Chuksemi:


Did you actually type this? Or your keyboard has click issues? People should be banned for killing snakes? Sire, give reasons why this should be so, asides the fact that whitemen don't kill snakes, I want an original reason.

They should be banned for killing pythons and any other snake that is not a direct threat.

Chuksemi:


Sir, why should this be an 'advancement'? I want to understand why we must follow the whiteman in every thing, to become 'advanced'. We pick up literally whatever shi.t that comes from a white a.ss. Why, sir? Why?

That's the world we live in bro...
West is seen as the standard for things...
Effects of post neo colonialism....
I would have said why are you wearing western clothes or technologies, but that would be me being petty....
Even in science the dominate Africans are good love making, corruption, dictatorship, brutality and rituals..... That's the sad glaring truth

So u are telling me if i see snake in my house should go and call GEJ to come and take sample for experiment or preservation.na your kind never see snake bite before.bros find another work until govt find SOS to call when such animal is spotted else sorry because it will attack you and people will blame ur village people.so no time to waste to elimate the threat n show lalasticlala.

Mcowubaba:

That's the world we live in bro...
West is seen as the standard for things...
Effects of post neo colonialism....
I would have said why are you wearing western clothes or technologies, but that would be me being petty....
Even in science the dominate Africans are good love making, corruption, dictatorship, brutality and rituals..... That's the sad glaring truth

I am not against picking stuffs from white people. I am against picking everything. Atleast before something should be accepted. It should be weighed. A lion won't spare me if he sees me. But I am supposed to see him, leave him and call animal service because I love him?

We are definitely pronounced in most of the things you said, but the problem comes from an attempt to be like the whites. Remember, corruption and maimings became a norm when we discarded most of our cultures and beliefs, for the whiteman's free for all behaviour.

BoboYekini:
They should be banned for killing pythons and any other snake that is not a direct threat.

You still haven't given a reason.

I am just so gutted at this level of ignorance and kill-eat behavior! That was an endangered animal for nature's sake!
There have been several disturbing posts in this forum of snakes, porcupines, wild cats, rats, rhinos killed just for hunger sake! Do people have to do this? Some posters even ignorantly called it a walrus! with the rate Nigerians are eating everything, your coming generation may never meet Manatee as a word in dictionary! Boa? half is almost gone! monkeys? what is a monkey?!
But you can't argue with ignorance, you will appear more foolish.

This is bordering on so many levels! soon people will kill and post human flesh while our glorious Ignoramuses will keep posting " soup has landed " "pass it down with chepe"

Chuksemi:


You still haven't given a reason.

BoboYekini:
They should be banned for killing pythons and any other snake that is not a direct threat.

Now stop spamming the thread.

Chuksemi:


I am not against picking stuffs from white people. I am against picking everything. Atleast before something should be accepted. It should be weighed. A lion won't spare me if he sees me. But I am supposed to see him, leave him and call animal service because I love him?

We are definitely pronounced in most of the things you said, but the problem comes from an attempt to be like the whites. Remember, corruption and maimings became a norm when we discarded most of our cultures and beliefs, for the whiteman's free for all behaviour.

You just said the same thing I said in your first paragraph, do we have a functional animal service in Nigeria .. So if I see a Lion in my Environment which is definitely a risk factor to human beings , what should I do? Shouldn't we organize ourselves and kill it
What's even the emergency phone no of Animal rights or protection services in Nigeria....

Even if we decide to tranquilize the endangered specie, how many people even know that there is something like tranquilizers, and how many people know how to use it, do all of us have knowledge in Animal husbandry, science and technology



On your second paragraph, we don't actually want to be like whites, we just want to be better in the way we do our things.
African leaders have personalized corruption and stupidity...
If you have been to a developed country, you will know that Nigeria is almost cursed ...

I'm a full Nigerian, I am even currently living in Nigeria, so don't go the way of I'm whitewashed...
This country no follow QED!!!!!
This ain't about PDP or APC, Zombie or Wailer, Biafra......
This is just that fact....

BoboYekini:

Now stop spamming the thread.

A snake shouldn't be killed because it isn't a direct threat? That's your reason? Ok. Keep watching keeping up with the kadashians. Maybe you will learn to stop shaping your clothes because it isn't a direct threat.

