12 February, 2010

AL JAZEERA NIGERIA & VIOLENCE

AL JAZEERA SENDS TROUBLE TO NAIJA

Al Jazreera would like to see Nigeria in a great political and social mess.
They have 
continued with  their instigations........

11 February, 2010

Porta le prostitute in un albergo Loro lo picchianoe lo rapinano


Finite in manette due nigeriane, una in Italia con asilo politico, l'altra sprovvista di permesso di soggiorno

Alla fine del riquadro di spiegazione ne sarà proposta anche la traduzione in inglese, ripresa dal lemmario Italiano-Inglese del Ragazzini 2010.
Prostitute in città (Foto Radaelli)


Monza, 10 febbraio 2010 - Qualche mese fa, un commerciante di Monza aveva sequestrato per una notte due prostitute in un motel della zona e le aveva drogate e tenute in suo possesso con la forza. Stavolta è andata in modo diametralmente diverso.

«Cornuto e mazziato» direbbe il detto popolare. E anche se in questo caso di «corna» non è davvero il caso di parlare, le «mazzate» ci sono state davvero tutte. Perché al cliente di due «belle di notte», questa volta, è andata davvero male.

Le due prostitute che si era portato in una camera d’albergo della città si sono rivelate infatti più violente e pericolose di quanto potesse immaginare, tanto che lo hanno malmenato a sangue e rapinato. Il fatto è accaduto un paio di sere fa. Tutto comincia quando alla centrale operativa dei carabinieri di Monza arriva una chiamata d’aiuto da un hotel della città. Quando sul posto arriva la pattuglia del Nucleo operativo e radiomobile della Compagnia di Monza, passo dopo passo il mistero viene chiarito.

I militari cominciano col trovare, all’uscita dell’albergo, due ragazze di colore che stranamente, alla vista delle divise, tentano di darsi alla fuga. I carabinieri le bloccano per identificarle: si tratta delle nigeriane Tracy Erewa, 26 anni, in Italia con l’asilo politico, e Fem Edejyaru, 22 anni, sprovvista di permesso di soggiorno.

Addosso alle due ragazze vengono trovati un telefono cellulare marca Samsung, una fotocamera Olympus, una camicia da uomo di colore blu e documenti di identità palesemente falsi (si scoprirà che appartengono ad altre due donne nigeriane estranee alla vicenda).

Proprio in quel momento, la pattuglia viene raggiunta da un uomo, il cliente delle due prostitute. Il suo racconto le inchioda: dopo essersi appartato per una prestazione sessuale, il cliente è stato violentemente malmenato e strattonato e, successivamente, rapinato appunto di telefonino, macchina fotografica e camicia.

Inevitabile a quel punto l’arresto delle due nigeriane per rapina aggravata in concorso e falsa attestazone a pubblico ufficiale della propria identità. Le due donne sono state quindi rinchiuse in una cella della casa circondariale di Monza a disposizione dell’autorità giudiziaria. Gli oggetti rapinati sono tati restituiti al suo legittimo proprietario.

23 January, 2010

JOS- ONE RIOT TOO MANY


22 January 2010
Lagos — While the world agonized over the devastating earthquake that had hit the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing over 50,000 people with thousands still unaccounted for, many were stunned last Sunday that, rather than empathize with a fellow black country whose poor citizens are made up mainly of freed African slaves, Nigerians were instead engaged in the mindless and senseless past-time of bloodletting, on religious grounds!

The recent Jos riots began in an all-too-familiar manner. A minor dispute over the re-building of a damaged house by a Muslim resident in a disputed part of Jos had attracted the attention of scores of Christian youths who resisted the attempt.

Before long, the matter had degenerated into killings along religious and ethnic lines, one report says.

Another version has it that the fracas was actually a result of a soccer match that went sour.

Whatever the cause of this recent sectarian killing in Jos, the results have been similar: Churches and mosques have been razed down, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and thousands have fled from their homes and sought refuge in police and army barracks.

Many of those killed had been 'innocent' by-standers. Properties worth billions of naira have also been destroyed in the process.

Coming on the heels of a similar riot in the same Jos in 2008 that took the lives of about 500 people and almost led to the declaration of a state of emergence in Plateau State, this recent blood bath between Muslims and Christians in the area could be said to be one too many.

It is even worse that the Presidential Panel set up by the Federal Government to look into the causes of the November 28, 2008 riots is still sitting in Jos and has not concluded its mission before the present crisis erupted.

As with previous riots, government has announced the imposition of dusk to dawn curfew, deployed troops to the area, made arrests and has vowed to fish out the perpetrators of this heinous habit of citizens of the country killing one another at will with no adverse consequences to themselves.

Still many believe that after all the saber rattling by government, nothing much will come out of its resolve to fish out and punish those that instigate and profit from the state of uncertainty and insecurity among Nigeria's multi ethnic and religious groups.

