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Someone on nairaland that does not know you in real life threatened your son probably out of normal banters and you take it seriously?

Better work to get your children out of Nigeria, which is actually the biggest threat. I'm not in Nigeria, neither is my wife or my children.

Online banters is just online banters. Do not major in the minor

Exousiang01:
My kids are in Nigeria
So yes I should be worried psychopaths everywhere. And no I wont be coming to prove a point I will be coming to end one.
Everyone has one thing they value most, some their mum, some wife, husband, somw money, for me its my children. I will hunt you with everything if you fvck with my sons

Did i say you're from SW? He is a Tinubu supporter like you

Ironbull:
Which your people? You see your life now you want to go tribal shit. I'm not even from SW so get that to your head.

Its not the police job but a court of competent jurisdiction. Anything outside that is oppression

doyin01:
When he comes back , he will narrate to you what the cyberbullying department of the Nigerian police told him was his crime..

Mind you the guy Toyin arested is one of your people. Find out

Paper tiger

Ironbull:
Hey do you think I'm talking to nonentity like you? Are you even a human? We don't consider you or any obidients human at all and we will treat you like animals.

Tinubu is not intervening, he is causing the hardship

For what crime?

Makunahatata:
lol na u next wayre...dey dia dey speak English..u go enta alagbon

Who is 'we' ?

Ironbull:
Go to Station to say that but we are sending him to jail. Shey una nor dey hear word ba? Pls go to station and tell the police your story but this bastard is going to jail and he will come back as a cripple by the time we are done with him.

Nigeria police are not known to follow the law, are they?

NextAbuja:
Let your father go n wish anyone death to find out from the police.

You're overreacting. Nobody is threatening anybody's son.

Clearly, he said it to spite her. Mind you he did not say it from nowhere, there was argument before then.

Regarding your son being threatened, how can someone threaten your son from Nigeria? It means you're someone that likes trouble. Piece of advice for you; avoid trouble. Imagine coming to Nigeria to prove a point and something happens to you

Wisdom is profitable to direct.I have three children

Exousiang01:
When you grow up and you start having children come back andd tell me what you will do if someone tells you "your son will soon die" lets know if you will smile and walk away

You're overreacting. Nobody is threatening anybody's son.

Clearly, he said it to spite her. Mind you he did not say it from nowhere, there was argument before then.

Regarding your son being threatened, how can someone threaten your son from Nigeria? It means you're someone that likes trouble. Piece of advice for you; avoid trouble. Imagine coming to Nigeria to prove a point and something happens to you

Exousiang01:
LoL
So you expect that the same energy dispensed to fight corruption is the same energy expected to fight a man who threatens the life of my son?

How old are you?
Do you have a child?
You probably grew up in a motherless babies home.
A guy on NL threatened my son two weeks ago. I have someone working on his email. I have promised him I will hunt him down and I will.
I dont mind coming to Nigeria just for him. I no go wait make one lunatic kill my pikin.

You never mess with peoples children even God cannot save you when they come for you

Firstly, they don't procreate enough to sustainably maintain the country in its vastness, so they need immigrants.

Secondly, all of them are immigrants, they only came earlier. Its like going into a hall of food uninvited and shutting the door after you. Thats being selfish.

Lastly, international law would not allow outright ban of specific countries, that would be discrimination

thesicilian:
If I were a president I doubt I would allow many Nigerians to come into my country. But since I can't openly say that Nigerians cannot come, the next best thing would be to raise the visa and other fees so high that only the extremely wealthy can afford it.

She can and should press charges and let the court interpret the law. Paying police to hold him without trial is oppression.

FuckOsuPigs:
What is this one spewing? The way some of you think nauseates. Even if you were Toyin's sworn enemy, you should know that guy messed up big time. I pray Toyin doesn't forgive him. That guy should be punished.

If only you guys exhibit this energy to fight corrupt politicians

Exousiang01:
That actually was not a wish.
He didnt say "I wish your son will die"
He said "Your son will soon die"
This guy is facing serious charges oh not just cyber bullying.
That is threat to life. E go explain tire.
Anything out of the ordinary happens to the child in the nearest future he will rot in jail.

Again that statement was not a wish

You're new in Nigeria!

joseph1832:
wrong! An offense need to be committed first.

No, you haven't!

AmiableMosquito:
No, it's not. I wish your father can drop dead today and your mother tomorrow. Then all your siblings by Friday. I haven't committed any crime, have I?

For what? People shouting 'Ogun go kill your your papa', how many have been arrested?

Elsueno:
Two weeks? U guys are very kind...if the person said that to me, the least would be 2 years...

You seem to be glorifying arbitrary arrest. A noble thing would have been to charge him to court within 48hrs so the court interpret what crime was committed

naptu2:
Why are you telling me this??

Don't let these newspaper gaslight you. Watch the video and see what he said.

The appeal court actually discharge Kanu, why did the fg appealed it at the supreme court? Why did the Supreme Court send it back to the federal high Court?

