"DONALD TRUMP CANNOT DEPORT ALL THE NIGERIANS FROM AMERICA"

Donald Trump, the leading GOP presidential aspirant in 2016

I am a Nigerian-American and a political activist in America. I am up-to-date with every political development in the ongoing presidential campaigns of the major candidates from the two major political parties in America (Republican and Democrat). That statement that was attributed to Donald Trump and was widely circulated by Nigerians at home and abroad on the blogs, online newspapers and social media is not TRUE. This is a case of a fabricated news item by a rogue Nigerian on the social media or the blog. No major and local news outlets in America have reported this comment that was attributed to Donald Trump to date. Donald Trump cannot deport all the Nigerians in America if he is elected as the next President of this country in November this year. Donald Trump has no legal authority, constitutional power and presidential executive order to do that.

The only Nigerians that Donald Trump or Barack Obama can legally deport are the Nigerians that live in America illegally (those with expired visas and those who came in without visas). Donald Trump cannot deport all the Nigerians who live in this country legally on valid temporary visas, permanent residency or Green Card holders and are law abiding. The native-born citizens have no other country of birth on earth that they can claim. Their deportation is totally impossible. The naturalized citizens cannot be deported by Donald Trump. This process of de-naturalization can only be done by the Supreme Court of America. There are less than 10 cases of de-naturalization of American citizens since this country was founded in 1776 to date. The process is cumbersome and may go on for many years through the courts in America. Few Nazis and terrorists who lied under oath of perjury to become American citizens were those that were so far de-naturalized in America so far. These jobless Nigerians on the social media and blogs find something profitable to do with their free time and idleness by desisting from creating and promoting fabricated news items either in Nigeria or in the other nations of the world.. Enough is Enough. #ItIsNoTrue

"HOW TO FIGHT OFFICIAL CORRUPTION SUCCESSFULLY IN NIGERIA"

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Fighting official corruption, resource wastage and lawlessness in the governance of Nigeria can only be done successfully and sustained permanently by strengthening our governing and democratic institutions in Nigeria and not through our political figures that stand openly against official corruption in Nigeria. This will start with the implementation of the true practice of the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances between the three branches of our democratic government.

The citizens cannot depend on their government and public officials to be the main faces of the war against graft in Nigeria. The citizens must also support our governing institutions by hating corruption, corrupt public officials and expose corrupt practices at all levels to the public and media. Our journalists must embrace investigative and citizen journalism instead of rogue or fabricated journalism of the day that is now the norm.

Nigerian Military, Nigerian Police Force, DSS, NIA, INEC, EFCC, ICPC and other governing agencies should be able to operate freely, within the law and without any executive overreach and interference. No country can fight official corruption successfully  if our judges, lawyers and state prosecutors are already compromised by the corrupt money and rogue public officials. No country can fight official corruption successfully if there is no equality and equal treatment of all citizens before our laws. Official corruption will not end in Nigeria if the elite group in Nigeria is above the supreme law of our land. Fighting official corruption must go beyond any human personality that symbolizes this fight.

"BARACK OBAMA CLOCKS 54 TODAY IN HIS HISTORICAL PRESIDENCY IN AMERICA"

President Barack Obama of America

Happy Birthday to my President who has about 18 months left in his historical presidency to go. Barack Hussein Obama made history in America in 2008 when he broke the racial barrier that has existed in America for centuries to become the first black President of the United States of America. Obama was welcomed into the Oval office on the firs day of his presidency in January 2009 with the worst economic crisis in America since the Great Depression and with two most costly foreign wars without any victory in sight. America's economy was losing over 800,000 jobs monthly, the housing market was grounding to its final halt, the America's automobile industries were at the verge of closing down and the Wall Street banks were rapidly collapsing.

President Barack Obama has truly changed the American mation for good under his watch and the account of history will definitely record him as one of the greatest American Presidents since this nation was founded in 1776. Some of his major signature achievements of his presidency are the Wall Street reform, the rescuing of the collapsing America's economy that has now created about 10 million jobs in six years and with the lowest employment rate since 2007. Obama succeeded in his presidency despite the GOP's opposition by providing the health care insurance to millions of Americans. The two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are history now. The war on international terrorism resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the destruction of the Al-Queda network and the other terrorist cells around the world. Obama also succeeded in restoring the diplomatic relationship with Cuba and signing of the elimination of the nuclear weapon pact with Iran. History, time and posterity will judge this President in my own judgement as one of the best, honest, sincere, objective, dedicated, patriotic and nationalistic leaders that this country has ever had. #ObamanismIsWorkingForAmericaAndTheWorld

"Investigate how the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC and Ebony TV organized the Buhari Town Hall meeting"

The invitation to this program that was titled "A Meet & Greet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Washington, DC" was put online by the Ebony TV, the main organizer of this program for all the interested Nigerians to sign up online to attend. Many Nigerians that are living in America and Canada signed up online and got their confirmed invitation letters to this program by email. These Nigerians then made all the necessary preparations, such as, booking their hotel accommodation, arranging their transportation, taking leave from their work place to attend this program.

