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Thebadpolitican:
Give your dad a slap for me for failing to bring you up to respect elders

Your obi is a coward, no one wants him anymore, he should come out and cry on national TV.

Coward ibos

You are the one who is supposed to slap your father. You advising another to hit their parent, is this not a bad influence to society? So after all the money spent in that correctional facility all cos of you, you could not recover. Bad son!

At least 207 people are now known to have been killed and 900 injured in a multiple train collision in India's eastern Odisha state, officials say.

More than 200 ambulances were sent to the scene in Balasore district, says Odisha's chief secretary Pradeep Jena.

One passenger train is thought to have derailed before being struck by another on the adjacent track late on Friday.

Indian Railways said the two services involved were the Coromandel Express and the Howrah Superfast Express.

Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director general of the fire department in Odisha, said that 207 bodies had been recovered so far.

Mr Jena said earlier that more than 100 additional doctors had been mobilised. He said the death toll was expected to increase further.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was distressed by the incident and his thoughts were with the bereaved families.

"Rescue ops are under way at the site of the mishap and all possible assistance is being given to those affected," he tweeted.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah labelled the incident "deeply agonising".

One male survivor said that "10 to 15 people fell on me when the accident happened and everything went haywire. I was at the bottom of the pile.

"I got hurt in my hand and also the back of my neck. When I came out of the train bogie, I saw someone had lost their hand, someone had lost their leg, while someone's face was distorted," the survivor told India's ANI news agency.

It is believed that several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed at about 19:00 local time (13:30 GMT), with some of them ending up on the opposite track.

Another train - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - is then thought to have hit the overturned carriages.

Indian officials said that a goods train - which was stationary at the site - was also involved in the incident. They provided no further details.

Some surviving passengers were seen rushing in to help rescue those trapped in the wreckage.

Local bus companies were also helping to transport wounded passengers.

India has one of the largest train networks in the world and accidents are common, despite successive governments investing hundreds of millions of dollars to improve the infrastructure, says BBC South Asia regional editor Anbarasan Ethirajan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65793257

What did they discuss in the meeting? Is it picture meeting

Acekidc4:
The Three of them are Welcome to APC the Ruling Party.

APC must Capture River State, Oyo State and Delta State. Shikena.

Delta state is PDP till thy kingdom come. Just see Sheriff flooring Omo-agege

Tinubu and his APC gang have no foresight. shey dey protested against subsidy removal wen Jonathan was president, now the same people want to enact it. It goes to show that tinubu and his crooked-ass APC gang members doesn't mean well for Nigeria and Nigerians. Obobs but Nigerians weak sha aswear

Retards


Everywhere!


Women don't ever want to see a man who's in charge. the moment they see one they complain like Op is doing

freshkpomo:

Just like monarch ended in Saudi Arabia and England and Spain. My friend go sleep and face your problem. Na monarch cause una bad leadership? How many times you see Queen for paper dey abuse PM? If the monarchs had much power like the government, Nigeria would have been Great. I can boast of my Benin Kingdom because we have always had obas who always have our interest at heart but can we say same about government?

Benin obas are d worst. If they have d people at heart I'm sure by now we should be seeing the evidence in form of infrastructure and human devt but all there is in edo mostly Benin city are touts n agberos. Still d oba won't say pim about it, rather he focuses on how to please d political hierarchy so his monthly dividends can keep coming. Open ur eyes all you who seek uplifting from d cage made by traditional rulers n politicians (politicians own no dey even pain me)

Kennytyrice1568:
it obvious how foolish u re since u say d oba nr get mouth fr were obaseki dey y u nr go bini try insult d oba mk we see if ur head nr go roll una wan start wetin una nr fit finish even obi nr fit try dis nonsense wen una dey try mk una careful ooh edo na mafia zone fr small pikin to dey use play except say e sure for u if not mind wetin u dey talk here

So many people who comment on NL don't even know anything about what they are commenting about. See let me put this straight to you, the ages of traditional rulership has come n gone, it's of no relevance to d society, they know that but won't tell you. It's just so unfortunate that most Africans don't even know the dos n donts of this traditional people they revere. Now ask urself this question, when last did any traditional ruler come out openly to condemn bad leadership in Nigeria. All they do is praise the govt even when things are going south. If na bfr govt no fit remove a whole emir of Kano from throne. Never!

