Here are some entries for your consideration. Most of the softwares listed below have both a standalone windows and a mobile version as well.

Cryptography/ Security: Enigma Email Security & Encryption System and its mobile version Enigma XIII.
Entertainment: CableNet TV (A standalone software for watching worldwide TV channels live.)
Cyber-security: Eagle #Shell.
Educational: A Rocket Modelling and Simulation System.
The two companies that developed these software applications are also at the very last stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (S.D.L.C) of a Nigerian Payment Gateway. I'm sure you will not fail to notice it when its out.
Only when we as Nigerians support local businesses by buying Made in Nigeria products from our Textile to Tablets could we then create the conditions for which those Nigerian Firms would be empowered to produce goods be it Software or otherwise that will compete in the global market, and perhaps at least dominate the continental one. Nolly W0od is a prime example of what can be achieved.
Buy Nigeria.

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Through out Human history, the worst and the most lethal wounds a nation can suffer are always self-inflicted. The Roman Empire did not fall because its legions had been overrun by Gothic Barbarians, later sucessors to its hegemony, the Empire of the Ottomans and even that of the British collapsed not because of a reversal in their military fortunes, an autopsy of all three world powers revealed that their cause of death is moral decadence and internal upheaval; a deadly affliction which drains nations of vitality. Social unrest, rotten criminality and widespread violence are but mere side-effects of this disease.

Nigeria is now showing unmistakable signs that wither due to an overdose on a rare strain of hallucinogenic tribal bigotry and insanity, or the most unfortunate of all our national traditions; our amazingly short-sighted habit of choosing to ignore and sometimes even forget the bitter lessons we learnt in our recent past. Ironclad truths that are written in the blood of our father’s and handed down to our generations so that we may avoid repeating their many mistakes, this trust they enshrined in the spirit of a national pledge all of us were fore-sworn to regard as a sacred duty not only to the 200 million Nigerians alive, but also to the million casualties of unmarked battlefields, the countless men/women/children that sacrificed their life and limbs during the darkest era of our nationhood- The Civil War, that painful tragedy faught to divide a country but ironically provided the nexus on which to forge a new national identity from the ashes of a bloody past. Then and now, we may not know what our destiny as a nation is, but in the heat of conflict we all came to see what it isn’t. This is a wisdom purchased at a heavy price, of dreams deferred and ethno-centric folly. Barely 30 years later, this has been sacrificed at the alter of selfish-interest and irresponsibility, such contempt for society is mostly propagated by those in authority, the same individuals whoose duty is to confront and contain this growing trend.

The extent of this problem only became obvious to me when two days ago, a complicated character called Asari Dokubo- once a former Niger Delta militant who made a name for himself through treasonous actions which do not exclude the kidnapping of expatriates and the waging of a guerilla war against the Nigerian State before his terrorism was halted by the brave men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces, bringing an end to his criminal career. He however was among the insurgents that accepted the amnesty granted by the administration of our late President, he supposedly handed over his arms and was re-integrated into society, or so we thought.



Asari in a public display of ingratitude and lack of judgement, seemed to mistaken our genorousity for weakness which his training in Colonel Gaddafi’s infamous academy of trouble makers taught him to exploit. This he did shamelessly and in contradiction to the noble purpose to which he owes his freedom today, he even had the audacity to stand in the nation’s capital and threaten more than half of Nigeria’s population with bloodshed and a religious war. Many would like to know what gave him the confidence to make so many arrogant and offensive statements. Here is a man who has directly and indirectly caused the death of so many of our troops, publicly proclaiming that the President in whom lies the constitutional authority to protect the peace in the country and the lives of all Nigerians alike, will play a role in a supposed conflict that he Asari is inciting.

Where is the rule of law then?

