₦airaland Forum

BluntTheApostle:
What do you mean by Fulani republic?
You people are so intolerant. How many Fulani men have even governed Nigeria since 1960? Shagari and Yar'Adua were the only Fulani men who have governed Nigeria previously. Now, we have Buhari. The longest serving leader is Gowon, and he is not a Fulani.

BluntTheApostle:
As for Africans and African Americans, I don't see how fighting a war has anything to do with the freedom they have today?
There are better ways to represent your interest than fighting a war. War should only be a last resort.

oz4real83:
check my statement again. I added "justice" to my statement. Where there is no justice, there will never be peace.

themonk:
War isn't always evil my friend. I would rather die than suffer as a slave all my life, Freedon is never given on a platter of gold. The Joy the Americans enjoy today is because they fought the British and many people died for the greater good in that war. Many people died in the second world War so peace could exist, I can go on and on. So some wars are good, some wars are bad.

godkiller:
Imagine twenty of this explosion in Lagos in one day
War no good o
Let's be at peace with ALL men

oz4real83:
For those always clamouring for war, this isn't a war. It is just a little taste of how war looks like. Unlike this, bombs drop from everywhere and on anywhere, without control during war. Let peace and justice reign always.

kweensheba:
Launching the manhunt is good but it should be for all such cases, no matter where the person comes from.

Juell:
the fulanis that have been causing carnage, did they ever go after them?

Amberon11:
Who launched a manhunt for all those thousands of people Fulani herdsmen killed?
Nigeria virus is worse than coronavirus

AfroBeatDiary:
This is a similar video



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kfHq4klrcw,



the truth is we cannot develop while we still have our education sector like this, our security sector like this so perhaps we should forget about development till we're able to fix the foundation. Our secondary schools are breeding animals, cultists etc

AfroBeatDiary:
The population of Lagos can be shed on neighbouring states assuming there is an effective and efficient transportation system like bullet train from Abeokuta, Ibadan and Ijebu Ode that can lead to many places within the nook and cranies of Lagos state, Lagos won't be this overcrowded!

MathsChic:
Some days ago, I was at a secondary school in Surulere (across the bridge from the Island) in Lagos for a friend's event where he is educating secondary students about the perils of peer pressure. I honestly wasn't expecting what I saw as the state of this secondary school.
It left me wondering if this was a school or a dump yard. Why in heaven's name are Nigerian leaders looking the other way while the young ones study in this sorry environment?

The attached pictures are what I saw. This is no secondary school. It's a hopeless shanty. I hope this gets to front page and attracts the necessary attention.



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3124804_20151126164323_jpeg933998a57f8c28234ccaa665d2fefc46



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3124836_20151126163829_jpeg3798e0f98a572b323f9b9ab93cf4eb74

meezynetwork:
NNPC pipeline in residential area is a disaster about to happen

NkemChukwudi:
Oga governor, if they are non indegenes please send them back to their state of origin shsrp sharp!
Most especially the yam legged lot from the chest beating Fulani-fearing cowards from potopoto enclave!
Lzaa immhotep

Mediarero:
Over 1,000 beggars on Tuesday blocked the entrance of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the Governor’s Office to protest undue harassment and arrest by officials of the state government.

The beggars, who came in over 10 buses and seven tricycles barricaded the entrance to the Assembly and demanded that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu addressed them, saying that they would sleep on the road if the governor did not come out.

Despite plea by government officials telling them that the governor was not around, they refused to bend and vowed to remain there until they were seen by the governor.

The protesters were armed with placards, some of which read: “Enough is enough, stop the persecution of people with disabilities,” “Save the waterfront, enforced conviction, we demand justice,”If you don’t want to see us begging on the streets, give us skills and empowerment,” “Seeing beggars all over our streets and roads is the failure of the system” and “We are tired of running without legs or eyes, give us skills and empowerment.”

The beggars were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ intermittently and dared the police to harass them.

