₦airaland Forum

A40:
Religion of peace with another banger

What perplexes me is how can 170 civilians be slaughtered just like that in a country that's not at war. And everyone just carries on with their day

People have become desensitized to gore and death. Women watched the slaughter of the Army chief, discussed about it, and were posting "Please send me the video" in the comment section of such posts.

It's become no more than entertainment. Our brains have been rewired in the way those of surgeons and theatre nurses have been to deal with the trauma of seeing blood and dismembered body parts so they can function well. Functional psychopaths is what we have become.

It's the main reason I avoid watching such videos. I haven't watched the Army chief's slaughter video till date - not because I can't, but I'm worried about how exposure to such will make me lose my empathy which essentially makes me humane and human.

Dismembered body parts no longer move people.

BlueRayDick:
I still don't understand why people who know they are into that kind of lifestyle(fraud, yahoo yahoo, 419 etc) cannot just keep low profile. They always want to show off and then they get caught while enjoying the limelight.

He was gunning for political office. Aligned with the President's son too.

What it has confirmed, however, based on social media commentary is, young people justify fraud. We are worse than the older generation we lampoon everyday online. Tacitly, we have deadened our conscience to non-violent crimes. We excuse away such.

The average Nigerian will defend a scammer who defrauded a significant amount of money (especially from foreigners) as "brain work". Worse even, Nigerians who are openly religious with religious texts on their bios on Facebook and X.

Our outrage is only performative, and we only rage on when it's people we aren't related to by ethno-familial links or friendly terms with.

I saw accounts which cuss out at Tinubu, Akpabio, and Wike back the guy for fraud, asking him to be let go. And even attacking anyone who calls him out.

Once it involves relatives or friends, Nigerians will defend scammers. And women who post about wanting God-fearing men will articulate defenses too while gaslighting the truthsayers as "crabs pulling down others".

We are worse than the generations before us, and the supposed leaders of tomorrow will wreck Nigeria.

BlueRayDick:
For real, some of those boys have actually made serious money from Fraud low key. It's just their penchant for show off that always get them undone at the end of it all.

A friend of mine was telling me recently that some of those guys have hackers who write codes for them which they use social engineering to later rob unsuspecting guys of their cryptocurrencies online. He said there are boys who meet $5m, $1m, $500k in different wallets they gain unauthorized access to.

There's a guy in my area who owns a next unisex salon, beauty spa and also sells exotic cars in the same building. My friend said he's one of those guys , their MO is to look for a business that makes steady daily cash to cover up as CEO so security agencies don't look too much into their affairs.

There's another one posted by 8:02AM yesterday on the front page. Almost $600,000 for one his (alleged) scams. Well, the foreign victims have come forward.

He's someone I've known for years and worked with as a colleague. I was his superior at the organisation we worked at, while he was the Head of Logistics. Our erstwhile boss ran for governorship and got appointed by President Tinubu two years ago.

With all of the brouhaha on Facebook when it came to light two weeks ago and he was paraded by the EFCC last week, our erstwhile boss whom I still maintain a very close relationship with got on a long call with me.

Neither the man or myself were surprised. The man had warned in 2019 this would be the guy's fate as he had a history of showing off too much. And name-dropping on social media as a notorious social-climber. Everything was always a picture opportunity with Senators, politicians, and celebrities at events we attended to boost his social media profile and lure certain type of women.

My one saving grace is I have never been greedy. This guy had contacted me for my tech skills years ago. After building a platform for him, he wanted me to add investment features and others; but, by nature, I do due diligence on all digital projects - if it's shady, I withdraw. I found out his was shady with too many irregular details.

I refused to add the features (I have WhatsApp chats to back this up) so after a year the platform died. I told him it was against my ethics.

He got another digital agency to build him a new platform. In the light of his arrest and parade in the media, the company has taken down the platform and scrubbed their social media clean. Let's see if the EFCC will retrace their digital footprints.

I turned down requests from people who wanted me to condemn him on social media. First, I avoid scandals and controversies. Secondly, he was a friend until he started being shady and displaying sudden wealth on social media - putting up mansions and the likes.

Heck! He even set up our erstwhile boss for blackmail and the man confided in me two Saturdays ago (with more details) when he flew in for a function at the invitation of the Governor, after divulging some in 2022.

God knows if I had been greedy, I would have also been under investigation; or paraded by the EFCC.

My consolation is the glowing review our erstwhile boss reiterated of me and the strength of my character and he defends me anywhere.
For years while I worked with him and after I went independent to do my own thing, I had access to documents and devices, and never compromised to take anything to my benefit or betrayed his trust.

