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jess5: Very true. Instead of them to find the solution to the topic at hand, they are coming up with the ones that make it look like they are in support of Nigerians who go to the UK on visitors visa and never comeback. Or those that go there for complicated health issues without paying a dime.

sultanemerald: i totally get your point. forget her not so smart arguments. when it comes to policies that affect nigerians. i become irrational. i always lean towards nigeria. forgive me.

moodswing: This matter don pass your reasoning capacity. You are obviously trying not to confuse yourself, but failed woefully.

Read the thread again and you might understand why she referred to those workers.

Gbawe the sabinus.

Dabiri-Erewa said: “Nigeria should adopt the principle of reciprocity. If they ask us to pay £3,000, lettheir citizens also pay N5million visa bond.

“This is a discriminatory policy and it is unacceptable. Do not forget that we are a member of the Commonwealth, what are we going to enjoy if they could impose such a discriminatory policy?

“I am quite sure that France will not impose visa bond on their former colonies. The UK Government should reverse itor else we should pay them back in equal measure.

“The Federal Government should not allow the situation to lie low; it should reject it and make it reciprocal.

“When South Africa said we should be paying N100, 000 visa bond and we reciprocated, it quickly stopped the policy.

“If Nigerian and Indian doctors withdraw their services in the UK, their health sector will collapse.

sultanemerald: tell the fellow. some peeps are funny. a rep promoting nigeria is now labelled a ranter? God forgive you.

dabrake: @gbawe, i do like you a lot but I won't agree with you this time. at this point in time, you should be defending the interest of the average Nigerian instead of trying to score cheap political points.

seunfly: Oh God!!! See wasted life of a graduate, master degree holder 4 dt matter, just because our leaders has stolen what belong to them.
Anyway kudo to Nigerian police if they are the genuine kidnapers.

ISBLIAC: He's guarding the president both physically and spiritually.

Jakumo: 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.

After now unu go dey halla say Naija police no sabi work. Dem work now, or dem no work ?

ghananotnaija: Please no common currency with Nigeria involved. Nigeria will single-handedly bankrupt the entire West Africa. Keep Nigerian incompetence inside Nigerian borders.

Ogojohn: Chief Ikenua whose celebrated case led to the dismissal of former NDLEA chairman Lafiaji Over kick backs and some thousands of euro recovered from the drug lord which was not declared in court led to his disgraceful dismissal along with some of his top aids. He was also involved in another saga which led to the dismissal and prosecution of some staffs of diamond bank over the ONI AND GAS LTD account which they used to traffic illegal fund. As it is now. Mr Onochie is lying cold in the mortuary and the question his family and friends are asking. Is his death a natural cause or the state conspiracy or a business good sour.

Garri the 1st: "Unless the lord himself guards a city, it is to no avail that the watch men have kept awake".........

druid06: Is it me or is the Nigerian soldier in the background sizing up Clinton's personal security?. He's like yeah, I can take this dude with just one hand tied behind my back...

fpeter: Life na wa o, wetin do Bill Clinton?
One would hardly recognise him from
this picture,what happened to the
handsome Bill we all loved?......
...................VANITY!!!!!!!

kq: Did you even read all that transpired above before calling him a dunce? He corrected himself and an explanation was put up about how etiquette provides that he will be called Senator if he had been a Senator before becoming President (not my words). Please show some decorum.

johnie: Was he ever a senator?

loswhite: ppl like u will always feel inferior to other ppl that r richer than u.

TheRealYemi: The freedom to express yourself freely does not include the right to spew out nonsense. Uncultured fellows like this who can not engage reasonably in civiised debate should be kicked out of this forum for good

johnie: Ehem!

President Clinton, you mean?

payless: Bode George?

Ibrahim Mantu?

Tony Anehni?

We dey laugh o!

Desric: Sometimes I wonder, if Nigerians are truly patriotic, what are they still doing with the People's Democratic Party. I don't see any reasonable person with Nigeria's Progress in mind having anything to do with this menace called PDP.

Always Lawless and undemocratic.

eGuerrilla: This would not be the first time madam and her house committee on diaspora affairs is confusing the wood for the trees

Concerning your earlier point, it is indeed true that Cameron's anti-immigration policies are aimed at migrants of a darker hue, despite the fact that most over-stayers come from "low-risk" countries.



Source: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/05/451993.html?c=on

ogb5: She is talking about the health sector collapsing because she wants the british to appreciate the contributions of Nigeria professionals to the progress of the british society. Obviously thats not too much to ask for.

If we allow the british to discriminate against us, what will stop the Americans, French, Canadians and all others from disciminating against us.

