₦airaland Forum

BondRiv:
Why do people accept godfatherism to get into office? I couldn't care less about godfatherism. I hate treachery.

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There is something deeply wrong with the mindset of people like you who believe that loyalty is owed to a former governor who steals billions from you and then uses it to hold permanent control of your commonwealth for his private gain. In saying you hate treachery, you really mean that the governor must submit to Wike, which simply means handover control of the treasury to him so that he can keep stealing from you. What kind of slavery and Stockholm Syndrome is this?

BondRiv:
This is politics. You can honour agreements without violating the constitution. It is not an excuse to not honour agreements.

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What agreement? Can you tell us what the agreement was?
You know it is an agreement to hand over the treasury to Wike as well as all authority in the State. Is that not illegal?

Racoon:
Imagine India a third world country like Nigeria springing up from nowhere in the 2000s to be among the 5th reckoning economies in 2025.

Meanwhile Nigeria with much resources( human, economic and natural) than India is still trailing behind abysmally in every good indices of assessment even on the African continent.

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How does Nigeria have more human, economic and natural resources than India?

Nigeria only bests India in Oil & Gas. Nothing else.

BodyCount:
Some of una just daft I swear.
It's not about any number, it's about standing your ground as a sovereign country.

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Thank you.

omoredia:
U that is an Arab slave nko? U no even choose better master

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I am not Muslim.

omoredia:
Keep joking. Who needs who more? U people dont reason. Can u do tit for tat for one who is bigger than all of Africa combined?

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Men, Africans and slave mentality sha.

Fearlez:
were talking practicality with substance not social media fad and buzz which you're deeply invested in for the sake of feeling alive after the real world has shocked you with your fake airs of "gonna" and "wanna"

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Ol boy or ol girl (I dont know your sex) . . . face the points or just forget it. Its a New Year, and I am frankly tired. Rest abeg.

Fearlez:
it is very hard to explain the difference between foolhardiness and bravery and grandstanding to a fool.

People who are wont to respond for response sake are often the ones with chronic low self esteem and inferiority complex.

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If you are not gonna get serious and address why it's wrong for Mali and Burkina to ban US Citizens when theirs have been banned from the US, let's just forget this discussion. Takia.

Fearlez:
in asking you what is the correlation of firearms cause of death in America between children and the topic on this thread?

And you're proving my suspicion that outside the pages of Nairaland, nothing exists out there for you.

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Please calm down and lets reason. What is the topic of this thread. Lets start from there.
Thank you and I wish you a happy new year bro/ sis.

Fearlez:
I didn't read beyond the first line of your weak attempt at trying to redefine your life on the pages of Nairaland.


The difference between foolhardiness and bravery is well-defined in your comments here

Digital courage, actual coward.

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Well tit for tat diplomacy - I didnt read beyond your first few words either.

When you are ready for a serious discussion, I remain here.

jmoore:
You mentioned Logic.

A poor man could have analyzed if he will gain or lose from banning Americans.

You are talking about France. Is it French people or French military? Seems you don't know the difference between the two.

USA don't care if you ban their citizens for 1 million years.

Logic is determing who loses more.

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Please tell me what your reaction would have been.

Hahahaha

This Lamidi Apapa format again.

UrVillageChief:
Mumu[/b]ni, can you point out where I explicitly stated European Christians were the indigenous owners of anywhere? No, the white Europeans aren’t native to the holy land (Jerusalem) and never claimed to be but it was never indigenous to the Muslim Arabs either. The land indigenously belonged/belongs to Jews and Palestinians (pls don’t confuse them for today’s Arabized Palestinians) I was only schooling you on what led to the crusade and what the term truly means. Go and up your knowledge before trying to argue about things that are above you.
If there were no [b]PRIOR Muslim invasion of those lands(they were never Arab land), then the word “crusade” wouldn’t exist just the same way there would be no Biafra/Civil war if there was no 1966 unnecessary bloodshed led by the Ibos.

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You implied it.

jmoore:
So a poor man is stopping people that could have brought in money in tourism and investment?

Chai!!

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Bros let's discuss this thing with logic.

Those who want to bring in the so called money and tourism have banned the poor man from coming to their country.

What should the poor man's reaction be?

Mind you, France has been desperate forever to remain in those countries and has NEVER brought the so called money and tourism there. Rather they enslaved their economies with ridiculous extraction agreements and policies.

So what on Earth are you saying?

That the US should say, I ban you from coming to my country, and that they should smile and say, ah we welcome you to ours?

Are you joking?

LtChisom:
They don't have value but france is rolling on the floor to have them in their cloaks, some times you people should use some parts of your brain please.

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Thank you!!!!!!

France is so desperate to keep controlling them and yet they have no value?

Africans, I don't know who formatted your brains.

jmoore:
Rich man? So who is the poor man in this scenario?
See how you are even pouring ash all over your body with this analogy.

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The rich man is the US.
The poor man is Mali/ Burkina Faso.

