₦airaland Forum

Funny country.
I like the sport of football a lot or what the Yanks call soccer.

This tussle between the public and publicans...(yes, that is all what the leaders have made themselves) over who gets protection is similar to the turmoil in the mind of a gaffer trying to stop Arsenal from scoring off a set piece.

You don't know whether to adopt man to man marking (allocate police to every individual,) or zonal marking (allocate police to watch over a specific area)....

Now the brilliant Arne Slot says he needs two or three or four defenders to guard Gabriel Magalhaes alone. But Van Dyke is saying that is tantamount to a goal because only five or six players are left to track nine other opponents in the box.

These are the structural conversations the owners of democracy, the people, the fans should be having. Every where in the world politicians act same. Selfish, inconsiderate and condescending.

The difference is that they are pitted against a citizenry that understand their rights and are prepared to exercise their power to get their rights IRRESPECTIVE of who is in government, and are prepared to stand for what is right without sentiment even if they voted for such a government in the first place.

We should not always wait for tragedies to reset our consciences and alert out intelligence.

morikee:
So Why?

English speaking country that's why.
All anglo phone countries defer to the EPL.
Just as franco phone countries watch more Lique 1.

Black Friday promo is still on at Anfield.
Score one and get three extras to boost ya goal difference.

Hmmm....the SLOT machine, the gift that keeps on giving.....

Thank you.

Best decision I have heard in the 5th Republic.
Next will be the last but not least (as a matter of fact the most important) federating unit, local government police services.

Then we can truly isolate insecurity and properly hold administrators at these levels completely liable for a activities within their jurisdictions.

Then let me see how they will sponsor bandits against the people who elected them or export them to other territories.

Enough is enough.

crazygod:
0-1
And it begins.
VVD don wash. Nothing nobody go tell me.

Told you guys.
The man is near finished.
Not more a player. He is now just an actor in the documentary about the great times at Anfield.

Obakoolex:
Watch how the emergency lovers turned haters of Nigeria will wish this on our dear country

Did you read the part where the opposition leader was disqualified.

Is this not typical of the Negro, the African feudal overlord that wants democratic races only he will compete in.

Now tell me how is Nigeria faring in the kind of open, plural, multiparty politics that is the only antidote to the sting of military governments in Africa.

The only way to keep the military out of governance is by good governance that lifts the people and where you cannot manage that, allow the democratic process do it's thing.

But you will not perform and yet you will not allow others to.

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LibertyRep:
They can't even read the room.

So detached from reality.

What useless dinner at this precarious moment when all of them should be sober.

Nonsense and ingredients.

Completely detached.
I mean who advises these people.
Gosh.

'We have received a call that ...'

So people have the will to and means of communication to observe and locate and report security threats.

In my opinion the missing link is the lack of 'communication' with authorities, with the institutions appointed by law to handle security and the proximity of help.

This lacuna is a STRUCTURAL deficiency. The lack of grassroots policing.

Security is a service, a social service. It should be available precisely where it is needed.

If I know the name of my local barber. If I know the name of my local laundry man. If I know the name of my mechanic, If I know the name of my gate man, why on earth can't I know the name of my local police man and have him on speed dial when I see or hear A WHOLE COMPANY of bandits moving through my area.....or approaching my child's school.....or buying supplies at the local market.

The truth is that without grassroots, people oriented policing (not vigilante, but officials OF THE LAW) under the service of the people within that jurisdiction, the security standards we are familiar with abroad cannot be achieved.

You simply CANNOT have a FEDERAL police everywhere and in the densities to effectively stop the more organized and nimble bandits operating at this point in time.

All you have now are futile orders of deployment to hot spots AFTER THE FACT, when the damage is done. The only way to guarantee proactive, preventive policing is to establish it on ground and transfer accountability to the people.

PS: And when you hear, 'oh orders came from somewhere and ten minutes after they left the bandits struck..…'

Well, when you don't 'own' the police and when the police is not 'at your service' this is exactly what will happen.

A better and more productive forum will involve those directly affected by insecurity including potential victims at the grassroots and service providers that will tackle the prevention or the fallout not just groupings if leaders most of whom are not in touch with the realities on ground.

I cannot see how this top to down approach will be effective in the learning and application process of policies, programmes and strategies.

But I can understand that the feudal nature of our society is geared towards an parties between the leaders and the led.

Even the process of budgets, economics, investments, etc will never consider the man on the street. It is made by and for those in office. A spoon feeding of the nation.

Then tomorrow they will come out with their tired cliches when under pressure that, security is everyone's business.

The PDP should just send a memo to Wike that it will not present a candidate to contest the presidential elections in 2027 and save us the drama. That is the bottom line. One man's will against that of others. In our kind of democracy the tail wags the dog.

A bit worried here.
Obviously the economy is in a bad place right now.
These amounts are just too small to drag this country out of poverty.

