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That is not a SARS uniform of the NPF,

The OP displays symptoms of one who suffers from catastrophic thinking disorder vis ( https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning.../how-put-stop-catastrophic-thinking )

Him, along with his barn of about 50 braying alpacas ,move from thread to thread regardless of topic, to spout the same inane garbage over and over,.. these trolls have no message, their mission is to sew discord and confusion,. fifth columnists, to cause crisis by overwhelming and drowning out meaningful conversations and debates on this once great forum.

we know you, we know this strategy, unfortunately the proprietor has allowed wanton abuse of cerebral exchange by employing mods who are better suited to managing 10 member blogging sites,. earning more clicks perhaps..but at what cost?

back to OP... your ethnic and religious diatribes will only work on the weak minded ( we have plenty of them here), Nigeria as a nation state has swallowed a million of your kind and still persists, subsists and exists... and will be here eons after subversives like you have become earth fodder from which a greener/vibrant composition of itself will emerge...

"we dont believe you- you need more people"

Emmanuel Ogebe

Long before I arrived in the United States in 1997 on political asylum, I’d heard the apocryphal story of the visiting African who was asked by an American whether it was “true that Africans live on trees?”

The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: “Yes, it is true, and the U.S. Embassy is the biggest hut next to my hut!”

It was funny then, until my friend was asked that same question at her school in Washington. President Trump’s reported statement that when Nigerians see America they never want to go back to “their huts” is downright appalling.

I came here in exile as a young human rights lawyer who had been imprisoned and tortured by a brutal military dictator. In recent years, I have helped a number of victims of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram come to the U.S.

These were simply Christian schoolgirls who had jumped out of Boko Haram’s trucks after they were abducted with hundreds of classmates from their school in the northeastern community of Chibok in April 2014. They were not here because of the American dream. They just wanted to be somewhere, anywhere, they could go to school and not be abducted, raped, converted to Islam or used as suicide bombers. Boko Haram has a set a world record for the most suicide bombers in history — 80% of whom have been women and children.

Ironically, Trump’s remarks undercut his position with a group that has traditionally favored him and the GOP. In Nigeria, Trump is popular for standing up to Islamist terrorism. Strangely enough, even people who dislike Trump are amused he beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who they blame for failing to take action against Boko Haram terrorism and ultimately for foisting Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim, on Nigeria as its president. The optic of former Obama advisor David Axelrod serving as a consultant to Buhari’s campaign was perceived as a Hillary/Obama endorsement of his candidacy.

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Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)
Jos, the city in northern Nigeria where I was born, is also the birthplace of many missionary kids from America, Canada and England, many of whom are proud of this fact and have asked me if this entitles them to Nigerian citizenship. The oldest American high school on the continent of Africa is located there. The Chibok school, from which the 276 schoolgirls were abducted, was built by American missionaries 70 years ago last year.

Today, as Africa’s most populous country and biggest economy, Nigeria is the United States’ largest trading partner on the continent. Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Exxon Mobil are just a couple of American companies that have extensive dealings in Nigeria, once the fifth-largest oil supplier to the United States. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former President Clinton are other prominent Americans who have earned income in Nigeria through business transactions and speaking engagements.

For the Nigerian American community, it is simply disheartening that such hard-working immigrants with numerous academic achievements would be so derisively dismissed by the U.S. president. Hundreds of Nigerian medical doctors are helping sustain the U.S. medical system, which is in dire need of foreign medical professionals as longer-living baby boomers strain the system.

Among these are Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered the brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which afflicts NFL players, as depicted in the movie “Concussion,” starring Will Smith. The condition has also been found to affect war veterans. Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, co-director of the Texas Children's Fetal Center, performed a ground-breaking surgery on a fetus in utero — as reported by CNN — a procedure that could save babies who would otherwise be aborted.


For some of us who have worked on U.S.-Nigeria relations for years, it was not enamoring that one of the president’s first policy actions on Africa was to consider allowing elephant tusk hunting, apparently a favorite pastime of his son.

This reductionist approach to Africa, where China, Israel and the Middle East are making significant diplomatic and economic overtures, is unfortunate. In 2015, U.S. agricultural exports to Nigeria were worth $667 million, while Nigeria’s agro exports to the U.S. were a mere $32 million. These gave the U.S. a favorable trade balance of more than half a billion dollars!

One cannot quite fathom what Trump stands to gain by espousing such senseless, unhelpful, inaccurate and even racist stereotypes. Ignorance is not a defense, but at what point does ignorance become an offense?

There are tens of thousands of Americans living and earning incomes in Nigeria, and the U.S. Mission there is one of the largest and most lucrative — raking in millions of dollars in visa fees — on the planet.

Nigeria is a sought-after destination for many A-list musicians — including Beyoncé — who have performed at glitzy events, as well as prominent evangelical leaders who jet in for massive gospel crusades.

Sadly, Trump’s base has not advocated for refugee resettlement or direct aid for Nigerian Christians targeted by Jihadi terrorism.


