₦airaland Forum

The nose cone looks like that of a medium speed train. Can't say how far that train is from the station but if it were moving at the speeds I think, those people are way too close to it and can be sucked in by the vortices generated.
Very risky.

Mhykel217:
Suleiman sabo of kuje lga is one of the best politician in Nigeria bleep party lines, even apc would want him in their party. He is a epitome of what public service should be like. Ive had the opportunity of meeting and knowing him personally and as the only elected pDp official in abuja he's doin well for both himself and his party. Watch out for this man when pdp takes power back.

Stop all these personality pimping.
What has he done in Kuje to deserve a second term.
What has vastly improved since he assumed office and what is left undone that he has promised to do with facts signed and sealed.
Let us graduate from sentiment pls.

I do not have the details but it appears the Benue State government did not handle this matter properly.
There is no reason why protocol could not have gone ahead of the governor's arrival.
That should be the procedure when a VIP attempts access to a 'foreign' territory as the Governor has no jurisdiction over the AirBase which is a security zone.
It will have saved all the drama.

Truthisunique2:
Tinubu is still begging buhari, perphas he isn't smart too

Someone that has a cult votes of 9-10million consistent voters

Someone in control of party executive

By the way Tinubu says he wants to step in buhari shoes and wants to continue Buhari legacy does that look like someone ashamed of buhari as failure?

This is what we keep on saying.
The paradox of any candidate in the APC.... or the PDP by its histories for that matter.
How do you cozy up to the President who has been mistakenly been given the power to make or break the future while at the same time distancing yourself from his shenanigans and the baggage of an unsuccessful tenure.
Folks, we can never get qualitative leadership into office with this structure.
Sorry, but there is no point voting in my humble opinion.
I just cannot stand in a queue to legitimize a system that will only guarantee prolonged suffering, pain, poverty and decadence.

Nigerians should be wary of a political party that is becoming less and less democratic by the minute.
It was their supporters that blindly stood by Mr. President when he kicked against crucial national electoral reforms.
Now the stick is being used on them.
Everyone will eat out of this humble pie we have collectively baked.

Shetemi12:
This is man that is consulting everyone..now, he is not a Godfather while others are waiting for the president to pour anointing oil on their head to be called anointed one!

BAT2023

What are his solutions to Nigeria's key problems.
2023 is just months away.
List his solutions, not his pictures.
This is an election, not a pageant.

Flying to the United Kingdom all because of 'just a dislocation...'
Can we get any lower in this country?

Rugaria:
The west are responsible for this impending carnage! This whole wars are avoidable. The desperation on the part of the western powers to dictate to all countries of the world is unacceptable. NATO should get away from Russian borders so these people can live in peace.. This is exactly how the west pushed Gorgia and shakazvili into a confrontation with Russia and Gorgia suffered heavily thereafter. Why can't the west stay for a single year without fighting?

How is the West to blame here. How are they responsible?
There is no single NATO country on Russia's borders.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO and cannot even qualify to be a member at this point in time so the West has no defense pact with Ukraine but the West will seek to protect any democratic country that is under unjust threat.

ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
we in Abuja, we have PVC, but you need to come here and see how those Hausa boys recruited by APC are misbehave under police supervision, trust me it doesn't worth risking your life, nothing to benefit, only your family will still be looking for how to bury you if those miscreants kill you.

Exactly. Yet they are the worse victims of the bad governance they fight and maim for.
So my first principle of collective suffering via democracy is simple.
Yes, we will rescue the drowning men but not quick enough so he doesn't kill us too.
Let them expend all their energy of installing bad leaders. When they are spent with suffering and are ready to e rescued, then we will start to vote.

Nigerians are still not ready to move forward. You simply cannot force that horse to drink.

kollinpowel:
It's their loss ,later them go come social media to dey open mouth .

Are you sure of this?
For they will have gained the much needed rest and possibly made a few more quid.
Rather than partake in a system guaranteed to make them worse in time to come.
Voter apathy is everywhere in the world where democracy in truth is not working well.

As for the complaints.
It is better not to vote and later complain than to vote and be disappointed.
Bitter bile consumes faster from within, which is the experience of most who carry their oppressors on their heads.

sencekompis:
Pandemic didn't help, cant we folks beg this man to lead Nigeria?

There are more 'pandemics' in years to come... economic 'pandemics'.... security 'pandemics'.... environmental 'pandemics'.... all sorts.
The wise thing nations do is to elect leaders 'before' crises arise.
It is the only insurance nations have to survive.

In these parts we are always chasing crises in the third world because of lack of foresight.
Waiting to react to tragedies before seeking to instal competence, capacity and capability in leadership.
Insurgency caused us to run to a 'General' for succor but one who has not an iota of economic or social competence.... but these things will be tested and so here we are...

nedekid:
If this man runs for president, I doubt if anybody will bring tribal sentiments into his candidature.
Unfortunately such people like adesina, Obi, elumelu cannot smell power.

