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stanvesco:
Oga, you see 2027 election it's Tinubu vs God!


And the Almighty God have left the politics in the hands of the people.

Let me tell you and pin down how Tinubu would win this election.


12 months into the election,Tinubu would start vote buying in disguise. They will pump money and crash the price of fuel. They will flood grains and rice into the market . The cng buses would be released. Electricity tarrif would fall back!


The masses would become happy once again.
Nigerians would forget
Tinubu would win

Even Abacha would win with that strategy
But dont forget, 12 months into elections
The kidnappings and banditry people too will maximise their efforts
They will go band for band with bad news daily on TV
You will think the land is cursed......The guerilla warfare from a synchronized opposition is not to be neglected
But i agree with you....The 2027 election is for Asiwaju to lose, if he doesn't play his cards well.

stanvesco:
Point of correction the north did not remove Good luck!
Good luck removed himself!
This same Tinubu was the grandmaster of the whole thing!

So now, you expect Tinubu that installed Buhari to loose his own election? Joker profundus

Have you heard of the phrase " The enemy of your enemy is your friend"
Tinubu is fulfilling the favor owed him for Buhari's merger.
If the people that helped him win all those Northern states go against him and pick a strong candidate in South South
They will at worst go into run-offs because i know Asiwaju might block the 25% required in the southwest.
Its not impossible, but it wont be easy.

Op-Ed

By all appearances, the U.K. Parliament’s move to greenlight assisted dying for terminal patients seems humane. Framed with compassion, autonomy, and dignity, the narrative is well-packaged. But beneath that glossy surface lies a social landmine—one history has taught us to fear.

Because laws, no matter how noble on paper, are often weaponized in practice—especially against those whose voices carry less weight: immigrants, Black and Brown communities, and the elderly who are “expensive to keep.”

This won’t start as a mass conspiracy. It never does. It starts with subtle narratives:
• “They’ve lived a full life.”
• “They’re better off.”
• “It’s a strain on the NHS.”
• “They don’t have family anyway.”

Soon, the law that promised dignity becomes a tool of disposability. Austerity meets moral gray zone. Race and class will become quiet gatekeepers of who ‘deserves’ to live.

Imagine this: an aging Caribbean nurse, who spent 40 years serving the NHS, develops chronic illness. Her accent, her lack of family, her immigrant status—these make her “a candidate.” Assisted dying becomes suggested before alternatives. Before community care. Before hope.

Or a Pakistani grandfather hesitant to return to Karachi for care—warned quietly: “Well, we do have options here now…”

These things don’t happen overnight. But once the legal lever exists, it becomes subjective. Abusable. Prejudiced.

The U.K. already has racial disparities in maternal mortality, cancer diagnosis, and COVID deaths. Should we really trust that this new law—literally about life and death—will be administered equally?

We need more than regulation. We need resistance.
Because when the State gains the power to end life “mercifully,” it must never be allowed to define who is worth saving.

Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mps-back-legalising-assisted-dying-132958019.html

I want to donate a $1 million dollars to my alma matter.

but it will cast me....I WONT SURVIVE THE PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM MY CLASS WHATSAPP GROUP

Example of Loan for cude Oil gone wrong, all it took was 5 years. Now the Qatari's have dragged South Sudan to a US court !!!! Dont forget the Qataris are the same ones that gifted the US president a Boeing jumbo Jet as Airforce 1.

Who thinks Qatari will lose this case in a US court ?

[color=#000000]Nigeria stay careful with those loans. Lets eat what we have.[/color]

[color=#000000]June 17 2025[/color]

South Sudan faces $1 billion battle in U.S. court over loan default from Qatar

JUBA – Qatar National Bank (QNB) has formally petitioned a federal court in Washington, D.C., to enforce a $1 billion arbitration award against South Sudan and its central bank after years of missed payments and failed debt restructuring efforts.
In a detailed filing obtained by Sudans Post dated June 13, QNB asks the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to treat the international arbitration decision as if it were a final court judgment in the United States.

The request comes under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Convention — a global treaty that ensures arbitration awards involving governments are binding and enforceable in member countries.

The roots of the dispute trace back to South Sudan’s early years of independence. According to the petition, soon after gaining statehood in 2011, South Sudan and its central bank — the Bank of South Sudan (BSS) — secured loans from QNB to finance vital imports needed to rebuild the war-torn country. The funds supported the purchase of food, farm supplies, medicines, building materials, and refined oil.

As the country slipped into a brutal civil war in late 2013, its oil production — the main source of national revenue — plunged dramatically. To keep the economy afloat, QNB extended more credit facilities, including a $250 million increase on top of the original arrangements.

