₦airaland Forum

afroxyz:
so in the US or abroad they dont have police that kill innocent citizens?

Compare with your every week occurrences here. Compare where people get profiled over here because they use good phones and cars and dress nicely. People get killed enmasse without a word from the government!

Over there when such occurrences happen, there's a very quick dicisive government action and statement on it. Here, your president doesn't even get told something of that nature happened because it's already a normal way of life for us.

A rapper got shot to death and within 24 hours, the killer was apprehended. Here, our former COAS got killed and we still don't know jack sh!t about what happened. An AG of the federation Bola Ige was assassinated in his home till date, nothing about his killers. Is this the country you have hopes in?

A working system is what we need A WORKING SYSTEM!

GavelSlam:
Sounds like you are an advocate for corruption.

Oh no I am not!

Would it be fair if I called you an advocate for poverty and mediocrity?

GavelSlam:
Apples and oranges.

It was a burgeoning economy just coming out of years of military rule occasioned by cronyism and dampened economic activities.

Combine that with the turn of the millennium in which mobile telephony, the world wide web and of course increasing oil prices helped propel growth.

Growth is not constant and never guaranteed.

Include the privatization and commercialization of state-owned entities and instant billionaires were made.

Funny, for the same period, those in the hinterland didn't seem to feel any better.

I understand this and all you said but when a government runs on an anti wealth agenda, it's bad!

"It was a burgeoning economy just coming out of years of military rule occasioned by cronyism and dampened economic activities." But we were still better off?

Corruption was rife in the system and it created wealth that's what you're trying to say but compare with Singapore with the world's lowest index for corruption meaning no corruption virtually exists in the country yet they still have a very good standard of living.

Dubai is the world's head quarters of black money that's corrupt monies...Saudi Arabia too is known to Harbour corruption among the elite but compare living standards.

Fighting corruption is not a yard stick for throwing a whole nation into poverty whereas corruption still happens unabated up there at the top! Matter of fact now it's even spread with much impunity down below.

It is the policies of the man at the top that has put us in the economic doldrums we find ourselves today not necessarily corruption my friend

olas24u:
Anyway people migrate everytime and have the right to do so,but it is not green out there.

Yeah true but I believe if you can manage to stay afloat in Nigeria with all the odds against you, you can thrive better in an environment that values human lives and hardwork.

Do you know the story of Soyinka, he was given a third class at University of Ibadan but he came out with a first class when he migrated. So the thing there is KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

walex2:
I will forever be grateful for this administration for one thing: everybody learn how to work hard and there is no more rent seeking among the elites. please let me know if those who are paying 3.5M per three months would write the same WAEC that those who are going to public schools will write and still come out with better grade. ohh someone will say is because of my poverty mentality but let his father invest half of those school fees from jss1 to ss3 and see the returns on the investment for him in those 6 years if he will ever need to travel again to Canada to hustle.

It is definitely poverty mindset Bro LOL believe me.

Quick question... What is your confidence that investing half that money like you say for example would bring good returns, or the investment won't even die or rot away with time?

You people don't still know government policies do a lot to make a business float or die! Example... Do you know how many cement factories and companies died for dangote to be what it is today due to the government of obasanjo giving it the only license for imports at that time?

Do you know that singular move gave dangote the lion share of cement sales in Nigeria today? Then we had elephant cement, rock cement and many others... But today Rock cement is dead and you will see a thousand bags of dangote cement before you'd see 1 bag of Elephant cement.

This administration you are rejoicing over is killing the middle class by its policies and not necessarily check mating the corruption and thievery still going on unabated at the top and that is why we are complaining!

afroxyz:
quick question: what makes you think if you dad went abroad you would be richer than him now?

You mean if he had used 400k USD 20 years ago to buy a property in the US for example?

