₦airaland Forum

hush15:
I disagree with you. He maybe a major contributor however, he wasn't the campaign director. He wasnt the brain behind it all, other people put in efforts too.
If those ones didn't play the parts, what will his own contribution amount to?

All of the above may be true, but it still doesn't invalidate what Tinubu said. The fact is that without the extra SW votes that he swung in Buhari's favor, all those other efforts would have been in vain. Politics is decided at the margins, and in 2015 it was Tinubu's margin that made the difference from Buhari's 3 failed efforts before. It's not as if Buhari had any other choice to turn to who could have helped him across the finish line, is it? Say what you like about Tinubu, but the fact is he made the key difference to getting Buhari into office (though whether most Nigerians will view that as a positive thing is another matter).

It is possible to acknowledge that Tinubu was crucial to Buhari's victory while also pointing out that openly saying so in public was a tactless political error. Nobody wants to hear a politician whine about what he is supposedly "owed" by anyone else, let alone talking as if being President of Nigeria were some sort of reward to be earned from within a clique, rather than it being a responsibility of service to the masses who should be doing the choosing. What Tinubu did yesterday was commit the Tennis equivalent of an unforced error, opening himself up to legitimate accusations of arrogance, power-hunger and entitlement that merely seemed like the crazed rantings of pathological haters while he had kept himself above the fray.

fred04:
Tinubu cannot even win a blind fulani boy.
Hausas/ fulani will and can never vote anyone from South.
Fulanis will never allow any other tribe to rule them, ask the hausas.

This is nonsense. They did exactly what you said was impossible when they chose Abiola over Tofa, and the middle-belters did the same in 2011 when they chose Jonathan over Buhari. All you're doing is projecting your own blind tribalism unto the entire north.

While nothing that Tinubu said about Buhari (or Dapo Abiodun) in the video was false, the fact that Tinubu should have made such statements openly in full view of the cameras shows a remarkable tone-deafness from a politician who has played his cards masterfully until now. Yes, Buhari would never have won office in 2015 without Tinubu's help, but given that Buhari's presidency has been a near-total disaster, how does this in any way sell a Tinubu presidency to the masses? And what's with the whole "It's my turn" nonsense? That's the very same entitled mentality that is so off-putting when screamed by the likes of Ohanaeze: it's nobody's "turn" unless the Nigerian electorate says it is. The average voter has not the slightest interest in who "owes" Tinubu what, or what he feels he's entitled to. Instead he should have kept his focus on what he must know ordinary people truly care about - why he would be the best choice to better their lives, rather than any of the other candidates.

The whole spectacle makes me wonder if Tinubu has suddenly taken leave of his senses, or the accumulation of too many frustrations suddenly pushed him over the edge, because until now it was his detractors engaging in such folly, while he kept his cool.

kophy:
What we need in this Country is a true leader who will rescue us from further decay in the system.

As long as "awa pikin" is the only consideration for who people decide to vote for, this will never happen. A people gets the leadership it deserves, and the majority of Nigerians are diehard tribalists and religious sectarians whose true religion is overnight "success" by fair means or foul. Accordingly, their leaders are crooked buffoons and do-nothings like GEJ and Buhari.

Angelfrost:
Nothing works in this nation... Not one sector is functioning at all.

Yet, you imbeciles are salivating over who the clown in Aso Rock will choose as "Successor"!

Most don't have the slightest interest in whether anything functions or not, as long as a fellow tribesman gets into Aso Rock to dangle the possibility of a few crumbs of "national cake" their way. That's why "zoning" and religion are the only factors that seem to play any consideration in Nigerian politics.

ofuonyebi:
The results as it affects the relatives of Buhari
should be a shame to some of you who believes the man is not a democrats..
Aftertall, if he wants all of them to win their contests, it is at his finger tips!

But i have watched this man, no matter what shortcomings he has as a Leader, you cannot take the truth away from him, that Buhari hates
to influence any type of election result...he believes the contestants should prove their worth...this was why he gave a free playing
ground to all comers in the APC Presidential race. so that no one would have the mouth to complain after defeat & winner emerges..

kudos to Buhari on this integrity standard..

You have it completely correct. Too many Nigerians allow their emotions to cloud their reasoning. Buhari still has control over the extensive levers of federal power, so if he had any personal inclination to place his relatives and stooges in office, he could certainly have done so with ease. I have been an unrelenting critic of Buhari's many failures and oversights for the last 7 years, not least for the decline in living standards caused by his statist policies, or the rampant insecurity he has allowed to fester, but on this particular issue I have to give the man some credit.

