₦airaland Forum

uuzba:
You just casted yourself. So you know what is NORMAL cut
Therefore dredlock is ABNORMAL..
Hence the adjustment given by Nigerian army.

This is the example of your typical Nigerian, ready to suffer and smile, ready to die for the likes of Ibori, Tinubu, Atiku... and the rest of his oppressors.

I wonder if he will also teach his children how to suffer and smile

supercase1:
Am sure u are a Randy Nigeria with debased brains why can't these stupid soldiers cut the hair of our football stars e.g iwobi eze etc

U guys sometimes reason like monkeys when u try to defend ill actions accross nigeria

It seems a lot of Nigerians are indeed monkeys

Just look at the amount of comments saying, they did him a favor

It's only in Nigeria that we laugh at everything, such a useless country

How is this a joke? How can this ever be considered funny?

No wonder leaders can continue to oppress the monkey citizens, cause even if you are about to kill them, they will still be laughing...

Nigerians are truly the Kings of "SUFFERING AND SMILING"

Claudiusdeux:
Slight correcton...it isn't the duty of the police to enforce traffic rules.

The FRSC usually does that....I think the Traffic wardens are the only branch of the police that do some form of traffic enforcement.

But abroad, the Law has a lot of aids to help them control traffic...things like cameras, monitoring devices, etc....which we don't have in Nigeria. And with a budget as scanty as what the FRSC and police get....I doubt we would ever have the cash to pay for the thing.

Also, we Nigerians are part of the problem. We bribe, cajole, threaten and even fight law enforcement...and even threaten their lives atimes. So, why should they bother.

Are you sure about that? I think the police as a LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY would definitely have a role in enforcing traffic laws.

Only in Nigeria again I see so many different agencies involved in traffic; police, lasma, frsc, vio, local gov...

Yet in Dallas for instance, only one outfit does that job, THE POLICE, and they do it damn well!

I understand that we may not have cameras and such, but we have police vehicles and buying petrol should be dirt cheap for government, so there’s no reason why they shouldn’t patrol.

In London for instance with lots of cameras, you may not need that much patrolling, but juxtapose that with like Texas that is huge with not as many cameras. There they definitely need patrolling and they do it so well.

So bottom line bro, cameras/patrolling, we just don’t have any excuse.

I feel you about Nigerians being pigheaded sometimes, but that can still be overcome. You just need to be organized in having an efficient “backup” system. So instead of deploying lethal force, a squad can simply request for backup to quell any ugly situation.

All in all, we must find a pathway to Law and Order!

I have been to a few countries in my life and Nigeria is the only country I’ve seen were it’s police officers don’t enforce traffic rules.

Will we ever value Law and Order in Nigeria?

I find myself stopping erring drivers daily now, as though I were a police officer. Last time, I stopped a guy making an illegal turn, and a guy driving on the lane markings. Both times, I was insulted badly, which is to be expected from crude Nigerians that will break the law and then curse you. All this occurred within a few meters from police officers, who obviously did nothing, sigh!

In Nigeria, you find the police officers sitting down at junctions, sitting in their cars, eating lunch by the roadside... they NEVER PATROL... how can you tackle major traffic offenses if you don’t patrol?

The only time they will spring up to action is to form road blocks to extort money! This is not the type of country I want for my children.

What will it take for “black man country” to fall in love with Law and Order?

What will it take for Nigerian police to start enforcing laws like:-


Driving in your lane

One car per lane, no matter the traffic situation

One way driving and riding by okadas, even in the presence of police.

Turning left, using the wrong lane, the lane for going straight.

Using turn signals before switching lanes

Pedestrians walking on the roads, and not sidewalks

...




Ask your self, in Nigeria, when last were you pulled over, or when last did you see an erring driver get pulled over. Would your children know what it means to get pulled over by police? Are Nigerians accustomed to pulling over when they hear police sirens behind them, or do they understand that those sirens probably belong to a government convoy riding with impunity?

We always let issues linger and then come up with draconian laws like “death for running traffic lights”, when the situations gets out of hand.

You don’t need draconian rules for traffic offenders, you just need to enforce the law 24/7/365.

You can’t enforce the law on only one day out of the whole month and expect to have order.


The one that really irks me is okada riders riding one way frequently, then you look up and see 5 lasma guys looking the other way... some even asking drivers through the window for “anything for we”...

Must Nigeria fail in every sector before someone or the people rescue it?

Well I know we will divide eventually, God willing, but can’t we still get somethings right, right now!

Must we always behave like animas in a jungle who just do anyhow, forming sharp guy, with no justice, no justice whatsoever.

I mean how can you line up for hours and then one danfo just drives to the front of the queue and police does NOTHING. What kind of evil is that.

