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Henry120: Nigeria

What i don't understand is if the sbs actually wears this blue camouflage pattern on operation. I have seen pictures of them wearing it in mali and borno. Does this camouflage pattern do well to hide the sbs operatives in those enviroments?

#Fresh air

nice outfit.

nice work by the surgeons.

if souls are energy beings, what is a spirit?

September 23, 2013: These are
bad times for Nigeria. The
continuing Boko Haram
violence in the north and
growing proof of massive oil
revenue loss ($6 billion a year, at least) from theft down
south has led to a the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) splintering into factions
accusing each other of
corruption and incompetence. Well publicized and energetic
efforts to halt oil theft in the
Niger Delta have failed, despite
very visible military efforts to
find oil thieves out in the
swamps, arrest them and seize their boats and crude oil
refineries. The problem, as
always is the corruption. Who
guards the guards? Boats
seized by the troops are
sometimes spotted back in use by other gangs of oil thieves.
When arrested, oil thieves
complain that their efforts are
nothing compared to what the
politicians and oil companies
steal. There’s a certain amount of truth to that, but the oil
thieves who tap into pipelines
waste 70 percent of the oil
that comes out of those
punctures. These oil thieves
live in the area and now their robberies are the major cause
of oil pollution. The tribes
demand compensation for the
ecological damage from the oil
companies who blame the
government for not being able to control the pipeline attacks
and the resulting leaks. Oil theft related arrests in the
Niger Delta usually involve
shutting down thieves who do
not have a politician sponsor
(who takes a cut of the profits
for providing protection). The foreign oil companies that run
the drilling and pipeline
operations are threatening to
leave if something is not done
about the oil theft gangs. The
stealing has become so extensive that daily
production fell from 2.3 million
barrels a day to about two
million this year. This is
despite efforts to increase
production. The government hoped to increase production
to 3.7 million barrels a day.
The previous peak was 2.6
million barrels a day seven
years ago (before the Niger
Rebels got going and oil theft became a much larger
problem). It proved impossible
to get back to 2.6 million but
production might get back to
2.4 million barrels a day. That
will be difficult because oil theft is now all the rage in the
Niger Delta and the popular
enthusiasm for it is not
slowing down. In addition to the oil thieves
investigators have
documented decades of theft
from oil profits once they are
in government bank accounts.
The thefts from pipelines and government bank accounts
has amounted to over $10
billion a year in the last
decade. The annual GDP of
Nigeria is $238 billion, for a
population of 165 million ($ 1,440 per capita). Oil accounts
for about 14 percent of GDP
and unemployment is
currently about 25 percent.
These revelations document
what a lot a lot of Nigerians had known for a long time.
The theft is so pervasive (40
percent of refined petroleum
products are stolen) that the
activity is hard to miss.
Eliminating the stealing has been difficult because most
politicians and political parties
are financed by stolen oil
money. The well-funded
thieves are organized and
determined to hang on to their wealth. Judges and police can
be bought and many oil
thieves have already been
prosecuted and escaped via
bribes. But there is progress.
The oil thieves are under attack, some do lose, but the
war will go on for years and
there will be a lot of obstacles. Nigeria is also seen by
international crime experts as
the center for organized crime
in Africa. The culture of
corruption makes it easier for
major criminal enterprises to survive in Nigeria. Even
without all the oil wealth to
steal, the Moslem north also
suffered from this culture of
corruption, which is the main
reason for the appearance of Boko Haram. While these
Islamic radicals blame the
corruption on Western
influences, the north was
corrupt long before European
colonialists showed up two centuries ago. The corruption
is worse now because there’s
more to steal and the
participation of so many
senior government and
commercial officials makes it easier to launder money and
get it out of the country. The Islamic-terrorist related
violence in the north has left
over 500 dead in the last
month and nearly 4,000 in the
last four years. Security forces
have driven Boko Haram out of the cities but the Islamic
radicals have regrouped in
rural areas and are attacking
towns and people travelling
along the main roads. While
most Moslems in the north would like all the violence to
stop, and blame Boko Haram
for causing most of it, there is
still a lot of anger at the
corruption and incompetence,
especially in the security forces. September 20, 2013: In the
capital seven people died
when police raided a location
believed to contain Boko
Haram weapons. Police said
there was resistance and that weapons were found and 12
Boko Haram men were
arrested. The location had
been obtained by
interrogating two Boko Haram
men arrested earlier. However, some witnesses said the raid
was all about a hundred
squatters and the police
opened fire to clear them out
of the building, later inventing
the Boko Haram story to justify the deaths. September 17, 2013: In the
northeast (Borno state, near
Maiduguri) Boko Haram, some
of them dressed in army
uniforms, attacked two towns
while also setting up roadblocks, stopping vehicles
and killing those trying to flee.
At least 159 people died over
three days. The Islamic
terrorists robbed their victims
and in one case tried to steal a heavily guarded cash shipment
for banks. The attacks were
meant to intimidate the
increasingly anti-Boko Haram
population and discourage
men from joining pro- government militias. September 14, 2013: In the
north (Adamawa state) the
army admitted that four of
eleven Boko Haram suspects
recently arrested with the help
of civilian militias had died in custody. In nearby Borno state
a mob of militiamen killed a
policeman who had killed a
militiaman earlier during a
traffic dispute. September 12, 2013: The army
claims to have raided a Boko
Haram camp, killing 150
Islamic terrorists while losing
25 soldiers. Other sources
indicate a Boko Haram ambush that left over 40 troops dead
followed by an army
counterattack that left many
terrorists dead. Many of the
dead “Boko Haram” may have
been civilians as the army tends to shoot anyone when
they are angered over their
own losses.

