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Create fences around some of these forests, and roads around them too for regular patrols and psychological threat even in the absence of efficient regular patrols. Building a viable nation is not cheap; Nigeria cannot penny pinch her way to industrialisation and modernity.

South Africas Greater Kruger National Park has a fence around it. The Greater Kruger National Park consists of the Kruger National Park as well as some private reserves (Klaserie, Balule, Sabi Sand, Timbavati etc).

How big is the Kruger National Park in South Africa?
Phalaborwa, Limpopo is the only town in South Africa that borders the Kruger National Park. It is one of the largest national parks in the world, with an area of 19,485 km 2 (7,523 sq mi). The park is approximately 360 km (220 mi) long, and has an average width of 65 km (40 mi).


https://www.bing.com/search?q=how+long+is+The+fence+around+Greater+Kruger+National+Park+&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=how+long+is+the+fence+around+greater+kruger+national+park+&sc=0-58&sk=&cvid=254BB9B9F22B40008A03944D9967542D

One Africa, with free abandoned borders is no good for Nigeria; at leas, not for now.

If Nigeria is reluctant to fence border, our forest shouldn’t be too much to surround with fence. There’s no point complaining about the logistics of such a feat, Nigeria needs to do it. This is because, hiding in Nigeria’s forest looks like what external advisers have worked out for those whose mission is to degrade Nigeria to nothing over a long period. Forest is where they intend to dig in long term. Fencing some of the more strategic forest will help Nigeria fight against all sorts of state threats and unlawful activities. Fencing these forests can also make managing wild life better; provide some aesthetic flair and begin to put it in the minds of authorities that forests can be worked on as means of tourism not Just abandoned to illegal loggers, thieves, skull miners, poachers, terrorists, bandits and the like.

Pakistan army completes 2,640-kilometre-long (1,640 mi) border fence with Afghan

India fenced and flood-lit 461 kms of Punjab’s border with Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. The 1,048 km Rajasthan- Pakistan border was fenced and flood- lit by 1999. “Due to this, terrorism and other anti- national acts from across the border have been checked,” said a Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Border Fencing.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/images/india-pakistan-border-fence-1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Cju4SClSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1XY6eOyKk

UAE is probably playing the long term game of deflecting attention on it as possibly one of several Middle East nations suspected of sponsoring world wide terrorism, including in Nigeria.

Timoleon:


Global sponsors!!!
Over a decade of bokoharam insurgency in Nigeria and the federal government is yet to identify and bring to book a single sponsor of bokoharam. Speaks volumes about their sincerity in the fight against terrorism.

It’s also sad that the UAE despite alluding to identifying a government sponsor of terrorists within the Nigerian government is unwilling to publish the name due to pressure from the Nigerian government.

Could it be Pantami? Could it be Buhari himself? How many are they?

Let me get this: Shithole Nigeria, as depicted ceaselessly on Nairaland, the world's poorest people, the nation scorned by the entire world, denied Visa by every nation, nationals known for groping in the dark every night when not corrupting poor innocent Indian and Malaysia with drugs - this powerless Nigeria is suddenly powerful enough to pressure a whole peerless nation like UAE ?

TripleOh7:
Read to understand and not to reply. Nigeria is known for scams. With new country names, everyone can start afresh.

America is known for racism, scumbaggery and cowardliness, why isn’t America changing its name, so they can all start afresh?

Eviana:
The "Nigerian" scam has been listed for years now to make folks more aware and to be cautious.
I've seen it many times.
I think the listing is centered more around the "419" prince email scam.
What needs to be highlighted more is the "romance" scam (that's even more dangerous)....the listing/definitions of the scam should be changed.
It's sad that the majority of wonderful, hardworking, law-abiding Nigerians in the U.S. have to be "type-casted" and pre-judged because of a treacherous, immoral, unethical minority.

What are Americans type-cast and pre-judged as?

TripleOh7:
Lol

I don't know why this is funny to me sha.

Imagine what's going on in the minds of your fellow classmates. They'll never look at you the same way again ever.

This problem will disappear when there's no longer a country called Nigeria.

Are you saying scams will disappear when there's no longer a country called Nigeria?

Isn’t this like saying stupidity will disappear when you die?

tctrills:
Keep sitting at home then. Is it the Yorubas or Hausas that are suffering from it?
Later you would be asking Igbos to invest in the east. How would I bring business to a war zone with military rule? You have made our land unsafe.
Finally, let me ask what is the end game? what do you guys hope to achieve from sitting at home? Oh, you believe the government would come to your houses and give you Biafra?
We Igbos are clearly gifted in business and great intellectuals but when it comes to politics and strategy, we are the worst.

