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 Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 5:50am On Oct 16, 2016 |
blackpanda:So because life is not fair, we should just be quiet and go along with a very incompetent leadership? If you feel that way then good for you but as for me, i will keep making noise because its my constitutional right and for Naija's sakes i will not be silent. That's my opinion. If you don't like it that's your own business. Closed mouths don't get fed - Anonymous 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 5:41am On Oct 16, 2016 |
blackpanda:If the AG refuses to fight corruption then we recall him like they do with public officials in Europe and in the U.S where a governor can be recalled for incompetence, corruption et al. A recall election (also called a recall referendum or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended. Recalls, which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition, have a history dating back to the ancient Athenian democracy[1] and are a feature of several contemporary constitutions.In indirect or representative democracy people's representatives are elected and these representatives rule for a specific period of time. But if any representative is not properly discharging his/her responsibilities, then he/she can be called back with the written request of specific number of voters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_election Recall election: method of election in which voters can oust an elected official before his official term has ended. https://www.britannica.com/topic/recall-election 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Divine Momoh Shows Her Swimming Skills To Buratai, Dalung, Others (Pics) by davidif: 10:45pm On Oct 15, 2016 |
WHAT  is this what they call swimming pool? 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 10:44pm On Oct 15, 2016 |
BishopMagic:There you go again with the finger pointing. When has that ever solved anything? 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 10:43pm On Oct 15, 2016 |
blackpanda:That's where the problem lies. The system is completely rigged against common folks running for the highest office in the land. The system is not transparent and fair at all. Also, i asked for suggestions not insults. Please if you don't have any ideas then keep your opinions to yourself sir and have a good day. 1 Like |
| Travel › Re: My Racism Experience During A Vacation In Russia by davidif: 10:39pm On Oct 15, 2016 |
beautyerhu86:I was born in Moscow in 1961. My dad was a Cuban revolutionary who came to Moscow to study philosophy. He fought with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba; when I turned one, he went to fight with Che in Bolivia. I only saw him once. My mum, my brother and I lived in a very small communal flat in Moscow. When I was five, my mum got very ill. She was taken to hospital, and me and my brother were sent to a children’s home. We spent three years there. When I started school my mum took us back. My childhood was not easy, but I have always been proud of being black. Growing up I got a lot of attention, and a lot of it was not good. Russia is quite a chauvinistic country. They don’t like black people here. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/black-in-the-ussr-whats-life-like-for-a-russian-of-colour |
| Travel › Re: My Racism Experience During A Vacation In Russia by davidif: 10:31pm On Oct 15, 2016 |
| Travel › Re: My Racism Experience During A Vacation In Russia by davidif: 10:19pm On Oct 15, 2016 |
beautyerhu86:As a matter of fact i did ma'am and in your comments you stated that you went to Moscow and i had to point it out to you that Moscow is a different place from St. Petersburg a city that is known for a high number of neo-nazis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/08/russia-race http://www.independent.co.uk/news/russias-racist-skinheads-terrorise-foreigners-1160477.html http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/why-russia-is-growing-more-xenophobic/280766/ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370083/racism-runs-deep-russia-cody-boutilier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqQZEPUisaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suXp9wEf53Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLUxuq-E9yA |
| Business › Re: Nigerian Inflation Rises To 17.9 Percent In September – NBS by davidif: 7:32am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Na wa o. Even with high interest rates? O ga o. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 7:29am On Oct 15, 2016 |
abokibuhari:Please this is not the thread for tribalism or fingerpointing but for constructive ideas 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 7:28am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Please this is not the thread for tribalism or fingerpointing but for constructive ideas. 1 Like |
| Agriculture › Re: A Bad Day With Fulani Herdsmen(Pics) by davidif: 6:08am On Oct 15, 2016 |
daveP:WOW! Stunning revelation. |
| Politics › Re: Aisha Buhari's Interview With BBC Hausa (Full Text) by davidif: 6:01am On Oct 15, 2016 |
gaetano:This is how Nigeria ended up this way. |
| Politics › Re: License Illegal Refineries - Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma Tells FG by davidif: 5:04am On Oct 15, 2016 |
When you go to Texas you would see people's personal oil rigs in there backyard like this. I can't begin to imagine the govt trying shut down this rigs or take control of them, you go see yawa. Meanwhile in Naija does the federal govt want to own people's property and we wonder why things don't work in this country. 1 Like
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 4:44am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Blue3k:haha, abeg please don't use my posts for finger pointing and tribalism o. I am posting this for awareness. I was so shocked to see the news because our Nigerian media doesn't seem to have covered the news. |
| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:59am On Oct 15, 2016 |
In many cases across Borno, mothers are eating so little that they are unable to breast-feed — a major cause of child malnutrition. At a UNICEF clinic in Gwoza, one doctor reported seeing as many as 70 malnourished children a day. “We need more food, oxygen, a blood bank, IVs, an ultrasound,” said Ernest Okoli, a doctor, standing outside his clinic in a former courthouse, where patients were being treated on the floor. “Should I go on? Many of the hungry are hidden away in war-ravaged neighborhoods and haven’t been included in any rough population count. The United Nations estimates that there are about 36,000 displaced people in Gwoza. But the top military commander there put the figure at 80,000. More are coming every day. When they arrive here, escapees tell of villages under Boko Haram control, some of them taken recently. “They destroyed everything,” said Alima Auza, 30, who escaped as her village of Bura Manga was attacked by insurgents last month. The Nigerian military has formulated its own strategy to end the war: starve the enemy. It is now blocking all food, including from regional markets, from entering parts of Borno where Boko Haram might be lurking. That has contributed to the possibility that hundreds of thousands of civilians held or isolated by insurgents could starve alongside fighters. “We know when we get there, we are going to see some scenes that will disturb us greatly,” Taylor said.
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:59am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Barely surviving The city of Gwoza, the former headquarters of Boko Haram, is still scarred by the years insurgents ran it. Hundreds of buildings are charred, missing roofs, crumbling from rocket-inflicted damage. Now, the city is controlled by Nigerian forces. Days after they seized the town in March 2015, Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, visited from the capital with a group of journalists, telling residents, “Everything you have gone through is very bad, but this is the end.” But more than a year later, many of those living here are barely surviving. Ramatu Musa, 22, and her extended family live in a bombed-out house near the center of the city. They fled from nearby Hambada village over a year ago, after Boko Haram fighters overran it. They have enough food to eat only one meal a day, and Musa has struggled to feed her baby daughter. “The breast isn’t bringing milk,” she said.
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:58am On Oct 15, 2016 |
“Every time I think I know how bad it is, we get more data and it’s worse,” said Arjan de Wagt, the head of nutrition at UNICEF in Nigeria. In parts of Maiduguri, the relatively safe capital of Borno, where more than a million people fled and where aid groups have been working for two years, many are still dying of malnutrition. There is not enough food being distributed in enough places to sustain them. The mortality rate in some camps and informal settlements is five times what is considered an emergency, according to Doctors Without Borders. “Each time we hear of these [gaps in aid] we try and verify and, if we can, begin a distribution,” said Mutinta Chimuka, the head of field operations for the World Food Program in northeastern Nigeria. The government still does not publicly acknowledge how dangerous the state remains. Last month, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a speech that residents in Borno and neighboring Yobe and Adamawa states lived in relative safety. “Commuters can travel between cities, towns and villages without fear,” he said. But in July, a U.N. convoy was attacked by Boko Haram gunmen outside the city of Bama, which is east of Maiduguri. The vehicles were armored and no one was injured. In August, the United Nations sent two helicopters to Maiduguri, to fly humanitarian workers to reclaimed cities across Borno. Late last month, a Washington Post reporter and photographer traveled with aid workers to three newly accessible cities across the state. But a huge portion of the state is still off-limits, too dangerous for the helicopters to land. “You look out the window and you wonder: How bad are things down there? We just don’t know,” said Carmen Yip, an emergency health coordinator with the International Rescue Committee.
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:57am On Oct 15, 2016 |
A Nigerian Defense Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, defended the performance, saying that security was the first priority of the armed forces. “We had to get that right before we started providing for these people. Nobody predicted this kind of situation would exist,” he said. But aid workers acknowledge that they only belatedly realized that the crisis had outstripped the government’s ability to respond. “Progress was far too slow in jointly recognizing the enormity of the situation,” said Simon Taylor, the deputy head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Nigeria. “Initially there was a sense that it could be handled by the state authorities,” said another U.N. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for diplomatic reasons. “It was only in April when we realized the magnitude, and the fact the government couldn’t handle this alone.” When aid groups did start to get access to some cities in Borno this past summer, they were shocked by what they found. People were eating grass and locusts. The rates of severe acute malnutrition — a life-threatening lack of food — were among the highest in the world. About half of all children were malnourished. In August, two children were found paralyzed by polio after eradication campaigns were cut back because of insecurity. They were the first recorded polio cases in Africa in almost two years. Yet even now, after the crisis has been acknowledged, many people in “accessible” areas where food aid is meant to be arriving are going hungry. In some cases, humanitarian groups say they are still trying to determine where the needs are.
