NewStats: 3,264,195 , 8,182,923 topics. Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 06:49 AM 2r5665

advocates:
Can't agree more. He toe the line of a hardliner to defend a known dictator against the wishes of world power of U.S.A and Britain, and yet some kids who knows nothing about this ground ploy are hailing Putin.

Report has it that, the Russians bombardment only targeted the free Syrian army sponsored by America and not isi as speculated a cause that will hunt Russia in the future.

You're delusional.....
What do you have to say about the US of the WORSE SAUDI ARABIANS.....??
& The genocide committed by ISREAL against Palestinians? not ISREAL as a nation, but their ACTS!!!! in that regard!!!!

Bollinger:


Its online. You can check how long Assad's family has been in power. And also check who holds vital positions in his cabinet. If that's not bad, i wonder what is. They held onto power with a harsh fist and cut down anyone who opposed them. You can't stay in power that long without a lot of blood on your hands.

Does that also go for the BRITISH & SAUDI MONARCHY, even the ETHIOPIAN Sovereign ?
I need to clarify these!!!!

Bollinger:


Wait. You are serious you don't know that saddam used to exterminate his own people? That, I have personally seen first hand with his mass graves. Assad alienated anyone not from his tribe and killed whoever had a dissenting voice. In the early stages of the war he used chemical agents on his own people.

Quite as bad as it seem....One may choose to ask by way of Contest how that is different from any Politically motivated attack( directly or Indirectly) around the world... But, that's not issue perhaps....
How efficient is the redress adopted in that multi-Ethnic nation Or you meant to say the US was lacking the best transformative strategy
And when you oust a dictatorship of the kind, what's your placement

The UK was UNITED in an AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORship you know Does it make the unity wrong? Its complicated.... Isn't it? But, when you answer that you'll detect the pores!!!!!

Saddam was bad enough with Tribalism...
But are there specific instances to prove ASSAD'S excesses before the Conflict??

Shymm3x:


Lmao @ US and Africa.

Does the US even care about its own black population? From slavery, they turned them into Guinea pigs for eugenics experiment. Moved from there to using them for syphilis experiment. As if that wasn't enough - they decided to give them guns and drugs to make them kill one another - something initiated by the FBI.

When that couldn't destroy them - they used mass incarceration and all kinds of diseases including diabetes. And now, they have turned them into phaggots. Just imagine how the population of African Americans have refused to grow since like forever and even those alive are mostly convicts or ex-convicts. African Americans are warriors though.
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Yet, you're talking about Africa. Africa? If the US had its way - it will nuke AFrica and keep all the resources.

Why you nuked that fellow like this?
You just sent him to a Mental Prison with that Mesmerizing POINT!!!!! A time BOMB!!!!

But, when he recovers, he will tell you OBAMA is a black!!!!

BLACK??

Lucasbalo:
Here's one American who says a big Amen to what you just post. You are my main man. Team USA.

AMERICAN?? You are?

YOU have no idea
There are MEN & PROPERTY!!!!
UNFORTUNATELY, All goes with the name TEAM USA....
Which are YOU?


Don't mind me.....my friend!!!! Just Mind my WORDs!!!

Bollinger:


I already told you. It was a mistake getting involved in Syria and iraq. We should just left Assad and saddam to keep killing it's populace.

You don't mean it...... How do you know that

Key facts is always useful to me!!!! So our stance will be Solid....



And what's with the SAUDIs

Bollinger:


There is only one kind which fits the Arab countries perfectly. The Assad/Putin kind.

What do you mean ?

How do you mean?

Bollinger:


By your own words? You have said dictatorship is ok. And what is dictatorship if not ruling with an iron fist.

Yeah....

You're quite RIGHT!!!
I referenced your CONTRADICTION!!!!!

But, what manner of Dictatorship do you recommend now?

What exactly will an additional Weapon in the Hands of ISIL through the REBELs Achieve??
A spread or a Containment Or even a Hyper-CLASH? These LOGISTICS needs to be evened out!!!!!
Any claim to Answer??

