₦airaland Forum

Sister Chimamanda, I understand ur use of poetry(fictional imagination) in describing what the ideal response of a sane leader could have been, but the truth is that ur expectation was too astronomical of the person at the helm of affair in our country:
But permit me to ask: Do u think a leopard will suddenly lose its skin coloration? (Just asking)

And someone on this forum still calls them "hoodlum".
Govt. every where knows that the cure to hunger is nothing but food. But to suppress the people, the run to the media and label hungry and poor people "hoodlums"-- a narrative of calling a dog a bad name to nail it.
Smh!

LeitaP:
Exactly my point somewhere. These so called "hoodlums" are better Nigerians than many of the so called government officials

r
Bro, the records are straight. There is no hoodlums anywhere; that is how govt use the media to emasculate the hungry and poor. But thank God because social media is scopeless and beyond their control.

This is to show you the singsong behind the latest revolution, uprising and nation-wide anarchy: it is called hunger and ill governance; for the former, the cure is food.

RareDiamond:
Interesting!! All blames should be on Buhari, the federal government and the Nigerian Army for killing unarmed protesters across Nigeria. These are the aftermath of evil and lawlessness of government, economic issues and bad governance

#End Bad Governance
#Economic and Constitutional Reforms

No bro, rather that was the burden that broke the camel's back.

Òmò this is massive: the real revolution.
It is called hunger; dem no dey tell pesin.

The monster we all made.

However, about three warehouses have been looted completely by hoodlums and resident who took advantage of the situation to stock their houses at various location in the metropolis.

I have said this times without number that the escalation of the anarchy was fuelled by the media.
Otherwise, why does this narrative of calling protesters and Nigerians "hoodlums" continue to gain momentum?
This is a realisation that those who own the media have used it as a tool to emasculated the populace: I am ashamed of our style of "charge-and-bail" journalism.
Shame!

CoderX:
Which monster did you make? I don't know of anyone else, but I definitely won't pay the price of what I didn't cause.

All I know is that there is no excuse for looting and destruction of properties. If you were directly affected, you wouldn't be saying all these... Please let's use our brains and spread the truth. What's bad is bad and the masses don't have to start attacking each other.

I had.to quote u again and this time I think u are not getting the narratives of my first response in perspective.
Bro, I mean to reiterate that your submission the use of brute force will never and I repeat will never be productive.
Check global and even regional antecedents: The escalation we are all witnessing in the past few days is a direct consequence of the intervention of the military at lekki toll gate; that was the burden that broke the camels back and I reiterate that any further invitation of the military to quell the anarchy will result into a bigger picture: full blown war, and no military on earth will win its citizens.
Moreover, is it the same military that has been busy with their own palliative share at MazaMaza market that'd shoot at sight? Sorry bro, that ain't happening any time soon or else Yemen will be a better safe haven that what we'll experience here.
Let.me say it categorically clear that what is happening now and in the coming days will affect every Dick, Tom and Harry; deny the consequence at ur peril.
Again I say: this is the monster we all made.

CoderX:
I support shoot on sight for any criminal found burning properties and looting.

Those are the ones who ruined everything... Very soon they'll start entering homes and robbing and raping young and old women. Mass unemployment and insecurity is around the corner... Don't keep supporting this monster that has degenerated cos it's already biting back at people!!!

My brother I understand your pains too.
But the truth is that what u prescribed will not solve any problem: things will definitely get out of hand before they get better. These acts are not perpetrated by "hoodlums" as we assume that it is; these are hungry Nigerians that have been pushed for a very long time and mind you, #EndSars was actually not an end in itself but simply a vehicle to a bigger/ greater change we all wanted to see for years.
Go and read about the ARab Spring, it burgeoned in like manner.

Don't blame angry protesters.
It's the monster we all made and nobody will be spared.

The monster we all made has grown and the reality is that it is still devouring.
Who's next?

SmartProf:
This old tactics will never produce any new result. The youths of Nigeria are ready to change the narrative. The testing of mic is over. The earlier the govt sits up, the better for them.

o

Looooong time prof!
What's up?

#OccupyNigeria is the means.
#Restructuring is the target.
#EndSars was the trigger.

The “mismanagement” has engendered various indices of possible failure-terrorism, banditry, sectarianism, nepotism, kidnapping, religious and ethnic bigotry, a depressed economy, rising inflation, separatist agitations, and so on. The thrust of Obasanjo’s statement was a call to mend broken and breaking fences in order to avert state failure, realising that “… even if Nigeria is broken up, the separated parts will still be neighbors … they will have to find accommodation as neighbors or they will be ever at war.”


I had to quote this section because obviously, it is either Baba OBJ is trying to be economical with the truth or he wants to sound politically correct.
How could he assert from all indicators of a failed state above that Nigeria is "tilting" towards a failed state?
Baba hit the hammer at the right place and stop skulking around: Nigeria from all indicators is a failed state.

SpecialAdviser:
The way looted money is called in this country, even Lucifer would be thinking she or he now has a chance to make heaven.

Oga, Satan didn't loot money.

I sense the way this protest is going, revolution against so many societal odds is very imminent.
The prerogative to #EndSARS lies with FG since police and paraphernalia of security holds within the exclusive list.
The devolution of this bogus list has become imperative for Govs to handle some of these anomalies.
#EndSARS
#RestructureNigeriaNow

donprinyo:
to be black skin is already a crime. God have mercy

Oga, u lied there.
I do not and will not agree with u anytime any day.
The blessings of God(being a black man) has no sorrows or regret. Please rethink on that assertion of ur and see as life'd become less sentimental and more meaningful.
God bless.

