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Stevenssen:. Thanks Stevenssen. I really appreciate your response. Visa typo is permanent residency. |
Frankrobbn1:Thanks@ Frankrobbn1. Your response is very useful. Success in your own endeavors. |
Hello great people, Please my question may not relate directly to the thread but I believe many people here can give me the best answer. I'm on the application process for a Canadian visa (not students visa) but was asked how many persons in my family e.g. spouse, partner, etc and how much I'll be bringing to Canada for their upkeep? I'm single but have siblings (most of my sisters are married). If I include all of them we may be about 10 persons. What's the chance of getting visa if I include all of them considering that the amount I need to state should be higher? Or should I just make it myself and the current amount I have? Thanks guys |
Please can someone here educate or enlighten me on what exactly is Enugu State Government producing or planning to produce in terms of viable economic expansion and growth. It's true everyone may not go in the same direction; like rice production, but there must be an area a state is leveraging on in curbing either shortage of food supply, unemployment, deteriorating healthcare system, disturbing state of infrastructure, poor education system, etc. A governor should have a vision of where he want take his people to within a given time frame and that would guard his choice of cabinets, policies and investment pattern. I've said it time without number that whoever is sitting as the president of Nigeria is not the reason any state is backward but primarily the governors, state law makers, L.G. Chairmen and of course the Abuja boys(senators/house of Reps) from each state. They're the ones to be hold responsible for whatever is not going well in term of development in each state. Lagos State thrive in 1999 under Tinubu despite the then president withholding their allocation for years. I'm particular concern about Enugu State government. |
Love or hate Tacha, she is currently the most trending face of BBN. At least I've come to know her from NL, Tweeter, Facebook..... Honestly, she could not have triggered all these recent noises about her on her own, there's more to it. She stepped into an already determined season. Make God help her to work on her character. |
Southern youths in Nairaland are not even fit to be called online warriors because the scope or boundary of their verbal battle ground is only here in Nairaland. Most don't even address directly issue on thread, but in tribal war. It's disgusting to say the least. The Northern youths are more politically matured than their Southern counterparts. That's why whenever the Arewa Youths sneeze, the whole nation listen, unlike youthless south. Continue Ipob and Afonja in your public display of cowardice, foolishness, bigotries and hatred |
KEVIND:All these news about VP and cabals may have some truth but are not entirely true; e.g this very one. Some folks are desperately seeking for ways to trigger self-fulfilling prophecy on Prof. Osibanjo. God Almighty will perfect everything about him, not the will of his haters nor the cabals shall prevail, but God's. |
Olanipekun1:Don't you think you're being too harsh and disrespectful? Easy bro, abeg! |
Southern youths in Nairaland are not even fit to be called online warriors because the scope or boundary of their verbal battle ground is only here in Nairaland. Most don't even address directly issue on thread, but in tribal war. It's disgusting to say the least. The Northern youths are more politically matured than their Southern counterparts. That's why whenever the Arewa Youths sneeze, the whole nation listen, unlike youthless south. Continue Ipob and Afonja. |
Brika:Desperation to get to the States. Virtually all 3rd world nations are same. Where're 9ja haters? Come and tell us he's a Nigerian! |
HeWrites:Forest Guard will soon become a trending job for Nigerian youths after spending years and resources in high institution. One of the common baseline problem of all the security threats facing this nation is high level of unemployment especially among the youths. Check the employment index of Nigeria since 1999 till date. There has not been a significant positive change in resolving this chronic perennial intentional neglected national issue hence it's consequences are manifesting in security challenges in all the six geopolitical zones. Government of all levels should invest in job creation, so that our youths can have job option - Forest Guard or........? |
