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naijaking1:The difference between the atrocities committed by Nigerian Army and US army is that US army get called out and someone get punished but Nigerian army personnel go free. War is already a bad business, most people that die in the war are mostly the defenseless. When Nigeria army goes to a vilage and pick up all the young men and put them in prison and torture then because they are fighting Boko Haram, that should be frown at. Tomorrow it can be you or you relatives in your village. Remember the 60s in the east, tomorrow it can be a Yoruba land...The army should be professional. Yes, they are fighting in the tough terrain, they are fight some unseen enemy but not everybody is gulity until proven innoncent |
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eunisam: The black members of US congress - Senators and house of Rep members. There are about 46 members of them. 1 Like |
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http://cbc-butterfield.house.gov/press-releases/cbc-chair-g-k-butterfield-condemns-terrorism-in-france-and-nigeria/ CBC Chair G. K. Butterfield Condemns Terrorism in France and Nigeria 01/12/15 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, issued the following statement strongly condemning acts of terrorism in France and Nigeria: “For the second time in a week, the global community has been rocked to learn of another heinous act of terrorism. The Congressional Black Caucus joins the millions of people around the world in both shock and mourning for the brutal murders that took place in France, and now the massacre of up to 2,000 innocent people by Boko Haram in Nigeria. “Although the details of this tragedy are still unfolding, what we know with certainty is that Boko Haram will not end its crusade of destruction unless it is met with force. The government of Nigeria must act to protect its citizens from this ultra-extreme and violent group. “Terrorism must cease once and for all. The CBC calls on the global community to unite to take real action against all acts of terrorism, including the barbaric group known as Boko Haram.” www.TheCongressionalBlackCaucus.com |
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Billyonaire: Well, if APC hates the soldiers and send their mercenaries to kill the soldiers, does that give the soldiers the right to destroy public property and keep harassing the civilians? Burning 4 buses and harassing and beating up civilian is supposed to do what? This is supposed to be a rational and trained armed forces? All the soldiers that did this should be rounded up and send to a long jail terms. 2 Likes |
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Billyonaire: This is one of the dumbest rationalization of violence that I had ever read. I pray to God that you are not in the uniform service of that country Nigeria because this is sad. Trying to run this through my head: 1 A soldier was killed by BRT bus 2. Trained soldier - Emphasis on "Trained" - went on rampage like bunch of Thugs and started attacking Government property with impunity. 3. Billyonaire came online and defended that as "emotional" response to being not liked by APC or its agent. Are you $hitting me? This is the armed forces of the country. Trained men. The so called disciplined men and behaving like bunch of touts for hours. Oppressing their fellow citizens because they are armed. These are not gangs or the so called indisciplined civilians. Military in Nigeria is an all volunteer force. YOU CHOSE To join the military. YOU chose to put your life on the line if needs be. As much as that is commendable, it does not make you to live above the law. So if my colleague is killed, I have every right to destroy everything in sight and I will not be arrested? What an asinine comment! I have friends and colleagues here in the reserves and active servicemen (some of them are Nigerian born) and they could only shake their head when they read the story. In a good setting, the soldiers should all be arrested and docked and court Marshaled. They should make to pay for all what was destroyed. The loss of life is regrettable. 4 Likes |
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By law she cannot take the money. She is a student athlete and under NCAA rule she is not allowed to take the money. I dont understand why the parents will say the untruth about her being too young to take such money. The truth is that you will jettison your eligibility rule with the NCAA if you take any money - Bonuses or no bonuses. You cant even take the money to donate to anyone. She is an OK State University student and if she still wants to play for OK State she has to reject the money. 2 Likes |
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9jawear: Where has EBOL been all this while that SUDDENLY it appears some unsurmountable catastrophy? There is always a ploy to make Africa look HELPLESS and DESTITUTE for some reasons best known to them. AND THEY ALWAYS WIN! This is another ignorance being spewed here. A lot of Africans died of Malaria before the europeans came. Over the years we adapted to the diseases but didnt mean it didnt kill lotta africans. ASk your grandparents how many kids their fathers or mothers had? Most like a dozen and probably only 2-3 survived. Ask yourself why do we have sickle cell, what is the origin of it? Why is it only Africans or people of African descendant that have it? That you had never been sick of malaria could have meant that had adapted to it. Most AS do not get sick of malaria. I was an AA and when I was in naija, I had to take my medication every 2-3 months. This is the same suspicion that keep killing us. 1 Like |
