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Crime › Re: Bandits Demand Weapons, Money To Release Kidnapped Oyo Students by Reference(m): 5:19am On Jun 06

Bluna:
Please don't give them weapons. They will use the same weapon to commit another one.

That is not even the worst.
They are demanding for LAWS to be made/amended.
That is truly frightening.

Laws and agendas go hand in glove.
This is beyond kidnapping for profit.
This is violent abduction for restructuring, for control, to gain equal power with government.
This are the seeds of sedition.

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Politics › Re: Remi Tinubu Donates Cars To APC Women Leaders In Abia, Anambra, Bauchi, Osun,Oyo by Reference(m): 4:20am On Jun 06

Deo1986:
Any party that wants to defeat APC in the forthcoming elections should be ready to roll out money.

There is hunger in the land!

Hunger they created by not touching inflation.
When last did you hear from the CBN Head.
He has given up having seen the futility of his mandate or has been asked not to talk anymore.

The weaponization of poverty that the Nigerian citizen has accepted and embraced.

Politics › Re: Ehiozor Regrets Leaving APC For NDC: I Moved From Frying Pan To Hell Fire by Reference(m): 8:08pm On Jun 05

helinues:
One of the funniest part about politics, just because of party ticket, the politicians wouldn't mind to be mumu to someone they are smarter than .

Imagine leaders of some people lining up like sardines in front of their party leader

When you think you have seen 'bad enough'....boom, you see even worse.

Are these people saying, if somehow they get into power they will settle the Nigeria question in his parlour.

Just sitting here and thinking if Barrister Obama the candidate will have ever found himself standing like that in the parlour of some Democratic Party leader like a school boy before the Headmaster...

Or Trump standing before....who the hell...to explain how he intended to make America great again....

Exactly what is wrong with us in this country...kai...

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Crime › Re: Boko Haram Beheads 8 Soldiers At A Military Base In Borno by Reference(m): 6:49pm On Jun 05

Why can't every military base be fortified.
Sandbag the perimeters and beyond that establish at least a two hundred meter minefield. Nothing will be able to successfully cross that.

But you go to bases and what you see are markets, motor parks and all sorts of public structures springing up around them.

We should be at code red in this country and if this persists I think the government should probably remove the gloves and start fighting really dirty. Terror for terror.

I think the era of clandestine abductions, torture and brutal public executions is just around the corner. The era of trials, incarcerations and plea bargains is coming to an end.

This is completely unacceptable.

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Politics › Re: Peter Obi Stuns EU Parliament With Powerful Message On Nigeria’s Future (VIDEO) by Reference(m): 5:54pm On Jun 05

It was the 'stun' in the headline that piqued my interest.
But my goodness, what a damp squib.
OP, please be factual in future.

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Politics › Re: Insecurity: Acquire Arms To Defend Yourselves - Emir of Argungu Tells Subjects by Reference(m): 5:44pm On Jun 05

They will come for that Amir's head.
Both the bad guys and the supposed good guys.

Politics › Re: If Tinubu Can't Rescue Kidnapped Students, He Should Resign Says Sowore (VIDEO) by Reference(m): 3:06pm On Jun 05

livinbygrace:
There is no way they will kidnapp a person not to talk of multitude without the knowledge of any security agency .
All those senior security personal from
Top to bottom have been compromised and heavily making ends meets from the latest lucrative business in town

Let me ask you this question.
Do you know the house of any policeman or where their children attend school. That is a policeman not your relation.

That is how far the average citizen is from the protection of law enforcement.

I have taxi drivers on speed dial, my auto mechanic, my barber, my attorney, family doctor, etc, but how come the police is so distant from the scheme of things despite the fact they are supposed to offer a critical service.

Why, be cause the Nigerian police by structure is not service oriented. They don't work for the citizens. They don't know them, we don't know them. They are a vestage of colonialism when they were created to be a barrier between the people and government. To keep law and order. That is why they were named 'The Police Force'.

If you have policing brought down to community levels, where they worked WITH people and lived amongst them, they know you and you know them. They attend the same worship centres and are proud to wear the uniform to weddings, graduations and funerals of people they serve and vise versa then how will they nor be there when you need them, how will they not be willing to make the sacrifices to protect what they consider theirs.

Look Nigerians. We are a long way off spinning the web of a decent, progressive society.