Beautiful piece, though not really objective. However, I'm surprise that some folks here jumped to defend the 'Giant' of Africa and label the writer 'enemy of 9ja'. To those folks, your defense is irrelevant because the guy is not on Nairaland, cannot read your responses but everyone here is reading his. His write up featured in Aljazerra, millions of people all over the world read it and may likely take some clues from it on how (even seemingly smaller nations) to relate with Nigeria henceforth having known that there're loopholes in our foreign policy as well as other economic weaknesses. For me, there are so many truth revealed in this write up and which we can learn from as a nation that will help us to re-examine our foreign policy, chart a new economic development gateway, consolidate our national ideology (if we have any), and initiate various national unifying projects that will engender deep rooted patriotism among Nigerians irrespective of tribe, religion, gender or political affliation. Let's swallow our pride and learn few things from Mr. Gimba's write up that will put us back to our place in African continent. |
Nigeria may have myriads of issues, but she doesn't live in denial as anybody can see in NL. We dey talk am as ehn dey pain us. On the contrary, other African countries even Ghana that Nigeria learnt fraud from will even deny having a word for fraud in their local language. No problem; everything negative from a black man is 9ja! In J'burg, Ghana house is where any worse form of immigration crime is being committed. I've met and encounterd their folks intelligent fruadstars yet they'll come here to point all negative fingers at anything called NIGERIA. I hate crime but don't make it a 9ja affair. |
Crime is crime no matter the identity of the culprit; Nigeria, Ghana, Pakistan, etc. It's baffles me when we try to make it exclusive 9ja thing. I know some die haters of 9ja here that always ready to jump into any negative news about this land. Say no to evil of any kind including hate and prejudice. |
Aonkuuse:Check the post again, it's not out of his weakness or inability to fight the enstranged wife. It is the Zimbabwe marriage law the woman is relying on to 'oppress' the man. There's respect for rule of law in Zim no matter how trivial it might seem. |
This is what i considered as comprehensive and satisfactorily written or verbal response from Nigeria to the barbaric attacks from SA on her citizens in there. Femi Fani-Kayode A WARNING FOR THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA "I would appreciate them in helping us as well to address the belief our people have and the reality that there are many persons from Nigeria dealing in drugs in our country"- Dr. Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations. Is this the sort of thing that ought to be said by the South African Government when we are still in mourning and when we have not even buried our compatriots that were cruelly slain, bludgeoned to death and cut to pieces in the streets of South Africa? At a time when this irresponsible, insensitive, shameless, conflicted, self-hating, pitiful and mendacious creature that calls herself the Foreign Minister of South Africa should be apologising to the Nigerian people for the mindless savagery and barbarity of her blood-crazed compatriots, she is pointing accusing fingers at their victims and the objects of their collective hate and seeking to demonise them. What have we done to deserve this? First you kill us then you seek to justify it and criminalise us! Does this she-devil of a Foreign Minister really believe that innocent Nigerian men, women and children should be butchered at will in the streets of South Africa by bloodthirsty and bestial mobs? Worse still does she think it is right and proper that this is done with the full endorsement and support of both the South African Government and police? Is that the way forward? Is that the way to build bridges in Africa and enhance peace and stability on the continent? Can such behaviour be justified or defended under any circumstances? What would she do or think if the Nigerian Government and people decided to reciprocate and mete the same treatment out to South Africans that reside in Nigeria and South African companies that are situated here? In any case how many of those that were butchered over the years were drug dealers? If it is true that as many Nigerians deal in drugs as she has suggested, why can't the South African Government apprehend, arrest and prosecute them and send them to jail rather than demonise, misrepresent, target and kill innocent and defenceless Nigerians? This is a clear case of racial stereotyping and a squalid and shameful attempt to justify hate, racism, xenophobia, self-hate, black on black violence and mass murder. Permit me to educate the South African Foreign Minister and to set the record straight. There are thousands of Nigerian professionals, academics, lecturers, intellectuals, businessmen, teachers, scientists, engineers and doctors in your country working hard, doing a great job and contributing massively to your development and economy. The fact that your people hate Nigerians and enjoy killing us has nothing to do with drugs, human-trafficking or drug-trafficking. It is because your people are hateful, ignorant, xenophobic, lazy, racist and envious of ours. And the few irresponsible Nigerians that go to South Africa and indulge in terrible and unforgivable crimes like drug and human-trafficking and gang-related violence do so only because your people have a terrible weakness, an undue fascination and an insatiable appetite for hard