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Foreign Affairs / Re: Paris Climate Deal: Dismay As Trump Signals Exit From Accord by akinboluwarin(m): 3:35pm On Jun 02, 2017
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Foreign Affairs / Paris Climate Deal: Dismay As Trump Signals Exit From Accord by akinboluwarin(m): 3:33pm On Jun 02, 2017
There has been widespread international condemnation of President Trump's announcement that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
UN chief Antonio Guterres's spokesman called it "a major disappointment" while the European Union said it was "a sad day for the world".
However, senior Republicans and the US coal industry backed the move.
Mr Trump said the accord "punished" the US and would cost millions of American jobs.
In an address at the White House, he said he was prepared to negotiate a new agreement or re-enter the accord on improved terms.
"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," he said.
The Paris agreement commits the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels and "endeavour to limit" them even more, to 1.5C.
Only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign up to the deal.
Why did Trump pull out of the accord?
Mr Trump characterised the Paris agreement as a deal that aimed to hobble, disadvantage and impoverish the US.
He claimed the agreement would cost the US $3tn (£2.3tn) in lost GDP and 6.5 million jobs - while rival economies like China and India were treated more favourably.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump- Muslim Leaders Should Lead The Fight Against Radicalization by akinboluwarin(m): 5:57pm On May 21, 2017
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Foreign Affairs / Trump- Muslim Leaders Should Lead The Fight Against Radicalization by akinboluwarin(m): 5:56pm On May 21, 2017
"Drive them out of this earth," he told regional leaders in Riyadh as part of his first official trip abroad.
Mr Trump singled out Iran for being responsible for instability in the region, saying it should be "isolated".
His speech is seen as a reset with Muslims after his campaign rhetoric stirred concerns in the Islamic world.
Mr Trump had previously suggested he would be open to creating a database of all the Muslims in the US, also called for Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the US over security concerns.
'Good vs evil'
Speaking in the Saudi capital, Mr Trump called this a "new chapter", saying he was not there to "lecture" the countries or impose America's way of life.
The fight against extremism, he added, was not a battle between different faiths: "This is a battle between good and evil".
But, he said, the countries could not wait for "America power" to act.
"We can only overcome this evil if the forces of good are united and strong, and if everyone in this room does their fair share and fulfils their part of the burden."
Nairaland / General / Euromillions Winner's Son Loses Court Battle For Money For Life by akinboluwarin(m): 10:28pm On May 18, 2017
A man who won a £101m Euromillions jackpot does not have to "cough up" financial support for his son "whenever asked", a court has ruled.
Former factory worker Dave Dawes, 53, from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, and his wife Angela, 49, won the money in 2011 .
Central London County Court heard Mr Dawes' son Michael, 32, was given £1.6m, but funds stopped after a row.
He was seeking a ruling that his father and stepmother must financially support him for the rest of their lives.
For more on this story and others in Cambridgeshire visit BBC Local Live
Judge Nigel Gerald said Michael "was provided with the funds to have a comfortable life" but instead behaved like a "profligate son" who expected his father to bail him out.
The court heard the former naval officer and his civil partner James Beedle, 34, gave up their jobs and spent nearly £1.6m over two years.
This included £500,000 on a house in Portsmouth and nearly £250,000 on Mr Beedle's family and their friends.
At one point the pair were spending between £20,000 and £30,000 a month, which the judge said was "astonishing" and "way outside their means".
The court heard his father regularly topped up his funds when he ran out of money.
The judge said Mr Dawes was "baffled" when Michael asked for more funds in April 2012 after being given £1m shortly after the win in October 2011.
"Michael took this as a demonstration that his father would cough up whenever asked, and this therefore buttressed his strange conclusion that his dad would financially support him for the rest of his life," the judge said.
Michael was serving in Afghanistan when his father rang him to tell him of the win.
He told the court the factory shift supervisor promised he "would always be looked after".
By March 2013, Michael and Mr Beedle were told some of their debts would be paid off "but there would be nothing more".
This came after Mrs Dawes' 49th birthday party in November 2013, when a drunken row broke out between the father and son.
The judge ruled that Mr Dawes' previous "largesse" did not give rise to an expectation of further bail-outs.
Foreign Affairs / Trump Asked Fbi's Comey To Drop Flynn Inquiry - Reports by akinboluwarin(m): 9:46am On May 17, 2017
President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to drop an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report.
"I hope you can let this go," Mr Trump reportedly told Mr Comey after a White House meeting in February, according to a memo written by the ex-FBI director.
The memo was written immediately after the meeting, a day after Michael Flynn resigned, according to media reports.
The White House has denied the allegation in a statement.
"The president has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn," it said.
An influential Republican congressman has called for the FBI to hand over all relevant documents within a week.
Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, demanded all correspondence relating to communications between Mr Comey and the president be presented by 24 May.
Mr Flynn was forced out in February after he misled the vice-president about his conversations with Russia's ambassador before Mr Trump took office.
The latest Russian twist, first reported by the New York Times, comes a week after Mr Trump fired Mr Comey over his handling of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while at the state department.
Mr Comey's dismissal sent shockwaves through Washington, with critics accusing the president of trying to thwart the FBI investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the US election and any Moscow ties to Trump's associate.
Education / Re: And I Eventually Fail Jamb ( Screenshot) by akinboluwarin(m): 1:59pm On May 16, 2017
What is the essence of this thread, should we feel pity for you after you drooled all day wasting ya time on Nairaland and not reading, use the advice you've been reading and try again.