AdesegunSanni89:
This is a grave error from Mr Peter Obi. He should have done his due diligence on the matter before issuing that statement.

The press is just mischievous.
The Appeal court discharged Kanu but the federal govt appealed to the Supreme Court who instead of giving a judgment, sent it to the lower court so they hold him indefinitely and continously repeating trials. Rubbish judiciary

In Nigeria, you can pay police to arrest people provided you have money.

naptu2:
Go and ask them

And what crime is that?

Ishilove:
Very very good. It is high time people are made accountable for their actions. Next time he will watch how he blabs online

Punish for what?

naptu2:
Others have urged Toyin Abraham not to forgive him and that she should ensure that he is properly punished.

Is wish a crime?

Freestainworld:
But why ego wish person son dead? Some people overreact sometimes.

If only Nigerians take action again the ruiners of Nigeria. Oppress the common man but defend the polithiefcians

Are they trying to cover up murder disguised as accident? Story does not make sense unless she's in front of the car and using auto park like some advanced cars

Pls name them?

Chinkoalhaji34:
President Tinubu is implementing strategic changes to improve the country without causing public disruptions.

Garbage Lagos-Ibadan propaganda trash. Tinubu is not restructuring anywhere

ivandragon:
How President Tinubu Is Restructuring Nigeria Silently (1)
IndependentJul 2, 2024 4:17 AM
Shell
It was the iconic Charles Darwin, who made the case that: “it is not the stron­gest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most re­sponsive to change.”

Nigerians may wake up one day soon to the reality that “our own dear native land” has been reformed in very profound ways without the usual debates associated with such change. This assertion is underscored by the fact that President Bola Tinubu seems to be responding to the desire for change in the manner that our country has operated since the military coup in 1966 ended our six-year-old democracy that began in 1960 when the British granted our country inde­pendence.

After being governed largely by the mil­itary since the unfortunate 1966 interreg­num, which degenerated into a civil war that raged from 1967-70, followed by governance through elected civilians who have been applying the statutes books (1978, 1989, and 1999 constitutions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) developed by the military and foisted on politicians, President Tinubu, hav­ing obtained the privilege through the ballot box to govern the nation since May 29, 2023, appears committed to restructuring Nigeria.

But he seems not to be doing so in the traditional way of a set-piece National Sov­ereign Conference such as the 2014 National Conference held during the watch of former President Goodluck Jonathan, which is the type Nigerians are familiar with.

Nevertheless, slowly but surely, Presi­dent Tinubu is engaging in the process of restructuring, relying on the legislative and judicial systems, respectively, whenever each of them is found to be more suitable for the purpose.


Tinubu
Perhaps, his apparent piecemeal restruc­turing initiative is driven/motivated by the fact that more often than not, the records from national conferences on governance systems that are supposed to move our coun­try forward, hardly get implemented but end up being shelved to gather dust after billions of naira must have been invested and a lot of man-hours expended by the wise men/ women assembled from across the country to fashion or more appropriately hammer out a system of government or leadership formu­la that is best suited to move our nation of multiple nationalities forward.

Clearly, Nigerians were uncomfortable with the parliamentary system practised by the United Kingdom, our former colonizer, that handed over their system to us when it granted our country independence in 1960. Hence the military coup of January 1966 and the counter-coup of June of the same year that ended the practice of the parliamentary system of governance.

It is striking that while Nigerian leaders were involved in adopting the parliamentary constitution bequeathed on us via several meetings between our elected political lead­ers and UK parliamentarians in Lancashire England before granting Nigeria indepen­dence 64 years ago, the 1999 constitution which is currently being used to govern our country is a product of purely military diktat.


Although, Nigeria is a multi-nation coun­try (with three major ethnic groups – Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa/Fulani) like the UK which is an amalgam of four nations – Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England, and has been func­tioning well together since a parliamentary system of governance was established in the European country on 1st day of May 1707 when the parliament first met, Nigeria has after only six years of independence (1960- 66) dumped the parliamentary system and replaced it with the American presidential system in 1978.

Our country changed from a parliamenta­ry to a presidential governance system after a bitterly fought civil war for three years, heralding a series of military coups with the men in uniform toppling one another until democracy was restored in 1978, which was dovetailed by the crafting of a constitution by the military modeled after the United States of America system.

It may appear innocuous, but the rever­sion to the 1960 national anthem, “Nigeria We Hail Thee…” after jettisoning the ver­sion that had replaced it from 1978 “Arise Oh Compatriots…” on May 29, 2024, is a clear testament to the fact that President Tinubu is on a mission to overhaul Nigeria from the root to the trunk and the branches, albeit he is doing it piecemeal, hence not many people have noticed the silent evolution.

In fact, it would take a very keen observ­er to notice the political wheel of change turning slowly and steadily. But in my view, although I am aware some Nigerians may differ, the change of our national anthem from the former to the latter by the National Assembly is part of the restructuring of our country via the legislature in their normal course of work.