I didn't blur out his pictures so anyone in tune with my state politics and national politics can easily recognize him, and verify from him. All you need do is mention my first name. He knows I am on Nairaland too as we use to discuss about it.

Being content saved me. God knows I've been on my knees in gratitude since then, barely religious as I am.

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Asides the quality of music, I've always judged artistes by their off-stage antics.

There's no way on God's green earth Tems, Banky W, Johnny Drille, Bez or Nonso Amadi will ever get involved in the type of scandals Wizkid, Burna Boy and Davido are always involved in. Never.

The former just push their craft, interact with their fans civilly at intervals, and flee from any form of heated notoriety regardless of the media attention promised from such exchanges.

Choose who you listen to.

Ibime, Emaprince, and the other rap heads, I stumbled on this minutes ago:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AE1TbzFLJ/.
He got it to the 't'.

Ibime:
I just knew you had to add Capital Femi

LOL.

It's not quota system. Dude is one of our top 5 vocalists ever.

But for tone range, Wande Coal is king forever.

iamoyindamola:
Majority of these guys have Japa
Good old time

You should watch this interview with Eldee in July, 2024. You'll love it. Every Nigerian pop culture enthusiast will too. I'm surprised it hasn't done a 1 million+ views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5HyMIo9dYY?si=xMUOcdNoaqLTEejx

The best of Nigerian vocalists.

1. Wande Coal - Ololufe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw-RZj8D3TI?si=j5DsjOZyMHEVBaZA

2. Chuddy K - Slow Slow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkEjKRHwVEA?si=EB7soaaLQqCbrWVm

3. Capital F.E.M.I - Baby I Got It.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wGrli7zJ9E?si=foSLNTzdhr2dHgwx

4. Praiz - Stay (Rihanna Cover).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXFVzZkIrBU?si=IkAdSlepXNl8-N1k

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Capital FEMI - Never Felt A Love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1VsT6dzMLM?si=LZMPxkbjx0OxP9Mh
I heard this for the first time in 2009 and I still can't get over my conviction that he'd go note-for-note with Joe.

8. Rymzo - Rock n Roll (2005).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q31fNWukP6M?si=zGmGfczLvulZTrJH

Now that I think about it, Rymzo's R n Roll predates Brick and Lace's 2007(?) ''Love Is Wicked" by at least 2 years but the later's beat seems like a sample of the former.

9. Dagrin - Gboro.
The song still hits till date. Timeless. Isolate sounds exactly like 9ice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IVRqpcQMo?si=TjJkQvkjUk-C9H7D

10. Mode 9 - Flows For The Streetz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjeeWk2pzmY?si=n0Jc1YZq7QiwPWgS

7. Banky W - Lagos Party.
I consider it the most rhythmic and melodious city anthem of all time. Better than Jay Z and Alicia Keys' New York. And better-replay value years after. It doesn't sound dated at all.

It's also the most star-studded Nigerian music video till date despite being 16 years old.

Banky W was king here - rapper and sang, and gave a 100 delivering each part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiSX5pagz8s?si=GpvEDaXK-3J3K63P

4. Kel - Too Fine.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zy7hW6X91M?si=umq4kSDKI5ZkqiIr

5. Kel - Waa Wa Alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvojx9tjes?si=T3fdDu9P8I9FwCSS

6. Eldee - champion .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77zF6EBpe8?si=kndRtcfrnG_4jrN4

Get lost in nostalgia.

1. Jesse Jagz - Pump it Up (2009).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttgJ2wBTSc?si=IOjNNimidPzkRIkX

2. Choc Boyz freestyle on Tim Westwood (2011).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Easc7rp8U?si=8j2Kdwb25Kvh7WNM

3. Choc Boyz - Nobody Test Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovXFS0dUUmw?si=cBKSKs9MvWJhWjgb

TemporaryHansel:
Twitter is filled with bots. The whole place stinks of slop.

Why did Elon Musk allow Twitter to get to this level? I wonder if this was what he wanted when he set his mind to purchase the platform.

The algorithm favours slop with certain keywords and patterns for engagements. Same on LinkedIn which is so disgusting, I only login when I get email notifications for certain triggers.

There were more bots on X pre-2022 Elon purchase than now though. But, now, with AI platforms like Make.com and N8N, and premium social media schedulers, you can autopost to even 20 accounts with just a push.

iamoyindamola:
Lollll
She's an actor, model,blogger and co-own clothing brand

That's why I stated "show business".

And, no, even with these things, her sister still has more social capital than her in the industry.