You still don't know why sensible people live this country... It's the working system and a HOPE for a better tomorrow... A hope most don't even have again because many people in Nigeria just live life the way it comes to them now LOL

olas24u:
People that you left behind will have gained a lot and localize fully and consolidated their positions when you decide to return.so many old men in the UK are regretting staying behind and living misreable lives.You are old and taking care of old people,is that not madness

My good friend... Don't let experience teach you!

True what you said, not everyone does well over seas but You have to know wise people don't run over seas because of basically work... They go because of their working system! Our system is irredeemably broken and it can't be fixed by these crop of leaders and followers!

Don't forget the pendulum could also swing where people who went there came back to establish something for themselves and see their old friends who refused to take the leap living in penury or outrightly dead!

badliman:
It's very pathetic honestly, the situation the country is, is very saddening. Leaving Nigeria cannot and will not be the solution, if we cannot challenge our political elite, if we cannot stop praising corruption, if we cannot stand up for our right, if we still support tribalism against experience and intelligence and good leadership, if we can't hold our leaders accountable on how our money is being spent. Americans, Britain, France, Chinese, etc are still colonising us mentally and economically and yet we are going out there to grow there own society. While they do little than exploitation down here in Africa.

Come to think of it the country we are running to was built on some people sweat and sacrifice but nobody in Nigeria is ready to sacrifice anything for our dear country. Our only concern is our life and family. Imagining the wrought in every sector that your and my father is involve in.

Until we all rush to the street, we disobey what they call constituted authority and being deviant to all this national assembly stupidity. National assembly that should represent you and I are sitting there sharing money all the policy and bills that will make life worthwhile for you and I are abandon while the one that will swell there pulse and company are being appended or pass.

What have they done to insecurity, Power, and the likes of MTN and multi choice are treating Nigeria the way they like what they cannot do in south Africa is being done here. Even Chinese and Lebanese are enslaving people in this country, or the Indians.

Dangote Cement in Bene and Ghana please check the amount is being sold there compare to the amount we are buying at home.

Everything still boils down to our attitude of accepting fate and praying as long as we can afford it no problem. Even when those things are wrong.

The solution of our problem is revolution is not necessary bloody or fight with guns but protest and disobeying constituted authority till they obey the masses because a country is for the people living in it not for the few controlling it.

They would shoot you down like a dog in the streets and there would be no solidarity match for you! People would say he's igbo so they are angry with the government. Another set would say he's yoruba so deserve what he's getting!

If a genuine #EndSARS protest/campaign could be hijacked by buharists and shattered with them sponsoring anti end SARS campaigns, claiming it was targeted against buhari, what can't be politicized?

The only thing we never politicize in this country is health related issues such as ebola when it broke out and I thank God everyday ebola didn't break out with this dull foolish Incompetent buhari In power. We could all have been dead judging the way his government has been handling lassa fever

Reminder... Did you see the tweets on omotola's page when she decried living standards and police brutality in the country? I was so dissapointed!

This is someone no policeman would ever harass yet see ordinary folks who see police and run vilifying her and saying she's a beneficiary of dirty money SMH!

Hedonini:
Let them run if they want. We die here. I've had the 'open ticket' to run away for years now, but I've not and will not take it. We die Here.

There was Nigeria before Buhari, and there'll be Nigeria after Buhari.

The kind of obscene wealth I'm pursuing, I can only make it here. No way in hell am I going to work for $12/hour and live life like a plebeian like most Africans do over there.

I'll rather secure the bag of loot here. If I die, I die here.

Until police catch you when you come out to piss for gutter for night or just taking an evening stroll to go buy food by 8 pm.

When they beat the living hell out of you and frame you up as a kidnapper, or drug dealer or even shoot you and put a gun on you that's when you'd know Nigeria is not worth it.

Funny enough I had such a mindset at a time but now, I can't wait to get out! Except you are Into unmentionables, you can also do what you do here to make that "obscene" Money over there then when you come to Nigeria for holiday, you can hire a police escort!

GavelSlam:
You are a striving young man and you produce.

No one said it would be easy but you would get there someday.

Nigerian parents born like rabbits putting more pressure on the few resources.

