₦airaland Forum

Depressed101:
he's not technically correct anything, or you don't read?


A UN panel, on March 17, 2005, described terrorism as any act "intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act.”

On the italized don't they compel the government to pay up on ramsome, don't they compare the government not to fly over their forest zones or else they will shoot their planes down, have they not blown government planes up, and just recently blew a train up?

I'm afraid you don't know what compelling meant there.

Compelling refers to an action to further the terrorists' AGENDA.

There are no terrorists without AGENDAS in the world. A crime is NOT an agenda on its own.
The Agenda IS the goal the terrorists use to achieve there agendas by coercion. That's what compelling means.

Again Every Terrorist group has an agenda (a goal) which they usually use crimes to try to achieve.
For the bandits, this is not clear. They (for now) give the impression as ragtag Kidnappers just like those previously in the East or southern Nigeria.


ISWAP, BH, ISIS, etc. All have agendas they FURTHER through crimes & non recognition for constituted authority.

It's not clear what the broad agenda of these bandits are.
And don't say to terrorize citizens. That's not an agenda.

God help us.

Depressed101:
femi adesina is a fool, bloody one.. Look here what the UN defines Terrorists as,and tell me bandits don't fit the description

Technically, he is correct by the definition you raised though.
It's not clear (never been) that the bandits have a political agenda /motive. Neither have they 'forced ' the government to do anything or not do.

Notwithstanding, they are clearly evil. That's why I don't like these 'international' semantics.

What's happening with these bandits in the north has happened in the East /western Nigeria in the Past. This is just more intense kidnapping.

AntiBMC:
As for this anywhere-belle-face Judas, his karma will be well-deserved.

NOTHING will happen to him.
Generally we Nigerians have a short memory & are quick to forget things. Which can be good too.

Ruben Abati (the man who used to serve in this capacity previously) is now a media 'news' presenter, totally forgiven of his 'deeds'.

Penguin2:
Lagos has enough money to rival any city in the world but for the senile drug lord whose company is in charge of collecting taxes and remitting huge percentage to him.

But his urchins here on Nairaland have refused bury their heads in shame and accept that Lagos will be better for it the day it displaces Tinubu from its business.

Just look at a road in our almighty Lagos looking like a road in Osogbo.

Eko ti baje!

Lagos doesn't have enough to rival any city in the world. Unless of course you mean that the state has the funds to do [ this ] road.

Even if Lagos is a Top 50 City in the World by Budget (it is most likely not), it'll fall gravely low on a per Capita basis.

Most people don't know that Nigeria is far from being a Rich country on a per head basis.
But may God help us.

UncleAyo:
Not everybody is dubious anyways. Credit card system is so good and developed to eliminate the dubious users

True. Not everyone.

But the average Nigerian lacks integrity specifically Financial integrity AKA credit worthiness.
We are also a relatively poor country.

Very bad combination.
Unfortunately capital goes where it'll be preserved better. Some 'big men' still get credit though.

JosephXavier:
This igbo spirit needs to be studied in universities

These are people that fought civil war and faced a lot of major setback but has risen within a short period of time

When he traveled to China, he must have known nobody and went their to make a reputation for himself

That's just the spirit of being igbo

It also helps that all Igbo states have received 'Billions' in allocation over the last 5 decades since
The war. That might have helped too right?

Igbos (like other Nigerians) have been free to own assets & operate businesses everywhere across the country as if no war happened. This too might have helped.

And yes they (Igbos ) are resourceful.

DropsMic:
Is it not China again.. Just like the Caucasians, they are very good at pretending.

Hahahahhah!

But you're already in this life you haven't exhausted yet.

Hahahahah.

Oduduwa707:
How come the boy no go any 9ja university? They loot Nigeria's resources to raise their kids abroad... While millions of average Nigerians languish in poverty and less qualitative education.

Afterall na Nigeria's resources she take sponsor am...

Yet, the majority of the gullible Nigerians are gonna still congratulate him.

Rubbish!

Loot?

You got it wrong here. While I'm not vouching for any political exposed person, She had a 25 year career at the World bank before Obasanjo convinced her to join his cabinet.

She could sponsor her children to any school on her own. No 'loot' required whatsoever.

Blackfire:
Saving is actually investment..




