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prof12:
No body messes around with us when it comes to our national issue.
This is Nigeria.

BlaqCoffee109:
what would you like for the holidays?

BlaqCoffee109:
...hey! what's up you...nice one..about time too

The group, to be known as Yoruba Forum, is believed to enjoy the backing of some influential politicians outside Yorubaland and is being propelled by the thinking that existing socio-political groups in Yoruba land are becoming too difficult to handle.

Sources in the polity told Sunday Tribune that the promoters of the yet-to-be-inaugurated organisation are mainly drawn from retired military and paramilitary officers of Yoruba descent, many of who are said to hold the view that the existing organistions have largely marginalised them.

Sources in the polity informed Sunday Tribune that the group plans to launch out in the first quarter of next year and that a sort of recruitment drive is currently ongoing.

It was gathered that the group intends to play on the sentiment among retired military and paramilitary officers in the South-West region, who are seen as playing what some referred to as second fiddle in the politics of the zone.

"In other geo-political zones, we have seen retired military men and retired police officers playing key roles in political development especially as to the management of power equation in the zones. The reverse is the case in the South-West and that is why the proponents of Yoruba Forum are gathering," a source in the know said on Saturday.

Sources also confirmed that proponents of the new Yoruba group have already got some backings from influential sources in Abuja, while some top members of the group are said to have kicked off discussions with retired Inspector-Generals of Police (IGP) from the South-West as well as some retired Generals of the Armed Forces from the zone.

"There are doubts about the real agenda of this coming group, especially when it was said that the seed money for the take off is being provided by personalities who are not of South-West origin. What is clear is that the group plans to kick off early in the new year. Through its activities, the group also plans to reduce the influence of some of the existing associations and possibly with some backing from Abuja, it could be earn a big voice," another source said.

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zimoni:
Joshua is going to rule the world. It's only a matter of time.

I pray he wins the match next month.

The dude is 6.6ft. Tyson is 6.9ft. Some dudes are tall. Peters is 6.1ft, if he was taller maybe he'd have defeated Klistcho who is 6.6ft.

CabbieAC:
My people look at what I saw when I logged into my Aareonakakanfo account .They've also changed the thread title from uppercase to lower case

NairaMinted:
Considering that the pro-Western corner has been the loudest, prancing about with braggadocio, taunting, goading, and daring strong man Putin to do his worst - and after the formidable S400 air defense has now been deployed - tell me who is turkeying chickening out now?

Ankara Suspends Air Force Flights Over Syria After Attack on Su-24 - Media

According to Turkish media, Ankara halted the flights of its aviation over Syria.

ANKARA (Sputnik) – Turkey has suspended its Air Force flights over Syria in the international coalition campaign in the fight against the Islamic State after the downing of the Russian Su-24 Fencer bomber, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper reported Friday, citing diplomatic sources.

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azzima:
See Biafrans comparing E Money to these young international money makers. E money?? compared to televeras international? ?have u guys checked Google? ?or forbes magazine? ?what's baffling you niggas is that these Yoruba boys are quiet BILLIONAIRES unlike igbo local noisemakers. Fujimoto hangs out and gets contracts from the king and princes of Dubai. Igho sanomi who is half yoruba is worth over 1 BILLION dollars. Delano boy has the whole of ASIA sown up with his liquor. And some fool is comparing his friend that makes 600k ($3000 )a day with these guys that have been CONFIRMED money makers by forbes magazine. Igbos are just too local champions with too much noise jor!

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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A day after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet over Syria, Moscow said both of its pilots ejected the stricken aircraft and one of them had survived and made it safely to a Russian base in the war-torn country.

Putin calls Turkey shoot-down of Russian jet a "stab in the back"
Vladimir Putin's government also made it clear that it was prepared to take aim at any foreign planes that threatened Russian aircraft in the future, and they said they would move advanced weapons into place to back up the threat.

But as CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports, there were also signs that Moscow wanted to avoid further escalating of the tensions between Russia and Turkey -- and by default, NATO.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday morning that Russian leaders "have no intention to go to war with Turkey."

The incident along the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday did, however, show just how dangerous the Syrian skies have become, with the Syrian regime, the U.S. and its allies, and now Russia all carrying out airstrikes in support of opposite sides in the grinding five-year war.

A day after the Russian warplane was shot down, Russia said it was deploying the country's most advanced surface-to-air missile system -- the S400 Triumf, or "SA-21 Growler" as it is referred to by NATO countries -- to Syria.

