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What they wanted to do to GEJ if he insisted. Gej left. They had their way. Mass poverty and death of Nigerians from hunger and diseases followed since 2015. #BLACKLIVESMATTER. |
Jonathan is like he is being recruited by APC to make Tinubu win second term. If not, what makes Jonathan believe that he can win Tinubu who conspired with Buhari in 2014 and ousted Jonathan in 2015? |
fuckJones:About the laws of Human Stupidity. This is for folks like you. Read on - assuming you have capacity to read and understand. The Laws of Human Stupidity and Nigeria’s Tragic Decline Carlo M. Cipolla, the Italian economic historian, once wrote a humorous yet painfully accurate essay titled The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. Though penned decades ago, his insight perfectly explains Nigeria’s present misery. It is not merely corruption, bad leadership, or foreign manipulation that has wrecked our economy; it is the power of stupidity, unrestrained and underestimated, that has brought us here. Cipolla’s first law warns us: “Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation.” Nigerians underestimated how many among us were willing to sell their conscience for crumbs, swap their votes for rice, or cheerfully defend policies that harm them. We mocked them as “ignorant villagers” or dismissed them as “politically illiterate masses,” forgetting that stupidity is no respecter of class or degree. The second law pierces deeper: “The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.” This means stupidity cuts across tribes, religions, education levels, and wealth. Some of the loudest voices that justified Nigeria’s political U-turn—trading a stabilising, reform-oriented government for chaos—came from elites, professors, social media influencers, and even so-called intellectuals. We assumed the educated class would make wise choices; Cipolla reminds us that stupidity is democratically distributed. But Cipolla’s third and fourth laws are devastating. He defined stupidity as behavior that causes harm to others while bringing no real benefit to oneself. This is precisely what Nigeria has witnessed. Citizens were manipulated into embracing policies and leaders that have destroyed the naira, collapsed businesses, and triggered unprecedented hunger—while those same citizens suffer under the weight of their decisions. Worse, rational Nigerians underestimated how destructive stupidity could be. We thought “they’ll learn,” or “things will balance out.” Instead, we are now watching an economy spiral, with food inflation beyond reason, power grids failing, and insecurity spreading like wildfire. Cipolla’s fifth law seals the argument: “A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person… more dangerous than a bandit.” A bandit is predictable; he steals for gain. But stupidity is chaos: it votes for poverty, celebrates oppression, and attacks those who seek solutions. In Nigeria today, stupidity is not a minor inconvenience—it has become a political force. It has enthroned leaders who cannot govern, dismantled economic reforms, and placed the nation at the mercy of clueless decision-makers. We are living proof of Cipolla’s warning: a society dominated by stupidity is doomed to decline. Nations rise when intelligent, principled citizens outnumber and outmaneuver the stupid. Nations collapse when stupidity becomes a majority voice, amplified by propaganda, tribalism, and religious manipulation. So, where do we go from here? Nigerians must face this uncomfortable truth: no amount of oil wealth or foreign investment can rescue a country where stupidity is celebrated and rewarded. The fight for Nigeria’s future is not only against corruption or insecurity; it is a battle to awaken reason, restore moral courage, and break the cultural cycle of foolish choices. As long as stupid people dictate elections, defend failed leadership, and normalize mediocrity, Nigeria will continue this descent. Our tragedy is not that we are poor in resources but that we are rich in folly. May God give us wisdom to repent of our collective foolishness before this nation becomes a full-blown failed state. Mike Udam, PhD Teacher and Preacher Ogoja Nigeria |
Bobloco:"The former vice president listed the conditions to include mandatory use of BVAS for voter accreditation and upload of election results at all polling and collation centres, mandatory electronic transmission of election results to the iREV portal, with no discretion for manual transmission, and Ward-level collation of results strictly based on electronically transmitted figures" But all the above were in the 2022 Electoral Act. Yet, Mahmood Yakubu thwarted the laws and used outdated manual collation to pronounce his chosen candidate, Bola Tinubu, as winner. Pray to not have an ethnic or religious bigot as INEC boss, if not going to cast votes is a waste of time. |
YesDaddyTill203:Tinubu/APC hiring fake Bishops for inauguration of Shettima as VP candidate. Tinubu/APC Muslim/Muslim ticket - first time since 1999. Tinubu/APC first made the 2023 presidential election a religious war. |
fergie001: |