It aligns with President Tinubu’s vision of restructuring which he shared with se­lect members of the Yoruba intelligentsia during a visit to the National Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, Ondo State, South West Nigeria last Febru­ary.

Reportedly, in the course of the meeting, President Tinubu had assured his audience that he was aware of the need to restructure Nigeria but that a good foundation must be laid before restructuring so that it would stand the test of time. The national public­ity secretary of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, who was part of the closed-door meeting, made the disclosure. “The President said that the structure he is trying to put in place in Ni­geria economically, socially, and politically would be such that it would bring Nigeria back to where it is supposed to be.”

Shortly after Tinubu’s reassurance to Yoruba elders on his commitment to re­structuring Nigeria, making him the second sitting president of Nigeria after Goodluck Jonathan to acknowledge the need to re­structure the nation, which is remarkably unusual as it would ultimately whittle down the power of the president, in April last year, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, a strong Tinu­bu supporter, raised the fear of the following consequences if Tinubu did not restructure Nigeria, “… even your economic policies will fail, your infrastructure and transformation will fail. We will just go back threading the same old spur.”

Although the restructuring started from day one when he made the proclamation: “subsidy is gone” during his inauguration on May 29, 2023, which is about a year ago, the subsequent policy pronouncements that President Bola Tinubu has made towards restructuring Nigeria for good have been positive and bold steps.

They include the initiative of securing lo­cal government autonomy from the strangle­hold of governors by suing them (governors) in court for a clear court ruling concerning the illegality of their not conducting local government elections, rather they appoint caretaker committees comprising people that, rather than being elected representa­tives of the people, are nothing but glorified Special Assistants or Sole Administrators, thereby usurping the role of men/women who are supposed to be elected by the masses.

Once that matter, which is currently pend­ing, is resolved in the law court (the Supreme Court has reserved judgment), there would no longer be ambiguities through which there had been contraventions of the law as it would become grounds for impeachment of any governor in breach.

Another aspect that President Tinubu has commenced setting up the framework for restructuring is central policing, which has been in practice since it replaced local polic­ing with native police that is the nucleus of the Nigeria Police Force, as it is known today.

This means that like our political system, which has changed from parliamentary to presidential and is subject to another change, policing has also changed from local polic­ing in the colonial days to the centralized policing currently in practice and about to be reversed to the old system like the national anthem which recently got reversed.

Preparatory to adopting a state policing structure, of which Nigeria remains the only country amongst 25 in the world still operat­ing federal policing systems, Mr. President has set up a committee with the 36 state gov­ernors to achieve the mandate of devolving the central policing system in Nigeria to the states in conformity with the practice in the United States of America, Australia, Germa­ny, and Sweden.

Currently, the Federal Government keeps 52.68 percent of all incomes in Nigeria. Some pundits are making the case that no matter how difficult, President Tinubu should let go of some of the 52.68%. That would certainly happen if the state policing initiative of Mr. President becomes a reality.

That line of reasoning is validated by the reality that it would be required that some funding currently going to the Federal Gov­ernment be allocated to the states to support state police as soon as the current central police is rejigged with less power.

Put succinctly, perhaps the NPF would be reverting to the way it was in the pre-inde­pendence days with provincial police taking charge of managing local crimes and the NPF only getting involved if the crime was committed across state boundaries, which was the prevailing order of things.

The third silent restructuring sign on the horizon is the ongoing negotiations between organized labor and the Federal Government on the national minimum wage.

By the time it concludes, the identified aberrations in the National Minimum Wage Act 2019, which imposes a uniform minimum income for workers nationwide (a law that some of us have argued breach­es the principle of true federalism which guarantees a reasonable level of autonomy of each of the federating units) may likely be reversed to allow each state to negotiate the minimum wage that it can afford to pay depending on the state’s capacity and ability.

If such a likely scenario were to manifest as a product of the intensive engagements between organized labor and the Federal Government, it would require the parlia­ment to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2019 in the manner that the National An­them Act 2024 was amended as part of the activities marking the first anniversary of the incumbent administration on May 29, this year.

https://independent.ng/how-president-tinubu-is-restructuring-nigeria-silently-1/?utm_source=&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D

Absolute bunkum

Chinkoalhaji34:
Tinubus decisive leadership and commitment to eradicating terrorism in Nigeria will prevail over the naysayers.

Trash

Shadomaan7:
Tinubu remains a strong leader committed to eradicating terrorism, unlike Atiku who only criticizes without offering solutions.

Lunacy

sIfioksq:
Tinubu is the man for the job, Obedients can keep hating while he continues to fight terrorism and move Nigeria forward.

The broom used in beating the first wife is in store for the second wife!

Sometimes bad things happen because of the path we took to avoid it.

Nigeria, next time look before you leap. You had it coming alright!

I'm one of that number, including my family

SmartPolician:
It's interesting to see Americans and Brits becoming Canadians. As for those Nigerians, they are raising a generation of children who won't return home ever again. Those are the people they call African Americans in the US.