You don’t seem any better than the rest of Nigeria at building infrastructure and maintaining them either; at least, judging by images of areas posted on Nairaland.

pacespot:
Before even reading the story I knew it is about cheating or money. Nigerians have to be the worst breed of human beings on earth, if you are a good man they take advantage of you, if you are a bad man they give you what you don't deserve. There are many crimes worse than manslaughter or murder in this world, emotional blackmail is one of it. They should just give the Italian man the mercy of killing out of rage, this is not a murder case to me but a provocation. Serves the evil bitch right

You're a friggin Coon. Nothing is worst than a coon.

donogaga:
BREAKING:



https://www.facebook.com/1493070254331766/posts/2661434604161986/

Are you actually trying to justify this Italian murderer?

ENERGY TRANSITION See all articles

The magnet that created the record-breaking field.Photo: Gretchen Ertl, CFS/MIT-PSFC, 2021
Nuclear fusion 'watershed' claim as team backed by Bill Gates and oil giants eyes limitless zero-carbon energy
Record magnetic field clears key hurdle to demonstration of 'net energy' production say CFS and MIT researchers

8 September 2021 13:17 GMT UPDATED 9 September 2021 8:41 GMT
By Andrew Lee
Researchers claimed a “watershed moment” in the development of nuclear fusion technology with the successful test of a powerful magnet that is said to hold the key to future generation of unlimited zero-carbon energy.

Partners Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claimed the creation of a record-breaking magnetic field for the first time “opens a clear path” to fusion power, which is hailed by some as the holy grail of clean energy but seen by others as a distraction from proven green technologies such as wind and solar.
Technology start-up CFS – which is backed by investors including Bill Gates, and fossil energy giants Eni and Equinor – said they successfully created a magnetic field of 20 tesla, the most powerful yet of its type using high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology that will sit at the heart of planned nuclear fusion systems.

The sustained magnetic field is powerful enough to achieve the fundamental aim of a nuclear fusion system – to achieve ‘net energy’, producing more than it consumes – according to the project team.

Dennis Whyte, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and professor of engineering, said the 5 September test answers a key question over the viability of the small-scale tokomak devices being developed by CFS, which are claimed to offer the fastest practical route to making fusion a reality.

“It’s really a watershed moment, I believe, in fusion science and technology,” said Whyte, adding that fusion would be “an inexhaustible, carbon-free source of energy that you can deploy anywhere and at any time. It's really a fundamentally new energy source”.

CFS chief executive Bob Mumgaard claimed: “This record-breaking magnet is the culmination of the last three years of work and will give the world a clear path to fusion power for the first time.”

The CFS/MIT team said the scientific milestone keeps the project on course to demonstrate net energy from fusion by 2025, followed by commercial-scale devices that generate thermal energy that could be harnessed to produce power in a conventional steam cycle.

Mumgaard told Recharge in a 2020 interview that fusion could play a vital role in the energy transition by “filling the gaps” left by wind and solar.

However, he admitted that even if the first commercial systems appear in the early 2030s, deployment of commercial fusion at gigawatt scale won’t happen “until the latter half of the 30s at the earliest”.

But Mumgaard claimed that does not undermine the case for the technology. He told Recharge: “If you look at other technologies and markets, and what’s needed, that’s in the range where you’re at the time where problems are getting really hard on carbon emissions, because you’ve taken all the easy gains.”

Nuclear fusion researchers are eager to distinguish it from its cousin technology nuclear fission, hailing its potential to deliver unlimited zero-carbon energy by fusing atoms, a process that’s said to be free of the risks of fission, which splits atoms apart.

But despite the buzz around the technology, the sheer difficulty of the physics involved has made research in the field the subject of a standing joke that “fusion is always 40 years away”.

There is also almost no visibility over the cost of energy produced by fusion, and many argue that the massive falls in wind and solar power prices, allied with storage technologies, smart networks and the massive potential of green hydrogen, will make fusion economically unviable before it is even born.

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/nuclear-fusion-watershed-claim-as-team-backed-by-bill-gates-and-oil-giants-eyes-limitless-zero-carbon-energy/2-1-1064502

FakeUnity:
I love the Canadian Judiciary, if you or any of your relatives works or once worked in the Nigerian police or security forces better stay away from Canadian visa offices, they don't joke.

