₦airaland Forum

Buckeyemedia1:
It will not be good for the people that deceived you that Buhari or any President can make Nigeria good.

In a nutshell neither Buhari nor any president for that matter can change the fortunes of this country from becoming doomed.

And you still feel allowing the doom continue is the best? Are you one of those benefiting from the misfortunes of this country? If Yes, I understand why you want the rot to continue but if No, please explain your reason why this destiny killing country should continue like this.

Buckeyemedia1:
Fools that left their country to go & start protesting in another person’s country? Selfish Tribalists, Oyibos should come to Nigeria to conduct referendum for you, have you done your census? let them come back to Nigeria the other tribes will be waiting for them, go & be embarrassing the country in the international community, What kind of stupidity is this?

The People that protested the #Endsars protest at Lekki toll plaza what became of them?

When you denied them peaceful protest in their own country it becomes inevitable for them to take your internal discords outside. Things that could have been easily managed by a listening leader which we all know Buhari is not.

vedaxcool:
They bankrupt the country shared it's finance for keeping the country safe and destroyed all institution yet they still complain when they left behind a collapsing economy and unsecured country.

Do our media houses still have the freedom to publish the woes of this maladministration of PMB like they do under GEJ?

Let's even start from freedom of the press before we start talking economy....shame on You, shame on PDP, but bigger shame on APC, and the biggest shame on Buhari and all his supporters.

Yes, GEJ failed but PMB has taken leadership failures to a very new height. The only thing left is for us to pray not to ever experience this level of failed leadership again. On what metrics would you have scored PMB above GEJ? Just name any.

Again, I'll ask this question. Mention any one trait of a good leader you find in Buhari. Just one.

To clear your doubts, I'm apolitical. I see all your politicians as the same and I have nothing to do with them. They all have the same agendas....to make your life miserable while their families live off your gullibility.

techwaya:
My God ! Did this man just indirectly said Miyetti is responsible for all benue killings? something fishy is going on.

I finally found someone who's reading the intrinsic meaning of those submissions by MACBAN.

The guy just admitted that their people are behind all the killings but DSS does not work in the North. They only work in southern Nigeria where they'll extort their victims. Shame!

Ovamboland:
They're all the same yet Ibo gave 95% of their vote to Atiku but they expect to dominate Buhari government with appointments.

Stop disguising with all these they are the same rhetoric, it's stale, we all know where everyone's sympathy and preference lies.

Such an interesting times we're in. Is this supposed to be your defence on why politicians switch party allegiance? With what you wrote up there, are you trying to say Nigeria politicians have the interest of Nigerians at heart?

This country is so screwed up menh!

NGpatriot:

At the end, you only uploaded pictures when I was expecting you to school me on things that slipped through my consciousness within the Nigerian political space. I'm not here to troll or exchange words with you. If you have any proof to back your claims that Atiku was ousted by APC bring it on or else, take it back to those bankrolling you that Nigerians are beginning to wise up. We already know that they're all one and the same.

This same Atiku you're calling opposition to the APC was the one who stood as the father of the groom on Buhari son's wedding, yet you're here taking sides with these enemy of the common men. They're all the same and I will say this anyday anytime.

NGpatriot:
And I hope you know that the APC saw that and kicked him out...


Good riddance.

Try again..

Like seriously, APC kicked him out!

You think you're talking to those Millennials who just got privy to phones and internet lately.... could you please tell us how he was kicked out of the APC?

How close are you to these guys sef? Have you ever stood 30 metres away from any of these guys you come online to defend? Abi na that 30k monthly stipend dey shack you?

I really will like to know how he was kicked out of the party he sponsored to limelight.

NGpatriot:
This is why they call the PDP the party of terrorists and bandits

How come you forget so soon that Atiku was part of the founding members of the APC before he lost the primaries to Buhari at Teslim Balogun stadium in Lagos?

I still remember how delegates were paid in dollars that day because I was just a few metres away.

Nigeria only has 2 parties. That is, the politicians and the people.They're all the same. They don't mean well for the people...with the amount of cross-carpetting happening between APC and PDP, you mean you still have the effrontery to tell Nigerians that one politician is an APC member and the other is a PDP member?

Oga pack well joor.

Bolaji26:
It's true.


But unfortunately

I lost my very childhood friend in this attack.


Base on what his colleagues told us, they said after dey had successfully killed the Bandit, this my friend saw a traces of blood and follow it to know where it's coming from.

Getting there, it was a wounded Bandit who hasn't die


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D Bandit opened fire on him killing him instantly bfre my friend colleagues rush to kill d Bandit finally.


