ElSudani: I didn't realize Aregbeshola was such a gentleman. I would have smashed the phone and call the cops on him. You are holding your camera in someone's face and you think that is somehow ok. Funny people and funny way of thinking.
He's an ill-educated half-wit with the accent of an Akure bus conductor, who suddenly found himself in America and now thinks he's 'above' Nigeria and its people.
If I was the governor I would have given him a dirty slap there and kicked his groin.
chase4: APC chieftain and minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola was sighted in a US restaurant by a Nigerian who got into a scuffle with him over filming him without his authority.
Chinjo2: Nigerians abroad should do this to all politicians that visits. They should be disgraced until they fix this country...
You're a very stupid fool with no brain.
So if you were elected to office today, you will accept being harassed and 'disgraced' overseas by Nigerians there?
Since as a 'politician' it is your responsibility to ''fix Nigeria'', even if you're a local govt chairman or state governor? You must still magically ''fix Nigeria''.
If your sibling was elected to office, would you accept their being publicly harassed, blamed, and 'disgraced' by strangers for Nigeria's problems?
Of course you won't.
But it should happen to others.
Selfish, evil thing.
I blame free internet sha...Any riffraff with low IQ can come online and type trash from their air head.
Hedonini: Whenever the social media is downplayed or lampooned by political idiots and their agents in Nigeria, it shows us the deliberate weaponization of poverty and how it has destroyed Nigeria's liberal democracy.
Because social media users essentially represent the educated and exposed strata of society. Yet fools like seunmsg and other hirelings like 'it' strive to perpetuate the odious situation where herded votes of hungry and illiterate animals in remote regions of Nigeria serve as the basis for political power. This can't continue indefinitely. We will all be alive to see how it goes.
Rolly22: Since 1960 till date , a place called a country with abundant Natural resources Can’t have Ordinary Air ways. Na mumu people still believe in this contraption called Nigeria
Mumu typing rubbish, it is not mandatory that a country has a government-owned national carrier.
kodded: Because as long as we all have different oppinons, there will always be conflict, so it's better to be prepared for those conflicts when they come
If you are CIVILIZED, as the west claim to be, then different opinions ought to be resolved without resorting to killing each other.
Stevenson1: Nice one. The lady looks in love and guy looks in love too. If you go Guangzhou, china... You go see high rate of Igbo and Chinese partnership. I just love that so much.
The United States needs to stop interfering in other nations' affairs.
She is the Number 1 cause of the world's problems today, and any nuclear cataclysm will be the result of actions she has taken or not taken.
''According to Kelly and Laycock’s book, the United States has invaded or fought in 84 of the 193 countries recognized by the United Nations and has been militarily involved with 191 of 193 – a staggering 98 percent.''
I have been following the news of Nigeria. Im a foreigner but I would love to see the place turn into like a Dubai or have major cities like China.
Rmemeber Europeans had nothing 200 years ago. Could barely wash themselves. Had wooden teeth.
Why cant Nigeria do the same? I think they can I Think they are intelligent people that focus on the wrong things. If only they can collectively focus for progress then they can have 5 dubais.
Why not when theres no weather disasters, malaria vaccine is on the way and people are becoming more educated.
What so you think can we see a developed Nigeria in our life time?
I hope so.
When I visited it made me sick to see so much poverty over such stupid things like the card machine not working, people building churches but not hospitals, pensions not being paid but politicians buying the newest handbags abroad. These are really small things that can be fixed. I understand the energy problem is that theres a large population and energy resources are not managed properly. But if everyone just got solar panels it would be like having constant Nepa.
When I look at Nigerian women at the markets I see planners with finely done hair that took 10 hours to do. Someone precisely sat there with patience weeving such beautiful creations for a full work day, imagine if all the women gathered with that skill of precise weave making and used it for 5 days a week to build power lines? More electricity more cold goods for the local village markets.
I know Nigerians are smart but they are not focused they live in a dog eat dog world. Its so stupid that they do that and thats why God curses them with poverty When it rains it doesnt rain on one mans house! Once they realize this they can redirect their focus and finally there can be paradises in Nigeria for all.
What country are YOU from? Australia?
What is your business with Nigeria, or you don't have enough problems in your own country, with China breathing down your neck?
Where will YOUR country be in 2050?
