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Too bad, that's why we don't have to support evil despite who's at the receiving end, some people rejoiced when IPOB was proscribed as a terrorist group, don't be surprise #EndSars protesters may face same...evil is evil no matter what

While I think Umahi had made a good choice to leave PDP as de party had been so unfair to the SE region, I also fear this could be a wrong political calculation for his career, PDP may be an opposition parry but APC looks more divided than PDP, and crossing the line may backfire and he'll loose everything... Forces in APC are terribly much and Umahi may stand little on no chance...

thedio:
Not only Dangote bro,Lafarge also use terex

oh...greenstone

thedio:
How We Killed A Big And Powerful Python Last Night With TEREX (picture)

It was around 7:30pm yesterday, I was going to my duty post and was inside TEREX with my colleague when we sited the big snake.

We called the attention of the operator to it ,he said we should not worry that he saw it trying to cross the road.It was caught in the glare of headlight,it could not turn back and any attempts to move forward is suicidal then it stopped.

The operator swerved to the road side and ran over it. He reversed for us to carry it but we were surprised when we saw it moving and trying to escape.we came out of the cabin,held the rail and directed the operator to pin it down with tyre.

We steeped down from the machine and started throwing stones but as the stones were hitting it,they bounced off. We decided to move closer and aim its head.we hit the head like three time with big stones before we looked for a rope and stick. We knot the rope,raised it head up with stick and put the rope. We dragged it up and tied it to the TEREX.
I never see a life big snake like that in my life.

OP where is ur location lemme come, Obajana, Gboko, Ibese or Ijebu-Igbo....na only Dangote dey use Rigid terex for Mining site now

Ban PornHub for naija and even pastors go follow protest, even Buhari fit follow protest sef

U want to abandon ur NYSC and go secure ur girlfriend in the overseas, well am not saying NYSC is "an immediate job provider", but running to secure ur girlfriend in the overseas could be more dangerous for both of u if u fail to secure a good job there soon u travel, except she's buoyant enough already

Too bad...those calling de citizens bad names and blaming IPOB for the dilapidating state if Abia, I wonder then IPOB became the Governor or de President... Am not a member of IPOB but I see no sense in blaming innocent citizens who're just unfortunate to have bad leaders

Nice one for u...hopefully u pick ur self up from there...wishing u de best

Lol...u must finish am oh

The guy too gentle...lemme see if she no go collect the 500k...

gaetano:
Us and Britain is against her. The whole of Europe, Africa, South America and China is solidly behind her. Others want a balance trade, US wants the status quo to continue. Others want ngọzi to set a balance in global trade.

US will try as much as possible to get ngọzi in a room to agree to their terms and protect their interest in exchange for their support. Ngozi better stick to the people that backed her from the very beginning, cos it's clear that even the US citizenship she recently too isn't enough for them to back her.

ur current to the happenings bro

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was slated to be the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization. She will be the first woman, and the first African, to lead the institution. But there was an unexpected glitch in the process.

Update from our earlier post: In a last ditch move, the United States representative at World Trade Organization took to the floor to insist that South Korea’s candidate remained a contender, and that Washington will not recognise Okonjo-Iweala as the consensus candidate for appointment as director-general.

In response to this, the General Counsel has postponed its announcement of the new Director-General until a further meeting, which is scheduled for 9 November; after the US presidential elections.

A panel at the WTO recommended her today for the position.

Today’s announcement that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to be the new director-general of the World Trade Organization would have been a tremendous boost for Africa and lines her up for one of the toughest jobs in the international system.

Our sources in Geneva say that she had won the support from the vast majority of member states, including the EU, Japan and China, but not the United States.

She will have to lead the charge for a revival of multilateralism, in the negotiating chambers of the WTO and for a better deal for developing economies, as well as for the practical matter of how reforming trade and patent rules can allow the distribution of life saving vaccines and therapeutics as the coronavirus pandemic rips across the world on its second wave.

The Africa Report.com

TRADE CHIEF
US holds up Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appointment as WTO Director-General
By Patrick Smith
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:02


Nigeria's candidate for General Director of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attends the General Council meeting in Geneva
Nigeria's candidate for General Director of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attends the General Council meeting during the WTO Director General election process, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Geneva, Switzerland July 15, 2020. WTO/Jay Louvion/Handout via REUTERS

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was slated to be the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization. She will be the first woman, and the first African, to lead the institution. But there was an unexpected glitch in the process.

Update from our earlier post: In a last ditch move, the United States representative at World Trade Organization took to the floor to insist that South Korea’s candidate remained a contender, and that Washington will not recognise Okonjo-Iweala as the consensus candidate for appointment as director-general.

In response to this, the General Counsel has postponed its announcement of the new Director-General until a further meeting, which is scheduled for 9 November; after the US presidential elections.

