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PeaceforNigeria:
You are politically naive .

If America should sanction Nigeria over Twitter, you’d not be offended by the implicit and outrageous contempt America has for black/ African people that this would mean? America, friends of Idris Derby….friends of Saudi Arabia?

Thinktwicemybro:
Not up to your level.
Seun rule 2

No level of stupidity equals yours if you believe America will sanction Nigeria for banning Twitter or even if you are slavish enough to hope this should happen.

Thinktwicemybro:
They will have sense when you impose sanctions on them. Why is liar Mohammed not replying the US? Is he afraid? Sanctions are coming. 1$ will soon be #2000. Una never see anything. They should ban them from using their hospitals abroad.
US thunder will soon strike you people.

Are you stupid ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbIHSW6zM6o

Ghanaians always profiting one way or another from Nigeria, their president was only the other day being featured on the BBC berating the West for Africa’s stolen art and scolding them to return African art. Effectively though he was stealing the limelight after many Nigerians had worked tirelessly for the return of these art works resulting in the repatriation of a few and work in progress for the return of others. Some of you even claim that Twitter chose Ghana as a sort of backhanded lesson to Nigeria on democracy, transparency and the rule of law.

The relationship between Ghana and Nigeria in this regard is perfectly encapsulated in the tale of the Eagle and the Sparrow. The story, abridged, goes something like this:

The king of a certain kingdom wanted to use a bird to symbolise his nation. He favoured the Eagle but his queen, with large sorrowful eyes pleaded for the Sparrow Hawk. They then solicited for the opinion of their children and, after, that of staff and courtiers. Everyone had their favourite and no two votes were the same. Since the world is resplendent with countless bird species, the king could not decide what type of bird to use as his Kingdom’s totem. A courtier came up with the idea for a competition. Birds from all over the world would be invited to compete for the prize of fame as the Kingdom’s national symbol. The bird able to fly the highest would be the winner.

In any case, during the competition, birds kept dropping off after reaching their flight ceiling until only the Golden eagle and the Arctic-tern remained in the game. Danger bird, Rüppell's vulture, had long since dropped away- possibly around the 38 thousand ft mark.
It was difficult and tough going. The eagle’s upper arms ached so, but he could sense the Arctic-tern faltering. The boastful Sparrow was nowhere to be seen and the Eagle thought that the sparrow must have dropped away from the race even earlier than the pigeons did. He, Golden eagle, had concentrated on his own efforts and for much of the time had his eyes closed with the effort of climbing ever upward.

Shortly the Arctic-tern shrilled, veered to the right and headed back down. The eagle could not contain himself. If Arctic-tern had only known just how tired, he, Golden Eagle was, Arctic-tern might have held on just a little longer.

Eagle let out a cry of his own - of commingled joy, relief and exhaustion -and began heading back down. But, just then, something flew from his belly feathers and flew high above him. It was Sparrow! All the time Sparrow had been hitching a ride on Eagle, nestling unseen beneath Golden eagle's full rich feathers.

Eagle tried to fly back up but his wing muscles hurt too much. He also feared he could blackout with the effort and drop like a stone to his death. No, he had to fly back down and make known, in his protest to the organisers, his outrage. Yet as he flew within hearing distance of the ground, all he cold hear was praise for the sparrow. With a sinking feeling in his stomach, he just knew, judging from the magnitude of praises for Sparrow, that no one would listen to him or believe what he said.

Actors:

Eagle , Nigeria

Sparow, Ghana.

Jamesrock:
A useless country is removing the Log of wood in another person eyes while their own is still on...

Shame! Shame! Shame!!

Are you okay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1mBY0Az3g


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFOLAZSSlFA

Typicool8:
Good afternoon nairalanders.i am a student fending for myself and i am a cross road on which business I can start with 20k in a student area.please any suggestion is welcome.

With the small amount of cash you have, and taking into account the arena within which you intend to invest your cash, I’d say Raffles (Try-your-luck) is your best bet. This old fashion way of gaining quick and high returns, is not to be sniffed at. If you take this path, insure you workout a thorough plan, be tight with your expenses, waste nothing, be mean and focused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bab6CttkEY

Nigeria this, Nigeria that, blash, blash- Goodgrief, you people can moan! Complainey, complainey lot, working yourselves up a great, bubbly lather, which, as you’d expect for lather, is effectively nothing but showy empty air!

You all need to moan less and do more for your country, help each other, get out there and fix your communities as best as you can. If you’re abroad, stop making things worst for those in Nigerian by continually moaning and cussing the country because all you’re doing is help discourage investment going in to Nigeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTvn10I04w

Designandbuild1:
See fine restaurant like this that someone is thrashing and the staff are begging her to come down. Imagine someone doing this in a restaurant in Lagos.

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For me Nigerians are generally kinder people than Americans. They can afford to beg her over there in the US since the restaurant would be insured; I doubt many restaurants in Nigeria are insured let alone reliably.

