givedemwotowoto: They keep trying to paint a picture that Tinubu’s officials are shielding him from the realities. Like, didn’t he know about the Benue massacre and keep quiet until VDM covered it, and even the pope condemned it from thousands of kilometers away?
If not for the Pope, he would not have gone there at all. That shows you the power of a Pope.
The elephant in the room is the massive subsidy on power, and the underpaying of discos by a large percentage of nigerians. As well as the fact that at least 30% of nigerians do not pay for power, and less than 20% of nigerians actually pay above market price.
No matter how many times you change discos and gencos, the problem will still remain.
And anytime discos cut power, nigerians use violent means to intimidate them to restore power,or bribery, and the power theft and underpaying continues.
And we expect a sector that made less than 360 million pounds sterling equivalent last year to be like the UK power sector that made about 1 billion pounds annually in the last 4 years.?
Nigerians self. Even Aso rock is running away from the grid...as are many Nigerians, meaning customers are also reducing..
And we expect 24 hour light. Okay....call me when you wake up from the dream that you travelled to London after buying airplane ticket for N1000 only.
You are aware that the tariffs have been increased five fold in the last two years and you still say this. Only heaven can cure you.
BafanaBafana: I don't trust people with his kind of ears. They are mostly con men. I won't support him.
The ears dont say anything. To know a con man you have to look at his shoes. If they are long and pointy at the tip, thats definitely a con man. Examples below. Thank me later.
WizardOfNG: You claim I am to Tinubu what Daniel Kanu was to Abacha.. I.e a propagandist for the Government in power.
Since this topic is about the claim of genocide against Christians, that Tinubu has correctly denied, it appears you are saying the right wing extremists, messing up America currently and alienating the USA from the rest of the world, are right with their claim of "Christian genocide in Nigeria".
Meaning Tinubu and Nigerians like me are wrong saying this is a crude joke carried too far by the USA that does not understand it cannot diagnose a headache for Nigeria that Nigerians are not feeling.
Moslems are factually the biggest victims and fatalities of Boko Haram and bandits violence in Nigeria. Our problem remains greed for control of the centre Northern leaders are willing to sacrifice millions of their people for.
These are human beings of flesh and blood they have never elevated, educated optimally or empowered yet consider dispensable in their quest to always control the presidency directly (1) with a Fulani as President or (2) with a weak and controllable Southern stooge in power like GEJ.
Our biggest problem in Nigeria today, proven beyond any shadow of doubt, is related to (1) Fulani expansionist and murderous land grab agenda in States and regions of others and (2) the desperation of Fulanis to control the purse and "juiciest" parastatals of the Nigerian federal government. It is as simple as that.
The USA, under Trump and his band of white supremacists and Christian bigots, just wants to use lies and propaganda to make Nigeria collateral damage in their attempt to precipitate the rebirth of America as a Christian Nation with white privilege that will be viewed as justified and acceptable .
They need to use Nigeria as a scaremongering tool to frighten and manipulate Americans, with a majority clueless about events outside the USA, to accept all the human rights abuses they are perpetrating in the name of deporting and repelling the "Jihadists who want to forcefully Islamize America".
Stop wasting your energy. I dont buy the American nonsense. I simply gave you and others a stray bullet at the mention of Daniel Kanu because thats who you guys remind me of.
WizardOfNG: Why do you always ignore established facts and proven realities? Please, who are the biggest victims of Boko Haram and bandits?
Boko Haram just made over 5,000 people, from a town in Borno, flee into Cameroon. With the population of Moslems in Borno being 70 to 80%, we are to believe the majority of over 5000 Borno residents who fled to Cameroon, in fear of execution by Boko Haram, are Christians?
You need to start thinking like a rational and objectively intelligent adult.
