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Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader told The Associated Press in a rare interview.

Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, also told AP that the Taliban government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the United States, US.

He urged Washington and other nations to release upward of $10 billion in funds that were frozen when the Taliban took power August 15, following a rapid military sweep across Afghanistan and the sudden, secret flight of U.S.-backed President Ashraf Ghani.

“Sanctions against Afghanistan would … not have any benefit,” Muttaqi said Sunday, speaking in his native Pashto during the interview in the sprawling pale brick Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the Afghan capital of Kabul.

“Making Afghanistan unstable or having a weak Afghan government is not in the interest of anyone,” said Muttaqi, whose aides include employees of the previous government as well as those recruited from the ranks of the Taliban.

Muttaqi acknowledged the world’s outrage at the Taliban-imposed limitations on girls’ education and on women in the work force.

In many parts of Afghanistan, female high school students between the grades of seven and 12 have not been permitted to go to school since the Taliban took over, and many female civil servants have been told to stay home.

Taliban officials have said they need time to create gender-segregated arrangements in schools and work places that meet their severe interpretation of Islam.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/taliban-seeks-mercy-and-compassion-woos-us-other-ex-foes/

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God Bless Lagos State
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

Breaking : Champions League Knock-Out Stage to be Redrawn by 2.Pm after Mistakes

PDP way

Terrorist Party

Looting Party

Wasteful Party

Tax Collectors Party

This Security funds looter has come again


https://www.informationng.com/2015/12/n345m-payment-from-ex-nsa-dasuki-for-consultancy-services-not-arms-procurement-iyorchia-ayu.html

Joysticks:
I hope he doesn't smoke egbo in the present of his son.

It is Igbo not egbo

Children of 8,who don't understand the topic will still blame Buhari instead of praising him

Chris Wallace, who unexpectedly announced he was leaving Fox News, will anchor a new show on the network’s upcoming streaming service, CNN+.

https://politicalwire.com/2021/12/12/chris-wallace-joins-cnn/

Oyedepo and co are hypocrites, when bombs are flying up and down in Abuja and all over the country during Jonathan, where was he? Boko Haram was everywhere, churches were bombed every Sunday,where was he?

Nigerians seem to have short memories

Hmmmn

God Bless President Buhari
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

In the midst of war, creativity emerges.

God Bless the young man
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria


Let me take my exit before the children of 8 invade this beautiful thread

A state governed by touts

PDP way. Nothing ever works under devilish tax collectors party

I will respond soon, says Afenifere leader


The pioneer Interim National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has described the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, as a blank politically-minded leader who does not have what it takes to contest political positions.

He stated this in his 559-page autobiography, titled ‘My Participations’, launched in Lagos on Thursday.

The former Osun State governor further said Adebanjo pestered the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides.

He also stressed that contrary to what Adebanjo believed, the ruling APC did not have restructuring in its manifesto in 2014 when the party presented Buhari as its torchbearer, adding that the APC only promised to support devolution of powers from the centre to the states.

On page 476, Akande wrote, the “APC did not have ‘Restructuring’ in its manifesto for the 2015 elections but promised to support devolution of powers from the centre to the states.

“While the President (whether Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan or Buhari) has the whole of Nigeria as his constituency, members of the National Assembly that have the powers to amend the Constitution imposed on Nigeria by the military represent constituencies individually from different ethnic nationalities.

“It is therefore mischievous to place the responsibility for effecting ‘restructuring’ on the APC or its Presidency and not to appreciate that it would require deft negotiations among such members from different ethnic nationalities and constituencies or zonal and religious background before any political party or any ethnic nationality could successfully issue any fiat on the National Assembly to make laws on power devolution or on ‘restructuring’, whatever it might connote.”



The APC chieftain further alleged that the trio of Adebanjo, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi (now late), and Chief Olu Falae should have found younger Yoruba sons to represent the South-West at the 2014 National Conference convened by former President Goodluck Jonathan instead of pocketing “generous allowances” given to conference delegates.