drugs, alcohol, prostitues, men and women of easy virtue and the dark, ugly and wild side of life. It is therefore not surprising that South Africa has, for the better part of the last 25 years, been described as the "world's capital for homicide" and the country with the "highest number of people that have been afflicted with HIV AIDS!" Rather than work hard, like their Nigerians counterparts, South Africans prefer to go to sleazy and cheap nightclubs, to gamble on gaming machines and poker tables, to drink huge amounts of beer, to take massive amounts of hard drugs and to stay at home, watch television and sleep. They are not particularly good at anything except singing beautiful songs and killing their fellow Africans. It is for this singular reason that their women love and respect Nigerian men and have nothing but contempt for their own. Generally-speaking Nigerian men are strong, productive, virile, focused, courageous, industrious, adventurous and hard-working with a touch of arrogance and they excel in all their ways. Sadly the average South African male does not possess these virtues or qualities. It does not stop there. For the better part of the last 50 years Nigeria has been the major military and economic power in Africa and we have used our wealth, power and influence wisely and expeditiously to the advantage of many countries on the continent. For example, had it not been for us the minority white Boers would still be ruling over the black South Africans and apartheid would still have been firmly in place. We nationalised British Petroleum and Barclays Bank because of them in the late 1970's and thereby compelled the British to accept our demand of black majority rule in South Africa and Zimbabwe and to stop supporting apartheid and white minority governments. We are far ahead of South Africa in terms of education and virtually every other sphere of human endeavour and we have opened up our country for them to come and invest in without any pre-conditions, obstacles or trade barriers. Today Nigeria is by far the biggest market for their expertise, products, goods and services and if that market were to ever be closed to them or if their companies were nationalised it would affect their economy enormously. The truth is that they benefit far more from and make far more money from us today than we benefit and make money from them. In a trade war they have far more to lose than we do because not that many Nigerian companies have invested heavily in and operate in South Africa whilst many South African companies have invested heavily in and operate in Nigeria. As a matter of fact some of those companies make more money from the Nigerian market and their Nigerian operations than they do in the whole of the rest of Africa put together. That is what we have offered and given them and yet they have offered and given us next to nothing in return. All we get from them are insults, violence and heartache! Historically and in every other way they are very much our juniors. Our people were educated at Oxford, Cambridge and the very best universities in the world since 1860. South African blacks never went to a real university until the 1990's after aparthied fell. We have liberated and brought peace, justice and stability to many African countries and been a blessing to the African continent for many decades despite our present challenges. Whether it be Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Eritea, Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leonne, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Chad, Niger and so many others, we were there in full force with our money, our resources, our arms, our logistical support, our oil, our economic concessions, our aid and in some cases our troops. We shed blood and our blood was shed for other African countries over the years yet all we get in return are insults. If you say Nigerians are drug pushers and human traffickers then I will say that South Africans are losers, racists, drop-outs, failures and genocidal maniacs. Worse still had the white Boers not built up South Africa it would still be a barren land and the black population would still be nothing but slaves that live in filthy and squalid little townships. Despite all the razzmatazz and great public relations about being a happy and prosperous "rainbow nation" where everyone is so happy and is treated so well, the truth is that South Africa remains a country with a black body and a white head. I say this because even though political control and leadership has been ceded to the blacks, 80% of the multi-national corporations, big business, industry, the private sector and the economy and 90% of the choicest land, the biggest farms and the best farmlands still remain in the hands of the white Boer minority. Given this, is it any wonder that black South Africans are literally going mad and are deeply frustrated and filled with hatred and bitterness? They have nothing and, unlike in the days of Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki (all great and inspiring men of strength, courage, wisdom, conviction and profound wisdom) other