....And so Nigeria will not 'smell' progress....QED.
If your car is bad you go to a technician.
If your body revolts you see a doctor
If you are in a bad spot, you seek an attorney.....

Every one of these things affects Nigeria bodily.... but who do we seek to solve them.... our half literate and wholly incompetent "tribesmen'...

tesppidd:
I have always said it!

Forget all the noise PDP is making and whipping up sentiments just to get to power again.

Small thing they talk about price of garri, ptice of rice..

Forget it; With the impact of covid and the decline in the international oil market, no governmnent would have been able to save a mono economy like ours from this depression and hardship.
PDP being in power would never have performed any miracle nor changed anything.
We had it coming.

We are strictly a mono econnomy, we have failed to do any proper diversification for 30 years, and we failed to save for the rainy day.

A bloody and shameless consuming economy we have always been!

That is what goverments are elected to do.
Not manage the status quo and find excuses after the fact.
Our expectations from the goverments we elect democratically is way too low.

Kogi has issues.... a real Bermuda Triangle of maladministration.... of all sorts.
Most certainly the birth place of Esau.

Eriokanmi:
Your opinion I guess. In lagos we don't go by any religion in the choice of who governs us. If Lagosians are to go the religious route, it would bring forth confusion and chaos and we don't want that to happen here. We're a more exposed, tolerant and learned people. We don't discriminate. I could be a Muslim while my wife, a Christian.

If candidate selection is to be considered along the religious lines, Christians will always have their way. But we don't work by religion. We're one here and in other parts of the west. Take a look at every street in Lagos and do your statistics, count the number of churches and mosques alike. Look at your neighbor next door, both residents and non indigenes, you can tell which religion is on the majority side, from island to mainland, even up to the alinosho, the largest LG in lagos. You can only find a sizeable number of Muslims in epe and what's the population of epe in total? Come to ikorodu, the Christian size is huge. The support tinubu and fashola got in their terms alone was a proof religion doesn't take precedence in our political space. In my family...the jakande family, we have Christians and Muslims but we don't allow religion to choose for us. We do things as one. All we need is a leader who would bring dividends of democracy to the common man. Insecurity and all manner of vices are growing in lagos per second. We don't even know if we have a leader or not. Too bad. Our politicians, including tinubu should go and learn from baba's( Pa jakande) manner of leadership. They should read some of his books. This was the man who ruled for a few years but left a legacy which hasn't even been surpassed by those who had done 8 years in history.

Hmmm.... poignant..
Indeed they should read...
I agree there are huge knowledge gaps amongst those that aspire to lead.

CryptoTeacher:
It's like everyone wants to be president in 2023.

"Everyone'.... every Nigerian citizen has the right to contest for elected office... but because the democratic bar is set so low by the divided and ignorant citizenry that have pre-sold their franchises to sentiment.... 'anyone' is free to contest.... which is such a pity.

There is just no other profession, aspiration or venture in life so open and worthless as political office in Nigeria.
There are only a given number of pilots, doctors, petro-chemists, geologists, psychologists in Nigeria.
If any industry opens for vacancies there will be only a set number qualified for such positions.

What makes for a crowd or not at application or interview is the preset criteria.
We the citizens have so 'cheapened' the position of President and permitted an alarming level of mediocrity that 'anyone' is qualified.
Little surprise that we are the way we are.
You simply cannot experience better than your mentality. That is a law.

Until we restructure to align our sensibilities and evolve standards for life and living in Nigeria, the slide to infamy will continue.

CELEBRITIZ:
I Was there , they said he was a medical student and he graduated recently. They said he didn't sustain any injury or scratch . I'm glad he is alive but the scene was crazy . The car flew from the bridge

Yeah, saw the guard rail he vaulted over this evening..... damaged a length and a half....
He should pay for the damage to....'critical infrastructure'....
Lucky the lake is shallow in most parts at this time of the year..

Brendaniel:
The kind speed wey some Abuja drivers dey use drive ehn, well I'm not blaming this one for speed, thank God no life was lost...

Yeah, Shehu Yaradua is one of my favourite race tracks especially driving against traffic....can't do less than 130 keys.... so tempting....

RedEnergy:
NNPC imported the fuel through its own subsidiary Duke Oil. NNPC is the root of the problem, not the distributors

I don't think you heard the report of the NNPC GMD or whatever.
It was clear that they brought the tainted gasoline from Belgium..... (no pun intended).

neuf:
For a country that already had two drones executed a fight pattern and strategy without human intervention in a simulated war scenario as far back early 2000.

MQ-25 refuelling fighter jets off aircraft carriers.
Smart sniper bullet with fire and forget tech. This isn't that impressive.

cool but not impressive

Oga, try and read nau.
Those were proprietary technologies, purpose built from scratch.
This specific kit is for existing platforms, i.e choppers built for manned flight.
And it takes a whole new level of AI to build systems that act human.