If only you knew how many girls this minute are on Facebook with the model and blogger tag, and how many fashion designers on your street own clothing brands. It still doesn't give them that higher social capital.

Cuppy gets invited by the King of England, present at UN HQ for events, and other such high profile events without her father being anywhere near there, and she's not just some hangers-on.

just knew the bait club guys were expecting is we should say she's married whereas we haven't even involve her marital life

She's primarily known for dating Mr. Eazi and marrying him. It's her only claim to fame other than being Otedola's other daughter. Before Eazi's public romance she was just, "Erm, what's that DJ Cuppy's sister's name again?"

Did you know Otedola's older sister, Tolani, has songs with SKALES and Reekado Banks, and actual entertainer?

As a man, one of the worst things you can do to yourself is a be with a woman who is obsessed with social media and doing anything for attention.

As a rule, I have always vetted the women I got intimate with, including on social media before giving commitment.

If she's involved in controversies, 'dragging'people, giving hot takes, I flee. The one time I did NOT do my online due diligence, I regretted it within a month. I learnt my lesson since then.

Ibime:
What is the younger sisters work?

She's married and never had public love interests beyond Eazi so seemingly more decent because if it's about careers in show business both sisters are in, Cuppy perches on a higher rung on that ladder than Temi.

But the world would always judge a seemingly more decent and nuptially hitched woman to be better and more responsible. Decent plus married elevates a woman in the eyes of men and women.

iamoyindamola:
Packing NGOs no be brand na, they are interested in her father's money
I said temi doesn't have to wait not saying she won't spend

If a child isn't interested in her father's money, I wonder who should.
Why exactly do we work? Isn't it partly so those who come after us have it easier?

At least she's not caught up in drûg scándàls like Hunter Biden and Jackie Chan's daughter, or publicly shaming the family name and calling out her father like 50 Cent's son. She could be in sex scandals and her nûdes all over the internet from her period of hanging out with Davido's crew, but she's not - save for her fallout with Anichebe and her white lover but nothing really messy.

Cuppy is not worse than Hailey Mathers who entirely lives off simply being Eminem's daughter, but he's okay with it as, according to him, she's not shaming the family name.

raumdeuter:
The left is a party of insanity

If you cannot answer this very simple question, why should we trust your opinion on complex matters like economy, immigration, public safety etc

Search out the one where he quizzed the woke correctional center representative for their justification for putting a 6ft 2 man who identified as a woman in a female-only facility, only to ràpe these hapless women repeatedly. It's on YouTube. I think Sky News Australia has it too on YouTube.

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🚨Stop what you’re doing and watch this full exchange between Senator Josh Hawley and a “Dr”

Hawley asks over a DOZEN times if men can get pregnant and she CAN’T ANSWER.

She blanks, then gives word salads and excuses for why she won’t answer.

This is the star testimony for… pic.twitter.com/Q59DDQCPJC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 14, 2026

you think this is crazy, you should follow the same Sen. Josh Hawley on YouTube; and Sen. Ted Cruz. Both have YouTube pages.

The absurdities you will watch in their Senate hearings will make you fully realize how much of a disease wokeness is.

This was Minister Bosun Tijani one ago talking about more collaboration in the FinTech sector with the US. Essentially about digital economy.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-%E2%80%98bosun-tijani-1b027b_i-was-pleased-to-join-us-secretary-of-state-activity-7155998840209248256-x46m

On X, he answers questions on these issues about platform limitations.

You can either argue from a place of following up actual issues or seek 'haha' moments forgotten fleetingly.

Time ana again, I have been proven to be right on these issues.

It's not the first time I have been alone on an issue only to quote it, months later with "I told you so". Happened too many times already.

But, go ahead.

All countries have always lobbied.

Nigeria has always lobbied, including State governments. https://guardian.ng/news/five-nigerians-entities-that-are-in-bed-with-american-lobbyists/

Also, dig and read up on the lobbying Nigeria did between 2016 to 2022 which saw arguably the most meteoric rise of tech startup in the shortest period. From hundreds of millions of VC funds from Silicon Valley to I-DICE to more. Check out the number of meetings VP Osinbajo had which eventually brought about the aforementioned.

If you think Paypal investing in Flutterwave in 2021 and partnering with it to allow us do the cross-border transactions we do today was some random event which wasn't due inter-country facilitation despite our reputation then I have nothing to add.

Myanmar which has the same fraud-prone reputation we have is still suffering the consequence while we are enjoying the cross-payment advantage despite our corruption and fraud index still being low as at last year.

