Deportation Of 67 South African From Nigeria, A Good Move?

The diplomatic war between the governments of South Africa and Nigeria seems not to end soon, as Nigeria has concluded plans to deport another set South Africans from Nigeria barely some hours after the first batch comprising 56 South Africans.

The latest victims are about 67 prostitutes of South African origin. According to Nigerian government, the 67 South African prostitutes are in an employment of a high profile South African businessman, who use their services in Lagos and Abuja. They are due for deportation after being believed to be HIV positive. 

Just last week, South African government deported about 125 Nigerians on the basis of having fake Yellow Fever Card, a development Nigerian government described as a slap and a Xenophobic attack on Nigerians.

The Nigerian government reminded South African government of how she helped in fighting for them during the apartheid period, saying she doesn't deserve such treatment from South Africa.

With this latest development by Nigeria, do you think Nigeria has acted well? Do you agree with the argument that because Nigeria supported fight against apartheid, South Africa should give Nigeria preferential treatments? 

ANC's proposals shy away from reality - DA The ANC's policy conference discussions would impede growth and job creation, says the DA.

By Paul Vecchiatto

The African National Congress' (ANC's) policy conference discussions would impede growth and job creation as it does not provide an answer to alleviating poverty or growing the economy, says Democratic Alliance (DA) national chairperson Wilmot James.

Commenting on Tuesday on the release of the ANC's draft policy documents earlier this week, James said: "They shied away from addressing tough realities."

The ANC's policy document was in preparation for its national policy congress due to be held in Mangaung in July.

In his reaction James said the draft proposal of levying a 50% resources rent tax on mining activities would discourage investment in mining and result in job losses.

James said the proposal to shift provincial boundaries for political purposes would undermine growth and job creation in successful provinces like the DA-run Western Cape.

He said the adoption of what he called the "outdated developmental state" model that relied on state capacity that the country does not have.

Another ANC proposal that James attacked was the integration of Metro Police departments with the SA Police Service that would limit the ability of metros to fight priority crimes successfully.

James said that a series of proposals, such as a plan to upscale public employment programmes, a plan to use the National Youth Service to regulate the outflow of graduates from universities, a plan for a state-led productivity enhancement programme and a plan to use state procurement as the primary driver of industrial development all suggested a more central role for the state in the economy.

"The state is unlikely to deliver on these plans efficiently, which will impede growth and kill jobs," he said.

James said his party was currently conducting a process to create a new set of policies that are explicitly aimed at achieving a sustainable economic growth rate of 8%.

"We are doing this because we know that the only way to reverse apartheid's legacy is to drastically increase economic growth to create jobs for millions of unemployed South Africans. No country has ever overcome poverty and unemployment without substantial economic growth," James said.

Demi Lovato's Candid Stay Strong Special: "I Cannot Tell You That I Have Not Cut Myself Since Treatment"

"If you took away music, I wouldn't have a reason to live."

That was one of the many raw and honest things a brave Demi Lovato said during her Stay Strong special on MTV tonight.

After undergoing  eating disorders and self-cutting, the "Skyscraper" singer (really) opened up to viewers about her journey through it all.

And when we say Lovato was putting it all out there, we mean it...

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Pete Edochie Turns 65

 

Pete Edochie was born 7th March 1947 in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria.
But his education started in Zaria, in the northern part of Nigeria. He would do his elementry and secondary education in the north. He joined the Nigerian Railway Corporation after college.
Further education included a course in Journalism and Television in School of Journalism and Television in England in the mid 1960s.
He joined the Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation 1967, and in 1980 trained formally in the BBC as a broadcaster.
1987 he was appointed a director in Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation. He retired as a broadcaster in 1988.
He moved into the movie industry and has featured and starred in over 200 movies. His accomplishments have attracted numerous awards, national honours and Hall of Fame adoptions ever since.
He is still quite active in the Nigerian Movie Scene, but his attention is passionately focused on his current project Tansi Canonisation Support Campaign, which is a movement for the canonisation of Blessed Michael Iwene Tansi.

This project which has the support of the Vatican includes a detailed movie on the life of Iwene Tansi. From his humble begining in Eastern Nigeria.

Pete Edochie is -no doubt the greatest actor ever to grace the African movie scene.