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Tuesday 27 January 2015

Journalist claims foreign journalists are being blocked from getting visas to cover elections in Nigeria

Geoffrey York is an Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail, based in Johannesburg, South Africa and he's on Twitter claiming foreign journalists are being blocked form getting visas to cover elections in Nigeria. If this is true, why so? More tweets after the cut...




172 comments:

Steady said...

That is not a new thing nau make dem free us abeg

Unknown said...

MR EDDY said this heat wan kill person o.

Hmmmm. I smell a dead rat.
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Ifeanyi said...

Dats Nigeria for u

Unknown said...

After they will say Gej wanys to end corruption
Why are journalist being blocked to come?
Because they can't bribe foreign journalist they want to block dem
Isn't Gej incharge of this country
This can't happen without his knowledge
After they will start fighting apc with words

snowflix said...

Lol. I laugh is Chinese #onelovefromsnow#

Hintealand said...

God the best watcher over everything will cover it.

.............'''PRAY4NIGERIA'''..............

Anonymous said...

Issuing of Visa is at the desecration of the visa officer. If you are not obliged with one, never take it personal. Many nations have rejected Nigerians from entering their nations at one time or the other.

Anonymous said...

Yes you people should stay dere. We no wat wahala

Anonymous said...

Issuing of Visa is at the desecration of the visa officer. If you are not obliged with one, never take it personal. Many nations have rejected Nigerians from entering their nations at one time or the other.

Niyi Daramola said...

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Unknown said...

whoa, cool

Anonymous said...

wehav journalist here in naija so what more?

dudette said...

Correct......it has begun..I pray for peaceful election...

godson onyekuru said...

becos of PDP dont want them here

Unknown said...

B4???? Wetin una wan come cover? Ndi ashiri gbakaa ute.

Unknown said...

Wow!

I hope dis claims r true?

If u ask they wil turn around d story and tell u "counter statement" dat they were mis-quoted and all dat.

God help us.

Unknown said...

Wow!

I hope dis claims r true?

If u ask they wil turn around d story and tell u "counter statement" dat they were mis-quoted and all dat.

God help us.

Unknown said...

Wow!

I hope dis claims r true?

If u ask they wil turn around d story and tell u "counter statement" dat they were mis-quoted and all dat.

God help us.

Unknown said...

He should try harder. ...
Naija isnt easy to gain access to ...lol

Egwu a n'agba aburo egwu umuazi

Unknown said...

stupid country

Unknown said...

PDP+GEJ all ur plan will not work. GMB is coming......
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Anonymous said...

you"ve got to be kidding me.

Anonymous said...

Y'all will be suprise to see the kinda peeps that came in here regularly & read the LIB without even leaving a comment.... Alot of Us but i broke up today. We read all of y'all comments & laugh... & sometimes we do laugh at stories being Made.... Keep it Up Linda

That's Nigeria for yhu... Another Rigging might arrise #AGAIN...


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win said...

Propaganda everywhere.

Uberhaute| MUA| Natural Hair Styling | Sales n Services said...

You guys disguise with diff professions but are spies...what are you looking for?...if it's your country it's right we are denies visa but if it's Nigeria, you must all have free entry. Do we cover your own election in the West?...#everyone be using Naija to clean mouth this days

Unknown said...

Too bad.



Busy Fingers.

Unknown said...

i dont believe this man!


#GodblessNigeria

Unknown said...

Still on political matters.


@Sophia Stephen

Anonymous said...

Nigeria should be extremely careful whom they let in under the guise of who is a journalists. A lot of these so called journalists are coming in to do things have nothing to do with the election.Some of them will come simply to rubbish Nigeria they do not to be given a VISA it is not a right to visit Nigeria, some are here simply to sleep with Prostitutes and get drunk, It is not a right they should submit their names for security clearance if they do not pass they should be denied, it is not every Nigerian that goes to the embassy that gets VISA,the color of your skin does not give you any special privileges to be running around Nigeria.

Blog It With Olivia said...

Why won't they be blocked, we saying our country is already bad αи∂ corrupt...αи∂ they wanna come αи∂ expose /wash us in their countries so that by way, we †Ñ’ξ innocent citizens will now remain bad ppl in their sight.. Abeg they should better be blocked well oooo ...lol

Anonymous said...