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Ebola – Before this site turns into a conspiracy hotbed. It looks like a lot of contributors here have decided to turn ebola or any commutable diseases that any western countries get involved with into conspiracy theory. As much as this lace allows for free speech, I think we should be careful not to keep passing across our ignorance in guise of sarcasm or outright outlandish claims. This is sad because it is the same situation that is happening in Northern Nigeria where Polio – already eradicated worldwide - is making a come back. That doesn’t mean some of the pharmaceutical industries don’t do some bad things but it make sense to go with the rational first before spewing the conspiracy theory at every turn. I read in some of the posted thread why the serum that was used in treating the American health workers were “secret”. And of course the conspiracy theory started festering from there. What the poster didn’t understand is the way drugs are being developed in the west- mostly in the United States. Ebola was first discovered in 1976. That is 38 years ago. No African companies tried to develop anything to contain the disease. The disease has been making a stronger comeback in a couple of years and you bet with Globalization, it is a matter of time before it gets to the west. That makes it a prime disease for some pharmaceutical to bet on. It is “secret” because you don’t want your competitors to know about it until you are ready to unveil it. It is the nature of the beast in a competitive drug market. To even use it on human am sure the FDA had to approve of it and of course the patients signed waivers. The drug has to go through an extensive FDA approval before it can hit the market. Until the drug is patented, it is opened for someone to steal it. So the company has to protect their intellectual property. That it has been used now on human put them out there and actually helped them in their research. Could Ebola have been a man-made virus? Possibly! I bet we could have said small pox or chicken pox, bubonic plague and those other diseases that had wiped out some of the humanity were human made, if they had happened now. My take about some of these diseases is that they mutated over a period. There has been a lot of disease that killed people in Africa that we don’t talk about. We are so superstitious that when someone dies we don’t even let people know what killed them. It took Olikoye Ransome-Kuti to announce that Fela died of AIDS in 98 for some people to wanting to believe AIDS is real. Some people even lampooned him for saying such “disgraceful” thing about Fela. My point here is, people have been eating animals for ages, that you don’t know they contacted a disease from that animals they eat doesn’t mean they never did. Because if they die of the disease, we have perfect reasons why they die – Like some witch did it or his enemy caused it etc – that we have refused to look at the medical angle. |
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Olucheye: Sometimes I'm just here wondering if all this new found incurable diseases found in Africa aren't just ploys to reduce the overthrowing population of Africa just like I have read in some 'Conspiracy Theorists books" Another conspiracy theory! You just need to understand how research on diseases are done. I hope the problem is not the Nigerian educational system that is messing people here up. Ebola has been ravaging humanity since 1976. That is 38 years ago. In recent years, it is getting stronger. You bet that smaller pharmaceuticals are making a bet on that. Any communicable diseases are a bet for pharmaceutical industry to study and make money. That is how capitalism work. There are thousands of trials and experimental drugs today on different diseases that you had never heard about. These are top secret because you have to protect your intellectual property and until you get a patent on it, someone will steal it. That is the nature of the beast. I think people should come from the rational first before they go into the dark side of conspiracy. Actually, the conspiracy theories being spew here show much of ignorance than a quest for knowledge. 4 Likes |
