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Lemme even look @ who b d moderator b sef,u 2 defend d person ni

It exists,dis is nt d 1st time its happening,yet dey say women aint involved in politics,RUBBISH!!!!!!!

Time 2 get tucked in hun

Mynd_44: You are simply getting me confused jorh

hw na?

I seriously think d Moderator(s) on d politics section is(are) a sexist,if it were a man who opened this thread it wld ve made front page.

Neva said it was anytin special,dats y I said it weird

A vegetarian doesn't eat anytin dat has blood in it,weather meat or fish.& in ur case u don't like it nt dat u don't eat it

Doesn't look real 2 me,screams PHOTOSHOP!!!!!!!!!!

The 1st time I heard someone say she is a vegetarian,I just couldn't help bt laugh,I know wat u thinking,mayb she has a medical condition,unfortuantely NON.

maybe its cos of my mind set,it just sounds really weird 2 me.wat do u think?

No so we c am,he wants 2 b re-elected by fire by force.

His speech was 4 30mins,& he left immediately after,he is been critized 4 nt finding time 2 meet wit diff presidents who wanted 2 meet wit him bt had time 2 chat wit whoppi on tv.

Next time you complain about being stuck in traffic, spare a thought for the drivers in Brazil's biggest city, which has some of the worst congestion problems in the world.

Friday evenings are a commuter's worst nightmare in Sao Paulo.

That's when all the tailbacks in and out of the city extend for a total of 180km (112 miles), on average, according to local traffic engineers, and as long as 295km (183 miles) on a really bad day.

Red brake lights stretch as far back as the eye can see, blinking repeatedly as drivers endure an exasperating stop-and-go journey, which can continue for hours.

"It's like a sea. A sea of cars,"

President Obama: "It is the obligation of all leaders to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism"
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US President Barack Obama has urged global leaders to rally against extremism in an address to the UN General Assembly in New York.

Mr Obama said it was the obligation of all leaders to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism, as he framed his speech with references to the US ambassador murdered in Libya.

Unrest across the Middle East is set to dominate discussion at the summit.

Mr Obama also again stressed the US would not allow Iran nuclear weapons.

He said the US would "do what we must" to stop Tehran acquiring nuclear arms. Six weeks before the US election, the president said a nuclear-armed Iran was "not a challenge that can be contained".

'Marginalise hatred'
Iran's nuclear programme and the 18-month conflict in Syria have featured strongly in Tuesday's speeches at the Assembly, as have the recent protests across the Muslim world in response to a US-made video mocking the Prophet Muhammad.


Mr Stevens was one of four US officials killed in this month's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi
The US president condemned the violence that erupted over the "disgusting" anti-Islam video as "an attack on UN ideals".

Referring to the US envoy who was killed in Benghazi on 11 September during protests sparked by the video, Mr Obama challenged the UN to affirm that "our future will be determined by people like Christopher Stevens, and not by his killers".

"It is time to marginalise those who - even when not resorting to violence - use hatred of America, or the West, or Israel as a central principle of politics," said Mr Obama.

The brand of politics that pits East against West, South against North, Muslim against Christian, Hindu and Jew, could not deliver the promise of freedom, he added.

"That brand of politics only makes it harder to achieve what we must do together: educating our children and creating the opportunities they deserve; protecting human rights and extending democracy's promise.

"Today, we must declare that this violence and intolerance has no place among our United Nations."

'Regional calamity'
Syria's conflict is not formally on the General Assembly's agenda but was a focal point of discussion on the opening day, with further comments expected from leaders including French President Francois Hollande and Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.


First, there are the roiling anti-American protests caused by the video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.

The violent reaction in Muslim countries has raised old controversies about the limits of freedom of expression and the right to protection against religious defamation.

And it has raised new concerns about stability in the democracies born of the Arab Spring.

Then, there is the war that the UN cannot stop - Syria, which Ban Ki-moon says will be the top of every leader's mind.

UN meets under shadow of Mid-East turmoil
Opening the meeting on Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the fighting in Syria as "a regional calamity with global ramifications".

He called for action from the divided UN Security Council and said "the international community should not look the other way as violence spirals out of control".

"Brutal human rights abuses continue to be committed, mainly by the government but also by opposition forces," he added.

People did not look to the UN to be simply a mirror reflecting back a divided world, said Mr Ban. Rather, they wanted to see it come up with solutions to problems.

The US president was blunter in his assessment of Syria, saying Bashar Assad's regime must end.