Nigeria govt ehhhh

Anonymous said...

Good question Linda, smh at this GEJ'S administration. Is he planning on rigging the election? God help our country.GEJ pack ur load and go, later you will tell us u are all for democracy,yet you prevent int'l journalists for reporting about the election, your time in Aso rock is over, FeBuhari14 all the way.

Anonymous said...

This Nigga should stop ranting.. Same way we're being given Visas when we have important conferences and events to attend in ur country?

Unknown said...

why???




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knowurway.com said...

PDP party hand work. Nigerians wake-up my people lives matter. PDP party and corruption insecurity darkness no electricity bad government must go. vote for #change# vote Buhari and Osinbajo. For president next month 14th!

Anonymous said...

Pls given this man multiple entry visa to maduguri

Anonymous said...

Mumu biased journalist not needed in Nigeria.

Unknown said...

Dey don't want fiful 2 see the how pdp will rig d election

Unknown said...

Covering their nyash..

Anonymous said...

The reason is obvious. The elections will not be free or anywhere near fair.

Anonymous said...

Mr York, with all due respect to your profession, Nigeria reserves the right to allow or dissallow anybody from visiting its country. The implication of this article is to insult the Nigerian govt and that is unacceptable. When Nigerians plan to visit other countries we subject ourselves to due process. I don't see why you think you deserve and any special treatment. We already have security issues to deal with so I don't think its wise to give visas to every Tom, Dickson and Harry. I'm sure you can understand the safety concerns.

Anonymous said...

Jonathan and PDP are scared stiff...

Unknown said...

What did u expect #onlyinnigeria

Austin said...

what's the need when the international community has turned their back on us when we needed them most in aiding fight against terrorism in Nigeria.. my guess is a lot of them wanna come so they take advantage of political tension in the country ..by probably reporting one-sided news as regards to the political party they're getting paychecks from..thereby aggravating the tension worldwide..we should tryna at least have belief in our security agencies for once..and not assume this is the fg's doing as usual for purpose of gaining unfair advantage.

Unknown said...

I don't believe dat abeg, when has getting a visa to enter naija bcom an issue. People are capitalizing on dis election too much. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

I don't believe dat abeg, when has getting a visa to enter naija bcom an issue. People are capitalizing on dis election too much. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

I don't believe dat abeg, when has getting a visa to enter naija bcom an issue. People are capitalizing on dis election too much. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

I don't believe dat abeg, when has getting a visa to enter naija bcom an issue. People are capitalizing on dis election too much. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Simple so dey could rig very well!!

Unknown said...

Lol....watch the stories as they unfolds.....let's continue to be patient towards it till election day to know if its true


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Anonymous said...

Block them please.

We don't want them.

Do their embassies issue our citizens visas?

Chop Chop said...

Make dis people no play wayo ooo...cos dem ones won't take bribe.

Anonymous said...

So much about free and fair. They want to steal ballot boxes in the cities as stealing in inaccessible places alone can't deliver them this Time. #change

Anonymous said...

Because they go back and report lies!!! They claim they are coming to report election, yet, when they get to Nigeria, all they want is to report negative information about the country and make us look bad. Let them stay in their country and mind their own business. Imagine titling his tweets ' latest Nigerian scandal.' like seriously? We already know what he is going there for. These are the people that do not want us to suceed.

Anonymous said...

"Nigeria allowed many foreign journos to cover "Bring Back Our Girls" last year; yet now it's blocking at least 40 from covering election" #Bad Mouth. Lol.

Unknown said...

Bcos dey don't want foreigners to c deir fuck up

Unknown said...

He doesn't know what he's talking about...maybe his traveling documents are not complete..he should stop painting us bad..mtchewwww

Unknown said...

Might be true. Nigeria ways are always corrupt. We know the election is just camouflage.

Shalom in Nigeria, Amen.

Anonymous said...

oga York, if you cannot get your security clearance stay in your country. It's not by force. If you were important you won't be on twitter crying wolf.

Unknown said...

Thats cos d federal govt (gej) wants to rig

Anonymous said...

