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Killers: We thought Dube was Nigerian
Posted on Sunday 8 February 2009 - 07:58
Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

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South African media have reported that the suspected killers of reggae superstar, Lucky Dube, confessed they mistook him for a Nigerian.

This, according to reports, is a clear manifestation of the strong animosity South Africans have towards Nigerian nationals in that country, especially those driving flashy cars and living in nice homes.


Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd) speaking to the South African correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, reacted with shock to the news that Dube was mistaken to be Nigerian by his killers.


He said it was unacceptable that South Africans would perceive Nigerians with such hatred in spite of Nigeria’s contribution to the liberation of South Africans from the oppressive apartheid regime.


“This kind of situation is unacceptable to us as a people and as a government. What this perception means is, when you’re a Nigerian, you’re not safe here in South Africa,” Marwa lamented.


According to him, the matter would be tabled at the Review Meeting of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission later this month in Abuja.


“This matter has to be tabled and tackled before the situation escalates. What if Nigerians at home also decide to maltreat South African nationals there?” he asked. “We must stop it now and get the relationship back where it should be – friendly and acceptability of brotherliness.”


Stressing further, Marwa said, “We are the same people who have toiled together in the past and are still toiling now. We have thousands of Nigerians - professionals and entrepreneurs, who are engaged in hard, decent and legitimate business and contribute to the economy of South Africa.


“If they have laboured hard to legitimately earn their pay, they reserve the right to afford whatever luxury cars of their taste and live out the best life-styles of their desire. It is their entitlement and definitely not a crime for you to live well if you work hard for it. Nigerians should not be seen as criminal elements.”


Assuring numerous Nigerians based in South Africa who called the high commission on the matter, Marwa said they were working on the issue and urged all Nigerians there to remain law-abiding citizens.

dasparrow: @Post

Na wa o! And some Nigerians after reading this will still go to the travel section to find out how to get visa to South Africa. Nigerians, make una comot for that country oh! You all can read what this young south African lady who is obviously married to a Nigerian man telling by her last name is saying.

The other day, I read a thread here on Nairaland about south African women married to Nigerian men who are protesting the ill treatment their husbands are receiving in the hands of policemen. I know not all South Africans are bad but the negative news I keep reading from that country about how they treat Nigerians leaves me quite speechless.

I tell you, we black people are our own worse enemy. Later on, we will complain that white people are racists when in fact our own hatred for each other will make an average skinhead look like a saint. Anyways, God is watching and no one knows tomorrow. Nigeria may become great tomorrow if we Nigerians can kick out those in office who have chosen not to do anything but sit there and loot our collective treasury dry.

take dat:

amor4ce: @Gbawe, an omo ale uses his left hand to point at (show the way) to his father's house. Only a thoroughly brainwashed house negro or negropean would accept and promote and seek to preserve the very savage works of the oyinbo (including the Berlin Conference, murder and enslavement of millions during the trans-Atlantic, trans-Saharan and oriental slavery). It is only an omo ale that will sell his inheritance and father's property and welcome others to claim it without his father's consent. It is only an omo ale that will despise, belittle and refer to his ancestors as primitive and condescendingly refer to his people as "atavistic" for loving and respecting their ancestors.The Berlin Conference was evil and has been used till date to divide non-nomadic black Africans. Perhaps you are a pro-oyinbo halfcaste, or been bleaching your soul, or your soul is actually oyinbo, perhaps not, hopefully not. This attitude of condscension and disregard for indigenous heritage shows up cosistently in your posts.Shame on you.

miky: Bull, commissioning a flyover? men that's sad.. jigawa has done way better than oyo.. and lagos only gets 6 bllion more than oyo.. dont be deceived, because a flyover to nowhere is not an achievement..

ujoinme: Why all these bad belle? The governor is solving traffic problems for his state.am sure the people of that state like what he is doing.
Why are some people filled with so much bile? overpass has been completed and the people are utilizing it, the governor has done well and should be applauded.
other gov. should do same thats how to move nigeria forward.

aspabay: Before you spew nonsence next time about the performance of any gorvernor, take a look at this analysis obtained from the National Office of Statistics

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noblezone: Right people? what do you mean by right people?

the truth is this:
No government can perform unless they are accepted and supported by the people they lead.
Tell me the Nigerian that will be accepted by the South South, South East, South West, North Central, North East and North West. the day we have such a Nigerian, is the day we are ready for some progress!

