₦airaland Forum

DannyG8:
Things like this don't happen in Western countries

Because western countries don't encourage their soldiers to act like lawless animals

AnanseK:
It has to be the devil. I can’t see what he will do with 500 Naira electric lamp stolen from a mosque.

He will rub it and ask for three wishes.

Allah can not even direct your path with light in Nigeria, someone must steal the lamp.

Ever8090:
Is it difficult to confirm?.are our journalists too incompetent to go to the said community and did out the truth with pictorial evidence all to see?..I didn't read though I don't know it is contain in the post that they did, but if they did then why the headline?

The Yobe State governor gave a condolence message to the victims.

What is actually wrong with you people?

The usual denial, what is so hard in saying the truth and taking responsibility?

Now you can see why the US was hesitant to sell Nigeria weapons.

saintade01:
I laughed at the ignorance of so many of you
Some of you should get ready to apply as a security at the Twitter office when they finally open in Abuja.
The opening will be announced soon. Just position yourself for opportunities from this.

Do you believe in divine intervention?

Can someone please tell me one thing Nigeria had gained from this ban?

Girls like Toke trade their looks for cash and mostly go after guys based on their wallet.

When the guy has had his fun and dumps her for the next girl she'll be crying as if she didn't know what she was getting into.

So what is your job as minister for employment?

Is it to just say empty words and go back home?

I don't understand, did the military kill him or his fellow terrorist brothers?

peeps4u:
I'm nit rwady to sit it out. The only way Twitter makes money from ads is when they are paid to place paid ads, just as NL places ads for bodies.

The question is how many Nigerian brands use Twitter ads in the first place for twitter to really miss earnings? Most Nigerian brands will rather employ and pay influncers for their marketing rather than use twitter ads. It is Nigerians that are losing out of this ban mostly as they are missing some marketing jobs for now

If you have a contrary knowledge, I challenge you to put it up

They don't, most of these guys just come here with their sock accounts to post nonsense.

They can not tell us in concrete terms what Nigeria is gaining from the ban but will argue confidently in favour of it.

It must be a mental illness.

mapet:
You're making arguments that beggers logic
1. Contrast this bolded with your initial argument of twitter as gathering point of Chinese private sector coys.
2. Huawei is a global brand. Are the 7million follower predominantly Chinese?

Explain how twitter ban give away to foreign influences?

Your second point answers your question.

Huawei is global, they want to keep spreading outside China and will use twitter and other social media platforms outside China even though it's banned.

Chinese companies want visibility because it gives them more money.

When you take away an avenue for Nigerian companies to sway the market you are inviting foreigners to fill the gap.

The ban also sends a message to outsiders that the Nigerian government will not follow due process and ruin your business based on the emotional outbursts of the leaders.

seunmsg:
Adamu and other idiots like him who are blind to reality can say whatever makes them feel good, it won’t change the fact that power must return to the south in 2023.

I hope you're happy with the bed you've made.

All the people who supported Tinubu because they wanted to get him in Aso Rock after Buhari will swallow a bitter pill soon.

mapet:
Let me also chip in on the twitter in China - You don't even need to refer to twitter in China at all in a discourse to show twitter's reach. Twitter is not even in the top-10 social media platforms in China. Sina Weibo (aka Twitter of China) has taken that market.

That is because twitter has been banned in China since 2009. But despite this Huawei, a major Chinese company, has an account with 7 million followers because they still need to market their products to foreigners.

All the twitter ban does is give Nigerian businesses customers away to foreign influences.

Evolution3x:
my last post to you cos it seems I'm just talking to a brick wall.

Having population of 10 people who have 5 people use your service is better than population of 1000 who have only 1 person use your service. (Common sense number 1)

Apple sell more services than products these days and they are working well on china.
Apple tv is a service, apple store is a service.

Apple is just one example. There are thousands of American services in bed with Chinese government and China. E.g, steam, epic games etc. (Common sense number 2)


The ban is not affecting average Nigerians in anyway because you can still access it. And no one is dying before they can't browse twitter.
Twitter is just a website out of millions of websites on the internet. (Common sense 3)


On the final note, if you can't prove I support Buhari even after specifically telling you I don't, don't you think you are stupid as you posited?