Duuuuhhh

I wanted to say this too.
Funny how Nigerian bank pay pottancee for savings.

Trust as a resource is heavily lacking in Nigeria and
Many 'investments' are fraudulent schemes.
The promoters aren't even genuinely trying but failing. They are schemers.

God help us.

Crowwejihadist:
Igbo people no dey hear word aswear, no time for ass licking.

This is what we call democracy, it simply implies that power belongs to the people not the other way round

Sure about that?

The very people chanting might be a bit misguided too.
Was it not the same Abaribe that stood as a Guarantor to NK prior to his first release after the first arrest?
The man (Abaribe) was even arrested.
Meanwhile ALL tribes kowtow. It's a human thing.

ScamHunter:
Really? As in really really?
Well... I'm not surprised. I just pray that the crude oil Nigerian tribes are keen on stealing for their tribesmen would exhaust quickly. I just wish all the natural resourced that have made Africans more greedy than even the whiteman would somehow become useless let me see what next.

That would almost certainly not happen in our lifetime.

God help us though.

IcyAutos:
The easiest way for Biafra to come is by producing an Igbo president which is what the SE should focus on first every other thing will fall in order. All these sit at home will help for a while but not in the long run of achieving Biafra.

Meanwhile Abaribe is a strong man Shehu Sani shouldn't be scared.

I'm all for the happiness of everyone but,
My question on Biafra is that if it materializes, would the Igbos who are not in support be allowed to live & hold assets /dual citizenship in Nigeria too.

Especially seeing that Igbos are well travelled people. Or would they see these privileges withdrawn as we've seen in some other African countries e.g. Ghana. What are the implications for Igbos in companies in 'Nigeria' seeing that the International /foreign rules would apply to them too.

Olam09:
Lol.. i don find her already before tiwa Savage even think of writing that song na.. she still dey look for somebody's son again �

As someone famously said, ALL peoples that are not married are single.

XXXXTENTACION:

Nigerians never learn....
the day this E-naira go crash ba....

If it's truly an e-naira then it's merely an equivalent of your paper naira. Only a virtual variant.

Consequently there's no 'fall' or rise. It's only
'fluctuates' as the naira does.

dasparrow:
I am not surprised that this gentleman with integrity was scolded for returning money that does not belong to him. The moral decadence in Nigeria is nothing to write home about.

And those who scorned him are perharps also critical of Buhari.

Hmmm.

TeamLeader:
I've said it before. All the people at the computer village are agbero by default. All

Not true.
Try to use generalizations sparingly.

Tony5050:
To be honest, I see no need for the recent launch of e-naira when the country has lot of security and administrative issues to attend. We live in a country where a president launches what he has no tincture of idea on, just smiling and acting in a remoted sense.

God will help us all....






Kindly check my signature for your Assignments, Academic research, project, Advertisements, etc...

To be honest though, the President doesn't have to understand all there is to the crypto. Not many understand truly what this is either.
Heck, even the CBN governor is almost certainly NOT a crypto expert.

The human mind is incapable of understanding every specialized area of human endeavour. That why we have professionals.

He just needs to 'appreciate' its (cryptos) benefits & implications from his appointed professionals.

mrjaydee:
I wonder when this man's beard will connect

Show empathy.
You probably don't know that he suffered an accident with injuries to his face in 2017.

kunleiky:
A

If you're really a good Data scientist,
Why not consider sourcing remote jobs from Stack overflow, Appsilon or Crossover for work.
You should try it.

UndauntedYOCA:
Shakira and Gerard Piqué have been married for about 10 years now, Shakira is Older than Piqué and there's been no bad news about them(none that I know of).
Macron is way younger than his wife and younger than her children.
I think what you should be more concerned about is respect, do you both respect eachother regardless of the age difference? Even if you're older and neither of you respects the other, it might not work unless you both enjoy violence.
Personally, respect and other stuff are what I consider and not the age (especially if the age gap isn't much).
Anyway, no be Piqué, Macron and other people go decide for you.
What do you both want? How do you treat eachother?

Sorry to burst your bubble but Shakira & Pique are actually NOT married.

Macron is very much an outlier and should not be used for any sane decision making.

See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WqaANnP1ew

folake4u:
Congratulations Mr. Chidoka.

