₦airaland Forum

It is easy to think there are more people in a place than there really are. 1 million people no be beans.

The human eye is not an accurate judge of population numbers. As we see from the recent political marches, the size of participants is often laughably exaggerated. So far, in my judgment, there has not been a march that has had up to 150,000 people - that's even being generous.

All these...Lagos is 25 million, Kano and Port Harcourt is this or that may not be accurate.

I'm often fascinated by how rude and abusive discuss within the Nigerian space can be.

You want to complain about something, but you start off by abusing the person you are complaining to.

How is that going to be helpful in ensuring your complaint is addressed in a civilised way.

First picture, I can see Ekiti State's SDP guber candidate Segun Oni behind Tinubu . Tinubu will get nothing less than 70% of Ekiti's vote.

Is that 'Eleyi' of Ogun State, peering behind Tinubu. I think that's him . He has clearly not taken being embarrassed by Tinubu in his famous speech to heart. I quite like him.

Any form of monopoly (whether in labour union or in the private sector) is ultimately detrimental to the wider public interest.

Likewise, governments/administrations that enter into agreements they have no ability or intention to execute are a disgrace.

I also question the veracity of the claim of partiality against Nairaland.

From my own observation going back a few weeks now, I actually think Labour Party and Mr Obi have been the ones dominating on this platform.

For every thread that supports Tinubu, there seems to be at least 5 supporting Obi.

You guys have to understand that APC supporters will fight back against the personalised attacks on Tinubu that Mr Obi's supporters started and continue to propagate zealously. APC supporters are doing the same but to a lesser extent in my view.

2 days of positive media coverage for Tinubu (no thanks to the exercise bike saga) seem to have sent Obi's supporters into a monumental meltdown and histrionics about alleged bias against their man.

I think nairaland is doing a good job so far in maintaining relative balance. It is a tough job for them, and they wont always get every decision right.

GREATIGBOMAN:
I am
Pro Obi

But thank u so much for educating that brain dead mentally defeated orangutan who belongs in a cage in Asia

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Agree too.

How can a common Indian man insult his entire people in his presence, and not only did he sheepishly accept the insult, he has adopted it and taken on the mantle of propagating it amongst his own people

What one reads on nairaland makes one wonder.

Spiritualife:
Yawa don already don gas. It was supposed to be quiet. Bribe no like noise. Time to refund before kasala burst.
Thieves

One of them even said he recently scrolled through his text messages and saw a strange alert of N36m.

PEEEE DEEEE PEEEEEEE!!

Lol

Wike has shaken the table.

No wonder, Mr Ayu couldn't respond to Wike's N1 billion bribery allegation.

Nigerian politicians - probably the most corrupt people on earth.

Lol

Joe4real1988:
The guy shock me with his reply o. One can only record oral instruction if it's planned in advance

A recording of someone's conversation without the person's permission is unlikely to be admissible as evidence in court.

In criminal cases, you may present the recording to the police to help them in their investigation, but that's it.

If you are in employment, and your manager/supervisor gives you an instruction which you believe might be controversial/get you in trouble later, here's what you should do.

At your earliest opportunity after receiving, but before carrying out the instruction, send him an email confirming your understanding of the instruction, and ask him to please confirm your understanding is correct.

If he doesn't respond on time and you are under time pressure to carry out the instruction, call him and get him to confirm again.

PS. This approach might not work if you have a toxic manager who may not take lightly to you asking for confirmation of an earlier instruction.

Threesha:
Next time insist he sign off you docket or the hill or sending a mail replying that he would clear it or a combination of both

LESSON: Oral communication/agreement hold no water even in the law court.

That's not correct, with the exception of cases where specific laws requires that a transaction must be in writing (e.g property, long leases etc), an oral agreement carries equal weight in the eye of the law and the courts as a written agreement.

The challenge is that it is more difficult to prove an oral agreement. So, it is better, but not an absolute must, that an agreement is written.

In this particular case where there is a witness, the arrangement is as good as written. If this goes to court, the boss will likely lose.

This so-called fact checking is anything but.

If license was not given, did the government / or a person in a position of authority give them the nod to carry AK47. Of course that'll be difficult to prove.

What is not difficult to prove though is that they were clearly seen carrying AK47 with neither the police nor the Army intervening.

As per the Police claim that '...the vigilantes were only trained to defend themselves...', I say bollocks. They can tell that to the birds. Why would you train vigilantes to defend themselves with AK47, by giving them that weapon, if they are not going to be authorised to carry the weapon?

I'm not against arming state-controlled vigilantes with a weapon with sufficient firepower to enable them defend themselves. But it must be done under the law, with the same process must be available to other states that might be interested.

[quote author=asanausana91 post=117077359]I can see that you don't know what is politics. If you will not trust the DG to chose who he want to work with then why appointing him? You said Buhari don't have right to chose only one person among the 442 people? Hmmmn! That shows that Buhari will not be given a chance to nominate a minister if Tinubu win.
Mr man, you are comparing Nigeria with UK? Do you know who nominated the Liz Truss? Borris did.[/qu



Of course the DG can choose his PA, Adviser, office secretary (typist!) etc. but that is not the same as choosing other members of the Council like the Secretary, Treasurer etc to the Council.

I am Chairman of a Committee in an organisation. Other officers of the Committee like Secretary, Treasurer, PRO etc were appointed at the same time as I was. I did not get to choose them.

