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Donian007: Don't dare it, it summounts to ESPIONAGE.

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how about a tip of the info? he doesn't have to go so deep.

Thiza: @AGAUGUST SIT AND RELAX AND LET ME TAKE YOU ON A SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE TASK FORCE HIGHWAY....YOU HAVE FAILED TO ATTACHED NIGERIAN PHOTOS TO MAKE YOUR POINT

this is exactly what i mean hen i say you security agencies are models for marketing your weapons. nothing more
5 Most Dangerous Countries on Earth
with SA at number 1.
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/travel/news-five-most-lawless-lands-earth?image=1

so while your boys are busy modelling on jets, helicopters and buses, criminals are actually getting busy.

Donian007: Now I see that post touched your juvenile messes so much you get all fused, ashamed and emotional you resort to RACIAL ABUSES. My funny friend read your "ape" and "monkey" name-calling and said you're suffering from a 'GBADUGAMY OF OZOGUMOUS OROTUNDEMON COUPLED WITH BOGOSIOUS INFRA-INTRA-DIGNI-OYOYOTETE' LMAO!

i said earlier that the boy is mentally challenged. he read my comment and still didn't understand his own confusion. that 1992 resolution was an update of the UN security counsel guide for conflict resolutions. and the dumb boy still couldn't understand

agaugust: tell the above story to your under-aged seleka masters below

https://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images-17/central-african-republic-seleka-rebels.jpg

and to think that seleka is not as organised and sophisticated as the rebels in Liberia, SL, Niger-delta, Boko Haram. i can't even imagine what will happen when south african military face only challenges of Boko Haram. not to talk of all the challenges the Nigerian military faces both domestic and world wide. i think that article i posted is very correct and SA military should never be compared with Nigerian Military in any way. (even if they produce the shiniest weapons in the world) even Kenya will invade SA from my own point of view... QED

agaugust: libya had as many shiny weapons like south africa when it was defeated by chad.

bros you wan leave forum/thread ? i no get that side well, wetin you talk ?

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i just dey give reason why i no go respond to that small boy again. cos i've put him in the same level with his S.TUPID friend kwame. why i go comot na! am loving the thread, just sometimes i gotta work.

zaandrew: It shows that unlike NPF SAPS takes acstion. There have been a number of stings and arrests where corrupt cops have been arrested. In nigeria nothing happens.

Court sentences police officer to death by hanging
An Umuahia High Court on Monday sentenced an ex-police Corporal Umaru Muhammed to death by hanging.
Justice Agwu Kalu held that the prosecution proved that the gunshots fired at one Cpl. Clement Amechi, at close range by Muhammed killed the deceased.
The court held that the action was an offence punishable under Section 319, Cap 1 of the Criminal Code applicable in the state, under which the offence was committed.
The court held that the accused deserved no sympathy and ordered that he should be hanged by the neck until he die.
NAN reports that Muhammed did not show any sign of remorse after the death sentence was passed on him.
He also refused to be handcuffed before he was taken away by the prison warders that brought him to court.
Mr. Muhammed of the Nigerian Police, Abia Command, and attached to Abia Government House, had on July 19, 2011, killed Mr. Amechi.
Mr. Amechi was said to be watching a movie in the room they shared when Mr. Muhammed went berserk and started shooting sporadically and incidentally killed his roommate.
Mr. Muhammed was later dismissed from the service after an orderly room trial and handed over for prosecution.
http://premiumtimesng.com/regional/124234-court-sentences-police-officer-to-death-by-hanging.html

Crime News: Two Nigeria Police Sentenced To Death By Hanging Over The Death Of PDP Members.

Two police men have been sentenced to death by hanging by an Edo Ekiti High Court for the killing od two members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the allegation of defacement of posters of political opponents in Omuo Ekiti, about two years ago.

It all happened on March 23rd, 2011, at Kota Junction in Omuo Ekiti when a fight broke out between the PDP and ACN (Action Congress pf Nigeria) members over an alleged defacement of posters belonging to PDP aspirants in the community. The fight caused the intervention of the police, which led to the killing of Kehinde Faluyi and Michael Ipinlaye, two PDP members by the police.

The affected policemen are Mr Ameh Richard and Mr Akinyode Olaiya.

The trial Judge, Justice Abiodun Adesodun said "The prosecution counsel have proved their case beyond reasonable doubt and the accused persons are hereby sentenced to death by hanging."

According to him, "there were contradictions in the confessional statement by the accused persons during their interrogation and oral testimonies cross examinations in court"
http://www.allaroundgist.com/2013/03/crime-news-two-nigeria-police-sentenced.html

i can post more proof for you all day but you gonna have to do that yourself.
so why are your police barracks yet to be fixed while your boys are yabbing ours that has just been renovated? you get the point?

Thiza: SAPS TASK FORCE

If this guys are as good as they look, why can't they be deployed to the streets where gangs have taken over and crime rate keeps rising everyday. like the Brazilians did few days back. that's how you test might, not by modelling for a few shots

zaandrew: Note even the artical menstions how saps does not use them though.

it also explains that they were not abandoned purposely, and that poor funding and the dilapidated conditions forced them to abandon the buildings. or else the woman would not lament.

