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Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Image123(m): 12:57pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
Shift immediately with your tribal talks. If you do not have anything meaningful to contribute, you can swerve to the next thread. Everything to you people is cheap politics and ideas of unnecessary hatred.
Explain how it's tribal talks mr shift. You don't know the damage your fav has done yet. You'll understand soon enough by God's grace.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 12:59pm On May 28
ThunderFireAgba:
Bingo.
So you don't know the world is evolving and still evolving and transforming?
When did industrialization start?
The next 200yrs you will be here to write how humans have evolved to robots but back in 2027 we were acting normals as humans.

Your jargon writing about 1980 & 1970's like you know a proof of incidents that happened then. Nonsense
Bingo? Is that what you call your father?

You should be ashamed of yourself that in 2026, you still cannot make a post of 10 lines in a coherent manner. See your life.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Kemetian: 12:59pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
The thread is not for people born in 2005. You must not comment in every post you see.
SO WHAT I POSTED SOUNDED TO YOU LIKE A PERSON BORN IN 2005.

YOU MUST BE REFERRING TO YOURSELF.

SMALL BOY TALKING RUBBISH.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:00pm On May 28
Image123:
Explain how it's tribal talks mr shift. You don't know the damage your fav has done yet. You'll understand soon enough by God's grace.
I created a thread to discuss reflective issues, but the best thing your brain could help you do is to convert the issues to small talks of party politics.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:02pm On May 28
Kemetian:
SO WHAT I POSTED SOUNDED TO YOU LIKE A PERSON BORN IN 2005.

YOU MUST BE REFERRING TO YOURSELF.

SMALL BOY TALKING RUBBISH.
If you like type in EXTRA CAPITAL LETTERS, nobody send you.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Menclothing1: 1:03pm On May 28
Days of armed robbers killing people on high way you mean?
Days of ritualist stopping people
Days of people picking money and turning to yam or private part missing or days of human part sold like bread
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:03pm On May 28
Kemetian:
SO WHAT I POSTED SOUNDED TO YOU LIKE A PERSON BORN IN 2005.

YOU MUST BE REFERRING TO YOURSELF.

SMALL BOY TALKING RUBBISH.
I have been here far long, even before your eldest uncle was born.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by daniwise(m): 1:05pm On May 28
The good old days.I was born here in Lagos and grew up in Ogun State,but im from Delta State.Growing up,we had nothing but we were very satisfied with the little we had.Things started going bad when we were deceived by Tinubu and APC that Buhari was the Messiah.It got so worst that Nigerians started collecting loan to make ends meet.Then Tinubu came onboard,to say things are worst is an understatement.How we can recover from this mess is something I dont see happenning.Tinubu has totally destroyed Nigeria.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by kenn4rill(m): 1:07pm On May 28
Nigeria ended after Goodluck Jonathan
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Image123(m): 1:09pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
I created a thread to discuss reflective issues, but the best thing your brain could help you do is to convert the issues to small talks of party politics.
i didn't mention any party. i pointed to how Pit Obi has greatly changed people like you to bitterness and hatred for others.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by ukaface(f): 1:09pm On May 28
It was never meant to be 1 country
Nigeria should split up
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Ebydeb: 1:11pm On May 28
Forceful take-over power.
It is my turn....
Buying of votes and rigging of election.
All these and many more happened to Nigeria.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by dederocs(m): 1:11pm On May 28
Originalsly:
I would say we overlook the number one reason ...... unfiltered access to the internet. It has massively corrupted our culture ....African culture period. We have turned our backs on our morals...our traditions and adopted the practices of the evil and immoral West ... wanting to be like them. We're no longer our brother's keeper ... it's about self... selfishness...greed ... get rich by any means necessary... even ourselves we no longer appreciate.... we bleach our skin... proudly wear a h hair if other people but not ours...etc. And we wonder why we are how we are today...thanks to the unfiltered internet and policy makers who see nothing wrong because they are equally influenced by the very internet.
Islamic jihad is our number 1 problem. There is internet everywhere. Islamic jihad is making government appropriate trillions for security, it's destroying trust, people now hate each other, yet the zombies still love that culture of death.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:12pm On May 28
Image123:
i didn't mention any party. i pointed to how Pit Obi has greatly changed people like you to bitterness and hatred for others.
You must be living in delusion and falsehood. You need to be checked properly because I don't see how someone like you would cope in a civilised society where things are done based on merit and needs.

That you cannot engage in meaning discussions without mentioning the names of one aspirant or the other shows how low some of you think.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by saintkel(m): 1:19pm On May 28
Jonathan no try....he shouldn't have handed over to Buhari in d first place....talk more of Tinubu...dis 2 r worse than hell itself
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Kemetian: 1:20pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
I have been here far long, even before your eldest uncle was born.
YOU ARE A LIAR.

