₦airaland Forum

The case of children kidnapped from churches in the south and south west in the last 2 years has been on a rise.This was previously unheard of

My point is this is not about conversion but about kidnapping.And the scourge affects both muslims and christians. We must not loose focus of that.The complaints make it sound like it would have been okay if the kidnappers had assigned them to muslim caretakers

We need to focus on how to end the scourge.How to make it less lucrative.How to tackle it in the system to make sure culprits and victims are found.Even if it means DNA tests at key points in a childs life

The last thing this is about is the fact that the children were converted,they should never have been kidnapped in the first place


imagine if they had never been found,imagine the multitudes that may have been sold into slavery? christian and muslim

Happy birthday to the pretty lady.May she grow in grave and favour.

Congrats to her parents

This is wrong....the mob are the judge jury and executioner in this case.

The police should please do the needful find the ringleaders and random spectators in the mob and try them properly with a fine and sentence as a deterent to others in future.

Many innocents have been misjudged in such mob actions and treated cruelly they could be someone close to you .They are someones children.This must stop,even if they are guilty

Wao,so impressed by the comments.Nigerians in the majority are united on this one except the smugglers,impostors and National omo ale alatenujes .And the verdict is .......the border remains closed.


If you want to sell to Nigeria use our sea port and airports...if you want to sell to other countries from Nigeria..please do the same.thats not an unreasonable demand.

Any nation thats not with us on this (till we get our bearing right on next steps) is not for us.

Meanwhile all the companies that relocated to Ghanas should pay duty and taxes to nigeria to bring goods in.Nigeria should consider renegotiating any ECOWAS agreement that stops that

I was waiting for the Ghanian official statement and here it is.Ghana is hiding under regional integration to challenge Nigerias soveriegn decision to lock up its border in its interest.

No mention of how other West Africans have sabotaged Nigerias open borders at the detriment of Nigeria.No mention of regional plans to address this only that regional inyerest superceeds National interest. Re translated this means the joint interest of benin togo and ghana and co superceedes our security,self sustainance in food,monetary policy etc

Heres my advice to Goverment.Continue in this traction please.Shun every agreement that assaults the sovereignty of our Nation viz a viz..our control over our borders,our money and our ability to Govern ourselves by our own laws

Identify the ,West African Nations that appear not to have our interest at heart and interact with them accordingly

Why are ghanians complaining so much about Nigeria closed borders.why all the insults now.Air and sea aCess still remains available


Nigeria is a soveriegn state.we can do pretty much what we want with our borders.Thats what it means to be a soveriegn state.Any agreement that rids a nation of that priviledge robs it of its soverignity.except Ghana wants to start controlling Nigeria.

Nigerias air and sea borders are open.If they were not smuggling and paying their taxes dutifully to Nigeria,then using our sea borders wouldnt make so much of a difference in their trade costs

But we all know the drill...smugglers are the ones complaining.And that official data on the volume of trade with Ghana does not count all your smuggled goods which appears to be the in the majority with this outcry.

Its no longer bussiness as ussual.Use the right channels if you must trade with Nigeria.Insist Nigerians do so as well to trade with you.Simple

At least bullets and fake army uniform will stop entering Nigeria through the cotonou area...Dont know about Niger though.A large portion of those complaining are also criminals.

Aisha buhari is a great woman.Her publicists are superb masters of the game.

She has done well by been the bigger person when she need not have apologized.She has shown she puts the image of the Nation,women and her family first.Thats an honourable first Lady.Thats class

She has also succeeded in making Fatima and her arrogance the confirmed villian in the story.Thats what we know her for now,

the unrully overpriviliged brat that dared not just the first lady but the entire protocols of international relations,espionage and all institutions in charge ....and appears to be getting away with it.Thats her story we know so far

For the records I am a firm unpaid supporter of the President.But his handling of this matter is a huge dissapointment and a serious blight on my confidence in him as a person..

All this persons,the girl,her father and all should be issuing disclaimers by now for the sake of the Nations image...not granting interview to foreign media and laundering whoose image exactly the young childs image or her fathers own...

How hard is this..a few firm and clear instructions of expectations even if its for eye service sake...really how hard is it.

You guyz are deliberately derailing this matter.

Its about the nerve of a silly child to :

(1) Shoot a video of the first lady in a moment of uncomposure ,please note not in public but in the safest space in Nigeria... her private quaters in aso rock

(2)It is also about the nerve of this same "child" to not have deleted the video leading to iys ultimate release

(3) the efforntery of such a person to grant an uncensored interview to the foreign media months later castigating the WIFE of the president of a soverign state based on her "inbestigative journalism" in her private quaters

(4) This tells me this person believes they can get away with this and has apparently succeded.The fact that anybody justifies this is just plain stupod and evil.

