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Reno wailing till thy lord come

As if those are the only 2 invitees

And no Judas in Pdp? How about those pictured with Gbaja last week

I wont be surprised if Pdp claimed rigging after the NASS poll

500% right

Calamity defenders

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A blockbuster UN report on global biodiversity details how economic systems are driving a million species toward extinction—and imperiling the survival of humanity.

The crux of the report is that incessant economic growth is fundamentally at odds with the survival of life. Its 40-page “summary for policymakers” (pdf) is riddled with examples of why this is so, and one line searingly sums it up:

Economic instruments that may be harmful to nature include subsidies, financial transfers, subsidized credit, tax abatements, commodity and industrial goods prices that hide environmental and social costs, which favor unsustainable production and, as a consequence, can promote deforestation, overfishing, urban sprawl, and wasteful uses of water.

The complete Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report, written by 400 scientists, is to be released later this year. It will be hefty: A draft of the report leaked to some press last week was 1,800 pages long.

Capitalism is the problem
Our economic system currently ignores the many ways that natural systems prop up the generation of food and wealth. Simultaneously, our economic systems are killing off swaths of the natural world. The complete disregard of those natural systems is possible mainly because the economic benefit of “ecosystem services” nature provides is not included in our calculations of the the cost of doing business. What is lost, economically, from destroying nature is missing from balance sheets. Eventually the losses will bring the system crashing down, the summary implies.

Take bees, for example: Pollinators like bees provide a massive, free service to the food economy. They are responsible for 75% of crop cultivation each year. Climate change, chemical use, habitat destruction, and the homogenization of food crops from many species to just a few are all causing cataclysmic pollinator declines. Without them, food systems will eventually fail.

Our economic math is all wrong: The value of global agricultural crop production has increased by about 300% since 1970, according to the report. But modern practices like fertilization and monocultures degrade soils. Globally, that has reduced the productivity of 23% of Earth’s land surface, putting as much as $577 billion in annual global crop value at risk from pollinator loss.

The report calculates that annual global fossil-fuel subsidies from governments of $345 billion actually result in global costs of $5 trillion, when one includes the role fuel extraction plays in reducing nature’s contributions to the world economy. (Half those costs are related to coal, a third to oil, and a tenth to natural gas, per the report.)

When nature is counted as a legitimate entity propping up much of the economy, the losses are astounding. Thanks to our interdependence with the natural world, its decline is our decline.

Virtually no place has been left unharmed
Human activity has touched virtually every system on Earth. Around 75% of land and 66% of oceans have been “significantly altered,” according to the report summary. Much of that is due to agriculture. A quarter of all ice-free land on Earth is used to graze cattle. In total, crop and livestock operations use more than 33% of land surface and 75% of its fresh water.

One million species are headed for extinction, “many within decades,” according to the report. Unless dramatic action is taken, 40% of amphibian species, one-third of marine mammals and one-third of reef-forming corals will disappear. More than 500,000 land species that no longer have enough habitat left to survive long-term will go extinct unless habitats are restored.

We are moving in the wrong direction

The worldwide raw-timber harvest, which drives deforestation and habitat loss, has risen by 45% since 1970, according to the report. Meanwhile, urban areas have more than doubled since 1992.

A third of all marine fish stocks were overharvested in 2015; another 60% were fished at the maximum sustainable level. Just 7% were harvested at levels lower than the maximum. The global plastic pollution crisis ravaging marine species has increased tenfold since 1980.

Humans are dumping as much as 400 million tons of toxic sludge—containing heavy metals, solvents, and other industrial waste—into the world’s waters each year. Agricultural fertilizers running off farmland and into waterways have transformed 400 ocean areas totaling area larger than the UK into “dead zones” devoid of enough oxygen to support marine life.

The Earth is set to continue down a path of life-imperiling destruction barring “transformative change,” according to the report. That “transformative change” must clearly take place in the way that the human economy values—or, rather, devalues—nature.

Source: https://qz.com/1612943/un-biodiversity-report-says-a-million-species-face-extinction/

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So no be Generator kill am? I no know oo

FT Manchester United 1 - 1 Chelsea

Ogbona results

It seems like football betting companies paid huge amounts for premiership league team to make last 4 matches unpredictable

this one na keleshe now

The father of Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala, who was killed in a plane crash earlier this year, has died three months after his son's death.

Horacio Sala, 58, suffered a heart attack on Friday, his friend and president of his local club confirmed.

Daniel Ribero, from San Martin de Progreso, told C5N TV channel that Mr Sala had passed away before doctors arrived at his home in Progreso.

Emiliano Sala's plane crashed en route to Cardiff after leaving from France.

The Argentine footballer was on his way to joining his new club Cardiff City from French club Nantes in a club record £15m deal when the crash happened over the English Channel.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48065204

I saw it at the mart and decided to buy one
How does it taste like? Like cowtail?

Cant wait to cook it soon

My phone camera is poor at night

If I hang out alone, I could drink like a fish but if I am with friends ( once in a blue moon), even a bottle is a trouble.

My observations: May be I am always too get carried away compared with when I drink alone.

Before you say which kind of post is this, sometimes, I do silly things and I really want to stop.

For now, no alcohol while hanging with friends.

If you have same experienced, you can share

MPs vote against the PM’s revised EU withdrawal deal by 391 to 242, throwing the UK’s Brexit plans into confusion

Masama:
He didn't resign

After resigning he also made cabinets reshuffle

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said he will not seek a fifth term and announced the delay of the country's presidential polls amid mass protests against his reelection bid.

