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Scammer.spotted. Which oily is that.

Israeli foreign minister says arms embargoes will lead to 'second Holocaust' and end of Israel.

Israel’s foreign minister has said that an arms embargo on his country would lead to the elimination of the Israeli state and “a second Holocaust”.

Gideon Saar was speaking on Tuesday at an international conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem.

"If, God forbid, the calls and actions of countries and politicians for an arms embargo on Israel succeed, the result will be the destruction of Israel and a second Holocaust," he said.

The comments came as Spain this week called on European countries to suspend arms shipments amid Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza.

At a meeting of the “Madrid Group”, Spain’s foreign minister called for an immediate suspension of Europe’s cooperation deal with Israel and an embargo on arms shipments.
Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco and Brazil were among those present at the meeting.

“What is the meaning of actions or statements - by politicians or countries - to impose an arms embargo on Israel?” said Saar, in response.

“If such moves succeed, Israel will simply be destroyed. There will be another Holocaust - on the soil of the land of Israel.”

“This is essentially a way to deprive the Jewish people of the means to defend themselves. Means that they so lacked during the long years of exile and during the Holocaust.”

The largest suppliers of weapons to Israel are the United States, Germany and Italy.

Several nations, including France, Spain and the UK, have either paused the supply of some weapons, or have suspended export licences.

A report earlier this month found that the UK continued to send a wide range of arms to Israel even after the government suspended 30 arms export licences in September.

The UK, France and Canada have threatened Israel with sanctions if it fails to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter.

"We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions," the countries said jointly on 20 May.

"If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response."

The three countries also urged Israel to halt settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying they are "illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians".

In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the three governments of emboldening Hamas and being “on the wrong side of justice”.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed more than 54,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 120,000 since October 2023.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-foreign-minister-says-arms-embargoes-will-lead-second-holocaust

The problem with nafdac is corruption.

APC have taught most Nigerians criminality is the only way.

Why is it that when nafdac have been called out, all this shit is coming too.

2027.Nigerians vs APC

Shameful.

APC is a criminal entity. If you judge by the cases opposition win against APC is 10 to 0. Meaning the system is rigged.

Under APC election doesn't count. Only the person selected counts.

Don't let detractors pull you down. You are blessed.

So so sad. So who should we believe APC says Nigeria is getting safer under tinubu.

But the reality is obvious.

Where is Shetimma

The thing about this security is worrisome.
Imagine the Nigeria army don't have reconnaissance drone.

So how are they going to fight Bandits in the forest by mouth.

Nadine Yousif
Role,BBC News
Reporting from
Ottawa
28 May 2025

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he wants his country to join a major European plan to bolster defences by 1 July.

Speaking to CBC on Tuesday, Carney said he hoped Canada would sign on to ReArm Europe - a plan to dramatically increase defence spending on the continent to in the next five years - in a bid to reduce reliance on the US.

"Seventy-five cents of every (Canadian) dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That's not smart," Carney told the public broadcaster.

His remarks come amid tension with the US after threats from President Donald Trump - though Carney has also previously said he is open to joining a missile defence project proposed by Trump.

A day after Carney's remarks, Canada's defence minister told a military trade show that his country wanted to quickly boost defence capacity in the face of growing global threats.

"The global security environment is today volatile and uncertain," said defence minister David McGuinty on Wednesday, citing Russia's war in Ukraine, as well as a more assertive China.

McGuinty said there would be a future focus on the Arctic, where competing nations were challenging Canada's sovereignty.

Defence also featured on Tuesday in the Speech from the Throne - an event that opened the new parliament and outlined the sitting government's agenda.

The address was read in person by King Charles III, Canada's monarch, as part of a royal visit that was designed to highlight Canada's identity and sovereignty.

The speech contained commitments to "rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting" in Canada's military.

It also outlined the government's goal of strengthening defence relationships with European allies, and made mention of joining the ReArm Europe plan.

The remarks by Canadian officials come after Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said he expected members of his Western defence alliance - including Canada - to grow their annual defence spending to a level equivalent to 5% of each nation's GDP.

The Nato target was previously 2% of GDP, but Rutte said members must prepare to defend themselves from increasingly powerful adversaries like Russia and China.

"Russia has teamed up with China, North Korea and Iran," Rutte told a Nato forum in the US on Monday. "They are expanding their militaries and their capabilities. They are preparing for long-term confrontation."

The plan to increase Nato's spending target still has to be approved by member-country leaders, who are set to meet in the Netherlands in late June.

