₦airaland Forum

Splitmind:
Audio gutter statistics from Lagos - Ibadan media.

I don't need any rubbish statistics, just open your eyes and look around to see what a fine job this administration has done.

High insecurity, high corruption, poor healthcare and electrical infrastructure, poor federal roads (complete with numerous fatal accidents), lack of investment in education, high food prices, people eating grass, high unemployment (even for graduates), labour strikes, citizen crackdowns, crackdowns on journalists, poor business environment, multiple recessions, poor economic growth, a high inflation rate, rampant police and military misconduct, disobedience towards the judiciary and the rule of law, and millions of Nigerians displaced from their homes all equate to a "fine job"?

If we we're just supposed to ignore data and information detailing the results of a government's policies, then how are we supposed to assess how that government has done?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Yet these are the same people saying Nigeria is poor!

stunnert:
The UN should stop saying trash. We've got enough food in the country, nothing like famine at all
The current problem is insecurity and high unemployment rate

Splitmind:
The usual fake news is here again. Nothing is wrong, food is as cheap as it has ever been and Nigerians are feeding fat.

Yet, others are also saying the same thing.

https://fews.net/west-africa/nigeria

https://www.cfr.org/blog/northern-nigeria-faces-threat-famine

https://www.nairaland.com/6609488/famine-hit-nigeria-year-only

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2021/06/22/MSF-warns-of-food-crisis-for-children-in-Niger-Nigeria

Do you have any data or stats to counter what they're saying?

Why is Nigeria borrowing grain from ECOWAS?

https://punchng.com/we-borrowed-5000mt-of-grains-from-ecowas-fg/

thebosstrevor1:
It seems this seun is also archaic, Twitter got banned and then?

someone creates his own alternative and prays that Twitter is banned forever, who doesn't want his competition to die.

If someone brings up an alternative of nairaland with lot of users, will seun not have heart attack.

We are just addicted to monopoly. Seun wants to be king in his own domain but doesn't want adamu to be a king in his own domain.

You compete by developing a better product or service than your competitor, not through government rent-seeking or trying to force the market to use your product or service, behaviour which is the exact opposite of competition.

Is that how Seun built Nairaland?

Flairoqy:
Why is everyone against innovation? Because Twitter was banned? Seun needs to regulate this forum using NIN as registration criteria, too many kids on here.

What is "innovative" about Garba's app, compared to other similar apps?

NGpatriot:
The interview was in 2016, endsars happened in 2021, this year.

Pay attention to current affairs instead of supporting ipobs and peddling terrorist propaganda..

You still haven't answered the question.

You called CNN a "fake news peddler"

Was CNN not the same CNN in 2016 as they are now? (endSARS was last year BTW)

Are there two different CNN's?

What made CNN a "fake news peddler" now but not a "fake news peddler" back then, which is not even that long ago?

WHY did Buhari agree to an interview with a "fake news peddler", as you put it?

NGpatriot:
[s][/s]








Even though one death by any terrorist group including ipob is too many, but your ipob terrorist loving and supporting mentality still want us to believe that unless ipob killed thousands of Nigerians, the Nigerians that they slaughtered including their own igbo people don't matter.

You are not only ipob, you are a bloodthirsty ipob terrorist lover and propagandist..

That quote was in response to someone who was spending an entire thread trying to defend extremist Fulani herdsmen and saying they weren't a terrorist group, and was who also trying to deflect from the topic of the thread by bringing up IPOB, with me pointing out his hypocrisy and also the hypocrisy of the current administration for not proscribing the extremist herdsmen, even though they're considerd globally to be the 4th largest terrorist group.

https://www.nairaland.com/6612218/fulani-herdsmen-really-4th-deadliest/1

I wonder why you neglected to quote thebosstrevor1's posts that I was responding to.

Also, why did you edit and cut out portions of my post (and the screenshot that was included) instead of quoting the entire post?

KRSWon:
They are considered a subset of the herdsmen, and the report states that the aims of their activities center on grazing. (see screenshot)



Neither IPOB nor "Biafra" are any of my business (not to mention getting into off-topic whataboutism), but I do find it interesting that outside of Nigeria, IPOB wasn't considered a terrorist group, especially when they were proscribed, but the militant Fulani groups who have been considered as such for YEARS have yet to be proscribed by the federal government.