This character has not insulted just Aisha Buhari...but the whole institution of Nigeria in charhe of security and espionage....shame on all who have a hand in this. Shame on all those who should speak up and are quiet.Big shame on the enablers of this child and her Father who has not chastised her.

At the vert least she owes Aisha Buhari and the entire nation an apology....not this show of arrogance..Those who love her should tell her this truth

Im annoyed that the girl is even granting interview.Whats her point exactly.Can anyone establish grounds on which she can be sued?

Security breach for example...any legal grounds?

Stupid girl.They want to tar and feather the first lady.In her own house.Shame on them.

Where were they when she was campaigning for her husband for over 12 years.Who knew them on the campaign trail.Did they even vote.And now taking and releasing videos of the first lady in her space.

The shame is not on the first lady but their over prividleged father that has allowed them this nonsense latitude.

Stupid hausa girl.I wish someone will find the grounds to sue them for breach of privacy.sebi she said its no longer their house but for aishas son.

They had better publicly apologize to her.Silly child

xpool:
Ignorance has made you an endangered species

Which nonsense ignorance you paid propagandists that has probably sold out the nation and future generations to promote foreign and selfish agendas at the expense of your nation and its teeming youth population.If thats truly the case may what youve swallowed hook your neck while you vomit it all.

If the above is not the case but that you trully suffer from ignorance may this your sin against our nation be forgiven.

The law of demand and supply will take over rice will be cheaper as local supply increases

I repeat go to shoprite mamas pride a local brand has as little as 1kg bags sold for as cheap as 540 naira .Thats about the equivalent of your 1 module in the market you buy for 600 naira.

You are the ignorant saboteaur

xpool:
You are as dumb as your comment!
Nigeria has never been dependent on importation of food, we are self sustained on over 80% of our food need.
We don't import fufu, garrii, okro, pepper, egusi, palmoil, vegetable oil, salt, ogbono, groundnut, beens, maize, tapioca, wheat, vegetable, tomatoes, onions, chicken, beef, mutton, goat meat, cotton seed, bitter leaf, alubor, amala, tuwo, ugu leaf, banga, yam, sweet potato, cocoyam, iru, ogiri, dawadawa, etc

If importing rice can beat down the price to at least N10k, then we need to import.
Please study the theory and law of Comparative Advantage in trade and production. And stop posting shallow comments.

You must live under a rock sir. Nigeria is largely dependent on importation.

Just so you know from that your ridiculous list we import the following a lot too...

Palm oil a lot, vegetable oil, pepper,tommatoes,Afang a lot of afang too...chicken a whole lot...eggs as egg powder.add milk too,salt and the list is endless..

We will grow our own rice in Nigeria and ban imports entirely shortly.Our 100 million strong yoiths will be the new millonaires championing the cause.

For thise who want cheap loval rice vist shoprote and spar if in the cities.Go directly to the farms if in the subburbs.A bag of unprocessed rice in an ogun state farm can be bought for as low as 4k.f
#fact

If you want parboiled processed rice.
Pay the true cost.. Till all boys become rich farmers and not at the expense of our foreign exchange and economy

Rice is the new road to wealth in Nigeria.Bene republoc and asain paid commentators should go and take a back seat

Paid think tanks and propagandists everwhere.Nigeria isnt opening her borders to rice ever.Deal with it.

And yes we will achieve self sufficiency in the rice value chain so long we keep the naysayer parasites away

PS borders must remain closed to rice at christmas

Toks2008:
How many men have self control when faced with strong sexual harassment from females...please be real.

But you have strong self control whenbfaced with the same harrasment abroad? Why now

Did i remember to thank Putin?when it comes to Naija that man na better man abeg and deserves some accolade

That said Nigerians love america and will dash them visa money more.

Kai there are many children on this thread.Or should i say unenlightened.

Rusia is and has always been Nigerias strongest ally,( my opinion) they have had the best interest on Nigeria at heart with no strings attached .Better than the US and the UK.

Im not sure as to why yet ,perhaps its their belief soveriegn states should really be sovereign while the others gave assistance with a control string attached.but thats my opinion.

Its in Nigerias interest to work with rusia if she wishes..if in doubt ask how has military support from other countries helped till date in our battle against insurgency

Imagine if Ghadaffi had Rusias support...in addition Putin is smarter than Trump....less likely to abandon ship like trump (e.g the kurds) and will give help if he says he will.The analysis of power favours a russian alliance anyday

Toks2008:
It's a good thing as it will also stop female students from harrasing the lecturers with their sexuality in return for grades...works both ways.

