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mariovito:
When I'm broke, sad, depressed, or in need of inspiration or ginger to get work done, I do touch myself to get that post-nut clarity.

man of the people

Following the uproar generated over the beauty pageant conducted in the female section of Nigerian Prisons Kirikiri, Lagos, where murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, emerged as Miss Cell 2022, the Comptroller of the facility, Mrs Lizzie Ekpendu has been redeployed.

Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, was crowned ‘Miss Cell 2022’, on March 8, at a beauty contest organised by the prison authorities to commemorate the International Women’s Day.

The contest generated mixed reactions across the country with some people arguing that the pageant was inappropriate for a suspect facing a murder trial while others argued that the prison authority reserved the right to conduct the pageant of all inmates.

Although the prison authorities defended the action, Vanguard exclusively gathered that the comptroller of the female prisons, Mrs Ekpendu, was redeployed last week as a result of the matter.

A source, who did not want his name mentioned because he was not officially permitted to speak on the matter, told Vanguard that Mrs Ekpendu was redeployed to the Lagos Command Headquarters, Alagbon, Ikoyi.

"I can confirm to you that Mrs Ekpendu, the Comptroller of Kirikiri Female Prison has been redeployed to the Lagos Command Headquarters, Ikoyi. She has been replaced by another senior female officer.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/chidinma-prison-controller-ekpendu-redeployed-over-beauty-pageant/

Hezzyluv:
On 10pm off 2am.
I don't even wakeup to off it, I just guage the quantity of fuel that can take me within 4hours and pour into the gentank before going to bed.

This nation is screwed.

Translation; "forget this bullshit 4 year tenure nonsense. The zoning na wash. We should instead restructure the nation and allow the various regions govern themselves. Cus if we continue like this another Buhari dey our not too distant future."

That's what he said ... really

Coldie:
Ipob

LMAO. So in essence Abia is fxcked

What does he bring to the table policy-wise? Any Abians to educate us?

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Revolution2022:
Fuel scarcity, Inflation unemployment, and bad governance.

We deserve it all. 4+4!

Temi2468:
I'll just enter the ground from my room and find myself in Canada.

Hahaha!!

You're not going anywhere! 4+4!

nedekid:
Bros, that one means Nigerians will start eating grass.
I read on Saturday angolians were celebrating 20% appreciation on their currency to the dollar due to rise in crude oil price. Other oil producing countries are rejoicing. Stocking up their foreign reserve.
For us, na lie. Dollar has hit 600 and rising.
Baba and his zombies on this forum always use low oil price as excuse, saying PDP wasted all the years of high oil price and that his reason for poor performance is crash in oil price.
Ok oil has pass $100, even hit 140 last week. Meanwhile silva (minister for petroleum) says high oil price is not good for nigeria NO BE JUJU BE THAT?
Na this same gang you want to stay in power for another 4 years?

LMAO baba no overthink am. 9ja as e dey don cast. If you get money it's time to bet against the nation

Cantonese:
When the baba goes, please join him in his house to enjoy another 4 years personally.

nedekid:
I reject it IJN.

Blablamalala:
At his Age? Four more years!

LMAO
E sure for us

4+4 sai baba

Nigerians deserve another 4 years of Buhari.

LMAO

I can't, abeg. Clown nation. Country of 200M peoples dey struggle with barely 2000mw of electricity supply.

One day, one day, maybe my people will learn that policies >>>>>> politicians.

Political grandstanding will lead us nowhere

Na trenches we dey so for here o ...

But brace up comrade, it's about to get worse. We're about to transition into the next sani abacha phase

Where is the written and signed policy? Is it by going to the market and shouting that you've abolished something that it becomes law? And see all of them hailing him.

Tufiakwa gi. We'll never learn

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richeeyo:
Another Hopless being who has no idea how many innocent souls and twins were lost
#ThinkbeforeYouTalk

LMAO! Idiot, you just dey, dey rake for internet. slowpoke yelling at clouds

LMAO! Over 7k. Like, wetin dem want make the HR do?

some of these loan apps no get shame. currently devising a way together with some colleagues on how to completely destroy these useless so-called companies. take all their money and vanish. make we see wetin dem wan do

Slavo Ukraine! Slavo NATO! Slavo Azov Batallion! Heil Hitler!