Oba that have no mouth where obaseki is, what are they even contributing to the development of the state they reside in sef. Traditional rulership needs to distance themselves from politics. Politicians can't be trusted when it comes to proper handling of resources, so things may likely go south after all. Beware kings n queens.

MisterBanny:
You can't lace his boots

I don't put on overhyped stuffs nigga

Retards


everywhere!

MisterBanny:
The Best righwinger in the world presently. He's come back to his root. That's good. No matter where you go, never forget the road that leads you home.

For where @ the bolded? this overhyped gunner.

Lionel Messi will play his final game for Paris St-Germain against Clermont on Saturday, says manager Christophe Galtier.

It was reported in May that the 35-year-old Argentina forward would leave when his contract ends this summer.

Messi, who joined on a free transfer from Barcelona in July 2021, helped PSG win two successive Ligue 1 titles.

"I had the privilege of coaching the best player in the history of football," said Galtier.

"This will be his last match at the Parc des Princes and I hope that he will receive the warmest of welcomes."

PSG increased security at the homes of Messi, forward Neymar, midfielder Marco Verratti and Galtier last month following protest from fans.

It followed a defeat by Lorient and Messi being suspended for two weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia without PSG's permission. He later apologised to his team-mates.

Messi captained Argentina to victory at the 2022 World Cup and, following his return from the tournament, appeared set to stay at PSG.

The two parties reached an agreement in principle to extend his stay by a year before changing their minds.

Messi has 21 goals and 20 assists for PSG in all competitions this season, and 32 goals in 74 matches for the club overall.

PSG have been knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage in the past two seasons.

Spanish football writer Guillem Balague said Messi is set to make a decision on his future soon but will not return to Barcelona, the club where he spent 21 years.

atobs4real:
Thank you.
Apemora lanpe temidire

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We were really in the group of death. Brazil, Italy, Nigeria in the last 8!

atobs4real:
Good one. everything is working for my good

Deeper life member. Fictional soul.

Anybody can die after doing anything. The other day a man died after sex with his own wife. Will that make any man not to have sex with his wife again? Say the girl was healthy before the incident! e get anybody wey dey healthy 100%?

This is below standard. no offense

kossyablaze:
Beautiful.... However, I wan do happy Sunday to some folks here. God has been merciful

Hope I join the folks

The two girls are supposed to be regretting now for even knowing a premature as you. Mumu olden days character.

Guyman01:
If una don taya to marry make una scatter the marriage haba🤧
From morning to night we dey busy dey settle Marital crisis on Nairaland while those in the outgoing government are busy signing concessioning agreements and awarding contracts to their cronies while we are being distracted by people failinginmarriage

Guy, there's a thread that has been running for long on this platform called Red Pillers you can get some few insights on how to handle and treat women with love while putting them in their place and getting the desired respect from them as an alpha male without simping

I know how

Na 2 hands dis ooni use dey handshake everybody

Felabrity:
Even INEC didn't follow the constitution that says for a candidate to be declared the winner, he got to meet all requirements
Tinubu didn't just fail to meet the requirements, he also violented the electoral acts by bribing INEC/Police and rigging the election, and getting away with it

So why should I follow his rules? 🤔

Good or bad, follow the man who could do these things. Follow Tinubu.

China says products made by US memory chip giant Micron Technology are a national security risk.

The country's cyberspace regulator announced on Sunday that America's biggest maker of memory chips poses "serious network security risks".

It means the firm's products will be banned from key infrastructure projects in the world's second largest economy.

It is China's first major move against a US chip maker, as tensions increase between Beijing and Washington.

The announcement is the latest development in a deepening row between the US and China over the technology crucial to economies around the world.

The long-running dispute has seen Washington impose a series of measures against Beijing's chip making industry and invest billions of dollars to boost America's semiconductor sector.

In a statement, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said: "The review found that Micron's products have serious network security risks, which pose significant security risks to China's critical information infrastructure supply chain, affecting China's national security."

The CAC did not give details of the risks it said it had found or in which Micron products it had found them.

