₦airaland Forum

Acjohn:
An evidence that Buhari government is confused. Policy instability is one of the things that drives away investors. It was supposed to be time for Igbo man like innoson but because hr is not a northerner, let the policy be changed to disfavor him. What happened to the automotive policy of Nigeria?

As I dey like this now, I don't know where we are headed economically, NNPC have changed from oil producer to oil importer. Resources in the north is for the people that in the south is for the government, Ipob are terrorist while Fulani herdsmen and BH are misunderstood people that government needs to negotiate with.

I won't be surprised if its a northerner that was given a contract and had to lobby for this to be lifted so that he can make good gains, after that government will reverse the policy again.

God help us from this circular motion.

This policy will not affect innoson negatively. Anyone in doubt should explain why they think this policy will affect IVM. Innoson does not manufacture second hand motors but new ones. How many people from other regions even patronise IVM? I can tell you if Innoson can produce a low budget cars for Nigerians, people will leave the tokunbor and buy his brand. IVM is competing with other world known brands in terms of price. How does he think he will succeed? Innoson needs to start thinking like the Chinese if he wants to dominate Nigeria not southeast

Pls I pray for the life of the CNPP Secretary General , Willy Ezugwu. It is currently an offence to demand for the resignation of the President. If this man is still walking free by weekend he should give God thanks.

In a radio program on rhythm FM aired in Benin city a man phoned in demanding for the resignation of the President, but before he could Finish talking the presenter had cut him off claiming such things are not said on air. May God help us

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Lush100:
Sir

No sir,
I was a student 16 years ago.
Sir, do you think if people could afford that they would buy that Chinese generator.
It is what it is. Most affordable of the lot considering Nigeria economic mishap.
Robbers will Rob once there is no adequate security. Generator is just a means to an end. It could be anything else. Knock, throwing stone, running tap, faking someone in need, anything.

student studying at night to pass his exam has done nothing wrong by putting on his generator.
If the area has adequate security, robbers will be put off.
Sir, there are hospitals near homes,
You will complain of their generator until your wife is in labor in the dead of the night,
If they now ask you if they should on the generator, " you will think what kind of foolish question is that"
Everything is about understanding not some blanket response to every issue.

Robbers have robbed where there is even light, not to talk of generator.
Just say the noise is disturbing.
By the way the new of that Chinese generator is very quiet "noisewise".

Good morning sir

My God! You were a student 16years ago and you are sounding this naive?
The reason we say generators are a security problem is not because switching it on can cause robbery but because of rescue time.

Now I have a lot of examples to give and if you have been staying in Nigeria and you are not a kid you should have heard of what I'm about to say. For example your entire neighbourhood might be robbed and people in the vicinity will not know because the gen was on. When I was in Abraka in 2004, there was a students that was robbed, where the robbers just entered the room by kicking the door open and they started cutting the two guys with a cutlass, they were shouting but nobody heard and the vigilante were smoking in a nearby joint but didn't hear because a generator was switched on. You wouldn't want to know how they looked after the incident.

In 2014, somewhere in upper sokponba in Benin city, around 4AM a man's car was being stolen. The thieves somehow gained entrance into the car and started it even though they don't have the keys. The owner claimed he suddenly heard the noise of the car and looked outside behold his car was being driven away. He shouted thief but no one even heard him and everything seemed normal because a generator was on. If everywhere was silent people would have been able to mobilise and track the guy at the junction. The noise of gen always make people loose guard. If every where is silent people will always know when something is not right

Lush100:
You are shouting because it's not your meal.
Why should someone be asked to off generator because of what. Na wa o.
Security , u can't sleep are all excuses.
If phcn was available will there be need for this.
You guys are only seeking ur own good
Robbers will Rob whether generator or not.
Imagine I was doing my Master and I had exam on Saturday and I arrived work from.a different state to my family so I will not on the generator to read.
If I fail the exam, will the landlord reduce my rent.
It's all crap.
You all talk like this because it not ur meal,
If your "life depends on running generator in the night, I am sure your tune will change"

From your countenance I see you are a student. To be frank, if my life depends on generator i will get a solar generator. There are a lot of cheap ones available e.g Lumos.
Why should you be disturbing the peace of others just to satisfy yourself. That's selfish.
And the issue of security is not rubbish. Its very real. It depends on the area you stay. It will be very bad if you decide to learn this lesson by experience

For security reasons I'm not sure any landlord will also allow you try this in Benin city (upper sokponba).
What the landlord said is true.

wirinet:
That's what I have been saying, Nigerians are the government.


