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EDITORIAL THE AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL IS ABOUT TO BE BORN ON 16TH MAY
Our new pan-African magazine called - THE AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL- will be unveiled on the 16th May at the Irish Writers Centre. The time starts at 3pm to 6pm. The South African Ambassador, H.E. Mr. Ahlangene Cyprian Sigcau, will Chair the formal launch. The new pan-African magazine hope to drive African view points around the globe. It intends to touch on issues that are often neglected by all. However, the magazine shall seek to sensitize all about the true state of things in the continent. Most importantly, the magazine will focus on politics and the socioeconomic well-being of Africans and those interested in the continent. Though it will be a brief function but we promise a lively one, including, mild cultural dance, banters and good wine. So come and be a witness to the unveiling of the first edition. Come in Uka
IRELAND TOP BLOGGER AWARDED JUSTICE OF PEACE “I have always had a penchant for a good idea especially when the idea is imbued with tremendous precision that ultimately serves the purpose of its intent. For me, the idea of good hospitality for artistes and event goers that is focused on their wellbeing is a very good idea”, Amb. Vickie Robert Okere. The Vickie Robert Hospitality Outfit, a world class hospitality company based in Dublin, was established in 2011 by Amb. Victoria Okere, AfricaWorld talked to her after the investiture in Abuja as a Justice of Peace. Excerpt: AFRICAWORLD NEWSPAPER: What is the full title of the recognition and can you enlighten our readers more? AMB.VICKIE ROBERT OKERE: The full title of my recognition is Ambassador for Peace (AFP). The Ambassadors for Peace Initiative,has become the world’s largest and most diverse network of peace leaders. They come from all walks of life representing all races, religions, nationality and cultures, and commit themselves to: Stand on the common ground of universal moral principles, committed to promoting reconciliation, overcoming barriers, and building peace. Form a global network of leaders representing the religious, racial, and ethnic diversity of the human family, as well as all disciplines of human endeavor. Participate in peace initiatives and programs that promote reconciliation and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality. Promote and practice the ethic of “living for the sake of others” as the guiding principle for building world
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peace and a global community. AWN: What is the significance of the Ambassadorial Award? AMB: The Ambassadorial award is an Ambassador for Peace award. The award is as significant as the need for peace is. The award came from an international NGO called the Universal Peace Federation, which has a special consultative status at the UN. I think that this award is a special calling to do more for a peaceful world and for my nation to become a nation of peace. As you know, everyone without exception is yearning for peace despite the situation of our troubled world. So, as an Ambassador for Peace, I have been “ordained” as a champion of peace. AWN: How did they arrive at the choice of a top blogger in Ireland? AMB: The award was a special feature of an event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of N i g e r i a ’s amalgamation. The organizers were looking out for exemplary Nigerians, preferably couples, who have shown commitment to national unity and peace. The Nigerian organizers identified my husband and I and we were contacted. They had their criteria and I think we met the criteria as it was not about money at all. AWN: You combine your job as a nurse with blogging and celebrity hospitality service, how easy is that? AMB: I must confess, I sometimes pause and ask myself on how I’ve been able to joggle all these things but I have come to realise that, when you are passionate about what you do, it then becomes easy! I bless God for
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giving me an understanding family who believes in my dream. AWN: You recently returned from Nigeria, how is the country in view of the Boko Haram onslaught? AMB: The Boko Haram onslaught is a very terrible and unfortunate situation. I am hopeful that the Nigerian government with all of us shall eventually overcome their activities. AWN: What are your plans now that you have moved up? AMB: I want to use this new international recognition to create a positive image for Nigeria here in Ireland and work to support peace initiatives in Nigeria. I believe that we all need to work together to make Nigeria, a peaceful nation AWN : Tell our readers more about you AMB: Amb.Vickie is a wife, mother to two lovely boys, Self -motivated team player in the Hospitality Industry, Event Hospitality /PR Expert, Blogger, Head of Hospitality Nigeria Carnival Ireland, Ireland Correspondent for the Bisi Olatilo Show, Founder CEO of VickieRobert Foundation(NGO) and International Media Partner of Artiste Managers’ Association in Nigeria, (AMAN). Nursing Specialties: Dementia care, CPR, Infection Control, Wound management, Manual Handling, Care Planning, Massage, Community Health promotion, Community Drug Addiction, Colo-
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ALGERIA
A l g e r i a ’s President AbdelazizBouteflika has won a fourth term in office taking more than 81% of the vote, authorities have said. Coalition of Islamist and secular opposition parties had called for a boycott, describing the election as a sham.
