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damilarea2:
My own concern is the Dragon...Does the dragon has a pipeline connection with an Oil company ni . because how can one dragon emit so much fire to destroy a big city without been exhausted

The Dragon is powered by nuclear fission. One meal consisting of thorium can breathe fire continuously for 5 years.

ChristianNorth:
For the past 5 years, SE has been dominating in WAEC and JAMB . They are currently leading the enrollments into medicine, engineering.

So what will you say about my little nephew ( the son of my first cousin), who got the best result in both WAEC and JAMB? - https://www.pulse.ng/communities/student/okorogheye-orisheneye-david-15-yr-old-genius-wants-to-study-medicine-after-seeing/995z7mf.amp

ITSEKIRI AMAKA.

Maybe we Tsekes too should start beating our chests.

I thought I was the only one that thought season 8 was an anti climax. I stopped watching after watching episode 4. It was beginning to look like nollywood films, where the ending is horribly rush and becomes detached from the whole story.
The part that annoyed me most is in order to justify daenery's change from being a caring and humane queen to a "mad queen" they wrote and shot some senseless scenes to make her appear angry and lose her compassion.
The killing of the dragon and the capturing and beheading of her aid by cersi were stupid. Where were they going when the dragon was killed. They were not invading Kingslanding at that time, so why was she flying her two dragons. Also the attack on her ships and the capture of her aid does not fit any purpose.

I have not bothered to watch episode 5, from from reviews, I heard the story line is shit also.

Anduku:
Stop trying to act dumb, you know to well what he is talking about. The current talking point among the lunatic liberals in the US to give a mother a right to kill an already born child if she decides she doesn't like the child and doesn't want to keep it. Yes, that's where the lunatics are at the moment, infanticide is the newest stupidity that the idiots are pushing for

Killing an already born child is termed murder and not abortion. A fetus becomes a baby (a legal person) the minute it leaves it's mother's womb and is capable of independent existence.

stanech:
Bernie Sanders says his brand of socialism isn't like Venezuela's

But Venezuela VOTED for:

Universal healthcare

Government-run banking

Abolishing gun rights

Bernie is running on:

Universal healthcare

Government-run banking

Abolishing gun rights

Socialism will NEVER work !

But socialism is working in the following countries;
Denmark
Ecuador
Finland
France
Germany
Greenland
Iceland

Anxiety continues to mount in government circles in Nigeria as a London court sits next next Tuesday in a case that may see Nigeria forfeiting up to $9billion in foreign assets.

The expected loss is in respect of an enforcement application to the United States of America and the United Kingdom courts by Process and Industrial Development, a British firm tied up in a legal dispute with the Federal Government.


The court case arose out of the failure of a contract awarded the company in 2010 to process wet gas to power Nigeria’s generating plants.

Reading this article is making really angry. What concerns British courts with a private transaction with the Nigeria government government. If there is a case of dispute or breach of contract should the case not be handled in Nigerian courts.

On 16 March 2018, a BVI-based engineering and project management company sought to enforce in the US a USD6.6 billion award it obtained in January 2017 against Nigeria. This is one of the highest arbitral awards known to date. It shows the importance of the Respondent challenging facts, assumptions and calculations provided by the Claimant and of providing alternative evidence to the Tribunal.

That figure has since been attracting interest at the rate of $1.2 million per day and currently stands at over $9 billion.

My understanding from the above is that the Nigerian government reneged on its contractual agreement with a British engineering and project management company, the company took the Nigerian government to court in London and won a $6.6 billion damages and the company then went to the US to try and enforce the judgement?
If I am wrong please someone correct me.

Now, does the above make sense? The company should have just asked the US to invade Nigeria, so they can have full access to all our resources including oil. So when the US government renege on its international and corporate agreements, who do we apply to to enforce the agreements?

That's why it is paining me that we have weakened our military to the point of ridicule by other nations. They cannot try this rubbish with Israel, India or even Pakistan.

In January 2010, Process and Development Limited (P&ID or the Claimant) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Nigeria or the Respondent) entered into a 20-year Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA). Under this agreement Nigeria would supply Wet Gas to P&ID, who would process it in a newly-built facility and return it in the form of Lean Gas. P&ID could then sell the by-products of the refinement process (natural gas liquids (NGLs) for their own profit.

