₦airaland Forum

Irore:
Just wondering when other nationals will start craving for Nigerian citizenship.

Bossontop:

Congrats man..... You've escaped..... E remain me

Hedonisco:
If we can muster aggressive Southern Unity, there would be no need to shed blood. A united front of the South/Middle Belt would avert needless bloodletting to free ourselves from the forced marriage with the unproductive, parasitic, leeching, clogging, hopeless, primitive, and inferior 'core' Islamic North.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
No be Quota system CJN again?
Zoo country!
We warned you animals and idiots.

Hedonisco:
Our woes as a country are only just beginning. The worst is yet to come. Shebi this disaster called Buhari still has 3+ years to go? Una never see anything.

I said it before and I would reiterate it, that the only solution to this ridiculousness is aggressive Southern Unity. We really have no business being in the same country with these primitive abokki parasites from the core North.

Vanhooijdonk:
Major General Mohammed Buhari deceived Nigerians he was a reformed democrat. Majority of voters including the BMC crew were not born during his tyrannical reign in the 80's. A leopard does not change his spots.

Commentor:
What's your opinion on these photos?

Simplyleo:
Just here to read the chest beating.

Things like "even dangote cannot do without us" and other similar stuff like that.

Enwhen:
Baba Tinubu don sell SouthWest to the north long ago and he don spend the money finish ... He is not different form many selfish nigerian politicians and I don't blame him, I blame the mumu, ode , orue people running after him for ewedu and Amala .

jayfolarin:
They are doing their best to water down the impact of calling the tyrant buhari by his military name. It's a well known but low level tactic in support of their dictator. It's not even fucking funny.

Low level trolls

IDeyNL:
It's a welcome development. They should implement it in SW schools.

We Yoruba Muslims are patiently waiting for sharia in Yorubaland.

Alamdulilahi.

LibertyRep:
What is more embarrassing than open display of disrespect to the judiciary, the last hope of the common man.

...and what could be more embarrassing than a renowned professor of law still working for a man under whose supervision the court of law was desecrated.

We know it isn't easy to talk while eating but the respected prof still has the opportunity to redeem his image before it becomes too late.

MISTAICEY02288:
You sef see am bah? I think say na only me see am. I just decide make i no loud am before ni..

