NewStats: 3,263,622 , 8,180,794 topics. Date: Friday, 06 June 2025 at 09:08 PM 265j48

Trump himself used illegal workers in construction and reported them to immigration whenever he can't pay.

The whole strategy is to cheapen migrants labor for unscrupulous businessmen like himself.

This is the biggest haul of cocaine ever seized in Australia, with an estimated resale value of AUS $760m (£388m), police said.

The drugs came from an unidentified country in South America, investigators in Brisbane said on Monday.

The alleged drug traffickers were left stranded on Saturday after their boat suffered a suspected mechanical breakdown 18km off the northeastern tip of K’gari island, formerly known as Fraser Island, police said.


Police had been tipped off about the Comancheros motorcycle gang planning a large drug smuggling operation, federal police commander Stephen Jay said.

The smugglers tried twice to bring in drugs by sea from a mothership floating hundreds of kilometres offshore, Mr Jay added.

The first boat broke down and the second foundered on Saturday, leaving the suspects stranded at sea for several hours until police raided and seized the drugs.

Merrell® Official Site - Black Friday Sale Is Here
merrell.com
Merrell® Official Site - Black Friday Sale Is Here
Ad
They arrested two men at sea and 11 offshore, including two minors under the age of 18. All of them are Australian citizens, police said.

The maximum punishment for drug trafficking is life imprisonment.

The arrested men include the Brisbane vice president of the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, who is accused of engaging in violence, extortion and trafficking, police said.

All suspects have been charged for being part of a criminal syndicate and with conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of drugs into Australia by sea. They are set to be presented in various courts on Monday.

"Australia is a very attractive market for organised criminal groups to send drugs such as cocaine," Mr Jay said.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/australian-police-seize-record-cocaine-haul-worth-400m-as-mothership-remains-out-of-reach/ar-AA1v7f9V?ocid=mailsignout&pc=wsj.com&cvid=6931b5a230f14e9e8c58a568ab8ec682&ei=51

https://www.modernghana.com/news/407878/7/cassava-republic-can-be-creative.html

Cassava Republic Can Be Creative

Food has become one of the greatest saviors against weapons of mass destruction. Fortunately, many African countries have cassava and corn in abundance. During the last reign of Obasanjo in Nigeria, garri became more expensive than rice at a point. Many people started “throwing” curses at OBJ for turning poor man’s food into rich man’s food and rich man’s food into poor man’s food.

Ghana, Ijebu or Okrika garri competed well in and out of Africa as long as the price was right. One fact became obvious, poor men were struggling to buy garri even when at that point it was more expensive than rice. As Africans moved out to Europe and Americas, they bought garri at exorbitant prices by the bag no matter the price or where they have to drive to get it. Before then, they had to settle for wheat as garri or fufu

Nigeria has made it a necessity to promote cassava as part of bread instead of pure refined wheat imported into the Country. You would expect that since we now have abundance of cassava as one of the major producers, Nigerians would gladly embrace President Ebele for promoting it. Ignorance has crept into the acceptance of cassava in bread. Well, it could also be the fear of unknown.

Unfortunately, the refined wheat in white bread that most people love is just as bad as the fear of diabetes people pointed to in cassava. In the wheat producing countries, effort and public health education is on to switch to whole grain flour or multi-grain flour. It is very difficult to change habits in any country. But since people want to live longer, we are becoming receptive to food changes in our lifestyle.

Nutritionists tell us that refined food such as white bread is unhealthy and the more natural the food as garri, the better because of the content of the fiber. Suddenly some people now realize that cassava is starch and most of our food in Africa is starch. The same is true though in Asia countries where rice, a starch is part of main diet. The only difference in Europe and America is the amount of animal protein consumed with fries.

The days diaspora Africans clamored for European and American foods are coming to an end. Africans now buy garri in bulk where ever they are and if they cannot afford bulk purchase, buy with someone else and share. In those days, only rich people could afford to send food in abundance to relatives overseas. No more. The more educated Africans are, the more they realize that our foods are better as whole grain and unrefined.

If oyibo people want to buy their food whole grain and natural like ours, they have to go to specialties markets and stores. So we may be lucky at home where cassava can be turned into varieties retaining most of its fiber which is good for digestive system and helps the colon free and clean because of its rich fiber. Many of us eat these varieties of cassava, cocoyam and yam morning, noon and night. That may be overkill.

