₦airaland Forum

DenreleDave:
Una go just open mouth waaaaaaa


How did dey descend in this statement now?..

I made a mistake. Thought it was the Corporate Affairs Commission.

I apologize.

Didnt read through.

jmoore:
READ!

It is not Corporate Affair Commission.

Read the post from top till bottom.

Pele oh. My mistake.

Ofunaofu:
But they are statements of fact that Tinubu himself hasn't debunked, so why the threats with the DSS?

Don't mind him. He may think everyone can be intimidated.

Softmirror:
The DSS has step up and are acting very professionally now. Unless you wan buy market. Just make sure that you have evidence to defend yourself when picked up for your allegations.

Many social media platforms have been briefed about this important development and don't want to get into trouble.

Is this a threat?

I just used an example and already you feel you can threaten me. Lol.

Why would the CAC descend into religious controversies.

Softmirror:
I have been ban thrice today and I wasn't criticizing the government. The ban was legit though because I posted sensual pictures of the Ibom Air woman I discovered and NL quickly pulled it down.

Another was because I derailed from the Topic.

The third was because I was talking about Nnamdi Kanu.

By and large Nairaland has really improved tremendously. Yes it has succeeded in finding ways in taming toxic people, trolls of reducing the excessess of people with negative content.

Idont think so.

Most comments against govt get banned.

Example:

The President is a looter, a criminal, a mafia player, a drug lord, a certificate forger, a dictator.

I will be banned shortly.

DoctorStanley:
Not true.
Watch:
Tinubu is a fool
Have I been banned?

Interesting.

Can I say he is a scam or a drug lord?

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Why is it that the slightest criticism of the government earns one a ban on Nairaland these days.

Are we in George Orwell's 1984?

Et tu Ngozi?

Then fall, Nigeria.

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Kukutente23:
So you actually believe that rehabilitation of an 11km bridge with no trusses or any complex design should cost $3bn? That's about $250m to rehabilitate each km. For real?

After it was just rehabilitated recently.

Its a scam for election funds.

Gabrielshow24:
Anytime, you are ready. Let me know 😁.

Start a thread and invite me.

Lets be serious this time.

DrAda:
Well, I am glad that this generation is finally speaking out on what true marriage is. Simply put, it is not fairy tales.

Personally, I am advocating that marriage as a subject should be taught in schools. Otherwise, how do you expect females who have always considered themselves peers to their male colleagues to suddenly assume a secondary role just because of marriage.

Well said.

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Because it is a prison.

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Jakumo:
DeepSight my hat is off to you for this declaration you have made about religion that places you in the rarefied company of free thinkers like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. I would hazard a guess that less than 0.1% of Nigeria's adult population would identify as being non-religious, if asked about their faith. When asked about my religious leaning by a Nigerian, I claim Catholic despite never having set foot in any church, purely as a tactic of social convenience that enables me to side-step further interrogation.

In Nigerian culture, anyone who openly defies the norm of being either Christian or Muslim is regarded with a mixture of equal parts suspicion, loathing and puzzlement by the overwhelming majority who brandish the formalities of their religious observance like a cherished badge of honor, regardless of whether they are law abiding or criminal in their character and daily conduct.

Regarding the jailhouse rite-of-passage which deprived South Africa's Nelson Mandela of freedom for 27 years, and which saw the likes of Gani Fawehinmi, Femi Falana, and Wole Soyinka tossed into dungeons numerous times by various Nigerian military regimes going back decades, there can be no denying that such giants among men sacrificially placed their lives and liberty on the line for the greater good, and in furtherance of democracy's rights and freedoms, while bravely undeterred by the acceptance that they might never emerge from jailhouse captivity that often ensued without the luxury of a legitimate court trial or conviction.

While Mr. Sowore is no stranger to police custody and prison, thanks to his long history of agitating for one cause or another ever since he was a college student, the exact cause which inspires Sowore to repeatedly clash with law enforcement agencies TODAY, is far less easily categorized, now that Nigeria has embraced electoral democracy, than it was when Nigeria was lorded over by the whims of military despots who had no tolerance for freedom of speech or its attendant democratic aspirations.