than a handful of new political leaders who are essentially corrupt, weak, fearful, divided, conflicted and uninspiring token niggers and Uncle Toms (with the possible exception of a bright, courageous and rising young star by the name of Julius Malema), their prospects of ever amounting to anything over the next 100 years is very dim. The real power still resides in the hands of the minority white Boers and the prospects for a prosperous and bright future lies heavily in their favour at the expense of the majority blacks. If only the South Africans knew and remembered their history and considered ours they would be praying for Nigeria and thanking us every day rather than insulting and killing us. Without our support and the pressure we brought to bear, the great Nelson Mandela may never have been freed and the ANC and its armed wing (Umkhonto Wi SIzwe) would not have received the massive and robust funding and support that it did throughout the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. Together with the Cubans and the Libyans, Nigeria did more for the liberation of South Africa and South African majority rule than any other nation in the world. What the South Africans are doing to Nigerians today makes me regret the fact that we did so much for them in the past. They have repaid our good with evil and consequently evil will never leave their doorstep. They have shed our blood for no just cause and the heavens will respond and avenge us. They have made us weep and shed tears for our compatriots and for this they shall pay a heavy price! The South African Foreign Minister and those that share her racist and deplorable disposition and xenophobic views should consider these facts and the implications of her words and actions before she ventures to open her fat, ugly and very undiplomatic mouth to speak untruths and garbage about Nigeria and Nigerians again. Failing to do so may provoke a series of cataclysmic events and unpredictable and harsh reprisals which would result in the final demystification and total humiliation of the "rainbow nation" and the painful and everlasting disgrace of its people. Make no mistake about it, even a Nigeria in her weakened state and with all her challenges is still big and strong enough to bring South Africa to its knees. And if the killing and mass murder of our people does not stop that is precisely what we shall do. A word is enough for the wise. Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following. Many years ago in the early to mid-1970's, when apartheid was alive and well in South Africa and when I was a young student at Harrow, which undoubtedly remains the best private school in England, I broke the jaw of a blond, blue-eyed English-speaking white South African fellow student who said some very nasty things about black South Africans during a history class. During a heated debate about racial segregation and the South African Mixed Race Act which made it a criminal offence for blacks and whites to get married or have sexual relations, he got up and said, before the entire class, that "allowing those dirty black dogs to touch our beautiful and pure white women is sacrilage. It is against the laws of God! It is like getting a monkey to mate with a human being!" Finally he said "no sane white woman would ever want to have sex with a black African monkey and any of them that do should be sent to jail". I reacted swiftly and without any hesitation. Without any warning or even words of anger, I left my desk, walked up to him and broke his jaw with one clean blow from my right fist. He never knew what hit him! I remember hearing and enjoying the way his jaw popped open and cracked. It was a strange noise and as he hit the floor his legs started to shake uncontrollably after which he lost consciousness. For one horrendous moment I thought I had killed him but thankfully eventually his eyes opened, he sat up and he was rushed to the hospital on a stretcher. He hailed from one of the biggest and richest white families in South Africa who were (and still are) in the diamond mining business. I almost got expelled from Harrow for my "wild and unruly" behaviour until I gave my reasons for hitting him to the school authorities. They were shocked and equally appauled by what he had said, which they rightly regarded as a grave and reckless provocation, and they decided to let me off the hook. I was reprimanded and warned and I remember that the Headmaster wrote a formal letter about the incident to my father who was livid with me for jeopordising my entire academic career simply because of a racial slight and slur. Papa said "you didn't have to hit him and almost kill the poor boy: you could have just attempted to educate him in a civilised manner and at the worst insult him back!" Yet I had no regrets or remorse about my course of action or the choice that I made and to my eternal credit I never apologised for my action to the South African, the school authorities, my father or anyone else. The truth is that I was proud of what I did and I believed that defending the honor of my black South African colleagues