MILEY EN MARIE CLAIRE

CARLY RAE JEPSEN

Ya es muy conocido que sin la ayuda del rapero Usher,el idolo de las adolescentes Justin Bieber,no hubiera llegado a la fama que todos le conocemos hoy.
Pues da la casualidad que ahora es Bieber quien le ha servido de "padrino"  a una compatriota suya para que esta cumpla su sueño y llegue a la fama,se trata de Carly Jae Repsen,una chica de 26 años y tambien oriunda de Canada.
Me imagino que quizas no les suene mucho su nombre,pero su tema debut "call me maybe" es de los mas escuchados y descargados de este año,batiendo records de reproducciones en youtube,inclusive el mismo Justin Bieber junto con su novia Selenita Gomez,hizo una parodia de la cancion en youtube.
Pues chequeandola bien a Carly no esta nada mal,a simple vista pareciera que tuviera unos 20 años,pero esta cerca de los 27, no es cuenta con rostro bellisimo, pero tampoco es que esta fea ,y cuenta con una par de carnosas y muy potables piernas.
A continuacion les dejo un pequeño aporte de imagenes y el famoso video para que len una chequeada.

Nike Basketball 3 ON 3 Tournament @ LA Live

The largest basketball tournament, the Nike Basketball 3 ON 3 August 3-5 2012 in the Southland ends with its thrilling fanfare while NBC 4 continues with its live coverage of the Olympics. Parking lots, street corners, major streets had been turned to basketball courts with closures of Chick Hearn Court on Figueroa and 11th Street at LA Live.

2012 NBC 4 Olympic Games Village @ LA Live: The Elite Games of Nike Basketball 3 ON 3 Women Tournament between TBA and National. Teams from a group of friends in wheelchairs to series of ladies from the West Coast compete in several divisions for an array of prizes, including cash. Date: Sunday, August 05, 2012. Location: LA Live, Downtown Los Angeles. Image: Ehirim Files Images.

Attempting a free throw in one of the parking lot turned Nike Basketball Tournament court.

Scene at the NBC 4 Olympic Village Sunday, August 05, 2012, which brought in thousands of amateur hoopsters and spectators from all around the country for the Nike Basketball 3 ON 3 Tournament to vie for bragging rights and cash prizes. Image: Ehirim Files Images

A modern, wired university grows in Nigeria

Two students focus on their work in a laboratory on the campus of the American University of Nigeria.Courtesy of American University of Nigeria

BY JACK RODOLICO/LATITUDE NEWS/THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

It’s tough to get an Internet connection in northern Nigeria. That’s why Google was surprised to see – on their user map, where they track the locations of people Googling around the world – a big bright dot of activity in the Nigerian city of Yola, right on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.

Nigeria has 170 million people, the most populous country in Africa and 7th largest in the world. But Yola has fewer than 100,000 people, and is close to the home of the Boko Haram terrorist group.

So when Google sent a team out to Nigeria last fall to figure out who was doing all that Googling, the California-based company was surprised to find a scene right out of an American college campus. In fact, they sort of did stumble on an American university – the American University of Nigeria (AUN).

According to AUN’s president, American Margee Ensign, Google was pleasantly surprised to find the campus.

“Google told us we were 55 percent of their traffic in the whole country,” Ensign says.

Latitude News caught up with Ensign as she was traveling from California to Nigeria. During a brief layover in Belgium, Ensign talked about what it meant to be an “American-style” university in a country associated in many people’s minds with spammers and Boko Haram.

AUN is the youngest American-style university abroad. The American University of Beirut was founded when Andrew Johnson was president in 1866. The American University in Bulgaria was founded in 1991, shortly after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. These schools, along with their counterparts in Rome, Cairo and the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, offer a liberal arts education – easy to come by in the US, but not so in other parts of the world.

AUN does not have an explicit connection with these other universities, although it has received critical support from American University in Washington DC. The Nigerian school, which opened its doors to students in 2005, was the brainchild of Nigeria’s former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, who credits the Peace Corps for inspiring him to found the school.

As a child, Abubakar was orphaned in a town near Yola, right around the time Nigeria gained independence from Britain.

“[Abubakar] had American Peace Corps teachers and British teachers,” Ensign says. “He has said to me and others the British teachers slapped his hands and said, ‘Repeat after me,’ and the Peace Corps teachers actually asked his opinion.”

