₦airaland Forum

itsrm How far with the appeal court ruling ? Any update?

Are the LG chairmen going to stay in office beyond June 18th (Tuesday)?

According to World bank data the number of poor Nigerians increased by 24m between 2018 and 2023.

Omo! APC just be like God's punishment to Nigerians

seankafor:
https://Twitter.com/X_Dailly/status/1801546765948039532?t=-Dh_dO3oi7X0Sk4Kj9oKqQ&s=19

This is the reason I like capitalists, they don't sit around and whyne all day, they enter the ring and tussle it out, legal or illegal..

I also learn this man is about entering the steel industry, see the risks he takes, but when he wins, people say he has gorverment backing and monopoly, why not you go fight to have same monopoly and gorverment backing.. if to say na so e easy ?

Two truths can co-exist.

Dangote is a shrewd businessman who has done well for himself in building a business empire.

Dangote is also like the single businessman in Nigeria's history that has enjoyed the most backing of government u can ever think of.

Dangote like most businessmen prefers monopoly in all the sectors he operates, and he doesn't hide it. When people say he has government backing and monopoly, they not telling lies against him. Below is excerpt from a premium Times editorial which pointed at Dangote's move to monopolize importation of petrol even when he has refinery license. He has already been licensed to operate refinery o, but still wants a kinda monopoly in which only people who own refinery can import petrol ; abi how many companies get refinery license for naija again?

On February 28, the Chief Strategy Officer of Dangote Group, Aliyu Suleiman said that the importation rights for petrol should be awarded only to licensed and active refineries in Nigeria. This demand was in his speech to members of the National Assembly’s Joint committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) who paid a visit to the site of the Dangote Refinery, which is under construction, and slated to be soon finished.

Suleiman insisted that any need to supplement shortfalls in the local production of petroleum products, due to maintenance procedures or whatever else, should be legally limited to the companies with active refining licences. This means that they should be the ones to benefit from their own failure to do what they were licensed and partly subsidised to deliver to the marketplace. This idea could also prevent the forces of demand and supply from determining market trends, with imports not being allowed to compete with local supply and hopefully get us a truly competitive pricing regime

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/450128-of-dangote-and-near-absolute-monopolies-by-cheta-nwanze.html

daveP:
Window officially opens till August end


We don release 19players already. Omo!!!

Let's see who the 1st lucky incoming is going to be.

From EPL or outside EPL?

There is no regular in the released list. Only Elneny and Cedric (who are perennial bench warmers) are senior players included in the released list of 19 players.

liveLongNprospa:
Self preservation don blind people.

Lmao you didn't experience good governance but you had people running back to Nigeria during OBJ's tenure.

You'd rather swallow the vomit of a cancerous woman than admit OBJ was a good president. Simply because the man refused to be a tribalist 😁

Tinubu is the best president since 1999 because he “removed subsidy “ we are still paying till date and floated Naira that has made several multinationals experience foreign exchange loss.

And that’s on periodt! 🙅‍♂️

Another $2.5 billion loan facility from World Bank.

Issokay

Jodera:
Lol, Spy went extreme there Sha but I know he didn't mean it that way
He probably just want arsenal to do everything in their power to make sure he doesn't depart colney.

I know say na the news Sod drop ystdy fit trigger this reaction from spy cos I know most arsenal fans won't be happy if he left after all the hype and exploits he's been garnering

Spy360:
The point is to do all that's possible to tie him down. The emphasis here is that it won't be a waste especially as I did some calculations. Meaning that I don't mind whether he gets that amount even as a 17yo. Off course it will even be better if he will accept a lesser pay as long as he stays. Then even if we will eventually sell him, we won't lose at all.

There’s nothing , absolutely nothing that warrants the club to to have sleepless night over keeping an amateur player that won’t turn 17 until later this year.

If the boy feels he wants to leave and not ready to take his chances on the bench while on an average salary like players in his age grade, then by all means he should leave .

I don’t buy into all these sentimental attachment to any academy graduate .

