max57: If you want to know how smart Nigeria army are, watch them pour action on civilian,but if them see boko Haram,they say they not on course...Good help us
Then some foolish individuals will demand that we respect someone because of their job. Of all the people in the world Nigerian soldiers.
Powerintoxicate: Only if the President had closed the border early enough Nigeria won't have been in this mess. this Briton came to Nigeria March 17 2020 imagine such wickedness from our government
Please don't be angry he was waiting for his daughter to come back....
The best way to get the President to care about your case is to be related to him.
Garrieveryday: Truth is those complaining of beggars are not even giving helping hands to the beggars. Their own is just to pick offence because they've seen someone who must've had no option than to throw his pride away and resort to begging due to situation on ground.
And also, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH SOMEONE BEGGING. ABSOLUTELY! 'WE ALL HAVE BEGGED AT ONE POINT OR THE OTHER IN OUR RESPECTIVE LIVES. NOBODY HAS EVERYTHING IN LIFE.
If I'm being honest it's very hard to be generous in Nigeria. In uni I lent my appliances whenever someone asked but I noticed that if I didn't chase after some people they would never bring them back. Some even broke them and when I spent my money to fix them they would come right again asking and would throw a fit if I said no.
We really do. There's no shame in asking once in a while but some people make it a habit to irritatingly ask for food, money, clothes, appliances etc constantly.
This gimme gimme culture was something I noticed as a kid but has persisted until adulthood.
It's like some people were raised without having any kind of boundaries.
I seriously doubt this man 'died of hunger' there are numerous underlying conditions that could have lead to this. For safety of the public I hope infectious disease teams are following this situation.
CoronaVirusPro: So the president of a country being in the front lines is a commendable move?
Hello, if you truly know about leadership, you won't compose what you have up there. So if a confrontation happens and he is shot dead, what would be your conclusion.
Is he a combatant, Airforce or Naval officer. What skill does he have to be in the front lines.
So you expect MTN CEO to climb a Telecom mast when their is a major outage.
It's demoralises, insult and ridicule to the Generals in his cabinet. And same time and insult to his office to have appointed incompetent lots that had to warrant him to go to the frontlines.
We talking about a No 1 man of a country.
The President commands the military, if a general says go and the president says stay the soldiers must stay.
The pay must be really good for you to be applauding mediocrity and hating good works.
I'm sure if it was your darling president doing this you would run naked at Eagle Square.
etrange: Actually, this is not true. Pictures of scanty or deserted roads can be taken in virtually all countries now including Nigeria.
First, Dubai police has been going around urging people to go stay home.
Second, residents were threatened with jail terms or a fine between AED200,000 to AED1,000,000 if they break the stay-at-home order. A European living in the city was recently arrested for encouraging others to ignore the order.
yers6: I swear!!!!!!!! This is the best policy in education sector in recent years. Was still discussing this very crucial issue with woman days ago!!!!
Imagine a scenario whereby some new generation 'sophisticated' parents wants their wards in JSS 1 at the age of 7, 8, 9 or 10 and by the time the kid is 16 or 17, would already be done with university! And then by 19 would be done with nysc and then start working. And for those in majority, may not get a good job at that stage and so, life problems start hitting them with so much frustration which they were not fully prepared or grounded to face and then they resort to drugs, prostitution and other dangerous vices just to keep face or survive!
And there is where the challenge starts. Because they are still teenagers with the enormous mantle of grown adult's headaches, they become so directionless in life especially because most Nigerian men don't intend to settle down maritally or even take life very serious till they are 30 years and above. FACT!
Come to clubs on the island and you would weep for the new generations our so called enlightened and cosmopolitan parents are now raising. You would see young girls of 15, 16 from mostly Christian and Religious higher institutions of learning like Covenant, Babcock (the Babcock lady giving head last year in the viral video comes to mind here), Redeemers, Mountain Top, Caleb, Unilag, Leads, Alkhima, Afe Babalola, etc, flooding some of the most exquisite, expensive and classy night clubs on the island, in Owerri, Benin, PH, Abuja every and every weekend!
Or why do you think new exquisite clubs are opening up every other day in Lagos and those cities mentioned? High rate of slay queens everywhere? Or astronomical numbers of mamalawos on IG? Or the fact that weed, codeine, and other 'get high' drugs are recording the craziest sales ever? Its beyond just the fact there are big boys ready to spend but simply because the young and willing underage girls from the higher institutions of learning abounds massively like the sands in the ocean. You see young girls at age 17, 18, 19 among them already having flapping and seriously sagged breasts**.