A Micron spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that the company had "received the CAC's notice following its review of Micron products sold in China".

"We are evaluating the conclusion and assessing our next steps. We look forward to continuing to engage in discussions with Chinese authorities," they added.

In response, the US government said it would work with allies to address what it called "distortions of the memory chip market caused by China's actions".

"We firmly oppose restrictions that have no basis in fact," a US Commerce Department spokesperson said.

"This action, along with recent raids and targeting of other American firms, is inconsistent with [China's] assertions that it is opening its markets and committed to a transparent regulatory framework."

The CAC's announcement came a day after a G7 leaders meeting in Japan issued a joint statement which criticised China, including its use of "economic coercion".

On Sunday, US President Joe Biden said G7 nations were looking to "de-risk and diversify our relationship with China".

"That means taking steps to diversify our supply chains," he added.

Micron chief executive Sanjay Mehrotra attended the summit in Hiroshima as part of a group of business leaders.

Last week, the company said it would invest around 500bn yen ($3.6bn; £2.9bn) to develop technology in Japan.

These people looking for another thing I think

India is holding a key G20 tourism meeting in Kashmir amid heightened security and opposition from China.

The working group meeting is being held in Srinagar, the summer capital of the federally administrated territory, from Monday to Wednesday.

This is the biggest international event organised in the region since India scrapped its special status in 2019.

Over 60 delegates from G20 member countries are expected to attend the event.

China, however, has said it will not attend, citing its firm opposition "to holding any kind of G20 meetings in disputed territory". The BBC has emailed India's foreign ministry for its response to China's statement.

Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir in full, but control only parts of it. The nuclear-armed neighbours have already fought two wars and a limited conflict over the region.

In April, Pakistan, which is not a G20 member, had criticised India's decision to hold the meetings in Kashmir, calling it an "irresponsible" move.

India, however said, that it was "natural" to hold G20 events and meetings in "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, which are an integral and inalienable part" of the country.

In 2019, India had divided the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir to create two federally administrated territories - Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Ladakh is a disputed frontier region along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China, and both countries claim parts of it.

In the days leading up to the G20 event, India had conducted several security drills in Kashmir. The region has seen an armed insurgency against India since 1989 - India accuses Pakistan of fomenting the unrest by backing separatist militants, a charge denied by Islamabad.
The region has witnessed increased attacks by suspected militants this year and security officers have told the media that they are taking steps to prevent any threats designed to derail the meet.

Elite security forces - including marine commandos, National Security Guards, Border Security Force and police forces - have been deployed in Kashmir to provide ground-to-air security cover, according to reports.

Security has also been boosted around the Dal Lake and the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar, which is the venue for the meeting. Several schools in Srinagar have also been closed, some for as long as nine days, according to reports.

Local opposition leaders, including former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, have criticised the elaborate security arrangements and accused the federal government of making life even more difficult for ordinary people. In a press conference, Ms Mufti compared the restrictions in Kashmir ahead of G20 to that of the notorious US military prison, Guantanamo Bay. The Jammu and Kashmir administration has not responded to this yet.

Last week, Fernand de Varennes, the UN's special rapporteur on minority issues, had issued a statement saying that the G20 was "unwittingly providing a veneer of support to a facade of normalcy" when human rights violations, political persecution and illegal arrests were escalating in Kashmir. The statement was criticised by India's permanent mission at the UN on Twitter.

India has said it will showcase the cultural heritage of Kashmir and promote its tourism potential during the meeting. Delegates will be taken on sightseeing tours and there will be discussions on strategies to promote "film tourism", according to an official statement.

The G20, which includes the world's 19 wealthiest nations plus the European Union, accounts for 85% of global economic output and two-thirds of its population.

India currently holds the presidency - which rotates annually between members - and is set to host the G20 summit in Delhi in September.

As the G7 leaders sent a strong message to Russia by inviting Volodymyr Zelensky to Hiroshima, another rival was also on their minds - China.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said China posed "the greatest challenge of our age" in regards to global security and prosperity, and that it was "increasingly authoritarian at home and abroad".

