Navalny’s return, his arrest and the protest. A first quick thread
1. Navalny in Germany had rot make a difficult choice: to stay in exile and become insignificant or to return to stay significant (and may be even rise more), but under risk for his freedom and life. /2

2. I can’t imaging that Navalny and his team thought that his return and even his arrest might provoke a „revolutionary situation“ in Russia like we’ve seen in Ukraine earlier or Belarus now. he’s a too experienced politician for such a misjudgment. He’s playing the long game./3

3. He had to wage his wishes and the risk. His preferred the possibility of a rather long imprisonment to the perspective of insignificance in evil. He’s more than 20 y. younger than Putin. The next medium-term goal will be „smart voting“ in the Duma elections next September. /4

4. Nobody can with certainty predict the tipping point of political developments. No revolutionary moment was ever predicted.Lenin did not know that he will succeed, when he returned to Russia in 1917. What he knew was that there is a crises. There is a multiple crisis in…/5

…Russia now, too. No really worrying for Putin. But worrying enough to be afraid of an upcoming challenger to try to not let become him too strong. So far Putin’s strategy was to use only as much force as needed. This is a strategy that demand first certain skills…/6

With little @Mbuhari has achieved alot in Nigeria security structure, if you budget 100 trillion dollars for security, it is not enough as long as we keep having population everyday. Under Buhari I will be listing some of the new changes we have from all security agencies

DIA - @MBuhari expands the scope of the is agency to function well as it supposed to be under a world standards Intelligence and also fight against insecurity. DIA are part of those in the NE helping the military in intelligence.

DSS - @MBuhari increased the recruitment process

From 600,700 to 3000, also enhance their capacity in intelligence reports, this agency people think they are not working but I can say that their work is the most stressful job in Nigeria imagine 1 field officer covering 200 towns and you must provide reports everyday. Also in NE

NIA- the NIA also are doing their best in intelligence gathering also it's recruitment increased from 100 to 700 personnels. And they are also active in Nigeria Counter-insurgency, NIA has been brain behind other agencies telling them how they need to work on the lapses.

Police- police has received more than I can imagine, from Criminal records lab, forensic lab, improve in intelligence, logistics, recruitment process, funding. The police are part of the AFSF which were trained in Belarus, Russia, Israel. Some of them are in NE doing greatly

THREAD. 1. We simply must stop seeing Freedom of Movement of People as a thing that causes mass immigration or that we must be scared of it. It avoids the need for “permanent immigration” & opens opportunities for British people and ensures our prof quals are recognised /...

2. FOM of people means it is as easy to take a job or live in Frankfurt as it is in Manchester or Bristol. FOM means you don’t need to immigrate permanently and keep your own nationality. /...

3. FOM of people does not mean scrapping passport control. (That’s Schengen and we’ve never been in it, but when you understand it properly, perhaps we should be) /...

4. FOM of people does not mean the government doesn’t know who is in the country. We have that data as passports are scanned and from flight advance passenger data and airline data. More recently also from health questionnaires. /...

5. FOM benefits younger workers coming to the UK and younger Brits going to other European cities to work. Nowadays you can often live and work in Europe even if you only speak English. Younger workers may go home after a few years /...

Unconfirmed points that Pashinyan might sign in Moscow on his official visit:

1- Withdrawal of all Armenian troops from Karabakh, the surrender of 16 settlements in Armenia, a corridor to Azerbaijan through Meghri.

2- Aliyev will demand from Pashinyan to agree to disband the OSCE Minsk Group. Instead of this group, a trilateral or 4-way negotiation format will be created.

3- Aliyev will demand that Pashinyan no longer raise the issue of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, since Azerbaijan has already resolved this issue, and the maximum that the Armenians can count on is cultural autonomy within Azerbaijan.

4- Aliyev will demand from Pashinyan that official visits from Armenia to Karabakh be stopped. All official visits should have permission from Baku. Only private visits, as well as humanitarian visits, can be carried out without the permission of Azerbaijan.

5- In the process of establishing the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Yerevan must cede 16 villages to Azerbaijan and this process must be legislatively enshrined in a special agreement dated January 11.+

#PMLnBehindQabzaMafia

""Mafia's In Pakistan"

It is the unfortunate of Pakistan that we have double of the mafia's than the laws to control them.
Start any business and you will have to to face different mafia's,

@aamn__r

#PMLnBehindQabzaMafia

Let's start with poultry business and take a quick look,
1.
First you have to purchase a land in a town and there would be a group of people in that town who used to sue new buyers to blackmail ,

@aamn__r

#PMLnBehindQabzaMafia

and earn easy money.
They will file a suit and gradually withdraw it when you pay them some money. Believe me they would've ties with the local political personality.

