₦airaland Forum

Nostalgia, the past is always good.

Dictatorships are inherently more corrupt than democracies no matter how good the leaders are.

A dictator's primary concern is political stability, he wants to keep his power above all else - the problem is that in order to develop a country and build the necessary structure, a regime has to impose taxes, imposing taxes will hurt the masses and this would lead to political instability, so it is always in the best interest of a dictatorship to reduce the development of his country while increasing propaganda about how things are good.

" A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' "

Paul Watzlawick

People sometimes create their own nightmares, they hear of a prophecy set about to prevent that prophecy which ends up making it happen, the story of the Trojan war in Greek mythology is a perfect example of this.

Am I the only one who didn't take this protest seriously, I mean who in their right mind announces a protest weeks before the actual date, at best I concluded it was cringy nonsense - at worst, it was a pathetic DSS led sting operation.

But the way Nigerian politicians have given attention to the protest, you would think it was something serious, protests are only dangerous when they are unorganized and sudden, not when you have weeks to anticipate it...

What they are doing unintentionally is they are showing Nigerians how scared they are of their own people...

And once some elements sense that fear it would have the ironic effect of causing the very eruption that they are trying to avoid...

Now what shape or form would that eruption take? ...I'm not sure but if anything bad should happen in August, let the government understand it was their ridiculous fear mongering that made it happen.

Let the August 1st reach, I've bought popcorn I want to watch drama.

Some people are playing 'wait-and-see' politics.

Exousiang01:
You ignorant and dumb people I dont understand how you use your brains. A CCTV camera is now a hidden camera? You dont know that in this day and age you are supposed to be able monitor your home from any part of the world?

You are probably one of those cooking outside with firewood.
I dont understand how someone in 2024 would be saying what you are saying. You had better leave that cave of yours the world has left you behind

If you don't trust somebody don't employ them or at least don't put them in charge of sensitive areas like your food.

If you employ them and you wish to monitor them, inform them that a camera is watching them and everything they do, that would ensure their good behavior.

It's a hidden camera, the fact that she didn't know it was there confirms it.

Knowing this gender i'm curious to see how she treated the maid...

The fact that she planted a hidden camera in her kitchen proves she doesn't trust the maid, she didn't trust the maid because she expects the maid to do something bad, she expects the maid to do something bad because...

White people be speaking pidgin and in their head they are resonating with Nigerian culture

It's like travelling to USA and start speaking black american slang or travelling to England and start speaking wag-wan.

It is ghetto culture and doesn't reflect majority of the people.

To see if you have tattoo, perhaps you look like Iya Pablo.

Soldiers are not police officers...

A police officer might stay at a particular location for a long time and even become well connected with the community...

Soldiers by their very nature and training cannot stay in a particular location for a long time, it makes them restless...

Also, soldiers are trained to distinguish and sometimes despise the civilian population.

Sending a thousand soldiers to a LGA it automatically becomes 'occupied territory' and the civilians become 'enemies'.

Hide, run or submit

Most criminals in Nigeria are not psychopaths, they are just there for your money and 90% of the time they will not kill you once they have it.

Ps: Karate, boxing, taekwondo etc. Won't help you in a street fight, let alone a life or death situation.

They have gotten married now abeg make we rest

He's addicted to the limelight he should better not die of overdose

I heard there's a kind of fish called blowfish, this fish needs to be cooked with extreme carefulness and skill otherwise it would poison the eater...

In Japan, ordering the fish in a restaurant is usually a sign that you believe the cook who prepared it - is highly skilled...

I pray one day a Nigerian would catch that fish I know they will surely eat it.

Making lots of enemies as usual

To be honest our media like to over report, it's not everything you see you should say, you need to look at how it affects the wider society...

That's how the nonsense sit-at-home became a thing over reporting.

Reno has been accusing him of being mute on Igbo affairs, he seemed too hell bent on sucking north poles lately, next you have the LP crisis so he needs lots of support right now...

he knows fully well Nnamdi Kanu won't be released but at least it will give him his ipobic base back.

This guy will end in an early grave

The fire that burns the brightest and hottest usually run out of fuel quickly

Nature is chaos, for every one animal you use to prove a point, you will find five others that disprove it.

You didn't talk about Lions, female Lions will bleep the toughest Lion they can find...

Now if a new Lion should come into the pride and defeat that Lion, they will equally bleep that Lion too, and they will stand by (protesting feebly) while that Lion kill all their children from the previous Lion and impregnates them with his.

Ps. Lions don't provide shit, kinda the other way round.

Negroid001:
Was relaxing on my verandah sometime last week and i witnessed something that had me thinking up till this moment.

I'm surprised he did 12 years

In USA he would have been set free almost immediately (as long as he shot the right colour)

Kudos to the Nigerian army for not looking the other way

Christistruth00:
We were discussing the VC Of Universities

Gen Ironsi wanted replace Professor Ishaya Audu and
to Appoint Dr Edozien the VC of Ahmadu Bello University
at a time when the VC Issue was still raging both in University
of Lagos and Ibadan


How many Yorubas did Gen Ironsi place in Positions of Power?
In the Promotions only one Yoruba Officer Olutoye was promoted and he was in the Education Corp

17 Eastern Military Officers were promoted by Ironsi despite there being a one year moratorium on
Promotions because of the Coup

By the way Col Benjamin Adekunle and Obasanjo were due for Promotion but were passed over

Truth always Triumphs over Propaganda because God Almighty reigns with Truth and Righteousness

You know he ruled for just 6 months right? 6 months to rule a very corrupt and unstable country that just had a coup, imagine judging Tinubu by his first 6 months.

