NewStats: 3,264,940 , 8,185,158 topics. Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 09:37 PM 4m4z56

How will students study, when herdsmen and cultist are on the loose. I pity the student because some may end up regretting.

Ranting about camping down irregular migration is cool but how will it work.

Up north the Northerners see chadians,nigeriens as brothers because of Islam.

Is going to be hard because this migrants add to the population of northerners.

Putin wasting Russian lives.

Russian authorities are offering to pay schoolgirls $1,200 to have children in a desperate attempt to boost the country’s birth rate after it lost a reported quarter of a million soldiers in the Ukraine War meat grinder.

School-age girls in the western Russian region of Oryol, some 200 miles south of Moscow and close to the Ukraine border, are the first in Russia to receive the payment if they have children.

From this year, girls in “full-time education,” will be eligible for the one-off payment of 100,000 rubles ($1,200), Oryol’s regional Governor Andrei Klychkov announced in a statement.

The region is already one of 40 in Russia that offer payment to female university students who have children, but on Thursday, Governor Klychkov extended the program to school-age girls in a statement on the region’s website.

Klychkov’s move sparked backlash after independent outlet 7×7 Horizontal Russia shared the amendment on Telegram, leading the Putin crony to accuse the media of sensationalizing his announcement as he insisted he was following orders from the Kremlin in a statement on Telegram.

“Unfortunately, journalists did not specify that there is an order of the Ministry of Labor of Russia dated February 11, 2025, ‘On approval of methodological recommendations for the implementations for the implementation of measures of regional programs to increase the birth rate, subject to co-financing from the federal budget,'” he fumed.



https://nypost.com/2025/03/24/world-news/russia-to-pay-schoolgirls-to-have-children-to-boost-birth-rates/

3 Square meal

PDP is in a dilemma with the likes of Atiku. Atiku has no regard for party policy but only regards his selfish interest.

I don't expect Atiku to be talking about being president when you know the southern presidency slot is 2 term.

Atiku will not work with Obi or Makinde.
Atiku has become a disease.

Grammy winner Tems stunned fans in her South African concert.

The international superstar performed at The recently opened Dome, Nasrec, Johannesburg, which seats 6,000 people.

Tems dazzled fans with a collection of her hit singles while also engaging exciting fans in a meet-and-greet session at the sideline of the concert.

South Africa is the first African stop for Tems' Born In The Wild tour after she earlier cancelled a show in Kigali Rwanda.

The singer made this announcement on her X on January 30 in a move that has been praised by both South African and DRC fans.

In the post, the Grammy winner shared that she promoted her Kigali concert ignorant of the ongoing crisis between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The 29-year-old star apologised if her actions appeared insensitive to the current political climate while also sharing a thought for all those affected by the conflict.

Tems' ongoing world tour followed the release of her debut album 'Born In The Wild' which earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Global album.

2025 has gotten off to a busy start for the singer who won her second Grammy award for Best African Song Performance at the 67th ceremony.

She also recently performed at the O2 Arena at the unveiling of Ashton Martin's new car for the 2025 F1 season which captured her status as one of the biggest African stars on the global stage.



https://www.pulse.ng/articles/entertainment/music/tems-sold-out-concert-leaves-south-african-fans-in-awe-2025032412534738241

Democracy in the hands of a drug baron is like a loaded gun in the hands of kids.

Tinubu is the worst of the worst people to rule Nigeria..

What kind of report is this. Something that happened years ago is been reported like it happened today.

Anyway 15 and 22years I don't see anything wrong here.

How many petitioners or was it by voice process.

APC is a disease.

When you leave governance in the hands of drug baron, terrorist, election riggers and politically blind followers. This is what you get.

Kirin X90 chip just as good as Intel

Huawei is tightening the screws on its great American tech purge, marching ahead with plans to rid its personal computers of anything remotely tied to Silicon Valley.

With US sanctions still hammering its supply chains, the Chinese tech giant is leaning heavily on its in-house Kirin X90 chip, which just bagged a Level 2 national security certification from China’s Information Technology Security Evaluation Centre—essentially a golden ticket for adoption in government and enterprise sectors.

Troubled Chipzilla has already felt the squeeze, with Washington yanking Qualcomm and Intel’s special licences to supply Huawei with older-generation chips. Now, even Microsoft's Windows is getting the boot, as Huawei preps HarmonyOS-powered PCs for launch later this year.

For a company that once relied on Intel’s Core processors and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon for its laptops, the shift to homegrown silicon is a seismic one. The Qingyun W515x and L540 laptops, featuring Kirin 9000C and 9006C chips, respectively, have already received certification, paving the way for a wider rollout in the mainland.

Huawei’s consumer boss Richard Yu Chengdong said last year that current laptops might be the last to run Windows.

Despite the sanctions, Huawei’s PC business is growing at a healthy clip. Shipments increased by 15 per cent in 2024, reaching 4.3 million units and capturing an 11 per cent share of the Chinese market. That puts it firmly behind Lenovo’s 35 per cent, but momentum is on its side—except for a slight stumble in Q4, where a lack of new launches saw shipments dip by seven per cent.