@OP. i truly pain your feel.. but in this harsh world of Netreprenuers, Traffic is everything.. whether it has any moral value is another. as long as it is traffic.. it is money and needs to be pushed to FP

Nairaland will never be reddit, first of all the audience on each forum are greatly different from each other.
In reddit you find people that have 24/7 electricity, running water, good roads, moderate levels of security and law and order, they have educational system, better employment opportunities and chances to make it in life, in short am tired of typing all the things they have.
How can you compare the content on their forum to that of Africans whose lives are far harder and who majority of them struggle to get three square meals everyday?
Get your head out of the clouds abeg.
Saving wildlife is not our priority for now.
Until we get rid of the grinding poverty plaguing many Africans it will never be our priority.
How do you expect a hungry person to understand why an animal should be set free when he can take it to his kitchen and satisfy his hunger?

These are the kind of people that worship everything white men do. You'd castigate everything your fellow black man does just to feel accepted by a westerner. Come abroad and see the way they man handle blacks and you'd be happy militants kidnap them down here. Have you asked yourself why blacks are called immigrants if they visit the West and the whites are called expatriates here in Africa our fatherland. Stop this ass-licking of whites and be proud of your heritage. Go to asia and see the way they cover their noses when they are in an enclosed place with an african.

Ok, the issues here are:

Are manatees commonly eaten in parts of Nigeria?

Are they found in parts of Nigeria?

If the answer to number one is yes, then eod.

If no, where/why was this captured and why was it shown on nairaland specifically?

Here is a blog about a baby manatee that was captured last year:

http://insearchofmamiwata..com/2015/10/manatee-calf-rescued-in-nigeria.html

Good points. But you should add bodies of dismembered and dead HUMAN BEINGS. It's worse.

iLegend:


I bought your idea, but don't have a MasterCard to pay for it, so I'll just drop it like it's hot. Different environments, different lifestyles. That's what makes the world less boring!

I never liked speaking pidgin English until a foreigner fell in love with it, and I thought about it. She pestered me to teach her. Now, I've realized we're actually unique. Even our accent is so loved abroad! It's not a story, I have witnessed it thousands of times. (Yeah! I know, we mispronounce a lot of words, but that's unique. Not illiteracy). If Americans mispronounce they add it to the dictionary, though with the right spelling, but wrong verbal intonation like wanna, erythin, and so on). They feel superior even when they invent something they know is inferior — it's MINDSET.

I deleted most of my wacky foreign jamz and downloaded my dearly Naija Jamz. Why? Because we're unique.

In a hungry land you think like a hungry man, else be ready to die.

Don't try to belong — re-create and invent or re-invent your style. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad — let it be unique. That's all.


Modify: If the whites change their minds today and say wild animals are threats to humanity and should all be killed with a scientific backup from their scientists; everyone will start obeying it. This world is a mind game. Just like Buhari is using Chibok girls to play mind games.

Robert Greene said in his 48 Laws of Power. "Even if you don't want to play the game, learn the rules should somebody plays it on you." I'm just paraphrasing his thought here.

My name is iLegend and I just want to make NO sense to the senseless!

— iLegend.

Bros which side u dey stay make I come buy beer for u cos giving u 30 likes won't be enough

You made salient points.
But you also made some unnecessary comments.

In any case, putting this on Nairaland has actually raised some kind of awareness already. This debate is an example.
And hopefully, many people will now learn from this.

My point is, the Manatee was already killed anyway whether it gets displayed here or not. But by the awareness and debate already generated, some Nigerians will learn something.

fellis:
Nairaland will never be reddit, first of all the audience on each forum are greatly different from each other.
In reddit you find people that have 24/7 electricity, running water, good roads, moderate levels of security and law and order, they have educational system, better employment opportunities and chances to make it in life, in short am tired of typing all the things they have.
How can you compare the content on their forum to that of Africans whose lives are far harder and who majority of them struggle to get three square meals everyday?
Get your head out of the clouds abeg.
Saving wildlife is not our priority for now.
Until we get rid of the grinding poverty plaguing many Africans it will never be our priority.
How do you expect a hungry person to understand why an animal should be set free when he can take it to his kitchen and satisfy his hunger?

