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North Suspecting That Nigeria Will Not Last Beyond 2023, That’s Why They Are Mortgaging Future of the Country With Bad Loans’, OPC Alleges

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The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has condemned the Federal government’s loan arrangements with China Speaking on the controversial agreement which allegedly waives Nigeria’s sovereignty, the group in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Barrister Yinka Oguntimehin, said it has a strong feeling that the north suspects that the country would not last beyond 2023 and are using bad loans to mortgage the future of the entire country. “I have no doubt that the prolonged brouhaha generated by the current loan arrangements with the Chinese government is never in the interest of the entire country. How can you explain the rationale behind the FG loan arrangements? He said. “It is obvious that the FG is up to something sinister because all available indices have it that the Nigeria economy is gradually moving downwards. “Today our naira is N470 to a dollar. What that means is that our naira is falling daily to the American dollar.” “The Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) was establis

Agba Jalingo, others arrested at #RevolutionNow protest in Lagos

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Agba Jalingo addressing protesters before his arrest Agba Jalingo, Publisher of Cross River Watch, has been arrested alongside some journalists and Revolution protesters in Ikeja Lagos. Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently.

Hezbollah stockpiled chemical behind Beirut blast in London

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Hezbollah kept three metric tons of ammonium nitrate, the explosive thought to be behind the  mega blast in Beirut  this week, in a storehouse in London, until MI5 and the London Metropolitan Police found it in 2015. The Beirut explosion took place at a warehouse that held 2.7 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been confiscated from a ship. The Iran-backed terrorists kept the explosive in thousands of ice packs in four properties in northwest London, according to a report in The Telegraph last year. A source was quoted in  The Telegraph  saying the  ammonium nitrate  was to be used for “proper organized terrorism” and could have caused “a lot of damage. MI5 arrested a man in his 40s for allegedly planning terrorist attacks, but did not find evidence that the terrorists were planning an attack in the UK. A foreign government reportedly tipped off MI5 to the explosives stockpile. “MI5 worked independently and closely with international partners to disrupt the threat of ma

Likud, Blue and White avoid coalition crisis by voting against promises

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PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz pass each other in the Knesset last year. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) The votes come as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz disagree over whether to pass a two-year budget or a separate budget for each year.       Advertisement Likud and Blue and White  voted on Wednesday against bills they had supported in their campaigns, in order to keep their coalition alive and avoid another crisis that could escalate tension between the sides and topple the government.  Blue and White opposed opposition leader Yair Lapid’s bill to open a commission of inquiry into the “Submarines Affair,” and Likud voted down Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked’s bill to regulate the separation of powers between the Knesset and the judiciary, including an “override clause” to allow the Knesset overturn High Court of Justice decisions with a 61-MK majority. The votes ag