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Politics / Re: Projects Initiated And Completed By The Buhari Led Government. by RZArecta2(m): 11:22pm On Dec 26, 2019
BlackfireX:
PDP rodents...
apc zombie, how far ?

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Car Talk / Re: Chevrolet Mechanic Needed In Surulere by RZArecta2(m): 12:43am On Dec 26, 2019
GentleChief:


This got me rolling on the floor...

Demonic kor... Satanic Ni grin grin grin
im telling you, that car is demonic. Cheap but demonic, I can’t even dash it to my enemy
Car Talk / Re: NAJA Crowns Mitsubishi L200 As Nigeria Pick-up Truck Of The Year 2019 by RZArecta2(m): 12:33am On Dec 26, 2019
BÛLL SHÎT grin

Definitely a rigged awards show when we all know Nigerians who use trucks will ALWAYS swear by the Toyota Hilux. Mitsubishi most likely shared brown envelopes to win the mumu award cool
Politics / Re: Dasuki Must Remain In Prison by RZArecta2(m): 12:22am On Dec 26, 2019
When illiterates talk, it’s easy to spot their nonsense from a mile. The money Dasuki is accused of squandering covered all administrations from Obj down to Gej, some of your MCM’s in this junta have their hands deep in the cookie jar, the names are there for all to see so why are you guys afraid of trying Dasuki in open court ? Why did Badeh and that other Gen have to be silenced with all the charade of an investigation by the military (draining ponds and media trials) ? You people are funny biko cool
Politics / Re: I Hope History Will Be Kind To Me – Buhari by RZArecta2(m): 12:10am On Dec 26, 2019
This genocidal despot is obviously living in another planet, sipping codeine and smoking kush. History will expose your disaster of a junta sir cool

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Politics / Re: Mc Oluomo Is Coming For Us All. by RZArecta2(m): 3:18pm On Dec 25, 2019
I’m seeing some funny interpretations to David Hundeyin’s article, a word is enough for the wise though
Politics / Re: Mc Oluomo Is Coming For Us All. by RZArecta2(m): 1:07pm On Dec 25, 2019
Simplecity:
Merry Christmas smiley
same to you bro
Politics / Re: SERAP Welcomes Release Of Sowore, Dasuki, Urges Buhari To Obey All Court Orders by RZArecta2(m): 5:50am On Dec 25, 2019
The tyrant should free

Zakzakky
Dadiyata
Jones Abiri

That îdiot in Cross River should free Agba Jalingo

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Politics / Re: Mc Oluomo Is Coming For Us All. by RZArecta2(m): 5:11am On Dec 25, 2019
mployer:


He made a lot of sense. Your inattentive attitude is part of the problems he highlighted.
you for no answer am

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Politics / Mc Oluomo Is Coming For Us All. by RZArecta2(m): 4:33am On Dec 25, 2019
During the bad old days of General Sani Abacha, a group of Nigeria's political and economic elites formed a pro-democracy political action organisation called NADECO (National Democratic Coalition). Among them were some of today's most recognisable political names including John Kayode Fayemi and Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

While these elites were working out plans to take on the military junta from within Nigeria and outside the country, a younger group of people with no democratic or elite agenda was coalescing in Oshodi. The central figure of the group was a hard boiled but charismatic street fixer called Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo. While NADECO had a strategic focus on returning Nigeria to a civilian-led democracy, MC Oluomo's only focus was on how to gain power and rise through the ranks of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

Unlikely bed fellows as they were, the two groups eventually formed a symbiotic relationship following the return of democracy in 1999. Under Bola Tinubu, Lagos State gained a handle on its hooliganism problem by bringing in NURTW and unofficially making it part of the state government. In return characters like MC Oluomo gained a level of political and economic access that opened them up to a whole new world of possibilities in Nigeria.

The Sleeping Elite and Creeping Replacement
While this political Faustian pact was being consummated, the under-40 demographic in Lagos and around Nigeria who attended private schools and attained high levels of academic enquiry and cultural sophistication were missing in action. As state and federal authorities struggled to retain control of official and unofficial thugs from outfits like NURTW and SARS this group of people holed themselves up in little pockets of bourgeois nonchalance around the country and stuck their fingers in their ears.

It didn't really affect them, and whenever it did, the politicians would quickly see to it that something was done. Whatever MC Oluomo's likes were up to in Isolo or Gwagwalada wasn't really the concern of those who lived in Ikoyi or Asokoro because their connections guaranteed their safety. This situation seemed manageable for a while and then something changed.

