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Theflint1:
Lol, won't put it past FFK to pull a lie out of nowhere, if FFK is truly the origin of the story I'd have a hard time believing it.

Sanusi was jailed for taking part in MKO protest

But I won't be surprised if Abacha would also try to wipe out anyone associated with Sharia sha. Anything that was contrary to his military rule was a target

Theflint1:
FFK isn't the most reliable of sources , but he also made reference to this beheading story, and Sanusi's part in it. Why was Sanusi deemed a threat to national security in 1995, and why do you think he is linked to this story?

FFK is actually the origin of the story and the Radio Biafrans ran with it

That's all you need to know

The timelines and everything are incorrect

Sanusi like all Wahabists are what I would call extremists, but no different to Amoto. He who alleges murder must prove and the timelines already show the story is cock-and-bull

DissTroy:
I was scavenging social media for historical recounts for a certain project so began 'touring' Nigerian and African history Facebook pages and groups. Then I stumbled on this shocking information about Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Apparently, he was one of the murderous beheading Wahabists Abacha was hounding and escaped punishment by whiskers.

https://www.facebook.com/100063691807488/posts/pfbid0UL7ckrP2XxAv28yp6cAJnG5kytDLrSCrBnWVYHiodrxXVHSxXBK5U82TAhiN4nzWl/

Who would have thought our pious and liberal Emir was exactly like Osama Bin Laden 30 years ago? I had no idea. I'm still shocked. Here I was rooting for a murderous religious extremist for years.

Sanusi has been a banker since the 1980s and went to Khartoum in 1991

Sanusi was in jail from June 1995 to June 1996 as a threat to National Security, after which he fled the country, not because of Gideon who died in December 1996

This is an IPOB story

GloriousGbola:
Troll mode activated - Airmark served in enugu? Yoruba men doing it again. You sure say no be airmark thief all the enugu chicks forcing bros okpa to look for German /Iranian bae?

Airmark na one of the so-called Yoruba demon

Theflint1:
So you allowed Raumdeuter that doesn't have his wife in the SE stuck with IPOB miscreants to draw your attention away from the person (BAT) that you ought to be calling and directing your anger towards? It seems you're more interested in dragging Obi than in directing your energy towards a BAT that can do something about the situation.

No allow Airmark whine you. His wife is Igbo and he even served in Enugu. He is an honorary Igbo man

Unlimited22:
Someone who said he did it deliberately as a snide way of pointing fingers at the British, and their inability to adapt to the languages of the colonies, which led to them forcing some of these words and spellings on said colonies.

But I no dey argue today. I'm trying to think of how to get home safe from the hospital when I'm seeing helicopters and trucks of armed men on the road. I never marry yet and I'm an only son.

What of Olaudah Equiano, the first known Igbo man who spelt it as Eboe

Unlimited22:
You people are replying to someone who's wilfully spelling Igbo as Ibo.

Lol.

Leyqute:
There must be something else to it. Will he die if he stops relegating teams? This is ridiculous.

We thank God Boateng career ended like this. At this age, Raumdeuter was shining spotlight on every small mistake Terry did at Chelsea. We told him to wait till Boateng is 33, talkless of 36

Well it's his choice to continue playing. I don't mind players dropping down levels to keep playing if they truly enjoy the game. Some guys just love football and it's their right to be dropping divisions and leagues to continue enjoying the game they love. Although Boateng doesn't strike me as someone playing for love. Maybe he wasted his money

liveLongNprospa:
Bros that train was functional before tinubu.
Na buhari finish am.
Na buhari commission am.
There was a break due to Covid or so and then bandits if I remember.

Lmao..

This is Abuja train not Abuja-Kaduna train so bandits no follow

BTW. I learned that the Abuja-Kaduna train which bandits attacked 2 years ago now undertakes each journey with military helicopter escorting it from the air to forestall bandit attacks. That's what investing in the middle of insecurity does. I can only imagine how much losses each train journey incurs

Itsrm:
Part of the reason the train failed under buhari was because it was projected to have a daily ridership of 34,000 but had less than 1000.

This was partly because there were no access roads leading to the station. It ended up being abandoned and vandals had a swell time carting away valuables.

"Wike" spent 10bn renovating it and another 21bn constructing access roads which Buhari did not have foresight to do.

So like you said, it's good to appreciate people when they do well.

You study Wike as module for university?

larride:
He has oo. Dogecoin investors even sued him.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/02/investing/elon-musk-dogecoin-lawsuit

There was even another one that It was reported that he sold another $250m through proxy wallets.

