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Tribes in Oceania, especially New Zealand, have deeply cut tattoos on their faces. They wear it with pride.

However, the down part of tribal marks is that most of them are drawn without the consent of the babies they're drawn on.

But we can still argue that no matter how strict Child Rights is across the world, children suffer various degrees of mutilations under their parents' care.
Parents are not restricted by law from piercing the ears of their girls or circumcising their boys in compliance with religion and traditions.

The preceding paragraph sustains ethical support for tribal marks in our contemporary society, many of which are drawn on toddlers.

Magnoliaa, what's Generation z perception of tribal marks?

oluwaseyi0:
Shame that we don't smoke and basked ourselves in hulicination

As a non religious software developer I'm more of a realist than fantasmic person, Peter Obi lost out the day he allows the North and Atiku rob him of the PDP presidential ticket that rightfully belongs to South East

Even in US only Democrat and Republican have the structure and resources to win national election, any other thing is just wasting its time

You really believe labour party will have 70k votes in Osun and Ekiti combined? Check what the party had in recent governor election

Don't tell me it's strictly about the candidate alone unless you mean labor party fielded shitty candidate in the states above

Even most of your supporters are unwilling to vote labor party as their own state governor neither are they will to be represented by LP in Senate or house of rep

Do you mean all those LP candidate are shitty candidates to the extent of you unwilling to vote them?

The bulk of those who genuinely believe Labour Party is leading do not possess basic quantitative reasoning abilities.

Many of them swear that the solidarity walks in select states across the country attract more than a million people. They do not even know how to quantify a million people.

Their argument: if 4 million people walked for LP in Abuja, we have 4 million votes in the bag when in reality, those who gathered for the walk were not more than 20,000.

The Jos rally that Obi attended was done in a 15,000 capacity stadium where all seats were not filled as more people stood. The number of people in the stadium that day were not up to 1% of registered voters in Plateau State. They see the pictures and conclude that they have Plateau State in the bag.

Their utterances go to show the low quality of foundational education in the country where young "literate" adults do not understand elementary things like numbers and figures.

Britishpea:
And Na Obi that has no vision and any initiative go give u that? He’s your choice anyway but it is like living in the future of circumstances. How I wish the Obi will win and u witness abysmal failure.
U see all the Igbo artistes artists announcing for Obi, una think say Na because dem want better? No! Na because they want their own. Funny enough, people who abused him badly for poor governance while he was governor were the ones singing his praises now just because they want an Igbo man of their clan to win the presidency .

Endsars people who have no clue of what governance means are up for Obi. I had talked to so many of them and they are as confused as their ipob apologist, Obi! Isn’t it funny why Obi who never identified with Endsars is now the one enjoying the support of the endsars projectors? Aren’t these advertisers confused? Sowore is supposed to be the one enjoying the support, if at all.
Obi isn’t just popular because he contested. He’s popular because Igbos are not like u. They don’t backbite their own unlike People like u in Yoruba land backbiting yourselves everywhere. They sell him to people like you and it sailed.
We now know the sponsors of endsars.
If things go the way of tribalism, that’s fine. People are identifying with their own already. Yoruba always act ‘woke’ but still loosing it. Igbo people will never sell their lands to foreigners the way Yoruba sells their even their family houses to Igbos. And you think Igbos are not ethnically. This 2023 presidential election is purely on ethnicity. Take it to the bank.

Ogbeni, get down from your high horse Tinubu will win the election and Ipob noise continues. Or havent u wondered why ipob agitations suddenly take a halt?
Omo ale jatijati!

The person you quoted is not even Yoruba in the 1st place.

donaldking100:
read this again, then carefully listen to how very stupid you sound just for cheap likes.

Hasn't Peter Obi conquered the South South?

Which is more of a security threat?

An APC state where they were taken to court to prevent public nuisance and the court gave a ruling that they should not gather at the Lekki Toll Gate that they are obsessed with?

Or a Delta State where everyone was supposed to be an Obidient?

The sojourning 1 trillion marchers cannot be in Lagos and Delta at the same time. It's not rocket science to know this

They'll do it at Tinubu's Lagos first then troop to Asaba to deceive themselves.

On the day of election, a few of them who have PVC will be entitled to just one vote like the rest of us.

Obi_diots, you can tour the 36 States to March, you're still inconsequential in the scheme of things.

Some students do not want to go back to school. It would mean being partially disenfranchised.

Some students do not want the Strike to end until after February so that they can campaign against APC.