AntiBMC:
See how speedily the police got there because it was fulani being attacked. They should also go to Benue and track down the fulani terrorists that killed 40 people today.

What do you mean by see how speedily the police got there? What, are you totally fucking nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGuOleeeNg

Freddie Figgers was given his first computer at the age of nine. It was old and didn't work but it was the start of a love affair with technology that turned him into an inventor, entrepreneur and telecoms millionaire - a future that few would have predicted after his tough start in life.

"Don't let your circumstances define who you are."
He was already fond of tinkering with the collection of radios, alarm clocks or VCRs that Nathan had accumulated, and the broken Mac now became the focus of his attention.

"When I got it home and it wouldn't come on, I took the computer apart," says Freddie.

"As I was looking in it I saw capacitors that were broken. I had soldering guns there and I had radios and alarm clocks, so I took parts out of my father's radio alarm clock and I soldered them into the circuit board."

After about 50 attempts, he says, the computer finally switched on - and at this moment Freddie says he knew that he wanted to spend his life working with technology.




Just one piece of advice 31-year-old entrepreneur Freddie Figgers would like to pass on to others.

When he was eight years old, he asked his father, Nathan, about the circumstances of his birth, and the reply was unforgettable.

"He said, 'Listen I'm going to shoot it to you straight, Fred. Your biological mother, she threw you away, and me and Betty Mae, we didn't want to send you through foster care and we adopted you, and you're my son.'"

Freddie had been found abandoned as a newborn baby next to a dumpster (a large rubbish container) in rural Florida.

"When he told me that, I was like, 'OK I'm trash,' and I felt unwanted. But he grabbed my shoulder and he said, 'Listen, don't you ever let that bother you.'"

Nathan Figgers was a maintenance worker and handyman and Betty Mae Figgers, a farm worker. They lived in Quincy, a rural community of about 8,000 people in North Florida, and were in their 50s when Freddie was born in 1989.

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They had already fostered many children, but decided to take Freddie in when he was two days old, and adopt him as their own son. Freddie says they gave him all the love he could ever want - but other children in Quincy could be brutal.

"Kids used to bully me and call me, 'Dumpster baby,' 'Trash can boy,' 'Nobody wants you,' 'You're dirty,'" he says.

"I remember getting off the school bus sometimes and kids used to just come behind and grab me and throw me in a trash can and laugh at me."

It reached a point where his father would wait for him at the bus stop and walk him home, but the children mocked Nathan too, Freddie remembers, "saying, 'Ha ha, look at the old man with the cane.'"

So far as Freddie was concerned, Nathan and Betty Mae were heroes, and great role models.

"I saw my father always helping people, stopping on the side of the road helping strangers, feeding the homeless," he says. "He was an incredible man, and for them to take me in and raise me, that's the man I want to be like."

At weekends Freddie and Nathan would drive around "dumpster diving" - looking for useful things that had been thrown away by their owners. Freddie particularly had his eye out for a computer.

"It's an old saying, 'One man's trash is another man's treasure,'" says Freddie, "and I was always fascinated by computers. I always wanted a Gateway computer, but at that time we couldn't afford one."

Finally, one day when Freddie was nine, they went to a second-hand shop called Goodwill, where they came across a broken Macintosh computer.

"We persuaded the sales associate," says Freddie, "and he said, 'Hey, I'll give it to you for $24,' (£17), so we took the computer home and I was just so ecstatic."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57081087.amp

BigBashiru:
Fantastic idea

Do you have more information on the origin of the name Biafra?

Muna4real:
The country would still be useless.

Is Kenya useless?

Why not and strike a blow for compassion, reconciliation and strategic political maturity. Nigeria is just the name of the country as would be Biafra; we are still Isoko, Uhrubo, Ijaw, Hausa, Yoruba, Kanuri, Igbo etc peoples’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GSNRL7aJEU

One of the things that Sandy Monroe and Associates does is help established vehicle manufactures improve the design and efficiency of their products. Sandy’s philosophy is that of Simplicity, he espouses less engineering for the same outcome or better product.

Lol, Sandy would have loved Nigerian mechanics. Remember how Nigerian mechanics had the reputation for leaving half of your car’s engine on the ground by the time they had finished fixing it.

It is as if we as Nigerians are loosing our ability to think for ourselves or be the pioneers of something new.

We are getting to the point in Nigeria where we can no longer be innovative but have to prefix any laws - or things we want to do in Nigeria - with something like, “It happens in America also” or ‘the following law or development we wish to proceed with also was done in America” or else Nigerians will be up in arms and want to destroy something or break away.

The military shot and killed no trespassers in the past. They have now issued a warning that they will in future, so what’s difficult to accept?

What does the Nigerian law or law in any country even say about a citizens right - not even military- but you and I, our rights, as citizens, to threaten or even resort to deadly force against trespassers in our walled off property or spaces ?

