Maynman: How can you know the key to knowledge when you don’t know what knowledge is, you’ll just pick a key and believe it is key of knowledge, Goodnight believer, your lies are too much, Pharisees created Judaism indeed, Judaism was created after they came back from exile, that’s when Pharisees created it? Abraham and Moses also come back with them from exile. Lol
Can you just stop quoting google?
Haba. Responding with first SEO ranked page on google doesn’t imply your response is right.
Try and listen when debating also.
It is tiresome explaining things to people whp are bent on proving their position despite not even understanding their position themselves.
Imindmywords: This is the best political campaign ad ever! I will buy you data if you can show me a better one. .......Kingsley Moghalu, what have you done!?
presidency: INCITING COMMENTS ARE PART OF INSECURITY
By FEMI ADESINA
Let’s start with a caveat: free comments are part of democracy, and so this is not an attempt to muzzle anyone. Nobody should come and shout, oh, they don’t want us to say our minds again. They want to padlock our mouths. Not at all. President Muhammadu Buhari is not even the type that would gag anyone, and the polity is today suffused with all kinds of comments, the responsible, and the not so responsible. The inspiring, and the bilious. The encouraging, and the poisonous. The reasonable, and the not so reasonable.
Nobody would deny that Nigeria has very severe security challenges, though the intensity often varies from time to time. There are seasons when our courageous security agencies have the upper hand, clobber the criminals black and blue, and things calm down. At other times, they suffer reversals. That is the fair assessment of developments.
But fair? That word doesn’t seem to exist in the dictionary of some Nigerians who want you to perpetually believe that ‘worsening insecurity’ is the only thing happening in the country. They never talk of the second Niger Bridge. Loko-Oweto Bridge. Bodo-Bonny road. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Airports. Rail revolution. Fertilizer availability. Rice and maize pyramids. And many others.
No, they don’t see those ones. They only talk of how you can’t travel by road, by rail, by air, and how nobody is safe anywhere in the country. How Federal Government is allegedly overwhelmed by security challenges. They trumpet only the things that give the impression of total anarchy. They know what they are doing. It’s all about the struggle for power, for control of the political and economic strings of the country. The allure of power remains sweet to them eternally.
These instigators cut across all class of people. Former leaders, current political actors, pastors, imams, social commentators, talkshow hosts (and hostesses), so-called human rights activists, socio-political groups, and many others. All they want is to give a sense of anomie in the land, and divert attention from whatever is going right. There is a lot going right, but they never talk of those, simply because of the struggle for power.
Who is that Fulani cattle rearer who dare build a second bridge over the River Niger, something we could only dream of in our 16 years in power? He is even covering the national landscape with rail lines. Who is his father? He’s building new airports, massive expressways, gas pipelines, achieving food security. Come, let’s run him down, even run him out of town, lest he become a national hero. Let’s trumpet the insecurity in the land, till our voices are hoarse.
When negative things happen, like the sad and evil attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train, they pretend to be sympathizing with the country. But their choice of words gives them out. They are who the Good Book calls “miserable comforters.” They are merely adding petrol to a flaming fire, and salt to injury. Under the umbrella of condolence, they are taking potshots at a government they both fear and hate.
There are comments that exacerbate matters, rather than mollify them. There are words that are meant to incite people against leadership, give them a sense of hopelessness, and encourage them to revolt. That is what these people do. Muhammadu Buhari is their headache, and he must be portrayed as a failure by all means. Give him a bad name, erase his footprints on the sands of time, make him look incompetent, a ne’er do well. That is their motive, and if the country goes up in flames in the process, it doesn’t bother them.
They pretend to be speaking truth to power, but you can see through the facade, if you are discerning. You can tell the truth without inciting or instigating people against leadership. What they want is chaos, disorder, anarchy, all in the name of ‘speaking truth to power.’ Liars. Anarchists. People who have not made successes of their own homes or personal affairs, now attempting to dictate how the country should run.
If a preacher brings down fire seemingly from Heaven, but speaks evil about the leadership of his own country, he impresses me not. Because the Good Book enjoins us to pray for those in authority, for there can be no power, except the one God has ordained. He installs kings, and deposes them. Even as a preacher, Christian, Muslim, God has not ceded that authority to you. He sits in Heaven, and makes the earth His footstool. The clouds of the sky are the dusts of His feet. That is God, and no man should compete with Him. But uncouth language is the stock-in-trade of some preachers today. Words are no longer seasoned with grace.
