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“You Mean Business”
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July 2013 ISSUE 9
Tourism:
First Story Building
In Nigeria.
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Events:
Rafiu (Ralph) Oluwasegun
Oduyoye Birthday Party
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FREE FOOD EVERY MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
Mr Okore Feeding The Needy In Pretoria & Johannesburg For The Past 3 Years
Popoola, Sunday O.
M
“ r. Okole Prince Ezeja, a
Nigerian entrepreneur in
Pretoria stated that Nigerians
are good people, on Monday
17th June, 2013 during his
charity works while giving out
food to the needy weekly.
About three hundred street kids
and older men and women
converge every Monday at 9:
am in Sunnyside, Pretoria and
every Wednesday in Hilbrow
Johannesburg to share in the
largesse of Mr. Okolie's free
food charity work. For the past
three years, the man, who was
once a street kid, have been
doing this charity work in both
Pretoria and Johannesburg. In
an interview with The Nigerian
Voice Newspaper, he revealed
that his motivation is Love.
“You must love your neighbor
as you love yourself”.
“Ezeja” confessed that he was
once a street kid and so he
knows “what people in the
street are feeling”. He recalled
his life on the street, “I suffered
before I had my shop…so that
is why I'm doing this to help the
community”. He also noted
that he is helping the South
African Government and also
helping to stop crime because
his charity work gives hope to
street kids. “It doesn't matter
where you are coming from, it
doesn't matter who you are,
give people food” then you can
start asking what their name is,
who they are, where they come
from. He noted that it is his love
for South Africa that motivates
his free food project. “You
Mr Okore expressing his mind with The Nigerian Voice Newspaper on Monday 17th June
2013 after his charity works at Cnr Esselen & Bourke Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria
Mr Themba Qakala,
an active participant
and beneficiary
must love your neighbor as
yourself. If I'm selfish I will
only give food to my brothers
but I'm not selfish”. He
attested, “I love South Africa, I
love Nigeria, I love everybody,
I love the people in
government”.
A cross section of the needy on Monday
17th June 2013
Speaking enthusiastically
about the impacts of the twocity project which has been
going for three years, Mr.
Okolie said, “If in each and
every location we've got
something like this, I don't
think a lot of things that is
happening in South Africa
would be happening”. “I
believe that God sent me.”
Running the project to him is
“imitating Christ” and since he
started the project, he recalled
his “business is booming. I
never ask for bread one day,
God is providing, so I depend
on God”. Going forward, Mr.
Mr At, Swanevelder
a beneficiary
Okolie identified the need for a
car and more funds to continue
the project. “My challenge
presently is that I need a car, I
need more money to push
forward the vision”. “This
thing is a vision, it's a vision
that God gave me that I will go
around the world”.
The humble philanthropist
admitted that he needs “money
to supervise this because it's
not a small job”. “It's taking
quit a lot for me to do this. To
cook the food, get the juice,
even the people that are
c o o k i n g . ” M r. O k o r i e
identified job opportunities
available through the free food
project. With more support, he
reckoned that a lot of people
would get jobs. “Some South
Africans will get jobs, some
foreigners will get jobs.” This,
he believes, will reduce crimes.
“If you have something doing, I
don't think you would be
thinking on how to rob
someone, or how to steal, or
how to go into house breaking
or how to go into crime”.
In the next four to five years,
Mr. Okolie's plan is to “go all
over South Africa”.
He
appeals to the South Africa
government to show interest in
such project as his because
there are many other people
like him supporting the
government through similar
street charity initiatives. He
concluded that “it is not
everybody that is committing
crime. There are no jobs, if
there are job opportunities; I
know that Nigerians are people
that can work hard”.
Also commenting on the aspect
of crime related issues he made
it clear that Nigerians are good
people. In a final word in his
advice, “Learn how to be good
More Pics & continued story
on page 5
NUSA Honors Nigeria’s Consul-General
Ifedayo Oshin
Consulate,16 Illovo Road,
Sandton-Johannesburg by
Nigeria Union South Africa
(NUSA).
The Cosul-General at the
Nigeria Consulate in
Johannesburg, Mr. Okey
Emuchay (MFR) was honored
with an Award “Conferment of
Grand Patron” on Saturday 8th
June, 2013 at Nigerian
The Nigerian Union in
recognition of the people's
Consular (As he is fondly
called by Nigerians), Mr.
Emuchay's sterling leadership
honored him by conferring on
him the highest and most
prestigious title of Grand
Patron of the Union on the 8th
of June 2013. The President of
NUSA said that the honour was
bestowed on Emuchay for his
contribution to the union and
the welfare of Nigerians in
South Africa. “We gathered
here today to honor a man who
has done a lot for NUSA. He is
a man who under difficult
circumstances stood by the
truth and democracy”, said
NUSA President.
The
President further explained
that “the Consul-General
provided the leadership when
Nigerians in South Africa
needed a strong government
intervention when the lives and
property of Nigerians were
targeted as a result of
xenophobic attack on
Nigerians. He also engaged
South African institutions of
government over the
harassment, brutality and
killing of Nigerians in Police
custody