He loved his people so much, that he brought bullion vans to his compound on the day before a General Election...

Only in Nigeria

Only in freaking Nigeria!!

All you Atiku and Tinubu fanboys eeeh, let me not start rambling now abeg...

Neddstark:
Bandits knew the government was on their trail and there was no escape. The boys have already been sighted. They had to negotiate a safe passage and leave the boys. That is exactly what happened. Bad market for them. Now is time to eliminate these bandits.

So were any arrest made?

Or are the abductors free to go home and come back tomorrow?

“When we established contact with them, I persuaded them to release them unharmed. And so they did tonight. This is not the first time we facilitated the release of our people without payment of ransom.

https://www.nairaland.com/6320274/govenor-matawalle-negotiated-release-kankara

This is kinda hard to believe

So he just told them to release the children and they agreed?

Just like that?

How can a President never do a live interview with the Press of the country?

Na wa

What is this 20 sec clip about?

I guess I've been spoilt watching Trump and other civilized leaders go back and forth with the press, no matter how idiotic the questions may seem.

Here in Nigeria, we get, pictures and 20 second clips every 2 months.

I don't think this guy has done a press interview in years

No questions and answers, nothing

They call you wailers, because they are happy when the whole country suffers and the citizens are in tears.

Can't you see all the demons on this thread rejoicing at another opportunity to cause further suffering and tears to innocent children? Innocent Nigerians?

It's okay to wail, God will wipe away all your tears for being an upright Nigerian that always wanted the best, but found yourself surrounded by demonic Nigerians who always wanted tears for their fellow black man.

They know Tinubu will pillage and pilfer, destroy even further, but they want your tears, they are wicked at heart.

But our God is wonderful, no matter what suffering they intend to put you through, know that your God will always find a way out for his children, leaving the wicked to their fate.

Growing up, I don't really remember terrorism being associated with Nigeria, or maybe I was just living in my ignorant bubble.

Regardless though, these past decade, the bomb blasts, beheadings and frequent killings have almost solidified the bond between terrorism and Nigeria and I wonder when this all started.

only in Nigeria that terrorist spawn out of thin air and then glitch away, without a trace

incompetence is not even the word

but then, but then, what do Nigerians really expect when you actively, passionately and fervently search out the worst of the bunch to be your leaders?

You Nigerians don't just settle for bad, no, no, no

Your leader must be a thief, corrupt, maybe killed a few along the way, ahaaaa!

Now he is worthy to be called your leader, your governor, your senator, your president...

The good guys don't even stand a chance in Nigeria

low2high:
DESPITE THE SINS OF BUHARI THIS DOES NOT EXONERATE THE PDP FROM THE FINANCIAL CRIMES THIS PARTY PLUNGED NIGERIA INTO FOR GOOD 16 YEARS.

True, and you know what?

It is okay to hate PDP and APC.

It is!

It is also okay to vote for the most brilliant individual out there and support him/her,

It is.

Nwaotu10:
Northerners killing themselves from time immemorial.

This is the reason why we don't want Islamism in the East.

Imagine people killing for God.


Any easterner that joined this religion in the north should understand that when Biafra comes...........................

I better reserve my comment.


I hope I made myself clear

Islam should not be considered a religion, but a political cult.

No other religion of today converts the political system in a society in which it is the predominant religion, but islam.

Only Islam will convert whatever political system you are running to SHARIA once they have the numbers.

No separation of "Church" and "State"

In other words, you can't call Islam a religion, when it is a POLITICAL SYSTEM.

If you doubt me, ask any Muslim what he prefers "DEMOCRACY or SHARIA".

TheMan3:
Nigeria how did you get to this point?

I still remember warning the whole of nairaland then, the same way I'm warning about Tinubu and Atiku now, the same way I warned about MMM


but in all, it's like Nigerians just choose to be willfully stooopid.


How was Buhari, a coup plotter that should have been shot, ever supposed to be a solution to democracy?

If you go try execute a coup today, won't they kill you? Okay, we let Buhari slide the first time, and Nigeria even paid him pension (shaking my head), for executing a coup...

...but then Nigerians now went and brought back a coup plotter.

Shaking my head, shaking my fvcccking head

IamPlato:
Will You Be Quiet? Una Use Protest fool Around first then You Failed To Give A Political Party And Presidental Candidate and You Coming To Tell People Who Not To Vote.


Provide Something Better And Stop Critsizing

See you, already laying down your life so early in the morning to die for evil.

Typical black man that whites used to call monkeys back in the day.

Keep fighting to protect evil, so you can tell you children how you encouraged killings and corruption in Nigeria


So if I because I didn't mention who to vote for means, you will continue voting for devils ba

meeeeeen

and that judgement would be extremely warranted

but I also pray that God forgives you, because who can stand Gods judgement.


