until ppl understand that govt policies and attitude in this country have given all agencies both govt and private the leeway to rip off the citizens in every way possible. this country is gone, and there's absolutely no effort towards salvaging it. go to NIMC centres and see how workers there behave like deputy gods just because of govt directive on NIN, this is a country where one has birth certificate, driver's license, voters card, registered sims, international passport etc, yet govt claims not to have your data.

Tomorrow a thief or armed robber will suffer mob action and ppl will be pitying him

there's no system of government that will fit Nigeria until political leaders and followers change their attitude and perception about public office. because for ten Nigerians looting the treasury, there are millions out there wishing and waiting for their turn

do you people want to use this thread to depress me(crying) it's been very depressing really, who wants to bell the cat?

ppl shouting that DNA testing be made compulsory, nobody is stopping you from doing the test, it's free will test, what concerns govt with it again....it's your money just go and do the damn test.

come and say it by yourself

Nigeria faced argentina four times in a fifa senior world cup and lost 2-1 1-0 3-2 2-1
they seem to have that slight edge always at the biggest stage

I don't understand,
are they telling him?
are they begging him?
are they advising him?
are they cajoling him?
another name for Nigeria as a nation is lawlessness... the legislative arm summoned the president over security issues in his domain and nobody knows whether he will honor the invite?? chaii

how do we know that u have really stopped?? why not share ur tips instead of hosting a conference �

please nobody was beaten to stupor in the video

what if it's a test?

lindareep:
If you are in the teaching line or you can teach, arrange for private home lessons.
I almost turn weekend private lesson to a mini school settings during my service year.
I started with 2 students, I was taking them mathematics only for weekends.
Before 5-6months of service, I was already counting up to 8-10 students.
At that time, I don't even touch my alawe.


Meanwhile, beard growth oil is available for Lagos and Abuja clients at a discount price of N3,500 only!
Chat me up now to place order.

where in Lagos

Ajibade123:
so people still do local cult smh

do you wish to work or study in countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Dubai, Germany, Cyprus, Malaysia, Turkey check my signature for my contact

yes, I prefer Australia or New Zealand

Many of you shouting social media regulations, just know that your idea of regulation of social media and the govt idea are not the same. Even in the absence of social media, Nigeria was a mess, social media is one of the least problems of Nigeria right now. As for me, it's better we manage the fake news that filter in with the social media than no news at all and the govt now gives you all the news. Beware of what you wish for.

pickatyou2:


Man U is winning it no draw here

e don cut sef, man city women team wey I give straight win go win for extra time, nonsense ppl

I bet 1x in this game, I no want story, I want chop my 265k�

Unik3030:
it is now becoming clearer day by day that the Lekki shooting was blown out of proportion because of the hate for Tinubu n plans to destroy his presidential ambition.

where is feminist coalition?
where is arise tv?
where are the Twitter warriors?
where are the celebrities?
where are the human right activists?
is Lagos life more precious than rivers life?
was Lekki shooting hyped because it was APC?
is it that all those mentioned above decided to keep quiet cos it's PDP?
are they telling us PDP has d monopoly to kill?
so PDP can kill without any media backlash?
people are killed with different clear evidences n not inflated but nobody is talking.

can u now see y some people people d Lekki issue was more political than freedom fighting

please don't go there, that incident was under reported, if you defend tinubu as having nothing to do with it, it's understandable, but saying it's overblown out of proportion is way way outta of the line....I think there's a thread about how premium times newspaper made a private investigation into it....
all these just show the extent of impunity exhibited by the political class and the force ppl

BIGGESThead6:


Yes it was IPOB that burned down Oba of Lagos Palace and soon your people will give account for that. Cause Nigerians hold you guys responsible for all that transpired in Lagos. NNAMDI KANU ordered his Boys to burn down Lagos and they did.

lolzzz, where ignorance is bliss....
swear with your life that you're not aware that those guys swimming in oba pool are not Yoruba boys. such a shame

MEET CSP RABIU GARBA (DPO, FEGGE POLICE STATION)

TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIM.
HE IS HUMBLE TO THE CORE
HE SPEAKS IGBO VERY WELL
HE SMILES LIKE A WOMAN
HE IS NOT TRIBALISTIC
HE HATES EXTORTION
HE HATES INTIMIDATION
HE IS A GOOD LISTENER TO EVERYONE
HE PICKS UP HIS CALLS ANYTIME
HE IS ACCOMODATING
HE IS YOUTH FRIENDLY
People say police is not your friend but in this man I disagree with that notion. In him, i immensely believe that police is a friend when you meet a good one.
Yesterday the youth were looking for Police Station to burn down. When they troop to his Fegge Police Station with gallons of fuel and weapons, policemen all deserted the station but the DPO remained. As soon as he came out, the chants of the angry youths change from "We no go agree oh we no go agree oh" to
"DPO Garba you are a good man
DPO Garba you're a good police man"

LESSON: BE NICE FOR YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHEN YOUR KINDNESS WILL SAVE YOU.

