₦airaland Forum

CaveAdullam:
1. People voted en mass in 2015 for Buhari because the country at that time was still a mess based on the current condition. We only think it was good because now we're in a more pertinent state.

2. Nigerians wanted a change in the status quo in 2015. However, the problem was that the masses were too fast, too myopic, and too dumb to select Buhari as their president.

That's where Gerrard59 anger lies. Even my dad knew Buhari to be a monumental failure. He never for once liked him because he experienced his government as a head of state.

Nigerians thought that the war against indiscipline (WAI) was an idea of Buhari. Meanwhile, it was the brainchild of Tunde Idiagbon his deputy. They thought that will transcend into a tool that will be used by Buhari to take Nigeria to the promised land.

3. The painful thing about Buhari's government is that you can't confidently point out one significant thing he did in 8 years. No significant project. No significant bilateral engagement. No significant improvement in any sector of the economy.

The man was busy chewing gworo and groundnut in the spirit of the "Do I Look Like Give a fvck by Phyno" for complete 8 years.

4. Average APC voters didn't vote along tribal sentiment in 2015 except the Muslims and northerners. However, the southerners were largely in support of APC.

But in 2019 and 2023 elections, proved the stack illiteracy of Nigerians. It was during these elections that tribalism and religious affiliation shone like the sun that rose in the West.

5. I understand where both of you are coming from and driving at. However, continuing like this isn't any ounce of contribution to the solution to the current problem.

The nation is doomed! Such exchanges even make the whole doomsday happen faster.

Sigh.

Some are trying to make it look like people opted for Buhari not because Nigeria wasn't doing well in the midst of extreme windfall of extra dollars we were earning then.

Majority agreed Jonathan was a failure, hence electing Buhari who also didn't fair well. (Though I made money under his rule)

I also don't agree he did nothing, that would be a lie stretched too far. What he did, we can still see them today but compared to what was expected, they're far apart.

We must go back to regional system of government.

tensazangetsu20:
Bros what kind of life are black people living. All over the world, majority of black people are suffering from birth to death. Cursed race.

And you're also a 'black' man?

You look like that elevated 'black' slave who because of his position given to him by his slave master started looking down on other people of his color and talking bad against his people with the hopes that he's going to miraculously stop being one of them.

Gerrard59:


Guilty conscience

I didn't mention any ethnic group. I only said, "those who campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015".

After sweating under intense heat and inhaling generator fumes which was powered by petrol you struggled to buy at over N700 per litre (which is never accurate) and groaning under blood-sucking mosquitos, you log into Nairaland to dey bant with me.

I remember your username: Just to pain you the more, those who campaigned and voted for the incompetent feudalist by name Buhari in 2015 are very unintelligent, cruel and disgusting folks!

Go and sweat the more!

Na Buhari cause wetin we dey go through now or why are we always good at looking for others to blame when the person to be blamed is someone we 'like'?

tensazangetsu20:
Yaradua didn't have good intentions for Nigeria. A lot of what we are suffering today is cause of yaradua. He reversed a lot of Obasanjos policies. Yaradua and buhari are the same stock of people.


Africa and Nigeria will never be great. The black man has been cursed by God to suffer until the world ends.

We can also argue that Obasanjo and Jonathan also didn't mean well for Nigeria.

Infact, all past and present presidents can be said to be in that space.

pansophist:
The means to leave is the biggest obstacle for most.

Currency depreciation, can't qualify for any migration/visa category, clueless about the whole process, no guidance/helper, home base responsibilities, and of course, the embassy will mostly not grant you a visa.

The Schengen visa is now very difficult to get. For example, Norway as a rule, wont grant you a visa for tourism even if you overqualify. They do not want Nigerian visitors.

So there you go, leaving Nigeria will keep becoming exceptionally difficult, and close to impossible as the days go by, unless maybe through a family route with a foreign resident/citizen.

It's not a must people leave from Nigeria.

Just go to another African country, stay there for a while, then use that side arrange your movement

WrriterNg:
⚡Ecuador cancels its decision to supply Soviet military equipment to the United States following Russian efforts.

Russia had previously banned Ecuador’s bananas after deal to send Soviet-era weapons to Ukraine.

Where dem been put their brain?

Someone kept $51k in the house?

