₦airaland Forum

Remember this?

So you are telling me, a whole Nigerian police station does not have CCTV??

Naija how far na?

RapistOnBail:
Mr Educated, do you know labour is part of the factors of production?

Okay dude, let’s end this back and forth.

Last thing I will say is, I understand your position, but for that labour to really be impactful, it will need to be accompanied by basic level education. Take an assembly line staff for instance, wouldn’t it be easier to train that staff if he/she had a secondary school education, vs, if he/she never even attended primary school and can barely communicate, add, or even think a bit outside the box?

Anyways, my hope is that primary education becomes mandatory for every child in Nigeria. This would mean arresting all children found begging and selling on the streets and sending them to school.

We need to sanitize the transport sector in lagos, most especially those danfo buses.

However, we can’t leave the masses struggling in long lines to access BRTs, hence more BRT buses would be needed as we do away with danfo buses.

It’s a shame that the Lagos rail line that was meant to be ready in June 2013, according to Fashola, is not completed even now in 2020. That would have taking a lot of pressure off BRT busses.

RapistOnBail:
Mr Education. Your Education no teach you say them mean in terms of Economical strength?

And you say you dey among the educated

Lol, Mr. Uneducated, how are illiterate people meant to add significantly to the economy of a country?

Even college drop out, Bill Gates, was educated.

thesicilian:
Nigeria is overburdened by the high number of illiterates at the helm of affairs.

This is also a problem

joshuaidibia:
I stopped giving a Bleep about those blacks there when one of them spit on me and called me African booty scratcher. If them fit hate their fellow blacks then why are they crying wolf whenever the white does the same to them. RIP to the young man though, no one deserves to die that way unjustly.

What about the hate here at home?

You can’t even make a reasonable comment on this site most times without someone calling you IPOB, afonga and so on.

Yet people will say Nigeria’s strength is its population.

How can your strength be an undereducated population?

Lamiri:
most importantly Nigerians will not stand and watch Nigeria police do this.

Yet your country police at a time, had killed more people than Covid 19

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-52317196

So there were no Nigerians present at all the killings ba?

big7:
What do you mean lives not been valued? A country that got the report, detained and dismissed the officers respectively and for sure you can be that they will be charged. Yes lives is valued over there cos the street is littered already by protesters demanding absolute justice both by the other race which committed the crime.. Can you say that of us here? Na that time we go dey hear say na ipob or arewa or Yoruba forgetting say rain no dey fall for just one man compound, e go touch everybody compound. If this isnt advancement then I don't know how you define an advanced country

Just imagine that dude.

Even BBC carried the report of Nigerian police killing more civilians than Covid 19:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-52317196

What other country in the world were more citizens murdered by their police force than were killed by Covid 19?

The guy should name just one country

This country is just full of hypocrites I’m telling you.

Your own country police are killing more black people than any police in the world, but no protest.

Yet you have the guys to castigate a country where it’s citizens poor out to support the loss of one soul.

Hypocrites everywhere

See all of them quoting me with stupid tribal talks.

Maybe this country really has no hope after all with such citizens

A shame really!

zeenaman:
You must be a terrible human being to regard USA as an advanced country after this terrible and heinous cold-blooded murder. What is advanced in a country where lives are not valued? Stop ass licking and let go of your inferiority complex.

You too must be a terrible human being.

Where were you when Nigerian police killed more civilians than Covid 19 over stay at home order?

Not even one protest from Nigerians and you are here talking trash

Bloody hypocrites

Afamed:
You practically can't use question to answer another question.
The question remains, why are you asking silly question regards Lagos?

Well maybe because I was born in Lagos, or maybe it’s because I live in Lagos.

I really don’t understand where you’re coming from with your questions.

Please if you have nothing constructive to say, then don’t say anything.

seunmsg:
Fixed.

Then same for Enugu then. I’m not here to play any sort of tribal games, just looking for how we can strengthen our democracy and in turn our development as a people.

As I said, Nigerians will hail when they hear some igbo or Yoruba guy has been appointed mayor in some city in America, but same people won’t even let another party win elections in their state, talk less of another tribe or race.

I just think we are all very hypocritical sha.

Afamed:
Which kind of silly question is this?

Why is a question about progress silly?

Just thinking of how ACN/APC has been in charge of Lagos for decades now, with no opposition party getting the chance to scrutinize their affairs, or prosecute corrupt members of the party and government.

Is this how Lagosians really like it to continue?

Is there any point in conducting elections in Lagos state?

APC seems to have convinced lagosians that it is a Yoruba party and an other political party is of another tribe.

We are not even talking about another tribe ruling, which if we were a true democracy, would not even be a problem. On this subject though, isn’t it funny how Nigerians hail themselves, when other countries give them a chance to govern at any level? But here in Nigeria, it must be the local tribe that governs, talk about hypocrisy.

Back on to the topic, things like the Lagos light rail (supposed to be ready in 2013), lekki toll scam and many other questionable projects just go on unchallenged in Lagos.

I was seriously supporting that gbadamosi Babatunde guy, but even yorubas rejected him cause he is not APC.

Anywho, just my thoughts.

FYI, this also should apply to other states in Nigeria that are becoming one party states. Not good for our democracy at all.

As for Delta state, all past governors should be arrested. They have milked my second state dry.

I feel so sad for Delta and other oil producing states for producing piss-poor leaders, in fact the whole country, but it’s so much worse for those states.

What are they doing with all their money?

Delta state still looking like a village, sigh

MyVILLAGEpeople:
The truth is, the black is a conquered race. We don't value ourselves and others don't value us also. The main reason why the African continent is the most backward.

We don’t value ourselves at all. The rate at which the Nigerian army/police kill and maim its citizens is alarming.

Check out the bbc article when our police had broken a world record of killing more Nigerians than Covid 19, over stay at home order:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-52317196

Yet no single outcry or protest from Nigerians at large.

Then there is the constant tribalism, even here on nairaland. They say whites hate us, but read threads in the politics section and see real hate, then you know the whites are just learners.

A working country.

Here in Nigeria, no protests when our jungle police and military force kill civilians.

I remember when the Covid-19 count just started and Nigerian police had killed more Nigerians than Covid 19 itself.

Nigerians were barely even talking about it, yet alone protesting. BBC even carried that news to show how absurd it was.

RIP to the black man who lost his life and to the many Nigerians who lose their lives from our police force.

Farki:
If we are going to do that then it means demolishing a lot of buildings and shops erected haphazardly and dividing the cities into sections.

The reason our streets are so disorganised is because the government doesn't enforce the law or finish their building projects. If they did many buildings, shops and shanties erected by the roadside would be gone.

and the effects of lack of law and order keep piling up day by day.

I dream of a Nigeria that rivals Dubai, or at least a Lagos or a Delta that rivals Dubai in town planning.

EagleNest:
Probably the only leader in the whole world that destroyed a citizen's building in the effort of fighting COVID-19.

I tell you! I haven’t heard of a country were a business was demolished for non compliance. We truly may be living in a zoo/jungle, where anything goes. No law and order left, no blind justice maiden weighing the scales of iniquity with fairness, just so called “Strong Men”.

Yet, some folks are still justifying the madness; Sowore was right after all.

All these thugs as leaders we have in Nigeria sha? Where are the true intellectuals? Where have they gone? The citizens themselves don’t even know how to choose good leaders, always going for the worst it seems.

How do we really organize Nigeria?

Think deeply about this question.

Why don’t we have street blocks that are well organized? Why do pedestrians walk on the roads? Why don’t we have defined sidewalks? Why is our street planning so haphazard? Why do we have Open Gutters on every street?

We really do have a long way to go as a people, but I do believe we can get to become an organized society one day. I know so by Gods grace. We just have to put in the work, holding leaders accountable at all levels, as well as ourselves.

Reference:
Very damning campaign poster. What were they thinking back then...
216 to where we are today is the halving of every Nigefian's net worth in real terms or we can also say... the doubling of poverty.... all within five and a half years.... incredible.

It is really halving of Nigerians net worth when you think about it. Good catch!