Turkey's Ministry of Defense released a radar map Tuesday showing where the Russian aircraft crossed into Turkish territory, if only very briefly. A senior U.S. official confirmed that radar tracking showed the Russian Su-24 fighter jet fly over the very southern tip of Turkey's Hatay Province, and the U.S. and NATO have chastised Russia for months for antagonizing other nations with aerial trespass and bullying of foreign planes.

Plane shootdown could lead to NATO conflict with Russia
In the case of the shootdown on Tuesday, however, CBS News senior national security correspondent David Martin reported that American officials feel Turkey is largely to blame for overreacting to what was a relatively minor violation of national airspace.

Turkey says the Russian plane strayed just over a mile into its airspace, and was there for only 17 seconds when it was fired on by a Turkish F-16. The Russian jet crashed in Syria, but Turkey's president said Wednesday that some pieces of it fell inside his country.

A visibly angry Vladimir Putin spoke on Russian television after the incident and denied the Su-24 ever left Syrian airspace. He lashed out at Turkey, calling its move a "stab in the back" and accusing the Turks of helping ISIS.

Video posted by Syrian rebels appeared to show the body of one the Russian pilots in the hands of Syrian rebel fighters. Russia says the pilot was murdered by the rebels after parachuting to the ground, but the circumstances of his death after ejecting from the stricken plane remain unclear.

Only on Wednesday did Russia confirm the other pilot was safe on its sprawling base near the northwest Syrian city of Latakia.

On Wednesday morning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he didn't want an escalation over the incident, but he added that Turkey had already warned Moscow about violating its airspace after Russian planes did so twice in October.

President Obama spoke by telephone with the Turkish President and both he and NATO called for calm.


"I do think that this points to an ongoing problem with the Russian operations (in Syria) in the sense that they are operating very close to a Turkish border," noted Mr. Obama.

Russia and Turkey remain on opposite sides of the Syrian civil war; Turkey, like its ally the U.S., backs the Syrian rebels and has been is fiercely opposed to any political transition plan for Syria that would allow the nation's long-time dictator Bashar Assad to remain in power.

Russia supports the Syrian regime, and at the end of September began launching airstrikes in the country. Moscow claimed to be targeting ISIS, but the U.S. says it has also hit so-called moderate rebels in order to prop up Assad's beleaguered military.

There were hopes that Russia might be coaxed into cooperating with the U.S. and its allies in the fight against ISIS, but the downing of the Russian fighter jet raised new doubts over the prospect of potential cooperation.

In spite of the angry rhetoric from Putin on Tuesday and the movement of the Russian surface-to-air missiles into Syria, there were lower-key indications from Russian diplomats that Moscow was at least keeping the door open to work with the U.S. and its allies in Syria.


Turkey and Russia easing tensions after jet shootdown
"We are prepared to... plan strikes on Daesh (ISIS) positions together and create a joint staff with France, the U.S., with all the countries who want to be in this coalition," Russia's ambassador to France, Alexander Orlov, said Wednesday in an interview with Europe 1 radio.

"If the Turks want to be in (the joint staff) as well, they are welcome," he added.

In the same interview, Orlov acknowledged that there could have been "some inadvertent penetrations into Turkish airspace," by Russian planes, but he rejected the claim from Turkey (which was backed up by U.S. officials who said American personnel at a command center in Iraq heard the entire radio exchange) that the Russian pilots were warned 10 times to change course before they were shot down.

Orlov said that claim was "completely wrong, completely false" and insisted the Russian plane was hit "without warning."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-s400-surface-to-air-missiles-syria-turkey-fighter-jet-nato/

milychocs:
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You are going to give me a complex about posting on NL
Will read the thread tmr...not that I want a 3some ooo
Just that I am using a phone (have been, these couple of days past)...and this is a drag for "nairalanding"
Cheers

modath2:
Mayoroflagos & shymm3x ,

After typing a fan girl EPISTLE to you two, applauding the historical facts you are shiarin & chipping in my bit about the deluded warriors about to biesege ile kaaro oojire, seun 's bot chopped it & banned mo1 ...


Still will say, yall be doing it!!!
#nuffrespect..

dansoye1:
Maybe one of their parents is Bini.

Besides,Owo is too different from Benin in language and other things.

Remember both were arch enemies in those days before the exchange of art and culture. Yeah they fought like three times or so.