Horus: https://i.imgur.com/MOysUsG.jpg

Made in Nigeria APC Igirigi

see as my colleagues gather for my desk to see this pic. lol
but seriously our military need to scrap or reduce this their secrecy act. i know we got more but they just hiding them as usual. you made my day with this. is it true they are working on modification of the AK at DICON and this APC?

people. here's craigB's defense for the unprofessional conduct of their police after he was exposed:

CraigB: That guy absolutely deserved what he got for:

1. Grabbing an officer's gun;

2. Resisting arrest; and

3. Jumping out the car when it was driving off.

Fail !

and then he asked this question after he was told NPF has always been considered for international peacekeeping operations:

CraigB: Really? Your police do "peace keeping" in other sovereign states? In terms of which international covenants does this happen?

this was part of the answer i gave him which is part of a covenant that backs the deployment of Nigerian police to sovereign states:

Peace-keeping is the deployment of a United Nations presence in the field, hitherto with the consent of all the parties concerned, normally involving United Nations military and/or police personnel and frequently civilians as well. Peace-keeping is a technique that expands the possibilities for both the prevention of conflict and the making of peace.

and being as S.TUPID as he is, and his inability to understand what he reads, he changed the question to suit his mischievous reason for being on this thread

CraigB: You are wasting my time.

I didn't ask for a lecture on peace keeping. If I wanted to read a book, I would have. The question is simple: Nigerian police are in [b]Mali in terms of what?[/b] Simple question. If I have to ask it ten times, my conclusion remains.

after referring him the same answer i already gave he still insisted on another baseless question:

CraigB: Still wasting my time. Clearly you need to be guided.

WHERE IS THE BLOODIE RESOLUTION?


Are you that challenged that you post something that you cannot back up.

Give me the resolution and not stories.

The sooner you do that the better. I am eager to move on to talk about your hunger situation.

So please - the legal basis for your police's presence in Mali - may I have it.

Don't give me a lecture. You started the topic. Now finish it, since you know it al.

unknown that he is not as intelligent as he thought and his refusal to learn, he gave a false resolution

CraigB: There is such a resolution. Here it is below. Your police are in Mali under the auspices of AFISMA. It is AFISMA that made the decision, because authority was handed over to AFISMA by the UN. The resolution says - "AFISMA military/police". The resolution says "authority handed over to AFISMA"

and then he was corrected by patriot4

patriot4: First of all AFISMA is not a UN mission, AFISMA is a regional mission with UN legal backing and foreign and western funding.
And, no it wasn't the UN which handed over to AFISMA, it was the French after they had finished their mission.
And now it is a UN mission codenamed MINUSMA.

in order to twist the argument as usual, he F.OOLISHLY repeated the answer he was given to change the argument to his favor.

CraigB: The Mali mission is Africa led i.e. AFISMA.
AFISMA has to be given authority by the UN, which was done in terms of the resolution posted - which you obviously haven't read, since you didn't even know it existed.

at this point anyone who has been following CraigB or Bcraig will see that he lacks the intellectual capabilities to sustain an argument but would rather twist and look for trouble to derail from the purpose of the thread. he has shown his myopic brain cannot be informed and he is ignorant of the world around him.

so arguing with him is like running around in a maze (baseless without purpose). what i posted is just part of the many reasons i will never respond to him again. and his reference to his master kwame only goes to prove how limited his brain is.
i would never stoop so low to arguing with an ignorant person on this thread again.

CraigB: Save us the trouble and pull out my post. I talked about our ability to prosecute. Which I still insist we have.

Pull out my post, please.

Don't give me long tales.

Oh, you are running too?

do you think reading is about spelling out words
go and learn how to read abeg and stop fooling yourself.
i have a job (unlike you) and i now realize you are too low for me. so don't ever expect a response from me again cos i wouldn't like to reduce to your level. gudnite

my fellow Nigerians, before i go, let me leave you with this important information i was keeping for myself.

The SA National Defence Force is on the verge of collapse.

With dwindling budgets, an exodus of highly-skilled technical staff and reduced spending on training and equipment, the defence force - according to military experts - can barely meet its constitutional obligations.

Increasing international demands and frequent internal deployments - such as the recent presidential announcement of the deployment of hundreds of troops on crime fighting operations over the next four months - is putting further strain on the already overstretched armed services.

The army has nearly 2000 troops on peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan, and military trainers in the Central African Republic and the DRC.

The defence force has military observers deployed under the AU and UN flags in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The navy has a frigate, and air force personnel and aircraft, in the Mozambican channel and Mozambique deployed on anti-piracy operations.

Military analyst Helmoed Heitman said the defence force was now collapsing.

"We have huge sections of the budget spent on salaries, with equipment and training left lacking. We are hopelessly short on manpower - 20000 troops too few - and porous borders that cannot be guarded properly," he said.

"We have pilots who can't fly [sufficient] hours, troops who have been given limits on the amount of ammunition they can use in training, and equipment, such as our frigates, which cannot be maintained because there is no proper budget.

"The defence force is collapsing. If drastic action is not taken soon, in the next three years it will be beyond recovery."

The Defence Department received just over R34-billion last year from the Treasury. Its current budget of R37-billion is expected to increase to R39-billion in the 2013-2014 financial year. Professor Renfrew Christie, dean of research at the University of Western Cape, said the military's budget needed a drastic increase.