Bollinger:


If isis wasn't involved, i would say let the syrians fight it out and win their own liberation. But isis is involved. They need to be halted. If Russia can do it, all well and good. If successful they also need to pull out and let the syrians course their destiny. This is all wishfull thinking though. Almost all wars have involved outside in one way or the other because of allegiances. The american revolution was won because of from the french.

The American REVOLUTION was different..... AMERICA was a melting pot....
See
!!! We can't solve this problem..by evading facts...
US was aided by more than the FRENCH... The RUSSIANs were there too...& the purpose was quite different.... No need for details...
Most importantly it appeared the AID was demanded rather than initiated!!! At least it appeared so...

Can we just say so for SYRIA....?

.....Because in the long run, the incapacity of MEANs will be PROVEN..... However, good the PURPOSE in Sight!!!
Afghanistan will still prove a lot!!!!

There is a BETTER method (Transformation & ALL, in TIME too) of achieving these feats.. The US just doesn't seem to know...THAT Yet.....that's a Slip....
If you can't get it... You start losing it!!!!

Bollinger:


These countries have always been a keg of gun powder waiting to explode, all they they needed was a little push. The intention was to promote democracy but miscalculated the influence of iraq, afghanistan and islam in particular. Islam does not recognize democracy in it's true sense. Sad I have to say this, but arabs are animals who need a strong dictator to keep them in check. We see that now. Ask yourself, why was it so easy to push them over the edge? can anyone do that with , the U.K, , the U.S of A? when you rule as a despot, you risk the disgruntlement of the populace in the future.

I would rather say it took more than a push to make them flip over.....
Are you talking of IRAQ here by the way?
Or LIBYA?

"Animals who need strong dictator to keep them in check" You said....
At last? That's a wrong button... Amazing!!!!!

Volksfuhrer:


Obama has been a monumental disaster on Middle East policies.

The US is familiar with ISIS whose purpose is to bait Jihadist and ultimately destabilize the region. The idea is to Keep the focus of terrorism in the backyard of Arabs. The West do not want the Middle East crisis to end, they want an interminable war of attrition to fester between different groups of Jihadist. Coldly brilliant! But the US took one factor for granted: Putin!

Putin saw through the charade, he knew NATO and US "airstrikes" on ISIS have been laughable. Now, he is pulling the rug off the feet of ISIS very sponsors: NATO.

How ever, in the light of the present undertaking by the US to strategically Fund & supply the rebels, Don't you think this might compromise the RUSSIAN effort.... as these WEAPONs will be accessed as used by the FUNDAMENTALists aside other hitches to reprise their Stations?
These Fundamentalists are always stronger than other groups... Obtaining their weapons strengthens their position....
Its a Hydra-Headed Strategy!!!!!!
What do you think about this US Strategy?

Bollinger:


I agree with all your points except that of which you said dictatorship is not something we should be concerned about. Would you want the military regime back in power in Nigeria? Assad has weapons of mass destruction in the form of gasses and biological warfare. Plus, his oppression of his people was not something to sniff at. America made a lot of mistakes but what i like about the U.S is they always learn from it and move on. That is why they are great. As bad as you think the U.S is, you don't want Russia or china dominating world affairs.

What exactly do you think is the solution to the Syrian Crises in the light of present realities?

I believe in the ultimacy of private enterprise....
The need for a meritorious assertion of talent....
A world of conservative respect & Liberal means!!!!
But, I don't cherish an illogical & misguided approach to problem solving in the World!!!

The West understands the Future they want to Achieve but don't quite know how to get there!!!! Or rather they have lost immediate emergency alternatives!!!!!
Reason being that they always lose out on the dynamics of HUMAN SOCIETY!!?

Bollinger:


That is not the threat. The threat is terrorism in general. the rebels weren't terrorist in the beginning but as the war waged on, they were infiltrated by extremists from iraq and libya that was when U.S arms and training stopped and switched to air raids. Look how long we fought in Iraq and afghanistan? what is there to show for it? The most important thing we learnt is what i stated earlier; re education and re orientation is what is needed to wipe out terrorism in the future. Which is why there is so much emphasis in our military civil affairs. We are trying brick by brick to change the way the younger generations in iraq and afghanistan think before they get radicalized. Using force as a long term solution is flawed, it can on contain terrorism temporarily from spreading. I hope Nigeria's military understands this soon.

