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South African President Jacob Zuma has arranged a meeting with Nigerians and other African immigrants resident in the country.

The meeting is also expected to include nationals from Pakistan and Bangladesh.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by the South African Presidency, President Zuma will have an audience with the nationals affected in the xenophobic attacks in the country.

The statement said, “President Zuma will meet with organisations representing foreign nationals. President Jacob Zuma will on Friday, meet with leaders of organisations representing foreign nationals resident in the country at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria.

“The President will meet with leaders representing foreign nationals from within Africa and also Pakistan and Bangladesh. The meeting is part of building lasting partnerships with stakeholders in the country to ensure that the shameful attacks on foreign nationals do not recur in the country. Foreign nationals have for years been successfully integrated into many communities in the country and government thus seeks to gain lessons from these successes.”

Meanwhile, the Campaign for Democracy has condemned South African citizens’ attacks on Nigerians and other foreigners in South Africa, adding that the country’s government waited too long to stop the violence.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the President of the civil society group, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, said there was widespread feeling that the South African government had been “far too slow” to respond to the violence, which has erupted intermittently in various cities over the past few years.

Odumakin stated that the xenophobic attack was fallout of failure of the government to empower the people with wider access to education so that they will qualify for the jobs that they say they deserve but are being taken by foreigners.
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Department of State Security Service, (DSS), on Tuesday morning, arrested an ex-militant leader, Sobomabo Jackrich aka Egberipapa, in an Abuja Hotel, for a planned assassination plot of President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President David Mark and some unnamed top government functionaries.

Our correspondent gathered that officers of the DSS, acting on intelligence report arrested Egberipapa, who according to a source was masquerading under a false name at the time of the arrest, after months of nationwide manhunt.

Sources said that the suspect, who is a key ally of jailed factional leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigeria Delta (MEND), secretly entered Abuja last weekend evading the watchful eyes of security operatives.

The plot hatched by the ex-militant leader was to kill President Jonathan, Senate President in Abuja at a public function before the end of the Jonathan’s government on May 29.

“We have the ex-militant leader in our custody,” a top DSS operative said?.

Okah, who is presently serving jail term in a South African prison, was also accused of plotting the assassination of President Jonathan?.

Our correspondent’s investigations revealed that the DSS operatives uncovered the assassination plot via intelligence gathering and have been trailing the suspect in the last few months before he was eventually picked on Tuesday in Abuja.

Investigations revealed that the DSS has also arrested several other individuals in different parts of the country in connection to the assassination plot.

It was gathered that attempts by several influential Niger Delta leaders to intervene in the case have been rebuffed by the security agency.

It could however not be confirmed when the suspects would be taken to court for the crime.
http://www.frontiersnews.com/NG/?p=28629

The National Broadcasting Commission has started the process of issuing licences for the provision of Free View digital television content, which will be transmitted to Nigerian households.

In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Awwalu Salihu, said the regulatory agency, after detailed assessment of the current television market, observed serious gaps in the content available to serve the social and economic needs of Nigerians.

It therefore invited prospective service providers to submit proposals for meeting the gaps as a preliminary step towards applying for licences.

The regulatory agency categorised FTV digital television into several genres including general entertainment, kids, lifestyle, sports, movies/soaps/sitcoms, music, documentaries and factual/news.

It stressed that the channels would strictly comply with the programming mandates of the commission as well as the Nigerian Broadcasting Code and other conditions to be set out in the licence to be granted to successful applicants.

Salihu said, “In keeping with the commission’s laid down procedure, successful applicants shall be invited to formally apply for a licence to provide channel content in accordance with the National Brodacasting Act, the Nigeria Broadcasting Code and the Digital Terrestrial Television Regulations.”

He added that the proposals would be considered in a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory selection process measured against high quality domestic and international content channel appeal across a range of demographics
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padeolu:
These are places in Osogbo and not Ile Ife.

Those street names are also in Ile-Ife, when u tru Iremo or Aderemi road.

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, has called on his political associates to brace for an opposition role they will play in the next four years.

He also urged candidates at the Saturday’s governorship/state legislature elections to accept results of the polls.

He advised politicians to see the results as a reflection of the people’s will, which they must respect.

The party chieftain took to Twitter to give the advice on Sunday while results of the polls were being announced in different parts of the country.

In a series of tweets, Mu’azu urged politicians to be wary of the peace of Nigeria, saying they should be mindful of their role as builders.

His counsel was directed to all losers irrespective of their political parties. He, however, singled out PDP , directing them to prepare to offer Nigerians a robust opposition platform in the next four years.