Most of those who utter incautious, inflammatory words about the state of insecurity in the land, only want power through the back door. Some had never liked Buhari, so he must fail. Others supported him in the past, thinking they would be able to lead him by the nose. When they failed, they said he wouldn’t get a second term in office. Before their very eyes, he coasted to victory. Still they are unrelenting in their opposition. But there’s nothing you can do against a man who God has ordained for certain roles.
It’s funny to hear some others asking the government to quit. And so, what follows? Disorder. Higgledy-piggledy. People running helter-skelter, insurgents and bandits taking over. They don’t care about the country, nor about the people. When things burst, they take the next flight out of the country on first class seats.
The security challenges we have are being tackled. Robustly. President Buhari, more than any other leader in the past, has equipped, trained, and motivated the security agencies, who are rising to the occasion, with many of them even paying the supreme price. To be condemnatory of the entire effort is to be unkind, evil, unappreciative.
Some people merely excoriate without suggesting viable alternatives. What can our security agencies do better? How can they do it? No, that is not in their agenda. All they want to see is that Buhari should fail, and fall. But they are not God.
What the times call for is an encouragement of our security forces, not wanton denouncement or chastisement of their work and sacrifices. ‘May God bless our troops’ should be the singsong, not petty politics and grossness.
Nigeria will win the war against evil. The Buhari government will win the war of tongues unleashed against it. Happily, majority of Nigerians know the truth. They may not have the platform to speak out like the vocal minority, but they know those truly serving them, and those merely interested in sticking their snouts in the nectar of office. The year 2023 will show.
Unguarded comments can further inflame the insecurity in the land, and it surely does. And those shooting off their mouths know what they are doing. They want things to become topsy-turvy, jumbled, so they can come out and say, ‘we told you.’ But they won’t succeed, because God is interested in Nigeria, and in the lot of millions of helpless people. That is why President Buhari will land safely, and soundly, to the glory of the Almighty.
*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity
Adesina, this presidency handle will pass over to another person very soon.
You will leave. You would not be re-appointed, no matter what you do now or say.
The election can go in either of two ways. Either APC clinches the presidential seat or another party does. Either way, you would be excused from the new cabinet. You might not know it, but you represent the failings of the current administration. Any new government would immediately distance themselves from your lot; even if they are APC.
You will have to come back to the streets, same way Abati had to. You will have to try to make a living legally.
The Nigerian street is hard and unforgiving. In as much as we have selective amnesia on many things, we do not forget what our oily mouths said when we were in a position of power.
When your street time comes, you will try to spin the things you said and did. It is normal. But the street has receipts.
RealGboy: I was enjoying my night rest when I heard a loud knock on my door .around 1am this morning The knocks were so loud that I jumped up .. the first thing that came to my mind was armed robbers ,
Then I heard my name , the voice was that of My single neighbor.. but what could be the problem I asked myself .
I jumped to the sitting room and try checking the windows to be sure she was not followed , normally I would have pretended to be fast asleep but this my neighbor was actually nice to me.. Easy going and very respectful....
I took a leap of faith and opened my doors ,
She rushed in.
" Bros please sorry to bother you this late , but there is a snake in my kitchen, come and help me kill it "... she begged with fear in her eyes
Omo I weak...
If there is anything I fear more than God then it has to be snakes ... The name snake alone sends shivers down my spine...
I stepped back from her a bit cos only God knows if the same snake had not followed her into my house or am I hearing double ?..
' sorry what did you say is in your kitchen again '... I asked hoping and praying she says snails and not snakes ....
"I said a long black snake is in my kitchen ,I woke up to get water from the fridge when I saw it ,I ran out immediately ,please come help me kill it my daughter is still inside sleeping"....
The first thought that came to my mind was
"What kind of mother run out of the house leaving her daughter inside with a snake "....
And why on earth did this woman think I'm the best person to call to kill a snake ..me that fear rat ..not to talk of snake...
After much thinking I decided to help her ,the woman sees me as an able man that's why she came to me and I must not fall my hand..
I grabbed the stick attached to my mop and a knife,I turned to her and told her. "LET'S GO"...
When we got to her door I did my cross sign ,if I die I die ..
Although I have no plans to die yet but I said that to motivate and ginger myself
,I opened the door and walked in , immediately I was inside the door locked behind me ,
I turned and realized the woman did not follow me in
,omo...I quickly tried opening the door but it was jammed and refuses to open....
To make matters worse nepa took the light .....
Chai ...I started sweating immediately...there was no torch and I don't even know where the snake is at the moment .....
As if that was not enough I felt something circling around my leg..I took my mop and gave it a big hit ....I continue hitting whatever it is...until I heard a baby crying that's when.I realized it was the daughter I have been hitting with mop stick....
