GLOBACOM said over the weekend that the new Glo Bolt Internet modem has been loaded with spectacular free benefits including a free Glo SIM card; 500 MB of data once the SIM is registered and activated. The package will also have free monthly data for six months for new and existing data subscribers on the Glo network.

According to Glo, new and existing subscribers who subscribed to any of the pocket friendly plans such as Always Macro, Always Min, Always Max, the Silver, Gold or Platinum plans will get a 30 per cent instant bonus and 200 MB free data every month for six months. The free data will be automatically given to the subscriber as soon as he/she activates a plan of N1, 000 and above each month.

Globacom’s GM, Marketing, Ashutosh Tiwary, said that Glo Bolt thrives on “speed and performance and, with the service, the subscriber is always a winner because we recognise that speed is a driver of value”.

Tiwary said that Glo Bolt offers unparalleled value since the cost of the modem has been significantly reduced and bundled with a free SIM and 500 MB free data on activation. “Our innovative plan sharing and plan gifting capability will also make Glo Bolt the Internet service of choice in the market”, Tiwary added.

On the gifting feature, Tiwary said a Glo customer can now buy an Internet subscription and send it to friends, family members and loved ones as ‘gifts’. This feature is especially useful when the person buying the gift does not want to share his subscription with the intended recipient. The gift recipient will be notified of the gift via customized SMS from the sender. The sharing feature allows up to five Glo customers to share one data plan.

Also speaking on the subscription plans, Tiwary explained that the sharing feature offers the subscriber convenience and affordability by enabling him to share his internet subscription with his friends, family and loved ones instead of buying multiple subscriptions for each and every one of them.

“For instance, a customer with a wife and two kids can buy only one subscription plan and share with his three loved ones instead of buying four subscription plans. The beneficiaries will receive an SMS notifying them of the shared plan and how they can share the plan. The customer just needs to visit http://hsi.glo.com from his Glo line to access the new world-class self-care portal through which the customers can use all the new functionalities. Only Glo offers a Self Care Portal for its Data & BlackBerry customers,” he explained.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106003:glo-offers-free-six-month-data-30-per-cent-bonus-on-new-internet-service-&catid=55:compulife&Itemid=391

Five months after President Goodluck Jonathan flew to Uyo to commission it, the Akwa Ibom e-library is still far from completion

After a showy commissioning and multi-billion investments five months ago, the Akwa Ibom State e-library, a proposed full e-learning facility flaunted as West Africa’s first, has yet to commence operations.

Instead, equipment shortages that have remained unresolved at the facility months on, are giving vent to earlier concerns that authorities in Akwa Ibom rushed out an unfinished project for immediate political gains.

A spokesperson for the state acknowledged parts of the project have yet to be finalised, and that managerial issues are still pending.

“It takes a process to put all the public elements in place,” Anietie Umanah, the state commissioner for information said on Sunday.

The inertia at the library has raised fears about its completion, refreshing concerns about state governments’ penchant for delivering half-made projects, often, for lavish presidential unveiling, gaining public approvals, after which the projects are abandoned.

President Goodluck Jonathan opened the sprawling unit in Uyo, the state capital, late June, in a brassy ceremony that exhibited the details and prospects of the new project, and drew plaudits for the government.

The credits soon turned to criticisms after a PREMIUM TIMES’ report revealed that the library had no functional website, a basic requirement for such facility.

The publication spurred the state government to hurriedly switch on with three unfinished websites.

Five months on, the project, which promised an array of unprecedented facilities to aid textual and multimedia studies for adults and children, has yet to commence operations.

At its Ibrahim Babangida Avenue site in Uyo, visitors are turned away from accessing the interior of the structure during the day, while a few salaried staff keep security and the reception.

Our reporters tried for several days to access the facilities for additional research for a story they had travelled to the state to report but were turned back each time by security guards who explained that the library was still under construction.

Members of the public on sightseeing, routinely screen photographs of the complex and of themselves with the structure in the background.