Don't you just love the sound of your own voice? That something is not top of the list of priorities doesn't mean that it cannot be enforced alongside. As a matter of fact, I dare imagine that one reason there's grinding poverty is because we give in to our savage impulses too easily.
And it's not simply about hunger. Will you die of hunger if you don't butcher and eat that manatee?

Your Opinion don't count here. This is nairaland. This is Nigeria. This is Africa.

Nothing bothers them... They live in the moment.

They are zombies...............

I'm still wondering what Seun's personal life issues has to do with the OP's claims. You can make your point without talking about personal issues. Imagine the cheap blackmail

I don't care what kind of animal it is endangered,nearly extinct or not I don't care. As long as its not a goat,cow,dog,chicken or any other domestic animal, I SEE IT, I KILL IT they are dangerous to me. That's how one useless comes to our farm to kill our bird even full grown turkeys, the day I catch am chai! E enter pot. That was its last day bt it had already bitten 3 turkeys over 20k loss. Make I no come kill snake? Even if ordinary cat near my farm na die e go die.

BoboYekini:
Don't you just love the sound of your own voice? That something is not top of the list of priorities doesn't mean that it cannot be enforced alongside. As a matter of fact, I dare imagine that one reason there's grinding poverty is because we give in to our savage impulses too easily.
And it's not simply about hunger. Will you die of hunger if you don't butcher and eat that manatee?

Abeg all this is long grammar.
Fine, one major reason why many Africans are poor is because of the savage impulse thing but when you get down to the main issue we are talking about ie preserving wildlife, it won't work until you eliminate poverty.
Do you know how expensive meat is in the market to many Nigerians?
A person who hasn't eaten meat in the past one month can never logically deduce the ecological and ethical reasons why he should spare the manatee and continue depriving himself of meat.

mtcheeewww where is my knife iam on my way to the bush to kill nd bring home the animals that God created as meat for me to enyoi..bros stop eating cow,goat,chicken, fish e.t.c they are all animal..you wan do everything wey white man dey do abi,..oya go put this ur time manufacture plane no dey come tell us animal wey we go eat nd d one wey we no go eat..na u sabi pass God wey say make we eat everything.nna nawoooo

I don't really know y people bother themselves about animals being extinct, nobody has ever seen a dinosaur and we never die because of am. Kini big deal? Abeg if u see any strange animal Kill it and roast it.

Mcowubaba:
Firstly, the problem is that Nigeria don't have a active law or policy with regards to Animal breeding, management, protection...
I remember long ago in Ontario region , we needed a license just to go fishing....
Secondly, about snakes, I personally don't like them, I know that not all species are not harmful to a fully grown man with respect to some size of Pythons (the can still swallow ur little child)..
If I see a snake personally I will kill it immediately no time for long story, we as a Nation has not advanced to the level of calling Animal service or wildlife commission to come and pick up such creatures... When fire service, ambulance, police etc delay in emergency cases involving Human life, na Coyote or Elephant dem wan come catch or tranquilize....
Thirdly, POVERTY, most people kill/hunt this endangered species for food, money and other raw materials..... Provide meaningful employment and youth empowerment and you see how this hunting will reduce or be properly regulated, even in developed countries, the hunt, fish massively but with monitoring and regulations.....
Finally, Seun, Mynd44, Obinoscopy, OAM4J, lalasticlala etc Wouldn't kill themselves, how are the promoting animal killing, by bringing the topics to front page, if you use this same philosophy and analogy that means that the are also promoting Corruption, Boko Haram bcuz the bring this topics to front page...
This my friend is height of naivety and fallacy .....

iLegend:


I bought your idea, but don't have a MasterCard to pay for it, so I'll just drop it like it's hot. Different environments, different lifestyles. That's what makes the world less boring!

I never liked speaking pidgin English until a foreigner fell in love with it, and I thought about it. She pestered me to teach her. Now, I've realized we're actually unique. Even our accent is so loved abroad! It's not a story, I have witnessed it thousands of times. (Yeah! I know, we mispronounce a lot of words, but that's unique. Not illiteracy). If Americans mispronounce they add it to the dictionary, though with the right spelling, but wrong verbal intonation like wanna, erythin, and so on). They feel superior even when they invent something they know is inferior — it's MINDSET.