Crime / I Acted As A Man To Get Work - Until I Was Accused Of Rape by akinboluwarin(m): 11:23am On May 15, 2017
Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune prospecting for a precious stone that's said to be a thousand times rarer than diamonds, but since women weren't allowed down the mines she dressed up as man and fooled her male colleagues for almost a decade.
Pili Hussein grew up in a large family in Tanzania. The daughter of a livestock keeper who had many large farms, Pili's father had six wives and she was one of 38 children. Although she was well looked after, in many ways, she doesn't look back on her upbringing fondly.
"My father treated me like a boy and I was given livestock to take care of - I didn't like that life at all," she says.
But her marriage was even more unhappy, and at the age of 31 Pili ran away from her abusive husband.
In search of work she found herself in the small Tanzanian town of Mererani, in the foothills of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro - the only place in the world where mining for a rare, violet-blue gemstone called tanzanite takes place.
"I didn't go to school, so I didn't have many options," Pili says.
"Women were not allowed in the mining area, so I entered bravely like a man, like a strong person. You take big trousers, you cut them into shorts and you appear like a man. That's what I did."
To complete the transformation, she also changed her name.
"I was called Uncle Hussein, I didn't tell anyone my actual name was Pili. Even today if you come to the camp you ask for me by that name, Uncle Hussein."
In the tight confines of the hot, dirty tunnels - some of which extend hundreds of metres below the ground - Pili would work 10-12 hours a day, digging and sieving, hoping to uncover gemstones in the veins in the graphite rock.
"I could go 600m under, into the mine. I would do this more bravely than many other men. I was very strong and I was able to deliver what men would expect another man could do."
Pili says that nobody suspected that she was a woman.
"I acted like a gorilla," she says, "I could fight, my language was bad, I could carry a big knife like a Maasai [warrior]. Nobody knew I was a woman because everything I was doing I was doing like a man."
And after about a year, she struck it rich, uncovering two massive clusters of tanzanite stones. With the money that she made she built new homes for her father, mother and twin sister, bought herself more tools, and began employing miners to work for her.
And her cover was so convincing that it took an extraordinary set of circumstances for her true identity to finally be revealed. A local woman had reported that she'd been raped by some of the miners and Pili was arrested as a suspect.
"When the police came the men who did the rape said, 'This is the man who did it,' and I was taken to the police station," Pili says.
She had no choice but to reveal her secret.
She asked the police to find a woman to physically examine her, to prove that she couldn't be responsible, and was soon released. But even after that her fellow miners found it hard to believe they had been duped for so long.
"They didn't even believe the police when they said that I was a woman," she says, "it wasn't easy for them to accept until 2001 when I got married and I started a family."
Finding a husband when everyone is accustomed to regarding you as a man is not easy, Pili found, though eventually she succeeded.
"The question in his mind was always, 'Is she really a woman?'" she recalls. "It took five years for him to come closer to me."
Pili has built a successful career and today owns her own mining company with 70 employees. Three of her employees are women, but they work as cooks not as miners. Pili says that although there are more women in the mining industry than when she started out, even today very few actually work in the mines.
"Some [women] wash the stones, some are brokers, some are cooking," she says, "but they're not going down in to the mines, it's not easy to get women to do what I did."
Pili's success has enabled her to pay for the education of more than 30 nieces, nephews and grandchildren. But despite this she says she wouldn't encourage her own daughter to follow in her footsteps.
"I'm proud of what I did - it has made me rich, but it was hard for me," she says.
"I want to make sure that my daughter goes to school, she gets an education and then she is able to run her life in a very different way, far away from what I experienced."
Politics / Re: Port-Harcourt Road, A Major Road In ABA Has Turned To "River Niger" by akinboluwarin(m): 12:59pm On Apr 17, 2017
Blood of Zachariah! Apostle must hear this.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Mugabe Rules Out Retirement At 93 - I Have No Acceptable Successor by akinboluwarin(m): 7:51pm On Feb 19, 2017
Mugabites don't have the command "successor" in their database. tongue tongue tongue
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Blasts Adeosun "A Polytechnic Graduate As Finance Minister" by akinboluwarin(m): 7:45pm On Feb 19, 2017
which qualification her employer bubu get?
Politics / Re: Ali Modu Sherrif Meets With Babangida Behind Close Door In Minna. Photos by akinboluwarin(m): 7:41pm On Feb 19, 2017
This Sheriff should go and sit down.
Phones / Re: And Here Is How To Get 1.5gb For 500 On Your Airtel Sim! by akinboluwarin(m): 3:22pm On Jan 03, 2017
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Education / Re: My Name Is "OR" My Names Are; Which Is More Correct? by akinboluwarin(m): 4:12pm On Dec 03, 2016
In the case of 'is' example: My name is Felix Taju Kayode in the case of 'are' example: My name is Felix Taju and Kayode
Politics / Re: "Buhari Was Joking About Aisha Belonging To His Kitchen Comment" - Garba Shehu by akinboluwarin(m): 11:04pm On Oct 14, 2016
Which way Nigeria.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Govt Of France Finally Gets Smart; Shuts Down 20 Mosques by akinboluwarin(m): 4:38pm On Aug 04, 2016
I laugh! This people are already campaigning for Donald Trump sef. #RadicalIslam must be wiped out,

That religion hasn't done any good!

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