Abid Q. Raja, an advocate of Pakistani origin in Norway, has decided to join politics in the provincial level.

The vocal advocate who has of late represented clients with controversial cases may be eyeing national politics in the future. The provincial politics is simply a ladder to the top.

It is reported that he will become a provincial politician having been nominated by the Left Wing party in Norway. His nomination this Wednesday places him 3 in the list for next autumn’s elections.

He is quoted as saying that he will give priority to education and integration politics when elected. He believes that there is shortage of experienced politicians in Norway that are versed with the politics touching on integration.

African politicians in Norway should take the challenge as well and join in active politics that will take them to the national level.

Norway has a number of experienced African politicians, only that they are not getting the chance to come forward and do something with integration in the country.

An African politician would not get an easy ride to be elected. Most of those who could support them are not united enough to support their own.

This is because most of them practice divisive politics carried from home countries and are jealous of one another, unlike the Pakistanis who support their candidates to the top.

Africans in Norway must rise above disunity and support one another if they have to achieve changes that will benefit the community at large.

By Korir, African Press in Norway (APN)

africanpress@chello.no

Source of the story: ANB/16/11

Speaking to Dagbladet news, Norwegian Finance Minister is reported as saying that no one in Norway should earn more in salary than Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

The complaint has arisen because many companies in Norway pay their CEO top salary that can at times be 3 times more than that of the Prime minister.

Interestingly, this are top CEO’s in government partly owned companies.

The Finance Minister has told the media that she often gets annoyed when she meets CEOs in Norway who only think of many and compare their salaries to that giant American companies.

Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen, from the left wing party is in coalition government with the labour party of Prime Minister Stoltenberg.

She is in-charge of Finance ministry and could do something about the salaries if she wants to. Her ministry is charged with subsidising the companies and she could simply put it as a condition that the government can only fund those companies that do not pay more to their CEOs in salary than the prime minister recieves yearly.

She argues that if  company CEOs have to earn more, then they must justify why they think their jobs give them much more responsibility than that of the prime minister.

 The report quotes the Prime Minister’s earnings as kr.1.071.000 yearly, while some companies partly owned by the government pay more, and an example she puts forward is that of CEO in Telenor, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, who earns Kr.22 million, CEO in Hydro, Eivind Reiten, earning about 9 million kroner, CEO in Cermaq, Geir Isaksen, who got in 2005 about 2,4 million. Their earnings include salaries, and other benefits.

African heads of State cannot match these earnings.  That is why in many countries in Africa it is not easy to avoid corruption because leaders are badly paid, yet some of them would like to compare themselves with CEOs in other countries when it comes to the lifestyles they want to have.

By Korir, African Press in Norway (APN)

africanpress@chello.no

Source of the story: ANB/16/11

To the readers! We are not publishing the letter below in support of its contents! We make it public to warn our readers about the kind of letters being circulated globally in secret.

The letter tells the receipients not to let anybody know of the contents before the money is send to them.

We know that this has been going on for many years and some people have fell victims by paying some processing fee to the origin of the letters.

You are promised the money, but before you get anything you have to pay processing fees that they will tell you is to be paid to their lawyers. Thereafter, you will be told to wait for the money which will never come.

Read it yourself and inform others about it. We do not want our readers to fall victims.

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UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
Office of The Director Special duties.
Abuja, Nigeria
Specialduties reference **UNO/WBF LM-05-371** **ORDERING CONTRACTOR:UNO/WBF â
€“ SG DIPLOMATIC BOX 55KGDear  Beneficiary ,
 
The World Bank Group, Fact Finding & Special Duties office In conjunction with the United Nations Organization, has received part of your pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371) amounting to US$ 55 Million (Fifty Five Million United State Dollars) out of your contractual/inheritance funds from our ordering contractor Bank quoting reference to UNO/WBF LM-05-371, the said payment is been arranged in a Security-proof box weighing 55kg padded with synthetic nylon. According to information gathered from the bank’s security computer we were notified that you have waited for so long to receive this payment without success, we also confirmed that you have not met all statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment.
 
You are therefore advised to contact our Payment Clearance Department to obtain necessary information to the Security Courier Service Company that is specialized in sending diplomatic materials and information from one country to another, which also has diplomatic immunity to carry consignment (Box) such as this.
 
This office has met with this Security Courier Service and concluded shipping arrangement with them, therefore shipment will commence as soon as we have your go ahead order. The  diplomat who will be bring in this Consignment(Box) to you is an expert and has been in this line of work for many years now so you have noting to worry about.
After all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD500,000.00) to a charity
organization we designate to you as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, in your response you should send to us a promissory note promissing to donate the stated amount and also with your address where you will like the Box to be delivered. Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out that we are using this media to help you. Therefore you are advised not to inform anyone about this until you received your money.
 
As a matter of urgency, You are requested to provide the following informations to furge ahead with this transaction:
 
1) Your direct phone and fax numbers.
2) Your company name and address.

Congratulations.
 
Yours Faithfully
Dr.Albert Iwuji
Director, Special Duties UNO/WBF.

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The above letter is what we think must be stopped from being send secretly to people. The only way to do so is by making it public this way.

We encourage other media outlets to do the same.

By Korir, African Press in Norway (APN)

africanpress@chello.no
 

African Press in Norway has closely followed the reporting by Kenya Stockholm Blog on the death of a Kenyan national Juliet Kikaka Kavinga who was murdered in Sweden in 2005.

We have now decided to analyse all that which has come out in the case as reported by KSB.

We will look into the facts of the case as put forward by the police, the prosecution, the reported facts by KSB, and finally make our conclusions in summary.

To begin with, this is a saddening story, with a tragic end, “murder” and an acquital of the only suspect, one “acquital” that may never be understood, even if argued so well by the judicial system.

• A story that start happily in Kenya and ended tragically in the modern society in Sweden.
• A story that started in Sweden happily when Juliet met the boyfriend who ended up, as alleged, becoming the father of her child, a child who was to be born 2 months before she met her death in a cruel manner.
• A story that saw 2 lives being taken away from this earth by a killer whose motives may never be understood.
• A story where a killer knows very well that even if the baby was born, and he had no ability to forster the child, the Swedish state would provide for the baby’s well-being through the social network.
• A story that has caused Juliet’s next of kin to suffer psychologically for loosing their loved one.
• A story that has made Africans, and particularly Kenyans who knew her, “to doubt” and “to hate” the judicial system in Sweden because of setting free the only suspect that the police has made to answer the charges because they believe he commited the crime.

Yes – this is a very sad and tragic story as the details will show herebelow:

Juliet made plans to move to Sweden for a better life just like many Africans do when they leave their countries to settle abroad. She must have made plans to settle down and start helping the family back home.

Little did she know that she was going to meet a monster that was going to end her life in a cruel way.

During the ordeal, she must have cried loud for someone to come to her rescue. A rescue that she so much needed before her killer completed the job, that took away her last breath.

KSB has reported from the beginning on this chilling story of a …………… MORE TO COME!

(This is a developing story)

By Korir, African Press in Norway (APN)

africanpress@chello.no