@aamn__r

#PMLnBehindQabzaMafia

2.
Now you want to transfer that land in your name. For this purpose you went to land revenue office and you will face a mafia of Government employees and their touts.

@aamn__r

#PMLnBehindQabzaMafia

3. Now you have to made a shed and you try to tender for the construction.
You will face the construction mafia which will force you to construct your shed with their rates.
It's a fact that every construction firm is backed by a political party.

@aamn__r

Out they go!
A CLEAN HOUSE is very important.

Thread on how PDM failed:

1) No sight of common man + families in Jalsas; mostly party workers which explained that public is not with them

2) BBC interview by Bilawal where he asked Nawaz Sharif to produce evidence before accusing army chief

#PakistanRejectsPDM

3) Maryam back tracking and being open to discussion with Army (again on BBC interview), even the people who got fooled by revolution, understood that Maryam is wrong number

4) Work from home (woh bhi abroad wala home) revolution of Nawaz Sharif rejected

#PakistanRejectsPDM

5) Serious defeat of both PPP & PMLN against PTI in Gilgit Baltistan elections showed that Pakistanis trust PM Imran Khan

6) Epic Failure of Lahore Jalsa (this hurled them more than anything because monumental hope was from that Minar e Pakistan event

#PakistanRejectsPDM

7) Maryam’s frustration after Lahore Jalsa failure where she talked about Saza / Jaza

8) Maryam’s trust in Bilawal for “Aar ya Par” resignations decision, Zardari Kafi Bhari broke their hearts, not more than PM’s playing with dogs picture during Lahore Jalsa

#PakistanRejectsPDM

9) Maulana’s complaint about Maryam’s selfish politics to Nawaz showed that they have trust issues. PPP practically left at that point too

10) Maryam’s Israel tweet mistake and several other twitter mistakes (photoshopped images) showing desperation

#PakistanRejectsPDM

A US delegation led by General Joseph L Votel, Commander US Centcom, called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
#PakForcesExemplarySacrifices

The US Commander appreciated Pakistan Army’s efforts for regional peace and stability.
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A press release issued here by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the COAS reiterated that peace in Afghanistan is vital for regional peace.
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Gen Bajwa said that Pakistan, despite constraints, had contributed to all efforts for regional peace and would continue to do so, it said.
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It added that geo-strategic environment, regional security and Afghanistan peace and reconciliation process were discussed inthe meeting.
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Sanyukt Kisan Morcha to hold a press briefing in a short while from now...

Farm union leaders addressing the pc with a masked man....the masked man admits on camera that he and his few accomplices were asked to disrupt the farm agitation by indulging in violence.....

Govt wants to disrupt the agitation, says a farm union leader......

Youth on camera admits that he and his accomplices were planning to disrupt Jan 26 tractor parade

youth was even tasked to kill four farm union leaders

Farm union leaders holding this press briefing to convey that govt and its agencies have activated the dirty tricks department to disturb the peaceful agitation...@ndtv

Masked man goes on to admit that he and his accomplices were involved in similar violence during Jat agitation in Haryana

"We, in police uniform, used to canecharge protesters," said the masked man...

The Sunday Igboho I I know by Babafemi Ojudu.
By Babafemi Ojudu

1. It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN.Oni had in the main election and the election

2.petition tribunal that followed been declared winner of the gubernatorial contest. Our party , ACN contested this , hence the declaration of a rerun. The election which came three months after the Appeal Court judgement was like war. The PDP ruling at the Federal level did not

3.want to loose Ekiti and the opposition ACN led and financed by Bola Ahmed Tinubu wanted to take Ekiti by all means. A few days to the election,we got an intelligence report that the PDP big wigs had perfected a plan to unleash thugs recruited from across Yoruba land on Ekiti.

4.The plan was to kill and maim as many as possible,snatch ballot boxes and win by any means possible.Tinubu summoned me to Lagos and said Femi,"I have conducted a scientific opinion poll. You people can win this election.The only snag however is they are deploying state security

5. as well as thugs against you. State security men we can handle ( and he did creatively handled them ) but how do you handle thugs?"
I then suggested we dissuade them by engagement and inducements. After all they are in the business only for the money and not for ideological

In celebration of the memory of those who laid their lives so that we may live, this special day is a tribute to the indomitable will,
stoic courage and an overwhelming love of the nation
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that resonates in their heart which leads to a secure and peaceful Pakistan for us to dwell in. Deriving their military virtue from the true spirit of an Islamic ideology,
#PakForcesExemplarySacrifices

#PakForcesExemplarySacrifices
the Pakistan armed forces have always sacrificed their best of men in keeping intact the sovereignty of the Motherland as its soil contains as an unforgettable

#PakForcesExemplarySacrifices
and primary constituent the blood of its martyrs who have fearlessly confronted the enemy and crushed their nefarious designs while guarding their land with their most precious possessions, their lives.