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realbee: Hmm interesting... do they have the cure? Or do they have any ebola treatment centre already set up in U.S? I feel Ebola might be a western lab experiment gone wrong, its another opportunity for them to come out and provide medicine as 'aids' or 'grants' to Africa in return for our resources like they always do. HIV is no longer doing the magic, Ebola has to come. I wonder if Africans have not been eating bush meat for generations without any major incident, I just wonder..... Before your conspiracy theory goes into an overdrive, emory has an isolated, high tech facility that is used for cure and study of infectious diseases. This had been used for other infectious diseases in the past like SARS, H1NI for years. Based on how Ebola is transmitted, it is less infectious than the common flu. Emory study those year by year. Like every viral or bacterial disease out there, they adapt and mutate. MIRS or the so called superbug is getting to be the most dangerous bacteria out there. The common anti-biotics dont do jack ish with them any longer. MIRS is now getting people hospitalized now than before. It used to be an outpatient situation. Yes Ebola of 1976 when it was discovered is not the ebola that is today because these organism mutates. Google can help you do some research on these. I am not in health care but I know a lil bit enough and curious enough to look for information. Please do before you start spewing these incorrect situation |
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I didnt know say dem marriage expired before! Which kain madness be this sef? |
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Dont see any reason why churches cannot render account. It is the height of transparency. It is human that collects the money not God abi Pastors or Imam are not answerable to anyone again? Like someone said, some of the money might need to be taxed. I work with a non-profit organization that make more money than most for-Profit organization and there are things that my organization cannot do or else it will be heavily taxed. I don't think taxing non-profit is bad if they have excess cash, they are not investing wisely? Of course these churches have money in the bank that is yielding interest - That should be taxable. They pay their pastors and workers, the salary should be taxable too. I file my taxes every year and I can deduct my contribution to my church out of my taxes. The IRS have all the information. They are not taxing the churches but you know well that they can audit the account of the churches to make sure that they are spending the money under the charter they are created. Not sure if you can justify a church having a Jet in the United States without paying no taxes. |
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Sunnykaka: which one of this bus is the best....? Which one of two things is the "best"? Do they teach people in naija comparative adverbs and adjectives these days ? |
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Yes, going to college/university is not a guarantee for anything. It means you are qualified to do something. It doesnt mean you cannot do anything less than what you are qualified to do. There is dignity in labor. will you prefer to not work or work as a driver until you get something better? I think people should get off their high horses that being a graduate confer some sort of status on them. It does not! Getting a degree anywhere only HELPS to make sure you get a better job, it doesn't not mean you will get it. If you understand that mindset, you wont have any problem working any job as long as it is not a criminal enterprise. There is dignity in labor. By the way, I once worked as Customer service rep getting my Graduate degree. By the way, a lot of jobs in Nigerian banks are done by high school graduate here. I dont see anybody complaining. Wearing suit to work in 90 degrees heat doesnt make anyone better than a driver. I dont see any difference between a customer service rep/teller in naija and a Dangote graduate driver. |
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haibe: @md-dude, dont let us drift out of the topic, we are on trousers, you can open another thread for scotish kilt discussion. Dude or Dudette, whichever applies to you, Trouser is a type of clothing that can be made differently for men and women. So using the same Mosaic law, why are we not stoning adulterer or killing someone for working on Sabbath For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.Exodus 35:2 So based on your interpretation, Trouser is an abomination for women, same way T-Shirt is right? Do you know at one point in time, only men wear loin cloth or what you call underwear now? Must have been an abomination for women to be wearing undergarment and following in the men's path, despite the fact that the undergarment they wear is different just like the trouser a man wears is different from woman's. |
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There are MEN trousers and women trousers or pants. There are women clothes and women clothes. How come women can wear T-Shirt and men can wear T-shirt? Are you talking culturally or are you talking biblical? So if I decide to wear scottish Kilt ![]() If you look at the way they dress in the Arabia, the men wear gown, so they must be wearing women clothings. ![]() What is the difference fundamentally from the "gown" that man and the women wore? definitely the cut, not the general appearance. I have lived in North America for over a decade now and I have seen the good and the bad women pants. Yes. too tightly fitted pants dont do anybody any good but there is nothing biblically wrong with wearing pants. Yes, our culture frown at it and we should be sensitive to it, but dont make it look like it si bivlocal. Jeez people! the same argument when I was in the college in the 90s is still rearing its head here. |
