₦airaland Forum

I hope the national assembly provide some sanity.
War na beans? Planing and executing military action in less than 3 weeks has all the hallmarks of ....

I agree

I am a Nigerian from the north and I do not support this war for the following reasons.

1. Nigeria has no strategic benefit in invading Niger at this time. Rather the strategic cost are more.
Show me one country we're military intervention worked and I will show you 10 where it failed:
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Iraq
Ukraine
Vietnam
Cambodia
Do we really want to have a wild wild Niger where no real authority is in power, and a heaven for arm dealers, terrorists and a guerrilla resistant movement in our Northern boarder

2. This hastened nature by which is being prosecuted. I still believe dialog can be given a chance and let the sanctions sink in.

3. There is every likelihood this might blow out to be a proxy war with war merchants fueling the conflict with small arms. Currently Mali l, Burkina Faso and I think Guinea are not in support of Ecowas action and have even threatened to exit the commission all together. Given that the economic wellbeing-as the name implies- of its citezens is the primary concern of the commission. Is it wise to fracture the commission because of political differences?

4. The small arms that Bubu was able to gather will just be wasted in Niger, and when real yawa gases in Africa, we are left to cut budgetary allocation to fund military action.

This is not what we voted for and no one should come here and say this is an ipob this or that. I am a Nigerian from the north and I do not support this war for the following reasons.

1. Nigeria has no strategic benefit in invading Niger at this time. Rather the strategic cost are more.
Show me one country we're military intervention worked and I will show you 10 where it failed:
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Iraq
Ukraine
Vietnam
Cambodia
Do we really want to have a wild wild Niger where no real authority is in power, and a heaven for arm dealers, terrorists and a guerrilla resistant movement in our Northern boarder

2. This hastened nature by which is being prosecuted. I still believe dialog can be given a chance and let the sanctions sink in.

3. There is every likelihood this might blow out to be a proxy war with war merchants fueling the conflict with small arms. Currently Mali l, Burkina Faso and I think Guinea are not in support of Ecowas action and have even threatened to exit the commission all together. Given that the economic wellbeing-as the name implies- of its citezens is the primary concern of the commission. Is it wise to fracture the commission because of political differences?

I don't think Ecowas is stronger, rather they are more divided. Mali and Burkina Faso yesterday opened their border with Niger, and they are threatening to exit ecowas altogether- something never heard of before in the sub region

Tinubu treated regional geopolitics the way he treated Nigeria's economy- by suddenly removing subsidy and liberalising exchange rate. These are good policies but handled badly.

BY threatening Niger with Military action he put the cart before the horse, and jumping into an arena naked.

Forget the solidarity from the French and Americans on Nigeria's stance, they already have a plan A, B, C, D etc one of them being if Nigeria fails in Niger.

Does Tinubu has a plan B?

They say if you see a child dancing on the road side, the music player is in the Bush. Has Nigeria really studied the intent and motivation behind this coup?

Is it mere opportunistic soldiers riding on trends of Mali and Burkina Faso?

Is it deep seated resentment by the populace against French hold on Niger's resources and economy?

Or is it some thing beyond a new theatre opening of the current proxy war going on in Ukraine?

Yet Nigeria jumped right in the middle

Questions.
Let's forget our internal politics a bit of those who supported BAT or not. We are on the verge of plunging our country and may be the sub region into a geographical political proxy war. We should be very woried.

1. Does Nigeria have any any interest in invading Niger

2. The people of Niger have been on the streets celebrating the coup, why is no one asking what the interest of the people is.

3. West Africa has enjoyed relative peace, should we allow our president to sleep walk the region into a protracted armed conflict. (No one knows where it will lead or end)

4. Should we be doing the bidding of France who has openly said that they are out to protect their interest (not the people)

5. You might think this is about Niger, but in the world of geopolitical chess, long term strategy is key, and Nigeria and her resources may be the ultimate target.

More questions coming...

U are an adult so you can do this for the next two month.

1. Make sure u urinate immediately before you go to bed (sometimes this is enough)

2. Set and alarm for midway through d night, say 3am wake up and urinate again. (Step two can be repeated within a night more times depending on the severity of your case)

Jennyclay:
Oga Okada man, Why would you leave the house since 7th of June over little misunderstanding you had with your wife

You are broke and you still have pride.