..... bloody ghost chopper....
Some day Americans will be fighting wars on other continents from the safety of their Sunday afternoon family back garden barbecues....

tareigns:
Chief honestly, it saddens me. I cannot refer anyone to Nairaland anymore cos it looking more like a breeding ground for sadistic perv and lunatics, both the usual and religious ones every single day @seun de fall my hand I swear.

All said and done.
It is the active, unadulterated reflection of our society.
That in itself holds value to some.... a site free of pretenses.
We are a nation of racists, bigots, and every immoral behavior under heaven.
And the fact that it hasn't deterred most proves it is indeed part of our nature.

Surgeons in the house.
Can't see any suction..... so waris all the blood...

SmartPolician:
DPR should be.

Does the DPR still exist under the new PIL?

omoba2k2:
NNPC compromised in importing pms mixed with sulphur that iis damaging engines, that is why u will experience scarcity until the issue is resolved nationwide. Abuja and lagos should start to see signs today

Careful observers will have noticed this for years now, I mean the last four or five years.
You just cannot top up at a gas station without a noticeable change in your car's performance by either a drag or boost in acceleration and at times in cold/hot ignition and smooth or harsh idling.

I'm sure most will have mistaken it for maintenance issues but I have known it was the differing quality of the gasoline sold.
We really and urgently need to get refining onshore.
These folks in authority are just purchasing whatever they want from wherever they want and with the death of the DPR, no one to check.

.....hmmm deregulation blues loading.... see the fuel looking like tombo...
One visit to the gas station and your ride begins to sway, stagger and hiccup....

Sheuns:
You can praise your state and government without using such statement as "counterparts in other regions". We need to do better with this tribal sh*t especially on public forums such as this and twitter. These need to stop, we should do better.

It is good to 'shame counterparts' which succinctly implies the failure of the citizenry to elect quality leadership.
A while ago (during the OBJ regime I think) there was this series of peer to peer reviews amongst state governments.
I guess the widening developmental gaps between the well ruled and mediocre states put paid to that.
If you observe closely you will have realized that certain states have had average to good leaderships since democracy returned in 1999 while others have managed to elect serial failures to govern irrespective of resources.

After all for every Akwa Ibom there has been a Delta/Bayelsa.
For every Anambra there has been a certain Abia.
For every Kano there has been a Kogi.
And for every Ogun there has been.... of course Lagos.

Others have realised this and managed to improve over time.
Ebonyi, Kaduna, while others such as Cross River and Imo for example have deteriorated markedly.
I think folks up and down this country should be motivated and shamed in equal measures when good things are advertised.
I cannot see why anyone should be offended by this.
If your government is piss poor. Take it on the chin and put up such billboards in your states to shame your goverments into proper action.

One by one the pride of the government is being dismantled.
What is left to boast about that this government is different or better than the one it replaced.
Full circle we have come.... wasted another 8 years.

Instead of planning an agenda that will move them and their nation forward via the instrument of democracy, see what our youth are busy at.... name dropping and ethnocentric postulating. The very things they pretend to hate but openly embrace with all sentiment and ignorance. His will the elite supremacits not feast on them.

Long, long way to go in this country.

My dear youths.
The President has an agenda, the governors too...
The delegates have an agenda..,. what is yours... your gain out of this democratic journey...for which you expand so much energy deliberating.

'...like a giant leech at the top of the body politic, government is essentially there to fund itself...'

The truth few Nigerians realise and are willing to accept, condemn and reform (restructure).
In other climes the people fund the government they want. Here the government commandeers all the resources of the nation plus, takes almost everything for itself by creating a false sense of responsibility (endless sponsored conflicts, endless subsidies, etc) and leaving next to nothing for the rest of its citizenry, keeping them in a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency.... slavery.

Peace1993:
Well said but I don’t see how the Local govt. autonomy would bring about ‘less corruption’. Only strict law could bring about less corruption or even its eradication

It won't bring about less corruption.
There is no 'less' corruption anywhere in the world.
What power fulcrum closer to the people does is to 'contain impunity'.
Impunity is the fuel of corruption. The simple in ability of the people to hold their elected officials to account.
The further away these elected officials are the harder it is to hold them accountable.

That is why in 'sane' societies people regard their Legislators well ahead their Governors and Presidents.
Because they are accessible and open to account. No Legislator anywhere in the world is immune from prosecution.
So they are the fulcrum by which Governors and Presidents are held to account..... by this simple relationship:

The people can charge their representatives and their representatives can charge their leaders. That is how corruption is tackled by the instrument of democracy.

If the AGF is appointed by the President it still amounts to the same thing.
What we need in Nigeria above all things for starters is the proper separation of powers.
And the only thing that can guarantee that is an intellectual electorate.
We are here today in the mire because referees are players and players are referees.