At night, the building’s superb exterior finishing is set clear and appealing by powerful lighting effects.

But beyond those snapshots, the office has offered no service despite inclining messages to potential users on its website, advising them on the glowing packages offered.

“More than 2,000,000 academic research, rare and special eBooks full-text fully downloadable from the year 1,000 till today,” one reads.

Another promises “Over 200 collections searchable either individually or in custom-built groups to maximise researchers productivity.”

The few staff around the complex hardly comment on the project’s delay, plan for commencement, or areas under construction.

When our reporters visited the library recently, workers appeared on strict instructions not to respond to inquiries concerning the project.

A staff, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES anonymously for fear of victimization, branded the June inauguration by Mr. Jonathan a “political commissioning.”

“Whether next year, or even 20 years to come, they may start. But it has nothing to do with that launching,” the staff said.

The state government claims the date could be much closer, although it failed to shake off the notion of a troubled take-off for the project.

Information commissioner, Mr. Umanah, who spoke via telephone, admitted the delay was caused by unresolved technical and management issues months after the inauguration.

The ongoing operations, he said, include “raising a certain platform within the digital section of the building,” which involves the laying of cables; hence the decision to close it to the public, Mr. Umanah said.

The selection of the right consultant manager for the office is also unresolved, he added, predicting both issues might be addressed by December paving the way for full operations to start by January, seven months after launching.

But those privy to information about the library’s contents say many more facilities that the state told the world existed in the library are yet to be installed.

They also doubt Mr. Umanah’s set January date.

The commissioner had earlier suggested a September date for the facility to be fully operational; a target that never materialised.

All he had to do to show the"pestle wielding critcs" that he wasn't a clueless president was to suspend the planned introduction of the note and call SLS to order but alas......what do u expect from a Mad man with a capital M!

olulove:
a.s.s ho.le...tel ur iliterate mallams 2 dclared ur STUP.ID JIHAD...ND LETS C WHO WIL GO DOWN...#ND U SAID ISLAM PREACH PEACE WITH ''JIHAD'' SMH
a.s.s ho.le...tel ur iliterate mallams 2 dclared ur STUP.ID JIHAD...ND LETS C WHO WIL GO DOWN...#ND U SAID ISLAM PREACH PEACE WITH ''JIHAD'' SMH
a.s.s ho.le...tel ur iliterate mallams 2 dclared ur STUP.ID JIHAD...ND LETS C WHO WIL GO DOWN...#ND U SAID ISLAM PREACH PEACE WITH ''JIHAD'' SMH

rather they shuldnt pray for a crusade where the most peace-loving xtian will be on the streets!

jaybee:

honestly i live in kaduna, but i can't figure out the place called "gate"

possibly that gate which has a motorpark within at kasuwa close to makarfi plaza...jus saying

lekkie073:
D 'hausa' want to start killin 'xtians...who told u d xtians there are not hausa too? Reframe ur comment to d muslims want to start killin d xtians...

*yawns*

sadyeek:

[size=16pt]kk.. Fine!
But let me ask you a question, would be among a party of people say 50 in number go to a hostile territory with 200 or more hostiles wanting to kill one or more of them and expecting to walk out of there alive. Let's not forget, there are military personels and a curfew!?

Juat tink about it.[/size]

Wouldn't be a party to that but do u seriously tink those scums reason d way we do?

sadyeek:

[size=16pt]relax now, that's one of our problems! Why provoke people like this now form "I hear, I hear"
Barnawa, is a mostly christain community, why would hausa march there during curfew wanting to avenge?? Please let's stop "I hear say, I hear say" its not helping us.[/size]

I dnt post tins anyhw on NL before I did dat I must have confirmed cos I use to stay der as well, still hv friends evn relations ova der..its true weda u believe it or not.soldiers hv restored calm tho.

