₦airaland Forum

Chris Brown is such a good kid. Down to earth, involved, passionate. Great guy.

How did he threaten their lives? What is conduct likely to cause the breach of peace? Smh. Nigeria.

Abuse of power and victimisation. This is supposed to be a civil matter.

It is shameful how Nigerian law enforcement agencies over stretch the letters of our laws to harass and hound whoever they want, insofar as the complainant has enough money to throw around

That said, Dammy Krane needs to get his life together. He shouldn't involve himself in these demeaning situations.

Bastard. I don't blame you. I blame Jonathan for being a 'mumu' gentleman.

Amaju is a sneaky, crooked character, but did he acquire the house whilst serving as NFF president? Even then, I know that he has made lots of money from his friend - the dollar billionaire Ben Peters, so it is difficult to pin him down as having 'chopped' NFF's money.

It's neither here nor there. No doubt this involves a power tussle and personality clash of some sort. It's never about fighting corruption; that's how bad things are in this bloody shithole Nigeria.

Take most of these idiots serious at your own risk. Look at El Rufai, Oshiomole, Fayemi, the fat-faced Buhari spokesperson Femi Adeshina, Pat Utomi, Joe Odumakin, etc. The list is endless. These pretenders were once seemingly conscientious 'activists'.... But as soon as they find an opportunity to join and/or benefit from the prevailing corrupt status quo, they shamelessly grab it and rub it in the masses' faces.

I'm no longer impressed by anyone's big English and fire-speak. They all ALL desperate, unprincipled, champagne-socialist opportunists. I miss the likes of Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory. Pure firebrands like that. They don't make them that way anymore.

Sanwo-olu, take note.

What Ambode started, you must finish it.

Yes, because yahoo yahoo is the only 'quick money' route in Nigeria. You haven't told your abokki Imams and Emirs in the unproductive North to caution their almajiri nonentities against kidnapping and banditry, which undermines the peace, security and wellbeing of Nigerians more directly.

You haven't condemned the widespread Nepotism and corruption in Nigeria's Labour markets which deprives competent and deserving candidates of jobs and rather gives it to fools like you who happen to be connected.

You haven't cautioned against the quick money attitude of Nigerians in their generality, in their various workplaces and vocational spheres.

Yahoo yahoo is the low hanging fruit that allows you to 'shine' and form busy. We like deceiving ourselves in this country. We're not ready yet.

Blinkers:
Real talk!

Na foolish men dey hype ladies.

Most ladies are born dumb!

I heard about one riff raff a few years ago who impersonated Mike Adenuga's PA on Facebook. The idiot had bleeped more than 45 women (if not more), married and single, all shapes and sizes, before he was busted. Each of the bleeped singles and married dumbos paid for the hotel rooms where the fucking took place, and also paid him small 'processing fees' after the bleeps to get contracts from Glo.

Guess why he was even caught? Because he was taking nude pictures of ALL the victims, and later started using the naked pictures (of somebody's wife and girlfriend) to blackmail them and demand ransoms to prevent posting the pictures online.

So if he had only been doing this for the Bleep trips alone, he could even have bleeped thousands of these useless Nigerian women by now without any worries.

And na these same women go dey form 'what do you take me for' and 'excuse me, duh' for one mumu gentleman somewhere.

Lol. Thank God for my life. These women ain't shit. Most of them. Don't dignify them at all at all.

A serial killer in Nigeria will kill kill kill he will tire. In a dysfunctional country like Nigeria with grossly unprofessional and incompetent security operatives, this can go on ad infinitum.

This is why I have a big problem with most women. They are generally daft, penny wise, and pound foolish. If you think being a proper responsible gentleman gets you any credits with these women, my brother na mumu you be. You go chop remnants tire, while scoundrels like this would chop the real meat come leave expensive leftovers for you.

JONNYSPUTE:
Fayose's wife wouldn't ve behaved this way.

Fayemi and his useless wife are snotty elitists. Everyone knows that.

Gbemishile1:
Hmm
Word of advice to the gangs of davido
Whatever una fit hustle commot for davido before marriage,make una dey plan am now o
Cus am very sure after marriage,chioma no go allow una enter davido house again o or smell im money again

Bye bye to 30BG

See angle wey you reason the matter enter. 30BG goons go still dey track Davido for studio, club and other places na, if dem no fit come him house.

Yeyebrities with their photoshop 'love'.

Let them continue deceiving themselves with their legbegbe way of life.

Na so. How much did the free spending Tunde Fowler lavish on these ones as 'appreciation' for the useless jankara 'award? N10m? N20m? N50m?

