SIRTee15:

Quran5.110
The Day] when Allāh will say, "O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel;

إِذۡ قَالَ ٱللَّهُ يَٰعِيسَى ٱبۡنَ مَرۡيَمَ ٱذۡكُرۡ نِعۡمَتِي عَلَيۡكَ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَتِكَ إِذۡ أَيَّدتُّكَ بِرُوحِ ٱلۡقُدُسِ تُكَلِّمُ ٱلنَّاسَ فِي ٱلۡمَهۡدِ وَكَهۡلًا ۖ وَإِذۡ عَلَّمۡتُكَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ وَٱلۡحِكۡمَةَ وَٱلتَّوۡرَىٰةَ وَٱلۡإِنجِيلَ ۖ وَإِذۡ تَخۡلُقُ مِنَ ٱلطِّينِ كَهَيۡئَةِ ٱلطَّيۡرِ بِإِذۡنِي فَتَنفُخُ فِيهَا فَتَكُونُ طَيۡرَۢا بِإِذۡنِي ۖ وَتُبۡرِئُ ٱلۡأَكۡمَهَ وَٱلۡأَبۡرَصَ بِإِذۡنِي ۖ وَإِذۡ تُخۡرِجُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ بِإِذۡنِي ۖ وَإِذۡ كَفَفۡتُ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ عَنكَ إِذۡ جِئۡتَهُم بِٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتِ فَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِنۡهُمۡ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحۡرٞ مُّبِينٞ
"Mention, when God said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary, remember My favour to you and to your mother, be thankful for it; when I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit, Gabriel, to speak to people (tukallimu’l-nāsa is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the [suffixed pronoun] kāf in ayyadtu-ka) in the cradle, that is, as a child, and in maturity — this implies that he will descend before the Hour, since he was raised up [to God] before middle age, as has already been mentioned in [sūrat] Āl ‘Imrān [Q. 3:55], and when I taught you the Scripture, and wisdom, and the Torah, and the Gospel; and how you create out of clay the likeness (ka-hay’at: the kāf here functions like a noun and is a direct object), the image, of a bird by My permission, and you breathe into it and it becomes a bird by My permission, by My will, and you heal the blind and the leper by My permission, and you raise the dead, from their graves back to life, by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from you, when they intended to kill you, when you brought them clear proofs, miracles, and the disbelievers among them said, “This, what you have done, is nothing but manifest sorcery” (a variant reading [for sihrun, ‘sorcery’] has sāhirun, ‘sorcerer’, in other words, [he] Jesus [is nothing but a manifest sorcerer])."
(QS. Al-Maaida 5: Verse 110)
Qur'an English https://quran-en.com

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Delightsome2023:
na now you come get data reply me.
Una useless Loserpool team come win?
I sure say your ticket don cut as usual.
Aya atua ayed akan Ami.
ka ke yem utom nam

Ado iwang

Yes that's why osodi ezuzu obiano wife is a senators today right? Obiano performed and campaigned for his wife to go to senate and they won, right? Mugu!! Onye eriri ka ibu. Well keep on hating PO let's see if that will make price of rice and fuel to come down to 20k and 170. Or are you not feeling this inflation in d country? Cooking gas is 1300 per litre ooo. Keep on hating PO lest see if this inflation will stop. Ebin pawaoooo!!! Over whelming support that cannot make his wife a senator. Your best governor was bood when he was campaigning for his wife to be a senator, do u know that? Keep on supporting a drunkard former governor that couldn't construct a road that leads to his town. Nonsense and ingredients.