"We spend 1% of our gross national product on defence. We need a military capable of looking after our country with the time now coming to increase spending to 2% of GDP," Christie said. "To do our duty, we need a bigger and better equipped military. The option of downscaling our involvement north of our borders is not an option.

"Protecting our country and its borders is far bigger than just putting up fences," he said.

Retired admiral Chris Bennett, the former naval chief of staff, said the massive "poaching" of technical staff had led to numerous crises in the navy.

"Our military, especially on the technical side, is being bled dry by both public and private industries, as well as by foreign militaries.

"Though the navy until now has managed to stay afloat, things are beginning to bite," he said.

"The right funding has not been given to the military [which is] being required more and more by parliament to do things [parliament is] not prepared to pay for.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/09/25/sandf-in-big-trouble

it has occurred to me that we have been arguing with a weak country that pretends to portray itself has being strong.
this is the main reason why seleka used their soldiers as target practice, and are about to be served as brunch to M23 rebels in DRC.

how can this kind of military take on Nigerian military with shiny weapons they have no personnel for? i'll leave you to have your say from the article.

CraigB: Weak!! Try again!

Bribes in the SAPS are an issue all South Africans know about. But we didn't run around claiming our police service are world beaters. Nigeria did. So, your link helps you in no way. Pull another stunt

The primary argument (lest we forget) is that Nigerians talk with no results (as argued by Kwame and his political analyst).

then you must have a short memory if you say you never bragged about your police being more professional. you argue like a slut.
you get beaten on one side and jump to another that has been handled. that you'll even refer to kwame show i've been arguing with the wrong person. gotta go cos unlike you, i have a life and a job. go get one

patriot4: Shall I understand you didn't get the meaning of "UN legal backing" ?
Your question was not about AFISMA having been authorized by a resolution, it was about Nigerian police having been authorized by a resolution. And I showed you your question was foolish.
And please learn how to read, AFISMA is already over, it is MINUSMA now.

you see what i mean.. he doesn't know how to read. poor boy

SA police officers caught on tape taking bribes, performing sexual act (WATCH)

A South African policeman has been caught on video accepting money from a man on whom a policewoman then performs a sexual act for money. The 20-minute video was recorded in a parking lot near the East Rand Mall, in Boksburg, at 3 a.m. on Saturday, and a copy was sent to police Thursday, Beeld reported.

The video allegedly shows a bribe taking place, followed by a policewoman unzipping a motorist’s pants and performing a sex act on him. “The content of the video is very disturbing and has warranted the management to take immediate action in terms of the SA Police Service (SAPS) disciplinary code,” said the police’s Brigadier Neville Malila, City Press reported. “Internal disciplinary processes are under way, as prescribed by the regulations and policies of the SAPS.” He said the officers were suspended Friday.

Gauteng provincial commissioner Lt. Gen. Mzwandile Petros said there was no place for corrupt police officers in the service. “The message was clear since 2010: If you are corrupt, leave the service or you will be arrested, but leaving the service will also not stop us from arresting you.”

South Africans are frustrated with the country’s police force, widely perceived as corrupt and incompetent. Most shocking have been the recent incidents of brutality and violence, including the dragging death of Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia in February, and the police shootings of 34 people during a wildcat strike at the Lonmin platinum mine last year.

An official inquiry into the mine incident is continuing. There has also been trouble at the highest echelons of the police service, with the previous two national police commissioners both fired from their jobs — one of them for dodgy property deals, while the other was sentenced to 15 years in jail after being found guilty of taking bribes from a convicted drug dealer.

In 2011, 630 police officers were arrested in Gauteng province alone, mostly for fraud and corruption, the Globe and Mail reported. Here is a portion of the video from Beeld, allegedly showing the bribe and the policewoman with the motorist.

http://www.ynaija.com/sa-police-officers-caught-on-tape-taking-bribes-performing-sexual-act-watch/

so what is craigB bragging about when their police is far worse than NPF?

CraigB: As there is nothing first world in this...

I repeat - "first world standards" was the allegation.

Allegation not backed up by anything.

you must be clueless to realize that this picture was taken when work was still going on. you are really empty

CraigB: Is this the first world and renovated college?

You people did say renovated to first world standards, didn't you? Is this it? Really?

I wouldn't even talk any further if I were you lol.

This is embarrassing...

Is this what Professor Sylvester Monye and the Inspector-General of Police is happy with? HA bloodie Ha!

LOL at the power line going to the roof - top left corner.

First world - SMH

swear that this isn't better than yours.


SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE BARRACKS ROTTING AWAY

Appalling conditions at some police barracks are contributing to the lack of morale in the South African Police Service and affecting the ability of the men and women in blue tasked with ensuring law and order in the country.

One of the police housing units that Anchen Dreyer, the Democratic Alliance’s Shadow Minister of Public Works, visited was last year declared a health and safety hazard.

“It could easily house at least 100 families but is now illegally occupied by drug dealers and prostitutes,” she said after seeing the run-down condition of Excelsior Court.

The Berea Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which houses the east coast harbour city’s police detective branch, has a leaking roof and rotting carpets.

“The building is also infested with bird lice from pigeons nesting in the roof,” she said.