Congratulations Rabiu Garba. Maybe by now it would have been a different story but your kind gestures spoke and defended you in trial time.
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The testimonies are overwhelming

Ok, nobody died, nobody got injured...But

1. Were there Nigerian soldiers there that night?
2. Did they shoot live bullets straight at ppl?
3. What was the intention of the shooting?
4. Did the Army or govt take responsibility for the shooting that didnt injure anyone?
5. Is it right to shoot live bullets at sbd for disobeying curfew?

who do we believe?
I know even when Boko Haram strikes, govt usually play down the casualty figures just to save face....maybe the same scenario is playing out here.

sometimes, I wonder how government will like to lie for nothing, but that's not my concern, am appalled at ppl that actually believe the nonsense lies of the govt. if u want to know the truth, ask the abokis that have been helping them to load and unload all those items...

not running the risk sounding tribalistic, but why is it that some Yoruba guys just find a way to hate other ppl. I saw posts where some disgruntled elements were saying that the properties destroyed in Lagos were done by ipob led by Nnamdi Kanu.....Like seriously? I thought all the youths are trying to rise in one voice? one stated that other tribes are trying to spoil lagos while their regions are in peace....well other regions are not in piece atm if that makes such ppl feel good. nobody bargained for what happened, but trying to even turn it into tribal rants and war is way out of the line..... peace �

someone in govt quarters is milking money through IPPIS, why import software from overseas and come n be preaching local content to us....don't we have competent developers?

lemme stray a lil bit.....why do northerners see any protest as divisive and that it's a hate towards govt? they think they have the interest of Nigeria at heart more than other regions? because I don't understand the stance of the northern governors. if today northern youths take a collective stand to protest against Boko Haram and bandits, will their southern counterparts not lend a support? it's this divisive voices in the midst of bad governance that gives govt more impetus to misbehave. am not really angry at the governors but at some northern youths that support their stand. everyone wants good life, good govt, good education devoid of unnecessary intimidation and wanton killings.

but the brother to chacha said that she has not used her phones for five days, and that she's not suffering any mental problem. probably something doesn't add up

fans absence cannot be ruled out completely because wen fans are there shouting, the concentration level of the players rarely drops.

GOTVee:
As a born again Christian who is meant to speak the truth at all times, i think banning sars Is wrong and we should learn to live with their excesses. Majority of present yahoo boys are future armed robbers. What do you expect someone who doesn't have any skill than stealing from people to resort to when yahoo stops paying? They either commit suicide or turn to armed robbery just to live above their means. This is why i blame we Christians for encouraging this menace called yahoo boys. Even in churches the pastors don't care if you scam or rob people as long as you bring money to their temple. How many Muslims are involved in yahoo? How many Northerners have SARS operatives harassed? Are there no sars in the north, why are northerners not complaining like we southerners? We Christians need to learn a lot from the ways of life of the average northern Muslim. Their ways of life is guided with the tenets of Islam and they are so contented with whatever they have and would never get involved in cyber crimes.


Don't you realize that the average yahoo boy and cultists poses a security threat to your lives in future? Do you know how many have died as a result of the atrocities of yahoo boys? We need SARS to deal with those heartless vermins. Yahoo boys are no different from armed robbers. They only rob with phones, gadgets and deceit and since SARS are against robbery they must keep tracking every youth living above their means . Instead of ending SARS, why don't we end fraud and build a sane society?

I support SARS

u sat down to write these nonsenses? if sars is arresting yahoo boys and court-martialing them, nobody will complain. but they are killing innocent citizens, they shoot ppl at will and tag them yahoo boys. have u ever seen how rascal, irresponsible and rude these sars are? u won't hear much sars in the north because they don't make much money there illegally arresting students and young boys. last week a friend told me sars just entered there lodge at a university in the east, arrested the boys in the lodge, for what offense? none! then collected money to bail them. do u know what ppl go through in fear just because sars can waste your life any time without repercussions? it's their excesses that brought the uproar and not the support for yahoo guys.

it's BBN that caused it, funny Nigerians, many were blaming BBN for the problems of this country, now it has ended, get ur ass up and solve those problems....ohhh no, we just look for another thing to put our blames on.

codemaniacs:


what truth is been buried

Yorubas are meant to be pro-yoruba, Igbos are meant to be pro-igbos e.t.c without interfering in each others politics, developments, education e.t.c..

igbos will have wiped out most of the yoruba nation during the civil war if their attack was successful and had gone beyond Ore..

so protecting ethnic interests especially within that ethnic group's region became very important after the civil war... the problem is most Yorubas don't even know that the rest of Nigeria does not mean well for the yorubas and yoruba nation.

during the war proper, the two sides of the divide were fighting to wipe each other, that's why war is an I'll wind that blows no good, but u said the Igbo started the war... I guess you read it from a book

Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!
Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!

*JANUARY 8, 2018*
By Ochereome Nnanna

For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in angry protests.

When first I listened to the President making that speech I could not believe my ears. So I had to wait until the mainstream media published the full text of the speech, and there it was in cold print: “Negotiations are also advanced for the construction of other railway lines, firstly from Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic passing through Kazaure, Daura, Katsina, Jibia to Maradi”.