Igbo and Yoruba don't fight each other. They only engage in lesson teaching yab yab. This story nay eventually turn out to be doctored story. |
Fujiyama:Dud, be truthful, no TAQQIYA. Then President GEJ was not the harbinger of sharia criminal justice system in the far north states of Nigeria. Adoption of sharia criminal justice system by the political and religious leaders in the now 12 sharia states made Islamic extremists to start to troop into Nigeria. They answered Boko Haram first, later gave offshoots like bandits and kidnappers. Objective of each group: to get a Nigeria to be governed with Sharia criminal justice system. |
Toruibestate:Tinubu is taking Nigeria deeper into Islamic extremism. I still remember how Lagos literally became an Islamic enclave when Tinubu was Lagos State Governor. |
Thieves recruited into the police force where they now use govt guns to legalise their robbery escapades Who will ever teach the thieves in police force that police no longer mount road blocks to checkmate criminality in saner countries. |
onuman: |
Dont expect this insecurity to end. Why? Because Buhari people are still in power in Nigeria. The bandits were let into Nigeria during Buhari's administration and they are meant to beat Nigerians to submission for a Nigeria to be governed with Sharia criminal justice system. |
ricson11:They didn't show us when the girl started uh, uh, uh, aaah, aaah, hit harder. |
Exousiang01:You barely attempted the question. |
WizardOfNG:The SW people have never wished well the southsouth people. You Yarubawa people named GEJ CLUELESS, Ogogoro drinker, his wife a shippopotamus. You people wrecked GEJ presidency with incessant protests and blackmails. Alas, you people formed alliance with Buhari purposely to oust GEJ from office. Before then, you had rejected Buhari's presidential bids more than twice. But to oust GEJ, you bent down to lick your vomit in 2014. OBJ from the Southwest used the turn of the SW between 1999-2007. Why would Tinubu claim it's his turn in 2023? After all, it should have been the turn of the southeast? Rotation of the presidency including at mico level sustains Nigeria, not Rotation between the Southwest and the north. |
Morbeta11:Abi this Rtd army major general U Muhammed has no connection in higher places? Or he refused to join APC |
If maintaining rotation of the presidency is still on, Bola Tinubu shouldn't have contested in 2023, he shouldn't contest in 2027. Rotation shouldn't continue to be between the Southwest and the North of Nigeria. |
Where are the people who shout "God bless Nigeria"? You have no brain to understand that God blessed Nigeria with Crude oil but because Nigeria is not meant to be one country, the blessing remains irrelevant. |
omoredia:To become president of Nigeria, the man agreed with Oyibo for depopulation of black Africa beginning with the most populous black country in the world. The number of Nigerians who died since Tinubu's economic policies may be in millions. Nobody is counting. |
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What PDP should have done in 2023 and would have returned to power since 2023. |
iwaeda:..and since 1914, more than 5 million people have been killed due to the inadequacies of Nigeria as one country. The killings continue. But are those who created Nigeria bothered by the massive death toll arising from the impossible Nigeria they created? |
Where was the police? In saner countries, police detect many crimes like this before they are committed Nigeria police instead guard politicians and mount road blocks for extortion. |
occfx:In 2003, Obasanjo set up a National Political Reforms Conference to rearrange the skewed and lopsided political structure created by Northern military dictators. The political structure is behind most of the political drawbacks in Nigeria. But some Southwest representatives in the conference allied with Arewa representatives to end the conference abruptly. |
Biodun556:And the Nigeria you all risked your lives to fight to keep one is worse than it was when you went to war. Only difference is that Arewa politicans feel better off through the lopsided political structure they created for Nigeria beginning 1967-1996. |
For an average Fulani, Hausa and Kanuri, Nigeria is a blessing to them from God. For an average Nigerian from the south, Nigeria is a curse, a drawback. |
89green:Can any liberal Nigerian doctor live and practice in Saudi? |
Why is Japan not on the list? Japanese people are about the richest in per capita income. |
Unrecognised faction of Ohaneze Nd'Igbo led by APC's Isiguzo. Go siddon for dirty, Isiguzo. |
Ofunaofu:Perhaps, Datti sees the ADC as Atiku's another desperate effort to run in the 2027 presidential election. If Atiku had announced that he was not going to run for presidential election in 2027, the ADC would have solidified before now to take power from president Tinubu in 2027. |
jetguy:It's from Bayo Onanuga's primitive mindset. Onanuga who stated that Nigerians from the southeast should not contest political offices in Lagos State. Imagine the type of political damages that Onanuga can do to a government he belongs to. |
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