Where are the SSS/DSS then, if one can commit as treasonous an act as instigating civil strife and get away with it? I think it is safe to asssume that they aren’t paying attention because they are otherwise engaged, on more vital National Security concerns like harrasing the political opponents of His Excellency. Sarcasm aside, this is a very dangerous game Asari Dokubo is playing in a time as dangerous as this. The insurgency in the north is already stretching National Unity to its limits, the perils in this sad times could suddenly explode to become a disaster we cannot even fathom, if the Federal Government does not bring him to order before he and others with similar agenda drag us into a cataclysm with a magnitude higher than that of a premium eruption of a super-volcano, then they should be aware that history will judge them accordingly. Now is the time to put an end to this madness, it is a duty of all patriots to condemn this act of High-Treason and inhumanity with all the vile venom it deserves. Not only because those who will suffer the most from this folly are those whose voice had long been silenced by the napotism vis corruption at the heart of our governmental system, the ordinary ‘aboki’ security guard and the suya man striving to make a living in the noisy cities of the south, the southern housemaids that wash and feed the children of the ‘Alhajis’ in the core north, all the forgotten invisible people that together make Nigeria a great tapestry of diversity but whose aspirations our rulers take for granted, they will not forget nor forgive us for putting their lives at risk all because of artificial misunderstandings and the power struggle of our political masters. We are bound by our shared humanity to avoid a path that will cause irreparable harm to our people. We owe it to our children.

The President wasn’t elected to keep mute while Nigeria’s existence is at stake. He is suppose to lead and lead he must. He should start by denouncing Asari as the garbage of a man who lost all shreds of dignity when he took arms against his own, he should tell him that so the widows and orphans of our fallen soldiers may know that their husbands/fathers did not die in vain. On their behalf, I demand an apology. The President should know that although he lacks popular support in the North, he still has something much more important; Legitimacy. This is what he stands to loose if he continue to shy away from the issue in the face of several developments which foments doubts about his impartiality; is he the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or is he an Ijaw President of the Niger Delta?
His gaffe following the tragic terror attack on the day when the nation celebrates 50 years of independence is certainly a blunder of monumental proportions. Defending MEND while it was claiming responsibility for the attack on the nation was a serious miscalculation that portrayed him as someone trying to exonerate his kinsmen either to save himself from the embarrassment to come, or as someone seeking to profit from this tragedy by using it as political capital. It was no surprise that it backfired. The abscence of Federal Character in several of his decisions is re-shaping his image in the eyes of the people, such poorly conceived policies are lacking in both moral objectivity and subtlety. This is not even about the unfair budgets that always favor his region to the detriment of an equally if not more needy North, this is about Trust and Loyalty. Where does yours lie Mr. President?


A Picture do tell a Thousand Words.

If we are to endure and continue to turn a blind eye to the constant insults and threats by those who claim to be the defendants of your interest, and are by virtue of their ethnic affiliation, political stands and public pronouncements perceived to be close to your person, while at the same time we know them to be the agents of only themselves but allied with the immeasurable strength of those who benefit from war and chaos- that shadow conglomerate of multi-national arms dealers who are impatiently waiting to profit from our misery. The least the Federal Government could do to allay our concerns is to be truthful to us on this most sensitive issue, let us put the Freedom of Information Act to the test, we demand a full disclosure of every non-classified data in Nigeria’s archives related to the activities of foreign nations, their agencies and their proxies in our sovereign territory. There are two nations whose activities demands our immediate attention, I unlike many professional Nigerian journalists would not be forced to commit a writer’s most cowardly sin; self-censorship. I shall call names if that is what it would take to awaken our people from their deep slumber. What dirt would we uncover if the suspiciously deep footprints of France and Israel in Nigeria are investigated with the utmost urgency and the seriousness it deserves?

It doesn’t take more than common sense to connect the dots and see the covert hands of foreign interests in the security crisis currently affecting our fatherland. The only question is when will someone stand up for what he knows in his heart is right? When are they going to stop playing politics with people’s lives and start giving us some honest answers?

RIPE FOR HARVEST?

A careful re-examination of the state of the nation going back ten years into the past revealed a frightening pattern, it now quite plausible for one to suggest and rightly so that our country may have been a target of a quick kill in slow motion. The deliberate sabotage of our national dream by a few among us, possibly even at the echelon of power, whose allegiance is not to their country but to a foreign interests. They could blend in any typical Nigerian setting, that the nefarious aims they pursue would cause so much suffering is inconsequential, they are merely useful idiots tasked with creating mischief and sowing hatred. Their most effective weapon is the demon-ization of Northerners in the Southern Local Press and vice-versa. Their tactics seemed to be flawlessly effective. Now these same people are calling for a religious war, are we really going to give them one? Ask Harliburton, Blackwater and other Mercenaries, what’s more lucrative than an artificially generated war of attrition fought upon religious divides?
Their answer would be, not even a sectarian war.