ANGOLA
The Fundo Soberano de Angola is starting investments in hotels and commercial infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.The fund, based in Luanda, may invest in 50 sub-Saharan African hotels over three years, including in its home country, Chairman Jose Filomeno dos Santos said.
BENIN
The Netherlands will give Benin USD 67 million for water and sanitation projects through 2017, Ambassador Jos van Aggelen said. The assistance is aimed to promote “sustainable social and economic access to water and sanitation services,” van Aggelen said.
BOTSWANA
A Botswana Police Service helicopter has gone missing in the North-west district of the country, the police hasconfirmed.Authorities said the helicopter had on board two pilots and an airborne law enforcement officer at the time of its disappearance.
rectal and stoma care, Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Elderly Care Recreational Activities, ASSIST suicide intervention. Awards: Power List 100 most Influential Africans in Ireland (2012), AfricaWorld Newspaper Ireland: Un sung Heroine Recipient (2012/2013), NUBA 2013 Nominee for UK entrepreneur,Ankara Carnival Ireland 2012/2013 Recognition Award ,Nigerian Carnival Ireland 2012/2013 Recognition Award. Professional Membership: Àn Bord Altranais, Irish Nurses Organisation, Inclusion Ireland Alzheimer’s Society Ireland,Irish Red Cross Society,Nursing And Midwifery Council UK,United Peace Federation Nigeria AWN: Can you enlighten us more
about your celebrity hospitality service? AMB: VickieRobert Hospitality (VRH) is a full-service artiste hospitality management company offering a suite of personalized services for visiting artists and celebrities.Based in Ireland, the company offers a full range of services specifically-tailored to meet the unique needs of the visiting celebrity including: - Health and medical services – Clients complete confidential health questionnaires on arrival to alert the company of special medical needs - Massage and Reflexology – A certified Massage Therapist is attached to the Client during their stay in Ireland to provide muchneeded therapeutic massage and reflexology services - Nutrition – An onsite professional Nutritionist caters to the client’s specific nutritional needs
BURKINA FASO
Supporters of Burkina Faso’s leader rallied to press for a referendum on removing limits to presidential terms. His supporters have said he wants to extend his rule, though he has not publicly stated his plans. Blaise Compaore has been in power since leading a coup in 1987.
BURUNDI
Paul Debbie, security chief at the UN office in Burundi, was ordered to leave the country after a report claimed the government was arming young supporters ahead of elections. The expulsion was in connection to a UN report containing “allegations of weapons distribution”, Foreign Minister, Laurent Kavakur, told the AFP news agency.
CAMEROON
Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques, the government of Cameroon has alleged. These allegations were published in a report made by US-based online military news agency, StrategyPage.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC The United Nations refugee agency said that it was working with 14 other humanitarian relief groups to seek $274 million in donations to support the refugees in the Central African Republic. More than 600,000 people were displaced inside this country since the conflict began.
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GOSSIP If We Always Feel Cheated in a Relationship In a relationship, married or not… You In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want should read this. anything from me, but needed a month’s “When I got home that night as my wife notice before the divorce. She requested served dinner, I held her hand and said, that in that one month we both struggle I’ve got something to tell you. She sat to live as normal a life as possible. Her down and ate quietly. Again I observed reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t the hurt in her eyes. want to disrupt him with our broken Suddenly I didn’t know how to open marriage. my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised This was agreeable to me. But she had the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be something more, she asked me to recall annoyed by my words, instead she asked how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that me softly, why? every day for the month’s duration I carry I avoided her question. This made her her out of our bedroom to the front door angry. She threw away the chopsticks and ever morning. I thought she was going shouted at me, you are not a man! That crazy. Just to make our last days together night, we didn’t talk to each other. She bearable I accepted her odd request. was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. I told Jane about my wife’s divorce But I could hardly give her a satisfactory conditionsShe laughed loudly and thought answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I it was absurd. No matter what tricks she didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her! applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully. With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she My wife and I hadn’t had any body could own our house, our car, and 30% contact since my divorce intention was stake of my company. She glanced at it explicitly expressed. So when I carried and then tore it into pieces. The woman her out on the first day, we both appeared who had spent ten years of her life with clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for is holding mommy in his arms. His words her wasted time, resources and energy brought me a sense of pain. From the but I could not take back what I had said bedroom to the sitting room, then to the for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she door, I walked over ten meters with her cried loudly in front of me, which was in my arms. She closed her eyes and said what I had expected to see. To me her cry softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. was actually a kind of release. The idea I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put of divorce which had obsessed me for her down outside the door. She went to several weeks seemed to be firmer and wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office. clearer now. The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.
