₦airaland Forum

And the same perpetrator is deciding who's too dangerous to own nuclear weapons and who's not... While maintaining theirs.

perambulator:
I am not a supporter of Buhari but you need to put your primitive sentiments to one side. Who is twitter to remove the post of a president of a country? do you not understand it is an insult to you as a Nigerian? What exactly did Buhari say that warrants a ban? twitter has appropriated to itself the role of moderator, you cannot ban the president od a country while allowing kanu to continuously use your platform for incendiary hate tweets. When did Twitter become world police of speech? Apparently they had been warned but refued to take down his tweets and as soon as they were banned they then deleted some of his tweets. 1 company is not bigger than a country!!!

I dont support Buhari but fork Twitter!!! respect the sovereign country of Nigeria and our constituted president even if the holder of the office is a jack ass!!! BTW for the record, Nigerian Citizens were not banned from using Twitter, Twitter is banned from operating in Nigeria!!!

Banning a platform does not amount to banning citizens , there are other online platforms for airing their views, neither did the Nigerian Govt say citizens are not allowed the air their views. Educated people must show intellecual capacity and critical thinking not act and talk emotionally based on rumours and sentiment. Digest the bolded part. Are you not criticising the govt here on Nairaland, are you banned from doing that? nonsense! have some self respect as a people and stop turning yourselves into western slaves!!!!

These social media companies all have an agenda and if you dont stand up against them before you know they will control your thinking. As president of one of the scandanavian countries said in reaction to the Nigeria twitter ban... (paraphrasing)...."it is not for twitter to determine what is acceptable in another country, what may not be acceptable in the US may be acceptable in other countries and it is not for you to play God".

Don't mind them. Where was human rights when Tiktok was banned from America? This is a clear example of these white men trying to show their supremacy above Africans but unfortunately, we have many idiots that are too blinded by hatred to understand that the whole country is being insulted.

I hope Twitter remains banned forever. You can't complain about freedom of speech while violating that of a whole president of a sovereign nation especially when the post in question didn't violate any rules. Not even once was 'Igbo' or even 'Ipob' mentioned.

abbey621:
LMAO....Another ridiculous writeup, dude stop embarrassing yourself! The sooner you realize Twitter is not your father's property, the earlier you'll stop crying and return to your senses. Don't use our platform to promote hate, violence or abuse......What don't you understand about this? Even Nairaland has its rules and people are banned for going against it, so why having a meltdown over Twitter rules? Let me guess, it's not slavery if it is one of your own right? GTFO!

What the guy said is exactly what you are trying to say.

Don't want me on your platform? Fine, get the Bleep out of my country!

It's a clear case of tyranny being replied with tyranny. Besides, threatening terrorists is something that every president and law enforcement officers do, and no tribe or region was mentioned.

salford:
Someone said women don't invent. The first twice Nobel award winner was a woman. She is so good that she won it in two different categories (Chemistry and Physics).

If you type women inventors on Google, I am sure there is a long list of women inventors.

It's as ignorant as saying Africans are dull just because most modern inventions came from Caucasians.

Divoc19:
So we that know nothing about drug are missing out or what

Means the risk is not worth it

basilico:
Child rape prevalence in the North. Its there, been there, will be there and will be covered up because its the norm in some society.

Likewise in the south. More and more shall continue being raped by the southern pedophiles while they blindly point at the source of every single problem of their financial, marital, professional, social, and sexual lives: the north

wirinet:
I don't understand what you wrote up there? Are you saying many rape cases are reported in the north every year?

How many rape cases make it to court in the south? Most rape cases we hear about are allegations made on the pages of newspapers. Only few high profile cases make it to court.


If the average northern 15 year old girl in the north (and I mean core north) is not married, what then are the millions of girls doing? They are not doing almajiri, they are not leaning work, they are not farming and they are certainly not in school.



And northern youths don't rape teens and pre teens.
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/262965/13-year-old-girl-allegedly-raped-by-imam-7-others-says-th.html

1) Are you saying that rape cases do not get reported? That you don't see them on Sahara reporters doesn't mean they don't get reported on Aminiya, BBC Hausa, etc.

