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In other words, this is the first time that a political party in Nigeria will have a long convoy of buses and vans for political campaign? And of course, the only source of the funds for the vehicles must be fuel subsidy savings. And of course, after the elections, the vehicles will be taken out of Nigeria to be used elsewhere. |
Whoever donated those keke napep as ambulances has more sense than all the people that are using that smart intervention against Tinubu. Why? It must have been conceived as a cheaper means of providing emergency transport from areas that may not be easily accessible by road. It's better than having no readily available vehicle. Compared to conventional ambulances, they are also cheaper to maintain. Fuel bill alone would make providing regular ambulances in remote places difficult unless they are meant for a political show for just a few days. They are not hospitals; they are a last resort to getting someone in need of medical attention to the hospital. They may only be staffed by the driver. The simple reality is that there are not enough medical personnel in the cities not to mention rural and remote areas. If people can rush victims in an emergency to the hospital on a motorcycle (okada), is it not even safer in a keke napep? Finally, it's not only desirable to have conventional (and maybe with air condition) ambulances everywhere in Nigeria, we should have well equipped and efficiently staffed hospitals and health centres all over the country. In fact, we should have air ambulances. But before then, people in emergency situation should not be watched to die while we look on helplessly because there's no quick means of saving them. |
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anonimi:"Of no consequence politically in Yorubaland"? Yet he's not only consulted by aspiring and prominent Yoruba politicians but must be sought to give his blessings. You may look for a more public forum where you can't remain anonymous to insult Baba Obasanjo and see what will happen to you. I suggest you visit his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, and utter the same statement. You will receive a very warm treatment, I assure you. |
Eriokanmi:That's historically inaccurate. Northern political leaders threatened secession during the 1950 constitutional negotiations and again in the 1953 crisis. You may also want to check their call for Arewa Republic. |
Merely looking at the first picture, I almost concluded that it was nothing but a mischievous post to pull traffic. But on watching the video and listening to the most vocal of the bystanders, it became clear that the man actually kept the tubers of yam DELIBERATELY in the dirty gutter. From the way he has to search for the tubers, moving across the short exposed length of the gutter, he actually spread them almost evenly in the gutter so that all the tubers would be completely submerged in the grimly dirty "water". It's also evident that he's been keeping the tubers in such similar condition for some time (not necessarily at that spot), judging from the ease with which he hunts them out, one by one, wading his hands through the muck. Shocking to the onlookers and us, but "normal" to that "trader"! I won't be able to eat yam for a while! |
Jungle justice does not necessarily persist in our society because of perceived injustice and recorded corruption in our justice system. Rather we are still experiencing jungle justice because of several other reasons. Firstly, a mob does not gather and reach the verdict together, in the heat of the moment, that the suspect would not receive the deserved punishment from the law. Secondly, participants collectively believe they can get away with visiting violence on the accused. "No single individual would be held responsible for the crime" would be their default instinctive thought. And the law of communal silence would generally follow after the act. Thirdly, the act itself could be encouraged and carried out by the accomplices of the accused to stop him from implicating them. Very common in serious community crimes like ritual kidnapping or armed robbery. If you're able to prevent a mob action and get him arrested instead, you shouldn't be surprised, as investigation may later reveal, that some of the active members of the "kill him mob" are his gang members. In addition, genuine rage at the atrocity committed can override better judgement. And that's still a big obstacle to curbing jungle justice. It can be so spontaneous that nothing can save the accused. A single angry blow to the head can change the whole story. We should not also forget that jungle justice or mob killing could be a release valve for some with morbid enjoyment for inflicting pain on others, and can indeed be an open, public-sanctioned enactment of what some individuals are capable of doing in secret. If police do the necessary diligence in arresting and prosecuting offenders accused of jungle justice and publicize same when they're convicted, the trend would drastically reduce till it becomes unthinkable. This must especially be the case in religion-induced mob action. |
Gerrard59:Very funny 😊 |
Lukuluku69:Shocking but at the same time, interesting! |
DrAda:I think it's psychological. Something inside them wants to taunt the law they're brazenly breaking while making the dirty money. It's like saying "See me! You can't fg catch me!" Plus the fact that they lack any true semblance of education. You see, education his type gleefully call a scam is not just a means of getting legitimate jobs and connections; it instills discipline. Discipline in how you conduct your private life. And that's partly the reason you only get to know the MD or CEO of a big company is a monstrously wealthy crook when he's arraigned for some financial impropriety. You rarely see the videos of their very expensive lifestyles online. But these money-miss-roads? They must brag their way into prison and obscurity - consequent upon their losing almost everything to their undisciplined showmanship. |
Validated:Obi is not "mad" enough about becoming the next president. So, he can't possibly provide the metaphorical mad men we're talking about here. Obi needs to work on his own madness before he can become president. Hopefully, he will have learned enough right madness by 2031 because that's likely the only quality that can let him smell presidency by that time as his unusual union with Kwakwanso will have expired into futility by the previous 2027. |
