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SpecialAdviser:
Trump my man. We surely need your type yo lead this nation Nigeria, not one useless cow rearer.

A seasoned business man who will refuse to destroy what he has built for any reason. War is costly and will damage your economy. At the end, it ends in round table discussion after you must have lost money and lost people. A quote in Robert Kiyosaki says a good business man will hardly sue you if he will not make money from the case and would see it as a distraction.

If he can sue for peace and make more money, he rather swallow his pride than losing money foolishly.

Trump is not a politician and not Bush and co that do unnecessary busy body. You will get war only if you attack America. Forget Buhari wey dey take panadol for another man headache.

All the people they dey kill for his country, no reaction.

Uneducated dunce. Did you even pass out of secondary school? Such ignorant garbage.

niaralandtopuser:
A thoughtful gentleman who approved the only 2 use of nuclear weapon in history killing over 120000 in seconds but Trump who only use Twitter is the harmful one.

Why are you so dumb and complacent? Is Twitter not his vehicle for conveying his intentions? Would it make it any more or less dangerous if he wrote it down on a sheet, assuming he can actually write? He is the US president. If he makes belligerent public threats, you DON'T ignore or downplay it because all he has to do is GIVE AN ORDER and we are in WW3. He commands US forces and the world's most powerful nuclear arsenal. You do NOT want him making military threats on twitter or anywhere else, unless you are stupid.

Having defense pact does not mean they will intervene. The Saudi/Iran proxy wars has lasted for over 40yrs and not a single nuclear weapon have been used

This is not ''proxy war''. This is a direct attack on Saudi Arabia by Iran, presumably.

YOU NEED TO USE YOUR BRAIN. The fact that it hasn't happened does not mean it will not happen. Especially after a military attack in which Saudi Arabia has been forced to cut its oil supplies by 50%, in what is being called the ''biggest disruption in oil supplies in recorded history''.

What the hell is wrong with you? Go and read recent history. MAJOR WARS can start at any time and for the flimsiest reasons. WW2 started by a simple unprovoked attack by Germany on Poland. Before you knew it, Russia, USA, Japan, Italy, UK, France, Holland, Austria, Finland, Czechoslovakia and others got militarily involved. Nigeria, India, Ghana and other colonies send troops to fight for the allies. Result? 100 million+ dead.

niaralandtopuser:
The Iran/Saudi proxy has been on since 1979 yet we haven't had a world war. I know you think it started recently but this conflict has been in existence for more than 40yrs. It escalate at some point then deescalate. This is not new

40 years is nothing in politics and international relations. Your complacency is truly silly because if WW3 breaks out, no one will be looking at a calendar.

You have this great confidence in these world powers, forgetting that they slaughtered 150 million of themselves in just the last century's world wars, and with much less lethal firepower than they possess today. In WW2, just ONE battle, the battle of Stalingrad, which lasted just a few days, left nearly 2 million soldiers dead on both German and Russian sides. That's the entire number of people killed in the 3 year long Biafran war. Stop taking these 'oyinbo' people for granted. When they get truly mad, it's like nothing you've ever seen.

niaralandtopuser:
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945.
The Soviet Union first detonated a nuclear weapon August 29 1949( the isreali/Arab war lasted until 1949)

There was also another Isreal/Arab war in 1967(by 1967 US, Russia, UK, France and China already got nuclear weapons).

Irrelevant history lesson.

Saudi and Iran don't even have nuclear weapons now so I don't know how they will fight world war.

An utterly naive comment since both nations have defence pacts with their respective nuclear superpower controllers, the US and Russia.

And lastly , the president you called volatile with suspect mental faculties is one of the US president that did not start any war nor invade other countries

He has only served 2 years in a possible 8 year tenure. So saying he ''did not start a war'' is senseless, as he just today he announceds on twitter that the US is ''locked and loaded'' to start a military retaliation.

The reasonable US president in 1948(Harry Truman) according to you, authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war.

