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Fountainofyouth:
Pls read my previous comment, don't ask me silly questions, this is the present not the past, don't be comparing S.A to Nigeria abeg, we nor suppose dey same league if not for bad leaders, don't justify the obvious.

Pentasoft1978:
How much were you paid to write this?

Henrywill247:
Then why is it that Nigeria did not merit any of the positions that qualifies them for the G7

Fountainofyouth:
Good question.

mayweather145:
osinbajo even represented him in one. To show the president is not even caught in the hype of all this.

KingsCity:
The point is that no one will invite this your president to any meaningful gathering cause he wont have anything useful to say


Have you forgotten that President Trump he doesn't ever want to meet someone like that again?

FearGodinall:
. The country was invited in 2019, 2018 and 2015. And you believe your dummy president was invited to the G-7 summit with his Japanese counterpart but deceide not to attend such important function but went on to visit Japan. Can't common sense questioned the rational for leaving such important summit for Japan.

1shortblackboy:
what if your means is not able to make you live. and what is wrong in desiring more means to live more abundantly................ poverty die!

anonimi:
Let us put it down to chronic ignorance that can only be dured by the indefatigable work and expose by dedicated Nigerians like you.
May the Good Lord continue to strengthen and encourage you in this labour of love for our collective redemption. Amen.

anonimi:


Great advice that will most likely continue to be ignored by many black people.


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Tolexander:
bro,

Seems like Nigeria qualified for the final of this event in 2003 (COJA 2003) in Abuja but was defeated 3 nil by Cameroon.
If I can still recollect

PDPGuy:
Point of correction:
This will be the first time the Nigerian men’s team would be playing in the final, since 2003, when they lost 0-2 to Cameroon.

cathodekazim:
Op. You need to verify your info before posting. Nigeria played the final match of the football segment of the 2003 all African games at both men n women level. We lost two nil to Cameroon in the male category and defeated south Africa one nil in the female category

charlesobike:
Now you are the one trying to mislead people from the truth. Is that man on ur post still the president of the United States? Leave lies and start speaking truth

patrick2015:
The date is June 2015, that’s shortly after his swearing in. They thought he knew why he should there till he showed his cluelessness. Nobody including the guardian newspaper can invite Buhari to a meeting of sound minds.

naptu2:
I'm watching the NTA News right now and they put these questions to members of the delegation in Japan.


1) They asked the foreign minister why Buhari was not at the G7 summit.

He said that the G7 summit is for G7 members (the 7 biggest economies). Nigeria is not a member. He said that the African countries that attended are what are called the African Union troika. It's usually the African Union troika that are invited. The African Union troika are :

A) The immediate past chairman of the AU.

B) The current chairman of the AU.

C) The next chairman of the AU.


2) They asked the Nigerian ambassador to Japan about pictures of protests on social media.

He said that there has been no protests where the Nigerian delegation is. He said that he is in touch with the Japanese police and they told him that those pictures were not taken in Japan.

naptu2:
1) Why didn't President Buhari attend the G7 summit in France?

(I have had to answer this kind of question in the past when GEJ did not attend a G8 summit. It's sad that I have to answer it again years later)

No African country is a member of the G7. However, G7 (or G8 as it then was) countries decided to invite African countries to their meetings, so that they can talk about the development of the African continent.

However, they do not invite the same countries every time. They rotate it. President Buhari has attended the G7 summit before and he might still attend future summits, but the fact that he was not there this year does not matter at all.


2) Why is TICAD7 being held in Japan. The Tokyo International Conference on African Development is being organised by the Government of Japan, the African Union, the United Nations and other organisations. There's absolutely nothing wrong in holding the conference in the country that pays most of the bills of the conference.

However, that does not mean that it cannot be held in Africa. TICAD6 was held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2016.

FACT CHECK: Reno Omokri claims about Buhari’s absence in 2019 G-7 summit misleading

By Timileyin Omilana |   27 August 2019   |   6:04 pm

https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/g7-summit-2015-974x649.jpg
French President François Hollande (second from left) gestured next to U.S. President Barack Obama (left) and other G7 summit participants and outreach delegates at a family picture event at the G7 summit at the Elmau castle in Krün near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 8, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Christian Hartmann

A viral tweet by Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, with claims that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was not invited to the Group of Seven (G-7) summit due to Buhari’s “misrule” is misleading.