HNosegbe: Point taken.

However I was making a general point, which is that I do NOT believe in commissioning projects. Why spend huge amounts in organization, travel, lodging (in some cases), souvenirs (sometimes), and distribution of "largesse" to the crowd?

The report clearly says that Bola Ahmed Tinubu came in with a chopper, and went to the venue with a convoy. At whose expense?

Rochas Okorocha left Imo State, travelled all the way to Ibadan to commission a flyover. At whose expense?

The thousands of people who gathered there, are they there because they are genuinely happy with the completion of this bridge, or are they simply after some "largesse"?

We need to redefine governance in Nigeria. Staging grand events for the commissioning of common projects like this is backward and retrogressive in an age where progressive nations are sending people to the moon.

Only God knows how much was spent, and what other purposes to which those funds could have been deployed.

Thanks for the compliment.

HNosegbe: Politics... the only profession in Nigeria where people are hailed to high heavens, parties and carnivals are held and roads blocked, simply because they're doing their jobs.

Nigeria is a place where a governor can spend more on "commissioning" a borehole than the actual construction cost of the borehole.

I wonder if the cost of this jamboree is not equal to the cost of the bridge.

Shaking my head.

take dat:

Jonathan Slammed Over Luxury Jets, As Road, Power, Health Sectors Are In Shambles - PM NEWS

by Mayowa Michael Adeleye (Notes) on Thursday, 12 August 2010 at 09:05

President Goodluck Jonathan was the butt of criticisms this morning over the decision by his administration to splash $155 million, in one fell swoop, on three luxury jets, at a time when the nation is immersed in fresh mounting debts and when roads, health and electricity facilities are in appalling states.

Yesterday, the Federal Executive Council approved the purchases for two Falcon 7X jets and one Gulfstream G550, against the backdrop of a flight hitch Jonathan suffered on his return to Nigeria from the African Union Conference in Kampala, Uganda. The three jets will be delivered between the end of this year and next year, bringing the presidential fleet to seven. Each of the Falcon model cost $51 million, while the Gulfstream, a popular choice of the world's rich, cost $53 million. From P.M News internet searches, the three jets appear not to be overpriced as the government approved prices fell within the range quoted on the web sites of the manufacturers.

But critics are not assuaged by this seeming transparency, as they question the president's approval of such a binge buy for aircraft at this time when the nation has even chosen to borrow about $600 million to register voters and $3.5 billion to build a new electricity grid, nationally.

The next Iyaloja: Tinubu upbraids PDP, journalists for “flashing rumours as stories”


Two days ago, the former Lagos governor and ACN chieftain, Bola Tinubu, came under severe criticism from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as well as some social commentators, over allegations that he had disclosed during the 8-day Fidau Prayer for his late mother, that his sister, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, would succeed his mother as the president of the Association of Market Women and Men in Lagos state.

The ACN publicity secretary in the state, Joe Igbokwe, denied the reports when it first broke saying “it is not true and can never be true. We don’t have time for that.”

Now, Bola Tinubu’s office has disclosed that the news was “simply a rumor and a wicked attempt to desecrate the memory of Tinubu’s mother.” They said that a careful review of the tape for the event would show that Tinubu did not say any such thing at any point during or after the event as is now being “salaciously bandied about in the media.”
The statement further disclosed that Tinubu never said a word during the entire programme.

“It takes very little effort to investigate whether Tinubu made such pubic pronouncement. Special tributes to the late mother of Tinubu were read by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Sunday Dare, while the vote of thanks was delivered by the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola.
“One would hope that journalists and bloggers would ask questions and dig a bit deeper before flashing rumours as stories. You cannot put a man in jail simply because you suspect him of something or because you think he will do something in the future.”