It has been the unfortunate lot of Nigerians since colonial and post-colonial times that no year passes without a major religious riot that consumes their lives with nothing done by government before or even after the killings.

Many have blamed the recurrent nature of religious riots in the country to this inability of governments at all levels and the nation's major religious leaders to sincerely and squarely address the socio-economic and political imbalances that conduce for violent religious or ethnic riots.

Those who tow this line point at the high level of unemployment of the youths of the country who make up the foot soldiers in these riots, a situation made more galling to those inclined to inciting violence when they point at the nation's economic and political leaders who live in unearned and un-merited opulence in the sea of mass misery.

Some have also seen the motive factor of religious and other riots as the constitutional imbalance, as in the Jos case, which consigns great swathes of the population of the area to the status of 'strangers' even when these 'others' had been second or first generation descendants of the early settlers.

The adverse consequence of this 'indigene-stranger' dichotomy is that these strangers are practically disenfranchised politically and economically.

As the Senate President David Mark is reported to have said following the recent Jos riots, this nation can no longer afford or tolerate the totally irrational, 'nonsensical' state of affairs.

But it is one thing to wax pious over this matter by those in high government authority; it is however something else to muster the political will required to frontally tackle the monster of religious riots in the (mostly) Northern part of the country.

In this regard, our lawmakers of which Mark is a principal could dispassionately look at the constitution of the land and make it more people-friendly by resolving the thorny issue of defining "Nigerian-ness".

Also our religious and traditional leaders who command a lot of moral authority must be held to account whenever religious or ethnic violence erupts within their domains. It is not enough that they retrospectively deplore these killings; they should be made to explain why they have happened to begin with.

Furthermore, our security agencies must be more pro-active than re-active in riot situations. Patrolling the streets and interdicting mere stragglers after the act is just a lot of hogwash.


But most crucially, government at all levels must be seen to make examples of religious or ethnic rabble-rousers whose teachings radicalize the people and lead to these recurrent killings. This is because it is of no practical deterrent use and purpose when government announces just after these odious riots that 60, 70, 80 or 100 suspects have been arrested when nothing more is heard of them thereafter. Nothing will deter religious or ethnic murderers when they see that no one ever gets punished for these crimes.


24 December, 2009

muore il «negro»......


Carcere di Teramo, muore il «negro»
Il detenuto testimone del pestaggio

Di lui parlava in un nastro anonimo mandato ai giornali il capo dei secondini: «Il negro» ha visto tutto


MILANO - Un detenuto, Uzoma Emeka rinchiuso nel carcere di Castrogno, è morto venerdì scorso in circostanza misteriose nell'ospedale di Teramo. Nigeriano, 32 anni, condannato a due anni per spaccio di stupefacenti, l'uomo aveva assistito il 22 settembre al pestaggio di un altro detenuto. In quell'occasione scoppiarono le polemiche perché un nastro anonimo, che parlava delle violenze, fu affidato alla stampa: «Non si massacrano così i detenuti in sezione, si massacrano sotto... il negro (Uzoma Emeka) ha visto tutto». Queste parole, dette da Giuseppe Luzi, capo delle guardie carcerarie ad un sottoposto, furono registrate da qualcuno e inviate al quotidiano locale La Città. Luzi fu sollevato dall'incarico dal ministro della Giustizia Alfano. Ora, a distanza di tre mesim arriva il decesso di Uzom. La procura ha aperto un'inchiesta anche su questa morte e secondo il quotidiano La Stampa, che lunedì mattina riportava la notizia, i giudici hanno disposto che l'autopsia del giovane nigeriano sia filmata. MANCONI - Sentitosi male alle 8.30 mentre era al telefono con la moglie, Uzoma Emeka, è stato ricoverato in ospedale nel pomeriggio quasi cinque ore dopo ed è morto. «Non sappiamo, ma in ogni caso è certo che a Teramo si è verificato l’ennesimo caso di ’abbandono terapeutico’», commenta in una nota Luigi Manconi, presidente dell’associazione A buon diritto. «Ora, va da sé - aggiunge - si parla di ’morte per cause naturali’: ma sappiamo che oltre il 50% dei decessi in cella è classificato come dovuto a cause da accertare». Autolesionismo, abusi, morti improvvise, overdose presentate come suicidi, suicidi presentati come overdose, mancato aiuto, assistenza negata, «è un vero e proprio regime di omissione di soccorso - dice Manconi - quello che governa il sistema penitenziario italiano. Sullo sfondo di questo tragico avvenimento, l’ultimo di una lunga teoria di morti o inspiegate o sospette, c’è la vicenda del ’negro ha visto tutto’, del ’massacro’ involontariamente confessato, dei testimoni che esitano a parlare. Forse non ci sono ’misteri’ nel carcere di Teramo, ma certamente c’è un bubbone che va eliminato».