Also, in regards to the bolded:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulani_extremism

... unless IPOB has had a death count in the literally thousands, I don't see how they have managed to kill more Nigerians.

Don't try to play games. You're not clever.

Do you realize that you're basically defending extremist Fulani herdsmen who have slaughtered Nigerians in the thousands just like thebosstrevor1 was doing?

Is this what you're forced to resort to just because you can't answer a simple question?

NGpatriot:
Look at this ipob posting video from May 12, 2016 Vs Fake endsars news that happened this year.

As they say, ipob mentality is always an upside-down mentality.

Sit down somewhere with your fakne news rubbish..

"this ipob"

I'm not even from the south-east. Is "IPOB" what you call everyone who disagrees with you? Or someone who merely asks you a simple question?

And once again...

Is this still not the same CNN?

You're calling CNN a "fake news peddler..." Exactly WHY did Buhari agree to be interviewed by a "fake news peddler"?

Are you saying that Buhari used CNN to dish out fake news to the entire world?

Who exactly decides when CNN is "fake news" and then conveniently NOT "fake news"?

NGpatriot:
CNN should have invited Shekau too, oh, I forgot, Shekau don die, next is the ipob village terrorist leader..

And yet, they invited Buhari and he accepted.

So is that the category of people you want to put him in?

NGpatriot:
FG won't even pay these CNN clowns and fake news peddlers.

They can invite and dance with all the terrorists in the world including ISWAP, Al Qaeda, we've already exposed and disgraced CNN, they are irrelevant.

Why did Buhari agree to be interviewed by a "fake news peddler" during his campaign? ...

KRSWon:
Do you have any counterpoints (that can be backed up with data or links) to the video?


Also, you're calling CNN a "fake news peddler"?

This same CNN?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hkr7UYgM8

It seems not even Buhari agreed with that assertion at that point.

Could you please provide a list of agencies that you consider "REAL news" peddlers?

And again, which agencies would you consider to be "real news" peddlers?

OnionBandit:
No one takes this fake news peddlers seriously anymore

Arrant nonsense!

Do you have any counterpoints (that can be backed up with data or links) to the video?


Also, you're calling CNN a "fake news peddler"?

This same CNN?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hkr7UYgM8

It seems not even Buhari agreed with that assertion at that point.

Could you please provide a list of agencies that you consider "REAL news" peddlers?

Millions of Nigerians have been dying due to poor quality (and even expensive) healthcare.

How many of them can afford to travel outside of the country?

motymop:
These newspapers are anti Nigeria.

If a newspaper come up to write this against Nigeria techpreneurs even supporting those that wrote a bad review so that a Nigerian owned app can be deleted from the app store, that shows the country is done for and foreigners will continue to rule us.

If you give bad press to your local app, dont expect foreign investors to take your country serious.

When investing or setting up shop in a country, foreign businesses pay more attention to things like ease of doing business, human development, education rankings, healthcare, investment in human capital, energy output, ease of transportation, infrastructure, and all other global indices than they do to local newspaper readingd or reviews of a random app on Google Play Store.

An most of the time, newspapers aren't even reporting on information that isn't already widely available.

In fact, especially in regards to tech companies, they're paying much more attention to what happened to Twitter in Nigeria and statements from government officials than they are to whatever is going on with Garba's app.

PARADIZEPRIEST:
GHANA OF 30MILLION PPL CANT BE COMPARED TO OVER 200MILLION NIGERIANS

Ghana ranks higher than Nigeria in terms of human development.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

Ghana is also much safer:

https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria/nigeria-ranks-146th-on-global-peace-index-8th-least-peaceful-in-africa/

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-57563610

Biodun556:
If twitter open office in Nigeria both will gain.

What would Twitter gain from it vs. having it in Ghana?

In Africa, the best country for doing business is Mauritius, which ranks among the first countries worldwide. In West Africa , Nigeria is the eighth country, with Ghana leading the ranking.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1226315/ease-of-doing-business-in-nigeria/

okefranci:
Why are you saying this? You can strive in Nigeria provided you have good mind and open heart

For many, it doesn't seem to work that way.

Tomi Davies, a systems analyst, was one of thousands of Nigerians who came home to help rebuild the country. After a few years working on public-sector projects, he was offered a bag full of dollars to add ghost employees to the payroll system he was installing. When he refused, a group of men attacked him at his home in the capital, Abuja.

