Donald Trump calls for 'complete ban' on Muslims entering US

Donald Trump on Monday called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," an idea swiftly condemned by his rival candidates for president and other Republicans.

The proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting all adherents of Islam who want to come to the U.S.

Trump's campaign said in a statement such a ban should stand "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." It said the proposal comes in response to a level of hatred among "large segments of the Muslim population" toward Americans.

"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life," Trump said in the statement.

At an evening rally in South Carolina, Trump supporters cheered and shouted in support as he read his statement. Trump warned during his speech that without drastic action, the threat of attacks is "going to get worse and worse."

"As he says, we have to find out who they are and why they are here," Rod Weader, a 68-year-old real estate agent from North Charleston who attended the rally and said he agreed with Trump's plan "150 percent." ''Like he said, they are going to kill us and we've got to stop it."

“We have no idea who is coming into our country, no idea if they like us or hate us,” Trump told supporters in S.C. “I wrote something today that is very salient…and probably not very politically correct. But I don’t care.”

Trump added that his proposal is “common sense” and “we have no choice”.  He warned the crowd that “we can be politically correct and stupid but it’s going to get worse and worse.”

The proposed ban would stand "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," his campaign said in a statement earlier Monday.

The statement added that Trump's proposal comes in response to the level of hatred among "large segments of the Muslim population" toward Americans.

"Donald Trump is unhinged," Jeb Bush said via Twitter. "His 'policy' proposals are not serious."

Photo: Appeal court nullifies Senator Uche Ekwunife's election

In response to the appeal filed by Victor Umeh of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), a Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu has nullified the election of Uche Ekwunife of PDP. The judgement read by Justice Datijo Yhaya stated that the March 28 election of Mrs Ekwunife did not meet the prescription of the electoral act and therefore ordered a fresh election to be held within 90 days in the Anambra State Central Senatorial District.

Reacting to the judgement, Mrs. Ekwunife called on her supporters and the people of Anambra Central Senatorial Zone to remain calm. She expressed optimism that she will win election into the senatorial zone anytime any day further sued for peace, describing the judgement as fatal to principles of democracy.

She further called on the people of Anambra Central senatorial zone to remain calm in the face of the judgment, adding that with the overwhelming support they gave her during the election, she will still emerge victorious when the election is conducted.
"The judgement is a judgement of man. The court acted as a father Christmas by awarding to Chief Victor Umeh what he did not ask. But I take the judgement in good faith believing that my victory at the polls was an act of God. I assure my supporters that we will emerge victorious even as I thank Ndi Anambra central for their supports so far"

The Bad Side Of Dubai They Don't Want You To See (Details)

There are three different Dubais, all swirling around each other. There are the expats, there are the Emiratis, headed by Sheikh Mohammed; and then there is the foreign underclass who built the city, and are trapped there. They are hidden in plain view. You see them everywhere, in dirt-caked blue uniforms, being shouted at by their superiors, like a chain gang – but you are trained not to look.

It is like a mantra: the Sheikh built the city. The Sheikh built the city. Workers? What workers?

Every evening, the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town, where they are quarantined away. Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on cattle trucks, but the expats complained this was unsightly, so now they are shunted on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat. They sweat like sponges being slowly wrung out.

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete buildings. Some 300,000 men live piled up here, in a place whose name in Hindi means “City of Gold”. In the first camp I stop at – riven with the smell of sewage and sweat – the men huddle around, eager to tell someone, anyone, what is happening to them.

Sahinal Monir, a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh. “To get you here, they tell you Dubai is heaven. Then you get here and realise it is hell,” he says. Four years ago, an employment agent arrived in Sahinal’s village in Southern Bangladesh. He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could earn 40,000 Takka a month (£400) just for working nine-to-five on construction projects. It was a place where they would be given great accommodation, great food, and treated well. All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220,000 takka (£2,300) for the work visa – a fee they’d pay off in the first six months, easy. So Sahinal sold his family land, and took out a loan from the local lender, to head to this paradise.

