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chopnaira:
https://x.com/GhPoliceService/status/1964737135212454215

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Three-Nigerian-nationals-sentenced-20-years-in-prison-for-vehicle-theft-1999518

We know them,they are Igbo region people


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maasoap:
My point is that Poland is not neutral in this war, why crying to UN over strayed drones?

Yep but you can't rule out that Poland is a nato member. Russia can't walk all over them nah

maasoap:
They were already in the war. Is Poland not sending weapons to Ukraine? Just asking.

Is Korea not sending men to Russia?

Botragelad:
Source;
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-shoots-down-drones-its-airspace-during-russias-ukraine-attack-calls-2025-09-10/

Russia wants to drag more countries into the way

Kingzjayzee:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/09/09/exclusive-nigerian-police-spent-n22million-85-cartons-cracker-biscuits-personnel

Stealing everything in sight. Criminals in uniform

beerfraud:
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/08/28/nigerian-man-loses-appeal-to-rot-in-south-african-jail/

Shinedu



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banom:
Who noticed something by any list of Nigerian musician that is rated on merit and verifiable evidence......there is always little or absence of Yorubas in it.

Take a look at that list above, the Yorubas did not dominate it because it's verifiable on YouTube.

But if it is a list complied as opinion by Yoruba media and their
Hype men, they will pad it with Yoruba artists that you will think artist from other places are not doing well.

Merit is the only way you see the real achievers in Nigeria, and exposes the pretenders and liars.

Four Yoruba's are on the list,so why are you crying....

Peterobiisathie:
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2025/08/02/nigerian-suspect-arrested-with-cocaine-after-high-speed-chase-in-phuket/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Another source

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2025/08/03/nigerian-arrested-on-friday-linked-to-international-drug-smuggling-cartel-led-by-africans-on-koh-samui/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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In 2025, a war is being waged in our soil—not with bullets, but with biotech. Multinational corporations sell genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as the logical successor to selective breeding, packaging the shift as innovation rather than infiltration. But beneath the surface lies a startling truth: GMOs and traditional breeding are not cousins—they are ideological opposites. While one is evolution by human partnership, the other is patent-protected conquest. The real story isn’t about food. It’s about control.

This isn’t just a tale of crops and laboratories. It’s the architecture of a global monopoly—one built on secrecy, engineered dependency, and legislative sleight of hand. To understand today’s battle over food sovereignty, we must unearth the hybrid history they never meant to germinate.

The Roots Beneath the Soil: A Quiet Revolution in Genetic Power
Selective breeding—the age-old method of cultivating plants and animals for desirable traits—dates back over 10,000 years. It built civilizations. The wheat that fed Mesopotamia, the maize that structured Mayan power, the rice that anchored Asian dynasties—all came from human-guided evolution.

But the genetic editing revolution took a darker turn in 1973, when Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen developed the first recombinant DNA technique. This breakthrough was quietly weaponized when Monsanto—a company previously known for manufacturing Agent Orange—patented its Roundup Ready soybeans in 1996. Suddenly, life could be owned.

Selective breeding selects from nature; GMOs insert synthetic constructs. A 2001 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists noted that “GMOs are not extensions of traditional breeding—they are biological intrusions at the molecular level.”

Yet the biotech narrative was masterfully spun: GMOs were just “faster breeding.” Regulatory gaps in the U.S.—especially under the 1992 “Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties” by the FDA—deliberately blurred these lines. The biotech lobby, led by former Monsanto lawyers embedded within the USDA and FDA, ensured GMOs were treated as “substantially equivalent” to natural crops. A lie enshrined in law.

The Burning Present: Patents, Poverty, and the Global Food Lockdown
Fast forward to 2024–2025, and the consequences of that semantic sleight of hand have erupted worldwide.

In India, over 310,000 farmer suicides have been linked since 1995 to crop debt cycles tied to GMO seed dependency. A 2024 report from the Indian National Crime Records Bureau correlates spikes in suicides with failed Monsanto Bt cotton harvests and aggressive seed pricing.

In Ghana and Kenya, recent 2025 headlines expose internal documents leaked by African Union whistleblowers showing pressure from USAID and Gates Foundation-linked lobbyists to pass the Plant Variety Protection Bill—a law that criminalizes seed sharing unless it’s corporate-certified.

Meanwhile, the International Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released its July 2025 update warning that over 75% of crop diversity has vanished globally in the last century—accelerated by uniform GMO crops replacing indigenous strains.

Behind these statistics stands a chilling reality: small farmers are no longer producers. They are renters—leasing their right to grow from biotech conglomerates.

Systemic Mechanics: How Science Was Subverted and Sovereignty Stolen
What transformed a tool of progress into a weapon of dependency?

First, legal architecture: The 1980 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Diamond v. Chakrabarty legally allowed life forms to be patented. That one case unlocked the trillion-dollar biotech vault. Monsanto, Syngenta, and Bayer poured billions into lobbying, ensuring countries wrote laws around IP, not ethics.

Second, economic feedback loops: GMOs are paired with proprietary herbicides (e.g., glyphosate) that further increase yield—but only in the short term. Resistance builds. Pests mutate. Farmers are then sold “stacked traits” as the only solution. This creates a treadmill of chemical escalation and financial entrapment.

Third, media manipulation: A 2023 analysis by Columbia Journalism Review found over 80% of mainstream U.S. GMO coverage traced back to biotech press releases or funded research. Independent voices are sidelined as “anti-science” despite deep scientific credentials.