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Politics › Re: If Tinubu Can't Rescue Kidnapped Students, He Should Resign Says Sowore (VIDEO) by Reference(m): 2:47pm On Jun 05

Mr. President should fast track the restructuring of security and the creation of subnational institutions to get this monkey off his back.

Every passing day that a person is abducted, killed or a community in a far flung place is sacked, all eyes will rightly turn on Abuja because to whom is given absolute power, absolute responsibility is expected.

You claim to have given states greater allocations than ever. Now give them greater responsibilities than ever. The resources are not only for pilgrimages and flyovers, but to secure the people within their jurisdiction.

In a few years then the next level of policing should kick into gear, local government/county police commands/departments to ensure the law touches every village and hamlet.

Then let me see where these brigands will hide when over a million men and women put on the uniform full time and part time and place their hands on the Holy books to swear to uphold the law and bring criminals to the noose.

Just consider Abuja with each Area Council having its own police. How for instance will the cows roam freely when they know AMAC maybe tolerant but as soon as they cross into Bwari all the cows will be rounded up and confiscated.

Politics › Re: CCTV Footage Shows Agbese Signing For Ugochinyere by Reference(m): 2:37pm On Jun 05

Not interested.

Me, I am all about governance as it relates to the welfare and progress of the nation and her citizens.

They can appoint a donkey to their useless positions for all I care. Won't change a thing.

Will only be interested in the Legislature when this country is restructured and the people start paying the wages and upkeep of their representatives by themselves not the Executive who they are supposed to be supervising.

I have said it a hundred times in relation.
That if EPL teams were to pay the salaries of the referees I cannot see anyone but the richest clubs winning every single match and tournament.

The people should pay for representation then the representatives will work for and not against them as useless 'yes men' to every anti people policy.

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Business › Re: Dangote Moves To Revive Nigeria's Forgotten Auto Industry by Reference(m): 2:31pm On Jun 05

mcquin:
He should start with power. No country truly develops without power.

Ofcourse, I can’t advise a man 100s of times richer than myself but then if it’s for reasons as patriotism and not the money he already has, Nigerians are pleading for investments in power. I pray this reaches him.

The power sector is too badly structured to attract his kind of investment. The best he can do is similar to what he is doing with energy, that is invest either in generation or transmission. Distribution is just too murky. Too much wahala.

The government is not helping, not reforming the industry.

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Business › Re: Dangote Moves To Revive Nigeria's Forgotten Auto Industry by Reference(m): 2:28pm On Jun 05

fasho01:
As much as it's a welcome development, allowing one man control several sectors in a country's economy is monopoly gone too far

It can only be considered a monopoly if the industries are related and one industry confers undue advantage on the other and to the detriment of competitors.

In this case if Dangote says anyone who buys a Peugeot get his refined petrol at a discount for life, then he can be viewed as a threat to other competing automakers but I have not heard anyone buy a truck of petrol and get free bags of cement.

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Business › Re: Dangote Moves To Revive Nigeria's Forgotten Auto Industry by Reference(m): 2:19pm On Jun 05

Dogalmighty17:
The West will never allow Nigeria have a functional steel industry. That's why the CIA paid off Russian engineers to sabotage Ajaokuta and it can't work till date. Ajaokuta had built in systematic points of failure by design. Because the West knows that if a country gets it right with steel, then it's industrialization is assured. This is the first thing China and India tackled and today, they are striving with the west.

Which West.
Is it the west that has already lost their steel industries to the Chinese.

The only serious steel production going on in America and the EU are of specialized steel products. The mass market products are long gone East. Everyone has surrendered to Beijing. Cannot match their low prices.

The west no longer dictate industrial products and production worldwide. Why do think Trump has been shooting the tariff arrows since he was sworn in.

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Business › Re: Dangote Moves To Revive Nigeria's Forgotten Auto Industry by Reference(m): 2:14pm On Jun 05

That is great.... but Peugeot (Peeyo).....kai... embarassed

Why not team up with the Chinese, look for one of them who is willing to JV production in Nigeria because the way the Chinese are going they will eventually bankrupt ever automaker out there including your investments if you cannot 'pull them closer'.

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Politics › Re: NDC Clarifies On Party’s Primaries, Denies Imposition Of Candidates by Reference(m): 12:50pm On Jun 05

Many impressive, so called big wigs from the East.
But who are the stars from the South-west and Mid-belt around which the party hopes to create a solar system of members, the so called election winning political structures from those two regions or is the NDC a North-West, South-East construct.