Its true..just confirmed it frm a friend living der. Said the hausa wants to start killin xtians and d gov went to angwan rimi but he was chased or sumtin......the hausa said they wnt agree and must avenge d deaths of their muslim brodas. Xtians need to borrow a leaf frm israel...smh

nice topic.........feels good seeing something reasonable in which people don't have to hurl abuses at each other to get their points across. bravo!

eliment: i think am comfortable with my foot wagon cos my life is much more secure

lutherking1: I thought some1 is in charge of tweeter. wht do u think beaf?

the person in charge b4 might have lost his job.

ismhab:

I think is a high time, boko haram suppose to pay a visit to the israel's ambassador in Nigeria,

Stop talking like dis jor!! I dare them to try it,that would be toying with a tiger's tail or are u a sympathizer of the sect? 

greateros:

hum-pity!

dum-pity!

dumb!

empty!

sorrowful!

hollow even to your ears!

fo-ol!

high on sniffing GEJ sh-it!
masquerade!

[size=24pt]ASSEMBLY OF VULTURES![/size]

U Can't have choosed a better word

born2fuck:

I will be busy watching Manchester City Vs Manchester United FA cup

I don't trust our government anymore

CHECK!

The shameless Reno Omokri was already denying on twitter that the president did not travel, atleast a south african daily wouldn't lie. shame!!
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-01-06-will-the-anc-learn-from-nigeria-or-just-party-on

Not true cos as we speak the IG is demanding for police permit before the labour strike can hold on monday, what a nation

pls i would appreciate a copy

Saint Obi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

manmustwac:

YES! You can't see the problem because you and the masses are the problem. You are being fed with sweet opium which is fed to you and the masses by your pastors whenever you visit your church. As long as you and the masses continue to enjoy the sweet opium and wait for Jesus to come down from heaven Nigeria will never ever progress.

I believe u are one of the masses as well,

depending on how we treat ourselves that is how others will view n treat us dear Broda jona

when would we talk abt how our institutions dish out honorary degrees to undesirable elements at will? 

A revolution is long over-due in this country, at times i feel they have the common man under some sort of mind control device or something to keep us mute abi na juju?

men!!!!!!!! this fresh air is more like taking in carbon monoxide o!

Am from Lokoja and i have to give it as the worst ever cos i travel a lot and i can assure u that none comes even close

On October 31 North Atlantic Treaty Organization chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in the Libyan capital of Tripoli at the end of seven full months of the military bloc’s war in the country and effused: “It’s great to be in Libya, free Libya.”



Like Scipio Africanus the Younger almost twenty-two centuries earlier in what is now Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia, then Carthage, Rasmussen planted the banner of a conquering power on the soil of North Africa. Perhaps NATO will grant Rasmussen, too, the honorific agnomen Africanus after the military bloc’s first war and first conquest on the continent.



While basking in the triumph of what Western commentators have celebrated as NATO’s first complete and uncontested military victory – “the most successful in Nato history” in Rasmussen’s words – in the Libyan capital, the secretary general was questioned by a reporter about plans to replicate the Libyan model in Syria and stated: “My answer is very short. NATO has no intention (to intervene) whatsoever. I can completely rule that out.”



However, to belie his claim he immediately added: “Having said that, I strongly condemn the crackdown on the civilian population in Syria. What has happened in Libya sends a clear signal. You cannot neglect the will of the people.”



The 227-day war against Libya waged first by U.S. Africa Command from March 19-31 and thereafter by NATO is, according to the NATO chieftain, “a clear signal” to Syria, but “NATO has no intention” to commence military actions against Syria. Scant assurance to the nation’s government and populace alike, to be sure.



On the day Muammar Gaddafi was brutally killed, Senator John McCain, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and presidential candidate in 2008, threatened the president of Syria, the prime minister of Russia and unnamed Chinese leaders with the less than eloquent admonition that they “got a reason to be uneasy” according to one account. He told the BBC on October 20: “I think dictators all over the world, including Bashar al-Assad, maybe even Mr. Putin, maybe some Chinese, maybe all of them, may be a little bit more nervous.” He repeated the parallel between Libya and Syria three days later while in Jordan.



