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Haydens:
"I'm bigger than your father" is bigger not comparison in adjective ?

You should be vast with primary English before arguing.

If you had any depth, it would have been clear to you that that statement about being bigger than fela was just a jab at seun after seun called him out personally.

Haydens:
That baby that doesn't wanna grow up who calls himself WizKid at close to 40 years of his age he still attached kid to his name will now shut up his gutters.

Ordinary endsars we no see his face. He will not even see fellas footprint neither will he smoke what fella smoked in his entire life or else he go mad.

Fellas is bigger than Wizbaby's whole surname and generation any day anytime.

You humans are forever mischievous.

You know fully well wizkid never compared himself to fela. He even worships him that he has fela tattooed on himself.

Yet you dey talk all this dust.

Olat4421:
it's normal thing even in football we have heard d new maradona new Pele new Messi new Ronaldo, we ave seen yamal compare to Messi does dat mean yamal has achieve Messi achievement?so u people here just take unnecessary offense in everything, if dey stop sampling him or wanna be like him do u think his name will still be as strong as dis

We just need to know where the line is. The media is dangerous. If a falsehood is repeated long enough without rebuttal, it will be accepted as truth.

Yamal will never lace messi's boots if the chips are down. Any comparison is for yamal's career boost not anything real.

I guess the bottom line here is that anyone can do a fela comparison for cruise, but when they start making inaccurate statements capable of destroying a great man's legacy and denying his rightful place in history, there's no harm in calling the culprit out for a bitting.

Eriokanmi:
Stop trending on your papa glory seun kuti. Only failures do so. Write your own story.

Afterall Fela himself copied the likes of James brown and Tony Allen's styles and fused it into his afrobeat genre. Nobody has the monopoly of music and styles. Go and listen to fela's beats and watch his dance steps, then match it with James Brown's crazy down steps on stage, they're quite similar. Michael Jackson copied James Brown's dance steps verbatim and added it to his.

If the likes of whizzy do the same, they're not going to be forst and last. How many royalties did fela pay to brown and allen?

But fela never claimed to be the new James brown. Borrowing inspiration is not the problem.

And the saying that children should surpass their father is not without exception to the rule.

The likes of Fela are exceptional, you don't surpass them just because you're their child.

Name one global phenomenon who has been surpassed by their Child. Is it bob Marley or Michael Jackson abi na Kwam1 coz Kwame 1 one get children wey dey sing since o, abi na Zidane pikin wey dey do goalie, how him wan pass him papa

Olat4421:
Dis guy is just disgracing Fela he thinks he is defending him, what is he even fighting at, u are not even happy today artist are still keeping ur father legacy, if does artist stop sampling or mentioning ur father as a reference u think d name will still be as relevant has it is, ur weed is too much,all great people are always remember, and dat make Dem still relevant, go and listen to JAY Z lyrics FOREVER YOUNG

Stop yarning dust.

Seun only has a problem with people trying to disparage Fela by comparing him to the shallow artists of nowadays.

Artists who don't know more than she tell me say. Those artists are great in their own right but leave Fela out of the comparison. He's in a league of his own.

All of una go dey form misguided woke up and down

SixSeven:
To each his own. This is not a honorable exit. You guys think men didn't take out themselves in the past? Or men who couldn't stand injustice sacrifice their lives? I stand by my words and truth hurts, if you like, call it insensitive. Cowards die many death before they take their life.

We throw words around but maybe we don't really know the meaning.
A hypocrite is a person who claims to have moral standards or beliefs that they do not actually follow, essentially pretending to be virtuous or pious while their actions contradict their words, often seen as a " say-do" gap or feigning virtue for praise or benefit. It describes someone who judges others for faults they themselves possess, or presents a false image of righteousness, unlike someone genuinely struggling with temptation.

A hypocrite is someone who cannot defend their moral position because of what people will say. In all that you wrote, there was no solution. It was all about, you didn't know, you weren't in his shoes, you couldn't understand. You cannot take a side, you want to sound moral enough to be understanding but immoral enough not to be practical.

How do you know we would not have helped? Anyway, I have written enough on this subject but for this guy and that letter he wrote, he was a selfish, self-centred person.

