₦airaland Forum

AsomughaChuks02:
I am just wondering the excuse that Peter Obi will give to his supporters on why he would degrade himself down to running mate of Atiku because that is where his ambition is tilting to.

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Even then, it will still be tough. It's almost impossible to defeat a Tinubu sitting as president.

bamayo:
the white man took advantage of the cracks that there was slavery on ground. They didn't find it difficult to elaborate and industrialized it.
our leaders took our money and stock it abroad, the white man has to take advantage of it.
As far as thier cracks, the lizard will always mount the wall.
our leaders sold our fathers into slavery and our leaders are sending our resources abroad for peanuts

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Deep.

Image123:
Lolz, dem don ban am again. He's destined to misyarn, 99% emotions about Obi.

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Many times the bot bans even innocuous posts these days.

As to your post, even though I have a most dim view of you, I never thought you would descend to the level of those who assume all critics of the government are necessarily Obi supporters or Igbo.

Image123:
Stop blind and lazy opposition. You're too shy to answer but intent to attack those that answer.
Are you an Obi supporter?
Are you an Atiku supporter?
Who do you support or suggest?

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STOP SYCOPHANCY.

Image123:
Phewww, at last you can mention me without having to be banned for vile remarks.
i am not a BATist anyway. i support and respect the president, and will defend him against useless opposition like the ones presented so far. By 2031, God sparing our lives, i'll again support, respect and defend the next most credible candidate by assessment. That's how free democracy works. i understand most of you haven't had such experience before.
As for your article, yes, as at 2025, Nigeria had turned the corner and was out of the brinks/bottom. That's right to say and data supported it. Nobody says we've arrived. BTW, the discussion and context is largely economic. No one knew the US and Iran would be at war. Projections and budgetting were not made by any country or body with that in mind. All the folks forecasting percentages of growth didn't factor in the Strait of Hormuz. It's an all-things-being-equal statement.
As situation is, there must still be some level of optimism coming from any leadership. No one feels happier or more confident for instance, hearing a minister say things are beyond control or apologising without hope or solution. A good leader must inspire hope and confidence. It's unfortunate if that gets past you. Though understandable since your leader and mentor Obi only glories in scavenging for bad news and misery.

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Stop assuming I am an Obi supporter.

WizardOfNG:
There is nothing to defend before a people who don't understand the problem let alone be aware of solutions required.

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The way many of you celebrate not just mediocrity but the sort of bad governance designed to destroy your generations amazes me.

Nigeria's problems toady are deeply entrenched and highly debilitating because they are the results of decades upon decades of leaders failing to do the right thing.

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Including the last eleven years orchestrated by Tinubu.

The main problems of Nigeria, plaguing us till today, arose when Government became a vendor of shortcuts, through introduction of subsidy to deal with problems in virtually every critical sector instead of taking the sincere and holistic path to solutions provisions which may be more arduous short-term but is best for medium to long term national development and growth.

We damaged the oil, power, education sector and even currency convertibility power of Naira with subsidies. We killed manufacturing and agro-export sector, once a great contributor, to the economy of Nigeria.

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How come Tinubu was at the forefront of protests against subsidy removal in 2011 under Jonathan?
I am sure you know the answer: Fayemi came out to admit it was deliberate politics.

It is thus perverse for you to try to paint Tinubu white on this matter. He worked against subsidy removal when it was being done in a humane way, all for politics, only to come and implement it in a most inhumane way when it was his turn. Indeed, the manner in which he removed subsidy in Nigeria was a first of its kind globally: everywhere else, hitherto, it had always been done gradually to allow the people and the economy time and space to absorb the pain. Nowhere in the world before then had the price of PMS shot up by over 200 per cent in a single day.

And then he added to that calamity the immediate floatation of the naira which doubled the problem with such bad timing.

Steel and many other industry we allowed to become moribund while newer sources of great wealth, lithium mining for example, we are not in a position to control as we became poor failing to do the right things meaning we need foreign capital and expertise for extractive mining putting us in a weak position over control of our own endowment.

These are sad realities we could have avoided if we had leaders who committed to doing the right things at every stage of our development as a nation instead of seeking shortcuts always as we are predisposed to doing as a people.

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If you know that you need foreign capital you need to wise up. An import dependent country always loses when it devalues its currency. This is Economics 101.

Leaders needed to fix problems and keep Nigerians happy at the same time. Instead of choosing the path of tough love as is always done elsewhere globally, because that approach is proven to always lead to permanent and much greater national glory, our own leaders opted to put plaster over a serious infection with numerous subsidies.

