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.

Mandela27:
Africans are naturally wired to be very violent

Ivorian mentality you mean. Leave Africa out of this.

ClearFlair:
This is the second time in a few years. He came to Nigeria during Buhari's tenure

Buhari didn't give up to Gay, leading to Bandits.

It's Tinabu's turn.

Doing as may be done in the West without electronic tags as would be done in the West is as stupid as Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zaWuGweWvM?si=VGX-wEUrBUL5CSl4

I'm not a fan of Africa and definitely not a fan of Africa integration and chumleyness . Nigerians should remain in Nigeria or travel overseas, if desired, not to other Africa nations. Africa isn't ready for Nigeria and Nigeria isn't ready for Africa.

Actually, scratch that last, Nigeria is socially mature enough to tolerate and handle foreign Africans. They are just not ready for us Nigerians..


Domestically, the Nigeria state is too lax and her citizens too free. Mature western nations, for instance, restrict the ability of certain members of society traveling abroad. The different parts of their society that link to creat a functional whole is so tightly woven, movement and actions of all citizens are nearly known. I could even make the argument that many Western nations allow crime to take place in order to feed the economic philosophy of state, capitalism. The Nigeria state isn't as fully in control of her citizens.

Enskynelson:

Don't u read news?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2024/01/breaking-police-army-rescue-najeebahs-sisters-other-abuja-kidnap-victims/amp/

Thanks for the link. However a quick glance at it - I may have missed something - mentioned no Army personnel. Inspector General of Police, IGP Olukayode Egbetokun is not an army spokesperson.

People shouldn't accuse the army of misleading statements when no one (officially) from the army - currently - made any statements. Police should be held responsible for the public statement it seems.

At this point, if only a giant could sweep everything on top of Nigeria into the ocean, then reintroduce Dangote, Lagos, Abaleki, Umahi, Wike, Fashola, Allen Onyema, Falconets, Tobi Amusan, Nigeria Army and a few others I can't recall now.....

Some vloggers....

Justbehave:
Lol. And the Army said they rescued the remaining girls even while the family said that Ransome was paid.

What Army spokesperson stated this?

For example, Capt AI Deep Fakeolabandji etc, what's his or her name? Or link, please.

JASONjnr:
Tinubu will indirectly and quietly divide the country to have south west independent of Nigeria's need.

Observant. Nationalists need to watch him closely.

Fantastic, hope their plans turn out even better than they believed.

Humanity and land! The world should learn from Nigeria. We don't give a Bleep about land. We dash Cameroon Bakasi. Our borders are flung wide open.

What does criminal tracking equipment look like ?


I'm reminded of grandpa type tok

I didn't see or read the article on Nigeria Army claiming they rescued the girls. So, can I ask, what Army spokesperson came out officially and announced that Nigeria soldiers were responsible for rescuing these girls?
What's his name and rank?

Past Eagles reputation, and the popularity of Nigeria worldwide (whether due to infamy or fame) mean teams raise their game when playing Nigeria. Our players need to accept that they are always going to work for victory.

Nigerians won't criticise this guy; yet, shielded by the walls of some building, in thire capacity as employers examining the certificates of prospective employees, they'd be raising eyebrows at one out of the following origin institutes: University of London versus University of Lagos versus University of Nsuka versus Kampala University of Uganda!

Hypocrites!

"The attack was successfully repelled with the terrorists withdrawing in disarray while evacuating their dead and wounded.

An old adage Nigeria Army need refamiliarise goes, " he who fights and runs away shall live to fight another day'.

RIP

Dear soldiers.