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Politics › Re: State Police Constitutional Framework Near Completion - Bayo Onanuga by Reference(m): 10:37am On Jun 05

WizardOfNG:
Well-said. No Nigerian annoys me more than those saying Governors will abuse State Police. Nigerians are dying like chickens daily, innocent children are being kidnapped. Teachers beheaded. Women raped and violated by bandits and terrorists.

Yet some are talking of Governors abusing State police? How many serious political opponents do most Governors have? Pata pata 20 or so.

How foolish is it to say state Policing should not arrive because a Governor will bully 20 to 30 of his politician rivals yet thousands of Nigerians are being killed by opportunist savages?

Honestly Nigerians are highly irresponsible.
Yes, I agree there is a possibility of abuse, just as Federal Police has and is being misused and their powers sometimes abused, but should we disband the Federal police for that reason.

We are talking about the problem of inadequacy, of caoacity. The lack of size and depth of the Federal Police. The unpoliced spaces scattered around the country that criminals exploit.

Thirty years ago the bulk of high criminality was urbane in nature and the worst of rural crime was about highway men. Today the situation has completely reversed. The criminals have gone deep into the woods, the rural areas. Even those abducted in towns are now taken far away from the knowlwege and capabilities of the Federal police.

And finally concerning responsibility.
It is far, far, far easier to hold a governor in charge of a state police accountable than the a President in charge of a Federal police and is backed by the Armed forces and secret services. A governor has limited powers. The only defence he has is the immunity clause that can and should be revised to limit it scope.

Moreover the Federal police will always step into cases that escalate and threaten to become national embarrassment.

The whole point is for the citizens to be vigilant and active in holding their leaders accountable.

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Politics › Re: State Police Constitutional Framework Near Completion - Bayo Onanuga by Reference(m): 10:21am On Jun 05

Leepeak:
State police when Governor go use take rob people
Wike, sheriff, Benin governor, all will be use

Disagreements and operational clashes may frequently arise between state and federal agencies regarding who has the authority to investigate or prosecute specific

I hope these are the reasons for the delay. A clear delineation of responsibilities.

Politics › Re: We Are Set To Commission 30 New Projects In FCT - Wike by Reference(m): 10:14am On Jun 05

Mr. Wike. What is happening to the Kado-Jabi link bridge. Why has it been abandoned for close to a year now. Causing a lot of traffic wahala, one way indiscipline.

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Politics › Re: State Police Constitutional Framework Near Completion - Bayo Onanuga by Reference(m): 9:12am On Jun 05

Honestly, this will be one of the most significant changes this country has witnessed since independence.

It is time states are empowered to secure their territories. And with power will come responsibility. So that the Federal Government can focus and specialize on national security and stability.

It is absolutely not the business of the Federal authorities if a robbery or an abduction takes place in any state except if the crime is linked to other crimes or groups operating outside and beyond the authority of any one state.

This will be an unprecedented achievement of this government if done well. It cannot come soon enough. More boots on the ground. Better understanding of situations, greater trust of authorities.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kim Jong Un Inspects New Nuclear Plant, Plans ‘exponential’ Weapons Production by Reference(m): 8:56am On Jun 05

PulaPower:
How did you know this?

Where’s your evidence?

A country China regularly sends food aid to prevent it's collapse. A country that cannot feed itself since his grandfather's time.

Politics › Re: Kidnappings: Reno Omokri Under Buhari In 2021 Vs Tinubu's Administration In 2026 by Reference(m): 8:48am On Jun 05

Knowing Nigeria this well, I can hazard a guess that in another decade we will still be comparing regimes for how many have been abducted and how many schools sacked.

A nation that cannot solve it's basic problems despite endless musical chairs of leadership changes. Elections of no positive consequences. Swearing-ins of no value. Dysfunctional democracy.

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Politics › Re: Kidnappings: Reno Omokri Under Buhari In 2021 Vs Tinubu's Administration In 2026 by Reference(m): 8:40am On Jun 05

PulaPower:
“Nigeria has approximately 300,000 schools and fewer than 300,000 soldiers. It is not practicable for the Federal Government to guard every school in Nigeria. That is why President Bola Tinubu proposed State Police and asked the Governors to get on board. Only the State Police can secure Nigeria’s 300,000 schools.

But this is analogy is valid and correct.

But it wasn't valid in Jonathan 2O14 and Buhari 2021. That is the purpose of this post. An expose.

