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This is good. At least it's something different from the usual wahala of Nigeria politics Lalasticlala

Very ugly flag indeed. Dull and uninspiring.

Paste the full report here and let's take it to the FP ASAP

Globetrotter. Minister of Tourism and Aviation

Hahaha. Buhari is fast running out on allies and lieutenants to save his asssss on the rainy day.

Nice. How old is the youngest minister in Bu Bu's cabinet please? You see how you sold out your future for an ordinary monthly stipend of 5,000 naira that is certainly not forthcoming. The black man never learns.

olayinka807:
wow... so cute..


BTW...what am i seeing inside solidstar's trouser

Wetin carry ur eyes go dia

The NLC needs to wake up. A lot has been going wrong in this geographical expression for a long time. Imagine a governor unilaterally sacking tens of thousands of workers and this partisan NLC stood and did nothing. Buhari the super clueless has really set us back to the 20th century.

Buhari is utterly confused and hopelessly clueless along with that timid so-called minister of finance. Now I know why Buhari was allowed to defeat Jonathan: to speed up the break up of Nigeria.

Blame buhari. Since the dullard came to power nothing has been working. I foresee the end of Nigeria.

Yes! KemiMustGo! RedeployKemi! ChangeKemi!

Bravo! I know this one will never make it to the FP cos it's Biafra lalasticlala. But if it's peaceful Shiite protesters it will land on the front page via Delta Airlines

Nigeria is a mess

Viva Biafra!

Hahaha! No-one wants to be associated with Nigerians. This country is a mess. No international reputation whatsoever.

The Nigerian Army confirmed yesterday that Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti was sentenced to six-months imprisonment and also dismissed from service by a military court martial.

The Army, in a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, however, said reasons including “failure to perform military duties” for the Army’s decision.

The statement reads: “In reference to media enquiry on the judgment passed by a General Court Martial on Friday at Army Headquarters Garrison, I wish to confirm that one of the accused persons, Brigadier General EA Ransome-Kuti, was awarded the following punishments on the various count charges against him as follows:

“The first count charge, which was “cowardly behaviour”, was struck out but he was found guilty on count charge number two which was “failure to perform military duties” and was dismissed from the Nigerian Army.

“He was equally found guilty on count charge number 3 which was “miscellaneous offences relating to service property” and was awarded six months imprisonment



www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/why-we-jailed-gen-ransome-kuti-army/

GiftUbani:
nobody is talking about the almighty ABU ZARIA! It beats dis role call one time! Dis is d 1st administration wia we dnt hav president or e president as ABU graduate since 1960! Check it out. Our achievement plenty. I stand to b correctd!!!

Na only presidents and vice presidents una get? How many of them are important on the global scene? none

lalasticlala y is this not on the front page yet? I love debates such as this.

Atayis:
C.N adiche did nit school in UNN he gained admission to study medicine but not seeing the course beta for her lite she went abroard

What is this one saying?

Maybe

Great stuff. OP what of other banks like First Bank?

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Great tips right there.

Houseofglam7:
Na just trumpet we dey wait for, world don end!

lol

America is now officially the seat of Lucifer. I see other countries following suit.

APC is just a party of old men without ideas. the diff between the old men you mentioned and pa Buhari is that the former had plans for their countries while the other scammed his way in.

Sahara Reporters is worse than any foreign media! have u not done worse than any media on earth? When U promote disunity among Nigerians. Have U not been publishing senseless articles to disgrace the office of the President, have U not assisted in hiding the evil agenda of these set of Criminals that call themselves, (Angry Peoples Party), APC. Have U not aided the increased hatred of the Zoo called Nigeria on the S.East and South South. U might think U're making money but u never no U're on high way to hell, Stupid Sahara Reporters.

They are only coming to greet the outgoing GEJ

Which sane governor does this and then has the guts to tell it to the whole world. Imagine a serving elected governor kneeling down and crying before a former governor of another state.

One day Asiwaju got angry with me. He was very angry. I went to his house with Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and knelt down, saying ‘please let’s not disagree, let’s win first and then we can disagree.

“I told Asiwaju that what is important is to make a history of the first civilian coup in Nigeria when your children and grandchildren read the history with your name as one of the people who helped bring about change in Nigeria.