I deleted most of my wacky foreign jamz and downloaded my dearly Naija Jamz. Why? Because we're unique.

In a hungry land you think like a hungry man, else be ready to die.

Don't try to belong — re-create and invent or re-invent your style. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad — let it be unique. That's all.


Modify: If the whites change their minds today and say wild animals are threats to humanity and should all be killed with a scientific backup from their scientists; everyone will start obeying it. This world is a mind game. Just like Buhari is using Chibok girls to play mind games.

Robert Greene said in his 48 Laws of Power. "Even if you don't want to play the game, learn the rules should somebody plays it on you." I'm just paraphrasing his thought here.

My name is iLegend and I just want to make NO sense to the senseless!

— iLegend.

Mcowubaba:
Firstly, the problem is that Nigeria don't have a active law or policy with regards to Animal breeding, management, protection...
I remember long ago in Ontario region , we needed a license just to go fishing....
Secondly, about snakes, I personally don't like them, I know that not all species are not harmful to a fully grown man with respect to some size of Pythons (the can still swallow ur little child)..
If I see a snake personally I will kill it immediately no time for long story, we as a Nation has not advanced to the level of calling Animal service or wildlife commission to come and pick up such creatures... When fire service, ambulance, police etc delay in emergency cases involving Human life, na Coyote or Elephant dem wan come catch or tranquilize....
Thirdly, POVERTY, most people kill/hunt this endangered species for food, money and other raw materials..... Provide meaningful employment and youth empowerment and you see how this hunting will reduce or be properly regulated, even in developed countries, the hunt, fish massively but with monitoring and regulations.....
Finally, Seun, Mynd44, Obinoscopy, OAM4J, lalasticlala etc Wouldn't kill themselves, how are the promoting animal killing, by bringing the topics to front page, if you use this same philosophy and analogy that means that the are also promoting Corruption, Boko Haram bcuz the bring this topics to front page...
This my friend is height of naivety and fallacy .....

iLegend:


I bought your idea, but don't have a MasterCard to pay for it, so I'll just drop it like it's hot. Different environments, different lifestyles. That's what makes the world less boring!

I never liked speaking pidgin English until a foreigner fell in love with it, and I thought about it. She pestered me to teach her. Now, I've realized we're actually unique. Even our accent is so loved abroad! It's not a story, I have witnessed it thousands of times. (Yeah! I know, we mispronounce a lot of words, but that's unique. Not illiteracy). If Americans mispronounce they add it to the dictionary, though with the right spelling, but wrong verbal intonation like wanna, erythin, and so on). They feel superior even when they invent something they know is inferior — it's MINDSET.

I deleted most of my wacky foreign jamz and downloaded my dearly Naija Jamz. Why? Because we're unique.

In a hungry land you think like a hungry man, else be ready to die.

Don't try to belong — re-create and invent or re-invent your style. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad — let it be unique. That's all.


Modify: If the whites change their minds today and say wild animals are threats to humanity and should all be killed with a scientific backup from their scientists; everyone will start obeying it. This world is a mind game. Just like Buhari is using Chibok girls to play mind games.

Robert Greene said in his 48 Laws of Power. "Even if you don't want to play the game, learn the rules should somebody plays it on you." I'm just paraphrasing his thought here.

My name is iLegend and I just want to make NO sense to the senseless!

— iLegend.

OP pls read and reread these posts then tender an unreserved apology to seun and his mod that is if you havent been banned

Don't even know how some people eat meat. It disgusts me *pucks*

Ephyartz:
I don't really know y people bother themselves about animals being extinct, nobody has ever seen a dinosaur and we never die because of am. Kini big deal? Abeg if u see any strange animal Kill it and roast it.

Number one reason, don't mess with the food chain or the result will be disastrous.
Here's an example. Snakes eat wild rats. Wild rats who often carry disease.

If, people like you were to kill these snakes off, rats would become abundant . . . and they would bring a vast amount of disease with them.