Hard times don’t excuse contempt for life. Past generations faced wars and still chose endurance and duty over self-absorption. Compassion isn’t weakness but turning despair into a moral pass is hypocritical and that is what society is turning into today. Me me me, selfish, cuddling generation who want to guilt everyone else but take no responsibility. They want to take the spotlight away from them. Telling us being a coward is Honor. I spit on such.

Compassion for suffering doesn’t require endorsing suicide, and refusing to judge doesn’t mean we abandon the value of life.

Read my previous posts here. I do not believe in performative niceness, that is a red flag. I believe in action. If you need help, seek it. It's okay to feel bad, have negative thoughts, be taken by a bad experience but what we are taught in life is that everyone of us has his or her own challenges. No school of thought will recommend suicide so what are we yapping about? Trying to sound nice is trying to condone the action because you don't know. Excuse me. It must be condemned outrightly and those that are living can learn from the lessons but don't attempt to question what we would have done because we could have done a lot and the coward will take the easy path to end it all before the original end.

The real failure isn’t judging the dead, it’s ignoring the living who are in pain while the dead took the convenient option that needs no accountability. I am not subscribed to any performative niceness, giving proper feedback is being kind, not being nice. Not giving the proper feedback is being nice but you're unkind and that's what society is doing today. We want to explain things away without holding anyone to account and we are back to square one.

Well, I happen to be a realist, not an optimist or an idealist. I see the world exactly the way it is, not the way it ought to be.

Unless you want to play the devil's advocate, it's a fact that humans are wired selfish. Which means everybody carries their own cross.

If you are exposed to the harsh realities of the world like I am, you will understand better.

I drive through tens of street children rushing to wash my windshield as I go to work every day, nobody cares about these kids. Many of them die in the street from different unnatural causes but we don't carry their cases on our heads because they are not celebrities and we won't earn clout off of them.

If we pick and choose which life and which death to care about, that's double standards, and we do, so that's human nature. But let nobody try to say otherwise because some of us can see through the snactimony.

You say the victim did not consider the people who will derive pain from his death, the paramount question is do they like him more than himself, or can they take his place to help feel his pain. If not, the victim's feelings come first and take priority over other's.

My own 2 cents is instead of bashing people who take their own life, we should rather simply rip them and move on.

Condemning suicide will no desuade other who are waiting to commit it and encouraging it will not motivate a person who is enjoying their life to commit suicide.

By the way, I think I used the word hypocrite correctly, even going by your definition.

SixSeven:
Someone was thinking I was heartless to be hard on this person, that I don't know the battles, I don't know the things this person is going through, I don't know this and that and I said part of being a man is surviving trials of this world. I told the person to give me an alternative to willingly participating in your own death and the person could not. And then I said, finding solution is a much better part to taking your life. No matter what. I stand by my words. Life is tough. It will break you but sometimes I think Nigeria's law or punishment for attempting suicide is more of a logical one than the punishment itself. Nigeria's law is telling you, if you want to do it, just do it and go, make sure you do it.

You don't know the pain you cause those living when you selfishly consider yourself only. You're not living for yourself alone if you don't know. Especially when you have influence. I prefer you take more steps to help live than take the easy step to press the end button when you know we will all leave this world unalive!

Then like those boys who shoot in US, you now write a manifesto letter on your death. For what? Just go silently and don't disturb the world if you wanted us to not worry about you. It would have been easier for the loved ones to lie to us and tell us he died in his sleep. I am so disappointed and I have no nice words to say. This is where we have raised this generation to mental health everything. Spiritually ungrounded, digitally prosperous. Perhaps one day, we will realise our true reason for living. A person is a person because of another person (Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”: a person is a person because of other people). We will remember our purpose on earth, stay grounded and keep serving others because service to humanity is the price you pay for earth. Fall seven times, rise up 8th.

Each time I see people condemning persons who commit suicide, is see hypocrites.

Every human being was born with an innate drive for self preservation, meaning no one was born wanting to die.

For a person to reach a point where they decide to end it, it means they were in a state of great suffering and could no longer endure.

Who are we then to question their judgment when we are all selfish and would not have helped them if they cryied out for help.

Many people would rather leave Honorable than compound their problem by telling human beings who would not help anyway.