LOL. Well they're winning the war online, aren't they?

Ukrainian authorities claimed on Monday that they would be receiving planes from several EU partners.

Poland won’t send fighter jets to Ukraine, the country said Tuesday — the latest in a series of similar denials from EU countries that have highlighted early confusion about what the bloc’s new military support for Kyiv will actually encompass.

In addition to Poland, the Bulgarian and Slovakian governments have also recently ruled out the delivery of military aircraft to Ukraine. Yet at the same time, a Ukrainian official was claiming as recently as Monday that Ukrainian pilots had left the country to pick up planes donated by EU countries.

Such conflicting remarks peppered the rocky first few days of the EU’s attempt to serve as a logistics coordinator for the delivery of military aid to Ukraine as it faces down a surging Russian invasion. In a historic move, the EU on Sunday said it would take a much more assertive role in funneling weapons and other military equipment from its members to Ukraine, even using €450 million of EU funding to help finance the effort.

On Monday evening, a Ukrainian official said pilots had arrived in Poland to receive military aircraft from EU partners. The planes in question were Soviet-era jets like the Mig-29, which Ukrainian pilots are already trained to fly. The Ukrainian parliament even put specifics on the donations: Europe, it tweeted, was sending 70 fighter planes in total, including 28 MiG-29s from Poland, 12 from Slovakia and 16 from Bulgaria, along with 14 Su-25s from Bulgaria.

Not so, the countries said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov explained that his country had a deficit of serviceable aircraft and parts and did not have sufficient fighter jets to guard its own airspace, let alone to lend jets to Ukraine, a Bulgarian official told POLITICO. A spokesperson for the Slovakian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday also denied any donation: “Slovakia will not provide fighter jets to Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.

Polish President Andrzej Duda joined the chorus on Tuesday. Speaking alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Łask Air Base in Poland, Duda said his country is “not going to send any jets to the Ukrainian airspace,” arguing “that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict.”

NATO, Duda stressed, is not a party to Russia’s war in Ukraine — a key caveat the military alliance has tried to make despite several of its members supplying the Ukrainian military with lethal arms while also hitting Moscow with crippling sanctions.

However, Duda’s comments were not entirely clear. He did not specify whether his denial was referring to Poland not sending jets operated by Polish pilots into Ukraine — which would indeed mean an open military interference in the war — or whether his rejection referred more broadly to any potential delivery of Polish fighter jets to Ukraine.

Hours later, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki issued a more direct denial.

“Poland doesn’t have such plans,” he said at a press conference.

Talk about European fighter jet deliveries was sparked by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who went off-script during a press conference on Sunday to reference the possibility.

“We are going to supply … even fighter jets” to Ukraine, he said, adding that some EU countries had the “kinds of planes” that Ukraine needed to fight off Russia. Borrell even suggested such planes could be funded by EU money.

On Monday, however, Borrell had to publicly backtrack: At another press conference, he acknowledged that even though fighter jets were “part of the request for aid that we received from Ukraine,” the EU did not have sufficient financial means to pay for those airplanes, which would have to be donated “bilaterally” by individual EU countries instead.

According to EU diplomats, Borrell informally asked Bulgaria, Poland and Romania — some of the few EU countries that still use Soviet-era fighter jets — whether they could potentially deliver some airplanes to Kyiv. A Romanian official had no comment about the request or potential deliveries.

One EU diplomat said EU countries were “outraged” about Borrell’s public statement about the fighter jet delivery, which had not been agreed upon.

“Making such announcements on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced to put his nuclear deterrence force on ‘high alert’ risks to escalate the situation further,” the EU diplomat said, adding that even if countries had considered sending planes to Ukraine, those plans might have been called off after Borrell made them public.

The frustration and mixed messaging were perhaps a predictable side-effect of the EU, by definition a peace project, trying to swiftly move into the military supply domain. Borrell elaborated about the move on Monday, saying the EU would set up an institutional framework to provide better logistical coordination for weapons deliveries from the EU to Ukraine.

“We have created a clearinghouse to keep track of the Ukrainian requests, in one site, and their needs and our member states’ offers, in order to ensure maximum effectiveness and coordination of our support,” he said. “And in doing so, this cell, this clearinghouse, will be working in coordination with NATO.”

