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Waste of money.

Having good people in political office is important, but given that he does not stand a rat’s chance in 2019 (albeit I personally think he is arguably the best candidate), he would better served Nigerians by starting a business that employs young graduates.

lomprico:
Its only when disaster strucks that people in authority acts!

But they are acting now BEFORE disaster strikes.

And yet you see the number of people defending such reckless lawlessness. Zoo!

CONGRATS!

SouthWestBlood:
Nigerians in Nigeria are not serious. You expect people from New York to come to vote with the mess that is going on in this country? That's the best they can do for you ungrateful people. What happened in Oshodi yesterday is just an example of what this country has turned into. And here, you have someone who's ready to put his life on the line and take you out of the mess. But you're busy shouting 4+4/Next Level and Atikulated for people who put this country into the mess she is right now.

#Sowore2019

Abegi, give the sanctimonious condescension a rest.

Many of those Nigerians in New York (including Mr. Sowore) were beneficiaries of cheap/subsidized/free education in Nigeria (let Nigerian-educated medical doctors ask their US counterparts how much educational loan debt most of them accrue by graduation). Caring about Nigeria (or in some way giving back) is not a favor. The condition and future of Nigeria is the culmination of the collective actions (by commission or omission) of ALL Nigerians whether at home and abroad. When a relatively poor country like Nigeria (and yes, despite the oil, it is a substantially poor country) makes relatively significant investments in human capital development (and yes, it needs to make a whole lot more but that’s another topic), only to experience the massive flight of such capital (aka brain drain) on the back of globalization, what is left behind is (to use your own words) “the mess that is going on in this country”. We ALL made Nigeria and it will likely require us ALL to salvage it.

SouthWestBlood:
And you had no one to tell you that John Momoh is the chairman? Has he come out to debunk what is being said that he personally was the one that excluded Sowore?

BON consists of the over 100 tv and radio operating companies, and the elected chairperson of BON (for a 2-year term) does not run BON single-handedly. Nonetheless, while BON is the media partner for the debates, they are actually substantively organized by the NEDG which has among its membership several Civil Society Organizations/NGOs including the well-respected and widely-representative Situation Room.

Meanwhile, John Momoh’s Channels TV has been the first (perhaps only thus far) Nigerian tv station to grant Sowore audience since the debate (in it’s “Road to 2019” interview program) not only to promote his presidential campaign but to condemn AAC’s exclusion from the debates, in addition to being one of the first tv stations to grant Sowore a platform when he initially declared his presidential aspirations.

SouthWestBlood:
Did you look at the background?

The debates are not organized by the Nigerian government, so picketing the consulate/mission is meaningless.

kolnel:
Nice

He has more presence in New York

They should go ahead and organize a debate for him in New York. SMH

I am for inclusion of Sowore in the debates, but wtf has Nigeria’s presidential debates in Nigeria got to do with New York?!

kcy:
every thing about Nigeria wrong, mixed culture, different language, different belief......nothing can work in Nigeria

It’s called diversity! And when Nigerians run to Oyinbo countries (or even Muslim Dubai), they argue that diversity “works”

Zoo!

helinues:
Political stunts.

Hope crocodiles are not in the river

HunWI:
He is doing what Allah instructed him

Unnecessary and uncalled for...

Unless you would similarly contend that the priests who were defiling children were doing what God instructed them to do.

CreepyBlackpool:
So the person that caught him in the act didn't think of stoping him after taking a few pictures but rather decided to let the rapist finish by videoing to the end and running to call the police


whoever took that video is either a paedophile too or enjoys child porn

Dami12345:
Obviously it is. It now more important to trend than to do the right thing.

Or it could have been that the act was captured by a Nanny-cam or even perhaps that he made the video himself for his own perverted pleasure.

Since the news report did not state how the incident came to be memorialized on video, the sort of conclusions you both precipitously jumped to is frankly a metaphoric mirror.

Well done, but...

Cleaning them up is not enough without addressing their underlying mental issues. Good luck to them.

abdulaz:
Not trying to be insensitive, but he looks like an alcoholic. His death could be due to alcohol (Methanol) poisoning as a result of its high level in his blood leading to chronic liver cirrhosis or kidney failure just like in the case of Davido's friend Tagbo.

The dude has been dying slowly and living like a walking dead, he just finally kicked the bucket.

An autopsy is needed though before drawing any conclusion.

Guys Abeg make una dey chill for alcohol matta o, e don send many niggas go six feet.

Spot on!

