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AgonyOfHell:
The worst is that the people in picture are not even the so called Whites,

You will also call people from Morocco ''Whites'' because you have admitted you're Black.


I'M NOT BLACK.

What are you please?

gypsey:
What an Ignorant Governor, who da hell Voted this kinda Iliterate into Power?

I get searched every time i Enter the US, Australia, Singapore and Thailand..Even though i hold a british passport.

They are doing their Jobs they don't care if he is a blooody Governor in a Zoo.

Everyone gets to go through the full body scan, but the governor is saying he was singled out for a thorough search. You're also affirming you get this experience everytime, everywhere you go which is concerning to say the least. The only thing even more worrisome is your willingness to excuse this discriminatory behaviour as them 'doing their bloody job'. I hate to break it to you but there's someone in the CCTV room setting off the alarm when a person they deem suspicious arrives the scanner so you can be more intimately searched.

KraticKratus:
So did you call a village meeting to complain to your people like the governor is doing?

At first, you dismissed his experience as a non-issue/ everyday experience, now your grouse is that he broached the issue at a village meeting. Im not quite sure what you're on about tbh.

KraticKratus:
He called being searched humiliation?

These zoogerians need to get out more.

The fact you've become used to being searched by any country's border control doesn't make it right, and yes it's humiliating. We've lost our dignity as a nation. If supermarket staff walk up to me and ask to search items I've purchased and paid for, I find that humiliating enough, not to talk of being searched at the airport. I was singled out at Canary islands airport in Lanzarote for a search, and a cocaine test ...how humiliating!! Despite their assurances that it was only a random search. What are the odds of that being a Nigerian in an airport full of 98% white people.

Don't forget that his coming to check on you means he values you as a friend, and means well. Have that in mind while you clearly make him aware you're not gay.

EkoAcademy:
No, they make them pay ridiculous amounts, in US dollars! That's not supposed to be the case for West African countries. But guess Ghana's having a field day which is fast coming to an end. Sierra Leonians, Ghanaians, Cameroonians, Togolese and Benenese are in our country studying at ridiculously low fees. Our borders are porous fueling mass immigration andd quick dilapidation of our resources because we don't respect our own sovereignty.

Thank God countries like Ghana and SA are teaching us the hard way.

If you can't secure your borders, that's your problem; don't expect Ghana to have a loose border because Nigeria can't be bothered to keep a record of who comes into the country.

Nigerians studying in Ghana are international students and pay international rates. All ECOWAS membership affords you is a Visa on arrival, that's all. Ghana's government have planned their expenditure per head at the start of the year, and that doesn't include anyone from outside Ghana. You are responsible for your education at the full cost (or even at a profit to Ghana). The ghanaians are running a country not an NGO, and I've no idea where we've picked up this sense of entitlement from!

If Ghanaians and Togolese are studying for free in Nigeria, that's our problem. We should wake up and take control of our borders, not expect other countries to degenerate to our lazy ways of doing things.

livebyday:
This is not surprising, I intentionally don't comment much on this incident due to the general level of reasoning I see on this forum

Nigerians are the minority in terms of foreign immigrant population in SA for crimes.

A poster asked above why we are in the headlines and it surprises me! is it that the person doesn't understand the concept of envy?

The regular young man in Mzanzi is lazy, gives into the cull of hard drugs, derives pleasure in.rapimg under aged High school girls and when his wife returns home from work tired and exhausted then confronts him with the information the neighbors gave her that he brought a teenager into.their home.while she was at work he proceeds to beat her up.

Now then moves in the Nigerian trader who came.armed.with determination to hustle hard and repay the money used to send him there, he has no time for trivialities but Hawks his gala and coke on the streets there..