#PakForcesExemplarySacrifices
History has seen how the soldiers of the Pakistan army have risen to their towering heights to defend their borders,

January 5, 2021. 11:30 AM - The Judicial panel of Inquiry resumes its sitting. Arrived a tad bit late due the timing of my segment on the morning show. Don’t think I’ve missed much, no petitioner has been called forward. #ENDSARS

Here are the petitioners set to testify today. By my count today makes for the 23rd sitting for the panel but who’s counting. #ENDSARS

The first witness in the case of Adebayo Abayomi is called forward, his name is Ibrahim Yusuf, he is the lead witness for Police legal counsel Cyril Ejiofor. Yusuf is sworn in and proceeds to give his testimony. #ENDSARS

“A team of policemen attached to Mushin Division were to arrest a certain Kayode Yusuf, he resisted and SGT.Chibueze shot in the air and hit Kudirat Adebayo. We later went to recover the body, all policemen were arrested except the shooter, he ran when we arrived at the station”

Their rifles were seized and a ballistics examination performed. The other police officers have been exonerated but Chibueze has been declared wanted and is still on the run till today.. #ENDSARS

Treasury Targets Billion Dollar Foundations Controlled by Iran’s Supreme Leader https://t.co/JCoE8NKD19 The Execution of Khomeini’s Order ‘EIKO’, is the richest and highest revenue-generating enterprise controlled by Khamenei. The other is The Astan-e Qods-e Razavi Foundation.

"EIKO and AQR control large swaths of the Iranian economy, including assets expropriated from political dissidents and religious minorities, to the benefit of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior Iranian government officials." EIKO was also designated in 2013 under E.O. 13599.

EIKO, also known as SETAD, has been able to take possession of some of the most profitable and largest commercial and financial firms, thanks to the direct and daily backing of Khamenei himself. The most conservative estimate of SETAD wealth is $95 billion.

EIKO board members, handpicked by Khamenei, include mullah Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, a judge during the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners; Hossein Shariatmadari, an interrogator and torturer and now Khamenei’s rep & Mohammadi Golpayegani, Khamenei’s chief of staff.

Tadbir Economic Development Group, one of EIKO’s main holding companies, and its subsidiaries own dozens of enterprises in oil, gas, refineries, petrochemicals, electronics, telecommunications, construction, mining, auto industry, and financial sectors.

#Thread! For peace in #Balochistan, Islamabad must review FC's role.

In 2021, the conflict in Balochistan entered its 17th year. Islamabad deployed FC in Balochistan in 2004 to counter insurgent activities. The force soon after its deployment became unpopular among the locals

for human rights violations and heavy-handed operations. The Balochistan provincial govt gave police powers to FC in 2013. Since then, FC's traditional role in maintaining border security expanded into controlling crimes and countering terror activities.

More than 550 #ShiaHazaras have been killed in FC's presence since 2012, and thousands of Hazaras have been targeted and wounded in apparent sectarian attacks. Thousands of Baloch activists have disappeared without a trace. More than 1,000 dead bodies of political activists

and suspected armed insurgents were found dumped between 2010 and 2016, according to a report by BBC in 2016. Officials from Ministry of Interior said: "from 2010 to 2015, organized political violence events linked to the insurgency gradually increased, peaking in 2015 with 96

events and 383 total reported fatalities for the year. In 49 suicide attacks in Balochistan between 2003-2018, at least 939 people died, and more than 1820 injured. As insurgents activities increase, FC has become more ruthless and lethal targeting civilians and unarmed activists

President Mnangagwa has arrived at the PPC plant in Msasa industrial area, Harare, where he will tour the facility. The President is being accompanied on the tour by VP Kembo Mohadi and several Cabinet Ministers.

Official proceedings have started with the PPC board member Stanford Moyo giving his welcome remarks.

PPC managing director Mr Kelibone Masiyane says the company is committed to the Zimbabwean market since it started production 107 years ago.

Says the company welcomes Government efforts to create an enabling environment. He says the company is playing a big role in the country's infrastructure development especially road construction and rehabilitation.

He ends his remarks and invites Industry and Commerce Minister Sekai Nzenza to the podium.