Buhari is Nigeria's WORST mistake! I wonder sometimes why he kept contesting to be president straight for over a decade & now he has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to offer. Nigeria is the worst it has ever been... under Buhari. I truly regret ever supporting the man. Cluelessness has never been better defined better than what Buhari is.

Idoko619:



Thought you were going to drop facts or say something reasonable.

Odi na je a?

diplomat058:
Int'l Politics is very funny and interesting. The leverage the US is exercising as a blackmail for many of the so called allies "trapped" in this anti Russian coalition is that Russia violated Ukraine's sovereignty (Which is correct).

Now, the same US is threatening the decisional sovereignty of many countries who dared to not buy it's endorsed response (Sanctions) against Russia.

What a paradox! It leads u to believe the theory of realists that when morality is at variance with a country's interests (as is sometimes is), the question of action will be decided by power and power plays. This is Russia's illegitimate fate over Ukraine. This is America's fate that opposed Cuba being USSR's proxy but support Ukraine's being NATO'S expansion.

This is int'l politics. Only emotionally overwhelmed folks choose a side and think they are on the path of justice

Your objectivity is what I love most about this post of yours. Interest supercedes emotions in these things as emotions would only set you up to be annihilated. On the other hand, what annoys me is the fact that the US would go any length for its own interest but turn around to pretend not to understand that every other country too would go any length for their own interests.

iiifeoma320:
It certain sure Vladimir Putin will never end well, United States of America and all Nato member are definitely coming for him, just yesterday the world most powerful and the most strongest president Joe biden admit that Vladimir Putin can never be in power again, just watch and see what will happen to the most useless president in the world

Some of you are just slaves.... Nothing more than that. Who told you Joe Biden or any US president is/are "the most powerful man/men on earth". It's irritating that you guys just vomit what media & movies program you all to say. At least have a mind of your own to question things, to research things, to learn things & to be objective.

Well, as regards your claims towards Russia & Putin, it is clear that you know absolutely nothing about geopolitics and the world. If you knew better, you won't have said what you said. Even US knows better than to misbehave towards Russia. Russia is not one of those small countries that the US has bullied in the past.

Cheers.

CoronaVirusPro:
Hardship will make Russians revolt. It’s just a matter of time.

LOL... That's if the hardship in Europe doesn't make the people revolt against their own governments before Russia. Lol. You guys don't have a clue about this war.

pansophist:
Because Africa (particularly Nigeria) media space is dominated by pro-western perspective, many just find themselves hating Putin for no reason, the narrative that he is a warmonger, a mad man fits well with their biases, as its conludes and leaves no room for deep research without understanding the bigger picture. They've been spoon-fed all their life with western perspectives and are basically second class Europeans in worldview, even if they've never left Nigeria.

Most have never read a war book in their life about geopolitics from an historical landscape, have never been exposed or deliberately look out for other perspective from the Russians themesleves, also the indians, chinese etc, have never left the country, don't have foreign friends, don't speak a different global language apart from English, but somehow, they consider themselves war generals, because they have Internet, can use Google, they've become expert in geopolitical and global affairs.

Nothing will happen to Putin, and people in the west are crying already. Gas price have increased, and with Putin announcing that gas price must be paid on rubles, westerners are bracing for a hard time ahead. Mass protest are erupting all parts of Europe, and this winter will be hell if this things ain't solved. So called west have become a dictatorship.

For me I'm hoping Russia wins, so there will be a reshuffling of a new world order dominated by multiple powers. From 1991 to the 2010, just a space of twenty years when the US was a sole global power, the world tasted the evil that such world would be. Just in twenty years, Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq was destroyed. There was no other power to checkmate the west, and it's only Time the fate of Syrians will happen to you in Nigeria, when your leaders go out of style. Perhaps this was why Nigeria immediately sanctioned Russia after the US asked themnto in the UN, because its afraid of offending its western masters.

Lots of US supporters are so used living in a Anglo dominated world, a world where they will forever be slaves and poor. Even if I'll fault our leaders for our bad system, the real problem is the global order, which is led by the west, and determines which country succeed and which does not, but like I said in the first paragraph, most don't even have a deeper knowledge of the scope and manners of how their world have been structured. Sad.

Beautifully and objectively stated.

internationalman:


You people hate everything about British and Americans, but y'all wouldn't think twice to jump on a plane to these two countries ahead of your beloved, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan and the likes..

If that's not hypocritically stupid and foolish I wonder what it is..

... because you wouldn't think twice before "jumping on a plane" to both US & Britain is why you would support them even when they commit atrocities & do several glaring wrongs? Weldone!

epondudu:
My citizens First
This is the real definition of a leader.

Exactly! This is how the Ukrainian president (Zelensky) should have thought before the war started in order for Ukraine to both get what it wants & for all sides to be happy as opposed to putting his entire country at risk for something he can't win at.