By May 2015, however, South Sudan fell behind on payments. In an effort to avoid default, the parties renegotiated the debt in 2016 and again in 2018. The final deal, known as the Facility Agreement, involved a $700 million term loan designed to refinance existing obligations and spread repayment over 15 years, starting March 31, 2019.

South Sudan requested the full $700 million through a formal drawdown and received roughly $659.8 million from QNB in February 2019. But within months, the government missed the very first repayment due that March, triggering a chain of notices and demands from the bank.

QNB filed for arbitration in September 2020 under the agreed ICSID process. A three-member arbitration panel was appointed, consisting of Dr. Ucheora Onwuamaegbu as president, Peter Rees KC for QNB, and Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri for South Sudan.

After hearings in London in January 2023, the tribunal rejected all of South Sudan’s jurisdictional objections and ruled in January 2024 that both the government and the central bank had breached the loan agreement. A final award was issued in May 2024.

According to the award, South Sudan and BSS are jointly responsible for paying QNB more than $1.02 billion, which includes $659.8 million in unpaid principal, $432.3 million in accrued interest, a $300,000 management fee, and minus repayments of about $71.1 million.

The government is also liable for post-award interest at a rate tied to the LIBOR benchmark plus additional percentage points, and must cover QNB’s legal costs worth £999,329.78 and arbitration expenses estimated at $266,427.68.

Despite these rulings, QNB claims, South Sudan has not made any payment nor sought to cancel or pause enforcement of the award under the ICSID Convention.

In its filing, QNB argues that under U.S. law and the ICSID Convention, the arbitration decision must be enforced “like a final court judgment” — without re-examining the merits or the original contract. The bank says South Sudan waived any sovereign immunity that might block enforcement, both by contract and by signing the ICSID Convention.

“This Court is not permitted to re-litigate the arbitration; its role is solely to confirm the award and enforce payment,” QNB’s lawyers wrote. The petition requests the court to enter a judgment for the full amount plus interest and legal costs.

Counsel for Qatar National Bank in this action includes Floriane Lavaud, Jovana Crncevic, and Alexander Haden of Withers Bergman LLP in New York. Representatives for South Sudan, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Governor of the Bank of South Sudan, have not yet filed a response.

Source: https://www.sudanspost.com/qatar-national-bank-seeks-1b-from-south-sudan-over-unpaid-loans

[color=#000000]December 20 2020[/color]

The Republic of South Sudan is a landlocked country in East Central Africa that is trapped in a borrowing cycle that it is finding it very difficult to get out of. The country continues to borrow funds from multiple major financiers for projects to lend to its development. Despite having billions of barrels of oil reserves, the country is finding it difficult to drag itself out of debt.

Anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness (GW) sounded the alarm in 2015 on South Sudan’s borrowing, when its Parliament approved the decision by the government to negotiate a loan of hundreds of millions of dollars with the Qatar National Bank (QNB). GW called the loan risky. It pointed out that the country received US$1.7 billion in oil money in the year prior, and that the US$500 million Qatari loan has an interest rate so high that Qatari would owe an additional US$281 million to pay back over seven years. This is no chump change to South Sudan. Its economy has proven to be very volatile over the years, due to years of ethnic strife, civil war, and over-dependence on oil. GW said that the deal is risky also because the government agreed that if it is low on cash, it will pay in oil.
“Using crude as collateral threatens to lock the country into a dangerous cycle of debt,” GW said. “Oil dollars are used to pay off old loans while new loans fund the budget. By taking this loan, the government risks selling South Sudan’s future to pay for today.”
Worse yet, GW said, is that there are serious concerns about the government’s spending priorities and corruption, while millions suffer in poverty.
In October, Sudans Post, an independent media organization, said that the Qatar National Bank lodged a complaint against Sudan at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for its failure to repay a US$700 million debt. Sudans Post said that the African country has benefitted from multiple payments from the Qatar Bank and has defaulted.
In its Article IV consultation 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that South Sudan is in deep economic crisis, and that debt sustainability is a key issue. Along with the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), the IMF prepared a debt sustainability analysis in 2019 which placed the decade-old republic’s total external debt stock at US$1.196 billion or 34.4 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

According to that analysis, as of March 2019, South Sudan owed the World Bank US$53 million, the African Development Bank (AfDB) US$28 million, the China Export Import Bank US$150 million, Qatar National Bank US$627 million, and oil-related advances US$338 million.
The IMF and the World Bank said that South Sudan has weak debt-carrying capacity.
Even then, Reuters reported in August that South Sudan is seeking a US$250 million loan from the African Export Import Bank. The loan was requested so the country can implement a delayed peace agreement from the war ended two years ago, fight COVID-19 and work toward food security.

nlfpmod

Source: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2020/12/20/oil-rich-south-sudan-trapped-in-dangerous-cycle-of-debt/

Hyperchi:
Try read the trash u post and use ur brain to find the logic.
Someone killed Ur wife, that gives u right to kill full community

Ask Israel, they are the ones that killed the whole community(Gaza)
You see that if you use your brain....it works !!

