According to President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is as peaceful as Gambia, South Korea, Slovak, Australia, Bagladesh and Guinea Bissau.
The president said this in Abuja while receiving letters of credence from the envoys of the six countries, on Thursday, March 25.
“In addition to the fraternal relations between us, the one thing Nigeria has in common with your countries is peace. Peace is priceless, desirable and crucial to sustainable development and achieving the targets set by the UN global initiatives.
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It is therefore imperative for us to work individually and bilaterally for sustainable peace. Achieving global peace is vital to attaining food security. Peace and food security should be pursued simultaneously,” he said.
Meanwhile, Google on Friday threatened to pull its search engine from Australia over a proposed media code that would require the tech firm to pay for news content.
Mel Silva, managing director for Google’s Australian operations, told a Senate enquiry the code was unworkable and the company was unable to calculate the financial risk, news agency AAP reported.
Leaving the Australian market is the “only rational rational choice if this law were to pass,” she said.
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The news media bargaining code bill was introduced into Australia’s parliament in December.
If passed, it will force tech companies to pay news outlets for their content or face fines of up to 10 million Australian dollars (7.7 million US dollars), according to AAP.
The code would initially apply to Facebook NewsFeed and Google Search.
Also on Friday, Google published a video and letter addressing Australian users in a campaign against the news code.
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Silva compared paying news outlets for displaying links to their content to recommending coffee shops to a friend and then being billed by the coffee shops for mentioning them.
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