You're quite right..... Clearly so!!!! That re-orientation & education is a prime solution, though it's Long term...... But what you don't understand is what CIA does in the international community!!!!
I will give you a hint & let you discover the rest.....

MUCH OF WHAT YOU CALLED THE "ARAB SPRING" is by no means what you suppose it is......
The infiltration into this nations through Street, social Media & strategic intelligence is what you will understand with exposed CLASSIFIED documents
It is so for LIBYA, TUNISIA, EGYPT & some others...
Go do the research.... Now, SYRIA, even UKRAINE was so infiltrated & engineered to REVOLT...Its easier to do now even with media channeling...
CIA may have had trained Revolutionaries...

The UNjustified INVASION of IRAQ was the major cause of mid-eastern Insurgency, Fundamentalism only happens to be the major way the locals can solicit assistance from indigenes to fend off Western interference, it overtime became embellished. We know where the problem. Started....

SAUDI-ARABIA is the HUB of FUNDAMENTALISM. In fact, it is institutionalized there!!! Why are they not a major concern to the US....ASSAD is very secular in comparison...to the SAUDIs. He just can't ally to their cause....
The truth is there.... Go find it
Isreal almost sacked a whole Civilization without any intense cause... for a land which in 1948 the British merely açcorded them with Imperial might...
Nothing was done.....

What exactly is ASSAD's offense? Dictatorship??
At some point in a nation's growth, its necessary, just like the dictatorship of a father sustains a child to adolescence...when he knows....
The west had EMPERORS under whom they actually became power...to colonise till they innovated the system... What the Heck?
LIBYA was far better in social services than the US under Gaddafi....
So what's the objective in all this
In needed time when the basic has been resolved people will change the system....

CSTR2:
Americans are already asking the govt to bring the wealth and military home.
Let the rest of the world deal with their own shitt, afterall american diplomacy and democracy is detested while russian and chinese dictatorship and autocracy is worshipped.

You understand little about History and lesser even about International Politics.....
I'm sorry I won't have explain the needed much here to you!!//
You just need to do a little Home work!!!!!
I see you watch NEWS a lot perhaps, & you always believe what you're told!!!!

advocates:
How has the Americans sponsored Isis? Americans were only interested in ousting Bashir after it became clear that he was waging a campaign of Genocide against those that oppose him. Before this time, Isis were only in Iraq fighting to dispose the Iraqi government.

I wonder how chaotic the world would have been today without the interventionist role played by United state and their policing duty. History will vindicate America for its diplomacy and mediator in many countries affair that would have led to total breakdown.

So unfortunate how brutal governments like Russia and China that has cases of human abuses suddenly become a hero to many unformed people here.

U.s couldn't have trained isis knowing U.s stance against aiding terrorism. We could readily say that Isis later had access to the free Syrian army, an act that America had little power over.

You understand very little about the world SIR.... VERY LITTLE IN DEED!!!!

Bollinger:


Lol. . . The only reason you think so is because of your limitations. Your experiences are limited to where you've been, who you know and what you've done. See my point? i'd bet you'd freak out if i told that i'd haloed from an aircraft countless times, taken fire from insurgents, back packed through more countries you can only dream of, slept butt n.aked in a makeshift igloo in the worst alaskan winter etc. Scratching your head yet? I eliminate phuckers like you for a living. I get paid for it too.

I know you'll disappear after this post.

Well, you have a point!!!!
But, the real threat here is the US..... Their financing of the rebels to oust ASSAD rather than initiate negotiation is the onus of the problem....
The essence of what RUSSIA is doing now lies in their ability to accord the Syrian troops some control to enable them rebuild!!!!! Clearly, no matter how peaceful this nation becomes, nothing can REDEEM the damage wrought through human & infrastructural losses....in SYRIA, which could have been prevented. Now, the US is restrategising to frustrate Russian efforts in Syria.....
The MEDIA IS THEIR MAJOR TOOL of Persuasion!!!!
I bet IRAQ is no better now.....