She will submit questions to Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi via the portfolio committee after seeing Natalia Court Barracks where police officers have to live with raw sewage seeping through rusted and broken pipes.

This particular police barracks was on the 2012 maintenance list but no work has yet been started due to insufficient funds, she said.

“The overall impression is that Public Works is literally leaving at least some barracks in the Durban area to rot.

“Creating better living conditions for our policemen and women is essential to improving the morale of our police service. They should be treated with dignity, not left to live in squalor,” Dreyer said.

Apart from the three Durban police accommodation and offices police facilities in Carletonville, the old Marshall Street Barracks in Johannesburg and Randfontein’s old Home Affairs building are also in a sorry state.

“All have been largely demolished by vandals and are completely uninhabitable," she said.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29398&Itemid=113

patriot4: During an inspection of the college last Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Professor Sylvester Monye and the Inspector-General of Police, MD Abubakar, the Commander, Army Corps Engineer, Major General Funso Owonibi disclosed that the renovation work was 95% completed, revealing that work would be completed and handed over to the Police, in two weeks.

Explaining further he said, “ We got a marching order to move in here to rehabilitate the affected buildings, 35 in all, and we mobilized immediately. Specifically from 8th of February, we started mobilization and after that, we started demolition and the end result is what you are seeing today.

As at the time we came, the buildings were in a very terrible state. Channels Television revealed the state to the whole world. But today you can see the level of transformation. We were given four months duration. We still have about one month to go. But in two weeks time, when we shall be handing over to the Police, we will still have two weeks left to the ultimatum. The job is more than 95 % completed. The final work has been completed but all that is left is the second round of coating and the additional work we are doing is what will keep us till that two weeks. For instance, we are doing land scalping.”

He, however, clarified that only one building was pulled down while renovation work was carried on others. Areas renovated, according to him, included the toilets, bathrooms, residential units, cafeteria, dormitories amongst others. The hostels, according to him, were fitted with fans, louvres changed to slid windows and roofs replaced.

“ There was a building that has structural defect and a new one was built. Furniture items like beds and wardrobes were built for trainees. We fixed 2000 beds. But we exceeded the initial specification where we felt it was appropriate. We sank five boreholes and rehabilitated three, “ Owonibi said.

Expressing satisfaction at the job he described as’ well done’, Special Adviser to the President on Performance,Monitoring and Evaluation, Professor Sylvester Monye, explained that the purpose of his visit was to inspect the level of work done so far. “ The President visited here on 13 of January,when it was in a terrible state and he committed to fixing it. What is interesting is not just that he has fixed it but the speed with which he has fixed it. What we have done is to explore our internal resources using the expertise of the Nigerian Army Corps Engineers and they have demonstrated their capacity without any doubt. So, we are very excited about that.

“I feel good because if you go right inside the hall, you will see the pictures before and the pictures after. And if you are a Nigerian, you can’t but feel good. Something very fundamental has happened, as this is the first time in over 30years that this place is getting a face lift. This shows that the president’s transformation agenda is working,”Prof Monye stated.

Lamenting the poor maintenance culture of Nigerians, he however assured that funds would be made available annually for the maintenance of the college, with a view to preventing it from returning to its former state. Although he admitted that the college might not be like those obtained in the western world he expressed optimism that with the current measure taken by the president, it would reach the standard.

“ We have opportunity to kit it to the standard you are thinking of. But the question now, is, is it habitable? Is it in a condition that you as a Nigerian will be comfortable with? The answer is yes”.

Corroborating his view, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, expressed appreciation to the president for his support, saying, “ we appreciate the President for the prompt action and attention given to the Police College and also thank the Nigerian Army Corps engineers for this work, speed and show of profes-sionalism. This is a demonstration of the level of concern and patriotism the president has for the Nigeria Police Force.”
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/presidential-intervention-ikeja-police-college-wears-new-look/#sthash.iU8nWvyt.dpuf
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/presidential-intervention-ikeja-police-college-wears-new-look/

It is only on the internet that fools get to be heard.

guy the boy doesn't know how to read. i just discovered it. he ask for resolution that backed NPF in peacekeeping operations and i gave him the full resolution and he begged me to read it for him

even after i explained that i made the particular answer bolder he still couldn't read. am not sure he'll be able to understand what you just wrote. another proof of SA failing education sector

CraigB: Still wasting my time. Clearly you need to be guided.

WHERE IS THE BLOODIE RESOLUTION?


Are you that challenged that you post something that you cannot back up.

Give me the resolution and not stories.

The sooner you do that the better. I am eager to move on to talk about your hunger situation.

So please - the legal basis for your police's presence in Mali - may I have it.

Don't give me a lecture. You started the topic. Now finish it, since you know it al.

go and learn how to read. i can't do that for you. if you can't read the article then your parents need a refund from your failing education. so if you like spend a millennium waiting for me to babysit you. dullard

CraigB: You are wasting my time.