Ensign says Abubakar’s fortune ”is coming to the university.”

By Nigerian standards, the university is a hub for technology and infrastructure. Ensign says the campus is home to the largest building in northern Nigeria, and is the country’s only university with electricity around the clock. Students get laptops and have wireless, another unusual feature at a Nigerian university.

“We’re an entirely eBook community, all on iPads,” Ensign says, “and we’re introducing that same technology to a very poor community.”

“I would like to show the world that this technology can be used anywhere and can really allow people to leapfrog the challenges of poverty and illiteracy,” she adds.

AUN’s infrastructure is utilized by young Nigerians (and, increasingly, Rwandans, Ugandans, and Cameroonians) who are eager to pursue a liberal arts education. Like most American universities, undergraduate students study a diverse range of courses for two years, then focus on one field for their remaining two years. The campus is also home to a graduate program and a K-12 school – and a small army.

“When I was recruited for this position, like many, I was quite skeptical and worried about coming to Nigeria,” says Ensign.

Even though she feels at home now, Ensign says she faces constant, atypical challenges. Last week, there was a boa constrictor on campus.

“We had to deal with the local snake charmer,” Ensign says. She adds that in northern Nigeria, a big snake is a small challenge compared with “a terrorist organization about 100 miles from the university.”

The charmer got rid of the snake. A 350-person security force is there for the rest.

The security force, one-third of whom are women, are there to protect the 1,400 students and 90 or so faculty from Boko Haram, an Islamist group labeled as a terrorist group by the US government.

Ensign wouldn’t speak to specific threats from Boko Haram, instead saying the security force is there as a precautionary measure. She says students do not live under the constant threat of violence.

FOTOS SEXYS DE ANGUE VAZQUEZ PARTE 3

Como lo prometido es deuda,aqui les traigo la tercera entrega de las fotos mas cachondas de nuestra reina angie vazquez vocalista de los vazquez sounds.

Join this movement of the age – Ban all arms to Africa

BY HERBERT EKWE-EKWE

(excerpts from Readings from Reading: Essays on African Politics, Genocide, Literature [pp. 183-194] which you may find helpful as you decide to join the movement)

… It should therefore be stressed that whilst the dichotomy often placed between “legal arms” and “illegal arms” by some observers (in the African militarisation, genocide and war debate) has some analytical credit, its outcome on the ground, particularly in enabling us evaluate the comparative impact that the two categories ultimately pose on African social co-existence and security, always comes as a shock! Contrary to the initial value judgement that most people would make between the “legality” of a particular commodity (in this case, arms) and its “illegality”, it is definitely no comfort at all when it is shown at the end of the exercise that the overwhelming majority of the 15 million killed in Africa’s genocide and wars in the past 45 years were in fact slaughtered with the use of “legal” armaments, operated seemingly legally by the armed forces of the state and their allies. The examples of the Nigerian state in 1966-1970, the Rwandan central government in the 1990s, and the current Arab regime in Khartoum are acutely illustrative of this cataclysmic sequence. In effect, whether “legal” or “illegal”, armaments in Africa, controlled overwhelmingly by the African state and its allies, are used to murder targeted African nations and populations domiciled within these states; the African states, since the Igbo genocide, have deployed armaments in their armouries to murder their peoples most brutally, massively and extensively. These states, starting from Nigeria, have murdered a ghastly total of 15 million Africans in a generation. They are still murdering without let up… They have devastated communities. They have disfigured and traumatised peoples’ lives and aspirations. In the hands of the typical African state, since the Igbo genocide, these armaments, even though classified “conventional”, are indeed weapons of mass destruction. Nothing else, but weapons of mass destruction… In Africa, the pistol, the rifle, the grenade, the rocket, the bazooka, the landmine, the helicopter gunship, the naval gunship, the fighter aircraft, the bomber, the tank – each and every one of these items, imported by and large from abroad, is a killer used primarily by the state to murder targeted peoples within its border. The African state should and must be stopped from murdering peoples within its frontiers. The rest of the world, especially from where weapons to these African states originate, day in and day out, can no longer remain bystanders as this orgy of death is brazenly played out in Africa. Since the Igbo genocide, the African state has been destroying African lives; they are presently destroying African lives; they will continue to destroy African lives until stopped. The African state must surely be stopped from its pursuit of this pulverising mission of death…