That is accurate, after all, they are the experts; Remember Iraq.

$20 Billion dollars of Iraqi Money disappear overnight.
About 2 Million Iraqis are now refugees.
A Million died either from the invasion, the occupation or the sectarian war it created.
Thousands of Innocent Iraqi’s killed by US Forces in what they describe as The Escalation of Force.
Iraq has not known peace 10 years after the US ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’
Iraq is now under a dictatorship just as bad, perhaps worse than the regime of Saddam Hussain.
The Infrastructure and Archaeological heritage of Mesopotomia and Iraqi National Treasures had been looted and regularly turned up in the black market.
The sectarian war created by US Intervention is still raging and may have expanded to Syria.

This is the meaning of a 21st Century religious war in a country with immense economic and geo-political importance.

Iraq has only 28 million people, Nigeria has 200 Million.
To harvest the seeds they have sown in Nigeria, they don’t need a trumped-up charge of W.M.D Proliferation or a Colin Powell to lie to the United Nations .
A few Asari Dakubos could do the job just as well.

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Fellow compatriots, Irrespective of our political differences and our sectional affiliation, irrespective of whether we voted for or against GEJ,
Our country is under attack from those who want to bring us down to our knees and cut all the ties that bind us, so that we can no longer act as one.
Now is not the time for bipartisan machinations or tribalism, now is the time for us to unite behind our President no matter how incompetent we think he is.
Let us support and pray for him as he fight for our future, let us bear in mind that yes ethnicity and religion may divide us, yet geography, common history and the same aspirations has brought is into this century as one indivisible nation, a nation that our fathers sacrificed their lives to ensure that it stay thus.
 An attack on any region or followers of any religion is an attack on all of us. My Fellow countrymen, Unite behind our leader as we approach these dark days ahead.

I agree. Will vote him as nija presido anyday.

it takes wit for one to be voted best central bank governor in Africa; twice.

Anyone who says he isn't is definitely hating, period.

Beaf:

The Presidential limo can NEVER be allowed to break down or even look remotely like it, that is one area nobody can toy with.

Oga Beaf, why shouldn't the Presidential limo break down?
When the same President has allowed every institution in the country to run aground?

emmke:

^u are probably new on nairaland. And i bet u joined cos u thought it will be an avenue for u to have logical and objective discourse on how to make Nigeria a better place. Just the same reason i joined. But be careful. Some might spew venomous words about your people and that might fill u with hatred and change your perception about other tribes and even Nigeria as a whole. huta lafiya mutumi na

Quite True. I have read words here on NL that make me wonder if we do not have an epidemic of madness.
With all their poisonous words against my people, you will be surprised to know that i do not hate them.
I pity them. Why?  i have seen hate and what it can do; it is a disease that turn proud men into wretched souls.
I am incapable of the emotion called hatred.
Do you remember what Richard Nixon said in his farewell address at the white house following the water gate scandal that led to his fall?
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

[size=18pt]A piece i wrote in my blog on this shameful acts by the NPF[/size]

I have no desire to disrespect the armed forces of the country on which i decided to write this expose, i have always been an avid admirer of the role the military play in the preservation of our national unity and stability. It is precisely for this reason however, that i must write this piece as a wake-up call to the conscious of our nation. The deterioration of our social fabric and the chaos of our political life is no reason for us to forget the ideals by which we swore, sacred words enshrined in our national pledge and our constitution.

The tribulations of our fourth republic has brought us to a point where our perseverance and our commitment to a collective national dream are tested.  Nevertheless, our country is under attack from unpatriotic elements and radical extremists  who are threatening our very existence as a peaceful and united federation. I am not denouncing the armed forces’ response, I am merely questioning the logic by which innocent individuals are alleged to have been murdered in cold blood by the same security agents whose duty is to protect their lives. I and the whole world has seen graphical evidence of the atrocities, such episodes are a clear vindication of the accusations of Human Rights organizations and a blot on the integrity of our security agencies.