He didn't promote certain officers in a six month span meant he deserved to die and thousands should follow him..

Like I said confirmation bias.

Your day will come.

Christistruth00:
Gen Ironsi also tried to remove Prof Ishaya Audu who was the VC of ABU Zaria and replace him with Prof Edozien

Lt Col Katsina who was Gov of the the North resisted it , but it was the July revenge Coup that finally halted Gen Ironsi's plan to replace Ishaya Audu

Prof Edozien later became the Traditional Ruler of Asaba

You guys are seriously hopeless, you are suffering from confirmation bias

Despite the fact that Aguiyi Ironsi placed Northerners in key positions of power you believe he was evil because he allegedly tried to replace a VC, a VC post that didn't have value to his regime and he didn't even do it merely allegedly tried to


Then you claim the Governor of the North resisted it, while not mentioning that it was Aguiyi Ironsi that made Lt Kastina, Governor.

erico2k2:
SO people in Lagos do not protest right??

They do not protest on the grounds of "we are hosting so and so airport hence you must do our bidding and neglect everybody else"

T9ksy:
of course, the Northerners thought Nzeogwu was a "great man" after he singlehandedly
murder their political and religious leader in cold blood.

Keep deluding urself like iya ibeji who, when asked, responded that her boys are in London doing great things, when the whole village knows that her twins are in prison for armed robbery!

Well at least you admit they buried him, that should punch a big hole in your revenge idea

T9ksy:
Yeah, Nzeogwu was given a "respected military funeral" but that was after they plucked out his eyes from their sockets.

Are you trying to infer that the July coup was not a revenge coup? Pray then, tell us what it (July 1966 coup) was. Probably a home-coming party for the new clueless illegal head of state.

As for the plucking of Nzeogwu eyes once again you confuse army with civilians

The eyes were a trophy, it's like the way the British would steal African gods and store them well in museums although they didn't believe in them.

They plucked his eyes doesn't mean they hate him, they kept his eyes because they saw him as a great man hence they can boast that "I have a great man's eyes".

T9ksy:
Yeah, Nzeogwu was given a "respected military funeral" but that was after they plucked out his eyes from their sockets.

Are you trying to infer that the July coup was not a revenge coup? Pray then, tell us what it (July 1966 coup) was. Probably a home-coming party for the new clueless illegal head of state.

Quick question why did Murtala Mohammed and TY Danjuma plot a coup against Gowon?

Why did Dimka plot against Murtala Mohammed?

Why did Babaginda plot against Buhari?

Were they all about revenge?

The July coup was for a variety of reasons

The main reason was Power they wanted to rule, they don't want to be number 2 they want to be number 1 (by 'they' I mean the likes of Murtala Mohammed and TY Danjuma)

The next reason was promotion, many soldiers saw a chance to get promoted and killing Igbo Officers made sense, after all if Igbo Officers were being killed someone has to get promoted to take their place, a good career plan (the likes Dimka enter this category)

And then we have fear, some soldiers genuinely feared that they were going to get killed or at least have their lives destroyed by Igbo Officers so it was a 'i will kill you before you kill me situation'

We also have solidarity, "my friends are doing something bad but if I don't join them I would be ostracized" this mindset is even stronger in the army (majority of the soldiers fell in this category).

Lastly sadism, some people are just sadists who enjoy killing and watching others suffer and sometimes they join the army.

Obviously they are not foolish enough to admit their true motives, saying "I am fighting for revenge" sounds much better than saying "I am fighting for a promotion"

T9ksy:
Why do you assume that the Northerners gives a rat-arse how you perceive ironsi after his boys had just eliminated their (Northerners ') elite ? Ironsi was a dead-man walking, the moment he took over the govt of the day, at gunpoint. .

Yeah that's the thing

The man who personally killed Ahmadu Bello was Nzeogwu Chukwuma.

When he (Nzeogwu) died, Gowon gave orders for his corpse to be transported to Kaduna, he was then given a respected military funeral in Kaduna.

The man who killed Northern elites was buried in the North with respect.

Your mistake is thinking soldiers follow the same moral code as civilians, all this talk about revenge is complete nonsense.

This is why Lagos will always be successful, some tribes when God put small power - little success in their palms they immediately begin to meditate deeply on how they can oppress others with it...

If the government had build that airport somewhere else they would cry marginalization.

ccrenda5540:
Murtala Mohammed the great soldier who created 19 state. Some people lack knowledge of history.

I know he was terribly defeated when he tried to invade Onitsha, he had advantage in weapons, advantage in numbers, more food and supply and yet 90% of his troops were killed, only incompetent leadership could achieve that.

His expertise was in plotting coups and shooting defenceless civilians, he was cunning but was never intelligent (if he was intelligent he might still be alive)

GeneralPula:
Why feed a Chicken you’re intending to kill?

There you have your answer..

Chickens can't wield guns

For one temple to be built another must be destroyed, you cannot serve two masters

Either the Sultan has the power or the Governor has the power, choose your poison.

If the Sultan is an Islamic Leader then let him be officially an Islamic Leader of Nigeria and abandon the Sokoto.

This was most likely a blackmail from MURIC.