So DSTV has recorded $217million loss in naija and also experienced 18% decline in active DSTV subscribers .🤔


No wonder dem don nearly use call wounjure person . Dem never see anything

[quote author=raumdeuter post=130464366]BlueRayDick come and answer your guy oh

“Davido invited me to a restaurant, gave me me sneakers and started giving me bad advice. Olamide didn’t give me money but he gave me my future, Skepta gave me £5,000 and took me to places. I might be crazy but I know where I’m going”

- Portable pic.twitter.com/32NTlFini5

— BASITO (@itzbasito) June 13, 2024

fi owo pe weyrey, e ma ri weyrey 😎

Ellexy:
I no dey see this government will favour me and my family again. The impact of Tinubu's policies don humble everyone.

U can’t pray away directionless government na.

I see some of them on WhatsApp complaining of hardship, inflation and how expensive things are ; but somehow they still maintain Steeze and refuse to link the hardship to the policies of the government .

Ellexy:
They said is baby steps of pain
Abeg shey when a baby dey learn how to waka shey leg dey pain am ni?

I saw a guy’s post on twitter he said : E reach Muslim-muslim turn, Muslim no see money buy sallah ram

Any Muslim wey kill ram this year , still buy pepper cook am na senior man o.

raumdeuter:
Climate change has always been and it’s getting worse. You say Fulani should buy land, land from who? Will people in your village sell land to Fulani? even if you discover Mr Ajayi don sell land to Fulanis for ranch, wont the entire village chase him out?

People whose lifestyle historically do not mix are coming into contact because of survival needs

Its the same way a man will trek from Nicaragua to USA because he wont die in peace in his home country

The bold is so far away from the reality . What do u think causes some of the fights in Places like Plataeu state ? Some of the lands Fulanis occupy today were originally belonging to the indigenous people of those areas ; some of the lands were sold to them while they were allowed to settle on others out of the goodwill of the people .

Stop making it seem as if people hated Fulanis from inception. It is the trouble they forment afterwards that made people start getting wary of allowing them to lease or own lands in their communities . There are many communities across this country including the South west, South east and South south that have enough Fulani settlers.

That is why we are talking of social justice . If u had allowed Fulani settle on ur land in the past and they later go on killing spree when a minor dispute arises , only for government and security forces to side with them ; it is only natural that u do everything possible to do without Fulani occupation in the future .

Ellexy:
Is there an agreement that the last to leave is a fool cos I'm not understanding these exits.

At this point ; is it not high time Tinubu swallow his pride and reverse the whole Naira floating thingy?

The combined effect of subsidy removal and floating the Naira is gradually pushing investors out of the market and new investors are even reluctant to jump in. We should stop deceiving ourselves

raumdeuter:
The root of all these is a fight for scarce resources, there is nothing anyone can do when resources are scarce, we all will fight for it, No one will die in peace if he knows there is something out there. If we are all thirsty and your house is the only place with 25liter water, that is the day your security goes out of the window , Its either you share with us or you never sleep guarding the water, even being awake will not save you at some point

Except those driven by ideology to kill and die in the process, most people just want to survive so the killing must include an escape route for them to live otherwise their crime is just wasted

For example a Fulani man whose land has become barren due to climate change sees a fertile land of farmers with plants and tries to migrate there with his cattle
What do you think is the fair resolution to this problem that will satisfy both parties. Take a shot at it

Long before climate change there has always been issues between the Fulanis and the other major tribes in the Middle belt.

Thank God u mentioned Lekwot earlier today . The Zangon-Kataf crisis in Kaduna state in 1992, after the whole kangaroo trial and sentencing of the Indigenous Kataf people while the Hausa-Fulanis were made sacred cows ; did it show there was any semblance of social justice ? In what world is it fair that the Kataf people who actually defended their people were prosecuted while Hausa-Fulani people the aggressors that instigated the initial mob action were sacred cows? Is that also a climate change issue ?

See once there’s no social justice in a system , more people will embrace crime. Do u know how many number of clashes between southern and northern Kaduna that has happened since the Zangon-Kataf crisis ?

