Congress Takes Steps That Could Lead To President Obama’s Impeachm

Congress Takes Steps That Could Lead To President Obama’s Impeachment

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While many Americans have called for the president’s impeachment, some members of Congress are beginning the processes that would hold President Obama accountable for his lawless actions.

“The STOP Act,” sponsored by Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) claims Obama should be brought to court for his defiance against the Constitution. The congressman stated the purpose of initiating the legal proceedings was to “bring a civil action for declaratory or injunctive relief to challenge certain policies and actions taken by the executive branch.”

The most recent and notable Constitutional defiance included a range of offenses regarding the Affordable Care Act. The president has changed the language of the law as well as, processes of implementation without the consent of Congress.

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Rice wrote, “President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his Administration’s political agenda. Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress and vested this power in the President.  However, President Obama has chosen to ignore some of the laws written by Congress and implemented by preceding Presidents.”

So far, Rice’s movement to begin legal proceedings has garnered support from 29 members of Congress.

Here is a list of those supporting the STOP Act: Bachmann (MN), Bridenstine (OK), Chaffetz (UT), J. Duncan (SC), DeSantis (FL), Franks (AZ), Gowdy (SC), Harris (MD), Lamborn (CO), LaMalfa (CA), Marino (PA), McClintock (CA), Meadows (NC), Nunnelee (MS), Pittenger (NC), Posey (FL), Tom Price (GA), Ribble (WI), Salmon (AZ), Sanford (SC), Schweikert (AZ), Stewart (UT), Stockman (TX), Walberg (MI), Weber (TX), Wenstrup (OH), Williams (TX), Joe Wilson (SC), and Yoho (FL).

Do you stand with these conservatives? Tell us in the comments below!

House Oversight Committee Subpoenas John Kerry Over Benghazi Smoking Gun Emails

May 2, 2014 By Matthew Burke

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced Friday that it has issued a subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify at a hearing on May 21.

No doubt Kerry will be asked why Benghazi emails obtained by government watchdog group Judicial Watch  were not turned over to Congress by Kerry’s State Department when requested. Rather, it took a lawsuit by Judicial Watch to obtain them from the Obama regime.

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Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.

And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.

13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.

But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?

He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
LUKE 20:9-18

Israeli News Outlets Reporting Secret Deal To Give Temple Mount To Vatican

NTEB News Desk | February 25, 2014 | 33 Comments

As far-fetched as it may seem to some, many sober-minded news outlets in Israel in the past week have been reporting the existence of a secret deal now being negotiated ahead of the Pope’s visit to Israel in May. If true, it would be the single biggest advancement of bible prophecy since May 14, 1948. Interesting side note, the Pope’s visit in May will coincide with the 66th anniversary of Israel becoming a nation again. Hmm, now that’s interesting…

From Israel Today: Israel could be entering the final stages of negotiations to turn over control of Mount Zion to the Vatican, if recent reports by Israel National News are to be believed. According to the online news source, a secretive meeting took place this week between the Jerusalem Municipality, Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Tourism and senior Catholic officials.
During the meeting, the Catholic delegation reportedly pressed Israel to follow through on a years-old proposal to give the Church control over the compound that houses the traditional “Hall of the Last Supper.”
The problem is that the same compound also houses the traditional “Tomb of David,” a holy site revered and frequented by religious Jews. Not to mention that Mount Zion is symbolic of Jerusalem as a whole, and surrendering it to the Vatican would be seen by many Israelis as a repudiation of Judaism’s claim to the city.
In response to reports regarding the negotiations, the Jerusalem Municipality released a statement insisting that it would remain “the central sovereign power on Mount Zion.” Others are not so sure, and believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to turn over control of Mount Zion prior to Pope Francis‘ visit to the Holy Land in May. source – Israel Today

Op-Ed: Exclusive: A Seat for the Pope at King David's Tomb

Op-Ed: Exclusive: A Seat for the Pope at King David's Tomb

Published: Friday, February 01, 2013 11:16 AM

Israel seems to have sold Jerusalem to the Vatican.

Giulio Meotti

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He has just prblished a book about the Vatican and Israel titled "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.