There was a governor that proudly proclaimed he only ate pounded yam three times a day. It all depends on what you eat the pounded yam with three times a day. There are orishirishi in of varieties of meat, fish and mixed vegetables that can compensate for the monotony of pounded yam. Yet most people do not complain about eating rice, French fries or white bread daily. Food is more an habit than a balanced diet.

Our schools of nutrition, chefs and mama-put-e must step up and be creative; so that we can appreciate what is grown and turned into finished product for consumption at home. Nigerians are kicking against inclusion of cassava in bread because we are used to refined flour. The producers of wheat are running away from refined flour for the same reason Nigerians are complaining about diabetes or high level of triglyceride from sugar.

Mama-put-e must learn variety from villages and schools. Africans also consume protein even if they can’t afford as much animal protein as the rich folks in their country. Beans are good source of protein and the variety of rich vegetables in African diet make up for the vitamins we need as part of a balanced diet. Beans are also prepared in variety of ways by turning it into flour mixed with ingredients to fry, bake and cook whole.

Just as important is the economic reason for finding variety of uses for our cassava. Nutritionists have advised us against too much protein since Atkins diet got some rich people that could afford it into trouble for eating meat all the way without side dish or “shocking” it with vegetables. Some claimed heart disease from too much animal fat killed Dr. Atkins. The lesson is, desist from old habit of egg, bacon and sausage daily.

Mediterranean diet made up of fruits, vegetables, fish and oils are highly recommended but it also points to the need for balanced diet. Europeans consume smaller portions but more frequently than Americans. They eat more pastries (white flour) rich in butter (fat) than Americans but are healthier? Indeed, nutritionists educate us it is unsaturated oil and fat we consume that matter as combination of fish rich in omega-3-6 fatty acids.

While preaching fruit and vegetables, friends cautioned on how dangerous fruits can be for those suffering from diabetes. Fruit is good because it has fiber to the sweet taste instead of empty calories of all-purpose corn syrup fructose in most food. But those suffering from diabetes must be careful of sweet diets anyway. This is why it is better to consult nutritionists instead of physicians without added training in nutrition.

If it all seems complicated, it boils down to moderation, smaller portion of food, colors in varieties. There is food in every country and there should be more in Africa where there are more arable lands than Europe and America. Since we refuse to appreciate our own, investors are coming from Asia, Europe and Americas to lease our land for 100 years so that they can grow food all year round and export them back to their contries.

United State is a Corn Republic. You can hardly taste anything in USA without corn. It is High Fructose Corn Syrup HFCS that rules the Country. Apart from corn oil, corn bread, corn meal, popcorn, it is fed to most animal products served on the table. Fructose HFCS has replaced sugar (sucrose) on food tables. Corn is also turned into methane added to petrol for cars. Needless to point out, it is highly subsidized by the US Government.

https://www.gamji.com/article9000/NEWS9750.htm

How much is their visa and ticket?

I am asking for the guys below

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1357630/stay-home-and-build-africa.html

STAY HOME AND BUILD AFRICA

Right now, in Europe, America and Asia; campaign against immigration has become the most probable or the surest way to win any election from local to national Houses. Even those who are first generation children of immigrants reject migrants from their parents’ countries. When Sunak became the Prime Minister of Britain, his Home Secretary Suella Braverman, both of Indian descent, rejected Asian migrants. They made plans to deport them to Rwanda.

Toni Iwobi, originally from Nigeria, says his election for the League in Italy shows the far right party has no problem with ‘legal migration”. One Nigerian-born Canadian Kelechi Madu alias Kaycee Madu became the Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Alberta, one of the provinces in Canada. Another British politician Kemi Badenock, the new Conservative British Leader was vilified for her slur against Nigerian immigrants as a descendant.

Italy's extreme Right party was able to recruit this Nigerian to implement their anti-migrant policy as the Conservative Party Attorney General in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It might remind some of you how anyone against Busing in the 70s was easily elected into office until Democrats got smarter. Willie Brown, the Speaker of the House in California was among the first that dumped for Busing.

