₦airaland Forum

shumuel:
Very wise of you, you answered your own question with the @bolded,, to add to it, many couples cheat on eachother, beat eachother up every night, pretend to be in good terms to family & freinds, have other kids outside while the ladies bring home bastereds to their husbands, they do all these just to keep face outside or because of their public status but in reality they are world apart.

Na wah.. You even made it worse.

Whats the point of getting married.

Eh exclusive right to the cake design?

Trump is POTUS.

stinechykee:
Which Soldiers that are killing BH?you mean the same Soldiers that 60% or more are BH.Guy better wake up and stop deceiving yourself.Our Soldiers we all know how they concort lies and if any media house exposed them for who they really are they will gag and come against them.Have you ask yourself this question why is it that BH keep on increasing and multiplying despite what we have been made to believe or what APC government and thier lying Millitary have been selling you Zombies excluded someone like me that BH have technically defeated by Lair Mohammed.Mr man better tell yourself the honest truth and the truth you tell yourself is the best.Again let me conclude by telling you that had it been Isralite folded their hands by waiting for their God to come down from Heaven to fight their battle do you think that Israel will still be existing by now but because they took their destiny to their hand by fighting Arab World that so much hate them and can do anything just to make sure that Israelite are wipe out in the Earth thats why God assist them in making sure that they conquer.So Mr Man of God is right but some of our Christians here are either coward,stupid or hypocrites just like Tonyebacarnista of a guy here in Niaraland.So Christians if you people like keep on being coward or hypocrites or even worst criticise the men of God that speak but God's wrath will surelly upon you people

TonyeBarcanista is not a Christian. Never ever forget that.

Ditto to others.

Olulinks:
When governor Fayose banished them in his state and even constituted local hunters to go after them you didn't have the gut to say a word against it. Even if you did, it's irrelevant now having seen the positive results of the brave man's action; the killers stay off the radar ever since.
I don't blame you, I blame the men of God. That's why people like you don't see wisdom in their words anymore. If they declare that your family is the next to be run down, if you like, chicken out and be begging them not to kill you instead of standing tall and tell them we all own this country.
If what he said isn't OK by you, sir, what's your suggestion or solution to the people's plan to kill you and your family members, flee?

Don't explain to any dunderhead. Don't you know where their loyalty lies?

They don't see anything wrong with the killings going on in this country. All they are looking for is anything to give them self justification to hate the church. QED

I see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG about the statement. I would have made same statement.

These are the kind of statements that can stamp out stupidity anywhere. When you challenge the enemy, they flee.

Since people can kill and nothing happens, KILL them and NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

Those who applaud the military for killing unarmed protesters and come here to display disgusting hypocrisy should take a back seat. Their opinion does not matter.

If you look at the wind, you will not sow. How do low income earners marry and manage their homes.

Having said that most marriages are facing though times these days. 99% of married people are pretending and managing.

The man is comparing the power of the pen to that of the gun?

That was those days sir. Do not underestimate the power a gun. Even without a bullet.

For militancy, no amount of writing can be as effective as a dynamite on an oil pipe line.

I really don't comment on Ipob issues. But from what happened yesterday, I seem to now have sympathy for them and their course.

And should they take up arms against the state I will not condemn them.

I just said my mind.

They say Trump is intolerant.

I say No.The anti- Trump protesters and democrats are the ones who are intolerant.

I may have lost my sanity at some point this week.

This is one explanation for why I think the “accidental” bombing of Nigerian citizens by the Nigerian military is a very serious event in our Nigerian experience whereas other people seem to be calm enough about it. Another (and longer) explanation is that “other people” are simply irrational. Considering that, in the last four weeks alone, hundreds of Nigerians have been killed from attacks in Southern Kaduna and continuing Boko Haram violence, I would say there is enough reason to panic. If you dare, add these casualties of armed conflict to those who are still dying from road accidents, armed robberies, urban and domestic violence, illness and diseases, and even starvation.