At about 6 PM EST on July 21, 2015, the Ebony TV started sending out cancellation emails to those invitees without given them any official explanation for what has suddenly happened. Many Nigerians who got these cancellation emails called the customer service representative of the Ebony TV that was listed on their invitation letters to find out why their invitations were cancelled. The customer service representative of the Ebony TV responded to these Nigerians that the original plan was never to put the invitation for this program online in the first instance and that the number of interested Nigerians that signed up online for this program prevented those "special selected Nigerians" by the Nigerian Embassy from getting their own invitation letters to this program that was planned for only 160 Nigerians. The action of the Ebony TV is fishy, shady, questionable and cloudy in nature. The invitation to this meeting was then replaced with the special invitation letter from the Nigerian Embassy that was made available to those specially selected Nigerians who have special connections or relationship with the Nigerian Embassy officials.

Furthermore, the other Washington based organizations, such as, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Corporate Council of Africa and the American Chamber of Commerce where President Muhammadu Buhari was invited as the main guest made their own invitations open and public to any interested Nigerians or members of the American public online and on first come and first serve basis and with transparency. 

At the moment, there are estimated one million Nigerians in America today. A survey that was done by Houston Chronicle few years ago identified Nigerians as the most educated group in America. When the Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi visited United States in 2014. A similar program was organized by the Indian Embassy for the visiting Prime Minister to meet the members of the Indian community in America. The venue of the meeting was not in a small hall of the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC, The meeting was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York and with over 18,000 Indians in attendance. Indians from all over United States and Canada graced this special occasion.

It is an international embarrassment that Nigeria, the giant of Africa failed Nigerians in America with the organization of this program by Ebony TV and the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC. I am appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari as a Nigerian that lives in America and on behalf of those affected Nigerians in America and Canada to immediately investigate why the Nigerian Embassy distributed the invitation to this program in a shady manner and then prevented many Nigerians from seeing their President that they love, cherish, admire, supported and voted for on March 28, 2015. 

President Muhammadu Buhari and President Barack Obama at the White House

"BERNIE SANDERS AND DONALD TRUMP :TWO INSURGENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES"

Socialist Bernie Sanders and Billionaire Donald Trump

Donald Trump has sucked out all the oxygen in the room and he is politically suffocating the other GOP presidential candidates from the race. He has taken all the media attention from his rivals. He has enough money to run his election without using the donors' money. Donald Trump is now leading in all the polls. Donald Trump is beyond the control of the GOP's leadership who cannot cage him, tame him or sanction him for his racist, unguarded and divisive comments. He has now launched public and untold verbal attacks on the other presidential candidates writing them off as failed politicians, beggars and political nonentities. Donald Trump has the political option of derailing the GOP's hope of capturing the White House in 2016, and if he does not get the GOP nomination at the end of the day. Donald Trump plans to run as an independent and a third-party candidate that will take away significant votes from the GOP in 2016.

On the other hand, the socialist Bernie Sanders is the center of attraction in the democratic party today and among the party's presidential candidates for the White House in 2016. He has the media attention following him around. He is pulling the largest crowds to all his campaign rallies in this ongoing election circle and in both the blue and red states. Bernie Sanders has also dominated the Facebook and Twitter with his populist message. He is rising in the polls faster than expected. He has the largest donation-base of over 250,000 donors that are more than each candidate from both parties. He has raised enough more that can make him competitive across America.

The populist ideologies (breaking up the Wall Street banks, taxing the billionaires and corporations at the higher tax rates, free tuition in public colleges, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, expanding the social security benefits and social services, advocating for immigration reform, combating the climate change, police brutality and mass incarceration of minorities by the American justice system) that Bernie Sanders promote are selling like the hot cakes across the length and breadth of America in 2015. Bernie's presence in the race is the biggest political headache or stumbling block to the anointed and yet to-be-coronation of Hillary Clinton, the candidate of the Wall Street banks, corporations, mainstream media and democratic establishment politicians.

So far, Bernie Sanders has pulled the largest crowds in both the blue andthe red states in this 2016 presidential campaign circle across both political parties' presidential candidates. Bernie Sanders pulled 5,500 in Burlington, Vermont, 8,000 in Portland, Maine, 5,000 in Denver, Colorado, 10,000 in Madison, Wisconsin, 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 11,000 in Phoenix, Arizona, 8,000 in Dallas, Texas and 9,000 in Houston, Texas. If Bernie Sanders does not win the democratic nomination, he has the option of running as an independent candidate the way he has run for all his elections to date in his political career that spans over 40 years as an independent and democratic socialist politician. This development has the potential to prevent the democrats from continue in the White House as its official occupant beyond 2016 through Hillary Clinton. ‪#‎FeelTheBern‬

"Not All Southerners Fly the Confederate Flag" - Charisma News

The Confederate Flag of the Southern States

I am a son of the South. I was born in Louisiana, spent my childhood in Alabama and attended high school in the suburbs of Atlanta. I grew up eating grits, drinking sweet iced tea and attending big family reunions where the old people sat on wide porches and fanned themselves while the kids ran barefoot in the Georgia red clay.