A cross section of the protesters

Spokesperson of the beggars and Coordinator, Physically Challenged Empowerment Initiatives, PCEI, Mohammed Zanna, said in 2017, they protested in Alausa and refused to leave, but that many of them were arrested and taken to Majidun, which he described as a prison where they were ill-treated and manhandled by government officials.

He said without making provision, government would make laws to arrest the beggars and dumped them at Majidun, as some of them had died in the hospital and in detention.

According to him, some of the beggars had been able to purchase tricycles to do their businesses, but that now that the government had banned them, their situation had been made difficult, saying that people were now trekking from bus stops to their destinations and that some of the physically challenged among them did not have means of transportation


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGf-1xmVrv0



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modsfucker:
New pictures have emerged of the former emir of Kano, Sanusi at his new residence in Lagos.



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Arrewa:
Up north

charlycharles:
Cut-off marks for entrance to Federal UNITY Schools for all 36 states and the FCT
••••
Abia – Male (130) Female (130)
Adamawa – Male (62) Female (62)
Akwa-Ibom – Male (123) Female (123)
Anambra – Male (139) Female (139)
Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35)
Bayelsa – Male (72) Female (72)
Benue – Male (111) Female (111)
Borno – Male (45) Female (45)
Cross-Rivers – Male (97) Female (97)
Delta – Male (131) Female (131)
Ebonyi – Male (112) Female (112)
Edo – Male (127) Female (127)
Ekiti – Male (119) Female (119)
Enugu – Male (134) Female (134)
Gombe – Male (58) Female (58)
Imo – Male (138) Female (138)
Jigawa – Male (44) Female (44)
Kaduna – Male (91) Female (91)
Kano – Male (67) Female (67)
Kastina – Male (60) Female (60)
Kebbi – Male (9) Female (20)
Kogi – Male (119) Female (119)
Kwara – Male (123) Female (123)
Lagos – Male (133) Female(133)
Nassarawa – Male (58) Female (58)
Niger – Male (93) Female (93)
Ogun – Male (131) Female (131)
Ondo – Male (126) Female (126)
Osun – Male (127) Female (127)
Oyo – Male (127) Female (127)
Plateau – Male (97) Female (97)
Rivers – Male (118) Female (118)
Sokoto – Male (9) Female (13)
Taraba – Male (3) Female (11)
Yobe – Male (2) Female (27)
Zamfara – Male (4) Female (2)
FCT Abuja – Male (90) Female (90)

After 50 years of Independence, the government of the so called disadvantaged regions ought to have done something to address the situation. You cannot continue to spoon-feed a child and expect that same child to grow, mature and be independent. A student from Abia scores 130 in the Federal Commonwealth Entrance exam, yet it's almost impossible to gain admission in the school of his choice, yet another child from Zamfara will score less than 5 and gain same admission seamlessly. How do you encourage such a child that hard work and merit pays?

Look at all the appointments the president has made so far, over 90% from the north. They are telling us they are based on merit. My question is how comes, when it comes to appointment, they are hiding under merit to appoint only their own, but when it comes to exams and admission into Federal institutions, they bring in Federal character. I'm an advocate of merit, hardwork, transparency, objectivity and emperical selection process. That way you encourage everybody to work hard for whatever he/she wants. After all, the Bible says, "he who does not work, let him not eat". It's against natural and spiritual justice and principle to take from those who work and give to those who don't work. That in itself is the root of corruption Nigeria.

I support the President's fight against corruption. I advocate the enthronement of merit and objectivity in our national life. So, Mr. President, if you are serious about your anti-corruption mantra, If you are serious about this your new "merit" policy, let's go back to the basis. Start by eliminating all forms of quota system and federal character in the admission process into Unity schools, Federal universities and recruitment/employment into all federal civil service, agencies, parastatals and let's see who will be qualified. That's my humble submission.

