₦airaland Forum

teemac01:
people need to start moving around with AirTag or gps devices or something....this is getting out off hand.

Perhaps even embedded microchips beneath the skin in the case of body searches that I heard is practiced by the abductors these days.

Bullhari:
Now you have exposed them to the same risk they avoid.

Must you record and post everything?

Do you think this is news to them.
Things they see everyday from their roadside bush hideouts but the Safari factor will not permit attacks until they can find out how to stop such a large number of vehicles and the logistics to handle the sheer number of travelers.

The risk is for any vehicle that breaks down. It will be devoured like a sheep that is cut off from the flock in the land of predators.

My oh my.
Who is advising this man.
This is complete FUBAR.
A complete misread of the situation.
I thought he was not a career politician, still had quite a bit of reality playing through his mind but it appears politics is getting the better of him for I g him to say very absurd things.

Omalicious1:
My OG used to tell me to always "act broke" once in a while... I did it for 2 months and realised that even the people I called friend, even my babe, them run leave me, from refusing to take my calls to stylishly avoiding anything that will make her visit me. At that point, I started being on the lookout for myself and started valuing myself more. I don't care if they say I'm stingy or something.

See what I am saying.
You have allowed the actions of others dehumanize you, strip you of your remarkable values, the end result of which is a broken society where everyone is scattered and easily picked off by predators.

Don't be a little minded man.
That is life.
That is the TRUE meaning of love.
That is the the test of sacrifice.
To expect NOTHING in return, EVER.

One of the most inspirational quotes that came to me a long while ago and has stuck with me for life, goes:

"A relationship can only be at rest when one party ACCEPTS to be subservient to the other"

And this truism concerns every kind of relationship that exists. From that of God and man, husband and wife, between business partners and even soccer team mates. One of the party MUST CONTINUE to make the sacrifice for that relationship to be at peace, at rest.

The idea that there is equality in relationships is just fairy tales. We are created to make sacrifices. We are created out of sacrifice.

You had accepted this role but have FAILED the test of rest. I suggest you get back to doing what made that relationship work and ignore everything else or go down like folks in the West in a blaze of selfishness onto broken homes and destroyed psyches.

Don't try to get her to equity.
It is the nature of humanity.

njokuuche77:
Everyone is publishing memoirs and telling their side of history. When President Tinubu eventually writes his autobiography, what chapter will Nigerians remember most, the hardship, or something else entirely?

It is entirely up to him what Nigerians will remember him for. He has ten months left. So says the Constitution.

EmekaBlue:
Na Obasanjo run am... Then use you to cover until his turn again. So na police open door for a whole General then

Coomasie was very powerful back then.
I remember.... better not say abeg.

Wickedfacts:
OBJ was actually rejected when he was begging for a 3rd term.

Abdulsalam did his 6 months and left despite pressure for him to continue.

That pressure could have led to a complete breakdown of law and order. He made the right choice. International sanctions were crippling the economy and it was only matter of time before we will be blocked from selling oil which will have meant complete disaster. No military government after Abacha will have survived without serious violence.

BarrElChapo:
He could have run for presidency at anytime and nobody would kick against it but he chose to be one of the king makers, wielding power in the shadows. The higher calling.

No, he could not.
The Presidency had to go to the South West for reasons we all know too well. After that it was purely a civilian thing, totally out of his control on e he dropped the khaki. Anyway he was never that charismatic, even as a military officer.

MarketDispatch:
All these people in the pictures could not develop Nigeria meanwhile only two persons developed UAE,Dubai, only One person developed Singapore

Well, to cut him some slack.
The situation around his leadership did not allow for much governance. National cohesion and stability was the objective then and a swift return to democracy. It was more about politics than governance.

However he and his colleagues could have done a lot more with the inadequate Constitution bestowed on this country.

He, above every other living leader had the best opportunity to restructure this country because at the time the destructive forces of ethnicity and religion besetting this country were evenly matched by a dire need for cohesion and solidarity to prevent total national implosion.

It was at this juncture he could have constituted a national conference to chart a new way forward. No one or any group will have resisted a restructuring. That opportunity he missed.

So history will praise him for resisting the temptation to extend military rule but rather more circumspect about a country he had every opportunity to restructure before handing over.