I'm not apologizing for my upbringing, or for my Southern drawl. There are so many things I love about Southern culture: the warm hospitality, the fact that strangers say, "Hey!" to each other on the street, the way little kids politely say, "Yes, Ma'am" and "No, Sir" to their elders, and of course the fried chicken, cornbread, biscuits, gravy, barbecue, slow-cooked collard greens and sweet potato pie—foods that were invented in the South and made famous at big church dinners.

But I want to make something clear to all my friends who might be tempted to stereotype: In all my years I never saw a Confederate flag in my house, never saw a Confederate decal on my dad's car and never once heard anyone in my family defend slavery, segregation or racism. Even though I had a great-great-great-great grandfather who died in the Civil War—in the Battle of Kennesaw—no one in my family ever told me I should honor that legacy.

For me, the Confederate flag is an ugly reminder of the South's biggest mistake. It is nothing to be proud of. The Confederate flag is something that should be put in a museum to warn us that people sometimes collectively practice injustice.

To a black person, the Confederate flag is a threat. It says: "We don't want you here." It has no business flying on any government property. And if you put it on your lawn or on the back of your truck, you are sending a message of hate.

I am sure the reason no one in my family flew a Confederate flag or defended a "Southern heritage" viewpoint was because we were Christians, and we knew that Christianity and racism are polar opposites. Some of my ancestors were Methodist preachers who advocated for the abolishment of slavery long before the Civil War.

I grew up knowing that it was a sin to say the N-word, and I never heard my parents say it, not even once. When schools were desegregated when I was a teenager, I made black friends, discovered black music and tried to learn every dance I saw onSoul Train on Saturday afternoons. I was never afraid of black culture; I embraced it.

And after I was filled with the Holy Spirit at age 18 (on Southern Baptist property, mind you), I began to visit black churches and discovered the richness of the black Pentecostal experience. Today I feel more at home in some black churches than I do in some white ones. Some of my closest friends are black (both Northerners and Southerners) and they helped me celebrate when my oldest daughter adopted a baby from Africa two years ago.

Today, my black grandson (who bears my name) lives in South Carolina—only a few hours from Charleston, where nine brave black Christians were shot and killed on June 17 while they were having a Bible study at Emanuel A.M.E. Church. The gunman, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, is a troubled white kid who apparently got his inspiration from white supremacist teachings.

Roof recently posted a photo of himself on his web site waving a Confederate flag—prompting protesters and South Carolina legislators to call for the removal of the flag from state capitol property. When I heard Gov. Nikki Haley call for the flag to come down this week, I joined a chorus of Southerners who said, in unison, "Why hasn't it already been mothballed?"

Some people may protest, saying, "It's only a flag," or "It only represents our heritage." I disagree. The Confederate flag is an idol. It represents the evil force of racial hatred that has torn this country apart for more than a century and is still wreaking havoc on our cities today. If this symbol has the power to inspire a young man to blow away nine people with a 45-caliber Glock handgun, it may inspire others to commit even worse acts of terror.

Take the flag down. Put it in a museum and remind everyone who sees it that the South lost the Civil War because God is on the side of those who fight for justice.

J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma. You can follow him on Twitter @leegrady. He is the author of The Truth Sets Women Free and other books. You can learn more about his ministry, The Mordecai Project, at themordecaiproject.org.

"THE CHANGE THAT NIGERIANS VOTED FOR IS UNDER SERIOUS ASSAULT"

Nigerians from all the walks of life voted for a change of government, a new vision and direction for their beloved country of Nigeria on March 28, 2015. Muhammadu Buhari was elected by the majority of the Nigerian voters because of his track record and for his promise to end Boko Haram insurgency, national insecurity as well as the menace of the official corruption and the state resource mismanagement in the governance of Nigeria that have now resulted in the worst economic crisis that Nigerians last saw in the 1980s under the then President Shehu Shagari.

The opposition party, the APC that won the presidential election was made up of the conventional opposition politicians that have fought the PDP since the beginning of this political dispensation in 1999 and the disgruntled politicians that left the PDP for the APC. These politicians with different political agendas, goals and visions for Nigeria worked together and against the PDP, their common enemy at that time. Now that the common enemy was defeated, there is nothing again that these politicians have in common today except the ongoing internal fight to control the legislative arm of the government between the agents of change and the anti-change agents.

The battle for the control of the leadership of the two chambers of the national assembly will eventually determine the outcome of this change agenda that Nigerians voted for and the legacies of the presidency of Muhammadu Buhari. A divided house will not stand. Political change and progress can never happen in the midst of conflict and power tussle within the leadership of the same governing political party. The APC as it stands today is not driven by any political ideologies, but by personalities, politics of ethnicity, geopolitical zone and self-interest.

President Muhammadu Buhari

Alhaji Bola Tinubu

Dr Bukola Saraki (Senate President)

Alhaji Abubakar Atiku