₦airaland Forum

karma is sweet

Dar es Salaam – The CNN International
(DStv 401) anchor Isha Sesay whose
parents are from Sierra Leone – the
epicentre of the Ebola pandemic
devastating West Africa – says she is
"an angry black woman" over the media
coverage and the world's inadequate
response to Ebola.
"I am an angry black woman. I have a
very tense relationship with the story
because I'm living in the United States
but my family is in Sierra Leone. My
mother, brother, grandmother – most of
my family – are in Sierra Leone right
now.”
Isha Sesay was speaking as a panelist
member at the Serena Hotel in Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania, in one of the media
forum sessions forming part of the CNN
MultiChoice African Journalist Awards
2014.
"I'm in a place where America has taken
this, in my words 'bizarre' approach to
this public health emergency on our
continent and the media in the United
States has made it all about them and
their few cases," said Isha Sesay who
spent much of her childhood in Sierra
Leone.
"I was at the airport a couple of weeks
ago and the driver was picking me up. I
was there at the baggage carousel. And
he said 'Where are you from?' And I
said 'I'm from Sierra Leone.' And he
took a step back from me."
"And I thought: 'Wow. How wretched a
job have we done as the media that
people think that just because I'm from
Sierra Leone, that just being in my
presence, regardless of whether I was in
Sierra Leone or not, that I'm somehow
inherently a carrier of Ebola," said Isha
Sesay.
A lack of knowledge and empathy over
Ebola
"What I'm seeing in the United States is
this lack of knowledge. And not just a
lack of knowledge, but also a lack of
empathy for what we are going through
right now on the continent. So I'm in a
really difficult space right now,” said
Isha Sesay.
“The coverage of Ebola to date – before
we moved to the situation where we're
now where the focus is so much on
America and the fear that the Western
hemisphere is going to be taken over by
Ebola – the coverage of the continent
had fixated on the continent, and so
little on the people."
"It was all about the disease stripping
us of our dignity, that the stories of the
people – what it is doing to individuals
and families and communities – haven’t
been told as much. We haven't as media
been that committed to telling it in as
much as the continent deserves."
"I'm the co-founder of eboladeeply.org
because I want to change the discourse
around Ebola and really bring in the
voices of our people who are suffering,
who may not be suffering from the
disease directly but are being
impacted," said Isha Sesay.
"The media need to hold the
international community to account, to
say 'Where are you?' We have an Ebola
UN emergency fund and there's very
little money in it. We have pledges
being made, but the pledges aren't
being translated into action."
"We have some countries saying they're
going to step up and a lot of countries
sitting on the sidelines."
The clock is ticking
"Where are we as the media asking
those questions and holding people
accountable, and staying on the stories
and not averting our gaze and being
sidetracked to cases of three people in
the United States – people whose lives
are valuable, critical – we don’t want
anyone to die, but again, the epicentre
is on the African continent. The
responsibility lies with the journalists
here in Africa to ask the questions," said
Isha Sesay.
"We have to realise that the clock is
ticking. The world has never anything
like this and the world really doesn't
know how to deal with numbers that is
being put out there that could become a
reality."
"The media needs to do their part in
getting the facts out, asking the
questions, staying on this story and
tracking it and looking at the resources
coming into countries."
"There's a lot of stories to be told.
There's an information gap here. In the
absence of information there's hysteria.
And there's inertia," said Isha Sesay.
"I interviewed a survivor of Ebola from
Liberia who not only has been cast out
but his children are being cast out. He
told me his car broke down the other
day and the mechanics and they
wouldn't touch his car."
Asked how media without the global
reach and resources of a 24-hour TV
news channel or international
newspaper can try and cover Ebola
news more effectively. Thomas Evans,
CNN London's bureau chief said that
"with the story of Ebola, the risk is quite
high, so I wouldn't recommend people
rushing in without taking proper
precautions".
"That being said, that is not the only
story - going into an Ebola country.
That is not the only way to tell this
story. You can talk about what
governments are doing, you can talk
about the issues of health care
systems; these are stories that are
equally important."
"Just because you're not in villages
being completely wiped out by Ebola,
doesn't mean that you can't be telling
the Ebola story economically, socially,
government response," said Tomas
Evans.
Africa’s dilemma with Ebola
"There is another dilemma Africa faces,"
said Kenya's dr. Susan Mboya-Kidero,
president of The Coca-Cola Foundation,
saying African countries' governments
and local media have an attitude of
"let’s not play this [Ebola] too much".
"Just take Kenya for instance. The
country the past year has gone through
terrorism, security issues, tourism is
way down. The last thing African
governments need right now is another
disaster."
"And so for many they're saying: 'Let’s
not overdo this. Let’s not blow it out
proportion. Let’s not give the world
another reason not to come and not to
invest in Africa. And that's the
dilemma," said Mboya-Kidero.
"We need to learn from the situations in
Nigeria and Senegal and we need to
keep telling the stories," said Isha
Sesay.
"eboladeeply.org is just about getting
the information out, it is also a forum to
engage key influencers and thought
leaders to look for further answers and
solutions to this crisis."

in the absence of a solid car manufacturing sector and a poor power infrastructure, we made an half a trillion dollar economy. Looking forward to how things will turn up in ten years from now.

