I find it distasteful when people are shutting others down for airing their views. You can argue against Soyinka's point or stand of views but not shutting him down. Yes he supported Buhari to come onboard in 2015 but he wasn't the only one that made that mistake. Does it mean because a mistake was made therefore prof cannot voice his concerns again
Buhari we know has not stopped shocking some people that initially thought he's the messiah. Many of these people are ashamed to talk, but the ones that find their voice should pls not be shut down.
When governments were paying bandits to stay calm instead of destroying them, they forgot that you don't tame a tiger. Where are the repentant bandits again?
Sonoyom: The man who had all the solutions to the security challenges in the country before 2015 is still clueless 7years into his administration as Governor of Kaduna state.
Such a disgrace.
On point.
They took advantage of gullible Nigerians to come into power, and now have run out of ideas on what to do, because they had no solution in the first place. If this is not scam, what else do we call it.
Kingpin1000: Betrayers.. Igbo men too like to betray each other. North,East and West planned to kill top citizens, North fulfilled their part, what did East do? Simon Epka has been the voice of IPOB since the kidnap of MNK but some stupid people have chosen to betray him. I don't think Epka is guilty,but some people just want to bring him down. An averages Igbo man wants biafra and is angry with Nigeria and its security. A random cult group can go and burn down a police station. When we rioted in Secondary school someone suggested we should go and burn down the nearest police station after looting the market,but one of the baddest boys in my school told us that it will be fatal and they will shoot at us,so we ended up beating any policeman we saw on the road. Who gave the Location for MNK to be kidnapped. Who set the compass and who spilled the bean that MNK was in Kenya, it is not an Hausa man, fulani man, yoruba man or a Niger Deltan, but an Igbo man. The struggle for Biafra is legitimate and needed,but if Biafrans don't rid themselves of saboteurs who sabotage their efforts then Biafra may be worse than Nigeria. I am not Biafran but I assure you.. Oduduwa republic may not come to be. But in less than no time their will be Biafra.. I see a deadlier group springing up out of the splinter if IPOB, they will terrorise Nigerians until Nigerians will say let this people go for peace to reign. Within a second a youth can be radicalised if only Je buys into an Ideology. What is the importance of living when you will die without writing you name in the pages of History. MNK, Simon Epka, Tompolo etc whether we like it or not have written their names in history.
You cannot make life unbearable for the same people you are fighting for. Which kind freedom fighting is that? It should be the other way round, fighting to emancipate. There is no direction of purpose that even an unconvinced can see and align. He should go back to drawing board. All of them.
I have said it many times that resignation is the best thing for Buhari to do, now that he has run out of ideas on how to tame the tide of insecurity esp in the north.
If he has the interest of Nigeria at heart, the honourable thing to do is to hand over to Osibanjo and admit he couldn't solve the security problem. It doesn't remove anything from him but rather shows patriotism! Can he?
christistruth01: As long as Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa are Jailed to serve as examples
Everyone should do the right thing and not be fools again.
Kanu is already under trail.
Simon Ekpa definitely one day he will be found out.
We have made too much mistakes in the past as a nation fanning the amber of certain individual's or group's interests. No one seems to be working for the interest of egalitarian "Nigeria".
You can even go as far back as bringing up the Buhari one - when he was still desperate to be President. The reality is that we should all be wiser now and do the right thing. Desperate people can hide under religion or ethnicity to cause irreparable damage to the psyche of youths. Just as all the elements in questions are doing. Let's do the right thing and not be fools again.
For me, you leaving the party at that point in time when Andy Uba was doling out money to woo rivals to his party, didn't speak well of you as the 2nd highest office holder of APGA in the state. The timing is the problem regardless of your probable good intention.
Thats why the highest you’ll get is boxers, singlet, 5k perfume, or their body which they got freely from nature...If you get more than that, it’s your money they used in buying it for you..or they have overflowing cash...like Beyoncé or cardiB
woman will take loan to open shop for her man?? Or take loan at the office to buy car for her husband from her hard earned salary.?? E no possible.....na only one woman fit do am...she don die 3214 years ago...
If they fight another woman for for you, it’s not about you ....it’s their source of money they trying to protect..
Never leave a good woman because she mistakenly slept with another man Thank you
It depends on your definition of good woman. In my little understanding "a good woman" will NEVER sleep with another man. The same with a good man, vice versa. Unless the standard has been lowered.
More reasons Nigeria will find it difficult to stand. The kind of people in the system is weird. Such a public threat just to appeal your wacko base is unprecedented. Whaaaat
APC and PDP have no clear difference. We don't even know what each party stand for, as they are only seen as a platform for all comers- whether left, center or right.
However, APC nearly strangle Nigeria with very poor security records and weak economy. Citizens have never been this distressed and in pain except may be during the war. The political system and mentality of Nigerians need to change.
A 45 years old man living in great Britain, with all his exposures and education, is instigating violence over another ethnic group for purely personal hatred. This left me baffled about humanity.
And on this NL, the management need to do more to curtail bad and terrible rhetorics of hatred, abuse and intolerance.
The same trend of events that brought Buhari to power is repeating itself. Just say anything contrary to APCs online residents line of thought, hell will be let loose. Whatever happened to people airing their opinion? How does it translate to rains of insults to an elder?
NL mgt should please find a solution to uncouth utterances being recorded daily on this platform. It's now a poisonous weapon that leads to disunity and possibly disintegration.
Femi has ran out of ideas on what to spin to Nigerians. He doesn't know what else to say. He's overwhelmed by the sheer security and economic mess. But he can't come out of the Buhari circus, no, he can't.
sreamsense: Is your father better than Buhari so you can present him for us to vote? But personally, I will doubt if your father can even craw to where he can lace Buhari's shoe due to embarrassed product like you that comes out of him. Is it Buhari that gave bandit guns to go and kill? Is there any president that is happy killing his citizens? You have turned Buhari to be God who should be everywhere to protect his citizens lazy chap.
Wake up, no leader likes attack of his/her citizens even as strict as Isreal is, there was attack by IS terrorist killing two police yesterday; does that mean Isreal leader wants the killing or leader should be blamed for everything? If you think you can perform better than Buhari, go and join party so we can see what you will do differently. Beside, look for job to do lazy guy so you won't totally depend on Buhari to carry your inherited frustration burden.
If you must blame or critize Buhari or any leader, do it constructively and not just blindly blaming him for your inability to impregnate your wife or other irrelevant issues
What a load of nonsense. So a citizen should now be told how to criticize a government. Where did you learn this from or what makes you think you are doing good service to Buhari. If a leader fails, it is the job of citizens to point it out. Some will point it out in an unpleasant way, it doesn't matter. It is the basic requirement of the leader to be on top of his job or resign. Don't come here and be insulting citizens and their parents for simply voicing displeasure on how this current president is leading.
I sense NL Management are clueless and helpless on how to move Nairaland away as platform of tribal/ethnic fight to platform of reasons, thoughts and patriotism.
In fact I'm not sure if the founder of NL has any particular vision for the platform - more reasons why it hasn't evolved after many years of existence.
APC successful hoodwinked Nigerians into believing Buhari is the messiah. We cannot unwind it. We can only learn our lessons and make sure anyone coming in the name of Buhari in 2023 should not win, otherwise no more pity.