jackbauerspower: Nigeria is a war zone.

I come from Agege....where I was born and raised. My hood is full of thugs, villains, and certified killers for real.

So many guns in Lagos, you could be forgiven for thinking u were in Afghanistan.

My advice to all Nigerians is: Get Strapped Up!

Even my overspiro papa get heavy metal for crib

PHIPEX:

The question then should be what criteria do you use to measure safety because for someone like me in Lagos, Nigeria is safe but someone in Kano may think otherwise. How do you measure safety?

Samabu07:
Those 0.2% has turned out to disrupt the more than 70% of Nigeria's economic activities. Does Nigeria has an Economy

Somorin#1:
What scares me about NIgeria is how quickly shiat can go down.

My lil Bro was home during the subsidy brouhaha. One day it was all nice and happy and the next day is bonfire, shootings and mayhem with no authorities in sight.

OAM4J:

Ask Ejigbo Local Government Chairman how safe Lagos is.


@Topic

How can someone who traveled with a federal minister and security escorts know how safe the country really is?

Omo_Tier1:
Sorry, even though I live in the UK, as you may well have noticed I travel alot and Nigeria is one place I visit alot so I know first hand what it is like.

The fact is I can leave my house at 8pm tonight and drive all the way to Wales, or even Edinburgh and I would arrive there feeling safe and enjoying my gospel music all through the night with my heart feeling at home with me.

I remember traveling from Lagos at 7pm to Benin City and I got there at 2am due to traffic and only missed being attacked by thieves by a whisker and the reminder of the drive was on top speed! Even getting to stop at major eatery where those caoches from the East usual stop was a HUGE risk.

Lets stop kidding ourselves, Nigeria is only safe to those who have the means to protect themselves or have little of no value to loose if attacked.

tellwisdom: [size=15pt]I'd rather live in Somalia than staying in Nigeria...Rossike, please stop this bribe from the OGA at the top...Please, Na God i take beg you. NIGERIA Is not safe for animals, let alone Human [/size]

payless: @poster

Why not travel to Maiduguri, Kano, Zamfara and spend few days there before coming here to tell us how safe Nigeria is? Are those places not part of Nigeria? I travelled from New Jersey to North Carolina between 1:30am and 9am without any itch from police, armed-robbers or anyone, could that be possible in Nigeria with a brand new car in the middle of the night? You are spinning too much these days, bro. Just yesterday you came here to post about a phony $100B investment coming to Nigeria. Stop it!

Afam4eva:
[size=14pt]The guy's brand of patriotism can really be annoying because even the devil knows that he's lying...You don't even need to go to Maiduguri or any part of the North to see that Nigeria is not safe. Even in broad daylight, people are been robbed in traffic in the center of the city and we're even talking about traveling inter-state.[/size]

alex101: Dude, can you be truthful for once,,,,just for once? Thesame nigeria I just returned from, less than a week ago is safe to travel within, at all hours of the day?

Godogwu:

How about the people that died in boston, the cinemas, sandy hook, the stabbings in colleges in the US...pleasee!!!! here's a bench \_____

mankand:

Oga are you a learner?

Nigeria is not safe in anyway. The poor is living at the mercy of the wicked. If you are really sure of yourself take a drive from lagos to abuja then you will know that nigeria is really safe.

PHIPEX:

We can as well say that Boston is not safe based on last week's event or say similar thing about Canada. You don't use what happened to an individual to draw a conclusion on a city housing about 10million people.

fckyourman: [size=13pt]naija is safe. at least here you don't hear drive by shooting like in america. people defending america like their father country. without knowing their are immigrant they can be deported anytime when in trouble or visa.[/size]

Rossikk: ^^ Absolutely. The roads are filled with thousands of cars at all hours of the night and day. You wouldn't know this because you're in London.

OAM4J:

Except that Boston event doesn't happen every week or every month. If it does we will have to declare the city unsafe. But kidnappings, robberies, etc are almost daily occurrence in Lagos and Nigeria. More than 3/4 of it are not even reported in the news. I know someone close to me whose mother was kidnapped with a week old child in Lagos about 2 weeks ago. You dont want to know what the family went through, how much was paid and where they eventually left the victims.

If you have not been affected, thank God. But we have serious security challenges in Lagos and in Nigeria. BTW, am a proud Lagosian/Nigerian, just have to state the facts.

ShyM-X:
The murder/death rate in Nigeria alone is enough to assert that Nigeria is arguably competing with new Libya, Somalia, Congo DR etc. when it comes to safety... Those countries might be safer than Nigeria, tbh...

ItsModella: The OP/author of that article must be smoking some good weed. Because you really have to be on some cloud 9 to just blatantly deny the fact that Nigeria is grossly unsafe. The same Nigeria where armed robbers operate in broad daylight.

fckyourman:

IDIOT GO AND LIVE IN SOMALIA. AL-SHABA WILL FIRE YOUR ANUS

fckyourman:
Do any of these countries look safe to you. these countries are having war.
Go and live there mumu goat

obailala: I hate it when people argue with this kind of vague comparisons... Do you know the number of innocent people that get shot every day in Nigeria by the police, university and street cultist, armed robbers, boko haram, militants, political thugs, kidnappers etc?


@Rossikk
I admire your patriotism but please spare us these ur tales cos you wouldnt even dare travel through some MAJOR routes in Nigeria at night even with police escort.

ShyM-X:


Is northern Nigeria not a war zone with people getting blown to smithereens like almost everyday? - Eastern Nigeria the kidnappers's haven with extra-judicial killings everywhere?? - SS, home of the vandals? - MB, home of Fulani marauders and Berom cannibals?? - SW, home of armed robbers??

Keep living in denial, mate!!

Billyonaire: Lagos is unsafe, doesnt make Nigeria unsafe. You have no knowledge of Nigeria apart from your parochial geography knowledge. Do not judge Nigeria from common sense and overbloated statistics of arms chair journalists, except you are daft enough to believe every shit you read on internet.