Indeed, those Asian and African politicians embraced the most anti-immigrants' candidates in the European and American elections. Yet, Africans and Asians are still clamoring for their Promised Land in Europe and America. Their fellow Asians and Africans think they are crabs preventing other crabs from climbing out of the barrel. Just as the politicians think they are suffering from Stockholm syndrome against self-interest.

Some unscrupulous African businessmen are now promising and selling visas, school acceptance letters and migrants visas to desperate Youths yearning to go abroad by any means. Over 10,000 foreign students' acceptance letters may be fake according to a Canada immigration officer. One Nigerian lady was so disappointed, she wanted her fortune spent on an American visa back after she was rejected.

Visas process fees have become money making endeavors for European and North American countries. These are rich countries sucking on poor countries as usual. The UK Home Office has announced an increase in the monthly proof-of-funds requirement for student visa applicants, raising the amount to £1,483 (approximately N3 million) starting January 2, 2025. The universities want more foreign students they make money out of.

Glorifying foreign employees for working outside Africa after their graduation instead of returning home, is the same type of colo-mentality towards ready-made goods and services from abroad. Too many of us have been celebrating foreign-trained or employed people for too long. So much so, some of the pioneering universities across Africa are now losing ground to universities established abroad after them.

Africans have crossed other African countries on their final destination to Europe. When they get stuck in counties poorer than theirs, around the Sahara desert, they are deported back home. The first reaction in their own countries is: what the hell they were doing in countries far poorer than theirs in their quest for greener pastures. Those poorer countries around the desert were never destinations. Circumstances beyond their control blew them there like a strong wind.

West Africans have found themselves in this situation begging their home countries to rescue them from slavery, prostitution and organ butchers. Many of these desperate fortune seekers or reverse adventurers into the wild realize that they were better off at home than the people that enslave them “abroad”. Unfortunately, they have sold their property to buy visas and ports. Indeed, foreign visas are so hot without guarantees or cashback, rich countries make fortunes.

Yes, it sounds like slavery again but this time, Africans are the ones selling themselves abroad with their life savings or borrowed money. While Africans and people of goodwill fought against old slavery, these glorified slaves know what they are getting into because there are many stories warning them to stay home and build Africa. Believe it or not, after begging their countries to rescue them, some of these rescued gullible Africans try again!

African universities must be well equipped and university professors paid relatively well by African standards. But African teachers cannot compare their salaries to teachers in a different economy abroad. Many well-respected African professors in different fields including political economy, law and medicine came back home knowing full well they were going to get a drastic reduction in pay. This was how Africa made more progress immediately after Independence.

Now, we are regressing again. The pride of contributing and giving back were burning in the days of Marcus Garvey Back To Africa. While it is true that the children of Freedom Fighter have rejected the sacrifice of their parents to return home but emulate the exploitation of their people like the colonialists that enslaved them. We cannot forget the difference between modern glorification of slavery and the sacrifice of the Freedom Fighters.

There is this weird feeling in Africa about those who worked against all odds that they would never struggle against at home and succeed abroad. They claimed they have no such opportunity at home when in fact, they had more but would never work for it as they do abroad. They want to be spoon fed at home. But would never be as hardworking and trusted with any allocation at home. They know the consequences of abuse of position abroad.

Indeed, African successful men and women fear being caught in any blemish abroad except diehard career criminals. They are the ones that gain notoriety and give their countries bad names. Those ones are so well known, foreign criminal investigators can point to their country and ethnicity. Yet, there are more honest and hardworking Africans at home, unappreciated.

Source:

Any reasonable person reading very informative discussion on the first page before they got nasty and personal would agree that both are very intelligent.

However, ego and iasabi you got in the way between them dragging each other down. They are both advocating the same point but too much "tooknow" would not let them see the best points each made.

No matter how you cut or slice it, compensation for past wrongful acts in a disadvantageous relationship is recognized in law, morals and civilized society.

Even the mighty British (Empire) got reconstructed after the WARS by Americans and Europeans.

BUT when it comes to AFRICA, all hell and resistance break out looking for excuses, reasons and callousness why Reconstruction will not work in Africa as it did in Europe.

Indeed, got Reparations or whatever you want to call it from Haiti, bleeding the country up to this day. They did the same to French West Africa.

Think about:

Gold Standards nullification by fiat
Unfair Trade Practices
Structural Adjustments and Devaluations
Glorified Slavery Africans sell everything they have to get underemployed and waste their talents.

