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adontcare:
lost my dad there 1995 in sierria leone

May his memory remain blessed

DeepSight:
I dont think I need to respond to this brazen and absurd falsehood.



This is because Egypt -

1. Is not the occupying power with respect to Gaza and West Bank
2. Maintains its border for the main purpose of avoiding a clash with that very same occupying power.



In prisons the world over, smuggling of illiicit goods such as drugs, tobacco and alcohol still occur. That there is successful smuggling into Gaza does not disprove its status as a prison. It actually affirms it, because if it were not blockaded, there would be no need for smuggling. They would simply legitimately import arms just the way other free countries do.



Names are not so relevant as actually history. Names come from many sources. That the world "Nigeria"is a British invention does not mean the peoples called Nigerians today did not already live in the space called Nigeria today.



The United Nations and the International Community have recognized Israeli settlements on the West Bank as illegal for decades now. There is no justification for them. What does the word ïntifada mean? It means uprising. And yes, a captive people have a right to rise up and revolt. Even violently, yes, because they are kept captive with violence.



Millions of black South Africans had access to white reserved areas in apartheid South Africa with their work passes in order to go and work. What part of the mechanics of cheap slave labor do you fail to understand?



You accuse me of lying and yet you lie with breathtaking ease.
At all events, they have all been flattened as we speak - under the usual Israeli excuse that they are actually Hamas bases.



Now here is what you biblical lot fail to understand. Populations move. Migration is a steady fact of history. Conquest, wars, famines, trade, and myriad other factors ensure the constant fluidity of populations.

Now settle down and understand. Jerusalem was sacked in 70 A.D, almost 2000 years ago. After that, most of the Jews moved into diaspora, in the middle east as well as Europe. Mostly into Europe. In the intervening time, there was the rise of Christianity and Islam. At the time of the first crusade about one thousand years ago, Arabs had already migrated into the land called Palestine (I have told you already that the fact that Rome gave the name is inconsequential). And through four to five crusades which lasted centuries, Arabs and European Christians contested that land and dwelt there along with a small Jewish remnant, because the majority of Jews had since moved into diaspora.

Now, you have European settlers who are recognized as indigenes of America even though they only moved there in the last few centuries. How can you claim that Arabs who have been in Palestine for over a thousand years from the time of the crusades are not indigenous to the land? Indeed, they were the dominant people of that land thoughout the last millenium all the way down to the time of the Ottoman Empire which also colonized the place.

After the second world war, there was a move by European powers to resolve the Jewish question of Europe by creating a Jewish state. And because Britain held Palestine under a United Nations Mandate, they were able to create the State of Israel in 1948 under a United Nations mandate. And for this reason, Jews who had been living in Europe for 2000 years, Jews who had been thoroughly Europeanized therefore, were moved back to a Palestine which already had Arabs dwelling there for more than a thousand years. There is no way you can claim that a settler population which had lived in Europe for the last two thousand years to the extent that they have become white - unlike the brown color of their semitic cousins in the same region - are more indigenous to the land than those who have dwelt there for the last one thousand years.

And yes, this is why it is not wrong to call them Europeans. They are settlers from Europe, and many of them are not actual Jews. Any serious observer knows that the Israelis of today are simply not the same as the Israelites of the bible. Those Israelities of the bible were semitic people just as Arabs are semitic people - they were not the caucasian white men we see in Israel today. They were every bit as brown skinned as Arabs are today.

Needless to say, when you try such a settlement of a foreign poulation, conflict will break out. That Israel came out on top is a fact of life based on the technological superiority of the Europeans. This says nothing about the authentic and historical issues at play. \

Since that time, every peace agreement which has arisen from the Western world to resolve this issue is horribly skewed. At all events, the apartheid repressive policies which the European colonial settlers have maintained agains the indigenous Arabs remain inhumane and condemnable by all people of conscience.



And Ashkenazi Europeans. Please try not to send me to google. I find that irritating.



I know where he was born. And it is inconsequential.