Na wa oh

larride:
Na from Elon playbook him copy ham from now.

No be so Elon pump Doge Coin with different announcement and stories before cashing out over $300m and dumping the coin?

I don't think Elon has ever cashed out his Doge

The only thing I ever saw was Tesla selling their Bitcoin, and they even did so at loss

A40:
Dems have made a critical error. Trump's donation site don crash.

Now they've made him a martyr. You have moderates that also see through this whole sham of a trial.

Biden has mostly been a failure and so this whole trial and the fact that most people feel it's political means the support for Trump is about to explode

Donations don't necessarily mean moderates have been fired up. It's his base that will be fired up to donate, and he's never struggled getting them to donate after one scandal or another.

TemporaryHansel:
Lmao.

@Ibime you’re right. This man doesn’t know the implications of what he’s doing.

Elon done hold am for blocks

WizKid is taking screenshots as we speak. Next time Davido start any roforofo, this picture will come out

Political Sporting Directors

Enzo done turn to shekpe keeper, managers coming and going to unlock Enzo like they did with Torres

We saw the difference clearly at season end. My only hope for Enzo is if they make him sit as DM and leave Caicedo as CM, otherwise money done enter voicemail.

TemporaryHansel:
Anyways, the ANC is leading with about 43% percent, while DA is on 24% or thereabouts, Jacob Zuma’s party is on 9.3%, while malema’s party is on 8.5. About 40% of the total votes from the polling centers have been counted so far. A lot of South Africans on Twitter are wailing about the DA’s numbers, claiming the blacks that voted for them are traitors.

I’ve observed all the parties, and I believe the DA will be the best for SA tbh. If the ANC is left in power, the retrogression of the South African economy will continue, but sentiments and emotions won’t allow South Africans to allow the right people to lead them( Same problem we are facing in Nigeria).

I just spoke with one of my South African uncle (my dad's friend) now who lived under Apartheid and he was lamenting that it's young people like his son supporting DA and that if they witnessed apartheid, they will never vote DA

But Malema low scores shock me sha. E be like na for Tiktok him popularity end

TemporaryHansel:
He is popular. However, the fact that you’re popular/well known doesn’t mean people believe in your ideals. Elections are a mostly a battle of ideals( except in shitholes like Nigeria sha, because the electorates don’t give a fvck about any ideals)

Of course we know he is popular and well known. Many Africans even like SOME of his positions. But his other positions are so shocking and alarming, you will know that electing him will lead to catastrophe

Who get update from South Africa election sef

I been think say Julius Malema popularity pass 9% for there

Singapore1:
Reason why they said opposition is dead in Nigeria. If I were Article and Obey I would fund him by proxy

Atiku shouted him out before but he no dey comot hand for pocket for the guy. Nothing pays like working for Government. Opposition only spends after they have won ticket, but Government spends day in, day out and year in, year out.

PDP Governors have obviously lost hope and are focussed only on local politics since Wike left them, not national issues.

TemporaryHansel:
Davido don start again. Anybody that foolishly puts in money this time because of optimism, and start crying later on, deserve to be shot.

I don't think Davido even knows how to log in to wallet, or know the implication of what he is doing. He has a hungry man on his team running things and besmirching his reputation. He is most likely agreeing to it without knowing the ramifications

Atiku and Obi should fund this mans journalism. No wonder Reno had to switch sides like Sol Campbell

Appleyard:
Self delusion is a disease worst than ALS.

There was never a multipolar world as far as western economic and political diktats are concerned. At least, not until the unprecedented economic rise of China since the past two decades to the present time, and the military reassertiveness of present-day Russia, a decade after the demise of the Soviet Union. The combination of these two is causing a global shift, giving nations that were once subjugated and unable to take daring steps the freedom to live free from the shackles of western gunboat diplomacy. Now, so-called dictators like Assad can stay in power because powers like Russia says so when the west says he must go. That's multipolarism. African nations can now dare to kick out French and US military bases from their countries because they got the backing of Russia and China driving the multipolar world, something that was unthinkable many years ago. That's multipolarism. Dozens of nations are now running to join BRICS because it gives them the yardstick to at least act independently as sovereign nations, on equal terms and respect to their statehood, away from the US-led western economic and political chokehold.
Multipolarism undermines the US-led western diabolic and oppressive economic and political hegemony. Take it or leave it, multipolarism is real, is alive, and is here to stay.

No, you're not allowed to trade oil in any currency other than the USD via the Brentton Wood arrangement, and the US made sure of that, especially against third-world states. Saddam tried it, and Qaddafi attempted it, and we all knew what happened to them. Stop making excuses for the west who are not even hiding their evil deeds anymore.