Oh Nigerian Judiciary!!
I weep for thou.
How quick you were in dispensing justice on a murderer who took the life of nine persons; and very slow in dispensing same to Orji Uzor Kalu for 12+years, who took the lives of uncountable persons by looting the treasury of his state.
We keep hearing the same old rhetorics that the wheel if justice grinds slowly: oh! How it was hastened!
Again I weep.

flyingpig:
Those guys are very mad

One dared point a live gun at me just because I wore short, sneakers and Apple air pods. He said I am a yahoo boy and I deliberately left my phone at home that I should take him to my house to search my phone and laptop.

What the hell! EndSARS let them go into farm work.

What do u mean?
Do u mean that farm works are for the never-do-wells?
Smh!!

Openbusiness:
The IGP is absolutely right about this. People need to calm down and stop supporting violence against police or killing police. This can never be the solution. Bad as he bad reach with NPF, if Nigeria Police officers don't work for 1 week, if they withdraw their services for just one week, will we know the real meaning of terror in our societies. There are evil people all around us in society. There are so many hardened evil wicked criminals in Nigerian society and we need police officers to tame the evil in society. Even if you think police is evil, then try to see them as a necessary evil because we still need them around. Should people protest against SARS brutality or evil officers that have turned themselves to rogue Gestapo units of government? YESSSSssss, absolutely, but let it be peacefully done. Peaceful protests is the way. Don't let violent criminals and armed robbers hijack the movement. Let me just stop here.
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@bolded, u really got me Lol.
Withdraw their services; if I got u right?
And then they will travel to the moon and stay or what?
The truth is that the rot we are pointing to in the police force is an indirect indicator of the rot in homes and society at large.
If they withdraw their services just as you pointed out, they too will also bear the consequence: they are not immured.

This one is never shown on NTA.
Thank God for the unlimited influence of the social media.
No amount of pressure will stop Nigerians for this simple demand;

#EndSARS
#EndSARSNow

Paschallville:
thank you.. I won't forget when Sars carried me forcefully from unilag gate against my will to isheri....outskirt of Lagos, all because they didn't see anything on my fone and they were demanding for money..... that was scary and the funniest thing was that the Sars was running from soldiers wenever they see them on the way..telling me if I shout they will dealt with me.... I was scared, deep down in my mind I have considered myself being kidnapped. I won't forget, uber from that place back to my school gate cost me 5k......we don't know if they are even Sars or kidnappers, they are the people that should be showing us ID card first....

government should do something abeg.. this is not funny anymore.. as per some of us that don't have strength to cope with Nigeria Unemployment Isshhh..

I mean how do we tell these guys we do forex.

Hope u joined this protest sha?
Ur presence is more powerful now than ur keyboard

omooba969:
Lol MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI abeg ooo have mercy on our perverted university lecturers o.

God no go shame us - enúgbe gan o!

I baffle the way we bare our minds on platforms like this one.
If ur lecturers are perverts, pls do not generalize that as a common sight in all the universities in the nation.
If they are perverts as u alleged, then they'd also produce perverts and mind u, u are their products.
Smh!

OP: Hi, Nairalanders I am ********from******, my uncle had warned me to stay off this guave(pics attached)
Nairalanders: OP, go and beat ur uncle and reclaim ur guava. Don't allow him to frustrate ur life with that guava; sue him to the police or call #SARS for him.



Children everywhere.
My most concern is not the op, but the moderator that brought this to front page.
Nairaland used to be better than this.

The day we Nigerians stand up for what is right is the #revolution we all seek.
#power to the people #endSARSnow

FarahAideed:
Shooting sporadically to express his joy? What type of expression is this ?



The Idiot never heard of the word richochet before and didn't even know such a trajectory existed if not he will never fire a high powered round into the ground

Me am also hearing that word for the first time.
Anyways, let me grab my dictionary.

Trash

SmartProf:
Don't allow Nigerians begin to develop false hope that will be dashed. During the peak of the Covid 19 pandemic, oil price was at it's all time lowest and many oil producing nations were selling the product to their residents at a heavily slashed price..did Nigerians enjoy such major slash? Our President just told us in his independence day speech that as at today Saudi Arabia sells PMS higher than Nigeria just to justify why petrol price can't be reduced as it's been agitated for but he didn't tell us that the minimum wage in Saudi Arabia when converted to Naira is N305,126 compared to N30,000 in Nigeria.

I think the question here is not even comparing the economic situation in those nations; the most part is: do those nations sell their oil in naira or did these insensitive lots convert the oil price in those nations to naira?
For me, I don't blame incapable leaders like we have in this clime because they from one will offer nothing, my most concern is we the people that entrusted our future into their hands. What a waste of vote.

Wasteful Administration.
Wasting limited resources on frivolities.

Seerade029:
Seconded.
It's good and refreshing seeing someone reasoning like this.

Thirded.
That Smartprof of a guy is a phenomenon.
His reasoning is mega and unalloyed.
Its good and refreshing reading his comments, but most importantly that you are reasoning well too.

Op u don come again with ur usual lies.
Buhari cannot say that.
Buhari is a saint.


Let me come and be going.......

Rubber Stamp

Summary: Buhari can't construct that write up.