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Today is 26th March. Guess they got bullied, I.would have joine their protest...online of course. I no fit die for police matter abeg

Buccalcavity2:
Something is becoming very clear here: Even if Tinubu is not going to be president, he will have a significant say in who becomes the next president.

That I can agree with. The man no just get influence he commands it

In Nigeria and in this generation Yes! We can change that tho.

I know the urge and it takes a real man to resist.

Cryofigbos:
Dead brain......

Zealll:
Ogun is a curse state, despite there education

Whew!

Osagyefo98:
Even Stella oduah saved the day..

Same Oduah they insulted...

Obiano has really shown how greedy a man can be.

Looting the state dry with no single road construction.

After governing a state for 8 yrs he wants to go and rest in other civilization with his loot.

So he couldn't build such in his state.

African politicians are thieves and all the know is the appetite to steal public wealth.

I heard some people talking about 17 bridges 1 international airport he built. Guess it all scam

LocalStandard1:
May there gentle and patriotic souls rest in peace. They forth not only for Russian integrity but the freedom of the world's peoples.

The Russians have given there own figure and I believe it. God bless mother Russia. Thank you.

For the record, there is a genocide and an ethnic cleansing going on now against the people of Southern Kaduna. We are being killed for absolutely no reason but hate and land theft, may God help us and may the people rise.

Who the hell are you?
You dare talk about ethnic cleansing while you fully supported a war criminal like Putin? Omg!!! What is wrong with you guys? Perhaps you will invites the Russian to protect their integrity too. Scum

It's a bold move, one that will go a long way and reassurance to US Allies

Mallam news

Finally some of our evil people join the lists of ever growing sanctions from the US

Tinubu for just give me all this money he is wasting. Wahali I need money

RiyadhGoddess:
Op Pele!

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13 monthly or.weekly bro

rolams:
How many soldiers are there in Russian Army?

Over 150,000

Over 100,000 Russian soldiers dead. And that's a fact. For Ukrainian plus civilians 210,000 and counting. Introduction of chemical weapon soon by Putin

Disgusting... What could be worse?

Simply No way!
More like a prayer hardly an opinion because in this country anything can happen, if bugari can become president after three failed attemps why not Akiku. Never say Never

Isn't that wonder? Government spending public funds on such senseless adventure without thinking about the impact this would had on her people. No matter what we say anyway just like the elephant won't fly.

Way to go Bugari, kukuma finish the country abi what is left if not suffering and hardship that had plague the whole Nation. I'm confident we'll survive your myopic senseless evil orchestrated regime. I use medium to pray for those struggling to make ends means may you find your feet and obtain favour. Peace to all!

Look at comments, Nigerian want changes but they don't want change.
I will rather vote this woman than vote any other old recycled rubbish as President

RedEnergy:
Russia alone supplies about half the consumption gas of the EU. Now the same idiots that thought they could collapse the Russian currency will be the same people that will strengthen it far better than it ever was when they have no choice but to pay with Russian money. Putin is an economic genius.

In the short run it will benefits Russia but look at the long run EU will definitely find alternative and Russia will suffer massively. Russia need dollar to trade thereby accepting Rubles will means countries trading with Russia will give out it dollar to get Rubles increase the availability of dollar and surge value for local currency

MajorOvakporaye:
I have said it time and over again that it is very easy to identify amala and ewedu overnight war analysts on Nairaland

Russian citizens are going about their normal business in Russia but Ukrainians cannot do same in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians are now refugees in other countries, yet I've not seen any Russian citizen that's a refugee in any country

Are you sure? Please read news or watch Ajnews too much of Naira land no good. And you called this analysis

Bugari always commissioning what you don't built. God saves us from this man

LeoDeKing:
I thought Obiano is the best gov nationwide according to some Meth cannibals.

So says some scumbags, he built 17 bridges 1 international airport

Let them enjoy the aftermath of the East best gov

https://googleweblight.com/sp?hl=en-NG&u=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/21/ukraine-war-exposes-cracks-us-ties-middle-east-allies
Washington, DC – With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominating discussions around the world, the Biden administration has been promoting global unity against what it calls Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “war of choice”.
But despite those efforts, the conflict has highlighted cracks in some of the United States’ most prominent alliances in the Middle East, notably with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia.
The latest manifestation of this apparent rift came last week when the UAE hosted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite repeated warnings from Washington against normalising ties with the government in Damascus. It was al-Assad’s first visit to an Arab country since the Syrian war broke out in 2011, and it came weeks after the Syrian president expressed full support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Al-Assad coming to the UAE, shortly after the Gulf Arab country voted to abstain from a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month, tells us that the Emiratis are very serious about asserting their autonomy from the United States,” said Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington, DC-based geopolitical risk consultancy.
Abu Dhabi’s abstention last month from the US-backed United Nations Security Council proposal on Ukraine was followed by anonymously-sourced media reports alleging that Saudi and Emirati leaders rebuffed calls from US President Joe Biden. And last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia is in talks with China to ditch the US dollar in favour of the yuan to conduct oil transactions with Beijing.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia appear to be sending a message to the US, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Middle East fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told Al Jazeera: “‘We’re going to act upon our interests and not what you think our interests are.'”

Mounting tensions
The Wall Street Journal reported this month that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – as well as Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – had rejected calls from Biden. But the White House dismissed that report as “inaccurate” while the US has repeatedly stressed the importance of its relationships with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Cafiero noted that the UAE is not walking away from its relationship with the US, as Washington remains Abu Dhabi’s “security guarantor”. He added that the UAE enjoys a “very strong position in Washington”, especially after leading a push by Arab states to normalise ties with Israel via the so-called “Abraham Accords“.
“The leadership in Abu Dhabi is very confident that it can take steps that upset Washington, such as welcoming Bashar al-Assad to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, without having to pay a big price in terms of its relationship with the US,” Cafiero told Al Jazeera.
Washington issued rare public criticism of Abu Dhabi over al-Assad’s visit, however. US Department of State Spokesman Ned Price told the Reuters news agency on the weekend that the US was “profoundly disappointed”, calling the Syrian president’s trip an “apparent attempt to legitimise” his government.