Borrell also added that Brussels would provide military intel to Ukraine, feeding the country’s armed forces “geo-spatial” intelligence about Russia’s troop movements.

“We are mobilizing our satellite center, which is placed in Madrid,” Borrell told reporters.


https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-promise-to-supply-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-gets-grounded/

Ukrainian authorities claimed on Monday that they would be receiving planes from several EU partners.

Poland won’t send fighter jets to Ukraine, the country said Tuesday — the latest in a series of similar denials from EU countries that have highlighted early confusion about what the bloc’s new military support for Kyiv will actually encompass.

In addition to Poland, the Bulgarian and Slovakian governments have also recently ruled out the delivery of military aircraft to Ukraine. Yet at the same time, a Ukrainian official was claiming as recently as Monday that Ukrainian pilots had left the country to pick up planes donated by EU countries.

Such conflicting remarks peppered the rocky first few days of the EU’s attempt to serve as a logistics coordinator for the delivery of military aid to Ukraine as it faces down a surging Russian invasion. In a historic move, the EU on Sunday said it would take a much more assertive role in funneling weapons and other military equipment from its members to Ukraine, even using €450 million of EU funding to help finance the effort.

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Poland won’t send fighter jets to Ukraine, the country said Tuesday — the latest in a series of similar denials from EU countries that have highlighted early confusion about what the bloc’s new military support for Kyiv will actually encompass.

In addition to Poland, the Bulgarian and Slovakian governments have also recently ruled out the delivery of military aircraft to Ukraine. Yet at the same time, a Ukrainian official was claiming as recently as Monday that Ukrainian pilots had left the country to pick up planes donated by EU countries.

Such conflicting remarks peppered the rocky first few days of the EU’s attempt to serve as a logistics coordinator for the delivery of military aid to Ukraine as it faces down a surging Russian invasion. In a historic move, the EU on Sunday said it would take a much more assertive role in funneling weapons and other military equipment from its members to Ukraine, even using €450 million of EU funding to help finance the effort.


On Monday evening, a Ukrainian official said pilots had arrived in Poland to receive military aircraft from EU partners. The planes in question were Soviet-era jets like the Mig-29, which Ukrainian pilots are already trained to fly. The Ukrainian parliament even put specifics on the donations: Europe, it tweeted, was sending 70 fighter planes in total, including 28 MiG-29s from Poland, 12 from Slovakia and 16 from Bulgaria, along with 14 Su-25s from Bulgaria.

Not so, the countries said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov explained that his country had a deficit of serviceable aircraft and parts and did not have sufficient fighter jets to guard its own airspace, let alone to lend jets to Ukraine, a Bulgarian official told POLITICO. A spokesperson for the Slovakian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday also denied any donation: “Slovakia will not provide fighter jets to Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.

Polish President Andrzej Duda joined the chorus on Tuesday. Speaking alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Łask Air Base in Poland, Duda said his country is “not going to send any jets to the Ukrainian airspace,” arguing “that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict.”

NATO, Duda stressed, is not a party to Russia’s war in Ukraine — a key caveat the military alliance has tried to make despite several of its members supplying the Ukrainian military with lethal arms while also hitting Moscow with crippling sanctions.

However, Duda’s comments were not entirely clear. He did not specify whether his denial was referring to Poland not sending jets operated by Polish pilots into Ukraine — which would indeed mean an open military interference in the war — or whether his rejection referred more broadly to any potential delivery of Polish fighter jets to Ukraine.

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Several EU countries have denied claims of sending fighter jets to Ukraine | Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images
BY HANS VON DER BURCHARD, JACOPO BARIGAZZI, LILI BAYER AND ZOSIA WANAT
March 1, 2022 7:58 pm
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Poland won’t send fighter jets to Ukraine, the country said Tuesday — the latest in a series of similar denials from EU countries that have highlighted early confusion about what the bloc’s new military support for Kyiv will actually encompass.

In addition to Poland, the Bulgarian and Slovakian governments have also recently ruled out the delivery of military aircraft to Ukraine. Yet at the same time, a Ukrainian official was claiming as recently as Monday that Ukrainian pilots had left the country to pick up planes donated by EU countries.