Now more than ever, the U.S. needs less diplomatic walls and more bridges. Washington was recently stung by an overwhelmingly negative U.N. vote against the White House’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. In a similar U.N. vote against Israeli “occupation” three years ago, Nigeria abstained after then-Secretary of State John F. Kerry phoned Nigeria’s president at the time, Goodluck Jonathan — a move that spared the U.S. a veto.

It is small comfort that the White House press office has not denied the comments. Indeed Trump’s profanity-laced tirade against “shithole countries” belies any denials. It also reveals a two-faced president who infamously told African presidents during a U.N. meeting last year that Africa had made his “friends rich.” Worse still, some immigrants see in Trump a semblance to the face of tribalist autocracy that they fled from.

It is a tragic irony that the week preceding his very first Martin Luther King Jr. Day as president, his divisive remarks speak of a nightmare world where young Norwegian and Nigerian boys are not equally welcome in America.

If I had a chance to speak to the president, I would inform him that Presidents Bush, Carter and Clinton are among his predecessors who have stayed at the Hilton Abuja. And it’s one of the biggest huts in Nigeria if he ever decides to come to Africa to golf or hunt.

Emmanuel Ogebe is a Nigerian human rights lawyer who practices in the United States.

http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-emmanuel-ogebe-oped-20180112-story.html

(CNN)More than 200 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya have been returned to their home country, Nigerian officials said.

The 242 migrants landed at Lagos airport on a Libyan Airlines flight at around 9:00 pm local time (3:00pm ET) on Tuesday. Among them were women carrying children and at least one man in a wheelchair.
Nigerian authorities say they worked on returning the migrants from Libya in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Some of the 242 men and women who returned had been in Libyan detention camps while others willingly approached the Nigerian embassy in Libya to return home because of hardship there, authorities said.

Abike Dabiri, senior special adviser on foreign and diaspora affairs to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, said the government there had been working with the IOM, the Nigerian National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) and other local agencies for the past year to bring Nigerians back home.

Dabiri told CNN that around 5,000 Nigerians have come back from Libya in the past year.
"The President has said any Nigerian who wants to come back should be brought back, so IOM has been helping out," Dabiri said.
The NCIFRM said it has been processing on average between eight and 10 flights a month of Nigerians returning from Libya.
The migrant crisis in Libya is once again receiving international attention following recent reporting by CNN that revealed African migrants being sold as slaves in the capital, Tripoli, and elsewhere.






"For people to cross the Sahara desert and Mediterranean through shanty boats ... we will try and keep them at home. But anybody who died in the desert and Mediterranean without documents; to prove that he is a Nigerian, there is absolutely nothing we can do,'' President Buhari said at an African Union-European Union summit on Wednesday.
Reacting to recent CNN footage on the sale of Africans in Libya, the Nigerian leader said it was appalling that "some Nigerians (in the footage) were being sold like goats for a few dollars in Libya.''




http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/29/africa/nigeria-migrants-returned-libya/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Most+Recent%29

valid presentation... unfortunately you are preaching to the choir on this one... the destructive obstinacy of the average individual will not allow reasonable self re-examination ...only insults. prepare for a ton of those @OP.

lets await the breakdown...the summary appears balanced so far

The banners in the pictures are at a direct variance with the headline..Do the MODs read these things at all? WTF?

A blogger posted this ..not a shred of evidence to support this occurred..but alas we have grown men and women debating fiction... Mods ought to be more responsible.

there are no contemporary jewish prophets


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_in_Judaism


... its posers like this that make taking anything that comes from the agitators difficult to treat seriously...

the name of the deceased does not appear until the fourth paragraph!.... seems like the ethos of sound journalism died with the man..RIP

more of such please.

GTA V.... in one of the alternate endings in which Franklin and Micheal kill Trevor.....it was graphic,...had me shook for days

shukuokukobambi:
Typical OSU telling himself lies to hide his pains

Did ojukwu not come back to serve the same slaughtrers of 3m of his people just 9 years after the madness?

Did azikiwe not serve these same masters of yours during the civil war?

Did Nzeribe not supply weapons to these same masters and killers of yours during the war?

When will a yeeboe man not sell his people? What will make a yeeboe man not sell his people?

You need another swim in the muddy pool of isiala ngwa under guidance from Hausa koboko

brutality!!!

Keneking:
Why block his ear?

Any medical report to confirm his demise?

Now he won't know that Morata did not complete 90mins play against Man City

you've got jokes huh? ....time and place for everything,... mr funny man

Softorgasm:
What was she expecting, when she is a member of a white garment church? The devil only cost pain... She should change to a proper pentecosta church like winners or redeem.

Dense.... like the mass of a collapsed neutron star,.your logic is

Russia says Nigeria may be ready to join an OPEC deal its currently exempt from because of national security issues. Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari said this week security was still an issue. Photo by Monika Graff/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Nigeria may be ready to give up its status as an OPEC member exempt from the effort to balance the market with production cuts, Russia's oil minister said.

