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daveP:
Lokonga this season is something else. His on and off possession movements and controlled passes....

Do you see him breaking into the LCM role at Emirates? I think he's proven himself at Luton this season. Adebayo and co just taking away most of the shine.

Lokonga is not Arsenal's level . It's good he's playing well at Luton, we should cash-in on that and sell to the highest bidder ASAP .

Affliction must not rise the second time

iamoyindamola:
As in them they follow the guy bumper to bumper

Wetin u go come talk about Gerrard not winning EPL ? When he was close to winning it, he slipped and collected Fall-on D'floor

Ellexy:
It's bobo Chicago again

🕺🤸‍♀️🕺

Below was what I said during the campaign season

BlueRayDick:
I just hope whoever is going to be the president has other ideas of generating revenue other than Taxation, taxation and more taxation.

I'm saying this because I'm yet to see FG thinking about how to increase government's earnings other than imposing more tax on the people. Now we have them taxing almost everything in sight both in Lagos and at the federal Level. They tax recharge cards/phone calls, increase vat , drive PAYEE like mad and even tax traders through fees, rates and dues. Yet goverment earnings is not matching it's spendings.

Larride seemed to be of the opinion that Tinubu would be empathic , would not continue to tax everything on sight and has ideas about income generation which he has been dishing out and Buhari played deaf . My guy Larride even thinks Tinubu would focus on taxing the rich and leave the poor alone. Guess who is choking the poor ? Tinubu !

larride:
Of course, If you follow Tinubu colloquium that he does on his birthday annually, he always give his advice on how things can be improved on.

There's one that Buhari was the Guest Honor of the day and Tinubu was talking about how to tackle and reduce corruption in the civil service. He practically told Buhari then that Efcc alone cannot eradicate corruption from the civil service until a credit system is made paramount instead of the cash and carry system we currently operate. A gave an example, A civil servant that has been working for say 6-10yrs, how does this civil servant buy a car or get a home? If he wants either, he will be required to pay cash for it, if his salary cannot fund it, he looks for way to game the system to get the cash to buy the car/house. But a credit system where civil servant can use their job/salary to get these things on credit while they pay installmently will help reduce corruption in the civil servant by a big stretch. Likewise mortgage for houses.

When they wanted to increase VAT to 7.5% also, in that year Colloquium, Tinubu pleaded with V.P Osibanjo and his team not to go ahead with the increase of VAT because it will reduce the purchasing power of the masses and further throw more into poverty. He rather suggested that the tax net be expanded to include those whose income are taxable but not currently paying taxes into the tax net, he even suggested luxury tax that target the elite. But what did Osinbajo did? They went ahead with the VAT increase anyways. I think that's when Tinubu stop disturbing himself with any advice if they are not going to consider it.

Rabbit omo weyrey ! E pain am !

TemporaryHansel:
I laugh when some people advocate for private ownership of guns in Nigeria. Just imagine Raumdeuter saying all these things he posts here to an average Nigerian wielding a gun in real life.

Gone too soon

Ballzproblem2:
from heatwave to rain ,ayam not understanding this climate.


Anyways weather chill now ,so na the main Koko

Rain too dey fall for that Port Harcourt.

Unlimited22:
Raumdeuter, airmark and OasisX are all out of the country and in some cases have been for a very long time. These things don't affect them directly.

If I was well tucked away in some western nation where I'm untouched by suffering of everyday people in Nigeria.... maybe I will be unbothered .

The way people look at u nowadays ehn.... sometimes I fear when push comes to shove , people might even start attacking people they perceive may be doing better than them.

People who are not here will not undertand some of these things ; so I don't bother doing unnecessary lengthy back and forth

APC supporters wey no dey gullible don dey chop cane before dem chop N100 bread for Lagos Island 9 months after voting for the best candidate on the ballot 🚶‍♂️

Some jokes do not only write and tell themselves , they shamelessly laugh at themselves as well 🤮

liveLongNprospa:
Na all these subtle jabs I wan dey learn.
But the warri boy in me doesn't have time for all that😅

Warri people una blood too dey hot .

Comman pay for coaching fees make u learn

obainojazz:
When I enter naija…. Person carry me go beer parlour but bought only one.
He said as things are hard and expensive now, he can’t be drinking more than one bottle…. Make he use the money do better thing.

Which better thing he wan use N1,200 do ?

