passport and equipment were confiscated, and he was made to report back to the State Security Service early Tuesday morning. His translator, Samuel George, was also arrested.

"When you come to a security area with no clearance it's against the rules," said a military spokesman, Major Sagir Musa, who confirmed that Mr. Berends had been arrested and handed over to the security service. "He had no security clearance. It is for his own safety. If something happens to him it's an embarrassment to the security agencies. It's not normal times in the area right now. The S.S.S. will investigate him and once they are satisfied they will release him, God willing."

Mr. Berends contacted both Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists Monday night, and both advocacy groups condemned his detention.

"Berends was arrested just for doing his job and no other reason," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement Tuesday. "It is absurd for the authorities to think that, by arresting him and his interpreter, they can conceal the economic and ecological disaster unfolding in the Niger Delta."

Despite its oil riches, the Niger Delta is a desperately poor and increasingly lawless part of the country where wealth is siphoned away by corrupt officials. Militants demand a greater share of the area's oil resources and claim to be fighting on behalf of the impoverished residents, but also appear to be engaging in many criminal and opportunistic acts of violence. Hundreds of foreign workers and wealthy Nigerians have been kidnapped for ransom, and oil theft is rampant.

Several other foreign journalists and filmmakers have been detained while working in the region in recent years. In April, four members of a Seattle-based film crew were arrested while filming in the Delta and held for six days on spying charges. In May, a CNN journalist was detained while in the main Delta city of Port Harcourt and questioned by the S.S.S. for five days before being released.

"The government probably knows the fellow's real mission and that it has nothing to do with espionage, but they want to do it to discourage others from coming to report on the situation on the ground," said Chris Alagoa of the Niger Delta Peace and Security Secretariat, a community organization in the region. "They shouldn't report on things that aren't true, but if they're reporting objectively on the situation, the world and the Nigerian people have a right to know the truth. Hounding journalists and filmmakers who want to inform the public is in bad taste."

While Nigeria has a significantly freer press than most other Africa nations, gathering information in the tumultuous Niger Delta is particularly difficult.

"We have one of the freest presses in Africa, but there are rules," said Nwuke Ogbonna, Information Commissioner for Rivers State, of which Port Harcourt is the capital. As for Mr. Berends, he said, "He may have engaged in actions that are not in the national interests of this country. Whether that means spying or entering off-limits areas I can't say. It's for the security agents to determine whether this means he was spying."

Mr. Berends had visited Nigeria on several occasions and had been in the country since April on this particular trip. He often ventured into the creeks of the Delta to film in local villages affected by oil drilling. Two weeks ago, Mr. Berends said he had nearly finished his work and was planning on returning to New York this month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03nigeria.html?_r=1&ref=africa&oref=slogin

Robbers kill 15 Igbo traders

Written by Kolade Larewaju, Abeokuta

Saturday, 30 August 2008

No fewer than 15 Igbo traders returning to Onitsha in Anambra State from Lagos were feared killed and several others injured with bullet wounds in the early hours of yesterday when a gang of armed robbers attacked them. The traders Vanguard gathered, were returning to Onitsha in Anambra State from Lagos after concluding their transactions in a convoy of five luxurious buses around 1:30 am yesterday when armed robbers numbering over ten swooped on them at Itokin on Lagos/Epe road. The armed bandits were said to have rained bullets on the luxury bus drivers on both sides when they refused to stop. Six persons were said to have been killed instantly inside two of the buses while others were severely wounded in the gale. One of the buses was said to have lost control and ran into the bush resulting in the death of ten others. Four of the drivers were said to have managed to drive their buses to Ijebu - Ode at about 2:30 am and took the wounded to the State Hospital, Ijebu - Ode and a private hospital In two of the buses which were riddled with bullet holes eyewitness counted five corpses. Dr Wellington Ogunsanya, Chief Medical Director of state Hospital, Ijebu - Ode said over 20 persons with bullet wounds were brought to the hospital. Mr Ejike Maduekwe, one of the traders who survived the attack said the robbers laid ambush for them and that it could only have happened probably because the armed bandits had a privileged information that they would be passing through Epe - Ikorodu road by that time of the day. http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15618&Itemid=43

Nigerian Dwarf goats withstanding the cold weather?