“I arrived like many others full of hope, but had to escape in disgust,” said Davies, 65, who returned to the U.K., where he is now chief investment officer of Frankfurt-based venture capital firm GreenTec Capital Partners.

Others like him have left too, defeated by the dashed aspirations of a nation that wasn’t supposed to turn out this way. Endowed with some of the world’s biggest oil reserves, plenty of arable land and a young, tech-savvy population of 206 million that sets Africa’s music and fashion trends, Nigeria had the potential to break onto the global stage.

“There is a lot of frustration because there are a lot of overqualified people unemployed,” said Chioma Okafor, a 32-year-old public health-care expert who moved back to Nigeria in 2014. After two years making $200 a month in consulting in Abuja, and with no prospect of a better job, Okafor borrowed money to buy a one-way ticket back to the U.S.

“When Buhari came to office, people were expecting things to change,” she said. “But it’s not just Buhari that failed. The system is broken.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/15/once-africas-promise-nigeria-is-heaving-under-crime-scare-jobs

Maybe if one goes into acting, the music industry or politics.

I wonder what kind of question this is.

Twitter's office in Ghana is for the whole Africa, not just Ghana. In what way would said office "starve" less if it was in Nigeria or any other non-undeveloped country?

Twitter has a market cap of $53 billion.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/twitter/marketcap/

And Nigeria is not even in Twitter's top 20 markets.

It's Nigerians that are being hurt more than Twitter:

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nigerias-twitter-ban-leaves-some-businesses-in-the-lurch/83508619

https://www.financialwatchngr.com/2021/06/22/how-small-businesses-are-taking-the-hit-on-twitter-ban/

Also, the claim that Twitter reached out to the Nigerian government has only been sourced from the government, namely Lai Mohammed, which he's contradicted when he recently told the House of Reps that Twitter hasn't been serious in engaging them concerning the issue.

If You Think You’re Hurting Me By Using VPN, You’re Hurting Yourself - Lai Mohammed

"Hurting you"?

Maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with you?

Maybe people just want to continue using their Twitter?

Talk about self-centered...

jomoh:
This one probably thinks cloud save actually stores in the sky.

So you’d put the database of a whole country in the hands of a third party.

Stay away from topics you know little about.

What makes Nigeria different from these other countries?

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract is a large United States Department of Defense cloud computing contract which has been reported as being worth $10 billion over ten years. JEDI is meant to be a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) implementation of existing technology, while providing economies of scale to DoD.

Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and REAN Cloud, part of Hitachi Data Systems. After protests from Google employees, Google decided to drop out of contention for the contract because of conflict with its corporate values.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Enterprise_Defense_Infrastructure

Microsoft plans cloud contract push with foreign governments after $10 billion JEDI win

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/microsoft-plans-cloud-push-with-foreign-governments-after-jedi-win.html

German govt plans to negotiate cloud services contract with Microsoft - report

https://www.telecompaper.com/news/german-govt-plans-to-negotiate-cloud-services-contract-with-microsoft-report--1378736

But many Nigerians use it to make money to buy food, which is especially useful given the poverty in the country.

https://www.financialwatchngr.com/2021/06/22/how-small-businesses-are-taking-the-hit-on-twitter-ban/

This man sounds like Gumi...
https://www.nairaland.com/6617282/ipob-worse-than-criminal-herdsmen

Haven't children been shot and killed during these kidnappings?
What on Earth is this man talking about?

Billyonaire666:
I do not care, if nairaland has influence in US or Euro, let Seun set up office there, otherwise, my opinion is mine. Deal with it or do not. That need not concern me.

It is only fair that a percentage of their income from Nigerians pay for taxes and hire our unemployed yahoo yahoo pontentials.

He was referring to precedence.

If Twitter has to register and set up an office in Nigeria, then Nigerian websites and online shops would have to set up offices in not only the U.S., but within every country that has Internet access.

There 195 countries in the world.

Can you imagine if Nairaland, as well as every other Nigerian online company and online shop, had to open and operate an office in nearly 200 countries each?

How would Nigerian internet companies be able to afford that, especially developing country's struggling online industry that's trying to grow itself?

