₦airaland Forum

Asito:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legit.ng/amp/1114003-pastor-adeboye-places-holy-curses-cultists-kidnappers-criminals.html

I just read it. Part of it says - “Send down Your fire upon every person or organisation that are making life difficult for the common people people of the nation. Father expose them and dislodge them,” Vanguard quoted him as saying.

Nothing here to suggest he rained curses on those who kidnapped his pastors.

stormborn28:
why did South Africa has to start it in the first place...

Even between husband and wife a fight can ensue. If they ask this question (who started it and why) 90% of all marriages would have hit the rocks!

We have to avoid stereotypes. A good number of South African will never be found on the street looting shops and hurting foreigners. If we spend our energy reacting to miscreants we would end up with nothing. Have you seen how some people in Lagos destroyed and looted shops belonging to Nigerians, all in the name of reprisal? The people who looted the phone shop owned by a lady from Delta, do they represent us?

Asito:
But rain curses on people who kidnapped your pastors

Is that true? Can you share the video?

The best advice so far.

Why start a war that may not end in a long time?

Why should the two largest economies fight against each other, knowing that may affect the entire continent?

If African countries start to chase each other out we would have gone backwards by a hundred years.

Maybe that is why notable world leaders are quiet about the matter. If Africans cannot coordinate themselves, the West could take advantage again and sell us arms.

Willy7:
I think this man is testing the waters. He is aware of the people's mind towards him concerning being a better Presidential hopeful. The pendulum may swing towards his direction, and I hope he takes advantage of this moment to endear himself to Nigerian. I see a great President in this guy. He has the carriage, aura and intelligence. I just wish we all can drop our tribal sentiments and political leanings to support this man to reposition this country. Though I'm neither PDP nor APC, neither am I from his tribe, but I prefer this Adeshina to the crop of politicians we have at the moment.

It might be a good idea indeed and he has proved to be competent.

However, does anyone still think that one man can make the difference in this clime? If you have a brilliant president working with a bad parliament, the president may not be able to do much.

What we need is an overhaul of how we do politics. We need strong systems and not just a few strong individuals.

Who will help us get lawyers to fight for compensation from a Parliament that robs the people?

Nigerian politicians should face the truth - Charity begins at home. 90% of the Nigerians in SA will not even come back to Nigeria because of the injustice and corruption going on here.

Charity begins at home. What are the reps doing to curb kidnapping, youth unemployment etc?

Make your home great and see how Nigerians abroad will troop back home to do their business here.

If South Africa offers 1000 free entry now, I wonder how many people will apply!

Okada and Marwa riders who wanted to take advantage..

You should have put your hand inside to touch it to really prove your point!

Sommydisaster:


Everyone's saying same old thang

No one's taking action towards what they preach.......

Like 2face said......... All man for himself

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They are playing to the gallery. They will be back there next month to earn rands! The crowd in SA embassy in Nigeria is more than 20 times those who go to our embassy there. Charity must begin at home.

FG is asking South African government to compensate the Nigerian businesses there. Good move.

Please, is FG going to compensate Nigerian businesses that are looted here and those who have not been able to open shops for more than 48hours now?

By the way, I still think the best way for Nigeria to balance things is to help our nationals to grow big businesses around Africa just as South Africa has helped the likes of MTN. The Chinese have big investments all over Africa now, including in South Africa because their government is backing them.

If we chase away MTN, they will lose and we will lose too. Tit for tat will drown the weaker party always!

yazga:
My friend is in Thailand on Vacation with his partner.

He is a young, successful person.... He called last night complaining endlessly how Thai officials kept dragging them up and down over NDLEA certificate.

Who has experienced such in Thailand recently?

We don't want to own this truth that many nations around the world have become hostile to any green passport!

Nigeria and South Africa alike don't seem to want to get to the root of the problem in South Africa? People are playing to the gallery right now.

The same way we shy from addressing the roots of our internal problems (BH, herdsmen, rustlers, miners, kidnappers, yahoo, ethic agitations etc).

I think if our countries STOP being extremely selfish and CORRUPT and face the issue of educating and empowering the vast majority of the youths, and indeed everyone, we would have solved the problems by more than half! But our terrible appetite for corruption, get-rich-quick and I-better-pass-my neighbour tendencies would not let us. We claim we have democracy but you cant even come near your rep in your area, soon after election is over!

When leaders think they do not owe the people any explanations for anything, they end up creating lack of trust, and end up with a total dis-connect to reality.

Let me shock you - Thais will treat their own nationals who have lived in Nigeria almost the same way they treated your friend. Same with Europeans and others. They think there is something here that corrupts anyone that comes in contact with it!

We have to learn from that old saying - Charity begins at home. If we have lack of love for our fellow citizens, dont expect neighbours to love you!

Thank you.

Again, I wonder why our government has failed to condemn the heinous crimes going on in the name of reprisal attacks.

Loads of Nigerians have lost assets. While our FG is asking SA to compensate victims, who is going to compensate the owners of the shops looted in Lagos and those who have are daily losing businesses because they cant open shops!

Why are the leaders so slow in making moves?

They always wait for individuals and for opposition to speak before they make any statement.

Obviously being built for some people other than nomads!

stagger:
Mr Man,

An American will not talk this garbage you are talking here. If an American citizen is found to hold stakes in companies that originated from countries against American foreign interests, do you think such an American will be spared?

Who are these Nigerians owning stakes in these companies? Could they not start their own Nigerian brands and models of these businesses? Who are these saboteurs who prefer to collect blood money from South Africans in the name of franchising and yet have their own being slaughtered like chickens?