MrsAyomide:No, part of the problem is people like you who pay attention to an uneducated and uncivilized ignoramus like the so-called Islamic scholar. A right thinking Nigerian, especially a Christian would not be bothered by a Muslim -Muslim ticket for as long as the pair aspiring for the political positions are competent, reasonable, civilized and trusted and supported by well-known individuals of other faiths. President Tinubu is not a fundamentalist. He's a liberal Muslim whose wife is an ordained pastor in one of the largest modern churches of our time in this country. The president has never been accused of distantly supporting religious uprising nor promoting any form of Islamic supremacy. He's a seasoned politician who has worked with numerous others from different backgrounds including religion. And it's quite clear that you're the blind one if you fail to see that there's never been anytime that the President was implicated, even remotely, in any religious issue that suggested he was favouring his religion. People like you are not so different from the intolerant lot like your Islamic scholar up there that you're actively promoting here even though you believe you're speaking against him. Before the unnecessary post and initiation of discussion on his personal but jaundiced religious nonsense, I didn't know him, likewise many other people. And you really need to check yourself about calling others not to vote for someone simply because of their religious beliefs. Do you sincerely believe that the country would be better off if we're ruled by a Christian-Christian ticket? Do you think religious insurgency, violent extremism, banditry and kidnapping would become a thing of the past if we have a Christian-Christian presidency or maybe a mixture of the two major religions? That would be nothing but a wishful thinking. The religious extremists in this country and outside are not influenced by the religious beliefs of those in power for as long as they are not doing the bidding of the fundamentalists or those that pretend to be promoters of an Islamic Nigeria. The fact that the hotbed of Islamic extremism including violent attacks and mass abductions was and is still mostly northern Nigeria dominated by Muslims is your clear indicator that the religion of the president should not be used against him by southerners, his people. But of course, you are too blind to see. |
Helinuse:Your claims about free tuition in the universities you mentioned were misleading without any attempt at clarifications. I could have been more blunt by saying you lied. And don't you pontificate about anybody coming to your post. It's ridiculous. |
Jakarta:Why then did WAEC and later in the years NECO introduce exams for external candidates who are already done with their SS3 class? Students in SS3 do NOT repeat that class. So, you can't possibly remain in secondary school till you're in your 30s. |
Jakarta:No. There's no maximum age for SSCE. But could one be 30-something plus and still legally sit for INTERNAL WAEC reserved for SS3 students? |
Imalwayshorny:Was it legal for a person of that age to be registered for an internal examination meant for SS3 school candidates? Just asking? It's none of my business, right? Maybe. |
Just thinking aloud. In 2008 when the present Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo, purportedly sat his WAEC examination that produced the now viral results, was it legal for a 30-something old candidate to be registered for an internal examination meant for SS3 students? His results recently made popular by Davido's post were obtained in 2008 May/June WASSCE when the candidate was 36. Clearly when he was far older than a usual school candidate for that exam cycle. The November/December WASSCE (popularly called GCE) for private candidates was and is still reserved for non-school or older candidates who may want to resit their O'Level exams. Just thinking aloud. Hope the school that registered him would not be investigated for actively engaging in some sort of brazen examination malpractice. |
Helinuse:Your claims about tuition payment in your referenced universities are not true in the general sense. That makes your assertion quite misleading. There are financial aids and schemes for certain categories of students in those colleges concerning payment of school fees. For instance, while a British citizen may get an upfront aid to pay about £10000 per annum repayable later, an MIT student from a low income household may pay nothing while another student in the same college will have to pay about $65000! In University of Cape Town, SOME students enjoy financial aid from the government; the school is NOT tuition-free. You don't have to mislead people to make your valid point that the government is not allocating to and spending enough funds on education in Nigeria. It is a disturbing fact. And both the Federal Government and state governments are both guilty of that. We should not excuse the university administrations themselves too. |
It is my very strong opinion that a viable forum should not censor ugly truths. This is a democracy. Yes, it is a very delicate democratic society; some may even argue that it's still some kind of pseudo-democracy. But the fact is that our aspiration in this country is to establish a flourishing democracy where quality of life is enviable and where human rights are protected and respected. We aspire to be a thriving community of diverse nationalities united in our mutual desire of evolving one of the greatest nations on earth. To achieve those lofty aims and more, we are bound to engage in discussions that can not always be savoury because we cannot possibly see issues from the same prism. It is not any exaggeration that some contributors to public discourse are deliberately mischievous in their contributions. Sometimes they engage in such mischiefs out of selfishness, and I suspect, sometimes out of nothing but pure mischief-making. While I do not claim to be always fair in my treatment of interlocutors in a public debate, I think it is unhealthy for an enabler and moderator like Nairaland to intervene on behalf of the other parties using bots to randomly detect, block, disallow and ban users for speaking ugly truths to those who deserve them. Nairaland has numerous sections. And some of those sections are meant for serious discussions and undiluted expression of thoughts and feelings. They shouldn't be meant for kids or immature adults that cannot take criticism of their