If only more Nigerians understood this restraint as the positive that it is, rather than treating it as a sign of "weakness", and then turning around to complain about "godfatherism" from other politicians who lack a similar respect for democratic norms.

namikaze:
Ah shit here we go again, typical Nigerian, you said "it's precisely those frequencies that you want to output in reverse-sorted order", which doesn't apply in the context of this problem. Like I said, you're a typical Nigerian, take your frustrations elsewhere.

God, you're dumber than a post! This "typical Nigerian" has turned down offers by the very same Facebook from which you got your silly little question from, and has been making a European lead engineer's salary since before you even started secondary school, but in your stupidity and arrogance you think to talk down to me? What a laugh!

I guess it's my fault for bothering to contribute to such a cretinous thread in the first place. Stay out of my mentions and enjoy masturbating to whatever delusions of "seniority" your low IQ leads you to indulge in. My time is valuable and not worth wasting on mouth-breathers like you.

namikaze:
Nope it's not the frequencies, it's the input array sorted by the frequencies of it's elements, you missed the whole point of the question, so he's not wrong.

You couldn't have made a dumber reply if you tried. How exactly are you going to output the "array sorted by the frequencies of it's [sic] elements" without sorting the frequencies, which is exactly what I said? Given your lack of English comprehension skills, it's no wonder a trivial question like this would strike you as the sort of thing a "senior software developer" would be asked as anything more than a screener.

MeMiTi:
Sorting will take nlogn time and priority queue will also take nlogn time since every insertion and deletion takes logn.

I think this might be the best solution, since you'll have to sort it one way or the other.

I disagree. There's no point sorting the array before counting the frequencies, as it's precisely those frequencies that you want to output in reverse-sorted order. Why do two sorts when you only need one? Scanning through all the items and putting them in the hashtable takes O(n) time, while the sort of the counts at the end will take O(n log n) time, but now the n is a much smaller value.

In any case, this sort of trivial question is not the sort of thing one should expect when applying for a "senior developer" position. At best it's useful as a means of weeding out the totally hopeless before wasting any time giving them personal interviews. This is just a slightly fancier "FizzBuzz" question.

Awesomeking:
Nobody ever talks about the management skills of each aspirant or the experience each aspirant has in controlling an organisation or leading an organisation to greater heights..

You all focus on tribe, region and religion when choosing aspirants.. When they finally let you down after clinching the seat you will be blaming them.

I have never seen any aspirant brag with what they did before politics.. Its always what they will do which they usually end up not doing.


Is it not obviously time for us to stop letting these mumu people into positions they clearly don't deserve?

Nobody talks about the things you mention because, in truth, hardly any Nigerian actually cares about good government. What most care about is whether the winner will be from the same tribe and religion as they are, because they think it will give them as individuals a shot at pleading for some crumbs from the orgy of tribalistic "cake sharing" (aka corruption) that is sure to follow once "their" candidate is in office. Why care about track records and political philosophies when all it comes down to in the end is whose turn it is to steal Petrodollars?

Some of you are so busy expressing your hatred for Buhari that you completely fail to see the real good news here: that Buhari's own nephew and several other incumbents could actually lose this election show that it was indeed free and fair. Furthermore, at least some sections of the electorate are finally growing beyond mindlessly throwing their vote behind a candidate merely because he has a familiar name. Anyone who truly desires a less corrupted political process should be happy about this development, whatever it may or may not signify for Buhari's name-power.

If by "change", you mean fundamental reforms that lead to a decentralised, corruption-free, merit-based society where markets are allowed to function without interference, the answer is clearly "NO". If what you mean by "change" is that "awa kinsmen" should have the next turn at the wheel in Aso Rock, so that their particular tribe also gets a shot at mass looting of public funds, then yes, that is the kind of "change" most Nigerians actually want, particularly those who spend all their time obsessing over "Yorubas" and "Tinubu" while pretending their own "kinsmen" are saints who will lead Nigeria to the promised land overnight, despite never having managed such a miracle in their previous tenures in public office.

Obagreatdatoye:
Oponu...the source is from guardian news owned by ibru family

He was being sarcastic.

CaveAdullam:
With all due respect, stop talking nonsense!

From your analogy, kidnappers, fraudsters, bandits, terrorists, human traffickers, quack professionals etc. are better alive than being dead. Dead or alive, the consequences of their actions is chaos - first destroying others before their own demise.

You're bragging about a spoilt child. But same you will be the first to lay curses on other parents for not training their kids in the right way. Same you will tend to instill discipline on a child who's not yours. Same you will complain about the evil of our society. Same you will start running from mosque to church, helter skelter when you can no longer caution your kids.