As regards the Fulani and Lands; it has been said over and over again- The world has evolved ! There is no place for open grazing in this modern world . Cattle rearing is a private business not a public enterprise . Let them purchase lands for ranches and stop holding the entire nation to ransom over their private business .

raumdeuter:
Before insecurity used to be the problem of middle belt, now the far North is almost gone, NW like Zamfara is gone finally, The NE is gone

we are seeing it in SE SW and even deep Delta Maybe the only thing we are waiting for is for these criminals to storm Lagos and MMA before we know we are in total terror

There are guys that cannot travel in peace to their state, I have friends who travel to Nigeria and to go to SE or deep SW, they need Mopol security. The guys living in Naija day to day that cannot afford Mopol so its "Oh Lord I hope..."

All of these things are a result of government failing to find solution to some age-long problems. There’s insincerity on the part of some government agencies and security forces and it led to things going to south .

For example in the middle belt there had always been incidents of Fulani vs Some of the other major tribes like Tiv, Idoma, Junkun, Birom, Taroh, etc. There are instances where several government established reconciliatory committees are inaugurated are out in place and recommendations made at the tail end .

Most times these other tribes always feel they got the short end of the stick when the committee reports are released and even during subsequent crises they see state actors taking sides with the Fulani who seem to have people in the security services . When the people feel their absence of true social justice , they also resort to taking laws into their hands . That is what led to different ethnic groups forming their own militias leading to more proliferation of arms in that region.

In the core north , years of neglect of the largely uneducated and unemployable youth has resulted in some of them resorting to either terrorism or banditry .

These incidents u lumped up together are not one and same and handing each citizen guns won’t solve them . These guys have already attacked military bases, they’ve attacked the Nigerian Army depot, they’ve attacked an airport, train station , etc. Do u think they won’t attack private citizens with guns?

If we refuse to try and address some of the root cause of the problem but hand civilian guns, we will only be making more criminals and putting more lives in danger

Theflint1:
The major reason those guys have the guts to attack people like that is because they know there won't be any resistance...even the mere thought of the persons they're attacking being armed is enough to dissuade them. On the flip side, there are several countries where the citizens don't strap like militants yet they don't suffer same fates...fixing the problem of insecurity by democratizing gun usage is like treating the symptoms of a disease instead of the disease itself.

The bold is a very moot point which is invalidated by the spate of bank robberies in Nigeria in recent times . Since around 2014 to this year, we’ve seen a pattern of robbery incidents whereby armed robbers (despite knowing how banks are well guarded) carry out large scale bank robberies .

They literally lit up the nearest police police stations which are well guarded with armed officers, then proceed to sack various banks with heavy shelling. At least this has happened in Kogi state multiple times , Ekiti state multiple times, Benue state , Offa Kwara state, etc to mention a few .

The robbers are aware of the level of resistance that the security agents in the banks and even the first responders can pose and they plan well ahead for it.

That should tell u that u having a gun to fight back won’t stop the criminal , but it will only make him more vicious in his attacks . One of my bosses used to say “ U can’t predict the mind of a criminal “. U can’t sit down as a law abiding citizen and start saying maybe if u do this( like carrying a gun on u) , the criminal will not attack u.

raumdeuter:
The kidnappers are not ready to die that is why they collect ransom, dead men dont spend ransom. Criminals are different from Terrorists. Terrorists are ready to die, criminals want to enjoy life after their actions

When he shoots at your vehicle, the motive is to stop people not to kill everyone, if he shoots and kill everyone then who will pay him ransom or what does he gain? just to see blood?

Kidnappers do it for a reward and only people alive can pay that reward

They didn’t need everybody alive . They shoot at as many vehicles as possible ; some people will get injured in the shootings while others will die .

It is the few that survive that they collect ransom from. They don’t mind to kill some of the hostages , u read where the guy mentioned how they are willing to kill anybody that slows them down or gives them problem .