Had Rasmussen been someone other than who he is, which is to say an honest individual, his comments in the Libyan capital would have been limited to the line of Tacitus about a Roman campaign in the century following the Third Punic War: Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. (They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.) Libya has been destroyed. What is left of the city of Sirte presents a vivid image that suits all too well the Roman historian’s words.



Back at home in NATO Headquarters in Brussels three days later, Rasmussen gave his latest monthly press briefing, in which he stated:

“Let me stress that NATO has no intention whatsoever to intervene in Iran, and NATO is not engaged as an alliance in the Iran question.”

He began his comments with this account: “This week I had the privilege to visit Tripoli, the capital of free Libya. It was the first time ever that a NATO Secretary General set foot in the country and something none of us could have imagined only a year ago.”



During the question and answer period which succeeded his presentation he responded to a question on Libya by stating:

“We would be prepared to offer the same kind of assistance as we have offered to other partners within defence and security sector reforms. That is, overall to help put defence and security agencies under civilian and democratic control. We can also help in organizing a modern defence, modern structures. In more specific terms we can help when it comes to institution-building like the building of a defence ministry, how to organize General Staff of the Armed Forces, just to mention some examples.



“NATO has a lot of expertise within defence and security sector reform, and actually a number of our Allies have gone through a similar transition from dictatorship into democracy, so they have a very valuable experience to offer. And I talked with Chairman Jalil and made clear that we are ready to assist Libya within such reform efforts if requested…”

Given the alliance’s history over the past twenty years, what he in fact pledged was that NATO will train – from scratch and in English – the armed forces of the new Libyan proxy regime as it has done previously and is still engaged in doing in other nations and provinces it has invaded and in other manners subjugated: Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Iraq.



Libya, which until now has been the only North African nation not to be pulled into NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue military partnership – Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria are members as are Israel, Jordan and Mauritania – will become the eighth member and a joint asset of NATO and U.S. Africa Command.



The chief of what is not only the sole extant military bloc in the world but the largest and longest-lived multinational armed alliance in history may have taken to issuing regular disclaimers concerning attacking new nations well outside the so-called Euro-Atlantic zone, but how much credence the secretary general’s pronouncements should be given is best indicated by how unconscionably NATO lied its way into full-fledged wars in three continents over the past twelve years.



With 28 full members at present, after a 75 per cent increase between 1999-2009, and over 40 partners around the world, the North Atlantic bloc has integrated the militaries of a third of the world’s nations for deployments to war and post-war zones in the Balkans and South Asia, with Africa the next destination.



Its latest trophy is the battered, bloodied and brutalized body of Muammar Gaddafi, murdered after a U.S. Hellfire missile and French laser-guided bombs struck his convoy outside Sirte on October 20, eight months before what would have been his seventieth birthday. So bereft of the most elementary notions of decency and values, moral and aesthetic, are the governments of the West and the people they deserve (as a British writer a century ago reversed the well-known dictum of Joseph de Maistre), that the only stimulants left to awaken their satiated and dehumanized sensibilities are – as they are inured to violence, even on a mass scale – necrophilia and fiendish, ghoulish Grand Guignol. The lower tier of American culture, mass-market escapist entertainment, is consumed by a fascination with vampires, flesh-eating zombies and the like and graphic depictions of foreign leaders and former leaders being mauled and murdered are simply more lurid diversions for jaded ennuyés.



In reference to the murder of Gaddafi and his son Muatassim, the public display of their corpses and the sports enthusiast-like celebration of those gruesome acts by the likes of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin lambasted them as emblematic of sadistic triumphalism, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denounced them as disgusting and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov characterized the first as “a striking illustration of American and their NATO allies’ policy in the North-African country,” according to Interfax in the third instance.



