I was talking about the underlying reality of population. The largest population in Nigeria should generate the largest billing revenue, not 8th place out of 11. If you like, pretend you don't understand the argument I'm making.
I'm talking about data generated from population statistics. Shouldn't the state with the largest population in Nigeria (which is supposed to be kano state) be generating the highest turnover in revenue generated from billing ?
jmoore: You created a thread and you are derailing it at the same time. What has registered voters, street begging got to do with electricity billing?
Has anyone ever noticed that when it comes to raw data connected to large population statistics, Lagos State is always ahead of Kano State? Be it in number of school children, university graduates, number of homes using electric meters, number of registered phone line users etc, Lagos is pre-eminent over Kano.
But have you also noticed that the only areas where Kano has consistently recorded higher figures than Lagos is in the number of registered voters and number of people living in multi dimensional poverty?
He had Stage 4 cancer. It would have taken nothing short of a miracle for him to survive.
Stage 4 means that the cancer has metastasised (it has spread from its original source in the body to several other parts of the body)
That's why early detection is so important for cancer. If they had detected it very early and the cancerous tissue was surgically removed, Mr Ogogo would probably still be alive today.
May he rest in peace.
FreeStuffsNG: He is known for his popular slang ‘Gbogbo wa la máa jẹ breakfast and Wallahi Tallahi, mo fi títobí Olórun Ọba bura. He will surely be sorely missed. He was truly a LEGEND.
I thought he was going to overcome the illness this time too after the long spell he once had in the past yet was able to comeback and make greater impact. He will forever live in our memory for the great films and lessons learnt from him. Ogogo has gone to join other departed great thespians before him. R.I.P sir.
Saudi Arabia has removed a school lesson that claimed Israel planned to expand its territory from the Nile River to the Euphrates as part of a plan to create “Greater Israel.”
The change was highlighted in a July 2026 review of Saudi textbooks by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se). The organization reviewed changes in the Saudi curriculum as part of a broader assessment covering textbooks between 2024 and 2026.
The removed lesson was titled “The Zionist Danger.” According to the review, it accused Israel of seeking territorial expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates to establish what it described as “Greater Israel.” The material previously appeared in a Hadith textbook for students in Grades 10 to 12.
The latest review says Saudi Arabia has continued to revise how its textbooks discuss Israel, Zionism, religious minorities, jihad, and other sensitive subjects.
For example, newer editions have removed or softened several politically charged references to Israel. A Grade 11 history textbook replaced the phrase “the Zionist enemy” with “the Israeli occupation.” Another textbook removed the sentence, “The Muslims will never give up Jerusalem.”
The report also found that Saudi textbooks have removed several previously identified examples involving Jews and other religious communities. It said all instances it had previously classified as antisemitic were removed from the latest curriculum it reviewed.
Still, the organization said Saudi textbooks have not fully changed their treatment of Israel. Some books continue to describe Israel as an occupying state, while Israel remains absent from several maps used in the curriculum.
Come back and answer the questions! Don't scurry off with your tail between your legs, lol!🤣🤣🤣
Even if I had mentioned the KJV's version of Isaiah 64:4, you are still conceding that your "prophet" plagiarised from our allegedly corrupted Scriptures!🤣🤣🤠
So answer my question:
Is it not the same Uncle Paul that allah referred to as his Messenger, at least according to Ibn Kathir? Or are you saying I can no longer trust the koran?
ola20ng: You are so desperate and you will never concede defeat. Whenever your deliberate lies are exposed, you open up another issue without addressing the current issue.
Why didn't you choose KJV of Isaiah 64:4 but chose another edited version?
Why didn't you notice that uncle paul was directly quoting from the previous text?
We are not on the same level of comprehension. The holy spirit is not holying well in your interpretations of the biblical texts. You are just wasting my time.
Just to be sure, are we talking about the same Uncle Paul that is mentioned in Qur'an 36:13–14, which speaks of a town to which two messengers were sent and then a third was added?