The woman hearing her daughter voice tried to come in but the door was locked ..she was saying something about how I can unlock the door but my soul had already left me.... Na die I dey already.......
You dont do juju, you don’t understand juju, you can’t logically prove juju, yet you believe in juju and you are ready to bet your sanity on defending juju?
arowolo: What a deluded African you are. Who made you wise? The West? Don't you know they practice it more than African? Honestly, I never knew someone could be this daft
Mister Intelligence,
Can you try to pass your message or opinions without relying on insults? You dont have a monopoly of insults, always remember.
Now that you have informed us that you are not daft, can you explain your position clearly and in logical sequence without resorting to insults?
Lightorder: So mr Europe, what are you trying to say ? Is it that you don’t have data to watch the small clip or you are just being senselessly impossible ?
Alienhunter: A recent comment from you brought me to your page. I liked the reasoning there. But, as with all intelligence on earth, you have made the inevitable blunder. Whether it is Jordan Peterson or a random Kevin Yue I'm admiring, they all fall into this trap; getting over their heads.
Let me give you a tip (because you have potential), intelligence is no different from wealth or political power. It can be developed. And if you aren't extremely vigilant, it will consume you the same way power corrupts. It will be your doom. Beware.
Now, to your general mindset about religions: you are like a train that was on track and then derailed because you assume too much. In this particular post, you try to explain magic away. Yet you clearly have no clue how real magic works. Wisdom is you NOT explaining what you do not understand, like God or the history of mankind. If you attempt it, your ignorance will stink like a skunk, as it does here. And when the wise attempt to explain what they do not fully understand, they always leave a caveat that says "I don't know, maybe I missed something" lest they misguide others. If you are reckless with intelligence, you abuse power.
Can you summarize your point?
All these words and i have no clue of what you want to say.
Swanzi: What exactly do u mean by we’re not your mates… just because u breed like rabbits doesn’t make u a giant ok Giants are built by their strong institutions, leadership, economic influence, political influence, strong international alliances and strong military alliances and non of the above do u have more than Ghana wake up n smell the coffee and stop living in delusion grandeur…
You evidently are a chest beater.
Ghana depends on aid. We don’t.
We have the best military in West Africa, the fourth in the whole of Africa.
Guess where Ghana military is ? Number 17 after Zimbabwe.
You mention economic influence? Your biggest banks are owned by Nigerians. Your cement is Nigerian. Mention one major influence Ghana has in Nigeria.
When Nigeria closed her borders, you almost died of hunger. If not for the pleas of your leaders, you should have been cooking leather shoes by now (just joking)
Swanzi: Ghana is 30million yes by Nigerian standards we’re small,so for ur mind that’s the reason for our stable electricity ok Lagos is 20million less than Ghana why does lagos not have 24/7 electricity oya
Stop glorifying mediocrity so Nigeria has epileptic power because of population…. You really deserve the kind of leaders you have…! So why is china and india not having epileptic power supply since they have an even larger population and consumption than you…
You are so pained u had to divert the argument to girls and clubs to soothe ur pain and comfort ur ego
We are a nation with our problems.
We recognize the issues we have and there are agitations by the citizenry to change the status quo.
If there is any insult you can spew, it would never be that we are lazy. We all work very hard at what we do. We are passionate for success.
Our light is bad but it has been improving. It might take some time, but we will get there.
I have been to Accra many times. I know how deep the hatred for Nigerians run.
Your men are afraid of Nigerians. You do everything you can to wreck Nigerian businesses in your country. Despite that, we own the best houses in West Legon and Roman Ridge. You can only afford to live in places like Oshiyie and Ahinsan.
I will be coming to Accra very soon to make some of your girls happy.
Continue to listen to your local radio stations where they advertise money making charms every 10 minutes.
anyilalaz: This question pass WAEC. Who go 'helep me ask Ghadaffi'?
Changing your currency from USD to Naira would imply a direct confrontation with the USA.
It is also a direct confrontation with the world finance powers.
To be able to pull it off, you must be completely independent as a Nation.
Only few countries in the world are capable of pulling this off economically.
The us dollar is over valued and has no parity value since the gold parity was removed decades ago. If fewer countries demand the U.S. dollar, it will negatively affect their economy.
Ghadaffi wanted to sell libyan oil only for gold and this led to the whole west waging a war on him, finally killing him.
