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i think thats what should be done

@ Dylan
they have their faults too, its not all rosy for and intellegetsia for them. They have some of the dumbest dimwits in the world too. So why the hell is the old man generalising?

Its pure racism

Is there any chance in the world that the case can be reopened?
There cant be absolutely no evidence! someone has to know something

The senile bastard has already spoken his mind. He had spilt the milk, lapping it with his tongue now will change absolutely nothing. The man should just make restitution with his God and wait for his death, because thats what he lives for now.

@denex
so you are one of those that support his claims! thats awful men,
my skin is black but my brain is human
just like any other HUMAN

whats most important is that they should get punished for this high rate of insecurity, what better way is there than to strip them of the hosting rights

whats most important is that they should get punished for this high rate of insecurity, what better way is there than to strip them of the hosting rights

The death of reggae icon Lucky Dube is a great shock to all Africa, and it really took me aback personally. If the South African government cannot guarantee the security of its own citizens, even popular figures, then it should not guarantee the safety of the world that would have come to watch the world cup. I personally think they should be stripped of the hosting right to that tournament.

We are the ones that keep accepting all these "falsified" documentations from these men of unfounded integrity. They know and we know, and they know we know, WHO KILLED THAT MAN Dele Giwa

Avoid People Prime like a mad diseases, those guys are really out to fester on the unemployed this time around. If you decide to ignore this warning it will be your funeral at the bottom of the sea with the sharks, and not mine

abeg this thread should be removed from here, since stelleose and her boyfriend want to use it to fight publicly

i think that right should be withdrawn from them sef, if just a few years to the event their security situatipon is still so precarious.

was that a song willy?

Dele Giwa was a Nigerian journalist (editor and founder of Newswatch magazine) who was killed by a mail bomb in his home on October 19, 1986. His wife and infant daughter were upstairs when the bomb exploded, and were unharmed.

According to Giwa's lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, State Security Service (SSS) officials summoned the popular editor to their headquarters on October 17, just 48 hours before he was killed. Giwa was accused of planning a social revolution and of smuggling arms into the country.[citation needed]

The government's coat of arms appeared on the outside of the package, according to Nigerian press reports.[citation needed] Although police investigated the murder, no one was ever prosecuted. In 2001, former Nigerian dictator Ibrahim Babangida, who ruled the country from 1985 to 1993, refused to testify before a national human rights commission about the Giwa murder



That was an excerpt from the internet, to think that after 21 years we are still to find the killers! what a shame

run to where?

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL19496643.html


South African reggae star shot dead
Fri 19 Oct 2007, 5:55 GMT

[-] Text [+] (Adds police spokesman, reaction)

By Marius Bosch

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters Life!) - Gunmen have shot and killed South African reggae star Lucky Dube in front of his son and daughter in one of the highest-profile murders in the country, police said on Friday.

Dube, 43, was killed in an apparent carjacking attempt on Thursday evening and police were searching for three suspects, police spokesman Eugene Opperman said.

"They allegedly tried to take his vehicle, but then shots were fired and he was fatally wounded," Opperman said.

The murder of South Africa's biggest-selling reggae singer cast a pall over the national mood a day before the country's rugby union team face England in the final of the World Cup.

Some callers to radio stations said the South African team should play wearing black armbands as a sign of mourning for Dube.

Opperman said the singer was attacked shortly after 1800 GMT in Johannesburg's Rossettenville suburb. Police earlier said he was dropping his son off when the attack took place.

Dube's killing is one of the most high-profile killings in South Africa, which has one of the world's worst murder rates.

The number of rapes, carjackings and assaults also are high, with some of the most violent types of crime rising last year despite efforts to beef up police forces.

Dube recorded more than 20 albums in his career and won over 20 awards locally and internationally. His first album, released in 1984 with the title "Rastas Never Die, was banned by the country's apartheid government.

According to Dube's Web site, the singer had just completed a month-long tour of the U.S.

During his career he performed across the world and shared the stage with music stars such as Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel and Sting among others.

Paul Boateng, Britain's ambassador to South Africa, told Talk Radio 702 he was shocked by Dube's death. "Both my wife and I are big fans, It is a great loss to music internationally".