Judge Grammond also denied an ex-SARS officer asylum into Canada recently, calling the Nigerian police a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION.

Link below
https://www.nairaland.com/6513058/canadian-judge-labels-nigerian-police


If you are in the nigerian police, you are a criminal in eyes of the Canadian Judiciary, and rightfully so.

Since you have sworn to maintain the rot in the nigeria police, you'll keep getting smeared all over the world..

How did the Canadian Judiciary handle those cases of Canadian Peace keeping Soldiers that gang raped a Haitian girl and those that murdered a couple of Somalis, one of them 16 yo?

Gabe427:
Theres a major rebranding of their national image
Ever heard of "visit rawanda"
They'd be the wakanda of africa

Wakanda is an embracement. It’s the creation of white men; specifically, Stan lee and someone else. They drew on African Americans westernised concept of Africa. Nigeria has many great traditional civilisations from which to draw in rendering an imagined future. Setting aside the very rich ethnic nationalities that form today’s Nigeria, primordial Africa mythologies were generally spiritual in form so that if we are to extrapolate from this and speed forward, a future Africa would not be like Wakanda but more like Doctor Strange’s world. Africa has always been about magic and spirituality, so our comic stories should not be about rocket propelled spears. Even the Ijaw or Calabar Society of leopard men from wich a part of Black Panther hints, was magic based.

ugo4u:
Is that a ditch or a ridge meant for planting Yam.

Phew, that’s a relief; for a moment there, I thought they were ditches. I know if Nigeria decides to dig protective ditches, the drop alone would kill a man, peak Mike Powell couldn’t leap the breath and Patxi Lakunza couldn’t scale the bank ridges.

pek:
Rag tag team. See their footwears. Some wearing Nike, some Adidas while others are unbranded. What a shame of a country.

Or, oh wow, what a great people Nigerians are to be such winners in spite of being the poorest people in the world. Look here how, in spite of their poverty, a rag-tag team won against wealthier, better funded African teams. Aid dependent Nigerians, leading the industrialised nations of the rest of Africa.

Whyem15:
Those defending bases like this are very reselient.
2m tall hesco filled with sand will stop many of the nonsense happening to NA bases.

Forget hesco sef, sacks filled with sands and arranged in pallets will save lots of lives.

All I need to cause panic and loss of cohesion in such bases are long range weapons that will allow me hit the camps and put me out of range of most of their riffles. Surround such a base from multiple sides and you will just be laughing at what you would achieve.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/14211026_img20210509042440_jpeg5ef6e210f333d03f150d108d2bf652fb

The pic with the half-hearted ditch makes me laugh - isn’t that like only erecting a door without the house around it?

or, better still, what's the point of the ditch?

There’s a government sponsored guerrilla warfare on Nigeria in Niaraland, and other social media platforms, just for the ultimate and pitiful price of, Nigeria-must-go bags - such is the stupidity of the black man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNeJy5dCnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at6pjzFKfzs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6AEX-UT4m8

Techguy96:
Ok o, keep loving ur darling nation.
Since asking of basic infrastructure is silly.

We all want fantastic infrastructure or one that works but you, your parents, the land, our heritages, men like this below are more important than roads and ecetricty. Infrastructure we can build in time we will build when we are ready.

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I was once insulted for rejecting N3m bribe’ …Rtd DPO recounts the good, the bad and the ugly

…Sometimes civilians mount pressure on policemen to accept bribe


By Emmanuel Iheaka

He is a sexagenarian who just survived a major heart surgery.
But he wouldn’t mind standing for hours for talks, as long as they border on morals and reliving his experience in service.
The ease and passion with which he did it, leaves one with a conviction that he is gifted with oratory and full of experience.
After traversing the length and breath of the country in service to his fatherland; Rtd DSP Chukwuma Okore has seen the good, the bad and the ugly.

In all, he holds his head high as one who never compromised on integrity. Saturday Vanguard engaged the erstwhile Divisional Police Officer (DPO) on his experience while in service and life after service.