Like me telling you that you ate rice this morning without proof even after telling me you didn't.


Finally, this is where I drop my pen cos I know you will still come up with a dumb post to infuriate me into engaging you.

So I'm done.

Twitter has their terms, China does not agree and wants to control the narrative.

China has banned twitter since 2009 yet it didn't affect their growth so why would they amend anything now?

2 This just a plain lie, 81% of Apple's revenue is from selling physically devices.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

3. The average Nigerian and the average Nigerian company/Small business isn't the same. But if, according to you, the ban changes nothing why continue it? What is Nigeria gaining from the ban? This is the million dollar question that nobody seems to have the answer to.

On a final note you told me this

4. how does saying fact mean you are defending the government? Perhaps you should go through my post and see I don't even like Buhari or his government.

I went through and saw absolutely nothing related to Buhari, so this was, (unsurprisingly) another lie. I even gave you the chance to post your main account but you chose to ramble.

What do you gain from lying?

Will you die if you don't lie?

Is this the result of some hidden childhood trauma?

Evolution3x:
I marvel at the level you are willing to go to appear dumb.

1, How many users are from China to put pressure on Twitter's infrastructure?
You think if twitter has many users in china, they wouldn't have found a way to allow Chinese government allow them to operate like apple? Even if it means submitting Chinese data to the government like the government demanded.

2, if you are dumb enough not to know to how use Google to ask simple question, why would I waste my precious time to feed you every fact?

3, even if twitter is only making 1 naira from Nigeria and it's not very significant to their pool of cash, and they stopped making the 1 naira, is it a profit for them or not? So why you keep asking irrelevant question not related to the post?

4, how does saying fact mean you are defending the government? Perhaps you should go through my post and see I don't even like Buhari or his government.

But not everyone will let hate cloud his sense of reasoning like most of you ediots that post on nairaland.

1. China has over a billion people with access to computers yet they still did not give in to their demands.

Comparing Apple to twitter is ridiculous, one sells products, the other sells services, services that the Chinese government wants to control to maintain power over it's people. You are clearly just saying anything at this point to defend nonsense.

2. You are making a claim yet have not provided any evidence to back the claim, just stories about bread and meaningless analogies.

3. How much are they making you can not answer, we know this ban is affecting Nigerians but people who support it claim twitter is worse off yet have not shown a single piece evidence for it.

4. You don't even have a single post about Buhari, who are you trying to fool?

Use your main account and post it not another one you made to disguise.

Evolution3x:
smh
Do you lack critical thinking or just putting extra effort this morning?


Lemme put it in dumbest way possible for you, if you failed to get it this time, then you are on your own.

If you are selling bread in a particular street, people come to buy the bread but instead of people paying for it, the councillor in that street is paying for all the bread.
all the councillor needs from you is to tell the bread eaters whenever they buy that they should vote for him in next election.

Now imagine if you have to provide that bread for free but without the councillor paying you to say anything.


Now replace (you) with twitter
(bread with services)
And councilor with advertisers.


Twitter is using its money to build data centres to accommodate users from Nigeria and to hosts it's servers.
Building data centre to accommodate just 1million people alone just so you can post your dumb meme on twitter runs into thousands of dollars if not millions..

Twitter is not charging you for those services but advertisers. Now the advertisers are not paying while they still render the service for free..

What do you think it's going on here? Are they making money or losing money?

And I will ask you a simple question which you failed to answer last time since we are talking about twitter and not bread.

How much is twitter making from Nigeria?

Now if you can find the figure compare it to what Nigerian companies and small businesses losing from the decreased audience.

Twitter is banned in China yet Chinese companies still operate twitter accounts because they need the audience.

I am quite impressed by the lengths you are going to defend the government trampling on public discourse.

Well done.

RapistOnBail:
For the unity of this country, I seriously wouldn’t mind the ban to continue

Okay let me ask, was twitter around when the civil war started?