Mr okada man You brought this upon yourself!

Don't listen to this. They envy what you have. (Not all wealth is material)

Zonefree:
Imagine a full fledged man absconded from home cos of a woman he accommodated in form of marriage. A married man squatting with his colleagues just to enjoy peace of mind

A man gains absolutely nothing in marriage. Marriage was designed, orchestrated and championed for/by women.

Most men married to Nigerian women don't stay up to 65 years. Nigerian women are making marriage horrible for men.

A strong man is not the one who can wrestle a man (or a woman) down, a strong man is the one who has self control when he is angry. As easy as this sound only real men can do it.

What he did was OK, they abused each other (you don't expect him to beat his wife?) Walking away (out of the house ) was even better to diffuse the situation. It could have been worse if he stayed.

First of all, Kudos to both of you for reconciling. Trust me that is the essence of marriage- two different gender, two different character sometimes two different race setting aside differences to celebrate their union or commonalities.

That said your wife made a mistake telling her parents about details of your fight so soon , in the process of marital conflict resolution, involving 3rd parties is a step after the failure mutual reconciliation. The good thing is that if you handle the situation well then it is a learning point for both of you. Not that her parents wish her bad (it is important you understand this premis) but sometimes biases, prejudices or even selfish love could cloud their judgement - hence the need to bring them in only when mutual communication breaks down.

All in all, my diagnosis is that you have a solid and strong family bond, no need to fix what is not broken. Your marriage has survived where most fail (sapa) and beside the maturity level of both of you is above average- ability to reconcile after a nasty fight. Good luck on your journey of building a solid family. God bless them

What we see happening today is just a day of reckoning for the US' past crimes. The British are still paying theirs. The Ottomans paid theirs, so did the Romans before them. The Persians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks are all examples for those who can see.

We were never made to live forever, neither is what we build. If you are lucky to come to this realisation, then you'll know that what matters is today and what you choose to do with it (good or evil). Ironically it only by doing good today, is your tomorrow guaranteed. Use today to develop yourself, use today to be good to others around you, use today to protect the environment around you, use today to consume only what you need for today.

dustmalik:
These are the trends right now on Nigerian Twitter. I really don't understand what you expected to see

I think what he meant is that when you open a trending topic like "Aisha Buhari" the following tweet-threads using that tag will be tweets on bet 9ja, Canadian visa promo, or some random scam topic with nothing about why Aisha buhari is trending.

I am not a heavy tweeter user but usually an Aisha B Hashtag should be about Aisha buhari herself or something related to her and of recent

I thought I was the only one who noticed. Nigerians abuse everything and never take blame themselves

Geopex:
Oga. U will only sell what u buy o. So is the filling station going to pay back the extra money made after selling bcuz he got extra 11m from the masses to stock ?

The extra 11m will be used to buy new stock because a truck now cost over 19m. So anyone that squander the gain in stock is just implying that he is willing to fold his business because of a paltry 11m (considering the cost of building a station and running it, the pay back etc). No business man will do that.

Geopex:
If they want to continue the business, they should look for extra money to stock, at least they will still get dea money back with gain

No pun intended, but do you know anything about running a business? Where would you source for fund? Borrowing? At what cost/interest rate ? Perhaps the business already has existing loans it is paying off already. That would be a recipe for disaster to borrow more. Mind you if these businesses go burst that is countless families source of food (from attendants, to security guards, truck drivers, and that potential armed robber who hasn't taken up the trade because he is still gainfully employed at that petrol station that you want the owner to take a terrible business decision)

What rubish! Government is the problem of itself. Instead of facing the problem head on and finding ways to ease the pains of the masses, they are looking for who to blame.

1. NNPCL was the first to increase price then everyone followed. So if anything Government is to be blamed.

2. If you own a filling station and you bought a 40,000 litres truck @ 195 per litre (I.e. 7,800,000 naira) and now replacement cost of your stock is now 488 per liter (same truck now cost 19,520,000 naira), if you sell at old price just because you bought at old price where do u get the balance of 11,720,000 naira to buy a new truck to continue running your business.

