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Jamersirwin1971:
Aussie is Australia ...

Check out her topics on nl and you would ask her again when she became an Aussie?

The guy is mocking the Pdp in his "polite" resignation letter. Hahaha, Pdp is a deMONcratic party!

Some people are already shiiting in their pants. Thank you Lord for the special blessing on our "dear native land" in giving us the person to do the job.

5w30 is the oil specified for my car. I went round the whole town before I could get a 5-litre to buy. I know it is scarce because most people dont bother to use manufacturer's specified oil, so in this small city the sellers dont want to stock it. I once met a man servicing his lexus is250 and using Total quartz 5000. I guessed that wasn't the manufacturer-specified oil and when I asked if he knew it, he just say 'that's the oil I have been using'. If the engine should pack up earlier than expected the guy would blame the car brand and not his own mumu-ness.

Your are an Aussie! When did you metamorphose into an Aussie?

No wahala now, this is a project site. The gutter(drainage system) is world-class and hopefully the road will be of the same standard.

He is being detained by virtue of a valid court order. Instead of a useless so-called "worldwide" protest, they should go to the court and argue their case for his release, even if on bail.

Someone i knew had a similar experience with a "house of god". They will start their noise making from early morning to dawn. One fateful day hoodlums stormed the place and collected phones and money from almost everybody. Since that day the noise makers had not surface there again and quiet nights have returned to the neighourhood.

I am waiting for the first iidiotic baastard to call Canada a zoo.

Taeewo:
Atiku will win in Supreme...



Note : Not Supreme court...

Hahaha, he says he is a fighter.

Haahahahah, she's writing from the "Office of the First Lady" - constitutionally non- existing office. This lie has nullified everything in the face-saving statement

tosintonero:
Before making this post, I went through the forum for people intending to visit, study or work in South Africa (SA) https://www.nairaland.com/944102/general-south-africa-visa-enquiries/568. It is interesting that despite the recent and ongoing Afrophobia or xenophobia in South Africa, many visa applicants are not deterred. Some of the reasons some SA immigrant dwellers or visa applicants gave was that "life is per head", "Anyone who has legitimate reasons to visit SA has nothing to be scared of". Some others think that the news making the round on xenophobia in SA is exaggerated as seen in this quote "the reports you are reading and watching are largely exaggerated". One Nigerian who claimed to be living in SA currently even claimed that the xenophobia against Nigerians and other African immigrants are restricted to "places that are largely populated by Nigerians and other foreigner, places like hillbrow, rossentenvile, tuffortein, Pretoria Sunnyside and Johannesburg CDB".

When we look at all the reasons given by those who are currently unaffected by the violence, but living in SA or those who are still aspiring to enter Southy from Nigeria, it is clear that they think they are immune from xenophobic attacks as long as they are in SA legitimately, or as long as they avoid certain places. While this advice from fellow Nigerians about what can be done to avoid being a victim of xenophobia in SA seems straightforward, the reality of xenophobia in South Africa is complex than that because not all xenophobia attacks are physical or violent in nature. The less violent “ordinary” experience of xenophobia are part of the everyday lives of African immigrant in SA, and most black immigrants don't even experience the violent xenophobia like the one we saw last week. The reason for this is that South Africans across race, class, and gender lines hold deep-seated anti-foreigner sentiments and attitudes and this means regardless of whether you are in the country legally or illegally, your experience as an immigrant will most likely range from mockery to murder. So, unlike the socioeconomically deprived areas where xenophobia is manifested through physical violence, an African immigrant with a study or work permit or even a permanent residency will experience xenophobia in more subtle ways that will make him, or her feel so unwelcome because the environment is psychologically hostile. This means that staying away from certain areas that are known for violence does not mean you will be immune from experiencing xenophobia and I will use my lived experience as a past legal resident of South Africa as an example. My experience may help you assess whether the benefits of leaving Nigeria for South Africa outweigh its risks.

My first time in South Africa was in 2013, and that was the second country that I would visit in my international travel experience. Like many other Nigerians, what took me to South Africa was education. After my bachelor's degree in nursing in Nigeria, I wanted to experience an educational system that is a little bit smoother and immune from endless strike actions. In 2012, I departed Nigeria for Botswana to pursue a two-year master's degree in nursing. But after the first year of my course work master in Botswana, I was offered an admission in one of the premier university in SA to complete my master's by research. I was very excited about this opportunity in South Africa because I felt it would afford me more opportunities than Botswana since it is a bigger economy. Most especially, there was a fee-waiver for master's by research provided the student is able to complete the masters in one year. Unlike SA visa application in Nigeria that takes months, my visa was approved by the SA high commission in Gaborone, Botswana in just three days and it was a two-year visa. I was then looking forward to my adventure in South Africa.

