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muykem:
Take this tissue paper to clean your tears, drink water and eat well for you need strength to cry for the remaining seven years.

I suppose things have become cheaper for you in the last one year. Happy for you if so.

blamingthedevil:
With the President Bola Tinubu Consumer Credit initiative, businesses will surely grow, people can purchase what they want and pay gradually

Where is Students Loan, where are CNG BUSES?
WERE YOU BORN TO BE DECEIVED EVERYDAY OR WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? ? ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR-embMmMQc?si=VnH7yr3qTh2HOHqg

Sluacoast:
that's inaccurate bro. I mean no offence. Many people in this state may have fallen into depression and become so lonely that the only thing they could think about is taking their own lives.

Why did you think mental institution or rehabilitation center were established.
They were created for people who may have lost their sanity due to challenges of life. All they need is a little mentorship and words of encouragement to push 'em out of that demonic state of mind. Some might be due to challenges. I witnessed a little boy of 24 who committed suicide. He runs a POS business for a wealthy man. I don't know what got over him. He ventures into sport bettings and ended up using an exact sum of #920,000 naira out of the business to bet. His condescending letter he wrote before taking his life after drinking snipers mix with his meals. He said I'm very sorry Papa$Mummy. I failed you guys. I can imagine the mess I've put you guys in. He spoke widely condemning his actions and wish he could turn back the hand of time but it's all too late. Even the owner said he went too far to take his life. They would have sorted a way out for him to pay back the money. But he decided to take the penalty and blame with his life.

I will say this again and again. Suicide is not an option. The situation might be terrible at the moment but it won't be there forever. Don't take your life. You might be putting those who you left behind into years of agony and pains. Shalom

1. Many mental hospitals are the most dreadful place you can ever take a depressed person to.

2. Don't think you can ever imagine what some people are going through. It could be worse than you imagine - and may include incurable diseases of various kinds. That little example you gave up there of the young man is just a case of a misguided kid. Its not as deep as what many people face. There are unimaginable things in this world which some people truly desire not to live through and they should not be compelled.

3. No one should be forced to remain alive. Its a choice. Have you heard of Euthanasia (mercy-killing) which is legal in some of the most civilized countries of the world?

4. Dying is a right. A person can legitimately choose to die. There doesnt even have to be a reason. A person can simply dislike this world and wish to leave, and should have a right to do so.

meobizy:
Good riddance.

How can you say that of an obviously tormented fellow human?

Na wah for some of you.

mychigogo:
He committed suicide and doesn't need 'RIP'

Why? Is he going to hell?

othermen:
Now, it will be remembered all that he was about that could have hinted at his demise. Even in the basic, the loved ones will now see signs hinting at his struggles and it will hurt them.

Is it not some form of punishment for the loved ones, who must now contend their failures in not taking any effective drastic actions such as committing him to some mental health institutions?? They might have made efforts, but it’s a public that don’t care about such efforts in our contention that suicide is a failure of one’s loved ones positioned to have done more to prevent the outcome.

Yet, we are a public, focused only on ourselves. In church, sometimes back, we were even taught in our Sunday school that mental health issues were evidences that we are disconnected from God. How do we build a solidarity premised in such shortsightedness and stigma? Yet, we are a public, that should say his loved ones failed him.

Would likely mess up the daughter’s mental health and I hope his loved ones get all the support they can get for the emotional distress that will also be exacerbated by our public proficiency in compassion and understanding.

That said, I hope our police force also consider the likelihood of his case being a homicide.

Nasty as it may sound, I believe in a person's right to end his life. It's not the prerogative of anyone else to commit them to a mental hospital when that could simply represent the worst that that person could wish for, and simply be the same as a jail sentence just for being sad.

Tjra:
Na this kain news dey give Obidients erection.

Better kill those thoughts or you respect yourselves and destroy only your region.

Try nonsense again in South West and watch your arses go up in smoke.

Don't play

Were you born to be exploited forever?

anonimi:
Compelling reason for me in this regard means that the country will receive a greater benefit from the presence of the foreigner in their country than the cost of having him around. Benefits are not just direct costs. And costs are not monetary only.

Well, not to push the matter further, let us end it on this note. There is much benefit to wealthy countries from tourists (and medical tourists) as well as from HNIs even from poor countries. Not just HNIs but talented and skilled people.

If you wish to deny a person a visa, you dont have to give an absurd and insulting reason.

Thats as far as I can push the topic.

Pleasant speaking.

anonimi:
That is exactly what I said.

They will make exemptions for people who THEY feel have a compelling reason to be in their country. However it is purely their prerogative.

That it is their prerogative is beyond cavil. No one disputes that. In fact they dont have to give a reason.
But refusing such a person especially with the excuse that they will run away, is just insulting, unnecessary and frankly stupid. Thats my view.

But I understand you, no worries.

PS: When you say "compelling reason" you make it sound like it must be an emergency or a national security matter. No. It is not so. People go on holidays for example. Tourism, etc.

anonimi:
That is your conclusion, which has absolutely nothing to do with all that I have written on this subject. If you know that it does, then please point out the exact words I wrote from which you drew your conclusion.

