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Drama like this will always bring out the debate about money and whether it brings joy and success.

'Turn your swords into ploughs' comes to mind when you hear such things.

A whole industry employing hundreds can be established to salvage and convert these machines into other devices.

Grinding machines, rotor tillers, and so many light equipment and machinery can be made.

Anyone thinking....?

Oga. Agitation is the cornerstone of democracy. Every progressive nation has its citizens always pressing government for a better experience.

No one sits down to hope. They act based on facts, not 'desire' as you say.

Samantha124:
1. Car sickness... If I'm traveling long distances, especially in the morning, I get sick... I start sweating, having short breath, getting nauseous and eventually throwing up... Same thing happens when I perceive the smell of cigarettes/weed.

Last time I threw up due to traveling long distances was this past Saturday, I had no choice because some things just had to be done in the morning, especially on weekends... As I was driving, I felt my condition getting worse but I had to keep driving because already I was running late... It was only when I felt that I couldn't keep up anymore that I parked on the roadside and threw up... I stayed outside the car for a while for some fresh air.

When I reached my destination, I started feeling better and the nausea started to suppress, only for this old man who smelled a cigarette/weed to come my way, I tolerated the smell hoping that he'll leave, but he just kept talking non-stop... The smell triggered the nausea again and before I knew it, I threw up for the second time... But fortunately, I had a sickness bag inside my hand bag because I always prepare myself for such situations whenever I'm traveling long distances.

It's like it runs within the family because I'm told that my maternal grandmother used to have the same condition, my aunt and sister are also experiencing the same thing... We have car sickness.

2. Nosebleeding... Like car sickness, this is something I've struggled with since I was a child... I could be playing, eating, sleeping, or just sitting back and doing nothing and my nose would just start bleeding... It used to be more frequent when I was a child, but as I got older it decreased to a point that I can now go a very long time without nose bleeding... But now some of my sisters' kids are experiencing the same problem.

Just last night I was talking to my 8 years old nephew over a video call when I noticed something coming out of his nose and it was blood... The boy wasn't even sick.

I've never met anyone outside of my family who can relate to having these two conditions... So I'm just curious to know if there's anyone who can relate in here.

I think you should see a doctor, an ENT specialist.

benqo01:
HE NEEDS SOMEONE TO REMIND HIM THAT WITHOUT THE FRENCH MANIPULATION, EXPLOITATION,THESE COUNTRIES WILL JUST BE DOING JUST FINE

There is no evidence whatsoever. These countries invited French forces to guarantee their security and most likely the government that was just ousted.

Most folks here have forgotten that it is these countries that invited French forces onto their own territories to hold back the islamist insurgencies. They recognised they lacked the capacity to secure their territories and their governments.

Now the question one should ask is that how come these insurgents are this well equipped and capable to threaten whole countries.

Answer, foreign funding, training and logistics mainly coming from middle east and gulf non state actors.

So Africa is not only besieged by the west, but increasingly by the east, besieged not only by so called colonial states but by extremist groups.

Africa appears not to be able to evolve itself, establish itself a viable, progressive enrities, nations.

We appear not to be able to work together to develop ourselves starting with our minds. Always under the influence, always drugged by foreign influences of every kind and never able to independently think.

Western capitalism demands socio-political accountability and our reaction is to kick in anger then jump into a 'loving' bed with the east, China who asks nothing before it 'screws" us.... unprincipled, vision less people we are.

French Macron has angered them so Russian Wagner is the new husband. Tomorrow they will be crying when they are exploited.

11doubledee:
Very good question.
Waiting for reasonable answers......

Because the African is feudal in nature.
This makes him hold on tenaciously to his inbred inclinations without exception so he cannot bond across cultures and religions.

But unfortunately Africa was not geo-politically carved along those rudimentary lines. That is why the typical African owes his allegiance first to religion and tribe before nation and in almost all cases will break the flag before the calabash or holy book.

A classic example is what is happening now with northern Nigeria which borders Niger republic vehemently opposed to military action against their 'brothers'.

zangaozanga:
Emmanuel macron is a complete idiot to think that without France those countries would have seize to exist,in truth, France have been responsible for their suffering.

He has a point.
It is possible they will all have fallen to islamists and become territories of ISIS. Just take a look a Somalia, a country without international interest.

Do not over estimate the ability of Africans to govern themselves successfully. The jury is out as to whether Africans can.

And Nigeria should also be circumspect about this. We border countries with significant extremism problems and these have manifested in the small arms proliferation issue we suffer, in prolonging the insurgency in the north-east and the spread south as manifest in the so called farmer - herder crises.