O ga o

Bendeco2020:
No more nonsense. The person in charge now is not their fellow northerner that will be tolerating their rubbish.

Ekiti, Ondo and Ogun say hi

Nonybb:
What is the weight of their economy? They pose no threat

Why should the progress of other African countries be a threat to yours if not for bad belle?

shoodboi2:
You're still doing it. Work on your self-confidence, Ibime.

Don't be surprised majority on this thread are well to do than him.

Lonestar124:
Amebo

Na ibb, are you an Amebo?

Yes or no?

Then you no too young nor old.

Lonestar124:
Me sef I no get girlfriend..

Who you be my girlfriend?

Yes or No?

So who was ruling Nigeria when you were born?

CaptainFM1:
Ok, keep it simple....The Buhari administration and this current administration make Jonathan Administration looks like Paradise and Obasanjo Administration looks like Heaven.

Comparativeness is subjective.

Compare Yar'Adua with Obasanjo's tenure

Compare Jonathan's with Yar'Adua.

Compare Buhari with Jonathan.

Now compare Tinubu with Buhari.

It's fair and objective to compare with immediate predecessor.

123yes:
Nigeria economy is not in recession but can you compared the standard if living here in Naija with that of UK or JAPAN.

To be fair, they're not mates.

Stop comparing the unparable

Imagine comparing yourself with a country older than 300 years

Exceed15:
I agree o however this sane sowore heavily criticized GeJ administration when Nigerians were living in paradise without knowing. I hope he can now see the difference between pdp and Apc leadership. I admire his doggedness to stand against this government too . The suffering is damn too much.

Nigeria lived in paradise during Jonathan's time?

Na so Una memory short reach?

You can say it wasn't as bad as what we have now but to claim it was a paradise is a lie stretched too far.

He staged a protest when Nigeria wasn't as bad as now.

Let's see if he's going to stage another one now that it's worst than before.

The last 4 years of Buhari's rule was my best years so far.

But Tinubu has so much eroded all the gains made in business within 10 months.

It has never been this worst.

Everything is skyrocketing, nothing can be said to be the benefits of being a Nigerian under Tinubu

At least under Buhari, alot of things were subsidised for the common man.

All sane nations of the world subsidised things for her populace.

NAME ONE DEVELOPED COUNTRY WITHOUT SUBSIDY FOR COMMON GOODS AND SERVICES MEANT FOR THE COMMON MAN AND I WILL SHOW YOU A LIAR.

WrriterNg:
⚡Some Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, are increasingly restricting the US from using military facilities on their soil to launch retaliatory airstrikes on Iranian proxies, according to four people familiar with the issue. - Politico

Because when Iran decide to strike back, she won't target the US, rather it's going to be where these strikes are coming from.

LoveLeadsLand:
What about these?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_(slang)#:~:text=In%20Igbo%2C%20%22Aza%22%20roughly,refer%20to%20bank%20account%20numbers.

South South

Remind me again, I thought Igbos occupy South East?

RIDOO:
Na cos you still dey see food chop.LOL.

Those traveling don't have issues with feeding

PoliteActivist:
*Politeness*
It will bring in people and investments.
Don't you see US always accusing China of intentionally devaluing their currency?
Example, if Togo devalues their currency you'd be going there to buy stuff and vacations, but if they inflate their currency you won't go

Only if you're a manufacturing hub and makes alot exporting.

Do we have these qualities?

Blame
Blame
Blame

Alamkir:
Stop arguing just for the sake of it. Assumption isn't considered one of the pinnacles of science. Science emphasizes evidence-based reasoning and validation through experimentation and observation rather than assuming things to be true without evidence.

Thanks.

I just got tired of replying.

I get easily bored with fruitless conversations.

Tiopii:
That's atleast what you're implying.

Yes, they are one of the most corrupt nations im the World, they need to join EU/NATO where they would be held to certain standards.

Their accession to EU alone has broken some of the shackles of Oligarchs and setting it self up for democratic capitalism.

A corrupt Ukraine is off to interest to anyone except those profiting from it.

Assumption is the lowest form of intelligence.

Tiopii:
Putin is 71, Tinubu is 71.

What is your point?

So Russia is now the standard you look up to for Nigeria or you just wanted to say something even if it doesn't relate with what's on ground?