In a message carried by the official APS news agency on Monday, the 82-year-old also said the elections would follow a national conference on political and constitutional reform to be carried out by the end of 2019.

"There will be no presidential election on April 18," he said in reference to the scheduled date of the vote, adding that he was responding to a "pressing demand that you have been numerous to make."

The ailing leader, who has been confined to a wheelchair since suffering a stroke in 2013, said a government reshuffle would also take place soon.

According to APS, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia resigned on Monday and was replaced by Interior Minister Noureddine Bedoui. Ramtane Lamamra was named deputy prime minister - a position that did not existe before.

The dramatic developments followed weeks of mass demonstrations against Bouteflika's plan to extend his 20-year rule.

Amel Boubekeur, a research fellow at the Paris-based School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, said Monday's announcement was only the beginning.

"All eyes are on the army now. Is the army going to let new protests to happen next Friday?" Boubekeur told Al Jazeera.

"With Bouteflika aside, the army is going to have its say as to what kind of position they will accept.

"Now it seems the regime of Bouteflika is done, but [the question is] are we going to get back the state civilly without ... any pressure on all these people who have been using the state for their interest for so long?"

source : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/algeria-bouteflika-delays-elections-seek-term-190311174206302.html

None of the 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday morning en route to Nairobi from Addis Ababa has survived, the airline said.

The aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, took off at 08.38am (05:38 GMT) and lost contact with air traffic controllers six minutes later.

It crashed near Bishoftu, southeast of the Ethiopian capital, Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement.

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November. The pilot, who had been working for the carrier since 2010, sent out a distress call shortly after take-off and was given clearance to return.

Tewolde Gebremariam, the airline's CEO, visited the scene of the crash and confirmed no one had survived.

Ethiopian Airlines later published a photo on Twitter showing him standing in the wreckage, lifting what appeared to be a piece of the plane debris at the bottom of a large crater in an empty field. Little of the aircraft could be seen in the freshly-churned soil.

The CEO "expresses his profound sympathy and condolences to the families and loved ones of passengers and crew who lost their lives in this tragic accident," the post said.

Ethiopian state media said more than 30 nationalities were on board flight ET 302. Tewolde said those included 32 Kenyans and nine Ethiopians.

Authorities said other victims include 18 Canadians; eight each from China, the United States and Italy; seven each from France and Britain; six from Egypt; five from the Netherlands and four each from India and Slovakia. Spain's foreign ministry said two Spanish nationals were on the passenger list.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office tweeted it "would like to express its deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning."

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta offered prayers for the family members and loved ones of those on the flight.

"We are saddened by the news of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger aircraft that is reported to have crashed 6 minutes after takeoff en route to Kenya. My prayers go to all the families and associates of those on board," Kenyatta said on Twitter.

Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi, reporting from Nairobi airport, said an "information and service desk has been set up for the relatives looking for information".

The Boeing 737-8 MAX is the same type of plane as the Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed last October, 13 minutes after the takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.

The last major accident involving an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was a Boeing 737-800 that exploded after taking off from Lebanon in 2010, killing 83 passengers and seven crew members.

source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/ethiopian-airlines-flight-nairobi-crashes-deaths-reported-190310082515738.html

The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) governorship candidate Jimi Agbaje has lost his unit to the All Progressives Congress in today’s election.

Unit 004, Ward A, Hindra Road, Apapa GRA

President Senate Reps
APC 84 88 74

PDP 80 79 84

The results indicate that PDP only won the House of Representatives.

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/lagos-agbaje-loses-unit/

President Muhammadu Buhari has defeated the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar at the Sarkin Yara Ward A, Kofa Baru polling unit (03), Gidan Niyam in Daura local government area of Katsina state.

Presiding officer, a corp member, Aliyu Abdullahi announced that Buhari polled 523 votes, while Atiku got 3


In 2015, Buhari who is seeking a second term, polled 499 at his polling unit, while former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan got zero.

source :https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/landslide-buhari-wins-own-polling-unit.html

eagleeye2:
The army man is not supposed to be at the polling unit to start with. Again Army man can very well shoot at you for casting your vote and I can bet my next months salary that the army man is going to shoot at least one or two innocent people this coming Saturday and blame it on ballot snatching.

Even if Mr president did not order shoot at sight, such incidence is inevitable.

NA, NP should enlightened their officers on how to handle such matters..

Rossikki:
When you see the opposition criticising him so loudly, you have to wonder if they really were planning to snatch boxes, and Baba has put a cog in their wheel.

They have been wailing, crying since yesterday.. It seems like the message caught them unaware. That could be their last jokers as things are becoming glaring.

They should be ready to wail for another 4 good years.

Abi.. why should I be afraid when I am not planning to snatch ballot boxes.

Sinner runneth when not pursueth

Yes oo cos they are saboteurs

2 Bots taking over same thread.... Hahahahaha

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500k Buhari wins

No arguments with PDP supporters again

Lets go

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Glad to be among the first set to write NECO when established

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Afospecialk:
Your head is not correct bcs Npower is currently engaging over 17,000 youths, thats 720,000 for each youths in 2 years from each states across Nigeria. Is that one too only for SW?

Sir/ma, read over your comments over agaib and let me know when you make an adjustments