Maradi is the third largest city in Niger Republic with a predominant Hausa/Fulani population. It is about an hour’s drive through a bumpy road from Jibia, the border town near Buhari’s hometown, Daura, in Katsina State. When I went to cover the 2007 presidential election in which Buhari ran on the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, in 2007 and the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I had joined a team of journalists that went to Daura to visit Buhari for an interview. We also monitored the election in Jibia, which is a border town with Niger.

I realised how easy it was for people from the two countries to cross the rickety border post manned by a man dressed virtually in rags. He only smiled when we decided to set foot on Niger Republic soil. Indeed, it may interest Nigerians to know that Daura Emirate stretches deep into Maradi and Zinder Departments in Niger Republic. During the 2015 election, there were reports of thousands of people from Niger Republic crossing the porous borders to vote in an election that was none of the business of their country. In the far North Nigerian electoral officials hardly ask questions about the eligibility of voters. That is why you see millions of under-aged voters voting, and at the end the polls are declared “free and fair”.

Once Buhari achieved his life’s ambition of matching Olusegun Obasanjo’s feat as a former military ruler who became an elected President of Nigeria, his visit to Niger Republic became the first of the 22 foreign trips he made within 11 months before he was slowed down by ill-health. He was received by the President and people of Niger like a triumphant son back from the battlefield. Niger Republic President, Mahamadou Issoufou, gave him a white horse and a golden sword. In fact, Issoufou, in 2016, emblazoned Buhari’s photograph beside his own on vehicles during political campaigns.

I went into all this to let you know that the planned new Nigerian railway network from Kano through Daura and Jibia to Maradi in Niger Republic is a selfish project that has nothing to do with other Nigerians like you and me. Even though a president’s oath of office indicates: “….that I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conducts or my official decisions…”, Nigerian presidents and governors brazenly disregard their oaths of office and oaths of allegiance and divert the state’s or nation’s resources to their pockets, and after that, to massively develop the infrastructures of their hometowns no matter how remote such places are.

For me, if Buhari had merely sought to connect his hometown, Daura, and even Jibia to the new national railway network, I would not have minded it too much, though it violates the principle of economic viability and bankability, which the largely borrowed funds will emphasise in order that we repay the debts in good time. The same logic that led the British colonialists to pass the Eastern rail line through Eha Amufu in today’s Enugu State and terminate it at Nguru in today’s Yobe State and pass the Western line through Kaura Namoda in today’s Zamfara State can also be adduced to extend the new rail network through Daura to Jibia, even if a president did not hail from there.

The offensive aspect is extending the railway 55 kilometres into a foreign land just because the President considers the region as part of his hometown.

When the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, was called upon by critics of this unviable extension of our railway to defend it, his response was vacuous and of very little use as a justification. By the way, the proposed new rail addition from Kano through Kazaure, Daura and Jibia to Maradi covers a whopping distance of 806 kilometres, which is more than the distance from Lagos to Abuja (779km) and Lagos to Calabar (770km). It is important for Nigerians to know the scale of the rail line and the amount of borrowed and oil money we are going to dump on this aspect of the project just to gratify the personal whims of the President.

Hear the Minister: “We realised that we had competitors for our landlocked neighbours, competitors like Ghana, Togo and even Benin Republic. Our landlocked neighbours are importing through these countries because we don’t have rail lines that go to them. So, to address the situation Mr President approved a rail line that will go to Maradi in Niger. But that rail line which will come from Kano to Maradi in Niger must pass through some cities. So the rail line passes through Kazaure, and then Daura before proceeding to Jibia and then Maradi”.

The questions the President and the Minister should answer are: Did “our competitors” like Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic build rail lines into Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali and thus stole the “competition” from Nigeria? The answer, obviously, is no. Secondly, why don’t we also extend the favour to Chad and Burkina Faso if indeed we need their patronage? Thirdly, what “competition” is Amaechi referring to? How much do Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic make from imports that our landlocked neighbours route through their countries that makes it enviable which Nigeria should scramble to snatch?

It would be a different ball game if Nigeria and Niger Republic signed a memorandum of understanding to share the cost of the rail line, each country taking the financial responsibility to build the lines that run through their respective territorial jurisdictions.

One thing Nigerians must never forget is that we are borrowing heavily from China, Europe and the Breton-Wood institutions to build our standard gauge railway network. Repayment for the loans which outlay is not available to me at this moment will span decades. Most of us will be gone from the surface of the earth while the repayment will devolve to our children and possibly their children.

This is why we must never keep silent when the ruling party and leaders so brazenly violate the nation’s interests and abuse their offices by throwing projects from these loans into unviable remote hamlets, including hamlets in a foreign country that happens to be a part of their hometown.

I am very sure that our National Assembly, especially the very responsive Senate, will thoroughly examine this railway plan and its funding and protect the interests of all Nigerians, including those of their future generations. Sanitising the implementation of this railway plan will be a prime opportunity to prove that this country belongs to all of us. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to take what belongs to all of us for himself and his kinsmen alone.

We are in a democracy, not a military autocracy. Even if we must accommodate Daura and Jibia to make Buhari happy, the rail line must NEVER be extended an inch into a foreign soil.

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