Ezewuzie01:
It is not a surprise that the demented Peter Obi didn't attend the occasion. Whenever he sees that a governor has outperformed him, envy envelopes his small mind. That's how he paid social media goons to be attacking Obiano because the overwhelming support Obiano got during his reelection

wiseone28:
Ifot mkpo

na now you come get data reply me.
Una useless Loserpool team come win?
I sure say your ticket don cut as usual.
Aya atua ayed akan Ami.
ka ke yem utom nam

Skooltynz:

decision not decition e ka we rara baba yi

I'm no english mr man.

cadmanspize:
Biafra & old eastern nigeria is dead. Move on gidigidy!
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Stop protecting SS, gidgidy. Respect any decition your fellow man has made - once it's not affecting you. Pertake if only you have the power to command respect - do not preach to your fellow man! Recommend or keep your silence & move on.

decision not decition
e ka we rara baba yi

Jesu, a fe pade,
Lojo Re mimo yi;
A si yite Re ka,
Lojo Re mimo yi:
'Wo Ore wa orun,
Adura wa n bo wa,
Boju wo emi wa
Lojo Re mimo yi.

A ko gbodo lora,
Lojo Re mimo yi
Li eru a kunle
Lojo Re mimo yi;
Ma taro ise wa,
K'Iwo ko si ko wa,
ka sin O bo ti ye
Lojo Re mimo yi

A teti soro Re
Lojo Re mimo yi;
Bukun oro ta gbo,
Lojo Re mimo yi;
Ba wa lo 'gbat'a lo,
Fore igbala Re
Si aya wa gbogbo,
Lojo Re mimo yi.

Amin.

Watcharena:
why can't we buy from russia their equipment are cost effective and we can easily maintain them compared to what we have been buying from west. Another thing is that the west will not sell their latest equipment to us,we call only buy old equipment from. The helicopters Nigeria recently bought each one can get us like two Russian alligator

I consider the ka-52 to be arguably the world's best Attack Helicopter, certainly the world's most survivable Attack Helicopter.

However Russian helicopters are not cheap, Russian aircrafts are not cheap either.

American defence deals usually come with maintenance, infrastructure, weaponry, training, spares and the hardware as full cycle proposals.

It's not really the same with Russian aircrafts as customers can choose to buy Russian aircrafts with weaponry alone without related infrastructure.

The advantage the Russians have is you can use their equipment any how you like with no strings attached, Russian hardware is also very survivable. At least the T-90M, SU-25, ka-52, SU-34 and Lancet have all proven this in combat.

It's true that Nigeria might not be able to buy the F-35 from America, however the Americans have sold us the AH-1Z which is a state of the art aircraft. We can also buy the F-16V from the US if we request for it.

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I Have known Ribadu For 30 Years, There Was No Time He Labelled Tinubu, Orji Kalu And Akume As Corrupt Politicians — Usman

An anti-corruption organization, Arewa Network Against Corruption (ANAC), has stressed the need for Nigerians to stop peddling fake news against the National Security Adviser and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

The anti-corruption organization while reacting to a trending post on social media alleging that the National Security Adviser had as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alleged that Governors Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Orji Uzor Kalu and George Akume were the most corrupt governors in Nigeria.


The National Coordinator of the group, Mallam Muhammad Usman stated this in chat with newsmen in Abuja on Friday, saying: “I have know Mallam Ribadu for 30 years. I can’t remember anytime he labelled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu or the Secretary to Government of the Federation, George Akume as being corrupt.

“It is a spurious statement being circulated by mischievous people to tarnish the image of Mallam Ribadu. Mallam has a good relationship with the president, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and George Akume. These are patriotic leaders and statesmen. It is wrong for Nigerians to circulate such statements that are clearly false and fake. It is a fake news from the pit of hell,” he said.

jaeyking:


ka San codeine girls Ko

Oga hookup choke for North

34 years in the north no be beans so I know wetin I dey talk

Yes they can fully cover their body
But Na ashawo dem dey do
Especially that Sokoto and zamfara

oga why u wan attack those sokoto n zamfara maidens na?