Lecturers are not harrased.They lack self control in Nigeria but not abroad.Whats the difference.

Its an enviroment that tolerates abuse by the lecturers unbated in Nigeria.That must be addressed.

But lets all be truthful...female collegues where more serious than male counterparts back in Uni

Women attended classes,took notes and did discusions and generally took studies more seriuously than male counterparts

While sex for grades is true in some instiyutions and departmengs. Im worried we are about to disregard the academic efforts and achievements of Nigeria women.One lecturer even said up to 80 percent of Nigerian women graduated with sex for grades

We all know this is not the case.Let us be careful not to villify our institutions and drag them down.

Shame the act.the culprits.the schools and the departments culpable.but dont loop all Nigerian schools and all graduating women into this .That will be a grave injustice.

Truly Black man has no capability to govern himself. Switzerland, Japan, UK, and lots of other European countries have no single resources, yet they are that wonderful, running efficiently. We have oil at all, yet we keep making stupid excuses day after day, running down the country. Imagine if there is no resources? Lol, na him be say, here go be just bush, people using wheelbarrow as cars. No banks no schools no hospital, nothing modern �. People will probably live like animals in the bush.[/quote]Nigeria main problem is with her population.We have the same qty of oil has UAE but see the diff in estimated population 11 million vs 210 million.


If thats not alarming just imagine the average woman is said to have 7 kids in Nigeria and 50 percent of this 210 million population are young persons in child bearing age.

So in the next 20 years the estimated population from 210 million is just unimaginable

Nigeria needs to address its population explosion and numner of children per family.Thats what the other Nations have done which helps their country show value for money. especially your darling europe.And the Saudis has well and other middle eastern countries

We need to address our population issue or else our income as a country may never be enough to cater for all adequately

Who is this one...his opinion aint worth nada.If in doubt ask Atiku.

That said we have heard him and note his attempt to stay relevant by babbling.Nigeria is bigger than his thoughts

For anyone who cares to listen or know,as regards foreign Interests Mr Jonathan was good to Nigeria.Such decisions are not always as direct as he put them.what was offered and with what strings or clauses attached.

Mr Jonathan was known to put National interest first in many decisions with foreign powers.In that the Man was awesomely patrroitic.

The burden of proof is on Mr Cameroon or whatever is name is.He cant slander people in his book with no proof.I hope he gets sued if he cant prove it. He needs to say exactly what kind of "help" and its conditionality that was offered and rejected.With proof only.His word is not enough.

The audacity to rewrite history because they think they can needs to be addressed if the history is wrong it will be a bad precedent been set to malign our people our history and leaders.Its the narrative they will teach children when everyone is long gone. Every wise African would stand against it.

Pistotita ! Correct man keep up the good work.evil thrives when good people stay silent.dont stay silent.Tell your truth.Let them hear.

That said Nairaland is more powerful than you all think.Farmers you must all tell your stories here or the economists and smugglers narrative will win the day at your expense.

Remember they pay people well to write,who is writing for the farmers

This one is for the farmers.Nigeria can feed Nigeria.forget all those paid economists preaching its not in our interest to achieve self sufficiency in rice production.Those ones have sold their birthright for money.If they are Nigerians they are the defination of betrayers,they are betrayong entire generations

Nigeria has land,a large teaming young population mostly unemployed,excellent weather.Yet our farmers struggle for sales for their products with imported goods.With the supervision and cordination of our neighbours(the largest rice importers in Africa..6th Largest in the world).To get the full picture add the Niger rice imports to it. All at the expense of our farners,and youth unemployment.And some people are against sokutions to address this,is that not madness? The importers should buy Nigerian rice.Farmers should cultivate more.More young persons will be rice farmers and get rich. End of story.

Borders remain shut till we fix the rice value chain to rely on local production,till we fix smuggling and make it no longer lucrative.Anyone that says otherwise is a...........

Sowore was very irresponsible in the matter.His words on video and audio indict him every where.Locally and Internationally.His actions and words are punishable anywhere by law.The Goverment knows this.

At best he should ask for Or negotiate a pardon.If not Sowore has a case to answer.

Meanwhile true muslims should be outraged...where are their voices.Where is MURIC.

This does not happen in saudi qatar and the rest.How does child abandonment and child tortue represent the religion?

Meanwhile if 300 children where found there thats 300 families in just 1 LGA.The matter is an epidemic, all pretence should stop

Ministry of women affairs shoukd use them to set an example.