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It irritates me when people try to paint Tinubu as someone who cares for Nigeria and thus "did the courageous thing" and is "applying tough love." Nothing could be further from the truth. It is not courageous to strike the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable and leave the powerful untouched. That is actually cowardice. Since we all know it is true that there was massive corruption in the subsidy regime, why did he not bring those complicit to book rather than punish the poverty stricken masses?

We are where we are today because Tinubu, before Nigeria collapses totally, is trying to show the requisite tough love Nigerian needs that leaders before him did not have the sincerity, vision or political will to operate with.

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Please stop insulting our sensitivities by talking about tough love from a thief. No one can explain Tinubu's stupendous wealth legitimately. Every sincere person knows that he stole Lagos blind to arrive at it. Every sincere person knows that he has always been massively corrupt. From the absurd bribes he has channeled through the national assembly to impeachable offences such as expending monies on a jet without appropriation and awarding a scandalous N15 Trillion contract without any public procurement protocol or appropriation by the NASS - to a known international criminal associate - Chagoury - to many many uncountable acts of brazen impunity, we are dealing with the most insensitive leader of our time.

This is not to speak of the fact that his entire history is wrapped up in mystery - no classmates, a fake name, forfeited drug related funds, bullion van on eve of an election, just to mention a few.

A man who means well for Nigeria will appoint Atiku Bagudu, Abacha's bag-man who refunded billions and billions of stolen money as someone in charge of our budgeting? That is a joke taken too far my friend.

There are far too many things to point at to show that Bola Tinubu us on a selfish mission to destroy this country.

I will say it and repeat it a thousand times for those who are into self-improvement via learning. Singapore, a former colony of the UK as Nigeria, were where we are today decades ago i.e a near failed third world nation.

Today they are a great and developed nation. I wish Nigerian can go and learn in details how they reached the laudable position they are in today so they see glaringly that visionary leaders of Singapore, beginning with lee Kuan Yew, understood the need for critical reforms that must be implemented to save Singapore.

Thankfully Singaporeans too largely understood the problems to appreciate the solutions required and, crucially, the need to make personal sacrifices so that reforms can provide a better future in the medium to long term for Singapore.

Today, It is not a better future Singaporeans are enjoying. It is a glorious future that has made Singapore the nation with one of the strongest passports in the world regularly voted one
of the top three nations anyone can live in on Earth.

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I am surprised that you fall into the trap made by many ignorant persons. It is wrong to compare a place that is a single city to a country of over two hundred million diverse people with over three hundred tribes and more original languages than the whole of Europe put together.

It is up to Nigerians to try and learn the problems so they can appreciate solutions required and what they must do to assist those solutions achieve their aims of a glorious future for our nation and future generation.

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Lee Kwan Yew was not the sort of corrupt individual that BAT is, note that.

You are educated Sir, unlike many Nigerians. Critically focus on what is quoted below related to how Singaporeans embraced reforms, even if reluctantly, to note you should be educating less-informed Nigerians about a need to sacrifice ifoe a greater future instead of joining them wielding lynch mob sticks.

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Sacrifice is not a problem but mentioning it is distasteful when those asking you to sacrifice keep stealing at such a degree and pace that is dizzying.

Tinubu's Goverment, as is right to do, is "focused on long-term survival rather than immediate popularity" as all our previous leaders preferred. Crucial that educated Nigerians make this distinction

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Tinubu's government is focused singularly on forcing a return in 2027 to enable further mass looting, and little else.
It is a shame that educated Nigerians can root for such a government and it is a sign that we will hardly progress in the next one hundred years.

DataDoc:
Two things here:

1) Keir Starmer refusing to vote against the resolution means he has a bit of a conscience and acknowledges Britain played a major role in the slave trade era.

2) The most important question I want to ask: If not for the slave trade and exposure of our African ancestors to modernization won't Africa have been more backward than it is today?

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Not at all, Africans had already been interacting with the rest of the world and so it was just a matter of time.

The civilization also in places like Benin in Nigeria, Timbuktu, Ethiopia, and many many other places was telling.

Mere interaction with the rest of the world which geography had placed some barriers on would have opened things up gradually all the same.

SmartPolician:
Growing up, I learnt from different sources that Nigerians sold to slavery were those whose parents or local communities considered useless, stubborn, disrespectful or problematic. If that is true, why are Black Africans still playing the victim card for intentionally selling off their own people?

