Nigerian Presidency post new Buhari pictures

The Presidency has posted a photo purporting to show President Muhammadu Buhari in London, amid speculations about his health according to premiumtimes.ng.
The president travelled to the United Kingdom last week on a 10-day holiday.
But there have been reports about his health, with some claiming he was either dead or under intensive care.
The presidency has denied the reports, saying the president is neither ill nor admitted in any hospital in London as being speculated.
Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said on Thursday Mr. Buhari would not be compelled to speak amid the “rumour”.
“The president is in London on vacation. He is not in any hospital and he is not ill.
“If anybody has fed something else into the rumour mill that is just what it is – rumour,” he said.
“The fact that he is a president, he still has his rights. Compelling him to come out and talk will be infringing on his rights. The president will talk if he wishes to, and if he doesn’t wish to, nobody will compel him to talk.”

Mikhail Gorbachev: 'The World Is Preparing for War'

                                       

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that it appears "as if the world is preparing for war."
Gorbachev, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in ending the Cold War, writes that the most pressing problem facing the world is "the militarization of politics and the new arms race."
State budgets, he continues, claim austerity to sacrifice social spending, but easily back funding for weapons of war. At the same time, he writes of the buildup on Russia's borders: "NATO and Russian forces and weapons" are now in close proximity "as if to shoot point-blank." He continues:
Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war.
While he and President Ronald Reagan agreed in 1985 "that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," now, "the nuclear threat once again seems real," with "advocates for arms build-up and the military-industrial complex rubbing their hands." And that, he declares, is absolutely the wrong direction to solve the world's ills. Instead, war of any kind must be abolished, he writes:
In modern world, wars must be outlawed, because none of the global problems we are facing can be resolved by war—not poverty, nor the environment, migration, population growth, or shortages of resources.
He called on the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution—which should be put forth by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin—that restates that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. "
In 2014 Gorbachev warned that the world was "on the brink of a new Cold War"—a situation fueled in part by the U.S. being “Tortured by triumphalis.”.


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