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Soyinka: If Trump wins, I’ll destroy my American green card

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has said he would destroy his green card if Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.

Soyinka said this on Wednesday while giving a speech to students of Oxford University, England, reports the Guardian UK.

“If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that.

“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up,” said Soyinka, who is scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

The internationally-acclaimed playwright and poet described Britain’s decision to exit the European Union as a “ridiculous decision”.

He said: “What is happening in Europe shouldn’t surprise any of us … It has happened before. We were here when Enoch Powell was leading his thugs out to drive blacks from here.

“It’s a constant fight to try to get a nation to recognise its own noble persuasions, its own persuasions of the loftiness of human possibility. It’s for young people like you to say no to them whenever that happens.”

Soyinka also informed the students that the torch of African literature is being carried by the younger generation.

“I think we of the older are getting a little bit tired, and I think our production gets thinner and thinner. But fortunately, it doesn’t worry any of us, as far as I know, because the body of literature that is coming out [is] varied and liberated.

“African literature suffered from some kind of ideological spasm in which the younger generation was bombarded by a sense of ideological duty, in other words it was bombarded with a very simplistic notion by leftist radical writers, very reformative revolutionary thinkers, that all literature is ideological and therefore writers must ensure that their writing illustrates progressive ideologies.”

Source:thecable

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Abati ‘offers to refund N5 million to EFCC’

A former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he only has N5 million to reimburse the government.

Mr. Abati was detained when he reported at the EFCC headquarters a week ago.

During the interrogation, he reportedly admitted receiving N50 million from a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The government said the money was part of $2.1 billion earmarked for the purchase of arms for the fight against Boko Haram.

Mr. Dasuki is standing trial for allegedly misappropriating the money.

Sources at the anti-graft agency told PREMIUM TIMES on Monday night that Mr. Abati offered to refund N5 million to the government.

The source said Mr. Abati allegedly failed to furnish the EFCC with records of how the N50 million was disbursed.

The former spokesperson reportedly said he did not keep notes of such expenses as they were doled out to media practitioners across the country as part of the 2015 campaign activities.

Mr. Abati may still be allowed to go home if he is able to meet an administrative bail granted to him last week.

He had not been able to meet the bail requirements, which included presenting a senior federal civil servant —from the level of a director— as surety.

“He may be released in the coming days despite his refusal to fully cooperate with us,” one EFCC source said.

On Monday, Mr. Abati, alongside a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and Musiliu Obanikoro, were visited in custody by a Catholic cleric, Matthew Kukah.

Mr. Obanikoro has been in EFCC custody since he turned himself in hours after returning to the country on October 17.

Mr. Fani-Kayode was rearrested outside a Lagos court on October 21.

A statement by the EFCC said Mr. Kukah commended the agency for taking a good care of the detainees.

Source:premiumtimesng

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No Pay For MMM Nigeria as Holiday Pause Mode Activates

There will be no pay for MMM Nigeria participants as the festive holiday sets in. According to sources within the hierarchy of MMM Nigeria, the “Pause mode” is a period where there will be no “Get Help” as a result of the Christmas holiday.

“During Christmas Holidays, banks and other institutions do vacate on holidays. It therefore means that if a participant should request for get help (GH) nobody would be able to pay him/her because the banks are on break”.

According to the source, “this plan is to help curb issues like Fake POPs, participants being Blocked, not matched on GH. Participants are to note that, during the Holiday Pause Mode, there will be no Mavro growth, no GH but you can PH”.

The source further said: “MMM are always making conscious effort to see that the community is healthy for her participants. NO PANIC!  So very soon, you will see the notice on your Dashboards. When you see it, don’t say MMM has crashed. Its for the effective participation in the community”.

The MMM scheme has been a victim of negative media campaign in recent times following the warning by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the security and exchange commission (SEC) labeling it a “Ponzi scheme”.

In spite of warnings and media demonizing the scheme, MMM Nigeria has only remained stronger and motivated.

Related News:SEC Issues Public Alert on the Activities of An Online Investment Scheme

Source:financialwatchngr

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High-stress jobs linked to early death

A new study has shown that stressful jobs take a toll on people’s health and could ultimately lead to early death.

The research, “Worked to death: The relationship of job demands and job control with mortality”, found that people who experience work-related stress are prone to health issues and early death .

Using a longitudinal sample of 2,363 Wisconsin residents in their 60s over a seven-year period, the researchers found that people with little liberty in their jobs had 15.4 percent increase in the likelihood of death as opposed to those in less stressful jobs.

The study got its data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which observed more than 10, 000 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.

Every participant was interviewed intermittently till 2011 to understand their educational, occupational and emotional experiences.

The research also showed that people whose freedom of judgement is allowed in high-control jobs had 34 percent decrease in the likelihood of death compared with those who aren’t.

“We explored job demands, or the amount of work, time pressure and concentration demands of a job, and job control, or the amount of discretion one has over making decisions at work, as joint predictors of death,” said Erik Gonzalez-Mule, assistant professor of organizational behaviour and human resources at the university.

“These findings suggest that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences on employee’s health when paired with low freedom decision-making, while stressful jobs can actually be beneficial to employee’s health if also paired with freedom in decision-making”,

“You can avoid the negative health consequences if you allow them set their own goals, set their own schedules, prioritise their decision-making and the likes.