Ihatemen:
I hate APC
I hate PDP
I hate pastors
I hate imams
I hate Tinubu
I hate Buhari
I hate Nigeria

Eh, yes, leave Nigeria, travel to the country you love and go trespass wilily Nelly in spaces military designate off limits and they will give you flowers and send you on your way, shouting after you, ‘please visit again and trespass to your hearts content!’

Not to Burkina Faso, mind, over there an African American was shot dead the other day for merely straying near military base not even entering.

If true, then such a sad story.

May both men Rip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsI_J7YsbXw



Keep allowing street warlords to destroy your local neighborhood while others develop there’s ...

As a contingency - for it is always sensible to plan ahead, and to consider many scenarios as part of this planning, the other Ethnic Nationalities that make up Nigeria need to begin working on strengthening ties and form Nigeria should take, including geographically as well as politically.

Biafra is like feminism. Feminism isn’t about true equalit, not when feminist subconsciously view equality through the prism of dominating men. As an example, it is not enough for women to be left to drink, be drunk, have one night sex and otherwise behave as carelessly as they wish without being stigmatized but that men should be prevented from doing these things since women by nature do not want to behave badly, drink, be drunk and partake in casual sex. Similarly, achieving Biafra would not seem a victory if the rest of Nigeria survives and remains one.

Ultimately though I believe that there are forces beyond those Nigerians in the east that want Biafra and these external forces want to create continues conflict in Nigeria. Biafra is exploited by them for a darker aim for Nigeria. Their ultimate goal is, it seems, to create one continuous conflict zone that stretches from Mali to Mozambique in South Africa.

He may have a point. Nigerians just don’t raise enough children that are capable of the rubbish we are bearing witness to regularly all around the country, especially Igbos that I grew up amongst. One huge problem with Nigeria is that we have not kept records, our borders are open, we don’t have even the slightest idea on the number of foreigners among us. As he hints at, and others have suggested, powerful people of whatever political persuasion could hire or pay people to commit atrocities on the streets. Many of the people hired may be people used to war and killing having experienced same in wars in other parts of Africa and NE.


Always keep an open mind.

Icumsa45:
You seem misguided, you think Flora Shaw just gave a cute name because she loves niggas? You still didn't answer my questions posed to you. I asked you where you came from, you dodged it. So much for being 'proud' Nigerian.

With so called 'heroics' you have done for the zoo. Can you contest for a political office presently as you are? You are akin to a slave that still love his master no disrespect. Be free brother!

If it isn't obvious where I'm from, then you haven't paid attention. I take from this that you're indoctrinated, interested in indoctrinating others and not interested in any other point of view.

Top of the day to you.

Icumsa45:
You are not the only one that has done good deeds. You provided your electricity,paid your school fees by yourself. The people screaming unity are corrupt rogues and thugs, the uzor kalus , the Tinubus. Etc. Besides what's the meaning of Nigeria? Why did they wipe off history? Why claim to be a citizen of a place coined out of a racial slur?Where are you from by the way if I may ask?

With all due respect, your expressed thoughts indicate that you have way too much time on your hands, time that may be better spent researching and studying, in-depth, some of the political and sociological topics you’ve inadequately mentioned.

BTY

If Nigeria bothers you that much change it to Ni J eria; after all, it is the black subculture norm to take ownership of certain words by changing or adding one letter e.g. Blackz. Changing Nigeria to Nijeria would be far more political significant and radical than an entire name change, since this would draw attention to the racial slur that concerns you and strikes a blow against it all in one, a little like nXgeria, paraphrasing Malcolm X. No one remembers him as Omowale or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbXQPKDBT9A

Icumsa45:
I am a tax paying citizen, voted in previous fraudulent elections and served in the time wasting nysc. That's fvcking more than enough. It's the slave masters you worship that keep giving you that 'what have you done for Nigeria' narrative.

You’ve not done enough for Nigeria.

I have experienced abject poverty in Nigeria- real gutter living and blamed no one for it, hec, I had no time to blame anyone I was too busy struggling hard and trying to exploit the endless money making opportunity around me . I progressed from that, attended university, done NYSC, started business in Nigeria, traveled broadly in Nigeria, providing entertainment for young people in remote villages. Regularly helped my brothers that were providing free after school tuition for local people in Warri, I have joined neighborhood watch night schemes and during the day have worked with people to make roads in the area more manageable for cars vehicles.

The above are just a few things I’ve done for Nigeria and I’m doing more now for Nigeria than ever before. I have no slave master, I’m a free man – well, except as slave for others, when I can, to make their lives better. I believe in the ability of ordinary people to greatly improve quality of life in the area they live, at least. Nigeria rewards effort put in to her. Nigeria rewards effort Nigerians put in for each other.

I'm not glib; I have experienced a great deal in Nigeria and am grateful for it because now nobody can emotionally blackmail me with their poverty, middle class, wealthy or even death and killing issues.