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Pictures of NNS Unity F-92,sister ship of NNS Centenary F-91. F-92 is to be completed in Nigeria.

The Norwegian Defence Logistics Organization/Surplus Materiel Management Program, (NDLO/SMMP), has for sale KNM Horten. The vessel is now released for commercial sale and can be sold to the civilian market. The vessel was built as a Navy Supply vessel for Sub Marines and MTB Motor Torpedo Boats, in 1978. Since 2003 she has been used as training ship and hotel ship in Spain / Norway for the new Frigates.

This vessel was built after DNV rules applicable for ice class C type vessels. She has been used as a School ship for the Norwegian Navy for many years, and has also been used for The Norwegian Royal Family when KS Norge was under repairs after a fire. She has also been used as a reserve vessel and following boat for The Norwegian Royal Family.

The vessel is new certificated 14.02.2012 by DNV (The Norwegian Veritas) for 5 years as cargo vessel World Wide trade. Following has been done in 2011:

http://www.auksjon.no/BoatView.aspx?BID=57

The ship is for patrol and is not armed.

mercylicious:
@jasper, am still trying to understand the pic of ur farm.
how did u get the soil u put in the celophane/ mulching bag? Does the bed have a specified height , weight and depth? what is the spacing between 2 bed? i noticed u 2 round opening at the sides of thw bwd, what is the distance. Did u mix the organic manure with the soil b4 u planted?
I saw some pipes used for the irrigation, how did u route it inside the beds? So many questns!

Plz summarise the bed preparation.

I think the bag is laid out flat on the earth to block sunlight from getting to the weed seeds and allowing them to germinate,which will lead to competition with the plant. It(the bag) also traps moisture that would have been lost by evaporation, and nutrients by erosion. The openings in the bag is for the target plant to grow from (it needs the sunlight the weeds won't get) and also for access to water and fertiliser.

I may be wrong,just my 2 kobo.

It is not a jewish stmbol

Beetroot:
Now 176

Probably because oil is now below $80,as saudi arabia tries to push out U.S. Frackers from the oil business.

Our current plight is more economic than political. As our population grows, import consumption will grow if no attempt is made at local
production.Demand for foreign currency ($)will grow as a result. If exports don't grow with population or imports don't fall, dollar demand for imports will put pressure on the Naira resulting in depreciation. Pegging the currency only drains the reserves rapidly and leads to the same
result,devaluation. The fact we are in a global community suggests only one solution. Industrialisation. We have to become like the country we
buy most of our goods from (in terms of Industrial production).

3 things come to mind we need to work on.

Logistics: It has to be easy to move huge volumes of goods from the North to our ports and evacuate it rapidly. This means ALL ports must be
in full use. We need rail.lots and lots of it. The North is poor because of education, but also logistics. North of Nigeria is desert and
poverty. To sell goods we need rail connecting the North to the ports not just lagos (too congested). We need to dredge the Niger and benue.
(chai God bless us with two North/South and East/West going rivers).Connect rail from the towns to the rivers and with river ports to the sea ports.
The rail system does not have to be expensive high speed rail, we need capacity and capability first. Some rails don't even need to be standard gauge if it is too costly. We need rails built by civil service, what we build is to get the poor out of poverty not to look like the rich. Two iron rails with wooden sleeper and local stone ballast is a start, no need for concrete.
Rail to Ecowas will help Nigeria,rail to cameroon will help commercial activity in the East.and rail to Niger and chad, the North.All these connected to river ports along the Niger/Benue.

Electricity: All Finished goods almost Universally have electricity applied or required in the finishing process. No Electricity,no
industry,no exports = poverty.Electricity gives birth to Industry and Industry is the reward for education. No Industry,no drive for education. If education and hard work is not rewarded with wealth,corruption rises to astronomical levels.

Agriculture:
We have no business importing food.Period! Farmers ran away from Agriculture early-on because their seed could not yield as much as
the new varieties being developed in the west.This forced down the prices of imported food.Also, we just didn't help farmers mechanise.
Things are changing though,we are beginning to apply science into Agric. We need as a major industrial priority more Agic processing and storage
chains along future rail-lines to bring farms to processors and storage units.We can't be losing food year in year out to poor storage. Food
should be produced based on future contracts backed by insurance so that farmers know they will be paid.This means that both farmer and
processors can expand their business.

Note.The entire cotton farms in Nigeria collapsed when the textile industry collapsed.These industries collapsed because we abandoned
rail,and stopped expanding electricity production.That is the effect of electricity and logistics on Agric.
We have to be as or near as logistically efficient as most of western europe is if we want to dramatically reduce imports and raise local production; and we have two rivers to help.