They are in fact grotesque, in the sense that Hegel defined the word, as the idealization of the ugly.



In his own words, the last-cited Russian official warned: “I think that the entire world should watch today the published photographs and video records of Gaddafi’s murder. It is not just a dead former leader of Libya. It’s the symbol of the sovereignty of an independent country that was torn to pieces by Americans.”



The day after Gaddafi’s murder the same news agency cited another deputy of the lower house of parliament of the same, Communist, party, Vadim Solovyov, as affirming: “The American economy is in need of inexpensive oil, so the U.S. government is even ready to wage wars, if only oil arrives…Any country with large reserves of energy resources – Iran, Syria, Venezuela or [b]Nigeria [/b]– could come next.”



NATO ground, air and naval forces continue their murderous rampages in Afghanistan, across the border into Pakistan, in Kosovska Mitrovica, in Libya and off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and adjoining waters (where NATO killed the captain of a Taiwanese fishing vessel and wounded two Iranian fishermen in separate attacks earlier this year).



A Stop NATO feature in August provided an, admittedly incomplete, list of nations that NATO, actuated by its first Strategic Concept for the 21st century adopted at the bloc’s summit in Lisbon last November and its initial implementation in Libya this year, could attack or otherwise intervene in next: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Chad, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cyprus, Ecuador, Eritrea, Iran, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Moldova-Transdniester, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, the South Caucasus (Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia), Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Uganda, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Yemen and Zimbabwe.



In the interim the Obama administration announced the deployment of special forces to four of the above nations and on the day of Gaddafi’s murder the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee on African affairs, Senator Chris Coons, was reported by Associated Press as asserting that “Moammar Gadhafi’s death and the promise of a new Libyan regime are arguments for the measured U.S. military response in central Africa where the U.S. has sent roughly 100 troops” to Uganda, Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.



That the nations of the world require almost daily assurances, however untrustworthy, that they will not be attacked by the mightiest multinational military formation in history is an indictment of the age that submits to living under such ongoing and ubiquitous threats. The time is ripe and in fact long overdue for issuing a call for an international anti-NATO initiative addressed to individuals, organizations, political parties and governments to convene an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to demand the disbanding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a – as the gravest – threat to world peace.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27482

On October 31 North Atlantic Treaty Organization chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in the Libyan capital of Tripoli at the end of seven full months of the military bloc’s war in the country and effused: “It’s great to be in Libya, free Libya.”



Like Scipio Africanus the Younger almost twenty-two centuries earlier in what is now Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia, then Carthage, Rasmussen planted the banner of a conquering power on the soil of North Africa. Perhaps NATO will grant Rasmussen, too, the honorific agnomen Africanus after the military bloc’s first war and first conquest on the continent.



While basking in the triumph of what Western commentators have celebrated as NATO’s first complete and uncontested military victory – “the most successful in Nato history” in Rasmussen’s words – in the Libyan capital, the secretary general was questioned by a reporter about plans to replicate the Libyan model in Syria and stated: “My answer is very short. NATO has no intention (to intervene) whatsoever. I can completely rule that out.”



However, to belie his claim he immediately added: “Having said that, I strongly condemn the crackdown on the civilian population in Syria. What has happened in Libya sends a clear signal. You cannot neglect the will of the people.”



The 227-day war against Libya waged first by U.S. Africa Command from March 19-31 and thereafter by NATO is, according to the NATO chieftain, “a clear signal” to Syria, but “NATO has no intention” to commence military actions against Syria. Scant assurance to the nation’s government and populace alike, to be sure.



On the day Muammar Gaddafi was brutally killed, Senator John McCain, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and presidential candidate in 2008, threatened the president of Syria, the prime minister of Russia and unnamed Chinese leaders with the less than eloquent admonition that they “got a reason to be uneasy” according to one account. He told the BBC on October 20: “I think dictators all over the world, including Bashar al-Assad, maybe even Mr. Putin, maybe some Chinese, maybe all of them, may be a little bit more nervous.” He repeated the parallel between Libya and Syria three days later while in Jordan.



