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PoliticsRe: Mohammed, Governor Abubakar Badaru's Son Graduates From UK University by Quintopia: 9:22pm On Jul 15, 2022
Theknowledge:
Nigeria should be one of the countries in the world with the least number of international students.
Why?

Go to the US, UK etc, and there are even more students from India, China, Pakistan etc, than from Nigeria.
TravelRe: "They Told Me The Place Is Dangerous": Oyinbo Man Lands In Lagos, Speaks Yoruba by Quintopia: 4:28pm On Jul 15, 2022
Timetravel88:
But you are being kidnapped and killed everyday. See how you have normalized the horrible situation
SHUT UP. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SLAUGHTERED IN AMERICA ON A DAILY BASIS?

DO YOU SEE AMERICANS RUBBISHING THEIR COUNTRY BECAUSE OF THAT?

NIGERIA IS SO DANGEROUS, SO WHY HAVEN'T THEY KIDNAPPED AND KILLED YOU?

STUPID IDIOTS.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Should Tell Buhari To Release Funds To End ASUU Strike - Obi’s Camp by Quintopia: 1:13am On Jul 15, 2022
CSTRR:
Is China no longer the same country that Buhari has borrowed over $50b from?
LIAR.
PoliticsRe: Christians Storm US Embassy Protest Against Muslim-Muslim Ticket (video) by Quintopia: 12:46am On Jul 15, 2022
So...what in the colonised minds of these ignorant, dependent dunderheads, is the USA supposed to do?

Impose sanctions on Nigeria because one of the many parties in a democracy fielded two candidates of the same religion?

The level of idiocy and thoughtlessness among many Nigerians is astonishing. And clearly, living abroad makes no difference.
Foreign AffairsGhana Govt Brutally Suppresses Critics As Economy Tanks by Quintopia(op): 10:38pm On Jul 14, 2022
Following recent news that the Ghana govt has gone cap-in-hand to the IMF for bailout of its crashing economy, we now learn that the Ghana govt has launched a brutal crackdown on govt critics.

Is a brutal dictatorship looming in Ghana?
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Ghana ‘fix the country’ activist says he was assaulted and illegally detained

Guardian, UK

Cambridge doctoral student Oliver Barker-Vormawor says ‘trauma is still there’ as he files lawsuit

A prominent Ghanaian activist has accused authorities of subjecting him to a violent assault and illegal detention after he criticised the government in a series of Facebook posts.

Oliver Barker-Vormawor founded the ‘fix the country’ protest movement and criticised the government on Facebook.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bebf7ba742a39e8da930605d3d233f729027e093/0_201_1536_922/master/1536.jpg?width=620&quality=85&fit=max&s=d5eb982b08b39d0d1d8e6862ed1f9bb3

Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge who founded the prominent “fix the country” protest movement, was arrested after he landed at Kotoka airport in Accra in February on a flight from the UK.

In a lawsuit he filed last month, he alleges that he had his passport confiscated before being taken to a room and beaten for more than three hours by security officials. He says he was then blindfolded and taken in a convoy of police and military vehicles to a cell on the outskirts of the city, where he was stripped and forced to give officers access to his phone.

In a call from a safe house in Ghana, Barker-Vormawor said his detention lasted for two months and included stints in solitary confinement. “The trauma of it is still there … I was suicidal,” he said.

Barker-Vormawor arrived back in the country during a crackdown on protesters from the movement he started. The demonstrations against worsening living standards, corruption and police abuses have continued in recent weeks, posing a challenge to the government, which is often portrayed internationally as a standard bearer of good governance in Africa.

Barker-Vormawor’s lawsuit alleges that while in detention, officials threatened him with being “disappeared”. It quotes an officer who Barker-Vormawor claims told him: “Person [sic] like you are like vermin, and every now and then we have to take the trash out.”

The trigger for his arrest was a Facebook post he had written a few weeks earlier in response to proposals for a controversial “e-levy” tax on financial transactions. “If this e-levy passes … I will do the coup myself,” Barker-Vormawor had written, in what he says was a tongue-in-cheek manner.

Government officials and the police, however, described the threat as genuine. “The post contained a clear statement of intent with a possible will to execute a coup,” police said, echoing an outcry from the government and its supporters.

The case of Barker-Vormawor, a former government adviser on access to justice and lawyer working at the UN office of legal affairs, has focused attention on the increasingly brutal treatment of government critics in Ghana.

