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PhilemonObende:
says a yoruba muslim.

Odenson everyone who opposes your view is not Yoruba Muslim

As if she canceled to stay in aso villa


Awon ode

You have my support, tell me how to vote

KINGinVAHALA:
Hahaahaahahaha, only God knows what would have been their storyline if saraki was a PDP member.

Lwkmh, thanks for the stout, what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his Bottle of STOUT?? But, I don't need stout right now bro, what I desire is endorsement, support and vote from you, I'm a contestant for Mr Nairaland 2016.

By Anne Frugé July 1 at 5:00 AM

On June 13, two weeks before the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the African Union announced a new “single African passport.” The lead-up discussion was much like the original debate on the European Economic Community, the E.U.’s predecessor. African passport proponents say it will boost the continent’s socioeconomic development because it will reduce trade barriers and allow people, ideas, goods, services and capital to flow more freely across borders.

But now the A.U. faces the challenge of making sure the “e-Passport” lives up to its potential – and doesn’t fulfill detractors’ fears of heightened terrorism, smuggling and illegal immigration.

The African e-Passport is part of a long-term plan for the continent

The e-Passport is an electronic document that permits any A.U. passport holder to enter any of the 54 A.U. member states, without requiring a visa. It will be unveiled this month during the next A.U. Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. Initially, the e-Passport will only be available to A.U. heads of state, foreign ministers and permanent representatives based in the A.U.’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, . The plan is to roll it out to all A.U. citizens by 2018.

The electronic passport initiative grows out of the A.U.’s Agenda 2063, a plan to mobilize Africa’s vast resources to strengthen the region’s self-reliance, global economic power and solidarity.

Why is the single African passport important?

The e-Passport is a step toward eliminating borders on the continent, aiming to enable deeper integration, increased trade and further development. Just as important, the passport is a powerful symbol of unity across Africa – and simultaneously a step toward connecting African countries economically and politically.

An A.U. passport represents the latest effort to create a common market spanning the continent, much like that in the E.U. Such efforts date back to 1963 with the creation of the Organization of African Unity. Pan-Africanists celebrating the demise of the colonial state and hailing a United States of Africa designed the O.A.U. to unite Africans and dissolve the borders between them.


Essentially, the O.A.U. sought to raise living standards by supporting leaders of anti-colonial struggles in their roles as heads of new states. In its quest to make the transition to independence as smooth as possible, the organization at times defended national sovereignty to a fault. For example, the decision to respect arbitrary colonial borders had far-reaching consequences, including numerous identity-based conflicts.

Over time, other entities arose to coordinate economic activity across national lines: the East African Community (1967), the Economic Community of West African States (1975), the Lagos Plan of Action for the Economic Development of Africa (1980) and the Southern African Development Community (1992), just to name a few.

In 2002, the A.U. replaced the O.A.U.

Moving away from the O.A.U.’s state-centric approach, the A.U. attempts to balance “the principle of sovereignty with the need to accelerate political rights and socio-economic growth and cooperation,” according to Matebe Chisiza, visiting scholar at the South African Institute of International Affairs. For example, the A.U. suspended 12 member states after “unconstitutional changes in government,” including Libya, Central African Republic, Egypt and Burkina Faso.

None of Africa’s regional organizations have yet been able to create a common market. This vivid dream has endured despite the enormous political and logistical challenges it would entail. Deeper economic integration is seen by many, including the World Bank, as the road to prosperity and stability. In fact, the A.U. is guided by this premise.

What might be the downsides of the e-Passport?

Opponents of the passport are concerned about a range of security risks. Detractors argue that visa-free travel would make it easier for terrorists to move within and between countries. Human traffickers and drug smugglers could take advantage of the new system. Disease and other public health crises could spread more rapidly in a borderless Africa. As has happened in Europe, an e-Passport may intensify competition for jobs and public services, leading to more xenophobic political rhetoric and attacks. Migration is already a contentious issue, as shown by deadly anti-immigrant riots in South Africa and Zambia and heated debates over refugees in Kenya.


Many elites favor the unrestricted movement of persons, goods and services. But if the effort is mishandled, such free travel may simply reproduce social inequalities — helping the well-off become richer and leaving behind the poor. We can see that already in the fact that only certain individuals will have the passport at first, which creates a hierarchy of citizens, only some of whom can travel freely.

Moreover, Bronwen Manby’s report for the Open Society Foundations describes how passports can become tools for repressive regimes to silence their critics. In 2007 alone Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan and Zimbabwe denied or confiscated passports for a variety of opponents, including “from individual trade unionists, human rights activists, opposition politicians, or minority religious groups.” Fortunately, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Zambia have taken steps to put into law the principle that every individual has a right to a passport — even if the principle is upheld irregularly in practice.

The African Union can learn from the E.U.’s example

The E.U. offers a model that the A.U. can use to study both the progress and pitfalls of regional integration: managing a common currency, balancing economies of vastly different sizes and structures, and building solidarity within and across culturally diverse nations.

Brexit is a reminder of the challenges inherent in a shared political and economic space. The debates over debt, immigration and national identity that led to Brexit would only be magnified in Africa under the weight of industrializing economies, significant barriers to access in education and health care and ongoing conflicts over resources and identity.

