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100 Most influential Africans in Germany (MAG)  2012/2013 exclusive list ( Top 62 ) Following our 50 prominent Africans in Germany first published in 2006 and 100 most influential Africans in Germany published in 2009, we have each year followed up with the 100 most influential Africans in Germany. One of the 100 nominations would eventually be selected under thorough scrutiny by the editorial team as the African Heritage man or woman of the year. This special edition as usual generates a great deal of interests and excitements and we are sure this year would not be different. As in…

AFRICAN CONSULTATIVE FORUM (ACF) PRESSEMITTEILUNG IM FALL  AYODELE African Consultative Forum – ACF – (Beratungs-Forum für Afrikaner) hat in der vergangenen Tagen über die Presse von der Abschiebung des 18-jährigen Ayedele Medaiyese (kurz: Ayo) nach Nigeria erfahren und ist in einem Gespräch mit den Betroffenen der Sache nachgegangen. Es ist hier eindeutig, dass Ayo während seines Aufenthaltes in Deutschland weder einen kriminalen Akt  begangen hat, noch ist hier eine Gefahrenprogose  für die Gesellschaft erkennbar. Hervorzuheben ist aber, dass er zur Schule geht und sehr gut integriert ist. Dieser Gesichtspunkt ist deshalb für die hier zu treffende Entscheidung von erheblicher…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY REPORT OF THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE HOUSE OF REP. „TO VERIFY AND DETERMINE THE ACTUAL SUBSIDY REQUIREMENTS AND MONITOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUBSIDY REGIME IN NIGERIA‟ Following the removal of subsidy on PMS on the 1st day of January, 2012 by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the attendant spontaneous social and political upheavals that greeted the policy, the House of Representatives in an Emergency Session on the 8th of January, 2012 set up an Ad-hoc Committee to verify and determine the actual subsidy requirements and monitor the implementation of the subsidy regime in Nigeria. The Federal Government…

100 most influential Africans in Germany 2012/2013. Who made this year´s most exclusive list and why? For us at African Heritage, 2012 was a year of mixed blessings. For example we failed to organize our annual African Heritage – Miss Africa Germany Pageant (African Queen)”one of the major cultural attractions in Germany, pulling a record number of business people, African Ambassadors and the general public, we also failed to organize the African Heritage Kultural Ambassador Merit Award (KAMA) all due to sponsorship limitations. But there are also plenty of reasons to celebrate and one of them is the celebration of…

ENSURING A VIOLENT FREE ELECTION  – Dr.Kofi Konadu Apraku- Chairman of Security Committee NPP) Dear Interior Minister, With less than two weeks to election 2012, many Ghanaians are deeply concerned about the lack of clear cut transparent election security plans that will assure us of the peace we all so ardently desire. A crescendo of voices rising from religious bodies, non-governmental organisations, traditional rulers, academics, students, businesspeople, professionals, workers and others throughout Ghana are demanding peace from political parties participating in this years’ Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. In response, many parties have pledged their commitment to peaceful, violence free elections.…

The Rise and Fall of IGBOZURUME ASSOCIATION GERMANY The myths and  intrigue behind the phantom organization ? A must read. Full report soon

“Veranstaltungen der Wilhelmsburger Reihe” kicks off – PresseMitteilung in Germany at the end of this report: Handwerkskammer kooperiert mit türkischen Einrichtungen in Wilhelmsburg On the 14. November 2012 at the Handwerkskammer Hamburg, Gesine Keßler-Mohr (Koordination Regionales Netzwerk HH / SH – NOBI, Koordination der Migrantenaktivitäten der HWK; Initiatorin der Wilhelmsburger Reihe), Cigdem Gül (Projektleitung „Perspektive Handwerk“ an der HWK Hamburg, Referentin bei der ersten Veranstaltung der Wilhelmsburger Reihe) and Ute Kretschmann (Pressesprecherin der HWK Hamburg): invited media hauses and journalist with immigration backgrounds to the formal Handwerkskammer Hamburg new concept for (Ausbildung, Weiterbildung Bewerbungsverfahren und Anerkennung von ausländischen Berufsabschlüssen). Although…

Chief Muritala Awolola – Otun Bobagunwa, Erin-Ile Home and Abrod Chief Muritala Awolola is not just an ordinary red cap chief across European Diaspora in recent years. Chief Muritala Awolola was dully crowned “Chief Otun Bobagunwa, Erin-Ile Home and Abrod”, by HRH Oba Abdul Ganiyu Ajibola Ibrahim (Olusokun II) The Elerin of Erin-Ile Kwara State, Nigeria. Born in Erin-Ile, western part of Nigeria, chief Muritala has been living in Germany since 1988. Worried by the immigrates social cultural exclusion from the daily activities in the city of Bremen, he together with Christians and Muslims immigrants from Angola, Ghana,…

Colonel Gerhard Kahtz: Nigerian first Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) “Colonel Kahtz arrived Nigeria on 30 May 1963 as head of the GAFAG which was charged with the responsibility of setting up the NAF. He started literally from the scratch, as he had no troops, aircraft, support services or training equipment on ground” Photo: NAF Germany has been and is still a medical home of sorts for past Nigerian presidents, top government officials and many Nigerian citizens who come for medical checkups and treatments. These include President Ibrahim Babangida, President Umar Musa Yar’Adua. Her Excellencies Stella Obasanjo,…

Attack on the Nigerian Embassy Berlin: Between Common sense and Morality In the most dramatic of twists, the Embassy of Nigeria was subdued by an unprecedented but coordinated invasion of anti-deportation protesters on 15th October, 2012. The protest disrupted the normal activities of the consular section and by implication the Embassy as a whole thereby, prompting the invitation of the police who indeed responded with a very large number. Last update was 25 persons arrested, later released and charged to court. The Embassy incident in the view of this newspaper is a clear conflict between common sense and morality. The…