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XXLMANDIGO:



Damn.....


See too much cash. The thought alone is making my head foggy and my eyes blurry.

rationalhuman:
India is suffering from Virus, yes i agree with you. Being a functional democracy they cant bring draconian law and implement too strict measures as not only their Human right commission will discard then but these law will be challenge in court. China can control such thing in no times. I agree with that.

However second part, We Blacks dont have competition with any of Asian or western neighbors, we dont want respect from you or anyone as some of us know respects comes with many things like Education system, Human resource, Industrial Capabilities, Economy, Development of science and technology and Military might and we all in this continent lack all these things but it will not remain forever like this. Cant you sense the anti china sentiments in common man?

Btw India is considered oldest continuous inhabited civilization (along with you Chinese) because it is. Whatever you or me thinks can not change history.
Read your own ancient scholars like Faxian, Xuanzang, Yizing etc who went to study in India and later spreaded the educations , Philosophical , Spiritual ideas in China. Or they were American agents? You chinese are of this CPC controlled era are not near to those ancient ones.

See i can accept the truth weather its against to Africa or not but you are so much brainwashed by CPC that free thoughts are alien concept for you and that is why you are considered as troll on this platform.

Your choise i say. atleset you have freedom on this platform.

bisoye11:
Do you type or paste this?

Daddysidhan:
Just because you want to defend your co-terrorist you mentioned a war that was fought in 1915 blah blah blah, forget all the trashy believe about the Iranian proxies in the middle East" idiotic elements like you believe that the Shia Muslims militias can stop America and its allies from dealing with IRAN in a full blown war. Keep believing in your wishful thinking, the reality is far more beyond your delusional disorder. If you are so sure of Iranian fire power relocate to Iran when the time comes and know what's up. Idiot comparing war of 1915 to firepower of 2020

Righteousness89:
If we don't exhibit Confindence, what are we living for?

The Life we have is From God!

It is better to Trust in God than to trust in Ncdc and all their experts!

You guys are busy fooling yourselves, looking for solutions without involving God!

I rather die trusting God Almighty, than Following a group of Creatures who have no regard for God.

Daddysidhan:
Dermmy stop hyping Iranian military, if the shit gets real you and your other Nigerian potential terrorist can only look from afar. The Iranian military is armed to the teeth yet it can't can't differentiate between a military aircraft and civilian aircraft, the same Iranian navy recently killed its own naval officers during a training session. How I wish the Iranian can recruit you into one of its arm to the teeth military so that you can be among the front runner when the shit happens for real. Enough of this bullshit and stop been a dickhead your almighty Iranian government nuclear site was recently hacked into which resulted in big damage

Mafialeader:
Enough missiles to shoot their selves in the foot.

WakeNbaked:
Naira Marley come and see your mate, better run 2023.

agbolahan1991:
Yet...they are far behind America......

illitrate:
Sauce?

chloride6:
The case of stolen artifacts is funny..

Because it only worth something because it was stolen..

If it wasnt stolen it wouldn't be worth squat

Whyem15:
I have a bad feeling about US and it allies getting this system. It might be an attempt to get their hands on it, study it and find ways to counter it and render it impotent for countries genuinely using it for their own defense.
Exactly the same way India exposed the INS Chakra which they got on loan from Russia to US officials. That alone might have exposed some secrets of Akula class submarine to US.

Nigeria is "saddened" by the sale of two sculptures belonging to the south-eastern Igbo community, an official from the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, has said.

A prominent art historian had called on the renowned auction house, Christie's, to cancel the sale.

Prof Chika Okeke-Agulu told the BBC the two objects were "looted" from shrines during the civil war in the late 1960s.

The items were sold for just under $240,000 (£195,000) in Paris.

Christie's rejected the claim that the sculptures were stolen, saying the Monday sale was perfectly legal.

The wooden objects about 1.5 metres high, one male and one female, represent deities from the Igbo community, their hands face upwards waiting to receive sacrifices and gifts.

Why is the sale so controversial?

Central to the controversy is when the statues were taken and where from.
"Christie's ought not be dealing in Nigerian antiquities that were probably taken out at a time of conflict, contrary to the Hague Convention of 1954," Babatunde Adebiyi, legal adviser for the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, said, adding that Nigeria "was saddened" by the sale.
The Hague Convention of 1954 was adopted to protect cultural property in the event of armed conflict. Nigeria joined the convention in 1961.
Prior to this Nigeria already had an antiquities ordinance law which made the trade of stolen cultural artefacts illegal, which was adopted in 1953.

The 1970 Unesco convention also banned the international trade in stolen artefacts.
Mr Adebiyi, who also advises the Nigerian government, says he believes these objects will always belong to the people of Nigeria.
"There is never going to be a universal principle that says something made by my forebears belongs to you in perpetuity because you bought it in an auction house. African antiquities will always be African, just like a Da Vinci will always be European."