Revitalise the bill... to pad some incentives kuba ka ba

dNortherner:
Nowhere is free from hook-ups this days but my Northern part is very low, very low I said pal. And yes of course, we're the origin of Kayan Mata and Buran Tashi, we have them in excess in different categories but purposely not for bad intentions or to use them harm anybody.

ka San codeine girls Ko

Oga hookup choke for North

34 years in the north no be beans so I know wetin I dey talk

Yes they can fully cover their body
But Na ashawo dem dey do
Especially that Sokoto and zamfara

bidexiii:



Hmmmmm I havent thought in that direction, @odunayaw is making a valid point.

Let's take Egypt for an example; they bough one of the largest if not the largest fleets of F16 from the United States. But Uncle Sam has refused the Egyptian airforce air-to-air missiles with a range greater than 85 km, restricting there airforce long/medium air-to-air missile arsenal to the AIM-7 Sparrow and 35 km shorter ranged AIM-9 Sidewinders.
However, in response to the pause, the Egyptian military undertook drastic measures to counterbalance their country’s dependency on U.S. military hardware. Towards the end of that year, Egypt began negotiating the purchase of Russia’s MiG-29M2 fighter jets, ka-52 helicopters and Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missile systems. By 2015, Egypt concluded a deal with France to procure Rafale fighter jets and a FREMM frigate.


Lesson our top brass should learn is "dont put all your egg in one basket".

Egypt did not buy the F16s. The got them for free under the peace deal with Israel. Part of the deal was that the jets will not come with weapons that could potentially strike Israel.

Odunayaw:
The sanctions against Russia most definitely hindered us from getting more. Like Bidexi said, it's vital we have dedicated AH alright but having the Vipers + Tucanos places so much power over our attack capabilities in the hands of the US.

Hmmmmm I havent thought in that direction, @odunayaw is making a valid point.

Let's take Egypt for an example; they bough one of the largest if not the largest fleets of F16 from the United States. But Uncle Sam has refused the Egyptian airforce air-to-air missiles with a range greater than 85 km, restricting there airforce long/medium air-to-air missile arsenal to the AIM-7 Sparrow and 35 km shorter ranged AIM-9 Sidewinders.
However, in response to the pause, the Egyptian military undertook drastic measures to counterbalance their country’s dependency on U.S. military hardware. Towards the end of that year, Egypt began negotiating the purchase of Russia’s MiG-29M2 fighter jets, ka-52 helicopters and Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missile systems. By 2015, Egypt concluded a deal with France to procure Rafale fighter jets and a FREMM frigate.


Lesson our top brass should learn is "dont put all your egg in one basket".

EnglandAmaka:
The Tinubuation gang won't like this at all...

A great bill if signed into law...

Amaka m ife na Nnewi, eze ndị ala ka ọ bu na Onitsha 😂 😂 😂

🤣🤣🤣 Makana so so na Onitsha ka ndi ma ihe no okwa ya ?

The Tinubuation gang won't like this at all...

A great bill if signed into law...

Amaka m ife na Nnewi, eze ndị ala ka ọ bu na Onitsha 😂 😂 😂

Austineva:
. E pain uuuuuuuuuuuuu 😂😂😂. Next time come comment nonsense here without reading the News body ka Chukwu kpo gị oku 🔥
Efulefu nwamonki😂

Ezi Bida. Onye abakaleke 😂

illuminutty:


Nkita rachapu otu nne gi dia. Onye abakeleke!

. E pain uuuuuuuuuuuuu 😂😂😂. Next time come comment nonsense here without reading the News body ka Chukwu kpo gị oku 🔥
Efulefu nwamonki😂

Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff during President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure, has been appointed to head a 120-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Senegal’s upcoming presidential election on March 24, 2024.

The crucial election, initially scheduled for February 25, 2024, features 19 presidential candidates, including one woman, and holds considerable importance for the democratic process in the region.


The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission comprises 120 members, including 14 Long-Term Observers (LTOs) and 106 Short-Term Observers, drawn from various sectors such as government ministries, electoral commissions, civil society organizations, and the ECOWAS Parliament.