Is the same Uncle Paul that Ibn Kathīr was hailing as a messenger in his Tafsīr? : “The names of the first two Messengers were Shamʿūn (Simon) and Yūḥannā (John), and the name of the third was Būlus (Paul), and the city was Antioch.”
I had no idea Ibn Kathir is considered a liar in your religion...🤣🤣🤣
ola20ng: You are so funny and desperate to make your uncle paul relevant. Which version of the Bible did you use? ; Check this one out:
Isaiah 64:4 in the King James Version (KJV) reads: "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him".
Do you want to tell me you have not seen this one or you chose the version that fits your argument?
Even the paul's version you are referring to betrays you and exposes your level of understanding.
Now take a deep breath and focus on the bolded part of the paul's version. You will understand that paul was quoting the previous text.
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." (1 Corinthians 2:9).
Oga, channel your energy to something that will be beneficial to your religion. Leave Islam for Muslims. You still have many things to learn about your own religion.
Here is Isaiah 64:4. Now Tell us if your "prophet" was copying from Paul or from Isaiah:
Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him
Isaiah is saying that since Ancient times, no one has heard or seen God outside of the Nation of Israel.
Compare that to Paul who was talking about the reward that awaits Christians from God.
Your "prophet" was very obviously copying from Paul since he is expressing the same promise that Paul expressed because he is referring to the reward for allah's slaves!
Your "prophet" couldn't have been plagiarising from Isaiah because your "prophet" didn't know who Isaiah was. He thought Isaiah was in the Torah!🤣☺️☺️
But we know that your "prophet" was familiar with Paul because early muslims respected Paul as a messenger of allah!
Would you like me to share that Islamic narrative with you?
ola20ng: That shows you don't know who saul/paul was before he claimed he encountered jesus on his way to Damascus. Go and read about him first. You will discover that those words are not your paul's own. He was only echoing Isaiah 64:4. The same Allah that inspired prophet Isaiah with those words inspired prophet Muhammad too.
If uncle Paul changed most of the original beliefs and teachings, why was your "prophet" plagiarising from the writings of Paul?
Specifically, your "prophet" copied PAUL the Apostle of Christ in 1 Corinthians 2:9
However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him."
(1 Corinthians 2:9)
Your "prophet" several centuries later:
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "ALLAH SAID, 'I have prepared for My righteous slaves (such excellent things) as no eye has ever seen, nor an ear has ever heard nor a human heart can ever think of." (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 589)
Why is your "prophet" putting the words of Paul into allah's mouth?
ola20ng: You don't need all these epistles or do you want to compete with uncle Paul who bullied the original disciples of your prophet and changed most of his beliefs and teachings. Whether the compilation of the Qur'an is an innovation or not should not be your headache. It's the headache of Muslims. Let them deal with it. Your headache should be how to get the Bible in the original language of your prophet for originallity and authentication; how to retrieve the missing parts of your book; how to remove the random letters from Paul which you are parading as words of your prophet, how to harmonise many contradictions in your book;; how......... ......
You need to do more research on the different versions/editions of your book to uncover which one is the original. You will discover that you have a lot of work to do to give credibility to your religion and book instead of delving into Muslims' affairs that do not concern you.
And just imagine, they were discovered in a place called "Deception Bay" in Australia. No wonder the Bible warned that in the last days, deception would be the greatest tool in the devil's hands.
I wonder how soon before unlawful elements in Nigeria begin imitating this.
Two extraordinary handguns allegedly designed to fold up and resemble smartphones have been seized during a police raid north of Brisbane.
The weapons were among four firearms uncovered when officers searched a property at Deception Bay earlier this month.
Images of the bizarre guns show just how easily the weapons could potentially be mistaken for an iPhone at a distance.
Queensland Police confirmed officers from the Moreton Tactical Crime Squad, supported by the Public Safety Response Team and Dog Squad, executed a search warrant at a Cross Street address shortly after 5pm on August 2.
Inside, police discovered two handguns allegedly designed to fold and resemble mobile phones.