Is America not the democracy you're hailing and wishing on Nigeria?

In your heart if it's still there, is Tinubu actually 71yrs old?

Is Biden not your champion of democracy? How old is he again?

Does Putin have anything in common with Tinubu or Biden?

Is Biden and Tinubu not trying to outdo each other when it comes to mental health challenge?

Lastly, is Putin not fitter than you a young man? (I'm 100% sure you're below 45).

Tiopii:
I don't understand you, what's wrong in Ukraine becoming a powerful state?.

Power is the only thing recognized in the community of nations. National security is paramount for economic growth.

Why do you think the US has the biggest economy in the World? With 250M+ population and second, China has bout 1b+ population?

If you rule a country won't you try atleast to keep it safe? Security is not cheap.

You're okay with Russia overstepping UKraine sovereignty cos they don't want UKraine to become a powerful state?

All the biogas nonsense, the only proof is that Putin said it, in the educated era that we are in. why would anyone shun common sense for propaganda.

Them say na gang of bullies, if Putin wants to roll with the gang he should be humble. There are standards.

Where did I ask Ukraine not to become whatever even though they're one of the most corrupt countries in the world?

Stop putting words into my mouth.

WrriterNg:
The better question is how come many of EU & NATO countries haven't used this so called money to better their economies, all this while.

70% of EU & NATO countries are dirt poor. Some have been members for decades with nothing to show for it.

Where is the so called prosperity? I'll tell you where. It is meant for the US and a select few western countries only. The US doesn't like to share prosperity. It doesn't like to see others progress.

It'll rather destroy you or go to war with you than see you compete economically with it, on a level playing field. Nordstream pipelines comes to mind.

Destroy their cheap Russian gas pipelines, then start selling super expensive LNG to Germany, at 5 times the original price, just to weaken it economically.

That's why all of the U.S neighbors, aside Canada in North America and Latin America are swimming in poverty.

Charity begins at home, first make peace and share wealth to your next door neighbors in the America's before going to far away Europe.

Only fools don't see this.

And they are always in the news buying substandard American weapons worth millions of dollars

WrriterNg:
⚡Biden will not take a cognitive test as part of his upcoming physical exam, the White House reportedly confirmed.

See the country most Nigerians look up to!

When an Ancestor is their leader, what hope do we have here?

Vic2023:
Joe Biden’s campaign announced Sunday that he is now on TikTok, despite the fact that Biden signed a bill banning the platform on all devices assigned to federal employees a year ago.

https://modernity.news/2024/02/12/biden-announces-hes-on-tiktok-a-year-after-he-banned-it-on-all-federal-devices/

For those wanking on why Russia banned X.

Tiopii:
The last paraphrase
Ofc there's no price for security. There are obligations from NATO states that must be met, The Defense industry is the power of the state, it isn't cheap to get power. You think NATO is a give away venture or it's jokes and parties? lol.

There are NATO standards, probably the only standard above Russian standard. It isn't cheap bro.

If the Money Russia has spent and are spending in the war, Russia has used it to further economical ties with Ukraine, Ukraine probably won't have seen the need to join NATO.

But they think it is by war. I hope the US pass the Military aid to Ukraine soon. EU has passed theirs.

One thing is just certain, Ukraine/NATO would prosper than ever. Deep down in our hearts we know if it's economic development, leave it for US/EU.

S.Korea, Japan, even Hong Kong before it was relinquished to China, Stable economies and strong links with a powerful state.

Joining EU/NATO for Ukraine is in their best interest.

The best things in Life are not cheap

Ukraine and NATO started the war as far back as 10 years ago, pretending it was Russia that started the war is another falsehood you shouldn't peddle.

If NATO and Ukraine had used the money they used in buying weapons, building biogas and funding soldiers to kill ethnic Russians in some parts of Ukraine prior to 2022, there wouldn't have been need for Russia to intervene.

How come Ukraine didn't use all these monies to better their economy and country, rather used them to serve their NATO masters all because they wanted to join the gang of bullies?

This is needed mostly here in the South.

Too many greedy, wicked and self centred people are here from the government, public, and private sectors down to the common man.

Majority waiting to rip the other person off.

We are poor now but before election, we were rich right?