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Hi, I'm starting up farming operations in Delta State in January 2016.
I am looking for an agricultural consultant to guide me in my Agribusiness.
Thank you.

Hamster143:
Oniovo, think cassava, Ugu, Okra,Yam, plantain, lil palm tree, and live stock will be OK for you.

Thank you.

Hi Nairalanders, I have a few hectares of land in Delta State, not too far from Warri.

I will appreciate if someone can educate me on the best crops to plant and how to set up my Agribusiness there as well.

Thank you!

Pollution of every kind certainly catalyzes a visceral response of suffocation, oppression and even depression. “Let me out! I can’t breathe!” That’s what I’m talking about. Pollution that kills and destroys and sucks the life out of you. Pollution that you can visibly see, affect and avoid. Pollution you know is dangerous to your life and accept is all bad for your health. Pollution you don’t want in your life.

But what about the people who pollute your life with stress, anxiety, confusion and constant chaos? What about the people who pollute your life with manipulation, deceit and despair? What about the people who pollute your life with jealousy, rage and anger? What can you do to rid yourself of people pollution such as these?

People Pollution that negatively contaminates the environment of your life is a viral plague of poisonous people who need to be purposely pruned right out of your life.

What’s the pollution solution? How do you clear the smog of people pollution in your life? How do you cleanse your life from the symptoms of this contagious disease?

Smog be gone. Here’s four ways to quickly inject an antibiotic against the effects of this people pollution plague which silently infects the life of many innocent souls. It’s an easy recipe of mind vitamins to feed your whole soul and nurture your spirit with new strength and power to create renewed resistance against this saturating sickness.

1. People Pollution Exists – Accept it.

There is great power in accepting things as they are instead of how you want them to be. Why? Because when you accept the truth of a situation, you are free to make better choices with this knowledge. You must accept some people actually enjoy creating and being immersed in pollution, consciously or unconsciously. Your being uncomfortable with their polluting behavior will not motivate them to change, but it can help you change to feel better.

2. It’s not your fault – Don’t try to justify.

You did not cause the other person to create polluting behavior, and you can’t cure them of it either. Don’t accept unacceptable behavior. Resist the desire to justify bad polluting behavior, or think there is anything you can say or do to change the results of a polluter.

3. Decide for different – Imagine better possibilities & outcomes.

Once you decide you don’t want to be around polluting behavior you are ready to imagine new outcomes and better possibilities of not having that type of negatively affect you. You don’t know what you don’t know. Consider how much energy you will have available to do positive things in your life, when you get back all the precious energy you were expending trying to fight the people who were polluting your life.

4. Spread your Shine – Purify the pollution with positivity.

Let your positive sunshine burn their polluting smog right out of your life. Sticking to your positive standards of peace, compassion, creativity, enthusiasm, faith and confidence in a brighter day to keep you above the clouds like the sun in the sky. The best protection against people pollution is pollution rejection.

The winning equation to your sensational success in being free from the bad fruit of polluting people is accepting people pollution exists. Having a simple strategy to reject the effects of people who negatively pollute your life is a great way to build up a powerful immunity against this deadly disease.

https://dantewest./2015/12/23/the-allergic-to-negative-people-pollution-solution/

sickstars:
Sweet
Beautiful
Nice
Nice op

Thank you!!!

I was speaking with a friend earlier today..

She was talking about the challenge of letting go of an unhealthy relationship in her life. A man she was contemplating have a long term relationship with. Sound familiar?

Despite the fact she had gotten “stung” by this guy in the past, she hesitated whether she should give him “one more chance.” Sound familiar?

“But he says this time will be different.” “But he says he recognizes the things he did in the past were not right.” “But he says he is going to change.” Sound familiar?

We have all been “stung” by people we opened our hearts to. People we thought really loved and cared about us. Yes, we have all been betrayed..

The question I think we must pose is this, “Do I want to risk the pain of being let down by my expectation of what I want to be true.”

The scorpion Story:

“There was a rabbit and a scorpion who wanted to get to the other side of the river. The scorpion told the rabbit, “Get on my back and I will carry you to safety to the other side of the river.” But the rabbit replied, “You are a scorpion, and I know you will sting me and kill me.” “Surely not.” replied the scorpion. “I have changed, and I too want to cross the river.”

So the rabbit believed what the scorpion said, and jumped on his back to cross the river.

Two thirds across, safe. Half way across, safe. To the other side of the river, safe. The rabbit apologized to the scorpion he ever doubted the new revelation of conversion the scorpion expressed.

Suddenly, the scorpion stung and injected enough poison into the rabbit to kill it.

The rabbit replied in dismay, “Why did you sting to kill to me, we were safe on the other side of the river?”

The scorpion replied, “Because it’s in my nature. Why were you ever so foolish to believe otherwise.”

Yes, sometimes the people we meet who continue to hurt us just can’t, or won’t help themselves. The question we need to ask is,”Why do you trust the lie when you already have evidence of the truth?”

Pruning hurts, but we must cut away the dead branches to grow fully alive. We must give up the good, for great. We must accept people where they are, and give up the illusion of control we have to change them.

Who in your life is a scorpion? Who in your life continues to sting you with poison regardless of the words they speak otherwise? You can only judge by the actions, because words are meaningless.

Another person may indeed have a serious problem. But if you continue to engage in these problems, you have a problem too.

Let go of the people who sting you in life, and watch the healing come into your life.

Only when you are genuinely willing to let go, will you get the best you deserve.

You attract who you are. Keep the focus on yourself.

You’re worth the effort.

https://dantewest./2015/12/23/are-you-being-stung-by-someone/

I know the reasons you hate them, and it sickens me to my stomach.

Many countries in Asia have this belief that Africa is a country inside Nigeria. This belief is embedded in the brains of the rich and poor of the Asian community. And there is a reason for that. You see, when it comes to travelling and migration, Nigeria indeed is ranked amongst the first 3 top countries, and they are economic shakers in whatever country they migrate to. Be it United States, United Kingdom, Europe or Asia/Australia + the Arctic region if believable.
As much as Nigerians love travelling, they are also hated and loved by many citizens of the hosting country. They are hated because of their lifestyle, the yahoo yahoo boys menace (internet fraud), tendencies to be actively into the dreaded illegal drug trade, their almost proud attitude, prostitution, their big dicks, their boldness, their awesome intelligence and their smooth ways with girls that makes the host country’s ladies to eventually find their own men unattractive.

All these are legitimate reasons to hate a group of people, but it’s worthless to keep hating Nigerians. Fact of the matter is, if you stop your pride and hateful attitude and become friends with them, a whole new world opens up. You will discover a whole new meaning to life. They have the ability to change your life around! If you are having difficulties asking ladies out, well, consider that problem solved. Having money issues? Consider it solved (If you are friends with a scammer that is) and are you a party animal? Hahaha, you will party till mama finds you drunk/sleeping on the streets on a Monday morning.