Abu Dhabi’s push to normalise ties with al-Assad has been going on for years despite Washington’s protests. But the UAE’s main grievances with the US appear to be over Yemen, not Syria.
Missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the UAE and Saudi Arabia intensified in January and February – and the Wall Street Journal, in its article on the allegedly rebuffed calls, reported that the Gulf nations had concerns about what they view as a “restrained US response”.
The US sent fighter jets and a guided-missile destroyer to help bolster Emirati defences in the aftermath of the attacks, while US forces in the UAE also said they helped intercept Houthi missiles aimed at an airbase where they are stationed in the country.
But the Emirati leadership has pushed the Biden administration to designate the Houthis as a “terrorist” group, a move that rights organisations have warned would worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis. A Saudi-led, US-backed coalition that included the UAE intervened in Yemen in 2015 to push back the rebels, who had taken over large swathes of territory, including the capital, Sanaa.
Annelle Sheline, a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a US think-tank, said that despite the purported frustration from the Gulf countries, the Biden administration has backed Riyadh and Abu Dhabi against the Houthis, both in rhetoric and practice.
“From my perspective, this notion that the US isn’t doing enough to support what the Saudis and Emiratis are doing in Yemen just seems somewhat absurd,” she told Al Jazeera last week. “But I know that in particular, the UAE wants the US to redesignate the Houthis as a terrorist organisation.”

Global oil supplies
Despite these contentious issues, the Biden administration has said it intends to maintain and improve ties with its Gulf partners. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki noted on March 10 that Biden spoke to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in February and said “the president’s focus is really on our relationship moving forward”.
The Biden administration is almost entirely focused on the crisis in Ukraine, as the US and its allies have unleashed a flood of sanctions against the Russian economy, including the country’s energy sector. On March 8, Biden announced a ban on oil and gas imports from Russia, and several European countries have pledged to decrease their dependence on Russian energy supplies. The turmoil has sent petrol prices soaring across the US and the world.
The US has been calling for increased oil production to lower prices since last year – a push that became more urgent after Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24. But the OPEC+ oil cartel, which includes Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, said in early March that it would stick to its current production plans, touting a “well-balanced market” experiencing “volatility” due to “current geopolitical developments”.
On March 9, Abu Dhabi’s embassy in Washington expressed support for pumping more oil, but hours later the UAE’s energy minister wrote on Twitter that the country would abide by the existing OPEC+ agreement.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on March 18 [WAM/Handout via Reuters]
Ulrichsen said the UAE and Saudi Arabia appear to be acting as though they have leverage over Biden, given the domestic political implications of rising petrol prices in the US. He added that the US president’s troubled tenure so far – marred by low approval ratings, the chaotic exit from Afghanistan and an inability to pass major legislation – could be hardening the posture of Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
“They may sense weakness,” said Ulrichsen. “And they may think that playing hard could get them more concessions. That could be part of the calculation.”
Cafiero said Biden is trying to avoid a hostile confrontation with Gulf partners as he prioritises uniting the US’s allies against Russia.
“The US is trying to bring more Arab states against Putin, and the US is trying to cooperate with oil-producing countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, as the US and other Western countries deal with the impact of the war in Ukraine on energy markets,” he said. “Within this context, the Biden administration is not wanting a fight with either Abu Dhabi or Riyadh right now.”
Human rights
Beyond oil production and the crisis in Ukraine, the Biden administration, which pledged to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy when it came into office in January 2021, has faced calls to pressure Saudi Arabia and the UAE to improve their rights record and end the Yemen war.
Democrats in Washington had been increasingly critical of ties with Riyadh, especially following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
But last Wednesday, Price, the US State Department spokesperson, declined to condemn the mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia in a single day. Instead, he said repeatedly that the administration is “continuing to raise concerns about fair trial guarantees” with the kingdom.
Meanwhile, the UAE’s bin Zayed held a phone call with Putin last week. According to a Kremlin readout of the call, conveyed by Russian media, the Emirati leader “reaffirmed that Russia has a right to ensure national security”. In a separate statement, the UAE said bin Zayed told Putin his country would continue to coordinate with “concerned parties” to “help find a sustainable political solution to the ongoing crisis” in Ukraine.

Ultimately, the war in Ukraine has highlighted the fact that Washington’s Gulf allies are pursuing their own interests in a world where the US is no longer the sole superpower, said Sheline of the Quincy Institute.
“It makes rational sense for other countries to not rely so much on the US anymore,” she told Al Jazeera. “But then it’s irrational for the US to sort of unconditionally support these countries, especially when at crucial UN Security Council votes, they vote against what the US is trying to do.”
For his part, Cafiero said the US does not want to see its Gulf partners turn to Russia and China for support. “In a world that is becoming increasingly multipolar, these Gulf Arab countries have much potential to turn to other powers such as China and Russia to gain greater autonomy from the United States,” he said.
“Officials in Washington realise that trying to put too much pressure on some of these GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries could result in them finding their partnerships with Beijing or Moscow to be more appealing.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

Which youth? Guess it lazy youth bugari.is talking about

This country with scam scandal scoundrels at the affairs of power

K

Bayern Munich W - Paris SG W
1st leg.
22.03.2022 18:45
Home win

Madmazel99:
lost. Can you make it one ticket per day?

Check first post. It will be one per day from now