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An historic agreement has been drafted between Israel and the Vatican. The Israeli authorities have granted the Pope an official seat in the room where the Last Supper is believed to have taken place, on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and where David and Solomon, Jewish kings of Judea, are considered by some researchers, to also be buried.

It is the culmination of a long campaign by the Catholic Church to regain religious stewardship over the place where Jesus is supposed to have broken bread and drunk wine with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.
This is an enormous issue pushed through without any public debate.

According to our sources, the agreement, which is expected to be ratified next June, gives the Pope a “special authority” over the second floor of the building, so that Christian pilgrims will be able to celebrate religious functions like Pope John Paul did in 2000.
The agreement constitutes Israel’s capitulation to the Vatican’s efforts to “Christianize” the holy site, like when a Catholic convent was built in Auschwitz.

The Catholic Church has long wanted control over part of the area on Mt. Zion so as to turn it into an international religious center for Catholics. The blueprint of the agreement reads as follows: “The Vatican hands over this use of the Cenacle to the Custody of the Holy Land which will keep the Cenacle open from 6 AM to 8 AM for the celebration of the Holy Mass”.

In the long term, the gesture will increase tensions between Jews and the large assets of the Vatican. The Church has long been working to reduce Jewish rights in Jerusalem and in the Old City. Now, after the Muslim Waqf authority expelled the Christians from the Temple Mount and turned it into a mosque, it’s the turn of the Vatican to lay its hands on the Jewish Jerusalem.

The Custody of the Holy Land, the Franciscan order who, with Vatican approval, is in charge of the holy sites, campaigns with the Arabs against Israel.
As far back as May 2000, Yasser Arafat met Islamic and Christian clergymen at the presidential offices in Ramallah to back Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the clergymen who attended the meeting, Diodoros I, patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Torkom II, patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox Church, Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah and officials from the Custody of the Holy Land.

"An official meeting took place in Ramallah, Palestine, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine". This is the official note of the Vatican press office about the meeting between the Catholic officials and the PLO representatives which took place this week.

The Vatican is also asking that Israel hand over to the Vatican’s control dozens of sites, 19 in Judea and Samaria and 28 in Jerusalem. The Catholic Church want to discuss some properties on Mount of Olives, Har Hazeitim, which is the very history of the Jewish people. If you want to keep Jerusalem united, you have to keep Har Hazeitim. The Vatican knows that.

In 1989 charges were made by the Catholic authorities that Israel desecrated the Cenacle on Mount Zion. The charges, which appeared in the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire, said that the Israelis put a memorial plaque on the roof of the Cenacle. The plaque was put in place after the 1948 War of Independence in memory of soldiers who fell in the Old City and whose burial place was unknown. Every year, the bereaved families cleaned the plaque.

Why did the Catholic authorities complain? Last year a similar charge was made from the Catholic authorities that Israel wants to “Judaize” Mount Zion.

Should the Vatican gain sovereignty over Mount of Zion, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the site, and this will threaten the Israeli presence in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter and Jewish access to the Western Wall.
The Vatican wants the Jews out of the Old City and apparently Israel’s government is agreeing with them. Turning the Cenacle into an active church is also a way of desecrating the holiness of the site known as the Tomb of David.

The Vatican and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation expressed a common position in the Basic Agreement of 15 February 2000, intended to support the recognition of a special statute for the City of Jerusalem. In the memorandum, signed by Vatican officials and the PLO, an organization dedicated to the mass deportation of Israel’s Jews, the Catholic Church wants Israel relinquishing sovereignty at the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. The Vatican-PLO agreement’s preamble on Jerusalem shows that the Vatican's attitude on Israel's capital is still stuck in the unforgivable anti-Semitic rhetoric of the 1940s.

Until 1948, Christian access to the Cenacle was severely limited, because it was used as a mosque. Since then, the State of Israel is committed to protecting the holy places of all religions, and guaranteeing the right of worship for all faiths.
But no Israeli government must tolerate any policy of division, “shared control” or “internationalization” that opens the door to a return to the Arab apartheid of Jordanian occupation between 1948 and 1967.
Jerusalem is not for sale. For thousands of years, the Cenacle area was almost always totally closed off to Jews.