Understood now?

jmoore:
When you insult without nothing meaningful to contribute, that's the real slavery.

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Oga is it meaningful to say that a rich man can shut his door to you but you dare not shut yours to him?

By the way, you seem to only see my responses and not the insults of those you agree with in joint slavery.

And if you can point out my insults, I would be much obliged.

Salewa97:
CAN should also remind Nigerians to be more productive and stop relying on government for everything.

Government this, government that. What have the citizens been doing?

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What a shameless comment.

DrAda, Cough, cough.

jmoore:
Hush!! Exploit which resources? Without the white people coming first, why didn't you drill the crude oil first?
It has to take a white man to get crude oil from your land.

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It's sad the way you reason.
Let's agree for the sake of debate that it takes "the white man" to get resources from African lands.

Does that mean that such a white man should ban you from his country and you can't ban him from yours?

What level of slave do you want to become?

Fearlez:
convenient and intellectual cowardice. But you were never there

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Cowardice is being unable to respond when bullied. No proper principled nation should accept being treated nonsensically without an equal response. That's real cowardice. And according to you, since the US is rich and powerful, and Mali and BF are poor, then they should not react to diplomatic insults by the US.

Who the F is the coward here.

Get rid of your inferiority complex before speaking about intellectual cowardice and while at it learn how to write.

Image123:
Blessed are the poor.... i dey broke in spirit. i am asking Seun on your behalf.

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Stop lying.

Fearlez:
I know one African with a lopsided worldviews and unbalanced sense of identity was going to quote with with a behemothic ignorance.

And finally...here it comes

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Go study how to write first.

Hoodrat:
You are spot on brother. It has become evident that population size alone does not translate into strength, courage, or resistance to oppression. Scripture itself warns against pride in numbers when there is no fear of God, for deliverance and national restoration are achieved by a faithful few, not by multitudes. History consistently shows that God saves nations through principled resolve rather than sheer demographic weight.

Nigeria exemplifies this reality. Despite its population of over 280 million, the state has demonstrated institutional weakness by aligning with oppressive economic structures and Western financial interests. The mismanagement of national resources in favor of external institutions such as the IMF and World Bank has contributed directly to widespread hardship, food insecurity, and severe currency devaluation.

This observation is not offered as a partisan attack on government, but as a sober assessment of a nation that has subordinated the welfare of its people to external economic control, thereby exposing the limits of numerical strength absent moral clarity and sovereignty.

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Ol boy what do you drink. I need to buy you a carton. Well said!

Image123:
Okay, thanks for the wishes. Remains money. Givers never lack. You see as Elon start dey give people money for X, he no poorer. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Are you still broke after spending so much energy licking the behind of the frog in the rock?

Seun:
I would like to wish every member of this forum a happy and prosperous New Year.
2025 was a challenging year, but we pulled through. Thank you for making Nairaland your online home.

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Seun remember your longtime members. Our complaints are simple. Cool down the censorship. That's one. Two, add dislike buttons. Three, add a Philosophy Section.

RollinTNDA:
wetin you wan go do for Burkina Faso?
You wan go Smuggle mkpurumiri?

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This is ignorant.

Rossychy:
Hahaha
Imagine!
They reason this decision well? No be to rush place ban be the matter oh.

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They are more principled than you.

frank417:
Like sey if US decides to roll out all bans and sanctions their economy will withstand it.

No be everything be tit for tat.

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Nor worry, anytime a rich man slaps you, turn the other cheek since he is rich.

fieldbus:
With all Nigeria problems,I think I still like the fact that we are still a bit civil when it comes to international relations.What is the value of Mali,Nigeria and Bukina Faso to the US,Come to think of it,are their citizens not part of the problems Nigeria is grapping with when it comes to Insugency and Homelessness. I met one of them the other day a security man that says he is from Bukina Faso and another from Mali and that they are massive number of them but that all of them are claiming to come from Kano.Things like this are what the late sage Chuba Okadigbo called the "ranting of an Ant"

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We are cowards and lack principle.

oluwaseyi0:
Usa has less to loose

It's like African league baning transfer of Europe players to Africa because Europe bans transfers of African players

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So what.

If your wealthier brother bans your children from his house, is it not okay for you to ban his children from your house even if your house is a face me I slap you and even if he lives in Buckingham Palace?

Flangelo12:
E pain am.

You allowed entry into Burkina Faso and Mali without the need of a visa.

Why the bad belle?



Not like you wouldn't need a visa to visit US.

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Thank you.

Hoodrat:
The Alliance of Sahel States Sees Western involvement as “neo‑colonial interference”
The AES leadership publicly accuses Western governments of:
Exploiting resources, Undermining sovereignty, Supporting corrupt elites, Failing to stop terrorism

This narrative is highlighted in the analysis of AES “defiance” and sovereignty struggles which are all valid and clear as the day to the world. So they have the right to recompense the oppressors aura for aura .

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GBAM!