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Foreign AffairsRe: MUGABE To The WEST, "Keep Your Pink Nose Out Of Our Affairs, Please," by mankand(m): 9:44am On Aug 11, 2013
igbobuigbo: Hahahaha! But Obama does not have a ''pink'' nose and he is the one putting his nose most in Mugabe's affairs.

This Mugabe is a big joker. Perhaps he should tell the millions of Zimbabweans living in all the countries of the pink noses to return to Zimbabwe. People are globalizing, the senile baboon is taking his people back to the 16th Century.
You are the senile baboon, there are lots of reforms and development going on in Zimbabwe very soon Zimbabwe will be a case study for the elevation of economics in African model.

You sit back here in Nigeria spewing junks
PoliticsRe: Jonathan With Gov. Dickson & Gov Obi In Yenegoa by mankand(m): 12:30pm On Aug 10, 2013
okpara ugo: make sure you dont die of hypertension..

As you insult these men, you also insult God who made them kings...
here goes one of the goons celebrating their clueless masters. God is not a god of confusion, he never made them kings rather you sold your conscience for a loaf of bread to make them kings.
PoliticsRe: Jonathan With Gov. Dickson & Gov Obi In Yenegoa by mankand(m): 10:37pm On Aug 09, 2013
Three bunch of clueless fools celebrated by shameless and mediocre goons.

Keep praising them for their under performance 2015 is fast approaching.
PoliticsRe: Jungle Justice: 12 Year Old Boy Samuel Burnt To Death By Mob [disturbing Video] by mankand(m): 6:05pm On Aug 09, 2013
What the he'll is going on in Nigeria now,
PoliticsWould Be Burglar Get His Dick Kicked In By 72 Yr Old Retired Boxer by mankand(op): 2:20pm On Aug 09, 2013
Frank Corti, 72, who served with the Royal Engineers in North Africa from 1956-58, dodged the knife and punched Gregory McCalium, 23, twice in the face, giving him a black eye and a swollen lip. He then restrained the attacker until police arrived

McCalium, a barman, was given a four-and-a-half year prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court on Monday for aggravated burglary and was told by the judge he had “got what he deserved”.

The court heard Mr Corti was at home in Botley, Oxford, with his wife Margaret, 72, when McCalium, a neighbour, forced his way in at 8am on Aug 19 last year. McCalium was drunk.

Speaking after the case, Mr Corti said: “I was scared when he first drew the knife, but my old training must have kicked in because I just punched him as hard as I could and he went down like a sack of spuds. If you can’t defend what’s yours, where are we at?”

McCalium had denied the charge and claimed he could not remember what happened.



http://www.secretsofthefed.com/burglar-left-bruised-and-bleeding-by-retired-boxer-72/

PoliticsRe: Fayemi Sends Six Students To Study Abroad From Own Purse. by mankand(m): 2:05pm On Aug 09, 2013
Nigerians can't stop celebrating mediocre.

Why cant he use the money from his own purse to refurbish the University in Ekiti State or is it a crime to assist the federal government on this project for the benefit of mankind and her citizens?

I can only see this as political stunt and pure rubbish.

Criticize me if you like, one word awaiting you in advance; you are just as headless as your headless leaders
NYSCRe: Suspected Attackers Of Bayelsa Corper Arrested by mankand(m): 12:52pm On Aug 09, 2013
They should Matchet their hands also and treat them so as to feel the agony and pains the girl is going through.

Bunch of ungrateful fools

Good job they have been arrested, they should have a long time and holiday in jail because Nigerian prisons still over crowded with awaiting trial, and i guess their trial will last about 5-6 years because the rogue boy who buggled my house 2 years ago was arrested middle of March 2012 and till I write, the case is still in court (As usual Awaiting trial)

My regards to Godogodo if you meet him and enjoy beans with red oil grin grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: Reactions Trail Delta Assembly N1.2 Billion USA Leadership Training Jamboree by mankand(m): 11:55am On Aug 08, 2013
Are these bunch of goons never tired?
PoliticsRe: Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria's Senior Advocate Of The Masses by mankand(m): 8:05pm On Aug 07, 2013
One word

#RESPECT#
Foreign AffairsRe: Robert Mugabe Blasts Nelson Mandela As A “coward” And “ by mankand(m): 5:51pm On Aug 06, 2013
Mugabe is going too far with this. In as much as I respect him he should not intoxicate himself with power. I respect all his works and fighting for the people of Zimbabwe.