It is fairly safe to say that most of the violent deaths in Nigeria is caused by either the brutality of government or the inefficiency of government. I am not hesitant to say that our government’s approach to social disorder is to either: (i) ignore the problem; or (ii) kill the people triggering the problem. Except, of course, where (ii) will involve those who support government. The consequence of either attitude is always more deaths.rationalising

But what shocks me more than government inefficiency is our growing rationalisation of this inefficiency. Rational is a nice word: rationalisation is not. Rationalisation is when you—an ordinary Nigerian—defends or justifies a horrible event, to quote Wikipedia, “in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation”. We try to make sense out of things that make no sense in themselves. And so, rationalisation (and other thinking biases) is why, after news of violence, we hear some Nigerians saying shit like:

[i]– “It was only 500 people that were killed, two years ago it was 510. Government is improving.”

– “It is better for the army to make mistakes than for us not to have an army.”

– “If the protesters had left the road, they would not have been killed by police.”

– “We should celebrate the good news not focus on the tragedy.”

– “Let us await investigation before making any conclusions.”

– “People die in America too.”

[/i]First, the true explanation is that, since 1900, the Nigerian government has been run by a continuous combination of blockheads, scoundrels and sycophants. Second, this is not illiteracy. These excuses have become so common among supposedly educated Nigerians. Illiteracy is when someone doesn’t know. This is not illiteracy, this is a crossed wiring in our thinking systems. Third, this bad wiring is not new. What is frightening is that it is now being applied freely to the issue of protecting human lives.

Let us dwell on this third point a bit. We Nigerians have always rationalised unpleasant social situations and adjusted accordingly. We do it for infrastructure, electricity, fuel subsidies, education, and health care. Consider fuel prices. In January 2012, people rioted against increase in pump prices via subsidy removal. A few years later, after a period of consistent scarcity, people thank the government for having fuel at any price with or without subsidies. This is how to break a country.

Consider electricity. I too, have thanked “NEPA” for giving me light. I consider myself as a fully functional human who understands the duty of government and the rights of citizens. Yet, after two weeks of blackout and generator headache, I have been grateful to the gods of electricity when they restore power. I can see how some will, afterwards, support an increase in electricity tariffs. This is what we allow our government do to us.

When we justify the deaths of other Nigerians, we are thanking the government for not killing us yet. But, judging the government only by our individual experiences is a failure to recognise the duty of government to all society. It is silly that I have to ask you to put yourself or your relatives in the situation to understand the problem. Yet, because our reasoning process is broken, some of us cannot make the connection between the killings of people in Southern Kaduna or Zaria and the possibility of our own hastened death. I cannot understand how our wiring can be so bad that we cannot see our own death approaching. I am genuinely baffled by how we can be so irrational that we can justify our own murder.

When I wrote “Everything in Nigeria is Going to Kill You” almost three years ago, I thought I could stir our consciousness into placing more value on our lives. Instead, in those three years we have become shockingly accommodating of violent deaths. We rationalised the Shia massacre; we rationalised the killing of Biafra protesters; we rationalised the Agatu crisis; and we are still rationalising Southern Kaduna. The incidents that would have shocked us a decade ago are now considered “normal”. And seemingly intelligent people go on media to provide us with rationalisations disguised as explanatory analysis.

Today, the only deaths that we are encouraged to protest are the deaths of soldiers and police officers. But the right to life belongs to all. We are sinking the bar into a one-sided appreciation of lives. We have locked ourselves into a false choice where we have to either support the troops or criticise their actions. We act as though we cannot do both. We act as though it is impossible to appreciate military effort in the battlefield while calling for higher standards in war and discipline. In fact, we rationalise military misbehaviour as justifiable or even necessary.

