29 November, 2010
20 November, 2010
09 November, 2010
07 September, 2010
Ex prostitute traduttrici per la Polizia
Le donne nigeriane, liberate dal giogo della prostituzione dalla Polizia di Trieste, hanno collaborato grazie alle proprie conoscenze linguistiche all'operazione "Hermes" che ha portato all'arresto di 28 narcotrafficanti. Il cartello, proveniente dalla Nigeria, usava persone dell'est europa per trasportare cocaina dal Sud America ed eroina dall'Afghanistan.
Trieste, 07-09-2010E' il primo caso in Italia di ex prostitute nigeriane che collaborano a un'inchiesta su un traffico internazionale di stupefacenti.Il dato e' stato sottolineato stamani, nella Questura di Trieste, alla conferenza stampa per l'operazione "Hermes" che ha portato la Squadra Mobile del capoluogo giuliano e la Polizia di Frontiera ad arrestare 28 corrieri di un'organizzazione criminale nigeriana che faceva arrivare in Europa, attraverso la "rotta balcanica", cocaina dalSudamerica ed eroina prodotta Afghanistan.Le donne nigeriane, ex schiave della prostituzione liberate sempre dagli uomini della Polizia di Trieste nel corso di indagini dal 2004 al 2008, sono state inserite in programmi di reinserimento e hanno trovato lavoro nel Nord Italia. Gli uomini della Polizia hanno potuto usufruire della loro conoscenza linguistica e culturale per comprendere le strategie dei criminali nigeriani, fondamentale il loro operato per tradurre le telefonate.
"Le donne hanno partecipato all'operazione anche con un senso di rivalsa - ha detto Manuela De Giorgi, dirigenti della Polizia di Frontiera - e hanno vissuto la collaborazione come una nuova occasione che la vita le poneva di fronte".
I corrieri, per lo piu' dell'Est Europa, viaggiavano in treno o in aereo, spesso ingerendo un grosso quantitativo di ovuli, fino a 100 unita' da circa 14 grammi a testa. Fondamentale la collaborazione tra i vari corpi di polizia degli Stati interessati.Tra gli arrestati anche un criminale ricercato in Nigeria per omicidio.
http://www.rainews24.it/it/news.php?newsid=144908
03 September, 2010
Sex War: Ghanaian Prostitutes Battle Nigerian Invaders
Sex War: Ghanaian Prostitutes Battle Nigerian Invaders
They are currently spoiling for war, P.M.NEWS has learnt through News One, a Ghanaian news outfit.
The sex workers who operate in Adum, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region, said they were disenchanted that younger and prettier girls from Nigeria are gradually taking over the sex business as they could hardly retain their usual customers.
According to investigation, if not for the intervention of the assembly member for the area, Albert Osei-Banahene, the enraged sex workers would have protested nude and marched from one office building to another, just to get the authorities to come to their aide.
According to one of the sex workers, “it is not that they are better than us in bed but as you know, most men prefer younger girls and these Nigerian girls are younger.
“Some are still in their teens and their agents protect them but we do not have agents who make things easier for us so. So, the conditions of work are not fair. We would start attacking any underage ashawo from Nigeria because they are spoiling the market.”
Though both groups are prostituting, the Ghanaian girls have cleverly named themselves commercial sex workers while they call their Nigerian counterparts ‘ashawos,’ a more derogatory term for prostitutes.
We learnt that a group of Nigerians take these girls to Ghana where they link them up with prominent Ghanaians and share some percentage of the money the prostitutes get from the trade.
According to the Ghanaian sex workers, the arrival of sexier girls from Nigeria is making business very competitive and compelling them to either lower their rates or lose customers.
Not pleased about the development, the disillusioned sex workers have declared their preparedness to hit the streets in protest should authorities fail to respond to their call and put in place appropriate measures to arrest the worrying situation.
In an interview with an online portal, the sex workers revealed that some Nigerians living in Kumasi have made it their business of bringing in very pretty sex workers from Nigeria to engage in the trade in the country.“Having realised the potential in the business, some Nigerians living in the city have decided to make it their business by bringing sex workers from their country to come and work here,” one of the disgruntled sex workers observed.
“When they bring them, they initially put them in hotels, before hiring rooms for them to practise their trade but we do not have agents or promoters so we are losing the market even in our own country,” another dissatisfied sex worker noted.