Protests and anti-government activism have grown in recent years, in response to a worsening economy and corruption allegations against the government of the president, Nana Akufo-Addo.

In May, hundreds of people demonstrated for days in Ghana’s capital, Accra, before being dispersed by police with teargas. Twenty-nine protesters were arrested on suspicion of causing damage to public property.

As the protests have grown, so have allegations of abuse against Ghanaian authorities.

In June last year, Ibrahim Mohammed, an activist in the Ashanti region who had been critical of the government, was killed by armed men on his way home, prompting local protests by young people. Witnesses said police and military officials shot live rounds during the demonstrations, and that two people were killed and four others wounded.

Barker-Vormawor also accused the government and those supporting it of putting pressure on employers to sack activists from his movement. “People have lost jobs, in some cases, because people in the presidency called their employers,” he claimed. The government has been contacted for comment....

Akufo-Addo was elected with widespread support in 2016 and won another four-year term in December 2020, though his support has waned as an economy seen as a rising star in the continent has suffered.

Barker-Vormawor said he regularly moves accommodation in response to threats against his life and that he feels for his family. “No one wants an activist as a son or a partner, but I definitely don’t want to stop what I’m doing,” he said “I think we’re in this for the long haul.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/14/ghana-activist-oliver-barker-vormawor-lawsuit-arrest-detention
PoliticsRe: Abike Dabiri: I Am Angry Over Kemi Badenoch's Comments by Quintopia: 8:37pm On Jul 14, 2022
jurjes:
Pray Nigeria does not happen to you.
SHUT UP, YOU FAILURE. ARE YOU AWARE THERE ARE TENS OF MILLIONS OF NIGERIANS THAT ARE DOING VERY WELL AND ARE HAPPY IN NIGERIA?

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A FAILURE DOES NOT MEAN EVERYONE IN NIGERIA IS SUFFERING AND UNHAPPY.
PoliticsRe: Abike Dabiri: I Am Angry Over Kemi Badenoch's Comments by Quintopia: 7:49pm On Jul 14, 2022
candidtalk:
You're a clown. You have your own private struggles and flaws. Does that mean some in your neighbourhood you live in start targeting you and your family negatively just because they are running to be President of the neighbourhood watch association ?

Some of you are just completely ruined by hatred of your own Country.

Yes Nigeria is fcked but that does not mean people should cynically use us to advance their own selfish agendas.

Learn to separate issues. You're an adult. What on earth will you teach your child? You have a daughter who likes sex. That mean it is okay for men to gang rape her?

Nigeria has problems. That means everyone contesting to lead their nation must mock and disrespect us when we are supposed to be a sovereign nation?

Why does Kemi Badenoch not dare take on the USA gun crime madness that has seen several mass killings this year by deranged gunmen?

Why is she not speaking about Putin and his destructive war?

Why no talk about the repressive Saudi regime?

What of nations brutally killing and culling African immigrants trying to cross borders to gain better lives?

You guys are annoying and self-hating clowns I swear.
THEY ARE IRREDEEMABLE AND CURSED TO HATE THEMSELVES.

THEY ARE A DISGRACE.

There are other contestants from 'corrupt nation' backgrounds in that Tory contest. From Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India etc.

Not one of them put down the land of their parents in order to push their candidature except the self-hating negro from Nigeria dripping with inferiority complex and self-hate, AND BACKED BY HER FELLOW SELF-HATING PEABRAINS here with zero dignity or self esteem.

Worthless.
PoliticsRe: Abike Dabiri: I Am Angry Over Kemi Badenoch's Comments by Quintopia: 7:44pm On Jul 14, 2022
meobizy:
Kemi is pleasing her hosts by putting her country down. This is not the first time we’ve witnessed such and the act draws straight from colonialism. Leave her, all she said were words. It’s no different from the Nigerian who tells his Caucasian workmates that zebras cross Nigerian classrooms meanwhile he lived all his life in Abuja.
SAD THAT 95% OF NAIRALAND CONTRIBUTORS HAVE A LOW IQ AND SO CANNOT SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

THEY'RE THICK AS ROCKS.
SportsRe: Watch: Is This The Worst Miss In The History Of Football? by Quintopia: 6:47am On Jul 14, 2022
WibusJaga:
The worst miss in the world. No miss can ever be worse than this.
Even Aiyegbeni miss de learn work where this one dey.
it wasn't actually a 'miss'. It was a deliberate attempt to NOT score. It stinks of match fixing.
SportsRe: Watch: Is This The Worst Miss In The History Of Football? by Quintopia: 6:20am On Jul 14, 2022
MATCH FIXING.