Kukutente23: Ehen What's the big deal Even his Oga claimed to have graduated from University of Chicago while he never even entered the school gates He even claimed to be a student of Government College Ibadan when no student of the school is able to identify him as a former classmate This one is just learning work ni jare Agbadeaurians should come and defend him with Obi's third class degree Oh sorry. He's eboe
Was there not also a school he attended before it was founded?
tctrills: Oga why are you acting like a child. Please state your point clearly you are all over the place. And I can see that you are inspired by the timeless words of your girlfriend.
You are just trying to avoid.
I have made my point crystal clear: there was no basis for Charlie to call the Civil Rights Act a mistake. That one I have proven beyond every doubt and I will not revisit.
I said let's now move on to affirmative action, because you seem to think it is racist.
And in moving on to it, I want to use BEEE in South Africa as an analogy and example. I asked if you know of it and what you think of it.
And oh, I would be honored to have a super enlightened, intelligent, well-written woman like cococandy as my girlfriend. Alas, she is married, if I am not mistaken, and lives oceans apart, so no dice, no chance, what a pity.
There is the suggestion that she is either involved in his demise or is aware of deeper forces behind it and in a pact of silence with them for bigger political and commercial ends.
Still pretty much fringe conspiracy theories though and may not be more than that at the end.
Nonetheless her demeanor is truly remarkable and raises eyebrows.
No one who is bereaved in that way (by having their loved one suffer murder by gunshot in the prime of youth) could be anything but utterly miserable in the aftermath. By contrast, she seems to show at best, indifference, and at worst, outright cheerfulness.
Image123: mr integral integration. Even the top 5 popular pastors in Nigeria cannot in good conscience say that there is a genocide of christians in Nigeria. Rest.
Where did I say there is, or where did I indicate that I agree there is?
favor914: Yet na Arthur Nzeribe & his ABN that was used in annulling the election, just like u claimed Daniel Kanu was used by Sani Abacha, ironically they are both your tribesmen, so people like yourself have no right to judge others of what u are guilty of.
When will you kids stop this nonsense on this forum? Why do you go about calling anyone who criticizes this govt Igbo? Does it make sense to you to imagine that in a nation of some 300 ethnic groups only one tribe criticizes this govt? What exactly is wrong with you?
I am not Igbo by the way, but that is scarcely the issue. You people even make it sound as though there is some blood stain in being Igbo. There isnt, just as there isnt for any race or tribe in the world.
Zico5: The type like Reno Omokri are the one that will never allow this country to prosper. They are ready to defend any government so far it better their lives. I remember Abacha era, despite how dangerous the man is, some undesirable elements supported him. This Reno is becoming dangerous day by day. He will receive his rewards very soon
Like Daniel Kanu of then, so we have WizardofNG, Image123, helinues, and Seunmsg of today.
You must be joking. You have not even started. I hope you have been educated on exactly what the Civil Rights Act provided. You will then have to defend how the ACT was a mistake when it contained express provisions AGAINST race quotas as I showed you.
You have lost the debate on this score, I will not tie myself up in a useless back and forth.
Let us move on to affirmative action proper.
I asked you what you think of BEEE in SA and you are yet to answer. Let us start from there.
PS: Did Cococandy's word really fly over you? Its such an apt description of you, you know.
tctrills: Your comprehension is a big problem. From the beginning all I said was that the civil rights movement went to far, it led to Affirmative action. Are you saying I am wrong or are you just confused. As for calling me a racist, I take it as a joke. That's your go to word for anyone who is not on your side. You will grow pass that. I believe it's just a phase.
I see that you are too lazy to research Charlie Kirk's statements. So let me help you with a link. A fact checking site. And I completely agree with Charlie the great.
Now you understand what Charlie said, you are welcome.
STOP LYING.
Here is what you said - - - >
tctrills: Now to your question, in Charlies own words, the Civil Rights movement went too far. Is he right to say it went too far? We could argue that. I think he was right though.
So what does the bold mean? How did the CRA "go too far" when it contained express provisions against race quotas?
Mind you, Charlie said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.