Many in Asia do hate Nigerian men because of the size of their dick. It’s no secret, Asian women crave, love and deserve the big dicks most Nigerian men seem to carry between their legs. Been bleeped by a Nigerian is like being disvirgined once again since lots of Asian men either have small dicks and don’t last long in bed due to their over indulgence in sugar. Asian men attempt to prolong sex by indulging in MouthAction for a lengthy period of time. I will give a pass mark to the Asian men though, they are willing to lick, suck and eat their partner’s pussy for hours just to please their women. Unfortunately, a woman exposed to long hours of her pussy been eaten will readily dump her man if she encounters a big dick that has the capacity to hit her pussy with tremendous force that makes her toes curl, her heart flutter and her entire body tension released due to sexual satisfaction.

I can be empathic to the plight of the Asian men, but not sympathetic, the violence metted out on Nigerians due to hatred is astronomical, its often not investigated and more in the level of witch hunting. Using Malaysia as a case study, the Indian Malaysian community HATES Nigerian men with a passion. There xenophobic level of hate has resulted in the death of many Nigerians living in Malaysia dumb or stupidly crazy enough to have an affair with an Indian. They see it as a personal insult to their race that a black African has the guts to Bleep their women. The question is, doesn’t everyone have the right to love and chose who to get bleeped by? The pain of the Indian male is simply because of sex, I am positive they feel we are destroying the pussy and ass they aim to get married to. Well, that is certainly not a legitimate reason to hate!

This sort of hate results in racism and xenophobic tendencies. It’s a deadly form of hate. Many have died as a result.

Imagine the reason for death – Death by fucking the wrong pussy.

To make matters worse, the pussy the Indians kill for isn’t theirs to begin with, it is mostly on a level of don’t Bleep with our girls, like the girls are slaves to their race.

The Malaysian police enjoy those xenophobic raids conducted primarily to subdue and terrorise condos where Nigerians are mostly residing in places like Cheras and Sunway. Mentari Court has been raided times without number. Many Nigerians have indeed lost their lives as a result of these xenophobic raids. It’s quite unfortunate.

Where does this hate end? How do does who perpetuate these crimes live with themselves? Is the hating worth it?

There is a saying in Nigeria, ‘Never trust a country that doesn’t have any Nigerian community’.


https://dantewest./2015/12/09/stop-hating-nigerian-men/

Now in this piece, we are specifically talking about the letter M and what it means if someone finds this on their hand.

Listen to the wise words of Aunty Flo.

Those that have an “M” on the hand might be attracted to careers in journalism, writing or education. Additionally they are excellent in making money in life, simply because they generally thrive in careers which demand great self-discipline and self-motivation, they can also be drawn to management.

Basically, those with a “M” in their hand are self motivated and thus better at making money. She goes on to state more about the letter “M”.

Palmistry is an ancient art whose roots have been traced back several thousand years to India, where it was born from Hindu astrology and first mentioned in the Chinese book the I Ching. It quickly spread all over Asia and Europe, whereupon Aristotle took up an interest in it and passed the knowledge on to Alexander the Great. The Macedonian king often used it to judge the character of his military officers and would closely read the lines of their palms. It must have helped him out because in fifteen years of nonstop conquest he never lost a single battle.

The practice has since endured throughout the ages. Today, most people view it as pseudo-science and are quick to dismiss it as superstitious beliefs. Part of why people are so skeptical is that they don’t truly understand it. They only know what they see in the media, and it has been wrongly portrayed in the many books, films, and TV shows that have touched upon it over the years. If you’re further interested in the subject, this video does an excellent job introducing and describing what the main lines and patterns on your palm signify.

One specific attribute that people often wonder about is the appearance of the letter “M” on the palm of the hand. The letter comes into formation by the way major lines, mainly the heart, head, and life lines, both appear and align on the palm. Not all people have such a defined marking, it’s even kind of rare, and those who do have one are said to be special. They are blessed with good fortune and thrive in the careers they choose because they have strong self-motivation and discipline. Oftentimes they end up pursuing jobs in the legal or political field and work their way up to top management positions. They are seen as gifted individuals who hold extraordinary intuition and because of this they make strong business partners in any endeavor they set their heart and minds to.

Furthermore, people whose palms have the letter M are masters at seeing through lies and deceit. Not much gets past them and they almost always figure out if someone is less than honest, lying, or cheating. This sense of intuition is often stronger in women than in men, but it comes down to the individual. Overall, the letter M has long been associated with the aforementioned traits, as well as the following qualities in life; leadership, good fortune, riches, and excellent prospects.

This is all very fascinating. Go on Aunty Flo!

The letter “M” within the subject’s palm is also an omen of:

Leadership.
Riches.
Fortune in life.
Great prospect’s.

The letter “M” has also been linked to good intuition.

Share this with your friends and family and try reading their palms, it’s really fun and you may just learn something about them.

Please Share This With Family and Friends To See If The Letter ‘M’ On Their Palm



https://dantewest./2015/12/23/if-you-have-a-letter-m-on-the-palm-of-your-hand-this-is-what-it-means/

eye4eye:
Noise. Do sh1t and sh1t will hit you. There is new sheriff in town. Do any how and you see any how. I don't think you want to turn your zone to war zone.

Buratashi ain't smiling.

As if the dead sheriff (Abacha) could even contain the Niger Delta militants.

Be there with your bullish attitude towards common sense and not do your research well.

boko haram that has bombed Abuja, the state of power and are still waxing stronger and bloodier are still active, in what planet do you think the Nigerian army will find it a ride in the park in the creeks?

Ur.anus I bet!

While the media eye remains set on the Middle East, focused as it were on the long litany of horrors which have streamed out of the region, Africa too has witnessed more than its fair share of violence, bloodshed and acts of senseless terror.

The forgotten victim of Wahhabi-inspired radicalism, Nigeria stands besieged by powers which have disguised themselves as legitimate, the avant-garde of an ideological plague which seeks a complete re-engineering of Africa’s religious map.

But if the African continent has failed so far to generate a media frenzy on account, and Western powers have offered little by way of political interest, we ought to pay close attention to Nigeria’s ongoing crisis as it appears the vassals of the Black Flag army have now infiltrated the military to better weave themselves within the region’s power dynamics.

Nigeria it needs to be said is home to one of the most brutal denominations of Wahhabi-terrorism:
Boko Haram . Although Ilsamic State (ISIS) might from a distance epitomize terror’s irrational taste for bloodletting, this one homegrown African radical faction has claimed to its name more deaths than ISIS, al-Qaeda, or any other Wahhabi outfits ever did in their years of rampage.

A news report by RT this November read: “The Nigerian jihadists, who pledged allegiance to IS in March 2015, killed more people than their fellow Islamists, claiming 6,644 lives compared to 6,073. Nigeria accordingly experienced a staggering 300 percent rise in terrorism deaths in 2014, although other militant groups take partial blame for the increase.”

To oppose Boko Haram and the stooges it bought to its ideology to the tune of financial patronage and threats of retaliation, one man has stood tallest: Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the country’s most renowned Shia cleric.

A fervent advocate for religious freedom, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has worked to denounce those powers within Nigeria which have claimed to oppose radicalism, to better benefit from war lords’ financial largess, thus betraying their office in the name of personal gain.