“The huge task of rebuilding the party and providing the needed opposition is the new task ahead of you, I am very sure you can do that.

“We all have a country to build, not destroy. Our great party will play a major role in the next four years,” he tweeted.

The PDP leader urged losers to shun self-help even when they have genuine grievances. Rather than resorting to violence, he said, they should seek redress at election tribunals.

He said, “Do not attack perceived political opponents or those you feel might have compromised the electoral process. If you must protest against election results, use the election petition tribunals. Do not take the laws into your hands.

“We, as leaders, must always be mindful that the people have the final say in determining and deciding who govern them. As election results come in, remain peaceful and accept the will of the people.”

Mu’azu specifically called on ers of the PDP to remain calm and peaceful in the face of all odds.

Meanwhile, a former presidential candidate and publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, rose in defence of the Igbo who have been attacked on social media for allegedly mortgaging their chance to clinch senate presidency in the incoming istration.

Momodu said the Igbo never sold any chance but made a choice like other groups did.

Some tweeters, including one Bruce Valentine, sought to know the fate of Easterners, who he claimed sold their political prospect by voting en masse for the PDP’s candidate, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at the recent presidential poll.

But Momodu, an advocate of liberal politics, responded, “It will be great to see people rise above sectional and tribal sentiments. The Igbo sold nothing; democracy is about choice. Another chance will come.”

In another series of tweets, the publisher said he ed the President-elect, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to save the country from a further collapse and not for envisaged personal gain.

Momodu, whose Twitter following is over 500,000, keyed into his social media popularity to Buhari during the presidential campaign.

He called on Nigerians to bury the bitter memory of the campaign and move on as one indivisible people.

“Those who worked hard to block Buhari’s victory must be wondering what they did right or wrong and wishing they did otherwise. Today, I wish to publicly forgive all those ill-mannered kids who abused me and my parents just for exercising my right of free opinion.

“I did not Buhari because I wanted anything but because I realised we must arrest Nigeria’s speedy drift towards perdition. We should all forgive our bitter experiences and embrace one another as one people, while working for the overall good of our nation.”

He called on Nigerians to pray for the success of the incoming istration.

A former governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, said Nigerians should not doubt the ability of the Buhari istration to deliver on its promises.

“With the quality of people Nigerians have elected to serve them, we have no excuse to fail. We must complement that by appointing sound minds,” he tweeted on Sunday.

Saraki pledged to maintain the discussion he has had with his Twitter followers, saying the platform is one of the best “places to feel the pulse of the nation.”
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Decale:
That's why I have so much respect for the northerners....
They've got the ion cos they believe their individual votes count

This past presidential election saw old men and women coming to vote, some on wheelchair, even one left the hospital just to vote for who they believe in

But you come to the south east on the d-day, you see one in his shop selling spare parts, one hawking bread while the remaining ones are in their homes thanking Jehovah for a public holiday while playing draft

And yet we Igbos will complain about rigging when we didn't the candidates by coming out en masse. Na why my fellow indigenes don proclaim another state they're squatting a No Man's Land.....

That's why Buhari won....
And that's why Ambode will win

P.S: I'm Igbo but voted the right candidate: Baba

I actually like your comment, your people are right to some extent but for the way they went about it...I look forward to a nigeria where ethnicity or region will no longer matter in developing our country.

PenSniper:



Shut up, fool.

You just showed how myopic you are...let there be peace!

PenSniper:



Shut up, fool.

You just show how myopic you are...let there be peace!

Texcoco:
This is a call and the time for all igbos to stock up arms and ammunition,your awka-made,your stainless,your mgbo should be brought to speak in your defence...This is Lagos,a comspolitan city that has become not only no man's land but a home for all.We urge all igbos to take precaution in this democracy,come out in your thousands,vote PDP and however way the fighting starts,stand tall and defend your keep...Your brothers in the east have been notified and have identified choice targets who will be drowned in the River Niger when the fighting begins...

What a nice defense you put up there, but that one person cannot speak the mind of everyone when it comes to politics.
And for you to be claiming that Lagos is now no mans land, you may be right to some extent but the fact still remains that it is still a Yoruba territory, can you say that of Abuja or Onitsha? How many non tribe can the south east boast of to be working in its public sector? Rather Abia state even went ahead to even sack non abia Indigene in its workforce...to cap it all, please tell the south south that the oil in their region is no mans own.
My basic point is we should all see ourselves as one Nigeria where our nationality comes before tribe. Thank you

The front page said it all.