Rest on

RIP to your man. He paid the ultimate price for a battle that could have been averted from the creddle before it now almost outgrowing its parent.

I wish all these madness ends. Men are being lowered everyday because of this shit they brought in for election gains.

RazorEdge:
Kudos to our gallant soldiers! Wailers must be put to shame. All See-no-good, Hear-no-good are enemies of state. They're equally bandits!

You should be more worried about how we got to this state as a country where citizens now rejoice whenever calamities befalls their country. Think Bro! Think! Yorubas will say Omo onilu kii fe ko tu. Meaning a citizen of a place wouldn't want his place decimated. But here, the reverse is the case. The commoners rejoice when we hear calamities befalling our politicians or ruling class and you think everybody is insane to openly rejoice over a bad news about their country?

Something is fundamentally wrong with Nigeria and not until that changes, the negative perceptions of the people towards the police, NA (minus Navy and Airforce), and politicians will continue to be the same. These people I listed up there are perceived as the enemy of the people and when you look around you, you'll know what am saying.

Peace.

Jaqenhghar:
Many Fulani men wear their hair long,

I've been very close to the Bororo clan of the Fulanis. These guys wear makeup and long hair like female. It's no news to me. Unless they're saying all those Bororo guys I know while growing up were actually not Nigerians. The north is their own problem.

I've said this before and am gonna repeat it again. Northerners will absorb Niger, Chad, Senegal and Cameroonians into their land and give them voters card, shield and protect them and even call them one of their own at the expense of their true fellow Nigerians from the South just for political gains. I know so many Zabaruma guys who now claim Northern Nigeria as their ancestral home and have Nigerian voters card to show for it, and you'll see our Hausa guys covering them up and taking side with them. If a fight broke out like the type that pitched the Yorubas against Hausas in Shasa in Ibadan, where a Zabaruma guy had a brawl with a southern Nigerian guy, you'll see Hausas taking side with their foreign neighbours and shielding them like one of their own.

When it's election time, you'll see them bragging about results from Kano and Kaduna as if they're truely that much in number. Well, I pray Nigeria get back on track again but PMB has taken us at least 10 years backward and he's still doing so with those crazy borrowings.

He's not the first Fulani president to rule Nigeria but how come these long hair Fulanis that I've known all my life turn monsters overnight just because of PMB is still a mystery to me.... Posterity will not be kind to Buhari

Kokaine:
I'm in the north too. I quite agree with you on this. The effect is that they are dispersing from those heat areas like zamfara to the less policed states in the north west. The cases are rising gradually in kano and jigawa now for instance. This thing needs a coordinated attack on the criminals as well as the failing economy. Let government intervention programs meet the right targets and we will see the natural end of these menace. But no! Saboteurs every where circumventing that survival fund, that grant, that oan, that covid19 loan, that Nigeria jubilee thing, and at the end, creating more poor and desperate people who are ready to feed on the perceived rich. Corruption brought us here

You made sense here.... More of submissions like this, you'll get another kudos from me.

harjay1986:
I think Gov. Diri is absolutely right here, the company I work with have their headoffice in Lagos island with up to 30 staff , but our field office is here in Ogun State with upto 150 staff the staff in ogun state pay their payee to ogun state while the one in Lagos pay to Lagos

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Let's see it this way sir. You're a producer of chocolate bars and your corporate office is in Lagos due to nearness to the market. However, your production plant is in Ondo state due to proximity to raw material and cheap labour.

The scenario painted above is exactly what happens in the case of IOC companies. Let's now ask ourselves if it is right for the company who situated its headquarters in Lagos for strategic reasons should pay tax to Ondo state because their production factory and raw materials comes from there or they should pay tax to the state that houses their corporate presence.

In my opinion, Ondo state can only lay claim to tenament rate and the income tax of those workers within her territory while Lagos have every right to collect tax on whatever the company declared as profit because that's where the market is.

To buttress this point, companies in Lagos whose staff live in Ibafo, Mowe, Agbara and other Ogun state communities but journey down to Lagos everyday to work, those companies do not pay income tax of those employees to Lagos state government. I know this for a fact. They only pay income tax of those who live in Lagos to the Lagos state government and this has been on for a very long time. This same argument goes for the case of the IOCs. They're only entitle to pay income tax of their staffs who work on the upstream or downstream to their state of residence and nothing else. In as much as their head office continue to remain in Lagos, it is 100% legal for them to pay their taxes to Lagos state government.

redroom:
Dont claim this as SW victory

Wike single handedly started started this revolution and he is from SS
The only one with enough balls to do this

I never said it's a victory to the southwest sir....read again please. Yes, Wike started the VAT thing but are the south-south states fronting a common collective struggle in this fight like you've seen in the southwest?

