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Ibrahimmrfish:
If you see us northerners as your enemies, why will you reduce the voting power of south by supporting sit at home.

France attacks Boris Johnson as an opportunist 'fifth wheel on the carriage' and says Britain has 'returned into the American lap' in extraordinarily bitter outburst after losing £30bn subs deal

France intensified the growing diplomatic war over a cancelled £30billion submarine contract and dismissed Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the opportunist 'fifth wheel on the carriage' in the new security pact between America and Australia.

Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Foreign Minister in Paris, on Saturday said his country was fully justified in recalling its Ambassadors from Washington D.C. and Canberra, in the latest stinging rebuke by the French.

French President Emmanuel Macron is furious at the new submarine pact between the three countries, which caught France off guard and resulted in the cancelation of £65.5billion pound contracts for Australia to build French diesel submarines.

When asked on the France 2 radio station why his Ambassador to London had not been recalled too, Mr Le Drian suggested there was no need.

Britain was known for its 'permanent opportunism' and Mr Johnson was deemed the 'fifth wheel on the carriage anyway,' said French Foreign Minister Le Drian.

In his furious attack on all three members of the new AUKUS pact – America, Australia and Britain – Mr Le Drian said all had acted disgracefully.

New Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has strongly defended the UK's security pact with the US and Australia, saying it showed Britain would be 'hard-headed' in defending its interests.

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Ms Truss said the UK was a 'fierce champion' of freedom and democracy around the world.

'But freedoms need to be defended, so we are also building strong security ties around the world. That is why last week the Prime Minister announced, alongside our friends President Biden and Prime Minister Morrison, the creation of a new security partnership called Aukus,' she wrote.

'It shows our readiness to be hard-headed in defending our interests and challenging unfair practices and malign acts. It also shows our commitment to security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.'

Ms Truss made no reference in her article to the diplomatic row which has erupted by with France after Australia announced it was scrapping an order for French submarines in favour of more powerful nuclear-powered vessels acquired with the help of the UK and US.

xpressionx:
This man will be stingy and won't forgive easily.

SpecialAdviser:
Let them visit Nigeria abeg
All these dirty uncircumcised terrorists need to be taught a lesson until they learn to change some of their ideologies like Taliban have done.

Who will ever think Talibans will allow women move around without men. And even work.
Seems they have dropped most of their crazy ideologies.



How can Hisbah say that their law applies mostly to the poor?

We need America urgently.

mushroomFarm:
E shock me

joelbooks:
History of Father's day


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gVUzJmKL8

Father’s Day is here, so in honor of dear old dad, the Art of Manliness is presenting a series of father-themed posts. Today we look into the history of Father’s Day. Sadly, retailers and marketers, in an effort to make a quick buck, have bastardized the original meaning of Father’s Day. A holiday that was supposed to honor dad and enumerate his special qualities, now is used to sell chili pepper ties and shop vacs. Hopefully by understanding why the concept of Father’s Day was created, we can better celebrate and honor the fathers who raised us into men.

The History of Father’s Day in the United States
There are two stories of when the first Father’s Day was celebrated. According to some accounts, the first Father’s Day was celebrated in Washington state on June 19, 1910. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd came up with the idea of honoring and celebrating her father while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon at church in 1909. She felt as though mothers were getting all the acclaim while fathers were equally deserving of a day of praise (She would probably be displeased that Mother’s Day still gets the lion’s share of attention).

Sonora’s dad was quite a man. William Smart, a veteran of the Civil War, was left a widower when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. He went on to raise the six children by himself on their small farm in Washington. To show her appreciation for all the hard work and love William gave to her and her siblings, Sonora thought there should be a day to pay homage to him and other dads like him. She initially suggested June 5th, the anniversary of her father’s death to be the designated day to celebrate Father’s Day, but due to some bad planning, the celebration in Spokane, Washington was deferred to the third Sunday in June.

The other story of the first Father’s Day in America happened all the way on the other side of the country in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. Grace Golden Clayton suggested to the minister of the local Methodist church that they hold services to celebrate fathers after a deadly mine explosion killed 361 men.