And the EFCC has completely forgotten this man. Because he is a good friend and inner caucus man of the fake pastor Vice President they call Osibanjo, and also Tinubu's hatchet man. If ordinary me and everyone else knows how profligate with public funds this man is - squandering millions daily on everything imaginable, then how come the EFCC would not know? They prefer to chase after ordinary yahoo boys instead and some accursed idiots would be clapping for them

Nigeria is a big joke.

Are you split testing your online ads? Are you taking cognizance of algorithm changes on Google (or on the platform you're advertising on)? Are you accessing data on your ad reach and engagement? Do you use SEO at all?

Doing business online is very tough and dynamic. You can't set and forget things in the same way you would if you have a strategically located shop at a busy market junction. Two rules I abide by - don't change what works, and always keep an eye on movements/trends on the online space you're operating in.

Reevaluate your online marketing strategy. That's where the problem likely is. The fact that it manifested about the same period you moved to another shop could be an unfortunate coincidence. Forget all this superstitious nonsense.

Rubicon67:
1. You have some valid points but even FBI (US) and SOCA (UK) still act on anonymous tips when the need arises.

2. Having said that, a lot in our law efforcement system and overall societal interactions needs reorientation.

3 However, the quest of unhealthy wealth acquisition is damaging our society and the overall image of the country.

1. Acting on anonymous tips is CENTRAL to law enforcement worldwide. That's for sure, and I have nothing against that. But we must be clear about what 'acting' really means. If the FBI gets intel (whether based on mere suspicion or actionable intelligence), and if the threat is valid or big enough, they act by aborting the criminal activity if imminent or already in progress, or otherwise, by investigating, gathering evidence of guilt, and then arresting and thereafter prosecuting culprits based on the evidence gathered. It's a bottom up, iterative process. It's painstaking. It is hard work. Law enforcement is not a tea party. But 'acting' according to the EFCC is to swoop on you, arrest you and parade you based on mere anonymous tips, without accumulating any reasonable evidence against you. That is what I'm against, because we cannot condone such reckless gestapo tactics.

2. That reorientation can only come when Nigerians rise up and insist that things must be done the right way. Jungle justice 'hear say' law enforcement is not how any country is run. Unfortunately, things would never change. The entire security architecture is useless, and there is no hope for reformation because even if you sack all of them, their potential replacements are just as bad, if not worse. Nigerians are beyond redemption.

3. The quest for unhealthy wealth acquisition is present in ALL spheres of our society, of which this yahoo yahoo thing is just one facet. From civil servants to private employees to clergy men to business men and artisans and even security operatives for that matter, everyone is trying to indulge in one corrupt practice or the other in order to become rich(er) or amplify their income. Even the EFCC you're talking about, they are all corrupt bastards who individually rake in millions monthly from these revenue generation raids they call arrests. I'm a thoroughbred Street operator who is unfortunately cursed with great insight. I see these things everyday. That's why I get quite irritated when people (due to hypocrisy or shallowness) zero in on yahoo boys as the manifestation of all that is wrong with Nigeria. Thus turning a blind eye to the rot under their noses.

Bottom line is that I'm not impressed by these useless antics of the EFCC. Nigeria is terribly rotten. If and when the law enforcement agencies are ready to really do their jobs, the evidence will be crystal clear to everyone. But that's a pipe dream.

seunprodigy13:
you need to go and read the law that created d EFCC,just a suspicion of corruption is enough for them to come at u,living above your legitimate means is enough reasons for them to come at u

You're funny. Quote the relevant aspect of the EFCC Act so that I would tell you what it means.

Suspicion of corruption only pertains to transactions. What are the transactions (suspected of involving criminality) present in the instant case? Again, living above one's 'legitimate means' is only applicable to people with fixed incomes - salaried workers for example. How can you determine whether a person is living beyond his means when you don't even know what he does for a living? The EFCC should be more interested in investigating how MOST of their operatives are able to afford their super rich lifestyles (I know this for a fact), in spite of their modest legitimate salaries and allowances. It is not their job to determine whether a self employed person or entrepreneur with unlimited income potential is living "within his means", especially when there is no petition against such a person, indicating specific illegal activities.

The unfortunate thing about Nigeria is that law enforcement agencies are always eager to implement the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. True, the law is an ass, but what we have in Nigeria is an institutionalised regime of tyranny whereby idiots in government institutions create imaginary loopholes in every law in order to benefit themselves and oppress others.

You don't run a government based on kalo kalo principles or chasing after shadows. My brother resources are very very scarce. No sane government wastes scarce security resources on nonsense pursuits like this. Save the resources for serious cases where you have water tight evidence.

