₦airaland Forum

Truth is most president or top politician families anywhere in the world have special security details attached to them. It comes with the office.

The prayer is to prevent this from ever happening. Once it happens and they have the victims, it becomes extremely difficult to rescue the victim without risk to their lives.
Victims families and loved ones will literally beg security agencies not to interfere if they thought giving in to the kidnappers demand is within their ability.

My concern is the fact that even after victims are released, the security agencies still seems to be bereft of ideas on what to do to apprehend the criminals

May God judge everyone profiting from the pain and miseries of Nigerians regardless of their party labels. Amen

Well sir. If this is true, which I don't think it is, then it happened under your watch.

I am not at all surprised though. Some of the extreme left in US and those who back them celebrates people being killed for having a different idea or politics from them.

If the person gets killed, they put the blame the victim for causing it and justify the killer. If the person escapes being killed, they senselessly claim they staged it. You can't win with these people, their minds and reasoning are clogged with hatred.

Lol. So its believeble that the US is running out of missiles but Iran is not.

It's so tragic when you see people telling themselves obvious lies as a consolation. Sometimes I wonder if they are just trolling or if they are really such blinded by deep hatred that they lose all their sense of reality.

Lol. Iran is "winning". At the end, the truth will always prevail.

Life is not fair. Sometimes you just have to admit some things don't turn out the way you want or wish it to be. You admit the honest truth and hope for something better.

But to lie to yourself, invent scenarios that are not true, and bend over backward or twist yourself into pretzel to contradict reality is a serious malady. And I have read a lot of them on Nairaland Iranian supporters since this war started.

Melagros:
COMRADES, it's like these dudes no get job at all: God1000, freestuff, hechnore, Madrid guy, etc
Always scooping the news to exaggerate a mini weakness of the Israel
FYI, Israel will never fall oo. When will you guys stop being sympathetic to the terrorists?

Its amazing to see some some posters I used to think are intelligent suddenly starts sounding ignorant and foolish over the Israel matter.
If I have to lean on experience during my university days, I will narrow the cause down to religious blindfold and bigotry.

Indiscriminate use of tinted glass is a security risk. However just paying money for a permit should not be the primary goal, but documentation.

Bendeco02:
Oga rest

You guys like to deceive yourself

When Israel start hitting them hard without discriminating civilians, hope you won't come online to cry Israel is evil?

Iran is attacking randomly and it's bravely to you. If Israel enter their airspace and start raining bombs, you will start crying.

Israel is just being careful not to attack civilians. But Iran is just showing the act of terrorism they are known for.

Howmany Israel leaders have they eliminated since they started firing thousands of missile?

If Israel decide to see all Iranians as enermy, by now more than 500,000 Iranians would have been down.

Don't mind them. The fact that these people are so desperate to see ordinary civilians killed so as to claim Iran is winning is diabolic

Respect to the US and Israel for the value they place on the lives of their service men.

By the way, it is silly to think the US and other Western media will cover up for Trump or even Bibi if there is any news in this war that will rub on them negatively. Yet some folks will claim they believe the state media in Iran than they believe the ones in US.

I guess they never experienced state TV before. Probably never born when NTA was our only news source and directly control by the junta.

Lol. It's funny and tragic at the same time reading how Iranian regime supporters (they are not Iranian people supporters) come up with one lie and excuse after the other to argue that Iran terrorist regime is winning as this war continues

At least she can confidently protest and not feared being shot or hanged.

Engaging in acts that hurts others come with negative consequences.

LeopardX:
True that. But I wonder why he's just talking about it now.

I also don't know whether he accepted the #100m compensation.

I don't know whether the value of the investment was just #35m as Amosun (I don't like that man btw) alleged.

We don't know whether the initial contract he made with Gbenga Daniel followed due process or it was just padi padi agreement.

Why and when did the Ogun HOA declare Pat Utomi persona non grata? Did he have any bad business history with the Ogun state govt?

So many things we don't know about this issue.

Exactly! You are asking all the right questions.

They all play on the sentiment and emotions of Nigerians for their various selfish interests.

I stopped pushing for government contracts many years ago because I have no stomach for shadiness and corruption. Will only accept if it's transparent and on my own terms and not theirs.

I will never forget an advise given to me years ago by an elderly retired civil servant I respect. He said never connive with government officials to steal or deprive the masses of what belongs to them, that eventually it is never well for those who do so, never well for them and their generations.

Many elites in Nigeria have benefited immensely from poor and corrupt governance. Politicians cannot easily steal from government coffers without collaboration with those in the private sector. Government cannot award contracts to itself.

So when people like Utomi and Amosun get into these kinds of fight, it's better to step back and let them expose themselves. It's the only time the average Nigerian get to know how our political and economic elite work hands in hands to rob us of our shared wealth.

ivolt:
Contracts are mostly cancelled to either spite a predecessor or re-award to a crony for kickbacks.
Unfortunately, there is no consequence for such malfeasance.

Exactly. They all do it to themselves.

Applaud the idea and motivation first. Then go ahead and raise your concerns about the process. And then give your recommendation if you have one.

That's the least a well meaning Nigerian should do.

Namaster:
Really, you think Trump supporters are bright and mentally sound?

You think people who support a convicted RAPIST are morally sound?

You think people who support someone who had a CLOSE relationship with Epstein don't have something to hide?