The UN Security Council has been unable to reach agreement on the Syria crisis and on Monday UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned that the situation was "extremely bad and getting worse".

While he did not have a full plan, he said he had "a few ideas". Mr Brahimi has just visited Damascus as well as refugee camps in neighbouring Jordan and Turkey.


Mr Hollande, in his first appearance at the assembly, is also expected to call for backing for an international force to be sent to the West African state of Mali to help dislodge Islamist militants who have taken over the north of the country.

'Fake regime'
Although the White House said Mr Obama's address was not a campaign speech, it follows critical remarks about his foreign policy from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.


UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has just visited Damascus and refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey
His presidential rival condemned Mr Obama's description of the murder of Mr Stevens and three other Americans as "bumps in the road". He has also castigated him for not taking time out to hold talks on Iran during the summit with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mr Obama has rejected the Israeli leader's calls for Washington to set Tehran "red lines".

Instead, he said the United States would "do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon" with the backing of "a coalition of countries" holding Tehran accountable.

Mr Netanyahu has recently appeared on US television to press for a tougher line on Iran, and he will take the same message to the General Assembly on Thursday.

Tehran says its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes.

On the eve of the assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a UN meeting that Israel was a "fake regime", prompting Israel's UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, to walk out.

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19709969

The Senate on Tuesday announced that it had received 57 requests for new states.

“We have 57 requests pending before us for state creation. I know that people should know that they have to negotiate and lobby at least two thirds of the 36 states of the federation to get any section of the 1999 Constitution amended,” Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), said.

The Senate Leader did not mention the names of the new states being requested nor the promoters.

Ndoma-Egba, at a round table discussion organised by the National Institute for Legislative Studies in Abuja, said the National Assembly did not have any agenda concerning the move to amend the constitution.

The lawmaker said there were insinuations by individuals and groups alleging that the Senate and the House of Representatives had taken a position on the aspects of the constitution to be amended.

This, he said, was not true, adding that the National Assembly would only abide by the decision of the majority of Nigerians.

“National Assembly has no position on any of the proposals before it on constitutional amendments. We have no agenda; the Senate leadership does not have any agenda,” he said.


For example, he said that the mere listing of tenure elongation made Nigerians to reject the plan to amend the constitution during the second tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He said because of the perceived hidden agenda, other 111 valuable items listed for amendment were jettisoned.

Speaking on the call by the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, for the scrapping of the Senate, Ndoma-Egba said the call might not be to save cost as postulated by the former governor of Lagos State.

He said the total amount allocated to the entire Senate was a mere three per cent of the nation’s total budget, adding that this amount was too little to affect the finances of the country.

He said the N150bn allocated to run the entire Senate “is a fraction to what we pay to an importer whose identity we may not know.”

Beside this, he said there was no way the country could operate only one legislative arm at the federal level “because while the members of the House of Representatives are elected on the basis of population, those in the senate are elected on the basis of equality.”


Meanwhile, the Igbo umbrella body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Monday confirmed that it had sent its requests for the creation of more states from the present South-East to the senate.

President-General of the group, Chief Ralph Uwechue, however, said the zone had no specific number of states but demanded for equality and true federalism.

“Our position is that power should go to the six regions and the governors-
“Ndigbo specifically have been unfairly treated in this matter.

The General Secretary of the Yoruba pan organisation, Afenifere, Chief Seinde Arogbofa, however, said the group did not involve itself in the issue of state creation because it was concerned with the restructuring of the country to reflect a true federal structure.


A Kano State member of the House of Representatives, Kawu Sumaila, said in Kano that 10 requests for creation of new states had been received from communities in the North West zone.

Sumaila said, two of the requests were from Kano State.

http://www.punchng.com/news/senate-gets-requests-for-57-new-states/

Joey shey u follow 4 those way dey condemn women just now,aren't u guilty of d same crime u say we commit?I don't understand some of u pple on NL ohhhhhhh.

Virgo u get time dey ans all dis pple oh??wat do u tell some1 dat say women & dummies?& d person has a sis or female cuz @ home?because 1 choose 2 join dis forum & stay imformed & choose 2 watch 4m d sidelines means d person is a dummy?men dat comment on every thread wat ve dey contributed 2 9geria?yet its women dat jona listens 2 on matas concerning d nation.hw many committe has jona formed dat mrs ngozi no dey inside?wen matured men talk do u think all dem bois here can say anytin?off 2 bed,NL no b my house way I go sleep inside