SMALL BOY BORN YESTERDAY.

DON'T GO AND GET SOMETHING DOING WITH YOUR LIFE, YOU HEAR?
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:23pm On May 28
Kemetian:
YOU ARE A LIAR.

SMALL BOY BORN YESTERDAY.

DON'T GO AND GET SOMETHING DOING WITH YOUR LIFE, YOU HEAR?
Okay. I am a small boy that is same age as your father.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by themanderon: 1:26pm On May 28
You wanna hear the truth? Politicians utterly and viciously destroyed the country and they are still actively doing so today.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Kemetian: 1:27pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
Okay. I am a small boy that is same age as your father.
GO AND UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS AND STOP WASTING TIME TYPING RUBBISH ON NAIRALAND.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Image123(m): 1:28pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
You must be living in delusion and falsehood. You need to be checked properly because I don't see how someone like you would cope in a civilised society where things are done based on merit and needs.

That you cannot engage in meaning discussions without mentioning the names of one aspirant or the other shows how low some of you think.
It's clear to see how bitter the truth about Pit Obi is. You don't want him touched, so touching. Meaningful discussion wey no want truth about him fav.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Osariemen12: 1:31pm On May 28
From birth, I have only witnessed 5 presidents from the last one.


I don't know what you are talking about.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Nwaiyoo: 1:32pm On May 28
Ask Hausa Fulani and Yoruba people what happened? They are the rulers of Nigeria.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:33pm On May 28
Kemetian:
GO AND UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS AND STOP WASTING TIME TYPING RUBBISH ON NAIRALAND.
If you had skills at all, you won't be on every thread on Nairaland looking for who to argue with, but what can a jobless and unskilled person do? My sympathy for you, it will be okay.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by nairalanda1(m): 1:33pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
Times and seasons have past. In these present times, It looks like each day in Nigeria comes with its own series of complexities, distractions, and troubles. Sometimes, I look back with an immeasurable level of nostalgic feelings to how life used to be in the 80s and 90s. I don't really call people born in those eras millennials, I call them the last set of people who witnessed a peaceful and socially balanced Nigeria.

Even though those eras were mostly characterized by military administrations, we still had a decent level of sanity in the society.

SECURITY: In the 80s and 90s, you could literally travel from Warri to Kaduna, without knowing anyone, and still find a decent place to sleep. A young man could easily travel from Akure to Owerri, without knowing anyone, and still find someone who would assist with accommodation.

Today, Nigerians cannot travel from one part of the country to another without praying and fasting. In these times, travelling by night is like a suicide mission. Something we used to do previously. We used to move from Warri to Bauchi on night buses from 1993 to 1997. In 1999, Brazilian ex-football star, Ronadinho Gaucho and his teammates toured northern Nigeria. Can that happen today?

SOCIAL LIFE AND EDUCATION: Before the advent of kidnapping, organ harvesting, internet fraud, etc, young people had a better social life. Today, people are extra careful with one another. We have heard and seen too many cases of dismembered bodies of young women in gutters, drainages, septic tanks, and on roadsides.

The things we place value on today is sometimes shocking. From the early 90s to the early part of 2000s, it was a milestone to aspire and gain admission to study in the university. Today, it is a milestone to purchase a 50,000,000 Naira Benz at the age of 17, with no known source of income.

The most lethal problems of Nigeria are multifaceted. They cut across religion, ethnicity, value system, culture, and both the old and the young in the society. And like I stated initially, as the days roll by, the demons eating into the fabric of the society multiply.

If we could have a generation of old people who are not sympathetic towards the young and the unborn generations, and a set of young people who neither understand their collective roles in the society nor concerned about real changes in the system, I wonder what the future generations would turn out to be.
With all due respect, I am going to disagree with you. I am not here to support any politican by the way, because Nigeria is bad now, we all can see it. But the 1980's and 90's...lol

First security. If you lived in the North in the 1980's, as a christian, you had to be watchful, because at any time t...there could be religious riots breaking out. I can remember 1987, which was so bad in certain parts of the North. Add the fact that there was a Boko Haram variant in the North called Maitatsine...which took five to six years to put down (back then, LIbya and many other countries were stable, and the modern concept of jihadism was not around then)...and so forth.

Then student riots. Today, student riots and protests are peacefully put down. BACK THEN...Oh my effing g-d. They would just send in MOPOL and the Army, who will go in and open fire and kill, kill, kill. 1986 was a really godawful year for student riots.