The dollar is declining in use and that's a fact. Nations that are pivoting away from the dollar don't give a dime about benchmarking in it. Your analysis are warped. India just inked a huge deal with Russia on oil in billions. And guess what? It was settled completely in Rubles. In fact. JP Morgan reported that in 2023, a fifth of all oil crossborder trades were done in non-dollar currencies. And that trend is increasing to other commodities as we speak. Nations are now actively seeking alternatives to the dollar in order to safeguard themselves from the US weaponizing it. If BRICS comes up with a form of currency next year as being envisaged, the dollar global usage would plummet even further.

China is a parasite to the USA? Just as the USA is pathetically dependent on China to stay competitive in the consumer goods market. Yellen was in Beijing last month practically begging China to not overproduce goods so theirs can stay competitive. LMAO. Even Ursula has been dispatched by the EU to China on the same topic. I don't even know what to say to you on this.... The earlier you realise that western hegemony is declining along with their "soft power" the better for your sense of reality. China isn't responsible for the pathetic US supply chains problem and deteriorating infrastructure that's fast looking like the Eleventh plague of Biblical Egypt. In fact, USA and the collective west now relies more on China than China relies on them.

Japan, Hong-Kong, South Korea and a host of the nations you posted up there aren't the west. You're losing it Ibime.

China had been conducting deals lately in currency other than the dollar. Last year and early this year, it performed a huge trade deal with UAE, Russia, and Iran in currencies that does not include the dollar. Not to mention it recent dumping of billions of dollars worth of US bonds. China says you can shove your financial suicide myopic assertions down your western blinded jingoistic make-belief.

Times have change, and more changes are in the offing. Once again, welcome to multipolarism.

We were talking economics, now you are talking nonsense and rehashing the nonsense in your mind

If oil costs $70 best believe the price paid will be the rupee equivalent of $70. That's benchmarking

China is not accepting rupee, only Russia who have no choice will accept rupee. Imagine calling someone your partner and you can't accept his currency.

The above tired and clichéd diatribe should be crumpled and thrown into the waste bin. I jump and pass

raumdeuter:
I knew this anthem like 30yrs ago

Very easy

Nigeria we hail thee
Our own dear native land
Though tribe and tongue may differ
In brotherhood we stand
Nigerians all are proud to serve
Our sovereign motherland

Me too

Was this supposed to be an alternate anthem?

LordAdam16:
Same place where you denounced 70 years of repressive apartheid state policy on Oct 6.

Germany has been making reparations and restitution payments for more than 70 years to the tune of $86B.
https://apnews.com/article/holocaust-survivor-compensation-fund-germany-0d35aa1cba7756d1b9b6008e9d7841b7
https://www.state.gov/reports/just-act-report-to-congress/germany/

Israel should get its checkbook ready.

But first we will hold your psychopathic overlords accountable and free Palestine from their ghoulish grip.

-Lord

There is no comparison between Israel and Germany who go out of their way to kill ethnic minorities via mass genocide. There is not even any comparison between Israel and UK that bombed German civilians in Dresden without remorse, reducing Dresden to rubble.

Palestinians were supposed to be part of the Israeli state but they attacked Jews on the day Israel was established in 1948. With 700k population each, it was in the interests of Israel's safety to separate them as you cannot live amongst people that want to kill you and match your population on a 1-1 basis. 21% of Israeli citizens are Muslim Arabs even today

I believe in a Palestinian State, and I also believe Israel has been very careful and gone out their way not to deliberately target civilians. At any moment, Israel can flatten Gaza without worrying about civilians if they were intent on ethnic cleansing.

Reno no dey even hide who dey pay am again

https://www.nairaland.com/8108485/one-year-after-tinubu-building

GloriousGbola:
the tourism in lagos is business tourism. businessmen /people coming in for meetings, MOUs, engagements. they are not there for leisure, will usually have mpol and convoy attached to them for the duration of their visit. they will be limited to four star hotels and offices of the partners

leisure tourism, where people come in on their own requires first and foremost SECURITY. how many states in nigeria are on diplomatic warning lists? we have been talking about subsidies on and off. by the fact that tinapa was built by the government, it was a subsidy. and it could unfortunately not stand on its own without government intervention. so any governor after duke, who was not personally invested in tinapa, would come in, look at the numbers and ask why are we doing this? [this assumes they are fiscally literate, because the truth is most governors are interested in their own legacies or monuments)

look at tourists destinations like dubai. they are literally folding themselves into pretzels to accommodate western tourists. are we ready to do this? they banned Nigerians because those robberies will impact on their reputation as a safe haven. meanwhile nigerians see kidnapping of foreigners as a victimless crime. you may have communities conspiring to kidnap any unwitting tourists

and in the end, tourists want what is familiar, their own food, not the cardboard tasting nigerian equivalents that make people who know what teh food should taste like puke

Olwunl01 never still tell us how much profit Tinapa and Obudu were turning those days.