Two other pistols and multiple rounds of ammunition were also seized.
Police also located quantities of methylamphetamine, GHB, cannabis and ketamine during the search.
A motorcycle allegedly stolen from Deception Bay sometime between February 20 and March 8 was also found at the property.
Four men have now been charged following the investigation.
A 37-year-old Deception Bay man was charged with two counts of possessing dangerous drugs and one count each of unlawful possession of a motor vehicle, unlawful possession of weapons, possessing relevant substances or things, possessing property suspected of having been acquired for the purpose of committing a drug offence, possessing utensils or pipes for use, and authority required to possess explosives.
A 52-year-old Rollingstone man was charged with one count of unlawful possession of weapons.
A 40-year-old Burpengary man was charged with one count each of possessing dangerous drugs and failing to properly dispose of a needle and syringe.
A 44-year-old Deception Bay man was charged with one count of buying or possessing S4 or S8 medicines or hazardous poisons.
All four men are due to face Caboolture Magistrates Court on August 31.
The extraordinary find not unprecedented in Australia. Just a few months ago in South Australia, police allegedly seized another handgun disguised as a mobile phone from a man in Whyalla.
In a separate case, detectives allegedly recovered a homemade “pen gun” after a 27-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg at Christie Downs in Adelaide’s south.
NSW Police have previously investigated an alleged pen-gun manufacturing syndicate, seizing 14 of the improvised weapons during a 2014 operation in Sydney.
It's not about when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, it's about how old they are and the fact that they were all gathered into one collection.
The Old Testament collection is called the Tanakh and it is thousands of years old.
The New Testament canon obviously could not exist at the time of the Tanakh because Christ had not began His earthly ministry when the events in the Tanakh were occurring.
The New Testament Gospel Canon was completed within 60 years of the resurrection of Christ in the 1st century AD which is still several centuries before your "prophet" was born.
Meanwhile, compare that to your koran.
Muhammad did not even leave any instructions for the various verses of the koran to be gathered into one book. So Muslims had to commit Bid'ah (innovation) before the koran could become a book.
Narrated Zaid bin Thabit: ...
"Therefore I (Umar) suggest, you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur'an be collected." I said to 'Umar: "How can you do something which Allah's Apostle did not do?"
(Sahih al-Bukhari: vol. 6, Book. 61, No. 509)
So the koran is haram because neither allah nor muhammad gave instructions for it to be collected as a book.
ola20ng: When was The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered? Was it available for every Jew? Was it one physical book or a collection of manuscripts? And where was the New testament during that time?
They existed as complete canons of Scripture centuries before your so called "prophet" was even born.
The Dead Sea Scrolls (roughly 3rd century BC–1st century AD) contain manuscripts of essentially every book of the Hebrew Bible except Esther, demonstrating that these books were already circulating together within Jewish community for over a thousand years before your "prophet" was born in the 6th century AD
ola20ng: . They existed as fragmented scriptures in scattered manuscripts and in the memories of some early Jews and christians not as physical books.
So was the Quran during the lifetime of prophet Muhammad until the time of the first Caliph Abu Bakr who ordered the compilation of the Qur'an from the memorisers and the written documents.
So why are the Torah and Gospel mentioned in the koran if those books didn't exist in the time of your "prophet"? Why is the koran referring to the Torah and Gospel?
ola20ng: During the Prophet's Muhammad lifetime, there was no single physical book called “the Bible” that all Jews and Christians possessed in an identical form. There were different manuscript traditions, languages, textual collections and canonical traditions.
The present day Bible is a later edited and compiled version after some addition and subtraction here and there.
Question: What Scripture were those Christians like Waraqa and those Jews like Salam reading? Is it not the Old and New testaments that they were reading?