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport, his passport was taken from him by his construction company. He has not seen it since. He was told brusquely that from now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat – where western tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer, when it hits 55 degrees – for 500 dirhams a month (£90), less than a quarter of the wage he was promised. If you don’t like it, the company told him, go home. “But how can I go home? You have my passport, and I have no money for the ticket,” he said. “Well, then you’d better get to work,” they replied.

Sahinal was in a panic. His family back home – his son, daughter, wife and parents – were waiting for money, excited that their man had finally made it. But he was going to have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here – and all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh.

He shows me his room. It is a tiny, poky, concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds, where he lives with 11 other men. All his belongings are piled onto his bunk: three shirts, a spare pair of trousers, and a cellphone. The room stinks, because the lavatories in the corner of the camp – holes in the ground – are backed up with excrement and clouds of black flies. There is no air conditioning or fans, so the heat is “unbearable. You cannot sleep. All you do is sweat and scratch all night.” At the height of summer, people sleep on the floor, on the roof, anywhere where they can pray for a moment of breeze.

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isn’t properly desalinated: it tastes of salt. “It makes us sick, but we have nothing else to drink,” he says.

The work is “the worst in the world,” he says. “You have to carry 50kg bricks and blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable … This heat – it is like nothing else. You sweat so much you can’t pee, not for days or weeks. It’s like all the liquid comes out through your skin and you stink. You become dizzy and sick but you aren’t allowed to stop, except for an hour in the afternoon. You know if you drop anything or slip, you could die. If you take time off sick, your wages are docked, and you are trapped here even longer.”

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower, where he builds upwards, into the sky, into the heat. He doesn’t know its name. In his four years here, he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame, except as he constructs it floor-by-floor.

Is he angry? He is quiet for a long time. “Here, nobody shows their anger. You can’t. You get put in jail for a long time, then deported.” Last year, some workers went on strike after they were not given their wages for four months. The Dubai police surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out and back to work.

The “ringleaders” were imprisoned. I try a different question: does Sohinal regret coming? All the men look down, awkwardly. “How can we think about that? We are trapped. If we start to think about regrets…” He lets the sentence trail off. Eventually, another worker breaks the silence by adding: “I miss my country, my family and my land. We can grow food in Bangladesh. Here, nothing grows. Just oil and buildings.”

Since the recession hit, they say, the electricity has been cut off in dozens of the camps, and the men have not been paid for months. Their companies have disappeared with their passports and their pay. “We have been robbed of everything. Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh, the loan sharks will demand we repay our loans immediately, and when we can’t, we’ll be sent to prison.”

This is all supposed to be illegal. Employers are meant to pay on time, never take your passport, give you breaks in the heat – but I met nobody who said it happens. Not one. These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying, with the complicity of the Dubai authorities.

Sahinal could well die out here. A British man who used to work on construction projects told me: “There’s a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the construction sites, but they’re not reported. They’re described as ‘accidents’.” Even then, their families aren’t free: they simply inherit the debts. A Human Rights Watch study found there is a “cover-up of the true extent” of deaths from heat exhaustion, overwork and suicide, but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their nationals in 2005 alone. After this figure was leaked, the consulates were told to stop counting.

At night, in the dusk, I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrape together what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits. They down it in one ferocious gulp. “It helps you to feel numb”, Sohinal says through a stinging throat. In the distance, the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands, oblivious.

Source: Jews News

President Buhari Rejects Bill To Jail Social Media Users

President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC won the 2015 election largely on the strength of the likes of my humble self OluFamous.Com and a host of other social media influencers across the country. So how do you expect the same man to now support you to jail social media users?

Those who hate the social media and free speech are those who always have something to hide.

Anyway, the Presidency has issued a statement quoting President Buhari as dissociating himself totally and his administration from the media muzzle law being prepared by the Senate.

SOCIAL MEDIA BILL: BUHARI RESTATES COMMITMENT TO FREE SPEECH
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the commitment of his administration to the protection of free speech in keeping with democratic tradition.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu who was reacting to the public hostility towards the social media bill now being debated by the Senate, said President Buhari has sworn to defend the constitution of Nigeria and would not lend his hand to anything that is inconsistent with the constitution.