Carrying gun will never solve the problem 👎

GloriousGbola:
the real problem is the police are not ready to do police work
there is n way they are not getting support from communities or other cattle rearers
but knowing our police, they collect thier cut and that is that

How do u want police officers to put their lives on the line when there’s no guarantee their loved ones will get life insurance payout if they die in action?

Nigeria police are not motivated to the extent of facing armed gangs with automatic weapons .

Hope u remember this guy below who Jejely hid himself while the last robbery in Kogi was taking place ?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Back in the days, Coaches and Luxury buses usually travel with an armed escort to protect them from robbers

Well, it made it worse and they had to stop.

The robbers didn't have the patience to stop the bus and rob. They opened fire immediately they saw one.

The fact that you have no weapon on you gives you a higher chance to survive. [/color]

Exactly . Back then the first casualties during such robberies are usually the armed escorts .

raumdeuter:
If the kidnappers are trying to kill everybody that's a different matter but they want to take some people alive which pose a different challenge

People will die including the kidnappers and they don't want that, they want the monopoly of terror, they want to kill and not be harmed

The kidnappers know they can die the moment they chose the criminal way of life ; same can’t be said for other law abiding citizens who are their victims .
U have not answered my question . How does carrying a gun save u from kidnappers who lay in ambush waiting for and then proceeded to shoot at ur vehicle ?

The guy narrated his own experience which was similar to what the other lady on agidigbo fm narrated in the YouTube video. How u wan shoot back at people u didn’t even know were laying in ambush waiting for u ?

raumdeuter:
And while they are disarming them 20 kidnappers to 60 hostages, the hostages will just be looking like dundee? Three shots the kidnappers will flee, no one wants to die. If one of the kidnapper get dropped the others will flee

If kidnappers believe at least 20 people can be armed, they won't go on such journey in the first place, they always look for soft targets and most of Nigeria is a soft target except for barracks which is why they hardly attack barracks except you are a terrorist ready to die not those hoping to collect ransom

U obviously don’t follow the timeline of how the attacks/kidnappings are carried out.

While u are driving on speed u will just see bullets flying into ur windshield . The kidnappers have an element of surprise . Or are u saying everybody will be driving with one hand and the other hand on their own gun also spraying bullets into the air ?

Even if u carry a gun with u, it is difficult for u to escape such attacks especially when the kidnappers are laying in ambush waiting for u.

The solution is not people carrying guns but for our security as a nation to be beefed up. There are so many under-policed space in the country .

By the way, I think the guy said the kidnappers were like 35 in number . Almost even their victims’ number sef

raumdeuter:
And those that didn't get killed in the shootout what do you think they will do when 20 men are herding 60 people into the bush with at least 20 if them armed?

They would’ve disarmed u immediately after the shootout. U think those guys are dull enough to allow u conceal weapon while they are leading u inside the bush ?

Did u not read the part where the guy mentioned how his vehicle was ransacked ? Even the phone he hid under the car seat they located it.

If people are allowed to carry weapons , the kidnappers will be more deadlier sef . The initial shootout will always be highly fatal. And only the few that survived will be taxed for huge ransoms after they must have disarmed them.

Spy360:
Sesko only started making the marks around the second half of last season. He started playing as no 9 when Openda was moved to the wings. Openda was actually the main goal threat for Leipzig taking the season as a whole into account. However a lot of potentials was seen in Sesko hence the hype.

Most of the top strikers available are already in big clubs and they would not be allowed to leave unless an astronomical fee is paid. The move many clubs are making now is to identify potential big things that are yet unknown. The likes of Solanke for me does not look like he will be a top striker. I mean we have observed him for years now and the signs he is showing are those of mid table club level at best.

Arteta and Edu must do everything not to allow Chido Obi Martins to leave for free. They ought to have tied him down before he started blowing hot. They should bless his life with a decent professional contract worth at least 50k. It will not be a waste. 50k x 52weeks = 2.6m[/b]On a good day this guy can fetch over 30m if we choose to sell him.

