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Mogidi:
[s]
I bear no grudge, just saying it like it is. Only South Africans would be happy with Atiku, apart from the rest of Nigeria, am sure even his people loathe him also.
Atiku is the embodiment of what is wrong with Nigeria's politicians and elites. [/s]

Mogidi:
Positive for South africa, but dire for Nigeria.

South Africa is considering returning more than R100-million in Nigerian money that it confiscated last year, or clearing the way to sell arms to the West African country.

The Mail & Guardian has learned through diplomatic sources that South Africa has begun talks to work out a process to return the money in an effort to start off on a clean slate with the recently elected government of the Nigerian president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.

South African law enforcement agencies seized $15-million in two batches: $5.7-million that had been wired to Standard Bank and $9.3-million in cash, which was confiscated. It was brought into the country through Lanseria airport in Johannesburg in three suitcases by a delegation said to represent the Nigerian government. In both cases, the money was suspected to be for illegal use.

Now South Africa wants to use the money to extend an olive branch to Buhari’s government and mend relations between the two countries, which became strained during the tenure of outgoing president Goodluck Jonathan.

“The positive thing about [Buhari] is that one of the people who supported him is Atiku Abubakar. That makes him our man and he will automatically work well with [President Jacob] Zuma,” a government source said.

Close connection
Abubakar is close to Zuma. He was Nigeria’s deputy president during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo, at the time when Zuma was Thabo Mbeki’s deputy.

“Also, this man [Buhari] is a [retired] military general. It is true that the military needs some beefing up to fight Boko Haram and we should help,” the source added.

So how will Nigeria know that it stands to benefit from an otherwise controversial transaction that had exacerbated tensions between the two countries?

Explained the government source: “Diplomatically you send a signal. Obviously they will have to make a request once they receive a positive signal, but the request will just be an official step to finalising the transaction.”

Buhari is due to take over the leadership of the country after winning the recent elections. Formal talks have not yet begun but South Africa has apparently started sending “positive signals” through its diplomats in Nigeria and to the Nigerian embassy in Pretoria.

Diplomatically favourable
To ensure that the process of returning the money or regularising the sale of arms looks as clean as possible, the Hawks investigation will continue, the source said, but will be managed politically to reach a conclusion that is diplomatically favourable.

“One way is to make the investigators say: ‘Yes, a law has been broken, but it’s true that the government [of Nigeria] is the owner of that money and genuinely wanted to buy arms legally. They might have flouted the rules, but it’s a genuine transaction.’ [We will say] this money does not come from dirty hands or rebels or arms dealers,” the source said.

“We will find a way to regularise the transaction and either return the money or give them arms.”

Nigeria wanted to buy arms such as helicopters and ammunition to strengthen its fight against Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

Codedrunscom:
what is the name of the one on the left ?

sukkot:
lol i am actually getting these inputs from another nairaland page of the past lol. i am cheating. https://www.nairaland.com/1850433/nigerian-commercial-adverts-80s-90s/5 << this one

Hehehe

Oya take fanta

https://i.imgur.com/SABUZpF.jpg

sukkot:
ajeburra tinz my bros

sukkot:
bros, me i be ajebutter. i no be ajepako. i no dey chop that kind margerine. the one i chop na imported directly from switzerland. in fact even queen sef never chop the kind one wey i chop

Chief, you can lie oo

sukkot:
walahai talahi if you haf eat this butter you must be a great grand father by now

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holatin:
k kee MIllion ni jare

holatin:
lolz oya because na you, I go remove the point 9 from it.
pay 55 last price

holatin:
happy birthday sir
I get two matured, busty cousin, just come marry one of them.

BRIDEPRICE: 55.9 MILLION NAIRA

malvisguy212:
1.man was created with dust, if you or me die, your soul goes to heaven and your flesh decomposed to the ground,it return where it was created, understand? That what ecclesiastic is indicating.

2.the context of rapture was talking about the judgment day, "end of days" and death means the end of someone life.

3. adam was created with earth?

Did you mistakenly type this?

Archaeological evidenced say the universe is 14billion year old

but man start living on earth 6000 years,

further more the universe was created together with "caused" doesent this indicate adam exist before the beginning of time making him a deity?

(I accepts, you mistakenly type this)

4. Empiree say man was created in heaven and you agree with him. You said this word; "Your soul goes to heaven when you are dead, your body will be buried, but on the judgement day, that body will be raised and the soul will return to them".

If this statement is in the quran then it another scientific blunder,so the body will not decomposed, it will wait for the judgement day to come?

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” Genesis 2:7 God used the dust and formed body (human) and breath his spirit on him.when you die, the reverse is the case, your body return to the dust and the the breath (soul) return to God.

malvisguy212:
the book of Ecclesiastics was talking abou different thing,

"All come from the dust and to dust shall we all return" meaning we all are created from the dust and when we DIE to dust shall we all return

The quranic verse you quote say "And Allah hath CAUSED you to grow as a GROWTH from the EARTH"

The words" caused"and"earth" indicate man was created(caused) on earth and growth here on earth.

So this does not answer my question,

empiree say man was created in heaven,

so I ask him "do people go to heaven with physical body?"

shahydbinaliyu:
are you guys blind? i said no comments... haba

zyzxx:
tell her u av ebola


Advice, well u already did
she don turn u too atm
And she deserve what she get from u

dunkem21:
Igbo's ...everywhere you go ..