Suicide is a subject where I think nobody has the right to judge the victim. Only hypocrites will thing otherwise.

Self defence is not alient to nigerian laws. It is even somewhat integral to fundamentalhumanrights, particularlyright to life. Its something that doesn'tneed to be written in the constitution for it to be enjoyed.

I thinks the people of nigeria sleeping to much at this time. This judgement amongst many other similar funny judgements that we are permitting is silent validation by Nigerians that we are okay with the oppressive system we live in.

Our quiet is the reason country gets worse by the day, regime after regime.

dederocs:
That judge that sentenced this man needs to be probed. Self defence is a universal law and right.

The senate and house of representatives, instead of being stooges, should amend the constitution, and ensure self defence is recognised, punishing a citizen for defending himself against a territorists is working for the territorists and encouraging terrorists.

If you attack with a knife, the intention is to kill, it is foolishness to allow oneself to be killed, even among animals self defence is inherent, it is a natural reaction.

We should act like human beings and our laws should reflect it... sentencing a man to death for defending himself is a clear case of bias.

Bro, Nigeria is unfair to all, as long as you dont belong with the elite class.

It has very little to do with muslim Muslim ticket. Nigerian laws work only for the elite and against everyone else.

DatNiggaDaz:


Know this if you are a Christian like Nigerian. When you defend yourself against maraudimg terrorists in Nigeria as regards self defence which is uncontestable in the whole laws of the world, in Nigeria you need a pardon from the governor

The courts will not help you under the Muslim Muslim ticket

The laws in Nigeria will not also help you even if the law expressly gives you the right to defend yourself. This only happens because Nigerians was forced to accept Muslim Muslim ticket of Tinubu when he snatched grabbed

Dont be ignorant. Precedence has already been set and still stands. Any subsequent similar case will still get the same judgement since the supreme court has laid it down this way.

They only released this guy perchance.

And this is the one of our major failures as a people, we chase cosmetic solutions while allowing ourselves to be distracted from dealing with the source of a problem

nairalanda1:
It was only fair , otherwise precedent would have been set that one cannot defend themselves at all!

Sannisege:
They want Nigeria to be like America but they don't want to pay taxes. They all rush to Canada where everything is taxed but they don't want tax in Nigeria. How will local refineries like Dangote break even if cheaper fuel is imported from other countries? If you can't afford imported fuel that carries 15% tax, then buy locally refined fuel. Shikena!

The question I have for you is this: why is importer fuel cheaper than dangotes locally produced fuel.

Cost of operation is too high in nigeria due to infrastructural deficits.

Locally produced goods should not be costlier than imported.

And we will pay tax in nigeria when we begin to see transformation across the board.

I said across the board. Meaning when we start seeing standard govt hospitals and good govt schools in the local communities. No be to dey use 10b building road of 2b dey use style steal money

Watianoengineer:
We Nigerians are not complaining about the Tinubu taxes. So this man should get out.


Tax makes every nation great

Taxation is not our problem. Afterall we go to developed countries and pay their taxes.

But Taxation is only in order when govt is efficient in enabling a productive economy. By providing basic infrastructures.

You should not over tax a poor population.

People will say the uk taxes alot but they also do alot for their citizens.

If nig govt wants to tax us like UK, they should do what uk govt does for its citizens.

Stable electricity
Good roads
Access to free basic education
Access to good public healthcare
Efficient court/justice system
Security

All the above are not rocket science.

If they provide just 70% of the above, we will be too busy being productive than to complain about Taxation.

You may argue that they need tax money in order to provide these things. But they have been taking loans upon loans in the name of infrastructure, if they are not siphoning the loans, that's more than enough for infrastructural transformation.

StreetFight:
When they pick you up, they will stop your eyes from seeing

Stop threatening violence you bloodi slav e

MichaelSokoto:
Bandits on tiktok and Instagram are still free out there!

delusional and directionless con3

They are not delusional or directionless. They are sticking to the plan.

Na we, the masses dey delusional, believing we have a country and a govt

Felabrity:
Na only to arrest social media people these ones sabi

Nothing concern them with kidnappers and bandits/terrorists ravaging villages in the North central

We the people too should adopt a new approach. Bashing them online will not amount to anything. Rather, they will frame you for treason if your post goes viral.