Canada has long faced pressure for failing to meet Nato targets, and was accused last year by US House Speaker Mike Johnson of "riding on America's coattails".

Canadian business leaders have also called on their government to majorly boost spending in the defence industry, touting this as a way to boost the economy.

In Wednesday's remarks, McGuinty told defence industry representatives that Carney's government would prioritise procuring military technology and equipment from Canadian companies.

Last week, Carney said that "high-level" talks were also taking place with the US about joining Trump's Golden Dome missile defence system. The King's throne speech noted that Canada wanted to continue talks with the US on security on trade.

The US president posted on his Truth Social network later on Tuesday evening that the Golden Dome project would cost Canada US$61bn "if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation."

"But will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State," he added, repeating his often-repeated view that Canada should be absorbed by the US. "They are considering the offer!" he claimed.

In response, Carney's office said in a statement that the prime minister "has been clear at every opportunity, including in his conversations with President Trump, that Canada is an independent, sovereign nation, and it will remain one".

Meanwhile, Canada's UN ambassador reposted the US president's comment on X with the response: "In another context this would called a 'protection racket'."


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What the U.S. Feared Is Happening: China’s Chip Empire Is No Longer a Fantasy—Huawei and Xiaomi Just Opened a New Front

When Washington imposed sweeping sanctions on Chinese tech firms in 2019, the move was seen as a decisive step to curtail China’s growing dominance in advanced technologies. Companies like Huawei Technologies Co. were banned from procuring crucial components from American firms such as Qualcomm and Intel, severing their access to the most advanced semiconductors. But six years later, the strategy appears to have yielded unintended consequences.
Rather than stall Beijing’s momentum, the embargo has accelerated a sweeping campaign of technological self-reliance. The Chinese government has poured billions of yuan into semiconductor research, education, and local manufacturing. While Chinese-made chips still trail their foreign competitors in performance, recent developments suggest that the gap is narrowing — and fast.

A Surprise Comeback in Shenzhen
In August 2023, Huawei unveiled the Mate 60 Pro, a smartphone powered by a chip few believed China could manufacture under current restrictions. The Kirin 9000S, designed in-house and produced by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), marked a major milestone: for the first time since the sanctions, a Chinese firm had launched a device with a domestically made advanced processor.
The device quickly became a symbol of China’s resilience in the face of trade pressure. While the chip is not fabricated at the 3-nanometer or 5-nanometer scale used by competitors in Taiwan and South Korea, it demonstrates China’s ability to produce relatively high-performance components with limited foreign input. The phone’s release, described by industry observers as a “surprise” and even a source of “concern” in Washington, sent a clear signal: the sanctions may have forced China to adapt faster than anticipated.


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https://indiandefencereview.com/the-u-s-china-chip-empire-huawei-and-xiaomi-just-opened-a-new-front/

. This is crazy. You useless cultist go and ight the herdsmen.

Good Nonsense. 10 years of APC and Nigerians can not feed, they cant travel. No qualms I have my voters card.

Yoruba appointing yoruba. Government of yoruba. Nigeria is gone.

This India this India that is getting stall already

Nigeria the country that glorifys money over the source.

Only in Nigeria a known thief will be exalted.

It's too. Late for that, apologise to Joe Biden he was handling the situation well.

One of the down sides of America 🇺🇸 first. It has encouraged other nationals to self reliance.

The U.S. and Israeli governments are reportedly unhappy with Japan’s involvement in the GCAP sixth-generation fighter development program, led jointly by the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan.

This is reported by the Infodefensa with reference to Intelligence Online.

According to Infodefensa, Washington is pressuring Tokyo through diplomatic and economic channels — including potential threats to bilateral security cooperation — over Japan’s participation in the program.


The United States is said to be concerned about the level of autonomy Japan would gain through GCAP. Since the end of World War II, Japan has relied heavily on American designs and technology for its defense aviation. But in 2020, Tokyo broke from that tradition by launching its own F-X program to replace its F-2 fighters, a derivative of the U.S. F-16C.

In November 2022, Japan reached an agreement with the UK and Italy to merge its efforts with the British Tempest program, forming the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP). The program aims to produce a sixth-generation fighter jet by 2035.

Israeli intelligence services have also reportedly sought to influence the program over concerns that Saudi Arabia may eventually join.
Riyadh signed a declaration of intent to participate in March 2023. In November 2024, Italy’s foreign minister acknowledged the possibility of Saudi involvement.

While sources cited by Intelligence Online did not detail Israel’s actions, the report suggests pressure is being applied amid geopolitical sensitivities.