Swanzi: When will I stop educating you Nigerians that 24/7 electricity is not rocket science neither is it a miracle is very practical and it happens in Ghana… ! Even if there is light out it doesn’t take more than 5-10 min max unless there is local issue maybe with a transformer,any other issue announcement is made via radio or tv if it exceeds 24hours…
Pity una self u need it
Nigeria can add the whole of ghana to its electricity grid. Ghana cannot feed ordinary Oyo state.
Just because we bash our country doesn’t mean we are your mates.
CharlotteFlair: You can keep playing the ostrich. Nigeria is about us vs them. It was so before you were born and it will continue to be so after you are gone. There's no unity and love among Nigerians.
Don't you lots come here to swear with your blood that an Igbo man will never be president? Is that not a declaration of us vs them?
There can never be unity among Nigerians provided there's no justice and equity.
If you want to start a debate with me on Us vs Them, then create another thread and mention me.
Only a tribally limited individual will confidently believe in such a racial ideology of us vs them.
As regards igbo presidency, ask yourself this simple question. How many igbo politicians do we have that currently have a national spread of influence? Look at Obasanjo in 1999. Despite being Yoruba, the Yorubas didn’t vote for him. He won, not because he was a Yoruba but he was a nationalist. The approach of Igbo politicians is that “we have not been president before so give it to us”. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
In addition to the above, your own personal approach (based on your comments), is that we should burn all bridges. Everyone is against the innocent igbos. How is that approach going for you? How do you think a foreigner who thinks the whole of Africa is one unit would feel when you try explaining why you so much hate other tribes or believe other tribes hate you?
When i see a national politician from the Igbo tribe contesting, who believes in “one-Nigeria” and can confidently say this anywhere, i will vote for him and publicly campaign for him.
obynzo: Not really, see IPOB has a good following but they are not daft to hit igbo people. This Unknown gunmen attacks are clearly false flag even IPOB has several times distanced themselves from the attacks, two things may be involved clearly a false flag to give FG the excuse to have a full scale military operation and declare martial law in the south east or secondly this could be disgruntled politicians sponsoring thugs to carry out the attacks under the toga of UGM/IPOB just to discredit the government of Soludo. Because let us look at it has the police made an arrest and the person admitted that he is an ESN member or IPOB commander come to think of it no one all this while all the arrests they made have overtime been shown to be innocent people and then released quietly.
The official IPOB has allegedly distanced themselves from the violence and sit at home.
The Autopilot faction of IPOB led by Ekpa has claimed all responsibilities for the terrors.
Ekpa and his thugs claim they are IPOB members.
If Igbos are completely against the terrors inflicted by Simon and co, there are avenues to address this. Avenues which is not being fully implemented because “who wants to bell the cat?”
Why is everyone not coming out on the said Monday as a solidarity call against the terrorists? These individuals are humans living within the communities. Why are they not been reported?
In another light, i have noticed that whenever there is a contrary opinion going against the violence, it is still these same IPOB members that will come online to attack anyone against the violence.
If the killers are bad and outsiders say the killers are bad, why attack the outsiders? Except the killers are actually good ?
You failed to see the meat of my argument so I can't help you.
But if you must be a motivational activist, always endeavor to balance your package and not the selective amnesiac judgement you lots hide behind your phones to dish out!
Send your 500k to any IDP of your choice, thanks.
You never fail to amaze me with your generalizations.
Your mind is rigged to an “us” vs “them” mentality.
CharlotteFlair: When buhari went on international tv to call us 5%, you didn't caution his elderly brain.
When buhari came to international tv to call Igbos dot in the circle, you shouted for joy. You taunted Igbos with it.
When python danced and was killing Igbos, you rejoiced.
So what's your grouse now? Why do you want to wail to death over Igbo matters when you never spoke up against your unpatriotic presidiot who saw it as powerful to come online to abuse a genetically superior race who by accident are a part of the country he rules. Why was he comfortable dialoguing with Boko Haram but Bent on killing unarmed Ipob members?
You hypocritical wide mouths should look into your own communities and weep for their poor conditions of living rather than shedding hypocritical tears on Igbo matters.
Show any post, comment or video where i did all you just accused me and i will credit any account you provide with N500k
Oh, you are generalizing. Just because i offered an alternative opinion?
Why do you assume anyone with a contrary opinion on IPOB actions is definitely a buhari supporter?
I now know why real igbo intellectuals have kept quiet.
If your neighbor is trying to eating cockroaches, it is better to stop him. Not because you dont want the death of the cockroaches but in order to ensure his potential belly ache at night does not disturb your sleep.( a proverb)
Go ahead and burn more igbo local governments. If you like, kill your governors and the governed.
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