₦airaland Forum

newsgerian:
Did you guys clicked on the link to check the date of the news ?

Of course not! Some don't like using their brains for fear they might run out of brain cells!

wizardus:
Ode...to your papa abi

Only an ọdẹ insults your papa as you are doing here.

You should honour your father and mother so you can live long.

qtx:
The government force people to do the right thing through the laws. If your government does not do that as well as other duties she is to discharge, i blame the government for everything. Let me tell you, all over the world nobody obeys the law because it is sweet to obey the law, no, people obey laws because they are afraid the law will catch up with them. So the government of Nigeria only knows how to play dirty politics and propaganda without enforcing the law and compel citizens to obey them and do the right thing rather abandoning her constitutional duties, then it is not funny. Like someone just said, Nigeria is a joke.

You are very correct. I remember we used to say "the fear of bubu is the beginning of wisdom", pity he has not quite held up to it, but imagine President Atiku forcing you to do what is right. Would you not laugh in his looting face?

A government needs the moral ground to make people obey the law, but this is Nigeria where we loot by right, except, some actually do fear bubu so definitely loot a lot less than they otherwise would have, in my opinion.

Agboriotejoye:
It will not surprise you anymore then as to why Nigeria is said to have too strong a central government.

No one says Nigeria does not "have too strong a central government". But as someone said, "Na here we de now", so deal with it or change it if you don't like how it is. Or can't you? Too helpless because you surrender[ed] your freedom and resources to government", so you just wail about it? That's your choice!

I pay tax because I want to and not because I am forced by the government! Thankfully, Nigeria does not tax up to the 25% some nations do, but then neither do we provide the services those nations provide. Perhaps if they did tax you more you'd ask them to be more accountable to you who voted for them!

O! I forget, you already "surrendered your freedom and resources to government", you weak helpless hopeless slave to government!

digitaltrades:
The only thing the brain of budaatum can process is "buhari's failure is because Nigerians are lazy". His brain is too archaic and primitive to reason beyond his nose. To him, buhari is sent by Allah to rule Nigeria. He sees buhari as some prophet or alfa that must be praised and worship. In short, he is a religion-blinded soul.

This buda?

budaatum:
Over in the Religion section there's all complaining that they got too many atheist and wonder why we aren't over here.

I figured they got a point so I've come over. Besides, they are seriously beginning to bore me with their often low mentality!

Hope this proves an upgrade.

When I call you a lazy fuq you will be complaining!

bbankky:
Please tell us your own story

Abi o.

He would give bubu 4 more years!

Thankfully, we have a Constitution.

bindukwe:
Nigeria's biggest problem is accountability.

No system is in place to hold these office holders accountable for their promises and the goods they have to deliver.

Making a hashtag trend on twitter isn't accountability either.

Our legal system is useless when it comes to cases of these nature. We need an independent agency that will work as a regulatory body for government officers.

If they make a promise, hold it to them till they deliver. And if they can't deliver they should be heavy penalties for it.

How person go dey chop that amount of salary with allowances and bribes, and not deliver anything of note to the people who employed you.

It is for this reason, the "No system is in place to hold these office holders accountable for their promises and the goods they have to deliver", that I so like this bubu era.

One thing we are learning like never before is the use of the systems that are in place. When bubu too leaves Aso Rock, our use of the systems in place would have improved such that we might even be able to improve the systems in place.

Nadio2019:
Bad leadership breeds bad followers.


Through creation of undue large number of 20 new political units in northern region of Nigeria, but only 17 units in the two southern regions, Nigeria was politically restructured by northern soldiers to breed bad leaders ordained first by the Fulani-controlled North.

If you be follow follow, I agree.

Some see bad behaviour and say, "not me".

poseidon12:
This fool is still shouting Sai Baba. With voters like you, Nigeria will never get a competent leader.

Why "Nigeria will never get a competent leader?

Will bubu live forever?

Bloggz74:
God can't even help your case.

You are correct.

God gives me the tools so that I help myself.

plasgidy:
Absolute fact about the failed state nothing works except corruption from A to Z. Mean while people sleeps under the bridge in America and if you don’t have health insurance in America you are completely on your own, Former president barak ubama tried to address the poor health situation but trump came and pilled it off.

Whatabout, but all the same!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDkALRz5Rk

Agboriotejoye:
Oh budaatum, Ignorance is thy name.
If you were familiar with the philosophy of government in relations to the citizen, you will understand what the statement "surrender your freedom and resources to government" means. Let me give you a short illustration. You pay tax not so? The tax represents your resources to government.

This is clearly the difference between knowing history and not knowing it because if you knew your history, you'd know that tax is theft by government and only lazy fuqs allow themselves to be taxed such that it can be said of them that they "surrender[ed] your freedom and resources to government". Tax was in fact the reason US claimed independence from Great Britain, so I can't understand why you would "surrender your freedom and resources to government" of unaccountable thieves! Most don't surrender as easily as you imply.