Mind you mzanzi youth see such jobs as far below them, they believe they have earned the right to a good life for their parents suffering apartheid... They have a serious entitlement complex

But they watch the Nigerian hustle everyday leaving his house at 6am to catch the early morning train out to sell gala and coke in CBD joburg to workers

After six months same nigerian trader rents a shop and starts selling medicines in a chemist and he is getting more money the typical mzanzi young man is infuriated and upset as his wife he beats up.regularly is comparing him to the Nigerian ..and this annoys him

To cut a long story short the Nigerians hustle spirit holds a mirror up.to the SA youth faces and they don't like what they see hence they resort to the age old primial instinct which says what they don't understand they fear and how do weaklings respond to fear ? They mob attack and inflict bodily harm

Nigerians aren't a major concern for crime in SA as they are just loud and more determined hustlers

The typical Mzanzi youth is local , uninspired and a masochist

Cheers

This stereotyping of entire peoples is exactly the problem. My friend, nobody likes being called lazy, which ,by the way, is a relative word. If you've moved from a deprived area, chances are you'll work harder than the local population of a more affluent area. Immigrants from third world countries are generally harder working the world over. Trouble starts when you start referring to the local people as lazy. We've seen this between Nigerian ethnic groups. We've seen the backlash when Buhari called our youths lazy. The human being is very sensitive and Nigerians say it as it is, no sugarcoating -- which is both a virtue and a problem. In matters like this, we need a bit more tact and diplomacy. Certainly referring to people as lazy will escalate the situation.

That said, there's no excuse for killing foreigners or wanton loot of their sustenance.

grandstar:
Your emotions are clouding your thoughts

I've literally scrolled until this page to be sure someone pointed out your glaring stupidity to you.

Some Nigerians are so ignorant and yet so entitled. USA needs to offer RSA a carrot, he says, nyen nyen nyen nyen nyen... load of tripe!

It's not hard to smell the hideous stench of sycophancy all over this letter. The letter has gone nowhere near the Whitehouse, only published online in the hope Buhari would see it and reward these mindless yesmen

Faster than Android when it's still in the works. How are they gonna get access to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and the entire swathe of Google's apps... or is Huawei gonna build alternatives to these too

HBB1:
I think the Doctor did a quick check (ABCD) and found him to be unconscious, with a feeble, irregular pulse, which was getting weaker.
What ABCDE again, on a plane, no monitors, no ECGs, just some air hostesses in short skirts?!

In a deteriorating, unresponsive person, it's advised you do Chest compressions, if you don't know what else to do.
What's the worst case scenario?

I believe in symptomatic bradycardia, you have to pace the heart while you gather what you need-- asystole is just moments away. I have seen people die that way.

But I accept you are right, so long we don't argue, as it will be dumb for us to do!

I'm not arguing mate, and I apologise if the tone of my text is combative.
As an ALS provider myself, I couldn't let an inaccuracy pass unchallenged.

HBB1:
I could be wrong, but I believe you can start CPR on someone whose pulse is dropping?

That would be a peri arrest situation, and the protocol would be an A to E assessment.
The first responder's first job is to assess breathing and pulse for 10 seconds to confirm any signs of life. If there are no signs of life, then CPR. If there are signs of life, then ABCDE.
What if the patient had taken his anti-diabetic meds that morning and didn't get around to have a proper meal because of waiting too long at the airport.
Approach the situation as a medical emergency and you'll pick up on the cause. Approach it as a cardiac arrest and you won't.
In summary, no you can't start CPR on someone with a pulse, because they are alive. Think about it... It seems counterintuitive to pump the heart to work when you have evidence that it's working. If there was no palpable pulse, then CPR is in order.

My only concern is that CPR was started on someone who actually had a pulse to begin with!! Was he trying to restart a functioning heart?? The whole drama of starting resuscitation was unnecessary at the point in time. The indication to start CPR is absence of a pulse or breathing effort, not to buy time. What would have been more appropriate is an ABCDE assessment.

Having said that, well done Dr King for your bravery and I hope this calls government's attention to the appalling lack of any emergency services in the country.

Xander85:
You must be an Ugwuanyi otimpku!

People like you with your defeatist and 'safe approach' to governance are certainly who we don't need holding elective and appointive offices in our states!

Yes, some of the images were not of Enugu....so what? We're talking of having an EPZ in Enugu...a zone with it's own independent power supply, and other facilities that would take advantage of AIIA Enugus' int'l status and attract industries and footfall to grow the Enugu economy and make it a world player, yet visionless peeps like you and Ugwuanyi want to play safe and tell me it's all 'pie-in-the-sky'!

