₦airaland Forum

Alsenora:
Don't mind them. That's how they reason as if the president ,those in government or security are God that is all knowing and must be able to protect every Nigerian from Aso rock to every hamlet in the villages. Kidnapping is not preventable everywhere and could be carried out by random people we come across daily, people that you can't tell if they are criminals( may be those politicizing the issues can) before striking...while efforts must be in place to check the scourge it will still happen. The least that can be done in cases like this is for those in power to go after criminals and make a big statement of deterrence.

Very important. If you're not going to invest in preventative equipment and methods then Deter by investing in becoming detecting and apprehending experts.

Niger Republic Importers May Dump Nigerian Ports — Agents

May dump?

I thought they already do. Wasn't the foolish excuse to connect Nigeria to Niger Republic by rail based on the fact that Niger routes to Cotonou already, and Nigeria supposedly desired this trade?

Nigeria requires at least 2 more branches of police, namely Forest Rangers and Highway police.

Largest bat species in the world- Fruit bats they're called, sometimes Flying Foxes.

The relevant Nigeria state institutions responsible for the apprehending of kidnapers, bandits, and sundry miscellaneous deviants of the realm shouldn't really be struggling as it seems that they are informed by daily bad news. No offence meant, but compared to Nations outside of Africa, the Nigeria masses are relatively ill informed and backwards. Yet those foreigners that troop into Nigeria, such as herdsmen, terrorists, bandits are even more backward than average Nigerians. The profile of local Nigerians likely to engage in banditry, robbery, kidnapping and such would, you'd expect , fall into the category of the most uneducated and hopeless of society. This means that they aught to be among the most stupid and unsophisticated of humanity. If so, why are relatively sophisticated Nigeria institutions struggling to control or and eradicate this scourge?

amadiama:
I really wonder do ppl think b4 committing crime?!!... Few minutes of wat?!!..has ruined your life forever!!!

He may have done something like this before and got away with it so he didn't thinks he'd be caught.

He's doing the right thing. Nigeria's Eva Perón.

Insecurity in Nigeria is a given regardless of wealth and wealth distribution. Your borders are wide open, inhabitants undocumented. Nigerians don't even know the president's true place of birth. And the president doesn't even know that Ivory Cost and Ghana have conquered small portions of Nigeria where they trade in Cedis and speak french. I saw this last on YouTube recently and was astonished.

In terms of a China Town type rejoinder - I don't know that they trade in Yen.

Perhaps Nigeria government pressure. The way British pirates set up World Trade, starting circa 1650, lay the foundation for the exclusion of Africa from any influence in international trade since the advent of modernity. The reason, perhaps, why a nation like Nigeria only exported fuel and bought refind products from the West was due to the requirements of international Balance of Trade.

Self-sufficiency in any important Africa state threatens established order.

DMerciful:
5% of Nigerians on the street is 11,000,000 people. No military can handle this! 2% is enough to overwhelm our military

And then?

Blacks can be so simple atimes. Blacks will let thire personal or micro circumstances influence thire international or macro strategy. For instance, blacks will be influenced against their own kind or against their overall racial interest by thire marriage or great friendship with people of other races. Other races don't act similar. The fact that they love you as a black individual for saving their lives will not prevent them from acting in the interest of thire wider racial group by nuking your entire race if need be.

Indians are facilitators of racism towards black and blacks shouldn't forget this. We are better positioned with the Chinese.

Ps

Oga Indian, I know you're reading. I know what you did. Evil doesn't go unpunished.

It is imperative that Nigeria's Overall Police Authority makes the losing of weapons by officers a serious offence irrespective of circumstances. This is to mitigate the trading of weapons for financial gains.

FalseProphet1:
With the suffocating prices of rent in Lagos, I see a great number of lagosians relocating to the shelters under the bridges. I see them supporting Tinubu from under the bridge amidst Chronic poverty as hunger.

This I have seen.

I wish you saw them returning to thire Nations of origin or if Nigerians to thire villages for recuperation, restrategiesing or resigning to farming their land.

Jeon:
Just know that if you are representing Nigeria, in anything, especially sport know that you will be all alone when things went down..



She is not the first Nigerian sportsman we see ending up like this.


So I don't blame pple that do erase Nigeria, away from their names in any of their occupations.