How RUTHLESS IS ASSAD compared to SAUDIARABIA!!!! Yet, US is abeiting Saudi-Arabia....
Let's be wise..... US is not just protecting their interest. They're also building it!!!!!

byrron:


You deliberately create a problem for me then nurture it until it blossomed and wreck havoc: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

You now start advertising yourself to the world on how u are gonna send humanitarian aids to help the victims of the problems you deliberately created which is purely for exploitation purposes.

Then you now start claiming that you care so much for me and you now love me more than I even love myself?

THAT IS SO DECEITFUL.

Russians don't play such deceitful game's, they go for whatever they want either by negotiation or by force but not by deceit.

LISTEN TO THIS MAN...... HE JUST STATED THE OBVIOUS TRUTH!!!!!
GOOD OBSERVATION Man!!!!!

EnlightenedSoul:
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Did you take an arrow to your frontal lobe, or are you a particularly ugly person? Or is there some other reason(s), obscure or otherwise hidden, that would elucidate the illogical drizzle and mammoth lapse in comparative analysis in this above post laid forth for my digestion?

As an exercise, allow me to ask this of you that you may better understand your own stance along with its implications:

1. Glean the meaning behind your 'write-up', and trap its essence in a sentence.

2. Model yourself after it.

3. Skedaddle.

Well, am quite Glad if remitting such incongruous fiddle above did accord you considerable relief in defence of your battered Psycho- Pride.....from previous refutaions. Such defence Mechanisms is what keeps us alive... SO I understand & bears no Grudge!!!

Am only too glad to know that I can assist you as the unwilling instrument of mental DISPLACEMENT!!!!
I know you'll balance out with my presence & hopefully, no, quite expectedly you may already have!!!!

Therefore, I will only tender my subtle recommendation for Future indulgence, as a THERAPY!!!
From my assessment of your Arguments above,
You were greatly dislodged by your irrational attachment to empty standards which greatly impeded your ability to perceive your logical advantages as they come.... You had real advantage over your opponent's CONCEPTUAL rigidity & Obsession, which you misapplied. This misstep is lucid in the excessive shed of Sentiment visible in your Choice of Diction!!!

"ENGLISH LANGUAGE"you failed to understand, is a means to an end & the END should be visible in your points....You simply battered yourself with contradictory Clauses...
The issue was really arguable to merit both ways...

I had wanted to come to your defence but, a minuscle reflection recommended therapeutic advice instead!!!

Therefore, my update above was only a relative evaluation of issue premised on the need to recommend to your SPIRIT rather than correcting your BODY!!!

Be Well..
Am Always ready to render psycho-therapeutic remedies to excesses....
By the way " Try to read about DE POMPADOUR"

FEMINISM is not a DUTY.... Its a MENTALITY

THANKS!!!!

FunnyDude:


Sharap who told you that..Dudes justifying his shortcoming..hahaaha.

Yeah..... DANGOTE IS FIRST CLASS!!!!
That's first class!!!!!
Nature gives it.....
school does not!!!!!

Well, I want to see the good paper files on the tables.....for Applicants......
Who examined them..... An angel!!!!?
Ha-ha....
Don't mind me......
Make a good result....
You'll be the demand!!!!

sugah:


Look out for error? Naah, did not need to. The heading was screaming at me. I did not even bother reading the article.

If indeed the OP graduated with a 1st class, unless he studied in a francophone country, his/her school should be sanctioned.

Good for those who in this 21st century still suppose that English Language makes you learned!!!!!
KNOW THIS:
There are Ignorant personnels who speaks the language better than you by reason of being indigenous to it...

Tetra-oxo- Sulphate (iv) does not speak English.. that's why you abandoned it...

The phone you used to type the above was perhaps produced by one who knows nothing about ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!! Are you any better??

If English is your Claim to knowledge, you may be more Ignorant than more than half the world....
Be cause more than 80% the population of does not know the language!!!!

Step into CHINA & CONQUER!!!!!
THANKS

I'm perturbed cause I'm beginning to realize people think when they have good roads & Stadium things will be better for them....
IGR is only as good as its USE!!!!!
SO, back to your Shop!!!!!

BobUg28:
This is good I must say. The purpose wasn't to discourage local production. It's one of the measures to boast our IGR.