On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken
its toll on her. For a minute I wondered mind…I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, what I had done to her. I do not want the divorce anymore. On the fourth day, when I lifted her She looked at me, astonished, and up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten then touched my forehead. Do you years of her life to me. On the fifth and have a fever? She said. I moved her sixth day, I realized that our sense of hand off my head. Sorry, Jane, I said, intimacy was growing again. I didn’t I won’t divorce. My marriage life was tell Jane about this. It became easier to boring probably because she and I carry her as the month slipped by. didn’t value the details of our lives, Perhaps the everyday workout made me not because we didn’t love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I stronger. carried her into my home on our She was choosing what to wear one wedding day I am supposed to hold morning. She tried on quite a few dresses her until death do us apart. Jane but could not find a suitable one. Then seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave she sighed, all my dresses have grown me a loud slap and then slammed the bigger. I suddenly realized that she had door and burst into tears. I walked grown so thin, that was the reason why downstairs and drove away. At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a I could carry her more easily. bouquet of flowers for my wife. The Suddenly it hit me… she had buried salesgirl asked me what to write on so much pain and bitterness in her heart. the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry Subconsciously I reached out and you out every morning until death do us apart. touched her head. Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mom out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day. But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy. I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my
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That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed – dead. My wife had been fighting CANCER for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce.— At least, in the eyes of our son—- I’m a loving husband… The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!
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RETURN OF THE NATIVE UKACHUKWU OKORIE We often forget the labour of our heroes in the past and present. Although many have continue to distinguish themselves for the progress of Africa and humanity. This column excavates positives in the toils and vicissitudes of men and women of great character, thereby helping to ignite a new flame in our champions today. It is as hot as the basic menu in the Irish Chipper. Get addicted to it. AFRICAWORLD NEWS DIRECTOR ABDUL YUSUF
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CHAD
Nigeria has contributed the sum of $5,000,000 for the feasibility study to restore Lake Chad Basin, national authorities have said. The amount would be used for feasibility studies for Water Transfer from Central Africa Republic to the lake.
CONGO-BRAZZA-
Congo is negotiating with the South African mining company, Exxaro, and other financial institutions for the rehabilitation of 285 kilometres of a railway. This line is part and parcel of the Congo-Ocean railway system and is in a state of dilapidation that makes traffic difficult.
DJIBOUTI
Djibouti is sending a gendarmerie contingent to the Central African Republic (CAR), Minister of Foreign Affairs has announced after a meeting with the African Union. He added that the Djiboutian troops will “train and give guidance to the police and
EGYPT Egyptian politician Hamdeen Sabahi has officially submitted his candidacy for the presidential elections. Mr Sabahi, a left-winger, is so far the only challenger to former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Correspondents say he is likely to win the presidency, given his popularity.
MADAGASCAR Madagascar has launched an emergency operation to prevent a stricken tanker from unleashing 10,000 cubic metres of crude oil into the postcard-perfect Emerald Sea off the country’s north coast.The 120-metre vessel has bust one of its two hulls, according to national authorities.
MALAWI
Malawi: The first televised presidential debate in Malawi has been ignored for the current President Joyce Banda who is running for a new term. In a statement, her party said that “she could not attend those debates. This is a campaign period and she is busy reaching out to the people.” MALI
French troops in Mali have freed five aid workers who were kidnapped in the north of the country in February. Four of them worked for the Red Cross. At the time, it was reported that they were kidnapped by the Mujao Islamist militant group.