According to them, they would do everything within their means to ensure that the practice was stopped, because they believe that as Ghanaians, they have exclusive right to the trade.
“We cannot allow Nigeria to take over everything in the country including the sex trade,” the sex workers emphasized.
The assembly member for the area, Hon Albert Osei-Banahene, who has been appealing to the sex workers to remain calm, urged the government to take up the matter and ensure that it is resolved amicably.
He noted that it was important for the government to come in strongly because of the ages of the girls who are purported to have been brought into the city for sex trade.
—Eromosele Ebhomele/Agency Report
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/09/03/sex-war-ghanaian-prostitutes-battle-nigerian-invaders/
15 August, 2010
Nigerians angry at oil pollution double standards
Nigeria's oil spill crisis
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Nigeria has suffered devastating oil pollution in Delta region over 50 years
Activists angry at attention being given to Gulf of Mexico
Figures are disputed but one cause of Nigerian spills is oil thieves and militants
Niger Delta is one of the world's most oil-polluted places and one of its most important wetlands
Watch a CNN International 30-minute special at 1630 GMT June 30 putting the Gulf oil spill in a global context. Why the spill has repercussions beyond the Gulf and where to find the untapped or under-exploited oil reserves.
Oil Production and Refining
Royal Dutch Shell plc
The U.S. imports about eight percent of its oil from Nigeria. That is nearly half of Nigeria's daily oil production and makes Nigeria the fifth-largest exporter of oil to the United States.
Tebe, like other activists, focuses his energy and anger against his own government and the oil companies he blames for neglecting the region -- but he feels the U.S., as the largest consumer of Nigerian oil, also must also play its part.
"It's very, very bad because Nigeria is the fifth largest exporter of oil to the U.S., and the fact that Nigeria has been going through such issues for the past 50 years with little or no concern even from the U.S. government goes a long way to show you that they look at the Niger Delta as an oil field that people don't need to live in."
According to Amnesty International, people living in the Niger Delta have experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the last half century.
In its June 2009 report, Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty, Amnesty said independent environmental and oil experts estimated between nine million and 13 million of barrels had leaked in the five decades of oil operations. It also quoted U.N. figures of more than 6,800 recorded spills between 1976 and 2001.
Oil companies operating in the Niger Delta believe the figures are exaggerated. Mutiu Sunmonu, the managing director of Shell Nigeria, told CNN the industry is committed, after any spill, to "restore the environment to its previous status."
In the 1990s, Shell was forced to stop operating in Ogoniland after mass protests against the lack of investment and environmental damage culminated in a military crackdown.
Then, a special tribunal found Nigerian writer-activist Ken Saro-Wiwa guilty of complicity in the murders of four Ogoni chiefs. The government executed him and other activists in a move widely condemned internationally.
Shell last year paid $15.5 million in an out-of-court settlement in a civil case brought by members of Saro-Wiwa's family and others.
Shell, which denied any wrongdoing in the case, also refuted charges it was complicit in human rights abuses in the Delta.
It was the only company operating in Ogoniland, and no oil has been pumped there since, yet the locals continue to complain of oil spilling from the maze of pipes criss-crossing their land.
We took a boat into the creeks of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta to see for ourselves. As we traveled to the site, it began to rain heavily. The heavy raindrops splashed black in the thick oil coating the river.
We were unable to access the pipe in the rain and mud. The leak had been repaired but no one here knows how much oil was spilled.
Plumes of dark oil haunt the nearby rivers, the mangroves are stained black, and most conspicuously, there are no fishermen here.
Instead we found Peter Bornu and his wife, knee-deep in thick, oily mud pulling at the branches of the mangroves and stacking them in their wooden boat.
"There's no fish in the river anymore," he told us, his clothes sodden in the rain, "So there's no way I can feed my family apart from fetching firewood like this." The money he makes from selling the wood helps pay for food.
The 700,000-square-kilometer Niger Delta is one of the most important wetlands in the world and home to 31 million people -- 60 percent of whom, according to the U.N. Development Program, depend on the natural environment for their livelihoods.
Chevron, Agip, ExxonMobil are among the other companies operating in the Delta, but Shell is the only company in the region to release regular reports on its operations.
Shell maintains that more than 90 percent of spills are caused by militants and oil thieves tapping into pipelines to steal oil. And then, Shell says, locals often refuse access to the ruptured pipelines until the oil companies have paid for access.