Members of a committee monitoring an agreement to cut the equivalent of about 2 percent of world's oil demand out of the market met Friday in Vienna to discuss the impact. The measure is aimed at draining global stockpiles closer to a five-year average.

Most OPEC members are in full compliance with the agreement, though exemptions for OPEC members Libya and Nigeria have complicated the effort. Both countries were sidelined from the effort so they could steer oil revenue toward national security efforts.

Speaking from Vienna, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak hinted that Nigeria could give up its exempt status once its production stabilizes.

"Nigeria is ready to reduce production at the level of 1.8 million barrels per day and join the agreement once it reaches the target," he was quoted by Russian news agency Tass as saying.

Russia is a party to the multilateral effort and is the largest contributor among non-OPEC member states.

Secondary sources reporting to OPEC economists said Nigeria production in August was 1.86 million barrels per day, its highest level of the year. First quarter production for Nigeria averaged 1.5 million barrels per day and Nigeria last topped 1.8 million barrels per day in 2015.

OPEC economists said the Nigerian economy is gaining momentum. Its economy during the second quarter grew 0.6 percent from last year, after registering a contraction in the first quarter.

On the national security front, Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari told the U.N. General Assembly this week that security was still an issue. In addressing the body, he called for a collective effort to prevent groups like the Islamic State for gaining a regional foothold. Regional resources, he said, are insufficient and the "response capacity is weak."

Total OPEC production, based on August figures from secondary sources, is about 0.3 percent higher than the average for 2016 and 3 percent higher in 2015


https://www.upi.com/Nigeria-ready-to-play-OPEC-ball-Russia-says/8021506083322/

RomeSankara:
Don't get distracted they are all part of the plot to make it seem like Kanu ran.. Kanu has been eliminated just like Zakzaky ... The Plan had been on all along and Governors Ikpeazu was decieved by the military to announce their withdrawal which was just a plot to make Kanu lower his guard and stay at home waiting for the withdrawal , as he relaxed the made a brazen all guns firming entry into the compound with a special forces unit brought in from the North East and siezed home and everybody that witnessed it making sure there were no witnesses.. the military now quickly makes a fake phone call to channel claiming it's Kanu and how is not on the run but in Abia even though channels doubted the voice the person on the other end insisted he was Kanu ...In the light of these 5 northern governor
were dispatched to Abia to talk to Ikpeazu about the development and immediately fighter jets and more heavy machinery deployed around Abia state just in case there the people tries to ask about the wearabouts of Kanu ...Note till now the Army has not declared Kanu wanted ..

you should consider writing fictional novels, you have the ..*cough* acumen for it

watched the video.....did not see any soldiers.

Ode

you are all...without exception... extremely foolish individuals.... who then is the "acting president" if not for the VP? does the constitution allow for a vacuum? ... PMB has handed over as prescribed and here you all are arguing over the semantics of written syntax.... i repeat.. You're all very foolish individuals

what kind of reporting is this from thenation?...the narrative is incoherent and disjointed.

obfuscation of facts...you try to be clever by half when you highlight only the effects and leave out the cause of how we landed in this mess to begin with... the stats you listed although true,.is presented in such a way as to deny the fact that the horse had since bolted from the stables and the current admin is basically on a rescue/recovery mission...only those who started watching the movie halfway in would be moved by your play here... the rest of us know better.

Agimor:
Na today... I have been buying fuel 155/150 for the past two weeks now. They should just sell this country so we can know that we are being manage by a private entity.

where exactly is it sold for that amount? i live in lagos and buy between 143 and 145 its never been sold for a kobo higher.

no fuel cans, no cars, no fuel station in the picture.... i call BS... another fortune hungry blogger

shes got good genes...

doingood:
I've been at home since i lost my job as deputy accountant with a group firm. Nothing to do, nothing to enjoy. No light all day. can't buy fuel 150 for gen. I'm thinking of too many negative things right now. I'm more than frustrated. I'm so unhappy.

@OP you sound like a professional (white collar) worker... try LinkedIn, the premium service ..put your CV out there you'll get legit offshore and regional offers from multinationals, the premium subscription comes at a cost but trust me you'll be amazed at he results.

Adminisher:
Thank you for explaining to dim wits out there.
Just to add that Magu did not go with publicity .These pictures were not protocol pictures.

Also there is a level in bilateral legal issues that only EFCC Chairman can go for those asking about level

When it reaches the level of extradition maybe even he would be too small and the AG will go.

these photos are actually from a meeting with the US envoy in abuja last month... both the title and pictures is the creative work of some random traffic hungry blogger,please ignore and carry on with your day.

This reporter got to the site...conducted interviews but couldn't take pictures to assert or disprove FG claims on resumption of work...?

JideJamez:
abeg if the rice is cheaper....they shld allow us to eat it....since buhari don fail us....Nigeria has become dumping ground.

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Go ahead...be the village idiot..the town square is free, you have no competition.

very good, finally a universal payment system like Mpesa... now to sensitize the general public on user acceptance ..this is the way to go, Nice one NIBSS