Agumbankembu:
Where is the database and system to record the voters and votes as against those who missed.

Dreamer, you can't run such high tech bro, not now, not in next 5 years.

You don't even have a database for people living in Nigeria and Nigerian citizens.

Abeg shift

jaychubi:


The ops submission is a product of zoo thinking and not worthy of any form of engagement. His proposal belongs to the dustbin simple and short.

rightwingz:


Big mouth.
How are you superior when you can't get visa?
How are you superior when you slept all night without fan or AC because NEPA take light?.
How are you superior when you are struggling to get citizenship of another man's country?
How are you superior when you cant hold meeting or seminar in Lagos, Johannesburg or Accra except New York and London.
How are you superior when our brothers and sister in sports are representing white race? How many white people nationalize to your so called superior B.S.

I repeat. Any meeting, conference or seminar of this kind benefits only the organizers and participants not Africa.

rightwingz:


Africans are inferior and hypocrites... USA is not Africa. What happen to Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Conakry, Dakar, Abidjan etc.
We like other people's stuffs and don't like ours.

Any meeting, conference or organization arranged in the name of Africa, held outside Africa does not benefit poor people, it benefits only the organizers and participants.

ttmacoy:
You claim to be open minded and yet you jump to the conclusion it's because if Trump's policy despite you having no proof.

If you were open minded you would step back and also try to look at it from the VO view.

If I sent you that summit link as it is and told you hey looks like an interesting summit you should attend are you telling me you will pay for it despite the fact no clear information on past events and speakers or outcomes, no clear information on past business deals,l from past events, no information on speakers, topics etc you will just go and pay?

austinvsb1:


All the smart people are saying this.. So it must be true . The very best visa for life folks theee best So terrific!

davidif:


You don't take a girl to meet your mom on the first date do you? You get to know them first then figure out if you even want to ask them out on a second date. You see that's how the business world works. You first listen to the proposition about what you are selling to you then after the presentation, you can decide If you want to know more. If Rwandans want me to come and invest in there country. They will have to convince me very well first before I even consider taking a flight there. This is how business is usually done. Not everyone is willing to just take a plane and fly halfway across the world for a summit when they probably have other things to do. This is just an introductory 'get to know you' kind of thing not let's meet your parents kind of thing.

DerideGull:


Who in his/her right senses staged the African global economic and development summit in USA? What happened to the African countries?

Horus:
An African business summit should be organised in Africa, not in the US

Each year, the University of Southern California brings delegations from Africa to meet with business leaders, government officials and others in the U.S. But this year, the African summit has no Africans. All were denied visas.

Visa issues are not uncommon for people traveling from African nations. During her prior three summits, Mary Flowers saw a high percentage of her attendees at the African Global Economic and Development Summit, unable to attain visas.

"Usually we get 40 percent that get rejected but the others come," said Flowers, chair of the African Global Economic and Development Summit. "This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation. And it was sad to see, because these people were so disheartened."

Flowers estimated that she lost about 100 attendees, including speakers and government officials. The countries affected included Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa.

'A discrimination issue'

"I have to say that most of us feel it's a discrimination issue with the African nations," said Flowers. "We experience it over and over and over, and the people being rejected are legitimate business people with ties to the continent."

A request for comment from the State Department was not immediately returned.

Flowers said those who were denied visas were called for embassy interviews just days before they were supposed to travel, despite having applied weeks or even months ahead of time.

One of those denied a visa was Prince Kojo Hilton, a Ghanaian artist whose work includes special effects and graphic art. He paid his $500 fee to attend the event and was asked to lead a session on filmmaking. But he held off buying his plane ticket until his appointment at the embassy on March 13, four days before he was supposed to travel.

"I was really disappointed when I went to the embassy," Hilton said in an interview with VOA.

Travel ban

It remains unclear why all of the Africans heading to the event were denied visas this year.

Diane E. Watson, who formerly represented a Los Angeles-area district in Congress, said she had called the State Department to ask for information about the denial of visas for would-be delegates to the USC summit. But the State Department isn't allowed to discuss individual visa cases.

With the heightened attention on foreign nationals coming to the U.S., there have been stories of more visas being denied to people from countries other than those named in the Trump administration's executive orders. But visas are routinely denied by U.S. embassies without explanation.

If there has been an increase in the number of visas rejected under the new administration, it's hard to verify. The publicly available State Department data dates only to late 2016.

Topgainer:


It is possible but that is not the case here.
The style of presentation of the writeup is consistent with that of a username here, she told her story but had expressed concerns about her safety should she come out open. I believed her story and could read her fears in her write ups. She has a thread here


My simple advice for her is to lie low if she is not assured of her protection. As for the Spiritual attacks she feared, the truth is that men are not God otherwise Mallam El- Rufai would have been dead by now with all the prophecies fired at him. One Prophet Chris gave him 6 weeks to Live early last year.

Inspectorsuga:
Do we need any more proof to see how dis evil dwarf in Kaduna state government house is abusing d power of his office and doing everything within his power to bring down d minister/ministry of God...
Now we know why no one dare come out to openly criticize d activities of these Fulani herdmen n their chief sponsors....
If apostle Suleiman have not condemned this terrorist organization will we be having all this senseless news flooding into nairaland at any passing minute...
This is a war against the church of God and its a pity dat my fellow Christian brethren are not thinking outside d box n seeing d bigger picture of d motive behind dis sponsored media war/propaganda against the christian faith...
We hear stories of Muslim clerics who commits more atrocities than this news they are pushing to frontpage by each passing minute buh wen av we experienced this kinda media propaganda regarding d excesses of a Muslim cleric....
Lastly is none of this ladies have laid any claim to been raped or manipulated into this so-clamed sexcapades, why is d media trying to present them as victims....
The church of God must always stand nomater high and mighty d tribulation.....

EgusiSoup:
GEJ we are sorry.
Mama Patience Jonathan we are sorry.
FFK we are sorry.

We didn't knows we was only deceive by this APC people. We was blind but now we can see

Our only player is that you will come back in 2019 to CHANGE this CHANGE.

May God help Nigeria

Khd95:
Only if this guy knows the names nairalanders call him,nicca would ve resigned long ago

OvieE:
For president to commission a school is very sad. I never hear of other nation's leaders commission common schools or roads. That is not a president job. I have never hear of Obama commission anything of all years he has been on that throne. Commissioning stuff should be for local leaders and not for president.

waleadex:
No man can ever be perfect no matter his position. GEJ for I care could be bad for the whole of his tenure but that one day job he did by handing over to PMB peacefully should keep earning him an eternal knowledge.

Goddygee:
All Politicians are d same, b it PDP or APC, av lost intrest in Nigerian politics a long tym ago...

sCun:
Why does the truth irritate you?