So you want your country to keep suffering, to keep decaying, all because you want to continue playing useless tribal politics.

Like a suicide bomber, you are ready to sacrifice yourself and your family, just so the other tribe doesn't "win"


Now I here Tinubu this and that, and I still see massive support. Only in a black nation


Aren't the youths of this country ready to join the rest of the world in development? Must we continue to remain the laughing stock of the rest of the world?


I told my brother that Nigerians would forget the Toll Gate shooting, and look at it, they are already forgetting and ready to lay down their lives for political criminals that killed their brothers, shouting Jagaban up and down.

How low have you sunk, that you hail your killer and tormenter?

PerfectlyPerfect:
Do you really believe Tinubu will turn this country around for the better, or are you just supporting him because he's from your tribe?

Bro, that is what is always happening in Nigeria

see dem, already supporting a demon that gunned down their brothers at the toll gate

they've already forgotten or they don\t care, as long as it's one tribe against another


men, it seems to me that the IQ of the average Nigerian is just too low, and we need to focus on education. but first we need good leaders, but how do the good leaders get chosen by the low-IQ masses?


Because of tribe, all these dudes are willing to keep "suffering and smiling", putting the lives of their family and unborn generation as risk. It's so pitiful

Just to be able to say "Ntoor" to Yoruba or Igbo or hausa, they will vote for the worst of the worst to spite the others


men black people are just, sigh


ANIMALS

Martinola:
[b][/b] It's like you have to acquire a lot of wealth and power and in the process become stinkingly corrupt before you can become a successful politician in this country

I guess so.

Maybe wealth, or maybe I'll get picked by someone, but I won't choose corruption.

I want Nigeria to become a tourist destination, beautiful rivers, educated, educated and educated masses, great infrastructure, zoos, zoos and more zoos (big lions), paved roads, road markings, fresh African air (No generator pollution)...

I know the country may still separate, or should really, but in the meantime, I just want to build a black nation that blacks around the world can be proud of. Not that they have to force themselves to love Nigeria just because it's a black nation, but they'd love it because it's the motherland and DEVELOPED, like a watered down WAKANDA.

Something as simple as building sidewalks, and closing open gutters in major cities across the country would BOOST tourism immensely in my opinion, but it seems all things in Nigeria, both big and small get overlooked so often, or the leaders may mostly just be wicked souls.

GavelSlam:
When he talks no be to curse am una dey do?

Why cant he ever have journalists interview him?

WHY?

Is it just to take picture and read script?

We deserve much, much, much better from a president and what type of precedence does this set for the next president, that he/she can just stay cocooned and hardly ever interact with the press or masses.

Martinola:
Uhg
The real pain is, no matter who eventually emerges as president in 2023, he will carry little or no hope judging my the messy way things are heading.
None of this people really cares about the state of affairs and future of Nigeria.
I still can't believe we are here after all the promises 2015 held.
It's hard to believe there's a person who can bring sanity back to Nigeria.
Everything is just messed up.

I can bring sanity back to Nigeria, or whatever portion the people would entrust to me.

...but I am somewhat "nameless", unlike the Babagindas, Abachas, Buharis, Obasanjos, Atikus, Tinubus of our childhood

I will make sure every kobo is well utilized to the benefit of Nigerians as God is my witness.

From big things like rail, to the supposedly "unimportant" things like, sidewalks and closing ALL OPEN GUTTERS, I will give it my best shot

but who will vote for me?

Raydos:
The famous Shibuya Interception in Tokyo alone has about 3,000 people crossing it Every 5minutes

And still there has never been traffic grid-lock there, Imagine if it was Lagos??

If it were lagos, danfos would be driving on all those sidewalks

People would be hawking right on the road

Lawless!

To me, Nigerians behave like lower level animals.

I mean what's the difference between like a squirrel and a typical Nigerian? Besides the bigger brain? Just all around chaotic

When last did you see Buhari?

When last was he interviewed?

What a shame

and then people like that rossikk guy here on nairaland will be like Nigeria is a poor country, whites are evil and bla bla bla

Do you know what a God fearing Government can do with that 6 billion? Especially in a so called poor country.

yungmill:
My bro its alarming the idiocy and selective bias i see both here and in person on the daily, in Nigeria the norm is if its not directly affecting me the rest can burn for all i care, when they see people stand up to uplift they hate and try to pull the person down because they lack the strength to pull themselves up and it always has to be about them and their fragile ego!.

Beyond Alarming...

I wonder about the future of our country with youths willing to support the continued suffering of our people.