He is just doing his job of defending who or what ever is president.

So even if it was a turd, like a literal turd as president, mr Femi Adesina would have no choice than to defend it. He would be like:-

“Without this turd, Nigeria would never have progressed”

“Our president has ensured that the fresh air of development must reach all parts of Nigeria”

“Our president is strong and capable, but live broadcast is not his style”

FIatino:
Well said sir. We are right behind you 101 percent

Buhari has led well. Pipu just insult his administration for nothing but sheer hate.
They dont know it no dey easy to undo 16 years of destruction by PDPiss.

The hateful ones plan will fail. Whom God has blessed, no man can curse. Stand your ground sir, Ipod yoots and children of hate will always come. All were hired by the late porn.star lamidi cownu.

Giv them no attention

God bless you sir
God bless President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR)
God bless Nigeria

They have really worked

kikero:
One side effect of high oil prices is that the value of the naira goes up....so the price appears to fall.

Also, and this is more important, more money from higher oil prices means more cash for subsides, which means that prices 'fall' so to speak

The price fall we are having? Because of covid19, prices of crude have become more cheaper, and refined fuel is being sold at give away prices for now. The government under the circumstances could afford to cut prices.

That more cash for subsidy with higher oil prices doesn’t really add up though.

I bet if oil shoots up to $100/barrel now, the government would be complaining bitterly about how the pump price has to go up.

Reasons why I supported removal of subsidy during GEJ era, but the likes of Buhari and Tinubu were in support.

Do you really think it’s easy subsidizing petrol at $100/barrel?

kikero:
If you were selling stuff right now, would you cut your prices to N5 per good sold because times are hard? Would you?



No, the simple reason is that we are dependent on oil. When oil goes up, things get better...when oil goes down the income available to government goes down, and things get worse economically.

Buhari , inf airness to him, has done what his predecessors have been doing. For him to do the right thing...it would be to deregulate.,,so that more investments, more jobs, and lower prices come in.

Why prices of fuel went up under Bubu is because the dollar income from crude oil went down so low that Nigeria could not fund oil subsides THAT WOULD have kept fuel below N100 per liter. Even now, we can afford fuel at N123.5 per liter because everyone is feeling the pinch from covid...and oil marketers wroldwide are selling at their version of give away prcies.

And no, I don't like Buhari or APC. I never voted for him, and I wish we had more techoncrats in power really.

Wait, you are saying the higher the price of crude oil, the lower the price of petrol in Nigeria via subsidy?

Goldencheese:
My brother, that was how they bashed my car that I'd parked inside our estate, whether it was done in my compound, I don't know till date. Before then I used to boast that I am a clean driver because my car was clean. And it happened close to the beginning of the lockdown. I no dey boast again o.

Lol, just take heart bro!

don’t let it distract you from mainitaing your clean driving abeg.

Goldencheese:
Very true.
How about those that must hit your car when they are passing as if the car had offended them or those that must hit a parked car with their purse, bag containing grocery items, kegs or whatever they are carrying.

It's bizarre really.

True!

When they now notice you’re in your car, they would say sorry. Problem is most of the time, you won’t be in your vehicle to notice all the events happening with your car.

There is this negative trend in Nigeria were strangers sit on peoples cars that are parked on the road.

Regardless of the cost of the vehicle, this is a bad habit that needs to stop. It makes no sense to just sit on a strangers vehicle like it belongs to you. However, this seems a lot worse when the vehicle is an expensive vehicle.

Just last night, I was sitting in my car with an unoccupied Benz parked in front of me. Some young guy just came and sat on it. I really thought nothing of it, thinking it was his own vehicle, that was until he moved over and started resting on another vehicle.

I had to drive over to him and ask “is that Benz your car?”, to which he responded, “no”. Incredible!!!

You should have seen the way he was sitting down on the Benz, almost lying down as if it was his car; a fresh shiny Benz ooooo

Sigh, I was quite livid to say the least, even if it wasn’t my vehicle as well. What gives you the right to disrespect someone else’s property that way.

This happens too often here in Nigeria and we need to caution those we find pulling such a stunt.