ejimatic:
This Sowore Vs DSS Wahala: The Lies Of Sowore And Falana
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Watching the unexpected issue that happened in the courtroom during the release of Omoyele Sowore is an alarming abuse of the courtroom but as well it can also be a movie drama planned or directed by a movie director known for several false stories telling Omoyele Sowore himself.
When Sowore's re-arrest video trended, it was expected that DSS reacts. They didn't. But now they, Sowore and Falana have reacted.
I WEEP FOR ALL OF US.
DSS claims their operatives were not inside the Courtroom. Falana claims DSS was in the Courtroom, that some were in Lawyers gowns and wigs. Unbelievable. Sowore claims DSS wanted to kill him while in their custody but failed. Now, DSS, in the public of Igwe Mmadu, came with guns to kill him right inside the Courtroom. Do you believe Falana and Sowore?
I doubted DSS until I watched that video again. The only man who was pinning Sowore down was the tall man in the suit. I thought he was a DSS operative. But he alone cannot effect an arrest. And clinging to Sowore who lied on top of him doesn't seem an effective way of arresting a man. I thought he was clinging to Sowore to prevent him from escaping. Now, I know he was clinging to prevent his arrest.
When I watched this video again, as Sowore was giving his illegal press briefing, this young man in the black suit was standing at his back, hailing him. Some others were surrounding Sowore. A wise voice was cautioning Sowore not to grant the interview. Sowore shunned that wise voice.
If Sowore was not killed while in DSS custody, why will DSS attempt to kill him while in public? Why will DSS operatives wear Lawyers gowns and wigs as Falana claimed? These are tissues of naked lies. All these dramatic personae should be arrested. They are not above the law as DSS is not above the law. They are a national disgrace.
Today, I and millions of other Nigerians have a clearer picture following the press release by the DSS. It has become clear that they didn't invade the courtroom to arrest Sowore. Falana, at least, admitted this and owned up that he was informed by the service of their intention to arrest his client after the court session and outside the court of course.
So, our hasty righteous indignation must have been misplaced! Still, it is excusable because we were all fooled by that video.
I, however, kept asking myself why there were no attempts by other DSS operatives to rescue their man who was trapped and swooped on by the supporters of Sowore as depicted in that video. To me, something didn't add up. The team of DSS could not have been outside, while one of their own was being pummeled in the courtroom.
Today, the jigsaws are falling properly into place!
First, Sowore resisted arrest and was aided in the act by his supporters.
Secondly, his case had ended; again, Sahara Reporters admitted this when they said in their earlier headline: "DSS Trying To Rearrest Sowore After Court Had Adjourned His Case". So, it was obvious that it was Sowore who rushed back into the courtroom and disrupted another ongoing court session.
Thirdly, he hoped to blackmail the security operatives, and whip up sentiment. And he succeeded. But like Lauretta Onochie said, when those who sided him based on the wool he pooled over their eyes eventually know the truth, they will abandon him. And this is true. Some have already realised he only play-acted and have washed their hands off him.
And for those who think that Sowore is insignificant and poses no national threat, I disagree completely with them. He might not be such threat now again, but if the DSS hadn't been proactive and botched the "revolution now" when they did, by arresting him, we can't tell how much the movement could go out of control.
Hasn't he been punished enough?
I would think that Sowore has been punished enough and should be allowed to go.
But...
Has he behaved like someone who has learnt anything yet, and is a bit remorseful?
We trivialize Sowore's case because we are probably looking at the man, Sowore, and not at those that might have been behind his move, those that might have committed funds to the cause, their potency, and what their actual intentions were and how they had planned to have it successfully executed.
Sowore went to the UK, had a meeting among others with Nnamdi Kanu, who, whether you like it or not, is enemy of the state. This meeting was for a purpose, and it was strategic; to recruit thousands of angry IPOB boys into this cause. Sowore posed with Kanu and shared the pictures. It was an endorsement by Kanu, and a message to his boys to join.
This was at a time the Shiites were marching and were being shot and killed, still they were not deterred. They were a willing tool for Sowore, and the clown knew it.
Add these to the bitter losers of the election, the embittered and disappointed members of the society who had thought that PMB was already history, and who didn't want to imagine the prospect of another 4 years with him on the saddle.
Sowore knew what was brewing!
Sowore had planned a movement that would get rowdy, uncontrollable, violent, and invariably lead to the security shooting the "revolutionary marchers", and with that, the "revolution now" would snowball into a proper revolution! It is happening all around us! Algerian president had resigned in April, just 2 months before Sowore's call. His resignation followed weeks of bloody mass protest termed Hirak or "Revolution of Smile" Sowore and his backers knew and wanted to replicate the same thing in Nigeria.
Sowore and his backers knew about Venezuela and wanted to replicate the same experience here by ensuring that things spiral out of hand, to get foreign governments to withdraw support for a president that defeated him in an election.
Note that this year alone, apart from the Algerian president, the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has also resigned after weeks of mass protests; the same fate has befallen Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi.
Do we have to talk about the Arab Spring of the 2010 and 2011 that swept away leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and co!
All these revolutions didn't take people with two heads to succeed. It took ordinary people who were not even as powerful as Sowore to achieve them. So, we fool ourselves when we think that Sowore is merely an insignificant noisemaker. No! All it takes to achieve a revolution is an unruly crowd, who could be mistakenly shot at, and would bay for blood and say "Kill us all if you can".
Sowore knew this and banked on it.
Do I feel for him?
No!
You don't lose elections, and then choose to set the nation on fire or attempt to depose the same man who defeated you by chanting "Revolution Now"!
Maybe I would have felt for him if he had shown that he has learnt his lessons after spending over 120 days with the DSS.
Maybe, I would have felt for him if his misguided supporters had come to realise that they misled this young man, and admitted that their attempt was ill-contrived and wrong.
We trivialize Sowore's case because we see him wrongly as an activist and not as a bitter presidential candidate that lost an election, and insisted on removing at all costs the man that defeated him.
And for the DSS? I concede that they know many things that I don't know, and that they owe the president and the nation some responsibilities, and that in discharging these responsibilities, what should guide them should not be public perception, but rather intends at their disposal. Therefore, it doesn't matter how we view their action; what matters most should be the result, and keeping the nation safe.
Having said this, however, I wait to hear the fresh charges that would be preferred against Sowore, which necessitated his rearrest. If the rearrest is due to his breaching some of his bail conditions, then I will join those who insisted that they should have approached the court instead to ask that court revoke his bail. That's the proper thing to do.
For us all?
I will only advise that we control our emotions a bit and get the true pictures of things before taking our stand. The knock on the DSS was too much.

SarkinYarki:
Their chief funder Babatunde Fowler vhas been kicked out so no more funds

Ijaycool:
Can we just be honest to ourselves and come together in unison to proclaim that we made a huge mistake voting a tyrant into democracy?