The use of the rod must be balanced, extremity is a no. However, we all know why teachers go extreme with the rod on pupils/students: once students notice that a teacher isn't willing or forced by the school management not to use the rod, they make jest of the teacher and view him/her ignominously.

You all have spoilt kids at home. And you should thank teachers for accommodating a truckload of trashy behaviors from kids from different homes day in and out. If you think it is easy withdraw your child from school and train the child yourself. The money you pay as tuition is one hand, instilling discipline and trying to merge that child into a responsible adult, a duty you can't do and using the school as an escape route is a different ball game entirely.

Thanks.

If physically assaulting children was really the secret to "discipline" and a crime-free life, why is Nigeria then such a hellhole compared to countries like Denmark, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada and all the other nations where such brutal methods of "discipline" are quickly punished with the full force of the law? Shouldn't Nigeria have become a beacon of peace and prosperity by now, with all the "discipline" sadistic adults have dished out to children over the decades? And yet every single one of you who praise such "discipline" would be screaming with joy if you were to suddenly get the opportunity to immigrate to one of those "indisciplined" societies I've mentioned. Animals!

matm:
Flogging on d hand or buttocks has no correlation with vommitting. must have an ilhealth issues dt led to vommitting.
He was not d only one flogged in d class.
Aitopsy will show he didn't die as a result of flogging.

And here we see another armchair MD race to the defense of the indefensible. Even if by some miracle (or by the usual Nigerian factor of corruption and incompetence) an autopsy fails to assign blame to the teacher, what he did was still an act of physical assault under the law, aggravated by being committed against a minor, and for that he deserves to go to prison for several years. That will start to get it through the thick skulls of a few stubborn teachers that the bodies of children under their care shouldn't be treated as convenient outlets for their personal frustrations.

lexy2014:
It's unfortunate that the little boy died and from the story he wasn't the only one that was flogged. It's very likely that it wasn't the flogging that killed the boy. It's very likely that the boy was already sick. The teacher is so unlucky

Even if he was already sick, how do you know that it wasn't the physical assault which pushed the boy over the edge? The lengths to which Nigerians will go to excuse barbaric violence! But what more can one expect in a nation where mob lynchings are regarded as "jungle justice", and expatriate tribalists routinely excuse and encourage the murder and terrorisation of their own people.

[quote author= post=113164246]If this is found out to be true, what will be the best punishment for the teacher?[/quote]He needs to go to prison for several years for manslaughter.

Typicool8:
Anyway from my point of view I think the boy died from something else not flogging because the whole class was flogged and so why is his own case different.

I'm sorry, but this is a nonsensical defence of a brutal act. It's like saying nobody suffers from peanut allergies if only 1 out of 30 people fed peanuts goes into anaphylectic shock and then dies. Or, to give an even more common example, that nobody dies from not wearing a seatbelt if a speeding car hits something and only 1 of several passengers without seatbelts dies. Just because you've often seen something terrible happens without consequences doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

The root of the problem here is that adults should take it upon themselves to "punish" children by inflicting violence upon them. At best this is a deluded notion of "correction" that only breeds fear and hatred, and at worst a physical assault carried out for the sadistic pleasure of the perpetrators and excused under the cover of "discipline". It's long past time that corporal punishment was treated in Nigeria like the crime of assault which it actually is.

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggar

Begging for vote up and down

Or in other words, practicing politics as it is done nearly everywhere else in the democratic world. Instead of sitting lazily at home while sending out proxies to childishly demand all other candidates surrender their ambitions for his in the name of "fairness, equity and justice" [sic], Tinubu is proactively going out to meet the electors where they are, and making a positive case to them as to why he should be their standard-bearer. What is more, he is doing so by making positive statements about how he can make ordinary people's lives better, not simply spending his time tearing down others or insisting that Yorubas are some sort of master race who are the only ones fit to rule the country. Only to the incorrigibly tribalistic products of a sick country like Nigeria will this seem in any way perverse or contemptible.