As cognitive scientists will tell you, if you keep hitting some people on the head with a stick for long enough, they will eventually write articles and form theories to explain how being hit on the head with a stick is a good and necessary thing. Nigerians are being hit on the head with a stick and our collective brains need reworking—and quickly too before our children start thanking their government for not being killed. There is so much evidence that we are becoming—if not already—a country of mentally disturbed people. We need to remind ourselves of how to get angry with government. Nothing is too small to ignore. Nothing is too large to dismiss. Nothing in governance requires our patience. Only self-serving people and sycophants will tell you to be patient with your government.

This is an age where citizens of other countries have their government inquire into failure to prevent deaths from an earthquake. Our own standard cannot be the acceptance that the “accidental” killing of its own citizens by a government is an inevitable part of government. And the next time some pro-government smartass tries to give us the lowdown on the inevitability of a disaster, we should be able to say: “Shush. You’re rationalising”.


https://ayosogunro.com/2017/01/18/look-nigerians-can-we-please-shut-up-the-rationalising-by-ayo-sogunro/


I love this guy.

Seun and Lalasticlala, please how much will i pay to have this on the homepage

APC killed OPC.

Just because they were afraid of the support they wanted to give GEJ.

I said it on this forum that it was a costly mistake. They claimed GEJ gave them money, so what?

Today, OPC is gone for good. Even if Fulani herds men attack Lagos, OPC will not move except the FG police or military act. OPC is gone for ever.

Any yoruba man or woman who boasts with OPC is wasting his or her time.

I love when President Trump, recognized, president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, after the toast at Capitol.

A standing ovation and thunderous clap.

Democrats or Republican, we all want the same thing and we will get along.... President J Trump.

If it was a buhari government, na to deliver attack the opposition, unsettling the polity claiming he's fighting corruption.

She put foundation call am, make up free.

She put cloth for nyash come show us. Yemi go soon carry Belle all her shakara go end.

NONSENSE!

The truth is what we saw in the video. If that video wasn't exposed we wouldn't have known how far gone Chidinma was and she would have continued.

Chidinma does not need damage control. We all saw the video and she didn't do it at Gun point.

What she needs now is repentance and forsaking evil association and moving on with her life QED.

Do we even have an IGP in Nigeria?

The one we seem to have may probably be with Oyegun right now at the APC secretariat discussing election matters.

Please can someone tell me what her role is, as an ambassador and how it will translate to business returns.

This is interesting.

Seems sowore will have one more explanation to make when next he visits the police station.

darqly:
This is a lie, my friend, and you know it!!

OK. Do I discuss mmm on nairaland? No I don't.

Story..

When people in US are paying their Nigeria counterparts thousands of Mavro USD.

Why I don't like commenting on all these topics on Nairaland is that, the schemes are on full force with people paying and being paid, while nairaland dissipate energy on MMM.

The story is a fraud. Nothing there had anything to do with deeper life.

importexpert:
you are not seeing does not mean they are not testifying. below are few out of hundreds of their likes

No problem
Make I hustle the cash first. I know say you no understand.

What I see in this is a vote of no confidence on the current regime.
Seems they can no longer endure.

APCmyheart:
LOL my point is you dont vote him 2015 same with me cos the last time i vote in Nigeria is 2003, So for the fact that you did not vote him in 2015 means you never support his candidacy and things will not change with you even if Buhari turn Nigeria to American before 2015 you will still not vote him..


But my likes who did not vote in 2015 are ready to vote in 2019 and it's for Buhari cos we just have faith in Nigeria now...

So even if you campaign against hm now will not change anything cos you do more than that in 2015 and he won...


Buhari victory in 2019 will shock so many of you and send some into coma..

Huur.

I reject that spirit that will make you see fire and jump into it. In Jesus name Amen!

How on earth will you want to vote buhari in 2019..They need to take you to bar beach by 12: midnight to baff out that nonsense.

Even his wife has told him and the whole world that she will not support his candidacy in 2019 at this rate. You think she didn't know what she was saying?

Look, it will not work. Nigerians are gasping for breath at this moment.. At this rate, the morale of Nigerians will be non existent before 2019.