Nigeria did not make arrangements for the agreed supply of Wet Gas, including building the necessary pipelines. In March 2013, P&ID treated this failure as a repudiation of the GSPA. By that date PI&grin estimated that it had invested USD40 million in the project, although it had not yet acquired the land or built the facilities.

Nigeria entered into a 20 year Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA) to supply gas to Process and Development Limited, who would return the gas after processing it in a plant built by them. They would then keep the bye products to sell to recover their investments.

Now Nigeria did not supply the gas as agreed, so Process and Development Limited took the Nigerian government to a London court claiming $6 billion, because according to them they had already invested $40 million into the project ( even though they were yet to acquire the land to build the processing plant).

And some people are blaming Buhari. It seems some people want this country destroyed because Buhari became President. How can a Nigerian support such blatant act of aggression against his own country. This is a case where all Nigerians irrespective of party, tribe or religion should come together and oppose the insult to our collective sensibilities. Trump cancelled all agreements entered by Obama, including trade agreements, and the sky did not fall.

Just when you think Reno cannot sink any lower, he dives headlong into the gutter. Why insult a man's family because of politics. What concerns Osinbajo's daughters with the beef he has for their father?
Besides, Osinbajo is not the commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces.

MetaPhysical:
Kanu is a murderer, a terrorist. A Biafra under this guy will be autocratic, you either follow and do what he says or you will be killed....like they killed Prophet Nwoko.

He will be worse than kim Jong Un

Temple1288:
It's not a threat! If any Biafran can't honor those who sacrificed their lives for us, the person is foolish and deserves more than stoning to death.......

Quit attempting to force people to accept your personal opinion using threats of violence. It's not every biafran or Igbo that feels the obligation to honour those that died during the biafran war of 50 years ago.

If it's a yoruba person that said anyone who does not honour June 12 should be stoned to death. It your type that will be shouting calling on UN, US, Hague to come and see"genocide calls against the igbos ".

Who will be responsible murder, if one of your illiterate members actually heed the call and stone another Igbo man or woman to death for defying the site at home order?

godlyguy:
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has declared that anyone who refuses to sit at home on May 30 deserves to be stoned to death.

Nnamdi Kanu expressed anger that the Nigerian Government passed a bill recognizing June 12 as Democracy Day in honour of MKO Abiola but turned against the remembrance of millions of Igbo killed during the war.

According to him, Biafrans are going to sit at home on 30th May to remember and honour over 3.5m Biafrans killed by Britain through Nigeria.

Kanu said this in a live broadcast from London, UK on Thursday, adding, “They passed a bill today to recognise and honour June 12 because of one man, then turn against IPOB for honouring 6 million victims of genocide and those that fought to save those of us who are alive today.

“They must be mad and insane. Anybody who fails to sit at home on May 30th deserves to be stoned to death.

“Now the same band of God forsaken Fulani slaves in our midst is telling us not to honour over 3.5 million victims of genocide and the brave men that fought to keep us alive.

“What a bunch of soulless evil men? They are telling us not to honour our own people because an Igbo man or any Biafra for that matter is not worthy to be honoured in Nigeria.

“These are the same people whose politics of acquisance and compromise put us in the mess IPOB is trying to fix today. We must send a clear, unambiguous message to these Fulani slaves in our land that we must honour our brave fathers and mothers that fought for us.

“We are going to sit at home on 30th May to remember and honour over 3.5m Biafrans killed by Britain through Nigeria.”

https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/17/biafra-anyone-refuses-sit-home-may-30-deserves-death-nnamdi-kanu/?fbclid=IwAR0hLISFWV-L8VzaxkalGPjSv_3Fd8HTGAf5Tj1WIlLfiaDsgHbZSikGm-g

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/05/biafra-anyone-who-refuses-to-sit-at.html?m=1