Sadly, Nigeria has so degenerated that every death these days is attributed to “my village people”, “spiritual attack”, or supposedly envious friends or rivals, when a simple autopsy would provide more rational explanations for a population where most people do not live a healthy lifestyle, never get a regular checkup and will not see a doctor until they are seriously ill or even at death’s door (and that’s only after visiting the neighborhood babalawo or patent medicine store). SMH

RIP bro!

Btw, the same policy that Mr. Obasanjo adopted of allowing financially-committed local producers to import cement for a specified LIMITED period while ramping up their local production capacity (mostly building new plants) is substantively similar to the local automotive policy of the Jonathan administration (which allows financially-committed local companies to import a limited number of cars over a limited time period while building/expanding local car assembly plants, and its so-called ATA agricultural import-substitution (specifically rice, sugar and tomato) policies championed by the current AfDB President that allowed committed local companies to continue importation while building up local farms and processing capacity. Each of these policies of course have been substantively continued by the Buhari government.

lilytender:
Obasanjo a fellow Southerner and PDP chieftain gave license to Dangote only to import cement The government changed and Yar'Adua became President. Ibeto went ahead and imported unbagged cement. Dangote took Ibeto to Court but Yar'Adua said that no matter what the court says, anybody should be able to do business without intimidation and that Ibeto is free to go on with his cement business. However, later Goatluck Jonathan became President and once again helped Dangote to fraaustrate Ibeto Please note that not everyone is stupid and senseless like you IPOB miscreants

philip0906:
Obasanjo frustrated ibeto cement... Same Obasanjo that "endorsed" Atiku...Same Atiku my igbo brothers are dancing around...

Do you see the trail?

Unlike the Ebonyi State government that refused to allow Cletus Ibeto to take over and operate Nkalagu Cement Company that was privatized under the Obasanjo administration, at about the same time as BCC Gboko (sold to Dangote), this same CCN (sold to Rabiu/BUA), Edo Cement Okpella (sold to BUA), and Calabar Cement Company (sold to Holcim/Flour Mills)?

The MYTH of a Dangote cement “monopoly” is just that - a myth! Given that some of the world’s biggest cement producers (such as Blue Circle, Holcim - since merged into the world’s single biggest producer, LaFarge, Scancem, Heidelberg, etc.) have long been in Nigeria even before Dangote built his first kiln. Many of these same global producers compete against Dangote throughout Africa in his continental expansion program (as well as local producers in these African countries). Dangote’s entry with his world-class plants has subsequently compelled these behemoths to quit mostly importing bagged cement from their overseas plants, upgrade their local plants (LaFarge at Ewekoro and Sagamu, Holcim at Calabar, etc.) and improve product quality, in the process raising Nigerian locally-produced cement grade from 32.5R (the standard since before Nigerian independence and before many of our parents were even born) to 42.5R in recent years (while Dangote produces Africa’s first and perhaps only 52.5R cement). Even more important, it has moved Nigeria from being one of the world’s biggest importers of cement (reportedly the second-largest after the US) to an EXPORTER (saving and earning billions in the process)!

On the Ibeto issue, while the Obasanjo government granted conditional import licenses to local cement companies (including btw the Nigerian-based foreign producers like Blue Circle, LaFarge, Scancem, etc.) that have made tangible investments or commitments to local production to import cement for a LIMITED time period (a program that was continued under both Messrs YarAdua and Jonathan), suffice it to note that for a period of time Ibeto was the ONLY cement company in Nigeria engaged solely in importation without any local production whatsoever, as the wrangle with the Ebonyi State government continued over control of the Nkalagu Cement Company (and btw Ibeto was not the only local producer caught in such a tussle as same happened to Dangote wrt BCC Gboko, which Dangote has now expanded from 400K tons to 4 million tons per annum, has built schools and a community hospital, as well as provide stable electricity from its captive power plant). Nonetheless, Ibeto has recently resolved the Nkalagu imbroglio and signed contracts with China’s Sonoma (same builders that Dangote uses) to build plants.

Banter1:
Okay Jonny English.

As in the same English that you and I are using on this forum?

The difference between success and failure (or also-ran) often lies in details, but sadly most Nigerians are no different from the so-called “leaders” that we blame for all of our woes - an inability to do (and/or seemingly a cavalier attitude towards doing) even the most basic things properly. Our people say that if you elect to eat a frog, go for a bull-frog (presumably rather than a tadpole) and when we opt to use the English language we should do so properly. Unfortunately, even many Nigerian university graduates can barely properly use the same language that they supposedly received their education and/or professional training in, calling into question their professional competence in itself as one cannot fully master concepts that one does not fully understand. SMDH

ZOO!