2) so if you agree that rape cases do occur in the south without getting to court, what are you arguing about?

3) and then the stereotypes continue. First off, there's what we call "noman mata", a kind of farming that many women participate in. There are also many girls that hawk or assist in many businesses contrary to what you are ASSUMING. Lastly, there are millions of girls that do go to school unless you want to tell me that Northern universities have strictly male population. That said, I can also use stereotypes against you. What do many of the unmarried women in the south do after graduation? I can easily point to prostitution and cultism aconsidering the increasing rate of unemployment in the country.

4) it's a good thing that you found a REPORT about someone raping a girl in the north. Kind of goes against your position on rape cases not being recorded, don't you think?

wirinet:
I tend to disagree with you that rape is more rampant in the south. Why? Because the north is a very closed conservative society.
Rape cases are not and cannot be reported. It will impose a stigma on the girl and her family family for life. As a result there are no statistics whatsoever on rape cases in the north.

On second thought you might be right to some extent, because by the time a girl is 15, she most likely would have been married off. Meanwhile sex with a 15 year old in the south is regarded as statutory rape.

Why a full grown adult would want to marry a small girl less than 16 is beyond me. Outside tight pùssy ( sex),What else can she offer? I feel it's some kind of fetish.

If rape cases cannot be reported, why do we get many of them every year? And stigma doesn't only occur in the north, many southerners do settle rape cases out of court and the victims do get looked down upon.

Secondly, the average 15 year old in the north IS NOT a married woman. I don't know how these kinds of stereotypes get spread in the north. The only possible explanation is that you don't know what 'average' means.

Southern youths don't marry 16 year olds. They just rape them instead

http://www.punchng.com/metro-plus/pastor-rapes-16-year-old-during-three-day-deliverance-prayer/

Tdotbluejays:
Well. Atleast he has a scholarly article that's being viewed world wide and referenced.



CSOP inspires Nigerian peacebuilder to reconnect and reflect

It was when Monday Adah Ogbe left his home country and flew across the ocean to attend the 2018 Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) that he connected with his roots.

Ogbe, 41, is a minister in a Catholic church in Nigeria and works with the non-governmental organization Pax Amor Initiative, which provides clothing and other material resources, health education, gender violence education, and conflict resolution in rural communities in northern Nigeria.

Recently, though, he asked for some time off to reflect on his life and get refreshed. He stumbled across the CSOP while doing a Google search for master’s programs and it quickly became part of his plan. “I just felt I needed peace building,” he says.

Peace has been an ongoing struggle in Ogbe’s life. As a Christian living in a Muslim area of Nigeria, he grew up amidst a lot of conflict. He and his family were attacked and had to flee twice because of Boko Haram, a jihadist terrorist organization. But it’s not just Boko Haram that is the problem. Religious clashes between Christians and Muslims happen time and time again, sometimes just starting from small issues. He says you never know when something little will turn into a crisis.

People are stuck in a cycle of trauma, but Ogbe says they don’t have resources in their community to help them deal with it. “Sometimes I think the church is the only resource where you go, you are consoled, you speak to somebody, you are prayed for. That is the only resource we have for healing trauma,” he says.

That’s why his CSOP class “Trauma, Peacebuilding, and Resilience – Level 1” with Vicki Enns, Clinical Director of the Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute, and Wendy Kroeker, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies at CMU, was so meaningful. “I feel it’s going to be very relevant and useful for me,” he says.

Ogbe also took “Conflict and Development Issues in Indigenous Communities” with Tabitha Martens, an Indigenous rights activist and PhD student studying Indigenous Food Sovereignty. He says he’s going home with a new understanding of his own Indigenous roots and motivation to connect with his roots, where he finds his identity.

He says CSOP’s welcoming atmosphere of openness makes it easy to build friendships. “It was very profound, very deep,” he says. “If I had the opportunity, I’d take all the CSOP courses.”

Ogbe is currently studying for a Master of Arts in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, NS.

https://csop.cmu.ca/2019/05/profile-monday-adah-ogbe/

Still doesn't make his opinions more important than my personal experiences. Neither does it negate reports like this:


https://dailypost.ng/2021/07/08/poverty-young-girls-offer-their-bodies-for-plate-of-indomie-bottle-of-coke-enugu-cbo/

There are also many reports of sexual slavery and baby factories in the south.