Incessantly demanding that a region of the country be simply "zoned" the Presidency without having to put in the hard work of convincing voters across the country that this will be in their best interests is what is truly sick and detestable, about as far from truly democratic politics as it is possible to get. Those of you who argue for this tribalistic depravity are essentially demanding that a clique of a few elite politicians should sow up the results of the 2023 election on behalf of one of your "kinsmen", so that you can have your own 4 years to loot the federal treasury dry with impunity. If you believed anything more than this, you too would be pushing your favored candidates to emulate Tinubu's example by visiting the length and breadth of Nigeria meeting and greeting - that is what "bridge building" is really about, not anti-democratic rubbish like "we will back north east so south-east can get the presidency next", or outright "it is our turn [to steal]".

pacespot:
Evil country, celebrating anomaly. Reading the comments here on nairaland makes me want to puke, so it means Nigerians have resigned to the life of corruption and bribery. But when such bribery brought police brutality, they would start to jam talk. What is wrong is wrong, why is it difficult for average Nigerians to stand for what is right no minding the circumstances. Pity sentiments kill you people in this country. You want to make corruption a life of fun, but will scream hell when the ugly consequence of corruption comes roaring at you. Defunct SARS was a first son of corruption, let me remind you people

Unfortunately, decades of tolerating rampant corruption have thoroughly destroyed the moral fibre of most Nigerians, even the most supposedly "religious" ones. Nigerians only mind corruption as long as they, their friends and their relatives aren't beneficiaries of it. That's why they expend so much more energy fighting over zoning of high office than they do scrutinizing any policy positions the candidates might possess: because in the end all that matters is that "their person" will fill public posts with time-wasting parasites of the same ethnicity and religion, hand out inflated contracts to "kinsmen", and provide special access to "official" forex for round-tripping to people of the same tribe. As long as they have a shot at getting some of the crumbs that fall off the table when sharing "national cake", who cares that the end result is no electricity, unpaved roads, high infant mortality, widespread insecurity, and incessant bribe-seeking even in the country's main international gateway? Even worse than all of this is that Nigerians never, ever learn from their mistakes, and are therefore doomed to keep repeating them well into the future.

subsidywise18:
Actually, a lot of people back Putin worldwide....white supremacists, some Christians, a lot of third world citizens , and even Muslims

I even find the Muslim support strange..considering what Putin did to Chechnya and Dagestan....

It gives them an opportunity to indulge their hatred for America - a hatred which they feel much safer indulging than one for ruthless autocracies like Russia and China, which have no domestic constituencies to hold them back. It's the same reason why they can rant and rave about cartoons in Denmark, alleged "blasphemy" in Sokoto, or clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, while overlooking the plight of China's Uighurs, Burma's Rohingya and India's Muslim minority, even though the last 3 groups are suffering far more.

sthecy:
The woman looks innocent

And how exactly would a guilty-looking person appear?

Musk is just looking for an excuse to get out of the deal without having to pay the $1 billion penalty he agreed to if he did so. He's already gotten what he wanted out of the exercise, which was to get attention for himself from "alt right", Trump-worshipping types by "trolling the libs".

This is a meaningless gesture by the Russians. The very same ICBMs could be launched from anywhere in Russia to achieve the very same ends - that's why they are called Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. Moving them a little closer to the Finnish border won't change the slightest thing, a fact the Russians must know the Finns are well aware of, but which the Russians are counting on their gullible Third World cheerleaders to be unaware of. If anything, openly moving your ICBMs like the Russians have done just makes them more vulnerable to pre-emptive attack, which is why you will never hear anything about the locations of the nuclear submarines owned by NATO members like Britain, France and the USA.

AntiBMC:
You are so overzealous..looks like ur fingers are itching you. You didn't see the word "others" there or u are partly blind? It takes a bigot to know one. So rest

Nonsense - why not explicitly mention those "others", then? Why only the ones who are Yoruba? And why distort their names while doing so? GTFO with your transparent b.s.

What's even more shameful and disgusting is that a nakedly biased moderator allowed your insulting distortions of Tinubu and Osinbajo's names to stand, even while deleting less offensive comments pointing out the tribalistic nature of your comments. This is precisely the sort of behavior why I've suggested to Seun in the past that he replace the current system with an automated one - moderators who cannot be trusted to exercise their powers in an even-handed fashion actually exacerbate the very evils they are supposed to curb, as they send a signal that any amount of tribalistic insults will be tolerated as long as the perpetrators and targets are of the "right" tribes.

Excelloque:
You are wrong. May be our grandparents hated Awolowo and perhaps for good reason. But we are our fathers never hated Abiola. We never hated Yoruba people. I don't know how old you are, but I and many youths in Aba then were ready to take up arms and defend Abiola and democracy in 1993/94 when Nigeria came very close to war as a result of the annulment of the 1993 elections.

Young like to say things without verification. You may hate Igbo, but it doesn't mean everyone shares your hatred.
I lived in Lagos when Tinubu was the governor. No Igbo man "hates" Tinubu as a person. But politically some people are not for him - not only Igbos but even many Yorubas. Stop this hatred. It really does not exist in the streets. It only exists here on Nairaland and on the internet. I do not hate any Yoruba man. I was born in Ibadan. I had 3 Yoruba friends at UNN as a student.