With HarmonyOS looming on the horizon, Huawei is betting big on a future where it controls the hardware and software stack.


https://fudzilla.com/news/60719-huawei-dumping-us-hardware

RepoMan007:
WriterNG.

Ukrainian forces carried out an attack on an airbase deep inside Russia this week.
New satellite images reveal extensive damage at the Engels-2 airbase.
It marks Ukraine's latest deep-strike operation as Kyiv attempts to degrade Russia's war machine.






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_38MHPri0

Negotiating to ending a war is not by mouth or threat. But patience, Grace, long suffering and sacrifice.

Not by talking too much.

When Donald Trump met President Zelensky in New York last September, the then US presidential candidate exuded confidence he could bring the war in Ukraine to an early end. "If we win, I think we're going to get it resolved very quickly," he said.

How quickly he meant varied over time. In a TV debate a few days earlier, Trump had promised he would "get it settled before I even become president". This was an escalation on his previous commitment in May 2023 to stop the fighting in the first 24 hours of his presidency.

Trump has now been in office for more than two months and the penny may be beginning to drop in the White House that trying to end a conflict as bitter and complex as this may take time.

In a television interview last weekend, the US president itted that when he promised to end the war in a day, he was "being a little bit sarcastic".

There are many reasons for the slower progress than Team Trump may have anticipated.

First, the president's belief in the power of his personal, one-on-one diplomacy may have been misplaced. He has long believed any international problem can be solved if he sits down with another leader and agrees a deal. Trump first spoke to Vladimir Putin on 12 February, an hour-and-a-half conversation he described as "highly productive". The two leaders spoke again on 18 March.

But it is clear these telephone calls failed to secure the immediate 30-day interim ceasefire Trump wanted. The only substantive concession he squeezed out of Putin was a promise to end Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, a commitment he is accused by Ukraine of breaking within hours of the call.

Second, the Russian president has made it clear he does not intend to be rushed. His first public comments about the negotiations came last week in a press conference that was a whole month after his telephone call with Trump.

Putin showed he was resolutely opposed to the US two-stage strategy of seeking an interim ceasefire before talking about a longer-term settlement. Instead, he said any talks must address what he sees as "the root causes of the war", namely his fears an expanding Nato alliance and the very existence of Ukraine as a sovereign state somehow present a threat to Russia's security. He also set out detailed questions and conditions that must be answered and met before any deal could be agreed.


Third, the US strategy of directing its initial focus on Ukraine may have been misjudged. The White House came to the belief that President Zelensky was the obstacle to peace. Western diplomats acknowledge the Ukrainian government was slow to realise just how much the world had changed with the arrival of Trump.

But the US pressure on Kyiv that led to the now infamous confrontation in the Oval Office - when Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance, harangued the Ukrainian leader - consumed time, effort and political capital.

It also ruptured transatlantic relations, setting Europe and the US at odds, another diplomatic problem that took time to settle. All the while Vladimir Putin sat back and enjoyed the show, biding his time.

Fourth, the sheer complexity of the conflict makes any resolution hard. The Ukrainian offer was initially for an interim ceasefire in the air and at sea. The idea was that this would be relatively straightforward to monitor.

But in last week's talks in Jeddah, the US insisted any immediate ceasefire should also include the more than 1200km-long front line in the east. Instantly that made the logistics of ing any ceasefire more complicated. This, of course, was then rejected by Putin.

But even his agreement to the more modest proposal - to end attacks on energy infrastructure - is not without its problems. It is the details about that proposal which will occupy much of the technical negotiations that are expected to take place in Saudi Arabia on Monday. Military and energy experts will draw up detailed lists of potential power plants – nuclear or otherwise – that might be protected.

They will also try to agree which weapons systems should not be used. But agreeing the difference between energy and other civilian infrastructure may take some time. : Ukraine and Russia are not talking to one another; they are engaging separately and bilaterally with the US which is promising to shuttle between both sides. This again adds to the time.

Fifth, the US focus on the economic benefits of a ceasefire distracted attention from the priority of ending the fighting. Trump has spent time trying to agree a framework deal giving US firms access to Ukrainian critical minerals. Some saw this as the US investing in Ukraine's future - others as it extorting the country's natural resources.

President Zelensky argued initially he could agree a deal only if the US promised to provide Ukraine with security guarantees to deter future Russian aggression. The White House refused, saying the presence of US mining firms and workers would be deterrent enough. Eventually Zelensky conceded defeat and said he would agree a minerals deal without security guarantees. But despite that, the US has yet to sign the agreement, hoping again to improve the , possibly by including access to or even ownership of Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

Ending wars can be complex and time consuming. We would not have got to this stage without Trump's pushing, but progress has not been as quick or simple as he believed. In December 2018, as he campaigned for the presidency, Volodymyr Zelensky suggested negotiations with Vladimir Putin would be quite straightforward. "You need to talk in a very simple way," he told the Ukrainian journalist, Dmytro Gordon. '"What do you want, what are your conditions?" And I'd tell them: 'Here are our points.' We would agree somewhere in the middle."