The only reason why this rubbish gestapo style persists is because of the criminal corruption within the EFCC and its fellow law enforcement agencies. With each of these rubbish arrests, they are sure of collecting enormous bribes from the suspects in order to set them free. Those who cannot bribe their way out are forced to plead guilty and are then convicted by the conspiratorial judges in our equally corrupt courts.

I'm fed up with this nonsense to be honest.

frugal:
So what of if you dey do business from home? Maybe a freelancer or a tech startup or even a consultant. And you can't do any type of business nowadays without computer. Office space dey expensive for small businesses. Also no be everybody like to go office if they can do the work from house.

What he's trying to say is, whether suspected yahoo boy or not. Investigate secretly, get your evidences right, then approach a judge for a warrant, then go arrest. Simple!
Look at what the fbi people do. Once they get information from either victims or anonymous sources, they don't act immediately. They gather concrete evidence first. That's a civil society where everyone has a right and is respected even by the government and people in authority.

My brother you don't need to waste your time to educate these primitive buffoons. My God I'm so ashamed at how lawless and barbaric the average Nigerian is.

I understand that poverty and envy is a deadly combination and that is exactly what is motivating these fools who clap for the EFCC in spite of the agency's horrendous method of operation. Imagine the creature you quoted talking about 'if you have a good job"! Must everybody wear suit and form corporate guy to one office or the other every morning in order to be "responsible'?

Must everybody work in FIRS or CBN before you have a decent life? Even the so-called good jobs, they have corruptly cornered them for themselves and their cronies courtesy of vile nepotism and other backdoor practices, so they get very envious when they see shut out young people inexplicably making a way for themselves. They prefer everyone else without connections to suffer in poverty while the tiny few of them with access to so-called "good jobs" would enjoy life and carry shoulder for everyone else. Jokers.

They are irredeemable. I don't even waste my time trying to engage them anymore.

GavelSlam:
Stop writing nonsense.

Every day on Nairaland, we read about convictions in the law courts of these fraudsters. Most of them plead guilty in court.

Why you lot are determined to make the good guys bad whilst painting the criminals as law abiding citizens is exactly why you cry about the country day and night.

Learn to support law enforcement and stop tacit support of criminality.

I don't have time to engage APC zombies. No same human being does the kind of despicable job you irritants do here.

Someone pleads guilty and is convicted means what? You're probably a kid with no real life experience of how things work in this desperately wicked and corrupt country. You wouldn't know that the EFCC would blackmail and intimidate people to plead guilty in order to escape the long drawn out ordeal of detention and prosecution, regardless of whether they have any evidence against such people or not.

Don't ever quote me in your miserable life again. I would not read or reply whatever nonsense you write, so don't bother.

Rubicon67:
If they don't have anything shady going on, then they can seek redress in the court of law by suing the law enforcement outfit for harassment and defamation.

Simply because the tip is anonymous doesnt make the arrests illegal.

However, innocent until proven guilty.

Seek redress in the court of law at whose cost? To what end? So you would arrest a random person and put them through an expensive and traumatising ordeal for them to prove their innocence?

Some of you talk as if you don't live in this same useless country. You don't have concrete evidence; there are no complainants, yet you are rushing to arrest, name, shame, and prosecute. Is that justice? And you're here telling me about innocent until proven guilty.

In sane climes, law enforcement agencies do the HARD WORK of investigation before arrest. The FBI clampdown on the likes of Invictus Obi are good examples. They don't foolishly go on gestapo styled arrest sprees just for the sake of it and on mere suspicion (wasting scarce resources that should be used to arrest and prosecute proven thieves like Akpabio, Tinubu, Oshiomole and the rest). You have no point please. Let us insist that things be done the right way. Gestapo, Jungle justice law enforcement is what happens in Nigeria (EFCC, police, etc). We can't condone that; otherwise, you could be next, and I'll be very happy to have you go through hell to "seek redress in a law court".

stanley000:
fbi investigate before arresting but these clowns we have here do the exactly. some poor cretin individuals here will hail them but pray one day that rich young dude gets into their radar then everyone will understand how wrong the efcc method is. you don't just raid someone because one useless old witch or jobless fool report that someone is living better than him. no warrant is even tendered during arrest, they just burst in like robbers and do what they do best

People don't understand that this lawless and reckless system is too dangerous to be allowed to continue. I feel very angry whenever I read these kinds of rubbish reports about EFCC arresting this or that, only to see that they have zero evidence of anything. Just acting on mere suspicion and unsubstantiated whistleblowing by envious or malicious idiots around.

Trust me, even if you're innocent, the EFCC would still expect you to bribe your way out of the ordeal, after making sure that you are thoroughly intimidated and traumatised. How can any country continue like that?