Had Rasmussen been someone other than who he is, which is to say an honest individual, his comments in the Libyan capital would have been limited to the line of Tacitus about a Roman campaign in the century following the Third Punic War: Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. (They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.) Libya has been destroyed. What is left of the city of Sirte presents a vivid image that suits all too well the Roman historian’s words.



Back at home in NATO Headquarters in Brussels three days later, Rasmussen gave his latest monthly press briefing, in which he stated:

“Let me stress that NATO has no intention whatsoever to intervene in Iran, and NATO is not engaged as an alliance in the Iran question.”

He began his comments with this account: “This week I had the privilege to visit Tripoli, the capital of free Libya. It was the first time ever that a NATO Secretary General set foot in the country and something none of us could have imagined only a year ago.”



During the question and answer period which succeeded his presentation he responded to a question on Libya by stating:

“We would be prepared to offer the same kind of assistance as we have offered to other partners within defence and security sector reforms. That is, overall to help put defence and security agencies under civilian and democratic control. We can also help in organizing a modern defence, modern structures. In more specific terms we can help when it comes to institution-building like the building of a defence ministry, how to organize General Staff of the Armed Forces, just to mention some examples.



“NATO has a lot of expertise within defence and security sector reform, and actually a number of our Allies have gone through a similar transition from dictatorship into democracy, so they have a very valuable experience to offer. And I talked with Chairman Jalil and made clear that we are ready to assist Libya within such reform efforts if requested…”

Given the alliance’s history over the past twenty years, what he in fact pledged was that NATO will train – from scratch and in English – the armed forces of the new Libyan proxy regime as it has done previously and is still engaged in doing in other nations and provinces it has invaded and in other manners subjugated: Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Iraq.



Libya, which until now has been the only North African nation not to be pulled into NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue military partnership – Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria are members as are Israel, Jordan and Mauritania – will become the eighth member and a joint asset of NATO and U.S. Africa Command.



The chief of what is not only the sole extant military bloc in the world but the largest and longest-lived multinational armed alliance in history may have taken to issuing regular disclaimers concerning attacking new nations well outside the so-called Euro-Atlantic zone, but how much credence the secretary general’s pronouncements should be given is best indicated by how unconscionably NATO lied its way into full-fledged wars in three continents over the past twelve years.



With 28 full members at present, after a 75 per cent increase between 1999-2009, and over 40 partners around the world, the North Atlantic bloc has integrated the militaries of a third of the world’s nations for deployments to war and post-war zones in the Balkans and South Asia, with Africa the next destination.



Its latest trophy is the battered, bloodied and brutalized body of Muammar Gaddafi, murdered after a U.S. Hellfire missile and French laser-guided bombs struck his convoy outside Sirte on October 20, eight months before what would have been his seventieth birthday. So bereft of the most elementary notions of decency and values, moral and aesthetic, are the governments of the West and the people they deserve (as a British writer a century ago reversed the well-known dictum of Joseph de Maistre), that the only stimulants left to awaken their satiated and dehumanized sensibilities are – as they are inured to violence, even on a mass scale – necrophilia and fiendish, ghoulish Grand Guignol. The lower tier of American culture, mass-market escapist entertainment, is consumed by a fascination with vampires, flesh-eating zombies and the like and graphic depictions of foreign leaders and former leaders being mauled and murdered are simply more lurid diversions for jaded ennuyés.



In reference to the murder of Gaddafi and his son Muatassim, the public display of their corpses and the sports enthusiast-like celebration of those gruesome acts by the likes of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin lambasted them as emblematic of sadistic triumphalism, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denounced them as disgusting and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov characterized the first as “a striking illustration of American and their NATO allies’ policy in the North-African country,” according to Interfax in the third instance.