… On this score, the ethos that governs the African journey of recovery is the commitment of all Africans and the demand that they need to make to the rest of the world to place a mandatory embargo on all arms sales and transfers to all of Africa, as well as a complete demilitarisation of the continent. Africa needs justice and peace for, and with itself, to enable it embark on the much-vaunted era of reconstruction…

… On this, Africa’s challenge to the rest of the world couldn’t be clearer: those who live outside Africa but “care so much for Africa” should now scale down their multitudinous “aid-ventures for Africa” and turn their incredible talents to lobbying their respective states and other institutions in their countries and elsewhere to ban arms sales/transfers to Africa. This new focus for the world’s leading charities, away from the band-aid syndrome, will surely be more exciting, even less taxing, but definitely more rewarding for the ultimate outcome for Africa and the rest of the world alike. Africa seeks no resources from anyone, not even for one US dollar, to accomplish its current transformative mission to dismantle the genocide state. It is simply asking the world to completely seal off its vast armouries to deny access to the deadly claws of the African genocide state. For once, no one is asking anyone to raise money for Africa! Given the devastating impact of arms, arming, armies, genocide and other armed conflicts on Africa’s tragic history and the present, Africa, today, projects an unwavering signpost for the world’s attention that proclaims: Africa Is An Arms-Free Zone. A demilitarised continent. No More Arms Sales Or Transfers To Africa…

(Why not get a copy of Readings from Reading today, read through the argument and join the movement to ban all arms to Africa. There is no centralising arm of this movement. You are the centre! Form yours today by sharing with family and friends and colleagues everywhere – at discussion/entertainment venues, work, places of worship and spiritual fellowship, union meetings [trades, schools/colleges, family/village/town/district/regional, etc., etc.], next surgery with your electoral ward/precinct/local government representative, member of parliament/congressperson/senator… You can begin and join this movement wherever you are in the world. To ban arms to Africa is at once supporting African wellbeing and that of the rest of humanity. Now is the time!)

NUEVO VIDEO DE BELINDA

Ya habian pasado unos meses que no se sabia mucho de Belinda, y ahora nos sorprende con un nuevo video ,promocional de su nuevo produccion discografica.
Y vaya que el regreso de Belinda a la musica ha sido del bueno,solo denle una chequeada a este video,donde la guapa rubia sale en bikini mostrando su muy potable figura.

NIGERIA: Weekend Papers, August 3-5, 2012

COMPILED BY AMBROSE EHIRIM

CHICAGO TRIBUNE-REUTERS: Olympics-Women's boxing middleweight last 16 results

SUPER SPORT: Gunners blast ASO

THE CARIBBEAN JOURNAL: Jamaica and Nigeria Sign Cooperation Agreements on Energy, Trade

CHANNELS TV: Nigerian footballer dies on pitch in Romania

AFP-GOOGLE NEWS: Women's boxing makes Olympic debut

LIBERIAN LONE STAR: Liberian Lone Star, and Super Eagles of Nigeria to battle for AFCON’s qualifying round

BBC NEWS AFRICA: Nigeria suicide bombing 'kills soldiers' in north-east

REUTERS: Insight: A year on, Nigeria's oil still poisons Ogoniland

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN-AFP: Nigeria sect leader criticises Obama over terrorist label

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE: Mpape: Slum metres away from paradise

BBC NEWS: Nigeria gunmen storm oil ship - two dead, four kidnapped

EURO NEWS: ‘Nothing done’ over Nigeria oil pollution, say locals

RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE: Explosions rock restive Nigerian city as troops raid homes

THE STATESMAN AUSTIN TEXAS: US men survive 1st test, beat Lithuania 99-94

DAILY TIMES NIGERIA: Lithuanian fined for racist chant at Nigerians

DAILY TIMES NIGERIA: Yobo moves to Fenerbachce

ORANGE NEWS UK: Odemwingie rescues Baggies

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Grand Finale: Phelps to swim in medley relay

P.M. NEWS NIGERIA: London Olympics: 6 arrests made by police

WAFB: Lady Tigers off and running at Olympic games

REDIFF: Expect a few surprises in the women's track events

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: 19-year-old Davis learning abroad

TELEGRAPH UK: Mo Farah's main rival for long-distance gold at London 2012 Olympics is Kenenisa Bekele, says Haile Gebrselassie

THE EAGLE-ASSOCIATED PRESS: Carmelita Jeter leads quick women’s 100 heats at Olympics