Unless you are ready to acknowledge these and understand that the south isn't any better, this argument isn't ending.

Headache material. Learn how to write first

Tdotbluejays:
I agree that "object" might have been the wrong choice of word, but I stand by every other posts about northern Nigeria. True I did not live or school in the North, but I do have friends and family from the north. My wife is also a Northerner, so I get first hand information about what's going on up north.

In India, their men hardly touch women. The do not often even look at a woman in the eye, but guess what, the country is often referred to as the rape capital of the world. Atleast India is doing a good job in reporting lots of their rape cases and not hiding it under some male chauvinism, religion or culture.

Also:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3599122

I also stand by my claim that while child marriage is more common in the north, rape is more rampant in the south. I also have many relatives in the south and I've spent some years in Lagos and Rivers. That an "Adah Ogbe" wrote some paper doesn't change anything

Drugs provide much more pleasure, but they kill you in the long run.

Drugs provide much more pleasure, but they kill you in the long term.

EdoFirstBorn:
Oh my goodness

Goodnight

Your submission has been accepted. Learn not to deny a narrative simply because it makes you uncomfortable

sanpipita:
You call a post ignorant then end up making a laughable and ignorant post, they don't touch woman publicly so that means rape or sexual abuses don't exist.

Its okay to get defensive but be smart about it, don't erase realities of many girls in northern Nigeria because you prefer a farce.

Touching in public and singing "Bum Bum Bigger than Bombay" amounts to objectification, something that you try to portray as a strictly northern thing. Read your post again.

I can say the same to you. You are overlooking the huge number of girls being raped in the south and trying to make it a northern issue alone in spite of everything that we've seen in the southern media. Ive even read on Rape against underaged girls in churches a trillion times here. I'm not denying what's going on here unlike you.

Tdotbluejays:
Of course, Yerima is one of thousands, if not millions.

Nigeria is seriously lacking in data collection, and this does not apply to rape cases alone. The same Nigeria that the Northerners would hide their kids and wives from Census workers. How would policemen even effect the arrest of rapists or abusers in the North when women are seen as sex objects by majority of the locals?

Try contacting the FRSC to collect data on accident records and see if you would get any help from them. I did once back in 2010. Maybe they would reply next year.

This is the most ignorant comment I've come across for the past two months. What you are posting here is a typical mind of a southerner who's never been to the north.

As far as I know, rape and sexual harassment are much more rampant in the south (my personal observations). Yes, there's more prevalent child marriages here but don't even go near sex abuse. Women are much more objectified sexually in the south, and there are many ways you can find out. I've heard very few northern artists singing about Yansh or showing videos of strippers. I've NEVER seen a Northerner touching a woman's privates in public or even hugging her. Even the way southerners openly comment on social media is far more vulgar and objectifying towards women than the northerners.


Also, you are being honest by half when you talk about northerners hiding children from census workers. It is well known that Nigerians in general do shy away from these things. Answer me honestly, on a scale of 1-10, how many southerners would willingly take a covid-19 vaccine today?

budaatum:
How can a thief keep thieves at bay, Ben, and to what end if not to steal it all for himself as the evidence shows Abacha did?

Naira is strong when our main product is selling for a high price, and drops as the price of crude oil drops, which is what happened when Buhari assumed power. And if you know how exchange rates are determined, you'd understand you can't keep shipping Nigeria's wealth abroad without the exchange rate going up eventually. Those you are shipping it to would give you a discount while you keep shipping your money to them, and they'll charge you more when you want it to flow back.

If Gej era corruption had continued ₦1000 to the $ would be the norm today is what I think. Your admiration for Abacha kind of shows where your head is, I guess. He's the closest we had to that drumptf guy you also support so I am in the least surprised.

In as much as Buhari has a hand in our predicaments, I also agree that he doesn't deserve all of the blame. Any sincere economist that looked at the things going on during Jonathan's era and the subsequent drop in oil prices would tell you that we were inevitably going to end up like this. If you like, replace him with Adam Smith. We had a lot of time to diversify the economy.

