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SARS Officer Alleged Torture A Boy And Extorted Money From Him
SARS officers attached to the command headquarters in Asaba , Delta State, have been accused of assaulting and extorting money from a 26-year-old man named Samuel.
The alleged attack took place on Saturday, August 22, and was brought to social media by activist Harrison Gwamnishu.
According to Harrison, the victim was on a motorcycle with his girlfriend when he was accosted by the officers at Koka Junction in the state capital.
Harrison added that Samuel's only crime was that he was wearing a dreadlock hairstyle. As a result, the officers allegedly tortured him and his girlfriend.
Gwamnishu said, “The SARS officers dragged him from the Okada and forced him and his girlfriend into their car.
"The victims demanded to know where they were being taken to but the officers responded by macheting Samuel’s leg.
"They seized his ATM card and forced him to disclose his pin and withdrew N15,400 from his account.
"I’m calling on the Delta State government to please intervene by putting an end to the constant harassment Nigerians face from SARS.â€
See How All The 54 African Countries Got Their Names
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Almost every country on Earth is named according to thsse five things - a feature of the land, a tribe name, language, directional description, or an important person most likely a man. Africa has mirror exception with these trend. Even the word Africa is a Roman word 'Ifriqiyyah'. The naming of african contries is intrinsically interesting. Africa consist of 54 countries, here is how the countries got there names.
1. Algeria - Algeria is derived from the name of the city Algiers which in turn was derived from the Arabic word Al Jazair, translated as "the island" referring to the four small island along the coastline of the capital Algiers.
2. Angola - Angola is a country in the southwestern Africa. Its derived from the kinbundu word for king "Ngola".
3. Benin - formally called Dahomey. It was renamed to Benin after the body of water which the country lies i.e the Bight of Benin. The Bight of Benin was named after the Benin Empire in the present-day Nigeria.
4. Botswana - the country was named after it's dominant ethnic group , The Tswani.
5. Burkina-Faso - the name was from two main languages of the country: the Mossi and the Dioula. Burkina from Mossi means 'men of integrity' and Faso from Dioula means 'Fatherland' hence Burkina-Faso is 'the land of honest people'.
6. Burundi - the name was derived from it's Bantu language kirundi
7. Cameroon - the name is derived from Camaroes meaning 'shrimps' after Fenando Po a Portuguese named river wouri, Rio dos Camaroes ' shrimps river'
8. Cape Verde - is an English form of the word Cabo Verde which means 'green cape'. The westernmost peninsula was named Cabo Verde by Portuguese explorer.
9. Central Africa republic - this is a landlocked country located in the center of Africa thus the name. Central Africa republic.
10. Chad - Chad is a Kanuri word for 'lake' . The country was named after lake Chad.
11. Comoros - the name was derived from the Arabic word qamar 'moon'.
12. Congo - Congo was named after the kingdom of Kongo and the Kongo people by European sailors.
13. Djibouti - it is derived from the the name of a beast called Buti 'bear' that used to terrorize the people.
14. Egypt - the name come from the ancient Greek 'Aigyptos' which is the Greek pronunciation of the the ancient Egyptian name Hwt-Ka-Ptah 'mansion of the spirit of ptah'.
15. Equatorial Guinea - it was named according to it's location near the equator and the Gulf of Guinea.
16.Eritrea - the name was derived from the name given to the Red Sea between the Arabian peninsula and the African country. The Red Sea was named Erythrean Sea from the Greek word for 'Red' 'erythros'.
17. Ethiopia - this is a compound word of two Greek words "Aitho' and 'ops' which is translated as Burnt-Face
18. Gabon - its named after the Portuguese word 'gabao' - a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of Komo river estuary where they first explored.
19. Gambia - the name is derived from the Mandinka word Kambra/Kambaa meaning Gambia river.
20. Ghana - it was named after the Ghana Empire. The Empire became known as the Ghana Empire after the the title of the Emperor, 'The Ghana'.
21. Guinea - it is an English form of the Portuguese word 'Guine' which refer to the lands inhabited by the the Guineus, a term used for black African people south of the Senegal river.
22. Guinea Bissau - Bissau is the capital of Guinea Bissau and was added to the name to prevent confusion with Guinea.
23. Ivory Coast - is the English version of coast named by the french - Cote d'Ivoire meaning 'Coast of Ivory'.
24. Kenya - is named after a mountain Mt Kenya. The name Mt Kenya arose out of the inability of the British to pronounce the word Kirinyaga correctly. Kirinyaga was originally the name of Mt Kenya.
25. Lesotho - the name Lesotho translates to 'land of the people who speak Sesotho'. Sesotho is the official language.
26. Liberia - the name was derived from the word 'Liberty' after they became independent in 1847.
27. Libya - is a Latin name which referred to the region west of the Nile
28. Madagascar - Madagascar was a sort of clerical error who mistaken it for Mogadishu. It was in the memoirs of Marco Polo who was the first European to report the existence of a 'great red island' that it was confused with Mogadishu in Somalia.