Besides, it was even Akeredolu of Ondo state that started this whole eye-opening confrontation with the federal government.

Ibkhaleel001:
I love the Hausa/Fulani academics & scholars!
They don't open their mouths anyhow in petty ITK 'foolish wiseness of the agricultural fowl' if i may borrow Zebrudaya's patented lines.
When they write, it's mostly in calculated response to misconstrued perceptions, provide additional lights on national issues or to state their own side of the story.
And when you read them, you will read knowledge, wisdom & invaluable insights.
But you see the academics & scholars from the South & some part of the Middle Belt.
They have opinions on every issue no matter how trivial.
When you read them, you can't mistake the bigotry, concieted arrogance & incitement to foolishness to their people hidden openly in their mischief they call opinion.
Yet, the South wonder aloud why with all thier vaunted intelligence, they are nowhere near the North in cohesiveness, aggregation of ideas, effective planning & organization.

What's your point?

Omoluabi1stborn:


I don't know.
I'm just beginning to like this SW governors.

Unity in amotekun
Unity in Open grazing
Unity in decentralized supreme courts
So many others.

I think SW will fare well in Regional Government.



BTW, SW governors make Una help me beg Daru Dapo to work nah

What you're seeing now have always been what the southwest is known for. It has always been about progressive in the region. This is the only region that has technocrats as governors and not business men....except of course for a few exceptions. As corrupt as Tinubu is, he was able to come up with policies that helped him govern Lagos state when he had issues with the federal government. I'm sure no northern or southern state governor would have been that innovative to come up with ways to generate IGR that's enough to run a government even when there's no federal allocation.

All these can be traced to the education for all of the Awolowo era....there's an established roadmap for development in the entire southwest that would have placed the region far ahead of other regions in the country if not for the abolition of regional government system. You just have to give it to the Omoluabis when it comes to good governance and public administration.

Bubu why?

The next 2 to 3 president must be very smart guys or else they'll be nothing left of the country for them to govern other than human beings alone....one would wonder if there's anything left in our treasury.

A country as rich as Nigeria now borrows to run the country. Isn't that pathetic? Crude oil is fast loosing its relevance. Science is providing cheaper and more ecological friendly alternatives and we're here watching and living like these things doesn't bother us. The next 5 generation will read about Buhari, Lai Muhammed, Pantami, Gumi, Farouk Lawan and co....and all they'll do in their remembrance is lay curses on them.

driand:
are doctors the only ones who deserves better pay in Nigeria? If no then why are they alz on strike? As for the bolded na ur papa u dey tell that Wan...

It's not the doctors fault that you went and studied unemployment in school. They know their worth and they're demanding for it.... obviously you have issues with that because you studied political science or Library studies... LoL

Ogbeni, that my papa wey you mention so na him help your dad so that your mama go fit get belle ooo. The real gist be say your 'supposed dad' get watery sperm that year so him be contract my dad to help am cover the shame.....na so them take born you ooo

DrFunmisticGlow:
please remember that doctors didn't strike last year when COVID-19 was dealing with us. They pushed their issues aside and put nigerians first. But one can only do that for so long.

Let me tell you a story. A female doctor working in one of these teaching hospitals that hadn't paid salary for more than 3 months but was told to keep working, suffered a miscarriage. She was admitted in the same hospital and treated. She was also told to pay the hospital bill before she could go, the same hospital that refused to pay her salary. I heard she couldn't afford it and had to beg family members. Put yourself in her shoes.

No staff welfare, nothing. It is really sad.

We're on the same page my dear. I only replied in that tone so that sense will fall on that guy.

To him, the doctors are asking for too much and that's why I called him broda ode

driand:
don't mind the idiots, the only thing special about their job is that it's about saving life's, so now they now use it as bargaining tool, any small thing them don go strike,.. Let them tell me who deserves to earn peanuts in Nigeria, me? Thunder faya all of them One by one...

Broda ode, but your senators and reps deserve their largees for sleeping in the chamber and passing laws that stiffens life out of you

Doctors do nothing abi Na your type dey run leave house if you hear say somebody die for compound

Buckeyemedia1:
They have spent the money paying themselves that are playing politics, money for teachers, doctors, fire men, police, army etc, one useless senator, house of Rep, state house of Assembly member is collecting the money for doing nothing. Then the naive populates will be quick to blame only the President not the system they practice

Lemme tell you why we blame only the president. Read this quote over and over....and possibly slowly:

"When the problem becomes too big for the leader, then the problem automatically becomes the leader and the leader becomes the problem"

There's something called honorable resignation. If the president feels the system is the problem, he should fix it or honorably resign. It's that simple, else he will continue to be the problem.