Aug 27

Posted by: admin in: dwarf nigerian goats

We are getting a goat and was wondering how well they could withstand the cold winter?

I raise Nigerians and we have very bitter/snowy winters here. I have never had a problem from the cold, however what concerns me is that you say you are getting "a goat". A single goat will get a lot colder than a pair or more. On cold nights they like to pile up close to each other for warmth. It's also important that they have a shelter that will keep them dry and out of cold wind. Put some straw down for them to snuggle in. I know it sounds gross, but you should clean your shelter a lot less often in the winter than in the summer, because the manure will generate heat. Just keep clean bedding on top so the goats stay dry.

Another problem with having "just one goat" is that most goats are miserable when left alone. It's actually easier to care for 2 than for 1. A lonely goat can get so stressed that it can cause depression and sickness, and one goat is next to impossible to keep confined because they are always trying to get out and seek companionship. I highly recommend getting two!

Nigerians make awesome pets, and their small size and wide range of colors make them appealing to a lot of people. Good luck!

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Barack Obama DNC Convention 08 Acceptance Speech - Part 2

Barack Obama DNC Convention 08 Acceptance Speech - Part 2

PHILO'S RECIPES

Dear Mr. Tony,
Thanks for your participation in this important discussion.

There are Nigerians who believe that going to Nigeria to marry "field workers" (kids who can be groomed to become nurses or Nigerian trained nurses) mean potential source of wealth.

Wrong. They grow up and become intolerant of emotional, psychological, and physical abuse met on them by their sugar daddies..so called husbands.

Our Nigerian men here refuse to marry the young US-Nigerians but go to Nigeria to seek "virgins" or "novices", nurses, doctors, pharmacists, etc out of ignorance. They forget that the novice learns from examples, life experiences, training and over time. In some cases, they become worst than the Nigerians they left here who already know how this place functions. I always wish them good luck because I know they are going to need it.

I remember growing up in Nigeria and the shock I experienced when I got here and discovered how much I did not know about life. I quickly told myself to get with it or be eaten alive. I learned, adjusted, and blended. Well, I can tell you that the old me was shed off almost 30 years ago. I had no choice. I had to survive in the big city with 45 storey

ADVISE FOR THE MALE FOLKS:

Therefore when an imported girl, yet to be a woman, a year later, tells the 48-60 year old, start-over husband to get lost, or wake up and smell the coffee, it comes as a rude awakening to him too. After all, he paid $3000-$4000 in flight ticket fares just to fly him and his bride back to the US when he went to finalize the import arrangement; not minding the green card rigorous process and charges, the waiting period, the long distance phone calls, and western union fees paid for her tuition to finish high school or college and money given to her parents while he was wooing her. It is not cheap to marry and bring a woman from home. But it is wrong to assume that they are going to be your future meal ticket and vice versa. Wrong!! Wrong!!!, Wrong!!!!

Fact: Some of them assume that the number of times you have had sex with them and the number of children they have had and pregnancy pains pays for all that. Secondly, a nurse goes through 4 to 6 years of intensive training, sleepless nights for exams and then takes the mother of them all, board exam. After that, she works 12 hours every night for 3-5 days a week without sleep along with menstrual cramps, monthly periods, crying, needy babies, and 4-6 pregnancies. This means a bunch of very angry and irritable women. It is only with the grace of God that you find a calm nurse. Therefore, if you bring up matters that should only be discussed during vacations, she might snap at you. In fact, I would not accuse a woman who works 12 hours and sleeps during the day, cooks, cleans, nurses infants, goes to day care centers for pick up and drop offs, and attends Nigerian meetings 3 times a month, participates in church activities in the community, of having affairs. She might bite you. If I were you, I would go back to school to study nursing like your wives so that you can understand what she is going through. And if you feel too macho to do so, just shut up and accept the new wife.

I mean no disrespect to the women married and brought here. I want the same for my sisters at home too because it will help them get green card and I will send less money through Western and pay less Western Union fees. So bravo for the winners. Just don't get yourselves killed. Ask questions before you marry the been-to.
God bless you. I care.