DeadPresidents:
Lobbying for Paypal to come to Nigeria is one of the wildest ideas I’ve heard in a while.

@dis.stroy Do you have any evidence of this? I believe Paypal opened up the Nigerian market due to competitive pressure from big players like Stripe. As someone who worked in the Fintech industry for a bit, I understand that Paypal did not want to take on the heft of fraud, compliance, legal and regulatory frameworks etc and other existential problems that would have cropped up.

It is much easier to just cut off a country from payment services especially when the numbers are not adding up. The emergence of local behemoths like Flutterwave, Moniepoint, Paystack etc means that instead of taking on all this risk, Paypal can simply use any (or all) of these entities as switches since they all satisfy international requirements such as PCI-DSS compliance.

I did a post on Facebook highlighting in details the points you raised in early December when PayPal made the announcement. Every single thing. It was on the 20th of December or so, including to push their crypto product.

I still haven't used PayPal since then as some sort of personal protest. Paystack, Flutterwave and Grey are doing great jobs I can live with.

But days later, when the news saturated, PayPal had major meetings with industry players prior.

One of the main reasons for the Paypal blockade was Nigeria's suppose proclivity to cybercrime and laundering the proceeds (even though we aren't even top 10 and major fraud havens were never blocked in the first place).

PayPal's reentry was too coordinated. Syndicated headlines, media briefings, influential government officials in the startup and finance spaces present... And it is only a smokescreen.
After the media frenzy, there are still quiet restrictions others are reporting.

The U.S. kicked against China owning a part of TikTok and had to call a congressional hearing which was so hostile. Please watch it on YouTube.

The U.S. didn't kick against Saudi Arabia owning a percentage of Twitter until Elon bought everything.

Congress' excuse was foreign influence on a critical US mass media platform. Twitter always had more mass media reach than TikTok.

That's what proper lobbying gets you.

If I try to explain this on Facebook or some other platform, emotional newts who think the world is in black and white will jump in to insult and call me a paid hack for the BAT administration.

You will learn to analyze world issues without emotions someday, hopefully.

Again, regardless of how you feel, $9 million isn't too much for lobbying by a country like Nigeria with SO MUCH negative press in the West. I'd dare posit a $50 million warchest isn't even too much.

Imagine the investors from silicon valley alone if we succeed.

Paypal began allowing Nigerians again last December as we are no longer on their blacklist. It took lobbying. Imagine what it signals to other countries about our image and in the global venture capital industry as a whole.
Imagine what it would eventually do for our FDI.

In 2017, AIPAC had already picked Kamala Harris. She was a Senator then and still married to a Jewish husband. Both of them attended pro-Israel events.

Trump had just gotten into office then but they wanted to be sure about Israel's interests so were co-opting serving Senators.

Trump eventually appointed his Jewish son-in-law to serve Israel's interest without much push from the Senate.

The same AIPAC contributed to Kamala's campaign. It's another reason people were so certain she was never going to sanction Israel as she was deep in their pockets.

You think the mainstream media will tell you this? No. You think ours will post about this? No. You think they even immerse themselves this deep in such issues beyond the depth of Fubara and Wike? Debating with many of them, I doubt it.

Dig up things for yourself. Information is fully democratized thanks to the internet.

Saudi Arabia, until 2022 when Elon Musk bought it, owned a percentage of Twitter. It became a US ally through lobbying despite its past terror links.

When Khashogi was ãssassinated by Saudi, the US danced around sanctions. Tweets were suppressed.

Last November, it hosted the most famous American comedians and the ones who rant most about free speech and freedom. It was a lobby to paint a more tolerant image of Saudi. Even Trevor Noah who didn't attend was trying to say Saudi Arabia was almost as toreant as the US is. Dave Chappelle laughed it off in his new special. Those who watched it know the punchline I am referring to.

Read historical and contemporary angles instead of waiting for CNN recaps or the talking points of Nigerian media houses whose editors I argue with daily like I mentioned here and they are just as biased on these issues.

Ellexy:
Nigerian Federal Government hired a lobbying firm, but Trump is to blame. I never know say Hundeyin get brothers for this thread. TDS on steroids.

They either have selective amnesia or barely informed about American intrapolitics and global sociopolitics.

Lobbyists are big money machines. The UAE, Saudi, Japan, China, Iran, Israel...have been spending billions accumulatively on lobbying.

They should learn about AIPAC and other such foreign interest groups.

If you don't have a lobbying machinery on the world stage, you become the most tossed around pawn.

$9 million is little compared to the lobbying warchest of other countries annually.

