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APOSTLECHUMA:
A VISIT TO ABIDJAN IN IVORY COAST WHICH IS AT THE BACK YARD OF NIGERIA, WILL MAKE THOSE WHO DAILY BRAG ABOUT LAGOS ASHANED OF THEMSELVES.

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Thats false. Lagos is better than Abidjan.

uniquetechng:
US remains the most powerful nation on earth.

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Not for long though. I dont think it will remain so for even up to the middle of this century.
China cometh and it cometh fast.

Tjra:
I disagree. Where is Nnewi?

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Imagine the effrontery. Not to talk about Jalingo, Gboko and Ogbomosho.

SmartPolician:
If not that Trump lost his reelection bid, he would've declared Nigeria a country of particular concern long ago.

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He did in 2020. It was reversed by Biden.
If memory serves me.

buckeyemedia:
Regime change for internet abi?

Nigeria genocide fabrication of disgruntled election Losers consisting mostly of Eyepobians & Obidients.

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Please keep your 30k to yourself and stop presuming who is who.

Igirigimercenar:
. This is getting interesting

Now the real PDP is fighting back. This is what I expected from them since

Nice one makinde. Fergie, your bet is on which faction?

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Without suspending or expelling Wike, they are joking. They will probably end up having no presidential candidate in the next election if they cant summon the balls to do that.

ALTERNATEID:
While we cannot in all honesty wish away the cruel and evil killing of minorities in the north central states of Kwara, Benue, Plateau, southern kaduna etc, i strongly believe that the recent interest of the Trump administration is based on economic agenda and nothing altruistic. In this regard, I don’t think Donald Trump was misinformed.

Trump recently placed a 15% tariff on Nigeria and the country responded by banning the importation of 25 certain items from the country. The Tinubu administration has also been working on increasing local refining of petroleum products. Recently, a 15% tax on PMS importation was introduced to further discourage importation of petroleum products. This has seriously affected European and American refineries which are owned by Trump and his big oil buddies. They are not happy that Nigeria is prioritizing energy independence at the detriment of American and European oil companies.

Again, Nigeria’s recent romance with BRICS is unsettling the Trump administration. The BRICS countries are planning to issue a new currency so as to sidestep the US dollars and Nigeria has signed up to be a part of the BRICS monetary union. Trump had vowed to make sure this does not happen. The Yuan - Naira currency swap between China and Nigeria that has recently helped to strengthen the Naira is also another source of concern to the US.

So, a combination of all these issues plus Nigeria’s stance against the GAZA genocide is why Donald Trump is targeting the Nigeria government. If they can’t control Nigeria, they will do everything possible to destroy the country.

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Good analysis except the last paragraph. Nigeria did not take any discernible stance on the Gaza matter and was very cowardly as compared to South Africa.

As for BRICS, the day they are able to create an international currency to rival the dollar, the entire world order will change. Military might will not do what that singular move will do. It will represent a seismic shift in world power and end the domination of the USA over the economies of most countries. It will also greatly stifle US power which is heavily tied to the dollar as global reserve currency.

In my view, this designation of Nigeria as a country of concern is just the first step in a larger scheme at regime change in Nigeria. And the Nigerian government does not have many friends in this regard because it is itself extremely unpopular and in the eyes of most of the population, is their sworn adversary in the matter of daily survival - because frankly, the government acts as though it is on a deliberate mission to starve and strangulate the poor.

Skoonheid:
To even listen to the wicked speak is the begining of wickedness. Cursed be onanuga and his ilk. Tinubu and all the liars and deceivers. Sons of perdition. May they tumble backwards in to eternal darkness until the stars fall out of the sky

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Gosh I love your choice of words young lady!
May you prosper, unfurl and rise till the angels want for light.

Kukutente23:
Where did I defend it?
My stand has been that migration is not a right
Are you sure you're following the conversation?

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I have repeatedly asked you under what laws Europeans migrated to North America. And you went so far as to claim the Native Americans had no laws limiting migration to their lands. Laughable. That was defending it.

Dtruthspeaker:
Yet, them Yoruba, Bini, Ibo, exercised rights of migration, ownership of property, engaged in contract, conducted marriages, settled succession and inheritance, prosecuted and judged criminals etc even when there was no democracy and as you ignorantly say, their was no rights.

Even the villages that formed Rome exercised these rights without even having an emperor.

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Well said.

Kukutente23:
I think it is you who is unfamiliar with it
Natural rights or whatever is a philosophical term based on perception and understanding. It is not universal. It is not a concept like marriage or God or family that have universal acceptance or usage

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You'd better get off that high horse of ignorance. Jurisprudence is a proper field of study which we studied in school. Don't just sit down there and imagine you are familiar with it when you don't even understand the concept of natural rights Vs legal rights and when you don't know what natural law and positive law refer to.