Someone with the visionary and bold mindset of Dr M I Okpara (despite the limitations placed on us by the present Nigerian political-economy) would have got this off the ground! I see that mindset in the likes of Umahi and Chime to some extent!

If one doesn't agree with your point of view, then he must be an Ugwuanyi otimkpu -- typical one track thinking.

It's not the truth you want to hear but Enugu with an annual budget of 100 billion naira cannot afford to fund this grandiose project, whose feasibility is, at best, uncertain. I say this with hesitation because the Tinapa project -a grand project of a similar nature--fell flat on its face, and although we can certainly do things differently, the project's feasibility remains in question.

Now you'll say, like Kevin Costner "Build it and they will come" but may I remind you this is a costly project, not a baseball pitch. Sounds like a lot of money to leave to fate and good weather, and God's mercies as we say in these parts.

My friend, in an ideal world where there is a limitless supply of funds, I'll be on the same page as you, but if this project means paying less attention to health, education, infrastructure --sectors which by the way are already down in the dumps, then we need to think again. That or invite the Chinese to offer us their Greek gift that's becoming quite popular across Africa, only that our children will pay the price of our misadventures--but we can probably live with that, can't we.

Xander85:
Wasn't this when Chime was governor? It was just uploaded on youtube yesterday and i thought it was a new proposal, not until i clicked on it and saw Sullivan Chime. When people say Ugwuanyi is slack and doesn't show that boldness, zest and zeal in governance like say Umahi and Chime does/did, this is what they mean! No surprises that plans for this industrial park died with the end of the Chime admin'!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5340pvUlk

I've no idea why you're celebrating what was a white elephant project --an idea that never saw the light of day. Everyone can dream of grand, multimillion dollar ideas, but what are the practicalities?---that is the question. All the images in the video are not from Enugu. I think you're quite impressionable if I'm honest.

MrBrownJay1:
Nonsense!!!! HIV spreads in many different ways.... Saying that someone is safe while taking ARVs is misleading/false. EOD!

Can you actually read the article mate. It's abundantly clear what mode of transmission the researchers are referring to.
For argument's sake, what are the figures for transmission via needle sharing? And how does a <0.01 % risk diminish this grand scientific accomplishment.

Your submission is rife with inaccuracies and it's important not to misinform people on such a sensitive topic as this

MrBrownJay1:
This is MISLEADING/FALSE information.... Because this is a study solely about sexual transmission (aka transmission via sex) while we all know that many newly infected people co,e via drug addicts sharing needles and direct blood contact with an infected person....and this, no matter how much ARVs you take, it can't stop you from being infected, because no matter how suppress the virus is in your system, it is STILL there, and anyone in direct contact with that infected person's blood will be doomed.

What a load of tripe!

Focus on the study mate, not looking for plot holes where there are none.

Nbote:
I don't know which shade of black Gambians and Sudanese are.. Ghana, Senegal and Mali are definitely black but Gambians and Sudanese fall into dark black shade

When did we degenerate into this? A black African fussing about shades of black
Your post is ignorant, discriminatory and regrettable

I wonder why we feel the need to sugarcoat the truth that we are down in the dumps.

There's absolutely no sense in claiming we are growing our economy faster than America. America is so advanced their growth curve has plateaued, with a GDP that is, modestly put, 50 times that of Nigeria. We, on the other hand, are only taking baby steps yet bringing down the roof every time our GDP improves by a couple thousands. If you wanna compare productivity, look at the size of GDP itself, and not the growth rate that affords no meaning out of context.

Secondly, I don't think a harsher punishment for wrongdoers is something I want to be proud of. In the same vein, according to your ideology, we should extol Sharia law and all the amputees we have created over the years.

You state Nigerians drink more alcohol than Americans. Well, I hope for your sake that you're wrong because when liver cirrhosis or cancer sets in - as is the most dreaded eventuality of alcohol excess- you would scour Nigeria for a hospital that can offer a liver transplant, and finding none!

Your fourth item is pure conjecture, and bereft of any fact.