Germi9:

Isn’t it wise for Africa to use this opportunity to trade our natural resources to the rest of the world

Sadly, Buhari's government is too dull to think about such an opportunity talk less of actually implementing ways in which we can capitalize on gaining from the situation at hand.

NaijaCowFarm:
Putin is in total woe! His disastrous fall would be worse than Gaddafi Saddam Hussein put together. They don't learn.

You phool. ��‍♂️
In 2022, you still believe that Saddam Hussein & Gaddafi were the bad guys? Lol. Now, I understand why you ignorantly support the people you support. Open your eyes!

B2Bmen:
u fail to understand something, everyone can not be in charge at a go someone must be in charge of all. In the mosque the church in the school, office, country,state,in the family they is only one person in charge of all that is what the west and it Allie's is to the world right now they are in charge of the rest of the world u can't take it away from them,the world has always been like that from one world power to another. So relax the west will always keep lording it on u they is nothing putting or China nor u can do about it.

So, tell me who agreed for West to be in charge?

Hezzyluv:
Walaii.... This man no just get sence. Prior to his invasion on Ukraine, a lot of people don't even know the unit of Russian currency.

Swallow your pride and allow peaceful negotiable approach to this your madness Because, as it stands you have put your country into retrogression economically

Just listen to yourself. Some of you have absolutely no problem being oppressed. For how long? It's this same kind of thinking you have that Russia is fighting anyways. Who is the west to tell every single person what & what not to do? You have the mentality of a lot of our vision less African leaders.
Think about it, why should you actually sell your own resources in the currency of another country that doesn't own that resource?

Naiira:
These ones are pretty much concerned with their stomach, and obviously not a genuine quest for neutrality.

You expect the world to sit and watch Ukraine defend itself against “mad man” Putin, with one hand tied to its dick.

Ukraine is a sovereign state, and the supplies are necessary evil.

OK fine, Russia would continue bombarding Ukraine until Ukraine is leveled to dust. You guys should continue cheering Ukraine on to fight o, you better don't turn around in hypocrisy & be trying to 'guilt-trip' Russia when Ukraine is being leveled down. Keep cheering Ukraine (just like you guys did before the war started & now Ukraine is feeling the heat)!

Igbofam:


Oga I don't know the drugs you smoked but Taiwan is not Chinese territory. Taiwan is a sovereign nation

Sovereign nation recognized by who? In that case, Puerto Rico too is a sovereign nation & China should by-pass USA & go relate with Puerto Rico. What USA cannot or would not tolerate, it would be provoking other people to tolerate & many of you guys here would be supporting such hypocrisy. The hypocrisy of some of you stinks. ��‍♂️

Truvelisback:
Oboy, na u need these drugs. Aren't u aware that China intend to invade Taiwan? Use ur phone and browse abt it.

LOL. The same way US intends to invade Puerto Rico abi? Taiwan is Chinese territory, what's the US looking for there?

Truvelisback:
China has only 2 live lines left. Either to quit the invasion of Taiwan and avoid U.S sanctions and possibly war with the U.S and NATO or invade Taiwan and see the reverse of the U.S and NATO actions.

Are you well? Taiwan is part of China. How can China 'invade' itself?

EDGEof2MORO:
The Canaanites lived on that land before they were conquered, some were taken as slaves, others were displaced as refugees.

The Canaanites are
1. Phoenicians (modern day Lebanon)
2. Philistines (wiped out by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 5th century BC)
3. Israelites

The Israelites want their land back.

It would interest you to know that modern day Iran has sworn to wipe out Israel from the map, and one would not blame the Israelites for trying to defend themselves.

All the above people you mentioned, are they Europeans? Lebanese people for instance are natives of that region & look like everybody else in that region. Do the present israelis look anything like Lebanese or people from other countries in that region? No!... Cos their ancestors are/were Europeans. Did you even search for the history of modern day Israel like I asked you to?

seunfly:
Democracy is coming to Saudi soon.

LOL.. You really know THE M.O. of the US.
Once US government does not get its way with another government, they(US government) would look for a way to 'bring democracy' to that country.

Betterprospect:
Good day Nairalander. I'm single, 30 years old. I studied agriculture related course at University level, and I presently worked in that field and I earned about 120k monthly.

I feel unfulfilled and I'm lacking interest day after day. The unfulfillment brewed mostly from my bosses egoistic and narcissistic approach to his employee, the insane working hours, and the lack of liberty, and most importantly, I feel I could do better. Now I have a meagre 2 million naira saved up, small? I know. Buy I'd like to pursue my passion in tech albeit from ground zero.

Now my dilemma is:

1. Seeing that I'm old and already past my prime for a career change at 30 yrs old, does a pursue of another career make sense?