Do you know that Paul is called a messenger of Allah in Islam and Muhammad even copied from Paul's Epistles?
ola20ng: For your mind, you think Allah is referring to the Christians like you with a fabricated and edited Bible? Allah describe those Christians here:
Surah Al-Mā’idah, Verses 82–83 5:82 “You will surely find the most hostile of the people to those who believe to be the Jews and those who associate others with Allah; and you will surely find the nearest of them in affection to the believers to be those who say, ‘We are Christians.’ That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.” 5:83 “And when they hear what has been revealed to the Messenger, you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they have recognized of the truth. They say, ‘Our Lord, we have believed, so write us among the witnesses.’”
The likes of: Waraqah ibn Nawfal — Christian ʿAbdullāh ibn Salām — Jewish scholar The Negus (al-Najāshī) — Christian ruler of Abyssinia
Because that same koran says that Jesus is not just the Word of Allah, He is a Spirit from Allah.
"The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah and His Word which He cast to Mary, and a Spirit from Him…” — Qur’an 4:171
Which means Jesus was existing in eternity with Allah before He entered into Creation as the Messiah!
Are Spirits also created from dust?
The book of contradictions has damaged itself again for the 2000th time!
AntiChristian: According to Allah in the same Qur'an, "Verily, the likeness of 'Iesa (Jesus) before Allah is the likeness of Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: "Be!" - and he was. Qur'an 3:59
This means that the spirit is the same as what Allah created Adam with. And the same spirit is in us all too.
The koran also told you and your "prophet" to come to Jews and Christians if he was confused and seeking for guidance?
Surah 10:94
"So if you are in doubt, O Muhammad, about that which We have revealed to you, then ask those Christians and Jews who have been reading the Scripture before you”
ola20ng: Are you a Muslim? The Qur'an is for Muslims and we believe all the claims in it but you don't. Whenever you see any claim in the Qur'an that doesn't align with your belief, just shake your head and waka pass. The shouldn't be your headache.
Do you want us to ignore the Qur'an that was well documented and preserved during the time of prophet Muhammad and follow the Bible which was written hundred years after the death of your God, Jesus?
Do you want us to choose the Bible which has been deprived of its original language, translated and edited several times over our own Qur'an?
Do you want us to believe a book full of random letters from one uncle Paul?
The Qur'an was never meant for you. So leave it for Muslims. It's their headache not yours
Hey, Rashduct4luv. There is a huge blunder in this hadith which reveals the ignorance of the "prophet" who revealed it.
You muslims believe that every word which comes out of your "prophet's" is wahi or divinely inspired. So why would the islamic god commit a huge blunder like he does in the hadith you posted? Isn't he supposed to be all knowing?
Rashduct4luv: Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am the closest of the people to ‘Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), in this world and the Hereafter. The Prophets are paternal brothers; their mothers are different, but their religion is one."— Narrated by Al-Bukhari (3443) and Muslim (2365)
Explanation This profound hadith highlights the essential unity of all Prophets despite their different times, places, and communities. They share the same fundamental religion—submission to the One true God (Allah)—even though their mothers and nations differ. This unity is rooted in the concept of Tawhid (the oneness of Allah), which all Prophets preached.
Allah says: -“Muhammad is not but a messenger. [Other] messengers have passed on before him.” (Al ‘Imran 3:144) -“Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam.” (Al ‘Imran 3:19) -“Say, ‘I am not something original among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I only follow that which is revealed to me, and I am not but a clear warner.’” (Al-Ahqaf 46:9) -“And We sent not before you any messenger except that We revealed to him, ‘There is none worthy of worship except Me, so worship Me.’” (Al-Anbiya’ 21:25)
These verses affirm that all Prophets called to the same essential message: worship Allah alone and submit to Him. Islam, in its broadest sense, is the religion of all Prophets.
The Continuity of Islam The believers who followed earlier Prophets were Muslims in the general sense—those who submitted to Allah’s will. If they had lived until the time of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, they would have been required to follow his final message.
Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said: "Whoever was a follower of the teachings of the Torah or the Gospel which had not been altered or abrogated, then he was a follower of the religion of Islam..." (Majmu‘ Al-Fatawa 27/370)
Unity in Belief and Differences in Jurisprudence Ibn Hajar explained: "What this Hadith means is that the foundation of their religion is one and the same, namely Tawhid (affirmation of Allah’s oneness), even though some minor juristic issues differed." (Fath Al-Bari 6/489)
Dr. ‘Umar Al-Ashqar further clarifies that Islam is the common religion all Prophets called to, and the differences in laws were in details, not in the core principles of faith.
So in Summary: *All Prophets share one religion: Islam, meaning submission to Allah alone. *The message of Tawhid is the foundation of all Prophethood. *Differences among Prophets were in minor legal rulings, not in the core belief. *Islam perfects and completes the messages that came before it. *The unity of Prophets is a brotherhood based on their shared mission and faith. *This understanding fosters respect for all Prophets and emphasizes the unity of divine guidance throughout human history.
May Allah bless all the Prophets from Adam to Muhammad and unite us all with them in Jannah!
References: **Sahih al-Bukhari 3443 **Sahih Muslim 2365 **Qur’an: Al ‘Imran 3:19, 3:144; Al-Ahqaf 46:9; Al-Anbiya’ 21:25 **Ibn Taymiyah, Majmu‘ Al-Fatawa 27/370 **Ibn Hajar, Fath Al-Bari 6/489 **Dr. ‘Umar Al-Ashqar, Ar-Rusul wa’r-Risalat ***For more detailed study, see: IslamQA - Were all Prophets Muslims? https://islamqa.info/en/answers/172775
The koran claims that the Islamic jesus is the same person as the Gospel Jesus. The sane koran also says that the Bible stands in judgment over the koran. So we Christians have to judge the koran according to the Bible.
So if the Jesus of the koran does not align with the Jesus of the Bible, he is a fabrication.
ola20ng: Were you there when Islamic Jesus existed? Our Islamic Book stated that there was a prophet named Isa (our own Jesus) , the son of Maryam (our own Mary) who carried him in her womb for 9 months, breasfed her and took care of her until he was raised up. He was never a son of God not a God himself. This is our belief. You are free to worship your own Jesus as your God who was crucified, dead, buried and eventually woke up after 3 days. Your Jesus later sent one Saul/Paul (who never met him) to finish up his uncompleted mission.
According to the koran, Jesus is the word of Allah in Surah An-Nisa (4:171) and Surah Ali 'Imran (3:45) and according to the same koran, Allah's word is divine and eternal.
So if Jesus is the Word of Allah in the koran, then Jesus is also Allah. In fact according to the koran, Jesus is the only other person who can create life apart from allah. You can see this in Surah Ali 'Imran (3:49) and Surah Al-Ma'idah (5:110).
That's why the koran calls allah "the best of creators"
"Creators" is used in the plural tense and not singular tense in the koran because the koran acknowledges that there is more than one creator in Islam and the two creators in Islam are allah and Jesus.
AntiChristian: The evidence is the fact that he worshipped only one God and not three in one Gods!
The Department of State Services, Sokoto State command, has raised the alarm over intelligence indicating planned attacks and kidnappings targeting tertiary institutions across the state.
The warning, contained in a July 18, 2026, letter to the Sokoto State Government, said terrorist and bandit groups had shifted their focus from vulnerable primary and secondary schools to universities and other higher institutions.
The letter, titled “Planned Attack on Tertiary Institutions by Terrorist and Bandit Gangs,” was signed on behalf of the State Director of Security by B. Abdulaziz.
According to the DSS, the emerging threat could expose students, lecturers, non-academic staff and their families to kidnapping and other forms of attacks.
The Service said the shift in strategy was part of efforts by criminal groups to disrupt education, weaken public confidence in government’s security operations and create a negative image of Nigeria internationally.
The DSS stated, “Intelligence available to the command indicated a tactical shift in the focus of criminal elements.”
It further warned that the state could not afford to ignore the security implications of the development, urging the government to immediately strengthen security around tertiary institutions.
The Service said, “There is a need to upgrade security measures in tertiary institutions across the state,” adding that relevant security and response agencies had already been alerted to deploy countermeasures against the threat.