Some students do not want the Strike to end so that they have time to do 1 trillion March.

Some students do not want the Strike to end so that they will curse Buhari and their father day and night.

But listen to me, whether the strike ends or not Tinubu will become president next year because he didn't cause the strike.

Lagos State is the only place he has governed and all Tertiary institutions owned by Lagos State have not embarked on strike as long as I remember.

Vote Tinubu and put an end to ASUU strike forever ♾️

conductor250:
Mind you Datti didn't call for gays to be killed. He said those who have such thoughts should kill the idea.

But then, if we're talking of suppression of rights, why will you support Shettima who banned Christian Studies in Borno?

Datti said on the floor of the National Assembly that members of the LGBTQ community should be killed.

The print and electronic media covered the news. He didn't deny it. He was proud of his utterance as a proud son of an islamist Mauritanian heritage.

When Obi picked him has VP, he came to say that he wanted to kill the idea.

What will the law be called? An Act to kill the idea of LGBTQ in Nigeria?

You should be ashamed that it is under Buhari you guys call Boko Haram that people like Bobrisky and James Brown succeeded and made fortunes for themselves without nothing.

Note, Obi served as Jonathan's adviser when he signed the bill into law.

conductor250:
UAE where Atiku lives has a death sentence and they are 1 million times better than Nigeria. UAE is 90% safer than America too. Same with Saudi Arabia where all of you run every few years for pilgrimage.

How can you call yourself a "progressive" and yearn for a better country while suppressing dissenting voices at the same time?

Is it draconian change that you are bringing?

conductor250:
Nigeria has 14 years imprisonment for gays.

He brought a bill to propose that they should be killed instead.

If that was how Tim Cook was killed, will you be using Iphone today?

Be reminded that Datti was the only senator out of 109 to propose that death penalty should be pronounced on the LGBTQ community.

Datti would be cancelled for his extreme Mauritanian views if he were in the United States , the UK or any developed country you wish Nigeria to be like.

He would be in a maximum prison without human contact.

MadeInTokyo:
All these Northerns don run Tinubu street

It's even better Tinubu is not a Northerner.

Truth is Southeast elite politicians don run Obi street. They even called Igbos that support him saboteurs.

IPOB scatter everything with " no election in Biafraland"

Come out next election make we see

Magnoliaa:
Light and darkness do not co-exist anywhere in the world. The fact that you're for Tinubu and I'm pro-Obi poses the greatest aversion ever.

Have a great life.

I'll make money in this life, track you and shower you with a specie of love even Romeo didn't have for Juliet.

Don't throw me out of the Titanic before we even became a ship please

Christianity and Islam are at opposing ends of the spectrum, yet my candidate defied all odds, married a Christian woman he loved and cherished, supported her as she served God , watched her as she became a Pastor and let their children join Christianity.

I won't bring links from last decade about how your candidate treated those who weren't Catholics because I'm not campaigning. I'm telling my future bride I love her.

Magnoliaa:
Of course, it had to be you.

Last I saw you on these streets, you were defending some pedophile.

How's it been going for you?

No sweetie.

Last time I was on these streets, I was professing my love for you.

I've been working so hard to conquer the world and make you my Remi Tinubu.

How's life, intelligent thing?

Magnoliaa:
EthicallyRight?

Don't rat me out please

I was sure we weren't rich in 2008 when I was in Primary 4.

That night I eavesdropped on my parents' conversation hoping to hear an unforgettable encomium after an impressive P.T.A meeting on the day my alma mater's midterm break commenced.

The theme of the discourse depressed my young mind when I realized that they weren't even talking about the prizes they won at the P.T.A outing as reward for my outstanding academic performance and impeccable character.

They were cursing the management of the school for suggesting that pupils will vacation in the UK during the long break despite the harsh economy.

Two weeks after we resumed from the midterm break, a circular was given to pupils to return to their parents. I can't vividly remember the cost of the excursion which was not lesser than 6 digits, but I was sure even as a child who hadn't clocked puberty that my parents couldn't afford it for me and my siblings.

I didn't only dissolve the circular in water, I stole and destroyed those of my siblings as well .

Why didn't I give a try, show them the notice and see if they'll pay for the trip?

My young self knew that my parents were not going to tell me they cannot afford it. They were going to tell me it was not safe to leave primary school pupils under teachers care for days in a foreign land. They'd also remind me in subsequent weeks that I want to go to London but can't wash my clothes well or mop the house.