Have you stopped oppressing and victimising the Aborigines and other racial minorities there?
franchasng: Nobody cares about whether Russia or US or the West is the friend of Africa. Africa itself is an enemy of itself, there is nothing like Africa, talk about individual tribes in Africa cos Africa and the nations that make up Africa are not united, only tribes and ethnicities are.
This is a lunatic and illiterate way of looking at the continent, and explains your dysfunctional arguments.
Okay let's even talk about which country between Russia, US and EU have helped Africans the most, and of course its the US and EU.
US DV Lottery Program alone elevated over 5million Nigerians from poverty and hunger directly and indirectly. Directly through those that left Nigeria for a better life through that program. Indirectly through their relatives, spouses and businesses in Nigeria benefiting from their income from the US.
EU too have helped a lot of Nigerians through eased migrant policies that welcomed poor Africans for decades.
The US and EU helped destroy African economies through the World Bank and IMF 'structural adjustment' policies of the 1980s. The brain drain which you are praising the west for, is actually a curse on the continent, as its best brains flee to develop the already prosperous west.
What about Russia? A highly racist nation with wickedness at their heart. They refuse to invest in Africa. They shut their borders with deadly border guards that shoot at sight. They limit entry into Russia just to ensure no immigrant from Africa and other poor countries come in yet you are foolishly supporting them.
Russia is not a rich country. They do invest in Africa, but it will never be on the scale of the Chinese or west. I much rather they help liberate Africa as they have done, than ROB Africa of its riches, while allowing its best brains to come in and develop Russia, which is what the 'kind hearted' (in your little naive mind) west does.
Wisesaying001: That was a response to the point you made about Russia not colonising Africa.
Now to the racism part every ethnicity has racists, but the narrative being pushed by Critical Race Theorists(like you) and so called anti-racists is the most racist ideology there is. It's teaching minorities that they can not succeed and are victims which is proven to make people fail and lose.
You end racism by teaching everyone we are the same and putting in policies to remove causes of inequality of opportunity. Not by teaching people to see people primarily by race.
Sorry I've no idea what you're on about.
Now to the part where Russia supported liberation movement was because because it needed more communist allies to politically spread communism around the world, and to go against the USA and NATO democracies. The more Marxist-Leninist communist countries in the world, the more powerful the Soviet Union grew to ruin the free market. They did not support the aspirations of indigenous African for freedom,in actuality they wanted to spread socialism and communism. Understood?
It is NOT your business to inquire WHY another country has supported your interests.
Or to diminish the import of that support on the grounds that that country had an ulterior reason for so doing.
That is geopolitical idiocy.
China for instance KNOWS that Russia is allied with her for reasons to do with Russia's strategic interests, as does India.
That hasn't stopped them from recognising Russia as an ally and taking a neutral stance.
So Africa should likewise care little about 'WHY' Russia is an ally, and instead, act in her interests.
Wisesaying001: This actually sound different. Russia was not interested in Africa, apart from lacking warm water ports to connect to Africa she was too busy colonising and conquering Central Asia and Siberia.
Why would Imperial Russia have bother with Africa when Asia and the Caucuses were at her door step?
Why are you giving excuses?
What is also your excuse for Russia supporting liberation movements across Africa, from Namibia to Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc?
The fact is that from a strategic perspective, Africans have no business taking sides in this war. Just remain neutral.
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.
CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.
But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.
Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.
Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.
The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.
Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.
Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.
sagitariusbaby: His nairaland war veterans said he should continue and wipe out Ukraine thinking they are wise. I just realised Africa is like this because of our love for strong lawless "dictators" in power, we praise the oppressors and chide the oppressed. A whole lot of them are shamelessly blaming Ukraine for everything while praising Putin the strongman because of their hate for the West. We surely deserve the kind of leaders that we have, because there is no difference between we and our leaders.
Shut up. Small boy. You don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting. All you know is that you feel inferior to oyinbo. CNN has brainwashed your head. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.
But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia. Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.
Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.
That is western media brainwashing of your dull head.
The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.
CatANDratTHEORY: Why must Zelensky surrender? Is Ukraine an extension of Russia? Both Russia and Ukraine were sovereign states the last time I checked.
What stops Putin from surrendering to Zelensky?
Sometimes you stand on your feet and prove a point to your enemy. Yes, Zelensky might not win the war but Putin should not be allowed to toss people around.
This is all EGO. Millions of lives could be lost as a result of this senseless pride.