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CelebritiesRe: Ruggedman Insulted On Twitter For Scolding Channelstv Reporters by dare2think: 12:24am On Mar 16, 2013
Its obvious ruggedman is not privy to the general nature of Journalists.


This is a phenomenal occurrence that is appropriate for whoever is in a leadership position.

know your s/h/it before you come on Tv.


We are so used to having incompetent people in position that exposing their inadequacies sounds offensive.

Rugeedman is an illiterate in this matter.
PoliticsRe: Akpabio Defends Wedding Gifts To Tuface And Wife by dare2think: 11:43pm On Mar 14, 2013
Ok,

In all of these, he still has not explained if the expenses come from his personal budget or from the state's budget?

Should that not be the question that needed to be answered?




The irony regarding his justification is just ridiculous. lol

-Bought ONE car and not TWO.
- Sponsoring 20 family members not 29

Does it F/u/cking matter!!!

How does this affect the average akwa ibom citizen.
FamilyRe: 8-Month-Old Deaf Baby's Reaction To Hearing For The First Time! by dare2think: 12:18am On Mar 06, 2013
Oahray: blah blah blah. God did not make the baby deaf, imperfection did.
huh
FamilyRe: 8-Month-Old Deaf Baby's Reaction To Hearing For The First Time! by dare2think: 4:23pm On Mar 05, 2013
Yoruba_Omoge: Please no "God is wonderful" on this thread.
You inadvertently made this about God.


Inevitably, the focus will be shifted.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think:
Capnd143: since you claim not to be lazy can you prove all the evidence given in this "exposè" are wrong? Just because you dnt have an idea of what is going to kill you doesnt mean that you are not going to die, so let those that knw the truth speak while you duel in western ass lickers land. No harm ment bro.
Someone provides an unsubstantiated 'expose' from a source we do not have access to, and the burden of proof is on me to prove that the content is not wrong?


https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lepk26je361qf9jkto1_250.gif
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 5:38pm On Mar 03, 2013
4 Play: @ Topic , NL on full re-tard mode. This is nothing but an opinion piece from a person with a feverish imagination. In a calculated attempt to mislead, the article purports that the source of its allegations is Wikileaks yet there's no shred of evidence for this.

I really shudder at the level of intelligence, or lack of, running riot here. Does anyone seriously think that the cause of Islamist violence in Northern Nigeria is America? We are suppossed to believe that Muslim fanatics in the North are simply puppets of Americans who are largely Christians or agnostic/atheists.

There is a related bizzare claim, that the West seeks to control Nigeria by destabilising it. People who subscribe to this dross think that economic development is a zero sum game, that you only develop at the expense of others. The reality is that Nigeria's prosperity will mean that Nigerians will buy more Western products from Blackberries to Dell computers to Peugeot vehicles. Only stark raving ignoramuses think Nigeria's poor state serves Western interests.

Ultimately, what this thread illustrates is the human tendency to avoid facing hard truths about personal failures by ascribing failures to external dark forces. For tribalists, lack of progress is merely down to the conspiratorial forces unleashed by other tribes. For the pseudo-intellectuals who think they're above tribalism, disorder is due to conspiracies from external forces like the West. Anything to avoid facing up to the uncomfortable reality, that we are largely the authors of our own misfortune.
The last paragraph sums it all hope. Lazy people always finds it easier to blame their issues on others.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 5:35pm On Mar 03, 2013
2013: one of these days your eyes will open. By that time it will be too late for u.
Just like my eyes will open to the never-ending theories about iluminati taking over the world, right?

You are nothing but paranoid schizophrenics that finds it easy to put blames on others.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 3:21pm On Mar 01, 2013
Angyee: No, sorry, I meant remove BH and remove the fighting you allude to. Sorry for miscommunication.
Its ok.

Perhaps why I refuse to buy into this is because we are becoming imbued in a blame culture. Satan is responsible for your failure, the witch next door, your ancestors, your grandmother's aunty, the house girl and all other similar permutations. External forces always seem to have the better of Nigerians, they never accept responsibilities.

