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Op article is stark truth. However some experiences I’ve had in recent years makes me believe that part of Nigeria’s problem is her openness. By this I mean our immigration and nationality processes. We don’t have a grasp of population size; people are not registered at birth, deaths are not registered etc. We cant find out who is Nigerian and who is not.

I’ve met Rwandans that were affected directly by the pogrom that took part there. None of these people hated Rwanda even then. I met these people in London, they were refugees at the time. Some had no family back in Rwanda because Hoto’s wiped them out. I've in fact not met people in all my time alive that hate their nation. NEVER. I find that only so-called Nigerians express such hate for their nation. I spent half my life in Nigeria, half of it abroad. My family has experienced the worst Nigeria can offer yet none of us hate Nigeria. I can tell you right now that no so-called Nigerian youth risking life crossing the Med has had a more difficult time in Nigeria than we have. But I love Nigeria. It is one of the best places to live. I've met the kindest, most honest people in my life in Nigeria. I have traveled throughout Europe, several Caribbean nations, some Asian ones and some South American ones.

Why did I start by stating, ‘experiences I’ve had in recent years makes me believe that part of Nigeria’s problem is her openness’?

I say this, and I have stated this before on Niaraland, I discovered much later that a couple of very close friends that I attended school with in Nigeria, visited their homes, have them come visit our house and stay a few days, partied with, played football etc, were not in fact Nigerians after all. One I found out was Cameroonian and the other one was from Reunion. They grew up in Nigeria. Of course, schooling in Nigeria, there were always people you sort of thought were Nigerians but turned out they were not. But discovering, years later, that my two close friends were not actually Nigerians was eye opening. They were not the ones that told me this, some other Nigerian friends told me in London during some reminiscing about our experiences at School in Nigeria.

So, I guess I’m trying to say that the reason that it appears only Nigerians seem to hate their country is because many of these people may not be actually Nigerian in origin. We just assume that they are because they live or lived in Nigeria and grew up with us and around us.

In the West, if someone becomes a personality, becomes and influencer for example. In no time, interested parties could obtain records on where and when they were born. We as Nigerian cannot. There are vlogers that claim they are Nigerians, their contents are often negative towards Nigeria and positive towards other West African nations. I can say confidently that no interested Nigerian party could obtain irrefutable information on the true Nationality of these individuals as endorsed by birth certificate or some form of national registration recording their birth in Nigeria or by Nigerian parents.

Butchered for muti while still alive

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A murder trial began in a Nelspruit court this week that resembles the script of a horror movie. Four men appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit High Court for the muti murder of Mr Clarance Brown (25) on Monday.

Family and community members wore T-shirts branded with Brown’s photo to court. Businessman Mr Floyd Mokoena (63), his son Mr Sydney Toto Mokoena (38) and two of Sydney’s friends, Mr Justice Ndubane (33) and Mr Simon Nkosi (37) face charges of murder.

Brown’ s body was exhumed from his grave in Oakley Trust near Bushbuckridge in 2008, three weeks after the police had received a tip-off that he was murdered for muti purposes.

Two of the accused were related to the deceased.

Floyd allegedly asked his son to help him hunt down a relative so they could remove his body parts and use them to strengthen his businesses.

Sydney apparently persuaded his two friends to ambush his cousin, Brown, on the night of February 23, 2008, after returning from a night out.

Mpumalanga police spokes-man Col Leonard Hlathi said the accused allegedly offered Brown a lift home.

“But they apparently attacked him on the way by cutting off his right testicle, removing his brain and certain bones from his body while he was still alive.”

He said they then supposedly ran over Brown with a Venture and left him to die on the road where he bled profusely.

“This was meant to make it look like he had been a victim of a hit-and-run accident but their dirty tricks backfired nearly six months after the victim’s funeral hence we were forced to exhume the body,” Hlathi said.

In 2001, South Africa police caught 2000 people in position of body parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_EQH2l3AQ

South African anger at body part ritual killings

JaceBlaze:
We don't.That's Nigerians' M.O.

Yes, you do, stop lying. Ah, but then perhaps you’re not really South African. If you are South African and you claim no ritual killings take place in your country then I fear you South Africans are as hopelessly delusional as Ghanaians.