I'm in of the move. Thank God for the policy. It'll help reduce the cost of rice in the market. Am a trader, dealing basically on imported rice; Thailand, Vietnam, Indian, and basmati rice...During the period when the importation of foreign rice was banned, it grossly affected our market price. But watch out now that it has been approved, the price'll gradually reduce.

CHANGE!!!

You have the freedom to air your view here at least.... But
, I must tell you that trying to play with this very important issue does more harm than good....
You are no FARMER.....

JuanDeDios:

You accuse me of ignorance without refuting my main point - that WE DON'T PRODUCE SUFFICIENT RICE FOR THE POPULATION AT PRESENT and as such a ban is counter-productive.

Rice production did go up under Jonathan. It started going up under Obasanjo and this continued under Jonathan - I'm not sure why you think I don't know there are large farms producing rice in Osun State and elsewhere. If you produce enough rice you don't need to ban import - dealers will flood the market and undercut importers who pay thousands of dollars in transport. As long as the local rice is packaged well. If you don't produce enough rice and you ban rice, smugglers will fill the vacuum and we lose revenue. If you people can't see that, carry go.

I'm sorry to state that your point is really amiss in Strategy!!!!!
You tend to explain what happens, but not why it happens. The market can be very volatile, So do not suppose you stated the absolute....
If:
Smugglers can fill in the VACCUM under a ban policy that lets local industry develop to meet demand. Then, how do you encourage local growth in a free flow policy?How do you estimate growth in performing Agri-Loan/Fund System...
the Govt. Made available extensive funds for Local production necessitating the ban to ensure demands are met with the boost in Production.... How does a Free flow encourage local production & sustain these loans in the long run....

Mind you young Man:SOME OF THE IMPORTED RICE ARE "DUMPS" from overtime, making them overtime Cheap KILLERs....which is why they are even Saleable in a supposedly third world...atimes even cheaper than local produce....The expensive ones are by by no means as nutritious as claimed. T he cost goes beyond the economy alone. In Case, you don't know most smugglerrs earn their profit before sales... Ask me how that happens...that's what should be research on... Some one has dumped a non-saleable toxic chemical in NIGERIA... for payment....
The point is that there're performing loans already.... I hope this does not become a back drop!!!!
Pls be practical in your analysis.
I think the understanding should be that Govt. Should earn its FUNDS under balanced conditions that should serve the long Run!!!!
We know they need the DUTIES....

agora4now:
The comptroller-general of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has ordered the immediate removal of rice from import restriction list and the re-introduction of import duty payment at land borders.

The public relations officer of Customs, Mr Wale Adeniyi, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said that the restriction was only applied at land border stations before now, adding that the customs boss had lifted restriction on rice at border stations.
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He said that all rice imports through land borders by rice traders would attract the prevailing import duty of 10 percent, with 60 percent levy. Rice millers (preferential levy) with valid quota allocation would also attract duty rate of 10 percent with 20 percent levy on rice importation.

“Over the years, importation has been restricted to the seaports because border authorities have found it difficult to effectively monitor and control importation of rice.

“When the decision to ban it (rice) was taken, it was not an effective measure because the smuggling of the product thrives with people using different means of conveyance, including small trucks, bicycles and even animals – putting them on donkeys and some actually carry it on their heads.

“These new measures will be for Customs to recognise their anti-smuggling operations in the border areas and ensure that all those importers through the borders bring their rice through approved routes and pay their extant duty

“Before the ban on rice importation, Customs had placed different rates of levy on rice imports – 30 percent levy was placed on rice millers (preferential levy) and 70 per cent for rice importers. The purpose was to encourage local production.



http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/customs-removes-rice-from-import-restriction-list-at-land-borders/114013.html

I doubt this is the best approach......
It might serve to furnish the Treasury with needed FUNDs, on the conditions that:
-The Funds are not looted beforehand
- The Funds are not looted post-project allocation
Either way, A ban might be better in the long Run...
GOVT. can obtain taxable duties it can depend on while balancing Deficits.... with Food Security.....

Beremx:
E remain frozen chicken o!

