₦airaland Forum

Why are Nigerian authorities so lawless?

Is it because they are not sued for wrongful detention plus stress and loss of income and legal fees?

CodeTemplarr:
Invention and advancements are two very different things. Invention can account for 1% of progress made in a thing or field and advancement 99%. The noble prices are largely advancements.

Nobel prizes that they gave mostly to people on their own side of the world or what?

Or do you think they'd give a Nobel to an Iranian who comes up with an invention or advancement today?

Would you claim Africans, who have won very few Nobels, have not come up with any invention that advanced the human race?

And for a herring. Please explain the advancement or invention our own Nobel laureates came up with. I'm intrigued.

RodgersAkpafu:
Where will the money even come from ?

30 billion a month in tariffs. And it comes from corporate profit.

happney65:
Would republicans like this?

He's already promised it to farmers, so we'll see how much he has left for those $1000 cheques.

Oh! But the tariffs are not coming from the pocket of the rich, as far as they know, even though they are a tax on the profits of the companies most own shares in.

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/10/01/tariff-cash-keeps-rolling-in-record-30-billion-in-september/

ono:
Now, these guys spared our forebears lives. They could have done to us what they did to the sioux and other Red Indian tribes in North America. Would you be here today if they had done that?

So, you are grateful they enslaved your forebears and generations after instead of stealing your land after they failed to enslave Red Indian tribes who fought back?

I guess you disregard more than half of your forebears they took and threw overboard into the sea because they couldn't feed them en route, and those they whipped to death.

Their lives were not spared, but since they had no descendants alive today to moan about their not being here, you can just forget about them and the history they left behind.

As to your "acquiesce to superior force", my response is below, with recognition that some are the opposite.

I'll let you decide what you do when confronted with "superior knowledge".

And note your patronising "temper temper" please, because it's likely to get a rude response from me.

TV01:
Wrong. Or at best misleading. Muslim recipients of Nobel Prizes tend to be enabled by, and emerge from, the Western milieu.

I'm certain you feel they are not Muslims therefore, but if you are interested, here's a list of some inventions that came out the Muslim world.

And it's not their fault there were no Nobels for any of them.

Steel mills built when our Ajaokuta was built are bring decommissioned because they are now non-viable ancient technology, but we want to raise the dead and rotten.

It's like spending lots of money on a Peugeot 404 and expecting it to perform like their latest EV car.

Do note that reviving a 404 has value in some places, but not many Nigerians will include wanting one when they pray to their gods


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

ono:
It is the Brits who FINALLY abolished slavery - in the modern world. They deserve some credit for that.

After you've given us Brits immense credit for perpetuating slavery first please. We deserve that too.

On our telly currently is a program about British development of nuclear bombs in colonised Australia, and the colonised aborigines don't seem to have found anything good in it.

In fact, the British soldiers who went there didn't find anything good in it neither.

If your number is quoted like you quoted someone's, then you'd need to nicely ask the quoter to edit the post and remove your number.

https://www.nairaland.com/3589456/house-clearance-sales-come-here/7337#137017235

Exousiang01:
And you are sure you know the yardstick Nobel uses?

Mention them and their exploits we wan hear

Read.

https://www.nairaland.com/8535618/why-muslims-not-winning-nobel#137059937

raumdeuter:
Making new while losing those already made to other better economies

That is how economies go to being 3rd world and depend for big brother for their security and defence

Do let me know when King Charles and all his land owning lords pack their millions and leave so I can start to consider whether to panic or not. Meanwhile, we are good, thank you very much.

Exousiang01:
Has any Muslim you know done anything spectacular that deserves the Nobel. You think everything is about religion?
Grow up

Yes, there have been many Muslims that have done spectacular things that deserve the Nobel, and the fact you don't know is more indicative of you.

There's not been so many but there's been some.

https://platform.ilke.org.tr/analyze/leading-science-muslim-nobel-laureates-in-science#!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saleemali/2023/10/01/nobel-prizes-science-and-islam/

benalvino3:
We were savages back then.

You may have been savages back then, but there were lots of Africans who weren't.