It seemed implicit. However apologies if I have misunderstood you. Perhaps you are saying we have given them the right to treat us that way.

anonimi:
I have not defended or justified anything.

I have only stated facts as I see it.

Are we privileged, black elites not the stupid clowns who who think that because we are local champions of our wretched fellow citizens, the entire world must bow to us in the same manner that those who we have made poor in our country do?

Did you see what happened to Dangote, compared to an ordinary French citizen for visas to African countries? Read and reflect on it, to make necessary changes in how you work for your country to be better.

Its not that I dont agree that we must work on our country to be better. But every country in the world has challenges. And if your criteria is that the country is poor, surely you must agree that an Ngozi Okonjo Iweala should be denied a visa to Europe after she has retired. And I pick her and Amina Mohammed as examples because they are diplomats too.

What will you say if you hear that either of them was denied a visa in future because it was felt they will run away?

Come on bro, its absurd.

If you keep up this line of thinking you will say its okay to deny even the best professionals/ captains of industry/ brightest students/ retired diplomats etc visas since they come from a poor country.

The logical conclusion of what you are saying is simply that no one from a poor country should be allowed to visit a rich country.

anonimi:
How is distinguished a substitute for compelling reason?

They will allow Africans who meet their criteria for being allowed into their country. It’s the same way that you would allow people into your home.

Chief, if that guy doesnt have a criminal record and is not destitute, I fail to see the reason.

I dont know if you saw my first post on this thread. I said it has happened to me. I was working with a first class global multinational and had a business trip. All protocols sorted, all payments made, with guarantees from the company. For privacy, I dont wish to mention the name, but this is a top top global corporation. And the idiots refused me a visa saying they were not sure I will come back. Oho, so you look at a lawyer working as legal adviser in a multinational and imagine he will abandon his job to become an illegal immigrant on the streets avoiding the law? There was no possible justification for that nonsense, and of course we appealed it and it was reversed. But the sheer stupidity of saying that I may "run away" from my cushy privileged job to skulk around as an illegal immigrant was bewildering.

I also mentioned how they did this to a 70 year old ex diplomat who worked her whole life for a multilateral organization, a sophisticated old lady who needed a medical visa. The clowns said she will run away and not come back.

Please sir, all that is nothing but stupid condescension and it is even deliberately done to insult a people.

You need to think about what you are saying, it reflects very poorly on your self-respect (no offense) because if that is the case, you will defend it if someone like an Ngozi Okonjo Iweala or an Amina Mohammed is denied a visa in future on the grounds that they will run away to become illegal immigrants. How does that sound to you?

And that, my friend, is exactly what you are justifying.

anonimi:
It means that unfortunately.

What COMPELLING reason is there to let the ex diplomat of a poor African country into their territory

Protocol and common decency demands that sir.
Unless you wish to argue that they should not even allow any African, no matter how distinguished.

anonimi:
And we blacks don’t do pointless and stupid discriminatory things all the time, based on tribe and social class

Sadly, I have to agree we do. But that doesnt mean you deny an ex diplomat a visa on the imagination that at that level, he will dissapear in your country.

Alliswell248:
Why do you love crying over Niaja matter?

U said project would be abandoned, but a bank has indicated interest in providing the money needed for it

Are you retarded or something? Dont you realize the FG is coughing out part of the money - unbudgeted and without procurement processes?
Is it that you were born to be exploited or what?

lexy2014:
How is the road already taking shape?

Which train are you talking about?

Pls how many highways in Nigeria have generated all these things you have mentioned?

Are there no existing highways along Lagos calabar corridor?

Why have they not generated all these fantasies you have listed?

Is a highway the criteria for the actualisation of all you have written?

They cant even build a road along the coast of the Niger Delta because of the terrain. And what towns are along the coast? Almost none. The whole thing is a ridiculous scam. Especially when its not as if there arent existing roads that connect all those places.

Is it that Nigerians are daft or what? What part of the fact that the FG will first put up over a trillion naira part financing do people not understand? And what part of the fact that such was awarded without procurement processes (RFP, public bidding/ tender etc) do people not understand?

What part of the fact that Chagoury is an ex convict do people not understand?

What part of the principle of conflict of interest is lost on you lot when the president uses Chagoury's jet to South Africa?

Mumu nation of mumu people, keep on celebrating your rape and destruction.

greatgod2012:
Wooli Agba!


Lol.....

Pls what does Wooli Agba mean?

anonimi:
Please in what way is our country comparable to the US?

Are they also having the most extreme poverty paupers in the world?
Or they are having the highest number of children out of school

Why should a rich man want a pauper in his home for a visit?
Think properly about that.

The poverty of a country is no reason to deny a former diplomat a visa. Thats crap. Its you who have no self respect. You think the trash oyibos dish out is always sensible. It is not. They do pointless and stupid discriminatory things all the time.

StOla:
Blackmail a man that has never been accused of committing a crime?

Do you want to revisit this statement carefully? He has never been accused of any crime?

You must be a weird joker. Who doesnt also know that most of his file with the FBI was withheld. Do you even know the way international politics works on such matters? You know nothing about leverage.