In other words, it is not clear what Sowore hopes to accomplish by screaming at armed police officers wherever he goes in Nigeria, while angrily denouncing both the ruling party and the opposition party's leadership with equally agitated vitriol. Perhaps, the only explanation that makes sense would be that Sowore became, with the passage of time, little more than a PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINER who makes a living by hurling unfounded accusations left and right in a bid to draw the attention of Nigeria's political elite, with the hopes that those whose reputations stand to be tarnished by that perennial gadfly's ululations might choose to BUY Sowore's silence with cash under the table, even if it is understood by everyone that the allegations spouted by Sowore are largely figments of his over-active imagination.

Again, I understand your very well made points.

Sir Jakumo, the thing is we have extremely bad leaders in Nigeria. So somehow or the other, opposite voices must be heard.

It's not easy to speak up boldly against the government.

Yele has obviously become passionate and angry with the authorities. That often leads him to spark easily and get angry. That is natural. He should be understood for that.

I don't agree with his politics but certainly a man who is willing to go to jail all the time to prove a point is worth considering.

Don't dismiss him as the clown you think he is.

Many people in far better positions to ask hard questions actually back off and simply retreat to a quiet life of wealth and corruption.

Boldness is important.

For that reason I urge you to reconsider your views of him.

As always, you remain the greatest Nairalander ever.

Much respect sir.

PS: I have been to a Nigerian Jail before. Nasty. It's not for the faint hearted.

Gabrielshow24:
My brother, we just dey push am. How your side?

I am cool.

I would like to revisit some of our debates.

Particularly the Trinity.

LagosOrigin:
I hope it's not audio promises that will be fulfilled 35yrs after ?

I no trust tinubu at all .

E go funny die.

Gabrielshow24:
😂I was expecting you to say that.😁

How you dey?

RenoOkriTheGoat:
One of the beneficiaries of Rotimi Amaechi's laptops has spoken.

They really have to return their laptops.

If I was one of them, the smartest way to go about things will be to criticise the govt quite often, but you see these ones. They are just yes men. They nod like lizards.

Gabrielshow24:
They are more than terrorists 😂.

Well we agree on one thing at least.

WizardOfNG:
Lol. Perhaps people who know doing that, I.e regular incarceration, will make Nigerians view them as "fearless defenders" of the helpless, hope-deprived and downtrodden masses.

In return you will then go and use your gullible fingers to thumb-print for them at election time same way you tight your fake pastors all the way to private jet and private University ownership.

I don't do religion. I don't tithe. Churches and Mosques are both scams.

Now listen, I hope you know some people argued Nelson Mandela only stayed in jail for 27 years because he wanted fame.

Have you been to jail for one single day?

Cc: Jakumo.

Anyone who has not been to jail for a single day over protests should kindly shut up and be cowardly silently.

Nuff said.

Omoboricash:
Pls stop comparing Chief Gani Fawehinmi with Sowore. They are incomparable.
Chief was humqn right advocate, he fought for Nigeria and Nigerians without bias or sentiment.
Can u say the same with Sowore?

Of course Chief Fawehinmi is much senior to Sowore in every way.

However what is Sowores's bias?

Point out one.

WizardOfNG:
This is what makes people like you happy. I.e the denigration of Nigeria by foreign nations that feeds into your narrative that Nigeria is a hopeless "Zoo".

The ruling is nothing more than the subjective interpretation of a Canadian Court only relevant to the character denied asylum. Nothing else.

Is Tinubu a terrorist or not? Is Wike a terrorist or not?

Answer.

Jakumo:
Ogawa DeepSight, my perception of Sowore differs from yours most notably regarding my evaluation of the way Sowore treats those who he imagines to be of lower status than himself.

The true measure of a person's character can be gauged by observing how that person treats those occupying lower or subservient rungs of the social ladder .