Long live Mugabe
Long live Ghadaffi
Long live the people of Zimbabwe

#Respect
PoliticsRe: Lagbaja Responds To Okey Ndibe On “mumudom” by mankand(m): 11:54am On Aug 06, 2013
Men, I felt like crying while reading this very nice article. Lagbaja is 100% on point.

I agree on all he have said before i forgot, i also need to return back to work as i need to earn #3000 for UK Visa grin grin grin grin

We go see later for evening for joint.
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's 55th Birthday Party (Pictures) by mankand(m): 10:21am On Aug 06, 2013
The same Ibori in Jail?

Nigerians cant seem to stop amazing me
Foreign AffairsRe: Taiwan Lawmakers Fight Over Nuclear Plant Bill by mankand(m): 4:59pm On Aug 04, 2013
But their counterparts here in Nigeria are fighting for legalisation of child marriage, throwing punches and mazing themselves over greedy ambitions, they are not even throwing punches over enforcement of child education on every nigerian child. Smh we have a very very long way to go
PoliticsRe: FG Will Retaliate Against UK Visa Bond by mankand(m): 10:27am On Aug 01, 2013
Headless leaders leading biased and greedy citizens

why not make your country liveable and conducive for your citizens I bet nobody in his or her right sense will be ready to pay such amount to the British thieves

After they have drained this country and discover that it is impossible to suckling Nigeria dry because a mosquito cannot suckling dry the blood of anyone, they are deviating another means.

The best the government can to to retaliate is to start setting up projects, improving the lives and standard of living in the country then give Nigeria 5 years, those running abroad will start running back. It is a simple mathematics and you need no prophet to tell you this
Christianity EtcRe: Pope Francis Has Changed My View Of Homosexuals by mankand(m): 3:04pm On Jul 31, 2013
Dude you are missing the point.

The Devil owns, coordinate and direct all the affairs on earth. The devil have been working to infilterate all offices and religion on earth. That have been the best and greatest weapon of deception.

If you claim God did not reject gays then, God must appoligize for Sodom and Gomorrah

PoliticsRe: Tinubu Is Next - Pastor Who Predicted Death Of Patience's Mother by mankand(m): 8:04pm On Jul 30, 2013
Another goon just escaped Yaba Left now seeking attention.

Just passing by
PoliticsRe: NLC Threatens To Join ASUU Strike by mankand(m): 3:39pm On Jul 24, 2013
Acidosis: Wow, thats a very f00lish decision

The ASUU I know will never join anyone (not even the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities) in any solidarity rubbish.

The problem with our lecturers is: They think PhD equates Large, Fat money.. Too many demands.. high expectation.

Some of these profs, earn between N700,000 - N1,000,000 basic salary monthly.
Plus sabaticals, free lecture hours (for business), other income from affiliate programs (Pre-degree, Post-Graduate, Professional degrees etc), allowances, visiting lecturers to other schools (not free), consultancy (not free), books and publications (for sale) etc..

They keep complaining about the time spent writing journals (journals meant for their OWN quick promotion, money, not STUDENTS).


Yet they keep comparing themselves with people who earn average sums working almost 20hours a day without any opportunity to do other works.

Now it would be very foolish for NLC to tell someone who earn N20K a month to sit at home in solidarity for a group of people who do not care about their existence.
Dude I do not think you know what they are fighting for, they are not fighting for their pockets here.

Read below

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ASUU STRIKE: Nigerian varsities may remain shut for a long time to come — Prof Iyayi
on July 21, 2013 at 1:46 am in Interview

They went to laboratories where they found people using kerosene stoves instead of Bunsen burners to conduct experiments; they found specimens being kept in pure water bottles instead of the appropriate places where such specimens should be kept

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI is a former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In this interview, he explains why university teachers nationwide are on strike; saying the action is to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with ASUU on funding of universities. Iyayi, currently Head of Dept, Business Administration, University of Benin, insists that the union members are prepared to stay at home for the next three to five years until the right thing is done. Excerpts:

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE, BENIN
ASUU has gone back to the trenches with the Federal Government. Why are you on strike?
The short answer is this: Government believes that Nigeria should continue to be not just a second rate country but a third rate country because the quality of development, the kind of society you have depend on the kind of education that the people have and the quality of education that exists in the country. In 2009, ASUU reached an agreement with government on how to rehabilitate and revitalize the universities. That agreement was a product of three years of negotiation, from 2006 to 2009, and government agreed that it will provide funding for universities to bring them to a level that we can begin to produce graduates that will be recognized worldwide, and our universities can also be classified and rated among the best in the world. People keep talking about universities rating, but no Nigerian university features among the first 1,000 in the world because of the issue of lack of facilities.
So, from 2009 to 2012, ASUU waited for the Federal Government to implement that agreement and what government did was to believe and present the argument that what ASUU was looking for was money, and so, they implemented part of the salary component; they did not implement the agreement on funding. As academics, if you pay us N10million a month and we do not have the tools to work with, that money is worthless because we want to be able to conduct research, teach students the latest that is available in the world of knowledge. Those tools were not available and are still not available.
So, in 2011, precisely in December, ASUU went on strike to force government to implement the funding part of that agreement. What did the government do? They apprehended the strike in January 2012 and the Secretary to the Federal Government invited the leadership of ASUU for a meeting in his office. We went there, discussed with them on the basis of which on 24 January, 2012, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government under the title, “MEETING OF THE SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNEMNT OF THE FEDERATION WITH THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES “and signed by Prof. Nicholas A. Damachi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education on behalf of the Federal Government. The most important of the items signed was 3.0, that is, “FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITIES”. And this is what the Federal Government said it would do: “Government reaffirms its commitment to the revitalization of Nigerian universities through budgetary and non- budgetary sources of funds; government will immediately stimulate the process with the sum of N100billion and will beef it up to a yearly sum of N400billion in the next three years”.

As we speak now, not a Kobo, not an iota of intervention has taken place in the universities. Yet, government itself, in the various studies it has done, said it recognizes the pathetic state of the universities. In order to implement this agreement, government first gave a reason saying, ‘oh, for us to apply the funds, let us first of all identify the areas of priorities to which the funds will be applied’. Government also said, ‘we are not going to give the money to the universities, what we are going to do is to identify the projects, we will them call on government agencies such as the CBN, PTDF, ETF to deliver the projects to the universities that would then be estimated’. So the money is not coming to the universities, government will do the costing and get people to come and do all those things such as the rehabilitation of the laboratories, classrooms and a variety of other things.

Prof. Fetus Iyayi
Needs assessment committee
Now what should be those things: Government set up a committee called the NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE and it went round the universities and what it found was shocking. First, it found that the students – teachers ratio was 1-400 on the average instead of being 1-40. It found out that the classrooms were grossly inadequate and could accommodate only about 30 percent of the number of students that needed to enter those classrooms; they went round and found students standing in their lecture theatres with other students writing on their backs; they found lectures going on under trees in some of the universities; they went to laboratories where they found people using kerosene stoves instead of Bunsen burners to conduct experiments; they found specimens being kept in pure water bottles instead of the appropriate places where such specimens should be kept. They found chemistry labs without water; they found people doing examinations called theory of practicals and not the practicals and you will imagine what the practical ought to be. And when the report was eventually presented to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal Executive Council, we understand that Jonathan said that he was embarrassed and did not know that things were all that bad.

No intervention
It was on that basis that they said that this money should be spent. As we speak, the money has not been provided, no intervention has taken place and the academics are tired. We negotiated for three years, 2006-2009, we went on strike in December, 2011 and government apprehended that strike; we signed an MoU in January 2012, between then and now, nothing happened. That is why we are on strike. We are saying, ‘look, rehabilitate the universities’. As a reporter, you can go round our classrooms and you will see what our classrooms are like. In this era, it is the quality of knowledge that you acquire that will determine the position you occupy in any part of the world. We did this and government did not do anything.

A professor came from Bayelsa State recently to the University of Benin, looking for journals. We went to the library because we have an e-library and he could not do anything there because there was no light for two days in the library. If you go round here now, lecturers have generators in their offices to be able to work, every department has two or three generators to be able to do their work. Is that what a university should be like? If you go to the students’ hostels, they in a sorry state, they live 12 in a room; they are like piggery; they now have what they called short puts, they excrete in polythene bags and throw them through the windows into the fields because there are no toilets. If you come into this building (faculty building), there are no toilets and, if walk round, you will find faeces sometimes in the classrooms because students have no place to use. And it is like that in all other universities.