According to a national daily,  Over 1583 people were allegedly killed by law enforcement agents between 2006 and 2010, the Legal Defense and Assistance Project’s annual report on extra-judicial, arbitrary and summary executions in Nigeria has said.

In 2006, the impunity rate was 83 per cent; 2007’s rate was 89 per cent; 2008 was 83 per cent; 2009 was 88 per cent; while 2010 was 95 per cent.

In 2010, the human rights protection agency said no fewer than 21 persons were allegedly killed by the police for no justifiable reasons.

In 2006, a total of 157 incidents resulting in 505 unlawful deaths were recorded. A breakdown of that year’s statistics showed that 129 people were victims of extra-judicial killings by state actors while 339 were political killings.

For 2007, a total of 217 incidents resulting in 653 deaths were recorded; 241 were extra-judicial killings while 321 were politics related.

In 2008, a total of 256 incidents resulting in 679 deaths were recorded and 250 were extra-judicial killings.

Similarly, in 2009, 215 incidents resulting in 1,348 deaths were recorded and 963 were extra-judicial killings.

In 2010, 115 persons were allegedly killed by the police.

According to Amnesty International, “Nigeria’s police have been responsible for large numbers of extrajudicial executions, deaths in custody, and cases of torture and ill-treatment of alleged criminals in custody. The police kill hundreds of people every year with impunity. “

“Many are unlawfully killed before or during arrest in the street or at roadblocks. Others are tortured to death in police detention. A large proportion of these unlawful killings may constitute extrajudicial executions. In other cases, people disappear from police custody.”

It is against the principles of democracy and the Rule of Law for such incidents to continue,  We the people must be assured our right to a free and fair trial irrespective of our alleged crime, we can not be punished until we have exercised our right for defense in a competent court of law. If action is not taken against this particular issue, then we demand that the leadership of this country must renounce any claim to our being a democratic nation, for only in absolute dictatorships do citizens get killed without legal justification. Nigerians are not subjects of the state, we are instead its citizens who are guaranteed certain inalienable rights by the 1999 constitution, the most important of which is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Before you blame anyone for the lost of Bakassi peninsular, please make sure you are well versed in the issue and by that, i do not mean what you read in your local dailies.
An issue as sensitive as this, is not exactly the type for which historical revisionism and negationism should be used to justify a particular grievance.
The truth of the matter is this, Bakassi has never been part of the territory of Nigeria.
Let me explain,
As you all know, Nigeria was formed by the unification of the Southern protectorate with the Northern protectorate and Lagos colony in 1914. And those territories are what was the original Nigeria. But in 1914, world war 1 started in Europe and as part of its global war campaign, Britain sent an expeditionary force made up of the West African Frontier Force (mostly the soldiers are Nigerians of the Hausa constabulary force and a regiment from gold coast (Ghana)) into southern Cameroon. I have no knowledge of the military campaign. But in 1919, at the Versailles treaty that formerly ended the first world War, the surrender of Germany was accepted with certain conditions that are inserted into the treaty by the French to punish the Germans. one of these clauses was that Germany ceded its control over all its colonies. Britain therefore Proclaimed mandate over southern Cameroon while France took the north. To reduce administrative difficulties, the British government joined the new mandate territory with Nigeria and together they were administered for 5 decades. That is why the original name of Zik's party was the National Congress of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC). the name was later changed when in 1961 Southern Cameroon formed a political union with northern Cameroon but the initials remain the same.
When southern Cameroon joined the Republic of Cameroon, not all the territory it came with in 1919 were given over. Nigeria maintained its sovereignty over large parcels of land that actually belong to Southern Cameroon to this day, these lands are mostly in the former gongola state (adamawa bendel e.t.c) Bakassi is one of  such places.
If Nigeria were to give back all the territories that belong to southern Cameroon in 1919, the map of Nigeria would slightly change from the east up across the benue and into north central Nigeria.
This is the history and one of the arguments made by Cameroon at the ICJ.
That been said, if it was up to me, I will not give up one iota of Bakassi to the Cameroon,
The ICJ is a lame institution with minimal authority. it will take a UNSC resolution for any of its rulings to be unilaterally implemented. I cant imagine anyone voting for Cameroon against Nigeria in the security council.
The Senate shouldn't have ratified the treaty, they should have told Cameroon to go hug Fukushima Nuclear reactor.