29. Malawi - the name Malawi comes from the maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that lived in the area.
30. Mali - the word Mali is a Barbara word for hippopotamus. According to history it was believe that the first Emperor Sundiata Keita changed himself into hippopotamus upon his death.
31. Mauritania - takes it's name from the the ancient Berber kingdom and ultimately from the Mauri people.
32. Maritius - After the Dutch settled in the island, it was named in honour of Prince Maurice Van Nassau 'stadtholder' of Holland.
33. Morroco - is an English form of the capital under the Almoravid dynasty called Marrakesh.
34. Mozambique - is derived from Mussa Bin Bique, an Arab trader who first visited the island and later lived there.
35. Namibia - the name is derived from the Namib desert, the oldest desert in the world.
36. Niger - it takes it's name from Niger river. The Niger derived from the phase the n-gheren, meaning 'river among rivers' in the Tamashek language.
37. Nigeria - the name Nigeria was taken from the Niger river running through the country by Flora Shaw a British journalist who later married Lord Lugard a British colonial administrator.
38. Rwanda - is named after the official language kirinyarwanda.
39. Sao Tome and Principe - these are two main island about 140km apart. The name Sao Tome is derived from the Portuguese explorers who arrived on the feast day of 'saint Thomas', while Principe was named after the Portuguese Prince who received the island sugar crop duties.
40. Senegal - it is derived from the name of the Zenega of the supreme deity in Serer religion 'Rog Sene' and 'o gal' meaning 'body of water'.
41. Seychelles - it was named after Jean Moreau de Sechelles, Louis XV's Minister of Finance.
42. Sierra Leone - was named by Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra, the first European to sight and map Freetown harbour. The original Portuguese name Serra Lyoa 'lions mountains' referred to the range of hills that surrounds the harbour.
43. Somalia - 'the land of the somali' was proposed to have come from the legendary patriarch named Samaale.
44. South Africa - the name is derived from the country's geographic location at the southern tip of Africa.
45. South Sudan - it is called south Sudan due to it's geopolitic location. It is located south of Sudan.
46. Sudan - it is derived from the Arabic expression Bilad Al Sudan meaning 'land of the black'
47. eSwatini - was formally known as Swaziland which is an amalgamation of the English language and national language Swazi. eSwatini means 'Land of the Swazi'
48. Tanzania - the name was formed from two states that unified the country: Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
49. Togo - is named after Heihachiro Togo, a Japanese admiral who fought in the war between Russia and Japan
50. Tunisia - the word Tunisia was derived from Tunis which a central urban hub and the capital of modern-day Tunisia.
51. Uganda - it takes it's name from the Buganda kingdom which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, including the Capital Kampala.
52. Zambia - the name Zambia was derived from Zambezi river.
53. Zimbabwe - it is derived from the karanga dialect of shona Dzimba-dza-mabwe translated as 'houses of the stones'.
Surprisingly these names take it's root in Europe, even countries that were never colonized by the Europeans, such as Ethiopia and Liberia.
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When it comes to modesty, give it to Islam. Revering God is the most important guideline for Muslim women when they choose their dress especially for Nikah (wedding). The righteous reverent woman will know that God is always watching her, she will therefore dress modestly and in line with God's requirements for decency and morality. Any woman knows full well what clothes are considered decent and what clothes are revealing, she will not need to be told. This is why God set the rule of reverence as the first rule.
Hijab is the term used by many Muslim women today to describe their head cover. The Arabic word 'hijab' literally means barrier or veil. Other meanings for the word 'hijab' include, screen, cover(ing), mantle, curtain, drapes, partition, division, divider, barrier.
The word 'hijab' is used in 7 Quranic verses. The verses are: 7:46, 33:53, 38:32, 41:5, 42:51, 17:45 and 19:17.
None of these occurrences of the word 'hijab' mean a head cover for women.
God knows that there would come a time when Muslims will use the word 'hijab' to invent a dress code that God Himself never authorised. God used the word 'hijab' ahead of them just as He used the word 'hadith' ahead of them (45:6).
Hence, in this article, we shall be looking at photos of islam wedding gowns that looks so beautiful and decent.
Every lady's dream is to have a beautiful wedding outing but that it doesn't mean that you should go nude because of this. You can wear beautiful wedding gown without exposing your body.
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A Popular Lady Cries Out, Am Still Looking For A Man To Marry Me
Do you know who Susan Ade Coker is? She's a Nigerian socialite and she own one of the biggest Nigerian Facebook group called Rant HQ having more than 1.5 million members.
Suzan Ade Coker is so much known on Facebook for her controversial write ups and how she has influenced so many people with her name.
She has taken to her page named "Suzan Ade Coker" on Facebook to seek for a man marry.
This might sound like a joke to her followers because she has always been known to be a woman of Controversy.
The post up there has fetched a lot of reactions from so many people and these are some of the reactions below;