Anyway, nice chatting with you.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 3:08pm On Mar 01, 2013
Angyee: Remove BH, and no more fighting
I politely disagree. There was fighting and ethnic in-fighting before the advent of bh.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 3:00pm On Mar 01, 2013
Angyee: I agree wholeheartedly, we are the harbingers of our destruction. And no, not CIA, America is exploiting. Nobody is blaming, understand me. We are realizing that we need to reduce outside interference for Nigeria to be successful (for you to pick up a radio station clearly you have to reduce and eliminate outside interference). When we do, we will be more focused and united and can work together for our OWN good. Right now everyone wants the good of Igbo or Hausa or Erik or Idoma or Yoruba very few are interested in the good of Nigeria. As you said yes stop blaming and stop interference. To borrow fro your illustration, if I stop blaming you for cooking bad soup but leave you in my kitchen while I cook who says the next batch of soup won't go bad? But whether or not I blame you, if I kick you out of my kitchen (I don't joke with my kitchen in real life lol), I can manage every aspect better and have a better chance of preparing a good soup. After all as they say too many cooks spoil the broth.
I like your analogies.

Here is something for you though. Look at the politics section, click on any thread that has any specifics towards any tribe and read with disgusts the comment. No interference from the outside, these are educated people discriminating each other because of ethnic differences. Its only because we are incapable to solve our issues that it would be easy to blame interference. We are innately intolerable of each other. Religion,Ethnicity and Greed; very bad combo and this is tearing Nigeria apart, not the CIA.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 2:51pm On Mar 01, 2013
kandiikane: I wonder how people can be so stup!d. Evidence is right in your face and you don't want to believe. Na wey the US go come announced by mouth say una still be slaves na then you go believe?
You call that epistle of nonsense evidence??
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 2:37pm On Mar 01, 2013
Angyee: Hi dare2think, Nigeria's lapses are responsible in part for the growth because we allow an environment for them to thrive. However, if they were not funded they would soon die out. The destructive ideology stems from the what God put on Ishmael saying he would forever be in enmity with his brother's. The CIA is not responsible for the ideology however they are making use of it for their own gain. Nigeria's lapses are also caused by the forced union without proper considerations in place like US and without the CONSENT of the people thus causing distrust and mutual dislike.
Hey,

I agree with most of the things above, and just like you I am very passionate about the advancement of our race. I am not oblivious to our history and the years of slavery and abuse of our continent from the imperialists. However, we should not dwell on this and keep blaming people for our misfortunes. We would never grow with that 'mentality'.

In your post, you allude to the fact that we create an environment for the terrorists to thrive, dont you now think we should address the primary problem first. Will the CIA have succeeded if this environment was not created? Why not focus on ourselves and love each other more, then perhaps no one will take advantage of our division.

Why blame the opportunist for taking advantage of a opportunity? That's what they do. Why not then protect yourselves from being used. You can blame anybody else for your misery, you are responsible for whichever misery you allow an opportunist bestow on you.

Another thing, there is still no proof that the CIA behind this ?

or do you have proofs?

thanks anyway.

smiley
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 2:17pm On Mar 01, 2013
scipher: [size=28pt]action speaks louder than words, so where do we start? [/size]
A big Thank you.

Theorists with no Solution but noise, noise.

Assuming the CIA is truly responsible, now what?


With a president like Jonathan, why Would the CIA need to resort to that to get whatever they need, when they can simply push him. Yes, Push him.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 2:00pm On Mar 01, 2013
A-ZeD:
From blaming witches in the village, to blaming the devil and now the CIA. Nigerians never seize to amaze.
Malaysia, is one of the largest exporters of palm oil, they got their seedlings from Nigeria yet we don't even export; is the CIA also responsible for that?
Is the CIA responsible for the looting of our public wealth by government officials?

Nigerians stop blaming others for your problem and take responsibilities for your action or inaction. Countries like Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, India, Qatar are putting their houses in order, Nigerians are busy blaming someone else.
I dont know, but am I the only one noticing this lazy attitude?

Blame witches, blame buhari, blame everyone but ignore the underlining issues
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 1:41pm On Mar 01, 2013
hotwax: I cant believe this.

The last time I checked. It wasnt Boko-haram that was rioting, burning churches in Kaduna during the miss world beauty contest.

Almanjiri fighting in Kano last two years is not boko-haram.

This is all bulshi****t. We know what hausa/fulanis are capable of.

They did it in 1977, 1987, 2000 up till now.

Boko-haram is just an organized form of muslim fanatics. Muslims fanatics have already bin with us since day 1.
Apparently, the CIA is responsible for everything. Religious/Ethnic intolerance has nothing to do with it.

On this very Nairaland, the ethnic hatred portrayed in some post is so vile that it wont be a surprise that some of these folks dont wont hesitate to inflict despicable pain on each other.

The CIA is responsible for that too.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 1:35pm On Mar 01, 2013
Angyee: It is mentality like yours that is making their work easy (I don't mean this in a derogatory or abusive way so please don't be offended. I mean it in the sense that our short sightedness as Nigerians has left us open to exploitation). Let me use a simple sentence to explain what he is saying.

I (US) am using you, my employee (Terrorists) to do whatever work I need done so I gain more profit and become the most powerful Multi-National Corporation(country) in the world.

I didn't create you, I didn't give you the idea to study in your chosen field when you 1st started studying, all I'm doing is using you, your knowledge and your skills for my gain. My gain is not necessarily your gain, only when you begin to think like me will you see your gain.

That's why they are called conspiracy theories to reduce credence and make people doubt them especially when they are the truth.
Ok Ms Angyee.

Is Nigeria, or any of the lapses of the Nigerian Government responsible of the growth of Boko-haram or is the CIA sorely responsible for the manifestation of the destructive ideology?
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 1:24pm On Mar 01, 2013
Godman_n: We are weak today. But these people are always futuristic in their thinking. Their fears are not that of today but that of tomorrow. That is why they want to make sure that our tomorrow is destroyed in securing theirs.
Fair enough.

I keep reading all these revelations and conspiracies about how they want to destroy us and all. One would think most of these people work for the SSS or even the CIA that they would have access to precious information.

They say 'wake up' 'wake up'. lol at all these pseudo-analyst with their predictions. We all have rights to our opinions. Unfortunately, those opinions don't generate facts, including mine.

What I would like my fellow Nigerians to do is wake up to the reality of our situation. The decades of generational corruption and greed that have pervaded every aspect of our society. The continuous mis-management of resources that have contributed to the neglect of a lot of individuals which inadvertently leads young minds into frustrations that turns them into kidnappers and suicide-bomber.

One thing is to keep going on about theories, another is to be pragmatic about the situations making young men blow themselves up in the name of religion. What may have driven them to such a state of annihilation? What deep-seated hatred could make them do such? how can this be addressed? What can we do to promote tolerance and progressives attitudes across all spectrum of an already fragmented society.

Issues that needs to be addresses gets distracted when unsubstantiated theories like this are peddled up and down. Lets focus on these issues rather than looking for the bogey-man to blame for these atrocities.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 12:47pm On Mar 01, 2013
^^^^

Of course CIA is responsible.


All these beer parlor arguments with no proofs.
Christianity EtcRe: Happy Birthday Rev. Anita Oyakhilome! by dare2think:
mba emeka: Pastor Anita has given more to charity than you and every other hypocrite on NL put together!
Please tell me You know this because you wrote the Cheques! right?

You did write it? right?

Are you a magician? because am astonished as to how you are privy to every hypocrite's charity dealings.

Funny.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 12:25pm On Mar 01, 2013
miiraaj: Tell me boko haram didn't achieve this purpose in bold. And then u asked what CIA stand to benefit from supporting B.H, I think Gordon Duff did give a simple example in the article, for easy comprehension by wide range of readers. But as a said earlier on, read more on CIA activities and join the dots.
Its ok. You did not get my reason for quoting that excerpt.


The CIA is sponsoring boko, the only proof we have is Gordon Duff's poorly written ramblings. Someone that has Nairaland as one of its sources.


Sighs.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 12:20pm On Mar 01, 2013
itsmayiela: for all those that have doubts in the CIA funding Boko Haram and other terrorist organizations world-wide, pls go and watch the seasonal film "24".

the US controls every aspect of your life, they make you think the way they want, they can write off Cameroun's debt just to ensure they grant them military base, they can scatter Nigeria within 24hrs without sending a single troop to nigeria (just empower benin,niger,chad and cameroun).....


nigerians, stop being a mediocre.....wake up!
If they can do the bold already, why sponsor boko-haram then?
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 12:18pm On Mar 01, 2013
miiraaj: Their major interest is GLOBAL DOMINANCE.
To achieve this dominance, they need to cripple emerging economies, gain control of as many resources as possible etc...
There are many materials available on CIA. Search and go through them to understand more about the interests of these western imperialists.
Brazil, China, Turkey and India are fast emerging economies too, is the CIA sponsoring terrorism there too?

I understand imperialism and its connotations, What I am still waiting to get from you is substantive proof that the CIA is sponsoring Boko haram and what they stand to gain from their activities when our government can heed to their call anyway. We are not Libya or Zimbabwe that gives the west any tough time, we are weak towards the west so why the need to go through that extra effort to get what they can get and what they are already getting!
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 12:02pm On Mar 01, 2013
miiraaj: Go through this post please.

https://www.nairaland.com/835495/nigeria-targeted-destruction
Mr Miirage, are you kidding me?