Jonathan's plan to rig the elections knows no bounds. He's even barring journalists and ensuring no intelligence is on ground!!!
Where is our PVC? INEC is " dependent" on Jonathan. DNEC.

AGB said...

Yes, I support the idea of blocking foreign journalists from "reporting" about our national elections. They always have a way of propagating false propaganda against Nigeria and Africa in general.

AGB said...

Yes, I support the idea of blocking foreign journalists from "reporting" about our national elections. They always have a way of propagating false propaganda against Nigeria and Africa in general.

Unknown said...

They know wt they wanna do

Unknown said...

oga stay your country.na by force to allow you come here

andrea said...

That's cos they have sth to hide... riggers of election.. which way Nigeria? ?

ary said...

Doesn't seem like a wise thing to do, they should be allowed access into the country but due process must be followed.

Anonymous said...

Part of Jonathan evil way to get the election Rigged, i dont know what wrong with that little boy though, only Jah will help us this Election.

Unknown said...

Don't know how true this really is.

Manuel Kunmi said...

And they say GEJ is as clean and innocent as holy spirit . Then why is this happening can someone tell abi na APC sponsor this one too

Unknown said...

Stupidity at the highest order!....mennn they'll always deny.

Unknown said...

#Foriegn coverage this is the change we need

Unknown said...
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AHOW said...

HAHAHAAA... Now they know how it feels to be denied visa... hahaaaaaa. this just made my day!

Subomi said...

if you are clean and have nothing to hide, go get security clearance, Nigeria is not the only place where it is demanded though not for visa

Unknown said...

Lol, naija I dey hail. They don't want negative n contradicting reports which is unfair

Unknown said...

Lol, naija I dey hail. They don't want negative n contradicting reports which is unfair

Unknown said...

Lol, naija I dey hail. They don't want negative n contradicting reports which is unfair

BECKYS WORLD EVENTS /NAIJA BAKERS BLOG said...

Der won't want dem to come PDP. Is it not failure for the fefull, PDP, dey rig election die.

GALORE said...

Na una sabbi....must all of them come and cover events?..

We cannot accommodate all of them...I am sure we have other journalist on queue already.... We can't grant all of them permission......

All ds Twitter rants all the time...
Now one yeye somebody go come say na bcos of @Good luck Jonathan wan rig election... Bla bla bla



@Galore

Unknown said...

This should nt be, at same time, good reason must be if so.

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

I'm not think so.....why Nigeria government block foreign journalists from getting visa

jbankzE said...

Stay in ur country plz,we dnt need y'all here....cos finally no be beta report una go give evn if d election de peacefull.

~@iamjbankz SA to President Jonathan 2015~

Anonymous said...

Desperate Ebele&his Cohorts.....they just want to rig and much more. Bodun Adenugba

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

Humm may God save us dis election

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

Humm may God save us dis election

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

Humm may God save us dis election

Unknown said...

Let them stay in their country. Aproko's......

Anonymous said...

Awwww? Not to worry, NTA will cover it and you guys can piggyback on their own report. Runs away!

Unknown said...

Show is it by force? They should stay in their country now afterall when we are battling EBOLA did any of them willing to show face...

Ceemi said...

Because they want to rig the election. So they don't need the foreign eyes to watch them like hawks. I suspect the ruling party.

Anonymous said...

Erm excuse me? The elections are just two weeks away, why are you only applying for Visa's now? When Nigerians visit your countries do you know the restrictions they face, how long they have to wait and how much they have to pay often just to be refused the visa altogether!
My friend go and hide under a rock somewhere. When it's negative news you are happy to publish it. Mind your own business and go look for bad news in your own country after all it can be found everywhere.
Enemies of progress kmt!

Unknown said...

I wish thats true. Ndi ocha Na asiri lol.
#Charles

Francis said...

The very reasons why Nigeria is still stagnant. As am typing this I do not have electricity this morning n some fools will go out there to vote GEJ or Buhari

elo tasha said...

Really?

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khemorah said...

I don't doubt this at all

Anonymous said...

A ego, go sit down. The EU monitors are here already so wetin be you problem. If you come and Bokohari's people kill you, then they will say Nigeria did not offer you protection. Abegi. Next

Anonymous said...