In practical terms this budget amount is equivalent to the value of ten thousand duplexes or ten thousand brand new cars.

When you look at servicing a population of three or four million people just how do you divide this thing effectively.

Mark you, these figures will hardly be realised, both income and expenditure and a good chunk will be lost to waste and graft.

Honestly there is no substitute for AWE (A Well run Economy). Get inflation down, get productivity up and see these figures triple, quadruple over the medium term.

Na, na, na,na....this cannot educate , secure, shelter, treat, transport and administer 4 million people in a year effectively.

And this is reflected in all states including the Federal government. There is real poverty in Nigeria.

Same template, gather people, stand on a podium, sing, dance, scatter a few crumbs and make wild promises. This is where it starts and ends.

Ask the people who gathered 24 hours later exactly what they have accomplished.....nothing.

No clear path way to solve their festering issues, no concrete plans, programmes or calendars.....because they never asked for anything, there was no real engagement. All it was was a musical tour. A one way street.

What has the ADC taken to this people as solid proposals to make their lives better than where they are right now. Issues that can be dated, stamped, sealed and delivered. Real issues.

Another sign post indicating perhaps the perceptible decline of Spanish soccer or should I say the influence of Basque archetypal tiki-taka over the global game.

Watched City yesterday, first half and Pep's version was so limp against Leverkusen. Seems everyone that depends on it is coming a cropper.

SlavaUkraini:
Engines with high performance rarely make loud noise.

You can be standing by a car with a high performance engine and your won't hear much noise even when the car is on motion. ...

You can also hear a caterpillar making so much noise from the engine and when it is time to accelerate, Baba will struggle to climb third mainland bridge..

Not true. Don't be deceived by the conservative japmobiles.

Italian stables make delightful ponies that gallop stoutly and sing like the famous classical tenors.

Then the Aston's of the UK, the muscle cars of the US.... And of course most things AMG..

If you keep on rejecting this idea and that Mr. President and the carnage continues, sooner than later you will be accused of acquiescence at best.
You have to be cocksure those advising you do so in the best interest of the country.

State police, no
International intervention, no.
PMC's, no.

I hope there is no agenda playing out here.
Who wants Nigeria open for the picking.
Who ultimately profits from the status quo.

Angelfrost:
Nah... I don't think it's ignorance tbh.

I think it's just deliberate and selfish placing of personal interests above national growth.

Otherwise. How do you explain any serious human being voting Buhari in for a second term or allowing Tinubu continue after?!!

How do you explain delegates gifting Atiku ticket ahead of others?!! Or Tinubu getting chosen ahead of Osibanjo during Primaries?!!


See ehn... Nigeria might just be DOOMED!

All the things you said are the products of deep seated ignorance. So deep seated that a citizen can get so emotionally attached to a politician or political leader that performance is no longer required.

Things that they cannot even accept from their servants, their friends and even family members. For instance people end relationships due to a serial liar of a friend or partner but readily find excuses for politicians they barely know.

If Nigerians would train up in the ropes of democracy and place performance above every other sentiment issues like decamping will die naturally because political parties will be wary of the demarketing failed leaders will bring.

And conversely parties will be unwilling to lose capable, competent and this popular politicians.

Ultimately the economic malaise we face and the security tragedy is all caused by the ignorance of the people concerning the true workings of the democracy they own.

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BlackPantherxXx:
I support Tinubu and supported APC but they have made a big mess.

Tinubu deserves all the call outs and reminders of retro comments ...

Shebi you talk say you fit do am from outside . Now do it. You're on the seat and inside.

He was in his right to criticize the government at that time in principle. And that government rightly lost the elections on performance.

However all progress made since then has been lost. Nigerians have stopped holding their leaders to account and stopped voting out bad governments. That is what has led us to this point.

Democracy is about consistency, popularly known as eternal vigilance. When governments begin to slide you send out warning shots by voting against ruling party candidates in mid term elections so they sit up and take notice that the people are unhappy.

But in our case almost every single election the ruling party contested since 2015 it has won including those claimed from opposition parties. So here nothing like protest voting and this has emboldened the ruling party to continue it's trajectory.

We are all complicit in this declining quality of governance. No where in the world where democracy develops nations are governments not constantly put on their toes, even the performing ones.

The truth is that Nigerians must school themselves in the true workings of a democracy as it affects governance or we will never be able to solve our issues.

In our leadership selection process we should begin to interrogate those that put themselves forward on the details of exactly how they will solve key issues bedeviling the country and select leaders purely based on the best ideas put forward.

Kai this is shameful, seriously absurd.
Has a grand crime not been committed.
'If they did not cooperate they will be pummelled....'

What on earth is this.
You are government.
You know where they are.
And instead of applying the law, you go threaten them instead of apprehending them.

So they give up their captives and walk away.
What do you expect them to do in the near future.
Security is Nigeria completely flushed.
This is devastating.