Another reason is simple civilization. You don't just eat everything in reach. Then there would be no difference between you and savage animals.

Teempakguy:

Number one reason, don't mess with the food chain or the result will be disastrous.
Here's an example. Snakes eat wild rats. Wild rats who often carry disease.

If, people like you were to kill these snakes off, rats would become abundant . . . and they would bring a vast amount of disease with them.

Another reason is simple civilization. You don't just eat everything in reach. Then there would be no difference between you and savage animals.

Lol! I'm supposed to be on top of the food chain na, I can't possibly kill all the snakes na. Lions kills and eats antelopes every time and there are still lots of them out there. If any animal or snake posses as a threat to d well being of my birds, I don't think I've done wrong in killing them too.

Chuksemi:
I am personally offended. What kind of rubbish is this? Seun please don't bother repyling this white man as.s licker.


This is why the black man remains a dunce. So because Europe is promoting animal rights, we should do the same? Do you know that in most Asian countries, almost any animal is killed for meat? Even cockroaches and rats. Why don't you go there and shout animal right. I don't understand why we can't think for ourselves.


If the white man comes tomorrow and says don't barb hair, protect hair rights. I am sure it is your type that will start keeping afro and shout down any body that cuts his/her hair.
Oga, reason for yourself, stop follow follow.

Imagine comparing Nairaland to Reddit. Reddit is white, Nairaland is black. Must Nairaland be like Reddit? So Nairaland should loose it's originality and appeal to the black populace in an attempt to impress the lighter skinned? You haven't even given any strong reason why the killing of a fish shouldn't grace frontpage.

Bwahahahahahahaha lmao can't stop laughing at the emboldened

You're right tho

Mcowubaba:
Firstly, the problem is that Nigeria don't have a active law or policy with regards to Animal breeding, management, protection...
I remember long ago in Ontario region , we needed a license just to go fishing....

Secondly, about snakes, I personally don't like them, I know that not all species are not harmful to a fully grown man with respect to some size of Pythons (the can still swallow ur little child)..

If I see a snake personally I will kill it immediately no time for long story, we as a Nation has not advanced to the level of calling Animal service or wildlife commission to come and pick up such creatures... When fire service, ambulance, police etc delay in emergency cases involving Human life, na Coyote or Elephant dem wan come catch or tranquilize....

Thirdly, POVERTY, most people kill/hunt this endangered species for food, money and other raw materials..... Provide meaningful employment and youth empowerment and you see how this hunting will reduce or be properly regulated, even in developed countries, the hunt, fish massively but with monitoring and regulations.....
Finally, Seun, Mynd44, Obinoscopy, OAM4J, lalasticlala etc Wouldn't kill themselves, how are the promoting animal killing, by bringing the topics to front page, if you use this same philosophy and analogy that means that the are also promoting Corruption, Boko Haram bcuz the bring this topics to front page...
This my friend is height of naivety and fallacy .....

Bros, I think Ontario is located somewhere in Canada, ryt?

This is indeed a wake up call! I have been wondering why they promote and celebrate killing of innocent animals, including snakes as if we are in the medieval era lol, na wa o

corperscorner:
Was looking through the thread involving the massacre of a SEAL and stumbled on few reasonable comments. What the dude said below is something you should engage your thinking cap on. It's really disheartening to see the rate at which your mods promote mediocrity on the front page with no attempt to educate the misguided ones.

I personally wouldn't say you should thrash threads like this cos it's a buzz that would generate traffic to your platform - you need it cos your ad slots have been coming up empty of late. But at least, let there be a bold note of enlightenment by one of your moderators immediately after posts on every topic that could be an opportunity to educate the gullible ones. And don't say you guys wouldn't want to alter contents created by visitors cos several times, your mods have been seen editing headlines to make it appealing to the front page.

Thank you and God bless your forum.

Comment below was from IdomaLikita

https://www.nairaland.com/3114460/manatee-caught-fishermen-obuamu-river

must you cry over spilled milk.
If you think it's easy,.... create your own forum and feature it yourself.

Guy u suffering from inferiority complex.

Do you know white people eat horsemeat? Eh eh now you know.

I don't see anything wrong eating bushmeat.