Enough is enough
Academic staff has said enough is enough, we cannot continue to work under these conditions, especially when government gave commitment in 2012 that this matter would be addressed but up till now nothing had happened. We had several meetings between 2012 and now and they will say ‘next week this one will happen; in two weeks time that one will happen, give us one month, this one will happen’, nothing has happened.
And when students leave here, they apply for progammes in the United Kingdom, United States and other countries for their master degrees, PhD or other postgraduate programmes and they are told that they cannot be admitted because their degrees are suspect. Shell here in Nigeria spent millions of dollars re-training graduates, people who made First Class and, when they test them, they found out that they have problems. How can you take an engineer who has not conducted an experiment, all he did is the theory of practical? He does not know how the equipment works? If you want a properly educated student population, you have to provide the facilities.

That is why ASUU is on strike. What government has done in the past is to say that we are on strike because of money, now they don’t have that excuse. It is true that part of the agreement we have with the government also talked about academic allowances, but academics are saying that we are not interested in that; we are saying that government should rehabilitate facilities and once they are rehabilitated and they are up to standard, we will come back to work. If you go to our classrooms, we use chalk boards, the situation of the 1960s but people are using multi-media facilities, mark boards where you can download information.

That is not available here and government is not interested in that. No country developed without a sound educational system and the foundation is not the primary school incidentally, it is at the university level because it is the university that trains other levels. For instance, if you want to teach in primary school, you need people who attended the Colleges of Education; if you want to be teacher at the Colleges of Education, you must have a degree from the university; so, the university provides the manpower for other levels of education and that is why you must concentrate efforts on the university education. If you don’t do that, other levels of education will suffer and that is what has been happening in Nigeria.
Against this backdrop, of your complaints more private universities are being approved by government. Will this help to solve the problem?

Even the National Universities Commission (NUC), which is licensing private universities, has now drawn attention to the crisis of quality in many of these private universities. You know what government does: We have refineries in Port-Harcourt and Warri; I was just talking with some people recently and they said, oh, Port-Harcourt refinery is in a state where it can refine whatever amount of crude oil sent to it; its plants are all now working,’ but, as at today, government has not send crude oil to it and they cannot process anything because they want to import. Nigeria is the only OPEC member country that sells crude oil to its refineries at the international price? Does that work? It doesn’t work, but they use international price to sell crude oil to refineries, to make it impossible for the refineries to process crude and then they go to Spain and other countries to import refined products.

So, what is happening is that government wants to kill the public universities just as it has killed its own enterprises so that it can invite people to come and buy over the public universities? Unfortunately, it will not work because universities are not like enterprises. In the UK, most of the universities there are public owned; in the US, most of the universities are state owned; the one you hear about, HARVARD, is a private one, but most of the universities in the world are owned by government because education is a social service; the revenue and tax collected by government comes from the people, the commonwealth, that is the fund that is used in funding education.
And what the government is doing is to under-fund public universities, give them a bad name and provide an excuse to license private universities many of which borrow lecturers from public sector universities, many of which do not have the equipment which public universities ought to have. And many of the private universities focus on the social sciences, law and arts; they do not go into engineering, medicine or sciences because you need a lot of capital outlay, you need to spend a lot of money building laboratories. I went to Oxford University last year and they showed me a laboratory that was built last year, a huge building where people from different parts of the world went there to conduct experiments. It cost billions of pounds and no private sector person will like to invest such money because the returns on investment cannot be recouped. So, private sector universities are gimmicks by government to say that they are better than the public sector universities, but then, how many people are there how much fees do they pay and how many people in Nigeria can pay the sum of N350,000 and above paid in private universities? Those universities are not meant for the children of ordinary Nigerians and development has to be about the ordinary people, it cannot be about the rich. So, there is no way, not in this century, not the next or in a life time that private universities will become more important than public universities.