Definitely TDS since it's been going on for 120+ years before Trump's father was even born.

joseph1832:
Good lord. You really are a hard ass. Your standard seem way too strict bro. I mean, what if an ex contact you for business, like strictly business. You'd tell her to take a hike?

If she was the type to contact me to do business, she would have shown signs during dating. Then again, most women talk to exes for fringe benefits like favours, or backup plans.. They believe you owe them sort of pension too so, "Joe or Disstrøy, please help me with #20k. It's me o."
The male exes consider the women easier to seduce for easy sex.

Also, there are 8 billion people in the world. 220 million in Nigeria. More than 30 million women between 18 and 50.

Why do I have to talk to one woman I parted ways with and believe my financial elevation is tied to 1 or 2 or 4 or 8 exes?

That's scarcity mentality. I don't subscribe to such mentality.

The quotes are messed up.

joseph1832:
WhaTever happened to "forgive and forget" ma main man.

It's called setting standards, man. I set it with all women. To pass the message, once I ditch a woman, I never talk to her again and refuse to open access to talk to them. If any mutual of ours keep talking about "I saw your ex. Man, she's gone even curvier", I shut them down immediately.

I don't search them out or never respond to messages; or read the messages.

I'd go out of my way to avoid situations which will put us in the same place.

Even talking to an ex a woman does, is a sin to me. I have ditched no less than two women the world will consider very good (kind, supportive, and selfless, and beautiful) because they talked to exes after I warned them once. Once is enough to warn you. They didn't cheat but talking is a percussor to it. It's also disrespectful to me.

I have the abundance mentality. I believe for every good, curvy and beautiful one I ditched, there was a better one who would be completely loyal and submissive.

Even my lady I settled with was given the memo. I never forgive a woman making herself seem available to any other man or even passively flirting - I'd withdraw commitment instantly.

There's nothing new to explore with an ex. We had crazy sex, I explored my adventurousness with and in her, we made memories. She should move on and never contact me.

I would not even take back a woman who sex-chatted with a man while with me not to mention one who was cheating.

I don't even talk to exes whom we drifted apart amicably not to mention one who cheated.

It's either the man is smart to boost his social media profile then ditch her or he's sick for having anything to do with her.

KingTom:
Mine too, infact those who went out of line within the same family/clan were sold, our Progenitor would've been sold too but he foolishly went and appeased the family head with epo and livestock

Yet these are the people always talking about reparations for slavery and always justifying a White man losing his earnings to a Black through crime as "they are paying for slavery".

No White man moved from village to village capturing slaves. None.
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There's a global slave portal I happened on in early 2024. It has the archives of the number of slaves captures from each area, their names, their slave owners (mostly misspelled), the slave ships they boarded and which colony they were shipped to.

Coastal Africans (and ethnically coastal Nigerians) should shüt up and stop the White guilt when the issue of slavery is being discussed.

raumdeuter:
So what are you more bothered about being factual correct or insulting sensibilities?

In 2020, I had to head building a digital repository for my LGA/hometown. It meant we had to be made available published histories, oral history and genealogical documentation. It also meant comparative analyses of Ibibio histories and where different clans are said to have migrated from.

My hometown is right on the Atlantic Ocean and, asides serving as a pre-colonial and colonial outpost for Europeans, it was also a slave port before slavery was stopped.

The research got me identifying actual slave barns scattered all over where slaves from the hinterlands were stored in inhuman conditions. I found out which families were the slave traders and commiissiined raiders to capture slaves for sale.

I also found out which families served as Warrant Chiefs to keep locals in line to serve colonial interests. Many of those warrant chiefs begot wealthy families from the benefits.

One day, some persons in the group whose families were slave traders and warrant chiefs were mouthing off about repatriation, the White man owing them due to slave trade and colonialism.

I quipped, "That is rich coming from us who sold slaves and helped the White man subjucate other locals. Your/our forefathers were just as guilty."

Someone dared me to post families guilty but an older historian I defer called me immediate to cease fire. She was the one who led us to see the documents about these people and it was too controversial it had to be redacted from the history we finally published.

One of the slave-trading and Warrant Chief families is a very popular name you will know instantly if I mention just the last name.

People prefer emotionalism over facts. I suspect my direct forebears might have traded in slaves too. Maybe not warrant chiefs.

It would be hypocrital of me to come on Nairaland going off about colonization and slavery and insisting on White guilt so present-day Whites feel remorseful.

So many people from coastal areas like Eko, Kalabari and Itsekiri here whose forebears are most likely as guilty as mine might have been going off about these issues.