What is this one's problem? We have EU monitors on ground so what is this oyibo mercenary trying to insinuate. In these days we need security clearance o because oyibo too dey too terrorism

Anonymous said...

Eh heh? So get security clearance abi you don't know the South Africa is an exporter of mercenaries? Eu monitors are already on the ground and they got security clearance. If you can't wait to get yours don't come abegi

Anonymous said...

See this one o...ah wetin person no go hear. They say there has to be security clearance in this age of terrorism and you are tweeting. What exactly is your agenda?

Anonymous said...

Oyibo people too dey do terrorism so I am with the Nigeria security on this one. We have to know who we allow in.

Anonymous said...

Because you are white you don't think you should be subjected to security clearance? Arrogant oyibo people. Please go sit down joor. EU monitors are already here

Anonymous said...

So the EU monitors that are already here are not good enough? If you do not get allowed in to Nigeria no big deal. Go sit down joor. Hungry journalist you want to come get some oil.

Unknown said...

They should allow them to enter no big deal

Anonymous said...

What is this one's problem? Abi he does not know the EU monitors and the journalists attached to them are already he. Every Tom Dick and Harry wants to get to Nigeria to advance their careers. Abegi go sit down.

Anonymous said...

Mr journalist or whatever, Nigeria has the right to allow or ban you. EU monitors are here so what is your problem?

Anonymous said...

If Nigeria were to allow every journalist, then terrorists also from all sorts of places will come to join their Boko brothers. Mr oyibo, you should patiently wait for your security clearance.

Unknown said...

Cos nigeria are corrupt. They don't want the world 2 no

Anonymous said...

It is very annoying when these racist whites start poke nosing into matters that don't concern them. Why insult the Nigerian official? You are probably lying or are we to believe you because you are white?

Anonymous said...

The era of the worship of white skin is over. This one thinks that he should not get security clearance because he is what? Oyibo? Abeg. Oyibo these days steal, lie, commit terrorism just like other people. Go sit down joor.

Unknown said...

BC PDP is planing mass reging of election .........they must go fake ppl like Doyin okupe ...Fani kayode (Oni baranda) that talk nonsensical bc of money thief the son of bishop shameless jakass

Unknown said...

Simple.......they don't wnt the world to see their dirty little secret.

Anonymous said...

If dem block you...follow ghana...thats all

Sir benkord said...

When they know what they wanna do.......may God help us.......

Sea money say via droid.

Unknown said...

Someone at work here. I didn't call names o

Unknown said...

Go n cover in other countries! Leave Us Alone!

Unknown said...

Yes!!!

Unknown said...

YES!!! It also aint easy getting Visa for Nigeria! No be only Una sabi hoard Visa!!!!

Unknown said...

Hmmmm...I wonder what could be the reason

Ademola Owolabi said...

Some of these so called foreign journalists were hired by APC Foreign PR Consultants. They are not objective or truthful.

Anonymous said...

Could it be because a certain ruling party does not want external interference poking their noses around when they want to play wayo with the election results.

Unknown said...

Rigging don start be that.

elovi said...

Hmmn Oga ooo

Unknown said...

Hmmm
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ebonyz... said...

Na wa oh

Unknown said...

Hmmm
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Anonymous said...

Mr York, dat is GEJ 's work. Don't worry, nt 4 too long. Power is Changing hands soon.

Unknown said...

Tired of bad reports about my country

Unknown said...

PDP things!

Unknown said...

mtcheww b4 nko wayo pipu

Anonymous said...

So? Y is dis making news? When nigerians on daily basis get rejected visas into different countries,who dey complain?.for a change let dem hv a taste.

Unknown said...

Are all dis our leaders not tired of negative publication about our country??????? If they really have nothing 2 hide y not allow journalist who have no political tiles 2 any of d political parties access to transparent televising so we get 2 see unfiltered/unbaised reports of the election

mccoy said...

Lols.. The fear of APC is the begining of wisdom
#Change #FeBuhari #GMB2015 #ABetterDeal

#GEJOUT!!!

Anonymous said...

Abeg abeg abeg. Will SA grant me visa to cover SA elections?

Anonymous said...

So, "Oyinbo's" can beg to get Nigerian visa? Hmmmmmm

Unknown said...