Prof. Iyayi
So what is The Way Forward?
The way forward is that the ruling elite in Nigeria must be sure of what they want. We have an example; many years ago, Ghanaians were here; they flooded our universities; when the Ghanaians rulers saw what was happening, they took a step back and said, lets us change direction’. They closed down the universities for three years or so, rehabilitated all the facilities in the universities and brought the students and the lecturers back. Now, the CBN Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi disclosed that Nigerians spent about N62billion paying school fees for 75,000 Nigerian students in Ghanaian universities. Our people are in South Africa paying fees there, but who are those going there; they are the children of the rich. Ghanaians are in Ghana universities but they are not paying what Nigerians are paying there. So, the way forward is that government makes up its mind that Nigerians must have a place under the sun and that place under the sun can only be guaranteed with a sound university system.
It must make up its mind; is it to close down the university system for three years or so, do what should be done and then invite students and lecturers back? For instance, in the University of Benin, you don’t have a foreign student and if you go to other universities in Nigeria, I don’t think there are foreign students. When I came to the University of Benin, I was interviewed by Prof. Smith, a Briton who was the Dean at the time and many people from different parts of the world were here as teachers and students. But, right now, they are not in Nigeria; instead, Nigerians are everywhere. That shows that the system has collapsed. When we went to the National Assembly, Sen. Uche Chukwumerije and his colleagues told us that they were on their knees begging us to recall the students because they are on the streets posing dangers and problems, and we said, it is better for them to be on the streets than on the campus of universities learning ignorance. You cannot teach ignorance to people or half knowledge to the people because they will be more dangerous to the society.
‘Not asking for money for ourselves’
If you have a doctor that is not well trained, and you say ‘go and remove an appendix’, and he goes to remove your heart because he doesn’t know where the appendix is; it is better not to have doctors than the one who will go and remove your heart than the appendix. That is what the Nigerian government wants us to do and the academics in universities are saying no, for once, let us do the right thing; we are prepared to stay at home for between three and five years until these problems are resolved. We are not asking for money, facilities must be provided to make the universities truly what they ought to be.
In terms of how to solve the problems in the universities, when the financial crisis broke out in 2007 and banks declared that they were in trouble, government brought out N3trillion to bail out the banks. First, they gave the banks N239billion, another N620billion and N1.725trillion making a total of N3trillion.
Then the aviation sector said that it was in distress, they gave the sector, N500billion and they gave even NOLLYWOOD billions of Naira. These sectors are important, but they are not as important as the fundamental which is the education sector. If you can give the banks N3trillion and all the universities are asking for is about N1.5trillion, the same way in which they sourced the money which they gave to the banks which they are now saying that they should not pay back, they should be able to do more for education. So, nobody should come to us and say that government has no money.
If they can bail the banks with N3trillion, banks owned by the private sector, they cannot tell us they cannot fund the education sector because the World Bank told them that Africans do not need higher education, that what Africans need is middle-level technical education; that is what the Okonjo-Iwealas and Goodluck Jonathan are for. So, let them do what they did in the case of the banks to education and if they do that, the problems will be solved.
PoliticsRe: I Can Give Out Any Of My Daughters At The Age Of 6″ - Sen. Alhaji Yerima Ahmed by mankand(m): 11:24am On Jul 23, 2013
Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat

GOAT IS WHAT I WILL CALL YOU YERIMA.

What have you done to improve the life of the people living in the same city with you? As a matter of fact, it is because of poverty, unemployment, low standard of living, people have resorted to find alternative means to make their lives better.

Prostitution have become order of the day because of old fools like you temping our daughters, our sisters, our girlfriends, our female colleagues in school with your stolen money.

The only thing i have to tell you is that "God will Purnish you"

Nigeria is fast growing to the age when everyone will take out gun to call for your heads. You have not prepared a better proposal or bill to improve the lives or northerners before we talk of Nigerians. To hell with you
PoliticsRe: Atiku Abubakar On Child Marriage by mankand(m): 6:14pm On Jul 22, 2013
Abbey2sam: Please and please stop saying what you don't know, stop talking out of ignorance....
Atiku has created more job opportunities in his state (ADAMAWA state) which is part of the north, and I believe that he has other investment in other parts of the north..
Just to mention few of his investment....

1. AUN american university of nigeria
2. Faro water
3. Gotel tv
4. Gotel am and Fm
5. Abti cyber cafe, just to mention few.

Even though they are established for profit making, I believe they can run by themselves..he employed mostly youth
Save yourself the stress and argument.

AUN how much is the school fees?
Can an ordinary Northerner afford the school fees?
Faro water... is it free for all
Gotel TV-What positive impact have it made in he lives of notherners?
Gotel am and FM-Same gos for the impact
Abti cyber cafe--What nonesense?