The DSS also urged the Sokoto State Government to take necessary measures to prevent the reported plans from being carried out.
The warning comes against the backdrop of persistent insecurity across parts of the North-West, where bandit attacks and kidnappings have continued to threaten rural communities and educational institutions.
The latest alert has heightened concerns over the safety of students and staff in Sokoto’s universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions.
The islamic jesus is different because he never existed. Funny how islam accuses the Jews of killing all prophets, but suddenly changes the narrative when it comes to Jesus.
ola20ng: You are right. Prophet Isa( Jesus) mentioned in the Qur'an is different from your own Jesus that died on a cross. In Islam, our own Jesus is a prophet just like other prophets. May Almighty Allah be pleased with all of them.
Russians are withdrawing record sums of cash from the country’s banks amid mounting fears that the Kremlin could raid deposits to bankroll the war in Ukraine.
The first two weeks of August saw the volume of cash in circulation rise by 286.4bn roubles (£2.5bn), marking an outflow from the Russian banking system for a seventh consecutive month, according to central bank data.
Analysts and insiders attribute the behavioural shift to escalating instability caused by Ukrainian drone attacks, economic pessimism and fears that the state could freeze deposits or impose a sudden cap on withdrawals.
Russians are increasingly feeling the effects of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, now in its fifth year, as Kyiv continues to launch long-range drone strikes against Moscow’s oil refineries and other economic targets.
“Drones are flying. Things are burning down. Nervousness is growing. And people’s everyday wisdom may be kicking in that they need to have cash under their pillow and not somewhere in banks where it may never be returned,” a former finance official told The Washington Post.
Every working day of August has seen the banks haemorrhage cash, according to the data, with the highest outflow of 56.8bn roubles recorded on Aug 12.
It followed a record outpouring of money in July, when more than 620bn roubles were withdrawn, bringing the accumulated total from the beginning of the year to 2.4 trillion roubles.
This exceeds the two trillion roubles removed in the first year of the invasion in 2022, most of which was drained during its initial two weeks in February and March as households and businesses rushed to withdraw money.
The surge in cash demand has drained banks’ rouble liquidity, prompting the Central Bank of Russia to expand lending to the banking sector.
The rouble liquidity deficit has stretched to a record high since March 2022, the Russian outlet RBC reported. These constraints have left many banks without enough cash to purchase government bonds.
Earlier this year, rumours spread across Russian Telegram channels about a forthcoming freeze on Russians’ bank deposits. Anton Siluanov, the Russian minister of finance, issued a statement calling the posts “fake news”. Economic analysts have said such a move would be highly unlikely.
The Kremlin’s decision to shut down mobile internet across swathes of the country, preventing Russians from using their cards, has also prompted a greater need for cash.
Tax increases, stubborn inflation and stricter government scrutiny of financial transactions are among the other likely factors.
“It took Russia less than a decade to become one of the world’s leaders in cashless payments,” The Bell, an independent Russian economic publication, said earlier this year.
“Now, because of the actions of the Russian authorities, Russians are increasingly turning to cash: higher taxes are hitting businesses, while internet shutdowns are making cashless payments unreliable.”
Adding to the pressure, large companies are also moving funds abroad to shield their assets from potential seizure by Russian regulators. In the second quarter of this year, some 800bn roubles were withdrawn from the country.
Billionaire elites are said to be growing unnerved both by the Kremlin’s sweeping nationalisation campaign, which has brought trillions of roubles under state control, and by Ukraine’s strikes targeting enterprise to ramp up the pressure on Russia’s economy.
However, in a windfall for Putin, his efforts to secure “donations” from oligarchs to prop up the country’s ailing war economy in March brought hundreds of billions of roubles into the federal budget by mid-August, the Moscow-based business daily Vedomosti said on Monday
Russians’ optimism about the economy plummeted to a record low this year. A survey published by the polling agency in June found that 60 per cent of Russians believed local economic conditions were getting worse.