No one is excusing the government or rather governments. What I am saying is that the problem with government is the same problem with our families, clans, tribes, states, churches, mosques, associations. There is no difference between our churches whereby the leader appropriate all donations for his personal use and government where the head appropriate our common wealth for his personal use.

Ordinary rice and noodles that various leaders of the society including traditional rulers were asked to distribute to the public was hoarded and you are blaming government. Government is not manned by spirits or aliens but by Nigerians.


That's what this post is about. It's about the lack of understanding of Nigerians of what leadership and responsibility entails. We cheat in all circumstances, even when we don't need to. I run some businesses and I have lost close to 500,000 this year's alone due to dishonest staff. Ask anyone running a business in Nigeria what his greatest problem is. He will tell you power, government and staff(both in terms of competency and trustworthyness)




There is a school of thought that believes that a people get the leaders they deserve. Don't you see the correlation between honest, dynamic and dedicated LEADERSHIP DEFICIT and honest, dynamic and dedicated FOLLOWERSHIP DEFICIT?

I can't blame you for your point of view. However it appears from your argument that you don't know the essence of government.
If I may ask you, why do you think we need govt in Nigeria?

If you look at the history of Nigerians dating back to pre colonial times. We weren't corrupt. In fact in ancient Benin kingdom a market woman can leave her product and go home, only to come back and grab the money later. So how did we get here?

I hope you know everything we practice today was introduced by the British, including corruption. So if government introduced corruption and you are claiming they cannot stop or eradicate it rather its the citizens who should check their ways. That amount to foolishness on your part to understand history and relate it to present day reality.

BabaOwen:
This does not make sense. So you feel they didn't tell the Nigerian government?

Aside the brouhaha we hear, the American government knows that this administration is sympathetic to Boko haram.

I didn't see anything out of place that the officer said. They only just needed evidence to prove those guys were from the judicial panel.

Throwback:
Anyone can be a suspect.

There are juvenile crimes including arson and assault, and there are juvenile correctional facilities known as Remand Home.

If there is evidence he was involved in any crime, he will be duly prosecuted and the courts will determine guilt.

By law it is wrong to parade a kid less than 18. Whether he committed the crime or not

This thread has violated rule 8 of Nairaland. why they allow such is what I don't understand. You bring a random picture and claim the person had or taken it as palliative.

This is a normal occurrence in some parts of the world but not in Africa. Your time zone was responsible for the change. Always use West Africa Central +1

Is this not part of the corruption we have been talking about? People are hungry and they were storing the food.

cynthia9:
Same here in Benin city..Benin city covid 19 palliatives at medical store road near that psychiatric hospital off Benin-lagos road

But people were able to break in
As am typing now

People are packing food


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcIqZDL9b-o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m8JA54GtbI

Baba I dey nomayo, you sure say before I reach there, the stuff never finish? I dey road as I dey type so.

Ah! God make this thing reach my hand o.

I didn't even know we had something like the National Youth Council of Nigeria

Pecuman:
It's has come to my knowledge that the army and DSS and the BSO are trying hard to find a Scape goat to blame.
Thet are frantically looking for people to tagg they wanna turn the truth on its head.

These organizations have media rooms whose sole aim is to pollute the social media with satanic agenda and in the process sow discord and mistrust and division and state sponsored chaos.

In this case they have always used the igbos as their punch bag.

Immediately after the lekki tollgate shooting ,the state(federal) ordered their media dogs to commence social engineering tactics targeting the igbos .
I followed the trend on all platforms .I am a social engineer too.
I saw the way a single individual with 200 accounts on various social media platform ,bearing hausa fulani names and working for the state(federal) started posting unsubstantiated accusations ,blaming the igbos for the attack on the palace of the oba of Lagos.
Then that same individual, switched to a Yoruba name ,and started supporting the hausa fulani accounts who made the spurious accusations .


I watched as the fake news gained currency . Then others cane in too , same set trolls, e-rats and BOTs, but this time I greater numbers .
They invaded Naira land, tweeter, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp groups ,telegram and the comment sections of YouTube videos.

They kept pushing fake news . This social engineering agenda is sponsored by the state (federal) And that makes this greatly silly and worrisome .