Finally, it's unfair to assume that I will not support buhari, had he turned Nigeria to America. No no no... Don't say that. We are not boko haram.

Our pain is that, things are not what we expected. Even if it was going to be bad, not like this.. You'd agree that our feelings are justified and valid.

donem:
I once bought one of his e-book some time ago, truth be told there was nothing significant to take out of it. (in summary was a waste of resources). am 40% certain Even this thread on front page, is a paid thread.

Really

And I was even considering it.

We can't have same thing hitting the front page, again and again yet no testimony.

People who have bought this guys book should come out.

APCmyheart:
When you said Nigerians please what do you mean? Am i not a Nigerian, are my Family not Nigerians so speak for yourself oga because you never supported or vote him i 2015 so keep to yourself abeg..

Do I have to vote for him before I get good governance from someone who won the election?

Yes, I didn't believe in his candidacy but he won all the same, and he is the president of Nigeria.

But so far, the whole thing is even worse off.

This is beyond PDP or APC. So that this sentiment wont kill Nigerians.

Bros, e don RED!!!!.

IT'S JUST NOT WORKING.

How much does it cost to have things like this from the same person making the homepage.

Secondly, I will buy your ebook but make them pay us for office first.

But how come people are not testify on your ebook here on nairaland. We need independent assessment

I know of people who have not accessed their pension funds yet this government wants to divert the funds fund for infrastructure so that it can be looted.

Of course he'll claim it won't be looted. But huge funds are being looted under his nose in this government.

They should live pension funds.

azimibraun:
But he is the President at the moment. And am sure somebody from your town or state his working with him at one level or the other. So why is your towns man working for buhari and you are hating on me another person for believing in Buhari? Convince your brother first.

We are not hating buhari. His government is not working for Nigerians. Anyone saying otherwise is lying and deceiving his or herself. QED

No matter the hate if things were working we wouldn't bother. It's not working.

In the Bible when Jonah was in the ship, they were in trouble. Until they told themselves the truth and threw Jonah into the sea they would have all perished.

Let's not pretend by looking of petty things to credit buhari and looking for things to blame the past government.

IT'S JUST NOT WORKING!!!!!!

azimibraun:
And I ask you what took the price of garri to 900naira? You buy garri in dollar or is all the garri or cassava in Nigeria that are transported from one place to another? All the garri consumed in Benue are produce in Benue from start to finish 100% in Benue yet garri in Benue sell at the same. price as in Lagos. Still. Buhri's fault? Delta does not import garri, anambra doesn't, Kogi doesn't. So why?

Ma bi mini jamb question.

People measure governance differently. Some measure it by having their person in power, some by the road to their street/house etc.

For me and MANY Nigerians the price of commodities are beyond the reach of those above average not to talk of the common Nigerian. Purchasing power has declined.
I work on one of the major industries in the country and my company did not import anything last year. Late last year all the banks in Nigeria requested downward review of their commitment to ALL their contractors... I can go on and on.

Cooking oil that was 200 ngr is now 500 ngr. Cost of transportation has skyrocketed.

Look, whatever indices you want to use to measure this present government, it is going to fall short of minimum expectations EXCEPT one is foolishly sentimental.

Don't just bother biko

doctokwus:
That is where d problem lies.
Who in PDP is worthy or competent enough to take over?Touts and thugs like Wike&Fayose,or an utterly corrupt and monumentaly incompetent GEJ or who?
As disappointing as PMB has been as a president,there cannot be a going back to d PDP,because EVERY SINGLE PDP member including the ones now in APC is an epitome of corruption.
No PDP elected official or appointee that has ever held office since 1999 has thought of governing first.Their one thought and motto right from councilors has always been embezzle first,and rig second.
Nigeria had rather be divided than av another PDP govt,the last one was d climax of d utterIy useless leaders d party gave Nigeria.

Only people who are insane will believe that only buhari can run the affairs of Nigeria.