He only care about making more money for himself. he is not different from his brothers that supported child marriage. He should go and bury head in shame because we are not going to fall for his scam
PoliticsRe: Atiku Abubakar On Child Marriage by mankand(m): 3:55pm On Jul 22, 2013
And what have he done for the North?

Have he brought and encouraged education in the North?

Have he created employment and better opportunities for the idle minds in the north?

Rather he only cared about his sons and daughters and he comes out here to start saying trash.

No worries, Nigeria is developing into the age of mass revolt, they you all will find your places where you deserve to be
PoliticsEU Agrees To Put Hezbollah’s Military Wing On Terror List by mankand(op): 3:28pm On Jul 22, 2013
European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to blacklist Lebanese militant group Hezbollah’s armed wing, holding it responsible for terror attacks in Europe including a bus bombing in Bulgaria in which five Israelis were killed.
By FRANCE 24 (text)


The European Union put the military arm of Hezbollah on its terrorist list on Monday, in a major change to its policy on the region, fuelled by concerns over the Lebanese militant group’s activities in Europe.

The decision was reached unanimously at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday after some member countries, which were resistant to the blacklisting, were persuaded by an EU distinction between the political and military arms of the group.

The 28-member bloc had been resisting pressure from the US and Israel to add Hezbollah to the EU list of terror groups amid concerns that the EU might lose leverage over the powerful Lebanese group.

But in recent months, momentum for Hezbollah’s blacklisting had been building within the bloc after the Islamist group was implicated in the deadly July 18, 2012 suicide bombing of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in the Black Sea resort city of Burgas.

A Cyprus court decision in March that found a Hezbollah member guilty of helping to plan attacks on Israelis on the Mediterranean island also helped galvanise EU moves to blacklist the group.

Hezbollah has denied involvement in the attacks – including the Bulgarian bus bombing, which killed five Israeli tourists, their bus driver and the bomber.

The EU decision came as the Iran-backed Shiite group has increased its involvement in the Syrian conflict, with Hezbollah fighters supporting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad forces in their assault of rebel-held areas.

Speaking to FRANCE 24 shortly after the decision, Edward McMillan-Scott, a British member of the European Parliament, noted that while it’s clear the Lebanese militant group was playing a role in the Syrian conflict, it was “not the immediate cause of the sanction – it is apparently the terrorist attack on a bus in Bulgaria. This was held to be the responsibility of Hezbollah’s military wing,” said McMillan-Scott.

The request to add Hezbollah’s military wing to its terror list was put forward by Britain, which already classifies Hezbollah as a terror group. The Netherlands, the only other EU member to consider Hezbollah a terrorist organisation prior to Monday’s EU-wide decision, had been pressing for the blacklisting since 2004.

Responding to the decision Monday, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans called it a critical move for the 28-member bloc.

“It is good that the EU has decided to call Hezbollah what it is: a terrorist organization,'' said Timmermans. “I'm satisfied that we took this important step today, by dealing with the military wing of Hezbollah, freezing its assets, hindering its fundraising and thereby limiting its capacity to act.”

Limited scope and implementation hurdles

The blacklisting entails visa bans on individuals and asset freezes on organizations associated with the group. The new designation makes it illegal for European diplomats to meet with Hezbollah’s militant staff and for Hezbollah supporters in Europe to send money to the group’s armed wing.

But the implementation will be complicated, since EU officials have to unravel the links between the different wings within Hezbollah's organizational network. The powerful Lebanese Shiite group has always maintained that there are no divisions between its military and political wings, which include Lebanese members of parliament.

“The military wing and the political wing of Hezbollah and its various charitable organisations are very hard to separate,” explained FRANCE 24’s Lucy Fielder, reporting from the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Although the asset freeze is a critical aspect of the blacklisting, Fielder noted that its impact on Hezbollah would be limited. “There’s very little evidence to suggest that Hezbollah keeps its money in the EU, or its members keep their money in the EU. The group certainly does not receive major funding from Europe. Their funding comes from Iran,” noted Fielder.

McMillan-Scott also questioned the effects of the new ruling on the ground. “I’ve always taken the view that terrorist lists are gesture politics,” he said. “While I’m not going to criticise the fact that Hezbollah has been identified as a terrorist organisation, I only point out that it will have very little effect on the group itself.”

