wakaman:
That's a tribal mark/ tattoo not a fashion tattoo.

YoonSung54:
its a joke right?

New Zealand gets first gay deputy PM and a foreign minister with a Maori facial tattoo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bij03t3dtKU

Nanaia Mahuta, the first woman to become New Zealand foreign minister, has a moko kauae – a traditional female Maori tattoo on the chin
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was re-elected last month in a landslide victory, called her new cabinet ‘incredibly diverse’

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled what she called an “incredibly diverse” cabinet on Monday that includes the country’s first openly gay deputy prime minister and a foreign minister with a Maori facial tattoo. The centre-left leader revamped her ministerial line-up in the wake of a landslide election victory, saying her priorities for her second term were responding to Covid-19 and promoting economic recovery. Ardern appointed Grant Robertson as deputy prime minister, making him the first openly gay person to hold the role.

Women and the Maori community are also strongly represented in the 20-member cabinet, including new Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, who has a moko kauae – a traditional female Maori tattoo on the chin.

While expressing pride at her cabinet’s diversity, Ardern also said appointments were made on merit. “It is both a cabinet with huge merit and talent, which also happens to be incredibly diverse,” the 40-year-old said.


“I think it’s an important point to make – these are individuals who have been promoted for what they bring to the cabinet, they also reflect the New Zealand that elected them.”

Robertson, 49, has long acted as Ardern’s right-hand man – he controlled the government’s purse strings as finance minister during her first term and was chief strategist of her election campaign.

The deputy’s role – which he will hold along with the finance and infrastructure portfolios – formalises his position and will see him become acting prime minister when Ardern is overseas.

Asked about the significance of having a gay man as her second in command, Ardern said Robertson was selected for his leadership abilities, not how he identified.

“One of the amazing things about New Zealand is that we are often in a space where these questions become secondary,” she said.

Mahuta, the first woman to become New Zealand foreign minister, was elected to parliament in 1996 but got the traditional tattoo in 2016 at the urging of her daughter. The distinctive decoration is unique to her, although it has design elements specific to her iwi, or tribe. The male moko covers the entire face.

At the time, Mahuta said the tattoo was a way to both honour her ancestors and reduce stigma surrounding an aspect of Maori culture that many New Zealanders have associated with crime and gangs.

“She’s someone who builds fantastic relationships very, very quickly and that is one of the key jobs in a foreign affairs role,” Ardern said of her new chief diplomat. Maori and Pacific islanders comprise just under one-quarter of the population but are vastly over-represented in statistics on crime, poverty and prisons.

NigerDeltaRep:
person go open mouth talk una Go de talk nonsense..m if he doesn't talk now they'll say he's like them ..tuahh hypocrites...
Fulani HENSmen of BULLari the 1st and BULLari Al Ibn WIKEdness Al Jubril the second feel the North is like the south were you can dethrone people at will... Go and ask the Brits why they ran up north after they came to Colonize Nigeria and you will understand....we learnt our lessons after KING Jaja was killed..
Obong kùbòrò mmê ntin!!

GamalNasser:
US economy on a boom...another reason why President Trump will get his 2nd term in a landslide

Earthstorms:


Help us ask him why he truncated a 4 year democracy. Imagine what would have happened if we had civilian rule for the past 40 years

TheAviator:
Throwback Photo of President Muhammadu Buhari being Decorated with his new rank after he was promoted from Brigadier to Major General in 1983.

Earthstorms:
While thinking of how to truncate a 4 year old democracy

helinues:


Proud Boys( Military Officers) , Stand back and Stand by

IMASTEX:
Those guys were turning beast because of the power that be that they remit to. Oga you for use your service pistol reduce those animals. Then radio your boys to flog their oga wey send them.

SmartProf:
By the time the money moves from one hand to the other, what the real whistle blower may get wont be able to buy him kuli kuli ..and if he protests, he will be arrested for blowing a protest whistle when he was only expected to blow the whistle that should lead to the arrest of the criminal.

andycom:
It happened to me personally, this boys broke the iron protector of a window in my sitting room, came in took my phones, laptop, new clothes I bought that day and money. And I was sleeping all through. ��

chukwuibuipob:
only 3 pipu can stop the death sentence.Pa Bubu.,Sultan of Sokoto and Gando..But Islamabad

NGpatriot:


Yes, I think we are going in circles because I'm not disputing their different roles.