You don't even understand the significance of the word inalienable when we speak of natural rights and you are there yapping with pride.

LordReed:
Back in secondary school days I was Sanitation Prefect. It's like a cross between health and labour but my primary function was to make sure the school premises were clean.

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Confess your primary function was to distribute punishment through that dangerous office.

nairavsdollars:
The presidency keeps saying the bold reforms are visible but why are poor Nigerians not reaping the benefit of President Bola Tinubu's reforms after two years in office?

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BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMONIC REFORMS FOR BLOOD THIRSTY VAMPIRES SUPERVISED BY IMPERIALISTS.

Kukutente23:
Remember I said "might is not right"
Migration has never been a right and will never be

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Why then do you defend the migration by might and by force or arms of Europeans to the Americas?

Kukutente23:
Unfortunately you've arrived at where he started from
Who decided what constitutes natural rights and what does not?
Is it universally accepted that their are natural rights or it's the philosophy of some people you're repeating
Even the right to life is not universal or natural. It was made universal AND natural by declaration of democratic rights
In Calabar, they saw twins as bad omens and summarily offed them at birth. I wonder if those folks then did not avert their minds to the natural rights of those kids to live. In Warri, the test to know if a male child truly belongs to the father is to put him on the Olokun river wrapped in white clothes. If he drowns, he was a bastard. If he floats. He was for real. I usually wonder the circumstance in which a baby will float. The people of Warri seem oblivious of natural rights

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You are simply unfamiliar with Jurisprudence.

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Blasphemy laws in particular must go.

Several non-Muslims have been locked up for years under such obnoxious laws which are unconstitutional, barbaric and repugnant.

LordReed:
Yes.

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You know, as I have said before, anyone who reflects closely on the nature of Earth-Life should have some reasons to be concerned and perhaps worried. We live in such such absolute ignorance of the purpose and intendment of our lives that it looks like a deliberate information blackout. Most of what the OP has written is not original to him, in fact none of it is original to him. These thoughts and ideas have been in circulation in different forms throughout history. The particular thought though, that the Earth may just be a kind of farm from which cosmic beings of a different nature obtain certain energies, is one that with thought and reflection, stands a very high chance of having truth and merit. And yes, it is a thought, which if true, should and would naturally frighten human beings.

Many things point to the merit in it. The information blackout. The mystery about death. The limitations in movement within a very miniscule part of the universe, and also limitations in freewill and limitations in choice of nature of existence. The entire purpose of the whole arrangement is very questionable and particularly when you look at the sadistic nature of Earth-Life, you have to be concerned - I did a thread on it some time ago -

https://www.nairaland.com/7012877/sadistic-nature-earth-life

Why exactly is it that beings such as ourselves are seemingly being reared on this planet?

A dark view of things would be as proposed in this thread - namely that there are energies we produce which are consumed by beings in control of this arrangement. This would render our lives far less meaningful than many of us would like to suppose, it would mean that we are only a part of a cosmic food chain we can never understand any more than a farm animal can understand its place in the food chain, speak less of the larger economy that the farm belongs to (which would be a universe-wide (or multiverse-wide?) economy or system of exchange of energies).

In terms of this exchange of energies, let us remember that "eating" may not be just what we know eating to be. It could have different aspects, including a sexual aspect. There are people among us for example who derive great erotic pleasure from observing pain and suffering at a very intense level. I have known people who will climax just witnessing intense physical suffering of another person. It is useful to wonder just why humans have these kinds of instincts, because such instincts are completely different from the natural instincts required in the ordinary business of individual and communal survival and evolution. Such instincts speak to something deeper, darker and very powerful, and those people who have these kinds of instincts can neither explain them nor wish them away.

People like David Icke, the conspiracy theorist, have long harped on the desires of the "Archons" and "Archonic power and control of this world." There might be something there, I dont know. But the idea of the Archons and Archonic power is also an old one and not original to a conspiracy theorist like Icke - :

Archons (Greek: ἄρχων, romanized: árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, árchontes), in Gnosticism and religions closely related to it, are the builders of the physical universe. Among the Archontics, Ophites, Sethians and in the writings of Nag Hammadi library, the archons are rulers, each related to one of seven planets; they prevent souls from leaving the material realm. . . . . In Manichaeism, the archons are the rulers of a realm within the "Kingdom of Darkness", who together make up the Prince of Darkness. In the Hypostasis of the Archons, the physical appearance of Archons is described as androgynous, with their faces being those of beasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon

But let us look at a lighter view of what the meaning of life might be. One thing about life is that it represents an evolution of consciousness. For me, the highest and lightest view of life I have been able to come to is that this world is a school of consciousness, a place where spirits pass through in their evolution and expansion of consciousness. To also learn how to use and apply their gift of consciousness. The very root being of all existence may well be simply root consciousness and we may well be sparks of consciousness emanating from it and passing through the world in expanding consciousness.