No Slavery No Developed World.

Brothers please see through your points and contributions to educate many of us.

Aunty Kemi has a deep problem.

I ed her rant against Nigerians who Japa and want to Japa thinking their Salvation is Abroad; because you cannot win in Europe and America if you do not stand against immigration, migrants and legal residents.

But claiming you cannot find a single Black into your shadow cabinet is a symton of a greater problem.

Can you imagine the backlash if Kemi were white

The ones you flattered outside Africa, where do you think the come from, space?

THEGALADIMA:
You need further concrete proof to back up your claims.

There Are More Talented Africans Inside Africa

The scramble for national cake by the new elite of Military brass and their political leaders have made the ants and Economists scrabbling for the accurate amount of money coming into the country and the amount of goods and services going out impossible. Any foreign country can enter Nigeria and other African countries with the of the Military: to establish mining, agriculture and factories without proper ability to the Local and Central Governments.

Therefore, countries with less resources and talented individuals are making more money in foreign and local incomes than Nigeria. Nigerian politicians and militricians have colluded with father and sons businesses like P&ID that lacked an aorta of the technical talents needed to enhance our budding resources just to defraud the country. What do these Vagabonds In Power do with the ill-gotten profit? They laundered it back abroad!


https://www.modernghana.com/news/1352426/enabling-environment-military-elites-armed-robbed.html

People like gaby,

Only a fool thinks he has a better chance of success in countries where people that look like you are at the bottom of the ladder below every ethnic group unless you are a member of the Untouchable from your village.

The only time some of them are happy is when they seize Power by force, tulasi or blackmail. Even then greed will not let them succeed.

They are known for their fatal attraction to money at any cost in every country in the world. Yet, they dance naked in the market place calling everyone jealous

Every reasonable citizen thinks about how to lift himself up in his country otherwise go to countries where they are waiting for foreign Salvation in Africa especially Nigeria; full of money launderers looking for partners.

This man. Nothing but sense comes out of him. Imagine leaders like these all over Nigeria instead those hate preachers looking for leadership they cannot get by votes.

Tinubu's wife God has blessed them, they don't need to steal anymore.

Bandit Turji wants to negotiate.

Pastor Adeboye apologized for tithes by tulasi.

Atiku still running.

Obi still running.

All their eyes on Nigeria's foreign income.

The African Honor System has been replaced by money first, second and third. No country or people that worshiped printed papers as a means of exchange for goods and services has ever prospered on others’ currencies they cannot print. Since there are alternate shortcuts to bying printed money or cash. One of the advantageous means is to increase printed money or reduce the value to cowries like Zimbabwe dollars to make their goods and services cheap.

Most times we forget that money is a promissory note, not the real property or goods. Many of us would do anything for money, not our community. Some Nigerians beseech the Ukrainian Embassy to fight for Ukraine. Other Africans would die for any country but theirs. Only some love the country more than money, by any means. Obsessive love of money has killed African ingenuities. When was the last time you heard a Nigerian say he would die for his country?

Who can believe that after 64 years of Independence, Nigeria cannot for the goods, products and natural resources leaving the country because most of these are diverted to private well known sticky hands of individual kleptomaniacs. These are Cabals all over the Country that are well established but have never been held responsible for their debilitating greed that kills the Nation and most of its people. Indeed, most of them dare their fellow politicians if elected as Presidents to prosecute them!

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/341127/let-africa-breathe.html

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/340370/some-blacks-prefer-white-glorified-slavery-to-these-african.html

SOME BLACKS PREFER WHITE GLORIFIED SLAVERY TO THESE AFRICAN LEADERS

What type of deprivation, branding or relative poverty has eaten so deep into Blackman’s psyche? So much so that in the midst of the most arable Continent flowing with diamonds, gold, uranium, oil, milk and honey; delusion and self-acculturation in and outside his community is more desirable and attractive. It goes beyond the masters of consumption but producers of very little at home.

It is difficult to distinguish one cabal from the other no matter the good intention of each. While some of us empathize with Dangote's effort to produce and refine petroleum products at home, many of us also realize that he is a member of the Cabals. Tinubu, another member of the Cabals was briefly hailed when he brought the naira to about a thousand to one dollar. As soon as his fellow Cabals realized this, they dug into their Naira storage in graves and warehouses.