One nostalgic moment from childhood!

14 years later I haven't visited the UK yet. My friends say it's not a long journey. Just 6 hours.

Will my dreams ever come true M , the obedient matyr?

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
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I have said it from day one it has nothing to do with the government Nigerians want it is time to put all over the world I have been to more than take it to country in this world Nigerian we only follow a criminal. All over the world Nigerians are Laid by criminals and idiots. Nigeria will run to another man's land as a refugee as mediately they get there they want to vote for themselves the idiot which did nothing for them in Nigeria they now want to vote for him abroad or in another man's land a problem is not government the problem is our people are illiterate educated illiterate. Who have you seen in this world only thing they can do both for idiots to destroy their destiny. It has nothing to do with our government it has nothing to do with her leadership what you reap is what you sow. Look at Europe and North America Nigerians went there and started supporting criminals who do you blame bihari how do you blame Nigerian government how do you blame Nigerian leaders. It is inside the blood of a Nigerian to follow an idiot or somebody which can do nothing those are the only people Nigerians report they're the only people which they will follow anybody which can build a country developing countries Nigerians will fight and follow a piece of shit.[/b]

Summary:

You believe that our problem is also foundational. It's fundamental and deeply rooted in our value system.

Put differently, you can take a Nigerian out of Nigeria but you can't take the Nigerian out of him.

How do you think we can correct these abnormalities in the Nigerian system built by Nigerians?

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
Nigeria's problem has nothing to do with the government but the illiteracy and stupidity of the Nigerian citizen. The average Nigerian we go and vote for an illiterate or a criminal next thing they want development they want to move forward. All over the world Nigerians would for criminals to destroy their future from America Europe and Africa only think Nigerians to vote for their own Nigerian criminal to destroy their future. You cannot blame the government of Nigeria the people are illiterate in Nigerian we're on our way to Europe through the Sahara Desert through the Mediterranean and middle you get to Europe he start supporting the idiot in Nigeria which could do nothing for him. Used in Nigerian refugees in Europe America and Canada will be lifting of Nigerian flag when do tell them go back to Nigeria they run away or throw themselves under the vehicle. The problem of Nigerians have nothing to do with the government but the stupidity and illiteracy of the. Average Nigeria we kick a industry out of the country 2 months later he wants his children to go and wait for that industry in another country that is a illiteracy. Any country Nigerians will vote for their own Indian and the idiot will destroy them.

Illiteracy is Nigeria's problem not bad government. You can vote for 1 million President in Nigeria will be the same thing because the people who only follow an idiot. I want Nigerian people are the only ones which run to another country once they get there they want to vote for the idiot which could do nothing for them in Nigeria we are illiterate...
Any country in the world Nigerians with destroy themselves because of one idiot I have seen it in UK I have seen it in Sweden Denmark Norway I have seen it in 60 African countries I have seen it in America and Canada the average Nigerian because they want to vote for an idiot they will destroy themselves and the idiot will destroy them. Illiteracy is worse than HIV

Summary:

Your opinion is that the leaders of a country, especially in a democratic arrangement, reflect most of the country.

You also believe that lack of proper investment in human capital development has resulted in decrease in the number of private citizens who are sound enough to change the country, thus, the blame should be distributed evenly between the Nigerian government and Nigerian citizens.

Thank you very much for contributing.

What do you think we're not doing right?

During your leisure, you scroll down TikTok or explore reels on Instagram to stay current.

You see lovely videos of Caucasians in lovely and attractive spaces. Suddenly, a video of a dirty and deplorably environment pops up on your social media feed. It's always a long queue of African children waiting to a served a spoon of a poorly nutritious lunch prepared in the most unhygienic conditions.

I don't know if they purposely make those videos to beg for donations or they're real. However, I know that one cannot get hundreds of non-fictional actors to participate in those clips in a society where starvation isn't a big issue.

Airplane tickets are outrageous in this country. It's more painful when the major cause of the exorbitant rates is aviation fuel and Nigeria is a big oil producer.

If you're traveling with your spouse and three kids you'll pay approximately 1,000,000 naira (including return tickets) for local flights.

You can't even use the highways because if those boys hold you, you'll pay at least 10 times the amount of airplane tickets as ransom

The country keeps getting worse everyday.

For someone like me who has no challenge with tertiary education, hunger and starvation, access to basic healthcare or employment, I walk the streets of this country and frustration is written right there in most faces. Though I feel I've had it a bit easy in life, I always return home sad because of the millions of impoverished families in this country.

