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zoedew:
Sweet with a bitter after taste.
1. It was like yesterday when in droves Nigerians were selling off their possessions to move to South-Africa and most of them illegally. Now the sweet back then has turned to bitter.
2. As for Saffa, the sweet they perceive now as they drive out illegals from their country will soon leave a bitter taste in their mouth when they discover that there is so much capacity they lack to fill the space adequately.

zoedew:
It's a bittersweet situation. The migrants should return to their countries of origin and advocate for good governance!

Kobojunkie:
This,, the same senate that has refused to see arrested, prosecuted and deported, the illegal immigrants roaming free with machine guns and automatic rifles, the villages and streets of Nigeria? 🥱🥱

This worm that has the African man blindly circling the same problems is really a deadly one.🥱

Flangelo12:
In US, the epicenter?

Name those being tried.

Flangelo12:
How many of the Epstein files perpetrators have faced justice?

You guys rate others too much.

In UK, Nigel Farage of the Reform Party received £5 million bribe and he would not face a day in prison.

"The blood kind of freaked me out," he said, adding that he was "in shock" when he followed his manager's advice to leave the scene before emergency services arrived.

Demonstrator Brightness Gumbi, 48, said she was frustrated at not being able to afford to rent a place for her business while foreign nationals were able to run shops.

The illegal foreigners manage to pay it because they sell drugs to our people,” she told AFP. “I hope through these demonstrations our president will hear our cries and enforce stricter laws.”

Thousands of people marched across South Africa on Tuesday to demand the departure of undocumented foreign nationals after a weeks-long campaign that has sent thousands fleeing and claimed four lives.

Police were out in force for nationwide protests which capped demonstrations led by citizen-led groups who set an unofficial June 30 deadline for foreigners without papers to leave.

There were isolated incidents, including stone-throwing and confrontations near Johannesburg where security forces escorted some foreign nationals away from a mob.

Several people were arrested for looting and soldiers were deployed in Johannesburg and Durban for the night, authorities said.

Demonstrators brandishing sticks and flags moved through central Johannesburg during the day while most shops stayed shuttered, workers stayed home, and transport hubs were quiet.

In the southeastern city of Durban, the Zulu heartland, protesters turned out in traditional warrior attire, carrying spears, whips and shields, and some draped in leopard skins.

Demonstrator Brightness Gumbi, 48, said she was frustrated at not being able to afford to rent a place for her business while foreign nationals were able to run shops.

“The illegal foreigners manage to pay it because they sell drugs to our people,” she told AFP. “I hope through these demonstrations our president will hear our cries and enforce stricter laws.”

– ‘Mass deportation’-

One of the continent’s wealthiest countries, South Africa is a magnet for migrant labour while grappling with an unemployment rate above 30 per cent, high crime and a breakdown in services in many areas.

Groups mobilising against illegal immigrants accuse them of taking jobs and services, which analysts say is scapegoating foreign nationals for government failures.

At least two Mozambicans, an Ethiopian and a Malawian have been killed in the past weeks of protests, according to police.

]A foreign national was found dead Tuesday after he allegedly jumped from the eighth floor of a building in Durban, apparently in fear that he was being chased, police said.

As the tensions mounted, several African governments — including Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique — organised voluntary repatriation flights and buses for their citizens.

More than 25,000 people had been processed for departure in recent weeks, authorities said Monday.

In the past few days alone, nearly 4,300 foreign nationals were repatriated and more than 400 deported, Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi told reporters late Tuesday.

The Liberian government said as the latest protests went ahead it was arranging for 29 Liberian nationals to be flown home.

“We want mass deportation,” the leader of the anti-illegal immigrant March and March group, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, told a crowd in Durban.

“For the next six months, we want the government to get rid of the people who have not left,” she said, vowing that her group would maintain weekly demonstrations until local elections in November.

– ‘I’m scared’ –

As the protests unfolded in several cities, hundreds of migrants — mostly Malawians and Zimbabweans — gathered in Cape Town, Johannesburg and other centres, still waiting for assistance to go home.

Some said their landlords had evicted them or their employers had fired them, fearing fines from labour inspectors or attacks by vigilante groups.

“The people in South Africa, they don’t want us here. I’m scared,” said a 23-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who asked to remain anonymous, in Cape Town where more than 1,500 people were awaiting repatriation .

Only a few dozen Malawians remained at a site in Durban from where several thousand had been bused out in recent days, either to their country or to a processing site near the border with Zimbabwe.

“I thought I could stay on but neighbours warned us last night,” 32-year-old Adam John told AFP. “I felt that it is better to try and get home while I still can.”


In the lead-up to the June 30 demonstrations, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced stepped-up government plans to combat illegal immigration, including better border controls and inspections.

Previous anti-foreigner riots in South Africa have proved deadly. In 2008, violence left 62 people dead.

