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Politics › Re: Alleged Defamation: Afe Babalola Withdraws Suits Against Farotimi by casualobserver: 8:42am On Jan 27, 2025

This is why we don’t make progress as a people.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: President Trump Announces Retaliatory Measures Against Colombia by casualobserver: 9:53pm On Jan 26, 2025

…and would you believe it. The joke of a Colombian president has made a u turn and offered to bring the deportees home.

Know which battles to fight, don’t engage in a fight you are not prepared to fight to finish.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: President Trump Announces Retaliatory Measures Against Colombia by casualobserver: 9:29pm On Jan 26, 2025

Nnamdipapa:
What negotiating power does he or the US have? China and Europe can supply most of the things the US sells. Even the US is dependent on China, hence the negative trade balance. The rest of the sane world doesn't GAF about the obese convict in the white house and the idiots who voted for him.

Abeg stop responding to my posts with uncouth comments. If you want to have a civil converalsation and to be taken seriously then type like someone who didn’t stagger out of a motor park drinking spot.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: President Trump Announces Retaliatory Measures Against Colombia by casualobserver: 8:51pm On Jan 26, 2025*

I am a fan of Trump but he should not over play his hand. The thing with bluffs is that when your bluff is called, you have to follow through on your threat. The problem for Trump is he really can’t afford to follow through on its threat.

The more nations call his bluff the weaker he becomes. His strength lies in the fear of Trump I.e the negotiating powers of his bluffs…not the reality. The reality is bad for the US!

Imposing financial sanctions is exactly what will empower BRICS and kill the dollar.

He should move softly because of his bluff continues to be called there are only 2 outcomes….world war 3 or/and the fall of the US house of cards.

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Events › Re: Diana Ross Arrives In Nigeria For Thisday Awards by casualobserver: 8:27pm On Jan 26, 2025

I hope it’s not 1st bank loan they are using to pay her. I hope we won’t hear Diana Ross went to Nigeria and wasn’t paid.

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Politics › Re: South-east Contributed N101.09bn — Received N341.45bn From VAT Pool In 2024 by casualobserver: 4:17pm On Jan 26, 2025

Empty barrels

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Politics › Re: I’m Not Expecting Favour From Abuja Courts – Nnamdi Kanu by casualobserver: 7:53am On Jan 25, 2025

I am beginning to suspect that either

1) his lawyer is too emotionally invested to think straight.
2) he is benefitting from the status quo either financially or public exposure or both.
3) he is grossly incompetent.

To me, his utterances are not in tune with a lawyer who wants to see his client freed.

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Politics › Re: Wike Commissions 5KM Gaba-tokulo Road In Bwari by casualobserver: 7:34am On Jan 25, 2025*

ddippset:
Tell me those that didn't build roads.
Especially the Niger delta Governors.

Tell us!

Well let's all not pretend we don't know that "roads" is where the kickbacks is.

Let's not pretend.

There is nowhere there are no kickbacks if it is kickbacks you want. The reason Nigerian politicians prioritize roads is because they are the most visible and impactful projects for the buck and “evidence” to their constituents they are working and not because of kickbacks.

Everybody uses roads, everybody sees and feels the impact of a good road. Not everybody will know, see or use the school, hospital, farm equipment, etc. you invest in and politicians care about visible impact. I have never been to a single govt school or hospital since the return of democracy but I see and feel good roads and I see and feel bad roads. Unfortunately shortermism is a consequence of 4yr election cycles.

They could just as easily collect whatever kickbacks from fertilizer distribution, farm equipment, school’s rehabilitation or hospital construction.

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Politics › Re: Wike Commissions 5KM Gaba-tokulo Road In Bwari by casualobserver: 10:57pm On Jan 24, 2025

ddippset:
Definitely not hating but is road construction the only project missing in FCT?

90 percent of his projects are always road construction..same he did in Rivers.

What about basic education, secondary education, primary healthcare, human capital development, job creation, housing schemes, markets and parks, bridges, pipe Borne water, scholarships

Ahh Some people didn’t build roads, didn’t build hospitals, didn’t build schools. So let him build roads, if you build a road (unless it was built by Peter Obi whose roads all washed away) the next man can’t say he wants to build the same road. Let him do according to his understanding, so long as he is doing. The next man will pick up where he stopped.

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Travel › Re: US-Bound United Flight Makes Emergency Return To Lagos, Passengers Injured by casualobserver: 8:20pm On Jan 24, 2025*

mushroomFarm:
You are concluding on the reason for the diversion based on what a passenger said. A passenger who doesn't even seem to understand the technical workings of an airplane. If they lost control of critical systems, then would be bleeped. If they however got lucky, they wouldn't used the closest airport which was in Ghana and not drag out their luck my returning to Lagos.