We already know they're violent, we cannot just keep talking.

It's like taking a fist to a gun fight.

Akungitit:
Give him the Dimka treatment

Shut your toilet called mouth

papiSNEH:
DSS always quick and able to track down a common man voicing out his pain but when it's time to track and go after herdsmen destroying farms and killing farmers, kidnappers and Bandits abducting, demanding and collecting ransom they become busy inserting fingers in their anus and smelling it.

Inasmuch as govt of nigerian are useless and a neo-colonial govt, The truth is people need to be careful with their utterances on and offline so we dont enter their trap. The laws have been carefully crafted to make sure one is indicted if you threaten their authority. That treason of an offence is really wide.

We should pick our words carefully so that they have nothing on you e en if they pick you for saying something

givedemwotowoto:
The Attitude of “Moving On” is Killing Nigeria

You've said it well.

However, let us understand that we let it go not because we want to, but because of fear of consequences. And that's fair choice on the part of Nigerians.

If you don't let it go and want to demand justice, they will frame you up and jail u. The state has succeeded in criminalizing every avenue for seeking redress against the state.

If you protest you can get killed.

So we have no choice than to move on. At least until we are ready to revolt by matching their violence

APOPTOSIS:
...a very blessed nation rendered useless by lawless citizens

Kai! Nigeria is not a 'very' blessed country. I wish her well though.

If it's proven not to be the most cursed country on the planet I will be surprised. You have the worse humans here so..

Prec1ous:
Let’s stop pretending.

You were not born with a silver spoon. Most of us weren’t. You didn’t grow up in the perfect environment. You didn’t have mentors lined up to teach you the ropes. Maybe your parents did their best, or maybe they failed you completely. But one thing is certain - whatever the case, life has already started, and nobody is waiting for you to “catch up.”

It’s hard to accept this, but you must. Because this world, this country - Nigeria, this life… owes you absolutely nothing. Not a job. Not a breakthrough. Not an easy path. Not success.

And the moment you accept that truth - not just in your head but in your heart - that’s when you truly wake up.

The problem is, too many of us are sleeping with our eyes open.

We scroll motivational quotes all day. We follow people that make us feel inspired. We watch success stories on YouTube and clap for strangers, but still don’t move our own lives forward. Deep down, we think someone will notice us. Someone will believe in us. Someone will show up and say, “You! You deserve better - let me help you rise.”

But life doesn't work like that.

People are busy fighting their own battles. They barely have time for themselves, let alone for you. Your pain might be real, but it’s invisible to the world unless you do something with it. Your hunger means nothing if it doesn’t drive you to work. Your potential means absolutely zero if you never act on it.

That’s why I’m telling you to wake up.

Because the greatest illusion holding people back is the idea that things will fall in place eventually.

No, they won’t.
Not unless you make them.

Your Background Is Not an Excuse

Maybe you were born in the village. Maybe you didn’t go to the “right” school. Maybe you were abused. Maybe you’ve failed more times than you can count. Yes, it hurts. I won’t pretend it doesn’t. But those experiences are not your identity. They are parts of your story, but they are not the whole book.

We’ve all met people who had every excuse to give up - but didn’t. They had no one to help them. No support system. No privilege. But what they had was hunger. They had fire. They had an unshakable resolve to make something of themselves, even if it took years.

You can build that same fire. It’s not reserved for special people. It’s available to anyone who is tired of being stuck.

The truth is, the world doesn’t care where you’re coming from. It only pays attention when you arrive.
Stop Waiting for Perfect Conditions

You don’t need everything to be perfect before you start. You don’t need a full business plan. You don’t need all the tools. You don’t need the most expensive laptop. You don’t need to have it all figured out.

Start where you are.

With your cracked phone. With your unstable power supply. With your fear. With your doubts. With your imperfections. Because the people who succeed are not the ones who waited for a clear road - they’re the ones who kept moving despite the fog.

Some of you are sitting on billion-naira ideas and life-changing skills, but fear and perfectionism have kept you paralyzed. You say you’re “planning.” You’re “waiting on God.” You’re “trying to figure things out.”