Well, on the evidence of the last two months, it may be harder than that.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89yngk2z7qo

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Russia has declared a state of emergency after a Ukrainian drone strike on a strategic bomber air base in the Saratov region triggered a huge blast and fire which caused serious damage to nearby homes.

Ukrainian forces claimed responsibility for the attack on the Engels-2 air base, which houses Russian Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers.

Newsweek has ed the Russian Foreign Ministry by email for comment.

Why It Matters


Russia rarely acknowledges attacks on its military installations during the war. Authorities often attempt to cover up incidents or downplay the extent of the damage. The declaration of a state of emergency underscores the severity of the destruction caused by the attack.

Ukrainian forces claimed responsibility for the attack on the Engels-2 air base, which houses Russian Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers.

Newsweek has ed the Russian Foreign Ministry by email for comment.

Why It Matters
Russia rarely acknowledges attacks on its military installations during the war. Authorities often attempt to cover up incidents or downplay the extent of the damage. The declaration of a state of emergency underscores the severity of the destruction caused by the attack.


What To Know

The attack on the Engels-2 air base was conducted tly by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, sources from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told RBC-Ukraine.

The airfield houses Russia's Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers, which are capable of carrying out nuclear and conventional long-range strikes. The aircraft have repeatedly been used by Russia's military to launch missile attacks on Ukraine in the war

The military base is located some 500 miles southeast of Moscow, and it has been targeted several times throughout the war.

Footage from the attack showed a huge plume of smoke rising from the base and an intense blaze. Other footage showed that the blast completely destroyed some homes, tearing off roofs and blowing them across the street.

Roman Busargin, the governor of Russia's Saratov region said 30 residential homes were damaged in the attack. Evacuations were carried out in the area "for safety reasons," he said.

Ukrainian OSINT journalists said the drone strike hit an ammunition depot.

Andriy Kovalenko, an official on Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said a number of missiles, including Kh-101 cruise missiles, were destroyed in the blast.



https://www.newsweek.com/russia-emergency-engels-air-base-attack-2047940

Nigerianxpress:
Cult initiation gone wrong

You read my mind.

U Dominit 1 trillion. Are there no customs anymore.

They should also burn the ones in kano.

This is a welcome distraction for Nigerians.
Osihmen should stay back. Gala is working for him.

The one that can deliver like the thief that they call white lion.
That spent months hiding from law officials.

Like suspending elected officials for 6 months is the normal thing now.

This courage of yours gov Makinde is what many Nigerians lack.
Tribe does not exempt one from hardship.
I salute your Audacity.

Wow plenty dollars inside babariga senate ride on your cup go soon full.

Yes ooo. Tell that thief in Aso Rock that was he did is unconstitutional.

Like the energy of the coalition. There will be shake down lin 2027.

They know what they planning. The supreme Court couldn't accomplish it so they take law in their hand to scuttle democracy..

You claim rivers state is restless. How about

Borno state
Jigawa state
Yobe state

Many are mad but few are roaming. This is madness now,
A party that destroyed the quality of life of Nigerians. Bastardized the court and rule of law.
What will make a sane person APC.

This guy is a disgrace to Africans. I never knew there are people without conscience until this hungry man showed up.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.facebook.com/objectvmedia/videos/protest-against-tinubu-at-chatham-house-video-source-reno-omokri-on-twitter/5842621245789671/&ved=2ahUKEwiLu5D_wZaMAxWrWUEAHYa9J94QwqsBegQIEBAF&usg=AOvVaw0UZQRf3D7pdDRFp30GREpp


People with no conscience.

This shows that tinubu is just a DAFT. You declare state of emergency in the south south but north east killing Nigerian Army in hundreds,, burning villages. You kept quiet.

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The United States has no right to interfere with the cooperation between China and Thailand as the two sovereign nations continue to crack down on human smuggling and other cross-border crimes, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday.

She added that such cooperation is in line with the domestic laws of both countries as well as international law and common practices.

The remark came in response to moves by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced on Friday sanctions that include visa restrictions for Thai government officials involved in the deportation cooperation.

Noting the 40 Chinese nationals, under “wrong influence”, illegally crossed the border and ended up stranded in Thailand, where they were detained for over a decade, Mao said the Chinese government has the obligation and responsibility to protect its citizens and help them reunite with their families and resume normal lives.

By politicising this issue, the United States is applying double standards and trying to suppress others, Mao said, adding the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the removal of over 270,000 non-citizens to 192 different countries during the 2024 fiscal year, marking the highest level of deportations since 2014




Mao said China strongly condemns all ill-intentioned vilification and illegal sanctions against China and Thailand, and firmly opposes the United States’ manipulation of Xinjiang-related issues under the pretext of human rights, interfering in China’s domestic affairs, and disrupting the normal law enforcement cooperation between China and relevant countries.

“China will continue to enhance communication and coordination with relevant countries on the basis of mutual respect and equal-footed consultation, protect the lawful rights and interests of Chinese citizens and work for stronger international law enforcement cooperation," Mao said.

The spokesperson did not mention that the 40 persons repatriated to China last month were of Uyghur ethnicity.



https://www.nationthailand.com/news/world/40047539

That's RIP in advance.