An African passport is an exciting development that can spur growth and improve living standards. To capitalize on this potential, the A.U. needs to plan two steps ahead. Crafting thoughtful regulations will be essential to ensuring the e-Passport’s economic promise is genuinely available to everyone and not subject to abuse.


For example, integration needs to benefit the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, with both productivity and industrial capacity increasing in tandem. When some countries deindustrialize at the same time that others expand their markets, the stragglers strain the common pool and fall into crisis.

Further, governments need to fight against a race to the bottom in which commerce follows the path of least restrictions. This point is especially important considering that demos-centered Pan-Africanism underpins the A.U.’s mission.

And implementation plans must address practical obstacles that prevent many Africans from obtaining basic identity documentation, such as weak civil registration systems, slow and costly bureaucratic procedures, and corruption. According to the World Bank, 37 percent of people in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have legal identification, a prerequisite for obtaining a passport.


In short, the path forward is to ensure fairness in integration. When the system rewards the few on the backs of the many, solidarity wanes and the unification project suffers.

Anne Frugé is a PhD candidate in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/07/01/the-opposite-of-brexit-african-union-launches-an-all-africa-passport/

lalasticlala

bWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA , something about PDP , they always have memory skip when it comes to Saraki and other APC members


bwahahahahah , One crate of stout for you

KINGinVAHALA:
Bro, if I were you I wouldn't bother myself posting comments, your moniker alone serve as enough bullets to those Ugandas. lol

*Let me join you*

PDP - Yeah, its is a clear case of witch hunt,

APC - But what about saraki that is been prosecuted for corruption, which party is he?

PDP - I don't know!

hehehehehe


Thanks lol , now let me check the likes wailers gave me

SLIDEwaxie:
I knw ure being sarcastic. But on a serious note, who was in the position to loot since it was in power in the last 16yrs?

I am sorry i didn't know

isaacputi:
So you don't know this is sarcasm

Y'all look the same to me, Ijaw, tsekiri,ND, Ibibio, i care less who wears what , if it's from the east, it's Ibo

NOETHNICITY:
No that is no Igbo attire, its pure ijaw attire like the ones GEJ used to wear.

If you knew anything about trade union and employment contract, you would understand that what you just wrote is not making any sense

Crude is Nigeria's Lifeline at the moment , it has been for years and it will be several years to come

TrueSenator:
Like going on strike ....or isn't that sabotage too..... Don't get me wrong..... None of those is good but don't call a thief a terrorist...... It is what it is....

Thanks Jare ,

Proudlyngwa:
Sorry to burst your bubble dear truesenator but dabullit is right, those guys are not just criminals but terrorist.
How do you describe people who sacked a whole obrikom community, parts of Omoku, people were taking refuges in churches,NAOC once grounded their activities for two days because of this miscreants.
Don wanny got into prominence when he blew two agip well heads , he has been a youth leader in Omoku, proxy CSO for agip, enforcer for goround, declared wanted by the Nigerian army and now rewarded by the rivers state government, just few days after the rivers state governor threatened to withdraw agips certificate of occupancy for patronising cultist, with Wike himself leading a delegation to destroy a Batcher. When a foundation is built on lies it will surely collapse.

You have arrived ?

Tunami:
you still have a long way to go.

Ijaw, Ibibio, Tsekiri , ND , y'all look the same to me

ibitzbarlow:
Is anyone in the pictures wearing "Igbo" attire? If you are truly Nigerian, you should know the traditional chieftancy attire of the Ijaws ("dòn".

Commot bra wey dey your face

Dragonking:
Does that look like Igbo attire to you?

You wear bra for eyes ??

MrTruth4real:
Where did u see IBO attire in the pic?

Lol, Rauf does not have big mouth


and he definitely has not been linked to Dasuki gate , looks like you are wrong

TheDevilIsALai:
After Engineer Rauf Aregberascal

Anyone who wears Igbo attire is automatically negotiating for avengers ??



Continu

But it is witch hunt

Why only PDP members






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Lalasticlala , let's show the world

mumu post



mumu supporters


Wail as much as you month , but Buhari will complete his tenure and more

I have had this conversation with someone here before , when you sabotage a country's economy or it's people , you are nothing but a terrorist

TrueSenator:
There's a huge difference between militants and terrorist.... Choose your words rightly otherwise don't

Fayose is going home


That's not negotiable

Slap your mummy , awon eleyii won bad gaan [quote author=Lykar post=47063107][/quote]

No amount of excuse can redeem that muurfucka

cescky:
If u don't have any` meaningful counter argument why don't u close the gutter u call an excuse for a mouth

Spit is white

Sweetle:
Stop pouring us black spit.

truth /

Jakama90:
For saying the truth.... NO WAY.

Ogbeni , wogo lo !

007Gbenga:
You should be the one shutting the fvck up ! After your certificate-less dullard made such a desperate statement you still carried yourself and went to vote for him. Zombie!

Na so

tonguengineer:
Bros no vex oooo
Are u saying he is speaking trash

weep for ya family

bankylan:
I weep for you......May God deliver you from mental enslavement.

nonsense

francizy:
I don't see any difference between the statement "we will make the country ungovernable for GEJ" and "a fight against boko haram is injustice to the north", the second statement of which Buhari made.

We are happy for our brown roof


At least we are not polluted


Thanks

Pain who /? see this one

collitexnaira:
E pain am

Why am i not surprised, cus you have always been a zombie