₦airaland Forum

If he resigns what can Nigerians (those who voted for him and those who didn't) do?

I ask because it is his right to resign.

It's easy to castigate the Minister but you must understand that his strategy is very effective.

A lot of the lies told prior to the election and their effect on the psyche of the populace CANNOT be rescinded or remedied. It's almost like the oft made statement - "Jury should please disregard the statement of the witness". After the jury has already heard and have been affected by the information.

To all intents and purposes the Minister is a roaring success!

TippyTop:
The report or the whitewash? Nothing would come off this report, it's only a charade.

Postponed till Monday (yesterday)

As at today, NADA

Hassan Tukur

hothead:
this would be niceee....Guys should start creating their roadmap for Nigeria's development from now.

Yes oh! Meanwhile you Nairalanders ain't loyal oh! Una no even mention Seun, Mynd44, Lalalsticlala as 2019 leaders!

Let's disrupt dis thing na!

rex444:
Our money hungry, power hungry never satisfying greedy elders we are supposed to be looking up to are busy taking up the space,while we remain muted. Till we but speak up,things will grow worse

I am aware of a number of political parties that are not averse to Youths running for office, even the Presidency under their platform.

I am also aware of a 38 year old who intends to run for President in 2019 (you can find him on Facebook)

It's not as bleak as it's being made out to be. Surely the youth don't expect to be spoon fed into politics?

So much cynism and skeptism: the old and current brigade of politicians don't have a lot of work to do at all.

I can see why Dino & Bello were able to tap into this 'rent seeking' system.

He who dares, WINS!!

Please, abeg if you're skeptical don't post. Let the optimists propose who should lead us. You can stay in the background, no problem.

Will need to cross check

jcflex:
KOLA OSINOWO.


JIDE ADEYEMI
CEO Big and Bold.
thou he is FORTIFIED

The truth is we have alot of young leaders within our tribes, religion and industries, but the big question is,

IS OUR POLITICAL SPACE SAFE ENOUGH FOR THIS YOUNG, VIBRANT, ARTICULATE AND FUTURISTIC NIGERIAN YOUTH TO COME OUT AND VIE FOR POLITICAL POST.
.without money factor, and the safety of their immediate and extended family.

Many Thanks for approaching this with the required seriousness, I'm looking these guys up shortly.

Your last points are valid, I'm certain if we ask Move together these issues will pale as the day wears on

Hmm

REBASING THE OPPOSITION

It appears the kite was flown for anti-Catholic sentiments but it didn't take wind.

The 'opposition' needs to be recalibrated.

Smart move? Methinks the Only move

Assuming the constitutional age requirement can't be changed before 2019, where are the 38 year old Nigerians that will run for President in 2019?

Please name individuals the country can rally round, individuals who can inspire, individuals who are ALTRUISTIC with every fibre of their being, individuals who have the CAPACITY to administer and take informed decisions, individuals who are set to exploit Nigeria's abundant human and material resources, individuals who are GOD FEARING.

Please try not to derail the thread with tribal, religious, abusive comments; We are more than these!

So!


WILL THE 38 YEAR OLD LEADERS PLEASE STAND UP!


[PS. If possible please post pics and small bio, thanks]

Please note

We are not discussing Policy, Implementation, 2017 Budget, Ikoyi Billions, SGF DG NIA alleged Culpibility etc etc

WE ARE DISCUSSING

SIGHTING MR. PRESIDENT


Everything else take a back seat


meanwhile http://punchng.com/suspended-nia-boss-wife-bought-ikoyi-flat-with-1-6m-cash-says-efcc/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

The title says it all

Watch Clear Video Of President Buhari At The Mosque For Juma'at Prayers Today


this is supposed to be the president of the world's most populous black nation and na boju boju we dey use see am?!

Is okay


(actually, IT'S NOT!)

Beht Lai said.....

Anyways kindly note...

PMB and the people whose interests his government represents (be they Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba or Igbo, Christian or Muslim and who continuously benefit from the current dispensation of patronage and public wealth) have waited 16 whole years to be in power and now some young/old impressionable people expect that they will bring and end to this arrangement simply because they lost (plausibly) the people's mandate?

There are several ways to manipulate people and elections (some as observed in the recently held elections)

Nigerian governments have never been instituted to serve the public mandate. They are simply avenues for sharing the Nation's wealth. This has not changed and may not change in the near future.

The masses will always be the masses, the 'leaders' will always be the leaders.

WE ARE A GULLIBLE PEOPLE, Nigerians are the answer to their leader's prayers

When A whole President works from home, how serious is the nation? will you risk your future for it?

When Nigeria sits up they will come back, we that are here MUST work towards a Nigeria they can come back to.

We need them.