Before detailing my experience in South Africa, I want to state that between 2012 and now, I have lived in three different countries (both developing and developed) outside Nigeria. By living, I mean I stayed in a foreign country for more than one year. In addition, I also want to state that between 2012 and now, I have visited over eight different countries and some of this countries are Australia, USA, Turkey, Hong kong and other African countries like Kenya and Ethiopia. It would interest you to know that it is only in South Africa that the immigration officers detained me in order to find out from the University that I was truly offered an admission. As I was held in detention in this room that is stenching from body odour due to overcrowding, many Nigerians are being ushered in. Fortunately for me, the university confirmed my admission, and I was allowed to go. But while I was lucky that I did not arrive on a public holiday where there would be no one in the university to authenticate the veracity of my master's admission, some Nigerians were being held to be deported because their accommodation or reason for visit could not be confirmed, During my short stay in temporary detention, you can see the sadness, dread and agony of my fellow Nigerians whose dream of exploring SA ended before it began. South Africa opened my eyes to my identity as a Nigerian. The perception that South Africans (including the police, immigration officers and common people) have about Nigeria is that we are crooks, bribe-givers and illegal). Despite what I went through in the hands of the immigration, unknown to me, some police officers stationed in the airport stalked me to the lift, hoping to get a bribe from me. This is just because I was carrying a Nigerian passport and they think Nigerians are easy targets for bribes since we are used to it in our country. Although some readers may argue that immigration officers were merely doing their job, but the way it was handled made me feel unwelcome and it dawned on me that I have to be looking over my shoulders. Immigrations officers are like the first person that welcomes a visitor to a house. The way you are treated at the gate or at the door stays with you for the remainder of your stay.

Now to my three years experience of living in SA. I lived in Durban and Pietermaritzburg between 2013 and 2016. It may interest you that out of the countries that I have lived and visited; South Africa is the only country where you have to carry your passport around. The dangers of not carrying your passport is that during stop and search, your inability to produce your passport will end you in detention centre to be deported home. You may not end up in detention centre if you can pay bribe. You may be wondering how police are able to single out foreigners for targeted harassment despite being black like any other black South African. The main reason is your accent, even if you know how to speak any of the local dialects. I have many examples of this, and I will attempt to share a little. I can never forget the day my cousin and I were publicly ridiculed in Pretoria. We were walking to catch a bus from Bosman station and immediately this police noticed our accent, they started shouting at us, but we were not aware because they were speaking in their language and were not wearing uniform. For some of you who have naively said those who have fallen victim to police brutality in SA are drug dealers, I hope my own experience will teach you to never jump into conclusion. As I was saying, as these police officers were shouting and approaching us, the next thing that I felt was a shove. I was very frightened because we did not see it coming and these officers were not in uniform. Fortunately, we had our passports, but they looked through our phones, checked everything in our bags and this was in the full glare of the public. We were ridiculed like common criminals. The second example is that of my friend, a lady from Zimbabwe who was assaulted in a public taxi. This lady and I were tutors in a university in KZN and while commuting in a combi one day, she tried to pay her fare with a R50 bill, only for the conductor to say he does not have change. But the conductor said it in Isizulu, and when it became clear that she was a foreigner, the conductor asked her where she is from and where was she coming from. The Zimbabwe girl said she was coming from work and the conductor responded by slapping her on her face twice, saying she is one of the people stealing their jobs. The saddest part of the experience for this lady was that no one in the taxi, including the women, berated the conductor or tried to protect this lady. The implication of this is that as a black foreigner, you hardly go out at night and you have to minimise your use of public transport because you can be attacked without any provocation. Luckily for this lady, her father was one of the rich people left in Zimbabwe and he bought her daughter a car to avoid contact with the locals. As you are going to SA, can you afford to buy your own car? Lastly, I also want to recount how a police harassed and embarrassed me in Johannesburg park station just because I was a foreigner. As our bus was getting ready to depart for Pietermaritzburg, the police came into the bus to do a routine check. After cracking a joke in their language which I did not laugh to, as I have no clue what he was saying, he asked me for my passport. In my passport was boarding passes of my earlier flights to Cape Town and this guy started insinuating that I must be a drug dealer for travelling to so many places in South Africa in the previous weeks. Unknown to him, it was my employer that sent me to all these workshops and conferences. I remember myself asking him if there was a policy or law that stipulates the number of trips a foreigner is supposed to take within a certain period. The question that I asked him made him realised that his questions were stupid. He gave me my passport and left, but he has already singled me out to the other locals that I was not one of them. That means throughout the whole trip, I was very vulnerable to being lynched, and the next thing you would have been hearing is that a Nigerian who was selling drugs to the kids have been killed by concern locals.