Truman is a thoughtful gentleman compared to Trump, who is an opportunistic narcissist who will do anything to remain in power in order to escape conviction for his numerous crimes, even if that means starting WW3.

blackboy:
Se Baba yi badun bayi? He seems to have something against the Shiites indeed. Oil prices has gone up ( your gain) Mecca was not touched. PMB no be everything we go pur our nose inside. When last did Saudi react to a Boko Haram attack?

When last did a Boko Haram attack lead to possible escalation to nuclear conflict among the world powers? Or your dull brain cannot comprehend the potential implications of an attack on US client state Saudi Arabia, by Russian client state Iran? Wasted education.

niaralandtopuser:
Saudi Arabia does not have any capability to fight even regional war but here you are talking about world war. We have seen worst crisis in the middle East. No middle East country can start world war. They can only cause instability in their region

Dude, the middle eastern nations are PROXIES FOR WORLD POWERS. Iran and Syria are RUSSIAN proxies, and increasingly CHINESE proxies.

Israel, UAE and Saudi Arabia are AMERICAN proxies.

The major powers use these nations to push/protect their interests in the region. If Saudi Arabia goes to war with Iran, it could EXPLODE into superpower conflict. The US has a defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Israel as does Russia with Iran and Syria. They are bound by treaty to engage militarily with enemies/attackers of these client states.

Today, Saudi Arabia has cut its oil supplies by an incredible 50% as a result of this attack. It is a major, major incident.

So stop looking at these issues like some naive kid who doesn't study international affairs.

niaralandtopuser:
Nigeria must take a stance?WW3? Nigeria? You are joining Nigeria , war and stance when the only explosive you can produce in Nigeria is gun powder?

Even TOGO should take a stance. LIBERIA should take a stance. You don't see the world about to collapse before your eyes, and all you can think of is your perceived inferiority/weakness. BE A MAN. GOD CREATED YOU FREE. YOU ARE NOT A SLAVE. STAND UP AND SPEAK UP. STOP BEING A TIMID FOOL.

We all know all buhari is trying to do is send a message that he is loyal to the sunni sects.
What is Nigeria business if war broke out in Arab world? The isreali/Arab war did not lead to WW3. It is the war between two pro terrorist countries that will to WW3.

See how dumb your analysis is? What has what occurred in 1948 got to do with today's middle eastern volatility? Was Israel a nuclear power in 1948? Was Iran a nuclear power or remotely as powerful/belligerent as it is today? Was the US as dominant and powerful then as today? Was OIL a major factor in 1948? Was Russia a nuclear power in 1948? Did Russia have a defence pact with Iran in 1948? Did America have an unpredictable, volatile president with suspect mental faculties in 1948? An awful lot has changed since 1948. Your stance is at best, naive, and at worst, dangerously irresponsible and thoughtless.

omenka:
Rosskiki, these people are super dumb kids honestly. They imagine the international community works based on emotions just as those blurry paintings in their little minds.

There is absolutely nothing one could say here to educate them. The subject matter is beyond their scope of understanding.

Honestly bro, it is shocking to read their reaction to these events. Has our educational system really deteriorated to the point where these youths think that what goes on outside Nigeria is of no concern to us?

I mean, how idiotic can they get? it's unbelievable. Absolutely no curiosity about the outside world, unless where it is to worship white people and chat about how much ''better'' they are than them. That is the limit of their foreign interest. Disgusting.

Bouncingbabyboy:
so when did Saudi send Nigeria condolences Forgive my ignorance but educate me

Use your brain Mr. Man.

What happened in Saudi Arabia is a threat to WORLD SURVIVAL. What part of that does your brain not get? Go and study the likely consequences of WW3 before coming back to type your bush man rubbish here.

What sensible people are hoping now is that Trump does not use this as an excuse to attack Iran, an act that will draw in Russia which has a defence pact with Iran.

I mean, the potential ramifications of an escalation are catastrophic for the entire planet, yet you think Nigeria should just ''shut up and mind its business''. I really don't know what schools you people attended that made you so local, dull, stupid and senseless.