Armed robbery. Mein Gott..it was so bad, that my mum used to tell my dad ...don't travel at night, and my dad too would be like..no need to tell me I know. Armed robbers were on the roads, shooting and killing and robbing people. Especially on the night flight. And armed robbery and raids on private houses self were live. Unless you lived in a sorta gated community, you were in deep soup. Burglary, etc. You locked your doors. And it seems you have forgotten Anini...and he was not the only one. There is a reason why SARS was set up back then...it wasn't for fun. THere was a serious crime rate back then. Despite all the executions and so forth. (Infact one of my parent's friends who travelled a lot used to travel with a gun in his car. 1990'S Nigeria...though he eventually sold it, after an incident involving a pastor and police tailing him in 1997)

KIdnapping was not bad as it is now...but it was there live and direct. Kids were told to be careful. Do not talk to strangers, do not listen to them. A child I knew was kidnapped in 1990...THIS is not fairytale, this happened to someone I knew...and if he did not manage to escape, he would probably have been dead, or worse. Kidnapping for rituals, live and direct. It happened.


I even see you mentioned fraud. Internet fraUD in nIgeria is descended from an old fashioned fraud that has existed since the good old colonial times. 419 was live in the 1980's. The internet fraud you see today came from there. It has always been there.

And get rich quick was there...it has always been there. It did not start yesterday, it was there even before 1966 self.

ANd you mentioned bodies in septic tanks. Yes o...it happened. GO and read what happened to Nigeria Airways's first female pilot (not Nigeria's first ever female pilot, the first female to work for Nigeria airways as pilot). Murder was happening live and direct.

And everybody was japa then. Infact the reason why japa numbers were lower then was because people were very poor, and because the LIbya route had not opened until the 1990's . Only the educated were japa then

Please do not romantisice the 1980's and 1990. I was there, and it was godawful. Even now some(NOT ALL) things are better...and things can get better.(if Nigerians change their attiude)..but because most of you guys do not want a producitive economy, but a share share money economy...yes including emilokan geng...that is why things get worse and will keep getting worse until we go from chop to produce.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:38pm On May 28
nairalanda1:
With all due respect, I am going to disagree with you. I am not here to support any politican by the way, because Nigeria is bad now, we all can see it. But the 1980's and 90's...lol

First security. If you lived in the North in the 1980's, as a christian, you had to be watchful, because at any time t...there could be religious riots breaking out. I can remember 1987, which was so bad in certain parts of the North. Add the fact that there was a Boko Haram variant in the North called Maitatsine...which took five to six years to put down (back then, LIbya and many other countries were stable, and the modern concept of jihadism was not around then)...and so forth.

Then student riots. Today, student riots and protests are peacefully put down. BACK THEN...Oh my effing g-d. They would just send in MOPOL and the Army, who will go in and open fire and kill, kill, kill. 1986 was a really godawful year for student riots.

Armed robbery. Mein Gott..it was so bad, that my mum used to tell my dad ...don't travel at night, and my dad too would be like..no need to tell me I know. Armed robbers were on the roads, shooting and killing and robbing people. Especially on the night flight. And armed robbery and raids on private houses self were live. Unless you lived in a sorta gated community, you were in deep soup. Burglary, etc. You locked your doors. And it seems you have forgotten Anini...and he was not the only one. There is a reason why SARS was set up back then...it wasn't for fun. THere was a serious crime rate back then. Despite all the executions and so forth.

KIdnapping was not bad as it is now...but it was there live and direct. Kids were told to be careful. Do not talk to strangers, do not listen to them. A child I knew was kidnapped in 1990...THIS is not fairytale, this happened to someone I knew...and if he did not manage to escape, he would probably have been dead, or worse. Kidnapping for rituals, live and direct.


I even see you mentioned fraud. Internet fraUD in nIgeria is descended from an old fashioned fraud that has existed since the good old colonial times. 419 was live in the 1980's. The internet fraud you see today came from there. It has always been there.

And get rich quick was there...it has always been there. It did not start yesterday, it was there even before 1966 self.

Please do not romantisice the 1980's and 1990. I was there, and it was godawful. Even now some things are better...and things can get better...but because most of you guys do not want a producitive economy, but a share share money economy...yes including emilokan geng...that is why things get worse.


Your last paragraph shows the warped way you see things. You talked about things getting better, right? I laugh. Things get better when people in authority do things differently that will improve situations. But here, we have same people doing things even worse than the way they have been done, and you are still adding 'things getting better' in your statements? You must be sleeping.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Rapmoney(op): 1:40pm On May 28
Image123:
It's clear to see how bitter the truth about Pit Obi is. You don't want him touched, so touching. Meaningful discussion wey no want truth about him fav.
Why are you so timid? Anyone who talks about Nigeria's issues is automatically a Peter Obi supporter to you. I rather argue with a child in Pry 3 from a village school than argue with you. Bye.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Alaigbo(m): 1:43pm On May 28
Exactly as there was no killing under Ebele Jonathan
Didijiji:
Tinubu and His Lagos boys ascended the scene and wrecked the country

If only Nigeria knew, we would have teargased and stoned the enemies of Nigeria when they gathered at Ojota in 2012 for a very deceitful SAVE NIGERIA protest

If only we knew they were coming to damage our country, we would have rounded them all up and jailed them for life

Now even our innocent children are paying for their mess

Only divine intervention can restore good life in Nigeria again
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Alaigbo(m): 1:45pm On May 28
That is because peter obi is criminal n failure n not an option.

Rapmoney:
Why are you so timid? Anyone who talks about Nigeria's issues is automatically a Peter Obi supporter to you. I rather argue with a child in Pry 3 from a village school than argue with you. Bye.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by nairalanda1(m): 1:46pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
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Your last paragraph shows the warped way you see things. You talked about things getting better, right? I laugh. Things get better when people in authority do things differently that will improve situations. But here, we have same people doing things even worse than the way they have been done, and you are still adding 'things getting better' in your statements? You must be sleeping.
NOte that I didn't say everything is getting better. Yes, nowadays we all have phones, we can contact nepa and yell at them direct (back then if NEPA took light, dem no go hear una..lol) and when students protest, no one sends in MOPOL with orders to shoot and kill without asking questions.

But things are worse elsewhere...economics and kidanpping wise and a host of other things. I mean, we gat a virtual second civil war happening in the North East.

But my point stands. It was not a bed of roses in the 1980's and 90's.Like for example, ya said fraud started more recently. LOL..419 was there since the 1980's if not earlier. It got worse when the internet came online.

I am not supporting tinubu, never voted for him ,and I am voting him out self. But Nigeria has never been good...because we no dey put pressure on our leaders to make it better by supporting things that would improve productivity. We want any government that comes in to share money. That's why I gat no hope even if we vote out APC ...because the new government would be hit with demands for money, not development.

Food for thought for most of you nairalanders, emilokan and obident, and atiku and everyone else.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Kemetian: 1:47pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
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Your last paragraph shows the warped way you see things. You talked about things getting better, right? I laugh. Things get better when people in authority do things differently that will improve situations. But here, we have same people doing things even worse than the way they have been done, and you are still adding 'things getting better' in your statements? You must be sleeping.
OH SHUT UP!!!

EVERYBODY IS "DOING THINGS WORSE" EXCEPT YOU.

ANGEL GABRIEL!


Let them give you ordinary LGA chairman now, nobody will see you here again!

You will turn Big Man counting dollars.

RUBBISH.
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Originalsly: 1:48pm On May 28
dederocs:
Islamic jihad is our number 1 problem. There is internet everywhere. Islamic jihad is making government appropriate trillions for security, it's destroying trust, people now hate each other, yet the zombies still love that culture of death.
"Islamic jihad" is the shout of one who does not think for himself but serves as an echo ... repeating what he heard...does not understand and therefore cannot defend what he's saying.

Let me ask ..... would you expect an Islamic jihadist to be killing Muslims or Christians? Do you know that less than 6 of victims are Christians? ...more than 90% are Muslims? How do you explain this? This should make us ask ourselves who really are these terrorists?...and what do they really want? Because of this....I believe this is not about religion..... it is about terrorizing people in certain areas to get them off the land. I guessed the insecurity is sponsored by foreigners who likely want to exploit the natural resources of the land. I saw a post that makes a whole lot of sense. Bill Gates and his people are behind it.Whathuh....Whohuh??
They are after the farm lands...... targeting farming communities ...the North .... drive away the farmers...destroy their crops ...create a food shortage.... then when the farms are abandoned due to the insecurity...they step in to "help" by providing GMO seeds to restart the crops. Who controls the seeds controls the food....controls the people. He has the technology to introduce disrupters to our body systems through the modified crops. Depopulation is very much alive. The insecurity in the agri belt... a stage in the agenda
Re: What Happened To The Nigeria We Once Knew? by Kemetian: 1:50pm On May 28
Rapmoney:
If you had skills at all, you won't be on every thread on Nairaland looking for who to argue with, but what can a jobless and unskilled person do? My sympathy for you, it will be okay.
I MUST BE DOING WELL TO BE SO POSITIVE...

IF YOU WERE DOING WELL, YOU WON'T BE HERE MOANING AND GROANING..... undecided
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