2. Knowing that 2 million is small and would not last long. Does is it make sense to just up and leave?

3. I have a small biz I ideal which I feel could give me close to 50k monthly, but thing is, this is Nigeria and I might be wrong.

4. Should I just suck it up and continue for another year or two? Everyone I asked seems to think I should.

P,S. I worked 12 hours a day and its impossible I merge the two together.

I'd be honest with you, as much as you don't think so much of yourself at this moment, I personally admire you simply because of how you're feeling now. It takes an ambitious person to feel the way you're feeling now & so I would like to encourage you to not see yourself as little. Time is all you need & sooner than later, you would achieve bigger things if you keep up with doing your own part. Blessings to you man.

yanabasee:


You can't compare Russia nuclear with a collective nuclear weapons from all concerned NATO countries...

Only 3 NATO countries have nuclear weapons. US, UK & France oga. Even all their nuclear weapons combined together are not up to what Russia owns. These are not speculations, these are facts. Verify them for yourself.

ifeoma2611:
Vladimir Putin's will surely fail woefully on his bad and negatives plans for all over the world just because of his hatred for United States of America, and America nahhh your great grandfathers almost on everything's


America and the west countries are definitely coming for you just watch and see

If you know nothing, say nothing. At least, no one would know you know nothing when you're quiet. When you talk(like right now), everyone would know you know nothing.

EDGEof2MORO:


If you search the history on that land, it was 1st occupied by the Canaanites a group made up of Israelites, Philistines, and a third I can't recall the name.

The Philistines were wiped out during one of the conquests led by a monarchy from the East, the rest were displaced, and the people of Palestine occupied the land.

... & then persecuted European jews from Europe were moved by the UN in an exodus to a carved-out land that belonged to Palestinians. Instead of staying within the limits of the carved-out land that the UN settled them on to, they've been trespassing & taking more of the lands of the natives. Have you ever noticed why it's only the Israelis that look different in the Middle-East? That's cos they are ancestrally Europeans. This present day Israel was created in 1948.
Before the UN moved them to the Middle-East to carve out a country for them, one of the options considered for the UN to carve out a land for them was Uganda. So, you see? Today's Israel might as well have even been in Africa (precisely East Africa) if the UN settled to carve land out for them from Uganda. All of these things I have told you are verifiable. Research on them.

Cognitivereason:


The same goodluck DAT couldn't maintain the refinery or delivery infrastructure even with the relatively good oil prices and production rate...

The reason why we r in this mess is because previous government allowed the local refinery to fail...it is the same buhari that began support modular refinery to come up ..began rehabilitating portharcourt refinery..and supported Dangote massively to start his refinery ...

If goodluck did all this ..won't be have a functioning refinery to alleviate this mess by now?..
All what Bubu did for the petroleum sector...the product will only be witness during the next administration... The same way..we witness the product of the failure and neglect of this sector in his tenure by past administration

Stop making excuses for Buhari. Goodluck was useless, Buhari is more useless. 2 clueless 'leaders'.

NairaMaster1:


You lack knowledge Probably because of religion.

Isreal reacted to rockets rain to their country. It is only your country Nigeria that will allow foreigners come in to kill her people and fold her arms because of religion.

You're the one who needs knowledge. Israel is the one OCCUPYING Palestinian lands & not the other way round. I'm not a Muslim incase you would plan on coming back with that weak line.

Cousin9999:
This has to be one of the dūmbest military moves I've ever seen. Like, Putin is basically a terrorist. And even if he "succeeds," Russia may just get a charred, contaminated patch of land they can't do anything with.

How is this dumb? Do some research for yourself. For instance, a few days ago, Russian forces
uncovered an American biolab hidden in Ukraine. The same US always denied that. Considering now that they (US) have been caught, expect to hear in a few days something like "Russians blame to use chemical weapons against Ukraine".

Lastly, Russia doesn't plan to occupy Ukraine so they don't need the land. The charred land would be the dumb Ukrainian government's problem & responsibility.

jojo1415:
America and Uk should lock the air na...haba

If dem get mind make dem go na. No be dem be the case of the war in the first place?

Benny6944:







Stop saying trash and what you didn't witness with your eyes.

Didn't Putin say he won't invade Ukraine, what happened afterwards? Russia destroyed 18 hospitals in their Syria attacks.. so why do you think they aren't responsible for this..? STF. I WISH YOUR FAMILIES WHERE IN THE SAME HOSPITAL

LOL... Russia destroyed 18 hospitals in Syria? LMAO. How many hospitals has US bombed in the same Syria? At least, Russia is in Syria on an official request by the Syrian government. What're US & other western countries doing in the same Syria when the government didn't invite them? This hypocrisy stinks so fvking much!

