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You can't toy with the most powerful man in the world?

Kuje Prisoner of the year.

Russia isn't expected to waste any time in retaliating to fresh sanctions imposed by President Obama's administration, potentially resulting in a quid pro quo game of diplomatic punishment.
Moscow appears to have already taken action. CNN reported late on Thursday that Russian authorities ordered the shutdown of the Anglo-American School of Moscow, which primarily serves children of Western embassy personnel, as well as the closure of a U.S. embassy vacation house in Serebryany Bor, near Moscow.

The Russian embassy in Singapore told CNBC that it was not placed to comment on the CNN report.
The closure of an international school would be unusual for Moscow, but not impossible, Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNBC on Friday.
Earlier on Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova already warned of payback after the White House penalized Moscow for alleged interference in the U.S. 2016 election.
"We can only add that if Washington takes new hostile steps, it will receive an answer. This applies to any actions against Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, which will immediately backfire at U.S. diplomats in Russia. The Obama administration probably does not care at all about the future of bilateral relations, but history will hardly forgive it for this après-nous-le-deluge attitude," she said in an official statement.
Washington sanctioned two Russian intelligence agencies, four officers of its largest intelligence agency, GRU, and three companies that supported GRU's operations on Thursday. Obama also expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland.
Going forward, Paal expects the U.S.-Russian conflict to play out in a more subtle fashion.

"The U.S. is going to mete out sanctions quietly without publicity and Russia will be watching closely how to react. So we may not necessarily see the exchange in the headlines, it's going to be more of a 'Spy vs. Spy' situation."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/29/russia-retaliates-to-obamas-sanctions-cnn-reports.html

Whenever I hear those who ought to know say that Nigeria’s main problem is ethnicity, I often begin to develop cold feet. They seem to argue that if not for ethnicity (a colonial construct), the country would have move ahead. While I may agree that ethnicity is one of the manifestations of the numerous problems facing the country, I firmly disagree that ethnicity is the Nigerian problem.

The reader will probably face me and ask: “Lekan, what then is the problem of Nigeria?” my immediate answer to this is simply corruption. Not that corruption is not an issue in advanced countries, if not, the revelations in #PanamaPapers will not have been so sensational. The only difference here is that the Nigerian case is that corruption has tribal marks! I am aware some people may want to strongly disagree with me, but please come along with me.

Some days ago, I received the news, like most Nigerians, that former Governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori, has been released from prison. This ordinarily would not have been serious news in that he would not be the first high profile politician to go to prison and be released. The news of “wild jubilations” in Delta state and many other places by his supporters, even in certain sections of the Nigerian media made the whole thing take a dramatic dimension. To even know that most of these same persons were the same people who took “strong exceptions” to ex-British Prime Minister, David Cameron’s, “fantastically corrupt” tag further makes the matter ironic. To those so-jubilating, Ibori is nothing but a man of the people. For them, Ibori is not corrupt, even though he pleaded guilty to corrupt charges in a London Court. To these ones, the politician is been persecuted because he is loved by his people. They seem to ask: “No be our money he steal wetin concern you na?” can you now see why I said corruption has tribal marks in Nigeria?

Ibori is a typical Nigerian politician who understands the psychology of human needs. His people will not mind him stealing so far he fills their stomachs with part of the loot. Like Chief Nanga in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People, all he needs to do is become visible in his community; buy traditional titles, build boreholes; employ some people in Oghara into government positions and become a hero.

Can we see how stagnant we are as a nation in terms of moral values?

Being a smart Nigerian politician, Ibori will run to the same people he looted dry to defend him in time of trouble. He will bring up the ethnic card. He will create a “us-versus-them” siege mentality of “they hate us that is why they are after me”. What else can you tell a man or woman who manages to get his bit of the “national cake” from politicians like Ibori? How do you want to preach to a people who roll out drums to sing and praise a corrupt former governor that he loots their state and that he is only spending crumbs on them? These ones will rather fight and die to defend “our son” that hear that he is corrupt. His village chiefs will welcome him back with both arms and award him the highest title in the land!

This happens to be the bitter truth in our country today. Ethnicity is only used as a tool, first by the colonial masters and later the post-colonial leaders, to divide the masses and permanently becloud their sense of reasoning so as to continue to divert their attentions away from the real issues. The Ibori’s case proves this just right. Corruption now has a tribal mark!

Olalekan Waheed Adigun, Lagos.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/opinion/ibori-corruption-with-tribal-marks/177826.html

Akkotto:
Name any project your governor has done, let start from there

This is about Fayose the governor with oozing and venomous mouth.
The next thread will be on my governor.

The only achievement of their loud mouthed governor since assumption of office is attack on PMB. When better governors are busy producing food for their populace he was mischievously sharing a cup of rice and N200 for which he claims N1.5 billion from the state coppers.
His belief that attack is the best form of defense no longer works as all Nigerians know his past and antics.

The dust and smell of your old rug will still remain.

Good. But why not spread the payment over six months?

mynduu44:
OP, if I slap u ehh, u will tell me if those things look like Nigerian Army..

I beg no slap me Oga mynduu44. It's all over the electronic media this morning. The army has confirmed it. I know better than to post false news on Nairaland.
Google is your friend sha. No vex.

His identity has not yet been revealed. But his arrest along with Boko Haram members raise a lot of questions.
Is he a member of the group?
Is he a mercenary?
Is he the only one involved?
Was he sponsored by any government or group?
Is he a kidnap victim?
But it surely his arrest confirms PMB's claims that foreigners are involved with the terrorists.
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the arrest so we wait on them to conclude their investigation and feed us with the real gist not to run into conclusions.

givan:
Op, where are u from? Sori 4 asking. Av u heard of 'liquid gold'? Its more valuable than the metallic gold (or @least had been in d past)... Even d dirty dat exist in regions where these gold flows through in expected 2 be exotic.

Am from Naija where the same liquid gold flows. I guess it's all about the people and leadership and not the liquid gold.

Mujaheeeden:
Most of them will be beheaded or their hands chopped off.


Anything Saudi Prison means death

That's not true. A prison in a just society is supposed to be a reformation Centre.
In Saudi they also give you a capital to start life after reform.

EYIBLESSN:
Hmmmmmmm. . No wonder some set of People prefers International prison. Hence they commit punishable crime.

Lol!

It also eventually causes premature ejaculation, weak erection and impotency.

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This is crazy. Violence begets more violence. RIP to the dead.

Help me ask them o.

Former heads of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to remit the sum of N1.993 trillion recovered funds, a security and investigation consultant, George Uboh has claimed.

Details of the allegations in documents sighted by Daily Trust are contained in a petition to the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) dated 19th December.

The petition signed by the former EFCC consultant, requested the DSS to make the acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu effect remittance of the funds to federal government coffers and prosecute him.

Uboh said that of the N2.051 trillion recovered by the EFCC since inception, only N6.7 billion was remitted to the federal government leaving a balance of N1.993 trillion unremitted funds.

Meanwhile, executive director the Citizens Advancement for Social and Economic Rights (CASER), Barrister Frank Tietie has given the National Assembly 48 hours to review all cases handled by the EFCC where persons, who have forfeited monies to the commission will appear to testify.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-efcc-fails-to-remit-n1-9tr-recovered-loot/177032.html#swyIHSl7RXqa8FEe.99

Good.

All the pessimists against MMM should please sheath your swords.

Who said so? Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

I beg make them come back. Afterall all Nigerians are into one ponzi scheme or another. Many banks that were regulated by CBN and insured by NICHOLAS have failed and depositors never got their money back. Nigeria itself is a ponzi scheme.

Before you mock anybody for investing in MMM read and think about this.
I invested all my Savings from NYSC in Savanah Bank, The Bank Packed up and left me with Nothing. I bought 10,000 shares in Transcorp when Obasanjo and "Madam Stock Exchange" initially sold the fraud to Nigerians but up till today, no shares were allocated to me and my money was not refunded. I remember my then employer deducting money from my wages and paying into government owned Housing Fund and also into the National Pension Fund, the 2 bodies were dissolved and my money dissolved with it. My Father and millions of Nigerians also paid into the same funds for more than 30 years and nothing came out of it.
Some state governments are owing their workers up to 1 year wages, the federal government and some parastatals are not different.
My father-in-law gave his life to NTA as a photojournalist travelling all over the country to cover events. Many years after his death, his widow is still waiting for NTA to pay his entitlements.
Remember how government came up with idea of community banks and encouraged Nigerians to patronise them, remember Allied Bank, Lobi Bank, Abacus Bank, City Express Bank, Assurance Bank of Nigeria, Hallmark Bank Plc, Ivory Merchant Bank, Lead Merchant Bank, Metropolitan Bank, All States Trust Bank, Coop and Commerce Bank, Commerce Bank, Credite Bank, Pinnacle Commercial Bank, Kapital Merchant Bank, Ivory Merchant Bank, Prime Merchant Bank, Republic Bank, Eagle Bank Plc, Liberty Bank, Progress Bank, North South Bank, Pan African Bank; remember pensioners who had their money in Societe Generale, dont forget the traders whose lives were destroyed by Gulf Bank, and many more too numerous to mention. Should we blame these people for keeping their hard earned money in NDIC insured banks ? Dont ask me about NDIC please.
On a different scale, remember how many hours you spent at the polling booth to vote for Buhari, remember how we all campaigned vigorously to remove Jonathan and how many people you encouraged to vote for PMB. What has come out of it for us all ?
How about the money you worked hard for and contributed when your Churches /Mosques wanted to establish those private universities and now your children are excluded from the qualitative education they offer because you can not afford the tuition fees ? What do you think about the money you pay to NEPA or whatever it is called now every month regardless of whether they supply you electricity or not ?
How are these different from MMM.
I agree that some people are into MMM because of greed but most of those who invested in MMM did so because they have been duped by some government backed schemes in the past. There is poverty in the land and people are looking for ways to survive. They knew the risk they were getting into and were all willing to take the risk. Afterall, living in Nigeria at all at this moment is a risk and working for the government is also a risk slightly lower than investing in MMM.
The truth is every Nigerian living in Nigeria is into one form of MMM or the other and I do not see any sense in mocking anybody for taking a risk, as long as it is with their own money. Afterall, Nigeria itself is a Ponzi scheme. God bless Nigeria.