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:56am On Oct 15, 2016 |
‘Progress was far too slow’ In 2014, after years of guerrilla attacks, Boko Haram fighters swept across Borno, forcibly recruiting young men to fight and detaining young women in what effectively became rape camps. The insurgents killed thousands of civilians. The rebels became notorious worldwide in 2014 for kidnapping nearly 300 schoolgirls, an atrocity that prompted the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign. Less well-known was the insurgents’ destruction of the agricultural output of Borno, a Belgium-size state that was once a breadbasket for the region. The Nigerian military, working with the armies of neighboring countries, launched an offensive in 2015 that reclaimed major cities across Borno. But Boko Haram fighters still moved freely throughout much of the vast countryside. Often, humanitarian workers say, it was too dangerous to send food to those areas, and it wasn’t even possible to learn the level of need in isolated cities. Only the military moved around much of the state. Even as malnutrition rates soared, army commanders in this oil-rich country were reluctant to call for international assistance. They finally did so in June. Now aid trucks can move along some roads.
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:54am On Oct 15, 2016 |
One of them, Fana Ali, was 6 months old but weighed only 12 pounds, her skeletal frame convulsing with each breath. She wore a tiny, bright yellow dress and she had big brown eyes. A doctor fed her sugar water through a syringe. She locked her lips around it. Less than an hour after she arrived at the clinic, health workers decided Fana needed to be evacuated to a hospital with electricity and more medicine. Xavier Henry, the local coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, called the Cameroonian military for an escort. This is still a war zone, and access to roads is largely dictated by the armed forces in the region. But the request was rejected without explanation. Thirty minutes later, Fana died. She had malaria and severe acute malnutrition. The baby’s aunt carried the body back to their two-room home. Fana’s mother, Adama Adam, wept, the tears streaking onto the blue headscarf wrapped under her chin. She was only 15, her skinny arms mostly hidden under flowing clothes. “We never have enough food,” said Jeme Bukar, Adam’s cousin, who lives in the same house. Male relatives washed Fana’s tiny body and placed it in a wheelbarrow. Then they picked up shovels and axes, walking toward the packed cemetery just outside the town. “I tried to call for the escort,” said Henry, shaking his head, his voice cracking. His last posting was in Yemen, where yet another hunger crisis was unfolding. But the desperation and the scale of the problem in Nigeria have leveled him. “I’ve never seen anything this bad,” he said.
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| Politics › Re: Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:53am On Oct 15, 2016 |
cont.d “It’s just a complete failure of the system,” said Natalie Roberts, an emergency program manager with Doctors Without Borders, an international aid group. It took over a year for U.N. humanitarian teams to arrive in cities that were “liberated” from the rebels by the Nigerian military in a major offensive starting in early 2015. Until recently, the United Nations had only tiny staffs working in the northeast. The world body had deferred to Nigeria’s woefully unprepared government agencies to provide assistance, not realizing, U.N. officials said, the scale of the disaster. Even now, the United Nations admits it is distributing food to only a fraction of those who need it. It says its mission in Borno state, the focus of the crisis, is dramatically underfunded. UNICEF warned recently that as many as 75,000 children will die in faminelike conditions in Borno and two adjacent states over the next year unless more assistance arrives. The rising toll of the crisis is evident in such places as Banki, a city of about 15,000 near the Cameroonian border that was controlled by Boko Haram until a year ago. On a recent morning, four malnourished children writhed in beds in a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders. |
| Politics › Famine In Nigeria! by davidif(op): 2:51am On Oct 15, 2016*. Modified: 9:54am On Oct 18, 2016 |
This caught me off guard, I didn't see it coming. According to the Washington Post, Nigeria is on the verge of serious famine. [size=18pt] ‘A famine unlike any we have ever seen’[/size] As Nigeria battles Islamist terrorists, millions are at risk of starvation BANKI, Nigeria — They survived Boko Haram. Now many of them are on the brink of starvation. Across the northeastern corner of this country, more than 3 million people displaced and isolated by the militants are facing one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters. Every day, more children are dying because there isn’t enough food. Curable illnesses are killing others. Even polio has returned. About a million and a half of the victims have fled the Islamist extremists and are living in makeshift camps, bombed-out buildings and host communities, receiving minimal supplies from international organizations. An additional 2 million people, according to the United