Youdondeymad:
Good job,thank you for rescuing this innocent girls.The internet is not helping matters at all,there are many x-rated scenes on the cyberspace promoting nudity and immorality.Parents should monitor their children and teach them the right things to do always.

In Fact! The WOMAN has heart!

PEPPERified:
Disciplinary measures must be taken against some or any of those biys ti serve as a deternt to the younger generation.

Indeed!

solpat:
Thank God for using you to rescue the poor helpless girls

chocodaviva:
God bless ur heart.
May evil not befall ur kids too
How many likes for dis man of great courage......

Jaabioro:
Terrible! Is that part of what they learned in public secondary schoosl nowadays ?Madam thank. you . measure some of these good for nothing boys got some bitter lesson to chew..

Na Woman Oh!

MICHALE MATTHEWS

UPDATE

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The culture of rape has long been institutionalised. For most of us, it is not such a bad thing, it's a tradition..a way of life in the sense that water is normal for the fish or snow to the polar bear.

From MichaleMatthew's wall

Dear Reader,

I write this incidence with lots of mortification and great concern for what the next generation will be like in Nigeria if we do not quickly get to work repairing and paying them attention. Our elders have led their lives and we the generation who follow the baby boomers must hunker down and correct the ills in our back yards and community. It's a common saying that evil prevails when good men do nothing. Today the 3rd of May 2017, I almost saw this evil happen. 'Almost' because I got so moved in my spirit with great indignation that I decided to speak up.

I am in my office about 4pm waiting for my driver to bring my older son from school so we can get home on time to prepare the younger one for his common entrance exams into secondary school coming up in two weeks. I called the driver and he said he was around and as I leave my nieces office upstairs, I hear a lot of shouting and commotion outside our office. I then ask the receptionist what it was about and he says it's the secondary school student who have finished their final exams tearing their clothes. I mumble to my self that if any of them were my children I will deal with them. As they don't earn money so how can they tear what was bought for them.

Suffice to say I give my older son who is helping me with my bags that speech and we head out into the car. As we come outside the noise is overwhelming and as my son kept saying when we were later discussing what happened, he described it as being very intense when we had a chance to discuss the events that followed as people were running and upon my looking closer I saw pockets of people actually students and then girls running with palpable fear in their faces. At this point I quickly enter my car to leave so one doesn't meet what ever the problem was and to avoid traffic too. And as we entered the car and I look a bit closely at a crowd of boys who have surrounded two persons on the floor who appear to be fighting. Their shouting overpowers any other sound and looking closely I see the most unreal thing. It's actually a boy trying to force himself on a girl with his trousers partly down and the boys are cheering him on.

People are looking and some persons the security guards in the office near us are recording it. I open my car in disbelief and shout on the boys to break it up while shouting at my security and the second driver to assist me. I walk towards them and as I make my way towards them I see another group and this time they have cornered one of the the girls who fell while running from them. In almost a surreal way I am looking but not quickly processing. I see her kicked down, she bravely pushes her self up and another guy tries to clear her legs and she lunges at him and then a guy takes a pair of scissors in his hands and with one swoop tears her skirt from the bottom and also a part of the black spanx shorts she has on underneath. All this happens really in a few minutes and he proceeds to push himself into her through her back. His trousers is open too and another one tries to do same from the front. As this is going on the crowd of boys are wild with frenzy, cheering the two boys on, while grabbing at her hair, breasts and she is fighting for dear life. I am still making my way towards the first group but they bolt when they see me coming and when I see them do so I move ahead and rush towards the second group this time shouting at the top of my lungs at my own office security, the office next door and thankfully mine follow me and when they see us coming they break up and run but there more girls running back. I reach the girl and we gather her things together. She ties the torn skirt around her spanx shorts like a wrapper and holds onto to me.

I see the boys have run forwards and stopped, waiting for me to enter my car while threatening other teenage school girls still. I have a crowd of over 25 girls huddled together frantically telling me their various ordeal. I ask them to take another route back and am told if the go back from where they are coming there is another group behind and the our office road is a crescent so they are technically locked in. And most of them have their skirts ripped as they claim the boys in the various groups have scissors on them. Further questioning tells me the best way is to go out is towards the other side but since they are too scared to go I ask my security, some other men have come out to escort them too, with myself as the only adult female and there begins over an hours walk towards the obalende roundabout from off awolowo road in Ikoyi. We meet other girls who have had their clothes ripped as the boys fled once the boys realized I was not backing up. The boys would reach a distance and stop to taunt the girls. We now had a crowd of over 60 girls who needed to get safely to the bus stop and find their way home. We ( being myself and the other men escorting the girls) start talking about how to get hold of one of the boys so we can use him as an example. At this point I call a friend and ask for a Mopol to be sent to me. I describe my location. My attention is drawn to another girl who had just been manhandled by the fleeing boys. A woman warns the girls to beware as the boys have spilt up and are waiting as some live in that locality. We then break into three groups to escort the girls to their various bus or home points. I take the two girls whom I saw personally manhandled and begin to make careful inquiries.

