“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

FG ALERTS NIGERIANS TODAY OF ISIS NEW RECRUITMENT STRATEGY.

Image result for nigeria coat of arm                  The Nigerian Federal Government has urged parents and guardians to monitor the activities of their children and wards in order to prevent them from being recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria {ISIS},which has now resorted to targetting vulnerble individuals,including foreign students,using financial inducements to recruit them into the terrorist organisation.In a statement issued in Abuja today monday,the Minister of Information and Culture,Alhaji Lai Mohammed,cited the recent recruitment into ISIS of 27 medical students of the University of Medical Sciences and Technology {UMST} in Sudan as an example of new strategy being used by the organisation to recruit more members.The Minister,quoting a report received by the Nigerian Intelligence Community,said 22 of the 27 students,who travelled to Syria to join ISIS,are Britons.''According to the report,the students were recruited by one Mohamme Fakhri Al-khabbas,a former UMST student from Middlesborough,United Kingdom.Many of the students are children of reputable doctors in the UK.Their Social Media accounts also revealed them as praising Jihadists and championing ISIS cause,'' he said.Alhaji Mohammed therefore appealed to Nigerians,especially those who have children and wards in foreign academic institutions,to pay more attention to their activities,while urging schools across the country to enlighten their students on the new ISIS recruitment strategy.
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