I have not insulted you today. You have started again and later you will end up the way you did the other day by calling me rude.



Please try not to ask me to read up elementary things.

This is not a mere appeal to authority. Mandela and Tutu are not professional experts in some field of knowledge such as humanitarian sciences. They are people who lived through a very very real, very very vicious and visceral racist system and they are recognized heroic fighters against that injustice. It is not unreasonable to think that such people will be in a vantage position to recognize the very system they laboured against when pepertuated yet again by Europeans in another land.

At all events you should be careful with the negation of what may appear an appeal to authority. As a lawyer, I know very well that even courts of law, which are places of evidence, place reliance on the testimony of both experts in a field as well as people who have had substantal experience of a matter. So some appeals to authority can be rational, and i put it to you that even where citing the views of Mabiba and Tutu are an appeal to authority, it would be a rational one.



Firstly, there is no reason why Arabs will not be part of Israel when as I have told you, they have lived tehre for over a thousand years. It is the Israeli population that was imported, not them. Secondly this takes nothing away from the reality of apartheid being enforced against the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza.



I dont think your focusing this issue around Jesus is useful in anyway. As far as the Jews are concerned there are far more important historical figures than Jesus. Such as Abraham, who came from Ur of the Chaldeans - a place which was in modern day Iraq. So be careful when you want to go back into history and just how far back yoy want to go.

And how did the so called promised land now become the inheritance of his descendants? Because their mountain deity told them to go and kill the Canaanites there and take the land as theirs, right? By genocide right? Please see the book of Samuel to read the specific genocidal injunctions of Yahweh where he decrees that even the cattle of the people who owned that land should be slaughtered. Is this the biblical history on which you benchmark your belief that this land belongs to "the chosen people?"

cc: tctrills. I only tag you here because I doubt I will ever have the special energy to address you on some of the issues touched on here. I can only pray that you will think seriously about them for once.

Defending the indefensible. They can smuggle rockets and guns but can't smuggle the cookies their children need?

immortalcrown:
So, the power you talk about works only in accidents?

Hmm. Not sure I know a brief way to explain this. But you can do some futher research and studies yourself

immortalcrown:
Okay. Don't go to the Sambisa. Just try to stop a robbery operation in a bank. If you have the power to be feared by armed robbers, you have to put the power to God's work. If you don't use such power to save lives by stopping robbery in a bank, you are abusing the power.

No. That is also being presumptuous. If Christ with all his power will avoid those who are trying to kill Him (John 7:1), who are we not do. You do not deliberately and voluntarily expose yourself to danger and expect God to step in, especially if you are not a Christian that fully fulfills the conditions for divine protection and deliverance

Good01:
By Francis Ugwu



https://dailypost.ng/2024/05/25/i-wont-stop-saying-it-obi-won-2023-elections-baba-ahmed/

This man is acting like a shortsighted fool. If you cannot prove something with sufficient evidence, you either hold your peace or go back, bid your time and gather sufficient evidence whenever another opportunity presents itself. Otherwise, you will just turn yourself into a loony conspiracy theorist among sane and objective people.

Has he ever given it a thought that if he ever wins an election in the future, someone else can adopt the same position towards him. At that time, he will be the one claiming he wins and criticizing others of not accepting the result.

immortalcrown:
You and the booster should join the military and get posted to the North to fight Boko Haram so that your point will be proven.

That's being presumptuous. Go where you are not meant to be or do what you are not supposed to do, and you are likely on your own.

God's divine protection and in fact all of God's promises are conditional - something sadly not properly taught or obscured by many men of God.

Ofunaofu:
They are being realistic bro

The only people that should be realistic here is the government

We are talking about minimum o, for even the lowest cadre staff. How is the amount realistic?

rezy15:
Define amicably. Doesn't it boggle the mind that we are still talking about negotiating a 2009 agreement that govt keeps running away from? Multiple attempts by ASUU to get federal government to make good on signed agreements and they are still called names. If government is sincere these demands by ASUU will be met by sundown. I doubt earned allowance owed is even up to half of 90bn but they rather spend on Hajj with zero returns on investment

Amicably means without striking. If strikes didn't work over these many years, I wonder if it will ever work. Strikes probably had more bite many years back when we had only public universities. But now?