Such conflicting remarks peppered the rocky first few days of the EU’s attempt to serve as a logistics coordinator for the delivery of military aid to Ukraine as it faces down a surging Russian invasion. In a historic move, the EU on Sunday said it would take a much more assertive role in funneling weapons and other military equipment from its members to Ukraine, even using €450 million of EU funding to help finance the effort.


On Monday evening, a Ukrainian official said pilots had arrived in Poland to receive military aircraft from EU partners. The planes in question were Soviet-era jets like the Mig-29, which Ukrainian pilots are already trained to fly. The Ukrainian parliament even put specifics on the donations: Europe, it tweeted, was sending 70 fighter planes in total, including 28 MiG-29s from Poland, 12 from Slovakia and 16 from Bulgaria, along with 14 Su-25s from Bulgaria.

Not so, the countries said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov explained that his country had a deficit of serviceable aircraft and parts and did not have sufficient fighter jets to guard its own airspace, let alone to lend jets to Ukraine, a Bulgarian official told POLITICO. A spokesperson for the Slovakian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday also denied any donation: “Slovakia will not provide fighter jets to Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.

Polish President Andrzej Duda joined the chorus on Tuesday. Speaking alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Łask Air Base in Poland, Duda said his country is “not going to send any jets to the Ukrainian airspace,” arguing “that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict.”

NATO, Duda stressed, is not a party to Russia’s war in Ukraine — a key caveat the military alliance has tried to make despite several of its members supplying the Ukrainian military with lethal arms while also hitting Moscow with crippling sanctions.

However, Duda’s comments were not entirely clear. He did not specify whether his denial was referring to Poland not sending jets operated by Polish pilots into Ukraine — which would indeed mean an open military interference in the war — or whether his rejection referred more broadly to any potential delivery of Polish fighter jets to Ukraine.


Hours later, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki issued a more direct denial.

“Poland doesn’t have such plans,” he said at a press conference.

Talk about European fighter jet deliveries was sparked by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who went off-script during a press conference on Sunday to reference the possibility.

“We are going to supply … even fighter jets” to Ukraine, he said, adding that some EU countries had the “kinds of planes” that Ukraine needed to fight off Russia. Borrell even suggested such planes could be funded by EU money.

On Monday, however, Borrell had to publicly backtrack: At another press conference, he acknowledged that even though fighter jets were “part of the request for aid that we received from Ukraine,” the EU did not have sufficient financial means to pay for those airplanes, which would have to be donated “bilaterally” by individual EU countries instead.

According to EU diplomats, Borrell informally asked Bulgaria, Poland and Romania — some of the few EU countries that still use Soviet-era fighter jets — whether they could potentially deliver some airplanes to Kyiv. A Romanian official had no comment about the request or potential deliveries.

One EU diplomat said EU countries were “outraged” about Borrell’s public statement about the fighter jet delivery, which had not been agreed upon.

“Making such announcements on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced to put his nuclear deterrence force on ‘high alert’ risks to escalate the situation further,” the EU diplomat said, adding that even if countries had considered sending planes to Ukraine, those plans might have been called off after Borrell made them public.

The frustration and mixed messaging were perhaps a predictable side-effect of the EU, by definition a peace project, trying to swiftly move into the military supply domain. Borrell elaborated about the move on Monday, saying the EU would set up an institutional framework to provide better logistical coordination for weapons deliveries from the EU to Ukraine.

“We have created a clearinghouse to keep track of the Ukrainian requests, in one site, and their needs and our member states’ offers, in order to ensure maximum effectiveness and coordination of our support,” he said. “And in doing so, this cell, this clearinghouse, will be working in coordination with NATO.”

Borrell also added that Brussels would provide military intel to Ukraine, feeding the country’s armed forces “geo-spatial” intelligence about Russia’s troop movements.

“We are mobilizing our satellite center, which is placed in Madrid,” Borrell told reporters.


https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-promise-to-supply-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-gets-grounded/

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LOL

Which kind photo op be this one?

6.

Czario:
Yes Russia cannot be taken off Swift.
Their European creditors would suffer heavy losses

A good chunk of Europe would go down Russia

Who in his/her right mind thought the West were going to send soldiers? Who has the time and strength for war?

Activate your sanctions make everybody rest abeg.

Poor Ukraine, they'll just be next Syria, Libya and Afghanistan.

And no, Russia will not be taken off of SWIFT.