“But he is not averse to lawful regulation, so long as that is done within the ambit of the constitution which he swore to uphold.”

“The President said free speech is central to democratic societies anywhere in the world. The President explained that without free speech, elected representatives won’t be able to gauge public feelings and moods about governance issues.

“As a key component of democratic principles,” the President acknowledged that people in democratic societies “are so emotionally attached to free speech that they would defend it with all their might.”

“President Buhari is fully aware of the public reservations about the proposed legislation but assured that there is no cause for alarm... The President won’t assent to any legislation that may be inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.”

- That's all!

Obafemi Martins spending large, shows off his wealth (photos)

Talented footballer, Obafemi Martins needs no introduction, he has been around and has paid his dues in the round letter game and beyond! He was the fifth highest paid player in US Major League Soccer for the 2013 season and also the highest ever paid player for Seattle Sounders with an annual basic salary of $1.6million, according to a players’ union release.

The guy is rich and now live the kind of life many only dream of. See more photos...

His net worth: With an annual salary of $2,400,000, Obafemi has acquired lots of properties, investments and luxurious cars worth millions of dollars over the years, his total net worth is $35m.

His mansions: The 28yrs old (or 37yrs old) striker owns 2 mansions at VGC Lagos worth N500m, a massive home in Como, Italy valued at N800m and top hotels in Italy.

His cool whips: He drives a Lamboghini worth N50m, Porsche Gemballa worth N20m, Bmw X6 worth N18mand a Ferrarri sport car. He also has an expensive shoe collection too. Life is beautiful!

Beautiful Photos From The Coronation of the Ooni of Ife

The Oni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan (Ojaja II) has been crowned as the 51st Ooni of Ife in Ile-Ife Osun state. The colourful ceremony took place on Monday December 7th. See more photos...

Despite police warning, Bayelsans storm streets to protest election results

Aggrieved men and women in Bayelsa state defied the warning from the Nigerian police and staged a protest outside the INEC office in the state to protest against the Saturday Dec. 6th governorship election. They claim that the results to be read by INEC officials have been falsified as no election held in some parts of Southern Ijaw. Continue to see more photos

 

91 year old woman suffocated during sex game with married 49 year old neighbour

A 91-year-old woman is believed to have suffocated during a sex game with her 49-year-old neighbour.
The woman was found on her bed naked from her waist down next to a sex toy in Aveiro, 50 miles south of Porto, Portugal.

A married dad-of-two living next door has been arrested after DNA analysis of semen recovered from the scene.
He was released on bail after going before a judge who was told autopsy results showed she died from asphyxia thought to have taken place during a sex game that spiralled out of control.

The death is believed to be the result of a tragic accident.

A neighbour described the woman, who lived alone, as being “very active” despite her age and said the neighbour often went round her house to do odd jobs.

Police say there was no sign of a forced entry and nothing had been taken from the house.



Source: UK Mirror

First Photos from the new Oni of Ife's coronation

The Oni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan is being crowned as the 51st Ooni of Ife in Ile-Ife Osun state today December 7th. These are the first pics from the ceremony. Continue to see more photos...

Gov Okezie Ikpeazu Is Still Sweeping The Streets Of Aba.

Have you forgotten Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu’s story? It was the story of a street man of Aba.  Have you forgotten that he was the street sweeper of Aba – the story of a man tied to an inextricable destiny that saw an egghead academic romancing with the waste and filth of the streets of Aba? 

Have you forgotten the unthinkable fate and triumph of the man of the ivory tower who found himself scavenging in the wasteland of a city dunghill and yet

acted well his part and played his roles with consummate passion? You will never forget the thriller; the story of dunghill to power – the Ikpeazu story.

Ikpeazu is still on the streets of Aba and will remain there for a while until the paradise is regained. Call him the Streetman of Aba, not as a jibe but as a kind compliment to his passion for the sprawling city. He will return a smile of acceptance. By the way he acted in re-engineering the environmental management of the city as the Head of the Aba unit of the State Environmental Protection Agency, Ikpeazu gained the endorsement of the Aba people and brought honour to himself.

But, today, it is no more about the refuse and the waste. The battle has moved on to illegal street trading. In all dimensions, it is about the streets of Aba. Aba suffers from the menace of street trading and hawking and all manners of environmental pollution. Thus, the next battle is to sanitise the city and restore decorum to streets. This is why the governor has embarked on relocating illegal street traders to new market locations. In the last couple of days, illegal street traders around the adjoining streets near the central stadium have been encouraged to move to the newly built  Good morning Market,  on the East side of Ngwa Road.

After the Good morning Market, the train will move down to the Abattoir Market at Ogbor hill Waterside and from there to other locations where street trading constitutes environmental nuisance to the city. The Abattor Market traders will have to be relocated to another side because of the dredging and expansion of the Aba River, which will recommence very soon. 

But, regrettably, there has been some couple of resistance by the traders against the effort of government to relocate them to new sites even when proper arrangement has been put in place to cushion the effect of the transition. Reason being that people are naturally scared of change. People do not readjust to change easily, yet change remains the only thing that is permanent in life.

Indeed, the on-going exercise of relocating illegal street traders is part of the large scale programme of infrastructural renewal and environmental restoration of the city of Aba for which the government created the Aba Urban Renewal Office and which is aimed at sanitising the city and restoring its original map. This broad-based programme of restructuring Aba is a cardinal policy thrust of the Ikpeazu administration and one it is pursuing with passion, dedication and every sense of duty

This restructuring programme involves a general review of the state of the open markets and a general overhauling of the leadership of the markets, including the associations and the different caretaker committees appointed by government to oversee issues concerning the markets. 

And it is for this reason that the government has had to dissolve many of the committees and leadership of the many market associations in Aba, and also had to appoint a market review committee headed by Mr. Solomon Nwaigwe. The committee has the brief to conduct a general review of the state of the markets and proffer solutions for charting a new course for the markets. The Nwaigwe-led committee has completed its work and submitted its recommendations.

Indeed, Ikpeazu is bent on winning the war against street trading because it causes a lot of menace both to traffic flow and environmental decency and poses a great risk to the life of the traders.   Nowhere in the world is the culture of street trading tolerated anymore and, therefore, Aba traders and residents must cooperate with government agents in the efforts to sanitise Aba and bring decorum to the city and its markets and desist from actions that could lead to confrontation with constituted authority.

Government is making this appeal sequel to the incidents that have been occurring in Aba in the last couple of days, where miscreants and illegal street traders have tried to resist the instructions and directives of the officials of the Aba Urban Renewal Office, leading to some misunderstanding between the illegal street traders and the government officials. Government will not tolerate any form of deviant acts that would seem to hinder the progress of this laudable vision of Ikpeazu.

The Abia government is also disabusing the minds of Abians against the propaganda peddled by some disgruntled elements that the exercise is targeted against non-indigenes. Aba is a melting pot for all ethnic nationalities in the country. Aba does not only belong to Abians, it belongs to Nigerians and the world. Ikpeazu is rebuilding a new city for the world.

Therefore, political jobbers and enemies of the state who are cashing in on this sanitation exercise to generate crisis and foment trouble are well advised to rethink their mischief. They must desist from acts and statements capable of inciting Aba residents against one another and causing the breach of the prevailing peace in the land.

Ikpeazu recognises that the mandate to rebuild Aba and other major Abia cities would certainly come with sacrifice.  This requires the cooperation of all Abians for the overall interest of us all.  Indeed, the street sweeper is still sweeping.

––The Writer Adindu is the Chief Press Secretary to the Abia State Governor

SDK Blog sympathises with Gov Ikpeazu of Abia state on the Demise of his beloved Mum after a brief Illness.May God give the Ikpeazu family the GRACE to carry on without Mama.