You think people who support an INSURRECTIONIST who asked election officials to "find 11,000+" votes and for his supporters to invade Congress are okay?

You think people who support a FELON with more convictions than Al Capone are the cream of the crop of society?

REALLY?

None of what you listed here are hard facts. They are talking points and narratives that are only commonly used in political fights.
That is why many objective people can take opposing view to them.
Trump has many faults and flaws, but many times, people that attack him on these grounds and similar others are probably not better or even worse than him in the manner they lie, exaggerate and twist known facts to justify their hate for him.

Namaster:
Including Teamsters whose President spoke at the RNC?



Anybody against their RAPIST messiah is a bought agent.

To show the calibre of people supporting Trump, one IDIOOOT up there in the comments is talking about Elon Musk being Trump's Vice President without realising that being a South African-born individual means Musk is NOT even qualified.

Trump supporters EVERYWHERE in the world are the stupid, the creep, the closeted pedophiles, the closeted rapists and the weirdos.

Major problem is that these people are PLENTIFUL in every society.

When people make a blanket statement about Trump's supporters like this or anyone for that matter, I laugh at their total lack of self awareness. Because it takes some unreasonable level or hate and crass ignorance to harbour such views.

Like someone said, Kamala is "great" because she’s the Democratic nominee; she’s not the Democratic nominee because she’s "great" .

It means it really does not matter who gets the nomination, whether he or she is competent or not. As long as s/he is the Democrats candidate, they will turn her/him into the greatest candidate in the world.

Up to few weeks ago, the Democrats including Kamala Harris were still claiming Joe Biden is not old and cognitively challenged. That he is as sharp as ever and can do another term. When most sincere people could already see age has caught up with him. They didn't even allow a competitive primary against him.

Now they want us to just accept that the Kamala Harris we have known in the last 4 years is the most qualified candidate the Democrats can put forward. Kamala that dropped out of the Democrats primary in 2020 even before the voting process started due to her disastrous performance. She has little or no achievements to boast or campaign on. Who only ended up as VP because Biden needed the black votes in order to win the primary and prevent Sanders and other far left candidates from winning the primary and risking a loss to Trump in the general election.

Sadly, the left media in US is in the tank for her and allowing her to run a campaign where she does no serious press conference or sit for tough interviews. Where her plans for the nation and by extension the world can be tested, analysed and challenged.

It would be good if the impact of the US president is limited to the US, but sadly it is not. We now have 2 wars going (Israel/Hamas/Palestine and Ukraine/Russia) on with no end or solution in sight and the possibility of future escalation or spread. I am afraid what the future will look like if someone like her just wade into the White House without any real challenge just because they will support anything as long as Trump does not win.

They want to save the world from Trump even if they have to destroy it in the process.

Ultimately, the US politics too is as dirty and selfish as anywhere else in the world.

Macphenson:
Shouldnt MTN be smart enough to employ these guys to work for them?

And encourage future attacks?

Mama deserves a state burial

Greattha:
Oh dear.

Maama has gone to rest.

Your collabo with KSA is epic.

🎶 having babies, no be joke o....

...If you neva ready to carry d load o, why put am for another person head🎶

These words were a guiding light for me whenever it was about to go down back then.

#Legends

Great instructive songs! Funmi Adam - Eko Dara Pupọ, Christy Essien Igbokwe - Seun Rere, etc
Those days when hit songs were not just about money, fame and sex

Honestey:
Did you read the news? Anyway, Trump has defeated himself by saying he will deport foreigners when America is actually a country of foreigners

Kai. Foreigners kwa? He is against "illegal" immigration, not legal immigration. Do not allow yourself to be lied to.

SmartPolician:
The only reason Americans were even considering reelecting Donald Trump was that they were left with a terribly bad option in Joe Biden. Joe Biden was too old that he became an embarrassment to the country.

Considering how Donald Trump watched over one million Americans die of COVID and still played politics with the pandemic, if Americans reelect Donald Trump in the next election, then those people are as dumb as Nigerian voters.

First, 1 million people did not die under Trump.

Below is from the Newsweek Magazine claiming more people did not die under Biden than Trump and had to issue an update later:

Update: While the figures and the "false" ruling cited in this Fact Check were correct at the time of writing (December 21, 2021), as anticipated, the death toll has since continued to rise and surpassed the numbers under the Trump administration sometime in January 2022.

The latest available CDC figure, dated February 8, 2023, puts the cumulative U.S. COVID death toll at 1,110,364, meaning that by this point around 700k more Americans have died in the pandemic under Biden than under Trump.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-have-more-americans-died-covid-under-joe-biden-donald-trump-1661528

When political appointment isn't seen as a call to serve and make an impact.
People just make it about what u get...

When you do things in the shadows, this happens...

The so called party of democracy is anything but democratic. It's the party of elite for the elite leading followers that would just go with anything their elite says.

SmartPolician:
That's a lie. He rose from the VP to the president but was too old to continue. That man is not a black African. Those people don't think like us. That's why he quit the race in the first place

Plss. He was forced out. He didn't leave willingly.

Curious345:
I can pay my staff 250k bro.

Minimum means that's what you will pay your driver, messengers, cleaners and others on the lowest job cadre.

Hard to defend civil servants. They are part of the rot, not just politicians. Without their cooperation , politicians can't steal