Buhari is the father of poverty, I've been saying that for a while now. You can argue & say oil prices are determined by the global market, if you do that, you would also have to tell me if inflation & breakdown of everything are sold on a global market. Now, it's obvious that Buhari only wanted to be Nigeria's president only for the title, he clearly had no vision for the country the 4 times he ran. As terrible as Goodluck Jonathan performed as president, Buhari has even outperformed him(Goodluck) in terrible performance.

franchasng:
Honestly I don't understand why Muslims, especially Yoruba Muslims are so excited that Russia invaded and bombing Ukraine without a humanly justifiable reason.


Dear reasonable Yorubas, you guys need to wake up oh, the Muslim fanatists amongst you are hell bent on turning Yoruba land to Syria.



Imagine them up there cursing Zelensky and blaming him for a war he didn't start.


Most of them don't even have full knowledge of the crises. How do you expect a President of another soverign nation to happily and willingly sign that part of his country (Creamea) you forcefully seized from him and annexed since 2014 to amen his nation's constitution to accept that that annexed region belongs to you Russia? As if that's not enough, you sponsored more regions (Doneskt and Luhansk) to breakaway and you also want Ukraine President to formally acknowledge those two regions as independent regions and that Ukraine will never lay claim on them ever again. A President like you, how is all these possible without negotiations and some agreements? Because of that you leveled several accusations against them and just invaded them killing both military and civilians and yet some foolish inhumane souls are cheering Putin on just cos of religion.


Russia never agreed boldly that if Ukraine do this they would attack. There was still negotiations going on since last year. Putin promised the world that he won't attack Ukraine that there was no reason to, that his military were only carry out routine drills.


NATO this and that, Ukraine haven't joined NATO and its not as if NATO would have accepted Ukraine that wanted to join with a huge military burden. And joining NATO doesn't even take months, it takes some countries years to fully comply with the requirements just like joining European Union.



And if Putin had a justifiable reason to invade Ukraine why is he telling Russians in Russia lies that he only went there to help Ukraine defeat Fascists and Neo Nazi militants? Why cant he be bold enough like every other country to show Russians the wonderful work Russian military is doing in Ukraine? Why is he blocking news channels and free media from showing live video streaming of the invasion of Ukraine to Russian citizens in Russia?


Yet inhumane, heartless Nigerians on this forum who are mostly Muslims are rejoicing over this and cursing, blaming and shutting Ukrainian President up, to what benefit?



This is really disturbing.


This injustice some of you are foolishly cheering, be careful, life is mysterious more than you ever think. Dont think you are in a safe haven, before you support inhumanity against fellow humans think twice, life is beyond what you think or see

Keep quiet & stop being ignorant on an issue you know absolutely nothing about. You're the religious bigot here... What has religion got to do with this war? Both Putin & Zelensky are Christians, both majority of Russians & Ukrainians are Christians. Also, most people here that support Russia are not Muslims. This war is a proxy war between US/NATO & RUSSIA & the stupiiiidtt president of Ukraine, Zelemsky chose to be a pawn that was used to provoke Russia.

For decades, Russia had warned western countries about what is now happening as Russia had mentioned its valid security concerns to them but they refused to heed. Even Ukrainian presidents before Zelensky found how to balance their relationship between western countries & Russia. Zelensky's inexperience was capitalized on by the west & they used him to poke Russia & now that a war has started, they've all abandoned him to his fate. Don't come here talking about what you know nothing about. A good number of us here knew some of the issues related to how this war started years ago. Today that the war has started, you're forming armchair general. Zelensky knows what to do if he cares about Ukraine & Ukrainians.

SeeThisLoser:


Putin lost 12,000 troops in less than 2 weeks to capture a city he thought he could overrun in 2 days. Now, that’s really dumb.

LOL.... 12,000 troops? Media dey serve una better food. Lmao. 12000 troops my foot!

tenpipsperday:
This guy is only 44 years of age but is carrying his country men bravely to face monster Russia.


Some call him all sorts of names but some of fools who malign him are in bet shop gambling their lives away.

Face Russia, men will die, run away and hide from Russia men will die. Heroes die standing and fighting while cowards die while kneeling on their knees begging.


That is the reason fulanis can bleep us without condom and some fools call themselves hard men ..


If this guy dies today he died a hero. Putin never saw it coming. This guy has taken so many Russia generals off this planet.

LOL... Na so e easy?

AmazonTopaz:


You are the very very silly one Russia clamped on it because they did not want any opposing views that was why their parliament passed a law and media outlets began to close down they are not exactly the same.

If Russia had not attacked Ukraine nobody would be banning their media that was reporting propaganda not based on the facts on ground.

Clearly you don't know how to read... cos even the same article you're intentionally choosing to misquote mentions the fact that Russia media outlets were first blocked by western countries & then Russia retaliated. I'm done arguing with your biased mind. Stick to your buying of wigs to cover your head & asking for transport fare to go on dates, clearly that's what you probably would understand better than this topic. Regards.