If the british try it, infact they should put a landing fee of 1 million naira per persenger that flies a british plane into Nigeria, Let BA stop their daily flights to Nigeria

Clinton praises Eko Atlantic City - it's the new Dubai
Friday, 22 February 2013 06:23 Yemi Johnson



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Bill Clinton


Former president of the United States who was special guest at a ceremony to mark the reclamation of 5,000,000 square metros of land that is now Eko Atlantic City, a massive investment cum business city created by the Lagos state government, has praised the vision and the thinking behind the city, predicting that it would become a business and tourist destination of choice in a few years time.

“I want to thank the government and the developer for building this city. They have reclaimed five million square metres of the land initially lost to the sea. That marks the beginning of this amazing wall, the Great Wall of Lagos...I am convinced that within five years, people will be coming from all over the world to see this wall,’’ he said.

“Most recently, my state in New York was hit by Hurricane Sandy in which thousands of people lost their homes and many lives lost. These people will come to Nigeria. People want to live near the water where they can have a feel of nature. You have provided a beautiful option to brand the city, the state and the nation. The shape of the stones of the Great Wall shows the understanding of how the water reacts; people will come from all over the world to study the wall,’’ Clinton further stated.

Also speaking at the ceremony, President Goodluck Jonathan described the city as another addition to Nigeria's list of successes in recent times. “This landmark event is continuing the good news narrative that Nigeria must embrace permanently. It took 19 years for us to win the Nations Cup again; the trains that now run from Lagos to Kano took us another 19 years to get them back on track.

“And in this same year preceding our centenary, we are gathered here to witness the ground breaking of a modern city that will rise from the Atlantic bed in the commercial nerve-centre of our beloved Lagos.This is good news indeed,” Jonathan said.

“Although it is not finished, it is already a success story. The road that was lost to the coastal erosion is back and now motor able...“Its huge potential have been the engine of growth and sustainable development. To this end, the enabling framework for kick-starting the privatisation of this sector is now being put in place. As part of the overall transformation agenda, this administration is committed to harnessing the potential, organising the construction sector as an important growth area for the economy,” the president added.

Eko Atlantic is one of Africa’s most inspired developments, reclaiming land from the Atlantic Ocean to build a new city for 250,000 people. The development is privately funded and supported by Nigerian banks in association with international investors.

According to the developers, Eko Atlantic will be home to 250,000 people and a workplace for another 150,000. The new city is expected to have waterfront areas, tree-lined streets, efficient transport systems and mixed-use plots that combine residential areas with leisure facilities, offices and shops. The development will also have its own power generation plant, sewage treatment facilities and fresh water supply.

eGuerrilla: But this is Madam Dabiri-Erewa's suggestion and not necessarily an official position of the FGN.

“If Nigerian and Indian doctors withdraw their services in the UK, their health sector will collapse.

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

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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.

“This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain," Home Secretary Theresa May was quoted as saying.

British government’s restrictions on visa rules have led to a decrease in the number of foreign students in the UK and could cost Britain's universities £2.4 billion over the next decade.

Anti-Jonathan Camp Says PDP Meeting Was Futile
Posted: June 25, 2013 - 11:33


By SaharaReporters, New York.
Several top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have described last week’s meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee as a futile exercise aimed at shoring up President Goodluck Jonathan’s political ambitions and papering over deep divisions within Nigeria’s ruling party. The party’s NEC met on Thursday, June 20 amid signs that various feuding camps within the PDP are digging in, each group determined to seize control of the soul of the party.

“The meeting was supposed to be an opportunity for the party to redeem its long lost glory,” said a deputy governor from one of the north eastern states.

“But it ended up as an exercise designed to give a desperate lifeline to President Jonathan in his bid to run again in 2015.”


Another source, from the southwest, called the meeting “a disorganized comedy which did not provoke laughter but showed the world that our party has fallen into the hands of degenerate managers.”

The sources who spoke to us, including some who attended the meeting, were of the consensus that the meeting was convened for one purpose: to give Mr. Jonathan the psychological relief of “endorsement” of his desire to seek a second term. One Abuja-based party member categorized those gathered together to boost the president’s reelection hopes as “a ragtag group of fortune hunters and a cross section of those in urgent need of rehabilitation.”

Two members said they expected the party to discuss the debacle of the recent Nigerian Governors Forum election which ended with the reelection of Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, but with Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau posing as a rival chairman. The Presidency had backed Mr. Jang, but the Rivers governor eked out a victory with votes from a coalition of ACN, PDP, CPC and APGA governors.

“Since the frontline gladiators were in attendance, I expected the party to have a robust debate on the issue and to discuss the increasing state of disunity in the party,” said one member. He added, “It is unfortunate that we avoided the hot issues facing our great party.”