Meanwhile, GCAP partners are seeking to capitalize on divisions with the United States, including tensions triggered by former President Donald Trump’s confrontational approach to allies. Canada and Portugal were reportedly briefed on GCAP after their defense ministries said they were exploring alternatives to the planned procurement of American F-35 fighters.

GCAP
GCAP (Global Combat Air Program) is a trilateral initiative by the UK, Italy and Japan to jointly develop a sixth-generation combat aircraft. While the airframe will be common, each country is expected to equip the aircraft with different radar, sensors, weapons, and mission systems.

The program merges the UK’s Tempest project, Italy’s efforts centered around Leonardo, and Japan’s F-X initiative. Key industrial partners include BAE Systems (UK), Leonardo (Italy), and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan). Engine development is being led by Rolls-Royce, Japan’s IHI Corporation, and other leading manufacturers.


In July 2024, BAE Systems began assembly of the first Tempest prototype, with completion expected by 2026. The aircraft design has been approved by both BAE and the UK Royal Air Force. The first flight is scheduled for 2027.




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I don't expect any reasonable outcome from this meeting.

Most people think PDP is unserious because they are ignorant of Nigerias predicament.

As long as the judiciary is under the beck and call of APC, PDP like most opposition party are suffering from judiciary manipulation.

Wike has been suspended indefinitely by PDP but Judiciary keeps reinstating him.

Very unfortunate. Islamist in any form is bad

Deborah comes to mind, if the police had dealt a deadly blow to the culprits. They won't try this shit.

Protest is different from jihad.

What are we supposed to do with this news. :

As a footballer, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas seemed destined for greatness. But a drug-smuggling conviction has left his career and reputation in tatters. How did things unravel so dramatically for a player once tipped for the top?

Hailed by legendary Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as a footballer who could "play anywhere", Emmanuel-Thomas was marked out early on as having elite potential.

Imposing, technically gifted and surprisingly agile, the striker appeared to have the world at his feet.

But a career that promised so much at Arsenal faltered and saw him spend years flitting between the second and third tiers of English football.

In 2020 he moved to play in Scotland and was still plying his trade north of the border when, on 18 September, he was arrested at his home in Gourock, near Glasgow.

Sixteen days earlier, Border Force officers had stopped two women at London Stansted Airport and found drugs in their cases.

It was not a minor haul; they were staring at cannabis with a street value of £600,000.

How did it get there? The evidence soon led detectives to Emmanuel-Thomas

Wind back a decade and a half, and things were very different.

It is 26 May 2009, and Arsenal's latest batch of academy talents can barely contain their excitement.

The young prospects, including Jack Wilshere and Francis Coquelin, have just won the FA Youth Cup.

One player in particular has stood out: their 16-year-old captain, Emmanuel-Thomas, who has scored in every round of the competition.

"These young men have a very bright future indeed," remarked one commentator.

But despite going on to make five first-team appearances, it was not quite to be for Emmanuel-Thomas.


He was shipped out on several loans before leaving the north London club for Ipswich Town.

It was a move that excited supporters in Suffolk, who were keen to see what the former Arsenal starlet could produce.

However, 71 games and eight goals later, Emmanuel-Thomas had not quite made the mark fans hoped for, and he moved to Bristol City in a player exchange deal.
Here, he helped the Robins secure promotion to the Championship and became something of a cult hero, scoring 21 goals in his first season.

A move to Queens Park Rangers followed, with subsequent loan spells at MK Dons and Gillingham.

But in 2019, Emmanuel-Thomas accepted a transfer to a Thai-based team that would alter the course of his life.

It is believed he was tempted into the country's drugs underworld while playing for PTT Rayong, a club that folded in the same year.

Despite later moves to an Indian side and several Scottish outfits, including Aberdeen, Emmanuel-Thomas never shook off the criminal connections he made.

By the time he took a six-month contract at Greenock Morton, a 40-minute drive from Glasgow, the game was almost up
As he lined up for them against Queens Park on 14 September, he would have surely known the law was about to catch up with him.

The women arrested at Stansted were his 33-year-old girlfriend, Yasmin Piotrowska, and her friend Rosie Rowland, 28.

Emmanuel Thomas, by then 33, appeared in court charged with orchestrating the attempted importation of drugs, and was sacked by his club.

Detectives discovered he had duped Ms Piotrowska, from north-west London, and Ms Rowland, from Chelmsford, into travelling to Thailand with the promise of £2,500 in cash and an all-expenses-paid trip.