This shows a complete lack of understanding of how the online IT industry works.

okefranci:
Truly I believe Buhari/Osinbajo means well for Nigerians and by appointing Osinbajo as the chairman the poverty level will reduce drastically to a minimal level

Jollylolly:
Nigerians need to be reminded that this began in 2016 when NASS led by Saraki gave a pass to NSIP, a scheme design to improve the lives and livelihoods of the Nigerian People especially Nigerians at the bottom of the pyramid, there are other human capital development programmes too, design to improve lives.

Deputy1111:
The administration is working tirelessly to move Nigeria forward..

Government has stated that they've done this:

FG has spent $5bn in fighting poverty – Sadiya Farouq
https://dailypost.ng/?p=890348

...yet this is the result:

Nigeria overtakes India in extreme poverty ranking
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/africa/nigeria-overtakes-india-extreme-poverty-intl/index.html

Oil-rich Nigeria outstrips India as country with most people in poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/16/oil-rich-nigeria-outstrips-india-most-people-in-poverty

Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world
https://qz.com/africa/1313380/nigerias-has-the-highest-rate-of-extreme-poverty-globally/

Where have the money and resources been going?

The text in the OP is chopped up and the link is broken. Probably because of the word ban:

Peoples Gazette has uncovered how the Buhari administration provided seed capital for Adamu Garba’s Crowwe social media platform, hoping the firm would help the government dominate internal narratives while squaring an ardent challenge to Facebook and Twitter for the Nigerian audience.

The Gazette obtained bank documents that carried a transfer of funds from the Central Bank of Nigeria to Mr Garba’s IPI Solutions , a software engineering firm run by Mr Garba.

The company
developed and deployed the Crowwe social media app.

The CBN on May 21, 2019, transferred N136.8 million to Mr Garba’s IPI Solutions, documents said, marking one of several transfers that our sources said the Buhari regime advanced to Mr Garba in the course of building the Crowwe app.

Although a major beneficiary of the social media storm that weakened the Jonathan administration and amplified the opposition’s messages ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Mr Buhari has relentlessly railed against the negative influence of social media since coming to power. After realising the enormous control that social media has in shaping public opinion, even amongst citizens with little education or financial ability to be on the Internet, Mr Buhari started introducing different tactics to regulate online speech.

A few months after assuming office in 2015, members of his ruling APC pushed a so-called social media bill that civil liberties campaigners said was too offensive to be accepted in a democratic system. The bill was summarily defeated, but the government pushed at least two other similar bills, including one that proposed death penalty for online speech, that were defeated under the Bukola Saraki-led parliament.

But shortly after narrowly securing a second term, Mr Buhari agreed with his aides that it was necessary to control social media, according to sources familiar with the matter. Several ways to ensure that the government’s message dominated the public space with little to no pushback from citizens were suggested.

“It was while the government was trying to find ways to control the media space that Adamu Garba’s company was picked as one of the promising businesses that could proffer solutions,” an administration official said. “The seriousness of controlling social media cannot be overplayed.”

Mr Garba earned instant name recognition in 2018 after showing interest in running for president against Mr Buhari. He summarily abandoned his campaign and became a recognisable voice in support of the president. The regime provided hundreds of millions to Mr Garba’s firm in anticipation that its Crowwe platform would make a sufficient dent on the appeal of Facebook and Twitter, officials briefed on the matter said under our policy on anonymous sources .

But two years after funding began and several months after Crowwe was introduced to the public, the app has not appealed to Nigerians on the scale expected by both the regime and its developers. Only a few thousands users have signed up, and even then the app has been riddled with complaints around its functionality.

As part of efforts to give life to Crowwe, Mr Garba sought to push Twitter out of Nigeria, filing a lawsuit against the platform in the wake of last October’s historic #EndSARS campaign. More than any other social media rivals, Mr Garba saw Twitter’s presence in Nigeria as an existential threat to his own platform and assumed its exit would push Nigerians to his own platform by default.

But his expectation was again dashed this month when his platform failed to pick up despite the government’s ban on Twitter . Instead, Mr Garba found his Crowwe app removed from Google Play Store a week after the Twitter ban following a deluge of complaints from users. He said the app was taken down to upload, but failed to explain why it was only Crowwe that required being taken down before an update could be pushed to enhance user experience. The app was largely unusable that Mr Buhari, his administration officials and supporters had to move to Indian platform Koo following their exit from Twitter earlier this month.