While Father’s Day was celebrated locally in several communities across the country, unofficial support to make the celebration a national holiday began almost immediately. William Jennings Bryant was one of its staunchest proponents. In 1924, President Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge recommended that Father’s Day become a national holiday. But no official action was taken.

In 1966, Lyndon B. Johnson, through an executive order, designated the third Sunday in June as the official day to celebrate Father’s Day. However, it wasn’t until 1972, during the Nixon administration, that Father’s Day was officially recognized as a national holiday.

Father’s Day Around The World
Other countries also picked up on the idea of Father’s Day. While many followed suit by celebrating it on the third Sunday in June, some decided to honor dad on different dates. So, to make sure you know when to pay your respects to dear old dad wherever you may be, here’s a list of the dates Father’s Day is celebrated across the world.


March 14– Iran
March 19– Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Lichtenstein, Portugal, Spain
May 8– South Korea
First Sunday in June– Lithuania
Second Sunday in June– Austria, Ecuador, Belgium
Third Sunday in June– Antigua, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Trinidad, Turkey, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
June 17– El Salvador, Guatemala
June 23– Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda
Second Sunday in July– Uruguay
Last Sunday in July– Dominican Republic
Second Sunday in August– Brazil
August 8– Taiwan, China
August 24– Argentina
First Sunday in September– Australia, New Zealand
New Moon of September– Nepal
First Sunday in October– Luxembourg
Second Sunday in November– Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden
December 5– Thailand
This Father’s Day, don’t just buy your Pops a crappy “World’s Best Dad” mug. Write him a card expressing some of the things you love and admire about him. Nothing mushy. Just tell him that you’re glad to be his son.



https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-fathers-day/

Tinubuadvocate:
Goodbye mr president safe journey Nigerians love you.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Some of us were raised to honour our father and mother. Anyone who slaps his President must have been poorly raised and most likely from a dysfunctional home and childhood like most of you hailing insults online . He would have been slapping his father and mother at home but just graduated to slapping the father of his nation which obviously is his last slap. You will choose that path the moment you choose him as your role model by starting first with rains of hot slaps on your father and mother. Shah be careful on how you choose your role model so you will not destroy your life with hatred and bigotry .

FarahAideed:
Most useless president

Ekez:
He's not useful to Nigerians

Coldshisha:
See cruise James Bond style

From private jet to helicopter to first class cabin of a train all in a day

FarahAideed:
Most useless president

Three dismissed soldiers who took part in training 4000 members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra, POB, have revealed how they were lured with money and promises.

Vanguard gathered that the dismissed soldiers who were arrested by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, IRT were identified as Linus Owalo, Godswill Steven and Chinasa Orji.

They were arrested recently after operatives of the IRT acted on intelligence they generated from some members of IPOB when they raided the group’s hideouts in Imo, Anambra, Delta and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

Police sources disclosed that, Owalo, who was enlisted into the Nigeria Army in 2013 and was attached to 102 Guard Brigade Battalion, was dismissed from the army in 2019. His colleagues; Orji and Steven, who were enlisted into the Nigeria Army in 2015 and 2017 respectively were trained at the 133 Special Force Battalion and got dismissed in 2020.

Vanguard gathered that the ex-soldiers were promised a double of their salaries in the army before joining the IPOB military camp in Abia State where they trained over 4000 IPOB volunteered fighters and then moved to Asaba Delta State where they trained another 400 IPOB members.

During their confessions, the suspects said they were promised to be sent abroad for further military training and that when State of Biafra was achieved, they would become military generals in the republic. They added that when they discovered that Kanu’s promises were all lies, they decided to quit.

Their confessions

In his confession, 32-year-old Linus Owalo, a native of Layal Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State, who is married with two children, said; “I was enlisted into the Nigeria Army in 2013 and posted to the Guards Brigade Headquarters, FCT Abuja. But in 2019, I was absent from duty and the army authorities arrested me.

I was charged and subsequently dismissed from the service. Since then I have been seeking reinstatement and life has not been easy for me and my family. Then I approached one man for a job who however linked me to one Mr Williams who could help me get a job. Mr Williams told me about Biafra and their dream to achieve a sovereign state. He invited me to their meeting where they welcomed me warmly and I was given a half bag of garri, five tubers of yam and they also paid a visit to my wife and children.