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Flogging should be sparingly used if used at all. There are ways to treat a child than flogging them. It depends on how you raise a child. A Child raised in a violent environment will not understand anything than beating and flogging. I have seen kids that had never been flogged that behaved better than kids that had been flogged and vice versa. It depends on how the child is raised. My problem with flogging is that people resort to it as the first course of dealing with a child. One of my friends that came visiting here told me proudly how he beats his child everyday. He was surprised that I dont have to beat my children and they behave very well. I told him theer are ways I "deal" with them without having to flog them. I get flogged growing up. To the best of my knowledge half of the flogging I got were not justified. Mind you, my parents are not cruel. Looking at things now, I wish they had talked to me. I was pretty any obedient child but my dad believed a child needed to be flogged to be disciplined. Discipline ecncompasses so many things and flogging may or not may not a part of it. I set boundaries for my kids. My daughter knows all what will be taken away from her if she crosses those boundaries from day one. My son hardly even try to cross those boundaries. I realized most adults flog their kids out of anger not really out of discipline. If they take time to think, they will see they could have handled the situation differently. I guess it works for some people and may not work for the others but discipline encompasses so much than flogging a daylight out of a child. |
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I was there after the Opaka episode in 91. I remember Big Sam - Ebun Adegboruwa. Tony Fash - the SUG president that got expelled for his stupidness. Yeah I remember Obesere too. This was a quiet guy before he joined the Union and became the Welfare office and got himself expelled. That Ibo boy that got beaten to pulp I left the year before Vakama got sworn it. I remember going to Ooni's palace in 94 to protest June 12 and how some guys kidnapped some policemen as exchange for Ife student that were captured at Aluta I remember when Shina Peters came to Ife and the girl that disgraced herself on stage ebcause of some money - I think that was 92 Geology wasnt that bad when I was there - well people spent more than 4 years but I only heard about the fact that there wasnt any graduate of a class in a year. I knew someone thats pent 10 years in Geology though. They have graduates every year but just not the people of the class that was supposed to graduate originally. A lot of people that graduated were of different set. I remember when the building at Moz got burnt down. Of course I remember Angel, Osas, Kuku, Adegboyega, Omogui, Igbo-Buraimoh. I remember when the Leventis at the quarters used be there, hmmm those days |
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FXKing2012: I think you hit the nail on the head here. I dont get it. People selectively choose what laws to follow in the old testament and not follow the other. Jesus revalidated the 10 commandments directly and simplified it. The rest of the law, he refocused it. Things like fornication or adultery which was defined as having a carnal knowledge were redefined. The question is how was TITHE actually instituted?Tithe as instituted was never MONEY! although money had been in existence during those times |
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Someone wrote this in another forum I contribute to and I do agree: I read the govt said it would save $7 billion a year by removing the subsidies. Why couldn't they just borrow like $21 billion from China, implement the infrastructural improvements like power, over a 3 year period, then remove the subsidies and repay China with the savings accumulated? The problem is not that I dont agree that the subsidy has to be removed - at least from a fundamental point of view, the problem is that you dont expect the subsidy to be removed and the sector deregulated abruptly the way it has been done. It is a textbook scenario without taking into consideration what is on the ground. From a Microeconomic standpoint, what do you want the small businesses to do now that his business overhead just went up? A barber that now has to put into consideration the new cost of PMS to fuel his generator or an Hair dresser that has to do the same? How are you so sure that the savings will be spent on anything substantial? What happened to the all the money from PTF? What happened to the extra money in crude oil account? This money will go into normal budgetting and shared among the states and will be used for overhead again. There is no constitutional provision for such "savings" to be used for infrastructure in any way. Sorry to digress. What I am pointing out to you is that, other than the jobs that will be created in that area, few investment, there is no short term or medium term benefits to the masses. For example, subsidy savings is not even given a special consideration in this year's budget, it just got factored into the normal budget. So where is the direct benefit to the masses? all4naija: |