RoadStar:

Its a sad story but the the events of the civil war was "unfortunate"
If same sitiation re-occurs who is gonna be the biggest casualties this time ,

IGBOS !!!

You are wrong my brother, the greatest casualty of such an event will not be the Igbos, it will be Us and our hope of a new united and progressive Nigeria that is at peace with itself.
Its conscience no longer stained by the injustices of corrupt leaders nor our turbulent past. May that time you speak of never come.

I'll believe it when i see him in a cage like Mubarak.

For now, its just some noise from a bunch of toothless clowns.

Prove me wrong, put am for cage and stream the video of the trial live mek we see.

i go dey laugh while im watching it on YouTube.

with my pop corn and soda.

isale_gan2:


That dude is neither Hausa, nor Fulani.  (And I don't even have to check his post history to confirm it.)  Only us "ignorant southerners" lump Hausas and Fulanis together.

Well actually this dude is really Hausa/Fulani and he lumped these two ethnic groups together because they are together; they have been indivisible since at least 1804.  "Ni cikakken bakane ne" and proud of it too. don't know what makes you think otherwise.

or wait, i get it! you must be one of those dudes who really believe Hausawa are all dumb. aren't you?
Well surprise, that was the generation of yester-years. You have just been awaken to the new reality;
"Hausa/Fulani sun dawo".  And this generation, the like of which you have never known
will make feel pretty silly for believing all the silly things they say about us.

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The only thing i do not support is his running away.
I think he was a good leader,nobody is perfect

Actually that was one of the smartest moves he made for the entire duration of the war, only a fool fight
when their is no hope in victory. Had he stayed and fallen into the hands of General Gowon and Co.
Just when the bitter memories of that terrible war are a fresh memory, you can be sure it will have been a quick extrajudicial execution.
Tafawa Balewa / Agui Ironsi kind of ending. And then we could not be posting on this thread today.
Only old Igbos will remember him, a fate similar to that of Ken Saro Wiwa.

Im glad he fled then. Had he been killed, there probably would never be  Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction.
Only hatred. Hate sucks!

@Kilode?!

Isale, bawo ni nkan?

Sorry i didn't get you. you might need to translate that to english. cant speak a word of Yoruba.
I am 100% Hausa/Fulani.

Woe is the nation when my fellow country men call for violence and unnecessary bloodshed.
I have always wondered why We Nigerians are accursed with bad governance and a terrible reality.
Now i know the answer; we do not deserve anything else.
There is nothing in war but misery and unimaginable horrors for all sides.
Do we really hate each other that much? to call for the destruction of our cities, the suffering of our women and children?
As a pure blooded Fulani from the direct line of Usman Fodio, i do not hate any other Nigerian nor am I prejudiced against anyone
either because of his religion or tribe. For all the differences and enmities that exist among us, there are more ties that unite us
than those that divide us. I pray that a day never come when we shall do unto ourselves what we may be ashamed to tell our children's children.
While reading through Nairaland, i have noticed a common error in judgement of those who call themselves educated and yet demonstrate clear bigotry and ignorance by stereotyping other people most especially northerners as almajiri e.t.c
Let me call your attention to the fact that you are no different from those same people whose values you so underestimate.
The great majority of the Nigerian people whether from the north or the south share the same dreams and aspirations;
the desire to live with dignity in our homeland, security of life and property, to escape from extreme poverty and to live in peace and harmony.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Yet the most fatuous of us have made themselves useful idiots of the corrupt regime that oppress us all, that deny us the life we yearn for and use the same tactics that the British used in 1920s-50s to divide and distract us from the true enemy of our people; The dirty politicians.
Our problem is corruption and we all know that corruption has no tribe.
All those calling for blood, i do not say put down your weapons, rather, turn around because the real target is right behind you.
If we Hausa/Fulani fight Igbo, Igbo fight Yoruba, Niger Delta fight everyone else, that will be a recipe for disaster and an unending cycle of violence like that of Somalia 91-date.
Why not unite and together, do battle with those who raped us blind for the past 40 years irrespective of what religion, tribe or region they come from. In that, we shall be victorious for our cause is just and righteous. Thereafter, we shall build a union that should be consecrated by a constitution of our own making, not one that is dictated. But if we allow for a repetition of the carnage of the civil war, believe me all the tribes in Nigeria will be pushed into the dustbin of history.
Lets do Russia 1917 or France 1789. Do u get my point?