Shielded by Gulf monarchies’ wealth, protected by regimes whose political myopia made them blind to the real enemy hiding among their midst, Boko Haram’s armies have advanced in Nigeria, sowing destruction and fear as they carve a bloody empire.

In truth, if not for Western powers’ desire to demonize Iran and the Russian leadership, if not for a political narrative which requires Iran’s servitude and humiliation, heads of state would have recognized that their best bets against terror lie still with Shia Islam, as it is its House, Wahhabi radicals ambition to lay waste.

But this logic has been suppressed in favor of a grand alliance with Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia; those very regimes we know have played radicalism to pursue very hegemonic agendas across Africa and Asia.

Nigeria early this December has witnessed a deluge of violence. In plain sight, and without so much of a murmur from the international community, communities in Africa stand in the line of a barbaric fire.

On December 12, Nigerian soldiers raided the home of Sheikh Zakzaky, in Zaria, a Shiite stronghold. What started as a targeted attack quickly devolved into carnage as soldiers opened fire on civilians.

Where such actions might have been rationalized by officials’ allegations that Shiites pose a threat to national security, it is really the community’s opposition to Boko Haram and military officials’ ties with radicals which prompted such a sectarian witch-hunt.

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Zakzaky has been highly critical of political corruption, Boko Haram and the relationship it entertains with facets of the Nigerian army. But for all its statements and condemnations, never did the movement stray from its commitment to peace and interfaith harmony.

A role model for many religious communities outside his own, Sheikh Zaksaky has been hailed an inspiring humanitarian figure by the like of the Islamic Human Rights Commission [IHRC ], AhlulBayt News Agency [ ABNA] and the Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies.

Zakzaky’s stand for peace was rewarded in blood. As soldiers ransacked his home, his wife, and son were held at gun point, only to be shot before his eyes.

On Sunday Haroon Bainavi, a Nigerian political activist confirmed that Sheikh Zakzaky was shot and wounded during the attacks." We don’t know where he is or where they took him, " he told the local press. Activists and local residents also
confirmed that a large number of soldiers torched and destroyed several parts of Zakzaky’s house before arresting him this Sunday.

But the military did not have its fill of blood just yet as a mourning procession became target practice for over-zealous soldiers: 30 unarmed civilians were killed and countless more were injured.

One man, Bukhari Muhammed Bello Jega took to social media to alert the world to the crimes taking place in his hometown. Before he was slain, alongside his wife and baby daughter, Bukhari was able to relay the horrors Shiites and Christians have had to endure under the reign of Boko Haram.

Recalling soldiers’ first attacks on Zaria last Saturday (December 11), Bukhari writes: “It is carnage here in Zaria ... soldiers are killing civilians in Gyellesu area and the home of our revered leader.... Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.... They destroyed all the shops along the road leading to the house and several bodies of civilians are just piling up here... Do we have human beings in government? Are Nigerian soldiers above the law? Do those in authority lack the will or power to stop those vampires?”

On Sunday his plight turned into a prayer for his fallen brethren: “Disappointment and confusion in the camp of Nigerian soldiers as they are about to face the biggest shame of their lives... they have done a lot of killing and they have injured scores of brothers and sisters, yet, we remain peaceful. Shame and defeat is eminent, as morning get closer.... the people will continue from where we stopped... they lost the support and sympathy of the people .... The REAL BOKO HARAM is now on the loose bombing building and killing innocent civilians ..... Indeed the command center has just moved to Zaria … “We are praying to God to give us courage, bravery, faith and patience, we pray not to change no matter the hardship and tension…”

On Monday Bukhari’s voice was silenced by a bullet.
It is such violence and Nigeria’s connections to terror which has gone unreported for it betrays an agenda rooted in the exploitation of terror for political and hegemonic gains.

In Iran, officials have already risen in outrage, calling for Nigeria to be held accountable. Ayatollah Ali-Reza Arafi in Qom decried the attack as a clear attempt to defeat those powers committed to defeat Wahhabi-inspired radicalism. He pointed out that because Nigeria is home to 15 million Shiites Wahhabis had chosen to strike hard and fast.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif also joined his voice to that of other officials in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Addressing his Nigerian counterpart Zarif called for “immediate and serious” measures to stop violence against all Muslims.”

An official at the Iran Foreign Ministry told me under anonymity that Iranian diplomats in Nigeria had already made clear that should anything happen to the Sheikh, Tehran would hold the authorities directly responsible.

This statement was echoed by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s own warning - Iran’s Arabic and African deputy foreign minister - “Currently we have very good relations with Nigeria and the country’s president recently visited Tehran. So we warned our friends in the Nigerian government that they are responsible in this issue … Sheikh Zakzaky’s health is very important to the nation, the Muslims of Nigeria and the whole of the Islamic world.”

With tensions running at all-time high in Nigeria, religious minorities fear they lost the safety Sheikh Zakzaky offered them so far, by acting as a rampart against Wahhabi fundamentalism.

As for Washington and other Western capitals their silence speaks volumes of their commitment to the war on terror, this political farce powers have waved as a banner for well over a decade.

A fire has been lit in Africa and few seem interested in extinguishing it.

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/326333-boko-haram-nigeria-zakzaky/

The story should have been spun nicely - Nigeria is Leading by Example by lowering crude oil production rates.

The international community has welcomed Saudi Arabia’s initiative to create a coalition against terrorism. However, its “military and ideological” role has been met with confusion even among members, some of whom didn’t know they were included.

On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia announced the creation of an ‘Islamic military alliance’ with a mission to fight terrorism. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the coalition of 34 Muslim states would fight the scourge in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.

The coalition members are to share intelligence, train, equip and possibly even provide forces to fight against militants such as Islamic State and al Qaeda, said Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.

"Nothing is off the table, " he stated regarding the possibility of deploying boots on the ground.
Pakistan got to know of its participation via news
A day after Riyadh announced the formation of the coalition, some of its members said that have been caught off guard and never agreed to take part in the alliance.

Pakistan, one of the coalition members announced by Saudi Arabia, has denied its participation. Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry told journalists that he got to know of the coalition through news reports, adding that Pakistan was not consulted about it, Dawn newspaper reported on Wednesday. He added that Islamabad was seeking details about the misunderstanding.

Malaysia denies taking part
Malaysia, another Muslim country which was put by Riyadh in the list of the 34 participants, also denied taking part in the military alliance. Malaysian Defense Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein told journalists that Kuala Lumpur will not join Riyadh, however it will continue to be part of the international fight against terrorism, the Rakyat Post reported.
Indonesia skeptical about ‘military alliance’
Indonesia, a country with the world’s largest Muslim population, said that it was approached by Saudi Arabia concerning anti-terrorism cooperation, however it needs details before considering to join a ‘military alliance.’

Armanatha Nasir, Foreign Ministry spokesman said it is “ important for Indonesia to first have details before deciding to support ” any military actions, he said.
However, Indonesian Chief Security Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said later, as quoted by Reuters: "We don't want to join a military alliance."