Before I left SA in 2016, I was a lecturer, and I was earning R24,000 (gross per month). My tax every month was around R6,000, and I never used their public health hospitals. I am aware of many Nigerians who hold similar positions and are contributing to the SA economy. To paint all Nigerians as criminals who are causing mayhem and misusing the public facilities is just not true. This is not to deny that some Nigerians are into shady business. But many of these criminals are working in harmony with law enforcements and they are even given VIP treatment than some of us who are doing legitimate work. In 2016, I left SA for a developed country to pursue my PhD. To the glory of God, I am now a PhD holder and now a lecturer. There are many people who will not leave SA if they are lucky to have the kind of job and such salary I had in SA. But throughout my three years stay in SA, I never felt I belonged in the community because of the aggression and intimidation of the black South Africans. Visa renewal is a problem. Just because you are Nigerian, they can accuse you of submitting fake medical insurance and deny you visa and put your through rigorous process of appeal, even when they made a mistake in adjudicating your application. For those who are applying for visa as a family, they may grant husband and wife and deny the children, putting families through emotional stress and agony. During the xenophobia violence, they sometimes mount roadblock and remove foreigners from commuting vehicles. In 2015, I almost not attend my graduation, despite that I was graduating with a distinction. The reason was that the locals were killing foreigners in Durban, and my supervisor had to advise that I should not attend because of fear. This is not to say that there are no few exceptions to the xenophobic tendencies of South Africans. Till today, I still have South African friends and students who will always be part of my story and I am grateful to these few people. In fact, it was a South African lady who made my graduation attendance possible. She personally drove me from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. However, it is just few South Africans who are welcoming to strangers, especially those who have lived in other countries.

So, as you are embarking on your South African adventure, ask yourself whether the money you have spent on visa etc worth the psychological trauma your adventure in SA will cost you. Be ready to live in fear. You will be continuously asked when you are going back to your home country. This thing is deep than what you see on social media. It is only who have lived it who can tell you what it means to be unwanted. Living in a place where you perpetually feel like you are not wanted is something that I wish no immigrant will go through just in the name of survival. I hope God will heal our land, because there is no place like home. For the name checkers association, there is only one identity outside Nigeria, and that is the Nigerian identity. No matter how much you can say one tribe is the one into drugs or 419 or skull mining or kidnapping, all those lines are blurred in the eyes of the those who are not Nigerians. This is why we should collectively work together for a new Nigeria.

To buttress your point, I know of a friend who went to south Africa for a conference in Pretoria about 9 years ago. At jo' bourg airport while waiting for his flight back to nigeria, he went to the restroom room. Right inside the toilet, he was robbed at gun point by a policeman in uniform. He lost 200 dollars. I asked why he didn't raise the alarm and he said he was scared the iidiot might just shoot him. I didn't blame him because that was his first trip abroad. Besides, I now believe from different reports that there is a well-coordinated gang including security and airport officials in that airport targeting nigerians. One unfortunate nigerian was followed from the airport on arrival to the reception of his hotel and killed there. South Africa is a violent country - go there at your own risk.

Many people have been misled into seeing all fulani herdsmen as sub human and killers. Bless the guy who posted this video - at least it will help to disabuse the minds of some people about these herdsmen. There are of course criminals among the fulani, but to tar all fulani with the same brush is wrong.

Eyaa, all those who have been paying 10% tey,tey! All that money has gone down the drain, sorry not drain, into financing the luxury and flamboyant lifestyle of oga the GO. Chai, there's God o!