But which one be "re-register" again? Abi you dey shame to talk say you get carryover for school? .

He admitted to have failed a course called Evidence 1. Read it again.

However, as you suspect, some private schools allow students resit for 'carry over' courses during recess /inter semester break to catch up with their colleagues.

School shouldn't be a failure competition.

WibusJaga:


Congrats to her.
But if the 1st class knowledge cannot be used to impact society positively & better the lots of humanity, then it's irrelevant & a waste.

Not really. Not a waste.

Impacting society & humanity is a never ending continuum. All the way from basic survival to flying to the moon.

Even if we aren't flying to the moon yet, we shouldn't fail to do the best we can now.

AntiBMC:
Yet burning villages down in oil-producing areas in the East has become the hobby of the Nigerian army. Whilst terrorist herdsmen are allowed to roam freely leaving destruction and death in their wake. By hook or by crook; one way or another, this sham of a country must divide.

Why not the government attend to both challenges?

There's NO region with more military presence than the North/North east today.

LoL?

ygowon:
This is what IPOB is fighting against. This is what bad leadership has reduced Nigeria to.

And the painful thing is that the fools among us who collect 30k from these bad politicians would come here to defend their masters and even tag this thing to party.

They will say it's PDP, as if PDP is different from APC. Akpabio was in PDP but now in APC. Edo governor was in APC but now in PDP. FFK is now in APC. So, what makes PDP different from APC?

The fools among us will see this wickedness and remain mute, except it has to do with Ipob or igbos

Hahahah!

But a country doesn't NEED to break up to fix schools now?

There are also equally bad schools in the self governed east.

May God help us.

DoggoneDogg:
Mbappe is his saviour at PSG.
He knows too that's why he tried to bribe him but Mbappe wasted it on purpose because he is a Christian & hates bribery.

Messi is nothing without Mbappe.

LoL.
You are funny.

sunnyboi:
You left Abuja where your house is and ran to Lagos(no man's land) to protest. Isi ngbaka

His house is in Lagos.
Maybe not his main house but certainly his house.

When he held sway in entertainment, he very much would have been a 'Lagos boy'.

Charmingrascal:
No Governor don ever do two term for Oyo, we thought Makinde's would be an exception but obviously na only one term him sef wan do.



Yeye Governor!!

The Late Governor Ajimobi did 2 terms, didn't he?

tunmoj:
Well done...English tutor

I'm not an English teacher o!
In fact I just realized that the 'D' in my comment earlier shouldn't have been capitalized.

Cheers.

Maxymilliano:
He was literally on fire yesterday

I don't want to be that guy but the word 'Literally' means in reality. Osimhen would be dead if he was literally on fire yesterday.

Circuitlord:
Covid 19 really dealt with the whites oo...

This has been the only scenario Africans seem not to be on the ugly side of the coin

Colin Powell was not white.

EagleNest:
Let's not forget that Lagos was a national capital for 30 years and prior to that was a colonial annexe. That's why lots of people are there, otherwise it would have been as quiet as Ondo state for instance.

Calabar was also a colonial annex / capital for ~ 20 or more years. Why aren't we all 'rushing' there.

Many people make this 'claim' that Lagos 'greatness' was brought about by others (usually non-indigenes) the way they make the claim about the USA's greatness being attributable to foreigners. But they miss out on a vital point. That Lagos provides an environment to this people that they 'lacked' prior.

The question then becomes why can't the foreigners replicate this greatness in their places of Origins. Why?

In the last decade, some (few) SS & SE states earned more revenue per head than Lagos due to population. What has come out of such 'advantages'.

OmoEpe:
Stop displaying your ignorance so shamelessly In public

A commissioner is on same level as a Special Adviser. A permanent secretary is just a top civil servant

While the former are part of the state EXCO, the latter isn't

Instead of you to read when your mates were you were in Arira market doing apprentiship
See the result now. You can't even hold and intelligent discussion yet you are arguing blindly with your intellectual superiors

Wow really?

Is a SA truly on the same cadre as a Commissioner?
Wouldn't that suggest that an SA (at the national level) is at par with a Minister?

I am not conversant with the inner workings of the Nigerian state EXCos but isn't this weird?