NIGERIA TRIBUNE: Nigeria Leaks Billions From Rampant Oil Theft

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE: Public Revolt Imminent In Nigeria - Pastor Bakare

MY JOY ONLINE: Ghana, Nigeria pledge to deepen ties

ESPN SPORTS: Argentina-Nigeria Preview

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE: ‘I Prepared For Mr Nigeria Contest As If I Was Going To War’

JAMAICAN OBSERVER: Nigerian president wants economic, cultural co-operation with Jamaica

EURASIA REVIEW: Nigeria’s Oil Production At ‘All-Time High’

THE NEWS PAKISTAN: Lithuanians outraged by racism allegations

THE NATION NIGERIA: US rewrites record book as Spain, Russia advance

THIS DAY LIVE: Aviation Minister, Officials Embark on Foreign Road Show

THIS DAY LIVE: Relax Restrictive Monetary Policy Stance, Analysts Tell CBN

THE VIRGINIA PILOT: Ex-Landstown star advances to 400 meters semifinals

SAN ANTONIO: Olympics TV schedule: Saturday-Sunday

MERCURY NEWS: Bay Area athletes at the London Olympics

NEWS AND SENTINEL: Records in hand, US men's team ready for Lithuania

PLAYBILL: Fela! Ends Limited Broadway Encore Engagement Aug. 4

THE MOMENT-ALL AFRICA: Police Ban Carrying of Polythene Bags in Polling Units in Borno

THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: Nigerian Religious Leader Escapes Suicide Attack - Police

DANNA PAOLA AHORA ES SEXY GIMNASTA

Tiempo de juegos olimpicos,de ver deportes que ni sabes que existen,de ver deliciosas atletas en atrevidos trajes de competicion.
Pues hay algunos que hasta al tema de las olimpiadas le sacan provecho al maximo.
La lolita mas deseada,mas coqueta,mas sexy,mas provocativa de Mexico,me refiero a Danna Paola, vuelve a sacar provecho de su belleza y sensualidad en la revista "quien" y en la cual y de acorde con la moda de las olimpiadas,se vistio con un ceñido traje de gimnasia ritmica.
Y como siempre Danna nos vuelve a dejar babeando con su hermosa figura y esas espectaculares piernas.
!Vivan las olimpiadas!

Push to preserve Fela Kuti's legacy 15 years after death

Nigerian musician Femi Kuti, son of legendary afrobeat musician and activist Fela Anikulakpo-Kuti, performs on stage with his children at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos on July 29, 2012. Photo courtesy: AFP

BY M. J. Smith

LAGOS, Aug 3, 2012 (AFP) - The spirit of Fela Kuti haunts his old house -- the musician's colourful clothes in the bedroom, his shoes on a rack -- but the marijuana smoke, his many wives and his beguiling sax playing are long gone.

Thursday marked 15 years since the death of Kuti, the Nigerian Afrobeat musician who became a global icon thanks to his unique sound, his wild lifestyle and his harsh criticism of his country's corrupt military regimes.

He is far from forgotten, both here and in many places abroad, and his family has been working to further preserve Kuti's legacy, including efforts to turn his last house into a museum -- the reason his bedroom was left as is.

"It's gone beyond a Nigerian story," his son Femi Kuti, also a musician, said recently before taking the stage at the family's New Afrika Shrine club in Lagos. "It's gone beyond an African story. It's like jazz."

Kuti's legend has in some ways only grown since his death aged 58 in 1997 from an HIV-related illness, especially following a recent Broadway musical about his life that drew rave reviews.

His outsized personality and social activism made him a hero to many while he was still alive, and his funeral in the giant economic capital of Lagos drew massive crowds into the streets.

The saxophone player was a harsh critic of Nigeria's corrupt elite, lashing out in songs like "Coffin for Head of State" or "International Thief Thief", but with irresistible grooves that combined jazz, traditional music and other sounds.

His songs repeatedly landed him in trouble with the authorities, including arrests and the burning, allegedly by soldiers, of his compound, which he had christened the Kalakuta Republic and declared independent.

His original Shrine club where he regularly performed was shut after his death, but his family later opened the New Afrika Shrine at another location.

He was also known for marrying 27 women on the same day, most of them his dancers, and his love of marijuana was well-documented.

To some, echoes of his campaign for justice can still be heard in Lagos.