I then told them that I was making plans to get reinstated into the Nigeria Army but they told me that I should forget about it that their Supreme leader, Nnamdi Kanu, would make life better for me if I could train the IPOB militias known as ESN.

They also told me that I would be sent abroad for more military training after I must have trained the militias and that when Birafra was actualized I would become a general in the Biafra Army. I took an oath of allegiance to Nnamdi Kanu and also vowed that I would die if I betrayed the Biafra struggle. I was then given the sum of N100,000 before moving to a forest in Abia State, where I met over 4000 men who wanted to be trained.

This was in October 2020. I also met some other dismissed soldiers of the Nigeria Army who were there to train the men.

We commenced training the moment I arrived and we started with push-ups, moral training, then moved to fire movement known as field craft. The people managing the camp refused to trust us and they didn’t involve us in their meetings.

Three months into the training, they sent us to Delta State, where we met a man known as Be-in-Spirit who took us to the camp. They told us that when we got to Delta they would take care of us very well but when we got there we discovered that the camp had been shut down. I couldn’t talk to Nnamdi Kanu, I was just talking to his boys. I discovered that I had been brainwashed and used by IPOB”.

The other suspect, Godswill Steven, a 33-year-old native of Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, in his confession said; “I joined the Nigeria Army in June 2017 and I was attached to the Special Force and I had my four months training in Kontagora. I also went to Kaba, Kogi State for another three months training, before I was sent to Takum in Taraba State for three more months training.

At the completion of my training I was sent to 133 Battalion, where I sustained an injury. I was posted to Maiduguri in 2018 and I fought at Garuda in Maiduguri, I survived the battle even with my injuries. I wanted to treat myself but the army authorities refused to allow me go for treatment.

When the pain became too much, I left to treat myself and when I returned, I was arrested and locked up in a cell where I met Chinasa Orji. We became friends and while in the cell he told me that one of his friends called him from Senegal and informed him that Nnamdi Kanu was recruiting soldiers to train IPOB militias.

He said Nnamdi Kanu was ready to pay them twice the money they were earning as soldiers. He also told me that Nnamdi Kanu would take the soldiers abroad and when Biafra was achieved he would make them generals in the Biafra. I accepted the offer and they paid us N100,000 each which was twice the salary I was receiving from the Nigeria Army. We then traveled to Abia State where we took oaths to be loyal to Nnamdi Kanu.

We were also taken into the camp where we gave the militias trainings on combat and special forces maneuvering. After spending one month in the Abia State Camp, we were transferred to another camp, where I spent three weeks training the militias I met there. I left the camp, when it became clear that the promise they made to take us abroad for training wasn’t realistic. I came down to Abuja where I got a security job before I was eventually arrested”, he stated.

The third suspect, Chinasa Orji, a native of Isikuator Local Government Area, aged 23, said: “I was enlisted into the Nigeria Army in 2015 but was dismissed in 2018 after I attended the burial of my elder brother, a soldier who was killed on 22 August 2018. My elder brother was a soldier who was killed when he went on escort duty in Bayelsa State. My bosses refused to give me a pass to attend the burial but I went on my own while my bank account was frozen.

When I returned, I was arrested and detained. While in detention I had access to my phone and I started chatting with one of my friends known as Victor who told me that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu needed my service to train some IPOB militias. He told me that Kanu was ready to pay me twice the money I was earning in the army and I told my friend Steven, who was also in detention, about it and he accepted.

They sent us money which we used to travel from Yola, Adamawa State to Abia State and we were picked up by some IPOB members and taken into the forest where we took oaths and started training the militias.

I was paid N100,000 but I got angry when they couldn’t fulfill their promise of taking us abroad for training.

mrsage:
South west may spring a surprise. The people are not particularly impressed with APC.

Oyo is already PDP

Lagos state deep down do not care about APC anymore.

I doubt if APC will get massive votes in the South West.

Expect a shocker from Osun State in 2022. That's the litmus test for APC in the South West.

Let's wait and see.