Fash20:
What do you think cause increase in poverty?

A lack of productivity.

Nigeria can comfortably double its population if the population is productive. Rather, we fail to invest in human capital development (albeit in fairness large swathes of our investment in human capital are presently generating returns for the economies of the US, the UK, Canada, and the various far-flung places where you will find Nigerians educated in Nigeria but currently living abroad), and are accordingly saddled with large populations of people who contribute less than they consume.

I stopped reading at "estimated"...

Basic records of births and deaths is not rocket science, except apparently in Nigeria. We do not even know how many Nigerians there are or how many people live in Nigeria. How can a nation reasonably plan without reliable statistics (and I do not mean these "estimates" churned out by the Western NGO industry)?

Great news! But 2 why are two 18-year-olds getting married?

Meanwhile, why would those old men who look like fathers themselves (between the lot of them, they have probably fathered between 30-50 children, most likely on Almajiri service) be kidnapping children? Crying for this country!

Banter1:
Davido finally apologized to the lady and promised to replace her stolen belongings

Kudos to him for trying to help out the female fan...

However, "apologize" is an incorrect term unless he actually did something wrong to the woman. Otherwise, it's more appropriate to just say that he is "sorry" for what happened to her. Unfortunately, Nigerian English (anchored upon an increasingly poor education system) often conflates both terms.

SAMBARRY:
as a product of my dad's rape of his sister I have mental problems and anti-male angst.

Obviously!

SAMBARRY:
no, that’s not how. rather my dad slept with his sister and birth me

No wonder you have mental issues

SAMBARRY:
o puleasseee just shut your rapist mouth.I knew this will be your next line to justify the things you and your filthy kind do.continue. until they grope your mum in your presence. Public dog

Must be how your dad met your mum.

davodyguy:
Yoruba has the best form of culture when it comes to greetings and respect for elders.

The other Mrs Osinbanjo knelt down to greet Buhari. Till tomorrow, my wife would have both knees on the ground to greet my mum.

Ask the idiot that beat her up if he bows to greet his father or extends a handshake to him

And do YOU also have “both knees on the ground” to greet your wife’s mum? Or is this “respect” expected only from females?

In fact, they should SCRAP the award altogether.

Why do we need to build an entire BUREAUCRACY over a honorarium to one or two persons per year? I bet you that every member of the governing board has an official car and official accommodation in Abuja, plus expense accounts, while the members of the senior management each have both plus other “entitlements” (including estacode). That’s why the Nigerian government spends more than N3 out of every N4 that it earns or borrows on so-called recurrent expenditures. SMH

frankmoney:
When eko Atlantic refused Davido the chance to host the show because of security reasons , all of una follow am dey shout politics .... Now you can see how the show turned out

But since it eventually received the go-ahead, by definition that means that all prerequisites (including security) had been duly been satisfied, so what’s the point again?

SAMBARRY:
now its official. The misogynistic tendencies, the ferociousness,the brutishness at women is really obvious. How insensitive can you get


Now if they call men rapists,dogs etc they'll start shouting. Isn't it obvious. As a woman you go to market,one dirty looking nonentity will hit your a55,you didn't advertise yourself as an olosho yet one depraved man will grope you in a public space


Now my sentiments have been confirmed. Men are innately rapists. its only how conducive the environment for raping and sexual assault is that will determine if they will sexually harass you

The only thing keeping men from not raping women in broad day light is fear of arrest and public outcry.do you think this is normal? Or are you insinuating she cannot go to a show because she's a lady?


Sick,sociopathic men everywhere. Tuehhh

Would that include your Dad?

Posts like yours are simply disgusting polemic gibberish. While there are earnest discussions to be had about personal safety (for both male and female), sexual harassment (for mostly females but also for males), and the generally the paternalistic culture of most human societies, post like yours merely lend heat without shedding light. Frankly, such churlish (and childish, I might add) polarization of the genders may seem “woke” to Social Media ‘Feminists’ but it in fact contributes little or nothing of substance to addressing these serious issues.

[quote author= post=74228498]What she went through was just too barbaric[/quote]If true, yes. But how is it Davido’s fault?

Btw, there are enough security people there to call attention to. Anyway, this is why many people avoid the outdoor concerts but rather just pay a little extra for Eko Convention Center concerts.