I believer they initially wanted to divert to Accra but felt confident enough after reassessing the situation to navigate to Lagos after declaring an emergency.

Where they choose to land depends among other things on the flight level they were when they regained control and their assessment of the situation for instance they may have been too heavy (Fuel) to land in Accra so they may have made a calculated decision that it’s better to go to Lagos and ditch fuel along the way.

You are right though about the “loss of tools”, my comment was based on the write up and I should have known better not to take Nigerian journalism at face value.

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Travel › Re: US-Bound United Flight Makes Emergency Return To Lagos, Passengers Injured by casualobserver: 5:40pm On Jan 24, 2025*

TheEnforcer:
The plane is very advanced .How can a 787 just lose flight controls?Those planes are reliable without a single history of a crash

And did it crash? advanced and so what, computer no dey fail? Every advanced system is a computer program. A computer program is only as good as the possible scenarios you have envisaged. There are always scenarios that weren’t envisaged that is why you have software upgrades. Because a plane did not crash does not mean it hasn’t had incidents during flight!

Check the aviation incident database there have been over 312 incidents involving the 787. This will make it 313 and it is not the first time a 787 has suddenly plunged injuring people…..assuming people were injured.

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Travel › Re: US-Bound United Flight Makes Emergency Return To Lagos, Passengers Injured by casualobserver: 5:33pm On Jan 24, 2025*

SalamRushdie:
You are not talking to na aviation novice oo..I feed off this field please , most planes use digital cluster now , you won't see any that use analogue especially on international flight..of a turbulence happens and passengers get injured the have to make an emergency landing ASAP ....there is no scenario where the will lose flight controls and the passengers will get injured .. the only thing that will make you lose flight controls on 787 is if you lose engine power or hydraulics and even at that you will extend your emergency turbine and continue flight controls and avionics

my friend you are talking absolute nonsense.

1) i already said they wont turn back because of turbulence uless the plane was damaged or there were injuries....cant you read?
2) you are wrong regarding the bold statement, there are numerous examples. Infact if you lose flight controls and you do not regain it, you will be lucky to say you were injured.
3) you are also wrong regardiing the 2nd bold part and if you read what you wrote you are contradicting yourself. Loss of Engine power does not mean losss of flight controls because you have the emergency turbines and you can glide.
4: depending on altitude, the worst thing that can happen in a flight is not loss of engines, but loss of flight controls. Loss of flight controls means simply that, you have no control of the plane.

there are numerous examples where planes have behaved erratically die to malfunctioning sensors etc, which is why I said this is a sysmptom of either malfunctioning sensors or temporary losss of flight controls.

We are both speculating but your suggestion of turbulence is total garbage based on the fact that the pilots temporarily lost their tools...what other tools are they refering to? common sense will tell you that there wasa glitch somewhere and the plane was temporarily uncontrollable and it was restored hence their ability to fly back to Nigeria.

Nothing to do with turbulence.

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Travel › Re: US-Bound United Flight Makes Emergency Return To Lagos, Passengers Injured by casualobserver: 4:53pm On Jan 24, 2025*

SalamRushdie:
They couldn't have lost flight controls and Navigation, I will wait for the NCAA report and will find out what happened, I suspect they hit a bad turbulence and because people were injured from it they had to make an emergency return

based on what was said "they lost their tools", 787 uses a glass cockpit.

You dont turn back because of turbulence, except there is a medical emergency or your plane is damaged.....turbulence is normaland it doesnt last, you fly through turbulence or you fly around it. It is either malfunctioning flight sensors and/or loss of flight controls. again based on the comment "we lost our tools" it suggest they lost flight controls (hence the turbulence like conditions) and it later came back (which is why they were able to return to Lagos) suggesting failure of the electronic flight control system somewhere. it is a fly by wire airplane with no manual controls though it is supposed to have redundancy.

Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, though possible, turbulence is not common on that flight route as you can see below, they only got as a far as Ivory coast.

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Travel › Re: US-Bound United Flight Makes Emergency Return To Lagos, Passengers Injured by casualobserver: 4:14pm On Jan 24, 2025

SalamRushdie:
What do U mean lost tools?

flight control and navigation tools! Everything on that plane is digital

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Travel › Re: US-Bound United Flight Makes Emergency Return To Lagos, Passengers Injured by casualobserver: 4:13pm On Jan 24, 2025

Why always Boeing?

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Politics › Re: Nigeria's Democracy: Held Hostage By INEC's Registration Delays by casualobserver: 3:14pm On Jan 24, 2025

This one refuses to accept that the mess in his party is responsible for their poor outings in elections and seeks to point the finger at every and anyone except the incompetency, clash of egos, imposition, money politics and lack of harmony in his party.

