₦airaland Forum

technicallyrich:
Reno omokery hate for ss/se is our of these world.
But still yet ijaws dey deal with his people for delta.
Ijaws na itesikiri father😂😂

You are boasting that your tribe is oppressing another?

JASONjnr:
Is there any Dangote products that comes cheap?

Dude will assume the cost of production is high and relative to the price.

Dangote got all the federal government support, but the same government will use him to inflict suffering on Nigerians by pecking the price high.

Things that S/Africans will set the company ablaze. Nigerians will go to church to pray for God to touch these corrupt people's heart.

You are a horrible person. What would make the thought of burning someone's business enter your mind? Sad.

Nigeria has a national human Rights Commission? What exactly have they been doing?

DeepSight:
We create terms for convenience in this country. One day we woke up and realized that the word "bandit" exists. Who is a bandit?

bandit
noun [ C ]
UK /ˈbæn.dɪt/ US /ˈbæn.dɪt/

a thief with a weapon, especially one belonging to a group that attacks people travelling through the countryside

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bandit

How is this outside the remit of the police?

But the post of mine you quoted explains already... key difference is in the operating environment. Urban area vs countryside. Vastly different.

Police generally don't train to operate in such environments. That is why our Armed Forces Act says the armed forces can be called upon to fulfil the policing function. It has already been foreseen that there are certain tasks beyond the police.

And its the same everywhere. In the US there are things ordinary police wont touch. The FBI or local SWAT teams will be called instead. At a certain level they can call in the national guard.

Same in the UK. For instance, the Iranian embassy siege was resolved by the SAS not the police.

There is a limit to what the police can do especially here where they are understaffed and underfunded.

lexy2014:
what are the police trained to do that makes the issue of banditry fall outside of their purview?

The primary objective of the police is to maintain law and order as a civil force - within a civil setting. Their training is based on the urban context and they do not have the tactical training or equipment to successfully confront bandits out in the wilderness.

DeepSight:
OK. I hear you. Let me try to settle down a little.



The point I sought to make with that line is that as a matter of fact, the question of kidnapping is the responsibility of the Police. Anywhere in the world. Sorry I was in a flurry and did not explain in detail but I thought that would come across: what our government does repeatedly is to classify ordinary crimes which are the responsibility of the police as "terrorism" (or some other outlandish and excessive term) in order to justify the wrongful deployment of unreasonable and heavy handed methods - such as deploying the army - and in this case - the freaking AirForce!

The AirForce to handle the crime of Kidnapping? Come on good brother, I surely do not have to explain to you how this is both excessive and unreasonable. And yes - also deceitful. Because you see, the way corruption works is simple - you first provide a justification for an expense. In military operations between countries, it is called a false flag incident. A fake incident, which, for example, can justify an invasion or the commencement of a war. An example is the allegation by the US/ UK that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. A perfect lie.

The next step is to deploy massively against the false flag. And all of this is done not to help security, but to justify the voting of more funds to security purposes and thereby enable the looting of such funds.

This is elementary my friend, and happens all the time. Boko Haram would not have lasted this long if it wasn't a conduit pipe for the siphoning of funds in the military. Everyone knows this, surely.



As a clever and kwarrapt polithiefcian he has suddenly developed a hard on at the right time over "security issues in the FCT" so as to demand appropriate funds, assistance from the Army, Airforce and if possible, Navy, to fight "kidnappers" and the like.

Good brother, this is an ancient method for the siphoning of funds.
Ask Dasuki.

I think you're attempting to oversimplify a very complex issue. To start with I'm sure we can agree that the names used to classify malevolent actors are arbitrary. One is a kidnapper, terrorist, bandit, unknown gunman depending on where one commits their crime. So this is why your submission that it wouldn't matter if we called them terrorists caught my eye. Because while labels are arbitrary, in real terms, terrorism is a whole different ball game from kidnapping.

We can also agree that there is likely to be a high degree of corruption in military procurement. That much we can infer from history. But we can also infer from history that this has been reduced. How? Well in the past, particularly in the Dasuki days, we saw tons of videos from soldiers in the field complaining that their weapons are inferior. We heard tales of entire bases being overrun. We can safely infer that something has changed. Now what the soldiers are complaining about is that their 35k wage award has not been paid.

Where I cannot agree with you at all is where you imply that "kidnapping" is solely a Police issue. Not in Nigeria. Whether you call them kidnappers or terrorists, what we are talking about are highly armed, well-funded and highly coordinated militias who do not operate in the urban context. Tackling such groups is not what the police are trained to do. On the contrary, this is exactly what the military is trained to do.

The idea that Nigeria's security issues are overblown just for the sake of personal enrichment is far-fetched. The evidence does not support it unless you would want to argue that our neighbours, Chad, Niger and Cameroun are also just playing along for similar or other reasons. It may be true that there are people enriching themselves on the back of the conflicts but that the conflicts are being driven by the greed of those in power seems fundamentally untrue.