If most Igbo people who speak out were as fair and open-minded as you seem to be, there'd be no need for you to have to write the above. Unfortunately, the facts are otherwise, as evidenced by so many of the remarks on this very thread, let alone the rest of Nairaland, and the incessant demands of Ohaneze and affiliated organizations for the Presidency to simply be ceded to "Igboland" collectively without competition speaks very strongly against your claim that Igbos aren't collectively in the grip of runaway tribalism, as does the popularity of Nnamdi Kanu, who has made his "career" out of demonizing all those other tribes whose votes are now needed to gain access to Aso Rock.

The general, barely veiled sentiment I've seen from so many Igbos both on and offline is that they can live with a non-Igbo President as long as it isn't a Yoruba man, an attitude that can hardly be explained other than as deriving from tribalistic hatred, a hatred which is all the more bewildering, seeing as Yorubas have never engaged in mass lynchings of Igbos, or in the seizure of their "abandoned" properties, acts carried out by groups none of the Igbo tribal warriors spend half as much energy spewing bile at. If you want an honest discussion, I suggest you begin by taking a critical look at your own kinsmen and women, and how their own attitudes help to drive the reactions of others towards them.

A CBN governor brazen and shameless enough to join a political party in preparation for a run at the Presidency can hardly be bothered to care about such petty matters of accountability as publishing annual reports!

In any decent country Emefiele would have been chased into exile for the economic damage he has wrought over the last 7 years, but luckily for him, Nigeria is a joke of a "nation" where rank incompetents not only get elevated to become the heads of vital institutions like the central bank, they are reawarded for displaying their rank incompetence by being reappointed by other rank incompetents who have no real interest in governing themselves, merely in the cushy benefits that come with being President. Buhari and Emefiele are a marriage made in hell.

offiahvictor:
Oga he's not to be blamed for Nigeria's woe. please let the man be, emefiele this emefiele that.

Utter nonsense. Emefiele is entirely to blame for the ridiculous exchange-rate policies and rampant inflation which have lead to GDP per capita declining for 7 consecutive years after 25 years of non-stop growth. Buhari's principal fault was in re-appointing this spineless, clueless, unprincipled charlatan to another term, even after there was so much evidence of Emefiele's unfitness for the role of CBN governor. Buhari was and is a total economic illiterate, and his obsession with a "strong" official exchange rate has been a disaster, but in principle Emefiele could and should have ignored Buhari's desires completely, given the nominal independence of his position, but he preferred to spend his time playing houseboy to Buhari, Funtua, Dangote and every other highly-connected rent-seeker in their circle. Now he insists on crowning insult upon injury by defiling the neutrality of his position by running for President while still in office? The effrontery of this worthless excuse for a public official!

kettykings:
The evil Abiola committed on Nigeria , who is going to answer for that

It says something about the intensity of your tribalism that you feel driven to defend Nzeribe - a man who first made his money selling arms to the Nigerian government to use to kill his fellow Igbos during the Biafran War - by slandering the character of MKO Abiola. Apparently no Igbo man can ever do wrong in the eyes of many of you, even when it's your own lives he's destroying for personal gain. That would explain why you and your ilk have no problem blaming killings by "unknown gunmen" on "Fulanis" or "DSS" even though Nnamdi Kanu openly called for such violence so often in the past.

Tareq1105:
To you it's okay for CBN governor to be involved in partisan politics?

Just look at the name chosen by the character you responded to. That one is the sort for whom "my kinsman" can never do any wrong, no matter how brazenly the evidence suggests otherwise, while any leader not from their tribe must by definition be a "liar", a "jihadist" or a "drug baron".

onuman:
You smear the real products of others by refusing to accept that the SW region had severally produced apex political leadership of Nigeria since the beginning of Nigeria, therefore, it's the turn of the SE region to produce a successor to president Buhari.

You ignore zoning of the presidency between the regions of Nigeria, and ignore the fact that a successor to president Buhari must come from the SE region. In other words, as the SW APC throws the primaries open through its refusal of zoning of the presidency to the SE, the north is no longer obliged to adhere to zoning. Let's see the miracle that can make an APC presidential aspirant from the SW win, talk less win the presidential election.

You mean the same sort of "miracle" that saw MKO Abiola beat Bashir Tofa in his own home district? Believe it or not, all Nigerians don't think like you. Some of us actually care about more than tribalistic "our turn to chop" nonsense.