They should give a 17 year old Amateur 50k per week contract ? 😂

U’ve got jokes . How much do u think Fabio Viera and Smith-Rowe earn sef ?

raumdeuter:
This is another reason to have a gun seankafor

Those guys would've killed u before u can use ur gun sef. They shoot at cars indiscriminately in a bid to make them stop

It is not cheap. Potatoes are perishable so the sellers need to sell as much as they can before it goes bad.

I've lived in the north briefly; those potatoes go bad within couple of days due to the hot weather in the north

Ballzproblem2:
Chelsea have made a move for Olise Sources claim that Olise’s £60m release clause may only be able to be triggered by Champions League clubs 👀

(@Matt_Law_DT) #CFC

Which kind release clause be this?

Is it the player's agent that inserted the clause into the contract to guarantee he plays UCL football, or it is at Crystal palace's instance to ensure they make the most out of his sale?

Segedinho:
Izzou...

See another one on democracy day

https://twitter.com/chiditweets042/status/1801250390383407121/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1801250390383407121&currentTweetUser=chiditweets042

A lot really happened that yesterday

izzou:
[color=royalblue]My last experience was fearful.

I never travel since that time, although i have one urgent one now.

Na God's mercy i dey hope on now oh.

We are all on our own[/color]

As in....We are really on our our own.

Almost all the amjor highways are susceptible to incidents of robbery and kidnap. From West to south; East to North.

I always do everything possible to avoid travelling by road at all cost. Those guys will calling money that they know ur family members can never raise without selling properties and other valuables.

Itsrm:
This is sad. I usually watch the program on youtube when the algorithm brings it to my timeline but never came across this one. Can you remember the title?

I watched it on TikTok , it’s usually algorithm that brings his videos. But I just checked YouTube now , I think it was on this episode .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvOj_9yCKAo?si=Rv-aOBaqIJF5Q45B

Itsrm:
I never see wetin go make me go on a road trip in this country ever again

This is exactly how we were flogged, beaten, and maltreated. Though this is not us in the video, these are the Abuja-Kaduna train victims.

But this is exactly how we sat and lay down. No difference whatsoever. These victims spent 3 months in captivity living this way, so you can… pic.twitter.com/fopzn9OnER

— 👑K I N G👑 (@kingsuleiman27) June 12, 2024

This is why I see izzou as a strong man with the way he hops on the road travelling the length and breadth of this insecure country .

This thing has been happening rapidly since Buhari's first term but it has been grossly under-reported in the media. Countless people die at the point of abduction, others die in custody while only few live to tell the story after their loved ones manage to raise the ransome.


There's this program on Agidigbo FM anchored by Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat. One lady who was a victim like these guys in the video came on that program and narrated her experience. Her parents had gone to the program earlier to report she was missing, and they actually suspected her igbo friend whom they both hustled together at a supermarket in Abuja.

It was when she was released that she now came to the program to clear the air that she was actually abducted by Fulani herdsmen and it had nothing to do with her friend. She left her base in Abuja to go look for another Job in Enugu but later discovered the Enugu job was not really worth it, so she decided to go back to Abuja and continue with her job there. Unfortunately for her, around Kogi state the armed men shot at their bus, killed the driver and few people and then matched them into the forest.

She was held for weeks and couldn't call her parents in Ibadan cos she knows they don't have the kind of millions those guys were requesting for ransom. They beat them daily and fed them only Garri once a day. The kidnappers had to tie her release to that of another girl in their custody whose father was a pastor. The pastor paid ransom for his daughter and herself and that was the only reason she was released. She narrated how some of them even died in the kidnappers custody.

Omo! This country don go .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Exceptionally impressive, or exceptionally funny?[/color]

They are not funny . It’s more like 3 people doing the same thing Layi Wasabi does as a single act.

They are witty and excel in word play just like Layi.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Wetin him wan talk?

He has obviously retired himself after his shambolic outing in 2023.

What is more hilarious is how he refused to be VP for Obi, because he was bigger politically. [/color]

The man overrated himself , he thought he was Buhari in the north