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Education › Re: WAEC Candidates Sit For Practical In Darkness In Oyo State (Video) by Reference(m): 7:59am On Jun 05

Edojoma:
The waec team in charge bleeped up big time, who writes exams at night.... Was dat d time d exam was suppose to start

They shouldn't blame it on insecurity, oyo state is not d only state were kidnapping has occurred.. We are angry with d kidnapping n insecurity dere, but waec should not use it as an excuse .

Is d transportation system not working, are people not doing business dere, is dere no movement of people n goods dere, didn't some of d student travel dere as well.. They shouldn't blame dia logistics issue on insecurity to escape blame.

But is it a cardinal sin for SCHOOLS to have electricity in a 2026 world. How much will it cost to provide 5 kw solar kit to every school in Oyo. I bet a lot less than is spent on frivolities.

But it could power some serious learning aids that both teachers and students could do with.

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Food › Re: Nigerians Turn To Charcoal, Firewood As Cooking Gas Price Skyrockets by Reference(m): 7:01am On Jun 05

k2money:
My brother I don't know maybe you live in a core village because have traveled to length and breadth of the country . Everybody in the city of every part of the country have cooking Gas and in the village the average people have cooking Gas

Oga, if you don't believe me.
Just use Google as the referee on this matter.
You are completely out of touch.

Or next time you travel just make a visual observation, count the number of places where cooking is happening from the beginning of your journey to the end and number the gas fires versus wood/coal fires.

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Food › Re: Nigerians Turn To Charcoal, Firewood As Cooking Gas Price Skyrockets by Reference(m): 6:49am On Jun 05

k2money:
90% use cooking Gas. But people turning to charcoal is a big lie. Do you people think charcoal is cheap?.
After burning 500 or 600 Naira charcoal that's the end no reuse

Are you saying 9 out of 10 Nigerians use cooking gas....

If there is a bigger lie ever heard in this country I will probably drop dead.

Haba.

You mean all those construction labourers on petty sites. All those farmers ecking out a living. All those road side market women....and on and on.

You need to leave that Lagos and travel out to other places, not state capitals where the real Nigerians lives. That Lagos is ruinous to the real sense of what this country is. It is what has made the present leadership totally out of touch with the reality of Nigeria.

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Food › Re: Nigerians Turn To Charcoal, Firewood As Cooking Gas Price Skyrockets by Reference(m): 6:44am On Jun 05

It's called inflation.
And as long as Nigerians cannot press their government to fight it they will continue to sink and sewer in despondency.

The leadership of other better run, prosperous nations are under severe pressure right now with the war induced cost of living crises.

Ours here are on holidays even though Nigeria had a commanding headstart with, 'subsidy is gone'.

Pity. After all the trees are burnt down, what happens.

Travel › Re: Grandmother's Transformation After Leaving Nigeria (Photos, Video) by Reference(m): 6:36am On Jun 05

Whether the same person or not it is hilarious to see both sides of the socio-political argument attack and defend the notion respectively.

For those desperate to deride the management of the country by insinuating an escape from her grip means instant transformation and those that feel such a radical transformation is just not possible.

So, should we be birds escaped from the fowler's snare or are we crabs in a bucket of despair.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Andoni Iraola Is Liverpool's New Head Coach by Reference(m): 8:50pm On Jun 04

Very good choice. He will do well.

Properties › Re: Have You Ever Lived In This Kind Of House? by Reference(m): 8:48pm On Jun 04

Olofofo247ng:
I once lived in this kind of house in Mushin. 24 rooms, one prepaid meter, and a single toilet that everybody was expected to wash “after use” but nobody actually washed. My room was sandwiched between Mama Kemi who fried akara by 4am and Brother Taye who was learning keyboard with earphones that didn’t work. So every morning was a remix: akara oil hissing, “Do-Re-Mi-Fa”...blasting from next door, and NEPA doing their own percussion by taking light immediately your water in the kettle starts boiling. The real wahala was the bathroom queue. If you mistakenly forget your bucket outside, you’d meet it converted to eba container by the yard kids, or worse, find Papa Ndu’s wrapper hanging on your line with a note: “Abeg manage am, rain beat me.”