He no just wan deink pass one bottle ni jare .

I remember as a kid how my dad would sit to listen to business news on TV and mutter to himself about plans to buy more of Nigerian Breweries stock due to their profitability and how well their stock is doing on the stock market .

Chai! Nigerian breweries is now making losses ? I don't even follow these news again

liveLongNprospa:
Interesting.
Look at the names😅

Could be a lie.. Any rebuttals?

This one na old story . Nasir El Rufai is a duplicitous character ; he can can say 1+1=2 today and tomorrow he will say 1+1 = 111.

He's everything lord Baelish "little finger " was and more . U don't know when he's acting true to character or otherwise

Unlimited22:
Omo even as a rival fan, Mustafi was a clown 🤣🤣

Mustafi and Kolasinac were literally chased out by egg-pelting angry fans of Schalke 04 after they successfully relegated the club on leaving arsenal

Schalke’s players, including Sead Kolasinac (on loan from Arsenal) & Shkodran Mustafi, had to flee from an angry mob of fans last night after their 1-0 loss away to Arminia Bielefeld confirmed their relegation to the 2.Bundesliga. [@VoetbalUltras] #afc pic.twitter.com/2zF2mpNNgk

— afcstuff (@afcstuff) April 21, 2021

Jodera:
He was even nominated for January player of the month sef

Himslef and Saliba partnership has saved us a lot of wailings.

I don't want to remmeber the dark days of Papasthapopulous - Mustafi CB partnership .
That bastar.d Mustafi will now be pointing with passion after chopping dribble 😂😂😂

iamoyindamola:
We also conceded less last season until saliba got injured and we started conceding and almost level on number of goals Chelsea conceded

Una dan start again abi

Swallow ur pride my bro . Saliba didn't do it alone, he did it with Gabriel's partnership . They make a good team.

Saliba with Mustafi or Papasthapopulous would've ended in disaster . Almost everybody wey know ball dey rate Gabriel now

A001:
Is Bukayo Saka underrated?

Cc: Ronald17, BlueRayDick, et al.

Things have changed since the era Ronaldo played as a youngster . Saka is one of the most valuable youngsters in the game right now .

We don't know if Saka will be world best tomorrow tho, but I don't saka is underrated . Almsot everybody who know ball knows Saka is a top talent and he's up there with top players in the game currently .

Let's wait and see what the future will bring for Saka but I believe he's getting the accolades he deserves for now. He's not underrated

afrodoc2:
Yeah. Ademoyega appeared to be quite balanced and non-emotive in his book. He was however writing about the parts he knew as even he couldn’t have known the whole picture.

You have to conside the possibility of a coup within a coup. I suspect certain elements within the coup had their own hidden agenda, and in my opinion Zik was tipped off by one of those elements beforehand.

I agree with u 💯 on this .

Other people in the coup had their own agenda and it was what actually led to the coup not being 100% successful. Some of them were not as revolutionary as Ademoyega and the rest of the original 3 earlier thought.

I just say make I tell una say our defense has conceded the least goal(22) in the EPL this season .

Fans like Iamoyindamola and kokane of blessed memory should apologise to Gabriel for slating his purchase while Mustafi and papasthapopulous were binned o.🚶‍♂️

GloriousGbola:
you must aleays remember that when an individual writes an autobographicalAdemoyega broke everything down in his book. The army as at that time consisted of officers whom he divided into 3 distinct groups based on their ideologies . book he is seeking to change the narrative to present himself in the best possible light.

No, that's not what he did. He didn't sell the narrative they were the better out of the lot.

He admitted that some of the plans and ideas they had were lofty . He admitted to mistakes they made .

He was very open in his manner of writing and he didn't try to compel the reader to be sympathetic with them (the coupists ) , nor see things from their point of view only .

raumdeuter:
Maybe that wasn't the intention of Ademoyega but he could only speak for himself and his intentions
Which will explain why Ademoyega did not kill anyone in the coup unlike the others

Ademoyega gave orders for people to be killed .
He gave order for the finance minsiter to be killed . He also gave orders for some military guys they arrested to be killed while they were fleeing from Ironsi.

What messed up their plan was not getting Ironsi and that was because some reactionary forces tipped Ironsi off.

Ademoyega broke everything down in his book. The army as at that time consisted of officers whom he divided into 3 distinct groups based on their ideologies .

