₦airaland Forum

mamdanju:
Very good. Keep him locked up until he get some sense. If there is trouble in Nigeria, he will run away to the US.

Like he is a coward like you. Someone who has lived in the USA for over 10 yrs but deliberately refused to apply for US citizenship.

These fake low esteem "wigged" wannabe black women.

King44:
I agree with everything you said except that jagaban part Tinubu is one of our problems, if God would answer our prayers and bring those men holding this country back Tinubu would surely make the list nobody is saint but he is worse

I agree that he is one of our major problems, not just in the southwest but across Nigeria. My point is some paid govt agents on this site are using Jagaban to fan ethnic sentiments (i e. Igbo vs Yoruba). The same way they use Nnamdi Kanu sentiments; even though Nnamdi Kanu and Sowore agree on so many things except on this issue of breakup of Nigeria. Sowore believe is that if Nigeria is working for all its citizens, no one would be talking about breaking away from Nigeria. So let us give ourselves a chance to make Nigeria work first, and when we get to that time if you think that it's still not working for you then you have a right to a referendum. So, that's why Sowore is making this effort to force the political elites to get Nigeria to work for everyone so that the Nnamdi Kanu option won't be the first and only option out of the current mess. These are my personal opinion having followed the activities of both individuals overtime.

jayfolarin:
Expect Govt appointees like the 2 guys above to do their best to discourage you from protesting to demand for better lives for yourselves.

They are implants of buhari and lauretta Oloshi or whatever tf her name is and would do everything in their powers to imbibe defeatism in as much people as possible.

Their modus operandi include:

1. Divide and conquer - make you think this fight is for a particular group and not for you. Hence no need to be concerned

2. It is finished - Make you complacent by suggesting that Nigeria is doomed, done and dusted for failure and there is nothing you can do to help it

3. Fear - Make you fearful for your lives if you protest but they know in their minds that you absolutely have the numerical advantage with you and they should be the ones to be scared.

Etc

Do not be dismayed people, demand for what is yours. And remember, Protesting for basic amenities and a decent life is your Inalienable right.

THE POWER IS WITH THE MANY NOT THE FEW

You are so right about this. Like the way Russian operatives used the social media to influence Anerican public prior to last USA, there are Nigeria govt paid "internet warriors" on Nairaland because it is the most popular news and social site in Nigeria. By their words you will know them. They used tribal comments and other strategies outlined above to dissuade members of the public using this site. They are usually the ones "crying" that Sowore is getting paid back for helping bring down Jonathan in 2015. They will also use Jagaban name in their tribalistic posts. Some will even claim that the international community does not have time for what's happening to Sowore in Nigeria. You just listen to your conscience and do what is right. Imagine this, Nigeria's population will be about 400 million by 2050. If you are in your 20s - 30s, please imagine what your life will be like if things continue this way. If you think 2050 is far, come ask me. Thinking back to 1989, the Babangida's Strutural Adjustment Program years is just like yesterday. And we thought we had it so bad then because I was in my first year at the University of Ibadan living comfortably on just N150 per month. By 2050, maybe you guys will be feeding on one another. Help change Nigeria's course into total doom.

Guyman02:
Some Afonjarudised elements are asking Bakare to stay safe and remain in hiding while at the same time, they are asking Allen Onyema to resign as Chairman of AirPeace, go to America and face his trial.
Why are southerners like this.
Why are they not asking Bakare to go to DSS and face his trial like they are doing to Allen Onyema?

Look at this one o. You no get shame? How can you compare a young chap that is standing up against tyranny and for the future of the unborn Nigerians to someone that is accused of laundering funds probably "stolen" from a govt agency for the Niger Delta. Na so tribal sentiments block your brain to the point say you no fit reason again. Go borrow brain young man.

Eteka1:
Can the NHRC identify any DSS operatives in the viral video of that purpurted court room incident?

It's quite possible. There are videos and pictures of some of them. Though some wore masks. These images can be released to public domain and a request is made to members of the public to help identify them. They will have neighbours or even relatives (and haters) that will give them away.

SultanYoung:
Abacha Remain the best option anytime any day. Contact us for your unadulterated Honey

Would you even be able to sell one bottle of that honey....

What I love most are the brand names. I recently visited Lagos and was shopping around for an hotel in the Lekki-Ajah area. One hotel had all its rooms named after major US cities. The other hotel I eventually settled for because of its ambience and quality had its reception area and restaurant littered with portraits of foreign non-American cities. I was puzzled. Nigerians are the most "koon" white-ass lickers. Thank Innoson for this. This is coming from a south-westerner. Anything Nigerian or African I support. We just have to focus more on creating quality durable products. It's not magic.