Only a dumb Governor will invest $0.5bln on Tinapa and base his economic blueprint for Niger Delta State on tourism at the height of militancy

Releasing the hostages is a first step toward peace

You can't be holding kidnapped people and begging for peace without releasing them first

Amigoss:
Lmao,what do you mean ...I never give up hope of Nigeria hosting the world cup or Olympics in my lifetime,Holiday Resorts,carnivals in ND and Sport tourism will surely attract FDI..

Tourism is about attracting people with money which for us means International visitors. Making tourism the cornerstone of your economy was a dumb decision in a country without the ability to attract foreign visitors and where the local population in Nigeria lacks the disposable income, especially in the middle of insecurity that was going on at that time in Niger Delta and going on till today. In a state that lacks the supporting industries that make tourism thrive whether it's the food production or transport networks, that was always going to be a white elephant.

If you go to any mass tourism holiday destination today, you expect to have croissants, sausages, bacon etc on your table first thing in the morning, choice of various foreign foods in the afternoon and evening (Italian. Chinese, Paella, Seafood, Cheese, Wine, french pastries) etc with either local production able to meet these needs or imports flowing daily to meet these needs. You will find these in any holiday destination today. Your travel must be VISA free from the developed countries or be able to be bought in the plane quickly or on arrival with no questions asked. Return plane tickets must be £400 and below with direct flights, leaving enough headroom for travel agents to put together a package and pass on profit to the hotel. There are not even foreign flights to Cross River today. All these conditions above are met by holiday destination, even Gambia is meeting these conditions.

You must have supporting activities outside the resort such as water sports, water skiing, windsurfing, swimming with dolphins, helicopter rides etc also, not just lock tourists in a resort with armed soldiers making them feel uncomfortable

Below is Porters diamond (not 5 forces) which determines where countries put their investments. A simple example of the "related and supporting industries" section of Porters diamond is a country renowned in making wine will choose to invest in cheese-making since cheese and wine are often consumed together. "Demand conditions" means you have local demand that can provide a revenue base while you scale up. Calabar had none of these. Duke was a Capital fail.

On the other hand, Lagos knew that their strength lay in Business tourism and real Estate and they capitalised where they had competitive advantage. They saw insecurity in Niger Delta gave them an advantage and they guaranteed security in the Island. They have the port and the International airport, and they can even appeal to the foreign pallette. If you go to the major hotels on the Island today, you will have any European food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Go to Calabar and they will surely be asking you to manage edikaikong.

iamoyindamola:
Donald duke tried bros
Obudu cattle ranch was generating revenue for the state and also employment
It was when he left the whole resort scatter
I think the mistake was not privatizing it

Revenue is not profit

They have always been unprofitable and always been destined to be. Subsequent governors had to drop the costly millstone around their neck.

Only a mumu will think tourism is a competitive advantage of the Niger Delta or Nigeria in general. Porters 5 forces will be crying at Dukes decisions

A001:
Hmmmm. Oga Ibime, how you see Enzo Maresca coming to Chelsea? Can he spring a surprise as a dark horse or he's another Potter in the making?

Looks like a done deal already.

I don't see his track record. Promoting Leicester from. the Championship is an expected feat. On observation node.

Amigoss:
😂😂

Fashola was said to have spent N78.3 million ($390,000) on the upgrade of his official website, N139 million ($700,000) on the drilling of two boreholes at the government secretariat and to have awarded a N640 million ($3.2 million) contract to German engineering firm Julius Berger for the reconstruction of a car park and other associated works at the Lagos House Marina, his official residence.

These are dogs not elephants

Theflint1:
From what I hear, 2007 was actually supposed to be Yaradua and Duke joint ticket, but heard Duke felt he deserved a shot at presidency, and not vice, so it got passed to GEJ....sometimes I wonder how things would have been with a Duke presidency.

Best performing - OBJ and Donald Duke.

Worst performing - Buhari and Lucky Igbinedion.

Donald Duke should never be mentioned with his white elephant Obudu Cattle ranch and Tinapa resort

OBJ and Fashola anyday