honeric01:

And they should not forget to blacklist these passports too.

YES!!!

Imagine!! r we d onli country on d continent

12large:

why are you guys such a hater, are they not human beings like us what is wrong in them going to world cup. this is the first world cup in africa so it is not wrong for them to go, afterall if you were in their shoes you might do the same. south africa embasseys are silly do they think that the nff champions don't have a job or they think they would run away. nigerians are such a hater if you ask most people on this forum thy would tell you that they also wanted to go to world cup but they don't have money

why are you guys such a hater, are they not human beings like us what is wrong in them going to world cup. this is the first world cup in africa so it is not wrong for them to go, afterall if you were in their shoes you might do the same. south africa embasseys are silly do they think that the nff champions don't have a job or they think they would run away. nigerians are such a hater if you ask most people on this forum thy would tell you that they also wanted to go to world cup but they don't have money

santony2k:

But sorry oh fellow Nairalanders,
what is the difference between a delegates visa and a regular tourist visa? The rationale behind the denial is biased though because if they were denied a delegates visa are they also ineligible for a regular visa to visit South Africa? I don't think there is anything special in SA for these guys because Nigeria is where the money's at.
This is just pure f*ckery on the part of SA embassy wanting to show levels. All the FA Chairmen will be in SA come worldcup one way or the other.

P.S. Does delegate visa come with free ticket or do we still have to pay for them, thats what we should be worried about? Box seat at the world cup for >36 ppl unnecessarily.

My 2 cents

snowdrops:

we should create our own planet and live there. Nigeria is beyond imagination.

ADint:

I don't think it is the South African Embassy's place to question why NFF is going to the world cup with a 200 man delegation, unless there is a cap on delegate numbers from Football Federations across the whole 32 teams participating. Any football federation should be able to go with any number of permitted delegates it likes. They wouldn't question the Brazilian or US Football Federation about that would they?

As indicated from the news item above this will mainly be, if not exclusively govt. officials from the 36 state federations and the NFF HQ, so unlikely they would abscond in SA.

We Nigerians are rightly appalled at the huge no. going because of the expense this will involve, but that should not be any of the SA embassy's business.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Supporters Club did not have it easy with the South Africa Embassy officials, as they drastically cut the number of the members wishing to be part of the club at the Mundial.

ADint:

I don't think it is the South African Embassy's place to question why NFF is going to the world cup with a 200 man delegation, unless there is a cap on delegate numbers from Football Federations across the whole 32 teams participating. Any football federation should be able to go with any number of permitted delegates it likes. They wouldn't question the Brazilian or US Football Federation about that would they?

As indicated from the news item above this will mainly be, if not exclusively govt. officials from the 36 state federations and the NFF HQ, so unlikely they would abscond in SA.

We Nigerians are rightly appalled at the huge no. going because of the expense this will involve, but that should not be any of the SA embassy's business.

naijaking1:

Quote from: ADint on Today at 04:03:41 AM

I don't think it is the South African Embassy's place to question why NFF is going to the world cup with a 200 man delegation, unless there is a cap on delegate numbers from Football Federations across the whole 32 teams participating. Any football federation should be able to go with any number of permitted delegates it likes. They wouldn't question the Brazilian or US Football Federation about that would they?

As indicated from the news item above this will mainly be, if not exclusively govt. officials from the 36 state federations and the NFF HQ, so unlikely they would abscond in SA.

We Nigerians are rightly appalled at the huge no. going because of the expense this will involve, but that should not be any of the SA embassy's business.

Your perspective is one reason why Nigeria is backwards and would forever remain so, unless such stupidity is somehow removed. You mix your logic with some underserved sense of pride, self adulation, while ignoring basic rules of the game.

Nigeria and Nigeria alone arrived this game 202 officials, more than any other country in the World, and you tell me there's nothing wrong with the picture
Your next line of argument is that even if there's something wrong, it's not in SA's place to point it out and possibly enforce it? Nothing surprising coming from a typical Nigerian that has been rendered impotence by his own personal sense of helpless, and hopelesslness.

After all, we have come to stay 3 weeks without power, months and years without running water, don't even talk about about other amenities the goverment was supposed to be taking care of. We lack these things, miss them, then we assume a sense of peace and tranquility in their abscence---we forget what the default position ought to be. We forgot so much, that we even become ironically and delusionally happy, so happy that we rank among one of the "happiest" conuntries in the world. We're happy, because we have somehow managed to live in 2010 as if 1910.

Well my friend, the bad news for you is that other countries are really moving on, despite our own retrospective steps back into antiquity.

Nigerians who want to attend the game from the states, the private, and public organisations should pay full price for it. If we happhily allow them to r*ape us left and right and through corruption in this country, why are you angry that SA wouldn't turn around for the same corrupt Nigerian officials to do the same thing they do to us here at home?

We are not talking about players and real team support members who would actually make a difference in our tournament success or failure in SA. For every rogue Nigerian official snicking into SA, a genuine Nigerian player suffers directly or indirectly, just think about it.

ADint:

Naijaking1 it would have done you well if you read my post carefully and approached this logically.

The Issues here are:

Is there a cap on the number of delegates a Football Federation can bring? If the answer is NO then why is the SA Embassy putting a cap on the Nigerian delegation?

Most people here including myself agree that this is quite a large contingent because we realise that the cost would be enormous and be borne by the Govt., but what has that got to do with the SA Embassy?

If there is no cap or this figure (200) is within the maximum limit, what then is their reason for refusing the visas? (the cost of the trip to Nigeria NOT been a valid reason!). Like I stated earlier, if any other FF amongst the other 31 decide to take this same number of delegates, would the SA embassy refuse them simply because of the cost involved?

If those NFF officials that were refused amongst the 200, decide to sponsor themselves, would the SA embassy now turn around and issue them with visas? – Not likely as we have seen with the Supporters Club.

This is an internal issue for the Nigerian people, the Senate or Reps to take up. The SA Govt. and other Foreign Govts. for that matter don’t question why we are spending billions, for instance when we printed the 2007 election materials in South Africa or the Nigerian Govt. buys a fleet of the most expensive cars from Germany or Japan.

So has the SA Embassy/Govt. suddenly developed unending love for Nigerians and have become social crusaders on our behalf?

Naijaking1, you may disagree with what I have posted here and on other threads (that is your right), but don’t turn it personal and resort to being rude and disrespectful.