British Expert on Terrorist Group Boko Haram to Open Achebe Colloquium 2014 An International gathering of scholars, artists, musicians, writers, and officials will gather at Brown University May 1-3, 2014, to discuss and celebrate the cultural contributions of Chinua Achebe, the late Nigerian novelist and the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies at Brown, who died in March 2013 at the age of 82. Achebe started the colloquium in 2009 to bring attention to issues affecting Africa. On Thursday May 1, 2014, Elizabeth Donnelly, Assistant Head and Research Fellow, Africa Program, Chatham House, - The Royal Institute of International Affairs- London, Great Britain; will deliver the opening address at the Colloquium. Her talk will focus on Boko Haram -what is known, what is not known, and the implications and what can be done.” The event begins at 5:30 p.m. According to the Washington Post “More than 1,500 people have been killed so far this year in attacks blamed on the Nigerian radical group Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden” in the local Hausa language. The terrorist network’s mission is to force an Islamic state on Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation of some 170 million people divided almost equally between Muslims living mainly in the north and Christians in the south.” Following Ms. Donnelly’s address, she will join a panel discussion Perspectives of Security: Networks, trafficking and Terrorism in Africa with Ambassador Walter Carrington, Former US Ambassador to Nigeria and Senegal; Ambassador John Campbell, Former US Ambassador to Nigeria and a U.S. State Department Representative
discourse on contemporary issues facing the African continent while examining the impact of the late Chinua Achebe’s writings on modern African literature and world literature as a whole. The deliberations will take place in List Art Center auditorium, 64 College St, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. Speakers at this year’s colloquium include Lynn Innes, professor emerita of English at the University of Kent and author of an analysis of Achebe’s works; Simon Gikandi, professor of English at Princeton University; Bernth Lindfors, professor emeritus of English at the University of Texas– Austin and a leading scholar of African literature; Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangaremgba; Giyatri Spivak, literary theorist and professor at Columbia University; David Palumbo-Liu, professor of comparative literature at Stanford University; Michael Thelwell, Jamaican novelist and author of The Harder They Come; and Vijay Kumar, professor of English at Osmania University in India. Brown President Christina Paxson will deliver a welcome address and Alhaji Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, executive governor of the Kano State in Nigeria, will give Saturday’s closing keynote address. Abena P.A. Busia, associate professor of English and co-director of the Women Writing Africa Project at Rutgers University, will serve as Mistress of Ceremony throughout the colloquium. Sessions include a roundtable
The Moderator, Professor Donna A. Patterson, is a scholar of Africana area studies at Wellesley College.
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The evening will showcase performances by singers from the Sri Chinmoy Centre; Ohafia war dancers from Abia State; a poetry, music, and song collage by South Africa’s Sindiswa Seakhoa. Thursday’s opening event will usher in high level intellectual
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reflection on Achebe’s life by his close friends and colleagues, the impact of Achebe’s writing on the world; the conflict between poet and emperor as reflected in Achebe’s writings, Achebe as a crusader of social justice and a panel discussion on Achebe’s influence on hip hop music. Over the three day event other significant performances from Nigerian playwright Tess Onwueme; Afro roots musical group Eme and Heteru; and power poetry by Ikeogu Oke with instrumentalist Osuji Ngozi Michael will be featured. This will be Brown’s fifth Achebe Colloquium on Africa. The 2012 colloquium focused on governance, security and solutions to peace in Africa. The 2011 colloquium explored several challenges facing the region, including the Arab Spring and the crisis in Darfur. The 2010 colloquium focused attention on three African nations — Rwanda, Congo, and Nigeria — and the crucial issues impacting the countries, the continent, and the world. The inaugural 2009 colloquium addressed the problems and prospects of the 2010 Nigerian elections. This year’s colloquium schedule and other details are available online at www. brown.edu/conference/achebecolloquium/. Editors: Brown University has a fiber link television studio available for domestic and international live and taped interviews, and maintains an ISDN line for radio interviews. For more information, call (401) 863-2476. Media Contact: Courtney Coelho | 401-863-7287
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MAURITANIA Mauritania’s president, who initially took power in a coup, announced that he will run again in upcoming elections. Mauritanians will go to the polls on 21st of June..
Shatter Resigns: Taoiseach to Announce Replacement Withing 24 Hours
MOZAMBIQUE
Mozambique: Mozambique has increasingly become a hub for moving illegal drugs from Latin America to Europe, the international police agency Interpol warned. Ronald Noble, Interpol secretary-general, said that they would help Mozambique fight the narcotics trade during his visit to the country. NAMIBIA
Parliamentary committee research into the abuse of alcohol in Namibia has revealed widespread misuse of money by pensioners on liquor and called for controls on traditional alcohol brews. The situation was said to be worse at Kayirayira and Ekoka villages, the
NIGERIA The BBC reported that 223 Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after being abducted last week, according to a source that they interviewed. This number is far from the official figures. Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the kidnapping.