Lastly, America is historically the world's police both overtly and covertly. As per contributions to UN peace keeping, the fact that all developed countries, in general, contribute far less, whilst developing nations contribute far more troops points that there are more variables to consider including remuneration. Lack of participation of developed countries in UN peacekeeping has been discussed at the UN Congress several times. And this trend may in fact be construed as indifference on the part of developed nations as they scarcely have any need for UN peacekeeping in their territories.

gbishman:
I recall a while back some where in the U.S.A where a nurse or doctor took a selfie of a surgery she was carrying out on a patient and she got fired the next day.
This is Nigeria right, where nothing applies to the rich and famous

It's not nearly as straightforward.
With a patient's consent, healthcare staff can be allowed to take pictures.
Without consent, pictures are still permissible but there must be no patient identifiable information; in other words, no one must be able to identify the patients from the information you've posted.
Only when a healthcare staff is in breach is there professional misconduct.

I'm worried there's more than one surgery going on in one operating theatre, and both patients so dangerously close to each other, imagine how easy it would be to have one's bodily fluids in another's open and vulnerable cavity!
I hope for my sanity that is some makeshift recovery room!

Gratefulheart01:
Ok, you made a good point. There are genuine cases but some are pervert cases, child molesters and abusers. But personally i just find it odd for a very old man chasing after small girls whatever the reason is. All the same i get your point. Whatever makes each person happy as long as it befits old age.

Yes, mate, happiness is all that matters really!

Gratefulheart01:
Na today widowers dey remarry in a proper way? Maybe you go ask the old man how far? Now that he has lost so much money, if he wont find a sensible way of managing his himself or look for a sensible way of getting a sensible partner if there is really the need.
More over, this man in this pics at this his age should not have sexual reasons as his primary aim, the only reason he may need a partner is maybe someone to look after him, his health and someone to cook for him. I'm not solely blaming this man in particular, but we have lots of pervert grandpas who should rather be meditating on their pasts than running after pssy.

I find this bit very funny.

I think your responses are borne from judging the British man from the POV of African fundamentalism. I have experienced both cultures and will say that, in the first instance, opting for online dating in today's age and time, is a sensible decision. At 75, the majority of British men are healthy, and can sort out their feeding by cooking or having food delivered. So although the African, perhaps being more introspective, will spend those years doing some soul searching, the British wants to explore life in retirement, visit new places, seek out romance. Both are the expectations of their respective cultures, and are appropriate in context, so it would be unfair to expect one to play by the rules clearly made for another.

We will get old ourselves and, personally, the last thing I want is to be called 'perverse' for living my life.

I work with elderly British men and all they want, like our elderly African men, is to be happy.

Gratefulheart01:
Don't need to stress yourself too much. This is not the first generation to have old men. Old men have been since existence of men and not a major percentage of them turn out to be perverts. Same way it's dificult for a guy in this era to be able to hold our dck, as if there wasn't men in the past. It's just a new orientation, and the way the new society is shaping the mind of this generation.

So what is the solution?
So many words in your post, yet you've said nothing at all
Again, my question is how should a widower take care of this sexual desires so that the likes of you don't tag him a pervert?

I know you think "don't stress about it" is a solution, but it really isn't.

Gratefulheart01:
I wont be a pervert when i grow old. It's all these useless grandfathers spoiling our girls, enticing them with money. Useless politicians, people who are not supposed to have money in life.

You sound out of touch with reality my man.

Even you will grow old, but your peni.s will not shrivel and die off when you hit 75; you will continue to have sexual desires and if, perchance, one is a widower at that age, how do you plan to deal with your sexual desires? Go after other people's wives, or younger unmarried girls? Or castrate oneself? Do tell.

The rant was never really about the interest of Nigerians; now after your personal issues are resolved, we now have this sycophantic apology and needless effusive praise. Has FAAN now stopped extorting money from other travellers' families? Immigration officials are suddenly men of integrity because they've sorted your problems. Airport staff now no longer demand bribes? Everything is now good as good can be, Mr Afolayan, right?
I only pity the poor Nigerians who thought you were speaking up for them, and supported your rant. Hindsight now betrays your uncanny selfishness!

Nowenuse:
Hmm, I can see that you now speak for Nyalong. Interesting.
I'm sorry if perhaps you take things so personal maybe because you experienced such 'discrimination' in your childhood or teenage years.
My advice for you is to take life so easy, free and fun. Trust me, it helps a lot.