ideas, comments, and use of language. That's democracy. If you can't take a brutal correction of a lie you choose to spew on a public forum, then you should stick to verifiable facts. The bots shouldn't have to come to your rescue. If you can't stand a shocking twist of your truth on a public forum, you've got no business posting your thoughts on the internet. Contributors are not your family members, friends and colleagues who are obligated to respect your views or pretend to agree with you everytime. Nairaland does not need the bots to protect you. I do not actively encourage individuals to heap insults on others. I am not advocating for intolerance, nor am I promoting attacking others for their contributions on the forums provided by Nairaland. It is not a civilized thing to resort to attacking the person of a poster or contributor on a public forum, but neither is it a responsible behavior to let people get away with lies, deliberate misinformation and misinterpretation of public issues. If Nairaland continues to heavily censor our posts simply because some moderators have programmed the bots to flag and ban some words or phrasing, this forum will fail in its responsibility to provide some semblance of a democratic space where people can honestly express themselves. Hopefully, this short piece will not be censored and my account banned for expressing a necessary truth. This is not advocating tribalism nor hate speech. |
I hope his political opponents would take a sizable opportunity to milk this gaffe. In fact, it would be very incompetent of them if they can't make him lose reelection solely on this irredeemable political suicidal talk! They should spend millions erecting billboards and making posters with no other message but his crass insult of his entire constituency. He must pay for these unguarded and arrogant comments. |
Well, I think it's just interesting to finally discover that our dear SUG president and commander-in-chief of protesters is not as competent as he loves to suggest; he's equally dishonest too. I call him dishonest because I am certain that even in his state of incompetence, he's quite aware that 500k as the minimum wage is not only unrealistic but grossly impossible! He's aware that the labour unions only meant that amount as the negotiation entry, not the realistic target for the new minimum wage. Everyone knows the labour unions always start negotiations from a fantastic demand and reach agreement near their undisclosed number. So, Mr Sowore jumping to the conclusion with that unrealistic countrywide minimum wage of 500k has once again proved that he's a misfit for the role he's been clamouring for. But of course, there's nothing absolutely wrong in having a bold dream. |
Mariangeles:I don't think so. It takes a lot more than being courageous to be a passenger, surrending your whole life to a total stranger at that crazy speed and altitude without seeing where you're going! |
HeadNigga:Your second paragraph. If you can substantiate your very promising claims with HOW your preferred candidate will achieve them, I won't ask WHY I should believe you before becoming a convert of your principal. While you are at it - providing credible reasons, facts and information - please, don't be bothered you might write too long. I sincerely don't mind reading very long texts. And I promise to pay attention while reading and keep an open mind. Thank you. |
lezz:Probably, you didn't read some comments condemning the step outright. I was not canvassing extrajudicial killings in the naive sense you (mis)interpreted my post. I don't take preposterous stance where Nigerian security operatives are concerned, or in any situation, for that matter. I do not trust our security agents, but I am human enough to recognize their efforts, especially because it is an undisputed fact that they sometimes lose their lives on duty. Therefore, if it would minimize the casualty rate of the armed forces and the police to shoot an armed individual in a suspicious situation first and ask questions later, then the order is justifiable. If you are carrying illegal arms to defend yourself, do not APPEAR threatening to an armed agent who's doing his or her legitimate duty. Nobody deserves to die violently and foolishly at the same time. And remember, if you are an honest person, bandits and gunmen do not have nor respect any rule of engagement. |
lezz:They now do. That's the Executive Order 237 the IGP referenced. If you don't want to be shot without any question, don't APPEAR to carry illegal firearms. Not the best approach, but extreme security situations call for extreme intervention. The order may be rescinded in future. Maybe. |
Sheuns:If the first shot is fatal, how will you return the fire when you're already dead? 🤔? |
onuman:You would do yourself a world of good if you spend some quality time correcting and updating your history topics. You shouldn't confuse facts so blatantly like this! |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has an active warrant of arrest for Netanyahu for war crimes. So, the mayor wouldn't be the first to call Netanyahu this rightful name going by the unprecedented and sustained ruthlessness of his war in Middle East. I know many of his countrymen see him as a war criminal too. He's already in the same league as those his side loves to call terrorists. In fact, when we really think about it, we need the United Nations to redefine the term "terrorist" so that war criminals can be called terrorists and terrorists war criminals. |
lucianohase:Provide facts and figures for your claims. With verifiable data, substantiate your assertion that "Many PhD holders... lack basic practical or social skills" compared to first degree holders. |
ogolemati:He said "... don't vote for me." He didn't say he won't run for a second term if he didn't provide constant electricity in his first term. So, it's your choice not to vote for him, but his right to contest again as provided in the Constitution. In other words, your choice to hold the President by his pre-election statement and his constitutional right to seek a second term are not contradictory. Just go ahead and refuse to vote for him. It's your constitutional right as well. |
dalass:Thank you! They just love that "scientific" language: "discover"! They "discovered" River Niger too! Mungo Park discovered the unknown river and added that useful knowledge to other spectacular discoveries of his people! They deserve a round of applause. |
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