Finally, collusion by omission: The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, once a champion of biodiversity, has been increasingly silent. A 2025 investigative exposé by Der Spiegel found that multiple senior FAO advisors received funding from Bayer CropScience to promote gene-edited crops in the Sahel.

This is not science in service of humanity. This is science in service of profit.

The Future Sprouting in the Shadows
If current trends hold, by 2030 over 85% of global staple crops will be genetically engineered. AI-optimized CRISPR tools, coupled with cloud-controlled farming drones, will make manual seed-saving obsolete. The farmer becomes a machine operator, governed by EULAs (End-User License Agreements) and blockchain-verified “compliance smart contracts.”

A 2025 working draft of the Global Digital Agriculture Charter, leaked via anonymous EU technocrats, outlines an “interoperable platform of genomic traceability”—a system eerily reminiscent of social credit scoring for seeds. Who gets to plant what—and how—may soon depend on bio-surveillance data and carbon compliance metrics.

Resistance is growing, but slowly. The Navdanya Movement in India, led by Dr. Vandana Shiva, continues to save and share native seeds, often under threat of prosecution. In Brazil, indigenous communities are building bioregional seed banks, defying Syngenta-backed laws.

But will grassroots efforts be enough when the fight is against billion-dollar algorithms and gene patents filed faster than indigenous knowledge can be archived?

Conclusion: The Line Between Life and License
Selective breeding once echoed the rhythms of nature—patient, symbiotic, adaptive. GMOs break that covenant. They do not grow from nature; they are inserted into it, often without consent.

The question is no longer whether GMOs are “safe.” It is whether they are sovereign.

Should the genes of life—developed over millennia by farmers, herders, and natural selection—be privatized by a handful of tech empires? Should a seed carry a price tag—and a lawyer?

In 2025, the answer we choose may decide whether future generations farm—or simply download permission.

The quiet revolution has already begun.
And it didn’t start in a field.
It started in a patent office.



https://www.9jarep.site/2025/07/seeds-of-control-how-gmo-agriculture.html

Ance4Liverpool:
No notable world leader, like Donald Trump Russian president or Germany attended the burial nor sent their condolences

Pains

tiswell:
Nwa afo, Nwa Nna!!!


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Ala IGBO Amaka


Biafra Amaka!!!

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SpecialAdviser:
No be Yoruba women again? Abi you think there rich men are daft running after Igbo women?

This ndibo women spreading their legs at any given time?

Chatgpt:
Another money laundering scheme. For themselves

First thing that came to mind.




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xynerise:
This topic has turned to advert to run for one month because of the agenda involved .

These south easterners are doing business in Lagos and fetching the revenue for them. Talk about Alaba Intl, Trade Fair, Ladipo, Oshodi and many other big markets in Lagos.

The Oil revenue in the South South/South East is what is also feeding Nigeria so you expect them to eat little?

Create a working seaport in south-east and see how changes will occur

They should go and do the same business in east and generate the same equivalent. How many years have bn saying the same rubbish?

ibechris:
All of them are born to betray.

No wonder Abiola's children said Yoruba's killed their father and ate his meat.

Some even collected money from Abacha according to Almustapha.

Shame of a people.

And who betrayed Nnamdi Kanu, whi sold Kanu to Buhari?

casdoruche:
Lies detected.


Oga stop the lies


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Tell us the original version since you know better

stagger:
Can you compare the demand of refined products in the US, a highly industrialized nation, with that of Nigeria, a 3rd world, resource-deprived economy where politicians and their cohorts in the public service steal all the money meant for Nigeria's industrialization?

US daily consumption is presently at 381.95 million litres of PMS. Accurate data from EIA.

Nigeria's estimated daily consumption is 30 million litres.

What is the basis of comparison here? You are consuming a tenth of what US consumes...why do you want to import like the US when you already have a refinery that can meet that daily consumption?

Should we halt all forms of importation because a greedy monopolist just built a refinery? Why did he have to sue them to court,after all in met them in the business. How come a nation is expected to shock life out of other businesses because Dangote is now in the business.

Wainey:
they were fighting the refinery, back then Dangote does nothing but complain like VDM, now Dangote is fighting back.

Nobody fought the refinery, Dangote when to court to sue importers. He claimed since he had a refinery now Nigeria should stop importing fuel so only him will sell to the nation. Importers on the other claimed if anything goes wrong with the refinery then the whole nation will grind to a halt just because of you. And besides US is one of the largest oil producers and yet still import insane amount of fuel,why should Nigeria stop importing just because of one man's greed.

moodyguy:
Lies Glo did it in the telecoms sector and we re eenjoying it today

Adenuga had never bn monopolistic, he had always played fair. Dangote had always used government instrument to smoke out competition then bounce back on the masses to milk them dry. By that time all competition will have long died and we will be at the mercy of one man.

Mitsurugi:
We'll simply move to another stall. It's called open market. Competition.

That's the problem, Dangote unlike other businesses uses government influence to choke other stalls. Remember when bua cement wanted to slash cement prices to 3k. They quickly muscled him to submission. Bua knew the profits were crazy but Dangote didn't care, so they had to silence bua.

Omooba77:
https://dailytrust.com/petroan-kicks-against-dangote-refinerys-fuel-distribution-plan/

Dangote is going for the jugular, but at the end of the day the consumers will smell pepper. Dangote will completely squeeze every single penny from the masses for the huge loss and risk he is about to take.

Newsgeek24:
https://news360ng.com/chaos-erupts-at-apc-north-east-meeting-over-shettimas-snub-in-tinubu-endorsement/

Problem in Apc is crazy,from one issue to another always grabbing each other's neck.