FEMIBRANCH:
I guess he grew up with no father in the house.

That's not the case.... many of us grew up without our dad's but God led us through.

Op,

I was privileged to live next to a neighbour who had a son that's exactly the same as your brother. He's everything and more. He's got an intimidating physic and strength that people gets scared of him naturally due to these attributes.

But what really baffles us the most is that this dude was amongst the most brilliant students in his school (secondary school at the time). I know this because he was classmate with my sister but he's the type who doesn't seat in class and always scaling the fence to go smoke indian helm or some other crazy things.

Long story short, he managed to graduate from secondary school after so many bad cases with the police station in my area and just like your brother, his dad is always coming to his rescue but as he grows older, his case got worse. From stealing things of little to no value, he began going for the bigger things and graduated to becoming a full blown rubber.

There was a time he was almost burnt alive at Iyana-Iba but someone miraculously saved him by taking off the tyre from his neck and brought him back home with allot of crowd..... imagine the disgrace to his dad and entire family.... "Shey ile awon ole na re?" Some people asked in Yoruba....."shey baba ole na niyen?" Were the words on the people's lips as his dad came out to receive his disgraceful son. It was a gory scene b'cuz the man was crying like a baby seeing his son covered in blood badly beaten.

After that particular event, the dad went to the police and paid for his son to be sent to jail and they came and picked him up in his father's compound before he would heal completely. The dad facilitated and orchestrated the arrest from start to end. He made sure he had recovered enough but not 100% so that he would live the next phase of his life strong enough. I kid you not, the guy spent exactly 5 years in jail courtesy of his dad's doing.

He returned and went straight to his father to tell him he's going to be the one to end his dad's life.... meaning he didn't change. He became more hardened. He's hooked up with some diehard criminals and gotten links to higher crimes. He knows almost all the top criminals in Lagos at the time but something dramatic happened.....the die hard guy found love in an unusual manner and the girl got pregnant for him....fast forward to after childbirth, seeing his child changed his life till today.

Still a tough guy but he stopped everything that could shorten his life except for smoking and drinking. He's living off the street now....like collecting money from containers entering the street and all that but he's acting more responsibly since the birth of his child and somehow, he no longer frequents the police station again. In fact, he's gone so cool like nobody knows he exist again. He's a father of 3 or 4 kids now and living peacefully with people.

I pray that God will help you and your family. The least thing you could imagine might change him. Don't give up on him just yet. Help is on the way. Wherever he is, you guys should set out days to fast and pray for him within the family and enjoin him to do the same right under you people's watch.

The morales of this whole story is that: Parents bring up your child in the ways of the Lord so that when he grows older he won't depart from it....I no be pastor

Praxis758:
Why couldn't most Nigerians summon courage and expose attrocities/abuses being committed by officials or those in postion of authority but would suddenly be queuing to expose the abuses and raising allegation after the abuser is out-of-office or falls victim of one issue?

If only you know how many allegations were levied against Abba Kyari while he's still in office. Even Amnesty international had made a report on his atrocities and forwarded same to his Fomer boss but nothing was done. It was swept under the carpet. If only you know how many voices would have been silenced by this beast of nation.

He would even boast to his victims families to go and report him to the president that nothing will happen....and alas, nothing happened until God used Hushpuppy and the FBI to really shake his core.

Aufbauh:
I think this Gov. Ortom needs a head check as his case is gradually deteriorating from paranoia to full blown insanity.

The question that any reasonable person should ask is that; why is it only Ortom in the whole Benue propagating this conspiracy theory if it is not mere mischief? Are they no worthy Benue indigenes even in the opposition to echo his narrative?

Only Ortom cannot be the only one with sight, insight and foresight in the entire state.

The last time someone publicly criticized the present tyrant in power, he was invited by DSS. And that person is a top-ranked retired naval officer.... imagine an ordinary person doing that....

Do you think Ortom would have survived 1 week out there if it had not been for immunity that he's enjoying as a sitting governor?

Let's be objective please. Sunday Igboho never criticized the government. He was only against the killings and kidnapping of the fulanis, and yes, he's also agitating for the Yoruba nation but what happened to him and all his assets is there for all to see.

Let a commoner try what Ortom is doing as see DSS invade his house overnight and tag him a terrorist sponsor. Remember, the dead doesn't speak or defend themselves. This is exactly what they planned for Ighoho. They would have killed him and call him all sorts of unspeakable names.