South African police accused of ignoring ritual murders

Even in a country grown accustomed to horrific acts of violence, it is a crime that still shocks. ''Muti murder'', in which human body parts are removed to be used in traditional "medicine", is increasing in South Africa - but victims' families complain that the police too often ignore it....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/1514025/South-African-police-accused-of-ignoring-ritual-murders.html

Militants largely introduced the Kidnapping industry to Nigeria. I wonder what other progressive things they will bring to the future republic of Delta State.

The ABA Mall depicted here resembles ordinary residential homes in an estate. In Nigeria, we tend to build banks, fire and police stations, shopping centres, retail buildings and so on all same as we build ordinary houses and flats. This is a trend that we need to rethink if we are to create that Nigeria whose cities and towns, are at least as aesthetically pleasing as those anywhere. We need to establish in Nigeria national, regional or state standard for what official buildings must resemble separate from what residential homes must look like. For instance, we could declare that all police stations are to be square, flat roofed and at least two stories height; fire stations are to have broad arched shaped entrances; all malls to be built in the flat faced many windows style of office blocks etc.

Nah, I don’t see it, history does not suggest this. Nigeria has always fought for Africa within her limited capacities. Africa, on the other hand, has often seemed hostile to Nigerians. If anything, Ghana is likelier to be part of those funding Bokoharam and affiliates than Nigeria funding separatists in Ghana. And actually, if out of character, Nigeria has anything to do with fomenting separatist movement in Ghana, it would likely be out of retaliation because Nigeria received Intelligence that Ghana or Ghanaians, along with others, are helping fund this Bokoharam iteration.


If there are outside instigators involved in the separatists agitation in Ghana, your best bet is the West. Ghana has been welcoming African Americans and threatening French finical institutions. The West are hostile to those African nations whose actions suggest a future of Black Unity and singleness of purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkQga-mzO4Y

views:
Before it was Warri, now it Ph. Wot is wrong with this niger delta people sef. Or are they the iraq of Nigeria?. Anyhow let dem finish themselves it unfortunate. What do u expect, now that the Oyinbos have all gone, dog go chop dog na.

These idiotic people killed Warri. Now the place is dead, no jobs, business prospect ruined, investors gone, leaving no future unless government steps in and declares marshal plan or something. Perhaps it is no wonder they have relocated to Port Harcourt, nothing is left in Wari, I’m told. People in the area need to stop secretly backing these militants. It is not true that they are fighting for the people, they are fighting for their warlords and the need of these warlords to extort and enrich themselves the way they think politicians are doing.

It is also about time that ordinary citizens the width and breath of Nigeria ask themselves, where are the good and better places militants and rebels have created in the history of entire Africa, not to talk of Nigeria, that serves as example of the Eduardo that can be achieved. Is warri a better place now than it was before the so-called militants came to, came to – I don’t even know what they came to do ? Whatever it is they rose up to do did they achieve it and is life now better for the average Deltan? Is his or her prospect rosier now than before when Warri was almost like a little Lagos in terms of her cosmopolitan make up, international investment attraction, buz and employment prospects?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeOF0GaMP90

13:06, 13:35 will amaze you

The 3D printing here is just revolutionary , wonderful stuff.

PS

Those of you that are able, I’d advice look for how to buy shares in some of these nascent space companies. Don’t ask me, I don’t know how but ill be researching.

Foolish.

Ghana, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire should be joining to form one larger Nation- not seperating - they’re all more or less same people. Too many African nations are not viable as it is, for they are too small geographically or population-wise, without current nations splitting into even smaller tribal nations. And before some of you point to Norway, or some small thriving European nation, as examples contradicting the main thrust of my argument, just bare in mind that African nations are overwhelmingly agrarian primary product producers. With the best will in the world, and with all due respects, the majority of African nations will not become industrialized nations able to increase their GDPs, and what not, through innovating technological products. In addition, these African nations, unlike the smaller European nations, won’t have the might of the Western world subsiding their living standards.

illicit:
This zulum better be careful


What's he trying to prove sef


Getting our soldiers and police killed

He possibly has come to realise the truth of what I warned years ago. What is this truth, you may wonder ? Well, here it is: if you’re an African Nation, never, ever allow Western Humanitarian organisation to set up shop in your country (i.e. establish themselves and become comfortable). Once they do, wars and unrest will never abate in your country. These organisations survive because of wars and it has become an unspoken concern that it is in their interest for wars to continue in the relevant nation. Some of the well known Western Humanitarian organisations receive huge governmental and public donations funding, much of which heads of these organisations feed fat on while the rest fund field staff (including salaries) and the substantial bureaucratic machine.