In addition, they cut corners, provided inadequate education to their offsprings whilst they engendered a culture of corruption...Anything goes.

No Jupiter would change Nigeria but Nigerians.

They can continue to compare a $70 per barrel economy to a $110 per barrel economy of the immediate past, for they accept that it is all in the past and they must forge ahead.

Those talking about attending institutions that cost 3 million should continue to run the factories their parents ran to sustain such outlays.

When obasanjo was in power how much was crude per barrel Bro? It was 27USD per barrel in the year 2000 and kept falling and rising within same range but we had better living standards. As ruthless and kleptomanic as abacha's military regime, the standard of living was good to an extent than what we have now. So you see, it is not about the cost of crude in the market, but about the piloter of the affairs of the country!

I dare say even if crude rises to 200usd per barrel, an inept buhari and his archaic policies would still ensure life is hard for Nigerians while rejoicing we have unseen billions in our national reserves.

Policies are what create wealth in a country my friend. OK how difficult is it for the president to declare a state of emergency on the police force and make a hard stand on police brutality? Have you ever heard him speak about it? No you will only see his Twitter handle tweet about it. A handle he most probably doesn't even know the login to and handled by an aide.

A critical matter like that which could soon degenerate to a full blown lynching and attack of policemen on the streets and the C in C won't say a word about it. Presidents in developed countries come out to address the nation for less!

Do you know this whole police issue alone have made some of our best minds run away from this country and with many more begging and crying at different embassies to run away? Heck I'm even contemplating running too. Preparations already in top gear.

I am an employer of labor. Now what happens to the staff I pay salary to feed his family? What happens to his children my small salary helps him cater for? This is the ripple effect of incompetence which genuine Patriots like me cry out against!

So don't think when people complain it's because there is no free money no that's a bad mindset! I was so dissapointed at the tweets I saw on omotola's page the other day. A renowned actress being accused of staying afloat by corrupt monies, simply because she spoke against the ills happening in the country... Is this how low we've sank as a people?

Mind you no policeman would ever harass her ooo but the poor people whom she speaks for would be the ones castigating her!

adonainana:
Pls let me repeat what i said on LIB again cos this is the story of my life. My dad built a filling station in 1998. At the time we did a certificate of value and it was valued at 8 million Naira in 1998. 8 Million Naira was 400,000 Dollars ( 1 naira to 20 dollars). I wanted to cry when we done another certificate of value this year, It was valued at 15 million naira ( 40,000 dollars) so before i started crying i asked my dad, why did he believe in the Nigerian dream, assuming he sold the property for 8 million 20 years ago and went and jejely bought a property in the uk or in the US with his 400,000 dollars,

He would have been a millionaire in dollars now cos 400,000 dollars 20 years ago is probably something else now in the SAME CURRENCY.

Nigeria why ??

So even me now i wonder how would i be able to meet up with my dad achievements just right about the same age he done it too i am approaching now.

This is what I try to explain to people especially my mum who wants me to build houses all over our town abi state sef. She always says invest in property. Buy lands, build houses it appreciates it doesn't depreciate and I always LOL because she doesn't know how much exposure I have got especially in international trading scenes.

I will let off a little secret Here at least this thread is at the bottom now and I trust Nigerians they don't like to read. LOL

Building or buying a property to rent out or for profit in Nigeria Is the world's greatest scam. You'd spend 80 million naira on a three storey building including land in some locations and wait 20 years before recuping capital before even profits.

A friend in the US told me I can buy a house in the US for 25 thousand dollars, get 700usd per month as rent and in 3 years I am chopping my profits already and that's what I am doing now. I will only build a house in Nigeria for myself and parents... Me build something for rent in Nigeria, God forbid!

uuzba:
This is simple Karma.
They were the ones forming big boy in the days, spraying money and flauting wealth.
That time is over now. Now they are facing hardship.