I said, let us focus on the victory. I remember the day of the convention, there were so many intrigues, there will be convention, there won’t be convention, I said my leader, if we don’t do the convention we are finished, the press will say APC cannot hold a convention, lead us now, there must be convention and election. So, he turned to me and said look for Tunde (Fashola), let us go.”

The kind of things this man says with his mouth amazes me. What a shame!

Great info. So almighty First Bank no get mobile app?

By Michay Chizzy

Xenophobia in South Africa is not new; it’s not a phenomenon that started today. In 2008, a wave of xenophobic attacks specifically targeted at black migrants claimed the lives of more than 60 people, many of them Nigerians and Zimbabweans, and their properties and investments worth millions of dollas.

What is their grievance?

They claim that these black migrants from fellow African countries flood their cities and towns and compete with them for scarce and limited job opportunities, most times succeeding at the expense of the locals. Most of these attacks occur in shantytowns and townships where there is a pronounced and asphyxiating poverty.

Like Nigerians, most South Africans live below the poverty line. In fact, figures reveal that the current poverty level in South Africa is higher than it was in the Apartheid era. The economic gap between the whites and the minority affluent blacks on the one hand and the majority poor blacks on the other has never been more pronounced. The poor black South Africans barely mix or come in contact with the whites, and the wealthy blacks are also often beyond reach, locked away in their mansions.

When these black migrants arrive, they do not usually go to the big cities, such as Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban or Cape Town, instead they settle in the shanty suburbs and underdeveloped townships where they struggle with the locals to eke out a living. This creates an inevitable friction with the locals, leading to resentment and discontent and often culminating in physical violence and abuse.

Though it is true that xenophobic attacks mostly occur in areas such as the ones I described above and are often instigated by their own version of Nigeria’s Area Boys, they have no geographic or socioeconomic limitations or boundaries. If opinion polls – some of which can be accessed with the aid of an Internet search engine – are anything to go by, xenophobic sentiments run high among many South Africans.

In 2014, a disturbing video surfaced in the social media, allegedly portraying officers of the South African Police Service assaulting a naked Nigerian immigrant in Cape Town, sometimes seen punching and kicking him in the groin with unbridled ferocity. Moreover, the alleged killers of the famed South African global reggae icon, Lucky Dube, claimed in court that he was shot because they mistook him for a black foreigner, specifically a Nigerian.

South Africa has an unenviable record when it comes to welcoming foreigners. A report released in 2014 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, stated that 238 incidents of attacks on foreigners in which 120 foreigners were killed and 7,500 more displaced were recorded in 2013. A similar figure was obtained in 2014 and 2015, it seems, is not looking any different.

Nevertheless, not all South Africans are xenophobic. Most of them aren't, actually. Not all the locals living in the shanties harbor xenophobic sentiments towards their foreign neighbors. But, because we are more attracted to bad news than we are to good news, we are less likely to hear of their good deeds than of their bad deeds.

However, the crux of the matter remains that xenophobia is a disgusting, foolish and cowardly crime worthy of condemnation. Xenophobia is similar to racism and other forms of sociocultural, economic, political and sexual discrimination and it must be treated as such. The present wave of xenophobia sweeping across South Africa should be spoken of in the same breath as the racism and anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany, the discrimination against Aboriginal Australians by the white immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, the anti-Christian persecutions by ISIS in the Middle East and the Apartheid.

Some would argue that this is happening on a much smaller scale than the others, but, if left unchecked, it will metamorphose into something more monstrous. Others will argue that it’s simply a symptom of and response to the poverty that pervades the country. This vindication is flawed. There are many ways to react to and tackle poverty, but none of them includes taking it out on foreigners and their investments.

It is rather unfortunate that these series of attacks are happening in a country that had recently been rescued from the fangs of Apartheid. It sours the good works of the likes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, who strived hard to mend the broken country and turn it into a welcoming, all encompassing rainbow nation.



Michay Chizzy wrote in via MichayChizzy@gmail.com

Follow him on Twitter @MichayChizzy

http://saharareporters.com/2015/04/21/south-africa%E2%80%99s-regrettably-foolish-xenophobia-michay-chizzy