GISTBL0G:
The raid followed intelligence gathering, anonymous tips and showcase of their flamboyant lifestyle which were said to have been derived from fraudulently ripping unsuspecting members of the public, including foreigners of their hard earned monies.

Some of the items recovered include several mobile phones, laptop computers, several International Passports, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Avalon, Lexus 15 250, Mercedes 4matic C350, Mercedes C280, Mercedes GLA 280 and an Acura. They will be charged to court soon.

This is ridiculous and for how long will this nonsense agbero style of law enforcement continue? No evidence of criminality other than "anonymous tips", and meaningless 'exhibits' like phones, laptops and international passports.

How come they parade some with that stupid mugshot banner and spare others from that humiliation? The answer is that the EFCC charges a bribe to spare you the mugshot. If you can't pay the bribe, they will parade you. Nonsense institution.

tecamartinez:
I am truly ashamed to be a Nigerian, i wonder how this cyber crime will stop if these EFCC operatives are now collecting bribes.
We are really going nowhere as a nation!

The problem is that many of you are too starry eyed and inexperienced. Most people don't know Jack about the reality of life in Nigeria... What goes on behind the news, behind the scenes.

In a country where even armed robbers and murderers find their way out of detention soon after arrest. How much less 'ordinary' Internet fraudsters who even have no complainants for that matter (most were arrested due to bad belle suspicion and snitchiing, without prior evidence).

EFCC operatives are even richer than the yahoo boys. You need to see how these EFCC guys live like Arab princes. Yet they are supposedly clamping down on fraudsters and gullible Nigerians are clapping for the idiots.

Nigeria's problems are too many. Trust me, cyber crime is even the least of our problems. The society is too dysfunctional. We have to start from the top to effect changes before it trickles down to the bottom. It can NEVER be bottom up.

This is not news. That's why I spit with disgust at the faces of those fools here who are quick to praise the EFCC, SARS, and the other extorters for doing a 'great job' of reforming Nigeria's rotten society.

hazard1759:
Be strong brother...
I'm 28yrs old n the only child of my parents.My dad is late.I graduated and served in 2015/16 and I got married in 2017.I have a son.
I gave u my background so ull understand the pressure that comes with being unemployed and having a family of your own to feed.There were times I was so sad and depressed that I had to turn to bet9ja for my fortune to change.I virtually spent my whole day in that God forsaken place,shouting my heart out,playing virtual.
To cut the long story short,I sat down and cried,wiped my tears... I asked myself if this is how I'll like my life to continue and behold God dropped a thought in my head.I looked around my immediate community and I discovered almost everybody had a cable TV and the closest place they could go to for subscription, they had to spend #300.Then i felt the need to start Agent banking.. I made withdrawals, deposits and subscription for people.
To God be the glory,I make more than a 100k a month, I have a staff.The funniest part is i no longer job hunt.
Look around your community, access the needs of your community, there's a gold mine waiting for u to explore.

Don't get complacent bruv you've not arrived yet. Most of us have not arrived but we get carried away by small wins or temporary highs.

Now, imagine if 3 or 4 or more agents emerge to saturate that space providing same service as you? Before you know it, your margins would reduce and then it's back to square one.

I'm not trying to discourage you. All I'm saying is keep your entrepreneurial spirit alive - eyes, nose and ears WIDE open. Keep learning and trying out new opportunities. Same way you discovered the agent business, there are hundreds of similar and even bigger opportunities around.

Right now I have three income streams; one of them almost entirely passive. But I'm FAR from comfortable, in fact, I'm a broke ass (almost to the point of destitution) by my self-imposed high standards. I would like to have more than 10 income streams..online and offline, passive and active, cumulatively bringing in 7 figures weekly. That's why I keep snooping around for opportunities, new schemes, and valuable business Intel. It's a never ending story.

This man's brain is too stupid for words to describe. Since 1984 till now, the only thing he knows is corruption. Very dull, brainless idiot.

Papertrail11:
One of

We need to open up our young people to new skillset like how tk make glass, how to make components, how to do something that is rare because until you can carve a niche for yourself in this country with 200m people you aint going nowhere.

Well said.

Guys, don't marry any girl who is active on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. In fact, don't even consider any female who has a Snapchat account at all at all, whether active or not. Attention wh.o.res, drama queens and insecure 'over exposed' idiots with sharp mouths, disgusting attitudes and impossible sense of entitlement.

Might seem like a harsh and sweeping generalisation, but it is what it is. Any girl wey be loudmouth on top these social media platforms no be human being wey dem dey put for house. No try am.

Ayama.

Odiegwu.