Btw, I wonder if people know what 'discrimination' really means nowadays. We sometimes just use words for the wrong instances.

Really, are you so profoundly dense that after reading up the meaning of discrimination, you still cannot relate it to how Nyalong and people of a darker hue have been slurred on this thread! OMFG!

I'm not taking nothing personal, I'm saying you need to be sensitive. This is the 21st century, darling! People don't mock other people and tag it fun! For f's sake, no it isn't fun!! Do you even question Nyalong will be offended by the slurs on here?? OMFG! Darling, if deriding other people's skin colour brings you fun, then I do not even have the right words for you but it would be nothing short of sadistic, I'm sure.

This is the age of the internet. You don't make discriminatory comments and tag it a joke. Sudanese and other Africans and black people all over the world are reading/ will read this thread and will be nauseated. Darling, you need to rethink your whole life if crass and coarse discrimination is what you consider "easy, free and fun"!

I'm not one to use strong language, but your persistence on justifying the derisive comments here jars on my nerves!-and that's only putting it lightly.
The last thing we want to add to Nigeria's already gloomy international image is that we are a nation of black people discriminating against other black people. .. The irony of it all!

Well, mister, do have a rethink. Mockery, like sarcasm, is the lowest form of wit, if at all.

Nowenuse:
You are taking everything the wrong way. I am looking at it from a more fun and relaxed perspective. Not everything should be taken too seriously!

Get my point and perspective before you start preaching long sermons.
There are some jokes and slurs that brothers (or people of the same kind) are allowed to use against each other for fun, but they may never allow an outsider use it against them.

When I was young for instance, I was quite dark skinned and people call me BLACKEY, I have another friend who is very light and we call him YELLOW PAWPAW. These things were just for fun. We never took them any seriously.

Black Americans call themselves Nigga (which is a detrimental and insultive word by origin), but they will never let a white person call them that.

As long as the person is not offended by the word, I see nothing wrong with it

I've no intention to drag this talk any further; let's say I don't find discrimination funny, neither does Nyalong, I'm sure! And she certainly sees everything wrong with the descriptors applied to her on this thread. But you find it funny, so laugh on, Mr.

Nowenuse:
As much as we may be disappointed by these negative behaviours and I condemn them. We must acknowledge that internal discrimination happens even within the same race, that does not mean when a white person insults our fellow black, then we stand and watch.

Have you seen white people insulting each other based on blonde/brunette and red hair looks? Or Tan/ghostly pale white looks? They do it too. Yes you heard me right. This doesn't mean I'm in support.

In summary, you think such discrimination is justifiable because 'white people do it too'... This is absolutely ridiculous! Despite your best efforts to appear politically correct, you, sir are worse than the rest, because despite acknowledging this is wrong, you go ahead to normalise it. What you're saying in essence is "discrimination is horrendous but it is human to discriminate, therefore discrimination is normal"

What nerve when Nigerians condemn xenophobia in RSA!

I'm Nigerian by the way and I'm horrified by this thread, and by all those who even remotely try to justify the comments here, and by the mods who continue to turn a blind eye to flagrant discrimination

The number of utterly disgusting comments on this thread is puzzling! I wonder what has to break in your heads for a black African to make derisive jokes about another black African because they're different hues of black. I am totally disgusted at this thread and also disgusted that the mods have allowed the first few comments to remain, unmoderated!

OP, before you get carried away by those propelling you to spend further in order to gain $75, it's worthwhile having a read through the T&Cs of the offer in the first instance. If they had explicitly stated a method of determining who gets what, then I'm afraid you have no case. I'm sorry to be the devil's advocate but that's the reality.
Certain Google services are known to vary from country to country. On AdSense, an ad click for a bank may be worth $0.5 in Nigeria and $1 in the UK. That's the reality. If Google has said "earn up to $125 at so and so event", you may be paid $1 depending on whatever considerations and complex mathematics they employ. You can ask to know how this is determined, and read through the T&Cs that came with the invite... I'm reasonably certain there are provisos lurking down in the boring barrage of phrases in there.

That looks like Abakaliki road, leading onwards to Abakpa cantonment, and mainland Abakpa to the right. You're standing near the entrance to National Orthopedic Hospital.