The Governor understands that if he can get the people back to their villages, in addition to the benefits of having the people farm their lands and grow produce for the markets, which facilities economic activities of the state; preventing the people becoming lazy and wilfully dependant on handouts; preventing delinquency entrenching itself among the young in the camp; he can get these dubious humanitarian organisations and foreign NGO’S out of his state, thus eradicating one more possible reason the conflict prolongs.

GeneralFarouq:
Ah, yea I get

Seems more likely DSS intelligence on the Gun Suppliers strength was wrong evident in Dss tactics. Dss may have charged in to where Gun Suppliers were holding up believing them to be a little Local in their set up and instead met with sophisticated well armed Gun Suppliers. Had Dss summation of Gun Suppliers been more accurate, Dss may have adopted the tactics, not of overwhelming the Gun Suppliers with even superior or equal fire power, but surrounding the Suppliers hideout with much manpower (DSS and police) and hailing them on loud speaker to surrender and come out. Gun suppliers would not have been as successful as they were, on the fateful day, if circumstances meant that they had to rush out, shooting their way to escape.

Anyway, just my uninformed thoughts

GeneralFarouq:
It confidence.... And maybe they didn't have reasonable time to shift thier shipments before the secret police would arrive

Unlikely, it seems to me. Since for your suggestion to work, Mole would have had to know only at the last minute that Dss was about to move on the location. This means that , before the minute, Mole would have had no prior knowledge of the department’s knowledge of the Gun suppliers’ location, which is doubtful. And imagine the risk of discovery Mole would run, making hurried contact with Gun suppliers that Dss was on the way. Your bravado suggestion seems even unlikelier.

If Suppliers require more than a day to shift their equipment and arms catch, Shoot out with Dss would mean they escaped after the confrontation and left everything behind.

BabaOwen:
I can't believe their are moles in the DSS

If these gun runners were alerted by moles why didn’t they disappear before the arrival of Dss? Why would they risk casualty on their side by waiting around to ambush Dss?

Not until whites train hyenas to sniff for bombs, drugs and cancer will Nigeria army consider that we have an abundance of them in Nigeria and that we would save ourselves the cost of maintenance and importation of dogs foreign to the Nigerian climate. Let’s never be afraid to try something different or innovate.

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Pretorialand

ngeneukwuewuGOAT:


NIGERIA IS GONE TILL NOVEMBER.

WHO CURSE THIS COUNTRY

BUHARI CAME TO FINISH THE ALREADY DIVIDED NATION WITH HIS NEPOTIC AND TRIBAL BEHAVIOR.

IF IT WERE TO BE A GOOD COUNTRY, THE DEATH OF THIS NIGERIANS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED BUT THE SIMPLE REASON NA NAIJA THEY WILL NEVER GET JUSTICE.

I WEEP FOR THIS NATION

All nations have unresolved murder cases of so-called important figures as well as ‘ordinary’ people. Majority of Americans will tell you that Harvey Oswald was not President Kennedy’s murderer. We are referring to a whole president of the United States here. List of unresolved murder crimes in America and Uk is very long.

Kriss216:
Same lyrics Nigerian soldiers use when they engage Boko Haramists in battle.

I want to be blunt and honest here...

So, The DSS expected arms dealers/smugglers to use catapult or sword before engaging them?

RIP Modibbo, your country failed you.

News is reporting what took place. Nowhere did news say the Dss where inadequately armed. If news reports that a police office was clubbed to death by a group of thugs armed with big sticks does not automatically mean the police was unarmed. It is the worldwide norm for police and security services to declare that the relevant criminals were well armed. Dss were relying on the element of surprise as the difference.

