tpacalipse: Who still goes to this messed UK?

MAYOWAAK: To retaliate a country’s policies, you must have a corresponding amount of power to act. If Nigeria slams a £10,000 visa bond on the UK citizens, what other cards do we have to deal with if the country responds with another policy? Can Nigeria match them discrimination for discrimination, and xenophobia for xenophobia? Do they display as much desperation to come here as we do to their country? How many UK nationals want to visit Nigeria compared to the 180,000 Nigerians that apply to their country? Do they hold “Anointing for Visa” services in their churches like we do here? Do their citizens go to church to “praise God” and testify that they had been offered a visa to abandon their own country? We have been too true to Nietzsche’s observation: no one is such a bold liar as an indignant man.

alarm4: i have a dream that one day Rooney will play for Eyinmba FC....
and i also have a dream that one day Beckham will come begging to caoch shooting star FC...
thats my dream....... what Abt urs!
say ur own!!!!!!!

alarm4: i have a dream that one day Rooney will play for Eyinmba FC....
and i also have a dream that one day Beckham will come begging to caoch shooting star FC...
thats my dream....... what Abt urs!
say ur own!!!!!!!

@bloggernaija:

Retaliate with what and against whom.this bond reveals the president's lack of international political clout .
If he had one,all it would have taken is a phone call or cashing up on IOUs.
This was something OBJ knew how to do very well .
As we speak ,family members and girl friends of the political elites(those without a foreign passport) are probably prepping their £3000 bond for their next shopping trip to harrods.
So who is deceiving who .

@mankand:

Headless leaders leading biased and greedy citizens
why not make your country liveable and conducive for your citizens I bet nobody in his or her right sense will be ready to pay such amount to the British thieves
After they have drained this country and discover that it is impossible to suckling Nigeria dry because a mosquito cannot suckling dry the blood of anyone, they are deviating another means.
The best the government can to to retaliate is to start setting up projects, improving the lives and standard of living in the country then give Nigeria 5 years, those running abroad will start running back. It is a simple mathematics and you need no prophet to tell you this

@wayodude
Its good to be patriotic but lets face facts:
Do Nigerians in their 10s of thousands grossly misuse their visas to the UK or not?
Keep to topic and reply....

gboss4sure:

Your hated for the president know no bound. So what would you say about the Presidents of the other 4 countries that the bond was imposed on?. This is a political decision based on the re-election of the uk's president do you really think a phone call could sort it out? By the way which Nigerian president has ever sorted any sort of issue with just a phone call. Try to buy some sense from the market and stop dragging the presidents name into every issue.

HNosegbe: I never expected Cameron's Conservative government to backpedal with this policy. The move is clearly a political one to curry favour with his right-wing anti-immigration base.

Cameron doesn't really care about limiting immigration (it's a senseless move, really) - he cares about winning the next elections.

I would suggest that Nigeria liaise with India, Kenya, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on the possiblility of adopting a coordinated, multilateral approach to this issue. I think that would better achieve the desired effect than taking a unilateral retaliatory measure.

Meanwhile, what are we still doing in the Commonwealth?

ihesiulo a: Please get your facts right! is Kenya inclusive? with my readings in Heralds newspaper and other brits paper its Nigeria & Ghana from the African countinent.. when was Kenya included? Get your fact right!

toprealman:
Well said. Tax is the mainstay of their economy. You earn £30000 and your take home falls to almost £22000 then you have bills to pay too.
Nobody will take you seriously till you kick some balls!!! These people colonised us, yet they treat us like fools.

P.Stacks:

We must fix this country and make it the Envy of other because we have what it takes...

Retaliate the policy or not retaliate, we must fix this country..



We must fix this country first.

ose_o: The Nigerian government has always operated a reciprocal system, for example an American can get a maximum of 2 years visa because that is what they give us. It's not a new thing it's standard operating procedure. So if the require a bond from us we will require one from them.

The basic difference between the Nigerian going to London and the brit coming to lagos is that the Nigerian is going to spend money and the brit is coming to earn money. The British government will backtrack after 3-6 months when they see that they are the ones losing out not us.

Plus £3,000 is nothing to the man who wants to disappear and get lost in London.

MAYOWAAK: To retaliate a country’s policies, you must have a corresponding amount of power to act. If Nigeria slams a £10,000 visa bond on the UK citizens, what other cards do we have to deal with if the country responds with another policy? Can Nigeria match them discrimination for discrimination, and xenophobia for xenophobia? Do they display as much desperation to come here as we do to their country? How many UK nationals want to visit Nigeria compared to the 180,000 Nigerians that apply to their country? Do they hold “Anointing for Visa” services in their churches like we do here? Do their citizens go to church to “praise God” and testify that they had been offered a visa to abandon their own country? We have been too true to Nietzsche’s observation: no one is such a bold liar as an indignant man.