well, fall to an online fraud?
no. i don't think any Nigerian is that silly.
don't get me wrong, we do get scammed, and we are getting scammed.
For the past 50 years, we have been the victims of the biggest scam of all time:
The Nigerian government.

Ojukwu was not just a father of the Igbo people, rather, he was a father of the Nigerian nation. He was one of those rare breed who stand for and always fight for their convictions. Even though he fought our country and lost, he fought the better fight. He won when after all the blood shed, he came back to the fatherland and by so doing, blessing us with the wisdom and exemplary character that only men like him possess. With people like him gone, a vacuum appears that no one in this generation of Nigerian leaders can fill. He earned my respect when after all the violence, he taught us that yes we can live together in peace, indeed we must live together, else all the sacrifices made and the hard lessons learned from Nsukkah to Abagana will be in vain. G-d bless the dead.

If, and even if the Niger Delta Militants are able to deploy their forces in the north, they can never defeat BH. BH is empowered by the massive amount of sophisticated weapons missing from Gaddafi's arsenal and which is now probably in the hands of AQIM- a known BH ally. Alqaeda and Al Shabab will definitely be invited and then you shall all learn the meaning of fear.

The Militants will by their stupidity create a situation that will lead to the death of thousands of innocent civilians. Who among the militants is willing to die at any moment for his cause? None!!

One thing We have learned from experience is that, no matter how many BH members you kill, you can never destroy their ideology.

Mend, Please come to Borno for confrontation. They will send all of you back in body bags.

Lets talk about Nuclear Power in 2020.

First, you should "fix" the security and then the economy,

Who needs a Nuke power plant when Boko Haram and Militants are all over the place. Thats like a ticking time bomb.

P.S Do not start a Nuclear Race in the West African Region. Besides, How am I to sleep at night knowing one corrupt General can sell the enriched plutonium to Militants/Terrorists and then G-d knows what?

Damn, cant help myself but laugh at how you guys are discussing a non issue such as this.
Have you ever considered an alternative opinion such as; that Abraham is a fictional character of the imagination of Jewish scribes who were trying to forge a national identity during their exile in Babylon in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
Or if Biblical texts are to be interpreted literary, then Abraham certainly wasnt either. He was born in Mesopotamia (Mordern day Iraq) and his ethnicity can not be proven to a certainty by anyone. (No one was there three thausand years ago bro. )
One thing is certain though, both sides claim him as their ancestor.
I dont agree with Isaac's superiority over Ishmael, and i can prove it with historical and cultural facts that suggest otherwise, but i just dont have the time.  

There is only one way to solve these problems, You must listen to them and hear them out.
Yes they have caused damage to numerous lives and property, and they have taken up arms against the nation
and by implication, all its people. Many are victims of their delibrate actions. but how many more must die and how many
mothers must cry for the lost of their sons?
or wives their husbands?
and children their parents?
We should all remember that they too have some legitimate grievances, it is no secret that they were victims of heavy handed actions of the Nigerian army. The whole world was witness to their plight when they were subjected to extra judicial murder, an incident that was condemned by many human rights organisations including Amnesty International (of which I am a member) as a gross violations of human rights and a stain on the honor of democratic Nigeria.
The government has tried violence all in our name, but violence only breeds more violence.
Let us change our tact. Let us talk with them and hear what they have to say.
If it has to, Our government should apologize for the brutality with which it treated them and give them just compensation for the lives lost and property destroyed during that sad events of 2009. This the government shall give and in return, The people and leaders of the north must convince them to hand over their weapons so as to give peace a chance.
Nigerians are hungry and unemployed, we have no adequate health facilities to treat the poor even lesser maladies such as pneumonia.
We don't need this violence.