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Hamburg Football Sport Court: The sweet Taste of Victory-NCG FC wins their appeal, advances to the next league! The recent drama at the Hamburg Football Verband ended on a sweet note.  The outcome of the judgment also answered some earlier raised questions in affirmative; that is if Hamburg football is ready for an all-black football Club and sincerity of integration through sports campaign. The Appeal court answered the prayers of NCG FC. The Judges concluded that they are convinced that NCG FC showed enough commitment to the full investigation of the case, a reason for the removal of three points from…

The promise of development-aid Let us now consider the biggest development-aid idea ever conceived for humanity; The Millennium Development Goals – MDG. The Millennium Development Goals is a firm commitment by the world community to act on eight broad issues believed to be at the core of human development. These eight topics are: (i)                 Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger – requiring that the proportion of people living on one US dollar per day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger are both halved between 1990 and 2015. (ii)               Ensure that by 2015 every child in the world…

Development-aid and its role within the African developmental frontiers Prof Brando Okolo Abstract Development-aid is a necessity not only for the least developed and moderately developed nations in Africa but also for the highly developed nations. This type of aid should ensure that the human social development is brought to a level where it can self sustain and assume own growth initiatives. Aid funds deployed from the boardrooms of rich organisations and parliamentary floors of wealthy nations to assist Africa become self reliant are often sliced-up by fund and project managers before it arrives desperate communities in Africa. Africans will…

Victoria A. Gbandi- The Ezinne (Good Mother) of  St. John Anglican Church Marks her 85th Birthday Mama, your cheerful dispositions and amazing Christian devotions merged with an inspiring humane and accommodating perseverance has laid a solid foundation for your 10 wonderful children. I will leave it to the imagination of your well wishesrs of how you have successfully brought up your children with Chief E.C. Gbandi, Iwegwe Ojiba of Akwukwu Igbo (late). Mrs. Victoria Gbandi, nee Ogbo was made a Lay Reader in 1985 at St John’s Anglican Church Akwukwu-Igbo. She was again recently conferred with the Honour of Ezinne…

PRESS RELEASE The killing of Christy Schwundeck  (infomation also in German) Frankfurt – Germany 19 May 2011, a 39-year-old African woman of Nigerian origin, Christy Schwundeck was shot and killed by a female Germany police officer in an employment centre in Frankfurt am Main. Christy Schwundeck was a mother of a 12-year-old daughter. She lost her previous job and had to apply for Hartz IV welfare support. On the tragic morning she went to the job centre to enquire about her unemployment benefits. The rest is now history. A pistol was fired at Christy Schwundeck and she later died from…

Discrimination in Hamburg Football Verband: NCG Football Club Fights Back True to their words, the management of NCG FC are fighting back the intrigue and discrimination against the club following a Hamburg Football verband court judgment in a very simply issue of game stoppage between NCG FC and Juventude. Their campaign could be seen on Facebook and other social media network with such messages as “Integration through football; others preach it we practice it” and others calling on football fans in Hamburg and in German to say “NO to discrimination and hooliganism in Hamburg football”. The judgment which wronging handed…

Fallout from President Goodluck Jonathan´s  visit to Germany: Ambassador Abdu Usman Abubakar under fire (L:  President Goodluck Jonathan visits to German. R: Ambassador Abdu Usman Abubakar Nigerian Ambassador to Germany) “It must be clearly stated that who gets invited to a dinner with the President of the federal Republic of Nigeria or any other government functionary during any of their visit to Germany is at the benevolence of the president and the prerogative of the Ambassador to Germany. This cannot be contested. But arranging for the president to meet the Nigerian community, the people who “voted” him into office should…

Is Hamburg Football Verband Ripe for all Black Football Club? Plans to deny NCG FC their Possible League promotion and Championship Perfected The recent drama at the Hamburg Football Verband raises at least two basic questions; Can Hamburg football seriously say it is ready for an all-black football Club? And, is the whole preaching about integration through sports just another lip service? While searching for the true answer to the raised questions, let me say that the typical stereotype and prejudice against Africans in Germany was on classical display at the sports court proceedings over a supposed very…

African Community in Hamburg: Ghana Top Employment figure  About 6000 African are gainfully employed in the city of Hamburg. Ghana tops the list with a total of 2300. This figure was made available by Mr. Sönke Fock, Director Agentur für Arbeit Hamburg during an information event organized by the office of Hon. Kenneth Gbandi, African Representative, Hamburg integration council Hamburg on the 27th of April 2012 at Barmbek Basch Kulture Zentrum. Mr. Sönke Fock, gave further employment figures in Hamburg to include a total of 847,000 sozialversicherungspflichtige employed persons out of which 6.000 are persons of African nationalities. In…

Info event about becoming a German citizen  « La police de Hambourg a besoin de vous »: a dit Wolfgang Kopitzsch, le président de la police à la Communauté africaine – Une nouvelle loi pour la reconnaissance des diplômes étrangers  en Allemagne a pris effet à partir  du mois d´Avril – L´Etat  de Hambourg  va accorder la naturalisation à 137.000 immigrants potentiels – Plus de 6000 Africains qui travaillent à Hambourg   A 16:15 exacte,  l’événement tant attendu intitulé informations: Devenir un citoyen allemand, la discrimination de la police, les possibilités d’emploi et de l’éducation a débuté avec  15 minutes de retard…