Ekejoestar:
I laughed at some people when they were calling for gun restrictions to be implemented nationwide, they don't know that it's all about the corporate interest that their cries feel on deaf ears.

Every institution in America is run like an industry, their prison system, the health system, their financial system and many more.

Opioid epidemic is endemic and rampant in the US and you'd be surprised to know that the govt have a hand in it and that one is another industry on its own.

Wooo, make una gbagbe.

You may be right in your assertions.

But the US is not the only country with gun rights.

Ghana has gun rights.
Switzerland has gun rights.
The Philippines has gun rights.
Chad has gun rights.
Ukraine has gun rights... and so on.

On the contrary,
Colombia,
Mexico,
Nigeria,
Nicaragua and others countries have strict gun laws but their citizens are massacred every time in the most horrendous ways by Criminal gangs and terrorists who acquired guns illegally, anyway.

Romanoff:
And it's this constitutional right that will be the death of America.

The school in Uvalde where 19 people were killed by a gun man will be demolished cause the residents can't stomach having kids go back there.

What about those who kill Nigerians in the churches every Sunday?

Do you think non-constitutional right will grow Nigeria?

biggie73:
Freedom will kill Americans.

No, it is saving their lives.
They have been free since 1776.

blingxx:


Nigerian will abuse and misuse it .. ordinary Lagos conductor fit shot you because of change .. just think about it , too many pple dey vex this country

This is a simplistic way of thinking.
He will have his own gun and you would have yours.
He would think twice before he shoots.
And others with gun will be around too.

This is the right thing to do.
If they ever give up their guns for any reasons, they will be defenseless like Nigerians are currently are.
Large countries can never be totally police by the law enforcement.

Citizens need firearms to defend themselves.

The Lagos State government had no reason to prevent hijab in government schools.
It was a needless controversy.
Public schools are for everyone.
There should not be discrimination against female Muslims wearing the hijab in public schools especially if they have been wearing it before.
Lagos State Government was wrong.

Or they deliberately stirred up the hornet nest just to make a legal case for their other wannabe governments in the southwest and Kwara who are trying to IMPOSE hijab wearing in Christian legacy schools.

The two situations are different and not the same.

Putindbutt:
Nothing but the truth. Opposition are the ones shouting the loudest even though they wouldn't still vote for him with a Christian VP candidate. He better do whatever would assure his victory and ignore sideway noise.

Buhari himself is now in the opposition now?

They are talking about 'minority Muslim' now that they want to do manafiki.

Such a pity.
They are just using these innocent people for experiment.
The joker president of Ukraine agreed with these west to use his people.

He will eventually flee the country to exile in a cozy European city or they will take him to South America.
Such a pity.

christistruth01:



Imagine if those with knives had guns instead that would be terrible

Imagine if their knives have been taken from them.

christistruth01:
Gun Rights will escalate Chaos unless the guns are signed to Traditional Rulers or LG Chaiman who would then be held responsible for how his vigilante uses it

Eg Each local Govt Chairman can have 100 guns to Secure his Domain anything.more then the Police and Civil Defense would be there to Supervise and help

How will they escalate chaos?

Are people not having possession of knives now?

There are knife attacks every time in the UK and many parts of Europe, why can't they sign knife possession to Queen Elizabeth II.

Acid is sold in the open market even now without any traditional ruler guaranteeing anything.

Does it also mean that people with Dane guns for hunting currently are signed to LG chairmen now?

wis3:
I understand the angle you're coming from but it's going to be chaos if everyone is allowed to own a gun. Take the US for example where there's so many cases of mass shooting where one person could wake up one day and kill dozens of people at schools, gatherings, events. This is US as developed as it is how much more in Nigeria where we have religious fanatics, cultists. It is a recipe for disaster.

Are we not having mass shootings now?

What further disaster can a country have than few gunmen killing over 80 people who went to worship their God in a church?

You people only mention US because you do not have understanding.
Criminals don't get arms legally. They will always get it no matter what you do.

The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution allows an establishment of a militia to defend the citizens against their government's tyranny (in case it arises).

And why are you no mentioning Switzerland?

Firearm possession is legal in Ghana, in Chad, why are neigbours not killing themselves in those countries?

railone:
If the sanctions aren't working, meaning Russia has figured out a way to be immune to it, why all these daily wailing?

There are some things you don't need something to analyze for you. Just common sense.

Example, Lockheed is sanctioned by China yet there's never a day that Lockheed has ever said, China should remove the sanctions because it's not working. Why? because the sanctions isn't working so no need to cry about it.

But you see Russia and their propagandists, every day, Ruble is doing better, sanctions don't work. EU should remove sanctions or they will suffer.
If it's not working, shut up about it, will you?

If they are working, why are they not doing what it was intended?

No mass deaths or mass poverty in Russia. People are going about their normal activities. Why are people not dropping dead in the streets of Moscow or St. Petersburg?

Why have the sanctions not stopped the war?

Why is the prospect of annexation of a section of Ukraine so bright?

And then why do EU countries have to sacrifice more than they have done without any results to show for it?

The daily wailing, as you called it, is because the people/countries imposing the sanctions are the ones hurting from them. Whether through shortage of food, or disruptions to food and energy supplies, it the people imposing the sanctions that are getting the short end of the stick.

Or have you not read how those who imposed sanctions are the ones accusing their adversary USING HUNGER AS A WEAPON OF WAR?

The sanctioned country's balance of trade is being boosted in bigger measure.

Do you have an idea what losing a third of your energy supplies could do to your economy in a month?

Wait till you see real uprising in Europe in coming months as a result of economic downturn before you realize that the "wailings" are calls for a common sense resolution.

They dribbled themselves.

While they were focused on getting the political appointees out by all means, they didn't even bother to check their own end.

It ended up being a foolish strategy.

treesun:


Upgrade firearm or what!

Oga no, upgrade firearm laws. That means there is currently a law or laws regulating possession of firearm which does not solve the problem at hand. You can get license for some categories of firearms for hunting, for instance.

To upgrade the law through legislation means that the reason for possession of firearm can now be extended to self defense.

Do you understand now?

Nigeria is due for firearm regulations upgrade. The insecurity in the country currently is akin to war situation, therefore, the government should upgrade the laws to allow citizens to obtain license to own and carry firearm for self defense.

Citizens having permits to own and carry firearms for protection will complement the efforts of the security forces. This is a reasonable thing to do. Self defense is a fundamental human right.

We cannot continue to fold our arms and watch helplessly while criminals without license take over the destiny of the country.

Instead of wasting money procuring sophisticated weapons designed for external military conflict to solve internal security problems, we should grant citizens license to complement what the security forces are doing.

Of course, there are genuine concerns about misuse of firearm, especially considering the incessant mass shooting in the US. However, there are countries with advanced firearm ownership laws that are thriving: Switzerland, South Africa, Namibia, even Chad and currently Ukraine and many others have regulations that allow ownership of firearms without hell letting lose.

To be clear, the regulations would be strict on who get issued the licenses in terms of age, criminal records, mental capacity, guarantor requirements and general background checks.

Regional law enforcements have been proposed and being tried but they have had little impact and not generally acceptable because of the nature of politics and the history of regional conflicts in Nigeria.

We cannot afford to just fold arms and put all the burdens on our military forces who are not even trained for that type of conflict. We should not pretend that any amount budgeted will have any effect. It is time we face the little demon and do the right thing.

Grant license to own firearm for self defense and you see banditry reduce drastically.

Nigerian armchair analysts fantasized with Petroleum Industry legislation for years.

Impulsive analysts on TV and newspapers chorused unproven rhetorics about how the law would change everything and turn the country into eldorado.

The PIA has been passed for close to a year now and the woes seems to have just began in the petroleum industry. Analysts have disappeared. The media seem to have moved on. No one has been called back to explain why things have not gone the way they dressed them.

No TV station has made any attempt to call our experts back to ask "Oga, did you not say that the PIA will do this and that, how come nothing resembling what you said is even happening after the law has been signed for months now?" "Why are there no new investments in the oil and gas sectors now as you predicted?" "Why are the oil companies disposing their assets instead?" "How long before all that you predicted will start to materialize?"

There must be a new set of economic thinkers and public opinion moulders in Nigeria dor country to make any meaningful prpgress. There should be a complete overhaul of the socalled analysts, not only the politicians.

Not many prominent church leaders will publicly condemn this killing.
But they will be quick to talk about missing money.

Tinubuadvocate:
Bro I agreed with you reason is because there's no sentiment in your submission neither you discredit anyone I must say you are a concern Nigerian.

However I would like to correct one notion from your assertion where you stated this government borrow ideas from Tinubu ...frankly speaking this government has failed Nigerians and the reason is because of sentiment and selfishness of so called cabals in presidency.

Let me tell you something if you think I'm lying go to APC ideology I can provide it for you in case you can't find it .what am saying Buhari administration not follow APC ideology not even his own blueprint .Talk on he will take Tinubu advice on economic policies.

Even the vice president that handle economic during the first tenure was relegated and a northern took over the economic. Look Nigerians will see everything soon after the tenure of Buhari end.

What does this translate to?

That the cabal prevented the APC ideology from working?

But they implemented everything by the book.

It's all wishful thinking, regardless of who is implementing it.

Does it mean that without the cabal, there would have been money to employ 10m, 50m youths?

Do you consider how many N-Power people they are struggling to give 30,000 naira monthly stipend to?

Fowler was queried for not meeting up to revenue targets after they have taxed all the taxables, was it the cabal that prevented him from performing below expectation?

I have read every letter of APC ideology. The philosophy is premised on Lagos template. But Lagos is a sub-national.

Lagos still depends on the federal allocation for at least half of its revenue.

Nigeria does not have such luxury of grandfathering. Nigeria is sovereign. The template to generate revenue for Nigeria is different from Lagos template.

That is the core of the problem.

And that seems to what Mr. Fasua is still advocating.

Tinubu, Osinbajo, Fasola all once advocated fiscal federalism in one form or another.

But they all suddenly fell for an unworkable, unrealistic unitary fiscal agenda at some point.

What could have happened?

Blaming the cabal for this economic woes and trying to exonerate the main policy formulators is not right.

This is a disappointing article from Mr Fasua. These are more like Marxists agenda they are hyping as economic strategies.

Are these not the same policies they are implementing right now?

Imaginary full employment - is this not what APC promised and implementing with N-Power? How has that panned out?

Border closure - Have they not closed the border for over 2 years now? What exactly was achieved?

Wishful thinking protection of the naira - Did we no hear that naira would exchange for yuan directly to make it "strong".

Taxing the rich - have they not been taxing the rich and have ran out ideas already; have you forgotten that they even published names of tax defaulters? Have you forgotten so soon that they started with MTN 1 trillion fine? They came back taxing every penny in circulation in the name of VAT increment, stamp duty etc.?

The problem with all these wishful thinking is that they barely give a thought to how to finance these utopian dreams.

How do you pay 10m youths in the secret services, police, NSCDC etc that you are proposing?

The current federal government workforce is not even up to 3 million and they still struggling to pay salary with borrowed funds monthly.

Mr Fasua should not be pressured to just write anything anyhow to show his support for his candidate.

Everything he wrote here are the same policies that the current government borrowed from the Tinubu group and has been implementing for 7 years now with only a 127km railtrack to show for it; but with highest debt burden ever created in the history of our country.

Mark this!

Bestiality will soon be wide spread which would lead to a movement backed by huge money from progressive/woke politicians corporates and businessmen leading to pressure for its legalization across the world.

The progressives will make money available for phantom researches and back it up with 'science' and legitimize the act. The world will soon be told that there's a gene for bestiality. They will say they are born that way.

Those who dare to resent and antagonise bestiality at that will be called bushmen and canceled. The corporate woke media would be on hand to destroy the image of anyone who dare say otherwise.

The term bestiality itself would be 'funkified' and another well package launderered term coined to make it less repulsive. People would be afraid to say anything against the subculture because they will be massively canceled.

Copycat activists and low budget woke enthusiasts in less developed countries would be enticed with visas to visit and live in low income housing projects abroad in exchange for their support for the nonsense.

Some of the extremists madness from the left can only be cure with another form madness.

It took a crazy and aggressive buyout of Twitter from Jack to force his brain to reset.

Taiggarr:


How old are you

Were you in Lagos in the early 80s

Have you ever heard of Jakande

He probably went to Jakande school or still living in Jakande estate. But he probably doesn't have enough independent mind to see things in a dispassionate way.

tibikarak:
then what did Jakande do? What did fg do throughout when Lagos was Nigeria's capital?

There's no point saying all this. They have made up their minds.

Everyone should just be prepared to hear how 'baba' built Abuja if he is fortunate to be president in 2023.

Write this down, Nigeria's would be told how Tinubu built Abuja as the 'master planner.'

They would say it consistently that even Babangida, Abdulsalami, Obasanjo, Jonathan would believe the tale and repeat it in interviews.

WibusJaga:


That was when Naira was stronger than Dollar;
$1 = 75kobo

Nigeria did not spend naira in 1964.

The question that comes to any critical mind is "why does he get betrayed by the so-called beneficiaries every time"?

Almost every one he has allegedly 'made' to anything meaningful has 'betrayed' him. Most of the people shouting are those desperately seeking to be 'made' by him, who would then come around in the future to 'betray" him.

Even the writer of this piece would 'betray' him in the future after having gotten sufficiently 'noticed' and 'helped' to a meaningful position he 'would never have been able to reach in his life'. That is, if you consider that so many people have written articles to destroy other people's lives on his behalf only to come around to 'betray' him.

So the question again, why does he get betrayed by almost all the people he has 'made' to anything meaningful?

They should cooperate with the executive as is their culture.

The can't afford to be confrontational. The 9th Senate has demonstrated an excellent working relationship with the executive. They can't afford to be belligerent at this point.

The Ayes must have it.

And see how they led their country to a needless war.

AmazonTopaz:


Are you denying that Trump did not believe his intelligence agencies picked Russia over NATO allies yes or no?
.

What are you saying?

What is your question?

"That Trump did not believe his intelligence agencies picked Russia over NATO allies" ... doesn't sound coherent.

It appears you are under some intense anxiety. It has to be anxiety because you have been boasting of your ability to read and write all along.

Calm down and put your thoughts together.

sanpipita:


Lol was Russia building Nord stream 2 for themselves? did I need to mention Germany before you know these things.

I'm tired at this point have a read, Biden cut a deal to let Nord stream 2 go on involving Germany.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-german-deal-on-russian-natural-gas-pipeline-expected-soon-11626813466

You are sounding very pathetic at this point.

Your idea that Trump was weak against Putin and would have created an easy path for the total annexation of Ukraine was quickly debunked by pointing out Trump actual strong arm tactics of imposition of sanctions against Nord Stream 2, which Biden lifted when he came to office. So if Trump was weak, would he have sanctioned an $11b project at the heart of the Russian gas infrastructure?

Your point was that the Nord Stream 2 deal by Biden with Russia was for the sake of Ukraine, which was roundly debunked. I pointed to you that the deal couldn't have been in favor of Ukraine because the real motive of Russia was to weaken Ukraine economically.

Apparently you didn't have any clue about the project and the strategic implications for countries. For your information, that is the day job of some people.

But you don't even have the grace to admit your error. Having exposed your lack of understanding, you are now trying to use elementary school tactics to deflect the subject in order to wrigle your way out. Admission of mistakes is very hard for we humans to do, but it's actually a strength not a weakness for strong minds.

Next time, be measured in your contributions in a public forum to avoid being taken to the cleaners. You should know that all the things you have ever read and would ever read are written by humans who could be part of your audience.

My earlier advice to you subsist; now that you know how to read and write, the next thing is to acquire strategic thinking skills. You have to learn the art of "reading between the lines".

AmazonTopaz:

And you are the one with a credible information.The Guradian that reported the news years ago is not credible please don't bore me I have better things t do with my time

Does it mean everything you read from the Guardian is credible? Is that your definition of credibility? That's classic naivete, my friend.

Plus how did they report it? Was it a news item or an opinion? Do you understand that there are various sections of a newspaper? Do you also understand that the media have agenda?

The Guardian also reported that Sadam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction then, how did it pan out? That is the reason you should develop some other skills like critical thinking after you have learned how to read and write. Otherwise you become vulnerable, and they will continue to mess with your mind.

sanpipita:


The way you guys accuse people of indoctrination is funny, did you bother to read deal Biden cut for Ukraine and who were involved, Nord stream 2 isn't all about Russia, Germany is involved a USA Ally, now please ask yourself as of today who halted the nord stream 2 project?

Talking about about Hunter Biden will only take us to point to where Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine just to dig up dirt on Biden, I don't think you wanna go there

Apparently you never understood what you read about Nord Stream 2 before coming here to say Biden cut the deal with Russia to help Ukraine.

There are pipelines from Russia supplying gas to Europe that pass through Ukraine already. For this, Ukraine charges transit fee, which is a major revenue for its economy.

The Nord Stream 2 entirely bypassed Ukraine, therefore making the country not entitled to any income. How then did Biden's deal with Russia help Ukraine? You have failed to say it. All you keep saying is "read about, read about". If you were the Ukrainian president would you have seen Biden as a friend or threat, considering that the deal would not help you economically?

Of course, Germany is the beneficiary of the deal, ultimately. It would cost less to get gas delivered from Russia without paying the transit fee to Ukraine. If you had said that the deal was made for the Germans initially, you would not have sounded so hollow as you sounded.

Go where with the alleged military aid withheld? That's like a high school guy debating his colleague. Haven't you already said that earlier? Where again do you want to go with Trump’s alleged withdrawal of military aid to Ukraine? Or do you just wish to type something?