Shell's Sunmonu said: "I am not naive to believe that Shell can fix the problem in the Delta. Ninety-five percent of our revenue -- after tax, after costs -- goes back to government."
And so the oil companies' argument goes: They pay the Nigerian government and it is the government's responsibility to provide investment, security and pressure on private business.
In all those areas the government has notably failed in the poverty-stricken and conflict-racked Niger Delta.
"Even if we pour all our earnings into the Delta - into development and infrastructure - it would still be a drop in the ocean," said Sunmonu.
However, when pressed on the one issue for which the oil companies are legally responsible -- whatever the difficulties -- oil spill cleanup, Sunmonu insisted: "We will clean up and remediate the environment regardless the cost of the spill."
Yet, as we leave Peter Bornu and his wife scavenging for firewood, it's clear many locals don't believe the oil companies.
Environmental reports put the cost of the environmental damage in the tens of billions of dollars.
"Soil is turned upside down, money has been allocated and the cleanup is done," explained Ken Tebe. The oil companies regularly contract out the cleanup operations to local crews, he says, who carry out their operations on the cheap.
"The truth is that the oil has not been mopped up from the soil. We have a series of spills in the Niger Delta for more than 30 years that have not been cleaned up," Tebe said.
And if the U.S. cuts oil production off its coast because of the BP oil spill it will put more pressure on places like Nigeria.
"There'll be new oil blocks so we can meet the quota we send to the U.S." said Tebe. "That'll mean there'll be an increase in oil spills, more gas flares, and resources conflict is going to be on the increase."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/29/nigeria.oil/index.html?hpt=C1&fbid=IrXsdCMPPE#fbid=-2o9Ae-Ce8D&wom=false
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Nigeria has suffered devastating oil pollution in Delta region over 50 years
Activists angry at attention being given to Gulf of Mexico
Figures are disputed but one cause of Nigerian spills is oil thieves and militants
Niger Delta is one of the world's most oil-polluted places and one of its most important wetlands
Watch a CNN International 30-minute special at 1630 GMT June 30 putting the Gulf oil spill in a global context. Why the spill has repercussions beyond the Gulf and where to find the untapped or under-exploited oil reserves.
Niger Delta, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's Niger Delta is one of the most oil-polluted places on the planet with more than 6,800 recorded oil spills, accounting for anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels of oil spilled, according to activist groups.
But occurring over the 50 years since oil production began in the Delta, this environmental disaster has never received the attention that is now being paid to the oil-spill catastrophe hitting the U.S. Gulf coast.
"The whole world is trembling and even the president of America had to do a personal visit to the site. The U.S. will have put serious measures in place to stop such situations happening in the future," said Ken Tebe -- a local environmental activist who is visibly shaken by what he regards as a double standard.
"It's funny because we've been dealing with this problem for 50 years. I even heard BP will pay $20 billion in damages (for the U.S. spill). When will such hope come to the Niger Delta?" Tebe asked.
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Nigeria
The U.S. imports about eight percent of its oil from Nigeria. That is nearly half of Nigeria's daily oil production and makes Nigeria the fifth-largest exporter of oil to the United States.
"It's very, very bad because Nigeria is the fifth largest exporter of oil to the U.S., and the fact that Nigeria has been going through such issues for the past 50 years with little or no concern even from the U.S. government goes a long way to show you that they look at the Niger Delta as an oil field that people don't need to live in."
According to Amnesty International, people living in the Niger Delta have experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the last half century.
In its June 2009 report, Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty, Amnesty said independent environmental and oil experts estimated between nine million and 13 million of barrels had leaked in the five decades of oil operations. It also quoted U.N. figures of more than 6,800 recorded spills between 1976 and 2001.
Oil companies operating in the Niger Delta believe the figures are exaggerated. Mutiu Sunmonu, the managing director of Shell Nigeria, told CNN the industry is committed, after any spill, to "restore the environment to its previous status."
In the 1990s, Shell was forced to stop operating in Ogoniland after mass protests against the lack of investment and environmental damage culminated in a military crackdown.
Then, a special tribunal found Nigerian writer-activist Ken Saro-Wiwa guilty of complicity in the murders of four Ogoni chiefs. The government executed him and other activists in a move widely condemned internationally.
Shell last year paid $15.5 million in an out-of-court settlement in a civil case brought by members of Saro-Wiwa's family and others.