Was twitter around when the 12 Northern States pushed for sharia law which violates many areas of the constitution?

Is Nigeria functioning as a "united" country which only exists as a colonial remnant?

tmanuelle:
No, stop being ridiculous and stay objective. Negotiations are on and both sides are not denying it. That Federal Minister is the government's spokesman, that's his portfolio. Help yourself.

Government has nothing to lose to Twitter's irresponsibility, it's just Twitter and people like us who have refused to use APN one day until Twitter starts behaving itself on the Nigerian soil.

And you know what, I'm not losing anything anyways.

So you should commend the two sides for even seeing the need to trash the issues out in the interest of Nigerians who are doing real businesses on Twitter instead of being mischievous early Tuesday morning.

Forget that thing, election is near and they don't want to lose another avenue to spew propaganda.

If Twitter trends could topple Jonathan and cause him to lose his reelection 6 years ago what do you think would happen in 2023 when APC gives the opposition free reign to sway a large audience?

Evolution3x:
www.google.com


Ask them.

Then return to make your point.

You're the one making the claim that twitter is losing money from Nigeria with absolutely nothing to back it up aside from misplaced nationalistic zeal.

Evolution3x:
use your sense Na.

If I'm paying you to market a product for me and I stopped paying you only to give my money to another company to market my products, who is at the losing end?

How much revenue do you think twitter makes from Nigeria?

Evolution3x:
cos the question is the dumbest thing on nairaland today.

And if the person is conversant with twitter knows when he sees a tweet from account he is not following means the tweet is an ad reach.

All those jumia tweets, tecno tweets, Stanbic tweets or GTB tweets that you didn't subscribe to suddenly popping up on your timeline are Twitter's reach ads.

Yet he is asking dumb questions.

Good, you have small sense. Now tell me, who is losing more, twitter or the companies who won't be able to reach the same audience as before?

You also know you don't need to pay to advertise on twitter right?

Evolution3x:
smh

Do you even know how twitter ads work?

You probably don't even use Twitter.

Answer the simple question

RapistOnBail:

Ever since Twitter was disabled, lots of tensions have been quelled.


It was really not a bad idea after all.

You are right, for example banditry has been completely eliminated. All secession moves have stopped and Nigeria is now like England in terms of development.

kingthreat:
Las las, na Twitter lose pass.

Please what did twitter lose?

You guys think we are stupid or don't know Nigeria wants to remove the ban because of the next election.

Bellotelli:
They it's against the law of kano state yet they choose to take alcohol there..

This won't stop them from collecting revenues from alcohol.

Stop forcing your backwards ideology on people.

Good, if you can educate your populace and stop the violence you will be on the right track

papiwyte:
Naija

You know when we were voting in 2015 we wanted change, now you are calling the change a storm.

IQscanner:
Pardon my typo errors; I graduated from a federal university with bsc second class upper honours in Nigeria,I intend joining the army but I do not know my way around nor do I have someone to guide me through the process and make a good decision,I will appreciate all the advice and information given to me ,the dos and don't and the best way to apply having my degree in hand



Please I need all the advice and opinion you can give no matter how different it sounds thanks

Since no one wants to answer let me answer.

Apply for DSSC or direct short service commission. Get your documents, fill the paperwork, get 2 sureties and between now and next year you will be shipped off to the Nigerian Defence Academy for nine months officer training.

You will come out as a Second Lieutenant which is the lowest officer position and you can work your way up from there.

Keep in mind, there are height and health requirements and you can be denied at any time.

Also the duration of service is at least 12 years do don't join unless you are willing to spend that time.

And finally being an officer does not exempt you from combat, new recruits are usually shipped off to high conflict areas immediately after graduation.

Agboriotejoye:
Of course Twitter too is losing money. But should we worry about what twitter is losing when Twitter itself does not seem to while ignoring what our countrymen and women who make money off the platform are losing?

Your mistake is believing NGpatriot actually cares about Nigerians. These people relish in your suffering as long as their political godfathers get what they want.