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It is true that there were buyers and sellers. It is also true that slavery has existed throughout human history.

However the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade was peculiar in its barbarity and cruelty in terms of the treatment of slaves from the moment they were taken away. This, I believe, is what grounds the wellspring of disgust against it.

Secondly note that slavery in Africa before the advent of the white man was a complex matter of societal rules and culture. Slavery meant different things, in many cases it was mere servitude. In other cases it was akin to a prison sentence for crimes. However at no time was it practiced on the industrial scale that the Trans Atlantic trade became before the advent of the white man.

You need to visit the slave forts and castles in Ghana today to get a better picture.

TechBaron:
Baba. Learn to read Na.


Update by @pepele_news

The case of the alleged assault on a patient in Kinkole has taken a new turn.

📌 The doctor in question, Dr Balanganayi, has been taken into custody by the judicial police. [/b]

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Ol boy see name. Baba ke.

Up to Richtaiwo, Seunmsg, WizardofNG, Image123 and other BATists to defend.

He ain't gonna do shit cos he knows the consequences for the Gulf states.

erniok2:
I'd love to see this debt profiles in the USD it was borrowed with because if you look at the different conversion rates, the news becomes just sensational.

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Public debt is mostly in local currency so go and sit down.

Also, as someone pointed out already, same administration is responsible for devaluing the naira.

yemre:
You can insult him all you want. The fact remains that he's not poor and he doesn't even know you exist!

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Pathetic.

Who was that person once asking me for evidence that this administration has borrowed the most in spite of subsidy removal?

SmartPolician:
Eko Atlantic is a bold initiative that has become a reality

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Pace is still slow

Xxxxxxx

LordReed:
Why is death a pointer to you?

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Because it reveals just how artificial the covering of matter is. The way the body dissolves. There is something about it which shows that the whole thing is put on. I am not sure I can explain it.

I have seen many corpses but one struck me most. My cousin when she died. The corpse looked like a plastic doll. I can't get the sight out of my mind. Something about it struck me clearly and I could see how artificial the whole thing is.

I will try write what I have been meaning to write today and death will be part of it. I will expand on it.

PS: Did it mean anything to you when I referred to the fact that our perception can be easily manipulated?

ppogba:
MrVitalis, where art thou?

See what a state government is spending on.

Are you not alive again to tell us that this is the duty of the private sector and not a government?

Hypocrisy is your baptismal name.

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Just sha hope that there is or will be sufficient economic activity in Enugu to profitably occupy the structures I am seeing in the design.

God knows Tinapa failed because there simply weren't enough people travelling to that end of the woods. If it was situated on Tarqua Bay or the Lekki Ajah Expressway, it would be alive and kicking today.

I wonder how many people have bothered to find out the translation of the lyrics of the song Papaoutai which is now attached to so many clips and videos online.

raumdeuter:
TDS in words

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How about your SDS

budaatum:
I can live with your retention and with what "appeared to try to shift the goal post in a most absurd manner" to you, especially if you refuse to use your own data and your own time to deep seek for the beginning of the wife beating conversation so you can see for yourself.

Do know that my own view of wife beating in the Quran, is that only an Ïgnorant "man who is any combination of immature, neurotic, lacking n self control, empathy or a real love for his wife. Just stressed, angry or high even" would learn from the Quran or anywhere to beat their wife or even sit in a mosque where wife beating is taught. And I expect the wives to have something to say about it too except in Afghanistan, where a lot of ignorant "immature, neurotic, lacking n self control, empathy or a real love for his wife. Just stressed, angry or high" men seem to exist.

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Still off point, but as you say, let's leave it.

These women went for an event organized by a stripper?

budaatum:
Sorry deepsight, but I can not really be bothered because this wife bearing has taken up far too much of my time, and, moreso because I have a meeting in 10 minutes to continue a review of my old student's association's constitution. Maybe later perhaps. Though I don't wanna waste any more of my time on wife beating, to be sincere.

Do know that I don't particularly care if people are rude or insult buda, as i see it more of a reflection of them than anything they may rudely or insultungly say about me.

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Alright.

Since you may not produce the link, I have to retain my understanding. Post over post the question was made clear as to whether Islam taught that or not. And you appeared to try to shift the goal post in a most absurd manner.

Putindbutt:
Since the electricity bill was signed into law two years ago, since power has been decentralized, how many state Governors have began the implentation?. How many states have began generating and distributing power?. Yet you see them boasting of huge allocations.