Finally Wike. Unlike Dasuki, Wike is not in any way a part of the security apparatus. Dasuki had a reason to receive monies meant for arms - he was National Security Adviser. Wike is merely FCT minister and his sole role is to liaise with the relevant security agencies. There's no version of events where monies assigned to the armed forces will pass through his hands - so where's the incentive again?

DeepSight:
Give me a break. Where in the world do you hear that it takes an Air Force to go after a "kidnapper?" And if an Air Force must be deployed to bomb a mere kidnapper we are to presume that no "kidnappees" are victims in the process. And no, merely deploying the word "terrorist" doesn't cure the problems. All of a sudden kidnappers are everywhere even in Abuja and the state is moving like Rambo to "catch" and "exterminate" or if you like "neutralize" them. In this people like Wike suddenly have an erection and you imagine that all of this, in our dear Nigeria, which we are familiar with, does not have as its end game the diversion of funds. Please, please and please, don't stress me if you don't know Nigeria well enough.

Just stay there and keep saying "Good work, Air Force."

You're jumping from point to point. I thought you would explain why replacing kidnapper with terrorist doesn't cure the ill you've identified.

Then how does Wike come in here? How does an airforce operatoon lead to diversion of funds to Wike or others like him?

Can you substantiate your theory with practical examples?

dawnomike:
Aside for the 47yr of Lady... I prefer their before than their after biko!

Same here apart from the Chinese man. It is important to embrace every phase of life as it comes. Old age has its own beauty.

AgbaDesigner:
Star players full Morocco. Ziyech, Hakimi, Amrabat, Nesyri, Nayef, damn🔥 this squad is complete

The only star players there are Ziyech and Hakimi. Ziyech sef na fallen star.

KingLennon:
It looked like an error on his part. As a player, you'll understand...

That can't be an error unless he geneuinely never expected to play. You don't even leave camp with such things on. Not in this day and age

Freshtruth:
If you thinks Africans are in that team then you must have a rethink that squad is comprises of Portuguese players and Brazilians players that were not called to their various national teams and they are using cape verde as their adopted nation. Are you guys seeing the outrageous goals those guys are scoring at the Afcon? Are you seeing the accurate pullouts? Are you seeing their counter attacks and their free flowing football? Even Egypt may not survive the last group game. Caf should take note they should investigate those guys real nationalities

What you don't seem to know is that the contrary is the case...the majority of Portuguese big names you know are actually africans.

Nani
Pepe
Raphael Leao
William Carvalho and others are actually of African origin.

If you want to adopt strict standards start with the Super Eagles and see if we have a team left. The full defence that we all love are foreign born boys who are all eligible for other countries.

munavi:
Nigeria already has a relatively high rate of gun violence, fueled by factors like armed robbery, cult clashes, insurgency, etc.

While self defense is important, legalizing guns could potentially increase the pool of firearms available to criminal elements and individuals with malicious intent.

How does legalizing guns increase access for malicious actors??

Malicious actors have absolutely no problems getting guns on the black market. On the other hand, getting them the legal way would require security checks, profiling, and filing of paperwork which no criminal wants.

Do you think a bandit who has easy access to Ak47s is going to come and register with the police in order to buy a shotgun legally??

The studies have been done and proven elsewhere...legalizing guns does not increase violent organized crime.

immortalcrown:
True.

I would equally still agree with you that Julius Berger is probably the best we have available.

immortalcrown:
I never spoke about bribe in my comment.

You mentioned wayo contracts. A bribe-induced contract is a subset of wayo contracts. No?

immortalcrown:
Okay. So, why don't many governors accept the bribe?

Wouldn't know. But a gift offered in exchange for a contract is a bribe by any definition.

immortalcrown:
Julius Berger has a standard and consistently maintains it. The company does not accept "wayo" contracts. You can't embezzle billions of Naira for road construction and tell JB to do a ridiculous construction that worths just a few millions of Naira.

JB uses high quality construction to protect its name. Go and see Akwa Ibom roads built by JB. I [b]heard JB builds a free bulletproof house as an appreciation for anybody that gives JB a reasonable contract in his or her state.

Still a bribe.

Asking the police to do such - most likely by offering a bribe is indeed a crime. Declare the man wanted immediately!

LifeofDream:
Did you just say small Pakistan??

Hope you know Pakistan is ahead of Israel militarily..
Pakistan have the human, finance resources and military to send Israel to stone age excluding their nuclear weapon..

I can't imagine you're calling Pakistan "small", I wonder the kind of people on this forum...

Pakistan is a minnow in terms of military power. Pakistan is also a much poorer country than Israel. India their neighbour has been beating them up in every single war they've ever had. You must be very ignorant of the world or simply caught up in fanatical delusions.

Said it.

SmartyPants:
He definitely will sanction it. A former president in a volatile country like that is too big to be put on trial for a capital offence. Not when Koroma has so many supporters and Bio himself is accused of rigging. Koroma cant be put on trial and he also cant be allowed to stay a free man in Sierra Leone. This is the best political solution.

@fergie001

seguno2:
Is Ogunlesi a Nigerian American or is he a Nigerian Briton

No real idea for sure, but having lived all his adult life in America, my guess would be Nigerian American.

forenzy:
Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly.
Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings.