Journey into Nigeria Police Force.Having lost his father to the Nigeria/Biafra war at the tender age of 12, Okore, the first in a family of nine, saw early the battle that laid ahead. He was therefore, determined to succeed. He began assisting his mother and doing menial jobs to ensure the family kept moving.
When the opportunity to join the police presented, he took a grip on it, for it was about the biggest to come then.
“I lost my father at the age of 12. He was killed during the Nigeria/Biafra war. When my father died, we knew we needed to put in more efforts to pull through. And as the first son of the family, much of the responsibility rested on me.“So, I started early to fight the battle of life.

After secondary school, an opportunity to join the police came and I had to join. As one who was aware of the enormous responsibility, I was very committed to the service, as I grew through the ranks”.

The counsel from his mother and the consciousness of his background kept him going in service. Okore said two things that determine one’s growth in the force are hard work and discipline.

Except you have a godfather, otherwise, you must be hardworking and disciplined in the police in order to grow. Right from the college, I took everything seriously and read through all the courses because I knew I had nobody to fight for me except God. And of course, I did well in all the courses”.

Almost dismissed while in service
Professing his firm belief that God rules in the affairs of men, the ex-cop who exuded courage amidst oratory, narrated an ordeal he described as the biggest challenge of his career.
He came on the verge of being dismissed as a consequence of the escape of a robbery suspect who was to make a statement under his custody and an inspector. A suspect had been arrested and while Okore was to take his statement, he escaped from custody.

This, of course, attracted a query as they were mandated to produce the suspect or face dismissal. As expected, he became devastated.“I was working under an inspector and a robbery suspect was arrested and brought to our office to make a statement.
The inspector was not on the desk and I needed an extra statement sheet; so, I left the suspect with three other sergeants who were sitting in our office, to go look for the inspector.
When I returned, I neither saw the suspect, nor the three sergeants. When I asked the sergeants, they said they didn’t remember a suspect was in the office while leaving.

That incident was the most traumatizing experience I had while in service. I was completely devastated. I became emaciated within three days. Everyone had pity for me.

Some came with the suggestion of leading me to a native doctor who could help give hint about the hide out of the suspect, but that was against my faith. “But God came through for us.

The inspector and myself traced the suspect to his village in Abia State and rearrested him. That saved us”.
Foreign mission The Operational Officer of the Nigerian contingent of the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Sudan, Okore recounted how exciting it was seeing the much respect accorded to Nigerian officers in foreign land.

According to him, Nigerian cops were highly regarded outside the shores of the country.“I was in Sudan for mission, we enjoyed much regard from foreigners. They respected us so much.

The experience was very exciting and something I will always relive.“I was still in Sudan when information came that I had been appointed a DPO. The camp erupted in joy and we celebrated it there”, he enthused.
Appointment as DPO

As one who had no godfather in the service, Okore maintained that his appointment as DPO was a cheering one, and by dint of hardwork. Having garnered much experience, fitting into such position was a smooth sail for him.
He had served at Ihitte Uboma, Egbema and Nwangele divisions, all in Imo State. But for him, Nwangele was the centre of it all. He had employed his ingenuity towards settling a dispute over a royal stool that had torn communities in Nwangele apart for decades.

Reason, the people invested much love on Okore and never wanted him to leave.“When I arrived Nwangele, there was a dispute in communities over the issue of eze that had lasted for decades. I saw it as a challenge. So, I had to convene meeting of stakeholders in the areas to sue for peace, because I needed such peace to operate successfully. That was why the people loved me so much and never wanted me to leave. We were still trying to resolve the matter when I was transferred”.

Allure of N3 million
As a DPO, the integrity of Okore came to test. But according to him, nothing would have made him lower the bar of morality. While investigating a case, Okore submitted that somebody he did not know contacted him for a bribe of N3 million to pervert course of investigation, in a matter he later discovered was a pure conspiracy against the innocent.
This, he said he vehemently rejected, but not without a dose of insult.“Somebody I didn’t know contacted me for a bribe of N3 million to go against somebody I later discovered was innocent. I rejected the money and insisted on doing the right thing.

When he realized I wasn’t ready to compromise, he became disappointed and tried to mock me for saying no. He said I would be a poor man if I continued in that manner. But my conscience was always free for standing on the side of truth. Some times, civilians mount pressure on police men to accept bribe.

You would be amazed the extent they can go sometimes”.
Life after service Though Okore does not have all the money, he prides as a police officer who never compromised. He is also still holding on to God, as he told our correspondent that the seed of fear of God planted in him as a child is what has kept him moving.