In the link above, go straight to number 8. We don't talk too much. We just give you facts
You are the one having problems with honesty. Rather than admit both you and the racist you are defending goofed, you are trying to revise what you said. You said that the Civil Rights Act went too far. Charlie said worse: he said it was a mistake. And I have shown you that the CRA did no such thing as introduce affirmative action. It squarely did not.
Saying that "it led to" affirmative action is an altogether different thing from what both you and Charlie said already. And to the extent that it even contained provisions AGAINST racial quotas NOBODY can blame the Act for Affirmative Action! Period!
I will not waste further time on this - you have just lied and you should be ashamed of having to lie. Integrity and intellectual honesty count.
Now, address the question I raised about BEEE in SA.
tctrills: Read what I wrote and the links I sent and you will understand. But if you still lack understanding, let me know where you come short. The civil rights did not stop at giving equal rights to all it ended up giving some more than others. You comprehend?
It is you who needs to research properly, and perhaps Mr. Kirk should have as well. That would not have saved him from his racism though. Here goes:
As I said, the Civil Rights Act did not legislate Affirmative Action.
Title VII & Title VI prohibit employment discrimination and discrimination in federally funded programs - thus the Civil Rights Act is an anti-discrimination law. It states that employment decisions should not be made "because of an individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."
This is exactly what it set out to do because of the overwhelming existing discrimination against Black people. I hope you understand that we are talking about a movement and a law that saved blacks from segregation, much systemic discrimination including housing discrimination and accompanied with the Voting Rights Act empowered blacks to vote by removing many of the systemic impediments blocking blacks from voting.
Note that: Title VII includes a specific section (Section 703(j)) which states that employers are not required to grant preferential treatment to any individual or group due to an imbalance in the number or percentage of protected groups in their workforce. This language was intended to prevent the act from being interpreted as a mandate for racial quotas.
Thus it is very very wrong to claim that the Civil Rights Act was problematic or "went too far" with respect to affirmative action.
Affirmative Action actually arose thereafter though executive orders and judicial pronouncements in the context of the succeeding period and the zeitgeist of the time which was directed towards restoring as much equality as possible.
Now let us be clear here - you have failed to show any problem with the Civil Rights Act and as such both you and Kirk are wrong here and he remains racist for his abominable statements about it.
And when it comes to affirmative action, we will address that separately. Because it appears you dont understand the fundamental underpinnings of its philosophy. First, let me ask if you know of Black Economic Empowerment and Emancipation (BEEE) as implemented in South Africa. What do you think of it as an example of affirmative action and is it racist?
ClassicEvilSpir: I'm not taking about historical disadvantages rendered on blacks in Africa, and the African Americans. I know this. what I'm talking about is the corruption going on in Nigeria. I have done my research, realised the amount being converted into personal use is more than enough fix the country, and this is me taking about the funds embezzled from the oil boom era.
Oh if it's that, my brother you are on point. It's so exasperating.
we shouldn't have to blame the whites for this too. besides, we are the original humans. we should know better, except there is something I do not know about.
Many people seem to think that merely recognizing the complicity of the West in Africa's problems means that one is tied to the past, one is lazy, one does not take responsibility and that one is not actively looking forward to self improve. This is not true. Two things can be true at once and we can hold more than one thought in our heads at once. My friend Tctrills is so far gone in his desperation to defend the West and all Caucasians that he even claimed neo colonialism does not exist. Such statements are so cringe worthy that one doesn't know where to start from in responding.
As for being the "original humans" that is a misconception. All humans on Earth today are descendants of the same "original humans" and the truth is that those who remained in Africa suffered significant geographic and climatic disadvantages which slowed civilization.
Does anyone listen to this fellow who said he had seen a vision that he would succeed Buhari? After failed visions like that, I wonder how these people still have the nerve to mount the pulpit.
Why are people so misguided. One week is way too short. Most of what you do will be swiftly undone thereafter or simply not proceed into reality. Therefore you should only use the time to swiftly do things that cannot be undone.
I will not wish to utter the words. But we all know the one thing that is permanent and irreversible and it should certainly visit certain principalities and powers in this country.