Time and time again Sowore has sought confrontation with uniformed Nigerian police officers who Sowore obviously presumes to be of lesser social status than himself. During those confrontations that are almost always instigated by Sowore, pushing and shoving are typically seen, when all along, a calm and measured attitude by Sowore would have resulted in outcomes that would highlight his potential as a statesman in the making.

Rather than assume a diplomatic stance in his Quixotic quest for notoriety or fame, Sowore has consistently displayed the reckless, loud and confrontational attitude of a common motor-park thug. Behaving with such an alarming lack of restraint will, in the minds of many observers, disqualify Sowore from consideration as a serious candidate for any elected office in or outside Nigeria.

Mr. Sowore relishes violent physical confrontation while haughtily disregarding all opportunities to display mature decorum, which combines to diminish his stature in the public eye, to that of a court jester whose only value will ever be to provide light entertainment for those who peruse news reports emanating from Nigeria.

I understand your point.

However those who fight power have to take many risks.

Not all people do that.

God will surely remove us from this situation.

Jakumo:
Regardless of your nationality, the one airline that would be most wisely avoided by ANYONE who seeks to minimize stress in their life is Lufthansa. The officers manning the boarding security checks in Frankfurt Airport are very rude to everyone, and are prone to barking their orders to passengers as though they are prisoners being processed for jail cell allocation.

In Frankfurt Airport, Nigerians and other African travelers are subjected to additional inconveniences that are not seen by those traveling to and from countries outside of Africa. For example, connecting to or from any Lagos flight will entail MILES of walking between departure gates located at great distance from one another within the airport, while portions of that long trek that are taken aboard buses that are boarded outside the airport terminal buildings in the cold and rain, depending on the weather.

I will never forget my last ever Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Lagos. The thermostat in the departure gate waiting area was turned up so high that all the passengers were drenched with sweat in the stifling heat as they awaited their call to board the aircraft . When I approached an airport staff to request that the heat be turned down, my request was greeted with ridicule, and the heat was turned up even higher. That was the day I quietly resolved NEVER to board any German airline, and NEVER to set foot in Germany for any reason, going forward.

On the other side of the coin, my experience with KLM, connecting through Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to London Heathrow, was pleasant and stress free in all considerations. Security staff in Schiphol were courteous and friendly, as were all the Dutch nationals I interacted with in that magnificent airport. The flights were on time, and departed from gates that were within close proximity of each other within the airport complex. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is by a wide margin the BEST airline serving Nigeria and Africa, bar none. Fly KLM and see what I mean.

Lufthansa clearly has a problem. Very rude.

KillahPriest:
You guys are the ones who take Yele Sowore seriously and not me. If I need to be entertained by actors, I'll watch old Mr Ibu and Sam Loco movies instead of listening to anything that Yele guy has to say

Go on an listen to Tinubu.

If that is not comedy then you don't know what comedy is.

Jakumo:
It is refreshing to encounter a critical thinker who sees through the antics of perennial complainer-for-profit, Mr. Sowore, whose entire life has been devoted to vigorously shadow-boxing against real and imaginary enemies, without one single victory on record thus far.

Clearly. Mr. Sowore only finds validation when he is the center of attention, so he devotes his every waking hour to find something that he can rage about with indignation before the assembled press. One could logically speculate that Mr. Sowore is not very adept in the art of seduction because his constant state of rage suggests he might be sexually frustrated most of the time.

Jaks. We still need people like him rather than cowards.

How many people can go to jail over 20 times.

When Gani was alive many people accused him of the same.

People are different.

I believe Sowore has a point and he is a man of conviction.

Ebenezer2021:
na that time dem dey humble.

18 more characters needed for thunder to fire Sēun

Witches and Demons doesn't exist bro.
They're fairy tales
Stop deceiving yourself

They exist.
BTW, you should have written "Witches and Demons don't exist." Not "Doesn't"

Who is a witch? You. Me. Who is a demon? You. Me.

Nuff said.

HeyMeNot:
Even Biden's son didn't go to jail when he obviously should have.
Its every where

Was he appointed Ambassador against fraud?