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kikero:
That's why we should vote for a government that would take us industrial, and away from oil dependency.

We are not a rich nation and the looting you speak of makes the matter worse

Thank you and good morning

kikero:
1. Russia also exports industrial products and some agricultural products.

They aren't at our level.

2. Nigeria has a very high population, and the amount we earn from oil is not enough. We don't export industrial products, and our agric sector is poor and hampered by obsolete methods

kikero:
Saudi Arabia produces 11 million barrels of oil a day and has 11 million people.

Nigeria produces 2.3 million barrels of oil a day, and has 200million people

Do the math

PhenomenalAustin:
This country dị bleeped up

PhenomenalAustin:
You'll see what these Arab countries are doing with their oil money..... Then you'll think Nigeria deals with coconut oil


Smh

Kriss216:
But, I'm not comparing the two, besides, Is there any difference between the system of government of the two countries?

Kriss216:
Handsome man..

How old una say buhari dey sef

Saudi Arabia's King Salman was admitted to the King Faisal specialist hospital for tests related to gall bladder inflammation, according to the official Saudi Press Agency
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Saudi Arabia's 84-year-old ruler King Salman was admitted to hospital in Riyadh Monday for gall bladder inflammation, the royal court said, prompting the postponement of the Iraqi prime minister's high-profile visit.

It is rare for Saudi Arabia to report on the health of the ageing monarch, who has ruled the top oil exporter and the Arab world's biggest economy since 2015.

The king was "admitted today to King Faisal specialist hospital in Riyadh for some medical tests due to cholecystitis," inflammation of the gall bladder, the royal court said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.

The announcement made around 4:30 am (0130 GMT) did not disclose any further details.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi's scheduled visit to Saudi Arabia, which was due to start on Monday, has been postponed after the king's hospitalisation, according to the Saudi foreign minister.

"In recognition of the extremely important visit and a desire to make it a success, our wise leadership in coordination with our brothers in Iraq have decided to postpone the visit" until the king leaves hospital, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan wrote on Twitter.

Hours before Kadhemi was to set off on his first trip abroad as premier, his office said they heard King Salman was suffering from "a sudden health issue".

"It was decided to postpone the visit to the earliest possible date agreed upon by the two sides," his office said in a statement.

Iraq's oil, finance, electricity and planning ministers arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to begin meetings ahead of Kadhemi's visit, Iraqi officials told AFP.


The delegation is set to return to Baghdad after the meetings wrap up on Monday afternoon.

Under the king's rule, Saudi Arabia launched ambitious economic reforms for a post-oil era and gave more rights to women, but also adopted a more assertive foreign policy and entered a war in neighbouring Yemen.

King Salman took the throne after the death of his half-brother Abdullah, who was around 90 years old.


In 2017, Saudi Arabia dismissed reports and mounting speculation that the king was planning to abdicate in favour of his young son, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who is widely seen as the de facto ruler.

"There is no possibility whatsoever that the king will abdicate," an unnamed Saudi official told Bloomberg News, adding that Saudi kings usually remain in power even when poor health prevents them from carrying out their responsibilities.

Prince Mohammed's meteoric rise to power has coincided with a sweeping crackdown on critics and dissenters, as well as royal family members.


Saudi Arabia has been engulfed by a series of controversies since he was named crown prince and heir to the throne in June 2017.

That includes the brutal October 2018 murder of royal insider-turned-critic Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul.

Simplyleo:
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Only if you will take this evangelism to your igbo brothers.

Simplyleo:
Maurice Peters defiles 11 yr old in the church

Emeka Okwuome assaults 14 yr old in bathroom.

Respectively in Ijegun and Ejigbo. In Lagos state.

On nairaland, I came across one statistics of crime rate per state in Nigeria. It was uploaded to explain one jaundiced impression about people leading in crime.

From the two rape cases above in Lagos, it is obvious who the champions are. Note, it is 99% impossible to have Ayodele or Ibrahim involved in crime outside his region.

While a 33 years old man, Maurice Peters, 33, was arrested for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl inside a Church located at Tijani Qudus Street, Ijegun, a widower, aged 55, assaulted a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom at Ejigbo, both in Lagos State.