All these news that do not add up. How is going out at 3am the same as committing suicide

In this age and time? These intelligent academics can't still figure out a way to resolve disputes amicably?

I understand CAF's position. Football is money. CAF will definitely make more money and fill the stadium for each final match using this approach. They get to the chance to earn double for tickets, TV rights, etc

Unlike Europe, fans in neutral venues don't turn out enmasse to watch clubs from other countries, except if maybe they want to throw the stadium open for free. They certainly won't pay premium price. If there are renowned stars in both team, maybe they might attract some fans but beyond that, forget it. Except if their governments will cover the cost which is often the case.

And the finalists fans? How many can afford to travel? Africa is also big and international travels is still a lot of headache.

Regardless however, I don't like the idea of a 2-legged finals. We have tried it before and the home-win at all cost was the order of the day. Officials and players are all placed under undue pressure and the North Africans are the worst at hosting such finals.

CAF should explore other opportunities and options before reverting to this outdated practice.

Lol politicians and pandering

Gbajabiamila1:
What defines these people as bandits? I didn't see any gun in this video or any wearing camo? I'm kinda lost.

Exactly. And many comments just swallow the whole thing hool, line and sinker. Funny how people can be remotely controlled like the drone they just watched

Lol. I always smile when Nigerian commentators claim tax payers money on TV because I know the Nigerian government at national and subnational levels largely don't rely on tax revenue. They rely and depend on oil money. And I guess we are cool with it as long as government doesn't disturb us for taxes.

And that's why most can spend and steal anyhow because they really didn't work for it and their citizens also cannot seriously claim that their "tax payer" money is being mismanaged and stolen. What they can claim is that politicians alone are stealing "common wealth" forgetting that this "wealth" is coming from a part of the country and we are only laying claim to them by association in this union called Nigeria.

When Nigerians truly start parting more with their hard earn money in form of taxes, we will start holding our government more accountable.

Lol. Go and watch the actual interview, not this propaganda packaged by a left wing YouTuber.

Regards

I don't trust them both. Many Nigerians are just lawless.

The royal VIP treatment wey dem no give the prince again in UK, na so him wife drag am down here to come and get abi?

A whole CBN no fit interprete a law properly? Or maybe they were trying to be clever by half

Paraman:
Congratulation to him. He needs to sue the NPF

Na wetin he do? Na the first question be dat. Many of our police as well as our citizens are lawbreakers

Can the executive arm of government order the legislative arm with regards to where to sit?
Can the governor issue an executive order binding on the legislative arm?

emkz:
We must learn to punish bad behaviour in Nigeria to deter others.

Here is a business owner admitting he had to count his losses.

On the contrary, we saw someone who arrogated public land to himself. He lied about his worth of investments being demolished. He claimed what he built in 6 years, was demolished in six hours and he miraculously rebuilt in 6 days.

What is 666 again?

When he arrogated public land to himself, some Nigerians took his side against public interest.

Now that it became clear he lied about the worth of what was demolished, we all move on and he said he is open for business.

He did not apologize. He is not accountable. And we move on.

He misled the public. He ought to be arrested or fined to serve as a warning.

Lol. That man even fail to realise that when that road is completed, his business will also benefit from the number of businesses and people that will now operate, travel and move along that corridor.

If not for the construction, how many Nigerians even knew the business exist there. Now compare it to when that place opens up completely.

He is short-sighted and above all selfish like some of our politicians who are probably his cronnies. They will willingly sacrifice the greater good for their own selfish interests

If government wants people to appreciate tax payment, they need to sanitize their reputation.

God bless Nigeria.