US wants to know more
The US, which is leading its own bombing campaign in Syria targeting IS militants, has welcomed the initiative. However, Washington seemed rather puzzled in terms of how the coalition’s operations would work.
"We look forward to learning more about what Saudi Arabia has in mind in terms of this coalition, " US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday.

Russia expects details
Russia said that it expects a more detailed account from Riyadh of its initiative. “We expect to receive more detailed information from the initiators of this process as well as we would want to know more about what was discussed in Paris yesterday, ” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying on Wednesday.

Foreign ministers from the US, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Turkey met in Paris on Monday to discuss the Syrian crisis ahead of the talks in New York on Friday that would include Russia.

Russia has been conducting its own airstrikes targeting IS and other terrorist groups in Syria since September 30. The strikes were launched at the formal request of Damascus. The Russian-led operation also involves coordinating its efforts with regional governments, including those of Syria, Iran and Iraq, which is known as the RSII coalition.

Turkey welcomes Riyadh-led military coalition
Ankara, the only NATO state in the alliance, has agreed to take part in the Saudi-led initiative.
“The best response to those striving to associate terrorism and Islam is for nations of Islam to present a unified voice against terrorism,” said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday.

However Turkish role in the fight against IS has been put to question. Russia’s Defense Ministry has recently claimed that Ankara is the main consumer of oil smuggled by IS from Syria and Iraq, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are involved in the criminal business.

Meanwhile, Turkish MP Eren Erdem has told RT that IS terrorists in Syria received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey.

Washington has been urging Ankara to secure its Syrian border, which has been partially in the control of IS on the Syrian side. However Turkey has expressed skepticism, saying that it would be extremely difficult.
Iran, Iraq, Syria not invited by Saudi to the block
Despite Riyadh’s initiative to possibly involve the alliance’s ground troops in the fight against IS, Iraq and Syria have not been invited to the bloc.

Iraq said it was confused by the role of the alliance in the fight against terrorism in the region.
“This makes it very confusing for us. Who will be the one leading the fight against terrorism in the region?” asked Nasser Nouri, spokesman for Iraq’s defense ministry, as quoted by the Wall Street journal on Tuesday. “Will it be the larger international coalition, and if so, what will be the point of having this new alliance.”

https://www.rt.com/news/326161-saudi-military-coalition-questioned/

A Riyadh-based “Islamic military alliance” has been formed to fight terrorism, Saudi Arabian state TV has announced. The coalition consists of 34 countries, including the Gulf States, a number of African countries, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan.

The new alliance’s initiatives could potentially include troops on the ground, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told reporters at a briefing in Paris on Tuesday.
“ There are discussions [among] countries that are currently part of the coalition [like] Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain about sending in some special forces into Syria ,” Adel al-Jubeir said, as cited by Reuters.

“ Nothing is off the table ,” the minister said, adding that “ it depends on the requests that come ” and that the picture should become clearer within the next few weeks.

Countries involved in the coalition aside from Saudi Arabia, include Jordan, the UAE, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, the partially-recognized state of Palestine, the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, Qatar, Cote d’Ivoire, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Yemen.

“The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations,” state news agency SPA quoted an official statement as saying.

The statement added that the coalition has “a duty to protect the Islamic nation from the evils of all terrorist groups and organizations whatever their sect and name which wreak death and corruption on earth and aim to terrorise the innocent,” Reuters quotes.
The coalition’s headquarters will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital.

Currently, there are a number of active coalitions fighting terror groups such as Islamic State (IS, Daesh, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq.

The US-led coalition has gathered the support of at least 65 countries. However, various media reports have claimed that fewer than a dozen states are actually contributing, with American jets carrying out most of the strikes.

Moreover, the coalition has received international criticism for being ineffective. “We can state the [US-led] coalition is simulating the fight against ISIS and real terrorism and acts on its own politicized approach to the situation, which runs counter to international law, at least in Syria. Now we can see that [this happens] not only in this country. As is known, the inactivity of the actions of the [US-led] coalition was distinctly confirmed by the growing ISIS problem,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said last week.

The US-led coalition’s airstrikes in Syria have never received permission from Syrian President Bashar Assad to enter the Syrian Airspace.

Meanwhile, Russia has been conducting its own airstrikes targeting IS and other terrorist groups in Syria since September 30. The strikes were launched at the formal request of Damascus. Russian jets have been carrying out sorties from Moscow’s Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia.

The Russian-led operation also involves coordinating its efforts with regional governments, including those of Syria, Iran and Iraq, which is known as the RSII coalition.

Russia has been calling for a global coalition to fight IS. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in November he wanted global cooperation to combat terrorism. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has echoed Putin’s words, stressing that countries with large Muslim populations, Russia among them, should team up against the terrorist groups.

Meanwhile, a Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Yemen as part of a campaign against the Houthi rebels that ousted president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The latest statement from the coalition said a ceasefire is due to be established Tuesday. “The command of the coalition forces announces a ceasefire as of 12 pm Sanaa time ... while retaining the right to respond to any breach of the ceasefire,” the Saudi state news agency SPA quoted.

Saudi Arabia has been carrying out assaults on the Houthis, who continue to hold the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. The conflict has created an emergency situation, with UN agencies raising alarms that millions of Yemenis are in mortal danger of starvation. Nearly 6,000 people have been killed in the Saudi-led airstrikes and fighting.

https://www.rt.com/news/325929-islamic-coalition-terrorism-saudi/

tarano:
It is quite unfortunate that things have to degenerate to this level.

Again the Shiite, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria are not harmless as we all think. It is a religious and political organization with the aim of having an islamic republic like in Iran. The followers are always harmed with AK 47 as the move along with the procession to Husainiyya Baqiyatullah, Zaria obstructting traffic on Highways.

There are intelligence report connecting this group's to Boko Haram and other violent Islamic groups in Africa and the middle east... I.e Hezbollah

Sooner or later this was going to happen. The Nigeria army has been keeping a watchful eye on this group.

Hezbollah is not a word wide terrorist group, they are only listed as terrorists by those against the Iranians.

Islamists State terrorists are 100% Sunni.

Islamic State terrorist are linked to boko haram.

Some sunnis like those in Saudi Arabia believe in wahabism which is the forerunner of modern day terrorism.

Get these facts into your thick skull, do a bit of research before pronouncing judgement on the wrong party.

The Fulanis that carry dangerous arms and charms are stealing your food, the Sunnis are killing your country people and here you are, in the comfort of your damn phony environment, placing blame like the loyal brainwashed drone you are.

Don't attempt to reply, I will destroy you with knowledge.

gabng:
Good news. Next is subsidy removal.

Kindly tell Nigerians how this is good news when the fuel is not even available for consumption.