I didn't ask for a lecture on peace keeping. If I wanted to read a book, I would have. The question is simple: Nigerian police are in Mali in terms of what.

you must be an illiterate not to be able to read and understand that article i posted. and i made it clear with the bolder yet this is how far your reading abilities can take you.

i had to post the whole article so you won't stress yourself looking for the source. guy change the subject cos that college was the only messed up training college and it has been fixed by the NA engineers. stop fooling yourself and read what i posted. dummy

your police is only good at modelling with poor performance. look at how they even handled the oscar pistorous case that they almost messed up. a murder scene i would have articulated. even the officer incharge of the case is facing a murder case. is that how ridiculous your police is

CraigB: Really? Your police do "peace keeping" in other sovereign states? In terms of which international covenants does this happen?

OMG!! you are this dumb


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A/47/277





Secretary-General

Distr: General
17 June 1992
Original: English

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Forty-seventh session

An Agenda for Peace



Preventive diplomacy,
peacemaking and peace-keeping

Report of the Secretary-General
pursuant to the statement
adopted by the Summit Meeting of
the Security Council on 31 January 1992

Introduction

1. In its statement of 31 January 1992, adopted at the conclusion of the first meeting held by the Security Council at the level of Heads of State and Government, I was invited to prepare, for circulation to the Members of the United Nations by 1 July 1992, an "analysis and recommendations on ways of strengthening and making more efficient within the framework and provisions of the Charter the capacity of the United Nations for preventive diplomacy, for peacemaking and for peace-keeping./1

2. The United Nations is a gathering of sovereign States and what it can do depends on the common ground that they create between them. The adversarial decades of the cold war made the original promise of the Organization impossible to fulfil. The January 1992 Summit therefore represented an unprecedented recommitment, at the highest political level, to the Purposes and Principles of the Charter.

3. In these past months a conviction has grown, among nations large and small, that an opportunity has been regained to achieve the great objectives of the Charter - a United Nations capable of maintaining international peace and security, of securing justice and human rights and of promoting, in the words of the Charter, "social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". This opportunity must not be squandered. The Organization must never again be crippled as it was in the era that has now passed.

4. I welcome the invitation of the Security Council, early in my tenure as Secretary-General, to prepare this report. It draws upon ideas and proposals transmitted to me by Governments, regional agencies, non-governmental organizations, and institutions and individuals from many countries. I am grateful for these, even as I emphasize that the responsibility for this report is my own.

5. The sources of conflict and war are pervasive and deep. To reach them will require our utmost effort to enhance respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, to promote sustainable economic and social development for wider prosperity, to alleviate distress and to curtail the existence and use of massively destructive weapons. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the largest summit ever held, has just met at Rio de Janeiro. Next year will see the second World Conference on Human Rights. In 1994 Population and Development will be addressed. In 1995 the World Conference on Women will take place, and a World Summit for Social Development has been proposed. Throughout my term as Secretary-General I shall be addressing all these great issues. I bear them all in mind as, in the present report, I turn to the problems that the Council has specifically requested I consider: preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping - to which I have added a closely related concept, post-conflict peace-building.

6. The manifest desire of the membership to work together is a new source of strength in our common endeavour. Success is far from certain, however. While my report deals with ways to improve the Organization's capacity to pursue and preserve peace, it is crucial for all Member States to bear in mind that the search for improved mechanisms and techniques will be of little significance unless this new spirit of commonality is propelled by the will to take the hard decisions demanded by this time of opportunity.

7. It is therefore with a sense of moment, and with gratitude, that I present this report to the Members of the United Nations.

I. The changing context

8. In the course of the past few years the immense ideological barrier that for decades gave rise to distrust and hostility - and the terrible tools of destruction that were their inseparable companions - has collapsed. Even as the issues between States north and south grow more acute, and call for attention at the highest levels of government, the improvement in relations between States east and west affords new possibilities, some already realized, to meet successfully threats to common security.

9. Authoritarian regimes have given way to more democratic forces and responsive Governments. The form, scope and intensity of these processes differ from Latin America to Africa to Europe to Asia, but they are sufficiently similar to indicate a global phenomenon. Parallel to these political changes, many States are seeking more open forms of economic policy, creating a world wide sense of dynamism and movement.

10. To the hundreds of millions who gained their independence in the surge of decolonization following the creation of the United Nations, have been added millions more who have recently gained freedom. Once again new States are taking their seats in the General Assembly. Their arrival reconfirms the importance and indispensability of the sovereign State as the fundamental entity of the international community.

11. We have entered a time of global transition marked by uniquely contradictory trends. Regional and continental associations of States are evolving ways to deepen cooperation and ease some of the contentious characteristics of sovereign and nationalistic rivalries. National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations. At the same time, however, fierce new assertions of nationalism and sovereignty spring up, and the cohesion of States is threatened by brutal ethnic, religious, social, cultural or linguistic strife. Social peace is challenged on the one hand by new assertions of discrimination and exclusion and, on the other, by acts of terrorism seeking to undermine evolution and change through democratic means.

12. The concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex, for a pattern of contradictions has arisen here as well. As major nuclear Powers have begun to negotiate arms reduction agreements, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction threatens to increase and conventional arms continue to be amassed in many parts of the world. As racism becomes recognized for the destructive force it is and as apartheid is being dismantled, new racial tensions are rising and finding expression in violence. Technological advances are altering the nature and the expectation of life all over the globe. The revolution in communications has united the world in awareness, in aspiration and in greater solidarity against injustice. But progress also brings new risks for stability: ecological damage, disruption of family and community life, greater intrusion into the lives and rights of individuals.