If you were once a prominent personality in any of the foreign Western nations you're boasting about, and fell into difficult circumstances, you'll be media fudda. Society will mock and persecute you mercilessly. Paparazzi would pursue you in search of lurid pics. No government will come to your rescue, instead you'll be more at risk of arrest for vagrancy or, worst, mental health. At least, in Nigeria, in this former tennis player's case, the state government has intervened. She will receive the care she deserves.

Nigeria does not yet have a functioning care network/ecosystem so people need to give Nigeria time.

The coalition faces a difficult future. They'll find themselves having to wage existential wars. Some wars will be due to paranoia, some economic difficulties due to geography, others due to these regimes deflecting local failure by appealing for wider West Africa revolution. Russia will back this later. They'll also have to contend with Western economic restrictions and then manipulation by the West exploiting thire instability to cause all sorts of upheavals and conflagrations in the West Africa region.

To survive and prosper, Nigeria will need to become that nation, Nigeria which it is currently avoiding by appealing to some futuristic greater Africa. I mean looking inward: respecting, including, loving and investing in all of her parts. No roads to Accra but roads to Anambra; no trains to Niger and Abijan but trains linking all her state capitals etc.

Dancebreaker:
Bad news for 9ja and West Africa. We need their cooperation to fight terrorists.

Any junta that succeeds in its coup in the region will have 3 countries ready to welcome them.

Failed elected and election rigging leaders put Africa at risk. Coups will happen when there is grinding poverty, insecurity, impunity and looting. See the result now.

The only panacea is good governance, rule of law, transparency and tangible economic growth that creates jobs for the masses.

The more pariah states we allow to emerge the more the dens of terrorists in the region.

Indeed.

The good : Kicking out Overlord France ( if they did).

The Bad: welcoming Overlord Russia.

The worst: essentially becoming a coalition of land for terrorists, Bandits and unemployed youths ready for employment by all forms of deviants prior mentioned.

It won't harm Africans to examine the idea of Corruption and other foreign precepts from the point of view of foreign values. I'll give an example. A popular UK celebrity, a couple of years ago, stated that female breasts are sexual organs meant for men not babies. Now you may laugh at this until you extrapolate where this may lead informed by the wider context of her assumptions.

The Context:

The popular celebrity stated this during general opinion sharing over the debate surrounding breast feeding in public. The majority consensus was that women breast feeding thire children in public was an indecent act. This anti-public breastfeeding position trumped the anti public breastfeeding one which sort to position public breastfeeding as an act incompatible with modernity. From this you may deduce that the pro-public breastfeeding proponents were far from winning the debate.

Where this may lead:

Obviously this may lead to the prohibition, outlawing and demonising of public breastfeeding. Where would this leave Africa where public breastfeeding is so entrenched society would not more question it than question breathing. Where would the prohibiting of breastfeeding in the West leave the growing understanding on the benefits of breastfeeding in social settings?
The demonising and outlawing of public breastfeeding in the West will lead in Africa to adoption of those laws and their enabling prescriptions. Not long after, African societies that adopt this Western model less well than others will be be tagged the most deviant societies. They will become societies known for where mothers openly sexually abuse thire toddlers by shoving breast meant for men into their toddlers mouths. Bottle formulas are for babies not tits.

I guess I'm suggesting what we label corruption or why corruption seems chronic or endemic is due to cultural factors. We possibly need a better understanding or better ways of transitioning to modernity.

Yesterday's Nigeria, in the temporary absence of the proprietor from their Kiosk, it was nothing to take a loaf of bread with the vague notion that you'd pay for it later. The proprietor wouldn't mind, "we all know eachother". Today's Nigeria, with its adopted Western culture, casually taking that bread will be (simplistically) seen as theft!

Authorities need to Kill the gun salute culture in Nigeria civilian affairs. Outlaw it. Bedsides, the entire thing has no value. It is uncouth and ghetto. Even too ghetto for the ghetto let alone, in this instance, where August and esteemed personage of the realm ghattred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7waP07ALhII?si=Ifa0dvhTWI1kRddF

Franking:
Nigeria is dirty. No electricity. No order. Everywhere is chaotic. Mosquitoes. Boko Haram. Kidnappers. So many reasons to stay away from Nigeria.

Indian slums are tourist attraction, did you know ? The movie Slum Dog Millionaire was the catalyst.

A number of Broadway shows with Lagos Nigeria as background theme, were huge hits. If this had been exploited by Nigeria, Tourist may have liked to visit Nigeria to see for themselves the places in Lagos featured in those plays. Any such tourist would be disappointed if these places featured were sanitised. They would view this as inauthentic.