So, it's a crime for a news publisher to report genuine election results before overnight election magic happens while other local media houses failed to do that?

So, when the same guy was publishing news that favoured the survival and emergence of Jonathan post-Yardua death, did you all criticized him for doing that.

We must do right at all times irrespective of who it favour or disfavour.

BluntBoy:
So, he should have supported GEJ who failed woefully even with a team of world class economists?

The 2015 election was between GEJ and Buhari. And if you looked at it well, you would know that anyone with sense would have chosen Buhari. In 2015, we were in that period of our lives where we needed a strong leader to stem the level of corruption ravaging the country.

The Economist itself accused the GEJ administration of having no will to save or fight corruption. Buhari came with the corruption mantra. His antecedents spoke for him. A no-nonsense man who was not afraid to step on toes and get things right.

If we had let GEJ continue, I am sure we would never have survived the recession.

And Jonathan would have welcomed IMF recommendation with open arms. Go ask Argentina. Their inflation level is over 50%. We many people like us supported Buhari because of the fact that most thought he could fight Boko Haram and corruption better. Why? Because he seemed to be a no-nonsense individual and military general. But he now turned out to be a disaster. The wakeup call for me was the mass killing by his kinsmen in the middle belt. And this cold-hearted man even attended a public wedding in the middle of the killing. That hit me

VeeVeeMyLuv:
somebody brought freedom of information bill, these people rejected and sent him away, now the person that they clamoured for is now trying bring "keep quite" bill

Even after all the revelations, you guys are still crying over Jonathan 2015 election loss? So, what should we prefer?

Corrupt incompetence and a weak president or a corrupt tyrant? We want none of the two, so that's why a sensible citizen will stand against each. And you won't seek to replace one with another except we are trying to play God by claiming prior to 2015 election that we could see tomorrow. Once beaten twice shy you should say. That's enough.

NwaAmaikpe:




Where was Wole Soyinka when Nnamdi Kanu and Sambo Dasuki's bail were ignored, where was he when Nnamdi Kanu's family house was being desecrated by the military?

Why is Soyinka even complaining against a government whose emergence he actively worked for?
The chicken has come home to roost and they've begun whipping up empathy.

I refuse to buy in and it is simple.
I won't weep for you when your house is on fire if you didn't weep for me when mine was.

No way,

Sowore should pay the price for inciting a revolution against the government of the day out of animosity for not making the ministerial list.
The APC made it clear that they were not going to run a Government of National Unity, so what is Sowere's grouse?

Is it also a coincidence that his call for revolution came after the ministerial list was released?
How come he didn't call for a revolution when the Python danced unchecked in the hinterlands of the SouthEast or speak up when innocent people were thrown into captivity without trial just for having a Biafran insignia on them?

We have better things like Allen Onyema and Air Peace to worry about and I find it rather paradoxical that our dear Professor has not made a comment on the ordeals of Allen Onyema.

Soyinka dines with the people he criticizes and laughs to their faces, accepts their awards and shows up for their invitations.
Visits their official residences and takes happy photographs with them. Worse even, he allows his children to serve under them.

Aside not being as literarily sound, this two-faced nature is one of the reasons he will never be half the man Chinua Achebe was.

Chinua Achebe made his stand on issues unequivocally clear without any hues of grey, he turned down National awards based on personal principles, he never fraternized with people he believed made the country worse off and most importantly, he spoke out irrespective of whose ox it was that was being gored.

Wole Soyinka may have the unmerited award, but Achebe is the laurel itself.

How can the same people who said they couldn't trust Nigeria in the hands of Atiku "the looter" and "Made in China" Obi now complain that Nigeria is finished under their Mr. Intergrity and his Professor of Law vice?

No way.
Lalasti.clala please tell them that we must get to our Next Level, nobody is jumping off this ship.

Who is this nonentity with lopsided mentality. Read over what you posted one more time. What concern Achebe or Nobel laureate award with this issue. Can you folks ever get off your personal hatred and "dark energy". It kills from within and shrinks people of your kind from blossoming in the real world. Go get some therapeutic help if you can't fight this alone.

agbangam:
God doesn't love Nigerians because how can one explain how God in his infinite mercy gave us the best of Natural resources, Mineral resources but chose to punish us with horrible men and women as leaders since independence. Yaradua that would have done better, God allow death to take him from us, God ended up giving us a man that doesn't see stealing as corruption. Now we don get the one wey no sabi obey court order or believe in Rule of Law. I just confuse

So, God will come from heaven to conduct election and "fix" election result to suit you. What are the responsibilities of the citizens. Those that collected N500 to sell their vote or exchange their vote for a bag of garri/groundnut; those that sponsored violence on election day, or stole ballot boxes... so it was God that did all these in human form?

gypsey:
Yea right! Which lord? the same bloody lord who cannot cure Malaria and ebola?

