Nigeria Did Not Apply To Join BRICS, Says Shettima

President Kashim Shettima says Nigeria did not apply for membership of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Shettima spoke hours after the economic bloc said it is admitting six new members – Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

While many wondered why Nigeria did not join the group, Shettima on Friday said the country never applied for ERICS membership.

“So far, we have not applied for the membership of BRICS. And it is majorly informed by the fact that my principal President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a true democrat that believes in consensus building,” he told Channels Television on the sideline of the BRICS Summit which was held in South Africa.

“There are so many variables that need to be taken into cognizance. We have to evaluate so many tendencies and issues that require engagements with the economic advisory council, the Federal Executive Council, and even the National Assembly before an informed decision towards joining the BRICS would be taken.”

Shettima, who has been representing Nigeria at the summit, also has a word for Nigerians in South Africa.

He is calling on them to be law-abiding and to respect the host citizens wherever they live.

The newly admitted countries would become full members from January 1.

"This membership expansion is historic,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose nation is the most powerful in the group of large and populous non-Western economies.

“The expansion is also a new starting point for BRICS cooperation. It will bring new vigour to the BRICS cooperation mechanism and further strengthen the force for world peace and development”.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hailed what he called “a great moment” for his country, the second-most populous in Africa.

In Iran, senior presidential advisor Mohammad Jamshidi described the move as a “historic development and a strategic success” for Tehran’s foreign policy.

Egypt and the UAE also broadcast their readiness to work with the loosely defined group that represents billions of people on four continents and a quarter of the world’s wealth.

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/08/25/nigeria-did-not-apply-to-join-brics-says-shettima/amp/

No evidence...
So why waste tax payers hard earned money by going? SMH.

tsdarkside:


showin up is showin interest to join....
many others visited too and didnt join....

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helinues:
We have asked those Oluku people to tell us when Nigeria applied to join BRICS but na foaming from the mouth we have been seeing

Racoon:
So why did you attend their conference thereby wasting the scarce taxpayers monies of this nation? Foolish people who don't know how to lie.

complexstuffs:


Since when has IPOB cared about Nigeria's tax payers money

So to you every critic of this incompetent APC government is an IPOB? SMH...



Wittyness

So why did you attend their conference thereby wasting the scarce taxpayers monies of this nation? Foolish people who don't know how to lie.

“There are so many variables that need to be taken into cognizance. We have to evaluate so many tendencies and issues that require engagements with the economic advisory council, the Federal Executive Council, and even the National Assembly before an informed decision towards joining the BRICS would be taken.”

that igbos dont even understand this realy baffles me....

Racoon:
So why did you attend their conference thereby wasting the scarce taxpayers monies of this nation? Foolish people who don't know how to lie.

No bro, Nigeria was invited to the conference by the organisation

We have asked those Oluku people to tell us when Nigeria applied to join BRICS but na foaming from the mouth we have been seeing

Racoon:
So why did you attend their conference thereby wasting the scarce taxpayers monies of this nation? Foolish people who don't know how to lie.

Chief NL wailer, so na only Nigeria non members was invited to BRICS ?

Opposition is not madness my friend

tsdarkside:
“There are so many variables that need to be taken into cognizance. We have to evaluate so many tendencies and issues that require engagements with the economic advisory council, the Federal Executive Council, and even the National Assembly before an informed decision towards joining the BRICS would be taken.”

that igbos dont even understand this realy baffles me....

Casting aspersions on a whole tribe out of hatred shows how low you are

What was he, Shettima doing there in the meeting?

A country with 230 million people and the highest GDP in Africa went to a meeting for sightseeing?

The joke is on you, Shettima. Who invited you to the BRICS meeting and for what purpose?

Btw, if na by going to the moon or Jupiter is the reason to join BRICS then Nigeria is not interested.

We are yet to explore 70% of earth Ocean, infact yet to know some facts about planet earth

MadamExcellency:
What was he doing there?