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I think it is realy pathetic

Popular reggae musician Lucky Dube was shot dead in south Africa Yesterday Night. I am beginning to reconsider if Watson might have been right in his postulation. This man was influential in elevating African Music industry and yet the barbarians still killed him

Is this some form of matchmaking or what?

i think there is actually a point from his article. The old man never ceases to want attention at every independence day. Does he not get some sort of fund after all these importuning? I personally think he extorts from us on the same old ground of sympathy

This sammy guy should have his head checked, how can you manufacture news in your head and pour it out for us to digest? are we illiterate dogs?

I think really this whole Niger-Delta freedom shit was all a ploy to create wealth for some group of youths through violence

That mans face repels me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is the only slowpoke that can do something like that. I think we really overrate a lot of people in this country. This is a man that ought to have been in jail for some 8 years now, still "running things"
hmmm, where are we heading to as a nation

There is hardly any ex-governor in Nigeria who did not steal money, So this man Reverend or Alfa should be incacerated. This statement if true should guarantee him Life in jail. Public funds should never be touched

This is a case of gross human right abuse, and you will be doing the polity a lot of wrong if you stand and take this violation with opened eyes. There was a time when employers were afraid of bad publicity, maybe you should test their resilience. Go to the press before you get a lawyer. The world should be rid of this sort of wickedness

I think all illegal immigrants should be quaratined until they are ready to be deported. No matter how we look at it, illegal remains illegal, and humanity cannot and will not rubber stamp illegality

This WOMAN is an slowpoke and should be treated as one

The casualties of the Ettehgate scandal have started to pile up, and unfortunately the tragedy of the whole situation is beginning to blow up right in all our faces. This whole issue has transcended way past the stage of a woman being victimized; it has now elevated itself into that realm whereby the nation is being held hostage by the forces of stubbornness, ignorance, arrogance and indefinable illiteracy.

The death of Alhaji Haminu Fafana really has set the tone for violence yet unborn to spring forth. This situation has not only made one faction one man less, it has more importantly now made a family one individual less, made children fatherless orphans, a wife a widow, and erstwhile dependents independent.
Now who says this situation does not concern us the masses anymore?
This is as tragic as any national calamity could get, BUT it could become worse.

If this issue gets out of hand, I envisage a situation where communities would start killing and burning themselves as a show of support for one side of the divide on the issue. We would probably even degenerate to the stage where house of representative members start assassinating each other, to right a wrong or wrong a right, as the case may be.

Alternatively we might have a situation where by October next year, the House of Representatives would still be in the process of trying to debate over the Idoko report due to the several recesses and holidays they might have entered into, all in a bid to canvass support for what I will at this juncture term the “politics of corruption”.
The members have successfully politicized corruption and at the same time corrupted Politics, and as a fatal result slowed down development and nation rebuilding that would have been carried out in the country during this period.

The situation of the house of assembly as at Wednesday the 10th of October was one that depicted the ambience that only an election like the one that happened last April can create. The folly of those men and women comes not as a shock to many Nigerians, I particularly did not expect much from people who got to power through violence and muzzling of the people’s suffrage.

For this reason people still doubt the success of this Yar’Adua’s administration, not because of the Man at the head (far from it) rather due to the indubitable fact that he has criminals around him, and of course obstinate and hard-hearted individuals who care for position and power more than they do for the well being of the country.

It’s very ironic when you consider the fact that Alhaji Haminu Fafana now has no more part to play as to who presides over the debate on the Idoko report. How many more casualties are we to record as a nation before this unbecoming obstinacy ceases to be?
The star attraction in this saga obviously is in love with this cacophony that pervades the country at present, otherwise she would have professed her love for the country by doing the right thing that would certainly douse this tension.

Need I say the country is getting a bad name from all of this? The truth is we have come to accept bad publicity as a norm and as such honorable members of the house can afford to make a mockery of themselves on National television without any form of shame.

This is an issue that could blow this country apart, it will only be wise if certain measures are taken quickly before this incendiary burn up the little we have and are grooming for the future.

This events are always a joke just before it happens! after which confusion and commotion becomes the order of the day. I think it is high time we started extricating these so called militants from Nigeria. WE DO NOT NEED THEM

@ denex

Those are two seperate cases. This one is a matter of national threat, the other a frame-up. MEND is a body that fights for no one but itself and harms everyother person but itself

Mrs. Asuni is being set-up for aiding genuinely the Niger-Delta