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Obiagu1:
Civic leaders in eastern Libya have declared semi-autonomy for their oil-rich region at a meeting in Benghazi.
They say the move is necessary as the region, once known as Cyrenaica, has been neglected for decades.
But the move has caused tension with the governing National Transitional Council (NTC) in the capital Tripoli.

NTC head Mustafa Abdel Jalil blamed other Arab countries for stirring trouble in Libya and inciting calls for its partition.
Without naming any nations by name, Mr Jalil said they sought to "avoid the contamination of the flood of the revolution which stretches from the west of the Arab homeland heading to the east". Suleiman Fortia, another NTC member, told the BBC that the authors of the declaration were trying to hijack the revolution and did not fully represent the region.

However, the declaration has significant popular support among people in Benghazi, the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Libya's second city reports. The document has no force in law but is a declaration of intent by the local leaders, our correspondent adds.
'One nation'. Hundreds of people attended the Congress of the People of Cyrenaica, held in a hangar on the outskirts of Benghazi.

The conference announced that it wanted to have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital - in Benghazi. Foreign policy would be left to the federal government in Tripoli, it said. Ahmed al-Zubair, Libya's longest-serving political prisoner under Col Muammar Gaddafi and a member of the NTC, was appointed leader of a governing council. He promised to "protect the rights" of people in the region, but told the gathering: "Libya will not be divided. It is one nation." Another senior tribal figure also downplayed talk of dividing Libya. "Federalism is not division but unity," Fadl-Allah Haroun, commander of a revolutionary militia, told the AP. "We are not talking about changing the flag or national anthem. We are talking about different administration, a parliament and managing the financial affairs."

Historically, Cyrenaica is one of three regions Libya was divided into. The other two were Tripolitania in the north-west and Fezzan in the south-west. Cyrenaica's leaders say the region stretches from the central coastal city of Sirte to the Libyan-Egyptian border in the east - containing two-thirds of the country's oil reserves.

The three states enjoyed federal power following Libya's independence in 1951, until the country became a unitary state in 1963. The people of Cyrenaica, known as Barqa in Arabic, long felt marginalised and neglected under Gaddafi, who focused much of the development on the west. The city of Benghazi was the seat of the uprising that eventually toppled the former dictator.



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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17271431

Nigerians are watching 

We might as well allow GEJ to complete his 8yrs tenure b4 we can be ready because this 2015 election go be another big show,

bmxshop:
A living dog is greater than a dead lion.

so u mean OBJ is better

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keep dreaming,we are in a different dimension this time you will be shock again this is not the first time your leaders have sold you out even most of them reverse the biafran history which shocked a lot of you people,wait for another wave is coming either you are with us or you lose out

this time around SW should not act foolishly in 2015 if not their highest rank na minister of special duties, e will be like!tunde go buy me agege and ewa for me chap chap

Geomac:
You can say whatever you like. I will rather be a cow than grasses (you) that we feed on.

well is up to you lot but everybody knows that Fulani the way they see MB is like one cow 10 tivs  

Geomac:
Remove Middle Belt from that your useless unholy alliance pls.

you can join your hausa holy alliance your people don't really count Fulani cows  

WE hold the knife and the yam so who want eat will have to join us the winning team. or no Nigeria so choose one

SW can go and form alliance as much as they want 2015 none of their candidates will smell the power or oyel will stop flowing MEND is much alive so who will go with the wining side period SW is on their own at the moment cus even northerners wont give you their 100% am sure of that they know you lot got nada

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And what is the current state of Somalia and Afghanistan? a common baby in Somalia since he or she was born never receive JABS against diseases and most are malnutrition their infrastructure is nothing to talk about the same US will send AID for them to survive; let me be honest with you all these countries you mention depend on US AID yearly to survive, if Yankee decide to close their taps half of their population will not be in existence by now

That is why i have a little respect for western world because their opportunism they have in the past if it was china at the time that's when you will see evil maybe Nigerian population will not reach 50million by now.Places like Somalia Pakistan's their population will not reach up to 40million put together,that way it will be more easier for them to control you when you are sick and dying of hunger

Amen!! he is in the hand of GOD

manchy7531:
am not surprised.i have always known that this slaves will always go back to their masters in the north for alliance.I just hope they wont shoot themselves in the foot this time cos i know there is a strong SE/SS/MB alliance which they have deliberately kept the SW on the fence to know their stance before they admit them into the alliance but if this report happens to be true the am sure 2015 will be a very interesting movie to watch.That is all can say.