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Politics › Re: Mambilla Power: Why I testified at the arbitration panel in France - Obasanjo by casualobserver: 3:06pm On Jan 24, 2025

EmperorCaesar:
Next to Maurice Iwu, Obj is the most corrupt Nigerian ever

Nobody comes close to OBJ

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Politics › Re: Kanu Slams ₦‎100 Billion Defamation Suit On Bashir Ahmad by casualobserver: 11:42am On Jan 24, 2025*

It is the “standing in the community” that got me! Is he referring to prison community?

Secondly, is his lawyer that looks like a man they plucked from a beer parlour not aware that both the federal govt and the SE governors have declared IPOB a terrorist organization and therefore any member talk less the leader is indeed a terrorist in the eyes of the law?

As highlighted by a poster above, IPOB has been gazetted a proscribed terrorist organization. You will think a lawyer understands the implication of an official gazette.

If I were Kanu, I will find another lawyer. You would fail a 1st year law student for not understanding that if the government has gazetted an organization a terrorist organization and you are a member then as a member of said organization, legally you are a terrorist. There is no defamation if the government has officially gazetted you a terrorist, where did he learn his law?

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Foreign Affairs › Re: "Return Of The Village Idiot": What A British Newspaper Called Trump by casualobserver: 11:41am On Jan 24, 2025

HandyRex:
This is harsh

Have we not called our own presidents worse? Did some not call our president a drug dealer? Did they not call our president a buffooon?

Village idiot is no big deal!

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Politics › Re: Edo APC Panics Over Fresh Discoveries At Election Tribunal by casualobserver: 11:31am On Jan 24, 2025

When an article says

“ As foretold, the Tribunal has started exposing the thieves that stole the mandate of the people of Edo State.”

It shows this is not an unbiased journalist if indeed the author is a journalist. Whoever wrote the article has already come to his own conclusion irrespective of events at the tribunal.

I advise the author to understand the demographics of the electorate if he wants his candidate in future elections instead of thinking that speaking English or appearing on arise news is a criteria to be governor!

Disregard!

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Politics › Re: Shariah Panel Holds First Public Sitting In Ekiti, Resolves Marriage Dispute by casualobserver: 4:54am On Jan 24, 2025

Guru9ja:
Ti eku ile o ba Pani, ti ode ko le pa ni.
Last last we say no to sharia!

Dont be gaslighted and distracted, your real problem is not sharia but the silent invaders in your midst! They want to distract you with noise about sharia so you don’t see thee real threat.

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Politics › Re: Shariah Panel Holds First Public Sitting In Ekiti, Resolves Marriage Dispute by casualobserver: 6:17pm On Jan 23, 2025

Aduke96:
Really?
You are asking what the back and forth about, yet you keep arguing till we get to this point.
Trying so hard to elaborate,explain, proof and hold on to your point of view that their is no yoruba without a Muslim relative expect they are immigrants.

All well and good ekiti state just deny the existence of Islamic sharia court in the state.
We already know the omolawabis are known to be peaceful and tolerant for centuries,especially in the aspect of religion they co-exist well.
However, we wont just fold hand nd pretend blindly to the drum of war and discord among the yorubas lately.
Anything that can cause disunity, or threatening the peace and hamony of the people won't be tolerated. cheers

my friend you are just daft!

In my opening post, i said it was a muslim muslim affair just as churches settle marital disputes

i said There is rarely a yoruba famuily without chritians and muslims and we have coexisted in peace.

At the end of the day, after wasting my time with needless back and forths, we are back to square one. ther is no sharia and you admited yorubas have coexisted with other religions in their families. Remember i didnt respond to you, you responded to my post and started all this waste of effort.

Stop allowing immigrantss in your land who are religiously intolerant to gaslight you into thinking there is a problem where there is none. The reason they flee their lands is because their inherent intolerance has turn their land into a wasteland. If you allow them to gaslight you to believe there is a problem when there is none they will turn your land into the land they flee from.

good day!

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Trump Revokes The Equal Employment Opportunity Act Of 1965 by casualobserver: 2:40pm On Jan 23, 2025

EmperorCaesar:

Moving the USA to more conservative society

There are over 1miliion Africans over there and i wonder what the future holds for those still unemployed

I guess this wouldnt affect international staffs of a U.S company working remotely from their countries

The message is clear…Go back and fix your countries. And I endorse that message!

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Politics › Re: Shariah Panel Holds First Public Sitting In Ekiti, Resolves Marriage Dispute by casualobserver: 2:35pm On Jan 23, 2025

TheWitchKing:
There is a possibility Sharia would affirm otherwise. Can't you see what is happening in the north today?