The implementation of the nation’s new auto
policy may have started yielding fruit, as
importation of new vehicles into Nigeria
dropped by 20 percent in the first six
months of this year (2014) according to
some auto makers.
The development, it was gathered, was on
account of the raising of import duties on
new vehicles from 20 percent to 35 percent.
Business Day gathered for instance, that
with Nigeria as an auto market of 50,000
new vehicles a year, the implementation of
the policy has reduced importation of new
cars by 5,000 units.
Analysts said yesterday, that the country
stands to gain from the conservation of
foreign exchange if government implements
the policy with transparency.
According to them, the expectation of
Nigerians is that the figure should drop to
the lowest minimum and if possible, we
should rely completely on locally made
automobiles.
While the new automotive policy which came
into effect in 2013 seeks to encourage
interested foreign car makers to set up
assembly plants in Nigeria, the federal
government, through the National
Automotive Council is also encouraging
local auto component makers with loans
that would fast track the development of
feeder materials to boost local assembly.
Meanwhile, there are indications that Toyota
Motor Corporation of Japan is exploring the
possibility of producing vehicles in Nigeria.
Although details are still sketchy as at the
time of filing this report, it would be recalled
that last month, Johan van Zyl, president
and chief executive of Toyota South Africa
Motors, stated that the move had been
prompted by the imposition by Nigeria of
higher tariffs on imports of new vehicles into
the country.
Van Zyl said Nigeria was not a big market
for new cars at this stage but it was a big
country with a huge population and a big
economy in Africa, which meant Toyota
could not ignore it. “From a Toyota point of
view, we evaluate every opportunity and
every country on its own merits, in terms of
whether it’s viable to produce there or not.”
He said.
On the time frame of possible vehicle
production in the country, the company chief
executive said the decision on whether the
automaker would invest in another country
like Nigeria is not a Toyota South Africa
decision, but a decision by the parent
company Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan.
On the possibility of local auto manufacture
in the country affecting South Africa as the
export hub to sub-Saharan African countries,
Van Zyl said he did not believe the
government’s support for Nigeria would
undermine South Africa’s vehicle
manufacturing industry and the objectives of
the Automotive Production and Development
Programme (AODP) of the country.
If the Nigerian government decided it wanted
to establish a motor industry, it would do so
with or without South Africa’s support, he
said. He also did not believe the supply of
semi-knocked-down (SKD) vehicle kits to
Nigeria would undermine its own product,
stressing the option was to either lose the
volume completely, or supply the kits.
He said that if the kits were produced in
South Africa, it was still value that was
created and there was also value created in
Nigeria from the assembly point of view, so
overall intra-Africa trade can be promoted
on that basis.
Ian Nicholls, vice-president of operations at
General Motors South Africa (GMSA), also
confirmed that the new regulations and
much higher vehicle import duties in Nigeria
meant foreign carmaker companies must
consider to do some level of assembly
locally to compete effectively and GM would
have to rethink its plans in that country.

businessdayonline.com/2014/10/nigerias-new-auto-policy-drops-import-by-20/

StainlessH:
Pls what makes this dude a white man? And what's so special about him except comedy?

where in this post did you see 'white man'? abi na indomie de ya head?

the guy own don finish!

Andyblaze:
wow am now chewing gum

na so madness de start

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I acknowledge the work GEJ has done thus far, however, Nigeria needs a paradigm shift.. only someone that understands the forces that shaped this country can rule it.. Nigeria needs a harsh president! not a supporter of APC, people should use their brain

its official, the world hates nigeria

EVarn:
Was The English Grammar Too Complex To Understand?

read am yourself

Akdegreat:
the perpetrators matter much more than the destination .
these media keep trying to rub our name in the mud

the fact that nigeria has not halted is giving some people headache

EVarn:
Well,SA Really Needs A Good Security System,it Seems Dat Their Security Network Over There Is Practically Non-existent.U Can Hardly Hear About Mall Robbery In Nigeria(this Isnt To Say There Arent Robbery Incidents,No Country Is Free Of Some Heavy Robbery)...Of Course Stolen Goods From SA End Up In Nigeria,It Is Inevitable As Nigeria Has The Biggest,cheapest And Most Accomodating Market In Africa.The Most Enticing Market System Always Attract Goods,services,and Investments,Stolen Or Not.

what is this one saying?

always blaming nigeria for everything

omo dem go ban people today

makes you wonder what obasanjo did for 8 years

the informal sector plays a major role in an economy, Ghana destroyed hers by evicting foreigners with unfriendly policies.. goodluck to them ..

NP getting milfs lately

andrewza:
Then you have not been looking. At all

post one! at least....Sandf in a battle front

can someone post sandf images during battle? or at least, peacekeeping? I've not seen any since we started this thread ...
and, no training pictures please!

thanks

https://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130517160421-nigerian-troops-baga-borno-state-story-top.jpg
^{A Nigerian Army Special Forces commando leads troops out on patrol in the far northeastern frontier district of Baga
near the Lake Chad (AFP PHOTO)}

diablos: These dudes are barbaric

the Ghanian holding that girl's head itself is 'graphic' let alone the severed head

its not about the political party but personality ..fash 2015

F117A: What are the so-called retailers doing there in the first place.?
You have a far bigger market and a richer consumer base in Nigeria.
It just dosen't make sense.

even Chinese citizens are in Ghana..business bro

OXYGENO1: Useless zoo animal.a mumugerian should be the least to talk when civilized people are talking. Dogs are even useful than you fools.Apart from bombing and killing what other thing are you fools capable off.Son of a dog.

tell me, which one looks like a zoo / heaven

ghana
https://ds-lands.com/data_images/top_cityes/accra/accra-09.jpg


Nigeria
https://i.imgur.com/dlr1aX0.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/8gkSDCD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/G7n11je.jpg