Nations, are still inaccessible because of the Boko Haram fighters, who control their villages or patrol the surrounding areas. “We will see, I think, a famine unlike any we have ever seen anywhere,” unless immediate assistance is provided, said Toby Lanzer, the top U.N. official focused on humanitarian aid for the region. The staggering hunger crisis created by the insurgents has been largely hidden from view, partly because it has been extremely dangerous for aid groups and journalists to visit the area. But institutional failures have exacerbated the situation: For over a year, the United Nations and humanitarian groups dramatically underestimated the size of the disaster, and the Nigerian government refused to acknowledge the huge number of people going hungry in Africa’s second-richest nation. Thousands of people have already died because of the inaction, aid experts say. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2016/10/13/they-survived-boko-haram-now-millions-in-nigeria-face-a-new-threat-starvation/ |
| Politics › Re: DSS Arrests Emeh James Anyalekwa, Igbere TV Blogger; Site Shutdown by davidif: 2:49am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Blessynokoro:What?? I thought it was already one. |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 2:05am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Another suggestion would be to allow the public to vote for the Attorney General of the nation and also for each state. This way, we won't only be having someone loyal to the President but an independent and publicly elected official who would be able to attack corruption as he sees fit instead of only going after the President's enemies. The same should be done for the position of Police commissioner for every state; let the people decide who gets to be there top law enforcement officer of there state. 1 Like |
| Family › Re: Nairaland Parents , Do You Agree With This ? by davidif: 1:58am On Oct 15, 2016 |
hahaha, some one who doesn't have kids yet telling people who have kids telling people how to raise kids? By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 1:49am On Oct 15, 2016*. Modified: 2:08am On Oct 15, 2016 |
Another suggestion would be to require the candidates (at most 4) to have a nationally televised debate where they face off and present there ideas to the populace so that the people can select who they feel have the best ideas to lead the nation. |
| Politics › Re: Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 1:46am On Oct 15, 2016*. Modified: 6:37am On Oct 18, 2016 |
My first suggestion would be to change the primary process in each party from a closed primary to an open primary. The primaries should be open to the public like it is in the U.S so that the people get to vote on who gets to represent there party in the national elections. This should also be applied to gubernatorial senate races, house races and other state and local races. This way we get to have a more transparent process. For example, earlier this year, you had around 17 candidates running for the Republican nomination and after several months in which different states went to the ballots, one of the candidates emerged the winner and won the right to represent his party as the sole nominee in the general elections. lalasticlala 2 Likes |
| Politics › Why did Nigerians have to chose between Buhari and Jonathan? by davidif(op): 1:35am On Oct 15, 2016*. Modified: 7:40am On Oct 16, 2016 |
Why is it that in a country of over 150 million people, Nigeria only had to chose between two very poor candidates in the last election cycle? You mean that with all the smart people in the country all we were left with was a corrupt President and a former millitary dictator? Na wa o. So herein lies my question; how do we improve how election process so that the people have better choices (the best and the brightest) next time. Abeg, i am tired of having to chose between poor candidates during each election, the Nigerian people deserve better. Nairalanders what do you feel? am i right or wrong? Please feel free to drop a comment below if you have any idea of how to improve how election process. lalasticalala 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Travel › Re: My Racism Experience During A Vacation In Russia by davidif: 5:02pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
beautyerhu86:As you can see, she is clearly not talking about Moscow but St. Petersburg. Also, because you have never harassed or attacked in Russia does not mean it doesn't happen. 1 Like |
| Travel › Re: My Racism Experience During A Vacation In Russia by davidif: 4:58pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
dapsonlou:Dating Russian girls is different from actually living in Russia. If you think I am lying go and live in St. Petersburg or Moscow and see what happens. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Fayose's Stomach Infrastructure Hits The Streets (photos) by davidif: 9:14am On Oct 14, 2016 |
patriotic9jaboy:They say give a man fish and he would come back and ask for more but teach him how to fish and he would never beg again. 2 Likes |
i cant imagine governor Ambode going about with bread and 5kg rice to win the heart of lagosians. Ekiti people brought this on themselves1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 (of 287 pages)