Mr Shatter stepped down after a way in which such controversy can series of scandals related to be avoided is by my offering you my complaints from a Garda resignation.” whistleblower dogged his last few The report on the McCabe affair is months in office. to be published on Friday morning. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Mr confirmed it in the Dáil saying he Shatter resigned after the report had resigned after getting the report found him to be “inadequate” in his of Seán Guerin into Sergeant Maurice obligation to be independent in his McCabe’s allegations. investigation of the whistleblower The 300-page independent review allegations. of allegations of wrongdoing and “The Minister having read the
RWANDA
“If anyone had put it to the Taoiseach five or six years ago when he was in opposition he would have laughed and said ‘Why in God’s name are you asking me that? Fine Gael are the party of law and order’.”
SENEGAL
Senegal’s former president Abdoulaye Wade made a controversial return to his homeland after his plane was held up in Morocco, with supporters claiming foul play by his political rivals. Wade moved to France after a bitter defeat to arch rival and current leader MackySall.
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Mr Wallace had called for Mr Shatter to stand down and said the Taoiseach and Labour’s continuing defence of Mr Shatter was undermining their own support among the public. Deputy Wallace had said he wants to know if what the Minister did is acceptable. “Is it ok if the Minister for Justice of the day is allowed to break the law, be it a civil law, and remain in office?” he said.
: The diplomat who was president of the U.N. Security Council in April 1994 apologized recently for the council’s refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people
A woman from Sierra Leone who finished 20th in Sunday’s London Marathon has gone missing following the race, police said. MamiKonneh Lahun, 24, was due to fly home on 14 of April but did not return to her accommodation after the race. Police said she had no known links to the UK.
the Maurice McCabe dossier. It comes as Mick Wallace considers legal action against Mr Shatter after the Data Protection Commissioner last night found that the former Justice Minister broke the law last year with comments about the independent TD.
The Data report and considered its implications Protection Commissioner’s ruling relates malpractice in the force has found inadequate investigation and analysis has sent me his resignation which I to a RTÉ Prime Time programme last of the issues raised by serving have accepted with regret,” he said. year, when Mr Shatter and Mr Wallace appeared alongside each other to debate Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Mr Kenny said he did not demand the penalty points issue. Mr Shatter has taken responsibility Mr Shatter’s resignation and added Mr Shatter revealed information which for it since the report is critical of the that he was not expecting anyone else to stand down over the he said he received verbally from the Department of Justice as well as a controversy. then garda commissioner, Martin number of other agencies. Callinan. The Government is now expected In his resignation letter (below) Mr to set up a full-scale State inquiry The data protection commissioner Shatter said: “I am anxious that any into the affair. found that Mr Callinan did not breach controversy that may arise on the act, but that the minister was bound publication of the report does not Mr Kenny says he will announce by “obligations of non-disclosure” of distract from the important work of Mr Shatter’s replacement in Cabinet “personal data”. the Government or create any difficulties for the Fine Gael or later this evening or tomorrow A spokesman for the Taoiseach had Labour parties in the period leading morning. last night said Enda Kenny has in the European and local government He explained why Mr Shatter confidence in Mr Shatter. elections. decided to go after reading the Guerin “It is my judgment that the only report into Garda misconduct from
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C ORA LIE CA LOU Name: Coralie Calou Occupation: Student School: loreto College Crumlin Country: Mauritius Hobbies: Modeling, baking, play basketball, fashion Achievement: Junior Cert Result
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CLLR BRÍD SMITH I S S U E S W I T H R AC I S M
Cllr Bríd Smith is the People Before Profit Alliance candidate in the European elections on May 23. She spoke at the recent anti-racist demonstration organised by the Anti-Racist Network on 22 March and says that in her experience as a Dublin City “I am running for People Before Profit candidate for Dublin in the Euro elections in order to fight against the injustice being inflicted on the Irish people. The EU is a very elitist institution dominated by politicians who serve the interests of the big corporations, the banks and the rich. Since 2008 it has inflicted huge injustice on the ordinary people in this country in order to bail out the Irish and European banks. Prompted by the EU Commission and the European Central Bank, along with the IMF, we have had six years of cutbacks and austerity culminating in the unfair water charges If am elected I will be a voice standing challenging these policies, priorities and standing up for interests of the ordinary people of Ireland. But when I say the people of Ireland I mean all the people living here, regardless of race, colour or nationality. Combating racism As a Dublin City Councillor for five years I have encountered racism – against Africans, Eastern Europeans, Muslims, Travellers and so on – in many forms. I have always made it my business to fight against racism and will continue to do so in the EU parliament. I reject completely the idea that Ireland’s many economic and social problems, for example our lack of jobs and affordable housing, are caused by the presence here of ‘foreigners’. Some politicians and newspapers encourage this prejudice and you hear it out there on the streets, but it is totally wrong. Ireland had even higher unemployment in the 1930s and 1980s when there was no immigration and for the same reason we have it now– economic recession in which businesses lay people off or don’t hire them because they won’t invest. There is no real shortage of houses in Ireland, large numbers of houses stand empty, just a shortage of houses people can afford. This is not caused by there being too many people – black or white, Irish or ‘foreign’ - but by poverty and government policies. What we need is not racist discrimination or scapegoating but government action to create more jobs and social housing for all. Far from being a threat to Irish society I believe immigrants enrich it with their knowledge, skills, labour and vibrant different cultures.