PStacks:
Please help post this for me to register my dissatisfaction with PUNCH.

I am Totally Dissapointed in Punch Newspaper if latest headlines circulating social media space credited to their company about President Muhammadu Buhari.

Punch as a whole has shown shallowness and lack depts in understanding.

First I am Dissapointed in what they are Reacting to and Secondly I am dissapointed at their Reaction itself.

First about what they are reacting to, I am not moved one Bit by whatever adjective the Punch uses to Describe president Buhari.
We have seen worse case scenerios in this country when AIT African Independent Television took to their TV station to embark on a campaign of Hate, Calumny. Smear campaigns.

It is not today, this is not the first Medua campaign against Buhari, AIT's own was worse than this but we all know where it ended.

What im mostly dissapointed about is even their reaction and the deterent they supposedly want to use to deter The President.

Someone worked and rose through the Ranks of a Prestigious Institution as the Nigerian Army. He rose to the Ranks of Major General. Meritoriously and Ceremoniously Decorated.

A very coveted position and Rank. Not something you come by just anyhow.

Something of Pride and Prestige. "Major General".

I am amazed Punch Newspaper thinks addressing President Buhari as "Major General Buhari" is something derogatory.

To me, it serves the exert opposite purpose...

To me personally, I prefer to address the President as Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari than to just address him as "President Buhari"...

Punch in her all wisdom should have known that a Nomenclature does not and can never determine the Content of a Man's Character.

Major General Buhari is a man of uncommon Integrity.

Even if Punch Newspaper decides to call the preaident "Saint Buhari" or "Devil Buhari" those to me are mere Nomenclatures.

Punch should have known that you can Never assasinate the character of a man by what you address him as.

Calling him Major General Buhari will not and can not and will never make him stop being a Democratically Elected President that came in through the Ballot and score Most Popular votes in excess of 15 million votes in an Election closely monitored by local and International Observers.

Punch is lacking in basic fundamental knowledge in character Assasination, they can learn better from AIT.

What Punch has done with this publication credited to them in the media is not different from the drama Sowore Acted in Court...

Buhari has consistently been attacked since before his Campaign, Election and eventual Inaugiration and has not stoped being Attacked.

But the Most Gracious Old Soldier Baba Go Slow would pay them no mind.

Punch Publication is just another one of those distractions we have gotten used to.

We that #StandWithBuhari has seen way more than all this Antics.

I am Dissapointed in Punch, they should have pulled a better Stunt Next time.

OMA
Public Affairs Analyst.

#IStandWithBuhari

https://www.omascope.com/politics/the-fallacy-in-punch-newspaper-smear-campaign

Enwhen:
God save Nigerians ooo, the Hunger is too much for all these drama

Gaggi:
Can't you read? He isn't even a director. A contract staff brought by Fowler as his Special Assistant. That smacks of tribalism to me.

mrvitalis:
Fowler and tribalism
Hand over to the most senior director not to the most senior Yoruba director

festacman:
In as much as vigilance and ventilation are needed to keep our democracy alive, the simple truth is that the real situation is very far from the picture Punch Newspaper is painting. There is freedom of speech in Nigeria and on daily basis tens of anti-government and extremely anti-Buhari articles get published in both print and online media. If there wasn't, staunch critics like Femi Fani Kayode with all his misleading, mischievous and insulting posts would have been in jail.

Unfortunately, DSS personnel got carried away in their bid to tame the defiant Yele Sowore that they tactlessly played into his original intention of making himself a hero of democracy by that act of gangsterism in court premises. Now, the enemies of government including displaced and embittered PDP moneybags have subtly moved into action to discredit Buhari's administration in both local and international media. To counter this dangerous development, I think government should reach out to critical civil society stakeholders to restate its commitments to democratic principles.

However, one thing is certain, because Buhari's presidency is very NECESSARY for the INEVITABLE disruptions of the existing political and economic orders that will make way for new orders, it will survive this onslaught like the ones that came in the past.

Voy:
smh

grandstar:
Dangote Cement is tbr product of an import ban. Remove the import ban and set import duties low, Dangotes profits will nosedive. It will most likely suffer msssive losses. The beneficiaries will be Nigerians who will no longer be fleeced by this company.

Learnt price of cement per bag is $3.50 outside but $6 in Nigeria.

grandstar:
Never said it was. Competition may still be unfair. If we allow market forces to work, Uber by my calculations will still go under. It's only a matter of when.