Tinubu accused the PDP of being on a pre-emptive strike.
“Their press statement should be seen that of a guilty weakling who is screaming and weeping, scared of vanishing into the nothingness they know they are.”

A source told The Scoop that indeed Tinubu never made the said statement during his mother’s 8-day Firdau prayer. The source however revealed that one of Tinubu’s sisters who had been acting for Madam Mogaji for four years due to the woman’s old age, might continue in that role. The source also told The Scoop that “PDP’s accusation that Tinubu had called for a meeting with the market leaders for Tuesday to break the news to them was clearly false as the former governor spent the whole day in Ibadan.

The next Iyaloja: Tinubu upbraids PDP, journalists for “flashing rumours as stories”


Two days ago, the former Lagos governor and ACN chieftain, Bola Tinubu, came under severe criticism from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as well as some social commentators, over allegations that he had disclosed during the 8-day Fidau Prayer for his late mother, that his sister, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, would succeed his mother as the president of the Association of Market Women and Men in Lagos state.

The ACN publicity secretary in the state, Joe Igbokwe, denied the reports when it first broke saying “it is not true and can never be true. We don’t have time for that.”

Now, Bola Tinubu’s office has disclosed that the news was “simply a rumor and a wicked attempt to desecrate the memory of Tinubu’s mother.” They said that a careful review of the tape for the event would show that Tinubu did not say any such thing at any point during or after the event as is now being “salaciously bandied about in the media.”
The statement further disclosed that Tinubu never said a word during the entire programme.

“It takes very little effort to investigate whether Tinubu made such pubic pronouncement. Special tributes to the late mother of Tinubu were read by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Sunday Dare, while the vote of thanks was delivered by the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola.
“One would hope that journalists and bloggers would ask questions and dig a bit deeper before flashing rumours as stories. You cannot put a man in jail simply because you suspect him of something or because you think he will do something in the future.”

Tinubu accused the PDP of being on a pre-emptive strike.
“Their press statement should be seen that of a guilty weakling who is screaming and weeping, scared of vanishing into the nothingness they know they are.”

A source told The Scoop that indeed Tinubu never made the said statement during his mother’s 8-day Firdau prayer. The source however revealed that one of Tinubu’s sisters who had been acting for Madam Mogaji for four years due to the woman’s old age, might continue in that role. The source also told The Scoop that “PDP’s accusation that Tinubu had called for a meeting with the market leaders for Tuesday to break the news to them was clearly false as the former governor spent the whole day in Ibadan.

Afam4eva: Name me 10 NIgerian millionaires who made their millions in the UK. I've been trying to school you guyz but you're not receptive to learning.

jackbauersballs: Like I said earlier, there ARE opportunities but they are dwindling.

I'm aware that the IT market is moving,but how many other industries are?

There are more redundancies than recruitments these days.

Gbawe is talking about credit. Remember you need a down payment for a mortgage. Or that car.

Where most people struggle is raising that 20 or 30 grand you need for that new house.

With fewer and fewer jobs, and lowering rates of pay, coupled with loads if responsibilities, it's hard to raise the capital to leverage your good credit.

This is what I mean. Me and the Missus intend to climb the 1st rung on the ladder this year...and God it was so bloody hard getting the required funds!

Help for home buyers

Help to Buy equity loan
The Help to Buy equity loan scheme will provide £3.5 billion of additional investment to help people into home ownership. The scheme will help up to 74,000 home buyers, as well as providing a boost to the UK’s construction sector.

The Help to Buy equity loan is available to all those who aspire to own a new build home, but struggle to access or afford the repayments on a low deposit mortgage.