Again they threw up another fake news ,that nnamdi kanu ordered Yoruba properties be destroyed .BUT THE MAN CAME OUT SWIFTLY TO DEBUNK THEIR FLIMSY ACCUSATIONS. In social engineering, you have to immediately debunk fake news peddled against you else it gains momentum and looks like the truth to the gullible readers .


And then the troll and e-rats and BOTs who are individuals with multiple accounts across several socia media platforms , started to cook up another narrative.
They skillfully pointed out some Igbo dominated markets in Lagos and asked why they weren't destroyed !! I am a social engineer too.but when I saw this one, I was shocked at the lenght the state (federal) to stereotype a whole tribe just to cause division and sow discord.

They have forgotten that most of the shops they were burgled in surulere were Igbo owned . They have also forgotten that most of the well stocked shops inside ShopRite are also Igbo owned .

Just to let you know that as it this morning , over 4 ShopRite malls have been looted dry and also one spar mall have also been looted dry.

These troll , e-rats and BOTs working with multiple accounts and bearing hausa fulani names and don't forget they also switch to Yoruba names when the wanna sow discord in the south . But the maintain the northern names when they wanna praise buhari and the Nigerian military.
These trolls are the real enemy of Nigeria .

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ALSO PLAYED THE ETHNIC CARD IN HIS SPEECH. DID ANY OF YOU NOTICE IT?

HE WAS AFTER APPEASING THE DISGRACED OBA OF LAGOS , BUT HE FORGOT THE FRESHLY MURDERED 22 INNOCENT SOULS IN ZAMFARA, A MURDER THAT HAPPENED BARELY 10HRS BEFORE HIS RECORDED BROADCAST.
HE FORGOT TO MENTION THE #LEKKIMASSACRE.

WELL I just wanna advice you guys to thoroughly sieve through what you read online ,else you will have your sanity stolen by these government sponsored fake news purveyors.

#endsars
D.E.N

Everything you said is true. I also pointed this out to some Nairalanders when it started. Its unfortunate we have a lot of gullible internet users.

Pecuman:
It's has come to my knowledge that the army and DSS and the BSO are trying hard to find a Scape goat to blame.
Thet are frantically looking for people to tagg they wanna turn the truth on its head.

These organizations have media rooms whose sole aim is to pollute the social media with satanic agenda and in the process sow discord and mistrust and division and state sponsored chaos.

In this case they have always used the igbos as their punch bag.

Immediately after the lekki tollgate shooting ,the state(federal) ordered their media dogs to commence social engineering tactics targeting the igbos .
I followed the trend on all platforms .I am a social engineer too.
I saw the way a single individual with 200 accounts on various social media platform ,bearing hausa fulani names and working for the state(federal) started posting unsubstantiated accusations ,blaming the igbos for the attack on the palace of the oba of Lagos.
Then that same individual, switched to a Yoruba name ,and started supporting the hausa fulani accounts who made the spurious accusations .


I watched as the fake news gained currency . Then others cane in too , same set trolls, e-rats and BOTs, but this time I greater numbers .
They invaded Naira land, tweeter, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp groups ,telegram and the comment sections of YouTube videos.

They kept pushing fake news . This social engineering agenda is sponsored by the state (federal) And that makes this greatly silly and worrisome .

Again they threw up another fake news ,that nnamdi kanu ordered Yoruba properties be destroyed .BUT THE MAN CAME OUT SWIFTLY TO DEBUNK THEIR FLIMSY ACCUSATIONS. In social engineering, you have to immediately debunk fake news peddled against you else it gains momentum and looks like the truth to the gullible readers .


And then the troll and e-rats and BOTs who are individuals with multiple accounts across several socia media platforms , started to cook up another narrative.
They skillfully pointed out some Igbo dominated markets in Lagos and asked why they weren't destroyed !! I am a social engineer too.but when I saw this one, I was shocked at the lenght the state (federal) to stereotype a whole tribe just to cause division and sow discord.

They have forgotten that most of the shops they were burgled in surulere were Igbo owned . They have also forgotten that most of the well stocked shops inside ShopRite are also Igbo owned .

Just to let you know that as it this morning , over 4 ShopRite malls have been looted dry and also one spar mall have also been looted dry.

These troll , e-rats and BOTs working with multiple accounts and bearing hausa fulani names and don't forget they also switch to Yoruba names when the wanna sow discord in the south . But the maintain the northern names when they wanna praise buhari and the Nigerian military.
These trolls are the real enemy of Nigeria .