A panel at the WTO recommended her today for the position.

Today’s announcement that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to be the new director-general of the World Trade Organization would have been a tremendous boost for Africa and lines her up for one of the toughest jobs in the international system.

Our sources in Geneva say that she had won the support from the vast majority of member states, including the EU, Japan and China, but not the United States.

She will have to lead the charge for a revival of multilateralism, in the negotiating chambers of the WTO and for a better deal for developing economies, as well as for the practical matter of how reforming trade and patent rules can allow the distribution of life saving vaccines and therapeutics as the coronavirus pandemic rips across the world on its second wave.

READ MORE Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: “If we didn’t have the WTO we would have to invent it.”

As the first woman and African to head the trade body, Okonjo-Iweala has shattered a couple of ceilings at the same time. She also has a chance to put Africa’s plans to build the world’s biggest free trade area on the top table, pointing to the productive and market opportunities on the continent.

At the same time, she has won the race for the job from hell. That much was clear when her predecessor – Brazil’s Robert Azevêdo – quit the post early after years of frustration at the logjams in negotiation on reforming the WTO.

Those negotiations have been made harder still by the eruption of a trade war between the US and China alongside sporadic outbreaks of economic nationalism across the globe.

Surely this must be the worst time to take over an organisation dedicated multilateral trade agreements, The Africa Report asked Okonjo-Iweala during the campaign. “Multi-lateralism has never been needed more than now,” she said. “The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that this is the time we need to act in solidarity to have multilateral solutions, because there are simply some things in the world that bilateral or even sub-regional solutions cannot solve.”

On the distribution of vaccines and drugs to fight the pandemic, Okonjo-Iweala said she would prioritise open access: “Being involved in COVID-19 and vaccines now as the chair of GAVI and an envoy on the Act accelerator, I’m seeing it from the front lines and we want to make sure that we don’t have a situation where access to vaccines for other countries where they are not made is blocked … The world is so interconnected now that no one is safe until everyone is safe, and no country is safe until all countries are safe.”

This, she acknowledged, will take tough negotiations with the drugs companies and with national governments but she insisted it would take top priority: “This is an area where we really need to think through the trade regime and the rules that will govern these kinds of products, whilst respecting country’s desires to do a minimum for their security.”



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Lol...abeg inspector FASH deserves an award for his braveness...

Our leaders and police always using every opportunity to loot more, while every state will expect funds from FG for #EndSars damages, police will arrest so many innocent young Nigerians and make huge amount from them...seriously the problems of Nigeria font have a solution... Every generation just have to pray to live and die peacefully

Abouwaza:
anus is not brain

he don't even have neither anus nor brain...he's just an empty vacuum

sapientia:
Fake news

Am sure

If you are not

Use google

I through so too earlier, I had to google about the election, 27th Oct is the last day of de voting and all information on this tallies with initial indications on the possible outcomes and also countries taking sides...read details and u may bliv same too

*WTO’s Council To Officially Announce Okonjo-Iweala’s Choice Today, Tuesday

Nigeria’s former finance minister and a former managing director of the World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has emerged as the first female Director-General of the World Trade Organization(WTO), shattering the glass ceiling.
Okonjo-Iweala broke the glass ceiling, emerging as the first African and the first female to attain the position of DG of WTO by emerging as the finalist after eliminating South Korea’s current trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee in a fierce battle for the coveted job on Monday night.
The New Diplomat Europe’s outpost office gathered that with the EU nations and the United States moving in opposite direction, a move that triggered a deadlock between the two powerful geo-political allies for the first time in many years, it was the decisive and quiet support of China that finally tipped the scales in Okonjo-Iweala’s favour.

The WTO’s Ambassador Walker’s led General Council, the overall organ responsible for picking the organization’s next DG, would officially announce the choice of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr Okonjo-Iweala today, October 27.
Diplomatic sources confided in The New Diplomat that an official announcement to this effect would be formally made today by New Zealand’s Ambassador Walker’s led WTO General Council.

The race for the coveted job of DG of WTO has been fierce with Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s serving Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee, running neck-and-neck in the intense jostle and game of global diplomatic intrigues.
Indications had emerged that influential global trading countries including the United States(US), the European Union(EU) nations, China, Japan and the BRICS countries were strongly divided on who should be the candidate to lead the WTO.
High-level sources confided in The New Diplomat’s Europe’s outpost operations that it “took serious negotiations and prolonged talks to get China to go along with Nigeria with its decision to support Okonjo-Iweala.” China controls about 12.4% of the global trade.
The influence of the United States on global trade is reportedly huge as well given that it single-handedly controls about 12% of global trade just as China holds about 12.4% of the global trade statistics.
Diplomatic sources hinted that East Asia countries with the exception of China went along with Myung-hee in preference. These include Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macay, Mongolia and South Korea. Japan, a US ally is another strong international player in global trade with an estimated $705.7 billion worth of goods globally in 2020.