If France leaves it will mean we either go in to replace France in bolstering the security services of these countries ourselves but with the conseqent devastation of our own economy or be prepared to wall our borders which is near impossible.

We should step back from emotions and this well worn colonial story and think about this whole thing properly and objectively because we are directly affected by what is happening there.

France should wisely try and deescalate the situation, withdraw their ambassador as requested and immediately enter into some sort of dialogue with the new regime. Coups don't happen if countries are prosperous and at peace. Democracy cannot be sustained if the nation involved is not capable of planting and cultivating it.

The extractive industry can/should be a key player in the salvation of the economy if handled properly.

It can employ a huge chunk of working class, able bodied youth from mining to processing and generate huge income for government from leases, royalties and taxes.

But it must be organized. From surveys to documentation, licenses to corporations, government must get a grip on the industry.

Theat is the right way to go as I said a few days ago. If the man is in the right and has done things above board and by the book he should go to court and will be compensated.

Democracy is all about the rule of law. And this rule applies to everyone, leaders and the led, without exception.

In years to come government will have to start making seriously large budgets for legal settlements then the tax payer will wake up to rein in garrulous talk and incendiary behavior in government.

anonymous1759:
Those monarchs should be removed from the list . Gulf countries practice monarchy , Europe and Asian. Stop making it seems like monarchy is bad in Africa but good in other nations .

They are equally bad. The purpose of democracy is the diversity of ideas and visions leadership brings to make a society viable and enduring.

When you have leadership persist for a long period of time it is like inbreeding within families. Fraught with problems and such countries inevitably become structurally faulty.

When nations have leadership that oeriata they often end catastrophically and without warning.

The reason for instance Britain is no longer a world power is due to the monarchy. A small group of people that made shocking decisions throughout the world that eventually caught up with them.

Today Nigeria is about to make one by proposing to invade Niger Republic. It is a democracy that will give deep thought to the viability of that decision.

Left to Mr. President if this was a monarchy the country may have been at war already with unforseen consequences and most likely bad as we did by invading the west coast during the Babangida regime and sent our economy into a recession we have not recovered from till date.

I think what Mr. Wale Edun needs to do is to engage the three mass employment bricks and mortar sectors, that is agriculture, construction and the extractive industry and work with the leading firms to massively expand operations.

Hmm...so the PDP through their apokeamn was essentially right after all.

What sayeth thou naysaying supporters of the ruling empire.

GanagiBitrus:
Like one sage said, you need some level of stupidity to last long in marriage.

None of these two look like people who are prepared to be stupid...

Hmmm, yeah. Sometimes that may sound harsh when love or elements of love starts it but the foundation of relationships, what underpins every single one of them is the word we love to hate, sacrifice which sits on the opposite side of the courtroom with self, selfishness.

So see a successful relationship, partnership
or any form of union be it business, work, political, any accord between peoples, and see one in which one or both parties is prepared and actively tolerant and willing to burn some or all of their nature.

So yeah, someone has to play the fool to make it cool.

I wonder what those criticizing Tony Kroos will say now.

Xscape1993:
Funny country....

Failure of state institutions.

When it is no longer clear as to who is the enemy, when the guard needs to be guarded and CCTV needs to be installed in the CCTV monitoring room.... then it is time to close the business.

And all this is simply caused by a nation that abhors the rule of law. When root to tip the citizens love impunity no matter how much it costs them.

Money, money, money, money first.... and that is all.

But in other climes it is ideas first.... sound ideas that attract the investment.

When a man piles up money and then looks for how to expend it, he is bound to lose it all but capital snifs out opportunities anyday to perch.

Hope those who have received the palliatives are satisfied. But get Nigerians to work productively and purposefully even in the smallest element of creativity and then pay them and you will have triggered development with minimal effort and resources.

The problem of Nigeria has never been that of resources but of productivity. No leader since independence till date has managed to inspire the citizens of this country to work. None.

It appears super hard, super impossible for them to do that kind of planting.

The question to ask now is what the government is doing to secure oil production in the Niger - Delta. What the long term plan is, the end game.

What capacity is it building in the intervening period to ensure state assets are protected by institutions of state and not private contrators.

Because Nigeria has a history of interventions becoming institutionalized and before we know it Tompolo PLC may soon become the defacto Nigerian Navy, Police and NSCDC combined.

Perhaps the next thing is to get PPMC's (Private Paramilitary Contractors) to secure our borders since the Customs is flagging in this.

Remember, we spend huge amounts of resources on funding these institutions of state and yet have to top up their efficiency by engaging private capacity at questionable and eye watering sums.

That Jabi so called Motor Park must be redeveloped. It is an eyesore and embarrassment to the city of Abuja and
the Nigeria state.