Lol your mentality is something else. Are they the cause of your poverty? Every one had an opportunity to make something out of their life so stop hating on rich people abi u be buhari supporter? Not every rich man made money through politics or thievery

GidiWoodsMan:
The question is what did their parents actually do to afford that lifestyle for them back in the day? 3.5 mil per term school is definitely not for the middle class, even less 20 years ago. So why don't people like him just do what the parents did, continue running the family business and just keep getting richer?

My guess is that there was never any business to begin with. Maybe their parents were the jobbers who brought Nigeria to its knees in the first place, now they are either retired or dead, so no more access to free money. Of course the kids of today's political class and their proxies are the ones attending 3.5 million per term schools now. And guess what? Themselves and their parents are eating the future of Nigeria, today. Those kids will surely come back here too, to lament when their parents are dead.

I'd comment on only the bolded. My guy running a business successfully in Nigeria isn't easy ooo speaking from experience. The days of our fathers and now no be same ooo.

To keep my farm afloat, I have to run a plant at least 12 hours per day, I have to pay the local vigilante and also the police to do special runs/patrol of my premises every night to deter thieves. You pay back breaking taxes with the officers trying desperately to frustrate you since you won't give them something to facilitate it or outrightly give them the money so they do you know what with and so many more.

Worse is I don't even live in the state, talk less the town due to high rate of insecurity, indiscriminate police harrassment and other forms of madness. I am a very tempered fellow and I know I won't tolerate such; so for my own safety and sanity, I left. Now imagine running there monthly to access things and you still have to keep afloat. On the way, one inbred bastard policeman on a check point would say you look too young to be well dressed and you should bring your phone for inspection? Hmmm

I have seen many businesses I mean old ones fold up. High costs of fuel and production, high cost of rent whereas no increase in living standards. Many people just do business this days so that it won't seem like they don't have anything doing, neither do they want to be shamed and laughed at they had a failed business.

Life for a young man especially and woman in Nigeria is not easy ooo. So please take note

Naijaguy123:
I saw Atiku lookalike in Cameroon too .

This with the meme attached actually made me laugh! Chai Nigerians abi na buharists

To the tribunal we go

jesse8048:
Wow, this is good. Before they get used to it as mere drawing, the awareness must have sunk into their brain.

Awareness won't sink oo my brother... It's been there for ages why hasn't it sunk?

They'd even be angry they dared to deceive them and would increase speeds on that particular road

When they (the drivers) get used to the fact it's just an illusion, I pity the confident pedestrians that would believe in that thing

Na 150km/h dem go dey use for there. For even daring to deceive them before, na big speed dem go dey use pass dat particular place

Naija my country... Craze men incorporated

maasoap:
Buhari's policy didn't put Nigeria into recession, the recession was long ago forseen. But it was already late, too late when Buhari came to power. What were you expecting before? Our economy is a mono product economy, we refused to diversify. Oil price dropped from 110 dollars per barrel to 38 dollars per barrel. If Buhari hadn't come to power at the time he came, people like you would have run to Syria for economic refuge.
Jonathan and Okonjo Iweala already borrowed for three months back to back to pay federal workers salaries.

The bitter client should eat his/her shiit, he doesn't have any right to dictate to anyone who they should support or vote for or who they shouldn't. You guys need to understand that in democracy, everyone thinks for him/herself and vote accordingly.

Since the madness of telling the beggars to go collect money from Buhari and making videos of it started, how many corpse of starved beggars have you seen in the streets.

You guys need to get grip on yourselves, 2023 is not that long.
I always unfriend and block anyone who tells me that I didn't have right to vote for my preferred candidate, Buhari. I don't have time for people who have no regards for democracy and believe that they could do my thinking for me, decide for me.

What ever makes you sleep at night my friend! Goodnight

maasoap:
You guys should continue supporting rubbish. You'll be mocking him until some other Buhari's supporters start throwing contracts at him. We witnessed Success and Stephanie saga not long ago. How much was he going to get from the petty contract sef?

How would he get the contracts thrown at him when many of buhari's supporters are poor? Except maybe the political class?