The mission aims to support and monitor the electoral process in Senegal, ensuring adherence to democratic principles and best practices.

The mission emphasizes key aspects of the electoral process, including constitutional and electoral laws, conflict management, gender inclusivity, and media coverage.


The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission is complemented by a technical team led by Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah and Mr. Serigne ka, who are tasked with providing logistical and technical support to the mission.

Senegal was among the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to hold multi-party presidential elections in 1978 before the wave of democratic transition in the 1990s.

For this year’s election, some 338,040 Senegalese were registered in the diaspora.


The country has continued to hold presidential and legislative elections, sometimes marked by political tensions, but without significant threats to the stability of the country’s institutions.

Electioneering started on Sunday, March 9. Voting officially opens from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in 15,633 polling units of the 6,341 polling centres spread across the country’s 14 regions, including the capital Dakar.

The 19 presidential candidates cleared by the Constitutional Council include Amadou Ba, former Prime Minister, veteran opposition leader Idrissa Seck, and former Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall.

Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/buharis-ex-chief-of-staff-prof-gambari-gets-international-appointment-months-after-leaving-office/

*Why is Dangote Refinery importing crude oil when it has yet to refine a liter of local crude oil from Nigeria? A Case Of Misguided Profiteering Or Sabotage By NNPC ?*

I was stunned to read in the newspapers that Dangote Refinery, which has barely just commenced operations, is already importing crude oil from abroad even when it has not refined a drop of petrol from our locally produced crude oil.

What's going on here? So, we continue to export our locally produced crude oil, but our own local refineries are importing crude oil from abroad? Somebody help me out. When did we move from a Fadeyi economy being managed by Ikoyi economists, to a full-blown Voodoo economy where nothing makes logical sense again?

I know that before those of us in Fadeyi can even shout ‘foul!’ to this development, our Ikoyi economists and private sector economic apologists will roll out their PowerPoint slides and ‘explain’ to us in the big English they learned from Harvard why nothing is wrong with a ‘private company’ importing its raw materials from abroad.

Well, since I am not an economist, I don't know if it is unusual or not to import crude oil in a country with the biggest production of crude oil in Africa and which exports all its crude oil, but I must say that I am very confused about this development.

In the first place, I thought the problem we all were complaining about before was our lack of local refineries to refine our own crude oil locally, which forced us to keep exporting it only to buy back finished materials from foreign markets at 10X and 20X the cost? I thought this ‘Esau Approach’ to economic management is how we got into this mess in the first place.

My more educated Ikoyi economists can correct me if I am wrong, but I had also assumed that the whole rationale behind building refineries and granting people like Dangote significant foreign exchange concessions (most of which they round-trip anyway) was to enable him to quickly bring his local refinery online to refine *our* crude oil so we can then get finished petrol and other byproducts from crude oil at a significantly cheaper price?

1. So I must call out our Ikoyi-minded economic Siamese twins of Wale Edun and Dr. Cardoso as well as Mr. Heineken Loquobiri and Mrs. Ekpo Ministry of Natural Resources and ask them what’s going on here? What are you all not telling us? Is it that we really don’t have any crude oil for Dangote refinery to refine because our government has mortgaged our crude oil reserves for the next 10 years to borrow money for their largely ineffective “borrow and dump” strategy to deal with galloping inflation and ever-rising rates of exchange of the Dollar to our local Naira?

2. Or could this development of our biggest refinery importing crude oil from abroad in an economy with millions of barrels of locally produced crude oil daily, be a more sinister sabotage of our local industrialists by the NNPC refusing to sell crude oil to Dangote in a most disgusting political power play if rumors on the streets of Fadeyi could be believed?

Since I am not in government, I am not going to presume to know the real facts from fiction, but in a Fadeyi economy where most rumors are often more accurate than officially stated positions, maybe it’s time we start dragging our leaders to explain to us what’s really going on here.

So here are our questions to the coordinator of our economy, Chief Wale Edun, and his brother Dr. Cardoso in charge of our currency, and Mr. Heineken in the petroleum ministry:

i. Why is Dangote not getting crude oil from our NNPC? If NNPC had crude oil and Dangote refused to buy from them, opting instead to buy his crude oil in the ‘free market’ instead, as someone disingenuously posted in a group I belonged to, how come nobody is reminding him that Dangote Refinery is really not a ‘private company’ for him to do as he pleases with?

After all, Dangote Refinery enjoyed preferential rates of dollars for years as part of the whole nation encouraging him to finish that refinery that is a ‘national asset’. The truth that we all know is that Dangote was getting dollars at a little N300 to $1 at a time when other businesses not so favored were getting it at N500 to $1 🤷🏿‍♂️.

Even when Dangote ran out of money for this same refinery, our government designated it a national asset to be supported and invested billions of regular people’s commonwealth in the refinery project to prevent the refinery from going under. So, he definitely cannot now claim ‘private company’ or claim it was his ‘private property’ to do as willed. If indeed Dangote is claiming this ‘independent’ choice of action, has anyone whispered the reality into his ears?

For sure, under the unemotional laws enforced by Ikoyi lawyers and pronounced so by our well-groomed Ikoyi-trained judges interpreting legislation passed by Ikoyi-minded legislators, one could argue Dangote Refinery is private property. However, in the stark reality of the unwritten Fadeyi ethos, if your neighbors contributed money for your education, and your uncles and aunts gave you little garri, and some rice from their scant resources, and gave you ‘pocket money’ now and then while you were going to school as part of the community support for you and your father to help you graduate, unless you are a bastard you will KNOW your degree is not just your ‘private’ property after your graduation, and would be ready to divorce any Ikoyi or Oyinbo wife who gets upset with you for always sending money home to Aunty Dupe or Uncle Femi to help them out, or for buying lots of presents to give to your ‘uncles and aunties’ every time you visit Nigeria.

There is a reason you don’t argue when your father collects 100% of your first salary from you and then distributes it to different elders in your family and on your street. My father explained that one to me very clearly when it was my turn to drop my first salary, and I never forgot the lesson. It’s what makes our Nigerian community very different from the New York one.

It’s an unwritten rule in Fadeyi economics. It took the whole of Fadeyi (poor and rich) to train you, and when you finally make it, you also understand you must take care of the Fadeyi elders and help out when the community needs you to donate at a fundraiser to clear the gutters. Nobody will even need to remind you of your obligations if you are not a bastard. It’s what made our culture unique.

My point? The entire ‘village’ of Nigeria contributed to making Dangote Refinery a reality (we all did, through our government giving him favorable forex rates from our collective wealth and the Lekki land deals allowing him to acquire land at massive discounts), so he cannot just wake up after the fact and claim the refinery solely belongs to him and his family as 'private property' and tell us he has the freedom to ignore patronizing our local crude oil for foreign ones even if ours is more expensive! He also cannot tell us we must all buy from him at the same international market rates without any concession. Lai Lai.

II. If, on the other hand, he denies allegations of refusing to buy our local crude but claimed that we simply don’t have enough crude oil locally to satisfy his ‘huge’ refinery, then we need to know if indeed the capacity of this Dangote refinery is so much greater than the crude oil we produce locally that Dangote now needs to import more crude oil to meet his huge production capacity, less than 3 months of being operational?

Can a refinery that has not even produced 1 liter of petrol or 1 liter of byproduct of crude oil have consumed all our daily crude oil production that it now needs to import more to remain operational? This explanation also makes no sense unless they think we are all idiots because we didn’t go to Harvard or live in Ikoyi.

iii. Or could the reason Dangote is importing crude oil be that we really don’t have any crude oil to sell to his Dangote refinery, thereby forcing him to import crude oil from abroad with the same forex that the duo of Edun and Cardoso and every bank executive keep telling us we don’t have? Or are they just winding us?

