₦airaland Forum

Shaytun:
Nope.

Niger did not have a change of rule, their leader was kidnapped.

Potatoe potatoh

Shaytun:
Amazingly, one of the answers is in your statement.

The 4th coup in quick succession, if nothing is done expect the 5th, 6th till the whole region falls under a puppet regime of a private military company.

Nope, I have an unwaveringly support for my country, and unlike you, I understand just the implications of having an unstable regime in Niger will cause Nigeria.

The world doesn’t exist in isolation, there’s a reason why every sane country is invested in what happen to their neighbours.

The more pressing question you should be asking yourself is why are the Coups happening?

Weak and compromised leadership is the reason.

My own is for relative peace to be in existence. Cameroon have had a puppet of the west for about 40 years so I don't see the issue

Eyadema died, the son bounced the vice and took over and has been in power 18 years. Is it Deby of Chad who ruled 30 years and now his son is in charge.

You people keep supporting this peak fooling una dey call democracy.

Niger cannot be more unstable than it has been for the past 40 years. Nobody used excuse to invade us when we were going through our problems so why are you adamant on invading another country?

You're not more supportive than other Nigerians that realize the financial and physical burden a potential war can bring to the region.

I don't understand your excitement for it. You're not a troop, not a Northerner, you're not even a Nigerien. You don't really have skin in the game

Shaytun:
You are celebrating the coup.

It’s not a war, it’s an intervention.

A democratically elected president, chosen by the good people of Niger to serve a Four year term rule has been taken hostage by a disgruntled head of the presidential guard.

How will you see tag when the military junta have already banned the internet?

Are you even following this development, or just feeding on what Twitter influencers have been feeding you?

There have been massive protest from the Nigerien diaspora in other countries.

Let me remind you again, maybe you keep forgetting this important fact, the first protest that broke out following the coup was an anti-coup protest, but they were shot at and have been unable to come out in Niamey since then.

That’s because I’m your tiny mind and your hate for Tinubu, you actually believe this is for ego sake.

Shey Buhari no ban Twitter?

Didn't Senegal block the internet?

Make una talk another thing abeg. A despot is a despot whether e wear khaki or agbada

Segedinho:
I think Mr Junta is ready for war from d beginning n maybe has a back up plan already prepared...

We have got much to loose if we invade ....the already porous and vulnerable northern part will bleed when it generates to a full blown war

He did say he would recruit 50million youths to the Army. Nigerians thought it was banter

I hope the ones pushing for invasion here are not just Twitter or is it Xwitter fingers. When push comes to shove shey una ready to carry gun

GloriousGbola:
For the last one year we heard different people cursing Buhari for being a dictator masquerading as a Democrat. Now the same people are celebrating military rule.

Lekki massacre, banning twitter are child's play in a military dictatorship. And as shaytun has pointed out, all those so called celebrations mean nothing. Those are just psy ops to give the regime a false veneer of legitimacy. Have we not lived through this and more as Nigerians? Did we not see youth earnestly asking for abacha? Do we not see rented crowds for every political persuasion?

Nobody is celebrating military rule. You people should stop being deliberately dishonest. We said don't drag the country into war with Niger

Guinea and Mali are countries that have roadmap to civil rule. What is it about Niger that's so urgent and pressing to the point you want to invade them within 2 weeks.

Why are you adamant on starting war that you cannot predict the outcome

Shaytun:
4. Our interest is stability, which you can never have if the coup is allowed to stand.

You think if Nigerian hadn’t reacted, other countries wouldn’t?

You believe Nigeria should have taken a passive approach and let other countries dictate what happens in our backyard.

We are still reeling from the impact of Libya situation because we adopted a passive approach decades later.

Wetin consign us with Libya? Are we part of Arab League? I don't understand what you mean by passive approach. You're invading another man's land talmbout passive approach.

Niger had change in rule, they didn't say you should invade their country. They have not done anything that gives you right to invade and violate their territorial integrity and any negative backlash we get from this will be 100% deserved

Shaytun:
Some people really need psychological evaluation.

How you will hate your own country, and look for ways to undermine it just because of your hate for Tinubu boggles the mind.

How does someone not supporting military invasion in a sovereign country that has not invaded anybody signify hate for Tinubu

On the contrary your blind support for Tinubu is what we should be questioning here. Wars are expensive and the implications involve loss of lives. This is the 4th coup in quick succession. What is so special about this one that requires immediate intervention.

Is this Daniel Levy not crazy like this?

Harry Kane should go on hunger strike or something. Shey suffer no dey tire am

BlueRayDick:
You are spot-on in respect of the bold. i don't recall seeing Alhaji Monerozi's post condemning those burning Davido's posters in trhe north.

Perhaps his data finished that time and he wasn't online.