The presidency did not return a request seeking comments from The Gazette about its dealings with Mr Garba. Mr Garba confirmed to The Gazette that he received funds from the government, but said it was one of several payments the government paid for a series of “intervention” projects his company executed for the government.

“We do projects and receive payments from the Central Bank,” Mr Garba said. “I think it is a project we did for the EFCC.” He was silent on whether or not the projects were through competitive bidding in line with extant public procurement regulations.

Crowwe was “100 per cent developed by us internally,’’ Mr Adamu added. “We are even looking for investors locally and internationally. We are looking for investors to further scale up and improve Crowwe capacity.”

(replace "12345" with the app's name)
https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-bank-documents-expose-how-buhari-regime-funded-adamu-garbas-12345-to-rival-facebook-twitter/

Exactly how many non-Nigerians around the world use this "Crow we" app?

Tinubuadvocate:
Those people killed by ipobs terrorist are my brothers.

So these people didn't kill your "brothers"?

https://www.icirnigeria.org/fulani-herdsmen-kill-residents-burn-houses-in-fresh-attack-on-oyo-community/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/467600-inside-story-how-gunmen-attacked-igangan-killed-many.html

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/06/09/house-condemns-alleged-killing-of-180-people-in-benue-oyo-by-herdsmen/

Abaribe and people in the southeast are what you want to focus on?

Are you actually a Yoruba?

OluwaGoverment:
We suspended Twitter because it became security risk, freedom of expression not absolute – FG

So an ordinary thing like Twitter is a "security risk" but open grazing isn't?

Housing:
Most of your post are against the interest of the man your moniker claimed to be advocating for.

What is your problem with the Easterners?
Miyetti Allah claimed responsibility for killings live on Channels and other national TV stations. DSS and all other Security agents didn't act.

Gumi is advocating for Bandits not socio-cultural group oo. No invitation nor investigation from security agents.

Abaribe is a politician taking full advantage of defensive blunders by Buhari led government to satisfy his political calculations which have been giving him great goals and advantages in his home front, as politics is local.


Having said that, if Tinubu is to become Nigeria's President, he will definitely need to solicits for vote from Igbo nation.

Your actions and activities of your likes that creates monikers to deride and constantly abuse particular ethnic nationalities is the latest approach by political jobbers to always ensure Nigerian citizens are divided at all costs. Most especially the Southerners.

Tinubuadvocate:
[s][/s] rubbish.

You used a strikeout on his post and called it rubbish, but you didn't refute or counter a single thing he said.

You asked what was Gumi's offence, but Abaribe's "offence" is wearing a "Dot" t-shirt?

NaijirianKing:
Hate always destroys those who harbor it in their hearts first. Tribalism is a disease.

Here's the question that no one from the south can answer... where is your proof that Fulani have hurt even 1 person talk less of the crimes that are leveled against the Fulani.

So you're saying these haven't happened?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbo_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatu_massacres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder%E2%80%93farmer_conflicts_in_Nigeria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulani_extremism_in_Nigeria

NaijirianKing:
This is where we run into misunderstandings.

It is not the herders entering the farmlands, these reckless farmers have planted crops all over the historic grazing routes of the Fulani. So the crops that the cows would normally consume have been recklessly comingled with the grazing paths by the farmers. Once this occurs all manner of insults will be unjustly hurled at the Fulani.

This is why we need ranching in all 36 states. Any southerner that wants Northern votes must propose a comprehensive plan on ranching. This way the farmers will know where their side is and the herders will have clear demarcations to avoid future clashes. Ranching is now needed more than ever.

"Historic grazing routes" on other people's private property?

Asquare84:
Jobless Nigeria youth will soon begin to defend twitter, but in the real sense twitter is loosing the war. I think I love buhari action

What is Twitter losing?

And what exactly is "the war"?

By the way I'm still trying to find out what is that Twitter "wrote" to Buhari?

So who was promoting the acts of Boko Haram and extremist Fulani herdsmen?

Is he saying it was Twitter

murecool:
TWITTER WRITES PRESIDENT BUHARI SEEKING RESTORATION OF ACCESS IN NIGERIA

So, we're not even going to see what Twitter "wrote" to Buhari?

Not even a link?