Agboriotejoye:
Now, consider that you have chosen a certain Saturday for your wedding and the government chooses that same Saturday for an election. Which bows for the other? Your wedding or the election? But that is by the way

It better be "by the way". But for the record, the first step in ensuring government does not mess with the Saturday I have chosen for my beautiful special day wedding that no government fashioned on this earth shall meddle with is make sure I check the diary the government publishes with dates of the elections, and knowing Nigeria, chose a day at least 4 weeks after.

I'm responsible like that.

Agboriotejoye:
I expect you read the op and saw where our medical personnel were praised while available facilities were condemned. I also hope you see where the absence of tap water and traffic lights and controllers were mentioned. Now the constitution of FRN from which the government gets power over our lives makes the security and welfare of the people the primary responsibility of government. I hope you can differentiate government from the citizenry of Nigeria because in actual fact, what should concern you is how a tiny number of people in government are able to have so much influence on the direction and quality of life of larger number of citizens in this nation.

Try this experiment. Go outside and see gutter going down the street, pot holes in the road, and tell me if bubu is responsible to come and mend it for you.

I think you forget we are democratic now. I also think people focus more on Abuja instead of their own local community. We Nigerians get this insidious notion that some power from Abuja will make things right. Some even believe "not by their might" as if good things are for those who labour not. That is why a "tiny number of people in government are able to have so much influence on the direction and quality of life of larger number of citizens in this nation". Its because the majority (and I'm hoping you're a minority on this), "surrender your freedom and resources to government" as if government is your god! And on top of that, you pay them, to enslave you!

The government is the "citizenry of Nigeria", is precisely my point! And my security and welfare are my own primary responsibility. Or where's the logic of expecting bubu to secure my local community if I don't take responsibility for the tiny bit of it that I can?

Agboriotejoye:
The answer will lead you to why it is important that
1. We do not have an autocratic government ever again
2. We should critically scrutinize and appraise the caliber of people we allow into the offices of government.

You talk as if you were not here when we were "critically scrutinize and appraise the caliber of people we allow into the offices of government". Did you not hear us BMC Artikulate and Obliterate Next Level?

It is very important that we do not have an autocratic government, and if our government becomes autocratic and we don't like it we should stand up and tell our autocratic government to stop being autocratic or grin and bear it, and kick their autocratic asses out with our votes at the very next election.

Its a slow process, but gradually, we will get better at "critically scrutinize and appraise the caliber of people we allow into the offices of government", and make Nigeria a place we are proud of.

thatigboman:
yet atiku is the 2nd highest employer of labour in adamawa state, while buhari doesn't own any known 4x4 shop

The employers he has refused to pay?

Buhari na soldier. He does not open shop. He commands soldiers. His current battle is against a cancer that has destroyed many minds such that they can not recognise their own corrupted nature.

PerfectlyPerfect:
The truth is that corruption exists everywhere, and in every country. The current administration are simply using it to hide their inadequacies. Have you noticed they blame the past administration for everything? I now know there's a reason why the US played a major role in getting Buhari win. Jonathan was simply too smart, and they needed a stooge to manage the affairs of the most populous country on earth

It is a great pity that many forget the dire situation we were in that led to our voting for Buhari who we had rejected twice!

I think Jonathan would have served us better. When we suffer reach under his incompetence and looting second term that went on in his first term, we might have learnt to appreciate where we are.

ArticleBeast:
Deep down you know the truth and that alone gives me joy. You know you and your family deserve security. You know your aged folks deserve good healthcare system. You know your little baby girl deserves quality education. You know your brother deserves to be employed with good pay. You know you deserve electricity and pipe borne water.

You are correct, I know I deserve these things.

Difference is, I was brought up to understand that government is not angel who would bring me the manna I deserve so I go get what I deserve for and by myself instead of waiting for government to give me what I deserve.

I guess the measure of my deserving is my own ability to provide what I deserve. I wish I too had a providing angel in heaven.

PerfectlyPerfect:
Atiku may not have been the best option but, let's be honest, he and his deputy would've been much better than the ones we currently have.
If you were the CEO of a company, between Atiku and Buhari, who would you employ to help your company grow?
Kwarrupshon isn't the only problem we have in this country. Let's forget the current (scam) anti-corrosion rhetorics of the current administration. They're fighting corruption but 2/3 of their cabinet members are former PDP members

Honestly speaking, I think if I put Buhari as CEO of my company, my company might still exist after 4 years, but if I put Atiku, my company would likely not exist after 4 years because 100% of his administration would be PDP members who would be busy being corrupt!