The above is nothing short of the Ramblings of an Individual. Can you not deduce the subjectivity in a 'report' filled with innuendos that lacks professionalism. An emotionally disposition of a conspiracy theorists that is nothing other than a theory.

Did you go through that garbage. Am I to take a 'Reporter' that said;

'Most Nigerians are cowards, anyway. Kill a few “Nigerians,” “Christians” and make it look like christ6ianity against Islam to provoke a reaction from Nigerians'. Or someone that has nairaland as one of its sources.

That article is a joke.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:33am On Mar 01, 2013
miiraaj: Whatever the reasons they gave,they laid the foundation for it. That's the conspiracy we are talking about.

( I believe we all know the reasons they gave)
Ok Mr Miraage, I'm only trying to learn a bit here.

It is a very plausible possibility for them to be involved in destabilizing a country, they have been accused of doing such in the past.

My only problem is, nobody has been able to convince or prove to me what they stand to gain. We have a puppet government than can dance to their tunes already, why the need to to sponsor Boko?
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:25am On Mar 01, 2013
991: i see reasons with your post, but, if you really think that socio-economic problems creates atmosphere of fundamentalism, then think again. what do we know about terrorism, apart from what the media feed us with?
Well, the media can feed anything based on their interests. Every Media outlet is biased, it all depends on which you want to believe. And the only way we get abreast of what is going on is through some form of media. We can't be every where at once.


There is deep religious intolerance and ignorance in our beloved country and that needs to be addressed and you need not look further than this very platform on NL. The politics and religuoes threads are testaments to that. Boko- haram is a terrorist organization that IS wrecking havoc in people's lives, and the seeds of the organization are born out of this intolerance.

I am well aware of the disgraceful behaviour of the CIA and how they take sides in other people's politics. We must also take responsibilities for some of the problems as well, as it is just being lazy to point the finger at the CIA.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:11am On Mar 01, 2013
991: what did they gain in iraq, afghanistan, libya, egypt, syria, mali, etc??
Why don't you start by telling me?
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:10am On Mar 01, 2013
miiraaj: Do you recall America predicting the destruction of Nigeria by 2015?
Yes, I do.

And what where the reasons given in that report?
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:08am On Mar 01, 2013
dp
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:07am On Mar 01, 2013
Red-Light:
why nato? cant they act like egyptians or syrians?
and there goes the conspiration theories again.... azasi belives pdp is boko, some people thinks its buhari and now some people think its CIA

all these nonsense burns down to whatever u wanna believe... but one thing is certain the 90% of these is based on ideology
am not disputing the fact that Cia might be using boko haram to their advantage but making it look like they are the major player is way out of it


Pdp also uses boko haram to its advantage by gaining sympathy and divert peoples attention from their corruptions

the north uses boko haram to demand from federal government etc ...

iranians are uses boko haram to further the cause of islamism in africa etc

Usa is uses it further gain ground in nigeria

the list goes on and on

so putting everything on CIA is absolutely rubbish
Its a form of escapism.

CIA this, CIA that.

The Decay in the society is CIA too? The corruption is the CIA too.

Its buhari today, its PDP sponsored tommorow. Now, its CIA.



Rather than tackle the socio-economic problem that creates a conducive atmosphere of fundamentalism they are looking for who to blame. The crisis in jos, is that the CIA too.
Foreign AffairsRe: Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is A CIA Covert Operation by dare2think: 11:01am On Mar 01, 2013
miiraaj: Nigerians have poor habits of making conclusions withing digging deep into any issue. No one has ever wondered how the Northerners that are seen as educationally backward in the country plan and execute such attacks which I believe a conference of ASUU members cannot achieve.

We need to understand the history of Boko Haram and its founder Mohd Yusuf, an illiterate with no western education and half baked islamic knowledge who claims to know all. His father was a top member of the Maitatsine sect, a group that started a rebellion and where crushed in 1984 by Gen Buhari.

Mohammad Yusuf is known to have gone against most Notable Islamic scholars in the country that he is even believed to be behind the murder of a notable Sheikh Ja'afar Adam in Kano in 2006.

Mohd Yusuf, a man with no tangible occupation was arrested with #3 billion in his home.
He was arrested several times by the govt of Yar'adua and in all the times ,was released almost immediately by unknown Powers.

When he was arrested and handed over to the police,he was extra judicially killed like a chicken by sergeants of the NPF, and we still don't know who gave the order for him to be killed.

Only the blind will not believe in such conspiracy!
Ok. Could you help explain what the CIA/USA stands to gain from sponsoring the BOKO HARAM that they cant get through bribing our officials.

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