Lol. Good luck with that

And that's the thing. Are they scared of the backlash from their people by defending Davido which will prove the point or are they in silent agreement with the posters being burnt it's hard to tell.

And for the record I'm perfectly fine with them boycotting Davido. That's 100% their right na the violence be my own problem. Anything you can't defend without violence you have to reexamine who you are and what you're fighting for

Emaprince:
That stone landed on our own soil like this o. Lol.

The guy was talking to Nigeria directly..since na naija dey champion the Ecowas invasion of Niger.

Fraudulent declaration of election results....hits hard

Na open secret. E sure me other West African countries dey look us with bombastic side eye.

Amigoss:
Moral conflict📌📌

Eishhh. George Weah said I wan trowey stone and anybody wey e reach na him know

dvkot:
do you know what's worse? Is that we are doing this just to please the west.
Its the west that keep pushing for ECOWAS intervention so they can get involved and kill Africans. The same Niger soldiers that do fight side by side with Nigeria army against boko haram is the same people our army will start killing.
How does this make sense?

That is what I find so vexing. Their soldiers have been extremely helpful

raumdeuter:
Anglophone sef get our own

Like Rawlings for Ghana, or Mugabe for Zimbabwe or Mubarak for Egypt or Arap Moi for Kenya

IBB fit do am for us, Abacha shebi if not for death he don transform himself to civilian and all 5 political parties adopted him as their candidate, youths all over Nigeria were campaigning for Abacha, if not for untimely death, who wan stop 3 or 7 terms for Abacha? The west already cut us off so nothing else dem fit do besides to invade us

Let me clarify. Most of what we are practicing in Africa is civilian rule not democracy, democracy will require your institutions and your legislative and judicial arms to be working perfectly. This is not the case.

Nigeria head is too strong for one man to rule like that. Maybe if those countries were not as tribally heterogeneous like we are they would have chased away their strong men too by hook or crook. I'm not one of those that believe Abacha died natural death but that's topic for another day

raumdeuter:
No colonial master will serve your interest, theyare all after their own interest whether its US, China, Russia France or UK. The Sankara wey we dey talk sef, how do you know if he had lived longer wont be like all those revolutionary coupists who became terrors after a while.
See the list of coupists in Nigeria we only romanticize the ones wey dem regime short like Murtala and pre-2015 Buhari when you see their regime for a long time you go see that Sankara is as bad as Campaore. Na Initial Gragra statements we dey cling onto. If Buhari no enter in 2015 na so we for dey dwell on stories of how he was a revolutionary and ousted by the west because of one thing or the other

That is my point. If those interests remain and you're still wallowing in poverty then what is the use of maintaining those interests. We don't know if Sankara would have been better or worse, he could have been a terror or he could have been Lee Kwan Yew. No leader is going to be 100% perfect. Bill Clinton had his drama but most Americans agree they enjoyed the most economic progress under him, same can be argued for Reagan

Did Sankara work or not is the question? He did. They were food sufficient, their healthcare greatly improved.

The problem is institutions. Whether Sankara goes rogue or not would be immaterial if there are institutions to keep him in cheque

Lol. Nobody born and mature under Buhari regime romanticized Buhari oh. The same Buhari Fela was singing curses for abi Barrister that was singing about the poverty in the land during his regime? Na Millenials wey no know wetin dey sup and some that were just tired of PDP incompetence

raumdeuter:
So you really believe these Niger coupists? LOL. If the west I mean US wants to show power, they will give correct money that Russia cannot match to them and they will start singing a different tune. How many times have we see anti western revolutionaries after 2 visits to New York become more American than the ones they chased

Money is the root of all evil and anyone with money will end up winning

I don't believe in anything or anybody. I believe in everyone being allowed the constitutional rights of fvckin around and finding out. Let them allow these countries try and fail on their own. If whatever the West and US were doing was working all this time they will not be among the top 10 poorest countries on the planet. Nigeria is poor but Niger is poorer.

I am not for the coupists or against them. My own is anyway they can resolve things without any invasion or shots fired is my own concern.

Theflint1:
Senegal nko, always assumed they were okay.

Lol. Senegal is only sweet to see as tourist, as with most countries nau obviously but the truth is these countries are extraordinarily poor. Poverty that will make you think you're in the 80s.

They don't call Africa dark continent for no reason. We are in a really dark place

raumdeuter:
Going off that bold, then why blame France for their woes, its like blaming the bookie for your gambling problem or blaming Cartel for your drug addition. Most of those countries are 60yrs independent, time to take responsibility for themselves

You can't list any of these countries problems and leave out France. France and England did not adopt the same colonial style. You can see most of the Francophone countries had 1 or 2 rulers that were President for inordinate amount of time.