In 2017, he had a serious health challenge and ended up going for heart surgery. This, he survived, and is very grateful to God.“I may not have all the money, but I can always be bold to say I never compromised while in service. In 2017, I had a serious health issue, I went for heart surgery and God saved me, and of course, I’m very grateful for that”.

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n the current security situation in the country, he believes that government should look inwards towards finding a solution, expressing optimism that God will see the country through.
Regret
One thing he regrets was not retiring while serving as DPO in Nwangele. He believes the people would have done much for him.“With the much love Nwangele people had for me, if I had retired while still serving there, I know they would have done much for me, but unfortunately, I was transferred out few months to retirement”, he regretted.

isaacology3000:
I and my wife met through her senior sister who happens to be my friend and also my toaster.

I ended up falling in love with my wife through her sister who claims we can't date because we're of age bracket.

We courts for 6 years before getting married to her and blessed with a beautiful daughter.

Lately I don't find her attractive to me anymore. She's the one begging for sex before I consider her once or twice in a month.
Please nairalanders, I need advice what could cause it and what should I do because I don't want to loose my marriage.

You indeed love her.

The following will be controversial:

I expect, very few men find the woman they truly love and respect sexually attractive. You see, although Bonobo chimpanzees’ sexual proclivities are sighted by palaeontologists as evidence that, besides species promulgation, sexual intercourse may play similar bonds-reinforcing role in humans, intercourse for humans is really about producing the healthiest children possible. For this reason, human spices evolved through unnatural choices in partners that humans superimposed upon nature by understanding the demands of their environment. It became that female humans evolved to seek Excellent Provider looking males and male humans, Capable Offspring providing females. And due to the relative scarcity of these types in all human societies, producing children acquired a competitive dimension that became war like at the extremities. So, in short, intercourse for men became like and act of conquest, with sadistic undertones. However the western world wants to paint it, and women want to influence it, men generally want to Bleep woman not Make Love to women. At Men’s foundational being is hardwired the notion, ‘Love making makes Love not babies; Fucking produces babies!’

When people marry, some men grow to love their wives in deep, affectionate ways that demand respect. When this happens, they no longer want to Bleep their wives and since men generally cant associate sex with love, it become difficult to “sleep” with their wives. The entire situation is compounded by the subtle signals women send in loving relationships that their partners aren’t Conan the Barbarian but Big Cuddly Teddy, the loving father and husband.

This is a fortuitous post for me since, coincidentally, I’ve had an idea on my mind on how Nigeria States could manage Street Cleaning and ensure that the resultant institution lasts; but, there hadn’t seemed a natural thread to post the idea on Nairaland. Niaraland does not have an Ideas section.

The idea was a simple one, probably done elsewhere (I don’t know); in any case, I was thinking that state governments could create Litter Incinerating Sites were people could take rubbish and litter collected from the streets or anywhere. The Incineration Site would have (Payment Canters) a place were money is paid to individuals that bring in such rubbish/litter. People would be paid according to weight of the rubbish they bring in sacks. What is paid dose not have to be much but good money could be made in relation to the amount of rubbish an individual or groups drag in.

My thoughts then turned to the problem of pollution that these incinerating sites would throw up into the atmosphere. I countered this by reasoning that such pollution just has to be ignored; that compared to the magnitude of Western World’s pollution ours would be negligible. However now that government is proposing exploiting rubbish to generate electricity, the problem may have in this the ideal resolution

frog12:
name one and provide evidence

Questions dont require evidence, answers do.

If it’s as unsafe as you’re being advised I doubt busses would plight the route as often and fully patronised.

Lithium will be as era-defining as oil, and China is dominating its supply

t has been a long summer in global affairs. Having started in June with the G7 leaders gathering in Cornwall for a summit billed as proof that “the West is back” after the traumas of Donald Trump’s presidency, it ended with the chaos of America’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. That brought proclamations of the West’s humiliation and of the tilt of global power towards China. Yet while such dramatic, self-contained moments – telegenic for either agreeable or terrible reasons – naturally grab our attention and weave the narrative of our times, they are not the whole story. In the background the world changes in ways that may be just as significant, or perhaps even more so, but happen to be too diffuse, unglamorous or complex, and so go under-discussed.

One such development that attracted only modest interest was that the lithium price (specifically the price for lithium carbonate) hit a record $16,500 per tonne in mid-August, up from $6,124 a tonne last December. And this matters, certainly more than the G7 summit and quite possibly more than the debacle in Kabul.