Kanu's anger should be turned not against the FG, but against his fellow biafran Governors and legislatives. June 12 did not just happen overnight. The north had been against June 12 for a long time. It was lagos that started honoring June 12 by declaring public holiday right from the start of this democratic dispensation. The other SW states were slow to catch on, but eventually all SW states declared June 12 a public holiday. It was the force of the SW states that made Buhari and the National assembly declare June 12 a public holiday.
So if the 3.5million dead biafrans are that important to the igbos, why has no government since 1999 belated may 30th biafra day?
Who is stopping igbos from honouring their dead hero's. A compulsory sit at home order is an insult to the hero's you are trying to honour.

truefact:
But the zoo emperor has made June 12 sit at home for all zoogerians...
The Igbo elite are the fuls here. They should have been the one to make 30 may a sit at home for igbos

Who declared June 12 an ofe nsala day? Most people will still go to work, their businesses, markets and recreation spots on June 12. It is only government officials and big corporations that will not go to work.

Kanu's decree forbid his biafrans from even going down the street to but coke, not to talk of opening up market for business.

bettercreature:
Please remove Linda Ikeji

Why? Whether you agree or not, she is an accomplished igbo amaka. It's not easy being the most successful bloggers in Nigeria.

BCD2much:
Funny cos this is a woman that goes to visit bokoharam, in a sane country she would have long been arrested and equally lead the military to their hide out where she meets with them.
The same government who said they're out to fight bokoharam is in discussions with her yet u say her efforts are resisted by many, which means what the government say in public is different from what they do privately.
Buhari pls stop crumbling her efforts, let's see if this leads somewhere

Arrested for what? Do you have any evidence she is a member of Boko Haram. She said she is respected by the leadership of Boko Haram because she knew their founder when he was alive and all these boys were small boys to her.
If meeting Boko Haram is grounds for arrest, then Obasanjo should have been arrested immediately he met with Boko harams founder's brother in Jos.

And who told you the Nigerian army don't know the location of Boko Haram?

Mosesm:
Good point. But with the Dangote refinery on board, the fuels and agro chemicals importation will nearly ceased.

[b] Are we importing bitumen? [/b]That will be silly. Even asphalt.

We have no reason to be importing other items on ur list

Akeredolu: Nigeria spends N300b on bitumen import yearly - https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/akeredolu-nigeria-spends-n300b-bitumen-import-yearly/amp/

If we don't import steel, how do we construct our structures, bridges and road, when only a very minute amount is being produced by Chinese companies? Furthermore we have to import 100% steel, aluminium and copper sheets, as ajaokuta is just a bottomless pit, that shallows billions of dollars periodically.

As fela would say "Rice matter, na different matter" the government placed a ban on imported rice, but most of the rice we consume is smuggled through Benin Republic, which still consumes an insane amount of dollars.

Where do you want producers of fruit juice to get the concentrates required for production, even when more than 60% of harvested fruits rot before getting from farm to consumers? South Africa of course, with the use of more dollars.

And so on, and so on........

Karemarealty288:
The irony is that she is an Igbo woman.

Igbo Amaka

Jokes apart, I respect Igbo women a lot. They are silent achievers, ie Obi ezekwesili, chimamanda Adiche, Okonjo Iweala, Linda Ikeji, Stella Chinyelu Okoli, and lots of other. They are not prone to chest beating, unlike their male counterparts.

Blue3k:
Ok they can keep defending it to they run out of cash. If they're actually thinking of devaluing currency they know unsustainable.

I wouldn't think its a big deal considering Nigeria has a trade supplus most of the time. Then imports will drop after refineries come online. Lastly floating naira didn't kill Nigerians in the past and it lead to better growth using the two examples as reference.



Alright I wait and see. Give u credit if yall called it..

It almost did.
Floating your national currency was the main fulcrum the IMF condition of SAP, which IBB tried to implement. It failed woefully.
IBB Babangida met the exchange rate at one Naira to a Dollar in 1984, after SAP induced devaluation, he left it at N22 to the dollar. That's a 2100% increase over a period of about 6 year. Was the economy any better off? No, it was far worse.

jaxxy:
They sell to keep black mArket speculators at bay based on the level of demand. It’s artificial bt necessary however costing us alot in foreign reserves.

These are the painful prices we have to pay to stabilize the economy, while working at reducing our dependence on imported items.
The government had attempted floating the naira at the initial stage of the global oil crash of 2015, and the dollar jumped to 500 naira. It cause a lot of panic.