The 55-year-old father of three, identified as Emeka Okwuome, was caught inside the bathroom, while he was assaulting the primary six pupil.

Vanguard gathered that the 14-year-old victim lost her mother and was brought from her home town to live with a relative at 22, Oladuni Street.

She had gone to take her bath on Friday, when the suspect, a trader at Ladipo Market, knocked on the bathroom door and ordered the girl to open for him.

Meanwhile, Vanguard gathered, the building had three bathrooms.


During a chat with the victim, she disclosed that it was not the first time the widower would assault her sexually.

According to her, “he met me in the kitchen one day and started handling my breasts. He pulled me close to him and released me when he heard footsteps approaching.

“And he warned me never to tell anybody what happened.

“I was bathing on Friday when I heard a knock. He said he was the one and ordered me to open the door, that he wanted to urinate. I opened the door out of fear.

“When he came in, he started handling with my breasts and inserted his fingers into my virginal. When I told him to leave me alone, he said if I shouted he would beat me.


“He covered my mouth with one of his hands, but I continued moaning in pains until one of our neighbours, who wanted to a bath asked how many people were in the bathroom.

“The neighbour insisted she would not leave there until those in the bathroom came out.”


It’s the devil— Suspect
On his part, the suspect admitted culpability, blaming the devil for his action.

Asked why he had to assault the teenager in the bathroom, he replied: “It was the devil’s handiwork. I went to look for the devil

“When I came out, I begged the woman not to expose me, but she did. I have also begged the police to allow us to settle the matter among both parties, but they refused.


“If I go to jail, who will take care of my children, especially my daughter who is mentally deranged?”

Meanwhile, the second suspect, Peters, reportedly took the 11-year-old girl to a Church, where he allegedly defiled her.

Like Okwuome, he was caught in the act and both suspects were charged before the Ogba Magistrate’s Court.

johnlouis:
For a moment I thought this was Lekki
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Rodwave:
Shithole china

Communities along the Yangtze - the country's longest river - have been the worst affected by the annual monsoon season.

China's longest river has risen more than 50ft (15m) above flood level, as the country struggles with some of the most severe flooding in years.

At least 14 people have died and tens of thousands of others evacuated as central and southern parts of China are ravaged by floods caused by torrential rain.

Communities along the Yangtze, which flows from west to east, have been the worst affected by the annual monsoon season.

Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze were opened as the water level behind the massive structure rose more than 15m above flood level, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Vast swathes of China have been inundated by the worst flooding in decades along the Yangtze river

The dam was holding back about 45% of the water, it said.

Earlier this week, authorities warned the country was entering a "critical period" with some 433 rivers affected by the floods - 33 of them reaching record water levels.

China's ministry of water resources said the situation along the Yangtze, as well as Dongting Lake in Hunan province, and Poyang Lake and Taihu Lake in Jiangxi province, was "severe".

The Yangtze is an important waterway in the country, irrigating large areas of farmland and linking industries along its inland corridor with the financial hub of Shanghai on China's central eastern coast.

Images showed residents building makeshift barriers with sandbags and rocks to keep the floodwaters at bay.

A house topples over due to the flooding in China's central Jiangxi province. Eleven people were killed in Chongqing, China National Emergency Broadcasting reported. More than 20,000 people had been evacuated and 1,031 homes destroyed.

Three landslides in Dunhao town in a mountainous part of Chongqing left six dead, the city's Emergency Management Bureau said.

Three others died in neighbouring Hubei province, the emergency management department said.

Firefighters and workers finished filling in a 620ft break in a dyke on Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, Xinhua said.

The dyke gave way nine days ago, flooding 15 villages and farmland in Jiangxi province. More than 14,000 people were evacuated.

Residents have been putting up makeshift flood defences.
Poyang Lake, which is formed from the overspill of the Yangtze, is 2.5m higher than its warning level and has swelled by more than 2,000 sq km (772 square miles) during this flood season.

It comes as China continues to deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Major cities have been spared from the flooding so far.

However on Friday, the central city of Wuhan - where the coronavirus emerged late last year - and the provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang declared red alerts as heavy rain swelled rivers and lakes

ednut1: