ROME (AFP) – A US warship has rescued 128 African migrants from an inflatable raft that was threatening to capsize in rough seas in the Mediterranean after a request from Malta, officials said Thursday.
The USS San Antonio, which is equipped with an amphibious transport dock that can help in rescue operations, was scrambled on Wednesday after a Maltese military aircraft spotted the dinghy.
“We successfully transferred 128 men between the ages of 20 and 30 from an inflatable raft on the San Antonio,” a US Navy official in Italy told AFP.

“The raft was being rocked by winds and seas and we had expected that overnight the seas would increase. If they were to be left out to sea they would probably be in the water right now,” he said.
“We provided food, water, medical attention and temporary shelter.”
The Maltese military said the migrants were mostly Gambian even though they had earlier said they were from Somalia. They were later transferred onto two patrol boats and taken to Malta.
The others were from Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Malta said they were rescued around 75 nautical miles southwest of the Mediterranean island state.
Italy this week launched a stepped-up navy patrol operation in the Mediterranean to scare off people smugglers and put pressure on Europe for further assistance amid a growing influx of refugees.
More than 400 asylum seekers have drowned this month in two tragedies in the Mediterranean.
The Italian coast guard meanwhile released video footage of the arrival in Sicily on Wednesday of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship that rescued 93 African migrants — the latest in over 32,000 who have arrived on Italy and Malta so far this year.
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Waspy: Three things don't change...Change itsef, a lady like Op's girl, and lastly, a lady like Op"s girl.
Dude, you never start d journey and you already feeling the heat..IMHO, you are in for a long thing

uniqueval:


Son, you not ready for marriage if this is your reason for being indecisive with this girl. You never jam babe wey dey scatter house or break bottle wen she vex. You can't get a 10/10 in your quest for a perfect partner. #BeWise

I guess am not...

ok...update!


barely a 10days after we had a little misunderstanding, she said we should just be friends that we are better as friends... She is seeing someone else and i believe she was seeing him while we were still dating....hmmn...Trust no gal. She said the person wants to marry her and that she will soon join him to go visit his parents... ALL in ALL her plans of being married unfailingly early next year must come to pass... Now i think i have some pity for her...May God not make her fall into the wrong hands out of being desperate to get married.... And na very fine babe!

Your review on the civil defence cracked me up....nutty babe

hmmn...thinking is hard work o... but u have a point though... what surprised me more was the fact that Police said they wanna investigate the DSS... laughable. its like a blind man trying to lead a one eyed man...

na me post the thread...but i have a question: Is this letter really authentic?

Three days ago, Nigerians were regaled with a threat by former Economics and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman, Farida's Waziri to expose former President Obasanjo after he revealed that she was tainted by corruption. Africa had painted herself in glowing colors and not only insulted Obasanjo, but highlighted her sterling anti corruption qualities. However, contrary to her vituperations against the former President, it has since been revealed that Farida begged Obasanjo to "compel" President Goodluck Jonathan to reappoint her for a second term.

The letter also showed that Farida Waziri tried to induce Obasanjo to support her second term bud by reminding him that she was going after his political enemy, former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

NaijaPundit brings you the letter below.

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/photonews-farida-s-letter-begging-obasanjo-to-influence-her-reappointment-exposed

With the desperation among women these days to get married... they could even trek miles to the venue...they no send you.

Read this thread you will know what am talking about: https://www.nairaland.com/1428871/nigerian-ladies-worry-over-scarcity

maxwello.yg:

My friend, do you really need God to appear in your dreams and tell you to let go of that disrespectful kid?

nice one...Thanks!

Give urself time bro...

The Army recently withdrew several soldiers from foreign operations because of domestic duties.
The Nigerian Army will deploy 700 soldiers for Peace Support Operation in Liberia, a military official has said.
The Commandant, Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre, Major General Salihu Uba, said this on Friday in Kaduna.
Mr. Uba said that the personnel, drawn from the 22 Battalion, would serve for six months. He said this at the end of the pre-deployment training conducted for the soldiers at the centre in Jaji, Kaduna State. He commended them for their professionalism, and urged them to be good ambassadors of Nigeria.
The commandant assured that the centre would continue to expand its facilities “to provide first class training to troops and participants”.
“The vision of the Nigerian Army peacekeeping centre is to deliver realistic training to potential peacekeepers for the multidimensional challenges of contemporary peace support operations,” he stated.
Mr. Uba added that the centre had been discharging its role creditably, which earned it a certificate of recognition from the United Nations, as Centre of Excellence.
The General Officer Commanding 2 Division, Major General Ahmad Jibrin, charged the soldiers to be focused, professional and efficient in discharging their mandate.
Mr. Jibrin, represented by Brigadier General Johnson Oladende, warned them against involvement in drug trafficking and disrespecting the culture of their host country.
He assured that the army would continue to live up to expectations in safeguarding world peace.
The Nigerian Army recently withdrew several hundreds of soldiers in peace keeping operations in foreign countries so as to have more personnel to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and the increased crude oil theft in the Niger Delta.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/144259-nigerian-deploy-700-soldiers-peace-keeping-operations-liberia-army.html

Confusion incorporated... Sometimes i really wonder if they truly know what they want...cos their mouth say something and they do something else... Sometimes i feel we are wasting our time trying to understand women cos it seem like an impossible feat...

One-time spokesman of the House of Representatives and currently Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga weekend spoke with selected journalists on various national issues. Excerpts:
Some people like Orji Uzor Kalu claim President Goodluck Jonathan will truncate the chances of the Igbo presidency if he contests in 2015. Do you agree?
They are entitled to their opinions so far they fall within the ambit of the law. Orji Kalu and people who share his views can also test their popularity.
Orji Kalu can speak for himself or any platform of his, but not on behalf of Igbo people neither can I speak for the rest of the Igbo people. The Igbo are wise enough to cast their votes where they feel they are best protected.
I sincerely believe that if Jonathan declares an interest to contest for the presidency in 2015, a majority of the Igbo will vote for him based on his scorecard in office and for the sake of continuity. It is also in the strategic interest of Nigeria that Jonathan seeks second term.
How strategic is it?
A convention of rotational presidency is emerging. From 1999, for instance, it started with the South-West, where Olusegun Obasanjo did two tenures. It rotated to the North-West. Unfortunately Musa Yar’Adua died in office. The power automatically by law devolved to Jonathan.
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He completed the tenure and ran on his own and won. The important thing that has happened is that the presidency moved from the South-West to the North-West and then to the South-South.
Rotational presidency is a necessary Nigerian invention to address Nigeria’s differences. It seeks to build a homogenous national entity. If the contest is left for numerical strength as it is claimed, it might not have gone to the South-West.
Obasanjo would not have qualified because he did not even win in his ward as the PDP constitution stipulates. These are sacrifices that we have to make for the national unity. When Yar’adua died, the rotation went to the South-South which is in tandem with the rotational principle.
When Jonathan serves his second term, it will go to any other zone where it has not gone at least in the current democratic dispensation. It can go to the South-East or the North-East. If rotational presidency is adopted, the acrimony that goes with the contest will be eliminated.
Rotational presidency will also address the issue of some people who feel that they are entitled to some political offices in this country. There are also some people who feel alienated from Nigeria because they feel there is a particular limit they can aspire in the Nigerian polity. Rotational presidency will create a conducive atmosphere where every Nigerian can aspire to become president.
You are a lawyer. Can’t rotational presidency be enshrined in the Nigerian constitution?
It is an evolving convention. A convention is also a legal precept. A convention practised overtime becomes not really a law in terms of written, but acceptable by everybody.
Law-making has various stages. If something happens overtime and it is not resisted, it becomes a convention. There are people in this country, mainly from the North-West and the South-West, who want to truncate the emergence of this convention.
The position of the South-West in this matter is understandable but not excusable. The South-West, under Obasanjo, had its turn of eight years. The South-West governors, under the platform of the Alliance for Democracy, created an enabling environment for Obasanjo to complete his second term.
If the rotation endures, it will return to the South-West when other zones had done theirs. There are elements in the South-West who will not allow this scenario to play out. They were the same people who relinquished their gubernatorial positions for Obasanjo.
Today they have evolved from the Action Congress of Nigeria to the All Progressives Congress. They now agitate that the presidency is up for grabs.
They are the same persons who are putting pressures on Rivers state governor Chibuike Amaechi to do unto Jonathan what they refused to do unto Obasanjo.
That is the duplicity in Nigeria’s political situation. But if they help in truncating it, it will create a situation of fluidity. The most important thing for them is that the system has been truncated, then other factors will come into it.
Even the attack of religious politics that the APC levelled against Jonathan is something that is in ACN or the APC as it is now called. The APC is now trying to zone the position of the vice president to either the South-South or the South-East.
Recall also that the days when the Igbo aligned with the North and accepted the position of vice president, the South-West media kept attacking the Igbo as taking the crumbs from the northern table.
Remembering our history
But now it is the same South-West that plans to zone to the South-East or South-West the same position which they derided the Igbo. We must remember our history.
What is your take in the recent deportation of the Igbo by the Lagos state government?
I have a lot of soft spot for Tunde Fashola, so I don’t want to make negative comments about him, more so with some restraints he has shown in this matter. It is evident that he has realised that he has erred.
There is nothing in his history that indicates that he is headed in that direction, so people are entitled to their mistakes once in a while. It is not a reason why we should create loopholes for rabble-rousers to begin to build mountains out of a molehill.
It is not only in the South-West that the Igbo have become migrants, they have become migrants all over the world because the home environment is no longer in consonance with their entrepreneurial abilities and drives.
Where are the cashew industries, Niger Gas, Golden Guinea, Premier Breweries and a host of them? They have been destroyed. Our leaders have failed to move things to the next level.
However, some of them, like Sullivan Chime of Enugu state, are doing well in the provision of infrastructure. We have to build on that. We must thank Jonathan for creating an international airport in the South-East. It will boost the economy once again. The Igbo’s movement outside home is a result of home not being conducive for self-actualisation.
Conducive for self actualisation
Even the entrepreneurs who now throw their resources towards political contests should redirect them. It is not only in Lagos, the Igbo are also being hounded in the North. Where is the home to run to? It is the dilemma of the Igbo people in Nigeria. The South-East region has buried the industries that Azikiwe and Okpara created.
What is your reaction to the declaration of Governor Sullivan Chime that an Nsukka man will succeed him as governor of Enugu State?
There is also in Enugu State an emerging convention about rotation of the gubernatorial position. It started from Chimaroke Nnamani who did two terms for the Enugu-East senatorial district and then Sullivan Chime, who is currently the incumbent, and about to round off his two terms in office. He is from the Enugu-West senatorial zone.
The next place that it has not gone to is Enugu-North. It is also in tandem with what I am saying that we should follow this emerging convention. Things evolve. Personally the Nsukka cultural zone is being short-changed because it constitutes over 50% of the population of the state. Nsukka should be the one to give because they have the numerical strength to determine where the pendulum of the state should swing. It was done in the early 90s during the Babaginda transition.

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