The first group are officers who were hand in hand with the politicians . They are willing to do the bidding of the politicians and enjoy their largesse ( just like we have now ) .

The second group are reactionary officers who are either here nor there ; they are not interested in politics per se , they want to have their bread buttered and at the same time do not want to be disturbed by the wickedness of the political rulers ( this is the group Ironsi fell under ) .

The third group are the revolutionaries who hated the politicians , the corruption that comes with it and the senior military officers that gave them backbone to perpetuate their wickedness . This was the group the coupists belonged to. Their aim was to Eliminate the politicians and those officers that fall under group 1. Then they intend to arrest those that belong to group and keep them away ,while they restart the country afresh by transitioning to a new democracy where there will be consequences for corruption and other crimes perpetuated by the politicians in the first republic.

raumdeuter:
I wont call that idealism rather opportunism. One Nigeria was Okay as long as Zik could dominate. When the cart was shaken few months later there was a coup to wipe out everyone who was perceived to have shaken it.

Maybe idealism is not the word and maybe opportunism is also not the word. But it's obvious Zik miscalculated


As regards the coup , from the account of the coup I've read that wasn't the intention of the coupists. I'm talking of an account written by a soldier who was one of the 3 leaders ; Adewale Ademoyega .

raumdeuter:
No he wasn't. He was very smart and had his agenda. His moves in the first republic proves he wasn't

Awolowo had always shown open disdain for the North and will never see them as equals or partners he could work with, The North saw him as arrogant and were all too eager to humiliate him

Zik on the flip side saw the opportunities that working with the North created for his people

What is the better deal than you can align with the not too educated North as a partners and fill all the posts all over the South with your kinsmen like Zik dreamed of.[/b]Bello held the North and all the key posts, Zik and NCNC allies held the entire South while the AG and Awo were opposition with nothing

Aligning with the North ensured that the West which had earlier rejected Azikwe's bid to be premier in the West was now the spoil for Zik and NCNC to consume and Zik did so with relish

There was a time University of Ibadan and University of Lagos both had Kenneth Dike and Eni Njoku as VCs, Benefits of One Nigeria and aligning with the North until things went sour. Akintola broke that alignment of Zik with NPC. When the tenure of Njoku expired, Akintola ensured that he was replaced with Prof Biobaku

Which is why the pattern of the Jan 1966 killings were targeted at certain individuals

This is why I said Zik gives the aura of an idealist who was equally naive . That was the idea in his head , but that was not eventually played out. Ahmadu Bello's nothernization policy was practical and not some idealism that didn't play out as planned .

afrodoc2:
Political shortsightedness or naivety.

Compare them to someone like Ali Jinnah who ensured that Pakistan gained independence separately from India, thereby avoiding a situation in which India was a house divided and at war with itself, with a Hindu majority oppressing a strong Muslim minority.

I think the difference is that Jinnah clearly saw that the Muslims would be dominated in a unified Indian subcontinent while each of those Nigerian leaders you mentioned probably underestimated the other groups and thought that his own group was superior and would rise to the top in a survival of the fittest situation. That most likely applies to Awo and the Sardauna. I suspect that Ziik was probably just an idealist and politically naive.

I agree with u that Zik was an idealist through and through . He did less calculations and underestimated other subgroups . More like he was a fiery orator and idealist that's why he thought that much difference in culture, traditions and beliefs that exists between the north and the south is something that can be waived aside and a nation will be built therefrom

afrodoc2:
Lee Kuan Yew was a genius but it doesn’t take a genius to understand that this is the foundational problem that Nigeria faces.

How we just manage the paper the cracks for over 60 years despite knowing the foundational problems ourselves still baffles me .


It is funny how foundational leaders like Awo, Zik and Ahmadu Bello all recognized our differences as a people ; are aware of the obstacle the differences pose to building a prosperous nation ; but somehow when it mattered most they focused on getting political power as individuals .

This week, our history series focuses on two years before Nigerian independence, when its post-British political fate was decided. Throughout 1958, Obafemi Awolowo ramped up his calls for Nigeria to be divided into more than three regions before independence. He stated colonialism meant the Yorubas, Igbos, Hausa-Fulanis and others had been “lumped together by our British overlords without the knowledge or consent of the people concerned, and with little or no regard to their cultural, linguistic and ethnological differences.”