So, even Tinubu could not control his fellow Cabals or bring them to their senses. It seems the competition has shifted to Tinubu versus Dangote on the price of refined petroleum. These two Cabals cannot settle their greed for the sake of Nigeria. There is more to this price of petroleum that has escaped the many capable hands for so many years. More Nigerians Dangote in this competition because of Tinubu’s interest in Oando Petroleum.

It has not sunk into Africans’ mentality or psyche that Africa is the only Continent left where they can throw off oppression and domination of their power and capacity. The only place where Black Wall Street can flourish without interruption. Black prosperity will always be interrupted outside of Africa where African men are part of the minorities and the least powerful. The hate is worldwide but when people that have suffered more than any other in the world engage in the same ugly behavior, they have not learned from our history.


Source

The way Igbo turned to ingrates in Lagos, no one anywhere would tolerate them. People know your history in Lagos and how you bit the fingers that fed you today.

So create as many treads as you wish, your present culture in your no man's land reveals who you are.

Lower, where is your source?

Before liberalized market we never had to worry about dollar or pound going up or down.

Only fools think they have control over money they neither print nor sell.

Dollar devaluation, floating and Bureau du Change have taken Nigeria and the rest of developing countries to abject poverty.

Those who advocated and benefited from liberalize market are few. Those who lost everything are most of us.

It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. These Youths and the elders that lead Nigeria astray cannot believe Dr. Harold Sodipo and FELA went to jail for FOREX we now used to measure the economy.

Who is going to stop the bandits in the Northern states from destroying themselves before spreading South or vice versa.

There is more to Power by any means necessary. It is the root of greed, ethnic violence, war and slavery.

Young people that should be obsessed with peaceful discoveries and civilized ways of life are obsessed with money by rituals, violence and terrorism.

Look at your village, city or State. Is it safe enough to turn the rest of the Country into.

God forbid bad thing.

Written far back then and still predictive today.

Foreign Salvation is the wish and goal of some Africans like you. Until Nigerians save themselves, no Blackman is free anywhere in the world.

Mr. Man, let me tell you. In that your Canada that you as the best country in the world, even the Asians come before you as you well know. They now discriminate against you in Canada.

During the days Nigerians used to get red carpet welcome in Canada and the rest of the world, the capital face of poverty were China, India and other Asian countries selling their children to eat.

Abject poverty has shifted to Nigeria where the curse off surplus foreign Oil Income created arrogance, laziness, conspicuous and ostentatious spending. People like you work two or three times as hard more than you would in Nigeria.

Unlike the whites, Indians and Chinese, you will lose your culture, wife and children. You dare not even protest as you would in Nigeria. Police will make means meat out of you.

There used to be some Black politicians, activists and professionals that were prominent in Canada. Today, they are silent looking for daily bread.

Africa, the only place a Blackman is respected.

Otherwise fool yourselves all you want, you hia!

DMerciful:
You're shortsighted and narrow-minded.

My family(myself and my wife) have more money combined than the money we had before we came. We have dual citizenship including our children so we can come to Nigeria and Canada as we like and the Canadian port gives us over 100 countries travel visa free.

You wanna talk about standard of living and healthcare?

Mind you almost 98% of Canadians are immigrants including the whites, they only came earlier!

The European Union made more than €53m ($58m; £45m) on rejected visa applications from African countries in 2023, according to a recent report by the Lago Collective, a think-tank that focuses on migration.

If you are one of those people who think that our forefathers were stupid to sell gold and people into slavery for mirrors; what would our grandchildren think of us?

Who is monitoring the truck loads of food sent to the States?

Let us hope they are not the same business men hoarding food for higher prices later.

Please educate us on how it was destroyed by Nigerian Government.

Some Nigerians copy some Americans blindly on when democracy works. Do that you cannot have it both ways.

In the last Election only one region voted in unison. Other regions were divided. Who is parochial?

Thank you. It did not make sense to me or add up. If they cannot count them, they can weigh them.

But in Nigeria, anything goes.

Pearl1910:
Is it a rule that bank tellers/cashiers don't count and confirm deposits from smaller denominations or mutilated notes?
Cos this scam doesn't add up, As a banker, if u sign off that money is complete and accept the deposit without confirming it, aren't u setting urself up?

Who called your name