In fact, I'd go further and say those who put chains around the necks of human beings and made many generations, including their own offspring, slaves in their fields were the savages, but I don't expect you to agree.

raumdeuter:
From your link I saw another reference to Financial Times same story

We are constantly making new millionaires to replace those who leave. Just from our own japas, millionaires are rising, and we accept migrants from all over the world from whom some will become millionaires.

raumdeuter:
Let us check the GDP of the countries in the world lets see where US is and where the UK is

And while you are at it, check the populations too, and land mass, and consider the advantage free slave labour and land acquisition and migration is too.

benalvino3:
Let's not act like only white people were doing it when it was the whole world that was doing it

No one is acting "like only white people were doing it". Arabs enslaved Africans too, and my great great great great grandmother was a slave before my great great great great grandfather married and freed her.

One should however not disregard the fact that white people did colonise Africa and take lots of them away as slaves, and it was not on the whole beneficial for Africa.

raumdeuter:
US slip down which rank? where is the current position of the US now?

The liberal policies of UK has made them fail so badly that succesful people are seeking to leave

Manufacturing ranking, to name one.

The U.S. is the world's second-largest manufacturer, with China leading in total manufacturing output. China surpassed the U.S. in 2010 due to its lower labor costs, significant government investment in manufacturing, and the growth of its industrial base. While the U.S. has experienced a shift toward a services-based economy and faced challenges with complex supply chains, it remains a manufacturing powerhouse, particularly in sectors like aerospace and autos.

raumdeuter:
When the millionaires are fleeing, then those with knowledge that are desired in America also follow suit, what is left?

A poorer country where it becomes a race to the poorest . Only the poor remain, the rich have fled town

If facts matter to you!

https://theconversation.com/millionaires-may-not-be-fleeing-the-uk-in-droves-but-there-are-reasons-these-stories-persist-259591

benalvino3:
This is a fact.
Various forms of bonded labor and servitude existed in Indian society before the brits arrive
The brits actually abolished certain traditional forms of slavery in India during their rule.

The British introduced their own form of slavery in India.

raumdeuter:
In my lifetime the US has the the best nd greatest country in the world while the UK has been slipping down the ranking

Your lifetime is not the entirety of history, which clearly shows other countries have been the greatest at some time or the other and aren't no more, just as US is "slipping down the ranking" and will not forever be the so called greatest.

benalvino3:
They bought them from the people who enslaved them. The people who enslaved them are their own.

Two different things...
Before you blame the white man for slavery( you should) start with the black men who enslaved your forefathers and sold them to the White men.

I actually blame both the buyer and the seller, but we are talking about colonialism, which took slavery to a level never before known.

And before you start. I mean colonisation both by Europe and Arabs. I'd even claim Northern Nigeria is still colonised and enslaved by Fulanis, and the whole of Africa is enslaved by foreign religions.

RodgersAkpafu:


This one na magic

It's part of a past conversation where he thought the Fed dictates mortgage rates and how much interest USA pays for its debt.

https://www.nairaland.com/4508641/american-politics-thread-trump-47th/5351#136758332

benalvino3:
I am separating colonialism from slavery. They can happen independently.

And that's your prerogative, but that doesn't mean I have to lack knowledge you lack.

benalvino3:
They suffered cruelty from their own and the white man did not enslave them, they only bought them.

Of course "the white man did not enslave them". They just took lots of Africans to America and set them free, according to Quora!

This is for you basilico. Fed cut, but mortgage rates have risen.

From mid-September 2024 through early January 2025, mortgage rates jumped by 100 basis points, as the Fed cut its policy rates by 100 basis points despite reaccelerating inflation.

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/10/08/spike-in-refis-triggered-by-small-dip-in-mortgage-rates-fizzled-and-demand-for-mortgages-to-purchase-homes-still-in-deepfreeze/

benalvino3:
Where is the claim of chattel slavery? I know of indentured workers

So you are now separating slavery into chattel?

Go read some books. It will increase your understanding.

benalvino3:
Budaatum did not notice his ai referencing Quora.

I wonder how you'd evade the fact I've given you books to read.

ono:
Can we at least have a nice time arguing without throwing insults and crazy stuff?

With you, perhaps. And I must say that I am rather impressed at your lack of insults, though I can't say same about your crazy stuff, which I notice is not as much as it used to be.

benalvino3:
Quora is your source?

AI hallucination may be playing you.

Quora is not my source. I just know you wouldn't invest in books.