Chuksmonika:
lol...the Federal Republic of Nigeria stands in solidarity with saudi arabia indeed,,,,oga buhari mind your internal affairs first,leave saudi arabia to be condoled by developed countries,how can a backward country like Nigeria be showing herself everytime,,,,,i just tired of this shithole,and am seriously considering the second option.

Please, run and go. We don't need your nasty, worthless, semi-literate type in this country. You and your family couldn't live in Saudi Arabia for one week. A place where you are executed for criticising the govt, no political parties allowed, no elections permitted, widespread religious persecution and discrimination, women not allowed to drive, alcohol consumption a crime, thousands of political prisoners, many whom disappear without trace. The rulers appointed by birth and inheritance. Internet access severely limited etc etc.

Sure they have ''constant light'' and cheap food, but you know, after a while of enjoying them, those things mean absolutely nothing in the face of the aforementioned deprivations. If only you knew how LUCKY you are to be a Nigerian. Damn idiot.

niaralandtopuser:
the attack only took away less than half of Saudi oil production.
is Saudi an ally of Nigeria? when has Saudi ever sent condolences over happening in Nigeria?

Use your fucking brain. This is is about far more than Saudi Arabia. This is potentially WW3 loading up. Nigeria MUST take a stance in this. The US is already talking of military retaliation. A war against Iran will not end there. It will draw in Israel, Russia, the UK, China, and others. Do you want to live in a world in which those nuclear powers are lobbing bombs at each other? You sit in Nigeria and think all that matters are your petty developmental problems. All the things you moan about today will seem like LUXURY if WW3 breaks out. So use your fucking head.

Godi25:
Which kind busy body govt b dis?
Wetin concern u 4 middle east matter... Nigeria problems u cannot solve...
Mr solidarity!!!

Brainless he-goat. What happens in the middle east CONCERNS US ALL. It is the most volatile region on earth with competing nuclear powers in the fray. If that region goes up in flames, it could lead to WW3 and your possible extermination. For once in your life just try and think outside your little box in which you think all that matters is 'Nigeria'.

niaralandtopuser:
how many times did Saudi government send condolences when militant attack pipeline and other oil facilities in Nigeria?

The attack on Saudi facilities has been described as ''the biggest disruption in world oil supplies in history''. It could lead to WW3 if it escalates. Trump is already talking of retaliation.

World oil prices have just risen 10% overnight.

And you're comparing this to militant attacks of pipelines?

I really don't know why so many of you are so.. thoughtless.

Thanks for the apology. But we need compensation for the victims, many of whom lost properties worth millions of naira in the mob action.

RealityShot:
Lol... Nigerians prosper best outside Nigeria!

Dangote became the richest black person on earth by doing business here in Nigeria.

INNOSON became the biggest black-owned car manufacturing company on earth working here in Nigeria.

So take your negativity and shove it up your asss.

Toroso:
And where is Zimbabwe today ?
Everything is not gragra ok.

Where is Zimbabwe today?

They have their land back. No more 5% white ownership of 95% of the land, with the blacks peasants and slaves on their ancestral land. That is OVER. Thanks to Bob Mugabe.

It is a more equitable country today, and they are recovering from the western imposed economic sanctions.

SO THEY ARE IN A GOOD PLACE. THEIR FUTURE IS BRIGHT.

This is the queen of England, an ordinary unelected woman, enjoying a ride in her GOLDEN CARRIAGE worth countless millions of dollars, cavorting with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin - merely because of her accident of royal birth.


https://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_article/public/blogs/queen.putin_.carriage.jpg?itok=p7pL4PSX

She's riding to her home, the 775 room Buckingham Palace:

.................https://cdn.londonandpartners.com/-/media/images/london/visit/whats-on/event-pages/buckinghampalace1920x1080.jpg?mw=640&hash=40096BE681415B8B7AAB77D542F889D7E174DBBC

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O_fe_b67IqY/maxresdefault.jpg


They will have dinner here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/image/6871640-3x2-940x627.jpg

A wife of an ordinary Nigerian state governor never has this level of luxury.