If this possible explanation is true, and we really didn’t have crude oil to sell to Dangote refinery because, like Esau, we have already sold all our future inheritance of crude oil for the next 10 years in exchange for borrowed dollars to use in our ‘borrow and dump’ strategy for dealing with currency fluctuations, then what’s the whole point of rushing to commission a refinery that our government knew will have a negative or zero net effect on our local PMS consumption? After all, it’s hard to argue that forex-backed imported crude oil will be cheaper than the one produced in Dangote’s backyard with the Naira. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Or is any one of those Harvard-trained Ikoyi economists going to seriously argue that the local prices of finished fuel made from imported crude oil will be cheaper than finished fuel made from locally sourced crude oil?

iv. Or maybe all the thoughts above are not the even real reasons Dangote is now full-chest importing crude oil. Could it be because those who are holding our country hostage, in and out of government, are simply just frustrating the efforts of Dangote refinery to acquire crude oil from Nigeria through NNPC?

As incredible as this possible explanation may sound, this is the loud rumor we are now hearing at Mama Modinat’s buk ka from sisi Amebo, who seemed to know everything going on even before it happened😎😎😎

As crazy as it sounds, I am now inclined to believe this loud rumor that there is some disgusting political play going on here, where NNPC is refusing to sell crude oil to Dangote for whatever reason.

Yes, I say I am inclined to believe this seemingly absurd rumor because we all watched as a government that is struggling with forex reserves, and a government that inherited a dying local production sector with many manufacturing companies folding up daily, chose to spend millions of our scarce dollars in importing foreign cars for its legislators and government functionaries when there are local car manufacturers like Innoson literally begging and bending over backward to get their business. If our government could choose not to patronize local car manufacturers, it’s not unreasonable to believe that some of our government officials or operatives of NNPC may choose to frustrate Dangote refineries for whatever petty reasons they have.

Our government of Renewed Hopes chose to dash the hopes of local car manufacturers by patronizing foreign manufacturers at the expense of its own struggling local manufacturers of vehicles. It’s the most unreasonable politics of victimization against Innoson motors, and very few people called it as it is. Now could it be the same lack of patronage by our NNPC or government officials playing dangerous political games with our collective welfare, that have forced the hands of Dangote to look towards the importation of its needed crude oil?

I don’t know what’s true or not, but I think we should all care less if Innoson is owned by Igbos or Hausas or Kanuris or if owners supported a different candidate or not. It should have been a priority national asset that the government should have gone out of its way to support. If they could deny Innoson and other car companies in Nigeria the much-needed support for whatever reason that was never made clear to us, then I can definitely believe that some people in this government and other powerful people outside of it may not want Dangote refinery to succeed.

Reading about Dangote importing crude oil when we are still exporting our own crude oil just gives me a headache because I can’t find any logic in that scenario. Our local refineries have not met the demand for even one liter of finished product from locally sourced crude oil, yet we are now talking about it being ‘normal’ for our newly commissioned local refineries to import crude oil from abroad with dollars we don’t have?

Anyway you look at this national saga of Dangote importing crude oil in Africa’s biggest producer of crude oil, it makes no sense and we demand an explanation!

So, while I hesitate to drag President Buhari himself on this at this time until I get more clarity, we must nevertheless ask the ministers he appointed first before we come for him. So, Chief Wale Edun, our coordinator of economy, Mr. Heineken Loquobiri and Mrs. Ekpo, our ministers of state for petroleum, and of course my favorite man of the hour, Dr. Cardoso, our Forex Czar, what’s really going on here?

Until we can get clear answers that make common sense, it’s like our Nigerian economy is about to transition from a Fadeyi economy to a Voodoo economy, where nothing makes sense to a rational person. 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

My name is Ope Banwo. I am not an economist but as a self-appointed Mayor of Fadeyi, I demand answers on behalf of ‘my people’. 🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏽‍♂️🙌🙌🙌