was far more important than staying at Harrow. I was prepared to risk it all by physically assaulting the white boy and I did it with relish. My gamble paid off and the South African boy, as sober as ever, never insulted or spoke ill of blacks again in my prescence. As a matter of fact we ended up becoming friends in the following years and I will never forget what he told me just before we left Harrow in 1977. I remember the words because I wrote them down at the time and have meditated on them for years. He said "you don't understand the Bantus" (meaning black South Africans). He went on to say "the day they get power in South Africa is the day that South Africa will begin to die. Since the 17th century we Boers built up everything there and they contributed nothing. We fought the Zulus and later the British and we built and developed that land with our flesh, sweat and blood. Giving a country like South Africa to them is like giving a monkey a loaded gun. They will use it to kill everyone around them and eventually they will kill themselves. They are not like you Nigerians: they have no history or class. They are unenlightened, ungrateful, primitive, uncouth and very backward and one day the rest of Africa will know them for what they are!" Judging from the words of the South African Foreign Minister and the xenophobic and racist diposition of the South African President, Government and people, it appears that that day has finally come. |
Zikora1000:He maybe incompetent and so on, but no human being should be equate with a goat, much more a sitting president? We should be careful what we're wishing this country or even ourselves via our unguarded utterances. If Buhari goes a better Nigerian will emerge not a goat, no matter how good the goat is. |
Whoever post this thread maybe a beneficiary to the gross incompetence of leadership of that man in Enugu State. Nobody needs any atom of proof to know that the scholarship is purely a political propaganda as some have stated. What is the guarantee for jobs for those innocent teenagers upon returning from the prestigious Indian University? Someone above has suggested using the money to upgrade the existing tertiary institutions in Enugu state, but even that still wouldn't solve the problem of unemployment in the state, but is better than 'arrangee' scholarship to India. Let him create jobs, woo investors to set up factories and revamp the coal mine, etc. This governor is taking the state almost 20yrs backward due to his aversion for infrastructural development; no maintenance of already existing roads, water and light, etc. Scholarship indeed! |
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was indeed a Pan-Africanist and liberation fighter like most of his contemporaries in Zim. He was a war hero and freedom fighter for his people. He'll be greatly missed for his participation in Independence of Southern Rhodesia and transformational policies in the 80s and 90s. However, towards end of 90s after taken over land from the white minority, his problem was that he didn't have a corresponding plans and implementation strategies to replicate exact or better agricultural robust economy that Zimbabwe was known (food basket of SADEC region) prior to the controversial land reform. He couldn't trust the patriotic and think-tank ability of other Zimbabweans that could have taken Zimbabwe from where he left it to higher heights. Hence he held unto power, instead of grooming and handing over to any of his good proteges (if ZANU-PF must always produce the country's president). His sycophants praised him to his death. African leaders lack and do not want anybody that will tell them the truth. When a leader abhors constructive criticism, he'll breed multitudes of sychophants. Every leader should be able to know when his ideas and policies are directly or indirectly affecting his people's wellbeing, no matter how beautiful the ideas and policies may look. Mandela remains the true African political icon and Pan-Africanist. |
South Africans expressed their grievance wrongly by resulting to looting and killing of foreign nationals. They must hold their government responsible to address some of the following challenges: a better standard of living, reduction in unemployment rate (which they often blamed on foreigners), relatively high cost of living, glaring corruption among it's political elites, illigal drug trafficking, and others national issues. Apart, from Nigerians and other West African nationals in South Africa, the later also serves as home to many of her neighboring countries About 70% of foreigners in South Africa come from neighbouring Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho. The remaining 30% is made up of people from Malawi, UK, Namibia, eSwatini, previously known as Swaziland, India and other countries. There are an estimated 3.6 million migrants in the country, a spokesperson for South Africa's national statistics body told the BBC, out of an overall population of well over 50 million. How do different regions compare? Gauteng province, which includes South Africa's largest city Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, has the highest rate of violence against foreign nationals, followed by the Western Cape, according to the ACMS. KwaZulu-Natal, where Durban is situated, is third. Attacks have mainly taken place in large cities, but they have also been reported in smaller towns and rural areas. The violence is often triggered by local disputes, with migrants being accused of taking jobs away from South Africans. Foreign-run shops have been looted and destroyed |