Shell, which denied any wrongdoing in the case, also refuted charges it was complicit in human rights abuses in the Delta.
It was the only company operating in Ogoniland, and no oil has been pumped there since, yet the locals continue to complain of oil spilling from the maze of pipes criss-crossing their land.
We took a boat into the creeks of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta to see for ourselves. As we traveled to the site, it began to rain heavily. The heavy raindrops splashed black in the thick oil coating the river.
We were unable to access the pipe in the rain and mud. The leak had been repaired but no one here knows how much oil was spilled.
Plumes of dark oil haunt the nearby rivers, the mangroves are stained black, and most conspicuously, there are no fishermen here.
Instead we found Peter Bornu and his wife, knee-deep in thick, oily mud pulling at the branches of the mangroves and stacking them in their wooden boat.
"There's no fish in the river anymore," he told us, his clothes sodden in the rain, "So there's no way I can feed my family apart from fetching firewood like this." The money he makes from selling the wood helps pay for food.
The 700,000-square-kilometer Niger Delta is one of the most important wetlands in the world and home to 31 million people -- 60 percent of whom, according to the U.N. Development Program, depend on the natural environment for their livelihoods.
Chevron, Agip, ExxonMobil are among the other companies operating in the Delta, but Shell is the only company in the region to release regular reports on its operations.
Shell maintains that more than 90 percent of spills are caused by militants and oil thieves tapping into pipelines to steal oil. And then, Shell says, locals often refuse access to the ruptured pipelines until the oil companies have paid for access.
Shell's Sunmonu said: "I am not naive to believe that Shell can fix the problem in the Delta. Ninety-five percent of our revenue -- after tax, after costs -- goes back to government."
And so the oil companies' argument goes: They pay the Nigerian government and it is the government's responsibility to provide investment, security and pressure on private business.
In all those areas the government has notably failed in the poverty-stricken and conflict-racked Niger Delta.
"Even if we pour all our earnings into the Delta - into development and infrastructure - it would still be a drop in the ocean," said Sunmonu.
However, when pressed on the one issue for which the oil companies are legally responsible -- whatever the difficulties -- oil spill cleanup, Sunmonu insisted: "We will clean up and remediate the environment regardless the cost of the spill."
Yet, as we leave Peter Bornu and his wife scavenging for firewood, it's clear many locals don't believe the oil companies.
Environmental reports put the cost of the environmental damage in the tens of billions of dollars.
"Soil is turned upside down, money has been allocated and the cleanup is done," explained Ken Tebe. The oil companies regularly contract out the cleanup operations to local crews, he says, who carry out their operations on the cheap.
"The truth is that the oil has not been mopped up from the soil. We have a series of spills in the Niger Delta for more than 30 years that have not been cleaned up," Tebe said.
And if the U.S. cuts oil production off its coast because of the BP oil spill it will put more pressure on places like Nigeria.
"There'll be new oil blocks so we can meet the quota we send to the U.S." said Tebe. "That'll mean there'll be an increase in oil spills, more gas flares, and resources conflict is going to be on the increase."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/29/nigeria.oil/index.html?hpt=C1&fbid=IrXsdCMPPE#fbid=-2o9Ae-Ce8D&wom=false
24 July, 2010
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: ITALO_NIGERIAN ACCORD
| 21-07-10 | |
| IMMIGRATI: FIRMATO ACCORDO ITALIA-NIGERIA SU TEMA CLANDESTINI | |
