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Pauplin
60 Stranded Nigerian Women Living In Crowded Homes In Saudi Arabia Seek Help To Return Home.
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About sixty Nigerian women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, are seeking assistance to return home.

The women currently live in four overcrowded homes in the city, SaharaReporters gathered.

Alade Abdulaziz, a leader of the Nigerian community in the country, told SaharaReporters that the Nigerian consulate in Jeddah botched a flight arrangement to bring the women home.

He said he had almost concluded a deal for a flight to evacuate the women on August 25 but stopped when the Nigerian consulate office in Jeddah offered a purportedly better arrangement.

“This all started when the consulate said it was okay for me to organise some of the girls for evacuation,” Abdulaziz said. “It is a process I hoped would take a week, but it has stretched on for three weeks now, and not one flight has left. Thankfully, they called me from the consulate today (Thursday). They said they had better travel plans than ours. My concern is when their aircraft will take off.”

Abdulaziz said 45 women in three houses, including those in his home, could face starvation if they are not immediately repatriated. 

“I have 18 of them in my home, where I am staying with my wife, my son and my daughter. The ladies are living on the little money they came with from their employers. Some of them have been here for five months, even me and my family may go hungry if these girls don’t leave soon… within the week.”

He said the women were rescued from their abusive employers whom they worked for as domestic workers. 

According to him, aside from the chance to be evacuated by the Nigerian government, the other option for the women is to report to deportation camps where they would stay much longer before being deported by the Saudi Arabian government. 

“Since this month started, I have made at least 400 calls, trying to get out ladies trapped in their employer’s house,” Abdulaziz said. “Not all of them received ticket money from their bosses. Some could not endure the two years and had to run away.”

If the Nigerian government fails to repatriate the women, Abdulaziz said they could either return to the houses of the employers they ran away from and obtain a clearance document stating that they committed no crime or pay money to get cleared at any of the country’s immigration offices.

“I have the names of more than 200 ‘runaways. We are appealing to the Nigerian government to beg the Saudi government to wave the clearance fee so that they can be cleared at immigration for free,” he said.

In a video sent to SaharaReporters, some of the women begged the Ooni of Ife, Enitan Ogunwusi and the chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Arewa, to help facilitate their repatriation to Nigeria.

“Abike Dabiri we beg you. Ooni of Ife, we call on you. We do not want to return to Nigeria through deportation,” they pleaded in Yoruba. “We hear Nigerian airports would be open to international flights on August 29 – now September 5. Our luggage is here with us. Please help us return.”

One of the women said healthcare at the deportation camps was grossly inadequate, pleading that she did not want to end up in those camps.

“I’ve heard people die there, especially when they are sick,” she said. “One of my friends was deported this month. I do not want to go there. I will be forced to if the evacuation flight does not come through.”

Some of the women told SaharaReporters that they had not received any forms of assistance from Nigerian consulate in Jeddah.

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Pokovirtuousblog

Fans Express Confidence In The Musical Prowess Of 'All For Love' Crooner, SK Baddest, Dubbed Him 'Superstar'
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Fans Express Confidence In The Musical Prowess Of 'All For Love' Crooner, SK Baddest, Dubbed Him 'Superstar'

The Music Act had asked his followers what they know about love, Pokovirtuousblog can report.

Taking to his Instagram handle Thursday, March 30, 2023, budding Nigerian Artiste, SK Baddest, shared a nice photograph of himself, even as he sought to know from followers their level of knowledge about love.

"Her : what do you know about love ❤️
Me: I’ll tell you everything
📸 @manlikesmith
#allforlove #newmusic #april."

Pokovirtuousblog gathered that fans wouldn't answer the question, but expressed admiration for him.

Wealthhead__, 'Superstar'; Bags__billion, 'Baddest xtra', among others.

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Pauplin
Buhari Says Terrorists May Take Radicalisation Online
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THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday expressed the fear that with the movement of activities to cyber space as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, terrorist groups might begin to radicalise citizens online.

He said the government would therefore continue to monitor activities of terrorists online to control radicalisation of citizens by terrorist groups, and other violent cells.

According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President made his position known in his remark at the AQABA Process virtual meeting in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The statement was titled ‘At AQABA Process virtual meeting, President Buhari highlights nexus between COVID-19 and security’.

Adesina quoted the President as saying that the migration to cyber space posed greater risk for radicalisation, especially with the growing constraints on physical contacts and movements.

“It is important to state that the spread of COVID-19 has led to the movement of activities to cyber space.

“Furthermore, lockdown policies and restrictions of movement in affected areas mean that people would move their day to day social and business activities to cyber space.

“This, however, comes with an increase in the risk of individuals being radicalised online,” the statement quoted Buhari as saying.



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Emmaximus123
Court Sentence Ekiti Man To Death By Hanging For Killing Yam Farmer
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An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, on Monday, sentenced a 26 years old man, Dele Ojo, to death by hanging for killing the owner of a farm where he had been stealing yam tubers.

Justice Abiodun Adesodun, in the court judgment, said, “The circumstances of this case do not allow for a recommendation of clemency to the governor on behalf of the accused.

“Therefore, the defendant is hereby sentenced to death by hanging, may the Lord have mercy upon his soul,” the court ordered.

The defendant, now condemned person, was said to have committed the offence on or about September 13, 2018, at Iroko Ekiti in Ijero Council area of Ekiti State when he murdered one Ajayi Adewole, contrary to Sec.319 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap.C16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.

An eye witness, who was with the deceased, had told the court, “The defendant had been stealing the deceased’s yam for a long time, but on that fateful day, they went to hide in the farm in order to arrest the culprit.

“About 2:00 a.m, they saw the defendant carrying hunting lamp on his head, pretending to be hunting and started uprooting yam, the deceased shouted his name, to evade arrest, he shot the deceased at close range and ran away, though, he was rushed to Ijero Ekiti Specialist Hospital where he was confirmed dead,” the witness said.

The prosecutor, Mr Olawale Fapohunda, who is the Attorney General of Ekiti State, had called four witnesses, the Investigating Police Officer and a medical doctor to prove his case.

The exhibits tendered in court included a Dane gun, photographs of the deceased, five tubers of yam, and the confessional statements of the defendant among other documents.

The defendant had testified in his own defence through his lawyer, Mr Yinka Oyeleke, and called no witnesses.
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