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ALSO PLAYED THE ETHNIC CARD IN HIS SPEECH. DID ANY OF YOU NOTICE IT?

HE WAS AFTER APPEASING THE DISGRACED OBA OF LAGOS , BUT HE FORGOT THE FRESHLY MURDERED 22 INNOCENT SOULS IN ZAMFARA, A MURDER THAT HAPPENED BARELY 10HRS BEFORE HIS RECORDED BROADCAST.
HE FORGOT TO MENTION THE #LEKKIMASSACRE.

WELL I just wanna advice you guys to thoroughly sieve through what you read online ,else you will have your sanity stolen by these government sponsored fake news purveyors.

#endsars
D.E.N

Everything you said is true. I also pointed this out to some Nairalanders when it started. Its unfortunate we have a lot of gullible internet users.

larrypappyy:
salary increament is a major part of police reform...I hope u kno dt they buy uniforms,stationaries and fuel operational vehincles out of d little they receive...I've a family who is a police man and retired in 2014 but hasn't received a penny 4rm d police service commition(how do they xpet him 2feed his family after 35yrs service) but he is asked 2bribe just 2collect that is due him.

Baba nothing concern an ordinary Nigerian with the amount of police salary. Our business is that when we get to the police stations and its written that bail is free, it should be free. I should not be in distress and the officers response is that "no fuel in the vehicle". Increasing their salaries does not in any way address the issue raised by ordinary Nigerians. I'm not saying an increment in their salary is not justified but the doctors, lecturers, teachers, and some essential service workers are also earning very little.

I have listened to the president's speech and also the presidency's statement on endSARS and I will say I'm disappointed cause it seems they don't even understand the need of the people. Most of them especially Femi Adesina feels SARS has been disbanded so everything is solved. I am telling the whole word that SARS has not been scrapped, it has only been modified.

Why did Nigerians revolt against SARS?
The simple answer to this is the extra judicial killings and extortions carried out by them. Both activities are also frequently carried out by our regular police force, the difference is the scale in which it was perpetrated by SARS was very high. People were more scared of SARS than armed robbers. So the people revolted and what did the government do? He increased the salaries of the officers as a way of saying thank you for the killings. The issue of collecting bribes in the highway was never addressed. The issue of searching of phones which the IGP said is illegal but the officers continue to perpetuate was not addressed. The officers collect these bribes and make returns to the IGP and CP. How can a government solve such a problem without firing the IGP? The police officers are the one maintaining operational vehicles, buying their uniforms, buying stationeries etc with their funds.These were the areas we expected the President to address. As it stands now anytime things return to normalcy, we should expect the police continue with the extortions in another guise as this has not currently been banned by the Nigerian government.

The EndSARS protest has with it other agitations but at least even if the President could not attend to the others, at least one would have expected him to address the main reason that drove the youths to the street in the first place. SARS has not ended, it is only been reformed as we speak

Geofavor:
It sure has something to do with their pay. They extort for personal gains as well. Be honest, their salary is nothing to write home about. They should be well paid so as to eliminate the excuse of underpayment.
That's why I said increasing their pay is a step in the right direction, and that hopefully it will reduce (not eliminate) the amount of extortions.

I hope you are not typing this from Nigeria. Please those of us that know what is going on here know that police extortions have nothing to do with their salary. If you don't know this then you are not a Nigerian. How much does a Phd receive in Nigeria? Some are receiving 40,000. While some are receiving less or even jobless. While the lowest rank in the police force receives above #40,000. Yet he still stands on the highway to extort the little from Nigerians. When you look at the general economy of Nigeria, you will agree that the police are well paid. The problem is that everyone wants to compare his/her pay with that of the politicians(who I call thieves). What we need is drastic reduction of the politicians income by reducing allowances, making a Unicameral legislature, etc. Then there will be money for Education, health and Security.

If the extortions was not an order from above, do you think the IGP will put a ban on road block and a DPO will order his boys to disobey the order? Continue deceiving yourself there. SARS has not ended at all. It has only been modified. Senator Misau had said all these before. You can google senator Misau vs IGP and see the revelations brought forward. In our various lives we have police officers as friends, brothers, uncles, father, in-laws, etc. So we know the reasons for the extortions. I am surprised the government is feigning ignorance.

Geofavor:
That's a step in the right direction.

Hopefully, as a result, the extortions by these guys will be greatly reduced.

