₦airaland Forum

infogenerator:
Someone once said "Nigerians deserve the kind of government they get".... Several Nations of the world are currently under different shades of protest, demanding for consitutional amends or changes that would boost the socio-economic well-being of its people. Irrespective of his motives which I believe are for the betterment Nigerians, here we have the only man in Nigeria who actually made a move towards "change" in our dear country and he has become a laughing stock even among those he is supposedly fighting for..... The nonsensical part is when I see our dear youths spewing trash about him with reckless abandone, the same youths wailing about bad governance, unemployment, nepotism and tribalism...... Let's get the records straight, he might not be an "ideal" hero because that term is subjective, but he sure as hell deserves more support from Nigerians, way more than he is getting right now.. If you can't support the man, please don't say trash about him. He did what we all secretly say in our closets but would never actually do. For that, he deserves our respect....

Spoken well.

Look at them berating the man trying his best to fight for a positive change, it just doesn’t make sense.

They have even now devolved it into tribe, saying only his kinsmen should fight for him.

So how will there ever be a revolution in Nigeria, if every tribe must do it on their own? Sigh

Oshigun:
People like you I usually avoid because you mis-inform and try to sound intelligent and above all others whereas you speak mainly because you hate the Government rather than because you genuinely seek solutions to problems Nigeria faces. I have been to virtually all the main foreign Nation anyone would want to visit.

This is not about them because they paid their dues and faced their challenge with extraordinary solutions when it arose to get where they are now. In the boot-legging days of Al Capone et al, a special task force was drafted in led by Elliot Ness to deal with the issues. In the UK, Operation Yardie was created to deal with the deadly and growing crime that unidentified gangsters from Jamaica were bringing to the Streets of the UK. Even today in the UK agencies exist that regularly raid place of work and homes to fish out and identify illegal immigrants or foreign criminals !!! Trump is obsessed with a wall to keep out "criminal Mexicans" and backed by many Americans over such a draconian move by the 'home of democracy'. Like or hate Trump, this is his solution to a security problem he thinks needs to be checked ASAP. Yet folks like you will complain over carry a small card !!! The UK and USA, when they have to move to protect their people, will never say others are not doing this elsewhere so we won't do it also. They simply do what must be done and create unique solutions to the unique problem facing their nation.

You foolishly mention London. I have a home in London mate. The last thing I think of driving to Heathrow or Gatwick via dark motorways is that men will spring out of bushes to begin peppering my vehicle with bullets as is the Norm in Nigeria. Point is that Britain has put many, many decades of efforts into gaining what they have today. We have not and as such cannot at all compare ourselves with them. On a scale of 1 to 10 of crime-fighting, and assuming Britain are at 8, we are at minus 5 at best.

Why not let us even put in the initial drastic and emergency effort to help us begin moving towards even 1 on that scale of security before you begin comparing us to those who also had to craft innovative solutions to the challenges of security they faced in the past before getting where they are today?

cause it’s a draconian measure.

The roads you mentioned won’t be kept safe by military asking for ID cards of random people on the streets, they will be kept safe by sincerity of purpose in fulfilling the commitment to law and order by the police force.

What stops us from increasing police patrol vehicles and running drills to reduce their response time to crisis, along with an upward review of their remunerations?

If a certain road or area is in crisis beyond the control of the police force, then why not declare a state of emergency at the particular troubled area instead of the entire country.

There are so many things wrong with this military operation in a democratic system.

Oshigun:
Look, don't let your hatred of the Army, current Government or authority detract from what is essential. The state of insecurity in Nigeria is too high and affecting us too detrimentally. Innocent Nigerians are being killed and cannot go about their business lawfully talk less of foreign investors, contemplating Nigeria a top destination for their investment.

Go and do your research to not that in history, militarised zones and Nations with terrible security situations always try to create, as soon as possible, an environment where dangerous criminal cannot continue to move around freely committing havoc. In my opinion, Nigeria has even left it late. Carrying a form of ID to keep us all safer and discourage criminals is something all law-abiding Nigerians should want to do. Don't just turn yourself into a rebel against the Army, Government or authority because it is fashionable to do this. ey know

This level of insecurity is too much and costing us dearly as a nation and things will only get worse if drastic actions are not taken. Things cannot only be about manpower as some Nigerians simplistically assume. It should be about intelligence-based crime-fighting also which includes the quick and efficient identification of a Nigerian.

So why not declare a state of Emergency in the whole country?

Wow, so RUGA is the only way to have peace?

Oshigun:
What is wrong with Nigerians for god sake? Who is happy with the insecurity and killings we are constantly facing? As correctly identified by our security agencies, insecurity and killings will only grow if a way is now not discovered to bring lawless Nigeria in line with the rest of the world where criminals cannot just kill, blend into a crowd and go to another State to continue committing crime. In Britain, for example, most Britons are on a database or another.