Nigeria is waiting for your spin

chesterlee:
The trial of Nnamdi Kanu, Director of Radio Biafra, suffered a setback on Tuesday due to the absence of Magistrate Shuaibu Usman of the Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja. Kanu is standing trial on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, intimidation and belonging to unlawful society, to which he pleaded not guilty.
The case which had earlier been fixed for ruling did not hold due to the absence of the magistrate in court. No reason was given by the court on why the magistrate did not sit. Speaking to newsmen at the court premises, the defendant’s lawyer, Mr Vincent Obetta said all efforts to reach the magistrate on phone were not successful.
Obetta appealed to the prosecution, the Department of State Service (DSS), to obey the subsisting order of the court to transfer his client to prison custody to enable him have access to him. “DSS has refused to obey the court order to transfer my client to prison custody. “I call on the trial judge to order the DSS to transfer my client to prison custody.
“The DSS has flouted the court order which granted my client bail since Oct. 19,’’ he said. At the last sitting on Nov. 23, the DSS had requested the court to discontinue trial. Prosecution counsel, Moses Idakwo, had informed the court that after the arraignment of the defendant, the complainant stumbled on some facts which took the matter out of the jurisdiction of the magistrates’ court.
According to him, the complainant found out that the accused was involved in terrorism and has been financing it. Idakwo said that the DSS had also obtained an order from the Federal High Court, Abuja, dated Nov.10, to detain the accused in its custody for 90 days.
Obetta, had objected to the application by the DSS and prayed the court not to discontinue the case. He had argued that the prosecution did not present any information from the Attorney-General of Federation who had the authority to approve such.
The magistrate had adjourned the matter for ruling till Dec. 1.

Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/judges-absence-stalls-trial-of-kanu-radio-biafra-director/

What a rude way of handling matters. Imitating Abacha

Ignorance kills, he might have been the next super star of the entire company.

Abuja (AFP) - Senior military, security and intelligence figures in Nigeria on Thursday questioned President Muhammadu Buhari's December deadline for an end to the Boko Haram conflict, calling it "unrealistic".
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The Centre for Crisis Communication, a research and advisory body independent of government, said the deadline was "not tenable" given the continued wave of bombings in the northeast.

Buhari, who came to power in May, has made crushing the six-year rebellion a priority and in August gave his military commanders until the year-end to defeat the Islamists.

But the CCC executive secretary, retired Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, told reporters in Abuja there was a real concern about Boko Haram's persistent targeting of civilian "soft targets".

Anas said he was not against imposing targets on the military but added: "It must also be stated that this target date might be unrealistic.

"This submission is predicated on the fact that asymmetric warfare which Boko Haram is prosecuting against Nigeria is not such that can be easily stamped out by the armed forces."

The Boko Haram insurgency, which has been raging for six years and has left at least 17,000 dead, has previously seen a succession of declarations predicting an end to the violence.

In March this year, the government under Buhari's predecessor Goodluck Jonathan said it had begun the "final onslaught" against the Islamic State group affiliate.

Jonathan himself told the BBC in an interview on March 20 he hoped it would "not take us more than a month" to recapture territories lost to the rebels.

The CCC, which includes members of the military, police and intelligence agencies, said the December date should not be seen as "sacrosanct when all suicide bombings will end".

Buhari himself has said he was confident the deadline would be met -- but only on Boko Haram's "conventional" assaults.

But he told AFP in an interview in Paris on September 16: "What may not absolutely stop is the occasional bombings by the use of improvised explosive devices.

"We do not expect a 100 percent stoppage of the insurgency."

http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-told-boko-haram-conflict-deadline-unrealistic-174713921.html

tunwumi:
Lol so it's a throne for the family now

It's family business

And nine other truths about terrorism that nobody wants to hear.

By now, the script is familiar: Terrorists attack a Western target, and politicians compete to offer stunned and condemnatory adjectives. British, Chinese, and Japanese leaders thus proclaimed themselves “shocked” by the Paris attacks, which were described variously as “outrageous” and “horrific” by U.S. President Barack Obama; “terrible” and “cowardly” by French President François Hollande; “barbaric” by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi; “despicable” by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and “heinous, evil, vile” by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who possesses a superior thesaurus.

The Paris attacks were all these things. One thing they were not, however, was surprising.

Occasional terrorist attacks in the West are virtually inevitable, and odds are, we’ll see more attacks in the coming decades, not fewer. If we want to reduce the long-term risk of terrorism — and reduce its ability to twist Western societies into unrecognizable caricatures of themselves — we need to stop viewing terrorism as shocking and aberrational, and instead recognize it as an ongoing problem to be managed, rather than “defeated.”

Politicians don’t like to say any of this. But we’re not politicians, so let’s look at 10 painful truths.
Should I Be Bloody Terrified?

No. 1: We can’t keep the bad guys out.

Borders are permeable. The United States has more than 95,000 miles of shoreline. Greece has 6,000 islands and some 10,000 miles of coastline. You can walk from Iraq and Syria into Turkey and from Turkey into Bulgaria. Eight-hundred million people fly into U.S. airports each year, and 1.7 billion people fly into Europe’s airports. No wall can be long enough or high enough to keep out the truly desperate or determined, and there aren’t enough guards in the world to monitor every inch of coastline or border.

No. 2: Besides, the threat is already inside.

The 2005 terrorist attacks in London were carried out by British citizens, the Boston Marathon attack was perpetrated by a U.S. citizen and a U.S. permanent resident, and the Paris attacks appear to have been carried out mainly by French citizens. Every country on earth has its angry young men, and the Internet offers a dozen convenient ideologies to justify every kind of resentment. Adding more border guards — or keeping out refugees fleeing war and misery, as too many members of Congress seem eager to do — won’t help when the threat is already inside.

No. 3: More surveillance won’t get rid of terrorism, either.

As Edward Snowden’s 2013 leaks made clear, the United States is already surveilling the heck out of the entire planet and so are half the governments in Europe. The trouble is, the more data you collect — the more satellite imagery and drone footage and emails and phone calls and texts you monitor — the harder it gets to separate the signal from the noise. The U.S. National Security Agency intercepts billions of communications each day, according to a Washington Post investigation, but despite sophisticated computer programs designed to detect “suspicious” activity, not everything can be analyzed — and a lot of time gets wasted on false positives.

Sometimes the authorities get lucky, and stumble on a plot before it can be carried out. Data from electronic intercepts, surveillance cameras, and the like often ends up being most useful after an attack, however: Once the authorities know who they’re looking for, they can backtrack to gain a better understanding of how an attack came about, and they can sometimes link attackers to previously unknown plotters. When attacks are thwarted before they can be carried out, it’s usually as a result of the same factors that keep ordinary crime rates from going through the roof: good investigative work, vigilant communities, and bad guys who often make dumb mistakes.

No. 4: Defeating the Islamic State won’t make terrorism go away.

Don’t kid yourself. The Islamic State isn’t even the most lethal terrorist group operating today: Nigeria’s Boko Haram wins that title.

Regardless, before there was the Islamic State, there was al Qaeda, which brought us 9/11 and the Madrid and London bombings; before al Qaeda there was Hezbollah and Hamas; and before Hamas there was the Abu Nidal group, Black September and various other PLO factions. Europe saw more terrorist attacks — and more deaths from terrorist attacks — in the 1970s and 1980s than it has seen since 9/11. The Islamic State may now be the flavor du jour for the world’s angry young men, but if every single Islamic State fighter in Syria and Iraq is obliterated, the Middle East will still seethe — and so will the banlieues of Paris.