What have you used the common sense given to you for?

IkeOnyia:
Which world is watching? The United States is engulfed in the impeachment fever of Donald Trump, the United Kingdom is embroiled in Brexit impasse, Russia is occupied with annexing Ukraine, China is plotting how to restore normalcy to Hong Kong and France is crippled by a general strike. The world doesn't know if a person like Sowore exists. Buhari has gotten his second tenure. It is dangerous messing with him now.

Just stay quiet if you live in a cave somewhere in Nigeria. Don't blame anyone for been a "Mr. Nobody". I know some low-lives nonentities could becone envious of others because of their miserable lives. It's actually more common among we Yorubas. Are you one?

1. Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/chaos-ensues-as-nigerian-secret-police-rearrest-buhari-critic

2. CNN https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/06/africa/sowore-arrested-after-bail/index.html

3. Quartz
https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/africa/1763098/nigeria-dss-re-arrests-omoyele-sowore-one-day-after-bail-release/amp/

4. BBC
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-50689265

5. CBS Newyork
https://www.google.com/amp/s/newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/12/06/nigerian-journalist-yele-sowore-arrested-amid-courtroom-incident/amp/

6. Reuters
https://www.google.com/amp/s/uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1YA0SW

7. Havana Times (Cuba)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/havanatimes.org/sos-for-journalist/nigerian-journalist-and-political-activist-omoyele-sowore-arrested/

8. Voice of America
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/africa/supporters-say-opposition-activist-reporter-released-detention-nigeria%3famp

9. USA Senator Bob Menendez (<12 hrs ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtDS3gESnBw

Do you want more?

Proudlyngwa:
Ignorant people everywhere,
The job of Government is regulation and licensing, with the mentality here I deduce it is cave men that Nigeria is filled with.

The irony of it all is that drilling borehole for water supply shouldn't be a common thing in a city. It's normal for rural and sub-urban settlements. Back in the days we had running water taps in houses on Lagos Island, and there were public water taps too, where individuals living in houses without taps used to go fetch water. I remember that one can easily connect taps to main underground water pipeline belonging to the city. I saw this on several occasions. Then well was also not common not to talk of boreholes. On our street (Tokunboh St.), I remember one house had a well along a stretch of two blocks I was familiar with. We used to go fetch water from the well if tap water wasn't running. We always had to go far to get water in other wells in the neighborhood, which indicates that open water well was also a rarity back in the days.

Stillthebest:
But Govt provided water runs in every single home no matter how remote it would be.

That's not right. Rural settlements always source water from boreholes because it is not economically viable to connect such settlements to main water supply used by cities.

Toosure70:
only if you know why the advance country against bore holes. It causes earthquakes.

Common stop that. What earthquake? It's not as simple as that because chances of earthquake depend on local geology like presence of fault line which is not present in this part of the world.

Rather than earthquake, what's possible is land subsidence (i.e. sinking) because removal of water leaves air-spaces within previous water-bearing rocks underground which cause the land to sink since there is no strong underground support offered by hydraulic pressure due to the presence of water. It may also cause sinkholes. Land subsidence is common in some oilfields due to decades of pumping oil plus production water out of the ground.

Nicklaus619:
Finally federal government has borrowed sense.
I disliked this guy each time I remember how he blackmailed GEJ and sold Buhari to us in 2015,but as a human with conscience I condemned in totality the illegal detention of sowore against court verdict

Who taught you English at school. Go and check the meaning of "blackmail". And ask Jonathan how he became the president.

Alphafeezay:
Don't be surprised this guy cashed out of this issue.... remember PMB sent people to meet him while in DSS Custody

Like he is a "pauper mind" like you.

You are all fooling yourself. A former governor in jail in Nigeria. These individuals are either somewhere in Nigeria under house arrest or have quietly sneaked out of Nigeria with people thinking they are in jail. Even ordinary citizen criminals are let off and replaced by innocent victims. The level of corruption in Nigeria is beyond what any word in a dictionary can describe.