MC Oluomo was no longer just a street legend whose name came up in weed-fueled conversations between bus conductors in Alimosho. He became a visible brand, popping up in music and political imagery. His lifestyle and family started getting coverage from gossip blogs and tabloids. His name somehow found its way into the same sentence as that of the Senate president during a heated political campaign.

Someone set up a Facebook fan page for him called "MC Oluomo Nation" and it amassed hundreds of thousands of followers. He started releasing "official" portraits of himself looking like a statesman. A Chinese ride-hailing investor recently had to consult him in his capacity as NURTW state chairman, as if he was a government regulator.

Still, the Island yuppies have not taken the clear and obvious hint as to what lies in his future, and the reason is obvious - we think that his world and ours do not intersect. Moreover, we do not think that the responsibility to find and drive solutions that will head off Nigeria’s impending economic and demographic catastrophe lies with us - it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

For the benefit of those of us who think of ourselves as separate from our environment, allow me spell it out: The only reason for our existence as we know it is our parents. Once our parents die (many of them already have, and most are quarter to gone), society will not simply transfer the respect and privileges it gave them to us.

Nigeria is a country packed to the rafters with hungry and extremely angry people. The barrier shielding us from facing Nigeria in its true Hobbesian state of senseless fury and violence is our parents. Our parents were able to become a protective bubble around us because of what they achieved financially and politically - these achievements are not hereditary.

The many MC Oluomos and their networks and constituencies around Nigeria do not see the value of a well-read or internationally exposed elite. They certainly do not intend to meekly lie down and be led by us once the current power are gone. The only reason the likes of Bola Tinubu were able to assert their leadership position above these types is that they actually fought a military dictatorship on behalf of everyone and thus earned the right to lead.

Those of us who grew and blossomed under the democratic dispensation other people fought for have not earned our leadership stripes by taking the lead in any appreciable way. The MC Oluomos and their people are very aware of this, and they consequently do not take us serious at all.

When Tinubu's generation is gone, Nigeria's new leadership across state and federal levels will be sourced from the streets and bus parks. The people in charge there are currently the only relatively young people in Nigeria who have demonstrated the ability and willingness to organise themselves into effective offline formations to take directed action. Beyond our internet profiles and social media handles, we are practically nonexistent in Nigeria's power equation.

Too Many Entertainers, Not EnoughDisruptors
The only elite space where young, educated and upwardly mobile Nigerians are currently making a real impression and building power and influence is in culture, i.e the entertainment industry and its allied spaces. We have Falz The Bahd Guy, Naeto C, Davido, DRB LasGidi, Denola Grey, Chef Obehi, Moti Cakes, Chidz, Nosa Oyegun, Folayemi Agusto, Isume Omokhudu, Show Dem Camp, YCee, Dami Elebe...I can list more names until the cows come home.

Considering that just 17 years ago, practically nobody from such backgrounds had any kind of foothold in a culture industry that had only a few luminaries like Kenny Ogungbe, Dayo Adeneye and Woody Awah, these are fantastic achievements and an important signal that we can in fact compete and carve out large spaces within areas that we currently have little or no presence.

However - while they are very important - arts, culture and entertainment are not what will save Nigeria or prevent us from being completely uprooted and replaced by the MC Oluomo types. We need more of us to publicly distinguish ourselves, band together and create groups and organisations that project and influence thought leadership in politics, government, law, construction and real estate, manufacturing, NGO and civil society, tech, finance, medicine, journalism and every other space that is critical to the existence of a thriving, democratic society.

If the people who were trained to carry out these leadership functions are refusing to do so because they lack the appetite or they think that engaging with Nigeria is beneath them, that creates the proverbial leadership vacuum that nature hates. When we do not do the job that is expected of us and thus leave a vacuum, it will be filled by people who are less qualified than we are, and this has already started happening. The evolution of a nondescript thug in Oshodi into someone with a huge following and “Politician” as his description on his official Facebook page should hint us as to what is coming.



Our Survival is at Stake
This new set of ‘elites’ without academic knowledge, exposure to new ideas or the desire to improve themselves intellectually will do much worse than the current people in power. In order to conceal their greed and cluelessness, they will label us as the convenient enemies - something that will be amplified by the visible and disproportionate media presence we currently enjoy. What happens next is demonisation where we are typecast as “corrupt” and “evil” leeches sucking away the resources of the country at the expense of the downtrodden proletariat.

Does that sound familiar?

Eventually, this culminates in a violent orgy of physical class warfare where - of course - we are hopelessly outnumbered. All of this has already started happening in Nigeria if you have been paying attention.