Goke7:
na their inheritance o

Na wa o. Those guys get strong juju. They have been breaking my hearts for decades which is why I no too dey follow UEFA Champions League again. E be like watching a TV with 2-3 channels

Na only Madrid they made the cup for?

The same people claiming this money has been stolen without any evidence are the same people who would condemn the Lagos-Calabar coastal road arguing that the government has no money and it is not a priority to execute those kinds of projects.

Most of our government will claim they have no fund and can't executive capital projects which is often not true. They will rather spend money on their selfish interests and at best little micro-projects here and there which often does not positively impact the larger society.

For whatever reason they have decided to embark on this one, let them go ahead and do it

There's nothing like having a visionary leader. If our past leaders are visionary, honest and bold enough to pursue their visions, we won't be struggling the way we are today as our population increases and demands on current infrastructure reach breaking point.

I wish this administration well. I am not under any illusion that this project will be completed without much challenges. In fact, I will be surprised if it takes the number of years its projected. But the key is starting and pushing forward, and one day in the future this will be completed. And our children and coming generation will thank us for it.

I think those who can't let go of attacking this project should just start coming out and swearing by the gods that they will not use the road or anything connected to it if it ever came to reality.

It is that simple.

Curious345:
https://leadership.ng/how-i-killed-my-cousin-4-others-for-rituals-fruit-seller

The evil that men do...

Oblongata:
Create a pseudonym Twitter account and give the information to their handle.

Wont that tip off the suspects?

epainos:
Lol

Many of these people who write rubbish are mocked outside of Nigeria. Go check out all of the current wealthy nations. They began by developing infrastructure. Whether the economy is in depression or not, we must put structures, roads, railways, and seaways in place. We keep shouting that food is expensive...while farmers complain about bad roads. Consider how much food, oil, and other large items will be transported by rail across the entire region. And then the road will be preserved.

Many people are just educated illiterates in Nigeria.

I don't like Tinubu, I am not his fan... but during the election, I said it clearly that he would build Nigeria like he built Lagos. However, we will have his boys everywhere. Thuggery will reign... and many other bad things. Nigerians prefer him, and they have him. Shikena. Make dem manage am. But building infrastructure is not out of place.

Nigerians are gluttons. They prefer palliatives. Or have them use magic to put food on their table. They do not see the economic value in constructing this railway and road. They will finish it by the grace of God. Tinubu does not have records of abandoned projects. He is a man who chooses a follower to replace him and keep his projects going. The evidence is still in Lagos. He has many flaws, but I believe we should let this phase pass.

To me, let them keep putting infrastructure in place. We have reaped too many benefits from subsidies. Let us make sacrifices for our children and generations to come. Let us sacrifice for them. Even these politicians are embezzling, and we can do nothing. As long as infrastructure like this exists, we will eventually be able to confront corrupt politicians and control corruption.

Finally, it is beneficial to have opposition. While I condemn those who oppose this project, I still appreciate them. Everything requires checking and balancing.

Let us move Nigeria forward.

I think past governments have hidden under the excuse of insufficient fund and priority to abandon development of new capital projects in this country. The fact that our country also lack continuity in government due to absolutely lack of shared master plan discourages most government from embarking on long term projects. So they focus only on repairs and reconstructions ignoring that the demand on infrastructure keeps growing as population and demand exponentially increases.

Truth is there is always never a good or perfect time to embark on such capital projects. That argument is the weakest one from my POV. You can argue for transparency in award, accountability, plan for continuity and sustainability of execution, etc. But to just argue that the project should be postponed into the future is not acceptable to me

naptu2:
Ben Murray-BruceTalks About the Lagos-Calabar Highway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA01B-8vqU?si=PunEAxf0y1Q6nR10

Good advice. They should boycott it. Na so people criticise the blue rail and red line and made fun of it when it even when it finally launched.

There are many good infrastructural ideas on paper for decades that many politicians stylishly avoided claiming they don't have sufficient fund to prosecute or that it is not priority.

At the end the masses sees nothing but hear every time say billions don go