The idea that this world is a farm is a dark one, and at the end of the day we should not fear it because in truth no one really knows exactly what this world is, it appears to have been deliberately hidden from us. Thus, we should not unduly frighten ourselves with what the Grail Message calls "morbid imagination" which all this may well just be.

AMINDA:
Nigeria is having its worst run ever in terms of diplomatic affairs and diplomacy under this government. From the Niger "invasion" fiasco to the ECOWAS exodus and now this. In the midst of all these, we still don't have any ambassador to manage diplomatic fall-outs like this before they blow out of proportion. Diplomacy was left in the hands of pens-for-hire like Reno Omokri and other funny characters.

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Some people are so shameless. The way Reno has failed so spectacularly in his brief on this matter alone should be enough to silence him. He has pretended Mike Arnold never said anything and has simply carried on all over the place as though every one else would be subjected to some sort of memory wipe and unsee and unhear everything magically.

Saturnalia:
There’s an electromagnetic machine inside my stomach that tells me everything that I need to know.

Expatiate on this please.

Ourtruth247:
If the human race as a whole can collectively understand the truth, these beings would lose their control over us and be forced to flee.

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In your worldview, is that freedom tied to collective recognition or can individual souls achieve it?

Ourtruth247:
Loosh

Loosh is a term that gained popularity based on the work of Robert Monroe. He was a remote-viewer that carried out a series of covert cia funded remote viewing projects in the 1970s

However Loosh was already a concept known among esoteric circles around the world prior to Robert Monroe. Basically loosh is a form of energy generated from the emotions and experiences of conscious beings.

When conscious beings experience pain and suffering, we generate loosh. This loosh energy is important to the survival of certain intelligences that exist in our world.

When you observe our world with a rose-tinted lens, you might think that nature is beautiful and this place is all good and perfect. However when you remove those rose tinted lenses and really engage with nature, you realize how sadistic it is.

I have pets. I have two dogs. I love my dogs and I know for a fact that they show emotions; they experience pain and they can suffer. All animals show emotions and when an animal can show emotions it can produce loosh. Have you ever wandered why animals have to hunt, kill and eat weaker animals? Doesn't that seem like an odd design for a perfect god? Even normal humans can't stand watching an animal suffer and die, yet this seems to be a constant in our world.

An enormous amount of loosh is generated every day on earth from when animals hunt and kill each other, and even more loosh is generated from the actions of humans on other animals.

What about the wars, diseases, killings, sufferings, and death that occurs among humans? The earth is basically a loosh generation farm and we are actively supplying loosh to the beings in control of our world.

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Plus this, LordReed?

Ourtruth247:
The earth is an animal farm

I mean this in a literal sense and not in relation to the popular novel by George Orwell

What are the characteristics of a farm?

The first characteristic of a farm is you rear animals for food. This is a very important point that I will come back to.

The second characteristic of a farm is that the animals don't know that they are being reared for food. They live in a false sense of security until the time they die. Some animals produce sources of food while they are alive; some produce milk while others produce eggs

The third characteristics of a farm is that their are boundaries. There are restricted areas that the animals aren't allowed to access and other areas the animals can only access under strict supervision by the owner of the farm.

I will come back to these characteristics later.

The earth is a farm and we are the animals. Life on earth was engineered for this reason. The same intelligences that engineered life on earth are the same controlling this farm and they use humans as a food source, not just humans animals as well.

This concept might seem strange to you if you are hearing it for the first time, but please be patient and keep an open mind

I will explain further in the next post.

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LordReed, I am sure this summary is what you are drawing my attention to?

Bluntemperor:
hehehe,you see I de laugh 😂 your watery defence of a Former' President who was Not assertive of himself and I remember him saying ' I m yet to utilize Power,not even 10% '
Where was he when the United Nations -Building was Bombed in Abuja - On The National TV then OR you de play ni?
Which Economic Power - was it not Mama Okonji-Iweala Leadership Crown ( Your PDP) --was using and she told us' we need to borrow Money 💰 🤑 to pay Salaries '
-She equally told us( your Former Governors- ' we need to save the Oil 🪔 Windfalls ' then' what happens - Your Governors in PDP Swallowed and Wasted It-
Madam Okonji-Iweala Almost lost her Family,as they see her Fighting Corruption.
- Your Hate or Bitterness for Tinubu - has nothing to do with what he is doing - Restructuring the Economy and is not going to be easy - for the kind of:
• Economic Neglect That Other Past Nigeria Governments -placed Nigeria-
•No Light 🚨,
•No Jobs for the Youths ( including yourself),
•No Refineries - NNPC and it's Subsidiaries have been Exporting Crude OIL 🪔 from Oloibiri in Decades,- yet you want TINUBU to do everything in 2- yrs o!
Bro,where is your Sincerity?
I Moved.
I see hope in Nigeria of Tomorrow!🕯️🤓👏

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The current president is a well known rogue, pls don't try to deceive yourself on that.