Sovereignty over Mount Zion is politics, not only religion. The day after the Pope celebrated a mass on Mt. Zion in 2000, he went to Yasser Arafat headquarter to support the Palestinians’ right to return.
A few months later, the Oslo war began. And Jews were sacrified again on the altar of “peace”. It was their last supper.

This week, the Vatican in its official documents began referring to the "State of Palestine".
(For a site on Christian attempts to gain leverage in Israel, click here)

Boko Haram kidnap more people and force 3,000 from their homes, Obama MIA, Michelle Obama addresses the nation

Nigeria: Jihad, Ethnic Cleansing, Boko Haram

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Obama is MIA. Michelle addressed the country in what is usually president’s weekly address to the nation, delivering the weekly address for the first time since President Barack Obama took office. “Her invention” came as the disastrous consequences of  Obama’s failed foreign policy and jihad denial continue to unfold.
Hiding behind his wife’s skirt.
It demeans the issue for Obama to throw Michelle out there — this isn’t about school obesity.

“Boko Haram abduct more people and force 3,000 from their homes,” By Harriet Alexander, Peter Foster, Telegraph, May 10, 2014

The wife and two children of a retired police officer have been abducted by Boko Haram, and 3,000 people have fled the town of Liman Kara, after yet another attack

Three thousand people have fled their homes in northern Nigeria, and the wife and two children of a retired policeman have been abducted, as Islamist militants launch another attack on the embattled region.

As the hunt for the missing 276 schoolgirls taken on April 14 continued, suspected Boko Haram militants continued their campaign of terror unabated.

Residents fleeing from the town of Liman Kara said that the insurgents blew up the bridge that links the states of Adamawa and Borno – both of which are under a military state of emergency. Liman Kara, on the border with Cameroon, has been plagued by attacks from the group for several years.

Abawu James Watharda, chairman of the local government, told AP that no one could count the dead because 3,000 survivors had fled Friday night’s attack on the town.

^{Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau}

On Monday Boko Haram blew up another bridge, linking Nigeria to neighbouring Chad, as part of their attempts to prevent police from following them to their caves.
The abductions and carnage in Liman Kara came as Michelle Obama, the First Lady, took over the US president’s weekly address to the nation to call for the release of 276 kidnapped schoolgirls.
“In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters,” she said of Malia, 15, and Sasha, 12. “We see their hopes, their dreams – and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now.”
Her intervention came at the end of a week of mounting international indignation at the abduction of the schoolgirls by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, whose name translates as “western education is forbidden”.
“Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken,” she said. “This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education – grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.”
Delivering the weekly address for the first time since President Barack Obama took office, Mrs Obama used the opportunity to highlight both the particular plight of the missing Nigerian girls and the general deficit of education for girls in many countries around the world.
She praised both the courage of those girls who had returned to schools across northern Nigeria to take their exams despite terror threats against the school, and their parents for daring to let them go.
“Many of them may have been hesitant to send their daughters off to school, fearing that harm might come their way,” she said, “But they took that risk because they believed in their daughters’ promise and wanted to give them every opportunity to succeed.”

Obama is MIA. Michelle addressed the country in what is usually president’s weekly address to the nation, delivering the weekly address for the first time since President Barack Obama took office. “Her invention” came as the disastrous consequences of  Obama’s failed foreign policy and jihad denial continue to unfold.
Hiding behind his wife’s skirt.
It demeans the issue for Obama to throw Michelle out there — this isn’t about school obesity.

“Boko Haram abduct more people and force 3,000 from their homes,” By Harriet Alexander, Peter Foster, Telegraph, May 10, 2014

The wife and two children of a retired police officer have been abducted by Boko Haram, and 3,000 people have fled the town of Liman Kara, after yet another attack

Three thousand people have fled their homes in northern Nigeria, and the wife and two children of a retired policeman have been abducted, as Islamist militants launch another attack on the embattled region.

As the hunt for the missing 276 schoolgirls taken on April 14 continued, suspected Boko Haram militants continued their campaign of terror unabated.