The day we stop talking about oil,is the day we will move forward. No nation with our population size is dependent on oil (commodities) exports for income.
Reducing our food imports is a vital first step. We should be feeding ourselves and others. Second step is to power up Nigeria for Industries. People earning about =N=100k-200k./month and above are the class of people who should have started an agric business by now but are probably the chief consumers.
This class of people should be the Job creators.

Women want to be like men,but are alarmed that men are becoming like women. Nature abhors a vacuum.

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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."

^^^^ Oga do you know the history and teachings of the Church?
Sir, there is no divorce in the catholic church.
As your writing shows our lord brought a new-way for us to follow concerning marriage in the new testament.Are you suggesting we abandon him and his new testament teachings and go back to the old testament and jewish laws?

"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery" (Mk 10: 11- 12).
Are we suggesting that a sin based on moral behaviour is no longer a sin? What next? Adultery is not a sin? Neither Fornication or murder?
In the 1980 Marriage Synod of Bishops, Pope John Paul II clearly answered this question by saying:

"...the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist...Reconciliation in the sacrament of Penance, which would open the way to the Eucharist, can only be granted to those who, repenting of having broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are sincerely ready to undertake a way of life that is no longer in contradiction to the indissolubility of marriage. This means in practice, that when, for serious reasons, such as for example the children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the obligation to separate, they "take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts proper to married couples."

Marriage is indissoluble.
Rather lets repent, turn away from sin and the master will receive us.

Catholic bishops said Tuesday that they remain fundamentally opposed to homosexual relationships, tempering the message of a landmark Vatican report calling for a more positive approach to gay believers.

Amid signs of a conservative backlash against the reform agenda being pushed by Vatican liberals supported by Pope Francis, bishops attending a special synod on the family called for "appropriate prudence" in the signals sent to the gay community.

This was necessary, they said, "so that the impression of a positive evaluation of such a tendency on the part of the Church is not created," according to a summary of the latest discussions released by the Vatican.

The warning shot came a day after a preliminary report on the synod's work made waves around the world by noting that "homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community" and suggesting the Church should reach out to them.

In a move that appeared to reflect misgivings over how that message has been interpreted, the Vatican's press office on Tuesday issued a statement downplaying the significance of the mid-synod report, emphasising it was only a working paper which had been given an importance it did not merit.

Whatever its final significance, the tone of the report, with its emphasis on the need for both mercy and realism on the part of the Church, clearly reflects Francis's own "Who am I to judge?" thinking on the issue.

But it could scarcely be further removed from official Church teaching, which maintains that same-sex relationships are "intrinsically disordered" and counsels gay believers to refrain from sexual relations........
.........Sources in the Holy See told AFP that a number of African bishops had been sharply critical of the prominence given to the issue of homosexuality in Monday's report, angrily pointing out that it had been addressed in only six interventions in a total of 180 over the first week of the synod.

Such reservations were acknowledged in the latest Vatican update on the debates, which notes that participants underlined the virtual absence of the word "sin" from the mid-term report.

The bishops also called for further reflection on the theological underpinning of the opening up to the gay community -- the so-called "principle of graduality" which provides for the acceptance of individuals living in irregular, or sinful, situations while the Church works with them to bring them into conformity with its rules over time.

The synod is due to wrap up on Sunday and there will be another gathering of bishops and lay Catholics in October 2015 before Francis announces the conclusions, most likely in early 2016.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/25259858/?

Note that Peters' response was not based on scripture,but on a vision and experience as head of Gods' church.

Acts 11:4
Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’

8 “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. 14 He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’

15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with[a] water, but you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.’ 17 So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”.......

The church accepted what we now call scripture based not on scripture but Peters' authority as Head of the Church.

...."18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

Trailblazer1:
I don't know how you got your knowledge about the first dogma of the church? Maybe from your bulletins. The Gospels and the Epistle of St. Peter are part of the scriptures.

My point is that you should search the scriptures. Genesis to Revelation and allow God to speak to you through His Word.

You usually undermine the efficacy of the Word of Go The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”d and instead substitute it for your bulletins.
Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

I am guessing you are talking about the acts of the apostles. Well,they were not part of scripture for those early Christians that LIVED it.So the question.Should they,the early Christians (all jews) have accepted a radical,ground shifting teaching that came from St.peter which was not in THEIR scripture nor taught by the Christ but rather a proclamation of Peter?
Do not forget,peter was condemned for baptising cornelius the centurion(Gentile).

Acts 11
The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

What you consider as scriptural and true today,was considered as anathema and unscriptural in peters' time.

It's a document proposal not a teaching.