JUST LIKE YAKUBU'S 'MISS'.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Politicians Use Public Money As Their Private Piggy Bank: Kemi Badenoch by Quintopia:
CSTRR:
Nigeria has zero reputation for anything Good..
SHUT UP. Nigeria has a reputation for good things including her massive modern culture, which now dominates Africa like a colossus, her now international mainstream music and film industries. (90% of African films on Netflix are Nigerian), and the legendary academic excellence and entrepreneural skills of her people.

Breaking News:

''Forty students and faculty members from Morehouse College Glee Club in Atlanta, United States (US) will be visiting Nigeria for a three-city tour and cultural exploration of the country’s rich music heritage.

“I love the culture of Nigeria,” 19-year-old Schneider Grandpierre, a junior third-year student of Music and Computer Science at the Morehouse College said of the upcoming trip.

“It is going to be such an enriching and amazing experience to be able to reconnect with our cultural roots and sing Nigerian music in different languages. I look forward to an extended stay here even after this tour, ” Grandpierre enthused.''


https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/national/us-college-set-for-tour-of-nigerian-cities-celebrates-50th-anniversary/

Until you people learn to appreciate yourselves, instead of drowning in this wretched inferiority complex that comes from goodness-knows-where, you will get nowhere as a nation.
Foreign AffairsRe: NATO Is Lying , Ukraine Grain Issue Has No Impact On Africa. by Quintopia: 7:25pm On Jul 13, 2022
Caseless:
Sometimes, I genuinely feel like something is in our black skin that takes away the sense of reasoning to get simple things working. We have everything and we lack everything.
Ignoramus. Your black skin is caused by a chemical known as MELANIN, a supreme gift from the Almighty to protect you from the sun rays on the world's hottest continent. Without that MELANIN, you would not be alive today as your ancestors would have perished thousands of years ago.

SO INSTEAD OF SEEING YOUR SKIN COLOUR AS 'INFERIOR' LIKE A BRAINWASHED BUFFOON, THANK YOUR MAKER EVERY DAY FOR IT.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Politicians Use Public Money As Their Private Piggy Bank: Kemi Badenoch by Quintopia: 7:09pm On Jul 13, 2022
PoliteActivist:
Allowed by who? UK is pure democracy - a game of numbers.
Same thing was said about Obama, Kamala Harris (one heartbeat away).
Who is THEY that won't allow it??!!
The Conservative party delegates who are majority white, and who will do the voting.

They will vote in the end for a 'white' person among the contestants.

If you think they will all queue up behind a black or Asian candidate, you don't know Britain.

They will parade 'strong' candidates from other racial groups in party primaries, just to present a veneer of inclusivity.

In the end they will choose a white person.

They don't like to be inclusive. They just like to appear to be inclusive.
Foreign AffairsRe: NATO Is Lying , Ukraine Grain Issue Has No Impact On Africa. by Quintopia: 12:53am On Jul 13, 2022
IT IS ONLY YOU PAMPERED, IGNORANT CITY DWELLERS WHO HAVE NEVER USED A HOE IN YOUR LIVES OR EVER WORKED IN A FARM THAT PEDDLE THIS RUBBISH THAT AFRICA HAS THIS REALLY GREAT FERTILE SOIL.

NO AFRICAN FARMER WILL EVER MAKE THAT CLAIM, AS THEY KNOW THE TRUTH.

THE SOIL IS SO FERTILE, SO WHY ARE YOU NOT A BILLIONAIRE FARMER?
Foreign AffairsRe: NATO Is Lying , Ukraine Grain Issue Has No Impact On Africa. by Quintopia: 12:49am On Jul 13, 2022
oz4real83:
Africa has abundance of fertile land, land that may not even need fertilizer embarassed. Africa has no genuine reason to be hungry but bad leadership can make a country that is flooded with drinking water to still go thirtsy.
SHUT UP. AFRICA DOES NOT HAVE ''AN ABUNDANCE OF FERTILE LAND.''

IT IS A MYTH. AFRICAN SOIL IS VERY HARD, AND ROCKY AND ACIDIC, AND IS NOWHERE NEAR THE MOST FERTILE ON EARTH.