Hezbollah says it will not be intimidated

In the run-up to Monday’s agreement, Lebanon officially asked Brussels not to blacklist Hezbollah last week, noting that the Shiite militant group was an "essential component of Lebanese society”.

Senior Hezbollah leaders have maintained that the group will not be intimidated by European threats and cannot be isolated.

“The Lebanese government’s position has been that this move should not take place,” noted Fielder.

“But Lebanon is a divided country – especially since the Syrian crisis just across the border. We can expect to see very strident reactions from Hezbollah and its allies, which is a very powerful bloc within Lebanon’s political structure. But we can also expect a lot of praise, a lot of support from its [Hezbollah’s] critics in Lebanon who support the Syrian uprising and the Syrian opposition.”

But that has sparked fears that the EU’s blacklisting could “feed into the divisions in Lebanon and add to the tensions that are already sky high here,” Fielder added.

Amid concerns that blacklisting Hezbollah could destabilise Lebanon, European foreign ministers have stressed that the EU will maintain its political and economic links with Lebanon.

Addressing some of these fears ahead of Monday’s meeting, Britain’s Foreign Minister William Hague said the blacklisting would not “destabilise Lebanon or have serious adverse consequences” on the EU’s dealings in the region. “It is important for us to show that we are united and strong in facing terrorism,'' said Hague.


Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20130722-eu-agrees-blacklist-hezbollah-military-wing-terror-list-bulgaria-bomb
HealthRe: Which Of These Have You Used To Clean Your Ear? by mankand(m): 2:51pm On Jul 22, 2013
A, C, E = ACE grin grin grin. As for C, i do break it into 2
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Running A 'one-man-Show' In PDP - Amaechi by mankand(m): 11:23am On Jul 22, 2013
Brimmie: [size=20]Its Been Long We Heard Frm Bipi's Brother; Reuben Abati! grin[/size]
He is still reading through the latest dictionaries to gather english for our Professor.

The question you should also ask is where is the native doctor on Nairaland (Insincere9gerian) it is been long i read his comments here, maybe they are yet to come out of the shock of bashing from the Prof grin grin grin grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: Abuja Under Lockdown Over Security Threats by mankand(m): 11:19am On Jul 22, 2013
Very soon there will be State of Emergency in the whole country in the name of curbing terrorism.

Why cant you guys just come out plainly and tell us your motives.
EducationRe: BREAKING NEWS: ASUU Calls Off Strike by mankand(m): 1:00pm On Jul 20, 2013
Check www.transukrvuz.com to study abroad.

Hurry not as admission is hot
NYSCRe: Two Female Corpers Set Ablaze In Rivers State by mankand(m): 9:09pm On Jul 19, 2013
This is crazy and barbaric. What kind of county and continent is this?

I can only wish the corners a speedy recovery and hope they will not be traumatised as well as the families of the girls.

But it is not compulsory to serve now.
GamingRe: Any Body Know Were I Can Fix My Xbox 360 Having 1red Light Issues In Lagos by mankand(m): 8:00am On Jul 19, 2013
Govto alaba international market, that is where you will have it fixed
TravelRe: Direct Access To Georgia Republic Universities by mankand(m): 8:15pm On Jul 18, 2013
Guys Georgia is not admitting nigerian student this year, check again next year

thanks
PoliticsRe: Govt Orders Withdrawal Of Troops From Mali. by mankand(m): 3:19pm On Jul 18, 2013
tutu1: YOU ARE JUST A FOOL
You are just a goon just like your paymaster
EducationRe: Help Needed In Studying In Israel by mankand(m): 12:38pm On Jul 18, 2013
Good luck with your quest
PoliticsRe: Govt Orders Withdrawal Of Troops From Mali. by mankand(m): 11:36am On Jul 18, 2013
Ngwakwe: Are you trying to convince the house that GEJ had refused advice from the Defense echelons as it pertains to diplomacy, internal/external security, intelligence and at the same time telling us that PEJ is now the Defense Miniter/Adviser in the matters of military deployment and diplomacy.

Why are you displaying hatred and hypocrisy in a bid to bring PEJ into this discussion and yet you think your are making sense?
No one is trying to hate Gej here. You have no idea of international warfare and diplomacy. I advise you stick to your lecturing job. It is unfortunate ASUU let goons like you out.

You are supposed to be back to the lecture hall soon, I will plead on your behalf

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