The G7 summit or ‘Group of Seven’, meets each year, bringing together the heads of state and government of the world’s seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the presidents of the European Commission and European Council.

Traditionally, representatives of other nations and international organisations are also invited to attend. 2019 edition was held on 24–26 August 2019 in France.

A Twitter post, already retweeted 420 times with a 2017 G-7 summit picture of U.S. President Donald Trump and Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, Omokri claimed that “Nigeria has deteriorated under General Buhari’s misrule” hence the miss-out.

“President of @AfDB_Group Devt Bank, @akin_adesina, was invited to the G-7 summit, while Buhari was not invited. LIFELESS versus LIVELY,”

Omokri tweeted.

The picture, taken by Getty Images’s Sean Gallup shows Trump chatting with Adesina after a group photo for the G7 Outreach Program on the second and last day of the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily on May 27, 2017, in Taormina, Italy.

Moreover, findings by The Guardian shows that countries oftentimes do not get invited for the summit every year as there are a limited number of nations to be invited.

In the last five years only one African country, Senegal, has been invited to the summit more than Nigeria. The country was invited in 2019, 2018 and 2015.

Nigeria was invited to the summit in 2015 and 2017. This is as much as other African countries such as Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia, which were invited twice in the last five years.

Buhari attended the 2015 edition hosted by Germany on June 7–8, 2015.

He was absent for the 2017 edition held on May 26–27, 2017 in Taormina in Sicily, Italy. Buhari was represented by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who was the acting president then due to Buhari’s medical visit to London.

Buhari left Nigeria on May 7, 2017, and returned on August 9, 2017, for treatment of an undisclosed ailment, transferring power to Osinbajo.

FACT CHECK: Reno Omokri claims about Buhari’s absence in 2019 G-7 summit misleading

By Timileyin Omilana |   27 August 2019   |   6:04 pm

https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/g7-summit-2015-974x649.jpg
French President François Hollande (second from left) gestured next to U.S. President Barack Obama (left) and other G7 summit participants and outreach delegates at a family picture event at the G7 summit at the Elmau castle in Krün near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 8, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Christian Hartmann

A viral tweet by Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, with claims that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was not invited to the Group of Seven (G-7) summit due to Buhari’s “misrule” is misleading.

The G7 summit or ‘Group of Seven’, meets each year, bringing together the heads of state and government of the world’s seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the presidents of the European Commission and European Council.

Traditionally, representatives of other nations and international organisations are also invited to attend. 2019 edition was held on 24–26 August 2019 in France.

A Twitter post, already retweeted 420 times with a 2017 G-7 summit picture of U.S. President Donald Trump and Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, Omokri claimed that “Nigeria has deteriorated under General Buhari’s misrule” hence the miss-out.

“President of @AfDB_Group Devt Bank, @akin_adesina, was invited to the G-7 summit, while Buhari was not invited. LIFELESS versus LIVELY,”

Omokri tweeted.

The picture, taken by Getty Images’s Sean Gallup shows Trump chatting with Adesina after a group photo for the G7 Outreach Program on the second and last day of the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily on May 27, 2017, in Taormina, Italy.

Moreover, findings by The Guardian shows that countries oftentimes do not get invited for the summit every year as there are a limited number of nations to be invited.

In the last five years only one African country, Senegal, has been invited to the summit more than Nigeria. The country was invited in 2019, 2018 and 2015.

Nigeria was invited to the summit in 2015 and 2017. This is as much as other African countries such as Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia, which were invited twice in the last five years.

Buhari attended the 2015 edition hosted by Germany on June 7–8, 2015.

He was absent for the 2017 edition held on May 26–27, 2017 in Taormina in Sicily, Italy. Buhari was represented by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who was the acting president then due to Buhari’s medical visit to London.

Buhari left Nigeria on May 7, 2017, and returned on August 9, 2017, for treatment of an undisclosed ailment, transferring power to Osinbajo.

Ishilove:
Asides making creepy movies like 'Rosemary's Baby', what makes Polanski a vile person?

adedamola17:
Am I the only one seeing two different jerseys @the females pic

fergie001:
Why not against South Africa nah?



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