Sir Phil.
PRO, PRO and Vice president.
President and CEO of Nwarueze Enterprizes.
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Dear friends,

It is well worth it in most cases to go home and find a wife or husband if one is having difficulty finding one here to marry.

But I am using the word "find" very loosely here. Please know that it is ridiculous for anyone to think that one "find" a spouse. If you choose to find one because you think you know better or believe there is no God, I pray the God helps you keep your choice and improve your lives abundantly while He prepares your heart to be born again.

Life partners do not get found by us or picked by us. The Lord selects our partners, and sets up the right circumstances for us to meet. Examples of marriages that are predetermined by God are those marital relationships that last for decades with minimal conflicts. What I consider minimal are those that do not result in severe irreparable damages. Simple everyday arguments are expected and allowed. They also make one more human. They allow the partners to see what bugs them. It is usually short and can be overcome with a serious massage and Ewedu, Edi-kanko, Egusi and serious Ogbono soup for a fufu loving husband. Simply put, farinate him. If you think I am mistaking, watch a men with pot belly. He is more likely to hold his wife's hand, wear uniforms with her to a party, Carry the youngest baby with one hand while balancing her on his stomach than the tall, slim, firm, muscular man with eternal roving eyes. We have a few like that in my community. Although they argue, Banga soup and synthesized pounded yam usually does the trick before the inner room.

Like I was saying before I started thinking about fufu and romance, God brings a spouse to a person. When people attempt to force the issue, "find" one themselves, they run into all kinds of difficulties. Have you noticed that the wife that was easiest to woo is usually the one that gives you the least headache? It is because before you were born, before you were ready to get married, before you opened your mouth to ask for his/her hand in marriage, he/she was chosen for you by God.

Therefore, if you don't go looking, but pray and follow your heart when you are ready, but keep your hands, heart, and mouth clean (I am not referring to only brushing your teeth), she/he will be at the right place at the right time when you are ready. Have you noticed how most good pastors seem to find the best girl in the village and the bad ones marry the village bitches?

A Niger brother just went home to find a wife like several others. The first one that was recommended had always asked him to bring this and that. He had spent several thousand dollars on her until he decided to visit her. When he arrived, she did not come to the airport to welcome him. He stayed in Lagos for a few days and did not see her. He finally decided to go to the village to see her and ask why she did not come to Lagos knowing that her beloved future husband candidate was coming from abroad and is now in town. The first thing she said to him when she set eyes on him was Welcome, where is that --------------- you promised to buy and bring to me. He was so disappointed that he took the gift back; after-all she was an ordinary Pharmacist. Considering that someone had recently recommended a doctor, he ran back to the city to get engaged to the doctor he had neither met nor spoken to before. She was a better commodity and was going to be a better source of income. To him I say "wait until she comes to the USA and takes the intensive course in preparation for the difficult medical board exam and then we'll know whether or not she will hand over her paychecks. I will wish you all good luck.

To the good wives and husbands, from home, I will say bravo. Keep on loving because love conquers all. There are still very many Nigerians without AIDS and very many who have not started wearing tight jeans, and do not speak with fake American accent.

MEN'S CORNER:

For the men in the USA, I will say, look around here first and then go home but do not rush into things. Lower your standards a bit. Also, keep the age difference between 2-10 years. 11-30 years is too much. She might feel as if she is sleeping with her father. Be a lover, learn to caress, learn to share the domestic workload, learn to play with her, the children and all of the family members together. Go to church together and learn to lead in prayer sessions. Watch TV together, shop together, go out for drinks with her alone, go on dates, and basically continue courting her. She will be the best you've ever known.

LADIES CORNER:

Do all the things I recommended for the men but most importantly, give him his space, rub his back, massages his stomach to enable the fufu to digest because you know he is not going to jug, run or walk, or to go to the Gym. Nibble on his ears if it is clean, rub his hair, and take care of him all over. He may be a man but he can still use some motherly nurturing like one of your babies. Real men do place their heads on their wife's shoulders or lap. If he does not do that, he does not know what he is missing. It might be all it will take for you to say " yes daddy" like the Phillipinos. Don't make him like their men though. They tend to reverse the family roles from too much "yes daddying".

That reminds me, is that why they do not kill their wives even though 99% of their women are nurses? Hmmmmmm.

God bless you all.
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Philomina