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seunmsg:

BREAKING: Iran has announced it is again closing the Strait of Hormuz. The military says the US must lift its blockade of Iranian ports before the Strait is opened again. pic.twitter.com/Gm8bNIfmwo

— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) April 18, 2026

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liveblog/2026/4/18/iran-war-live-tehran-says-president-trump-made-false-claims-amid-talks


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZAszfqfRw?si=XJAlDYc9aG9O5NxB

Pakute:
• Maj Gen Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi said Iran's armed forces would block Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman and Red Sea traffic



https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-threatens-halt-red-sea-traffic-response-us-military-blockade-ports

SonofElElyonRet:
Dangote says oil refinery IPO of it's 10% shares will be pan Atlantic! No be tasere go dey available for us in naija so

Dupeodus:
Because people of third world countries are looking for magic wands instead of realistic economic policies that will create hardship initially because you are correcting for past economic sins but gives you a chance for future economic prosperity. They tend to sanction populist economic policies that appear humane but only create arbitrage opportunities for government cronies and dig you further and further into the ditch.

GeneralDae:
Oil prices going down. Strait of Hormuz declared open by Iran.

Bizibi:
Bros buhari failed. First mistake was allowing his tribesmen to take full control of his government infact that was the Genesis of the damage. Someone who didn't read documents before signing as long as it came from his tribesmen.

Agbalowomeri:
UBA get big yansh?

nosa2:
UBA and Access are in the same whatsappgroup

megawealth01:
I got trapped in LASACO

Insurance no dey be my thing sha

I bought LASACO because of jagaban and sowo eko

BabsO2:
Stop that. UBA is full of the life expected from shares

nosa2:
UBA is sexy but it's not armed robber sexy.

PS I don't care for dividends when measuring sexiness

Heffalump:
It's like the internet is hyping Iran to self destruction.
This resistance is suicidal. If Trump wants to scatter everything in Iran, he would have achieved that by now. Anyway, we're here still watching.

Hightablevoice2:
Since the creation of the Jewish state in 1945. The west has practically been arming them against the middle east while systematically been distablizing and weakening the strength of the Arab States. If it hadn't been for the Western support towards Isreal, they would have been reduced to mere community. They played the WWII victim card to the fullest.

As for the sorority guys and Prince of Isreals on these platform, your dearest Isreal is only able to fight because the major power in the world backs them, turns blind eyes to their atrocious activities, and systematically weakening their opponents for them. Isreal on its own, while they have been able to build up their arsenal after the 6 days war, has literally been given the free reign to do as they wish in the middle east, remove that from the equation they will not be able to withstand any well organized Arab State, be it Egypt, Libya, Turkey, and now Iran. I suggest they should just keep quiet and appreciate the fact they have the west to thank.

The IAEA has never for once questioned Isreal nuclear capability, but yet have been bearing down heavily on any Arab State that sees a nuclear program as a deterrence against external aggression. And not only, there are economic sanctions, numerous backlash and exclusions from contributing their own quota to the world, in terms of belief systems, moral grounds and ethic validations. Terrorism started as a means of those guys using all means possible to fight back against a power that they can touch in a large scale but with minute attacks and a means of resistance. While the west labels it terrorism, their cause to them is a freedom fight. So in a way it is a matter of who is right or wrong. I remain passive, but very much aware of their motives.

If it is Banking and Economy, Isreal and Jewish customs surely are world class no doubt about that, but military might, they are not really that strong. They just have a lot of shield from the western world which allows them to operate with impunity.

Conclusively, world peace matters, and not just Isreal peace. If these stalling continues, the war will still rage on, maybe it will die down for now, but it is merely secondarily postponed.

Truthday:
IDF Destroys Saint Peter Shrine in Lebanon — Where Is the International Accountability?

 Tom Wong  March 30, 2026  0



The deliberate demolition of one of Christianity’s most ancient sites raises urgent questions about accountability, international law, and the West’s silence in the face of irreversible cultural destruction.

When Israeli forces detonated explosives inside the Maqam Shamoun Al-Safa — the ancient shrine believed to hold the burial place of Saint Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ — in the Lebanese village of Chamaa on November 15–17, 2024, they didn’t just destroy stone and mortar. They erased nearly two millennia of shared human history. And much of the Western world barely flinched.