The EU with its policy of ‘Fortress Europe’ designed particularly to keep out immigrants from Africa contributes to the spread of racist attitudes. If elected I will oppose this policy and work on the principle that immigrants should be welcome here in Ireland and throughout Europe – which, after all, grew rich out of the exploitation of Africa and the rest of the Third World. Asylum seekers, refugees and direct provision A particular injustice that flows from this fortress Europe attitude is Ireland’s (and Europe’s) shameful treatment of asylum seekers. Anyone who comes here as a refugee is immediately treated with suspicion and hostility and far too many applications are turned down. Approximately 95% of asylum seekers get their applications rejected, the highest rate of rejection of any EU member. Between 2005 and 2012, 2,259 people were deported from Ireland, including 973 Nigerians. This is shameful. Also unfair and oppressive is the system of direct provision which prevents asylum seekers working while waiting for their applications to be processed and condemns them to the extreme poverty of living on only €19.10 a week, with only €9.60 per child, in wretched hostel-type accommodation. Many families are kept on Direct Provision for appallingly long periods, many years in some cases, so that children grow up in these dreadful conditions.
earlier this year. People power and resistance. I see fighting racism as an integral part of the overall struggle against an unjust system. At the start of this article I spoke of ‘standing up for the interests of the ordinary people’. If elected I will do this to the best of my ability in the European Parliament and I will aim to be voice for working people and all the downtrodden and oppressed. But challenging any of the many injustices in this society involves more than just having a strong voice in the European Parliament, the Daíl or the council chamber. It needs ordinary people to take action themselves, to come out on to the streets in protest, to let the council, the government and the European Commission and Parliament see the meaning of real people power. This is why I say to the readers of Africa World, in the words of the great Bob Marley, ‘Stand up! Stand up for your Rights!’.” A Pledge If elected I pledge to take only the average workers wage and to donate the rest of the huge MEP salary to campaigning for the rights of the people.
I am opposed to Direct Provision and call for asylum seekers to be allowed to work and live in the community. Like immigrants as a whole they are not a threat but a potential benefit to our society. Racist attacks. Another vicious feature of racism in our society are physical and verbal racist attacks and abuse in the streets, on people’s homes and on their businesses. African taxi drivers are particularly subject to abuse and discrimination. These should be properly dealt with by the police but People Before Profit believes that more than just a police response is required. We also need a collective response from people in the local community to show solidarity with the victims of racist attacks and to make clear to the racists that their behaviour is unacceptable. I and my party, People Before Profit, have often been involved in helping to organise such anti-racist actions, for example against a racist attack on a shop in Tallaght and the racist threatening letter sent to the Mosques
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Bríd Smith People Before Profit Alliance Candidate for MEP for Dublin
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PHOTONEWS
NEW SOUTH AFRICAN AMBASSADOR HOST DIGNITARIES ON FREEDOM DAY H . E . M r. A h l a n g e n e C y p r i a n S i g c a u , A m b a s s a d o r o f t h e R e p u b l i c o f S o u t h A f r i c a , a c c o m p a n i e d b y h i s w i f e , M r s . Vu y o k a z i S i g c a u , E m b a s s y S t a f f , South Africans living in Ireland hosted dignitaries in Dublin.
