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Nigerian Government Considers Retaliatory Measure for any Country that delays visas for Nigerians18/10/2017 As an outcome of a meeting held by top government officials, attended by Interior Minister Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mohammed Babandede, the Federal Government has stated it's dissatisfaction at the way Nigerians are treated by foreign embassies.
Dambazau said it has become an embarrassment and that other countries should not be allowed to think Nigerians need them more than they need Nigerians. Hence, any country that delays visa for Nigerian nationals will have the same meted out to their nationals coming to the country. After failing to secure an outright majority in last week's presidential election in Liberia, 51-year-old former World Footballer of the Year, George Weah, will slog it out with 73-year-old Vice President Joe Boakai in a face-off that promises to be intriguing. The political horse-trading has already begun ahead of 7 November run-off, with both candidates trying to win over the 18 others they defeated. It is not clear immediately which way the alliances will go to produce the country¹s first democratic transfer of power in several generations.
In what seems to be a fight between young and older voters, Mr Boakai, the ruling party candidate, hopes to score a hat-trick against a football legend who hopes to be third time lucky. Mr Weah obtained 39% and Mr Boakai 29% of votes cast in Tuesday after nearly all polling stations were counted. SA gunmen shoot dead family
Five people from the same family have been shot and killed in Mariannhill near Pinetown, in South Africa's troubled coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal. Police said unknown gunmen opened fire at the family’s home last night at around midnight. Four men were killed at the scene and a woman later died in hospital. Capt Nqobile Gwala said: “We have opened five counts of murder for further investigation. The motive for the murders is still unknown. “This is the second attack this week following the killing of eight people in Matimatolo.” On Tuesday, gunmen entered two homes next to each other in Matimatolo village near Greytown. Capt Gwala appealed to community members to assist the police and urged them “not to take matters into their own hands”. KwaZulu-Natal has experienced a spate of political killings in recent months but it is not entirely clear whether these latest killings are linked to politics. |
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