Why can't the UK be more equal like Nigeria?

glink2015:
Lover of naija , what meaningful thing have you contributed to your father's land

You'e not worth sharing it with. You'll only insult it, after all it is Nigerian.

glink2015:
I wouldn't waste my time with non_ntity like you

Abeg GTFOH....You hate Nigeria, so get lost and move to your favourite country's website.

I'm really sick of people like you who come on here, and with ZERO KNOWLEDGE of a topic, but only prejudice and stereotypes, start insulting the country out of hate. Just get lost. Fcking pig.

glink2015:
What is the mofo typing? Do you think I'm typing out of ignorance like you..?

You ARE typing out of ignorance. IGNORAMUS.

glink2015:
You are wrong ... Putin also has done it before.
He walked from his office to his house...

Though there are security details around him but not too close to him and there are security monitor gadgets around him 24/7....

Do you think Boris Johnson will not have security monitor gadgets around him 24/7

So, any of these people you mentioned can do it because the security monitor gadgets around Dem is much more sophisticated than your battalion of soldiers around aso villa

Shut up your dirty mouth. You have ZERO idea of the level or scope/depth of security provided for the Nigerian president. You are NOT in the intelligence or security community, so shut up.

GenBuhari:
Don't be deceived, this clip of British PM is a stage managed photo opportunity.

Better believe that no member of public is driving on that stretch of road within 200yards of his bike in every direction. Any cyclist or motorist near him are undercover, bodyguards, police and military.

Don't mind these naive, 'oyibo is God' Nigerians. Is it not this their glorification of whites that leads them to sell their businesses and cross the Sahara desert to fall into slavery in Libya? Ndi ara.

The stupid OP, elect him president tomorrow and see if he agrees to ride a bicycle to work.

lilbest4:
No he can't. Trump, Putin, Xi are the most powerful people on earth their security protocols won't even allow them to begin with

Don't use their ''power'' as your excuse, Mr Oyibo worshiper. Is Johnson not ''powerful'' too?

Just admit that their countries - USA, Russia - have the same potential for violence as Nigeria, hence their presidents not riding bicycle around.

EBMedia:
Igberetv reports that Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria General Olusegun Obasanjo arrives in Harare, for the funeral service of Robert Mugabe.

Other African leaders are also gathering at Zibabwe's capital to attend the funeral service which is scheduled to hold today.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10223527_img20190914103642_jpeg12bfba71dc8cf295b0af4c2302a24912

I just like the way OBJ carries himself at these international events. He reps Nigeria very well.

meezynetwork:
Foolish igbo woman. Stay there and don't come back. There is peace all over the world indeed

Honestly...she's so embarrassing to listen to.

Her naivety is just pitiful. She needs to go to college or something, not bother herself with what's going on in South Africa.

^^^Why the use of smilies among both parties?

Are you trying to disguise your ugly hatred for each other?

Are you ashamed of your hateful state of mind?

Doesn't work.

Pathetic people.

SPEECH


The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language


So BEFORE AFRICANS INVENTED SPEECH, the rest of the world was communicating via grunts, cries and screams.

Credit goes to Africans for this MOST IMPORTANT BY FAR human invention which led to our civilization.





WRITING

The SECOND most important human invention was WRITING, for which credit also goes to AFRICANS.

In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

wirinet:
I totally agree with you that we were disadvantaged from the beginning. The British were only interested in exploitation and not development. But.. God gave us amply opportunity to develop ourselves better, but we blew it. The country was awash with petrol dollars not long after independence, what did we do? We were more interested in stupid power play and greed. We had no vision whatsoever on building a developed society. We took to primitive impulses of crass materialism and consumption without building a productive base. We did not invest in developmental education like science and technology, but only interested in educational degrees and titles. We dug ourselves into a hole that is very difficult to get out.

Dude, a nation forcibly cobbled together from disparate ethnicities by greedy colonialists uninterested in national integration or development, but solely money and profit, will always encounter teething problems characterised by conflict, corruption, oppression, inefficiency, and other problems. Have you heard of the Berlin Conference of 1884? That was where ''Nigeria'' was born. It was an economic deal that had NOTHING to do with your progress or mine. What we are doing is trying to develop from a terrible disadvantage. We are doing a good job, having not slaughtered each other in a hail of disunity and hatred the way they did in Europe last century. Give us SOME credit. We are not Japan yet, but we have definitely come a long way in terms of development in the last 60 years.