I remember one thread on here were an army officer beat up a woman, and sure enough, the front page here was filled with support for the officer tand not the victim. Thank God that officer was eventually arrested.

All in all, we must continue to pray and educate ourselves.

goodheart02:
Another dumb skull spotted, quoting someone who never referred to u, seeking undue attention and sounding like an upcoming tout. "If na your papa born u.. bla bla bla" that's the only sensible analogy your crew can keep spewing here. Yuck!! You guys disgust me

Don't let all these devil advocates get you down bro.

I'm sure the dude you are quoting doesn't even live on that axis and doesn't pay toll.

Hence, since this particular suffering is not affecting him directly, his evil nature is free to roam unchecked.

yungmill:
Stupidity has been normalized in most peoples lives in this country, people celebrating mediocrity and wishing death to people willing to give it all so everyone's life can be better, well its all about the cheap idiotic fame to them.

As in bro!

Something seems to be wrong with black people cause I can't understand how we tend to support every negative thing.

They keep electing the worst people and spitting on those trying to liberate the society.

Yesterday, I was complaining about traffic lights not working and of course some people on here were in support of the traffic lights not working, telling me to go to my village.

Nigerians are a special breed of human, and not in a good way.

udemzyudex:
I gave you an option, since Lagos state government is not making money from toll gate, or since lagos panel judiciary reject LCC request to take back lekki toll they decide to leave everything and since the situation is like that what stop you from coming down from your car to control the traffic, those doing it on the mainland don't have two heads.
Lagos judiciary panel is still on the lekki toll gate issue, it's either you endure or you assist.
Traffic light in other part of the state are working, we are talking about lekki toll here and I believe you understand why.

First off, that road should never have been tolled. There was little to no justification for tolling the road, so yes, LCC should not be allowed to re-start toll collection at the lekki-epe toll gate. They can collect at the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge, cause that does serve a purpose.

Secondly, see how free traffic has become at the toll gate. I mean, it's like night and day, good vs evil. Before now, all they ever cared about was collecting that toll. Even if it meant only one stall was open, and there were a million cars lined up from the toll gate all the way to 1004 estate, you MUST, MUST pay. They could not even streamline the process, like it's done abroad, because of course, "we are in Nigeria, so bla bla bla, it won't work, the whites are gods, and so on and so forth". In some developed countries, you would not even have to stop at the toll, so that traffic doesn't build, the system just reads your tags, but I digress...

Third, why should toll gate income be tied to functioning traffic lights? I strongly believe this is the real reason the lights have been turned off across the stretch of that road. The corruption has really eaten deep into us and our society. I just knew that they would have the mentality that since we don't want to pay toll, we don't even deserve the basic amenities, as though toll is the only way to pay for such amenities. Is Lekki the only part of Lagos that has traffic lights? Why then must the argument be made that ONLY LEKKI TRAFFIC LIGHTS MUST BE MAINTAINED WITH TOLL MONEY? This is not a very strong argument to be made in any shape or form.

Lastly, a government that had the fear of God in them, or maybe just human decency would see the new chaos that has arisen at junctions across that highway due to non-functioning traffic lights. It really does pain me that even on here, some people still support the lights not working, claiming this is what we get for #endsars. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. May God help us all!

Or is it just on nairaland? cause I know this is the most hate-filled social media site compared to others

The fact that some can still support these corrupt bastards on here.

Same APC, Same PDP

Same politicians that can barely speak english, the ones that go as far as to hoard Indomie while locking people down.

The ones that will allow your roads to spoil to the point that it is unmotorable.

The one that can't even get simple law and order down.


I mean, if not for Hollywood, will Nigerians know what it means to get pulled over by a squad car?

When you hear sirens in Nigeria, do you pull over? Do you even slow down to let them pass?


God, I will keep fighting for the country were I was born, but what gives? Why are these people all around me happy with the status quo?

Why are they happy with open gutters, no light, no law and order, no lanes on roads.

Why? God why?

Why does a Nigerian have to be wired so differently?

innovative, yet following the likes of Bubu, Tinubu, Wiked Wike and other thuggish ruggish rubbish politicians.

they will still line up like sheep led to the slaughter to vote for leaders that continue to kill every part of the country

and as long as you can activate their tribal hate, their mental state is further clouded

innovative, yeah, 21st century and you have no traffic lights active on the same street that the likes of Mobil, Foreign Hotels and a host of other GLOBAL business, pay TAX

abeg don't get me started, Mr. Vice President

what about the government? I guess you guys are the OPPOSITE of innovative, abi?

Common traffic lights from Bonny Camp all the way down to Chevron on Lekki-Epe have been turned off

Ordinary Traffic Lights

yeah, sooo innovative