See question. Would he have attended without being invited?

ican2020:

Casting aspersions on a whole tribe out of hatred shows how low you are

....
what should we do....??

many of your people dont want to stop....
when a child is misbehavin,you complain to the parents....

soo,we start shoutin at the ol tribe,that will bring the attention of your leaders at you....

wittywriter:
No evidence...
So why waste tax payers hard earned money by going? SMH.



Wittyness

showin up is showin interest to join....
many others visited too and didnt join....

Shettima, who has been representing Nigeria at the summit, also has a word for Nigerians in South Africa.

He is calling on them to be law-abiding and to respect the host citizens wherever they live.

Will the children of hate heed to this advice….won’t they call the VP names and insult him? Time will tell because many of them are already in jail for drug offences.

I just want to disappear
into this universe.
Be the sun and the sand, 
the wind and the water 
moving aimlessly.
I want to be the dance 
between the earth, the sky
and the waves.
Be the energy that holds 
everything in its place.
And then I just want to appear
as a tiny human being
and open my eyes
and open my heart
to see myself.

I love shettima, deputy sugar daddy in chief of nigeria.
I have had hausa sugar daddies but they don't have resting bvtch face like shettima.
If I catch this shettima I believe he will smile by force

Hmm

Of course why would you apply. It's a shame that Nigeria is cut off at the best opportunity we have but our president want to go to war that will destabilise our region. Why is Nigeria always at the bad side of everything?

It's a matter of time, very soon the pressure will make FG succumb

A corrupt western puppet like Nigeria should never be allowed to BRICS, Nigeria has nothing to offer BRICS Nigeria will only be a liability to the BRICS

Oya apply na

This Nairaland is unbecoming by its member.
There’s little or nothing the Admin could do to sanitize it.
The ethnicity bitterness is just way too much.
Many people follow blindly.
Many oppose blindly.
People can hardly have civil conversation without ethnic slurs cut across political affiliations.
It’s normal for people to hate the government,when people don’t like standard of living, and even people in places we referred to as green land does the same on a daily…. People always want more or miracle .
Issues like Brics should actually prompt a more better conversation on here…
But literacy doesn’t equal to civilization and you’re as dirty as those you think of if you can’t have a conversation without abuse.
Irrespective of how much the Igbo and Yoruba people hate themselves, one thing is clear… we’re stucked together and it’s a forever thing…
The only people that’s profiting from this ethnic divisions are the politicians, I won’t be surprised if they pay some people on here to start such dirty stuff.
Yoruba prover = Aparo kan o ga ju kan lo.
Translation = All Quail birds have the same height.
The thought of you being better or wiser than your neighbors is not only foolish but myopic.
There’s a big Fintech company in Lagos, founded by 2 Yoruba guys, when they need investor none of their clan see future in them or their business, They got in contact with one Igbo man who’s African Manager for HSBC in NY, he was the only one that took the risk with them, they’re both happy now and company with worth $1.5 Billion as at 2021 and still going strong.
There’s so much we could achieve together if only we choose to dialogue instead of fighting.
France and British fought for Donkey years and then both put their past aside and build a underground tunnel join forces together to achieve greatness together.
Yoruba and Igbo could do it…. It begins from here.
Peace out.

What is the benefit of the association's members

tsdarkside:
“There are so many variables that need to be taken into cognizance. We have to evaluate so many tendencies and issues that require engagements with the economic advisory council, the Federal Executive Council, and even the National Assembly before an informed decision towards joining the BRICS would be taken.”

that igbos dont even understand this realy baffles me....

It's like attending an interview without applying for the job.

No amount of English or whitewash will justify his attending when the FG didn't apply.

Uhmmm

Nigeria don't need BRICS...... Look at the east Africa trade coalition that created..... Nigeria didn't join.... We know our issue is political and will get it right some day.... But we can't continuously be a dumping ground for world economies

helinues:
Btw, if na by going to the moon or Jupiter is the reason to join BRICS then Nigeria is not interested.

We are yet to explore 70% of earth Ocean, infact yet to know some facts about planet earth

senseless

Lol
It is finished, hope you know the opposite of what he's saying is the truth...

They must have rejected Nigeria's Application to join 😂😂😂

Adamu garba will be disappointed