13. This new dimension of insecurity must not be allowed to obscure the continuing and devastating problems of unchecked population growth, crushing debt burdens, barriers to trade, drugs and the growing disparity between rich and poor. Poverty, disease, famine, oppression and despair abound, joining to produce 17 million refugees, 20 million displaced persons and massive migrations of peoples within and beyond national borders. These are both sources and consequences of conflict that require the ceaseless attention and the highest priority in the efforts of the United Nations. A porous ozone shield could pose a greater threat to an exposed population than a hostile army. Drought and disease can decimate no less mercilessly than the weapons of war. So at this moment of renewed opportunity, the efforts of the Organization to build peace, stability and security must encompass matters beyond military threats in order to break the fetters of strife and warfare that have characterized the past. But armed conflicts today, as they have throughout history, continue to bring fear and horror to humanity, requiring our urgent involvement to try to prevent, contain and bring them to an end.

14. Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead. The United Nations was rendered powerless to deal with many of these crises because of the vetoes - 279 of them - cast in the Security Council, which were a vivid expression of the divisions of that period.

15. With the end of the cold war there have been no such vetoes since 31 May 1990, and demands on the United Nations have surged. Its security arm, once disabled by circumstances it was not created or equipped to control, has emerged as a central instrument for the prevention and resolution of conflicts and for the preservation of peace. Our aims must be:

To seek to identify at the earliest possible stage situations that could produce conflict, and to try through diplomacy to remove the sources of danger before violence results;

Where conflict erupts, to engage in peacemaking aimed at resolving the issues that have led to conflict;

Through peace-keeping, to work to preserve peace, however fragile, where fighting has been halted and to assist in implementing agreements achieved by the peacemakers;

To stand ready to assist in peace-building in its differing contexts: rebuilding the institutions and infrastructures of nations torn by civil war and strife; and building bonds of peaceful mutual benefit among nations formerly at war;

And in the largest sense, to address the deepest causes of conflict: economic despair, social injustice and political oppression.

It is possible to discern an increasingly common moral perception that spans the world's nations and peoples, and which is finding expression in international laws, many owing their genesis to the work of this Organization.

16. This wider mission for the world Organization will demand the concerted attention and effort of individual States, of regional and non-governmental organizations and of all of the United Nations system, with each of the principal organs functioning in the balance and harmony that the Charter requires. The Security Council has been assigned by all Member States the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security under the Charter. In its broadest sense this responsibility must be shared by the General Assembly and by all the functional elements of the world Organization. Each has a special and indispensable role to play in an integrated approach to human security. The Secretary-General's contribution rests on the pattern of trust and cooperation established between him and the deliberative organs of the United Nations.

17. The foundation-stone of this work is and must remain the State. Respect for its fundamental sovereignty and integrity are crucial to any common international progress. The time of absolute and exclusive sovereignty, however, has passed; its theory was never matched by reality. It is the task of leaders of States today to understand this and to find a balance between the needs of good internal governance and the requirements of an ever more interdependent world. Commerce, communications and environmental matters transcend administrative borders; but inside those borders is where individuals carry out the first order of their economic, political and social lives. The United Nations has not closed its door. Yet if every ethnic, religious or linguistic group claimed statehood, there would be no limit to fragmentation, and peace, security and economic well-being for all would become ever more difficult to achieve.

18. One requirement for solutions to these problems lies in commitment to human rights with a special sensitivity to those of minorities, whether ethnic, religious, social or linguistic. The League of Nations provided a machinery for the international protection of minorities. The General Assembly soon will have before it a declaration on the rights of minorities. That instrument, together with the increasingly effective machinery of the United Nations dealing with human rights, should enhance the situation of minorities as well as the stability of States.

19. Globalism and nationalism need not be viewed as opposing trends, doomed to spur each other on to extremes of reaction. The healthy globalization of contemporary life requires in the first instance solid identities and fundamental freedoms. The sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of States within the established international system, and the principle of self-determination for peoples, both of great value and importance, must not be permitted to work against each other in the period ahead. Respect for democratic principles at all levels of social existence is crucial: in communities, within States and within the community of States. Our constant duty should be to maintain the integrity of each while finding a balanced design for all.

II. Definitions

20. The terms preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping are integrally related and as used in this report are defined as follows:

Preventive diplomacy is action to prevent disputes from arising between parties, to prevent existing disputes from escalating into conflicts and to limit the spread of the latter when they occur.

Peacemaking is action to bring hostile parties to agreement, essentially through such peaceful means as those foreseen in Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations.

Peace-keeping is the deployment of a United Nations presence in the field, hitherto with the consent of all the parties concerned, normally involving United Nations military and/or police personnel and frequently civilians as well. Peace-keeping is a technique that expands the possibilities for both the prevention of conflict and the making of peace.

21. The present report in addition will address the critically related concept of post-conflict peace-building - action to identify and support structures which will tend to strengthen and solidify peace in order to avoid a relapse into conflict. Preventive diplomacy seeks to resolve disputes before violence breaks out; peacemaking and peace-keeping are required to halt conflicts and preserve peace once it is attained. If successful, they strengthen the opportunity for post-conflict peace-building, which can prevent the recurrence of violence among nations and peoples.