And no, it’s not just Islam. Right-wing extremists in the United States still kill more people than jihadis. The 2011 attack in Norway — which left 77 people dead — was carried out by a single far-right terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik. Since 2006, more than half of all deaths in terrorist attacks in the West have been caused by non-Islamist “lone-wolf” attackers, most motivated by right-wing extremism or separatist sentiments. You can’t even count on Buddhists to be peaceful: On Oct. 23, 2012, for instance, Buddhists militants attacked the Burmese village of Yan Thei and massacred more than 70 people, including 28 children, most of whom were hacked to death.

No. 5: Terrorism still remains a relatively minor threat, statistically speaking.

That’s no consolation to the victims or their loved ones, but it might offer some solace to the rest of us. Those scary statistics you sometimes see about the alleged vast increase in global terrorism include attacks occurring in regions wracked by ongoing armed conflicts, such as Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, between 2000 and 2014, only 2.6 percent of victims of terrorism lived in Western countries. Stay away from active war zones, and the average American is far more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist. And gun violence in the United States? I won’t even go there.

No matter how you look at it, those of us who live in the West have it pretty easy. Gun violence in the United States notwithstanding, we live longer, we’re less likely to die of preventable disease, and we’re far less likely to die violently than those in non-Western countries. If you live in Iraq, Libya, or Syria — or Nigeria, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Honduras, or South Sudan — violent death is a constant possibility. If you live in Paris or Boston or Ottawa, relax.

No. 6: But don’t relax too much, because things will probably get worse before they get better.

From a historical perspective, the relative safety and security currently enjoyed by those in the Western world is anomalous. Until about 1850, life expectancy at birth hovered around 40 years in most of Europe; today, it’s over 80.

The history of the West is every bit as violent as the modern Middle East, with brief periods of relative peace punctuated by periods of bloody conflict.

Don’t count on this period of relative Western safety continuing. Some day, the political, ethnic, and religious turmoil roiling the Middle East may end, but that day probably won’t be soon — and probably won’t be hastened by a more aggressive Western military campaign against the Islamic State.

If anything, the world is likely to see an uptick in violent conflict in the coming decades, and the West is unlikely to be fully spared. The Syrian refugee crisis has given Europe a taste of what can happen when substantial populations flee one region and try to settle in another. European border controls, refugee assistance systems and humanitarian instincts were quickly swamped by the sudden influx of more than 750,000 refugees, and though most of those refugees were exactly who they said they were, a handful were not. Imagine what will happen a few decades down the road, as climate change fuels new conflicts over resources and vast populations move in search of a better life. One recent student suggests that portions of the Middle East will become literally too hot for human habitation by century’s end. What then?

No. 7: Meanwhile, poorly planned Western actions can make things still worse.

So in the wake of the Paris attacks, the fat, happy, over-privileged West wants to turn away the hundreds of thousands of desperate Muslim families seeking shelter and peace, just because a tiny fraction of those refugees might be militants? Islamic militants couldn’t ask for a better recruiting gift.

The same goes for stepping up military action against the Islamic State. If we respond to the Paris attacks by sending a large number of ground combat troops into Syria and Iraq, we once again become foreign occupiers — and big fat targets. If we respond by bombing every Islamic State target we can find, odds are high we’ll end up bombing some people we never wanted or intended to bomb, and this won’t help us make new friends. Also, if we take out the Islamic State in Syria, we may just end up helping Syria’s other extremist rebels — or helping embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, though it was Assad and other brutal regional leaders whose actions helped inspire and strengthen the Islamic State in the first place. Besides, what happens next in Syria, do we get rid of the Islamic State, or Assad? As Iraq should remind us, nature abhors a vacuum.

Military force can play a role in preventing and responding to terrorist attacks, but when we don’t know who to target and we don’t fully understand the regional dynamics, that role should be small.

No. 8: Terrorism is a problem to be managed.

I can’t believe it’s still necessary to repeat this, but… no, Fox News, we can’t “win” a “war” against terrorism or terror or terrorists any more than we can “win” a war on crime or drugs or poverty. But though we can’t eliminate all risk of terrorism, we can adopt sensible policies to reduce the risk and damage caused by terrorist attacks. We can fund moderate Muslim organizations that offer alternatives to extremist interpretations of Islam, for instance, increase law enforcement outreach in communities that are targeted by terrorist recruiters, and look for ways in increase community incentives to report suspicious activity — perhaps by exploring rehabilitation approaches to dealing with misguided teens who are attracted by violent ideologies but haven’t yet taken decisive steps to harm anyone. We can also look for reasonable ways to give additional tools to law enforcement officials, as long as we also add safeguards to prevent abuses. If we’re creative in our approaches, we can find ways to make terrorist attacks a little harder to carry out successfully, and make successful attacks less rewarding to those who carry them out.

No. 9: To do this, however, we need to move beyond the political posturing that characterizes most public debates about counterterrorism, and instead speak honestly about the costs and benefits of different approaches.

We can throw more border guards and bombs and police and TSA and NSA agents at the problem of terrorism, and some or all of these things may well buy down short-term risk, reducing the odds that terrorists will engage in successful attacks. But each of these approaches has costs, too, some financial and some human and political. More police might mean more thwarted terrorist plots, but ham-handed policing might mean more potential recruits for the Islamic State or its successor. More police will certainly mean higher public safety budgets, which, in a world of finite resources, means less money for something else. The same is true for airport security, NSA programs and airstrikes: If implemented poorly, they can cause a backlash, and even if implemented thoughtfully, they cost money and take resources away from something else.

Fourteen years after 9/11, we still have astonishingly little empirical evidence about which counterterrorism techniques are effective and which aren’t. In large part, this is because governments haven’t made it a priority to fund or conduct evidence-based counterterrorism research. This needs to change.

We need to be hard-headed and unsentimental about this, just as we’re hardheaded about the prevention of crime, disease, car accidents, and a thousand other more run of the mill risks. How much do we think more police (or border guards or NSA programs or bombs) will make a difference, and at what point will we see diminishing marginal returns? At what point do we say: Yes, we could reduce the risk of successful terrorist attacks by another 5 percent if we added five thousand more border guards, but the costs are just too high? Or even: We could reduce the risk by 85 percent if we turn France or the United States into police states, but we’d rather accept the added short-term risk than abandon the values that make our countries what they are?

No. 10: We need to stop rewarding terrorism.

We can change the cost-benefit calculus for would-be terrorists by reducing terrorism’s benefits as well as by reducing its costs. Terrorism is used by states and non-state actors alike both because its relatively cheap and easy, and because it works. From al Qaeda’s perspective, the 9/11 attacks were a spectacular success. The attacks cost the United States billions of dollars: We closed stock exchanges, halted air travel, and started expensive and inconclusive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. From the Islamic State’s perspective, the Paris attacks are working, too: The anti-refugee backlash will aid Islamic State recruiting, and tourism is taking a hit even here in the United States, where fear alone has led schools to cancel class trips to Washington. The more the West flails around with talk of bombs and border guards and police, the happier the Islamic State becomes.