FG/PDP @ work.u ain't seen nothing yet,they will soon ground all international channels both print and media covering anything that has to do with the elections.massive rigging on the way..

Malaysiame said...

If true???? Then they have something to hide??

Anonymous said...

Gerout. Cover what shit? Wil u people go and cover de northern part of de country? Abeg abeg abeg. Go and cover Boko haram victims,at least it wil help US understand whaz going on in Nigeria. #oneandonlynwa@gmail.com#

Unknown said...

Am not suprised, I kinda belive this man, our politicians re scared dat the world will see how good they are in rigging becus PDP and APC must rig

Unknown said...

An indication that they want to rig the election

Anonymous said...

Nigeria with their politics

Unknown said...

or to say the election has been rigged already

Musa said...

My friend seat down somewhere, don't you have a home

Anonymous said...

See how he looks like a hungry fellow, Hahahahahaha.

Anonymous said...

You people will never cover the good part of Nigeria only the vilages, this is why someone will ask me in America if I live in a hurt.

Jlo said...

This man looks like a scam he should be scrutinized.

Unknown said...

Show your proof oga

Eastner said...

na cos dem wan do mago mago...
Them suppose don jasi.

Naijasportscrib.com said...

If this is true that means something is cooking.

Ike Ani said...

Must you cover everything Mr. Journalist. We have the right to decide who enters here jst as u SA do too! Or are we not a Nation? www.ikeani.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

Jonathan is planning to rig this election and I fear the outcome

Jules said...

Naija...which way to go?

Unknown said...

Is not suppose to be so nah........

Juleslouis said...

Its very possible. Shameless politicians r seriously planning on rigging and they don't want it broadcasted all over d world.

Anonymous said...

Abeg leave matter....... wetin he wan come do? Jobless man we have enough Journalists some as still looking for jobs.......... They should carry me to be an observer in western politics....

Kulikuli said...

They won't help us but they will send their journalists and spies to come and gloat, spreading more lies. These people please leave us alone!!!

Kulikuli said...

They won't help us but they will send their journalists and spies to come and gloat, spreading more lies. These people please leave us alone!!!

Kulikuli said...

They won't help us but they will send their journalists and spies to come and gloat, spreading more lies. These people please leave us alone!!!

Kulikuli said...

Anyway, visa office should fashion a special visa that takes them straight to Baga, no transiting at all in Lagos or Abuja to sit at the Hilton and manufacture some phanthom. Straight to Baga, ka ji kwo?

Kulikuli said...

Anyway, visa office should fashion a special visa that takes them straight to Baga, no transiting at all in Lagos or Abuja to sit at the Hilton and manufacture some phanthom. Straight to Baga, ka ji kwo?

yawanow said...

The so called Journalist should be scrutinized before entry into our country.

Unknown said...

Not without reason, transparency means the procedure must be open challenge.

Winny luv said...

They shld take a million seats joor, is it bcos its naija, how many Nigerians do they deny visa every day? God punish devil....

Unknown said...

They did not offer enough "egunje". Identify a "friend" in the embassy or high commission and "roger". Everything will fall in place.

Anonymous said...

They shouldn't allow them to come. I think america have a hand in sponsoring boko haram. So they want to use d election as an excuse to come to naija. So make una no come. Obama is a radical Muslim. He's jst deceiving people.

Anonymous said...

A Lot of blind people commenting on this blog...if a journalist wit valid credentials wants to enter a Country to report on an election..wat is d reason for stopping him? Stop dis false sense of national pride...an open govt will allow d outside news agency cc and and possibly root out bad eggs wit evidence in hand...but no so many r applauding d steps to have rubbish hidden in d dark smh

DENIED SA VISA TOURIST said...

Please deny him... Block them all of them.... BLOCK THEM BLOCK THEM BLOCK THEM

Anonymous said...

Dude do U have an original or intelligent thought in your head?

Anonymous said...

Wait. FFK and oga Reuben will soon tweet blaming the opposition.

Unknown said...

The embassy is doing that coz of instruction by the presidency.they wouldn't want the international community to know of their abnormalities,but trust,they have no where to hide.We wouldn't allow any rigging.

Unknown said...

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