Those fundamental problems he could not tackle are front and centre of our challenges as a nation today, problems our kind of democracy is just not equiped to handle.

Shimbo96:
are you expecting those useless people to beat SOUTH KOREA AND CZECH? Dreamers 😜

It's a World cup.
In tournament football anyone can beat anyone.
Saudi defeated Argentina last time around.
Every single 'big team' has been beaten by a minnow in the history of tournament.

Gbadugbakun:
Next time give the contract to a family member. All these caterers are thieves.

How many times have we heard this before and how many times will it turn out even worse.

bamayo:
Easier said than done, do you think all our leaders don't want to do all these?
Everybody wants to achieve remarkable things. From Obasanjo to Tinubu, you think none hasn't thought about this? the question is how easy is it ?
we dont even have the money to achieve that

Very easy.
The PIA was supposed to detach the NNPC from government but it is still acting like a parastatal, not a proper LTD. Why can't this government do exactly that. Properly privatise it, or better still go the Aramco way and put it up for public patronage so that you and I could for the first time benefit from our assets.

But the won't b cause they want the NNPC to remain a closed, shady entity for all the bad reasons.

Get Ajaokuta up and running, and put it up for public sale and all the government assets that are presently liabilities.

If the PHCN was a public company instead of a defacto private one, it will have done a lot better. The issues affecting service delivery will have been better understood and resources and solutions more widely available.

Those are the things government can do without lifting a finger. Get their assets to work for them and the people creating wealth across board.

Mr. Williams, don't let that get to your head.
You and your mates be calm, focused and you will get the job done. All these shall come to pass and if you do well they will turn around to be your trumpets.

Darkjudge24:
Tinubu is and will never be a failure. It's just amazing how we call our leaders failure when we don't even have the metrics to measure them.

For one, political failure means the inability to keep YOUR OWN promises. The things you said you will accomplish that people believes and thus voted for you.

Secondly, as a politician, the things you criticised past governments about creating an atmosphere that you will do better if given the opportunity particularly banking on your own history in public service. It is like political fraud. Posing as something, to get something but ended up different.

And all this is because democracy as a system puts you on a stopwatch from the time you are sworn in till the time you have to submit your test papers. You are given exactly four years to do everything you said.

Sometimes like in written or oral educational examinations the examiner may score you well based on intent. He can see you know it just that you probably didn't have enough time to present it properly.

Intent can also get a politician reelected if he can show what we call in these parts 'workings'.

So where are the promised achievements of this government or where are the workings to show intent in all the critical areas Nigerians care about. Remember...tick tock...tick tock...tick tock...

That is why abroad they go in looking normal and leave office looking far older than their ages....here to hey come out fresher and younger because they practically do no work or worrying.

Nice. So he can easily sell his assets and buy a country....bandits permitting of course... but Rwanda will be a nice buy. Lots of foreign investments coming in....just imagine...Dangote Land....or Republic of Dangoteria...

That is just terrible.
Then what are you trying to do....jump into a pit with both legs ..

Sir, kindly go find out exactly what the problems of Nigeria are....articulate well thought off, well researched solutions....before attempting to contest.... because...

We are sick and tired of experimenting.
Of being led by unprepared people.

If you are not actively seeking solutions, exactly what are you doing today, tomorrow, everyday of the week. It should be your passion, your waking thoughts, your heartbeat.... solutions.... solutions... solutions....

If not you will be like the man you are trying to replace. A man of excellent political competencies but a totally failed administrator....I heard the new power minister is not even of STEM background. So he will need an interpreter in the most basic of meetings....see the poor quality we have to put up with ..

youngrichnigga:
Maybe she kept that for her and her team, she should have asked the owner to give her permission.
But the oga sef lied about the N5 million budget for food, everything looks low-key with the type of coolers, etc

Yeah, honestly expecting to see a van load. The stuff in those pictures is what you take to a family picnic at the Abuja Park and Zoo for New Year's Day celebrations....but I guess inflation is messing with everyone's cranial computers....

Mr. Obi.
Mr Nnamdi Kanu's detention makes a lot of sense to the establishment and to the state. The charges and conviction are in line with the allegations.

The problem here is simple. The failure of eastern leaders to make his case a political one rather than a criminal one right from the get go.