The cheapest and easiest way to reduce the benefits of terrorism is to stop overreacting. That 129 people were killed in the Paris attacks is a terrible tragedy and a vicious crime, but 16,000 people in the United States are murdered each year in “ordinary” homicides, 30,000 die in accidental falls, 34,000 die in car crashes, and 39,000 die of accidental poisoning. We should mourn each and every death, and we should take all reasonable steps to prevent more deaths from occurring and punish those responsible for intentionally inflicting harm.

But we need to stop viewing terrorism as unique and aberrational. The more we panic and posture and overreact, the more terrorism we’ll get.

https://dantewest./

...let the first fool cast the blame on Jonathan

Na pidgin I go use take talk my mind. I just dey look time, dey wonder why my oga no wan make I leave office. Haba, 5 don nack and the bobo still dey yarn. Sigh, my mind no dey this place again, why this man no wan take the hint leave me make I waka pass ehn, why!

Na so we dey till time nack to 6, na bone i bone comot for office, this my oga no know say na danfo drivers and conductors I dey go jam for road. If you dey work for lekki wey dey Lagos, you go don know by now say from Monday to Friday, na tom and jerry be the name of the danfo game. Those dem drivers na die! Them fit make person wey dey hypertensive become megatensive! I no dey lie!!!

E take like 40 minutes before I manage squeeze myself with elbows and yabbing enter one rickity bus like that. The yellow for the body don change colour to blue, red and green. Only God know how the bus still dey standa for road sef, wetin concern me, I jeje siddon for the window side (Thank God), put my nose for the window make the smell wey dey inside the bus calm down. Na so my journey to Ota begin. From Lekki, I manage enter bus wey dey go Obalende, my mind no carry me stay dey wait for Oshodi direct.

One sit remain for the door side wey the conductor suppose siddon, but conductors no dey gree hear word, the conductor still dey shout OBALENDE! OBALENDE!! chai! There’s God o! Na so one fine sisi rush enter. I no fit laugh, the conductor blockos just dey romance the sisi face with style, I just turn my face back to the window, suppressing a smile. Na so we begin the waka.

The drivers and conductors wey dey Lagos island dey nice small sha, them no too dey look for person trouble. After the usual heavy traffic to obalende, na so I enter the bus wey dey go Oshodi. The bus driver and conductors still no dey that bad, them even dey funny sef, the conductor just dey crack yeye jokes one after the other. The true nightmare just dey load.

Time don dey reach 8pm, Lagos traffic na die I swear! From oshodi, na madness person don dey face small small. The bus driver and conductor suppose do like 2 years for Yaba left. Bus wey suppose carry like 35 people dey load 50! Haba, Lagos government don forget say this part of town still dey inside Lagos. Them package everybody like sardines before they begin to move. The smell of the bus no be from earth. One woman carry live chicken join sef, God, the thing no nice at all. Na so conductor and passenger begin yab themselves.

Werey, oloriburuku, iyalaya eh, oloshi…wetin this conductor no hear, all the passenger, minus me and a few sha just dey blast the conductor and driver with insults. Wetin concern those two, them don collect the money from us finish, the insults no dey enter their thick skulls. Vrooom bu bu vrooom, na so the engine dey sound and na so we take waka enter toll gate. Chai, toll gate, na there the real devils dey do danfo business dey.

9pm don nack finish, so na rush mode everybody dey. Even me ma, na OYO I dey. I put my civility inside my pant sharply. This place na mad jungle. Na so I dive inside one bus wey do mistake park dey call passenger. As the bus full finish, na so the wahala start. One passenger go do mistake comot N1,000 say e wan use pay t-fare of N50. Ko ni daa fun bababababababa iya eh, omo ole jati jati, shey e ri changi ni owo mi ni? Oshi, get gerra moto mi ja re! Driver! Ode yi gbe N1000, ni bo la wa ri changi?

I was thinking the driver will be more civilized, the man joined his conductor straight up! Ta ni yen? E bo le! Ole jati jati, you no see im head like tortoise wey wear cap? Obasanjo handsome pass you finish, get out of my bus jare! Stupid man. Chai, the man that was insulted is a Yoruba man like them as well, trust Yoruba people and their mouth. He didn’t take the insults likely at all! He fired back and this went on till my bus stop.

Whew! Sanity at last! With a pulsating head ache, I took the short trek to my house, ate my dinner, took a bath and promptly fell asleep, knowing full well that tomorrow will be a repeat performance.

https://dantewest./

HungerBAD:
And the man died.

Alams of Bayelsa- God 1/Alams 0

Audu of Kogi- God 1/Audu 0

Allison Maduekwe - God's messenger still doing sit ups and push ups.

This just tells me that if Billionaires, when under a serious medical condition in this Country, have no access to a proper medical care. Then what happens to the less privileged? That thing called greed.

If i am hypertensive, and have already stolen Billions before and actually got away with it. All i will do is just relocate to somewhere that is always sunny, like the Bahamas and live like a King.

For an Hypertensive person, to now subject themselves to the rigors of a Nigerian Electioneering, is a one way ticket to the maker. They say do not speak ill of the dead, but hey, this dead man caused the deaths of many others via poverty, refusal of the payment of salaries for months and others too.

Just like i said in Alams time, you can cheat we Humans, but God is somewhere watching you play your second half of the Match. Not saying RIP to this man, and i am a die hard APC man.

You will die too, it's just a matter of time.

Your angel is doing push ups alongside Diezeni's angel.

Al the things you spewed are hate.

Those who liked your post are your companions in hate.

if you can't offer something better than hate talk, your death is indeed nearer than Diezeni's

adioolayi:
mods..

I was the first to Break the news exactly 4.29pm ..why have you decided to favour this post ahead of mine
Favouritism
Is NTA not a correct source again mods answer

https://www.nairaland.com/2754651/breaking-news...kogi-election-inconclusive-nta

They will put their friend's post first. this is naija. there is corruption on nairaland as well.

don't sweat it, it has happened to me times without number, I just ignore...

Fatalities from terrorism are at a record high now with just two groups, Boko Haram and Islamic State responsible for half of them, a new report showed. The Nigerian militants kill more people than their Iraqi-Syrian allies.

Two terrorist groups were responsible for over a half of the killings in 2014 – Nigeria-based Boko Haram and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), which aims to expand its influence from the powerbase in Iraq and Syria globally. Together they were responsible for 51 percent of all global fatalities in 2014 claimed by any group, and almost 40 percent of all fatalities, according to the Global Terrorism Index published by the Institute for Economic and Peace (IEP).

The Nigerian jihadists, who pledged allegiance to IS in March 2015, killed more people than their fellow Islamists, claiming 6,644 lives compared to 6,073. Nigeria accordingly experienced a staggering 300 percent rise in terrorism deaths in 2014, although other militant groups take partial blame for the increase. In particular the Fulani militants killed 1,229 in Nigeria.