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This is a case of MacroEconomics benefits putting straitjacket on Microeconomics. From purely a macroeconomic mindset, it make sense to deregulate the oil sector to reduce waste, create job and encourage investment. From Microeconomic perspective, it has a huge implication - Inflation, poverty and of course social unrest and disasatisfaction. Now how do you balance the two? The truth is there is a trust deficit in Nigerian government by the people of the country. Even if the intention to do this is best. The same reason had been given over the years for the subsidy removal and the populace had been worse off. So what has changed? Subsidy is unsustainable on a long term so also the cost of running the government. Could the cost of running the government be cut while government finds a way of to create a social net to deal with the effect of the subsidy? I used agriculture as an example of subsidy in the United states. Corn is not the only crop that s subsidized. It is the most heavily subsidized. Other crops like rice, products such as diary etc are subsidized by the government. Even home owners mortgages in United States are "subsidized". If it was left to market forces as seen in commercial mortgages or mortgages over 650K most people in america will be able to afford their homes because of the interest rate. I think it is irresponsible for the government to remove the subsidy and not create a social net and all they can say is the money will be used to build infrastructures. What happens in between the time the subsidy is removed and the time the infrastructure is complete? This is basically removing the subsidy on the back of the poor and the most vulnerable. I dont agree that the subsidy doesnt benefit the masses. To an extent, it keeps the cost of living lower than it would have been without the subsidy. Maybe the Nigerian government should structure things better to reduce the impact of the cabals. all4naija: |
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Your argument is a typical textbook case without taking into consideration a lot of factors. Every economic theory (well any theories whatever) has its limit to its validity. You are right in every way that the economy cannot sustain the subsidy. In long term, I do agree with you. What the subsidy has done is creating some form of deficit spending. Actually, deregulating the sector will help with some investment and create jobs. Looking at our economy, unique condition (i.e the naija factor), lack of infrastructures, health care, poverty etc, the short term effect on the economy can actually put us in recession. Our economy directly runs on oil. There is no short way around it. We don't have alternatives to Oil. Knowing that, this should have been done in phases to help with the issue of poverty and the shock to the economy. Inflation will double overnight because everything is directly tied to the price of gas. If this were planned well. Government can actually start the infrastructure development on deficit and put things in place to show they are serious about dealing with the effect of the removal. Short term deficit is not a problem as long as it is targetted and planned for. What will happen now is govt will not spend the money on infrastructures or any of the good stuff they talked about but spend it on some frivolous things or just embezzles it. Economic activities will be curtailed because people now spend money on gas than on other things. I remember here in 2007/8 when gas went to about $4.5 per gallon and people took to taking trains and driving less. That started the US economic issue before Layman brothers pushed it into brink. People don't have that options in naija. It is either you take the bus or drive. By the way, subsidy is not a bad thing. The US agricultural sector is heavily subsidized, just wait till Govt removes subsidy and Americans will scream and vote the government out. all4naija: |
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How could a university law program be the best in africa when the law program is not uniform across countries in Africa? I understand if you are talking about Engineering and sciences. What do you compare? It doesnt make any sense |
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Toks2008: Many Nigerian parents? I wonder what that population is like. Not everybody lives in Lagos and not everybody can afford things like that. What is the average income of most families in Nigeria or even in lagos? It is a sad situation and it is not these students or parents even have access to interest free or low interest loan |
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bashy_demy: But there is something called PERL grant for students from poor homes, financial aids and student loans to deal with that effect. For students in grad school, you have graduate assistanship programs that basically makes your education free whie you get paid stipends. With the way things are going in Nigeria, if you are not rich you dont get any decent education |
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Ondo state - 14 years Oyo state - 1 year Enugu - 1 Month Osun - 6 years (College) Lagos - 4 years |