The only worry is ignorant folks and bitter losers who are still blaming the minister of power and calling out the President as if they didn't know every state can now generate its own power.

How are we sure they're ready to fund state police under them?. How are we sure they want to spend these fat allocations they receive on anything else apart from themselves?.

How many of them have allowed Local Government direct access to their allocations despite the Supreme Court judgement on Local Government autonomy?.

These Governors dey fall hand seriously.

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As for state police, they will fund it because they will want to use it to deal with people.

Oracleee:
Those first few people rushing to comment are clearly lacking wisdom. It’s always easy to judge and even find humor in situations when you’re not the one involved.

During one of my prison visits last year, I met a man who had been standing trial for rape. He had already spent over five years behind bars. This year, the supposed victim came forward and admitted it wasn’t rape that they had been in a consensual relationship for years.
Just like that, five years of this man’s life were gone.
Life has different sides, and until you’ve seen it from multiple angles, you’ll understand why it’s important to stay humble and not be quick to accuse or pass judgment. Meanwhile the supposed man is yet to be discharge and acquainted

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Saphire.

budaatum:
That was not the question raised, and I forgive you because you might have missed what was framed.

The question was, does the Quran make Muslims security risk that should be assessed for risk at Guantanamo Bay before they are let into USA. And the wife beating verse was presented as an example of said risk. Like Muslims read such verses and just do what those verses encourage.

It is why we asked if the Muslim Mayor of London and the Muslim Mayor of New York or any Muslim you know beats their wives. Or even if Christians who read "Thou shalt not steal", do not steal.

We also presented examples of Uthman Dan Fodio, known for spreading Islam in Nigeria, advocating against wife beating and educating his own Muslim daughter, Nana Amasu, so no one can beat her, and so she can educate women to be against being beaten, but "smart people" want to ignore all the intellectual discussion that has occured ever since "beat your wife" was written in the Quran and argue that most Muslims read "beat your wife" in the Quran today and therefore beat their wives.

Thankfully, TV01, who is the only one who has actually admitted to having Muslims around him and in his family has described the sort of men who beat their wives, and no one has yet told me that is who most Muslim men are.

As for offending me. I want you to know that my opinion of rude and insulting people is they (may temporarily) lack the intellectual capacity to argue their position, and want to cover it up by engaging in an insult slinging match. It takes two, but you are now amongst those who hopefully realise that buda does not play that game. (I'll add, "often", because you might find the thread where I did play that game very ferociously indeed). You can not offend me.

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I don't particularly see it as rude or insulting to point out that something is silly or someone is being silly.

Nonetheless pls be so kind as to link me to the post where this issue first arose. It might help with context.

budaatum:
They do know. We have mentioned it here like a hundred times at least. But it does not fit their narrative, so they ignore it and beat their wives.

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Pitiful.

budaatum:
Well, I'd definitely choose to be silly by refusing to let ben Guantanamo Bay Muslims as security risk at entry points just because some believe Muslims read a verse in the Quran and beat their wives despite none of you all knowing any muslim who beats his wife for any reason.

Many demonise we black people too by claiming we are programmed to rape their white women, and they don't claim we learn it in a book, its supposedly written into our dna.

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The pity is that you obstinately and I think deliberately kept refusing to acknowledge that the question raised was never what you have framed. The question was whether such was taught by Islam at all.

And not even when given the direct quotes of the Quran would you acknowledge that it was taught by Islam.

THAT is what I regarded as silly even though I now apologize if I offended you because you are generally a good sport.

raumdeuter:
Iran sponsors Hamas Houthis and Hezbollah who attack Israel, Iran is using its proxies to attack Israel to achieve their aim of "Death to Israel"

Ismael Haniyeh the Hamas planner of October 7 was killed in an Iranian army guest house

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This is ridiculous because a resolution of the Gaza "war" had been reached before Israel and the US started this fresh round.
Neither was there any immediate Hezbollah/ Houthi provocation to warrant it.

benalvino3:
Notice how it's not the enslavement of the people that is the worst, it is the trafficking of already enslaved people who our brothers in Ghana, Nigeria and elsewhere sold to the White men for trafficking.

We as black people don't like accountability, we don't adapt which is why we are always running to the people we claim are the worst for a better life.

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Its amazing how silent Nigeria has been on the matter of black history and black rights. Long gone are our hey days as a leading light on this matter.

In terms of your comment while it is true that there was slavery here even before the white man came, there was a unique cruelty to the chattel slavery of the Trans Atlantic trade which was beyond barbaric.