22. These four areas for action, taken together, and carried out with the backing of all Members, offer a coherent contribution towards securing peace in the spirit of the Charter. The United Nations has extensive experience not only in these fields, but in the wider realm of work for peace in which these four fields are set. Initiatives on decolonization, on the environment and sustainable development, on population, on the eradication of disease, on disarmament and on the growth of international law - these and many others have contributed immeasurably to the foundations for a peaceful world. The world has often been rent by conflict and plagued by massive human suffering and deprivation. Yet it would have been far more so without the continuing efforts of the United Nations. This wide experience must be taken into account in assessing the potential of the United Nations in maintaining international security not only in its traditional sense, but in the new dimensions presented by the era ahead.

i wasn't joking when i told you to go back to school.. well, then again i did mention that your education system is failing. dullard

truth4meal: Reality is the yardstick for performance not charts. I strongly believe NOI is doing her best but her best is not good enough. The topography is alien to her studies and sterling credentials.

i don't think NOI is the problem, i think it's jonathan and PDP. Wasn't she the one that raised alarm about the irregularities in subsidy payments? And after the thieves were discovered GEJ couldn't grow some balls to prosecute them, is she the one that will order the arrest of boko haram sponsors? She has been shouting and wailing about bunkery but is she the one to order the arrest of the kingpin?

Okonjo still remains one of the best brains Nigeria has ever had. She's just hooked to a redundant leadership (GEJ). Am sure by now she'll regret ever joining GEJ's leadership

Omen100: Dude, please don't flatter yourself? & stop ranting like a angry little boy who hardly take a wee without slashing it all over the place & be man enough to answer the simple question which Kamsy10 has thrown at you fool.

and what has that got to do with anything. If you have nothing better to say just go and watch tonto dike's HI. i.DIOT

Omen100: Christian or Chris, please answer the question Kamsy10 has thrown at you, then I will know weather to take you serious & hear me out, I hope, you are not one of those jobless quick cash making drugs Barron Nigerians who are constituting nuisance in S.A

i purposely ignored your first question until you rephrased it and suggested that am doing drugs... And i must say sir that you are very S:TUPID and an I.DIOT for that.

If you are not ignorant you would know that even citizens of the richest coun
tries in the world travel to poorer ones to make a living. Even if Nigeria becomes the strongest economy in africa, it will not stop anybody from going to do business or find work in lesser ones. I don't need to explain what am doing in SA to you before you can use your brain to critically analize the extent of damage that cheap and poor assessment of our economy Sahara Reporters is doing to Nigerian reputation abroad and not the government.

Just give me 3 valid reasons they stated that is new to us right from military regime for them to say Nigeria is broke. I marvel at the quality of brains our schools dischage these days.

CraigB: Do you keep the government's books? NO.

Therefore, you cannot speak with authority on whether the government of Nigeria's broke or not. You only have media reports to work with - same as us!

It's obvious that your government will deny that it's broke. The question is - what is contained in their denial and how has SaharaReporters responded to the denial?

Well, this is how Sahara responded.






So, as far as I’m concerned, your government’s attempts to rubbish Sahara have themselves been rubbished. Nigeria is broke and Naai-gerians (as has been the case all along) would rather bury their heads in the sand; and buy more cheap weapons from China.

you are the dumbest SA i've ever known.
SA has a 50% youth unemploment rate and almost 30% national unemployment rate, does it mean SA is broke?

Despite considerable success on many economic and social policy fronts over the past19 years, South Africa faces a number of long-standing economic problems that still reflect at least in part the long‑lasting and harmful legacy of apartheid. Unemployment remains excessively high, educational outcomes are poor on average and extremely uneven, which aggravates the excess supply of unskilled labour as well as worsening income inequality. Does that mean south africa is broke? You're clearly one of those affected by the low quality of education in SA these days.

Have you checked anywhere to find out if Nigerian workers are trully owed their salaries?

And their claim that Nigerian soldiers begged for food in Mali is laughable because at the same time they made that report, the army had deployed new contingent to replace the ones there with new equipments and they were welcomed by Mali's president that came with gifts. So how's that begging for food?

Standard & Poor's credit rating for Nigeria stands at BB-. Moody's rating for Nigeria sovereign debt is Ba3. Fitch's credit rating for Nigeria is BB-. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to gauge the credit worthiness of Nigeria.
So when did sahara reporters become more professional than these rating agencies that put our economy at stable condition?
And why can't they just give their source of information?

Isn't it obvious even a dullard will understand that this is clearly a political hunting by opposition to discredit the government as usual.

Seriously you should go back to school cos i can now see why Nigerians are taking your jobs over there. And this is the last time am ever gonna respond to you cos you are clearly and irreversably S.TUPID.

Kamsy10: First tell me what your're doing in SA before I reply you. If our economy was anything to write home about,SA should be the last place any Nigerian should even visit not to talk of living. I don't KNOW what people see in SA

where i travel to do business is not your concern, enev chinese, russian, US, EU citizens come to Nigeria to do business.
As far as am not a drug dealer nor on the wrong side of the law, i see no reason to be afraid of doing business in SA.