Kukutente23:
You simply don't understand what right means
You think only the existence of rights gives one the power to do something or hold something legitimately and the absence of rights means any action taken is illegal
That's a very false statement. Rights only exist in a democratic society. There's no other political or governance system that recognises the existence of rights

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This is ignorant, sorry. There are such things called natural rights. They are deemed to exist without being conferred by any law, any declaration or any system of government, democratic or not.

Natural rights are linked in jurisprudence to natural law, distinct from positive law, which is law made by humans.

"Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enjoyment through one's actions, such as by violating someone else's rights). Natural law is the law of natural rights.

Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system (they can be modified, repealed, and restrained by human laws). The concept of positive law is related to the concept of legal rights."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_rights

PS: I warn you once again that this does not mean I am endorsing specifically what Dtruthspeaker is saying. I am giving you nuance, but to be clear, he does have a profound point which you are still failing to see.

Arlee:
Sudan doesn't have crude oil?
You must be joking.

Well,you sound like a Northerner, this your opinion is very common among northerners.
You hate America,
Always accusing them of oil theft whenever they caging Islamist Extremisms

The crude is mainly in South Sudan and I understand when they separated there was an agreement for some profit sharing based on transportation of the crude through Sudan's territory to international waters.

franvincoop:
It's not nonsense, it's actually A LOT OF SENSE.
Even CFA has 2000, 5000 and 10,000 single notes without your SUPERSONIC INFLATION fears and emotion.
Mind you a 5000 naira note will not even have the value of a 2000 CFA note.

2015
1000 naira = 3100 CFA

2025
1000 naira = 388 CFA

The argument being made is not about the value of the naira, we all know naira is not even worth the paper it's printed on.
The argument is about the portability of the naira.
Know the difference.

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COMPAQ:
Im curious...so N1000 note was introduced in 2005. Twenty years ago. In that time that the highest denomination has remained the same, have we not seen inflation? So where was that inflation coming from?

Printing N22trls ways and means is more dmamaging than increasing Naira denomination
Corruption and loose money in the system does more damage than increasing naira denomination
Operating N20trln deficit and having excess money in the system does more damage than increasing naira denomination
Depreciation of the Naira, does more damage than increasing the naira denomination.

Personally id say we need N5,000 and N10,000 for now.

I put N20k in my wallet and it can barely handle any transaction, even though I don't use cash much. And I cant put more than that cos it makes my wallet too bulky, so whats the point.

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Understandable but perhaps you both don't also understand that in a largely informal economy (well, the street economy, let me say) prices of commodities in the regular markets tend to coalesce around available denominations.

Redenomination will be better.

Kukutente23:
You simply fail to understand that the declaration of independence itself is a direct negation of the idea of "kingdom". In a kingdom all men are NOT equal which summarily trashes the declaration of independence.
The Europeans who migrated to the Americans were not republican when they did so. They were under a monarchy

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Have you taken any alcohol tonight?

Kukutente23:
Did Nigeria exist in 1960?
What laws established Nigeria in 1960

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If you had your thinking hat on, the questions you should be asking would be questions like -

- Did the Kingdom of Benin exist before Nigeria existed and were its people citizens / subjects of that kingdom or not. If they were, under what laws?

- Replicate the above for Native American nations.

But you are not thinking.

Dtruthspeaker:
So, in 1960, the people of Benin were not citizens since they needed to wait till 1999 before they become citizens abi?

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He is not operating on your level tonight.
What absurdities he is answering with!

Kukutente23:
Citizenship law is as enshrined in the 1999 constitution

The fact you still fail to understand is that the right to free movement is not universal. It is jurisdiction based

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The trouble I have with the way you are addressing his questions is as follows.

1. He specifically asked "when there was no law", and referred to the 16th century - only for you to reply referencing the 1999 constitution.

2. You still pretend that modern laws have existed throughout history.

3. Yet you defend the rights of those who took advantage of the liberty he is arguing for, to bar others from doing exactly what they did - migrate at will.

L1TTLE:
E go sweet die, this croc is not young at all.

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Looks like you are an expert in this matter.
Well, tell us, do they taste better the older they are?

MarkNsukkaBread:
But Harry is already on self exile in the United States

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The more reason his titles and privileges should be revoked.
He is in the position of one who has resigned from the Firm.