Their job? To bring home two suitcases each, filled with what they were assured was gold, Chelmsford Crown Court heard

They flew business class from Bangkok, landing in Essex via Dubai.

Unknown to them, they were smuggling in cannabis with a street value of £600,000, vacuum-packed inside the four cases.

The pair were stopped and arrested by Border Force officers, before being charged with drug importation offences.

With the pair in custody, and Emmanuel-Thomas later remanded, police probed how the drugs made it to the UK.

They soon found the player was the intermediary between suppliers in Thailand and dealers in the UK, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).

With the footballer's encouragement, the women had also made a near-identical trip in July, having been made similar promises of cash and a lavish holiday.

On his way to custody, Emmanuel-Thomas even told NCA officers: "I just feel sorry for the girls."




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I remember you saying obasa should forget returning as speaker. But I guessed it shocked you he returned.

helinues:
Anyone putting Seyi Tinubu as a potential governorship aspirant in Lagos state in 2027 is purely a political noob

Fraudulent initiative by fraud masters. You want nnpcl to bank roll you thrashy exploration at the cost of foreign currency..

The hunt for the soul of Lagos heats up.

Though the race for Lagos State governorship is still two years away, the gladiators are already girding their loins in readiness for a battle royale. Political stakeholders and groups across the state of aquatic splendour are already rooting for their preferred candidates.

Among the names already generating buzz are Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Tinubu; Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the president and former Speaker of the House of Representatives; Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly and other heavyweights.
But ahead of the election, the importance of the IBILE factor in Lagos has come to the fore like never before. Lagos is organised into five administrative districts, collectively called IBILE, namely Ikorodu, Badagry, Ikeja, Lagos Island, and Epe.

Society Watch reliably gathered that the political kingmakers in the state, particularly in the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), are already having sleepless nights on the best way out of the seemingly difficult task of picking the best candidate.

While Gbajabiamila’s sterling record as a seasoned legislator, rising to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chief of Staff to the president put him head and shoulder above the others, his age has become a factor. Gbajabiamila will be 64 in 2027, and reportedly seen to be ‘too old’ to govern a state so “complex and fast-moving like Lagos.”

However, his supporters are upbeat about his chances and are said to be banking on his close ties to the president and long-standing political experience, which they believe make him a strong contender for the plum job.




https://www.thisdaylive.com/2025/05/25/lagos-2027-tinubu-gbajabiamila-obasa-others-top-list-for-plum-job/?amp

Anything Tinubu reeks of corruption..

I hope he is not going there to pick another wife

Drop this act old man. Are you blind not to see the elephant in the room

Any talk of development without addressing. The long detention of nnamdi Kanu amounts to futility.

For progress or development one needs peace and peace is a mutual. Consent.

Rest in power and grace. '' Thou knowest''

Good move from the true Democrats. Mind your fences and forge a robust coalition that will kick that despot out.

Federal judge halts Trump administration ban on Harvard’s ability to enroll international students

CNN

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

US District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled hours after the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college filed suit Friday. Harvard argued revocation of its certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was “clear retaliation” for its refusal of the government’s ideologically rooted policy demands.

Burroughs is the same judge considering a separate lawsuit from Harvard challenging the administration’s freeze of $2.65 billion in federal funding.
Harvard University is opening a new front in its legal battle against the Trump administration, filing suit in federal court Friday in response to the government’s move to revoke the school’s ability to enroll international students.


Federal judge halts Trump administration ban on Harvard’s ability to enroll international students


A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.


US District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled hours after the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college filed suit Friday. Harvard argued revocation of its certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was “clear retaliation” for its refusal of the government’s ideologically rooted policy demands.

Burroughs is the same judge considering a separate lawsuit from Harvard challenging the administration’s freeze of $2.65 billion in federal funding.

Harvard University is opening a new front in its legal battle against the Trump administration, filing suit in federal court Friday in response to the government’s move to revoke the school’s ability to enroll international students.


The complaint by the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institution of higher education argues the decision Thursday to drop the school from the Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program violates the law.

“It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students,” the complaint states.

Harvard is asking for a temporary restraining order against the order from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“Effective immediately, countless academic programs, research laboratories, clinics, and courses supported by Harvard’s F-1 and J-1 visa students have been thrown into disarray,” the motion says. “Immediate relief is necessary.”

The Trump administration’s revocation of Harvard’s ability to enroll international students came as sharp punishment to the elite institution for refusing to bow to White House policy demands. Rooted in political ideology, the requirements – such as handing over student disciplinary records and killing equity initiatives – also have been placed on other US colleges.

“Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status,” the US Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.


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