There was no concerted effort at making his case as one of agitation for equity and justice, the foundation of the movement.

The people and leadership of the Niger Delta managed the militancy to the extent no one is in the slammer today for the deaths and destruction of that period, rather a half hearted amnesty and a few carrots have been dangled to quieten the movement.

But where are the equivalent of the Ijaw elders that engaged with the polity and acted as mediators....

By trying to make this an election issue you have just given your opponents a stick with which to beat you. They will make his case about you and not about the East in general. They will side step the issues and make you the lightning rod.

Mandem05:
That is exactly what this is, innocent until proven guilty unfortunately, and CAF/FIFA allows this mess to be perpetrated.

Ah, you need to watch a bit of those Border Security: Canada series on Discovery. Any hint, any news of official indiscretion and you are turned back.

FIFA should have made it clear to teams what is possible and what isn't and except they can get the teams diplomatic passports I cannot see first world countries breaking their own laws simply because hey are hosting international events.

I mean these countries host a lot of events in the course of a typical year from concerts, exhibitions, sports events, high profile meetings. They break the law for one, they break the law for all and trust me lawyers are just waiting for such loopholes.

Partey is even lucky his case is already in the judicial pipeline, if not he may have been arrested as per international warrants issued for fugitives. These guys at the borders listen to news. Their Intel is top notch.

Stephen0mozzy:
Oya make US invite am, just as Canada invited the ref US denied entry 😅

The US has already granted him a visa and he has passed through US Immigration as I understand. Has no problem with US laws which are slightly different.

The US requires a conviction apparently, Canada on the other hand just requires an official allegation, aka, a charge to deny at the discretion of border control.

Ironfaceman:
Neither Kano or Lagos should be credited for dangotes wealth, except the person is being mischievous.

Dangote was sole beneficiary of Cement waivers and made bastard money from

Obajana Cement Plant Kogi State
Ibese Cement Plant Ogun State
Gboko Cement Plant Benue State
Okpella Cement Plant Edo State
Itori Cement Plant Ogun State

Lagos and Kano where just logistics offices

Foundations, foundations, foundations.
Cement is not the foundations of the Dangote empire, trading was, not even manufacturing and Kano was where it all started a long while ago.

I have this uncanny privilege of being a witness to many historical facts about Nigeria and I say I was privileged to have lived in Singer for a very brief period when Dangote was very much a Kano based young businessman.

ARISHEM:
So that's the reason they laid siege to the strait of Hormuz

Who is laying siege to where.
Are you in the news at all.
They have been trying to break the siege for weeks now.

What they are laying siege to are Iranian poets to prevent Iran from benefitting from the war while preventing their neighbours from doing so.

Very crafty of the US.
Selling oil at a premium off the war they are championing and then restock their reserves when the prices collapse again... very crafty.

SlavaUkraini:
Because Peter Obi is afraid of his Supporters

He cannot call them to order, when it is obvious that they are wrong...

That is weak leadership...

But is leadership in a democracy not supposed to fear followership.

This is the exact problem we have in black Africa. A complete misconception about how societies are built. The thinking that leadership MUST BE FEARED. That leadership that is NOT FEARED, IS WEAK.

Who taught you folks this.
Is there anyone in the White House, in the Republican party, in the US government that fears President Donald Trump....or PM Starmer of the UK or Macron of France....or leaders of other democratic nations...

What they have is respect for the office, and for the person if he is of good conduct. But fear.... that is for dictators and autocrats, the Putin's, the Xi's. Not for someone who perhaps lived on my street, came to my house to ask me to help him into power and a few days later I become terrorized by him. That is not leadership.

And that is why today the people are at the mercy of those they elect as supposed servants. Because they cannot see themselves as the owners of democracy, the drivers of democracy. So the benefits never get to them who own controlling shares in their country.

Please oh, renew your mind about what democracy means.

I am not an Obidient. I don't have a voters card and have never voted and probably never will. Bit if that man ever happens to be elected, I do sincerely hope he continues to fear the people who put him there and by so doing, do their bidding, not his. Do their agenda, not his, prosper them and not himself and his family alone, leaving a people that cannot hold him to account stranded.