Hundreds of thousands who can't feed their children or pay for the pre-natal/ natal charges of their wives.

Nigerians are really suffering. Africans in general are really suffering.

What's the way forward as a country and a race?

socialmediaman:
I still don't see how the locals are responsible for the insecurity caused by lack of good governance by the government.

When a certain lady was murdered in a part of the country for example which sparked outrage nationwide, the video went viral. How many people have been arrested? Their faces are all over the internet! They made the videos themselves taking credit for the gruesome murder

This is a complete failure on the part of the government.

If you aren't doing your job, people will never volunteer information and put their lives at risk. If you don't do your job that you're responsible for, how can people help?

The next day the lady was killed, a violent mob attacked visitors, people of different faith and their properties in Sokoto.

People were actually arrested and arraigned but more than 20 top lawyers in the state volunteered pro Bono to defend them.

Top religious leaders, more than 100 of them, in the state paid a visit to Tambuwal not to take the case seriously.

It is called utilitarianism.

It is why Tompolo, a militia leader, was awarded 4 billion naira a month instead of sending the Navy to hunt him down.

Utilitarianism means for the greater good.

Sentence the murderers of Deborah to death and watch the massacre of thousands of people on the streets of Sokoto in 24 hours.

Launch a strike on Tompolo or any the top Niger Delta militant and watch the economy of Nigeria crumble in 2 weeks. In fact, Niger Delta boys who went low after amnesty would begin a new phase of kidnapping oil workers and bombing oil installations in the region.

For the greatest good of people living in the region, the government most times is left with a better option of negotiating with insurgents.

After 20 years, America with the most sophisticated weapons in the world was chased out of Afghanistan and the Talibans they removed in power overthrew the government they installed. Taliban is Afghanistan and Afghanistan is Taliban.

If communities support their criminals, there's little a government can do.

socialmediaman:
Oh, now security is local! The police is no longer a federal institution. There's little the government can do!

Is security also local in Katsina and other cities in the north ravaged by attacks from bandits? Is security also local on the Kaduna Abuja train that was attacked by bandits?

So essentially you crafted this topic just to put the blame on the people and not the institutions whose jobs it is to keep them safe!

Yes, in Katsina, Borno , Kaduna, or anywhere, security remains a local issue!

Wasn't it in Zamfara that natives paid a condolence visit to one of the most notorious bandits in Nigeria after the NAF launched air strikes to cause casualties in his ranks this September? Wasn't the same warlord given a chieftaincy title and turbaned by his community?

Weren't the Northerners condemning Goodluck Jonathan for fighting the North in guise of insurgency/ terrorism?

Wasn't a fight against Boko Haram by a Southern Leader seen as a fight against the North?

Aren't attacks on "unknown gunmen" by the N.A tagged genocide and killing of innocent men?

You can blame the government as much as you wish but know that Security is 50/50 anywhere in the world.

There are a plethora of failures of government in the department of security. Funding, welfare, staff strength, infrastructure and training of security personnel are not impressive or even up to standard in this country. We know that and those are specific parts the government has failed which leaves enormous ungoverned spaces across the country.

Our communities and individuals have failed in the aspect of having soft spots for or covertly supporting their tribal warlords and making them their heroes.

socialmediaman:
Shouldn't we be putting the President and Governors on the hot by asking them what they're doing about the insecurities, and why gunmen would remain "unknown" for months and years? Shouldn't this be everyday talk and frontpage issue in this country, rather than photos of the president departing to and fro NY, or what Wike vs Atiku is doing?

Rather, we're giggling about these serious issues just for political reasons, thinking we're in Lagos and Abuja and its "their problem"

We're enabling bad leadership in Nigeria. The problem is not just the corrupt politicians, its us enablers too

Security is local.

Sunday Igboho was set up to be arrested by his brothers because he was at the process of radicalizing Yorubas to carry guns and fight a cause for secession. His people saw it has maintaining peaceful coexistence and tranquility in their region.

There's little the government can do if you blame them for not tackling armed groups in the region but also blame them for genocide if they share pictures of little success.

Abia State residents!

What's the opinion of the streets about 2023?

Googledotcom:
Why is there Biafra agitation in the first place ? Because South Easterners felt sideline since 1967 till date.

Simon Ekpe will see the uprising of the people if he tries anything stupid. For once they've embraced one Nigeria since the emergence of Peter Obi and this is good news to Nigeria.