I DATI - Con il detenuto nigeriano morto nel carcere di Teramo le morti in carcere nel 2009 toccano quota 172: viene così superato il triste record del 2001, che aveva segnato con 171 detenuti morti, il numero più alto di morti in carcere nella storia della Repubblica. I dati sono dell’Osservatorio permanente sulle morti in carcere. Negli ultimi 10 anni, nelle carceri italiane, sono morte 1.560 persone, di queste 558 si sono suicidate. Per la maggior parte si trattava di persone giovani, spesso con problemi di salute fisica e psichica, spesso tossicodipendenti.

21 dicembre 2009

27 November, 2009

Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua 'has heart problem'

Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua 'has heart problem'

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua (file photo)
The president has had a chronic kidney condition for at least 10 years
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has a heart condition, his spokesman has said, after he flew to Saudi Arabia on Monday for medical treatment.
Mr Yar'Adua has acute pericarditis, or inflammation of the lining around the heart, his spokesman told the BBC.
He said the president, 58, was responding well to treatment. Officials earlier denied rumours that the president was seriously ill.
Mr Yar'Adua has had a chronic kidney condition for at least 10 years.
He has been unable to perform a number of official duties because of recurring health problems.
At about 3pm Friday November 20, after he returned from the Abuja Central Mosque where he performed Muslim prayer, President Yar'Adua complained of a left-sided severe chest pain
Olusegun Adeniyi
Presidential spokesman
President Yar'Adua has twice been flown to Germany for emergency treatment and it is the second time he has visited hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
He has refused to say exactly what condition he suffers from, and has repeatedly said in interviews that his life is "in the hands of God".
BBC health reporter Michelle Roberts says most cases of pericarditis clear up with rest and medication within a few weeks, although patients will initially need to be treated in hospital to check for complications.
Our reporter says occasionally pericarditis is triggered by cancer, which is something doctors need to check for.
Rarely patients may need surgery if the pressure around the heart becomes too great, a complication that could potentially be fatal, she adds.
UMARU YAR'ADUA
Born in 1951 in the northern Muslim state of Katsina
Self-confessed Marxist as an undergraduate
Became a chemistry teacher after university
Married twice, has nine children
Governor of Katsina from 1999 to 2007
During his governorship Katsina adopted Sharia law
Nickname since becoming president in 2007 - "Baba-go-slow"
High point of his presidency so far - the amnesty for oil militants
Has suffered from a chronic kidney condition for at least 10 years

Presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said the president felt pains after performing Friday prayers last week.
"At about 3pm Friday November 20, after he returned from the Abuja Central Mosque where he performed Muslim prayer, President Yar'Adua complained of a left-sided severe chest pain," he said, reports Reuters.
Mr Adeniyi said the initial diagnosis was pericarditis, which has since been confirmed.
Officials had earlier been quoted as saying the president intended to make the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca this week.
Analysts say his continued ill-health poses a problem for Nigeria's constitution.
If he were to step down or die, he would be replaced by Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, who is from the country's southern Niger Delta region.
But according to the ruling People's Democratic Party's own formula for sharing power among the country's regions, the president must be a northerner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8380520.stm

31 October, 2009

Nigerian Team Racks Up Points at Youth World Cup


By Brent Latham Kano, Nigeria30 October 2009

Nigeria's national youth football (soccer) team has represented the host nation well thus far in the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, with two good performances to start the tournament.


With a win over Honduras in its second match of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, Nigeria's young footballers have virtually assured their spot in the elimination rounds of this year's youth World Cup, being played across Nigeria.The Golden Eaglets, as the team comprised of players seventeen and younger is known here, edged the Central Americans, 1-0, on a second half goal by Abdul Ajagun. While the team has players with great individual skill, Nigerian Coach John Obuh said they also play well as a unit. "We did play together. You can have individual players that can play together. We still have those, but I think we played together in the second half," he said,xz


In the victory, Nigeria put in a strong second-half performance for the second straight match. In their opening game, the Golden Eaglets fell behind by three to European champions Germany, only to rally back with three second half goals to salvage a vital tie. Nigeria is now likely to advance out of a very difficult group that, aside from Germany and Honduras, also includes perennial football power Argentina.


The hosts face the Argentinians, who have won both of their matches so far, Saturday night in Bauchi, in a game that will decide which team wins the group.The Nigerians may not be anxious to move on from Abuja, where large crowds have gotten behind them at the national stadium. Over 42 thousand spectators were on hand for the match with Honduras. The Honduran coach, Eugenio Umanzor, said the boisterous partisan crowd was a factor in the game, but that the play on the field was the key.


The coach said his players had seldom experienced an environment like the one they faced in Abuja. He added that the Nigerian side looked ready to defend the title they won in the previous edition of the tournament, played in 2007 in South Korea.The Under-17 World Cup is played once every two years. This year's champion will be crowned on November 15th at the National Stadium in Abuja.