Nigerians are angry and their anger is starting to have outlets. First it was Ekweremadu, and now this. We are all here and watching.

Shoprite is ONE tenant out of more than 60 tenants (or shopowners) in that building.

Shoprite is the only South African business in that entire building.

The building they attacked in Surulere is called AOS Mall (Adeniran Ogunsanya Mall) and it is owned by a Nigerian company 100%.

All the shops looted have nothing to do with Shoprite and with South Africa.

So, Nigerians are losing out in both places.

And we are quick to boast that we are very smart!

Onyeedum:
I saw it coming.
They have tried several ways to stop Africa and now this is the only way to stop Africa, to make them fight each other, Africans are coming for everything and they are scared, Africans coming number one in everything, the blindfold dn comot and now we can see, now the only way to distract Africans, is to create Wars, but Africa is the dream land, we will conquer and Africa will be a better place...

So, how on earth can a white man make two black brothers to fight each other? Are you suggesting that we are that super-dumb? If a stranger comes into your house and make the siblings to fight each other then you assume that the stranger is smart!

This is the real xenophobic attack against Nigerians.

The senators have declared a war against the commonwealth of the people.

1.2 million to buy newspapers in a month? Are they gold plated?

In a country where 98% of the people do not have up to N500,000 in their bank accounts!

This terribly sad.

So, now that they are on 2-month recess, each person will still earn 54million naira. How many Nigerian companies make that as profit in a year? Perhaps less than 1,000.

Commonwealth Parliamentarians!

Meeting in Tanzania.

At the same time British Parliamentarians are gathering to vote on BREXIT.

African rulers and joblessness.

Nigeria shall rise again!

tsdarkside:
who the hell is this guy....??

its already twice i heared that name in a week on nairaland....

efcc should investigate him too....

PM Boris Johnson lives next door! Our people like to call him to solve all kinds of problems, even domestic ones that relate to how rice and beans are shared!

Is this not mere time wasting by calling Boris Johnson to intervene?

It will amount to sacrilege in that country for the PM to give directives to courts. It does not happen!

The sponsor of this protest should at least think a bit. How does this solve the problem?

Well, I think lawyers have a 'market' in this matter. I am sure they are lining up to defend Nigeria and collect 0.5% commission. You know how much that is?

Our VP is a top class evidence lawyer. I wish he could be allowed to speak on this!

Dembele?

Offering human being as if you are hawking merchandise!

The world has been turned upside down truly!

They are trying hard to push the country into recession again.....

Leaders are working everyday to promote the growth of their people....ours are telling us to be happy with what we have!

Recessional rulers!

I am from the SW.

The man has spoken the truth.

I believe that SE should produce a very credible candidate that will be acceptable to all, not one of those already stained by official corruption. And then get a solid candidate from SW as vice.

That will re-write the political equation and may just be the answer to solving the political issue.

The last election with PMB and Atiku as the major candidates should be the last time ever that we are faced with such choices. Let them all go and rest now.

All na bobo!

VAR gifted a penalty to Chelsea wrongly because their second goal was most probably not a penalty. Even the Chelsea player would agree to that.

Abraham had a dramatic fall and got awarded a penalty that seemed fake. Strangely, the referee did not double check before awarding the kick.

Match entered into Penalty shootouts.

Chelsea decided that the same Abraham would take the last kick.

Abraham's kick was saved by the same keeper Abraham had thrived on!

Now Chelsea fans are saying that Adrian fouled.

Who saw it? The Chelsea players did not. Especially Abraham, if he had complained maybe VAR would have been sought. Instead, he placed his hands on his head and started lamenting.

Game over.

The moral is - Dont expect VAR too help you to win trophies. It will fail.

Please say that to the 'killer guys' spread around the south.

The leader of the country has to speak up, not only during Sallah but every time.

The body language has to constantly say it every time. That the leader cannot condone violence, at anytime or any where in Nigeria.

Southerners lack so much knowledge about the north and that is why the North always has political advantage.

Before all the noise about Fulanis, the average southerner thought that everyone from the north is Hausa. Now, they think all northerners are fulanis. In fact some think that all Fulanis are herdsmen and that if you are a herdman then you must be fulani.

Are these girls really fulani or kanuris? Only a proper northerner can tell. I am not one by the way.

FisifunKododada:
PDP is one of the worst things to ever happen to Nigeria

And should never happen again.

Same for APC.

Its called early warning.

They want him to know what may happen when he finishes his term.

So that he does not start to think of 'third term' after failing to proffer solutions to the country's problems after 8 years!

Sanwo means pay.

So, get ready to pay for sending Ambode out.

It is not about the laws but about the people.

Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.

We need national repentance. We need a moral revolution. Nigeria has too many wrongs. My problem is that leaders, past or present pretend that they can mend things without first accepting that we as a people need to make amends.

Our values are wrong, so wrong that we celebrate thieves. It is the same wrong values that will make soldiers to silence police officers, allegedly to free a suspect! It is the same wrong values that make public officers at clerical levels, demand bribes before they do their public duties.

Every where you turn you see rot.

Let no one pretend that a nation can muddle through with this kind of orientation. It will amount to mere delusion.

We are not ready yet. We make gains, but there a thieving leaders and civil lords (not servants) lurking in the corner to rubbish all the gains.

Repentance has to start today. It is not about north, south or west. Even that creates this terrible feeling of 'its our turn', turn to do what exactly?

Repentance now.

Moral revolution now.

Values re-orientation now.

I mean now.