His name was invoked repeatedly during a national strike and mass protests in January over the removal of fuel subsidies, which caused petrol prices to double.

President Goodluck Jonathan was eventually forced to partially reinstate the subsidies.

Seun Kuti, another of Kuti's sons, played politically charged concerts before thousands at the main protest site in Lagos. Femi and his sister Yeni Kuti also helped lead rallies there.

For Kunle Tejuoso, who runs a record label as well as a bookstore and music shop that caters to Lagos intellectuals, Fela Kuti was "bold enough to shout out and use music as a weapon against a very, very vicious system."

Kuti was raised in a middle-class family and studied music in England, but was able to connect with ordinary people even after his fame grew, Tejuoso said.

"He stuck to the basics, he stayed with the people, and I think he was immersed in his music," he said at his store, which sells framed photos of Kuti.

'Be with the people'

"And to get to that music, you have to be with the people. In order to get the message across, you have to understand what they're saying."

Asked whether his father's legacy had more to do with music or social activism, Femi Kuti said they were equally important.

"You cannot forget the fight for social justice, making, especially, Nigerians aware of their predicament," he said.

Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer, and is often ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries. It was ruled by successive military regimes before a return to civilian government in 1999.

But it was not only Nigeria's leaders that concerned Kuti. Femi points out that he was also intent on speaking out against the injustices of colonialism. Nigeria, a former British colony, gained independence in 1960.

After the first Kalakuta Republic was destroyed, Kuti moved to the three-storey building his family is now seeking to turn into a museum in Lagos, with renovation work underway.

His pyramid-shaped tomb sits out front, the building situated on a narrow road in a crowded neighbourhood.

"It is very important to me, and this is why we buried him here in the first place -- because we wanted to turn this place into a museum after he passed away," said Yeni Kuti as she stood on the building's rooftop terrace.

The Lagos state government has provided the family with 40 million naira ($250,000) for the museum, according to Yeni, who estimates they will have to raise around 25 million naira more to complete the job.

The aim is to open the museum in October during "Felebration", an annual series of events honouring Kuti around his birthday.

They plan to install glass around his bedroom so fans can see inside, with exhibits in other rooms in the house and a small hotel.

"It's a global issue of mankind oppressing one another for wealth, for corruption, greed," Femi Kuti said. "And my father is just part of this big story."

Comparative diagnostic efficacy of serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen in hepatocellular carcinoma

A 7TH SPACE CREATIVE PRESS RELEASE

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common liver malignancy in Nigeria. Hepatitis B and C viruses, alcohol and Aflatoxin B are among the various aetiology.

More work needs to be done in the search for markers that will aid early detection of this condition as it is uniformly fatal once advanced. Alphafetoprotein (AFP) remains the most widely used tumour marker of HCC detection in spite of its known shortcomings.The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCA) , in comparison to alphafetoprotein in the detection of HCC.MethodSixty patients with HCC and thirty apparently healthy controls attending the Medical Outpatient Department(MOPD) of the University College Hospital Ibadan(UCH) Nigeria were selected for the study.Questionnaire was used to collect clinical data while AFP, SCCA levels,serum HBsAg and anti-HCV were determined using ELISA method- ( Diagnostic Automation Inc.

(Canada),Abdominal ultrasound scan was also done.Result:Thirty one(51.7%) out of 60 selected cases were positive for HBsAg while six(20%) out of 30 controls were positive for HBsAg(p= 0.004) .Out of the 60 cases selected for this study only 2 (3.3.%) cases were positive for hepatitis C virus, while only 1(3.3%) out of 30 control was positive for hepatitis C virus(p= 0.74).The mean AFP value for cases with HCC was393.21ng/ml +/-386.97 compared to the control group which was 5.60 +/- 13.03 ng/ml (P value 0.001).The mean SCCA level was 0.64 +/- 0.56ng/ml and 0.71+/-0.65ng/ml for cases and controls respectively (p=0.631)

Conclusion: Alphafetoprotein remains a good tumour marker for the diagnosis of HCC. Serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen(SCCA) has no discriminatory power and may not be useful as a tumour marker for Nigerians with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Author: Olufemi M SoyemiJesse A OtegbayoSamuel O OlaAdegboyega AkereTemitope Soyemi

Credits/Source: BMC Research Notes 2012, 5:403

NIGERIA: Friday Papers, August 03, 2012

COMPILED BY AMBROSE EHIRIM

PUNCH: Insecurity: House chickens out of summons to Jonathan

THE TRINIDAD & TOBAGO EXPRESS: Nigeria plans to enter air services agreement with