Please Obidients, donot allow anyone enslave you. Keep on putting pressure on anyone and everyone aspiring to lead. Let him who wants to be held captive to any tin god remain imprisoned. It is their choice.

yemre:
You people should keep disrespecting your hosts everywhere you go. You will not register your own party, you will be looking around for any party that will accommodate you on a platter without contesting for tickets in the primaries , and the moment they do, you find a fault and disrespect them.

I just hope the actions of the obidients and that of Obi himself doesn't cost him a chance to be in the ballot in 2027 eventually.

Why are opinionated people such a threat to you folks.

You sit here and admire democracies in the West. How free speech and diverse opinions have shaped and developed them.

But back home it cannot be tolerated. We must have regimented societies where boy scout rules reign aka follow the leader.

We rejoice when our much hated Donald Trump is opposed on the streets, opposed in the courts, opposed in the Legislature, opposed in the polity, opposed by celebrities, opposed here and there. We say, yes that is democracy in action.

But here at home we are totally outraged at the thought of having same. Here, dissent is tantamount to rebellion, criticism is now termed 'hatred', and in the case of the 'headless mob', it means such associations cannot win elections as they are bad for democracy......

I just wonder, what kind of democracy do.you folks mean. See Oshiomhole in the Legislature yesterday. Pressing to have people accountable. But the very institution of principal accountability will have none of it. They want silence which to me is just acquiescence, the failure of society.

How.

You want to own their hearts, their consciences and even their mouths.

Oga, it is you that is the danger.
You want totalitarian rule, which I call feudalism.

You want their support, not their opinions and you call that democracy....

I have been saying this.
Black Africa cannot get its nations to form viable societies. It is either autocracy or nothing as viewed both by leaders and supporters alike.

Dreal1247:
When I saw the senators distancing themselves from Oshomole because of his comments on the NNPC, it was then that I understand that the Nigeria problem is institutionalized. Imagine after spending hugely on the turnaround maintenance of the Port Harcourt refinery, we saw them deceive us that works were done, up till today, the refinery is not working.
And the senators are making it clear that they can never probe the system.

Welcome to Nigeria.

Bobloco:
Obidients this!, Obidients that!, Obidients...!

Who exactly are these Obidients?

Are they aliens? Where do they live? Where do they operate?

The fixation on Obidients is something else entirely. The obsession is so intense that one would think they are the root cause of every problem in the country. The hardships, the kidnappings, killings, maiming of school children, teachers etc

At times, I wonder why so much attention is devoted to Obidients while far more pressing national issues demand urgent focus and accountability.

It is natural.human instinct to be threatened by an equaliser. Other parties have noisy, boisterous supporters as well, that now have to share the media space. This a a clear and present danger to them.

ARISHEM:
I disagree with him on this.
This man should direct his blame on NFF. Not on leadership. FIFA have made it a rule that government should not interfere with local football ruling body

Leadership is nobody's name.
Leadership is leadership.
The NFF has leadership.
The Sports Ministry has leadership.
The country has leadership.
They are distinct responsibilities but they all influence one another to form a system of governance.

It is the systematic failure I suppose he is referring to. A situation where no one is held accountable for anything.

Moroccoguy:
What happens to this man sense, Italy, Poland, Demak and wales they didn't qualify, can we blame there's too as poor management?

Gravina, Buffon and Gattuso all stepped down from their positions following Italy's failure which is similar to Nigeria's, that is second time running.

I haven't asked about Poland or Denmark but I am certain serious inquisition is going on in those nations as well.

Here our NFF has acted like that toddler that lets out a banging fart but pretends it is someone else.

No one, and I mean absolutely no one has owned up to this failure and nothing, I mean nothing has been said or done to investigate what happened, thoughtless of planning to avoid a repetition. The Sports Ministry, their Daddy has said or done nothing.

Just the familiar, return to the weather beaten 'drawing board' which in my opinion is a euphemism for 'rinse and repeat'.

If this is not leadership failure, tell me what is.

Yeah.

The leadership recruitment process that established the Heads of all sporting organisations and associations is obviously where the problem lies.

The NFF elections for instance is similar to political party congresses enmeshed in secrecy, from candidature to the ballot. The organisation is run like a secret society despite the fact that it operations affect millions of people that have no say in it.

Little wonder it just cannot free itself from the recurring stench of corruption that afflicts both it and its senior cousin FIFA.