Where did the items come from?

Prof Okeke-Agulu from Princeton University says the objects were looted from communal shrines in his native Anambra state, with the help of local conspirators.
He said they could not have been acquired legally because they were removed during the 1960s Biafran civil war, when the Igbo community attempted to secede from Nigeria.

"Growing up in Nigeria, we would pass by these destroyed and looted shrines and they would point to them, [saying] 'these were the shrines that were looted and destroyed during the war,'" he told the BBC.

The historian believes the loss of these sculptures has meant that a key part of Igbo cultural identity has been lost for future generations. He accused Christie's and other art collectors of "expropriation".

"To pretend we don't matter - what we think doesn't matter - is for me a recast of the colonial arrogance that we are still dealing with in other parts of the African continent," Prof Okeke-Agulu said.

Could there be another explanation?

But art historian Professor Clifford Nwanna, from Nigeria's Nnamdi Azikiwe University, says that more information is needed.
He says that in the past some local people chose to throw away some ritual objects or sell them.
This sometimes happened when people felt the object "was no longer potent" or stopped working as protection.
Prof Nwanna also points to the arrival of Christian missionaries in the area as another reason historically why some local people rendered the objects "as things that don't have much value".
"Some people were persuaded to do away with their gods, idols, and those statues," he adds.
He said the onus should be on the local community to call for the return of the items:
"They need to make a claim for the objects... because legally the community are the people that have the highest interest."

What does Christie's say?

It has defended the auction.
"The auction house believes there is no evidence these statues were removed from their original location by someone who was not local to the area, or that the area they came from at the time they were acquired was part of the conflict at the time," it said in a statement.
"Our understanding is that even prior to the conflict, local agents were trading in objects such as these and they were starting to circulate more widely," it said.
It added that at no stage "has there been any suggestion that these statues were subject to improper export".

How did the sculptures get to Paris?

According to Christie's, the sculptures were acquired by Jacques Kerchache, a French art collector and a close adviser to former French President Jacques Chirac.
But the auction house says it believes Mr Kerchache didn't travel to Nigeria in 1968/69 which suggests local agents were involved in initial trading, probably to Cameroon before shipment to Europe.

Nuel4:
whites own the world. Did anyone tied up our forefathers when these clowns were claiming continents upon continents?[/s]

Trapping:
Na mumu dey worry dem.

Originality007:
Iranian weed is the best

A rogue nation that shot down a civilian jet

Whyem15:
In a lawful and just world, Trump would be arrested and prosecuted immediately after finishing his term and losing his immunity because he was directly responsible for the murder of a country's official on diplomatic mission to another country. He not only committed murder, he also violated the law protecting diplomats all over the world.
But we all know that the US is a lawless country that twist the law to kill and bully other countries while threatening and punishing institutions of justice when the same laws it twist is applied to it, just like they sanctioned the judges of ICC for investigating the war crimes US and Israel committed.
The same country that placed sanctions on Russia for annexing Crimea and almost went to war because of it is the country telling the world that it is solely Israel's business whether they want to annex the Jordan Valley or not.
This arrest warrant will test the integrity of interpol whether it is just another organization used in bullying weak countries to submit to it.
The number of international laws, treaties and deals Trump has broken will put the next president in a very difficult situation because most of these deals took decades to sign by past president only for Trump to dismantle them because he felt they aren't favorable to US. Many governments around the world will be very cautious of making deals with the US because they have shown that they can cancel deals and treaties at will.
Let us not also forget that the US has illegally kept it's troops in Iraq 5 months after the people and government of Iraq had told them to leave.

illitrate:
But wait oo, what will they do for retaliating?

ovcwality:
If you don't stop spamming threads and asslicking trump, you will go to hell, this is spiritual

Antiochus:
He has lost already. He'll leave the white house through his bunker because the shame will be too much to bear..

Jimi24:
Homesexuality is not a crime. It is a curse. You have to be a completely ignorant person to support laws against gays. Govt has absolutely no right to outlaw a possible genetic or mental defect. Is sicle cell disease a crime?. Is dwarfism a crime?. A lot of Christians are going to hell because of the wrong attitude to gays. You should be praying and interceding for gays. Deliverance is possible. Don't judge, don't ostracize or you are falling into the devils trap.

Bbbwings:
Where were you when britain evacuated Diego Garcia Islanders for their military base
At least China is not stealing island like you said.

digitalman2811:
since China was foolish to have signed the agreement,she should have respected the agreement.

nelsonoba:
I knew these Marxists whose agenda as stated on their website includes "tearing down the nuclear family" and "promoting LGBTQ rights" would get to this at some point in one way or another. I pity those who are fooled to think BLM is "helping" black people