And you begin to wonder if they are not young girls from so called prestigious and religious universities where security was very tight, where morals were preached and impacted on all fronts, where their parents spend fortunes on them to be in so called best schools?
If you were one brought up in a strict home and responsible background and happen to see things as they are in those cities mentioned, you would weep bitterly.
Don't get get this submission wrong as this is not to generalise that all underaged kids in universities are bad or irresponsible. Far from it. Still a lot are well raised and doing remarkably well even after graduation. Because age at times doesn't translated to maturity. But the danger lies in having kids who are not raised well to fully absorb the crude shocks of life in the majority!
How can you explain so many 16 years olds in 400 level in universities but are already deeply enmeshed in drug abuse? Or the girls that have committed several abortions that they have lost counts? Or those who have been to 100's of exquisite clubs in and out of the country at age 16/17? Thats why you see so many childish comments on social media posts and forum especially on Nairaland in recent years and you begin to wonder, who are these so called young adults with terribly childish mentality? How can you then explain the highest numbers of young boys and girls committing suicides in recent years when we all know Nigerian rarely commit suicide? By time the damage has been seriously done on those boys and girls, you now see their mother's en masse in churches and other religious gatherings seriously praying and fasting for God to touch the soul of those already destroyed children.
We play and pray too much in this country!
How many people do you know that finished university at 16? Most of the time they are between 20-23.
Also one thing you must realise is that those so called Christian schools are nothing but well dressed prisons. There is no difference between how someone in a 'Christian school' thinks and how someone in a federal school thinks, Christian schools just put false marketing in place and enforce harsh rules to sell that image. Plus many students of those schools come from rich homes so it's no surprise that they go to affluent clubs. When someone from a federal school goes to olosho joint in Ajegunle I don't hear people talking about it.
Many of the things you talked about aren't new or unique to a particular age or generation. Fela and Bob Marley were smoking weed before most of us were even born.
Sorry to say but this policy is quite pointless and does not address major issues with education such as public schools lacking basic infrastructure, study materials and relying on corpers rather than trained teachers.
dazzlingd: The bullet from a 14 year old is as effective as that from a 40 year old. Child soldiers have been known to be the most deadliest, they have nothing to lose and see war as a movie. Pls respect the men that faced these guys bullet for bullet while u are here typing behind your keyboards...
Meanwhile , many of those soldiers are even below 25...where was your dad, brothers,and uncles when these man risked their lives for your nation. Some of them suffer permanent disabilities.
You cowards should respect the army, they are not the cause of your frustrations , they suffer more from the incapacity of your government....please they deserve one thing, respect them or rather keep shut
Clearly you miss the point of why the Nigerian Army is not respected. They can waste civilians on streets, call them all sorts of unprintable names and dish out threats.
They keep talking about how their training and job separates them from the 'bloody civilians' yet when civilians take up arms they say the opposite.
What I do feel is pity for anyone dead or crippled fighting this protracted conflict. Clearly the generals in the army are not interested in finishing this fight, these aren't my own words these are what former soldiers have told me.
Cosmatikka: So it is these untrained riffraffs that are giving our soldiers trouble? The best way to solve this menace is divide the country let all man go. Any Fulani seen in Biafran land without proper identification will be shot on the spot. Let their BH remain with them there, perhaps their elders will learn to make peace with them wen oil money is not coming again
I always wondered why dictatorships rise so easily with rational people existing, then I read comments like this and it all comes together.
ucheo: Governors are just strugling to outdo each other in the looting format called corona virus. 1000 beds in one state is praying for the corona to hit them hard..
So they should wait until people are dropping dead on the streets before they do something?
Because women are almost never told no. After years of having men suck up to them and give them attention, money and favors for free a guy standing his ground is enough to drive some mad.
chiemmanuel: Why are the numbers increasing despite the lock down
Because
* We didn't close the borders on time * We didn't test everyone coming into the country * We didn't even quarantine people from high risk countries * The virus can spread without the carrier showing symptoms * The virus can survive on surfaces and in the air * The lockdown was started when potentially thousands could have been infected already * Some people still leave their homes