At the Cop26 summit in Glasgow this November – another big moment when the world’s eyes will focus on one event – governments will hopefully commit to more ambitious reductions in their carbon emissions to bend the future curve of global temperature rises towards 2°C. To fulfil those pledges, they will need to quit fossil fuels faster. Fossil fuels do two things. They supply energy when burned, a function that can be replaced by wind, wave, solar and nuclear power. But they also enable energy to be stored and transported. Replacing that function takes batteries. And making batteries takes lithium.

[See also: How Olaf Scholz and the SPD could lead Germany’s next government]

That is the opening premise of a new book simply titled: Lithium. In it, Lukas Bednarski convincingly argues that lithium will be as fundamental to 21st-century industrial economies as oil was in the 20th century. Back then, the demand for oil took off with car use; the demand for lithium is reaching a similar tipping point now. Volkswagen, the world’s biggest carmaker, plans to launch 30 models powered purely by lithium-ion batteries by 2025. It expects electric cars to comprise 25 per cent of the total sold by then and 70 per cent by 2030. The UK and EU have pledged to ban the sale of petrol-driven cars by 2035 and 12 US states are urging Joe Biden to do the same. (Lithium batteries are also essential parts of laptops and mobile phones.)

And just as the demand for oil shaped today’s global economy and politics, so too, argues Bednarski, will the demand for lithium: “As the history of the oil industry has been centred on the Western world and the Middle East, with the United States of America playing a leading role, so the lithium industry centres on Asia and Latin America, with a leading role for China.”

That leading role for China began as a product of necessity. The country’s economic boom from the 1980s came too late for it to rival the established players in a world shaped by the internal combustion engine: it could neither influence the geopolitics of oil nor establish carmakers capable of competing with the American, European and Japanese giants. So around the turn of the millennium, Beijing’s economic planners identified electric cars and their components as a new technology that could reduce China’s reliance on imports and was thus worth supporting.

That early start gave it a big lead. More than five million electric cars are on Chinese roads, close to the total in the US and EU combined, and China’s 42 per cent share of the market for such vehicles eclipses America’s 11 per cent. Fully 101 of the 136 battery factories that are planned for construction globally will be built in China. Chinese firms such as Tianqi Lithium and Ganfeng Lithium (Bednarski compares the latter to Rockefeller’s Standard Oil in the early 20th century) have become the world’s biggest producers of lithium. And Chinese interests, state and commercial, increasingly dominate its supply – including in the so-called Lithium Triangle of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia (the “Saudi Arabia of lithium” as Bednarski puts it). Together these three countries are expected to provide about 60 to 70 per cent of the world’s lithium by 2025.

[See also: Why only radical social transformation can avert a climate catastrophe]

The geopolitical effects of the “lithium race” are already being felt. It is a reason for China’s growing presence in Africa, including its funding for infrastructure projects that support the extraction of mineral resources. In Latin America, the region hit hardest by the pandemic and scarred by long years of sluggish growth and social fractures, Chinese banks provided $43.5bn of loans from 2015 to 2019.

US pressure has failed to keep the state-backed firm Huawei from taking a major role in Latin American 5G networks. And the majority of Covid-19 vaccines administered there have been from China. In other words, while the West has been preoccupied with entanglements such as Afghanistan, Beijing has gained a crucial advantage in a race fundamental to the course of the century.

Particularly galling for American strategists is that the one is now reinforcing the other. Now that the US and its allies have withdrawn from Afghanistan, China is tentatively looking to expand its influence there. “China is our most important partner and represents a fundamental and extraordinary opportunity for us, because it is ready to invest and rebuild our country,” the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on 2 September. And what might encourage Beijing to take the Taliban up on that? Among other minerals, Afghanistan contains some of the world’s largest deposits of lithium.

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2021/09/lithium-will-be-era-defining-oil-and-china-dominating-its-supply

Techguy96:
So only young persons or vacuous and trite adult hate Nigeria?

yes

Especially for silly things like poor roads and electricity supply

TheRareGem1:
What happened in Guinea should not happen in any Africa country, Africa post colonial has been democratic guided by constitution, our leaders too should lead us well, if they do, coup wouldn't happen.

So you think coups take place in Africa due to African leaders not leading well?

What if i say coups also take place in Africa due to an African leaders leading well enough?

What if i say African military usually do not conduct coups because they want what’s best for the people?

What if I say, often coups in Africa are influenced or prompted by foreign powers usually Western powers ?