Nigeria is hugely gifted with sites and occasions of interest that would thrill the world of tourism if Nigeria invested.

The Osu Osogbo festival is gaining world interest. Every year, pilgrimage to the place grows.

Nigeria has hundreds of kings, palaces and kingdoms that have amazingly survived to present day but are shadows of thire former glory. They are potential gold. Yet the youths of Nigeria would foolishly like these abolished.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP45q6ZP0TY?si=c2TnsTxzdRAajUTx


People are visiting from as far as USA and Brazil....

Googledotcom:
Where you wan visit for Nigeria ?

Make dem kidnap u

More kidnapping in South Africa than Nigeria. This isn't greatly impacting South Africa tourism negatively. Nigeria isn't a Tourist destination because Nigeria dose not invest in Tourism. Nigeria relies on oil.

isArray:
what tourist attractions does Nigeria have to offer?

Kings, palaces, kingdoms and festivals. But these are currently not under sale to visitor curiosity.

COMPAQ:
Always a knee jerk reaction by governments in Nigeria!!

How is this knee jerk? shanties have plagued Lagos and other Nigeria cities, nearly since independence. 50 years of unmanageable, runaway shanty sprawl! At one point, Lagos was so full of Shanty it might have been easier to view Lagos as a Shanty City with pockets of commercial and urban infrastructure instead of a commercial and urban area with pockets of shanty places.

No action against Shanty by Nigeria authorities is too soon or hurried.

babzo:
Yes. You may be right and you may be wrong.

The police is under pressure to perform and they have to show their Political bosses they are performing. At the same time, you have a point that they should best do all the under ground work first before announcing anything.

The reality though is the Nigerian Police is under funded, under motivated, under paid, and filled with an over load of wrong personel .

Kidnapping for ransome is a low intelligence level crime; no serious country in the world still experiences Kidnapping for Ransome ( I am not talking of human trafficking or Kidnapping of kids by fighting spouses).

Kidnapping is so easy to solve, even a first year student of the Police College can solve it.

It takes too much manpower and activity to effectively kidnap a human being.

You have to steal the person, house the person, feed the person; call and negotiate with the family and friends, collect the money ( ransome), keep or spend the money.

Kidnaping is rife in "advanced" South Africa.

A progressing Lagos, Abaleki, Kano, Anambra, Abuja or elsewhere can only be good for Nigeria generally.

If this article is true, you'll find - if you keep on top of it - that forces purportedly Nigerian ( may not be Nigerians but Africans of elsewhere ) will start reaching out to that publication to pressure them to retract.

This types of diabolical actions, Nigeria Opposition Politics endorse. They'll say that the entire world can help make Nigeria better by never saying anything positive about Nigeria because doing so will discourage change while endorsing corruption and unfair practices.

Simplified of course. But I've witnessed similar actions as the above by anti-Nigeria forces.

Lagos and Nigeria is warm and vibrant. This count for much. The Rio Carnival is vibrant yet dangerous. Dubai has futuristic skylines, spectacular lights and safe. Both offer different attractions that fair publications on top places to visit should take into consideration. Publications just never took this into consideration in terms of Nigeria. Perhaps they are beginning.

As I began at the outset, Lagos like the rest of Nigeria is a warm, vibrant, colourful place with much unappreciated cultures. The Nigeria people are generally on the happy, loving and helpful side, in spite of how Nigeria's immoral, selfish, shortsighted, immature and all forms of expletives Opposition Politics has painted it in order to control the people sense of selves. When I draw reference to Opposition Politics, I refer to all side of the spectrum.

spako4:
What is the difference?

Armed Robbers are Scums.
Kidnappers are Scumbags.

"It turns into chewing gum" in Isoko.

Lean Syberian right there! Love Nigeria.

Nigerians have been weaned on politics by Oppositional mammaries. It's a national pastime indulged by all, means or no means. Had there been such a thing, no stadium built for the olympics of politics would suffer neglect. Every seating government henceforth need to teach Nigerians how to play again. They could start by investing in national ceremonies, beginning with institutionalising some of our cultural ceremonies. A commercial Durbar could feature annually for the paying crowds. Commercialised Masquerades too. Honouring ceremonies. Gladiatorial death matches featuring captured terrorists, Kidnappers and bandits. Stadiums would then find some use, not fall into disuse and eventually neglect.