Awo stated “there is more in common between a Greek villager and a British villager than there is between a Sokoto villager and an Ijaw villager.” While the Greeks and Brits shared a culture “derived more or less from the same source – Christianity – when you consider the relationship between the Sokoto man and the Ijaw man, where is the connection? There is none at all, either in language or in culture. They do not even derive their culture from the same source,” he argued.

Interestingly, though bitter political rivals, Ahmadu Bello shared Awo’s view on northern and southern Nigerians being fundamentally different. “They (southerners) get their civilisation from over the sea; we get ours from over the desert,” Bello told Manchester Guardian in 1956. He saw southerners as western-oriented while the north looked to the Islamic world for inspiration.

However, because Bello viewed the north as being in a dominant political position by the late 1950s, he was not overly worried about what would happen to his region in an independent Nigeria. In March 1958, he was confident enough to declare before the northern House of Chiefs that the aim of his “Northernisation” policy was to have “northerners gain control of everything in the country.” Nnamdi Azikiwe, meanwhile, argued that cultural differences between Nigerians were not an obstacle to nation-building.

Zik and Bello are famously said to have had a meeting at which Zik said to Bello, “Let us forget our differences” to which Bello responded, “No, let us understand our differences. I am a Muslim and a northerner. You are a Christian and an easterner.” This exchange encapsulates the vast difference in approach to Nigeria’s ethno-cultural diversity between Bello (and Awo) on the one hand, and Zik on the other. Awo and Bello were both clearly more realistic about what Nigeria was while Zik appeared to overestimate the ability of rhetoric to constitute reality.

It is worth mentioning that despite his strong opposition to Bello and northern elites, Awo approached not just NCNC for a coalition, but NPC as well. However, northern elites were so bitterly opposed to Awo, largely because of his consistent campaign to break up the north, that they ruled this out and chose NCNC instead



Nevertheless, having lost his battle for a reconfiguration of Nigeria before independence, Awo, like Bello and Zik, turned his focus to the all-important general election of 1959, which would determine who controlled Nigeria’s political centre after Britain left. Electioneering kicked off in earnest with Awo and other Action Group (AG) leaders crisscrossing Nigeria in helicopters, campaigning hard in the seat-rich north and in the east, where they hoped to make enough in-roads with regional minorities to be able win a majority at the centre.

https://businessday.ng/columnist/article/how-nigeria-walked-into-a-disastrous-independence-and-why-azikiwe-never-became-prime-minister/?amp=1

Lee Kuan Yeuw 🔥

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No be today dem don dey use Nigeria for bad example . This Nigeria has no business being one country since a long time ago.

Ibime:
When you sit in a committee of clowns, you have no choice but to laugh. Wetin man go do?

As an educated person Ribadu owes the congregation a duty to at least educate them after the clown of a cleric must have done with his lectures .

He should've asked for a chance to speak after the cleric and just clarify on some issues . As the NSA I expected him to at least tell them the anchor borrowers was a loan and they are expected to pay ; albeit he will talk to the authorities to give them grace to pay at a forward date . He can also chip it in that we are one in this country even though we support different parties ( even if he doesn't believe it )

They won't stone him if he does that . And I'm sure by now that his stupid laughter video is trending ; he would ask his team to release the video of him Correcting those impressions .

Segedinho:
Babaginda

https://twitter.com/General_Ibbro/status/1758492870435021037

Modified:parody

I doubt Babangida owns a Twitter account

Shaytun:
You’ll get migraines trying to follow a topic you have no understanding of.

Shifu! Ur humble servant is humble before thee ; feed us with premium I & E bulllshiiit . Maybe we will learn 🙇

I & E expert isonu .

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8003003/crackdown-hoarding-frighten-investors-peterside

The sealing move makes no sense . How can u be sealing a business premises because the seller is jacking up selling price due to increase in cost price ? 🤷🏼‍♂️

No be the seller say make dollar dey jump against the dollar every eke market day .

Even though the guy is rude ; the conversation/argument is funny as 4ck .... Maybe it's the guy's demeanor I don't even know .

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3aroBEotry/?igsh=MWphc3hrNzZ5ZGVhcQ==

Emaprince:
Omo.see host.

Shey na BBL causa am abi wetin

Yeah , the lady do BBL

Somebody said Poor girls hate poor boys for no reason 😂

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