FOX NEWS: US men score 156 points against Nigeria in basketball blowout

BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK: U.S. Men Face Tougher Basketball Tests After Rout of Nigeria

LEADERSHIP NIGERIA: Clinton May Stop By In Nigeria

THE NEWS PAKISTAN: ‘City’s children prone to polio after WHO office closure’

GUARDIAN NIGERIA: SON reads riot act to traders of sub-standard products

THIS DAY LIVE: Soludo Writes for THISDAY

WISCONSON STATE JOURNAL: Catholic group seeks space to serve needy

THE NEWS TRIBUNE: Douglas wins all-around Olympic title

THIS DAY LIVE: Police Set to Prosecute Lawan over $.62m Bribe

VANGUARD NIGERIA: Assad will go sooner or later – Annan

PUNCH: Okonjo-Iweala in Senate: Nigeria not broke, cash problems normal

SUPER SPORT: Race for NPL crown down to three

SUPER SPORT: Umar cherishes call-up

SUPER SPORT: Akpala still on course for UCL

SILVER RIVER SPORTS: Global reach highlights Razorback Olympians

DAILY TIMES NIGERIA: Crude oil production hits 2.7mbpd

DAILY TIMES NIGERIA: NUT commends Obi

DAILY TIMES NIGERIA: Man seeks divorce from violent wife

THE NIGERIAN ENTERTAINMENT TODAY: Bigfoot and Mr Rae release ‘The Big Rae’ EP

VENTURES AFRICA: U.S. Congress Renews African Trade Law Provision

NEWSDAY: Marketing critical — Nguni

LO QUE SE VIENE EN LA SECUELA DE MACHETE

La primera parte de machete de Robert Rodriguez,la verdad no me gusto,como pelicula de accion,a pesar de contar con estrellas de renombre.
Pero lo que no puedo dejar de reconocer,es que a pesar de no ser una pelicula de estudios importantes,esta produccion paso a la historia por reunir en un mismo sitio a varios sex simbol de la industria.
Para la segunda parte que ha comenzado a filmarse este verano,el casting esta que arde,solo imaginen:
Amber Heard
Vanessa Hudgens
Alexa Vega
Sofia Vergara
Y para los que le tengan aprecio la siempre excentrica Lady Gaga.
Si tomamos en cuenta que se repitan las escenas cachondas de la primera parte ,esto va a dar mucho que hablar en el 2013.

Memorable Images: Muhammad Ali

Boxing promoter Harry Leverne (background left), match maker Mickey Duff (background middle) and trainer Angelo Dundee (background right) listen as world heavyweight champion Mohammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) is interviewed by television reporters upon his arrival at London Airport. Ali is in London for a fight against Henry Cooper. England, 1966. Location: London Airport, London, England. Date: May 09, 1966. Image: Hulton Deutsch

Mohammad Ali remains the greatest ever in boxing; when boxing was dying a natural death and he popped up, everybody got paid till today which also signaled the sport's commercial success.

The Schwarzenegger Policy Think Tank

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger commits $20 million Wednesday, August 1, 2012, for the Schwarzenegger Policy Think Tank in partnership with the University of Southern California. The Schwarzenegger Institute will be housed at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger will chair the institute's Board of Advisors and will hold an appointment as the Gov. Downey Professor of State and Global Policy at USC, named after John Downey, an Irish immigrant who in 1860 became California's first foreign-born governor. Downey also helped found USC. Image: Ehirim Files Images.

Nigerians Are Dying In Libyan Prisons, Say Returnees

A terrified Nigerian youth is arrested by Libyan troops. When war broke out last year in Libya, the rebels labeled Black people “mercenaries” of Qaddafi. Thousands were lynched or imprisoned and tortured, whether they were Libyan-born or had come from sub-Saharan Africa to work. The end of the war did not end the persecution of Blacks.

BY KAYODE OGUNWALE/SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW

Lagos – Nigerians who were recently repatriated from crisis-torn Libya described their ordeal after they were caught between two feuding camps.

Their appearance tells the story of the ordeals they went through in their host country. The 327 Nigerians who were recently evacuated from Libya wear the scar like a toga. Disheveled, disillusioned and angry, the returnees – men, women and children – arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in mid-July in two batches on board a Tripoli Air Memphis Subme plane.