MUMU PEOPLE. DON'T GO AND RESEARCH YOUR CONTINENT. BE SWIMMING IN LIES AND RUBBISH WHICH CAUSES YOUR SELF HATE AND INFERIORITY COMPLEX.
Foreign AffairsRe: NATO Is Lying , Ukraine Grain Issue Has No Impact On Africa. by Quintopia: 12:46am On Jul 13, 2022
oz4real83:
Africa that is not at war is depending on countries which are currently at war to provide food for the African Continent even when they have the most fertile land in the universe
SHUT UP. IGNORAMUS. Who told you Africa has ''the most fertile land in the universe''??

African soil is among the WORST on earth for cultivation because of the prevalence of soil acidicity and other factors, in addition to over half the continent being covered by desert! There is a reason the crop yield per hectare in Africa is very low compared to other regions.
PoliticsRe: Do Nigerian Politicians Eat In Each Other’s House? by Quintopia: 9:38pm On Jul 10, 2022
They eat in each others' houses well well.
FoodRe: White Rice With Spicy Chicken Stew. Fresh Tomatoes Is Scarce Today So.... by Quintopia: 3:42am On Jul 10, 2022
SensualMan:
Yuck!!! Too much oil and pepper. Typical example of yoruba stew. Very nauseous embarassed
Shut up. I am Igbo, and so called 'Yoruba stew' tastes better than 'Igbo stew'.
PoliticsRe: Re: I Have Finally Arrived Ile-ife For The First Time, Observation by Quintopia:
Ndibuna:
https://www.nairaland.com/7206737/anyone-knows-park-onitsha-asaba

Above is the link to my previous post asking for advice on how to get to ile ife from onitsha. Well, I took to Asaba then entered till Ore, although the initial bus I entered spoilt so I had to enter another sienna on Asaba Benin express Road. I got to the fly over at ore and climbed, then entered a sienna to ile ife.
My observations on the road:
Passing through ondo state I never knew there is a place called ondo Town, this Ondo town seems a bit open and developed, they're lots of businesses and tertiary institutions here. From there we entered ife Road. I was so happy with the lush vegetations I saw, indeed the entire south is a rain forest zone unlike the arid land I saw in kaduna and the rest of the north.

I was surprised to see lots of missionary grammar schools in osun. I mean what I was seeing were replica of Christianity, I was checking out for Muslim secondary schools I couldn't see. I passed through modakeke and what came to my mind was the ife/modakeke War. I didn't even know one had to enter modakeke before ife.
Well ife itself is an old city though, the roads aren't so good but I think because of the coming election some sections are been built esp the section that leads to the University.

I couldn't make out much cultural difference between the natives of ife and that of the south east where I come from except for the food types. But it is easy to relate with people here as almost everyone speaks English, it is unlike when I was in the north that you have to use sign language as most of them will never understand you.

Indeed the south is just same though, its almost like I am in the east. I'm enjoying my stay so far

Challenge :
I can't seem to get the kind of food I'm used to and most cooked foods here aren't satisfying me. I hope to overcome this hoddle by cooking and hopefully very soon I will be home and dry wink
More Nigerians should do this.

Only when we travel around the country and live among the people in the so-called different ethnic groups, do we realise that we are actually all the same, from the same cultural background.

Well done OP.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 10:19pm On Jul 05, 2022
imperial123:
Does Dangote has the financial capabilities to do that?

If yes, then he has gone so far............
Bro, he's the richest black person alive, according to Forbes. At last count, his net worth is 14.1 billion US dollars.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 10:17pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
If not that you are insane, you should have pointed out where I displayed my ignorance of IMF. Until you are able to relate your response to my comment, keep making noise.
You don't know ANYTHING about the IMF, and their terrible history with developing nations. I have known about them since the early 1980s, long before you were born. Go and GOOGLE 'IMF record with developing nations', and see how many countries their bailout loans have wrecked in the past, including Nigeria!!!
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 10:11pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
You only succeed in displaying your stupidity. You have not been able to show how your response is appropriate to my comment. Continue to display your stupidity. Shame on you if you stop it.
SHUT UP AND GO AND LEARN ABOUT THE IMF AND ITS INFAMOUS CONDITIONALITIES, WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHNG ABOUT, YOU EMPTY-HEADED, LITTLE BOY IGNORAMUS WITH AN ATTITUDE.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 10:02pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
How is this appropriate to my comment? Is my comment about IMF?
No, it is about your big fat empty head. Mumu.