Also - stop this crap about making a distinction between him and a company that was his alter ego. That's plain daft.

Please tell me you are not high on something.

StOla:
So how is it tribalism to assert that even the Igbo coupists of January 1966, asserted that Nigerians were ashamed of their country, and our negative image matter did not start after Tinubu became the President of Nigeria like the election losers want us to believe?

But the image only gets worse with leaders like Tinubu. No world leader respects him. They will not say it openly because of diplomacy, but they all know his crooked skeletons and they have no regard for a country that can put someone like that in its presidential villa.

Do you think the FBI doesnt have his very large file with them on refund of drug monies in the USA? Do you think the President of the USA is not aware of that? Dont you know they can blackmail him with all that information and make him do their bidding, as he clearly has been doing by accepting IMF policies?

No one can take a country seriously when your president is a famous corruption don.

RodgersAkpafu:
is the bolded not a disgrace to the supposed Nigerian elite class ?

A huge disgrace my brother. Very big one.

slimfit1:
When it rains we all get wet not just poor people. Let us pray that what happened to Jewish people in Germany doesn't happened to us. I have been telling people that it's important we work on ourselves. Work to make our country great. What is your dad going to do there as a matter of fact.
We welcome anything to our country, they dont have to welcome your dad because he was a diplomat.They already have one there now. Protect your country they are protecting there's dont take it in a wrong way. Your dad's is not going to add anything to their society just like he didn't add anything to his country.

Was he going there to be a destitute or nuisance? Abeg use your head. Sometimes these embassies employ illiterates who make stupid decisions. It has happened to me years ago, I was working for one of the largest multinationals and was scheduled for a business trip. They denied the visa on the grounds that I might not come back to Nigeria.

An application fully paid for and backed by the multinational.

Needless to say that decision was later reversed.

I have also seen a situation where a seventy year old ex diplomat going for a medical trip was told the same rubbish.

lordm:
Be careful what you say about God's anointed.

To hell with these Pastors. None of them is anointed by God.

RandomFellow:
I'm not a Tinubu supporter, but NLC are so unrealistic with their demands! Are they aware that increasing the minimum wage actually means increasing the salaries of everyone employed by the government? Where do they expect the federal government or even state governors to get such funds? Imagine the cleaner earning 30 is now earning 250k; what do you expect a supervisor earning 80k to start earning? 300k? Now, what will a deputy director earn? 500k?750? Director? Perm sec? Where will Naija get such kind of money to pay people that will still expect tips for them to do their jobs? Abeg make NLC go sidon🙄🙄🙄

There is a scale of consequential increments which does not happen they way you are interpreting it. When the minimum wage goes up, that is first for those on the lowest ladder. It does not go up by the same scale for those higher.

Bimpe29:
But there's no patience in making life more comfortable for PBAT and his counterparts at the National Assembly.

Gbam!
That one must be done sharp sharp!

The rest of us can rot for all they care.

Jackipapa:
Where is the money coming from to pay the lawlessmakers? Let the minimum wage start from the house!

Where is the money coming from for coastal highway? For new presidential jets? For the presidential yatch. For NASS SUVs? For Hajj?
ONLY when it concerns the poor, will they put on their spectacles and say, we cant spend this money, there is no money, and it will even lead to inflation. The inflation that they have already caused with reckless policies.

The accursed nairalanda1 will still produce his putrid, vacant, senseless, insensitive views by justifying the obvious war against the good people of Nigeria by their own government.

Nigerians, wake up, your government is at war with you - they want to kill and exterminate you. Wake up.

Didijiji:
Right before our eyes

As in, korokoro. Right before our eyes.
And the terrible thing about this country is that people still defend what is obviously bad, criminal, wicked and terrible (even when they are suffering) on account of tribe.

I dont know how a person can directly attack your source of living, impoverish you and lead you to distress, hunger, and death, and you adamantly worship and defend him. That is Stockholm's syndrome. The situation where a captive worships and loves his captor.

We have a looooooooong way to go. I dont know if the revolution that will happen in Nigeria will be within our lifetime, but whenever it happens, it will be earth shaking. We are simply not ready yet. A people get the leadership they deserve - but that's another problem - we are not "a people" - we are several different peoples.

seunmsg:
🤣🤣🤣

I have said it severally - you guys will have a knife to your throat and still sing the praises of the person about to kill you.

Thiefobi1:
Or is the presidential jet not as important as the minimum wage for workers.

NO IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!

There are presidents who even fly commercial!

OLODO!

An iiddiot like you will one day say that the price for the president's mistresses tampons is just as important as minimum wage.

You are disgusting.

IfnobeGod20:
Meanwhile, you even called me an Igbo man. You see myopic and demented thinking. You think everyone that is critical of Tinubu's maladministration is an Igbo man? You have lost your brain. I am Omo Yoruba Pataki and Omoluabi and not your fake type that sees the truth but refused to say the truth. Omoluabi is known to say the truth anywhere they are and the one you people introduced to our region now.

Bro, to them, any one who criticizes Tinubu must be Igbo. Na wah.

In a country of 350 tribes.