Nonsense. Xenophobic attacks in south Africa have been happening for over 10 years. The one of 2008 claimed 62 lives. Apartheid has rewired their brains irremediably to regard all blacks as ne'er-do-wells, who waste their lives on alcohol and drugs. So, when they see blacks from other parts of Africa thriving in business, they find it impossible to believe and the next thing is plot to kill them.

KngGezy:
I wanted to say this too. But who Social Media has declared a Billionaire who am i or we in this case. To declare such ranking inconclusive. Exaggerating their wealth, meanwhile in real life they are millionaires.

Although some rich dudes dont have dress sense. Dressing doesn't depict the balance of someone's account. It is consequential to note that the richest dress simply. Most people who tend to show off have little or nothing compared to these type of guys. The likes of Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO and here in Nigeria see Otedola, Dangote,etc.

You are right. Bill Gates doesn't wear designers - look closely at his suits, you will think they are graded okrika! Truth is, many poor guys like to show off by wearing expensive clothes; but a truly self-made person won't have time for such shenanigan.

You sauntered majestically into the VIP lounge, sat down imperially and ordered peppered chicken.Maybe also used free wifi. What were you thinking will be your bill? Before setting for the airport you should have eaten at mama put, where you spend 50% of the eating time driving flies away. You should learn from this experience that "acting big man" role is better confined to comic drama.

nony43:
The kind of names Deltans, Bayelsans and Rivers bear tho

Hahaha, the man is called James Manager - can he also be called James, the son of Manager or James ibn Manager?

tillaman:

Now that’s one lucky bstrd!!
He should locate the next cele church for thanksgiving!!
Clearly not your time to pass on!

Because apart from cele church other churches are fake, eh?

Offpoint:
Lagos is in Tanzania I guess...

The looting happened only in lagos and perpetrated by lagosians of dubious character. So, why the fuss with saying lagosians looted the malls. Ogbeni, if you're not one of the looters, why bother?

Marvins0009:
It’s high time tradition religon protests against why Muslim use there head to touch ground

Supposing a muslim should send a post saying traditional religion practitioners should protest against Christians closing their eyes or removing the caps during prayer?

brexit:
Let them ask for forgiveness or they will live to regret their foolish actions, you dont dare God

So attacking a mere building is fighting god. The same building that the pastor maybe is using as fvcking centre.

This boy calling himself bobrisky is stupid. He's daft too - upon threats to deal with his likes ruthlessly, he still persists in his foolishness. When they start dealing with him, he should only blame himself

godliman:
Nonesense good move because they are killing abi? When shall we stop rewarding criminals? Has similar move by elrufai yielded results? Ipob that dont kill -no jaw jaw only boom boom. May be the bandits should be rewarded with enlistment in the Army. Some of you are too blind to see that this so called bandit/ kidnappers drama is the fall out of a failed project. How would baboons and dogs swim in blood without the instrumentality of these blood thirsty mercenaries imported and now abandoned. The sympathy for them by the northern elites and this govt speaks volume. He that have ears let him hear

Na wahala now. Since you want war, not peace, oya kia Kia carry your gun and go and fight them. Chill, bros, even bible says turn the other chick.

puredigital:
Must you be tribalistic? This your act won't take us far as one Nigeria.

I'm not being tribalistic. I saw it myself on a visit to south africa. Even the taxi driver who took us around identified them as igbo but he remarked that he knew a decent guy who came from port Harcourt. Of course not all igbo guys are engaged in criminality, but most of the street guys are, because there are no jobs there. Many do survive, though, using their naija sense e.g bribing police guys and spending heavily on girls

DrHoganObi:
U de ride an econobox like Camry you no fit buy 30k tracker. On your own, better go ladipo now

For a parked car I believe steering lock is a formidable security. If he had locked the steering the thief wouldn't have had enough time or even be able at all to drive away. Always lock your steering.

Those igbo guys still want to continue with whatever they are doing in south africa - selling fake recharge cards, drugs etc. They forget that eventually they may fall victim to another xenophobic attack. These attacks wont end soon because politicians are fuelling it to divert attention away from their corruption. This talk of expired passport is a ruse.

Gov makinde should also do something about the filth in ibadan. It is disgusting to see the road median along the entire 20 km stretch of the expressway passing through the city being used as refuse dump. It's a shame: the largest city in oduduwa land is maybe the filthiest city on earth. Yoruba people this is your homeland o!

Blowing girama for nothing.