Fact is, trainer or no trainer, AJ is conducting combat operations, it's our main and frontline fighter, it's what we send to battle to drop bombs and eliminate insurgents.

The trainer role is pretty much secondary at this point.

No need to keep going back and forth with their obvious different roles, that's a settled issue, my point again remains that trainer or no trainer, jet or no jet, the Tucano is more capable and versatile than the AJ.

NGpatriot:




Again, you must have compared both planes to arrive at the conclusion that they are designed for different roles and capabilities, I gave a more comprehensive comparisons.

Yes, they are designed for different roles and capabilities and I'm not even disputing that, that's settled, my point is, either against Tucano or not, the Alpha Jet is pretty much obsolete beyond dropping bombs.


For what we are dealing with in Nigeria at the moment, the Alpha Jet or any other jet including the J17 are not suitable and the Super Tuano can do their job and even do if better with better results.

Super Tucano can do surveillance and reconnaissance, it can drop the latest high tech weapons and munitions, it can stay right there on top of the target for horse while punishing the enemy relentless with all manner of weapons and deadly canon guns, it doesn't have to return to base base to refuel like regular jets and while it cost thousands of dollars per hour to run fighter jets while it cost on $500 per hour to run the Tucano with capabilities to fight day and night.

I don't see the NAF retiring the AJ at the moment for any reason even after securing the JF17, but i'm sure they'll have limited role and operational demands.

Again, regardless of the designed and intended roles, AJ is pretty much redundant beyond dropping bombs and can not do much to support our efforts against insurgencies.

NGpatriot:


You arrived at the conclusion that they have different roles because you compared both of them, we can not arrive at any conclusions about different things and situations without comparisons.

They perform different roles, but the ultimate conclusion remains that the Super Tucano can do everything the Alpha Jet can do and so much more. With the Super Tucano, the Alpha Jet is pretty much redundant.

Alpha Jet is an old platform with very limited capabilities and effectiveness while the Super Tucano is a modern platform with modern war fighting capabilities from surveillance, to counter insurgency, sophisticated avionics, threat detection and elimination, it can carry and deploy thousands of pounds of weapons, laser guided and unguided bombs and rockets, advanced weapons like mavericks, side winders, paveway 11 bombs, napalm bombs, cluster bombs and nearly everything the best fighter jets like the F35 can deploy.

We are have no choice at the moment but to use the Alpha jets for roles that it wasn't designed for because we've made so many mistakes in the past, but the Alpha Jets are on their way out, we are replacing them with 4th generation multi role fighters, the JF 17 thunder.

NGpatriot:



What are the advantages of the Alpha jets against the Tucano?


The alpha jet is a jet that only drop bombs and fire guns and canons at high speed and quickly return to base, but the Tucano can do that and more and remain in the same hostile area for up to 4 - 6 hours in the air punishing the enemy with all manner of weapons, bombs, rockets and heavy cannon guns.

The Tucano carries over 3,300 pounds of weapons that the alpha can not carry

The Tucano can protect forces unleashing weapons from above for more than three hours – whereas fast jets may only be able to help for a mere fraction of that time before they need to refuel at bases that are often a great distance away.

In addition to two internal machine guns, it can bring two .50" machine guns in the wings, with each unleashing 200 rounds for powerful close support of ground forces.

Rocket launchers like the LAU-68 and bombs like the Mk 81 or Mk 82 equipped with guidance kits are two other sorts of firepower it can unload to defeat enemy forces.

Tucano has top end electro-optical and infrared sensors, laser and GPS-guided bombs, rockets, twin .50 cal. machine guns, encrypted radios.

NVG Gen. III infra-red vision capability to details like cockpit and external lights that are compatible with NVG.

The electro optical infrared system helps the pilots recognize targets by collecting images around the clock, both day and night. FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) supplies digitized thermal imaging.

The advanced laser designator and pointer is integrated with the weapons system and enhances precise attack.

If the Super Tucano is under attack from an enemy plane, then it can unleash short-range air-air missiles like the AIM-9 Sidewinders – just like jets.

The Tucano is a deadly beast with great capabilities for modern warfare and counter insurgency operations.