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NEWS By Koketso Mohotloane
SUDAN Sudan has denounced the killing of Sudanese nationals after South Sudanese rebels took control of the Unity state capital of Bentiu earlier this month. Khartoum further accused Juba of using Sudanese rebel groups in its fight against
TUNISIA Tunisia’s elected assembly accepted a petition to question the tourism minister over a decision allowing Israelis to use their passports to enter the country for an annual religious pilgrimage. Tunisia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
WESTERN SAHARA
A U.S.-drafted resolution that would renew the U.N. peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara urges all sides to respect human rights. However, according to a text obtained by Reuters news agency, the draft does not ask the United Nations to monitor abuses.
ZAMBIA Gender and Child Development Minister, Inonge Wina, has implored Southern African Developing Community member countries to adopt more women candidates in view of the next elections. She also said women were less-represented in Zambia and that inequality was at the centre of the marginalisation of women.
ZIMBABWE : Zimbabwe is weighing the reintroduction of the national currency in favor of the U.S. dollar, three members of the ruling party’s decision-making body have said. Zimbabwe abolished its national currency in 2009 after inflation surged to 500
CONTROVERSIAL BLOGGER ESTHER TOKUNBO ABODERIN SPITS FIRE The publisher of Esabod blog is one blogger you cannot afford to ignore. Blunt, contentious, Esther makes you think, and AfricaWorld TV spoke to her. Here is part of the interview:
minutes. I am very transparent. Blogging is just a way of letting go of whatever is on your mind, just blurting your thoughts out onto a web page when you feel the need.
Can you tell us a bit about your background?
What do you blog about?
My Name is Esther Tokunbo Abodern, I am 53 years old and I live in Co. Kildare with my Children. I am the Editor & Publisher of Esabod blog. I love working as a writer, I am presently writing a book titled “Husband From Hell” Actually, it will be my first novel to be published. My Family owns the Punch newspaper company in Nigeria. I studied IT and Mass Communication at CMI You are one of the top bloggers in Ireland, how did you arrive at the scene? My idea of blogging is so weird and amazing. I am an outspoken and bold person that love to share my feelings to others. As a humanitarian activist, I want my voice to be heard within Africans in Ireland. I dislike dishonest people. I love straightforward people, and people who are down-to-earth. I love open-minded people because I can proudly say I am one. If someone offends me, I walk up to that person and tell him how I feel and I forget it immediately. But some individuals would harbor grudges in their minds. Honestly, I am like a book; one can read me in just five
I am a Global news blogger and blogs African lifestyle in Disapora. Are you a professional blogger or you do combine it with another profession? I am a professional blogger and a web designer What is the difference between being an Ireland based top blogger and Nigeria? There really should not be a difference, and at the same time, a difference. Blogging is a matter of what topic or issue you want to blog about - politics, gossips, academics, football, sports, celebrities, etc In Nigeria, all these types of blogs exist, as they do in Ireland. In fact, since the Internet is a world-wide, global medium, then that means there really should not be any difference. But in Nigeria, due to our underdevelopment, the difference is ACCESS to the Internet to read or write blogs. Where do you go from here? I did not stumble into Blogging by accident.
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It is something I wanted to do and I hav realised it. I want to take it to the leve where access to my blogs and th information I give will be transmuted int a media component, that is either as magazine, newspaper or television or radi program which will be known, appreciate and respected worldwide for the qualit and professionalism of their products an services to humanity in general and Nigeria my country, in particular, without prejudic to religion, political leanings and ethnicity What are your hobbies?
I love watching movies, reading an swimming.
Any other information about yoursel and blog for our readers?
Never change who you are in order to mak others comfortable with who they are.
Never ever give anybody in this world th power to make you hate yourself or th power to make you feel you’re not goo enough, deserving enough, and make yo believe you won’t amount to anything. Th only Being that has the right to judge yo is God. Anyone else can try but don’t pa them any attention.
There’s absolutely nothing you can’ achieve. All you need is will, drive incredible courage and a lot of faith
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IT
Control the usage limit for your kid on Apple Mac platform Control the usage By UCHENNA ONYENAGUBO
In the screen, there are option to select the tab (Apps, Web, People, Time Limits, Other). The “App” is the default and will restrict Applications downloading. Let’s concentrate on the Time limits so, select the “Time Limit”: With three Options, you can select how much time they need for Weekdays, Weekends & Bedtimes. By the checking the box for “Limit Computer use to”, you drag to
down. When they click the menu-bar clock (where it now says the current time), a menu appears, complete with a readout that says, for example, “Parental Controls: Time Remaining 1:25.” One final tip, it is possible to track the computer usage of your child, view the site they have visited, who they have been chatting with and other information of their activities on the Internet.