Kennitrust:
The gathering of the wicked will never succeed.
Their broom will fail to fly them again
Those gathering against the progress of this country will experience more crisis.
There was a time we all smile in this country but someone came with brooms and sweep away the tremendous progress this country was making.
They said it "CHANGE" but the change only changed positive growth to negative experience.
As long as APC have nothing good to offer this country, anything that we will scatter them... Is welcome.

helinues:
Good riddance......

shogsmania:
It is this Kind of mentality that keeps the country backwards, y'all are always eager to run to already developed countries to be second class citizens when you should be contributing to the development of your country, if the citizens of the country you're dying to go ran away when things were tough for them do you think they'd be what they are today.

ChristineC:
that's the short term effect. you wouldn't keep the $10k exchange forever.
in essence, nobody spending the currency in Nigeria really gains anything from a weakened currency.

kayusely70:
Oshiomole shall overcome

Sermwell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw43BVPasDM

Where is the 'human face' in governance?

Woke up with strength and vigour this morning and was up to face today with all hopes and aspirations but was sad & almost started crying after watching this video.

I've been an advocate of leaders been strong at all time with will power to carry out leadership responsibilities. And that emotional leaders don't go far but certainly not this way.

In leadership and governance, there's a place for 'Human face' no matter the circumstances. Widows to the best of my knowledge are integral part of our society and if we don't apply human face when dealing with them, am afraid we are far from getting there as a people.

Two wrongs indeed can never make things right and as such, can't fathom why the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams A. O. will treat this widow like this and even tell her to go and die when she's struggling to provide food for her family. I think it would've been far better to make her pay a fine for her wrong doing than this humiliation.

The agony of the poor in our society......


http://saharareporters.com/video/video-unkindest-cut-all-governor-adams-oshiomholes-mean-words-poor-widow/

gatiano:
We have woooowed our lives out over structures that are nothing.
Lets marvel over that which was built by our Ancestors, but ofcourse credit is not given to them but to some aliens from the sky.
Black people see what your Ancestor built which stood thousands of years, a lot of gold, silver and precious gemstones must have been stolen from it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Jl4HNDixc

Who knows what we walk over , on that African continent?

xamuell:
I get it but what do we do?(not rhetoric) This feeling of helplessness is killing me. In what way can we help and in what aspect should we help. How do we go about it? It is easy to say but is it that easy to do?(not rhetoric)

Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883

The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict c. 51) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was a continuation of policy to make voters free from the intimidation of landowners and politicians. It criminalised attempts to bribe voters and standardised the amount that could be spent on election expenses.

Background

Despite the Ballot Act 1872, William Ewart Gladstone's Second Ministry (1880-85) knew that to make voting less corrupt, certain measures were required to eradicate intimidation and bribery. The act meant that the expenses of candidates were published and could be measured against a limit as to how much could be spent on "political campaigns". It laid down rules for the conduct of parliamentary candidates, including a strict limit on expenses. The limit was set at £710 for the first 2,000 voters in the candidate's constituency, and then £40 for every additional 1,000 voters. Note, also, that each candidate was limited to just one party agent (though in exceptional circumstances the candidate did have the right to petition parliament for more). Strict record keeping was required as proof that expenses were not being exceeded. Poorer men could also become parliamentary candidates and under the Act stiff penalties were imposed on those breaking it such as heavy fines and imprisonment.

Although it did not entirely remove corruption from the voting system, it strengthened the Corrupt Practices Act 1854 and was aided by a number of disenfranchised, small boroughs.

The Parliamentary Elections Corrupt Practices Act 1885 clarified that an employer was legally permitted to give paid time off from work to allow employees to vote, so long as this was given equally to all voters and not along party lines.

The Act, except section 42, was repealed by the Representation of the People Act 1949 (c.68), ss.175 & 176(2)&(3) & Sch.9; and the Election Commissioners Act 1949 (c.90), s.21 & Sch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_and_Illegal_Practices_Prevention_Act_1883

TinyHacker:
so what one idiot says on Twitter is now factual news? 1 dollar is still 365 naira. you guys must be really dumb if you cant verify news

bigpicture001:
...the no. Of social benefit programs nd rate of employment in the public sector coupled with reluctance of politicians to reduce their wages....