To be honest i didn't vote for Jonathan cos i knew his poor performance in Bayelsa before he became VP, I voted for buhari (which i now regret). But if we are going to condemn the government lets condemn the government without taking the country down with it.
Saying Nigeria is broke without substantial proof puts the country at grave economical risk and other consequenses that might follow.

2015 is not far and i bet you the same people that are crying will still vote for PDP when the time comes. Maybe we have depended to mush on foreign media doing the fight for us and forgeting that we are the ones to cast the vote. (and trust me, they are doing a great job at pulling down the country while the governments are still intact)

Kamsy10: Its because of mentality like yurs that nobody tries to utter a word about what the rogues we have in offices are doing.
So the western people are the ones that tell our leaders to embezzle every dime in the treasury
D western people are the one creating unemployment
D western people pardoned the crooks that embezzled the money that belongs to me and you
D western people don't want to our roads to be good and people die on our roads on daily basis while life goes on
D western world make our leaders not to do anything about electricity abi
D list goes on and on


imho, I really thank God for sahara reporters because if everybody reasoned like you,blaming everything on western world, our case would have been finished
In conclusion, if it takes the western world to make our leaders (past and present) see how shamelessly they're running Nigeria, so be it.
Kudos to saharareporters for having some balls

In case you don't know the difference, Nigeria is as bad as its painted to be compared to the western world you're referring to

please before you continue ranting, read the story and point out 3 valid reasons that is new to us sahara reporters have made for saying Nigeria is broke.

Yes we know that PDP is killing this country which is why we need to vote another party. But it doesn't give any foreign media the right to make such an accusation with flimsy reasons and expect gullible and ignorant people like you to believe.

And the guy is right cos i live in SA and a lot of them have started saying all sorts of rubbish because of this careless report.

But seriously, it's high time government starts dealing with this SR. I don't see the connection between OBJ's regime and Jonathan's to justify that Nigeria is broke.

Which country doesn't borrow to finance it's development projects. Even the US had to borrow 2 trillion dollars to dund it's budget last year.

And since when is it a crime to translate our savings to Niara?

And which oil cartels are they talking about? The numbers of importers that have been reduced to38 or so.

Since when were workers not owed their salaries even from the time of military regime till now?

And look at their excuse:- that because Nigerian soldiers are begging for food in mali shows that we are broke. Are these people stvpid or what do they take Nigerians for.

Another reason they gave is that boko haram has killed our economy.

Is this not the same SR that said that boko haram overan and took over a military baracks in Baga? If this people have been bought over by any politician they should please say so because this is unbecoming of a serious news organisation.

It reminds me of lie Mohammed.

payless: What is stopping Nigerian Security Forces from arresting the sponsors of Boko Haram if there is any evidence against them? We are yet to get to the bottom of what the State of Emergency is meant to do. The State of Emergency is not about defeating Boko Haram afterall.

you want GEJ to piss his pants after reading your comment? He simply doesn't have the balls to arrest the sponsors.

CraigB: The typical Nigerian retort. They demand proof to substantiate proof.

Your own bloodie agency says the reports are credible.

Don't waste our time. Your soldiers have no morale. Your soldiers molest and kill and they will never be prosecuted. And worse - your soldiers will lose their pensions because you bought too much stuff and forgot that you had to buy groceries too.

yet again you keep showing how low you think. Let me enlighten you in case kids like my nephew would wanna test you.
Nigerian human rights commision depends on HRW and Amnesty international trying so hard to seek relevance for reports. In Nigeria, these bodies have lost all credibility from the time they used a video of another country's cuvil war as evidence that Nigerian security forces were commiting violations, only for the source of the video ''reuters'' to openly apologize and remove the video after finding out they were misinformed, to the Bama incident after the Nigerrian lawmakers finished their own investigations and discovered that the death toll was exergerated by HRW. It was about 50 dead ''including 30 insurgents'' and 175 houses burnt. Even aljazeera were the first to go in and interview a witness who said it was insurgents that burnt her house and killed her relative.

Mind you the investigation was carried out by opposition lawmakers that are the worst critics of the ruling party.

Seriously, arguing with you is a total waste of time and knowledge. Stay in school okay. So you'll turn out better than this

agaugust: your 12 year old nephew read his comments, thinks smarter than the south african....haahahahhaha

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don't mind the olodo. I already eplained what makes a failed state and how that yeye amarican report is wroong yet his slow brain can't comprehend what i said. Imagine he wants to play that recycling game with me. Am done responding to him abeg. Make i dey follow una

CraigB: Just answer the simple question and be happy. Don't preach to us. If you have an argument, put it forward. If you don't, yes - withdraw.

We aren't here for your enjoyment.

How do the listed things fit within the definition of a failed state? Simple.

It is NIgeria that is broke today.

since all you do is skim through posts to pick what suits you so you can play your trashing game, you should know that i already amswered that question. Check my previous posts cos i don't have time to waste with you. And that you would believe that Nigeria is broke because some stvpid opposition says so (many of our opposition politicians are ignorant) shows how low you think. This clearly explains why you irritate me. And yes a lot of people are reading your posts and i know a lot of them and this is what they think of you: *a dumb child*
even my 12 years old nephew thinks his smarter than you after reading your comments. Lol