If you want to have an idea of what happens when a sleeping elite through its inactivity allows uneducated and desperate chancers to dictate a country's narrative, look no further than South Africa. In that country, while the black political and business elites focus on conspicuous consumption and frivolities - leaving the actual work of leadership undone - populist voices have successfully convinced the black majority that their salvation lies in getting rid of foreigners and nationalising white-held assets and businesses.

Eventually, inevitably, when killing Nigerians and seizing farmland from white people does not grow their economy, the next target for violence will be these very elites.

Something, something, “enemies of the revolution,” something, something “agents of neo-colonialism,” something something “white monopoly capital.”

Again for emphasis, this process has alreadybegun here in Nigeria, under an administration that has successfully labeled people who eat Uncle Ben’s Rice as purveyors of “colonial disdain.” Earlier this year, in supposed response to South African xenophobic violence, Lagos witnessed the spectacle of thugs damaging cars and property while attacking and robbing people in Lekki.

The new set of angry and intellectually incurious faces who are already at the gates of power in the political space either do not know us book-reading people, or pointedly dislike us. The only thing keeping us from irrelevance or outright disaster is the existence of the older elites, i.e our parents. Said parents however, are getting older and many have already transitioned. At best, we have a 10-15 year window to stake our claim in Nigeria’s economic and political leadership before our their generation disappears.

Except the plan is for an entire generation of us to emigrate or remain here and be gleefully ground into dust by the likes of MC Oluomo when our parents die, I would suggest that we start taking our existence that bit more seriously.

If you think things are bad now, wait until the NURTW leadership becomes our state or federal government. We are already halfway there.

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Politics / Re: Sowore: Deji Adeyanju Flown Abroad After Brutal Attack By Thugs by RZArecta2(m): 4:30am On Dec 25, 2019
sarrki:
Him dey the chemist wey dey wuse 2
you and your fellow bloodthirsty vermin are really sick in the head, we’ve never had it this bad as a country where the death or attempted murder of a human being was celebrated especially because of political differences until you vipers came along.. sick

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Politics / Re: Sowore And Dasuki Release was facilitated by Rtd gen yakubu Gowon Visit To Pmb by RZArecta2(m): 11:11pm On Dec 24, 2019
sarrki:


You are not in a paraga joint young man

Learn to be behave

gbenu soun jare... hambala
Politics / Re: Sowore And Dasuki Release was facilitated by Rtd gen yakubu Gowon Visit To Pmb by RZArecta2(m): 9:41pm On Dec 24, 2019
I knew Buhari can never be that intelligent enough to do something like this on his own, the maga is too dense for such common sense cool
Politics / Re: Deji Adeyanju Laughed On His Timeline As Pmb Was Insulted-photo by RZArecta2(m): 6:41pm On Dec 24, 2019
And that’s why BMC zombies decided to make an attempt on his life. God punish BMC zombies and their bloodlust cool

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Car Talk / Re: Chevrolet Mechanic Needed In Surulere by RZArecta2(m): 5:32pm On Dec 24, 2019
I knew it just had to be Chevrolet Aveo, that demonic imp of a car. I have one parked I swear I’m going to soak inside Atlantic Ocean . If you want that car to have complete head again, just raise bar and contact Radautoworks or forget the little monster embarassed
Politics / Re: Gunmen Attack Goodluck Jonathan’s Home In Otuoke, Kill 1 Soldier, Injure Others by RZArecta2(m): 10:26am On Dec 24, 2019
Sunnymatey:

Don't be in a hurry to point accusing fingers.
It could be anybody.
you don’t know who Dickson is then
Car Talk / Re: Need Advice On Best Uber/taxify Car by RZArecta2(m): 7:39pm On Dec 23, 2019
2005 Honda Civic, ask dru23
Car Talk / Re: Dad Forced To Pay ₦3.6m After 3-Year Old Daughter Scratched 10 Brand New Audis by RZArecta2(m): 11:32pm On Dec 22, 2019
DAVE5:


As in ehn, the parents suppose chop slaps for their negligence...