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In a civil society, the police is the ultimate authority. A soldier can be easily arrested when outside the barrack. Maybe we should introduce what entails in the US, short/contract service and reserve service so the whole military fraternity stuff can be easily broken. More than half of the police in US had one time being in the military or still in the military reserve so it is not much of a big deal being in the military. |
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Proud? A lot of the issues are not a matter of being proud. If you want a wife, go get one and if you need a slave, go get one too but you don't expect to have both in the same person. Submission is not surrender. What is being proud? What is the religious injunction about marriage? I know a lot of naija men here that expect their wife to toil and expect them not to have any say in the house because they are the men? That doesnt make sense to me. If you don't want your wife to be "proud" and have a say in the say in the house ask her to sit her asz down in the house and make all the money. When your forefathers had domineering influence in the house, they provided for their families and the wife kept the home. How many of these men can keep their wives at home? Somethings have to give. You don't expect your wife to bring half of the money in the house and still expect to be dictating everything and how things have to work. Yes some women have their faults too but in most cases that I have seen it is the men that wanted to have the control like they are in their village. |
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The response here are so funny. I have lived here in the US for 12 years and I am married for 5. Most of my friends are married too. A lot of us Nigerian men are so hypocritical, that is why most marriages are failing. You want you wife to be sharing of the bills, both of you work 9-5 or work out of the house with kids and you expect your wife to still slave and do most of the work in the house. C'mon! These women are no superwoman, they are human like you. I know so many Nigerian Marriages that are on the brinks now because of the chauvinism. You guys have to understand how the female friendly laws in the west came to be. Their society was similar to ours at one point in time until it got to the brink and the laws had to be made to protect women. Of course so many people abuse the laws but I think it generally it made their society for it. I talk to some of my childhood female friends in Nigeria, the stories I hear are too surreal. I don't rule it out that these people will not file for divorce if they have female friendly laws and supportive society like they have here. Many women live in very abusive marriages in naija (emotionally or physically or both) and the women didnt have anywhere to go. I don't support divorce in any way of form but I will support my sister or daughter if she is in that situation and needs to get out. It is better being single than being married and living in hell. |
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I wonder why people are emotional about this. Most countries (including SA) will not pick up Nigerians randomly and deport them. They must have violated some local laws to have been put on the plane and sent home. That we don't enforce laws in Nigeria doesnt mean some other countries do not. For example you can get deported in the US (if you are a green card holder) for not carrying your green card with you if stopped by an immigration officer (seldomly) or not changing you address with USCIS within ten days after you move. It is hardly used law but it is still the law - some arabs were deported using th. If you are not a citizen of a country you have to abide by the law of your host country even if you don't believe in it or els they will send you to where you are from. Sentiments mean little when law is concern. That Nigeria helped SA with apartheid doesnt mean they must have open border for Nigerians or other neighboring countries. The true test of every nation is maintaining their sovereignty and part of it is controlling immigration and dealing with illegal immigration issue. It doesn't matter what happens tomorrow to SA, as at today, they have to keep their border safe. That 47 Nigerians were deported doesnt mean 90 Zimbabweans werent deported. The only number you see are Nigerians because it was reported from Nigerian angle. |
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selencious: You live in Burtonsville, make i go tell IRS that someone dey Launder money somewhere close to Laurel. A part-time student with 10K in your account? C'mon! I am sure your parents/aunty/friend will tell you that you lost your mind. So you work 20/24 hrs a week making $50/hr abi with no bills and no responsibility? You must be the richest self made college student in America, |
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Every man and woman is as faithful as his/her option says Chris Rock. I have few married women friend that live in Nigeria and I get to talk to them once in a while. My conclusion is that if the society is a little bit open for them to cheat, they will cheat too like the men. |
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