The government will:

provide an equity loan worth up to 20% of the value of a new build home, interest free for the first 5 years, which can be repaid at any time or when the home is sold
significantly widen the eligibility criteria for equity loans to ensure as many people as possible are able to benefit. The maximum home value will be £600,000 and there will be no income cap constraint
ensure that the scheme is open not only to first time buyers but also to all those looking to move up the housing ladder.

coogar: there are opportunities in the UK, jackbauer!
it's just that majority lack the information to get by. a geography graduate has already sold himself short reading a course like that - so he started his race on a back foot!

besides, nigerians tend to overestimate their potentials. are you aware £40k per annum salary puts you in the top 10% of the highest earners in the UK? i am very sure majority of the nigerians here against all odds are around the neighbourhood of that figure so why do people complain?

50calibre: What? I don't even think you know what you are talking about. You call UK's population behemoth? When did 65 million become behemoth?

The UK is 22nd largest country ( population wise) but the 7th largest economy. The US is 5 times the size of the UK, but 3 times the size if UK economy, The UK is the 2nd biggest contributor to the EU and NATO, the 2nd largest giver of international aid.

Reason properly and stop spewing out nonsense you heard at the bar.

jackbauersballs: I partially agree with you Afam

There are loads of opportunities but only in a few sectors.

It's really hard for young grads to get on the career ladder these days talk less of old heads.

One of the security guards where I work is Nigerian - he has a degree in Geography and a red passport but can't get work...so he's trying to get into the IT industry which seems to be booming at the moment.

Afam4eva: The same Afam4eva has seen American returnees who are hustlers, and illegal immigrants making it big in the US. It just goes to show that the UK is not a country of opportunities and the opportunities therein are limited to a select few. Mostly the British. That's why the UK is not the best destination for immigrants. The country is just as dead as third world countries in terms of opportunities. The only positive in that country is for people who want to school or visit. Other than that the UK is a 1st 3rd world country. I pity any NIgerian who lives there without anything tangible to show.

Chinom: NIGERIA ! NIGERIA !! NIGERIA!!! . I have lived in both places so i'm in a good position to choose. Besides human life is worth a lot more in Naija than in UK. YOU were hungry in Nigeria. Hence UK is heaven for you. Free money on the dole. I quite understand where you're comming from.

kaeto: wake up from your nightmarish dream, you want tinubu, ffk, buhari, and how are we sure same bode george will not join them if the tide changes. Fresh air all the way, say no to yoruba supremacist antecedents, say no to tinubu family cult, say no to buharism, say no to islamist extremism, say no to born to rule, say no to apc. We need one nigeria, where yoruba, igbo, hausa, nigerdelta and midbelt will all have equal right and fair play, no tribe is superior to others. GEJ all the way until 2019.

50calibre: How about discrimination from fellow blacks? I did some part time work for amazon in 2010, and got heckled constantly for not reaching target by our Zimbabwean team leader, while he smiled about with the white folks.

I got tired and quit the job.

Asians, Africans to pay £3,000 cash bond deposit for UK visa

Visitors from Asian and African nations will have to pay £3,000 cash bond deposit to enter Britain.
Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:28PM GMT

Visitors from Asian and African nations will have to pay £3,000 cash bond deposit to enter Britain, a report said.


The Sunday Times newspaper said the pilot scheme, according to which visitors aged 18 and over would be forced to pay £3,000 for a six-month visit visa, will target visitors from November this year.

Moreover, the money would be forfeited in case of overstay.

According to reports, the plans which aimed at preventing abuse of immigration rules in the country, will initially cover India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Ghana.

mbulela: QED. but remember smokes and fire.

Handsomeemmy: Ok... Now i understand, thank you for the clearification. No one deserved to be mudered in cold blood, no matter what, let justice prevail.

Handsomeemmy: are you saying the police should go in and arrest people having four AK 47 and some rounds inside? I guess if it were to be like that, we will be here mourning the dead of our policemen who placed their life on the line so that we will have one less case of kidnapping. My opinion

Good job by the police. They should go ahead and splatter the two remaining kinappers' craniums with a few well-deserved busrts of hot AK fire, after finding out who the head honcho is, so that he too can be turned into compost for agricultural soil enrichment.