Ivite every parent with wards in the school for interogation.Any parent very vocal or timid in their support for the institution should get 6 months in jail woth hard labour for child endangerment

The ward should be taken from their care.

If they could arrest the woman who locked a child in the dog cage, caregivers who beat their househelps and parents who scared their chikdren .why should these ones be spared?

We cant have a different set of rules for the North.This is not about religion.Its about how we MUST protect children... Children are the future of our land.Bastards must not ruin their innocence for selfish wicked reasons.This is our moral duty as a people.Every one with the power to address this that fails to do so will stand in judgement for it one day

seguno2:
If you are ignorant about something, just ask for someone to give you free education on the subject.

And PM news is your credible source. Every credible source noted this presidency ignored them completely as they rightly should. Go and read the case file of this matter and cite your non existent Osinbajo offer of 600million dollars. That is the credible source

jubrilELsudan:
Have you lived in South Africa? Come here and see the horrible things Nigerians do all in the name of hustle.


I have been based here in Johannesburg since 2004.

I went to Wits university. I work here in a top I.T firm in Bryanston. I live in Dainfern. Despite all these, ignorant brainwashed south africans of all race still see me as a drug dealer because our 9ja brothers have vapourized our image here.


Here in Johannesburg, Nigerians that I have had dealings with have brought me more harm than even the south africans. They are so dishonest and untrustworthy.

Majority of 9ja boys here are into either drugs , yahoo, human trafficking , kidnapping , armed robbery and all form of illegal businesses and crimes. And the 9ja ladies are into prostitution and running after rich old white men.

Nigerians here don't even want to see another nigerian doing well and living a better life than them.

On a day like this you need to shut up and take a back seat. What's the percentage of Nigerians in SA that the country blames them for their drug problems?

Even if this is true how is mass hysteric assault on you countrymen acceptable even if they were truly guilty? What exactly are you condoning?

You do realize these Nigerians are family men and women with children?if you have a problem with them deport them back to their homeland, don't rob or kill them,dont goad your citizens on when they assault them

SA citizens made themselves the judge jury and executioner on this matter. They gave a dog a bad name so they can kill it and you are there owning it. Don't be a bastard. Don't.

Just be quiet and while at it repent of your evil thoughts and words to your own people

For the SA a city that rejects and harms strangers brings a curse on itself and it's people. SA has robbed itself of the goodwill of its brethren. In your day of trouble lets see who will rise to your aid

As for Nigeria. Our country will Continue to grow stronger and better

ivoryhouse:
Where do we get these rhetoric from? What makes you think Nigerians are more corrupt than other African nationals? South Africans have been doing drugs and violent robberies decades before Nigerians started flocking to the country. BTW Zimbabweans control the drug cartels in parts of South Africa.
You mention Ghana, those ones are even worse. Gbanains have been defrauding nationals from every other part of the world who go to Ghana with the hopes of buying some legendary Ghanaian gold.
Africans generally envy Nigerians because our mindset and attitude to work is quite different from theirs. Nigerians intimidate other African nationals, without making any concerted effort.
A friend had an interview (when she lived in Ghana) slated for 9am, and she got their at 8.45am while the Ghanaians didn't start strolling in till way past 10am.
Nigerians, please stop accusing fellow Nigerians of being the problem whenever there is an issue because you're only giving abusers more reason to victimize our brothers and sisters in diaspora.
Finally, all nations commit one level of fraud or the other but still get up to defend their citizens that have been victimized,in any country on earth.
Be proud, be bold, be encouraged, we are Nigerians!

Our crime statistics for our population is way lower than that of the SA and US they all look up too.

And SA dares call Nigerians criminals. Nigerians need to stop owning that crap. We have more honest hardworking Nigerians than any proportion of African countries

We have more female entrepreneur in Nigeria than any other African country.and I mean in percentages. Meanwhile we've not added the farmers o.

We need to write our truth.Every Nigerian plies a trade not to be idle. We are 200 million strong. The bad eggs don't define us.

seguno2:
The same man who was ready to sign off $600 million to settle the arbitration case?
The same man who paid $17 million to Malami’s accomplices as legal fees for a job already completed by a Swiss lawyer for Abacha’s loot?
Are you for real

You are just pulling off spurious facts from your amoeba brain though...

Which 600million did PMB offer to pay for arbritriation when and where and what are ur sources,at least the lawyers offered a service. If the Swiss lawyer in the Abacha case had truely completed his work the money would have been with Nigeria not the Swiss.

Oyibos are scamming your country taking money for services not rendered. You and ur unicellular brain is saying what again.

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