The su-35bm is a nice alternative.

No, until everyone becomes a sunni

macof: Am shocked as so many people embrace foreign religions with their lives. Lemme tell u one thing about these Abrahmic religions, they are racist and tribalist who believe they are special in the eyes of God and others are doomed. The Jews were hard core tribalist as they discriminated against their neighbours eg. Samaritans. Early Jewish Christians didn't allow gentiles to convert unless they first became Jews and embraced Jewish culture much like Islam who require u to embrace Arab culture. Solomon was a Jew but not a discriminating one, he learnt that God is ithe same and allowed his wives practise their religions but the Israelites saw it has backsliding. Every religion(at least the ones I know)recognises one supreme God, creator of heaven from whom all energy is derived. The difference is how the religions reach him, some reach him through other gods(his first borns), some through the son of men eg. Christians and Buddhists while some believe to reach him directly eg. Jews and Muslims. How can u call a religion that recognises the same God u recognise evil? U people have contracted that racist behaviour from your Arab and Jewish masters. And now believe your own religious views are superior to others(which is wrong). Now to the use of Idols, most pagan religions don't worship them as in the craven image but rather worship wat it represents, It's difficult to worship something that has no physical representation so they make idols to fill that space. Btw Catholics practise as much idolatry as Pagans. learn and understand matters before u judge. Thank Eledumare that some people are even going back to their religions and soon the world would be liberated from all this Mental slavery

A little away from the topic, but would you agree that the son of man is a reincarnation of a first born god?

i know hollywood movies that carry lamer titles. You people should watch the movie before condemning it.

ichidodo: So because he is yoruba, i should celebrate second best,Second best?!

Irritant.

REALITY101: Who's gonna eat those dirty rice?

The same people that eat rice from east asian swamps.

Front page.

This is just another proof that much the rebels in syria are not syrians but foriegn terrorists

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This is good news, i can only imagine the amount of abdulsalams secrets that al hamza has.

i thought sss already does phone tapping

Ezinne Okwuosa is the most beautifull, opeyemi sogunros picture is flawed.

it is obvious that some people don't know the difference between dredging and sandfilling.

i would like it if she gives the speech in a nigerian language.