The shrine, which archaeological evidence dates to the 1st century CE, sits on a hilltop overlooking Tyre in southern Lebanon. It had survived the Crusades, centuries of war, and even heavy damage in the 2006 Lebanon conflict — only to be blown up with military-grade explosives during Israel’s 2024 ground incursion. CNN verified footage showing plumes of smoke rising from the complex. The grave appeared looted. A 900-year-old adjacent medieval castle was also destroyed. The silence from world leaders was deafening.

Why This Site Matters Beyond Religion

The Maqam Shamoun Al-Safa is not merely a religious landmark — it is a civilizational artifact. Revered by both Shia Muslims (who know Saint Peter as Sham’un as-Safa, “Simon the Pure”) and Christians, it represents one of the rare places on earth where multiple faith traditions share a common heritage. The Fatimid dynasty restored it in 1097 CE; its minaret bears an inscription from that era. Local Shia scholar Yusuf al-Bahrani documented pilgrimages there after 1750. A scholar, a pilgrim, a stonemason — generation after generation — each contributed to a site that predated most of Europe’s cathedrals.

The destruction of heritage sites is not a byproduct of war. It is a message. It says: your history does not matter. When that message is delivered against sites sacred to Christianity — in a region where Christianity was literally born — it demands a response from people of conscience, regardless of political affiliation.

What the Law Actually Says

Under international humanitarian law, specifically the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the deliberate destruction of cultural and religious heritage is prohibited. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article classifies intentional attacks on religious, educational, and historic monuments as war crimes — even in the context of active military operations.

Israel is not a signatory to the 1954 Hague Convention. That loophole matters. But it does not change the moral and legal architecture that the rest of the civilized world has built over 70 years of post-war reckoning. The destruction of the Saint Peter shrine was not collateral damage — it was, according to reporting from the Middle East Monitor, carried out with deliberately placed explosive charges. That is a choice, not an accident.

When a government uses precision explosives to level a 2,000-year-old Christian shrine, the question isn’t whether it happened — it’s why so few people in power are demanding answers.

The Pattern No One Wants to Name

The Chamaa shrine did not fall in isolation. A Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report from March 2026 documented that Israeli forces have destroyed over 93% of cemeteries in the Gaza Strip. In early 2026, satellite imagery confirmed the bulldozing of the Gaza War Cemetery — a Commonwealth-era burial site containing graves of British, Australian, and other Allied soldiers from World War I. The Israeli military confirmed the damage, attributing it to tunnel-dismantling operations.

What emerges is not a series of isolated incidents but a pattern of cultural and historical erasure that extends across multiple theaters of operation. Whether one supports Israel’s right to self-defense or not — and reasonable people can — the systematic destruction of irreplaceable heritage sites demands independent accountability. Supporting law and order means supporting it universally, not selectively.

What Critics Get Wrong

Some will argue that the Chamaa shrine was located in a combat zone and that Hezbollah’s use of civilian and religious infrastructure as cover makes such damage inevitable. It’s a fair point worth engaging honestly.

Military necessity is a recognized principle in the laws of war. But “military necessity” has legal limits — it cannot justify the deliberate placement of explosives in a historic shrine when there is no documented evidence of that specific structure being used as a weapons cache or command post. The IDF’s own description of the operation frames it as part of a broader scorched-earth approach to deny Hezbollah operational space near the border. That is a policy — and policies have architects, and architects have accountability.

Acknowledging complexity is not the same as excusing what happened. A functioning rule-of-law society — which Western democracies claim to champion — demands that the same standards apply to allies as to adversaries.

The Restoration Effort and What It Tells Us

By November 2025, exactly one year after the destruction, workers were photographed on-site beginning the painstaking restoration of the Maqam Shamoun Al-Safa. Xinhua documented the process in Chamaa. Lebanese communities, rather than waiting for international institutions, took it upon themselves to rebuild.

That image — laborers piecing together ancient stone with their own hands — is more than a human interest story. It is a rebuke. It demonstrates that communities value their heritage enough to fight for it even when their governments cannot, and even when the international bodies tasked with protection have failed them.