Akande said, “I was not surprised that three old men who were virulently opposed to our aspirations in the APC found their ways into the Jonathan Conference. These men – Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Olu Falae were once our leaders in the old Afenifere until the passage of Papa Adesanya.

“They could not find any younger Yoruba to send to the conference to represent our interest. They believed, even in their old age, that they were the only people who could have gone there. Sir Ajayi, who was close to 90 at the time of the Conference, has since joined his ancestors. Chief Adebanjo celebrated his 90th birthday in 2018. Chief Falae is in his 80s. Note that Jonathan paid the conference delegates generous allowances!”

Reminiscing on the formation of Afenifere, the ex-governor of Osun State recalled that “Chief Olu Falae, a trained civil servant, who after retirement became decorated into leadership by his former military bosses, has since been trying to blindly straddle Nigeria’s complicated politics.

“The old Afenifere and PDP coalition was fronted by these three men and General Obasanjo. Chief Adebanjo, the most vociferous of them, is a blank politically-minded leader who recognises readily and always that he never has what it takes to aspire for high political positions.

“He constantly harbours lumps of yellow hate-bile in his heart for any co-political leader with brighter chances for any major public office within or outside his political party. Adebanjo detests all past governors produced by his party since the UPN days and proudly says so in his regular pontifications. I always passed him for a mere political agitator among the old local party paid canvassers euphemistically called ‘organising secretaries’.”

Continuing, Akande alleged that Adebanjo coerced Tinubu to build a house for him in the Lekki area of the state.

“One day, Sir Olaniwun was launching a book at Muson Centre, Lagos. After the book presentation, Tinubu said I should not go and that he would like to see me. We met in a small room where he also invited Sir Olaniwun Ajayi. ‘Papa, you can see that this document is old, Tinubu said as he handed over a big envelope to Ajayi. This is your C of O (Certificate of Occupancy)!’

“Tinubu told me later that after he presented Adebanjo’s C of O to him, Adebanjo was always pestering Tinubu until he helped built a house on the plot. The street was also named in honour of Adebanjo and he is living in that house now at Lekki Phase One,” Akande said.

When contacted on Friday, Adebanjo said he would give his response after carefully reading the book. “I’m not going to depend on hearsay; I am going to give a written reply after reading the book,” he told Saturday PUNCH.

https://punchng.com/adebanjo-pestered-tinubu-to-build-his-lekki-house-akande/

Very dirty people

Asgard73:
Lagos too smell..

Like Dustbin in Aba

Asgard73:
That judge no legit..gods are angry

Loud mouth humans go don already start to open and close mouth

You never mentioned Tinubu and Yoruba as the people responsible... what a surprise!!!

I was on the Island, traffic was properly handled.

Kudos to Lagos State Government, Police,LASTMA etc

Most of the things that side are in shambles. instead of them to concentrate on the east of Niger, they will be masturbating on Tinubu. Is Tinubu the Alpha and Omega of the people from the East? Maybe, Tinubu made Lagos what it is today...no wonder they are trooping in millions leaving their enclaves to scavengers governors


God Bless Incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Most of the things built that side are with Fake Materials. instead of them to concentrate on the east of Niger, they will be masturbating on Tinubu. Is Tinubu the Alpha and Omega of the people from the East? Maybe, Tinubu made Lagos what it is today...no wonder they are trooping in millions leaving their enclaves to scavengers governors


God Bless Incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

See his mouth like children of 8 and PDP wailers

Especially the children of 8, carrying drugs , cheating and killing their people.

Very good, charity begins at home. Children of 8 will soon invade this thread... despite not understanding what the topic is all about

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Asgard73:
Ever wonder why Tinubu and all Yoruba leaders always lunch attack on Buni led committee..

Same people that are Buhari most trusted politicians..
.... the. Why is yoruba and dia politicians making all this noise on Buni... knowing Buhari is the head and tail of Buni?

North playing politics of love .. masters and slave ...

Nigeria politics is best in Africa

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What is your own, are you not a PDP tax collection's agent