Boigny for Cote D'Ivoire
Eyadema for Togo
Campaore for Burkina
Biya for Cameroon

All people propped up by France, the one man that tried to pushback they used his people and murked him

It's not by accident that these countries want French presence and interests out of their land. They are the ones that have experienced it and know where the shoe is pinching them for good or for bad

raumdeuter:
Let them try the Russian option, I am sure nothing will be different, The country Russia wey you dey run to sef have their own issue shebi ibiime dey always post image say a large number of Russians still shit in the open. Shey na country wey dey shit for bush in 2023 wan help you?

This game is about money and Russia has lost the money game long ago, Na agidi remain

The Russian interest in West Africa is not to build or develop it but to advance Russias interest (likewise USA) but at least you know USA and the west get money. As USA dey so, na every year dem dey send alert to almost all the countries in the world under one program or the other. Shey na Russia go do that one? You are likely to fare better by being friends with Dangote than being friends with Abu the gateman

Let them try their luck with Russia and see if they will be better for it

Look at it this way. Niger for example is top 5 poorest country in the World, Russia cannot make them poorer even if they tried but not giving cheap access to France to chop their uranium will somewhat make things a bit harder for France.

They're at rock bottom even with the so called assistance of France and the West. If they have evaluated their situation and believe they cannot do any worse then who am I to suggest otherwise

iamoyindamola:
They unrated colombia, they said there defense was the weak link naso those colombia they pummel them with elbow for match
They were bullied all through

They're very poor at handling the press. And their wing play is terrible, absolutely terrible.

Popp was the only one interested in winning while the rest were just faffing on the pitch.

raumdeuter:
France likely has their own problem. Some days back people were arguing that French colonial policies were better than British because France allows easy access for their colonies. but these countries are mostly desert with few resources except you wan sell sand.

If yu have been to the North especially Zamfara Jigawa them, now multiply that by 5 in terms of size, lack of resources and poverty

Even in Europe sef France is not known to be that hardworking they are mostly enjoyment people and tend towards socialism

France have been sucking their colonies dry and meddling in their affairs for years, countries like Cameroon, Mali, Burkina, Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal have all been under the apron strings of France and all these time what's to show for it?

British oh French oh your colonial masters are never in the business of wishing you well, that's like a bookie wishing you win or a drug dealer wishing you go clean. No such thing

Sankara was on to something in Burkina Faso, look what happened to him. The katakata they have caused in all them African countries is what has come home to roost and what they are battling with now.

Gold, Uranium, Cocoa is one of the many resources that France has been calling dibs on and shaking regimes in these countries instead of allowing them full independence. Not like our leaders too have helped matters with their own corruption and lack of foresight

CrystalTiger:
Alas the infamous "Gandollar" is the ruling party's national chairman..For those who were expecting any form of prosecution from any angle from the FG in respect of any stolen or misappropriated funds, there you have it..

😁😁😁

Tinubu prosecute?? Who is that one on a jonzin ting? It's politics as usual. All you can do is hope as you've always been hoping that things improve.

You people dragged mukina2 here

iamoyindamola:
Germany and brazil are out
Naija should hustle hard against england we might be lucky
3 africa teams in knockout stage for the first time

Germany are not serious they only have themselves to blame. I don't like seeing teams pump goals in a first match like werey. That overconfidence and complacency they carried to the subsequent matches and got deservedly dumped out.

raumdeuter:
I for like see an example of a country that was managed by Russia or followed Russia and can be called successful

We have NorthKorea vs South Korea, We have West Germany vs East Germany

The results speak for themselves I mean even the West with their brand of wokeness are still a preferable option than the East all day everyday but for Africa that theory is really being put to the test. I don't know if it's black man factor but mehn a lot of these Francophone countries are ridiculously poor.

I can't think of any half decent country I don enter for West African corridor apart from Ghana. Cote D'Ivoire to a smaller extent, you see the rest. Can't speak for Niger and Chad cos I never enter there but you see the rest wey I don touch.

What's going on in those places e reach for them at the very minimum to cut off ties with France completely and try their luck with any other country whether East or West

iamoyindamola:
Coup warfare

Warmonger from the comfort of his house. Annoying set of people

Theflint1:
What's the countdown now?

E think say na Call of Duty

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaooooooooo

Ministerial nominee na Obidient. Tears inna mi eyes

liveLongNprospa:
Hmmm

I'm hearing facial and potentially skull fractures. So painful

GloriousGbola:
it is not even a case of a non functioning elevator. this is a case of an elevator that has COMPLETELY AND CATASTROPHICALLY FAILED.
for you to go from elevator that has issues to elevator that FALLS all the way to the floor - too many safety barriers have been bypassed

like when mechanics disable all the air bag etal on your car.