The people of Chamaa are rebuilding Saint Peter’s shrine with their bare hands. The least the rest of the world can do is bear witness.

How This Affects Every Believer — and Every Citizen

For Christians specifically, the destruction of a site tied to Saint Peter — the apostle upon whom Christ declared he would build his church — should register as something visceral. Imagine the reaction if a church in Rome or Canterbury were leveled by a foreign military using deliberate explosives. The global response would be immediate and overwhelming.

The geographic distance of Lebanon should not diminish the moral urgency. The same civic instinct that demands governments protect churches, synagogues, and mosques at home — that insists on law, order, and respect for sacred spaces — must extend to ancient sites abroad. Consistency is the bedrock of principle

Sources: https://thetownhall.news/federal-news/idf-destroys-saint-peter-shrine-in-lebanon-where-is-the-international-accountability/

godlyguy:
Oando, japaul, insurance etc. Those promoting them are not being fair to the undiscerning. You all will learn the hard way

alanto:
I say e go reach everybody. Outsiders don't know Chinua Achebe or Igbos. They only know us as Nigerians. So when those nonsensical behaviour gets out of the roof, na all of us go bear the brunt.

Either we start changing it for them now collectively or we allowed them battered the image of the country so much that our passport won't be able to visit Benin without presidential help.

KarlTom:
You seem hellbent on pulling Zenith down to ₦90.

We are watching closely...

Personally, I don't think it'll drop below ₦100

EDUECO:

First Bank is just like the USA that is losing its glory.

While Access Bank is just like China that is growing its glory!

EDUECO:
They want to sanitize the result.

I am very sure Access Bank is trying to buy First Bank.

EDUECO:
Majority of these terrorist organisations were created by the same USA.

KarlTom:
I bought 100k units of DANGSUGAR at ₦30 (₦3million). My B.E. is around ₦30.50.

If I sold 50k units at ₦80 (₦4million)

When DANGSUGAR drops to ₦60, I buy back 60k units (₦3.6million)

I now have 110k units PLUS some change...

The process is pretty straightforward although entry/exit timing is paramount

PS: even if we use the highest buy/sell fees, the above scenario works

Erniemax101:
https://www.nairaland.com/politics

EDUECO:
The USA is the greatest terrorist nation on earth.

robobo:
Forward looking statement as usual

Raider76:
Please what do you think are the implications of the proposed name change of WAPCO?

matify83:
This is so scary!

I wonder what affinity snakes have with toilets?

Is it that they find their way into most homes through compromised chambers or soakaway pits?

God1000:
This is just the home and uncomfortable truth, they are even worse than that


God sent his own son Jesus Christ to die for the same humanity Israel is destroying today

HacheNoire:
At this point, I think we need to adopt a colour of Iranian and Russian flag, on our own National flag.

These countries stood right infront of the oppressor and looked straight into their eyes!

They showed the world how nothing is invincible contrary to what Hollywood portrayed, and exposed the real reality.

I feel the 3rd mainland bridge should be renamed after Vladimir Putin, and the Niger Bridge to Ayatollah Khamenei Bridge

leo1234:
What's this again


This one will just wake up and post what he likes.

What happened to Oando the star boy of 500 naira

JAPAULGOLD of 1000 naira

BlackViper:
#Statisense
(NHS 2025)


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Razzness:
Israel is the wild card in this ceasefire. They will never allow peace to reign in the Middle East.

What is there now to sit down and negotiate a permanent peace? Israel should leave their neighbors in peace and treat them with the same dignity as every other human being. Iran should forever give up their quest for nuclear weapons and limit their ballistic missile capabilities. Everybody wins. But no, you say you are God's chosen people and that he has promised you the land from the river Nile to the Euphrates 3,000 years ago. Oya go and carry na.

Trump and the US don't have problem. Even Iran self am sure if they really sit down and talk with one mind, they can iron this out very easily. But you see Israel, that is the real devil; they will never allow peace. Their own is from the "river to the sea" at all cost. Tufiakwa. Thank God say no be this continent them promise them, na we for dey collect.

MrEar:
The president of France, President Emmanuel Macron, condemned israel strikes on Lebanon, calling the strikes indiscriminate.



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