I hope the price of a bag of rice reduces drastically. How can a bag of rice be sold for 5k at Seme and when it gets to lagos,it is sold between 9 to 12k depending on the brand? That's too expensive!

Nevertheless,the local farmers should not be discouraged. I still eat my Ofada rice anytime,anyday.

What's your point?

190theclown:
Nigerians sha

Una really get time to de follow all these events

even if buhari should summon me to his presence today

I wont go because i answerth not to no man

y'all should focus on your lives and forget these people

Y'all have been following politics since 1960 yet one plot of land una nor get

yet you see yourselves killing, dying, celebrating and being happy on the internet

over people who have little or no impact in your lives.

I rather you celebrate your boss who pays your daily bread/salary over buhari and fashola anytime

The world is worse off, not because of the Predominance of BAD People, but because of the APATHY & negligence of the GOOD!!!!

buygala:
With the way she is reciting designer labels, no wonder she is still single



Who wants a wife who may insist on naming her first son Gianni Versace or Christian Dior?

But, you ought not say that Man.......
What is the Status in WIFE or Husband as the case may be.....?
Whoever told you she needed a Husband?
Well, the problem with folks atimes is that they abuse what they can't Afford!!!!!

This Lady is her own VALUE!!!
APPRECIATE THAT!!! She may not be earning much ... But, she's doing what she LOVES.....
That talent is not better subjected to house CHORES

I meant no disrespect though.....But, its time we innovate our minds!!!!!

agarawu23:
amen "if its her destiny ".

We can't over power destiny and I blv God is in control of our future.

What else?

Modified: enough mentions please. It will not reverse my statement.

Very wrong statement Man!!!!
We make our own destiny; Talent is natural, Skill is Social . Besides,
There is no determinate relationship between any of these & a social ceremony like MARRIAGE!!!!
#'CAUSEOF NEXT TIME#

kingsfield:

"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated ( anah) her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NIV
There are two points to note here. First, even though the verse may seem to be instructing the rapist to marry the victim the age nowhere sanctions, condones or even approves of rape. This is simply a gross misreading of the text. The injunction is intended to instruct the Israelites on how to deal with and address a rape situation if and when it occurs.

For the records: These are JEWISH LAWs!!!!!
I know you can find other better references to convey your Point, especially in the new testament; just to avoid Confusion!!!!!

But, it doesn't really over rule essence anyway!!!!

Well,
The Misconception here is the term "EDUCATION"
I will make my Opinion very concise;

There are two(2) types of Education:
FORMAL & INFORMAL Education

What the Op meant to convey here is the FORMAL type of EDUCATION.

FORMAL EDUCATION is actually a system of relative Indoctrination...based on INSTITUtionalised principles of Social Objective....I.e used to be anyway, till SCIENCE became the new Trusted System... Science is the new independent Liberal claim to means....
Before now the systems of learning mainly served to indoctrinate people to cultural & social pattern of behaviour... I.e taming people to be conformists & supposedly refined.
All that's changed with a heightened understanding of nature....today. Most course including the most Prestigeous are actually artificial in the sense that they represent only social reality, even LANGUAges are in this category.
When you enter CHINA with your ENGLISH LITERACY, & Character YOU understand that you don't qualify for LITERATE!!!!
More than half the World does not speak ENGLISH!!! Even CAMEROON here....
SO, There's actually no STANDARD except that which society creates to regulate its BUREACRACY!!! The WHITES gave us ENGLISH & rewarded the knowledge with Certificate so we can be encouraged to understand them.

SO neither the YOUNG MAN nor his graduates friends is quite better off in knowledge as you may suppose.. They can only be better in the achievement of their relative LIFE PURPOSE!!!
It CAN be money & cars for one, & the Understanding of LIFE for another...
The knowledge can be acquired either way: FORMALLY or INFORMALLY!!!
What is important is knowing what to do to get one's preference!!!!
But, there's also TALENT & SKILL. Those are different!!!!
FORD by the way never went to School, nor the Orville brothers, but they built, patented, grew industries!!!!

But, knowledge is a means, not an end!!!

THE HIGHEST point of KNOWLEDGE however is to understand that we know NOTHING!!!

EDUCATION is just term that shows means....