Trailblazer1:
Your faith should be in consonance with the word of God and not based on church dogmas and doctrines.
If what is being practiced in my church is no where to be found in the scriptures, then, it is a man-made doctrine.

Acts 17:10-11  And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Please, be more noble and search the scriptures to see if your Exsultet and other practices are scriptural.

Do you know that "salvation belongs to the Gentiles as well" is a teaching by St. Peter? In fact it is one of the first dogmas of the church. Do you know it does not exist in the Gospels?
Without that dogma you would not even be a Christian.
If you were one of the early Christians (all Jews),will you have opposed peter for teaching that the gentiles have access to salvation since Christ did not teach that explicitly?
Or in reference to the woman did Christ not call gentiles dogs? Matt: 15,26.
And He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

This is the problem with sola scriptura, it elevates the independent human interpretation of scripture above the Church, leading to division.

Ubenedictus:
This is the mid synodal document, it is purposely ambigous. It can be read both ways and i had a hard time determining whether it is simply pastoral care or if there is something lurking under.

www.zenit.org/en/articles/synod14-full-text-of-relatio-post-disceptationem


i am really grateful this isn't the final document, if it were...i would be having a real interpretation problem.

The good thing is that it is a document not a teaching,the teachings of the church remain the same and can't be changed.

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There is a misunderstanding on this thread I'd like to clarify.
The OP quoted from punchng the following;

"The dam is to generate over 3000 Mega Watts and it is about the biggest on the continent."

First, there is no place that the project is stated as the biggest,but rather one of the biggest.
Secondly, what was stated as one of the biggest is the DAM project not POWER GENERATING projects in general.

So please let us stop arguing over a non existent statement.

The report by sahara-reporters is flawed. That is not a T-55. It's an ERC 90 sagaie most likely of the Nigerian Army deployed in the N.E.
If it belonged to Bokoharam i would expect it to be marked with the black insigna of the group as shown below, or with arabic writing.
If that is SH proof,then the story is in doubt.
What is true though is the capture of the MOWAG APC.

I have not seen any bokoharam video spotting an armoured vehicle having a 90mm,105mm or 125mm Gun.


Note the arrow

F92,sister ship of F91.

Sister ship of F-91(the F-92) under construction.

How many countries can claim religious terrorists coming out of the bush begging for mercy and handing over their arms.Not even the Americans .

#VictoryForNigeria
Shekau1.....DEAD
Shekau2.....DEAD
Fear the Nigerian Army.

Abuja – The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Abdu Bulama, said on Tuesday in Abuja that Nigeria would design, fabricate, test and launch its indigenous satellite by 2018.
Bulama stated this when he inspected facilities at the Obasanjo Space Centre of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).
The minister said the centre had the mandate to launch Nigeria’s first indigenous satellite by 2018, and described space science and technology programme as an important component of the Nigerian dream.
According to him, the satellite programme has a very positive role to play in the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Bulama directed that the assembly, testing and integration centre, and the Synthetic Aperture Rader Satellite, which are under construction, be completed by 2015.
“The Assembly, Testing and Integration Centre, and the Synthetic Aperture Rader Satellite are the nucleus of NASRDA.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/1st-made-nigeria-satellite-launched-2018-bulama/?#sthash.b0JohTHp.dpuf

Guys,pls respect the dead.(w.r.t. to the church collapse).

@agaugust
It seems as though T-72's are on the way together with MLRS(BM-27&30) and Shilka's,not yet official though.Check the usual.

Vikky014: so if u click it ur real age will change automatically in real life?

LOL. I was joking about those who don't want to view the video.

Vikky014: google liveleak.com search konduga and see their bodies

not everybody is over 18,you should know na

http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/17/nigerian-troops-parade-apc-captured-boko-haram-fighters-maiduguri

The popular APC in Shekau's videos

http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/749252

BAKU, September 12. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia concluded last month an agreement with Nigeria on the deliveries of a considerable consignment of Russian Mil Mi-series military helicopters, which are called Hip in line with NATO classification, a senior official with the state-owned high-tech corporation Rostec said on Friday.
“In August, not that much long ago, a contract was signed with Nigeria on the deliveries of [Russian] helicopters,” Sergei Goreslavsky, a deputy director general of Rostec, said at the ADEX-2014 international defense exhibition in Azerbaijan.
“We are talking here about a significant number of Mi-171Sh helicopters and several Mi-35M helicopters,” Goreslavsky added.
He added that Mi-171Sh helicopters and other Mi modifications are very popular in other African states.
“Mozambique expressed its interest and we plan to work in this direction at the upcoming exhibition in South Africa,” Goreslavsky added.