Nigeria has no value for human life. That's what I glean from all of this. Even if you must embezzle it's not all money you embezzle nau. At least some human decency suppose dey

There's no explanation for a government hospital to not have functioning elevators for several years. What is the work of the CMDs, Commissioners what are these people even doing? I have a few Dr friends that have switched to tech and thrown their 7+ years study into the bin. Because the working environment is stuff of horrors. It's why I'm keen on Nigerians to stop this don't strike cos people might die nonsense. If something isn't done people will still die.

That kid should not have died in such gruesome way trying to save others.

GloriousGbola:
as an aside - the exact same thing is happening in lagos

for the past 15 years middle class northerners have been migrating enmass to lagos. now they want to entrench the same hard core conservative nonsense that made the north uninhabitable in the first place

Religion really make people think and move like weirdos. If it's by how religious Nigerians are Nigeria should be heaven on earth. Never understood it, where is the energy for child marriage and other fvxkery. Why do you have no smoke for that but have smoke for a woman not covering her hair

BlueRayDick:
The bold is what happens almost everyday in government hospitals , it’s quite unfortunate .

I am 💯 in support of holding the government accountable for the avoidable death of the young doctor . I am also considering more people can die from the sudden strike which takes effect immediately . There will be people already scheduled for surgery in the coming days in those hospitals and the doctors strike will surely affect them/their chances of staying alive .

I am all in for the government to do something about this incident , punish all the people found culpable like those responsible for not carrying out the maintenance , review the regulations around blood donation( I learnt this was the reason she didn’t get blood on time ) and come out strong on reviewing doctors welfare . But we all know most of this cannot be done in an instant

It is better to get to the bottom of issues and get long term solutions than settle for another patchwork quick fix arrangement again.

You already heard of the governor's wife talking about arrows. That is the level of unseriousness we are dealing with in these positions.

Oya you're talking of surgery, what are the prospects of survival in a hospital lacking blood and oxygen, a hospital without material to react in timely manner. This is only attempting to postpone the evil day.

Lagosians have to see this as their struggle not just the Drs. Their anyhowness is what happened and those victims of the bus and train collision had reduced chance of survival.
Yes the people scheduled for surgery might die today, but accident and emergency victims will surely die tomorrow if real fixes are not implemented

Also nobody is addressing the elevator issue. Why is a ten story hospital not having a fully functional elevator? So all that IGR Tinubu and his people dey collect what are they now using it for? What's now their flex?

GloriousGbola:
What have we gotten from Russia? A steel plant that has not worked for one day since it's inception

What have we gotten from China? Predatory infrastructure loans. China has literally taken over infrastructure in sovereign countries that defaulted on their loans.

And Chinese infrastructure loans are a special kind of arse fucking.

You come to me for an infrastructure loan. I give it to you but you must use my company to execute. So what is the real cost to me? Nothing. Infrastructure projects are supposed to stimulate and boost the economy. But it is Chinese designing, bringing in materials. The best we are getting from their projects are employment of labourers and site supervisors. And maybe supply of gravel and sand.

I am not excited about any alignment with Russia a country that is simply Nigeria on a much larger scale. Corruption, oppression of minorities, large scale theft of national wealth.

But let us agree to disagree.

I have classmates who live and work in the UK who are putin stans and I have to wonder why they cannot put their pocket where their convinctions are and migrate to Russia.

We are a weird bunch I liken a lot of Nigerians to muslims that ran from Wahhabism and Salafism to the West then get there and start preaching and pushing for it. Like if it's that good why not stay in Afghanistan you ran from

This had been an issue since 2020

https://twitter.com/MedicalGuild/status/1216431566832001030?s=19

Churches and Mosques everywhere but people are rotten at their core. A mega city with a supposed Dr as Deputy Governor. Just lookat

BlueRayDick:
No that’s wrong . People don’t need to die while doctors mourn the death of another doctor .

Their deaths won’t bring back the young doctor to life. Most of their demands on the memo is good , but that part about doctors going on strike no go well o.

In the words of Cam'ron. Niggas die everyday B

I'm fully in support of the Drs here. Because the way Nigeria treats those people I'm surprised all of them have not ran to other countries. I'm wondering what else you would have them do for their welfare to be taken seriously for once.

If the public are not going to show solidarity with these Drs for people to be held accountable then who are they to question them withholding their services. Abi the Dr life sef no important? Na only una life important?

This person died in a faulty elevator in the hospital she worked in. Think about that for a second. No blood, no oxygen.

More and more people will still die if there are no consequences for this type of incompetence if you want to kick the can down the road

budaatum:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvZ_38EMzDW/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Lol. This guy has had his time in the sun he should stop being a hater man

George Russell scored more points than you last season. He's lucky he was racing with a mug like Bottas hell he got beat by Rosberg so he needs to take several seats