Blue3k:
The currency and the inflation would stabilize. It worked for Egypt and Turkey who recently did it. They both had to give up strong currency policy since itgot too expensive.

The value of a floating currency is the equilibrium point between demand and supply. With us importing everything with dollars, there will always be upward pressure on the naira. That means even if dollars sell at N1000, we will have no choice but to buy to import fuel, rice, wines, orange juice (concentrate ), etc. This will cause runaway inflation.

Blue3k:
I still think they should just float the currency. Maintaining this position seems to be getting more expansive.



Where'd yall hear this?

Float currency ke, when we import over 80% of our consumables, including fuel. That would have disastrous socioeconomic consequences.

Before the government can attempt to float the naira, we muse stop the importation of the following items;
1. Fuel - petrol, diesel, kerosene and aviation fuel.
2. Rice
3. Chicken and other poultry products
4. Steel.
5. Bitumen.
6. Fish

Kophschmerzen:
I did a road trip in trumpland few months ago, it's all gas stations, strip clubs, pay day lenders and liquor stores. Rinse and repeat through out that place. They wear misery in their faces like badges, yet these same people will vote in people whose sole concern is lobbyists money in Washington.

It seems hypocrisy is hardwired into the DNA of conservatives. The same people that are prolife becomes prodeath when it comes to death penalty. The same people that are anti-gay marriage support or condone child marriage. The same people that condemn liquor based on religious grounds are the highest consumers of liquor. Here in Nigeria during the Ramadan fast, most beer parlour is usually empty, but returns to full swing once Ramadan us over, meanwhile alcohol is taboo according to Islam.

Temple1288:
Anyone thinking about Abortion or trying to abort her child shouldn't near Missouri shikina

History had shown that criminalising abortion had never stopped abortion anywhere in the world. It will simply go underground. You cannot force a woman to have a baby she does not want, and you cannot stop a woman from having sex with whomever she desires.

Anti abortion or prolife was always about men controlling a woman's sexuality. They use mainly the religious and moral arguments (which in any case never applies to the man). In the past they used Female Genital mutilation in an attempt to stop women enjoying sexual pleasure.
The US courts declares Female Genital Mutilation as constitutional

US is moving backwards’: female genital mutilation ruling a blow to girls at risk

US district judge Bernard Friedman, in Michigan, ruled on Tuesday that Congress lacked authority, under the commerce clause of the US constitution, to adopt the 1996 law and that the power to outlaw FGM lay with individual states. “As despicable as this practice may be, it is essentially a criminal assault,” Friedman wrote, in a ruling late on Tuesday. Congress had “overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit FGM”, as it had no demonstrated effect on interstate commerce, he said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/22/us-is-moving-backwards-female-genital-mutilation-ruling-a-blow-to-girls-at-risk

But a court or senate full of men will quickly ban all forms of abortion.
Surprisingly, they are getting lots of support from women. Talk about Stockholm syndrome.

QueenSekxy:
These people supporting abortion, I wish your mothers aborted You, atleast, we would have less m0r0ns and dark hearted people in the society.

Stop playing dumb. Their mothers made a choice to have and keep a baby. The keyword is choice. If she choose not to have a baby, no one else should force her to have one. A baby should not be used as a tool for punishing women for religious or moral sin (as believed by others).
You might as well make laws stoning adulterous women to death.

mysticwarrior:
OK from all what you wrote here Britain only survived because it was an Island nation which could only be invaded by sea, and supportted by Airier Brutality. According to you the Germans where not having effective Naval capabilities needed to invade Britain abi?
But you have indirectly admitted that if Britain could have been accessible through land, the German and their Machines would have Grinded Britain to dust. Am completely satisfied with this impression.

This has been why Britain has survived all invasions. The English channel and the North Sea is a difficult barrier.

mysticwarrior:
what is this one saying, why declaring a war on someone you can't fight on your own, its like a sleeping GOAT challenging an angry and hungry lion to a battle and hoping that a tiger who is far away would come to his rescue, Britain was bombarded by German war planes for more than a month and Britain couldn't even lunched an all out attack with their almighty navy against Germany, that is the absolute height of cowardice my friend, try that with the Americans and you will be sorry.