No sensible man should travel like this. However, it's wrong to make tribalistic remarks about it. |
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It's quite easy to detect a Nigerian who'd never travelled beyond Badagry by his/her comments on issues of this nature. Nigerians in SA or other countries are not the only foreign national engaging in shady businesses (i vehemently condemned such businesses). Take for instance in SA, average Chinese man may not engage in drug or 419, but can engage in fake currency worth millions of rand's which is not as pronounce as drug or robbery and 419. Pakistan and Indian guys are more dangerous that most Nigerians out there but Southern Africans can easily fight with or attack fellow black man than a fair skin man. It's common there. My point is taking the law into their hands in killing foreigners especially blscks is not good. However, Nigerians there should respect themselves in abiding by the law of the land. |
ikezuora4689:Migration is a worldwide as far as this world is concern. If there're laws that checkmate illegal immigrant and illicit deals, South Africans should allow the law to take it effects, not killing their fellow Africans. This attacks on foreigners is evil and should be condemned by all and sundry. I totally condem the lifestyle and wickedness of some Nigerians there. Our people are really BAD, but let the government effect the law. Home Affairs should sit up! Personally, I never like to live in SA. I once got admission at UNISA (Newtown), Johannesburg. After initial payment, I turned it down and decided to study from their correspondence office at Mbambanne, Swaziland. I don't like staying more than one week each time I visit SA. I prefer to live in Maputo, Harare, Gaborone, than SA despite being the finest country in Africa. I have many SA visas I couldn't use, some just once or twice before expiry date. My life and God given destiny are more important to me than all the world. |
The truth is that there's a gross insecurity issue in this nation which ultimately is the primary responsibility of the government at the top to tackle. The point is not whether it is Fulani herdsmen, or Ipob, or Shiite, or Anini and osumbo, or OPC, ND militant, etc responsible but what is the Buhari led government doing about it? I've observed with keen interest how once issue of security is mentioned, many people here ready to blame ZWZ, instead of everyone joining hand to hold the government of the day responsible for the security deficit the nation is facing. Kidnapping is the second most lucrative business in Nigeria now after looting. Let me submit to everyone here that Nigeria rising and falling is not only in the hand of the government, but also in the hands of the youths. |
LazyGold:I love you sir. You're indeed a blessing to humanity. Lemme sound this clear here, if all your achievement in life is how many likes you got by shouting afonja, Ipob, etc on NL, you're a collosal failure before God, your family, and generation. You were created to heal one or many pains in the already bleeding world not to add to it by your thoughtless thoughts, words and actions. It's choice! Be a disaster or Messiah to your generation. God's day if reckoning is fast approaching. |
It's saddening hearing and seeing negative news almost in every 4 threads in NL. Food poisoning does not literary mean putting charm in someone's food. |
Richdad50:This is nothing short of the truth about the overall global political and economic trajectory. It's a phantom gradual plan which the Arabs with will their oil wealth will go to any length to achieve. Canada, especially Quebec Region has been almost taken over by these people due to their godless polarized extreme liberalism. |
aysnoopy:Are you into relationship biz? At 28 you've dated so and so without any plan of marrying any of them(from what I deduced from your write up). People here are not jobless and valueless individuals that you just woke up with any kind of question. Of course is your life, but my honest advise to you is GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS so that you may have eternal peace you're seeking in temporal sexual relationship and also throw yourself into your life visions, dreams and aspirations that your generation can celebrate you in life and mourn you in death. Jesus is the answer bro! |
maasoap:So GEJ and PMB respective regimes are now competing who's tenure would have the worst bloody clashes between Nigerian forces? Sometimes, we shouldn't politicize issues. Maturity is also in knowing when to be objective in matters as well as when to overlook some comments. |