He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Awotona immigrated to the United States as a teenager.
Before founding Calendly, he had started a few other businesses, including one that sold projectors and another that sold garden tools, that flopped.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/meet-tope-awotona-richest-nigerian-and-immigrant-in-the-us/#:~:text=Tope%20Awotona%20has%20been%20named,Calendly%2C%20a%20scheduling%20software%20company.

Awotona has been eclipsed by Adebayo Ogunlesi.

https://www.thecable.ng/bayo-ogunlesis-net-worth-hits-2-3bn-after-blackrock-agreed-to-buy-gip#:~:text=Following%20the%20agreement%2C%20Ogunlesi%2C%20who,joining%20the%20Bloomberg%20Billionaire%20Index.

BreconHills:
Richer than Bayo Ogunlesi?

Nope. Ogunlesi is almost twice as wealthy. This is an outdated report.

WhiteNRed:
They should continue deceiving themselves.
There was serious fire fighting and someone has the chance and freedom to do vidoes and snap pictures.

Thanks to God i am not living there. And dont have any family member there. Both their seriousness and hypocrisy is still on them.

This is the 21st century bush man. Cameras dont have to be hand held. Did you know thqt?

Every army has someone around videoing encounters

Malroux:
The day Tinubu will dive into lagoon I'll cut off my dick.

Wetin him dey find for lagoon?

All the defenders get an A from me. Minus Zaidu who gets a C.

Arobaga:
If Army estate can be invaded who goes the estates of a common man




Anyways nothing really concern me as long as it’s happening in the northern Nigeria and her counterparts




Na when e reach south south then go know say the number of cultists in PH alone is bigger than all bandits in the world combined



Do you know 90% of these kidnapped victims must have voted APC to teach Peter Obi a lesson🤣🤣🤣

Abuja voted LP didnt they? The victim here is an Igbo man isnt he?

Princedapace:
If u create chances and cant score, u have problem. lol that is even major problem.
If u cant score in open space, at least rely on set pieces. This is why Nigeria hardly do well in major competitions. No be today bro. Na why for AFCON sef, they hardly do well. No be today it started

I'm not saying we're perfect - there are clearly issues but I see that you are actually underrating this team significantly. Nigeria has what it takes to win this cup from my observations so far based on:

1. Strong defensive unit. We seem to have a stable goalkeeper who may not be world-class but he is confident and does the basics well. You can see that the defenders in front of him have faith in him. This is crucial and a significant development from the Uzoho/Okoye days.

2. Strong individual attackers showing signs of improvement. Ademola Lookman and Osimhen have the potential to form an incredible partnership. I saw signs of it today. This needs time and as the tournament progresses, I am certain more will come from these two.

3. Useful options from the bench. Onuachu was brought on today to bring a different dimension to the game to help implement the coach's tactic of defending and seeing the game out. He did this excellently, showing his ability to hold on to possession and giving his teammates a chance to catch up and link up or draw a foul. Iheanacho and Moffi are also on the bench, each with a different set of traits they offer the team. This means that Nigeria essentially have the ability to rapidly adapt tactically to suit whatever opponent we are facing or to adapt to changing circumstances within games.

What I have outlined above are the critical ingredients required to win tournament football. 1. A sound defence. 2. Genuine attacking threat. 3. tactical flexibility.

I don't think this team will lose any game this tournament.

Princedapace:
Qualify and do what exactly? Egypt is in a harder group than Nigeria. But pls rest. Egypt was a finalist last edition while Nigeria was eliminated from the round of 16. Abeg rest. I know u are speaking out of patriotism.
Nigeria is coming home at most round of 16. The team cant play good free kick, corner kicks are poor, their set pieces are terrible. Relies on luck to win matches. Such luck cant take u far in competitions that is why Super Eagles rarely win any major competition.

Then you've not been watching the games. The Super Eagles have created tons of chances across the two games. If Osimhen finished better today, Chukwueze and Osayi decided to pass on separate occasions when they were 2 against 1 with the Ivorian defence, the scoreline would have looked very different. Same thing with the first game. I say this to say that there has been no element of luck in Nigeria's attacking play - winning a penalty is not luck either.

We have a really solid defence which is good to see. Zaidu is really not a Super Eagles quality player. Bassey should start at 3 from now on.

officialwdhtvv:
Celebrations as Gambian "baddie" bride passes her virginity test, gets cash gift from her husband


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47mwyaobQw

A bride, Meta Mbye received D28,000 from her elated husband which coverts to 300,000 in Naira, after passing her virginity test.

"The husband was so happy that was why he gave her D28,000, which was placed under her pillow,” a relative said.

A video shared on TikTok shows family members celebrating after the test as a lot people thought she was no longer 'pure' because of her "baddie" lifestyle.

28k dalasi will be about 420k naira.

olola4:
This makes sense, I go set simple questions I understand for myself

The questions should reflect your understanding of the course. Simple questions will project a simple understanding and attract simple marks.

Wrong approach.