Are you kidding me? Dude are you in Nigeria? Or are you a kid? The extortions from police have nothing to do with their salary. They make returns to the CP and IGP. This is what we expected the President to address which he hasn't. What it means is that the extortion will continue because it is a direct order from above.

AchalugoNwa:
[s][/s]how low can some people sink just because of money or petty politics and tribalism?
how's this one better than SARS that kills and cover up

That guy you are quoting is from the presidency. They have a lot of post in Nairaland recently attempting to confuse people that the killing is propaganda. If you guys can create a thread on it to warn people, please do so. But be careful of them.

On that particular day of the lekki shooting, there was also shooting of unarmed protesters in Edo at Ogida barracks which wasn't reported. Let them be deceiving themselves

RenaissanceGuy:
Do you know who the govt is? The people are the govt. Those in authority are there because the people put them there. Even in military regime, the masses revolt against the government and win at the end. Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, Sudan are recent examples.

Why you guys always remember other countries and forget your own is baffling. In Nigeria when we revolted against IBB, he resigned, making him the first and only Nigerian head of state to resign his position. Although he used the term "stepping aside".

ngeneukwuewuGOAT:
we who are elders warn from the unset that this protest will yield nothing but anarchy but they call us pro-government

Baba the protest was necessary but at this point I think we should give it a beak

SweetJoystick:
His face should not have been captured, a man hunt will be launched and will end up back in prison.

A man hunt for him? So what happen to the inspector Dele, no hunt for him as well? Nonsense.

ngeneukwuewuGOAT:
Sad

The criminal is happy thinking he has regained freedom. To re-arrest this one dey very easy. Just a matter of days he will be apprehended.

NOW I WILL URGE PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI TO QUICKLY PUT THE POLICE IN SHAPE SO THAT THEY CAN FULLY START TO PERFORM THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION. IT WAS TOLD THAT WHEN THE PROTESTERS CAME, THEIR WAS NO COUNTER FORCE AT THE PRISONS. THE REGULAR MOBILE POLICE THAT WERE USUALLY STATIONED THERE WERE WITHDRAWN ON THE IG ORDER HENCE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MISCREANTS TO HAVE A FIELD DAY.

Then the IG is responsible for the jail break. Why will the mobile police there be withdrawn. Also what happened to the warders, I thought they were always armed.

karkel:
I need a reliable source to confirm all these stories..... Na your location be that

Baba the report is correct. If you read this thread from page 1-4, you will find a lot of people staying around there. My humble self can verify the prison break and the ugbekun police station as I stay at upper sokponba very close to Ugbekun police station

FlordFlorez:
If u think protesters did all those plus the prison break, then ur brain need urgent examination to ascertain ur reasoning faculty.


Government of the day are doing all sorts of things to clamp down this peaceful and genuine protest cause they can't fulfill the demands of the protests.

Shame, shame, shame, to our leaders for trying to use us against us.

I stay at upper sokponba, the report is true. Call anybody you know staying around those premises in the report to verify if its true or not. The protest has been hijacked. I suspect the handwork of politicians.

binsanni:
See lies abeg

I'm at upper sokponba now. The report is true. Regrettably the protest has been hijacked. There is currently a 24 hrs curfew declared. Hoodlums have taken over the streets extorting money from motorist and so on.

I still support the #EndSARS but not this.

Bluntguy:
Thank God say Seun no later escape Nigeria. What would people like you and I have done without Nairaland forum?

who tell you say baba dey naija?

Kpomosauce:
okay if 1 dollar can buy you a bottle of water what can 1 naira buy you?

My dear 1 dollar is not equal to 1naira. So you can't compare that. The OP tried. He did justice to the argument and I can't blame him if you have a low mentality.

crispus09:
IGP should address them now,I see if this protest extend to Monday military will be called in.

with this type of momentum, that might be the end of Nigeria if he tries such. Do you even know the International community is watching to see how this plays out?

globalresource:
I'm not a criminal.

It seems you reason from the back

I was once watching football and this guy's just came packed everyone they can lay hands in a bus. Without any reason. I intimidate them with my ID card

I learnt them collected money before they released them for just no reason. So are u telling me they are criminals?

It is simpletons like u that is making this country go backward

Maybe you wait till u are harassed or a family member. Nobody will tell u before u add your voice

its not everyone you respond to. some of the users here like the one you quoted are working for the government trying to skew public opinion. If they are not careful the demand might change to End police or End Buhari