That is how it is done.

juman:
It shows tinubu is the right person for them.

Okadigbo wife is politically dumb as me,akeredolu is good for South west and faleke is good as secretary so that the candidate will be informed of the true situation of things at fastest time.

I agree.

The DG was effectively chosen for Tinubu by the Governors. Fair enough.

Now, he says I will appoint the Secretary, they say no!

Isn't that weird & selfish.

One thing I'm sure of is if Tinubu wins, he won't be a hapless President like GEJ who was pushed around so easily by vested interests.

So Lalong, who himself was appointed the DG of campaign by the Governors threatens to resign because his suggestion for Secretary of the campaign council was not chosen

So, the presidential candidate cannot even choose a Secretary of his preference?

The Lalong man should resign if he wants to.

Also, Buhari is an outgoing president. Why should he be choosing campaign coordinator for the SE, and using it to compensate the wife of an old friend, who may not necessarily be the best person for the job. Is Mr Buhari the one facing the electorate come 2023? Did Boris Johnson choose Liz Truss's campaign coordinator? Let the candidate choose his own team. Yours is to lend moral support. This is going to be a very tough election. It is not one for appointing people without proper consideration of their suitability. APC have to come to this election with their A game - PDP and Labour Party will be tough opponents.

And even Mr Fayemi of Ekiti is displeased he is not SW coordinator. Is he better than Akeredolu, and wasn't he part of the cabal against Tinubu until the very last minute?

Nigerians are just too difficult.

It would be extremely difficult to safely keep N194 billion worth of cocaine anywhere in Nigeria.

Even if you keep this thing in Also Rock, the security people looking after it can't be trusted.

A few civilians or dare devil international criminals could finance a military coup just to lay their hands on the thing.

It made sense to keep a small sample for evidential purpose and dispose of the rest asap.

The consignment was simply too hot to handle for NDLEA.

Any promise that Atiku makes is just for election.

The Wike affair has thought all neutral citizens that Atiku is unlikely to keep promises.

It's a mystery how 2 politicians fall out so badly, and before you know it they are back together smiling for the camera.

Ordinary people don't make up as easily as politicians do.

This man Utomi is funny.

He was on Channels last night saying Tinubu is not fit enough to be President. The interviewer asked why he thought so.

Mr Utomi's response was 'you can tell when you look at him. He also said a 70 year old person should not be contesting to be President.

To make matters worse, here he is in this video dancing and laughing sheepishly like a tout, behind the same Tinubu.

This shows that the man, like many holier-than-thou Nigerian 'experts' is nothing more than a jobber. If you give him food, he'll dance for you.

Dreams are the strangest experiences.

Few weeks ago, I had a dream where a sister in Church and I got 'very close' in the dream.

Yet, I have zero connection or contact with this person in real life.

Just weird.

ha ha ha.

Saturday certificate. Highly suspicious.

“especially as my party expected a real battle with the PDP and not to be handed the belt without a fight”.

Eyah...PDP, the former so-called biggest, largest, and whatever party in the world is now being trolled ;

PDP is in total meltdown.

Why did he contest Labour Party primary if he wasn't sure he would stand in the proper election.

Now Labour will have no candidate for that constituency.

That's bad.

Fact checkers should contact UNN asap to check the truth about Mr Obi's time there.

We need to know if he is hiding something.

Nigerian politicians and palaver...

So, Mr Obi. Did you finish at UNN or not, and if you did, what qualification did you obtain?

There's something about this man that raises more questions than answers.

It's laughable that some think he can be trusted. He is as dodgy as any other Nigerian...and probably worse.

Yet, many from the South South want Atiku another Northerner to be President for 8 more years.

You see them on nairaland shouting SS is PDP, PDP is SS.

Smh

Some pople have forgotten how billions of dollars was shared openly under GEJ's PDP government.

This APC lot have found their own way of looting billions too, but I think Buhari has done better with infrastructure.

The PDP GEJ experience will take longer to heal, I think.

There's something about PDP and brazen theft of public money that makes the idea of them in government uniquely scary.

The challenge for Atiku is, if the Chairman resigns, Wike's will most likely determine who becomes the next Chairman since that person will come from the South.

Also, what does 'NWC should be restructured' mean? Atiku must know that it means Wike filling the place with those doing his bidding.

So, even if Atiku wins Presidency, Wike and his group will control the NWC, Chairman, and Governor's forum.

Hmm... that'll be the stuff of nightmares for Atiku.

You see how these people keep their culture & traditions going back more than 1000 years.

But if a Nigerian king was sitting on a stone during his coronation, majority of our youths, will scuff at and dismiss it as backwardness. They will even abuse the king for contributing to keeping Africans in the dark ages, and keeping them from modernity!

Yet, the countries they are so desperate to migrate to keep their own traditions whether or not it makes sense to foreigners.

Youths... continue o.

I've not witnessed anyone around me in Lagos being harrassed.

I was in another SW state over the weekend, there was little to no political discussion amongst the people I associate with, and from the look of things, people in the city were going about their normal business. In the real world, election is not people's priority right now.

So, where did this man observe that there's systematic targeting of Igbos in the SW. On social media, some people who I suspect to be mostly young and impetuous are attacking supporters of other candidates. The online attacks are from all angles & regions. That's online.

It is interesting that he has conveniently overlooked attacks by people from his side.