Britain has the most CCTV cameras per square meters in the world. Commit a heinous crime and be caught on CCTV and it is all over. Your pictures will be circulated publicly and you must hide unlike Nigeria where, as an itinerant Fulani herdsman for example, you can commit a crime next day safe in the knowledge you entered the area you committed the crime in with no verification of your identity and that no one knows you since you are from another State or Country even. Leave fingerprint or DNA at a crime scene and it is over for you if a criminal on police database as a match will be made instantly. And this is a Country that has nowhere near our horrendous insecurity that involves men coming out of bushes to gun down occupants of a vehicle all over the nations expressways !!!!

When are we then going to partner some of the governments effort, even if we hate the current government, to make Nigeria safer?

Is it smart opposing the government blindly when their action may prevent you ending up on a mortuary slab after an attack in Ondo by killers from Mali who have been attracted by the lawlessness of Nigeria and the knowledge they can move around freely throughout our Country with zero check on their movement at any point? Desperate times call for desperate measures and sensible Nigerians would realise and accept this.

So when you travel to London, soldiers can just stop you on Oxford street and you must produce your ID?

I don’t know what foreign countries all you supporters of this policy visit, I’m telling you!

tunary:
See correct meat o

You better not go and play with the wrong crocodile ooo

Best to settle for chicken, because if you reach one big crocodile one day, come tell am say, “bros, I never chop”, im too go tell you say “bros I never chop as well”!

Na so una go just dey look each other before one of you make d first move.

Lagos police needs to be paid at least 200k per month and made to earn every kobo of that money.

They need to fine Lagos drivers en-mass, especially people that form more lanes in traffic and busses that stop on the road.

Our will to enthrone law and order in this country always falters. They will do it on one day only then forget about the remaining 364 days in the year.

Then when the situation now soo bad, they come up with stupid draconian laws, like auctioning off peoples cars for traffic offenses.

What is hard in enforcing the law and issuing erring drivers N5,000 tickets?

The police force would even pay for itself that way.

Susu888:
O.p u can take this write up and shove it up ur ass. U r clearly ignorant of the great civilizations (empires and kingdoms)that where once formed and ruled by the black race! We were and still are the superior race. Ur mind has been enslaved by the media hence this ur slavery mentality plus ur lack of education concerning ancient civilizations and their histories. We ain't slaves... we excel at anything there is whether sports, art , intellectual minds infact physically we are stronger and have higher durability than whites. Get off ur ass and do some research and stop poisoning the minds of our young ones with ur slave mentality....
Tufiakwa!! I spit on you*

You are the superior race, yet you beg whites for everything.

Was it not Buhari that was just begging Russia for weapons after begging America?

Superior indeed.

alizma:
As if you have solved all your personal problems over night.

True!

So how much time is needed to get Nigeria to refine its own crude oil?

10years? 100years? 1000years?

ashlyfab78:
It will always be rice bro, buhari don't have where they manufactures phone and other stuffs...

Lol, it’s only rice ooo

ManirBK:
Is Nigeria a dumping ground?? Can't they sell their rice elsewhere? Kudos to FG

Of course Nigeria is a dumping ground, what exactly do you produce?

Even the oil that comes from the ground in your country can’t be “produced” here in Nigeria, but has to be produced overseas and dumped back here.

The world is switching to electric cars, but when you ask Nigerians about EVs, they tell you it’s not feasible in naija. So expect also to be a dumping ground for old combustion engine car tech.

nrexzy:
Finally my country has taken a stand....

God bless Nigeria...
We r getting there...

When will you take a stand against oil importation? You have oil, yet you have to take it outside Nigeria to be refined and then buy back the refined products.

When will you take a stand against weapon importation? Begging USA and Russia up and down.

When will you take a stand against importation of phones and laptops?

Everyone just talking about rice.

and some zombies were already saying that it’s good for the country, can you imagine?

They were saying that in developed countries, a soldier can just stop a guy walking and he must produce his ID card. Imagine the lies!

Backward zombies

voltron14:
Because he's not foolish.

Health first.

Barely did he survive but for the best of Medicare which cannot be boasted of regardless of how you might want to spin it.

Health first, for only the President ba?

and the rest of Nigerians?

O.Y.O

adekolaelect:
I hope you are not among those Terrorist ? What is big deal in identifying who you are ? Is this not practiced in the advanced countries ? Can you go without any means of Identifications? You are among of who made Nigeria how is it today.you want Nigeria to be OK but you individual are not ready to change for any good.shamles first to comment lazy Nigerian .