The worst is Dangote refusing to finish is damn refinery.....

ZombieNation:
The canker worm Tinubu was the first governor to turn state house of assemblies to rubber stamps.
The Lagos state national assembly passed a pension bill for elected officials which included Tinubu.
Under the bill, Lagos is saddled with maintaining Tinubu for the rest of his life on the prevailing full salary a sitting governor is entitled to.
The pension bill for Tinubu also includes choice properties bought and paid for by the state in Abuja, Lagos and abroad.
Tinubu also has the choice of 5 executive cars to be replaced every 5yrs.
Recall also that Tinubu is on record to be the only elected governor in the history of modern democracy to have had 4 deputies in 8yrs!
The man is a rotten egg who spear headed corruption in Nigeria to new levels and the financial bankruptcy of acn states under his leprosy grip is evidence of his systematic kleptomaniac.

Thief

http://www.bribenigeria.com/nigerian-corruption-a-higher-level-tinubus-massive-looting-of-lagos-uncovered/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/178114-tinubu-is-corruption-personified-nigerian-minister.html

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/corruption-tinubu-is-worse-than-ibori-pdpurge-tinubu-to-disclose-source-of-wealth/

helinues:
Na Buhari crash oil price? You guys are the real zombie

GamalNasser:
Buhari has absolutely nothing nothing nothing to offer

GenBuhari:
Is it not our corrupt flawed constitution , and corrupt INEC that does not allow public voting in primaries?

TMSMedia:
I’m now a landlady, my walking step has changed – Teni says as she unveils her new duplex (Video)

Nigerian singer Teni Apata with the stage name Teni The Entertainer has bought a new house in her name. Playful Teni in her usual jovial nature shared a video of herself taking a walk round the new property she’d just acquired.

The singer has finally acquired a new house and she broke the news on her Instagram page with a video in which she revealed her walking step has changed because she is now a ‘Landlady’.

Teni captioned the video:

See video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFlh50d9HCQ

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ok5dAF7Yb/?igshid=1i5ajrdeix4ny

Lauryn Hill begins prison sentence for tax evasion

Rapper will serve three months in a Connecticut jail after failing to pay tax on $2m earnings



https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/7/9/1373364659740/Lauryn-Hill-outside-court-008.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c3af8918225db4a86e07999295285dd9



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/09/lauryn-hill-begins-prison-sentence

Shakira to appear in court over alleged tax evasion in Spain

Prosecutors say singer avoided paying €14.5m tax by falsely claiming to live in Bahamas



https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c813a269ba44d0809e63b8f11a302d77192937e/26_181_1243_745/master/1243.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a31de658eaad725677a79b623b900b2b



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/26/shakira-appear-court-barcelona-alleged-tax-evasion-spain

aragonchuks:
Everybody in London testing positive for the virus and one president that vacations there has not been tested yet

u11ae1013:
E no dey affect black man,.. Yen yen yen.
Una Don see am?

KingKingKing:
God Save the World!
The World right now needs to turn to God seek forgiveness!
When a people sin they get plagued just so they can turn from their evil way!
Surprising to note that every country that supports homosexuality is heavily plagued..
Russia isn't cuz they refuse to bend to the whims and caprices of the world!
SA has over a dozen of cases right now..
God save mankind

namiji2598:
Seems Liverpool's EPL title is not guaranteed

GenBuhari:
Often the electorate do not get an option to vote for good leaders, because they are often not given the ticket run for office after our corrupt and flawed party primaries which the public play no part in.

Fortuna2:
My undergraduate project was on quality of water supply in Southwest Nigeria (research findings already published). More than 70% Nigerians lack access to potable water and suffer water borne diseases frequently. Anyways, the government isn't bothered, why should I??

CapedBaldy:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/11193793_fbimg15834227352502959_jpegc08cb922f444ed600463b09b3cd1f9f0.

Peng12345:
We need to protest now for Bubu to shut down all incoming flight from around the world,