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MaziObinnaokija:
NO SATELLITE/DRONES TO capture these b3@st location and END IT ALL

There will be CIA drones over that area gathering info. That is almost certain given the recent US interest. I will not be surprised if amongst those standing watch over his sordid drama there are agents embedded.

STINEKPROJECTS1:
hmm, what are you saying exactly? So it’s architect’s that can’t do what civil engineers do? Every professional in the construction industry is important.

In the future there will be a realignment.
AI and robotics will change a lot of things going forward. You better brace for impact and if you have kids prepare them for jobs that are insulated from the coming tsunami.

At the end of the day it may be union lobby that decides what professions remain and what slip into the abyss.

With the way AI is rampaging through the land perhaps they have seen that these jobs may become extinct in the not too distant future.

Architecture is 99 percent inspiration, art and imagination so is highly subjective. Almost every other thing involved can be done by AI.

It is one profession that will be hit hard.
In the future clients may just input data preferences in the one hand and regulatory and environmental parameters on the other and viola, government pre approved concepts and designs will be created at record speed.

Art of every kind is in great danger.

omoredia:
What we have seen now is proof that at no time in history was the white man the problem of black people. It was the black man who caught his fellow black people and sold them as slaves first to the arabs and then the Europeans. Even till today nothing has changed. The black man is his own worst enemy

I am so glad that more and more people are beginning this journey of introspection. A deep dive into our thought process as blacks, as Africans.

The most divided, the most unstable, the most self serving and utterly short sighted race on earth.

And the worst part of it is our disdain for self criticism the foundation for any sort of societal correction.

Just look at this country. Independent since 1960. 65 years after we have not reached nationhood. Today tens of thousands are dying every year because we have no corporate identity. That is 65 years after fighting and driving away the so-called 'white man'.

Then people will turn around and blame the colonists. Meanwhile there is virtually no country on earth today with purely indigenous populations. You can count on the palm of one hand the number of countries that have not been invaded and occupied or colonised by one foreign power or the other since antiquity.

Yes most are settled and prospering except Africa and her poster child for blackness.... Nigeria.

P.S. So we know that even Great Britain our colonial overlords were once a part of the Roman Empire and before that a part were under the thumb of Viking kingdoms....and fought several bloody civil wars....

When is this country going to gel to make us able to go conquer other lands...

hafeeanubasy:
They are two mutually inclusive issues.
Dealing with taxation will go on while dealing will corrupts individuals will go on.
One can not be stopped for others.


The hotbed of corruption in Nigerian is among Nigerians themselves especially he civil servant and IPPIS is the headquarters

So who is or where is the government reform equivalent of the Mr. Oyedele.

From what you say. One will expect that the government will make the plugging of revenue leaks and the effective and efficient use of resources viz a smaller and more nimble bureaucracy an equal priority. And will be sought with as much gusto as the inflows.

But we all know they are all rubbing their hands in glee. Awaiting the windfall come 2026 so they can achieve their personal aims and objectives and properly feed their white elephants.

The UK budget is out tomorrow or Thursday if I am not mistaken and tax rises are speculated. It is the most important talk in the UK right now. Everyone in the Labour government is questioned on this matter because these things can make or break a government.

Here the only one speaking about such an important matter is a certain task force head. Not even the Minister of Finance has uttered a word on the biggest tax reforms in the history of this country and as for the President who should be the lead salesman, he is not even in the picture.

Just shows how out of touch the head, the government and the people are with the way Nigeria is governed and just shows how we have sleep walked into the abyss.

Spare a thought for Nigeria.

A country that has not been able to solve a single fundamental malaise affecting it in 26 years.... 26 years of 5th republic so called democracy.

That is almost a complete generation of citizens who have not seen a set of leaders succeed the previous and made their lives or their country remotely any better.

Today it is virtually unimaginable for Nigeria to host the gathering of world leaders in any shape, form or capacity without exposing ourselves to even more ridicule and opprobrium.

How did we get here as a nation.

United has sunk to the levels of Fulham, Westham and Wolves. You cannot see anything but mediocrity all over. How a once mighty club has fallen.

But this is a long while after the international break. What has this United team been doing since Thursday last week. Were they not training?

His handlers are not professional and whoever is in charge of the visuals did a complete disservice.

I mean we have seen pictures of wartime leaders at the height of great national peril. None looking so deflated and totally despondent.

It is a meeting for heaven's sake not a funeral.

If the nation is looking up to leadership at times like these the opitics also must be right.

Kai, United is so poor.
Even with Everton's self immolation.

Yes it is good to respond by showing defiance, faith and strength.

But in these parts it also means papering over the cracks. The selfish, uncaring attitude of Nigerians towards their fellow citizens where folks just move on without recourse.

Years ago you will have thought the incident in Ondo will have taught us something and will preempt a reoccurrence. But here we are again. Meaning it will not be the last and we should all brace for the next one.

A nation that cannot solve it's basic problems. A nation that has never solved anything in it's long history.