The peak madness was when our landlord’s son installed one CCTV camera facing the corridor after too many slippers went missing. First night, light went and the whole building gathered to watch “playback” with phone torch. We caught Mama Sikiru’s goat chewing the wire, two teenagers kissing by the tank, and Uncle Emma sleepwalking with only a towel and chewing stick. By morning the camera itself had disappeared. Landlord asked who took it, and 15 tenants shouted in unison: “Na NEPA!”...Till I left the house, nobody knows if it was a person or NEPA spirit that stole the camera.

Sports › Re: FIFA Bans Refillable Water Bottles At World Cup Venues by Reference(m): 6:16pm On Jun 04

femi4:
Good one

Let them ban lasers too n stop fans from picking gk's towel

Lasers are the terrible weapons north African fans use to intimidate rival teams and create undue sporting advantage.

I don't know why FIFA is not intending to ban them and why CAF has not clamped down on their use in it's competitions. Those things can actually cause severe eye injuries.

Politics › Re: The killings & abductions must stop, enough is enough - Seun Okinbaloye by Reference(m): 12:31pm On Jun 04

Chucks13:
Shame go catch in few hours time. You are damn shouting aso rock and oyo govetnor refused everybody who want to enter the bush for escue but soon before today's runs out you and your stew-pid Eze go bow in shame.

You did it in Niger we brought them back. You did it in Zamfara we brought them back. You did it in Borno we brought them back. And this Oyo case we will still bring them back and shame you, wait and see.

So it is bringing back that is the solution to insecurity. Bring them back and then what, go to bed.

Why is the black man like this.
Before this latest incident how many hundreds of abductions have occurred involving thousands of people and so many deaths. Why can't a solution be found.

Are we going to live like this and insist on being led like this. Who is next, where is next.

When an airline crashes in the developed world there is frantic urgency to find out why simply because other aircraft are in the air, taking off and landing at the same time and people need to know they are safe.

If there is a hint that the model of aircraft comes with a fault the entire global fleet is grounded.

Where there is a terrible breach of security the people want solutions and justice but they also want answers and systems put in place immediately so it does not catch anyone by surprise again.

Perhaps if we have been busy doing that and compelling better quality governance the Oyo tragedy will not have happened in the first place.

Every sane Nigerian will continue holding their breath until many months, even years go by without a similar thing occurring.

Politics › Re: 2027: Jonathan Too Smart To Risk His Legacy For Another Presidency — Edem Duke by Reference(m): 12:11pm On Jun 04

I'm happy that folks are beginning to realize the fact that public office like every where else in the world does not enhance the air around those that embrace it, hang onto it in desperation and make it their life"s ambition. They may get rich and powerful but they simply cannot but destroy their legacies.

Goodluck is pussyfooting around a minefield that the late Mr. Buhari could not resist and destroyed his legacy completely. Only if he had never been President, what will we all have remembered him for....the best that never was...?

If a politician can resist the urge to be corrupt, to be indecent, or even to continue in office, that maybe perhaps the best thing that has happened to him.

Today many say that Mr.Yaradua was the best in the series of President's we have had in the 5th Republic. My reply to that is simple. He didn't last long enough to find out otherwise.

Politics ruin people.

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Politics › Re: Electricity: NERC Approves Special Compensation For Band A Customers by Reference(m): 12:02pm On Jun 04

ajepako:
What exactly is this classism and elitism called Band A ?

Mind you , I'm on Band A and to be fair, I enjoy at least 16 hours daily ( 4 hour shorter than expected) but why impose it on citizens?

So many folks on Band A cant afford it and you see darkness in some homes due to inability to afford the cost

Why not place everybody on what they can afford?

Abi wetin be this sef?

And this whole shenighan stated with Tinubu ( even dumb Buhari didnt force band A on us)

I think the policy was simply to take from the 'rich' to 'subsidize' the poor o owing that people of economic class tended to band (no pun intended) together as per house values/prices.

And the idea is somewhat credible in that richer people tend to consume more, much more than poorer folks despite prices. So if rich man A consumes a kilowatt and pays say a hundred naira, the income will make up for poor man z who consumes a quarter of a kilowatt and pays say twenty naira.

However the problem with all this is law, justice and simple demographics.

The law is constantly cast aside even by those who make them. So the rich man will avoid paying and get away with it because he is above the law.

The delineation of territories under bands has been extraordinarily unjust with a lot of folks on modest m and cast into expensive bands.

And the very fact that Nigeria has an overwhelming umber of poor folks and just very few folks who can truly afford the tariffs so the whole scheme is collapsed. DISCOS are not getting much out of it and the people are more or less bankrupt.

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