Residents fleeing from the town of Liman Kara said that the insurgents blew up the bridge that links the states of Adamawa and Borno – both of which are under a military state of emergency. Liman Kara, on the border with Cameroon, has been plagued by attacks from the group for several years.

Abawu James Watharda, chairman of the local government, told AP that no one could count the dead because 3,000 survivors had fled Friday night’s attack on the town.

^{Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau}

On Monday Boko Haram blew up another bridge, linking Nigeria to neighbouring Chad, as part of their attempts to prevent police from following them to their caves.
The abductions and carnage in Liman Kara came as Michelle Obama, the First Lady, took over the US president’s weekly address to the nation to call for the release of 276 kidnapped schoolgirls.
“In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters,” she said of Malia, 15, and Sasha, 12. “We see their hopes, their dreams – and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now.”
Her intervention came at the end of a week of mounting international indignation at the abduction of the schoolgirls by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, whose name translates as “western education is forbidden”.
“Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken,” she said. “This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education – grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.”
Delivering the weekly address for the first time since President Barack Obama took office, Mrs Obama used the opportunity to highlight both the particular plight of the missing Nigerian girls and the general deficit of education for girls in many countries around the world.
She praised both the courage of those girls who had returned to schools across northern Nigeria to take their exams despite terror threats against the school, and their parents for daring to let them go.
“Many of them may have been hesitant to send their daughters off to school, fearing that harm might come their way,” she said, “But they took that risk because they believed in their daughters’ promise and wanted to give them every opportunity to succeed.”

^{Michelle Obama delivers her address (EPA)}
As British and American advisers deployed to Nigeria to assist in the search for the missing girls, international anger continued to grow. The United Nations Security Council issued a statement late on Friday evening demanding the “immediate and unconditional” release of the girls and promising to “consider appropriate measures” against Boko Haram.
Mrs Obama, in keeping with her self-appointed role as “First Mom” in which she has promoted the importance of study, exercise and healthy eating, also had a stern warning for any American children who were failing to fully grasp the privileges offered by their own birthplace.
“I hope that any young people in America who take school for granted – any young people who are slacking off or thinking of dropping out – I hope they will learn the story of these girls and recommit themselves to their education,” she said.
Noting that 65 million girls worldwide are not in school, Mrs Obama also cited the courageous example of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who still campaigns for girls educational rights despite being shot in the face by the Taliban on her way to school.
“We know that girls who are educated make higher wages, lead healthier lives, and have healthier families. And when more girls attend secondary school, that boosts their country’s entire economy,” concluded Mrs Obama.
“So education is truly a girl’s best chance for a bright future, not just for herself, but for her family and her nation.”
The First Lady had joined the social media “hashtag campaign” to free the girls earlier last week, tweeting a picture of herself at the White House holding up the now ubiquitous “#BringBackOurGirls” slogan first coined by a Nigerian lawyer. Nigeria has the third most active population of Twitter users in Africa, after South Africa and Kenya.
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Their distraught parents took to the streets of Chibok to demand action; when the government failed to answer their pleas, the protests spread beyond Borno state and were picked up in the capital, Abuja, and echoed around the world.
But it took Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, almost three weeks publicly to address the issue – by which time Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau, in a video obtained by AFP, claimed the abduction of the girls and threatened to “sell” them in the market as “slaves”.
^{Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (AFOLABI SOTUNDE/REUTERS)}
With the pressure mounting on Mr Jonathan, he finally accepted David Cameron and William Hague’s offer of assistance – an offer which was first made as soon as the kidnapping took place. And on Friday the first British and American experts arrived in the capital, Abuja, to assist efforts to locate the girls.
On Saturday the Nigerian army said it had dispatched two divisions to hunt for the girls. The soldiers are stationed in the border region close to Chad, Cameroon and Niger and will work with other security agencies, said General Chris Olukolade, spokesman for the coutnry’s defence headquarters.
“The major challenge remains the fact that some of the information given here turned out in many occasions to be misleading,” he said. “Nevertheless, this will not discourage the collaborative efforts that are on-going.”
The air force has flown more than 250 sorties, a signals unit and the police are involved and a multinational task force has also been activated, he added.
^{Men in Abuja read local newspapers reporting on the crimes (SUNDAY ALAMBA/AP)}
Yet the authorities seem to be no closer to locating the missing teenagers.
Mr Jonathan said on Friday that he believes they are still in Nigeria, and have not been spirited away across the border to Cameroon or Chad. But criticism of his government’s response is growing – reinforced by claims from Amnesty International that the army in Maiduguri, 80 miles from Chibok, was warned four hours before the assault was launched, yet was incapable of preventing the attack.
On Saturday an open letter to the Nigerian government was published in The Financial Times, signed by 50 leading personalities, including former world leaders as well as the singer Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Muhammad Yunus, calling on the international community to do everything to ensure the return of the pupils.
“We urge all local, national and regional governments, with the full support of the international community, to dedicate their expertise and resources …to #BringBackOurGirls,” it read.
Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala also signed the letter, as have numerous United Nations officials.