No, you’re scared. And that’s okay. But don’t let fear become your lifestyle. Don’t stay in the same place for another year. Time is moving. Nobody is coming to drag you into your destiny.

Hard Work Alone Is Not Enough

Let’s also clear this up - just because you work hard doesn’t mean you’ll succeed.

You can break your back in a warehouse, and still remain poor. You can hustle every day in the sun, and still be stuck. Hard work without direction is suffering. What you need is smart, intentional, focused action.

Start learning. Study your craft. Learn a skill that pays. Build relationships. Sell your work. Show up online with value. Stop hiding. Stop playing small. Stop blaming others for your stagnation. And most importantly - stop consuming more than you create.

If you spend hours watching others build, but never build for yourself, then you are simply helping others get rich while you rot in “inspiration.”

Kill Entitlement Before It Kills You

You are not entitled to success because you suffered.
You are not entitled to help because you’re struggling.
You are not entitled to attention because you’re talented.

Nobody cares about what you could do. They care about what you’ve done. You’ll be amazed at how quickly people respect you when you start showing results. But you’ll also be amazed at how invisible you become when all you have is potential and no proof.

Life doesn’t reward the most deserving. It rewards the most determined.
It rewards those who refuse to quit.
Those who don’t wait for validation.
Those who show up consistently.
Those who decide to bet on themselves, even when nobody else does.

You want success? Then go and earn it.
Nobody owes it to you.

Not your background.
Not your degree.
Not your boss.
Not your partner.
Not God.

Even God wants you to put your hands to something before He blesses it. Faith without work is still dead. And dreams without action are just hallucinations.

The Fire Must Come From Within

Nobody can want it for you more than you want it for yourself.

Nobody can push you out of your comfort zone if you don’t move.
Nobody can give you the hunger. You must create it.

You must look at your life and say, “I refuse to remain like this.”
You must be tired of wishing, scrolling, comparing, and hoping.
You must say, “I’m done complaining. I’m ready to act.”

It starts with one decision.
And then one action.
Then another.
Then another.

And before long, you begin to gather momentum. You build confidence. You take hits, but you don’t fall apart. You fail, but you learn. You grow. You evolve. You start becoming someone that even your former self wouldn’t recognize.

That’s what happens when you wake up.

And it all begins when you stop waiting, and start working.

Precious Iriaevho - CrudeClarity

Op I embrace and concur with you on the theme of your write up.

But there are some nuances you failed to amplify.

In some sense, struggle for better governance is and should be a life and death struggle but we have not yet come to that realization.

My reason is this. The basis for hard work and consistency in the hope of a better life is based on the presupposition that you are operating in a civilized environment where your toil and effort will be rewarded fairly and accordingly.

It is like a social contract between the state and its citizens.

It is also in line with this arrangement that citizens donate their commonwealth (aka right to freely exploit the enviroment) to government for proper regulation and re-distribution of wealth according to value added by individual citizens.

In a bid to actualize this arrangement came the creation of state currency (aka money) which is printed and regulated only by the government.

All land in the territory are also declared to be owned by the state and held in trust for the citizens.

Now let me relate all of this to the subject of discuss. Unless you are calling on the suffering youths of this country to rise to the occasion by resorting to self-help and descend into anarchy, what we should be more resolute about is our political awareness and continuous struggle to demand that govt holds up its side of the bargain.

And I don't mean coming online to have mindless debates or trolling politicians in manners that will bear no impact. I'm talking of Youths organizing themselves and analyzing our national problems from the roots.

The fact is no amount of grind and hustle will ensure quality life among the masses Unless govt governs just and fair or are made to do so.

One thing we should know that the invention of money created serious need for citizens to depend on govt because you need money to do anything and everything.

Even if you want to encourage citizens not to wait for govt to do anything for them, don't forget the state has tactically taken everything away from you.

Remember back in school when they taught us in economics class about the factors of production: land, capital, labour and one more thing I can't remember. All this things are in the hands of government.

The implication is that being a successful entrepreneur somehow has a correlation with good and transparent governance.

The circulation or distribution of money and redistribution of land are the exclusive mandate of govt. This process is very crucial and is what makes all the difference between almighty Europe and our impoverished Africa.