It is like a good number of Nigerians are getting tired with the democracy of a thi g and are encouraged by the vanquishing happening around Africa.

I hope those that lead other countries in Africa including Nigeria are watching, thinking and responding to those things within them that stand against the core values of democracy.

On paper Group F is as hard as nails. Newcastle will be the spoiler here.

itsme01:



Nice one.... Hadi sirika is a big fruadster using his closeness to Buhari to perform heists in the Avaition Ministry

I trust Keyamo SAN to unravel many fruad

.

Billions down the drain.

I will look forward to you folks insisting that the humongous resources expended on these white elephants are recovered and the parties to any fraud as you say are prosecuted.

What is his background first. What is his egg to the chicken story before any further comments. These days the risk of egg on the face is alarmingly high with anyone called a Nigerian.

Tareq1105:
Emilokan mentality is better than military junta as we see in Gabon today. Emilokan is prophetic and it's about ambition and I don't know any Law that is against ambition.

Most children on the nairaland don't know the implications of military intervention.

Shehu Sani wouldn't be able to tweet any longer. Let's see how Shehu Sani would speak truth to power inside prison without trial.

Children on the platform would sacrifice their Instagram Facebook tweeter, and other social media stuff bcoz freedom of speech wouldn't be allowed.

I prefer democracy anytime any day irrespective of who's the president.

If the people don't do what is right and advocate for justice, equity and the rule of law. If they continue to support all the social ills that degrade society then they will be forced to live under a system of government they perhaps do not like.

It's not up to the so-called leaders or anyone in power at any point in time. It is up to the people. They decide how they will be ruled ultimately.

It is the people of Niger Republic that brought in the military, and the depravity of autocratic rule by not being able to manage democracy and ensure/advocate for the ideals I mentioned above, both supporters and opponents of the defunct civilian government.

If you are an opponent of this APC government and cannot oppose it in a civil, objective and intellectual manner void of inflammatory sentiment you will simply burn democracy down.

On the other hand if you are a supporter of this APC government and cannot guide it to govern properly in a civil, just and progressive manner void of inflammatory sentiment then you cannot blame anyone if it is toppled.

All of us have a responsibility both for and against to develop this country and keep democracy as the best form of government alive and in motion.

Unfortunately the people of Gabon and Niger both for and against Bongo or Bazoum could not deliver the purpose of democracy hence they ALL lost out.

Na so. Water must find its level.
At some point pressure generates heat.

A tribalism competition within the APC from one government to the other and a lot of folks are shamelessly supporting the status quo.

Shows that he spiral down the tubes of an ethnically divided country is a certainty. I just cannot see how Nigeria as a nation has any viable future or can hope to prosper with such distrust....that is without the restructuring to put an end to this vicious cycle of depravity.

So sorry for this country. Poor mentality everywhere you look.

Right. Now that the people have heard this they are clear to engage their government and task them to fix those roads.

But the question now will be. What is the criteria for the selection of the roads the government is giving attention to.

BoldBrainz:
Quite sad and disappointing how stakeholders in the PDP sat down to let Nyesom Wike attain "god status" in the party, through their inactions and feeble-mindedness.

Na so. The pitfalls of feudalism.
They enjoyed the strong man Wike then.
But today they are in the tiger's tummy.

Without democracy in its purest form any power on display is both nuclear power and a nuclear bomb.

CaptainFM1:
I hope there will be electoral debates. It's very important so that electorates can make informed decisions not the usual jamboree, carnival or the recent town hall discussion. We want Electoral debate please.

Have you seen anyone interested in that?

See all the arguments above.
See the arguments and what matters to the so called citizens.

It is NEVER about governance or what plans the candidates have to rescue the people from the doldrums. No.

Tomorrow they will blame leadership as having nothing to offer, when they themselves have ordered for nothing at the restaurant called democracy.

Is it not clear that the 'followership' are not interested in good governance, just in winning for ego sake and to give power for giving sake, nothing more.

Pathetic.

Well anyone who wants to see democracy endure in any African state including Nigeria must do the hard work to establish, run and prosper it.

If anyone feels anyone doesn't matter then they remove the breaker that regulates it and a blow up is inevitable.

For the Gabonese it is too late for the ruling party and head of government to make democracy work even if he wanted to.

bdon12:
I dont support coups bt bongo has was not installed democratically. His family has been ruling for over 40yrs therefore i commend d millitary.

That is Africa for you. They make a reasonable person appear unprincipled.

Just like the paradox called Nigeria's democracy. You badly want to support the idea but the operators make it unconscionable to do so.

That is why only restructuring can save Nigeria and by extension all of black Africa.