IS killed more people in combat than in acts of terrorism in 2014. It was responsible for at least 20,000 battlefield deaths over the year in clashes with various state and non-state combatants.
The Taliban, which was the deadliest group in 2013, was ranked third in 2014, despite killing 3,477 people in terrorist attacks, which is a 38 percent increase in fatalities. The group remains second-deadliest after IS in terms of battlefield kills, the report says.
Compared to previous year, the number of deaths from terrorism worldwide has increased by 80 percent in 2014. Over the last year 32,658 people killed, compared to 18,111 in 2013. It’s the largest number recorded and is almost ten times higher than in 2000, when 3,329 people were killed by terrorists.
Just five countries suffer the bulk of terrorist acts – Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria – accounting for 78 percent of all fatalities in 2014. Iraq bears the heaviest burden with 9,929 terrorist fatalities in 2014.

The threat is spreading. The number of countries experiencing more than 500 terrorism-related deaths rose from five to 11 in 2014 with the addition of Somalia, Ukraine, Yemen, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Cameroon.

The report doesn’t include this year’s terrorist attacks like the gun violence in France, the bombing of the Russian plane in Egypt, the high-profile bombings in Lebanon and Turkey and other incidents that reflect the growing threat of terrorism.

In addition to loss of lives terrorism takes a heavy economic toll on affected countries. IEP says conservative estimates of damage from terrorist activity in 2014 stands at $52.9 million, a 61 percent increase from the previous year and a 10-fold increase since 2000.

Battling terrorism remains more costly than the direct damage caused by it, the report said. An estimated $117 billion was spent globally to provide national security from terrorism threats.

Western countries remain relatively safe from terrorism. In the last 15 years 2.6 percent of all terrorism-related fatalities happened in the West and the percentage drops to 0.5 if the September 2001 attacks in the US are excluded.

‘Lone wolf’ attacks account for 70 percent of all terrorist deaths in the West since 2006 and 80 percent of those deaths can be attributed to right-wing extremism, nationalism, supremacism, anti-government extremism and other types of political ideologies rather than Islamic fundamentalism.

Despite the alarming trends terrorism remains a relatively small threat to lives, the report points out. Globally 13 times as many people are killed by homicides than die in terrorist attacks.

https://www.rt.com/news/322529-global-terrorism-index-report/

[quote author=FreeGlobe post=40139610]whereas Nigerian media is sillent over this bombing. Is the buhari government suppressing the media?[/quote

Buhari.... #sigh

Israel wants to quash an arrest warrant prepared by a Spanish judge for Benjamin Netanyahu over the deadly 2010 IDF attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that killed ten people.

The Israeli PM and six other former ministers would be arrested if they set foot on Spanish soil.

“We consider it to be a provocation,” said an Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson. “We are working with the Spanish authorities to get it cancelled. We hope it will be over soon.”

Judge Jose de la Mata, who drew up the warrants, ordered the police and civil guard to notify them if any of the seven enter Spain.

Israeli Defence forces carried out a deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla aid ship Mavi Marmara, which was attempting to bring supplies to Gaza, in contravention of an Israeli-imposed blockade.

Nine activists were killed during the raid that took place in international waters some 150km from Gaza, one more died of wounds later that month.

Autopsies revealed the nine Turkish men were shot with 30 bullets and five were killed with close-range bullets to the head.

The other Israelis who have been issued warrants are ex-foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, ex-defense minister Ehud Barak, ex-deputy prime ministers Moshe Ya'alon and Eli Yishai, former state minister Benny Begin, and Israeli Navy commander Eliezer Marom.

The investigation began after Spanish activists that were part of the flotilla filed a criminal complaint against the Israelis involved in the raid. In June this year, the five year investigation was put on hold, but can be reopened if any of the suspects visited Spain.

A UN report slammed the deadly IDF raid: “Israel’s decision to board the vessels with such substantial force at a great distance from the blockade zone and with no final warning immediately prior to the boarding was excessive and unreasonable.”

South African police have arrest warrants for four Israeli commanders involved in the Freedom Flotilla carnage. An alert was circulated to South African Border Control system in September.

South Africa will liaise with Interpol Turkey to extradite the Israelis should they arrive. A court in Istanbul issued arrest warrants for the four in 2014.

Gadija Davids, a South African journalist, first made the complaint about the attack in 2011. She says she was kidnapped and assaulted before being imprisoned in Israel after the IDF stormed the aid ship.

“This decision has allowed us to hold these commanders, now fugitives from justice responsible to answer for crimes that were committed in the high seas,” Davids said.

https://www.rt.com/news/322465-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-spain/

saintkash:
allow us to change our profile pix to nigeria flag in support of Nigeria victims. .period

That would have being great!

hrykanu231:
OK, dear Lord unbehalf of myself and other 125(Nairalanders) whose birthday is today...we say thank you for the gift of life and the purpose therein

lol

The US and its allies are playing a dangerous game in Syria as they count on Islamic State to weaken President Bashar Assad, but at the same time don’t want the terror group to seize power in the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Despite announcing ambitious plans for its coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), “the analysis of those [US-led] airstrikes during over a year lead to conclusion that they were hitting selectively, I would say, sparingly and on most occasions didn’t touch those IS units, which were capable of seriously challenging the Syrian army,” Lavrov told the Rossiya 1 channel.

The Russian FM called Washington’s actions in Syria a “dangerous game,” making it hard to determine America’s true aims in Syria.

“Apparently, it’s a kind of a ‘honey is sweet, but the bee stings’ situation: they want IS to weaken Assad as soon as possible to make him leave somehow, but at the same time they don’t want to overly strengthen IS, which may then seize power,” he explained.

The US stance “seriously weakens the prospects of Syria to remain a secular state, where the rights of all ethnic and religious groups will be provided and guaranteed,” Lavrov added.

According to the minister, Russia’s assessment of the US-led anti-terror operation in Syria “is based on observations of specific results and there are little results, not to say there are none – except the fact that during this period [since August 2014] the Islamic State has grown on the territories they control.”

He also said that Western claims that Russia’s air forces have been hitting peaceful civilians in Syria are “groundless.”

“We… are doing this (conducting air-strikes) in a step-by-step manner and don’t divide terrorists into those that could help us solve some tactical problems in the hope that they would be dealt with later, but hit everybody, who profess and preach the terrorist ideology,” Lavrov stressed.

Also on Tuesday, the Russian foreign minister visited the French embassy in Moscow to express condolences over the Islamic State attacks in Paris last week, in which at least 129 lives were lost and over 350 people were wounded.

“The barbaric Islamic State plots must be prevented. Our sorrow, our anger should help put aside all secondary issues and unite the efforts of Russia, France and all other countries in the merciless fight against terrorism, forming a truly global military coalition,” Lavrov wrote in the Book of Condolence.

Earlier in the day, Russia’s security services confirmed that the crash of the Russian A321 jet over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in late October was caused by a terror attack, as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane.Islamic State has claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft, in which 224 passengers and crew were killed.

Moscow announced that it is now going to use its fleet of 25 long-range bombers to double the number of airstrikes against IS and other terror groups.

https://www.rt.com/news/322482-lavrov-us-isis-assad/