(ASCA) - Roma, 21 lug - E' stato firmato ad Abuja l'accordo tra Nigeria, Italia e Interpol per intensificare la lotta contro il traffico di esseri umani e l'immigrazione clandestina, rafforzando cosi' la cooperazione internazionale e colpire quelle organizzazioni che alimentano tali crimini. Coordinato dall'Interpol, il progetto pilota della durata di due anni, permettera' alle forze di polizia di entrambi i Paesi di rafforzare la loro capacita' di combattere il traffico di essere umani, il crimine organizzato e l'immigrazione illegale. Inoltre, gli strumenti e le risorse dell'Interpol saranno utilizzati per analizzare la sussistenza di legami criminali piu' ampi. L'aspetto operativo dell'accordo consentira' inoltre di creare nel nostro territorio, squadre di polizia miste con i nigeriani che saranno impiegati per un periodo di dodici mesi in aeroporti internazionali, porti, e in alcune citta'. La Direzione centrale per l'immigrazione e le frontiere organizzera' corsi di preparazione per i poliziotti nigeriani. I primi cinque poliziotti nigeriani saranno in Italia gia' nei prossimi giorni. Nella foto, il capo della Polizia, Antonio Manganelli insieme ai primi cinque poliziotti che arriveranno in Italia, il capo dell'Interpol Ronald Noble e il capo della polizia Nigeriana Mike Mbama Okiro. Il ministro dell'Interno Roberto Maroni soddisfatto per la firma dell'accordo ha dichiarato: ''E' un importante passo avanti nella lotta all'immigrazione clandestina e al traffico di esseri umani che vedra' impegnate le forze di Polizia italiane e nigeriane nel contrasto di tutte quelle organizzazioni responsabili di questi crimini''. ''In Italia - ha detto il capo della Polizia Antonio Manganelli - si sta costruendo l'intelligente equilibrio tra politica di accoglienza, solidarieta' e integrazione ed e' necessario rigore nei confronti dell'immigrazione clandestina, di cui sono provati i frequenti collegamenti con la criminalita'''. Il segretario generale dell'Interpol, Ronald Noble, ha dichiarato: ''I capi della polizia italiana e nigeriana dovrebbero essere lodati per il loro impegno bilaterale e globale nella collaborazione tra polizie nella lotta ai gravi crimini trasnazionali. Grazie agli accordi di condividere le informazioni raccolte con l'Interpol, potremo mettere in luce collegamenti del crimine organizzato che vanno al di la' di questi due paesi e quindi indebolire ulteriormente la criminalita' organizzata attiva sul fronte del traffico di esseri umani e dell'immigrazione clandestina''. news | |
21 July, 2010
Ovuli di cocaina in pancia Così trasportavano la droga
Ovuli di cocaina in pancia
Così trasportavano la droga
La polizia di Rovigo ha collaborato alla maxi operazione 'Black passenger'. I corrieri nigeriani trasportavano la droga in Italia inghiottendo gli ovuli e viaggiando in aereo con un chilo e mezzo di cocaina o eroina nelle viscere
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Trova significati nei dizionari Zanichelli
In questa pagina è attivo il servizio ZanTip:
Facendo doppio click su una qualsiasi parola presente nell'articolo, sarà visualizzata la definizione della parola, così come è stata pubblicata all'interno del Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana Zingarelli 2010.
Alla fine del riquadro di spiegazione ne sarà proposta anche la traduzione in inglese, ripresa dal lemmario Italiano-Iglese del Ragazzini 2010.Rovigo, 21 luglio 2010 - La polizia di Perugia sta dando corso ad un’importante operazione antidroga, coordinata dal servizio centrale operativo della polizia di Stato e della direzione centrale per i servizi antidroga, con la collaborazione delle squadre mobili delle Questure di Padova, Rovigo, Vicenza, Venezia e Prato, che ha già portato all’esecuzione di diversi arresti nei confronti di nigeriani per i reati di detenzione, traffico internazionale e spaccio di sostanze stupefacenti.Le indagini dell’operazione chiamata “Black passenger”, coordinata dalla direzione distrettuale antimafia della Procura della Repubblica di Perugia, sono iniziate nell’aprile 2009 ed hanno permesso di far luce sul vasto traffico internazionale di sostanze stupefacenti che dalla Nigeria venivano importate nel territorio nazionale.I nigeriani portavano la droga in Italia inghiottendo gli ovuli: viaggiavano in aereo con 1,5 kg di cocaina o eroina in pancia per poi indirizzarsi, una volta giunti in Italia, verso un appartamento di Padova dove l’organizzazione curava l’espulsione degli ovuli dal corpo, ridistribuendo e confezionando la droga per farla poi ripartire alla volta di varie località italiane.
Fondamentale, spiega la polizia, per la riuscita dell’indagine, è stata anche la collaborazione della polizia nigeriana, che tramite suoi funzionari giunti a Perugia e rimasti nel capoluogo umbro per quasi un anno grazie ai rapporti investigativi bilaterali consolidati nel 2009 con la stipula di un accordo tra Nigeria, Italia e Interpol siglato dal capo della Polizia, Prefetto Antonio Manganelli, per rafforzare la cooperazione e colpire con maggiore incisività le organizzazioni criminali
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