They are in fact grotesque, in the sense that Hegel defined the word, as the idealization of the ugly.



In his own words, the last-cited Russian official warned: “I think that the entire world should watch today the published photographs and video records of Gaddafi’s murder. It is not just a dead former leader of Libya. It’s the symbol of the sovereignty of an independent country that was torn to pieces by Americans.”



The day after Gaddafi’s murder the same news agency cited another deputy of the lower house of parliament of the same, Communist, party, Vadim Solovyov, as affirming: “The American economy is in need of inexpensive oil, so the U.S. government is even ready to wage wars, if only oil arrives…Any country with large reserves of energy resources – Iran, Syria, Venezuela or [b]Nigeria [/b]– could come next.”



NATO ground, air and naval forces continue their murderous rampages in Afghanistan, across the border into Pakistan, in Kosovska Mitrovica, in Libya and off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and adjoining waters (where NATO killed the captain of a Taiwanese fishing vessel and wounded two Iranian fishermen in separate attacks earlier this year).



A Stop NATO feature in August provided an, admittedly incomplete, list of nations that NATO, actuated by its first Strategic Concept for the 21st century adopted at the bloc’s summit in Lisbon last November and its initial implementation in Libya this year, could attack or otherwise intervene in next: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Chad, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cyprus, Ecuador, Eritrea, Iran, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Moldova-Transdniester, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, the South Caucasus (Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia), Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Uganda, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Yemen and Zimbabwe.



In the interim the Obama administration announced the deployment of special forces to four of the above nations and on the day of Gaddafi’s murder the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee on African affairs, Senator Chris Coons, was reported by Associated Press as asserting that “Moammar Gadhafi’s death and the promise of a new Libyan regime are arguments for the measured U.S. military response in central Africa where the U.S. has sent roughly 100 troops” to Uganda, Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.



That the nations of the world require almost daily assurances, however untrustworthy, that they will not be attacked by the mightiest multinational military formation in history is an indictment of the age that submits to living under such ongoing and ubiquitous threats. The time is ripe and in fact long overdue for issuing a call for an international anti-NATO initiative addressed to individuals, organizations, political parties and governments to convene an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to demand the disbanding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a – as the gravest – threat to world peace.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27482

Actor Andy Whitfield, star of the TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it was confirmed today.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2036389/Andy-Whitfield-dead-Spartacus-star-loses-battle-cancer-age-39.html

Ogori dey 4 kogi now no be kwara!

lakefist:

its not worth anything, i was dissappointed when i check in to 2go rooms found some fools there insulting any1 who tried to contribute to meaningful discussions.i tink most users of 2go are not matured, if ure doubting go to 1 of d rooms and see for urself no site can be like nairaland.

U are on point, a lot of immature juvenile minds on 2go. makes me sick!!!!

aca77:

The uselessness of their internet is already common knowledge. I opened a thread to complain about that several months ago. Till today, no noticeable improvement. The 3g network woverage has to be the worst in the world. When you're browsing, the connection keeps fluctuating between 3g, edge and Gprs. . .thereby interrupting your browing and breaking your downloads. And to think that I stay around the Ikeja area! If a major area like the Ikeja/GRA/Maryland axis cannot have stable 3G coverage, then I wonder what the case would be for all the suburbs like Abule-Egba, Okokomaiko and such places. MTN's 3G is universal and ever steady! Yet this useless company called glo would be making silly noise about their Glo 1 sub-marine cable and all that. This company sucks in every way. I regret being on the network. . .wish I could migrate to another network and retain my existing phone number.

U culdnt have said it more, i subscribed yesterday to their internet browsing and i suffered at the hands of their CC who were so rude that i almost shed tears on the phone, its so bad the way they speak to people which they are very much aware of so they don't tell u their surname only the first name lest u report their foul mouth tirade to their employers.again the so called 3g keeps fluctuating and like the other guy said they are a real pain especially when u subscribe to their internet plan,i went thru hell before it was activated.