AFP

Ebenezer2021:
Of what use are these bronze?
It's useless
People are upgrading in technology while Edo people's are still stuck backwards in stone age with culture, glorifying itself in a useless bronze that plays no economical impact in the society

nedekid:
As of if they tell you to kolabo or blablablu with the flat Tommy and thighs you wount bulaba..
Ask baba seyi to translate.

lionphil:
It's now undeniable, only a revolution will save this country... They keep squeezing the life out of us, they keep taking money from our accounts under every guise. Everything is tax to them ... They spend extravagantly and tell us to manage.

We must take back this country and divide it. Let everyone go their separate ways. Other countries with less resources are growing faster than Nigeria but Nigeria with almost every important resource the world needs is making it's citizens poorer. We can't continue like this, we keep hustling but the government keeps frustrating our efforts.

2027 is do or die... We must fight!

chiboycue:
It seems that wherever Mr Peter Obi goes, deregistration follows. Mr Peter Obi appears to be one of the most feared politician in Nigeria.

Shantyken:
If the law is not adhere to where lies the democracy

Brightest04:
What surprises me is why some Nigerians are yet to see the evil handwriting on the wall. It's a new strategy since they know that the 2023 style of "snatch it and run away with it" may likely not work for them again.

favor914:
They should go back home to the Pdp, selfish people.

Deregistration: NDC case orchestrated, filed two days after Peter Obi joined party — Rufai Oseni


Arise Television’s anchor,
Rufai Oseni, has alleged that the legal challenge against the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, was orchestrated to weaken the opposition ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Speaking on The Morning Show on Arise Television on Monday, Oseni claimed the timing of the lawsuit challenging the party’s registration raised questions, noting that it was filed two days after Peter Obi joined the NDC.

According to him, Obi officially joined the party on May 3, while the suit seeking to nullify the NDC registration was instituted on May 5 by what he described as a “faceless group.”

The broadcaster said the development followed what he called a familiar pattern, alleging that similar legal actions had been taken against opposition parties in recent months.

He questioned the circumstances surrounding the suit, arguing that groups now challenging the party’s registration had not previously raised objections.

Oseni also referenced the court proceedings involving the ADC, saying the judgment had attracted criticism.

He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to issue the necessary code that would enable the party to upload required documents, warning that any action perceived as limiting opposition participation could undermine public confidence in the electoral process.

He maintained that the sequence of events surrounding Obi’s defection to the NDC and the subsequent court case suggested a coordinated effort against the opposition, although he did not provide evidence to substantiate the allegation.

Oseni said: “Let me start with NDC registration. I’m not surprised. I think I predicted it here. I said it. More will happen.

“You know why? There’s a grand attempt to ensure that opposition is weakened before the election, write it down. Grand attempt.

“Have you scrutinised the judgement? Have you seen the CTC?


“Peter Obi went to the NDC on the 3rd of May, that case was filed on the 5th of May in court. A lot of people have not even scrutinised that part.

“I said Peter Obi officially went to the NDC on the 3rd of May. The case was filed on the 5th of May by yet again another, you know, faceless group, and all of that, just like the one with the ADC, the same pattern.

I said Peter Obi officially went to the NDC on the 3rd of May. The case was filed on the 5th of May by yet again another, you know, faceless group, and all of that, just like the one with the ADC, the same pattern.

“Like I predicted, since then nothing has happened to Justice Lifu. The only thing he got was a reprimand by the Court of Appeal, verbal reprimand

'' This too will go like that, so it’s a direct orchestration. I think the opposition party should not sleep, they’re going to have more.

“I mean, we’ve all seen the judgement. I don’t want to go into legalism, it falls flat on its face again. The NDC has said they’re going to get a stay of execution. Let’s see

I would like to advise INEC, please give them the issuance code. It’s not a big deal. Let parties be able to upload, because everything is looking like a grand conspiracy when you look at this election cycle, and I don’t know why some people are jittery. If you are confident, let opposition into the race. Don’t hold them back. Don’t do anything

“In case your advisers are not advising you people well, you’re already tainting the credibility of the election by the time the elections will come. Anything that happens, these are part of the stories we are going to tell''

''So, if you feel you can win, win freely, nobody’s holding you from winning, but all of this shenanigan, all of this kangaroo manipulation, and all of that, it’s not fair.

“It goes back to our initial premise that a lot of people try defending “Oh, they are not attacking the opposition, they themselves have their own internal squabble.”

Pacesetter123:
That's a lie,a very big one at that.
Which $2 is equivalent to #4,000?
I just changed dol and it's #1,400 per dol.
So $2 is #2,800.
Stop misleading the reading public!

Rayjay45:
Imagine being paid 2 dols for an hour's worth of work!

Deepthoughts:
If it were to be in Africa they would have been shouting bribe n corruption but just see how nice they are putting it.

Kobojunkie:
BBC and nonsense! What is confusing about tipping 15%-20%?