“When you don’t have the necessary resources to deal with a demanding job, you do this other stuff,” Gonzalez-Mulé said. “You might eat more, you might smoke, you might engage in some of these things to cope with it”, he added.

Source:thecable

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Presidency confirms release of 21 Chibok girls

Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed. The girls’ release has been confirmed by the Presidency

“It is confirmed that 21 of the missing Chibok Girls have been released and are in the custody of the Department of State Services,” said Garba Shehu, Special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on his verified Twitter account.

“The release of the girls, in a limited number is the outcome of negotiations between the administration and the Boko Haram brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government. The negotiations will continue,” he added.

Shehu said the president has been briefed of the development by the director-general of DSS, Lawal Daura.

The identity of the girls has yet to be confirmed, said Bring Back Our Girls campaigner Aisha Yesufu told AFP. But Shehu promised that their names would be released shortly.

Source:guardian

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Muslim Americans takes center stage in second presidential debate

Sunday’s presidential debate between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican contender Donald Trump was so bizarre it’s hard to know where to start writing about it.

The second meeting between Trump and Clinton, held at Washington University in St. Louis, Trump far more composed than in his first performance, but dogged now by the foul-mouthed misogyny revealed in a taped conversation from 2005. A series of hacked emails between top Democratic party officials released by Wikileaks last week showed Clinton lumping praise on Wall Street, but the salacious outrage of Trump’s tape overshadowed the debate. Trump scored a headline-worthy moment when he vowed to put Clinton in jail for her mishandling of classified emails, a sentiment that last had its moment in the spotlight during the Civil War.

Dan Rather described what he saw in apocalyptic terms: “Rome was once a proud republic that devolved into a place of barbaric spectacle epitomized by the savagery at the Colosseum. As I saw the pit of the debate stage tonight as 9pm Eastern approached, I had a sense we could, if we are not vigilant, fall into a similar downward spiral.”

The din of unrepeatable slurs that preceded the debate also overshadowed everything else the candidates discussed, although they did discuss U.S. foreign policy and revealed startlingly different opinions on how Russia could aid in the destruction of ISIS. Trump would like to partner with Russia, but Clinton describes Russia as a chief slaughterer of Syrian civilians, preferring to aid Syrian and Kurdish groups to both defeat ISIS and weaken Assad.

The town-hall style debate also featured a Muslim voter named Gorbah Hamed who asked Trump about the rise of Islamophobia that coincided with his rhetoric against them. In the first debate, Trump and Clinton were able to sound similar notes on the need to defeat ISIS, but this time both Clinton and sounded similar tones on what responsibility both Muslims have in alerting law enforcement to attacks plotted by fellow Muslims. Trump puts their responsibility in much more hostile terms, but both demand Muslims remain America’s first defense, and cast their inclusion as being essential to defeating terrorism.

“We need American Muslims to be part of our eyes and ears on our front lines. I’ve worked with a lot of Muslim groups around America. I’ve met with a lot of them and I’ve heard how important it is for them to feel that they are wanted and included and part of our country. Part of our homeland security,” she said.

But drafting Muslim Americans in the war on terror is a rather bleak way of making a community police its own. Clinton added Muslims had been in the United States since “George Washington.’ That’s not the whole story. The first Muslims in the United States arrived here from Africa as slaves, and did not immigrate here of their own free will.

“And we’ve had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particularly well-known one with Muhammad Ali,” she said.

Trump’s reply to the woman was devoid of any kind of historical context beyond the history that has transpired since he announced his candidacy last year.

“And we have to be sure that Muslims come in and report when they see something going on. When they see hatred going on, they have to report it,” he said. “Muslims have to report the problems when they see them. And, you know, there is always a reason for everything. If they don’t do that, it’s a very difficult situation for our country. Because you look at Orlando and you look at San Bernardino and you look at the World Trade Center. Go outside and you look at Paris, look at that horrible thing. She won’t say the name and President Obama won’t say the name. But the name is there. It’s radical Islamic terror.”

Clinton said Trump’s rhetoric was “is a gift to ISIS and the terrorists, violent jihadist terrorists,” stating a name for the phenomenon that doesn’t include Islam.

“We are not at war with Islam,” she said, repeating an old chestnut of George W. Bush. “And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are. So I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.”  

Both the Donald and Hill echoed the sentiment of former president Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that divides Muslims into helpful Muslims and malingering Muslims.

“If you’re a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you,” he told a cheering crowd.

Trump used a similar wording on Sunday, saying Syrian Muslim refugees were suspect: “We know nothing about their values and we know nothing about their love for our country.”

Trump and Clinton are wildly different on many issues, from whether or not we should be friends with Russia to whether American policing needs reform. But both them are happy to frame Muslim citizenship as a means to an end, and not as an end in itself. Clinton couches this sentiment in more gentle terms than Trump, but both talk about Muslims in terms of their loyalty, and not their worth as citizens.

“Yes, Bill Clinton, I am a Muslim and I do love America and freedom. But why is “terror” even part of this conversation?” wrote Blair Imani, a Muslim American activist and commentator, after Clinton’s DNC speech. “Muslims must be mentioned outside of the context of terrorism and uplifted within the contexts that we live in daily.”

Source:mondoweiss

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