At the weekend, Putin sacked the chief economist of Russia’s second-largest bank after Russian media reported on his critical comments about the country’s economic condition and suggested that Moscow would lose a “war of attrition” against Ukraine.
The Bell reported that Andrei Klepach, who had held his post since 2014, had been fired on orders from the Kremlin after it became aware of his speech, which was delivered in May.
Unfortunately, she is trying to appeal to a mob and she will never receive justice from a mob. Common sense checked out of the brains of South Africans long ago.
It just saddens me that because of the collective failures of our leaders in Nigeria, we have been reduced to begging for human dignity from people who have no respect for us and are not willing to offer us any dignity. They're basically making her to perform a humiliation ritual for their amusement.
Chidimma Adetshina: 'I was born in South Africa', says beauty queen facing deportation
Beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina, who is facing deportation from South Africa, has reiterated that she was born in the country and believes she has been "treated unfairly and targeted".
South African officials want her detained as they pursue her deportation after she was declared a prohibited person in 2024.
Adetshina, 25, whose mother has Mozambican roots and her father is Nigerian, was stripped of her identity documents after questions around her citizenship were raised when she took part in the 2024 Miss South Africa contest. She then left the country.
She was arrested in June this year - and later released on warning - after being accused of re-entering South Africa unlawfully.
On Wednesday, the government's legal case seeking her detention was postponed until next year.
Speaking after a hearing in Cape Town, Adetshina said "there has been an attempt" by the South African authorities to make an example of her with this case.
"I remind everyone that I was born in South Africa. I have applied through the proper legal channels to have my status and citizenship determined," she said.
The pageant contestant added that "we should not allow xenophobia and misinformation to determine how people are going to be treated", seemingly a shot to protesters who had gathered outside the court calling for her deportation.
The protest was led by anti-migrant group March and March, which has been at the forefront of calls for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa, and many chased after her car as she left the courthouse.
Adetshina, a law student at the time, left South Africa in 2024 and went on to win Miss Universe Nigeria after she was invited to participate by the organisers.
In court, South Africa's home affairs department argued that she applied for a South African visa while she was in Nigeria and Nigerian passports for her and her son therefore implying that she was not a South African citizen, according to reports in the News24 site.
Officials then said she returned to South Africa illegally via a Mozambican border post.
Adetshina has previously argued that her home was in South Africa.
Her case was postponed to February 2027 to allow for the finalisation of her review challenging home affairs' decision to deport her. She remains a free woman until this has been completed.
Adetshina was stripped of her South African identity and travel documents in 2024 following allegations that her mother, Anabela Rungo, had committed identity fraud to gain South African nationality.
Being born in South Africa does not automatically grant citizenship to that person. One of the parents has to either be a citizen themselves or a permanent resident in order for that to happen.
Rungo had her South African citizenship revoked in 2025.
The investigation into Adetshina's status came after she became a finalist in the Miss South Africa pageant. She faced criticism as people questioned her eligibility to compete given her mother's ties to Mozambique and her father being a Nigerian citizen. She later withdrew from the pageant when these issues came to light.
In interviews Adetshina said she was born in Soweto - the South African township next to Johannesburg - and grew up in Cape Town.
🚨 “Chidimma, Go Home” — South African Protesters Target Nigerian Beauty Queen
South African anti-immigration protesters were heard chanting “Chidimma, go home,” calling on Nigerian beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina to leave the country amid growing tensions over immigration. 🇳🇬🇿🇦… pic.twitter.com/pyYTSQ7kyF
He has invested so much of Nigeria's money to stop these papers from being released. I wonder what the papers will reveal.
Ezeama400: Tinubu has spent millions of our tax payers money to cover his case, unfortunately it’s too late..
Tinubu is a disgrace to humanity. No wonder he went into coma when Trump won election..
This is disgusting and disgraceful because the action of this man will cause more damage to the image of Nigeria and Nigerians especially those in diaspora..
This is not a good time to be proud of this country..
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