And in not one but two statements, the leaders of the world's richest democracies made clear to Beijing their stance on divisive issues such as the Indo-Pacific and Taiwan. But the most important part of their message centred on what they called "economic coercion".

It's a tricky balancing act for the G7. Through trade their economies have become inextricably dependent on China, but competition with Beijing has increased and they disagree on many issues including human rights.

Now, they worry they are being held hostage.

In recent years, Beijing has been unafraid to slap trade sanctions on countries that have displeased them. This includes South Korea, when Seoul installed a US missile defence system, and Australia during a recent period of chilly relations.

The European Union was particularly alarmed when China blocked Lithuanian exports after the Baltic country allowed Taiwan to set up a de facto embassy there.

So it is unsurprising that the G7 would condemn what they see as a "disturbing rise" of the "weaponisation of economic vulnerabilities".

This coercion, they said, seeks to "undermine the foreign and domestic policies and positions of G7 members as well as partners around the world".

They called for "de-risking"- a policy that Ms von der Leyen, who is attending the summit, has championed. This is a more moderate version of the US' idea of "decoupling" from China, where they would talk tougher in diplomacy, diversify trade sources, and protect trade and technology.

They have also launched a "coordination platform" to counter the coercion and work with emerging economies. While it's still vague on how this would work exactly, we're likely to see countries helping each other out by increasing trade or funding to work around any blockages put up by China.

The G7 also plans to strengthen supply chains for important goods such as minerals and semiconductors, and beef up digital infrastructure to prevent hacking and stealing of technology.

But the biggest stick they plan to wield is multilateral export controls. This means working together to ensure their technologies, particularly those used in military and intelligence, don't end up in the hands of "malicious actors" .
The US is already doing this with its ban on exports of chips and chip technology to China, which Japan and the Netherlands have joined. The G7 is making clear such efforts would not only continue, but ramp up, despite Beijing's protestations.

They also said they would continue to crack down on the "inappropriate transfers" of technology shared through research activities. The US and many other countries have been concerned about industrial espionage and have jailed people accused of stealing tech secrets for China.

At the same time, the G7 leaders were clear they did not want to sever the cord.

Much of their language on economic coercion did not name China, in an apparent diplomatic attempt to not directly point a finger at Beijing.

When they did talk about China, they stood their ground in a nuanced way.

They sought to placate Beijing, saying their policies were "not designed to harm China nor do we seek to thwart China's economic progress and development". They were "not decoupling or turning inwards".

But they also put pressure on the Chinese to cooperate, saying that a "growing China that plays by international rules would be of global interest".

They also called for "candid" engagement where they could still express their concerns directly to China, signalling their willingness to keep communication lines open in a tense atmosphere.

We won't know how, privately, Chinese leaders and diplomats will take the G7's message. But state media in the past has hit back at the West for trying to have it both ways, by criticising China while also enjoying the fruits of their economic partnership.

For now Beijing has chosen to fall back on its usual angry rhetoric for its public response.

China had clearly anticipated the G7's statements and in the days leading up to the summit, its state media and embassies put out pieces accusing the US of its own economic coercion and hypocrisy.

On Saturday evening, they accused the G7 of "smearing and attacking" China and lodged a complaint with summit organiser Japan.

They also urged the other G7 countries not to become the US' "accomplice in economic coercion", and called on them to "stop ganging up to form exclusive blocs" and "containing and bludgeoning other countries".

It is worth noting that China has also sought to create its own alliances with other countries, and late last week just as the G7 summit kicked off, it hosted a parallel meeting with Central Asian countries.

It's still not clear if the G7's plan will work. But it is likely to be welcomed by those who have called for a clear strategy to handle China's encroachments.

Indo-Pacific and China expert Andrew Small praised the statement as having "the feel of a real consensus", noting that it expressed the "centre-ground" view of the G7.

"There are still major debates playing out around what 'de-risking' actually means, how far some of the sensitive technology export restrictions should go, and what sort of collective measures need to be taken against economic coercion," said Dr Small, a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund think tank.

"But there is now a clear and explicit framing around how the economic relationships with China among the advanced industrial economies need to be rebalanced."

Zico5:
Taiwo Awoniyi is now the big name in the world of football. Yoruba to the world. Congratulations

you need a mental checkup