Critics said they were dismayed that those handpicked to speak at the meeting spent time showering praises on Mr. Jonathan and applauding achievements that are a mere mirage.

A party member, who is close to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, accused Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom of “blazing the trail in crediting President Goodluck Jonathan with phantom achievements.” Despite the bad blood between some of the party’s governors, with some of them breaking ranks with the party to vote for Governor Amaechi of Rivers in the Governors Forum election, Mr. Akpabio repeatedly claimed that all the 23 PDP governors were “solidly behind the President.” As he made the assertion, the governors of Sokoto, Niger, Kebbi, Kwara, Kano as well as the deputy governor of Jigawa sat glumly. Those state administrators are seen as hostile to Mr. Jonathan’s certain reelection campaign.

A few critics told SaharaReporters that they found it bizarre that the party’s national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, asked Olisa Metuh, the party’s former National Publicity Secretary, to move a motion calling for the resignation of party functionaries whose membership of the party’s National Working Committee was deemed irregular. “Normally, a person resigning from a position merely submits a letter for other members to either ratify or reject. But our party has introduced a different way of doing things whereby those resigning moved a motion for their own resignation,” one source said.

Another source accused Mr. Tukur of incompetence in conducting a meeting. “Alhaji Tukur does not even know how to put the question to the floor for approval. He said, ‘Those who approve say aye. Those against are absent’. How can you say you’re the national chairman of a democratic party and you’re deciding on issues all by yourself?” the party member said.

Our sources said it was clear that Mr. Tukur was not in control of running the NEC meeting. According to one, “The meeting was hijacked by a group from the Presidency led by [Secretary to the Government of the Federation] Anyim Pius Anyim and supported by [political adviser to the President], Ali Gulak, and [Chief of Staff] Mike Oghiadomhe.” He added that the activities of the group from the Presidency were coordinated by Tony Anenih, the octogenarian politician known in Nigeria as Mr. Fix it. “The message was clear – that none of the real or perceived opponents of the president should be allowed to speak.”

A northern governor told SaharaReporters that it was disgraceful that the PDP avoided confronting the major issue facing the party. “Our party is on the path to self-destruction because of Dr. Bamanga Tukur's erratic and imperial manner of administration.” He disclosed that the Anyim Committee had recommended that Mr. Tukur step down in order to “create a conducive atmosphere for genuine reconciliation.” He accused “sympathizers of President Jonathan” of scuttling Mr. Tukur’s removal because they believed “it would be another psychological victory for the group that disgraced the Party at the Nigerian Governors Forum election. Hence, the same Tukur, whom most stakeholders deem as the problem of the party, survived while the resignation of other members of the NWC was only carried out in order to get rid of those whose loyalty to President Jonathan’s agenda cannot be vouched for.”

Two members of the party who attended the NEC meeting said the high point of the political drama was when Mr. Tukur handed a script to Bode George, a convicted felon who spent a prison term, to read what was to be a vote of confidence in President Goodluck Jonathan. “While the media were excluded from other discussions, a few cameramen were invited to cover this particular item,” said one of the two sources. He added that the president’s team made a last-minute substitution on realizing “the implication of allowing a convicted criminal to move a vote of confidence in the President.” He stated, “They quickly Senator Ibrahim Mantu to read [the vote of confidence].” Mr. Mantu, whose era in the Senate was marked by colossal corruption, “reeled out a tissue of lies which he termed as achievements of President Jonathan. [Mantu] even included that he was on a train ride from Lagos to Kano only last week! The claim was greeted with sarcastic applause.”

Our numerous sources agreed that the NEC meeting ended as an anti-climax. “Some of us who are becoming fed up with the antics of our party expected that the party was going to reinvigorate itself,” said one member. He added: “With Alhaji Tukur still firmly in charge, the party has merely wrapped a bandage on a big sore.

Eko Atlantic: Funny enough, the peanut they get after their whole display won't prevent them from going for the same thuggery job after they've spent all. Also, their thuggery doesn't guarantee victory for their lords.
Then what's the point?

Linoversace: ...Our heart feels for those of you who have become widows.Be rest assured that even in death,your manhood will continue to live on....Over!

barcanista: If you are married, I'm sure your wife is an acute sadist and a radical critic. Beside is your mother more educated than Patience? You called her semi-illiterate yet the same semi-illiterate have Phds and Profs in her employ, the same semi-illiterate is the Most Powerful Woman in Africa, the Same Semi-illiterate is the Wife of the President and Commander in Chief who you, your father, your grandfather and your ENTIRE family are subjected to. Oya de there de chop your certificate, while Madam Semi-illiterate flex Aso Rock wey you NO GO EVER ENTER FOR YOUR LIFE...Lastly, the Semi-illiterate doesn't even have an idea if you exist