Feedback shows that they go to a senior high school called Falomo Senior High School next to Ireti grammar school that these boys go to. Today was both schools final day after which they will come only to collect their results from Wednesday of the following week so the boys who had already started raping some girls last week now planned this brazen rape and manhandling activity. They had also stolen their phones and transport money. We then made arrangements to transport them home. By now the mopol has come. He walks me to obalende under bridge to put the two girls and their friends going to Yaba into a bus. This is not before I get the names of the boys as George and Abiodun as the main perpetrators, they are final year students of Ireti Grammar School SW Ikoyi. I call a friend and am told to take pictures but most of the girls have gone but we arel able to take pictures of at least 7 girls with me who had torn clothes in various stages of disarray. I give my number to the only girl left with a phone and this was because she put it into her spanx shorts as she wore two and used one to roll her phone into it. I am amazed at this whole thing and we agree that they should come through to my office on Wednesday of the following week but I will go ahead and make a report to the two schools tomorrow and begin finding these evil boys so we can use them as examples to deter other from this abominable behavior perpetrated in broad day light. One of the girls says she can identify them. She gives me her number. I ask my security to ensure he receives them at 9am when we agreed to meet. I turn and leave but I will never be the same again. The evil is terrible. The lack of regard and the indignity. My mind runs through and is still running through all I have seen. I have a friend who normally stops to help distressed persons or attend to traffic situation and I always warn him to desist and he will say someone has to do it. Today I am most grateful I was that someone. I had other people join me especially a man who saw me and said madam a girl was raped last week by this office. Am tired of this. Removed his tie and followed me. They stayed with me till the last set of kids entered the bus and as they came so they left when we got done. I did not get to say thank you to them. My older son was like mum, they must be angels or Jesus. Actually he said the man that followed me first must be Jesus. I don't know who he was but if he ever reads this post my heartfelt thank you to him for that large hearted action. God is kind oh, that there are still good men but we must speak up and as such I am following up to ensure we do something collectively to help the boys of this school as I believe mentoring is required if this cycle is to be broken but the ones who committed this dastardly act must be brought to book first. I ask those in authority to look into this as I am told it's quite prevalent.

God bless Nigeria and we all have a part in ensuring the blessing

Michale Matthew

[note: Michale Matthew is a Lady]

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Mobsync:
The vehicle did it's job. Roadside bombs are huge ba5tards and can cause unbelievable damage. Even an armored tank is unlikely to have survived such explosion.

I guess the euphoria is justified but please see response a couple of posts up

mikolo80:
do you have anything that is 100% resistant. we will buy from you.think before talking. it's meant to take the hit yet keep soldiers alive

The MRAP shown is Chinese built and not the one the US donated

https://beegeagle./2015/06/22/field-imagery-a-chinese-built-csvp3-bigfoot-mine-resistant-ambush-protected-mrap-vehicle-of-the-nigerian-army/

Please read through this link and see what the MRAPs FUNCTION As:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP

factwriter:
Just look at what you are saying!

What do think would have been the effect it were an ordinary armoured vehicle

Rather than being alive (to come down to fix axle and change tyre as you scorned) they would simply have been shredded.

And at what point do they get down from the vehicle and waltz through the mind field and get back to base?

Be careful people. Please stay alert.

God speed

Where is the picture of the resistant vehicle?

(what use is this level of resistance if soldiers will come down fix axle and change tyre inside a live mine field?)



[meanwhile the MRAP shown is Chinese built https://beegeagle./2015/06/22/field-imagery-a-chinese-built-csvp3-bigfoot-mine-resistant-ambush-protected-mrap-vehicle-of-the-nigerian-army/

And not the US donated ones
https://beegeagle./2016/01/08/photo-newsreel-usa-present-24-mrap-vehicles-to-the-nigerian-army/]

preciousuweh:
We’d be two years old in a few weeks time. And in our very normal customary way, we are going to mark it because we have a lot of story to tell,” he said.

SOURCE: https://www.naij.com/1102789-buharis-health-status-wont-affect-plans-may-29-celebration-lai-muhammed.html

This right here succinctly captures the APC government in one and a half sentences!

STORY TELLERS!!!?!!!

Is there another shutdown more than the current one?

What exactly is a governments responsibility to its citizens if having been unable to protect them from physical and economic harm it assumes the role of a devourer?

Today is exactly 2 weeks from the date set by the President for the submission of the report!

Make we wait till 12pm?