The stranded Nigerians, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), were evacuated to the country from Libya through the effort of the International Office for Migration (IOM), a United Nations body.

Statistics by the agency indicate of those brought back, 113 are females and 214 males. Among them also are 11 under-aged children and one elderly person.

Weekly Trust learnt that some of the returnees had been tortured or imprisoned by the new government in Tripoli before they were evacuated. Some of them who relived their experiences painted a gloomy picture of the post-Qaddafi era. They had been caught in the crossfire there.

Mr. Okwudolor John said, “The situation is very bad in Libya. Nigerians are suffering; some are very sick while others are dying.

“We lost everything during the crisis: money, clothes, everything indeed. Libyan hoodlums capitalized on the crisis to rob and dispossess us of our property.”

Esther Omoreghe, who returned with two of her children while her Ghanaian husband and her son died in the heat of the crisis, regretted her sojourn to a foreign land and vowed that she would never allow her children or relations to travel outside Nigeria.

A returnee simply identified as Jennifer, who could not hold back tears, said she left Nigeria in search of greener pastures, but came back dejected with a pregnancy.

“We lost everything during the crisis: money, clothes, everything indeed. Libyan hoodlums capitalized on the crisis to rob and dispossess us of our property.”

“The Nigerian government should wake up, because so many of us are dying in Libyan prisons. Libyans do not want to see us at all.

“If you have somebody in Libya and have not heard from the person for a long time, just know either the person is dead or in one of the prisons,” she said.

Jennifer said the person responsible for her pregnancy, a Nigerian, was in one of the unknown prisons.

Miss Idemudia Joy said her travelling to Libya was a “wasted effort,” blaming the different levels of governments in the country for her predicament.

“I think if everything had been well in Nigeria, none of us would want to go through hell on earth. I went to Libya through the desert. I trekked night after night through the desert, but see where I have ended up. But I still thank God I came back complete and was not detained endlessly in their prisons. Here I can start a small business to take care of my baby and myself,” she said. “If you have somebody in Libya and have not heard from the person for a long time, just know either the person is dead or in one of the prisons.”

Idemudia urged the federal government to expedite action to evacuate Nigerians from Libyan prisons and hospitals and those hiding in different villages.

One of the returnees, who came home with POP on his leg, said he was shot by a security officer while doing his business in the crisis-torn country. He said there was an increasing hatred for Nigerians and appealed to the federal government to act fast to save young Nigerians in Libya.

“The government should stop saying there are no Nigerians in Libya. There are many of us in prisons, hospitals and some doing odd jobs for companies, just to find a place to hide,” he said.

A NEMA official who spoke on condition of anonymity said it is not only Libya that is repatriating Nigerians. “On March 7, 2011, at the peak of crises in some parts of North Africa, NEMA in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and other partners repatriated about 991 Nigerians, mainly from Egypt and Tunisia, while on the Feb. 27, 2012, about 292 Nigerians returned from Libya to Lagos.

Also, 423 Nigerian returnees were received by NEMA at the border town of Gamboru-Ngala in Borno State in four batches in 2011.

Altogether, over 3,000 Nigerian victims of the Arab Spring crises, he said, have been repatriated to Nigeria by NEMA and other international and national humanitarian organizations. The first batch returned at the peak of the Tunisian and Egyptian crises when many nationals were trapped in those crisis torn countries.

He said many Nigerians could not be evacuated then, because most of them could not be reached at the time of the scheduled evacuation, as most of them were living in the rural and remotest areas in those countries.

Another hindrance in reaching Nigerians at the time, he said, was that many of them could not access mass communications like social media, radio and television that were deployed by the Nigerian embassies and NEMA to inform the distressed Nigerians on the assembly points for their evacuations.

“It’s pertinent to stress that most of those who turned up for evacuation earlier later turned down the opportunity to return to Nigeria, and with the humanitarian principle of non-compulsion to force people to reside against their place of choice, the Nigerian government was compelled to leave the Nigerians who decided to remain until they voluntarily opted to return to Nigeria.

“The current returnees may be part of those who refused to return at the initial time, while more of them may turn up for eventual return when they feel like returning to their fatherland, he said.”

In Libya, 327 Nigerians await flights to take them home. Some had not heard of earlier opportunities to leave, and others had chosen to stay, hoping for an end to the persecution of Blacks.

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