BeauHomme:
The suspect named Kachi Nwokocha as their sponsor. Look up that name on Google and see what comes out.
Nevertheless, it's still too early to say which was really responsible between the two parties.

The party that are against the the police are squarely responsible. They are surely Wike boys.

infohenry:
They will always have one stupid reason for their foolishness, you taught they are against your party. Look at person claiming party, you have party and live in the creek while politician are in abuja flexing life with their children. In portharcourt parlance "bros you don price, you must pay.

Governor Wike instigated them against the security operatives. Didn't he.

tolexy007:
Chai FTC dey sweet sa,

Small boy

So the pillars have been changed. We used to know them as
1. Divine sonship- that Jesus is the son of God.
2.Crucificion- that Jesus died(was killed) on the cross to pay for the sins of Christians.
3. Resurrection - that he resurrected and ascended to heaven.
4. Trinity- as in 3 Gods equals one God.
Or can a anybody who doesn't believe in these be a Christian?

JohnChuma:
On point! kudos, OP.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has acted in national interest on the issue of data price increase, the Senate Committee on Communications has said.
The Committee, which visited the NCC headquarters in Abuja yesterday as part of it oversight functions, said Nigerians should see the commission as being on their side on the issue of data price increase.
Senator Solomon Olamilekan (Lagos West) who spoke on behalf of the Committee members said the NCC had taken some commendable steps to sanitize the telecom industry and the data price hike was one of them.
He said “Each time we invited the leadership of the agency to the National Assembly, they honoured our invitation and responded to our inquiries, particularly during the MTN issue, and of recent the data price floor. They have acted in national interests and Nigerians see NCC as being on their side.”
While receiving members of the Committee, the Commission’s Executive Vice Chairman, Professor Danbatta, said unless the issues regarding the data price floor are resolved, it remains a whirlwind that would not do anybody any good.
He said it is imperative that all stakeholders agreed on appropriate price floor on data for the good of the industry, noting that a proper cost-based study would be carried out shortly to determine price floor.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/senate-okays-data-price-hike/175864.html

*Some Girls Will Never Change.*
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A lecturer walked into a class room and told all the students that there will be an emergency test...
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He went straight to the black board and wrote
the instructions which says:
1) time is 15mins
2) no copying
3) no cancellation of answers
4) once it's time walk away from
Your desk.
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He told the students to get ready...that it will be a simple two questions test
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Q1) list four of your best foods Immediately? students started writing..
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Boy's were writing Eba, pounded Yam, rice, beans, Tuwo, fufu etc...
The girls were busy writing Hot dogs, pizza, shawarma, burger, vanilla iced cream etc....
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All the ladies were happy until they saw the final question
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Q2) Explain how to prepare your favourite meal as listed in question 1?
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See girls & cancellation...They cancelled all their first answer and started
changing it to: yam and beans, white rice, Tuwo, hot water, egg, tea, akamu, indomie,.lols
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By Grace Udofia

PETROLEUM Technology Development Fund, PTDF, said the current economic reality prompted by global drop in oil price has made it imperative for it to review its overseas scholarship operations with a move towards focusing on Nigerian universities.

Executive Secretary, PTDF, Dr. Bello Aliyu Gusau, who led a team of its Management to a consultative meeting with officials of the Cranfield university, United Kingdom, stated that it is fundamental to review and restructure the existing partnership and come up with more creative ways of working together.

“I am happy Cranfield has seen the possibility of in-country co-operation because at the moment we are in the process of working with our own facilities, that we put in place for various programmes, so it’s really an important issue that we want, going forward, to put on the table.

“What we have actually focused on is the split-site PhD programmes and these are some of the issues that we want going forward to work with a university like Cranfield, to see how we can really put that in place either in some of our facilities or in any of the Nigerian universities that we are working with.

“But for us, the most important reason for coming here, is for the routine we are engaging or hoping to do, which is the new structure that involves synergy between Power and Energy”.

Gusau further explained that with a renewed focus on gas by the Federal Government, PTDF will be interested in developing the relevant manpower to service all the activities arising from the new attention to gas, the rapid development of power stations to involve supply of gas, and the development of other gas infrastructure such as gas pipelines and processing facilities for gas development.

In his response Director of Energy and Power, Cranfield University, Professor Feargal Brennan, expressed satisfaction to work with PTDF in developing local content for Nigeria’s oil and gas industry especially with regard to the localisation of the training of Nigerian students through an equal partnership concept with the Cranfield University.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/ptdf-moves-domesticate-overseas-scholarship-programmes/