₦airaland Forum

Every day, Nigerians are being killed by kidnappers. What's the government saying or doing about it?

I believe there was an initial thing the prince got right in the wrong scheme. Afterwards, everything continued to fall in place until something happened and then luckily and unluckily (luckily for the scammed and unluckily for the scammers) the scheme fell like a house of cards. The investigation has to disassemble the building blocks, layer by layer, down to the foundational blocks that provided the foundation for the fraudulent scheme.

Life is full of choices. If you don't like the regulations in a place, you go to another place where you can be tolerated. If, for example, you go to a Deeper Life Church and they say you must cover your head as a woman, if you don't like it, you can go to Living Faith Church where you don't have to cover your head. There are different sects in Islam, if you don't like the way they do things in one, you go to another one that suits you. You don't go a place to impose your way of life. When in Rome, you do like the Romans. If you can't, you can go to Afganistan.

lawani:
State police is a right step but it will not be enough


It is only a full decentralization of security that will suffice. Local governments and the private sector should also be allowed to join the fray. This is mainly because some governors are compromised and may prove to be as bad if not worse than the federal government so far dealing with crimes and the protection of people are concerned. People who can afford to use other means to protect themselves should be allowed to do so

There is market in the country for security and at least fifty thousand police men and other men from other security institutions do guard duties for private individuals and companies. I believe it does not cost less than one hundred and fifty thousand naira per man per month. There is no reason a duly registered vigilante group should not be allowed to bear military grade weapons. Farming villages that pay fifty million naira frequently to bandits actually can protect themselves if their vigilante groups are allowed to be properly armed and even put under the police

To have peace, you need to also prepare for war. State police is good but things have gone too far south that it will almost certainly prove to be not enough especially in Northern Nigeria

You're very much correct. What is worth doing is worth doing well. Even the state police they're proposing is not what a state police should be. What a country!

That boy has a strong personality. He is not afraid to stand alone on his personal conviction. Compare the small boy to the Nigerian big men who got swept off their feet to join the APC. Adults of no substance.

Wike is overreaching his power.

Imagine an independent Yoruba Nation! How colourful it would be!

Why would the whole country not be on a lockdown until the criminals are rounded up. Methinks this unfortunate incident is worse than COVID the whole country was locked down for months. Don't our leaders recognize the grave existential threat this incident portends?

How were they able to move this large number of people in the daytime unstopped! It shall not be well with our useless leaders.

Did other senior officers not see that the punishment was too much?

He's dreaming a big dream, please allow him.

If the government could commission Tompolo to protect oil pipeline, the government would do well to commission individual groups like Iru Ekun Security Network of Sunday Igboho to protect our forest against kidnappers and killer herdsmen.

phemmie06:
I agreed But who will do the splitting, this government NASS, Executhieves,legislooters....it is well

You forgot to mention the Judishare officers.

Nnamdi Kanu (PBUH) the prophet who saw tomorrow

datola:
One paitor must have told GEJ that 'god' said he would win in 2027 if he contests.

The pastor that prayed for the return to power of Donald Trump and John Mahama

Why must a governor pick a candidate to replace him? It's like Nigerians don't know what's responsible for their calamities. A governor who tried to pick a candidate to replace Obama in the US Senate when Obama became president was prosecuted and impeached. When an individual can impose a candidate, you end up with a monster like Wike.

I want all the seven.

1. Monday
2. Tuesday
3. Wednesday
4. Thursday
5. Friday
6. Saturday
7. Sunday

No leftovers!

omoredia:
They will steal 1m and give 50k. So instead of the people to complain about their stealing they end up praising them for their stealing.

The people demand tangible development and not handouts. We are not beggars and almajiris

Sensible comment
Reading through the comments, I feel sorry for Nigerians.

I'm beginning to understand what state capture means.

SixSeven:
1. One-time phone number change

Under the new rules, customers can now change the phone number linked to their BVN only once in their lifetime. The policy targets rising cases of SIM-swap fraud, where criminals take over phone numbers to gain access to bank accounts.

Customers are therefore advised to link their BVN to a secure, long-term phone number—preferably one already tied to their National Identification Number (NIN).

This rule is nonsense. As much as it makes sense, it is not a long term thinking. We do not have permanent phone numbers. The number tied to my NIN can expire. People can and should have the right to change numbers any number of times they want. Nigeria should decide whether they are using NIN or not. A phone number should not be a personal identifiable number, it is even dangerous. The other time Minister of Interior under Buhari said no passport without NIN. Now, CBN wants to limit your BVN with NIN and OTPhone number. Let's stop making life more difficult for the average Nigerian.

Edit: A phone number is not an identity number and should never be tied to an identity. It is something you have, not something you are. There is no law that insists you must have a phone number for your bank account.

You're right. But they don't think that way.

Bossman:
The phone number should NOT be used as personal identification. That’s a recipe for disaster! People should have the right to change their phone number. And they should be able to do that multiple times without affecting their identity in the BVN system. If the system cannot accommodate that, then it’s a bad design.

Good thinking

By the time the new rules come into force, there would be chaos and they would realize they didn't think deeply. Poor thinkers, proudly Nigerians!

The more you look, the less you see. But I see a poorly prepared list.

What am I saying?

If you want to use upper case or title case, be consistent throughout,
21 MUHAMMED MUSA
22 Sahabi Ismail
23 Mohammed Buba
24 JAMA'ATU WAL-JIHAD

Since they decided to include in the same table, names of persons and names of organisations, they should have simply used a single Name column instead of having two columns (First Name and Surname)
S/N First Name Surname
27 INDIGENOUS BIAFRA (IPOB)
28 YAN GROUP
29 YAN GROUP NLBDG
30 ADAMU HASSAN

Why include Nationality and Birth Country columns that have virtually no entries.

Little things matter. But sorry, we are anyhow people and anything goes.

JAMO84:
Everyone with sense would know that the the minister didn't mean it literally

Everyone with sense would never know that the minister didn't mean it literally.
Everyone with sense know that the heart of the wicked is desperately wicked; who can know it?

Giving people false hope

Nigeria is following a line graph on a downward trend. Jonathan, Buhari, Tinubu, and others before them formed line segments representing measurable distances in Nigeria's miserable journey. And there's no happy ending to a miserable journey.

festacman:
The fact is that it is not the court's business if a detainee is given any kind of concessions on ground of health or status by the detaining authority as far as the detainee is provided in court as and when the court needs him.

So, releasing El rufai to bury his mother doesn't mean he is discharged and acquitted.

El-Rufai's bail application is slated for next week. If they wanted to release him on compassionate ground to allow him bury his mother, they should have got a kangaroo court bail to release him. Releasing him the way they did clearly shows that they have no regard for the court.

helinues:
The insensitive people are allowed to criticize

They didn't even bother to put themselves in the shoe of Elrufai

How many detainees in Elrufai's shoe were released to attend burial of their loved ones?

greatermax77:
Anything that will quicken Nigeria breakup is highly welcomed . United we fail and divided we grow

One nation bound in "freedom"
Freedom or bondage?
There can't be progress except we breakup.

Sultan didn't demand credible elections when Buhari was seeking 2nd term

Nigeria is a case study. I'm on the same page with Kemi Badenoch.

Flangelo12:
Guys hardly leave a good woman.

A good woman may decide to leave a bad guy