Agboriotejoye:
Really? You blame Nigerians for the poor health facilities, no traffic control, no safe drinking water and impostor officers? Are you for real? So why did we surrender our freedom and resources to government when we can be held responsible for all these?

You surrendered your freedom and resources to government Did you want to be a slave?

Maybe many years of history must have failed to open your eyes to the fact that no government in the entire history of Nigeria has ever not been solely responsible for its agents of government - governors, senators, representatives, ministers, president, and the likes, and don't really care about you, which is precisely the reason we are to blame for our poor "health facilities, no traffic control, no safe drinking water and impostor officers".

To start with, irresponsible slave who surrendered his freedom and resources to government", our "poor health facilities, no traffic control, no "safe drinking water and impostor officers", are all manned by we Nigerians, and not by aliens imported from Mars! And why the heck did you go and do a stupid thing like "surrender your freedom and resources to government" when you ought to know better and be responsible for yourself?

Ramanto:
I know we have a lot of intelligent people here. Can you suggest ways to better our country? This insult is too much from America

Each individual should better themselves then our country too go better. It sounds simplistic, but the change one want starts within each and everyone of us.

You might have noticed my Sai Seun. Its gratitude for bringing us all together here so we might begin.

GamalNasser:
That's not a portrayal of Nigeria? If this is not a truthful portrayal of Nigeria then what is ? Why do you Buharist love living in Denial all the time

It is a portrayal of what we Nigerians have turned Nigeria into.

Or is it your view that the Nigeria above is what Buhari turned Nigeria into? Go read previous years US Embassy's portrayal of Nigeria.

CSTR2:
And the US is telling you that your next level is not fit for even their animals,let alone human beings..

Atiku is not the only name on the ballot, you illiterate.

Atiku was the runner up of those on the ballot, so unless your opinion is only those who voted third runner or less are the literates, I just might be missing your point.

Should I take you are not Nigerian? Nigeria might not be fit for animals, according to US, but I assure you that we Nigerians are human beings and should be so regarded.

PerfectlyPerfect:
Zombie. So nigerians are not weeping and cursing currently, right?

Are you weeping and cursing? Pele.

Not all Nigerians are "weeping and cursing" and by historical standards this is mild "weeping and cursing", or were you not born when we were on the streets crying military must go with our lives?

Five years of Atiku and we would be weeping tears of blood, at the least.

alezzy13:
Chai!! See as them finish us

Some truth, but a lot of exaggerations. In the health sector for instance I don't agree the issue of fake drugs is still as serious as it once was.

Secondly I don't totally agree medications are not available in most hospital. There may be occasional stockout but I don't think it's a general issue

It's bad. And compared to US own, its poison, and it is a general issue.

There's lots of drugs you can't get in Nigeria. And many you can get are not even fakes from India!

alezzy13:
Lastly in this day and age how many people still request for tap water? It's almost always bottled water even in those road side bukas.

You bottled water bath and wash your car

Kenneth10110:
Go and have a rethink you need to see the truth but you are so far from the truth

Enlighten me please.

bindukwe:
That's on the individual level. what concerns the state is beyond that level of power.

You're not buying and selling to yourself, you're not your own economy.

Who'd have the final say in what concerns everyone? You can't operate at your fullest potential on your own, you need people.
The skills you learn isn't for yourself, its value exchanged for what you value.

That transaction has to be regulated by independent power who will pay fair to you both.
You can't be that power, because nothing stops you or the other from being unfair to each other.

My own opinion is that we, on an "individual level", have the final say. If I'm fair with you, you would most likely be fair to me. That's not to say everyone would be fair since not everyone has the power to regulate themselves, but if more regulate themselves, and if those who don't know learn to regulate themselves, we will all be regulators operating at our "fullest potential" "buying and selling" and being "an economy", as in, an agency that makes money and society better to boot.

We, have the final say bindukwe. We did not inherit our leaders from Mars; we elected them from amongst we ourselves, with our collective eyes open, dare I say. The only power that regulates transactions between you and I is you and I. We [must] use our individual power to regulate our fairness to one another instead of expecting it to be regulated by higher powers.

bindukwe:
We need an independent agency that will work as a regulatory body for government officers.

We need to understand that we are the independent agency and work as a regulatory body for ourselves and our government.

And trust me when I say we are doing fine indeed, learning skills on here to empower ourselves! Imagine what you'd do when you grow up.

Sai Seun Next Level!

CSTR2:
In 2023, you would still elect another useless leader that you are very familiar with.

We probably might. Imagine Atiku in 2023. By 2028 Nigerians would likely be weeping and cursing.

We dodged a bullet there! We voted to reduce the pigs feeding excessively at the trough.

Sai Bubu Next Level!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clbqKFM5oQY