Buhari gratifies poverty, laziness and cluelessness so the so called contractor should do same.

You supported a man whose bad policy put us in recession back to back, increased the prices of things in the market, exposed us to more insecurity then you hope to gain from the man who managed to stay afloat amongst all this when he begged you not to vote the clueless dullard and you probably called him wailer or IPOB behind him?

Go and meet buhari for contract! Let the buharists throw the contracts at him I sha know say no level because I follow that thing for Twitter, nobody even don send am sef

I sha know the screenshot is fake sha... Someone just want to trend

SmartyPants:
okay the officer at all times fired at the ground, and the fact is the man was resisting arrest.

The rules of engagement states that you do not fire your weapon except you are being fired upon. I am yet to exactly see where the man being shot at pulled a weapon to shoot at the police officer.

You said he fired on the ground? What if by some unfortunate chance of luck the bullet got deflected and hit a student passer by? This place where this rubbish is One of the most populated places on campus!

You don't give guns to mad Men and this policeman clearly seems very mad. Plus I know this sunny well well! He's one of the very bad folks in the Nsukka police department!

How grown up educated people still think a useless dirty 300 naira pant can make you rich still has to be the world's 8th wonder

JasonScoolari:
Osè migwo, your boy is loyal sir.

See set up ooo! Hahaha have a blessed week brother!

I greet all the Uhrobo men Here. All of una tight!

MyVILLAGEpeople:

Oooh..
Koko No be my place oo
Na Egbema I come from. Na there be my place.

Jasonscoolari my blood Hafa na e don Tay oo brother

Bro nice to meet you myvillagepeople
This your name sha ehn

Well at least we are no more hearing how Gej is killing the north to reduce their voting population.

This is north vs north now see them yarning in soft tunes because they are a "little pissed"

The problem of the north is the north

Someone please help me ask buhari which subsidy he's removing again? Him no talk say e don comot am since before?

Confused buffons

Offpoint:
No matter how terribly hurt you are by someone, no man should celebrate over another man's dead. You had breakfast you don't know if you'll make it to lunch time.

No matter how bad you hurt me, I'll forgive you instanta, because it takes a life time to live but only take seconds to die.

So if it was your sibling or kid police officers shot extrajudicially abi na assassinate sef you would have forgiven them and not press charges abi? Happy peace keeping ooo oshey God bless you.

As for me, you hurt me, I hurt you more that's my motto and I always make sure to adhere to it. People have to learn there are consequences for their actions! An eye for an eye would make people unwilling to go pluck peoples eyes in the first place

Esseite:
Pdp cannot plot to take over the NASS as he/she would be impeached almost immediately...

This is just speculative blackmail news as usual from "The nations"

Exactly the way Saraki was impeached abi

Common #EndSARS protest, some APC maggots hijacked it and protested against the people seeking to end SARS because they felt it cast their Mai gaskiya in bad light.

I hope when you get stopped and harassed by SARS officers, they ask of you are APC or PDP?

This can never happen in Nigeria because of tribalism and undue partisan affiliation

Another set of innocents bite the dust! If you know you know

Princeofnigeria:
Rubbish.



Assembled in Nigeria not made in Nigeria.

Ipob miscreants and lies, no wonder thier iPob terrorist Leader now IndecentStar.



I hate those people with passion, my ******** got married to a girl from that tribe I made sure the marriage didn't work out, I Chase her out of the home

You go die ooo... hate go kill you. You are hating on people who don't even know you exist!

And for the records, his cars are made in Nigeria! Cry from now till tomorrow it doesn't erase that fact

This old fool finally found his voice. I thought he had kicked the bucket

SarkinYarki:
Yes but for it to work the person must have wronged you badly

That one dey. I need the location sha my guy because one needs these contacts handy in Nigeria of today where a trigger happy cop can either maim or kill one and put a cut to size gun on his body, or even arrest one indiscriminately and tag him kidnapper or something

maslong:
correct guy those people wicked pass satan

Lol very useless people oo bros