Momentous

Foreign News
BREAKING! Okonjo-Iweala Breaks The Glass Ceiling, Emerges First Female DG of WTO
October 27, 2020



Okonjo-Iweala
*WTO’s Council To Officially Announce Okonjo-Iweala’s Choice Today, Tuesday

Nigeria’s former finance minister and a former managing director of the World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has emerged as the first female Director-General of the World Trade Organization(WTO), shattering the glass ceiling.
Okonjo-Iweala broke the glass ceiling, emerging as the first African and the first female to attain the position of DG of WTO by emerging as the finalist after eliminating South Korea’s current trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee in a fierce battle for the coveted job on Monday night.
The New Diplomat Europe’s outpost office gathered that with the EU nations and the United States moving in opposite direction, a move that triggered a deadlock between the two powerful geo-political allies for the first time in many years, it was the decisive and quiet support of China that finally tipped the scales in Okonjo-Iweala’s favour.


The WTO’s Ambassador Walker’s led General Council, the overall organ responsible for picking the organization’s next DG, would officially announce the choice of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr Okonjo-Iweala today, October 27.
Diplomatic sources confided in The New Diplomat that an official announcement to this effect would be formally made today by New Zealand’s Ambassador Walker’s led WTO General Council.

The race for the coveted job of DG of WTO has been fierce with Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s serving Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee, running neck-and-neck in the intense jostle and game of global diplomatic intrigues.
Indications had emerged that influential global trading countries including the United States(US), the European Union(EU) nations, China, Japan and the BRICS countries were strongly divided on who should be the candidate to lead the WTO.
High-level sources confided in The New Diplomat’s Europe’s outpost operations that it “took serious negotiations and prolonged talks to get China to go along with Nigeria with its decision to support Okonjo-Iweala.” China controls about 12.4% of the global trade.
The influence of the United States on global trade is reportedly huge as well given that it single-handedly controls about 12% of global trade just as China holds about 12.4% of the global trade statistics.
Diplomatic sources hinted that East Asia countries with the exception of China went along with Myung-hee in preference. These include Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macay, Mongolia and South Korea. Japan, a US ally is another strong international player in global trade with an estimated $705.7 billion worth of goods globally in 2020.


However, on Okonjo-Iweala’s side apart from the EU and 55 AU nations were 24 solid ACP countries that reportedly expressed preference for her candidacy. The CP countries in this regard include Bahamas, Cuba, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica Republic, Dominica, Greneda, Fiji, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Timor-Lester, Parpua New Guinea, etc.
A combination of this preponderance form about 79 block countries that solidly stood behind Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala. However, it was the quiet and deft diplomacy of China that sealed the deal in Okonjo-Iweala’s favour.
A top diplomat in Geneva told The New Diplomat in confidence: “China quietly changed the game. They said nothing openly but silently they, deftly China voted in Nigeria’s favour.”
Okonjo-Iweala, 66, served as Nigeria’s first female finance and later foreign minister, and has a 25-year career behind her as a development economist and international finance expert at the World Bank, eventually becoming its number two. She is also on Twitter’s board of directors and is a special envoy for the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 fight.
Thus, Okonjo-Iweala has successfully edged out South Korea’s Myung-hee. Yoo Myung-hee 53, is the serving South Korea’s trade minister, following a long career in trade, diplomacy, law and foreign affairs. She had previously served as South Korea’s foreign Affairs minister, among others. A lawyer and diplomat, Myung-hee holds degrees in Law, Public Policy and was called to the New York Bar.

One major implication of this is that China has somewhat stamped its feet on the global diplomatic and economic dynamics as an indispensable power, having deftly supported Okonjo-Iweala to victory as the US and EU purportedly cancelled themselves in a diplomatic deadlock.
Already, China is the biggest economy in the world in terms of P3, the Purchasing Power Parity. Thus, the consequence of this on the global scale, according to diplomats, is quite telling



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Evil men

Same reason we protest...shame being called a Nigerian...

Lol

Injera:
ibos can't do wrong abi.
I support the mass genocide if all IBO's in the south west.
go back to your potopoto land

more reason why we remain under the grip of these leaders... Is Buhari now an Igbo man

OP ur a big disgrace...shame on u...spit

Follow follow Governor... Na where belle face u be

Can they kill us all....NO

Demurkelly:
Burning of police station Na hearsay. But I dey sure of d other news

Modified: Abia commissioner of information don confirm say dem injured police men yday, and "burnt at least two police stations"


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them burn police station Bro, no be hear say...we've missed the point already... Why the violent

Failed nation...zoo

Evil men...no be today una don start to milk Nigeria dry...if care is not taken we the youths will take revenge on u old fools including ur children and grand children