GMbuharii:
My friend what's the state of Zimbabwe ever since late Mugabe literally drove the whites away after seizing their lands and handling over same to black farmers who are nothing but peasants and subsistence farmers? Zimbabwean dollar used to bevery strong but today it's the worst in Africa

Dummy, Zimbabwe HAD to pay the price of western sanctions for RIGHTFULLY redistributing its land away from 95% ownership by its 5% white minority population.

Today, Zimbabwe is recovering from the sanctions and life is improving, UNDER A NOW REDISTRIBUTED NATIONAL WEALTH. The people are no longer slaves and peasants on their ancestral land, and actually have a FUTURE. For this, ALL AFRICA has Robert Mugabe and the ZANU PF party to thank. YOU can go and dash your ancestral land to white Europeans if that makes you feel a better slave. Zimbabweans said NO. And RIGHTFULLY SO.

JaceBlaze:
How did African countries get it wrong even after so many years of their respective liberation? how did a country that was liberated only two decades ago (South Africa) end up being the gateway to the rest Africa?...


And to those who always claim that the benefits they enjoy today is because of the long years of white rule,well it's half truth and half lie.We can't deny that Apartheid ended up working to their advantage but there are too many things that blacks in South Africa didn't have access to before 1994,and besides,I think the "white rule" excuse is now overplayed since almost all infrastructure in Africa was built by colonisers.


I feel lazy to write long paragraphs,but I just want to know:where did the rest of Africa really go wrong?

You are IGNORANT beyond words. Try to research before commenting on things you know NOTHING about. Such as your dumb claim that ''almost all infrastructure in Africa was built by colonisers''. Name ONE road in Nigeria that you know was built by the colonialists. JUST ONE. Not to mention expressways or power stations. Or airports. Or flyovers and bridges. ANSWER: 0.

EVERYTHING you see in Nigeria today by way of infrastructure was built by NIGERIANS after independence, not the British colonialists. Same applies to ALL black African countries. THEY built their current infrastructure, NOT white colonialists.

The South Africa you are writing about, you are similarly clueless of. The ONLY reason SA is advanced today is that the colonialists who seized power a couple hundred years ago there REINVESTED that country's export proceeds from gold, into the country, such that by the 1940s, SA was already a developed country. They built their first universities as early as the 1880s!! Same as power stations, roads, bridges, rail networks etc. The reason the colonialists did this was because there was a huge white settler community there that regarded SA as their country.

Now contrast this with what the colonialists did in their fully black African territories. All we see is exploitation and near ZERO investment of export earnings in the respective countries, including Nigeria, which only got her first university in 1962, AFTER the end of white rule. Her first power plant, Kainji dam, was built in 1964 and commissioned by the Balewa govt. Prior to that there was NO NATIONAL GRID. The whites simply imported industrial generators to power the areas they lived in like Ikoyi and GRAs around the nation.

So the rest of black Africa is playing catch up to SA because we only started developing in the 1960s, AFTER INDEPENDENCE, while SA has been developing and building itself up since the 1800s.

SO TRY AND LEARN THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF THE CONTINENT YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT BEFORE INFESTING THIS FORUM WITH YOUR RACIAL COMPLEX AND IGNORANCE.

tyup:
it's not inferiority complex I just decided not to swim in lies and wallow in ignorance the way ur doing

plus you've got no evidence just basically belly filled false hope

What other 'evidence' do you need than the global military ranking that places Nigeria 4th in Africa and SA at 3rd?

That stat alone means we CAN defeat South Africa with a good strategy in place. The difference between the two nations militarily is simply NOT as wide as you people make it out to be.

The two nations are CLOSELY MATCHED MILITARILY by global professional military sources with multi-million dollar research budgets.

But somehow we must ignore them and believe YOU, whose only 'research' of the Nigerian military is drinking peppersoup near a barracks.