I really can’t judge the dealership for this cos they’re in business to make profit n dis wld definitely drive their profit margin down the drains

But they cld have played charity n sold the cars as is if the damages were so bad nah, probably inform intending buyers, u know; save the girl's dad cost
dealership not charity organization. They have rents, bills and salaries to pay. The parents have to take responsibility for their carelessness as nobody send dem message

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Autos / Re: Need Cheap And Affordable Parts For Your Cars, Get In Here by RZArecta2(m): 7:33pm On Dec 22, 2019
I like this guy grin all about the paper
Health / Re: 4 UNIPORT Teaching Hospital Nurses Die In Six Months, Staff Blame Workload by RZArecta2(m): 6:35pm On Dec 22, 2019
Work overload Most juniors who would have relieved them have run abroad but last minister of health (a proper îdiot) said Nigeria had more than enough doctors (nurses)

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Car Talk / Re: Dad Forced To Pay ₦3.6m After 3-Year Old Daughter Scratched 10 Brand New Audis by RZArecta2(m): 9:17pm On Dec 21, 2019
One car I can understand, maybe two but TEN ? I don’t understand the level of negligence both parents will have to be on not to notice their child thereby giving her enough time to scratch ten cars cool

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Politics / Re: TY Danjuma Under Fire Over Inciting Statements On Nigeria's Unity by RZArecta2(m): 4:54pm On Dec 21, 2019
They had to hire a faceless group to attack Danjuma grin awon weyrey, Nigerians are not ready yet but they’ll soon be... Very soon

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Court Rules British MI5 Agents Can Murder, Kidnap And Torture by RZArecta2(m): 12:55pm On Dec 21, 2019
Nigerian Govt would rather use this sort of opportunity to haunt those against ruga and Islamization agenda while the useless Nairaland BMC zombies will half brained point to the UK as an example of tyranny... We know those dafties in Aso Rock to the bone na cool

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Religion / Re: Religious Persecution: US Places Nigeria On Special Watch List Of Countries by RZArecta2(m): 11:11am On Dec 21, 2019
BRAVO !!! The Daura dûllard has done it again, Nigeria in the radar for all the wrong reasons again cool

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Car Talk / Re: Can I Get A Clean And Sound Matrix For 750k by RZArecta2(m): 10:08am On Dec 21, 2019
If you carry gun, you fit get luck cool
Fashion / Re: Alex Olusanya: FG Must Ban Imported Dresses To Boost The Fashion Industry by RZArecta2(m): 9:47am On Dec 21, 2019
I can bet a pretty nickel that this îdiot Alex has everything on him imported ie shoes, glasses, underwear and even the material he used to sew his clothes in the photos. Dense goat cool

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Car Talk / Re: Court Orders Coscharis Jaguar To Replace San's ₦24m Jaguar Car by RZArecta2(m): 5:45pm On Dec 20, 2019
Most of these car dealers are inept and exorbitant when it comes to repairs. Coscharis should just cut their losses and give this man a new car, that’s what they would have done if they were based abroad. Mylex is still the best place for repairs by the way cool
Car Talk / Re: Ad Agency Turns Mercedes 190 Into Meeting Room With Refigerated Bar At The Trunk by RZArecta2(m): 11:28am On Dec 20, 2019
EJIOGBENIMI:
Nice concept. Just wondering if the efforts put into this will eventually worth it.
its useful to the people who created it so how else do you want the car to be “worth it “

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Politics / Re: If I Talk About Nigeria, Nobody Will Sleep Again - Danjuma by RZArecta2(m): 10:13am On Dec 20, 2019
eyiolarhomisore:
I saw a video of Fulani moving into Nigeria en masse don't know if it's true.but if it is,I see Nigeria breaking in 2020
recent video, even the northerners are afraid
Politics / Re: If I Talk About Nigeria, Nobody Will Sleep Again - Danjuma by RZArecta2(m): 9:53am On Dec 20, 2019
seunmsg:
Dear Danjuma, before you start talking, when are you returning the multibillion dollars oil wells that Abacha dashed you? You fought Obasanjo for collecting one of the oil Wells and you’re now running your mouth because Buhari is going to take away the remaining.

Whatever it is you have to say is not for any altruistic reason. You’re part of the criminals that destroyed this country. You cannot fool anybody other than unreasonable wailers. Enjoy your loot in peace and shut the fvck up.
trash as usual, Fulani terrorists have taken over a vast area of land in Ekiti state, the people protested with placards. This isn’t about “oil wells” as you’d like to humor yourself
Politics / Re: If I Talk About Nigeria, Nobody Will Sleep Again - Danjuma by RZArecta2(m): 9:49am On Dec 20, 2019
Light1259:
What is happening, the earlier you guys reveal the secret the better for all of us.

If all these are directed to what Nnamdi Kanu had said then Nigeria is doom.
the last time Danjuma tried to talk, spoke at the US Congress with his governor concerning the Fulani terrorists and their activities in the middle belt, didn’t this junta unleash their online zombies ? Wasn’t there an attempt to arrest him ? I saw a very disturbing video yesterday, we should be very worried in this country. Ruga in all states of the federation has come to stay whether we like it or not

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