Well just sit and watch

both look like monkey

The guy is smart kid we igbos are too smart sometime even aliens wonder how we do it,we just naturally born with it thats why other groups their girls dey marry us so that their pikin be smart aswell,my next life na igbo oh

Yoruba's will be very alright when they stand on their own; agriculture will generate too much money for the region take a look at cocoa producing countries in Africa Ghana,Abidjan and see how cocoa money improved their standard of living

i give up  see his face probably one of Yoruba nairalanders

Well northerners have sold their soul to devil like Pakistan and Iraq did in the past and they still paying for it

T8ksy:
And who's stopping you?

We want (you) out (of our region), too!

MOooaah go and slap awo/OBJ for joining Nigerian soldiers now everybody is feeling the heat including his so call prominent Yoruba by now BIAFRA will be 44 yrs old

Good move thou but the kind of politicians Nigeria have at the moment is not really a well come development

okosodo:
I am conducting a research on the similarities of awolowo and alao akala. Can somebody help me

1)difference is bleaching cream
2) i think ankala cant stand awo

~Bluetooth:
Ibos are representing Nigeria very well outside the country.No wonder ibos are present in every prison around the world.

mr man go and drink ijebu garri and sleep is too early abi u dey sell agege bread with ewa?

ichidodo:
chai! Poor woman. Na money 4 owambe. These black and dirty people shuld shut up. They shuld creep into their jungle caves and leave d ndigbo to prosper. Dem no fine wit very low i.q and on top of dat very very dirty.

indeed!! most of them are forcing guys they are not born with it so it frustrate them at times

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Dede1 is like you studied yaribas very well oyel is their all and all that is why a Yoruba person will leave his village and travel to east to do taxis in PH and some of them work in oil companies b4 yaribas don't no the different b/w ikwere man and ndoki man all na omo igbo

Another Naija, Afolake Awoyemi, Was Nabbed In John F. Kennedy Airport New York, Who Claimed She Was 3 Months Pregnant, Only For She To Be Few Days Pregnant With 25 Pellets Of Heroin, How Much Does It Worth, $20,000 !!!

i think the innocent blood wasted on that land is now hunting them such is life

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i dont think so he better put an eye on them

MOD you going to lose you credibility's very soon don't think people are not seeing your-dodgy ways

Another Naija, Afolake Awoyemi, Was Nabbed In John F. Kennedy Airport New York, Who Claimed She Was 3 Months Pregnant, Only For She To Be Few Days Pregnant With 25 Pellets Of Heroin, How Much Does It Worth, $20,000 !!!


cheap woman only 20k

middle belt have turn to slaughter house

Four people have been arrested in connection with the the weekend mayhem between a faction of hoolums suspected to be supporters of a member of the House of Representatives and a faction in Ebutte Meta area of Lagos State.

The police in the state have also blamed their inability to arrest the said lawmaker on the lack of any incriminating evidence against him.

The Police Pubblic Relations Officer (PPRO) in charge of the state police command, Samuel Jaiyeoba, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday night, stated that one person had been arrested in connection with the incident.

The Lagos police spokesperson, while speaking with newsmen on Monday on the update on the incident, stated that three more people had been arrested.

There were, however, strong indications that the lawmaker had agreed to compensate residents of Freeman Street, Ebutte Meta, whose property were vandalised during the incident.

Jaiyeoba, however, put the figure of vehicles damaged to be “still fewer than 20” and denied reports that one person was killed in the twoday clash.

“The police in the state are seriously investigating the incident and I can tell you that we have arrested three more people, bringing the number of arrested people to four,” the Lagos PPRO stated.

He also added that “we cannot arrest the lawmaker, since we are not sure that the miscreants were his supporters and the fact that he was not part of the clash.”

Jaiyeoba, however, enjoined residents of Ebutte Meta to be calm, assuring them that the police in the state would not prevent a recurrence of such a clash, but also investigate the circumstances surrounding it.


He, however, stated that the state police command would not spare anybody who was found to have taken part in the ugly incident.

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