]How is this appropriate to my comment? Is my comment about IMF? I simply pointed out that Nigeria also borrows money from other countries instead of borrowing from Dangote. But you are too stupid to understand my simple statement. And when I tried to help you understand it, you claim I lack brain.
Unschooled, ignorant illiterate. When IBB was seeking IMF funds which led to the SAP in Nigeria, your father was still sucking breast, so it is no surprise you are a dunce with no knowledge about the IMF.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 10:00pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
If you are not the biggest fool on Nairaland, explain how my comment justifies your response. Did I give a wrong information about Ghana, Nigeria or IMF? Is the same Nigeria not indebted to IMF?
IMF gave out loans to certain nations including Nigeria, to manage the 'covid crisis'. Those loans did not come with the infamous IMF conditionalities.

What Ghana is seeking is a BAILOUT LOAN which is very different, and whose conditionalities are designed to tie a nation's economy into further dependence on western imports, and crush local economic and industrial development..

PHEW!!
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:52pm On Jul 05, 2022
SmartPolician:
Dangote that is looking for billions to complete his refinery
He's not actually ''looking for'' anything. He is just sitting in his office wondering which one of the 25 to 30 ready sources of finance he should approach, ANY OF WHICH will beg him to take their money.

When you have a net worth of 15 to 20 billion dollars, you tend not to have a hard time borrowing an extra billion to fund a project.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:48pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
If you are not crazy, point out how my comment necessitates this your response. Explain how my comment justifies all this your noise.
U no get sense. Small pikin.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op):
immortalcrown:
You are the one that totally lacks a functional brain. Keep fooling yourself thinking you are smart. i never talked about the condition given to Ghana by IMF.
LOW IQ. That is the very first thing you should talk about. The conditions for an IMF loan. You are obviously very young so have no clue what the IMF is about, and their history of destroying nations.

I never said anything that can suggest I do not know IMF.
You don't need to say anything. We can see you know nothing about them.

My point is those who blame Ghana for not borrowing from Dangote should also blame Nigeria because Nigeria also leaves Dangote and borrows from outside.
Does that ''outside'' include IMF?

If Nigeria wants to borrow money she can approach China or even the AFDB or World Bank, with more favourable terms than Dangote can give. GHANA can't do that because of her wrecked economy, plummeting currency and poor credit rating, which is why she's run to the IMF.

That is why we say that Dangote was a better option for them! Mumu no brain!
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:37pm On Jul 05, 2022
abobote:
Dangote is broke
That someone needs an extra billion to complete a 20 billion dollar asset does not mean they are ''broke'' insofar as that asset remains theirs. You judge a person's financial strength by their net worth and assets, not by the available cash they are willing to spend on a project.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:32pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
See how you are diverting from the topic. The topic is why did Ghana borrow money from IMF instead of borrowing the money from Dangote. I ask what about Nigeria that borrows money from other countries instead of borrowing money from Dangote. It seems you are drunk.
You have no brain. Do you even know what the IMF means?

IMF is the last, desperate resort for financial bailout when your economy is knackered, your credit rating as a country is shattered, and no country will lend you a dime.

Ghana cannot borrow from say China or another country because her economy is crashed, and she is a risk.

Nigeria can borrow from any nation because she has the financial muscle to repay and is backed by foreign reserves of around 40 billion dollars.

Try and understand how the financial system works before contributing your ignorance.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:27pm On Jul 05, 2022
lightskinnigga:
Dangote is broke..

Be humble
Are you aware of Dangote's net worth?
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:25pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
How does this answer my question? Will his refinery stop Nigeria from borrowing money?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with borrowing money. Every country on Earth borrows money and is indebted. In fact, NOT borrowing is bad economics as it means you have no credit history, which scares away investors.
PoliticsRe: Ghana Should Have Asked DANGOTE For A Loan, Instead Of Crawling To The IMF by Quintopia(op): 9:19pm On Jul 05, 2022
immortalcrown:
You miss the point. Naija no dey borrow from Dangote.
Oh sorry, I get you now. But Dangote is already doing a massive job in Nigeria with the 20 billion dollar refinery he's building in Lagos that is set to transform the Nigerian economy. The other day he commissioned a 2.5 billion dollar fertilizer and urea plant, and Nigeria is now self sufficient in those items and is a net exporter of same.

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