I wish Nigerians would get away from this notion that if Nigeria was as developed as America, no one will die or go hungry, houses wouldn’t burn down, accident wouldn’t happen and homes wouldnt flood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQ2V2pl4uM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lsx-XtXwGo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZiq67OgCg

rampantlover:
Figment of your imagination, most Nigerians are just like you. Highly delusional and damn stupid. So all the hatred towards Nigerians all over the world is because the world is afraid of the rise of Nigeria. Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sharrap. Your black African ass is hated by whites, Asians and Arabs. None of them is in league with you against "the Nigerians". If anything they hate your ass more than those of Nigerians. Nigerians may present a difculty for them in terms of their expectations - that a typical African would be like you, a childlike, happy-clappy coon, who is scared of moving an inch lest you cause offence by daring to act normal – but they soon grudgingly learn to respect the Nigerians.

They recon with Nigerians because Nigerians are substantial blacks and therefore seen as threatening, the rest of you Africans are perceived as irrelevant and already controlled and so they may pat you on the head and say, 'good, good boy, you're not like those naughty Nigerians. This does not mean they like you in spite of your fighting for their affections by acting compliant and pointing fingers at Nigerians and saying we're not like them.

heniford2:
why do you say igbo why are you this uneducated

It’s a divisionary tactic. Many of this type of people are not Nigerians.

This type of behaviour is symptomatic of war brutalised environments. When the general Nigeria family structure was not disrupted by the traumas of civil strife, Nigeria produced SIMPS. SIMPS (I mean Simp in the context of women pushovers. )SIMPS do not rape women or men and never children.

Clarification:

Simp is used often on Nairaland to denote men that respect women. It is conjectured that any man that respects women is weak and stupid.

jrusky:
These bastards had started. I hate these people with passion.

I blamed all African countries that fought for these bitchs freedom they should have just ignore them and allow De Clerk to pack them inside Gas Chamber like the way Hitler did then.

Very stupid, hateful, lazy bastards. I have said it over and over I will bleed South African in a slightest chance and I'm unrepentant about these. I will not back down till I pull a devasrating revenge on them

One thing we Nigerians should be aware of though in all this, is that there is one African Country that specialises in sowing division between Nigerians and other Nations. I’m always cautious that this may be happening and try to temper what I write.

https://www.foodstuffsa.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/obese-south-africa.jpg
Images of obessity in South Africa

The phrase , 'get off your fat backside and work' was never truer than in the case of lazy South Africans. Instead they would rather envy hardworking Nigerians and label them drug pushers the way their white oppressors used to label them drug pushers and rapists.

South Africans are fat and lazy.

Just as you have Antisemitic canards, you have antiblack canards and one of these is the black-people as rapists and drug pushers’ one.

South Africans like Ghanaians and many of the folks of these African Nations are still at that backward stage were they are unable to accept they have fault. See the many pages here filled with these morons simply refusing to accept fault for xenophobic attacks on foreigners. They are here trying to justify xenophobia by blaming it on everyone but South Africans that daily persecutes foreigners. Early this year or late last year, there was the spectacle of that munchkin featured Ghanaian fellow called Wodemaya who went around the internet showing images and news of the Chinese man that former Emir Sanusi crowned chief of the Chinese business community in Kano state. He was everywhere trying to paint Nigerians as subservient and the entire world had a real go at Nigeria. And yet when his Ghana people did far worst by bestowing a title on a Chinese and carried him aloft in worshipful scenes that hearken back to the worst impressions of blacks as Tarzanic coons, he was nowhere found. And Ghanaians en mass defended the coronation.

Hypocrites, all of these people, simpletons unable to accept fault even when glaring - i spit.

YEBOmadiba:
Rich people abusing their power, and you accepting and defending it is indeed brainwash.

Silly point.

Nigerians attitude to the wealthy is primordial, far too complex and cannot be summed in this amateurish attempt of yours at eliciting class sympathies.

Many sophisticated cultures around the world venerate the wealthy and it is perhaps a mark of your lowly self-worth as a black African that you wish to dismiss this in Nigeria by employing those paternalistic colonial attitude of superimposing neo liberal dogma and clichés on the natives.

YEBOmadiba:
A Nigerian policeman is holding an umbrella for a powerful foreign man like he is a servant. That same policeman won't hold up that umbrella for you. Instead of fighting for your right to equality you are justifying why a man from China should be treated better than you.

You really wasting my time. I'm done with you. You are more of a mental slave than the South Africans you are pointing fingers at.

Rubish.

You were attempting to paint Nigerians as brainwashed.And South Africans prove regularly to the world they suffer from mental slavery, nothing you say on Nairaland will change that.