Peter Obi's emergence will go a long way to solve the agitation in South East.

This is a genuine argument.

I know that with Peter Obi's emergence, there will be relative peace in the South East. Even if there are dissents, the natives will not be afraid to cooperate with the military to fish out trouble makers in their communities and because of the trust that one of them is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, there would be no ethnic connotations.

Here is the story of the cub you feed to grow into a lion.

An obvious dilemma-

If you move to flush out hundreds of radicalized IPOB/ ESN elements who plan to prevent election from holding, the South East will be militarized and voters will not come out to be caught in Crossfire.

If you don't begin a military operation against the non-state actors, they will enforce total compliance like sit-at-home Mondays.

Reno consistently tells Obi to call out IPOB because he knows how much they can enforce compliance in the South East.

If Peter Obi calls out IPOB, I don't know other South Eastern States but he will most likely not be able to campaign in Abia State without blood shed.

Why do I think PDP may win the South East?

Word on the street is that with BVAS or no BVAS, Governors have tens of thousands of "ghost voters card". If people do not come out to vote, those ghost voters cards will be the electorates on the election day.

Let's face it, if people like Ifeanyi Ubah with bullet proof vehicles and security details will be scared to cast their votes, what's the fate of ordinary voters in the South East?

It's not just once that Labour Party meetings have been attacked in the South East.

Will there be voter apathy in the South East?

Will residents of South Eastern States turn out on election day?

I visited Abia State, Ariaria Market to be precise this month ,3 out of 5 of traders seem to genuinely believe that elections will not hold in Biafraland. The passion with which they argued made me scared so I didn't even ask who they think will win the elections.

I don't know if it's because Nnamdi Kanu comes from the state.

A good amount of the population do not want elections to hold. Then, we have the ragtag militias that are willing to enforce "No elections" with violence.

Residents of Abia State what's the word on the streets? Be honest please.

Period007:
Oga campaign for your dying vegetable without propaganda

It is only the Almighty God the decides who lives or dies.

When your people said Buhari was dead.

When your leader published that it was a Sudanese doppelganger of Buhari that was in ASO ROCK.

God, who is not man, made the parents of the leader of those who wished Buhari dead to predecease Buhari.

One of my favourite Bible passages is Ezekiel, Chapter 7, where God made dry bones to have flesh , breathe and walk again.

The God of today is the same today, tomorrow and forever.

Tinubu will live and complete his two terms while those who wished him dead will be alive to witness God's transformation of Nigeria in Jesus Name Amen!

Period007:
All these your lies and propaganda wont work.
Everything about APC is devilish.
Muslim Muslim is devilish.
After all the shout of structures, you can't even gather upto 1k people in the capital city of Abuja.
Shame!!!!!!!

If it doesn't hurt, then it isn't the truth!

Cry me a river

Truthdeypain:
You are immensely stupid! , Yet these same churches are filled with IGBOS from top to bottom, have the Igbos left these churches who brings in the highest tithes and offerings that feed these your God of men.

How was Nnamdi Kanu wrong in asking people to stop attending churches of people who do not bite into the truth..people who will not speak up for equity and justice, reverred men of God who only know the truth when it concerns tithes and offerings...Does Nnamdi Kanu hold those views exclusively or what...are you saying he is the only one who is disenchanted with these God of men as people of this nairaland call them ( I am a strong beleiver btw)

Must you spread false and useless propaganda for the sake of your campaign. Why can't you be sane and reasonable with your assertions..Look at the rubboish you are typing since when does IPOB translate to your people? When did that actually take place, and how exactly has that affected the populace of IGBO worshippers in this churches..You fail so terriblly at painting IGBOS as Tribalistic IGBOs can never be like una..Even with all the hate and MARGINALIZATION over the years IGBO go to whatever churches they please and in numbers too.

All these yoruba churches wey you dey mention na who full there pass.. REDEEM, DEEPER, MFM, WINNERS etc..The revenue you generate in these churches from IGBOS cannot even be measured. Yet look at IGBO churches like CHOSEN, TREM, etc How many Yorubas can you find in those churches. Ogun go kill you with this your DISHONEST ad lies filled analysis..

Why have you involved peter Obi in your trash post. What does IPOB have to do with catholics and catholics peter Obi, why have you chosen PROPAGANDA as a way of life.

It no go ever better for you. Oloriburuku!

Cry a River

If it doesn't hurt, then it's not the Truth!