Germany took everyone by surprise. Declaration of war does not automatically mean battle. The battles will come later. Britain needed time to prepare, especially after loosing a large chunk of her heavy armory in the attempted defence of France.
Hitler offered Britain peace and to allow her keep her colonies if Britain hold back and allow Germany keep already conquered territories, Churchill refused. Now, does that sound like the acts of cowardice?

When Britain declared war, what did you expect her to do? Launch an immediate invasion on Berlin?

RTSC:
Cowardice is not fighting a war at all, even when needed.
It takes a fatal kind of courage to fight a war you cannot win.

Foolishness is fighting a war you are not prepared for and cannot win, and then screaming genocide, Hague, UN when the killings start.

Calling Britain, that at one time or the other fought wars in over 98% of the world countries coward is the height of ignorance.
Which is foolish, a Germany that instigated and lost 2 world wars or a Britain that bid it's time and was in the winning team of the 2 world wars.

Same with Japan that attacked a US, they cannot win or a US that bid it's time before being dragged into the war.
If it was in ancient times, the carthage treatment would have befell Japan and Germany and it's people wiped off the face of the earth.

BULLIONVAN4:
Yes, how can a sane man in his normal self still lay claims or say that the person whose name is clearly written as "TOBECHUKWU" alias TOBI say she is not igbo so the tobechukwu there no meaning? it would be very unwise and shame to the igbos to lay claims on names like "SIMISOLA" "FOLARUNSHO" "YEMI"

So what will you say of Rotimi Amaechi? My sister in-laws name is Anuoluwapo, both parents are Igbo and she does not understand a word of Yoruba. She was named after her mother's best friend. She had trouble when seeking admission into NEKEDE, because of her name.
There are many Igbos answering Yoruba and even hausa first names.

BULLIONVAN4:
Chioma Avril Rowland(Davido's sex machine from imo state) may not be an igbo girl because she chose "ROWLAND" as surname and even "AVRIL" rubbish "spits"

And how does that answer the question or relate to the topic at hand?

IkpuMmadu:
Her full name is Tobechukwu Martins

Where did you get the Martins from? All the reports said her full name is Tobechukwu "Tobi" Phillips

IkpuMmadu:
Yes, Igbo bear Martins and other foriegn names i can choose to answer my father's foriegn name which is John ....so it's just what it is

Do you have privileged information that the girls father is an igbo man called Phillips or you are just speculating to fit into your Igbo Amaka narrative?

senchibi:
We are really relentless and superior in all works of life . Good or bad . That's why you sorry a-sholes hate us so much. If you feel you're wicked you'll see igbo man and you bow . You feel you've achieved greatness Intelcually then igbo man comes in, Ooh it's all over for you oily souped man, Good we are number 1 / bad we are number 1 . We are super beings bro , deal with it.

Fallacy. No evidence of superiority, except maybe with mouth. If you do a population to achievement ratio, you will find out that your tribe is no better than any Nigerian or even African tribe. I would even say that with a population of close to 50 million world wide, I would even say you guys are under achievers.

NkayStory:
Your agony has no part two,better chill cos IT IS NOT THAT SERIOUS oh yeah yoruba people,It IS NOT THAT SERIOUS!!!

Gosh!!

Agony that what? An American girl called Tochukwu Phillips scored 6.9/4?
I am not understanding o.

gbosaa:
All these just because someone shouted “Igbo Amaka”??

You have big problem. You are wired to be paranoid and jealous.

Not just because of someone shouting Igbo Amaka, but because some low esteem igbos without any further information whatsoever is using a totally irrelevant issue to claim igbo supremacy.

The girl in question was maybe born to a Nigerian parent ( probably her mother, and hence a foreign family name). She might even not be a Nigerian and the story might just be journalistic rascality. Omarosa Manigault and Yetunde Williams had been assigned Nigerian before.

This is a little girl born in the US, given opportunity to excel by Americans. But when it comes to claiming glory, the usual suspects starts to scream igbo Amaka.

Let me add, that if Obama's name had any thing chukwu attached, ewoo, we no go hear word again from the Igbo Amakaists. The igbos would have been the most superior race in the history of the universe. But we did not hear kpim from his Luo ethnic tribe in Kenya.