We always concentrate on Windows because of its popularity and user friendly nature. Many downloads will always be standard for Windows but in recent times, websites and software developers have incorporated the Apple brand to further standardise the industry. Having said so, there still some software that cannot be integrated into the Apple environment or platform. In one of Tech_Pilot’s editions, parental control and Internet monitoring was treated to guide what our children or under age do online, because, they are the most vulnerable when it comes to the concept of the Internet. Today’s topic, will consider the Mac (Apple) users and how the children can be protected as well as monitored. The Apple Mac is designed differently from the Windows platform even though some similarities exist, any Windows user switching to Apple devices will definitely need time to adapt. Some smart users can install windows alongside the on the Mac OS (Operating System), a task that require some level of expertise. The Parental control gives an
opportunity to control the time limits online and disable some unwanted sites. It is possible to specify how many hours a day each person is allowed on the Mac, and declare certain hours (like sleeping hours) off limits. Anyway, if you have the Mac and intend to keep an eye on your under aged children and their activities online, these are the steps to follow: Click Open Parental Controls at the bottom of the Users & Groups pane. Click Enable Parental Controls, if necessary.
suit the amount of time required, do the same for Weekend time Limits and check the box for “School nights & Weekend” to select the bed and wake up time for your kids. When all these are selected, you have completed the time limits for your children for the Mac computer use. An interesting feature with this time limit control is as follows: When time limits have been applied, the user can check to see how much time they have left to go off on the Mac before your digital iron fist slams
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Click the “Log” tab button right next to the Time Limits and they you can view all the activities and application used for an hour, week, month and even year. Note: This is process is just to control their stay on the Mac computer and does not restrict the pages viewed online, that is another option altogether. .
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POEMS
Poetry corner
Poetry Lovers' Page is the page where we will publish your poems Send your poem to: proofreader.africaworld@gmail.com
THE HOOD
IZZARAPAP
It’s all about where you belong Not just the thing on the head But the stuff in the head And the grabbing in the heart He claims it belongs to him She wants to be in the confraternity Clicking the fellanges And jamming the side shoulder We are all in it Because man is different in thought People look same but not Hood is all but not
Bees from the comb Chase me like the enemy That trespass the wasp Something to lick Like the uninvited sun You venture into lives Harmlessly lightening up faces Stealing the show at shows Exposes deeds that glow You salt up the realm Flirting with the light And stealing like thief
CROCK PARK Shrine of History Being part of the struggle To emancipate a people Turf lashed with blood Spilled that freedom may come You shelter generations Men and women alike That relishes their energies Throne of Sam Maguire A nation shed tears But you comforted Perching in Atta Cliath And overlooking Eireann
REMEMBERING ARMAGGEDON Sapped of energy Clad in black sash Bound in a servitude steel Hardship on the great one In the fonts of Sepulcher Recession they said The bully wore a goggle Flaunting a fetish trench coat Walks like a serial killer Piercing a sword through the chest A journey of high hopes Ending on a cremator’s table However it may be There must be a new beginning
FAITHFUL OF THE PINT In nomine patri Seeing the draught nozzle A crucifix pulls it Alter kitchens meals Tabernacle sits on edge Brandy and whiskey stuffed A modern church For faithful of liquor Blessed are the drunks For their heritage in pubs
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Ukachukwu Okorie Editor in Chief
Anglican Church for the International Community
MY BELOVETH Oh Nigeria Despite your many travails Still the ‘best’ among them all Blessed with best humans and materials I longed for thee You are the air I breathe Oh Nigeria My beloved Boko Haram a phase Corruption a phase Human greed a phase You shall stand tall for ever Oh Nigeria Still the best in the world Never worried for you one bit Cos every country had a phase Yours not extraordinarily You shall overcome Oh Nigeria Love you till death Love you to marrow You the blood in my veins And air I breathe.
St.George and St. Thomas Church Parish. Cathal Brugha Street - City Centre - Dublin 1 Sundays 11am The Revd. Obinna Ulogwara.
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My dear Nigeria Intention and will I have To take thee to places And make thee the best You ought to be And envy of all With me a president Boko Haram no more Kidnappers no more Armed Robbers no more Corruption no more Cos I love thee to bits. Oh Nigeria With me president Welfare benefits to all Free healthcare to all Free education to all Cos I love thee Oh Nigeria My beloveth Loving thee till death Cos thee the best. Amikede Adede Steven Sam Akpan London ----------------------------
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