BY MICHAEL EBOH and WILLIAM
JIMOH Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc has
stated that it is awaiting the
approval of the Federal
Government to enable it
deliver a portion of its 50
mega watts of electricity to businesses around Apapa and
also to the national grid. Mr. Paul Gbededo, Group
Managing Director, Flour Mills
Nigeria, who disclosed this at
a press conference in Lagos,
said the 50 megawatts
currently generated by its gas and diesel power generators is
in excess of its 32 mega watts
requirements and it intends to
sell the excess capacity to its
neighbours around Apapa,
while the others will be supplied to the national grid. He said, “If we get the
approval from the Federal
Government, we will supply to
our environment and if there is
excess, we will deliver it to
the national grid.” He further stated that the
company plans to increase its
earning capacity in the years
ahead with continuous
investment in new milling
technology and new acquisitions.

[quote author=Sir.lucky]@nelly, or what ever. you are such an undiluted waste, In terms of mordern development in difference sector Nigeria is not half close to china, china have one of the most powerful advance technology in the world. Research about that.[/quote]Hey blinddude, my name is not nelly. Even if china is twice as developed as Nigeria, that does not make china a developed country. Chinese space program dates back to the 1950s, a time when their level of infrastructural development was not even up to our own.

by the time electricity becomes stable in Nigeria, the general cost of living would fall and you would not believe that it is the same nigeria we used to know.

its just very easy to that the 3km is an understatement, if you fill a 4metres long, 130 millimetre diameter rocket with odinary gunpowder, point it to the sky and light it up ,i'm sure it would even exceed 4km.

if the muscles are located in her lower body, just convince her to join your jugging regimen. But if on her upper body, buy her skipping ropes.

Nelly Ghenghen: China, japan and north korea became developed nations before they started building, missiles, rockets and shit. Y won't naija use all these resources on more pressing issues, like an efficient transport system (metro,city buses e.t.c), education, electricity, infrastructure and the well being of its citizens. what do we need a f*cking rocket for at this time? smh

China and north korea are not developed countries.

Nigeria has already overtaken southafrica.

Syria's leaders on Tuesday accepted a Russian proposal to hand over its chemical weapons. Syrian state television and Russia's Interfax
news agency reported this development, a day after the idea came up in an off-the-cuff comment by US Secretary of State John Kerry. However, details such as where the arms would go, who would safeguard them and how the world could be certain that Syria had handed over its entire stockpile of chemical weapons, are yet to be worked out. The US, France, Great Britain and other nations have accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons repeatedly in its two-year-old civil war; the latest of such incidents being the death of over a 1000 persons on August 21. Syrian officials have repeatedly denied the allegations and blamed rebel forces. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem announced Syria's decision on Tuesday and was quoted by Interfax as saying he had had a fruitful round of talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. There have been several reactions to this announcement around the world. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France would present a proposal on the handover to the UN Security Council on but added that it would not accept delays in the transfer. Fabius said, "We need quick results." European Union Foreign Affairs Secretary, Catherine Ashton, expressed support for France's plan to bring the issue to the Security Council. She added, "The proposal now needs to be fully worked up as quickly as possible." Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, a proponent of a military strike on Syria, lauded the idea as worth exploring despite his skepticism. "I'm very, very skeptical," McCain told the CNN. "But the fact is, you can't pass up this opportunity — if it is one." McCain is one of the key players crafting the Senate resolution, which would be an alternative to the use-of-force resolution proposed by the administration. It would allow the president to deploy US forces against Syria if the United Nations doesn't pass a resolution that condemns the attack, says it was "committed by the Syrian regime" and sets a deadline to hand over the weapons. The senators have not decided whether the resolution would include limits on the use of U.S. force, such as sending troops to the country. British Prime Minister David Cameron said, "The world needs to test if the Syrian arms handover is genuine and not just a delaying tactic. "We need to know that there's a proper timetable for doing this, if there'd be a proper process for doing it, and crucially there'd have to be consequences if it wasn't done."