The north and the SE are different from the SW. They are largely religiously homogenous and never practiced religious tolerance. So don’t allow them those from the SE to disturb the harmony in the SW because many of them who now live amongst us dont know how to coexist in peace with other faiths and are trying to gaslight us with their prejudices.

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Car Talk › Re: What Are 3 Car Models You Will Never Advice For A First Time Car Owner ? by casualobserver: 7:07pm On Jan 22, 2025

Zidac:
When was the last time you saw one. Be sincere

casualobserver:
I saw 3 in 2 days over Xmas! No lie! But don’t be annoyed, feel free to buy Honda accord!

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Car Talk › Re: What Are 3 Car Models You Will Never Advice For A First Time Car Owner ? by casualobserver: 5:46pm On Jan 22, 2025*

zedman1:
Buy again? I only meant it was my first and it wasn't as bad as people portrayed it to be.

Like I said, it is a known issue with accords. Usually the front axle will collapse and damage the front fender as well. If you maintain your car properly I guess you wo t have the problem but this is Nigeria, as a 1st time car buyer without deep pockets, the car is likely used and money doesn’t always come when the car says it needs money, so you manage it for that extra mile and the next and the next and boom…axle collapses! It is a known issue in countries with good roads talk less a country like ours with bad roads.

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Car Talk › Re: What Are 3 Car Models You Will Never Advice For A First Time Car Owner ? by casualobserver: 5:35pm On Jan 22, 2025

zedman1:
So it never happens to other vehicles or what? Common man, they made it sound like it's something I'll witness every damn month or something. Four years no try?

I saw 3 in 2 days over Xmas! No lie! But don’t be annoyed, feel free to buy Honda accord!

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Car Talk › Re: What Are 3 Car Models You Will Never Advice For A First Time Car Owner ? by casualobserver: 4:47pm On Jan 22, 2025

zedman1:
My first car and that's what most people said to make me feel it was a bad buy. But it happend only once after four years and I felt the signs coming.

Politics › Re: Shariah Panel Holds First Public Sitting In Ekiti, Resolves Marriage Dispute by casualobserver: 3:39pm On Jan 22, 2025

Aduke96:
Never assume anything, and here you are trying to force your experience,opinion and beliefs on me.
You know my family much more than I do.

Although they are few families without Islam background and close relatives in yoruba land but I'm saying they exist .
Iree o

I am not forcing my beliefs on you. And from your post you’ve come a long way from your initial post. I never said there are none. I said it is very rare.

Either way the point which you seem now to acknowledge (see emboldened) is that it is normal to have different religions amongst relatives (close or extended) in yoruba land. So what was all the back and forth about?

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Politics › Re: Shariah Panel Holds First Public Sitting In Ekiti, Resolves Marriage Dispute by casualobserver: 3:04pm On Jan 22, 2025

Guru9ja:
Oga believe it or not we still have families without Islam background or close relative.
They are mostly from Ekiti and Ondo.

Close relative is not what I said. I said relative.

Either way, the point is Muslims and Christian’s have coexisted in yoruba land in peace for centuries. To the point you don’t sometimes know who is a Muslim. It is not the yoruba way to introduce religious intolerance and it is the work of non Yorubas who are intolerant of other religions where they come from. because true Yorubas do not care.

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Politics › Re: Shariah Panel Holds First Public Sitting In Ekiti, Resolves Marriage Dispute by casualobserver: 2:51pm On Jan 22, 2025

Aduke96:
I don't argue much.
You argued base on your own experience.
I don't have muslim relatives.
It's either traditionalist or christian.

Muslims friends and neighbours ?absolutely.
However,relatives close to my FAMILY TREE, not yet.

Up until the age of possibly 35, I also would have sworn I had no Muslim relatives. As a child of about 13/14, when the friend I spoke about said to me my grandfather was probably a Muslim (he wasn’t) because his father (the papal knight) was born a Muslim, I could have sworn I had no Muslim relatives as I come from a family steeped in Christianity.

I have since found otherwise. Not just in my family but to find out many of my friends were actually Muslims and I never knew.

You don’t know is different from there are none. Western Educated Yoruba Muslims in particular are the hardest to spot unless they tell you or they address themselves by their Muslim names. They do all the things Christians do, Celebrate Xmas with Christians, drink alcohol, eat pork and bacon, are not in your face with their religion and usually, often you won’t know until they are grown adults, or their parents die etc etc or just feel a need to get closer to God in their advancing years that they are Muslims.

In fact, I only discovered about 3 months ago that my maternal great grandfather was a Muslim. His son, my maternal grandfather was actually a catechist. I actually till date do not know of any of my relatives on my grandfather’s side due to old family feuds who may likely be Muslims. Like I said never assume anything!

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