Him dey try

I know the place...I've been there before. Oh my sweet J town....!

Catastrophe of leadership failures here and there. To rebuild this country will require allot. Like seriously, what will be the next campaign promise from either APC or PDP?

I mean what's going to be the slogan sef?

wurabecca:
Is evacuation the best approach?

Is there still ministry of defence in this country?

Why is everyone acting as if this is normal?

These people's education are on hold, we can't just continue like this, why is everyone in power acting normal..where is the governor of Jos, the police stations and army barack in Jo's are on strike?

Nobody is resigning, nobody is getting fired and we are all calm and collected.

Is there still opposition party in Nigeria?
So many questions

My brother I tire ooo....it goes to show that we only have one party in Nigeria. All politicians are the same. No ideology whatsoever. PDP as the only viable opposition should be blowing hot and scoring cheap points but viola! They're nowhere to be found.

You'd expect them to be keeping the current government in check and on their toes but for where! They're only after wrestling powers from APC without any concrete plans on ground to right the wrongs of the current administration.

Everything is just normal until the politicians and their families starts becoming the victims.

CUMIN:
it's because there is change of power. they know all this guys in festac town and ajao estate

You're right....

This NDLEA guys are trying...give it to them.

Crime doesn't pay but the source of wealth of most wealthy men and women are questionable.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Dear sir, only the enemies of Nigeria hate Alhaji Lai Mohammed . That's one of the best ex-Chief of Stafff Lagos State has ever had. He is not only an experienced Lawyer,  he is a brilliant administrator and a communicator with first degree in French Language yet he was not from a rich background. He is old enough to be a father to many of you .


If you are old enough to know who Alhaji Lai Mohammed is, you will know that you still have a long way to go in your own life and you don't cover such milestones in life if as a youth one spends all his or her time on Nairaland. It's particularly an unwise use of time hiding behind the anonymity of this kind of platform to run down others. Seriously,  for most of you,  Lai Mohammed is the least of your problems,  what you need to deal with first is the consequences of bad character of living different lifestyles online and offline , bad upbringing and highly addictive self imposed idleness. 

May God bless Lai Mohammed and other patriots . May God bless Nigeria. All the enemies of Nigeria will always lose .

To be honest I don't know you neither do I have any prejudice against you or Alh. Lai Muhammed on whose side you've stood to pour out your heart in his defence.

Lemme put it straight here sir. I'm from the same state with Lai Muhammed and I must confess he's got the world's most wrongly formulated name combination ever known to man. As a Muslim, I dislike seeing the name Lai and Muhammed on the same line because he seem to me like the only politician that takes pride in lieing. It's understandable to receive so much bashing from non-muslim nairalanders who have little to no knowledge of the religion but Mr. Lai Muhammed isn't helping either.

His lies are so unprofessional and disgusting at the same time. I understand his job is to cover up for his boss's mess but even at that, there's a professional way of being economical with the truth instead of robbing falsehood on the face of Nigerians even when confronted with facts. It's so wrong. This guy is now a mouthpiece for a government where everybody who dares to speak against them gets your kind of reaction or an outright night invasion from the DSS. No respect for rule of law whatsoever. No one should speak against him because he's your boss or what? You people have zero tolerance for criticism yet, you rode on the same tactics to oust the former administration from power. Guess it's now a case of the proverbial head chopper who wouldn't stand the gaze of a cutlass being taken across/over his head.

If his achievements as you rightly pointed out are so bogus by your standard, how about me telling you that he's so poor that all he's got is money. He's got name without honour. Achieved success without legacy. Is that what you call leading a successful life?

If he were to be my father, I'll gladly disown him and change my surname. Please deflate that ego a bit. There's nothing spectacular about a serial liar like him and his likes in government.

Another one...

On a serious note the north aren't complaining about the killings or kidnappings happening here and there in their states. I feel we southerners need to learn to mind our business, which is to continue to pursue our safety and collective development.

There's never a time when the north and south were on the same developmental trajectory. The only unfortunately thing is that their ineptitude will affect us due to the devilish constitution that bind us together. While the south continues to slowly but steadily climb up the prosperity ladder, those backward people will continue to eat into our national purse through the federal coffers which has been designed to funnel resources or tax payers monies here to them.

But with aggressive pressure on our respective southern governors and lawmakers, they can start asking questions at the seat of power and challenge the status quo....this is what I believe the southern states should occupy themselves with rather than wasting RIP or any iota of sympathy for a tribe that has chosen to live in the pre-colonial era in this 21st century.