Tha alpha jet is just a bomb dropper, that's all.

Mahsums:
the "fine" alpha jet isn't a march against the A29 super tucano

Kirigidi:
How can this country progress when the average Hausa/Fulani sees a Nigerien as his brother more than someone from southern Nigeria. As it is now people like Buhari prefer to give sensitive contract to a citizen of Niger Republic than give to a southern Nigerian.

Kirigidi:
You may not know what is going on. These people (Fulanis) know what they are doing. The whole thing seems to be well planned out. The so called military contract was deliberately awarded to a Nigerien as one of the dubious ways of diverting our national wealth outside the country to possibly fund the emerging Fulani jihadist movements.

Passionate888:
Buhari no fit give Naija man the contract?

frog12:
this maybe FAKE. only a FAILED STATE will allow large amount of money to be lost like that without controls .
they choose a foreigner as a SCAPE GOAT, to show EFCC and govt is working to prevent public discontent and ARMY can not raise a coup.

OROSUNBOLB:


As long as you're fulani, this administration can do anything for you regardless of your nationality. Fulanis from Niger,Chad,Senegal,Guinea, Mali etc have more rights and privileges than original Nigerians in Nigeria under this administration of Mr Buhari. Don't you know that Nigeria is now the official home state of all fulanis in west Africa ? Trust me, 60% of the fulani herdsmen you see around are not Nigerians.

Imagine a fulani man from Niger republic entrusted with the supply of our military equipment and we are wondering why there are serious security challenges in the country

How did Buhari become the President of a country like Nigeria ? We may never be able to reverse some of the damages he has caused already. There is serious fire on the mountain if you get my drift.

frog12:
and he is only 46 year old.

how many OF YOU can see that type of MONEY in your lifetime??
these people are SPOILED.
the worst GOVT. the worst DEFENSE minister. awarding him brother contract worth national budgets!!!

they are SCAMMING nigeria like BIRTHDAY cake!

50power:

If you need your national ID card for online transactions and you have only the identification number slip? The only solution now is that, you have to get the design of the national identity card and copy it to a flash or a device, go and print it on plastic card in any business center that prints ID cards.

The question now is. how do you get your national ID card design? That is where we come in. We will help you to design your national ID card and you will now go to print it yourself in any business center near you in any state you live in Nigeria.

The ID card design would be sent to your email box after the design. Design and print your Nigerian national identity card on plastic https://www.nairakobo.com.ng/2020/06/12/design-and-print-your-nigerian-national-identity-card-on-plastic/

Adakintroy:
Tell trump he may loose this election. He is getting too arrogant. He won because democrats made a mockery of him and underated. Now he is making same mistake with so call sleepy Joe bidden.

God resist the proud and give grace to the humble.

ChangedMan1999:
Please, who exactly owns it.

SIONKPO1:

The Annual return CAC collects is what?

LEXYLOV:


It is unfortunate that many reply from this topic seems from people below 40yrs old at least. But its better to ask the elders who familiar with this historic incident and get the facts, before commenting. It was clear case of setup by ibb, against his bosom friend vatsa, vatsa got trouble with ibb and Co when he counter the dimka coup that assassinated murtala Mohammed, in 1976, and he was the tribunal secretary that sentence dimka and Co to firing squard. Don't foget, M G Bisalla was ibb boss and dimka was more close and intimate to I b than vatsa as a point. However, ibb was also part of that 76 coup and was safe by the same vatsa, even after many evidences link ibb with the coup and notably when he was task to expelled and arrest dimka at radio Nigeria Lagos be then he let him escape. Vatsa was threatening by ibb clique for mobilized his battalions from east to quell the coup and ever since he as been in a very black book of ibb clique. He actually resigned from the army because he knew his stand when ibb overthrown buhari. But ibb refused to accept his resignation and keep him in the army by force, when he was trying to leave and concentrate on his poetry job, he was frame up with bitiyong and co, and evidence emerged as a setup. Even MG Charles later confess, and many senior army office later testified after ibb booted out of power. Just a shot of the story it's long I can't tell it all, hope this bit help to shed some light.

Ategberoson:




imagine that. this our southern ladies lack principles when they see money and fame



many of them are still being carried away because of fame and wealth. I hope what she does for worth it after the man demise