4. Or is government willing to continue paying subsidy in another form to the marketers?

3. Imagine these governors who have no idea how things work running their mouth finding who to blame. If they were not ready for this policy let them reverse it, otherwise let them take the bull by the horn and pilot things.

I pray they succeed for our own good

Wow what a long read

I remember my sister used to tell me she loves listening to this man

These people need to take a course 101 on freedom fighting, because they seem to be an agenda-confused lot

You can never be who you are not, and don't try being anything other than yourself- Trust me you'll fail if you try.

If you are a kind hearted don't change, the world need more of your type, being wise shouldn't make you unkind- you were wise in calling out his stalking shenanigans to his face. After a wile you may or may not "find him something", you're doing it because that's who you are and you've called him out on his entitlement mentality. It's left for him to take correction or not. Bottom line Strong men change situation around them, not the otherway round

zeuss:
No it is education.... On the other hand Hausa adoption has no explanation other than local undesirable colonization.

It used to be the language of trade and education in these parts before your English. And it went beyond the borders of Nigerian.

zeuss:
High illiteracy in the north sees them embrace Hausa but the south is very enlightened speaking English and in many cases French. The southerners will speak broken English as illitrates. The south is united in enlightenment.

This colonial mentality of thinking civility starts and end with speaking English is why the south is where it is.
The north is skilled in the art of statecraft that is why they are the political beast they are today. The Europeans had to dend spies posing as explorers and traders to courts of Kanemis in Borno and Caliphate in Sokoto as a prelude to their invation (Read the letter from the Shehu's Court to Caliphate in Sokoto requesting free passage for the "foreign guests" in the Muslim lands.)
For your information the north still reads and write in Ajami scripts (a local writing form that predates colonialsm by centuries) one of the few in Africa that colonialsm has caused us to despise so much.

Power has a way of returning back to its traditional source that suppression, skewd rules and hypocrisy cannot sustain it. Like we see globally, traditional power blocks in the East (including Asia), Asia minor and Middle East are becoming more and more assertive.

For this to happen you need more than dressing or speaking like the powerful. You need Population and you need history.

A random influencer or imam (these days anyone with good lighting a phone and Internet can pass for this) can make such comments and get away with it. But for a major politician seeking the highest office, this is scandalous.

Atiku only deleted a tweet about the Sokoto Blasphemy incident and it almost derailed his campaign in the south and the North (for different reasons)

PO goofed in that leaked audio big time. He has provided munitions to hardliners to further kill his credibility especially in the North- and you need the north in Nigeria's politics of today

Hmm!
We live in interesting times. PDP that came second is not as blatant and tactless as LP and its supporters.

The north and I believe the SW is quietly watching how we all dodged one of the most divisive president Nigeria will never had. Many across regions voted for LP in Feb 25 and those that didn't, including myself felt the LP candidate has a promising future in Nigeria's politics and were willing to nurse the idea of considering him in future.

But with all these revelations (if true) he will find it difficult to sell himself in the North in the foreseeable future, and in the immediate (for argument sake) if there was a rerun he will be surprised how the North will give APC block votes to prove a point - since its religious politics, two can play the game

Ramadan Kareem to the president elect. May Allah guide u as you prepare to pilot the affairs of over 200 million souls.

For it is You O Allah, Owner of Power(and Rule), You give power to whom You will and You take power away from whom You will. You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will. In Your hand is [all] good. Indeed, You are over all things competent.

MajTee:
That’s the most educated region
What do you expect
This is not yahoo or romance scam

Here we go again

Saao:
the fact that he didn't score 25% in Abuja is enough evidence to cancel the election.

Like someone explained somewhere, that is not what the law meant when it was written, or like the lawyers would say that is not the spirit of the law. If it was that then any party/politician can just focus on the FCT and be forcing a rerun even if his opponent win the other 36 states- does that make sense?

burp18:
His whole campaign was centered around Christian and Igbos versus the rest of Nigerians. He played the religious card which helped him win votes in parts of Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau and the likes. Thus made Muslims who were never interested in the election to vote for Tinubu.

This is the truest statement about the elections.

Hmm

From the results of the gubernatorial elections, you can say politics is local and no where is local politics played like the North.

Nassarawa
Kano
Sokoto
Benue
Are all interesting

I think we should have saved state resources used to conduct elections in Borno because we know who will win.