Harrynight:
This guy has always been in debt even to his staffs and he is know to be a billionaire

There are so many of them including my "Yoruba" demon tribesman that own Nicon Noga hotel. He contested for election in one of the southwest states. Can't remember is name now. He is a confirmed crook. These are the folks Obasanjo enriched.

AkeNathan:
What's FG doing with Igbo business men

Innoson was dragged through out Buhari's first tenure.

Now Onyema and Ubah.

Arthur Eze howfar ? Prepare

Why can you people close your eyes to the wrongs that some people, especially businessmen, either Igbo or Yoruba does. Someone collected loan and does not want to pay back, and upon that made false claim on recovered asset. What do you call that? These are very sharp practices in public and private entities that got the country into this mess. Apparently only your ethnic group exist in Nigeria out of the over 200 ethnic groups. How many Yoruba or Hausa people will come out here to defend known Yoruba or Hausa crooks.

jahsharon:
Appeal directed to the wrong person. Please Mama wa, God will let you grow older than this and eat the fruits of your labour for a very long time ma, Amen.

But Mama wa, though you tried your best to raise this your son Omoyele Sowore well, teaching how to talk to elders, respect elders and glorify elders so that he too will live long. It is however sad that you did not teach him how to correct elders when elders go wrong because nobody can be right at all times. This your boy has become a prodigal son. He has abused and insulted an elder who is even older than you ma, someone that even you will never insult. For this reason ma, he is going to be incarcerated for some time, he is not going to be there forever, but he will be there until we see that he has learn his lessons.

From your speech Mama wa, it is obvious that he inherited stubbornness, defiance and rudeness to constituted authority from you, these are very good attributes of a true warrior. But Mama wa, you should know that this comes with its consequences. So, brace up for the tough time ahead, may God continue to give you strength to be stubborn and resilient.

Which elders are you talking about. The armed robbers in "babaringa" or tye and coat.

This is what I suspect. You were using Google map on your phone without a mobile phone holder (like in image). I was in Lagos recently, almost all the 30plus Taxify/Uber drivers I rode with did not have a phone holder. If that's what you did, the FRSC guys did the right thing.

holocron:
Don't curse anyone who has not cursed you, but make your points calmly. All are entitled to their opinions. Cursing will not change opinions but well reasoned points may.

Returned back, sneaked back. Is it not just semantics?The bottom line is that the situation she returned to was not too unpleasant or she would not have returned. Kids have been known to run away from home in to the unknown when they are uncomfortable, and for teenage girls, there's no shortage of help for a damsel in distress.

Has it occurred to you that the Stepmom is lieing and framing up the father and daughter in a false accusation in a bid to frustrate the man from bringing in the daughter from another woman. All these just because of jealousy. If not how can you tell me that a normal woman witnessed the sight of her husband sexing his daughter and instead of shouting and causing a scene, was so calm and composed to meekly go and report, trying to incite gullible neighborhood boys into her cause, perhaps promising them some of her booty.

Why all these unnecessary conjectures? As if there are no precedents. Even some mothers will keep quiet in order to save their marriage and the family from shame.

I watched a Yoruba movie (Mask) yesterday that dealt with the same issue. Please, do the right thing. The man is "sick" and need help by spending sometime behind bar. He would never stop and the woman would not report him to authorities on her own, just like in the movie. Please be courageous and do the right because you will be saving a life and a community.

Mokason28:
Osama my foot not when Tump is the President.. Do you think it’s a coincidence dat there hasn’t been any terrorist attack on US soil since Trump became president of US

Yes, you are right but there have been over 100 mass shooting per year in the USA carried out by American citizens. You won't hear a lot about this form of terrorism. There have been over 300 mass shooting in 2019 alone; at this point more than the number of days so far this year.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mass-shootings-2019-more-mass-shootings-than-days-so-far-this-year/

Fadomero:
I don't know why whenever I see this Muslims something scary just go through my mind I always remember osama

My! You craze tire

She most likely has mental illness. She has gone through a divorce, probably lost her home and family because she now live alone in her vehicle. This is part of reality of life in the Western world, especially outcome of divorce. Usually one of the couple will lose out, often the men. Partly why some divorced Nigerian ex-couple end up killing one another because they can't bear the material loss mentally.

Aidejay:
Generational money no dey make noise
They quietly pass it down from one family member to another then to another
All this mompha, hushpuppi, nigerian celebrities show off is not going to last 20 years not to talk of 3 to 4 generations

20 years is too long. Ask about Nigerian socialites Wasiu Ayinde sang praises to less than 2 decades ago.

This chap is taking away these kids from their God ordained future.