Unlike Europe, African govts don't circulate money into the state according to value added by citizens but by who knows who. It's all about who your father is and not what you can do for the state.

So this is why the virtues of hard/smark work don't bring much result in nigeria. Even when you do add value by virtue of your skills eg you're a plumber or a mechanic, you still get poor remuneration because the population is too poor to pay for your services.

And before you talk about prayer, remember that the Bible also say that: when the foundation is faulty, what shall the righteous do.

I agree that while we try to do whatever we can to repair this country, we should first try to save ourselves and better our lives, but how do we do this. It is hard to say but chance of the average nigerian to change his fortune for better lies in illegality.

Nigerian only rewards illegality, so if you're he'll bent on doing only legal, you are swimming against the tides and will suffer for very little gain.

My proposal is for us to rise passionately to dismantle the political class keeping us in poverty no matter how hard we work.

Let's stop running away from entertaining the possibility of dividing the country for instance.

Also, we have seen that they use violence to rig the elections, until we are ready to match their energy during elections, nothing will happen.

In the end, one truth is that when the chips are down, you are on your own. I am not saying anyone should resort to crime but find your way.

eddie7:
Let us not forget that none of us are without flaw, for we are all imperfect beings. As we reflect on those who have passed, let humility guide our words and shape our judgments. For in death, we are reminded of our shared humanity, and the frailties that bind us. Let us honor the memories of the departed with empathy and understanding, rather than criticism and condemnation. For in the end, it is not for us to judge.
Let's rather reflect on our lives, admit our own shortcomings and ask for help from the Almighty as we consciously strive to be worthy of a peaceful rest for our souls when it's our own time.


I JUST DEY WALKA PASS

Y are you soliciting rip for a failed human being.
I call him a failed human being because he had the rare opportunity to serve him country and his people at the highest possible level but failed woefully.

There's no need or even time to recount his failures and wickedness because tinubu has outdone him in terms of wicked impoverishment of the country in just 2 years.

He was a major catalyst for the pains most Nigerians feel till today so which rip.

When GEJ dies, we will morn.

But no be now sha

An let me add that this is not about being flawed.

You don't need to be flawless to be a successful president.

You don't even need to be brilliant because you can have brilliant people at your disposal and use them as tools if u wish.

Let's stop celebrating mediocrity.

Will like to contact u on this bro, kindly share your whatsapp contact

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Obaaderemi2:
As a Yoruba man I find it awkward to prostrate before someone who is not Yoruba no matter how old or what he has done. A respectful bow is enough. This is just eye service

You're on point bro.

Don't mind them hypocrites.

The saying is to do as a Roman when in Rome. You don't demonstrate your culture where it is not appreciated.

If at all he wants to show maximum respect, buhari would have appreciated the squatting and the rankadede more than the dobale the mumu did.

Na yeye eye service.

kabillion:
My brother, if frustration reach body person go criticize o but this is not criticism but attack on the president.

You can criticize the government without mouthing the president.

Things are not that bad but sellers are terrible, very terrible.

Ignorance is the number 1 problem amongst black people generally.

When a man as unintelligent as buhari said nigerian Youths are lazy, it wasn't an attack on nigerian Youths even though the statement is false.

But someone says the president is terrible which we all know he is. But rather you are more concerned about diplomacy than the message against the evil inflicting hardship on the entire country.

A president that deployed several anti-masses policies simultaneously not caring if thousands will fall, even though their are more humane ways to achieve the same goal, is that not a terrible president.

During the build up to 2023 election, did you all not call this same tinubu several unprintable names?

But now because he's president, you hypocrites will be forming nonsense instead of calling a spade a spade.

Some of us already know this country can never be a better place with the way its citizens reason but we just dey observe.

SafariHunter:
NYSC has stipulated guidelines for a reason. She just got what she asked for

Guideline? You be mumu and I know say other mumus like you plenty for this country.

What guideline exactly. Guideline for poverty and hunger.

When they are up there giving all the cbn jobs to their grandchildren, do they follow any guidelines.

A female Corp member is manning up to say what yall fear, putting it all on the line to speak for millions of sufferers of the tinubulation and here you are talking guideline.

Una go dey form educated but na nonsense full una head