OyigboUpdate:
Unknown gunmen even beheaded some people today the news are just overwhelming ti report all

Shocking

EdoFirstBorn:
A link to Facebook? Jesus what is wrong with some of you?

The fact you even need me to explain how you just cannot use Facebook on any news website as a credible link except the story is directly yours.

For example you had an accident and posted pictures of your wreckage !!

I can't believe I need to explain this to an adult

There's hardly anything like credible link, almost all media houses lie about events, including the almighty BBC, CNN, and others. I'm not in any way saying that the report is necessarily true but that no news outlet has reported it doesn't mean it's not true or that it cannot be posted online

EdoFirstBorn:
Dear Oyigboupdate

Do you have proof of this or are you just posting information you find on any social media page?

Which credible news outlet reported this ? My.point is yes ipob are a terrorist group but just as it is unfair to label all crime on Fulani I have to admonish you to be careful of posting false and unverified information. Do not be used by disgruntled politicians to destabilise this nation.


Seun mynd44 OAM4j mukina2

This member and others should not be allowed to use personal Facebook posts as a source of unverified news

Please , Nigeria is moving ahead as one such paid agents of political parties and religious groups should not be allowed to use nairaland as their dumping group to further their agenda of anarchy.

Thank you

I won't believe this till credible news outlet or the police publishes this

News outlets do not and CANNOT report all cases of violence. In the present state of Nigeria, the death of one person is hardly worth being mentioned when more sensational killings are available. The guy posted the picture and shared a link. After all, it's not as if the news sources themselves do not occasionally give Facebook. That you don't like something doesn't mean it's not true

Nigeria would be really dumb to handover such a man, especially when US itself is shielding many war criminals without trial.

TarOrfeeek:
How then does the North manufacture all the votes we counted in 2015 election?

Was INEC counting fingers and toes as voters.

Nigeria is a very big joke.

The north has a large geographical area so there's less density. Blame your political apathy and not the north. While we vote at the polls, you guys vote on Facebook and Twitter

Valkrie:
Oga, itbjad been done before and can be done again ....!!

Have you ever wondered with all the ranting of all the Arab nations and wipe Isreal off the map from Iran they have never sat down together to plan militarily on how to achieve their aim after their last beating by Israel...!

When I hear you religious men repeatedly making reference to a war event 70 years ago, I just shake my head. Those states had barely become Independent, just like Israel but the big difference was that the enemies were never in good terms with one another and Israel had a US backing. A Nigeria backed by US would perform the same feat and till date, Israel still enjoys military and financial support from USA.

And when you talk about Iran, you are not talking about Arabs but Persians. Countries threaten to annihilate others all of the time, including US without making any moves to achieve it. China did it against Japan and US did it during Trump era against Kim Jong Un.

obonujoker:
When Israel starts now, you will begin to hear human rights

Israel attacking a country without a standing army is nothing. Fighting Iran will humble them.

Afamsi:
1 on 1 Israel will defeat this terrorists country 10 out 10

You must be thinking you are talking about Gaza here. Besides, we all know the country that kills innocent civilians on a daily basis

ifytrik:
This is one thing i hate about hausa-fulani people, they are always defending their brothers no matter what they did, i was to when i engaged about ten educated hause men in argument concerning the killings by bokoharam, they were all defending bokoharam and almost fought with me, since then i no longer argue with hausa men. hausa/fulani men here in the north believes that the igbos are highing the prices of goods in Nigeria jst ust to make buhari goverment look bad.

You are one nasty motherffucker. There's no Hausa man in his right mind that would defend boko Haram unless he is a boko haram member himself. Southerners are just shameless liars.

And don't get me started on the issue of support for criminals. You people celebrated the James of Ibori and till date, you guys worship the likes of PEJ, Diezani, Akpabio, and many others

Freedom of speech, freedom of speech. Try questioning ANYTHING about the Holocaust or promoting communism and see if these countries won't throw you into jail. Canceling Buhari's post and banning Trump was also a violation of freedom of speech.