The world is tired. Tired of the careful euphemisms, the tiptoeing around Israel’s “right to defend itself” while Gaza is left with no hospitals, no bread, no oxygen, no future.

So, what if the nations that were once the punching bags of empire decided to act? Not with bullets. But with bread.

Now is the perfect moment for Pakistan, Turkey, Russia, China, and North Korea—an unlikely alliance if there ever was one—to band together for something radical:

Humanitarian aid. Pallets, not politics. Water bottles, not warheads.

Let Saudi Arabia play Switzerland—let them coordinate the logistics. Let the kingdom’s convoys glide silently under the moonlight, carrying rice sacks and insulin coolers while the world debates “ceasefires.”

Why? Because this isn’t just about Gaza. It’s about the right to say “no” to manufactured silence.
It’s about defibrillating the heart of humanity in a world anesthetized by geopolitics.

Israel claims it’s not committing genocide.
Fine. Prove it wrong by feeding the people it’s boxed in.

Imagine the visual:
• Chinese cargo planes unloading UN-labeled containers
• Russian-built field hospitals rising in Rafah
• Turkish bread trucks humming across bombed roads
• Pakistani engineers restoring water purification
• North Korean medics (yes, even them) stitching children’s wounds in mobile clinics

It would send a thunderous message:
“We are not your subjects anymore. We are not waiting for the West’s permission to be human.”

Because let’s be honest—when Gaza weeps, the colonizers host wine galas.
When children die of dehydration in Gaza, bureaucrats discuss “sustainable dialogue” over espresso in Brussels.

The new world order doesn’t need tanks to show its spine.
It needs convoys of compassion. It needs China’s cranes, not just its currency.
It needs Russia’s resolve, Turkey’s reach, Pakistan’s people-power, and yes—North Korea’s audacity.

If they moved together—just this once—for people, not politics…
History would bend.

"You don't defeat the king by rushing the throne. You make him chase too many queens at once."

In the intricate theater of 21st-century geopolitics, timing is more powerful than firepower. If China truly wants to reunify Taiwan-not through ideology but through pragmatic conquest-its best moment may not come through peace talks, but through global chaos.

That chaos, orchestrated properly, begins with the U.S. spreading itself across multiple chessboards-simultaneously.

The Trigger: U.S. Commits to Defending Israel

When American boots touch Middle Eastern soil in direct defense of Israel-whether against Iran, Hezbollah, or Houthi proxies-the Pentagon's strategic reserves start bleeding from their arteries. Airlift capacity, real-time satellite assets, naval deterrents-they all get funneled to the Levant.

This alone wouldn't be fatal.

But it opens the door.

The Cold Fingers Tighten:
• Russia escalates in Ukraine, forcing NATO into panic logistics.
• Iran unleashes asymmetric pressure on Israel, tying down CENTCOM.
• North Korea may launch symbolic threats to spook Japan and South Korea.

And then-China moves.

Not with fireworks. But with grey zone warfare:
• Cyber shutdowns in Taipei
• Sea lane obstructions
• Massive "drills" near Kinmen and Penghu
• Disinformation ops to sow internal division

And finally, a blockade disguised as a quarantine.

The Strategic Genius of It All

The U.S. was never designed to fight three wars in three hemispheres simultaneously.
• The Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) relies heavily on naval projection.
• The CENTCOM burden drains carrier groups and missile defense assets.
• EUCOM (Europe) can't fully commit without undermining both.

Each theater can be covered-or collapsed-but not concurrently.

And the illusion that America can fight "two wars and deter a third" has never been truly tested in real time. China, Russia, and Iran know this.

So why not test it?

The Chinese Endgame: Win Without Total War

Beijing doesn't need a full-scale invasion.
It needs momentum, regional fatigue, and diplomatic collapse.

If the world sees the U.S. flinch-just once-in Taiwan's defense while Israel burns, Ukraine bleeds, and American voters ask, "Why are we policing the planet?"
-then Xi doesn't win a battle.
He wins the narrative.

And that may be the real prize.

Firstcitizen:
I can't wait for the US to get involved. They need to get sucked into another conflict for another decade and get another humiliation like the misadventure in Iran's neighbour Afghanistan.

They are wise, they wont get involved. You know why ?
China and Russia will fight them by proxy in Iran.
Thats the only way china and Russia can fight USA INDIRECTLY
They are all tired of USA bullshit in Ukraine and Taiwan.
So if the can deceive them to enter Iran.....They will disgrace them
Iran might be another Vietnam for the USA.
USA economy has not recovered post Covid.