S. 198: Boko Haram Terrorist Designation Act of 2013

113^th Congress, 2013–2015. Text as of Jan 31, 2013 (Introduced).

Status & Summary | PDF | Source: GPO and Cato Institute Deepbills

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113th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 198

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 31, 2013

Mr. Risch (for himself, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Burr, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Moran, Ms. Ayotte, and Mr. Coats) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

A BILL

To require a report on the designation of Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Boko Haram Terrorist Designation Act of 2013 .

2.

Report on designation of Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization

(a)

Findings

Congress finds the following:

(1)

On August 26, 2011, a vehicle borne explosive device (VBIED) was detonated after being driven into the lobby of a United Nations facility in Abuja, Nigeria. At least 21 people died as a result of the explosion, and the Islamist militant organization commonly called Boko Haram claimed responsibility.

(2)

On December 25, 2011, a series of bombs were detonated across northern Nigeria. Some of these attacks killed worshippers attending Christmas Day services, and killed an estimated total of 41 people. Boko Haram claimed responsibility.

(3)

From their inception, Boko Haram has killed hundreds of innocent civilians and has continually enhanced its lethality, pledging to continue its use of terrorist tactics. In a July 2010 statement, Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, issued support to al Qaeda and made threatening remarks to the United States.

(4)

On January 31, 2012, in testimony before Congress, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper included Boko Haram in his worldwide threat assessment, stating, There are also fears that Boko Haram—elements of which have engaged al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)—is interested in hitting Western targets, such as the U.S. Embassy and hotels frequented by Westerners..

(5)

On February 23, 2012, United States Ambassador to Nigeria Terrence P. McCulley indicated Boko Haram’s danger was expanding. He said, We’ve seen an increase in sophistication, we’ve seen increased lethality. We saw at last a part of the group has decided it’s in their interest to attack the international community..

(6)

On February 27, 2012, at a conference held by the African Society of the National Summit on Africa, former United States Ambassador to Nigeria Howard F. Jeter described Boko Haram by saying, It is a terrorist group. If you kill 28 innocent people worshipping in a church, it is a terrorist group..

(7)

The Foreign Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a major United States ally, publicly refers to Boko Haram as the main terrorist threat in Nigeria.

(b)

Report

(1)

In general

Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall, in consultation with the intelligence community, submit to the appropriate congressional committees—

(A)

a detailed report on whether the Nigerian organization named People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad (commonly known as Boko Haram and by other aliases, including Ansaru and Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad), meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and

(B)

if the Secretary of State determines that Boko Haram does not meet such criteria, a detailed justification as to which criteria have not been met.

(2)

Form

The report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex if appropriate.

(3)

Definitions

In this subsection:

(A)

Appropriate congressional committees

The term appropriate congressional committees means—

(i)

the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and

(ii)

the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

(B)

Intelligence community

The term intelligence community has the meaning given that term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).

3.

Sense of Congress

It is the sense of Congress that Boko Haram meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and should be designated as such.

4.

Rule of construction

Nothing in this Act may be construed to infringe upon the sovereignty of the Government of Nigeria to combat militant or terrorist groups operating inside the boundaries of Nigeria.