Abeg, which advanced country does military stop you on the street, while you’re walking to the store, to ask you for ID?

When is comes to local trips, Buhari is always “represented”, but when it comes to foreign trips, bubu himself must “represent”.

These are the people that itsmeaboki says are not terrorists, even though they kill in hundreds and thousands.

He is more concerned with terrorists that use only their words.

This is just the first paragraph from the global index Fulani militants terrorism article:

In 2013, the Fulani killed around 80 people in total – but by 2014 the group had killed 1,229.

Imagine, they killed 1,229 people in a single year and have been killing yearly since then, but according to itsmeaboki, those deaths are nothing compared to the terrorists IPOB, who use their microphones to injure people’s ears.

So in a thread about whether or not Nnamdi Kanu should return home to Nigeria, I see so many nairalanders on that thread justifying Fulani herdsmen terrorists.

Below is a pic of a nairalanders comment.

Meanwhile, here is an international headline from 2015:

Global Terrorism Index: Nigerian Fulani militants named as fourth deadliest terror group in world

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/global-terrorism-index-nigerian-fulani-militants-named-as-fourth-deadliest-terror-group-in-world-a6739851.html%3famp

So I guess Nigerians don’t mind being killed by terrorists as long as Nnamdi Kanu is tagged a terrorist?

I’m no fan of his, but this blatant justification of terrorism by nairalanders to absolve herdsmen that have murdered numerous people, just to spite IPOB, is just plain EVIL.

Okoroawusa:
If we have voted for Sowore you...yes you... would have stopped all your corrupt dealings?

Don’t be smart by 0.1.

The heart of man is innately wicked, but when the righteous rule, the people rejoice.

What this means in essence is that good leadership helps curb the ills of society, while bad leadership fosters those ills.

netpro:
You are being smart by half. You are supporting candidates that came distant 6 and 7.

Majority of the people have made their choice stop tearing your boxers in the middle of the market.

You should be worried that in your country, such educated and articulate individuals can come in a distant 6 or 7 as you put it, to criminals, coup plotters and the likes.

However, since you are a typical suffering and smiling Nigerian, you are already smiling at the fact that you continue to be ruled by the same people that ruled your parents.

netpro:
So if we voted the Atiku, armed robbery, kidnapping and pinpockets will stop?

If you voted for the likes of Moghalu and Sowore, then it would have been waaay better!

Isinweke:
It's Christmas
The people of Sahel need to make money from Southern Nigerian Christians this December.
The North is still smuggling

I heard oo.

Kyase:
You ban things you can produce
but why the border thingy dey pain you?

What on the list of banned items I put up there can’t we make?

Why can’t we make them?

We have abundant supplies of iron ore, silica sand, copper...

So what again can’t we produce?

I have been reading posts about the border closure, with people saying it’s a great move and we will soon be rice Independent.

Why the focus on rice though?

For those in support of closing business ties with other countries to grow Nigeria, why don’t we just shut down 90% of imports to Nigeria, I’m sure you guys would love that!

Since it seems the fastest way to grow Nigeria is to shut down borders, then I have a list of goods we can also prevent from entering Nigeria.

Proposed ban list:
Cars
Air Conditioners
Phones
Computers


Buhari should ban these items from entering Nigeria, so Nigeria can rise to become the greatest country in the universe.

In fact, let’s shut everything down, nothing in or out!

We must learn to survive without these items, even if it means we all walk for the first few years before our car manufacturers catch up.

We can go back to Nipost while we wait for Nigerian phones to come on stream. This might be just what would even be needed to strengthen Nipost.

It may take a while for us to start manufacturing computer chips, but we can sweat it out in the meantime by switching to paper, while our computer production pipelines come onboard.

So yeah, look beyond rice, because really, Nigeria has many things we don’t produce that we can start producing.

Coldie:
U better start looking for customers else where

Wow, what a response.

So in essence, Nigeria shouldn’t do business with other countries ba?

simpleseyi:
When you use over three million stubborn chest beaters for pepper soup and suya and used several millions of their women and ladies as sex slaves, what do you do when they finally prostrate to beg? Jubilate of course.

May God pay you back for what you wrote!

Imagine you have a team rowing a boat. Ideally they should all row in the same direction to make progress.

However, what happens when half the team rows in one direction, while the other half rows in the opposite direction?

Would that boat still make progress and move forward?

To be a successful country, you need all forces pushing/pulling in the same and right direction, not the case in Nigeria, with each tribe pushing and pulling in different directions, hence the country’s stagnation.

Here is a quote from a nairalander on a thread in the politics section taunting Igbos for not getting presidency.

solmusdesigns:


why should a yorubaman listen to an ibo man on anything relating to National politics? when your last Head of State was 50 years ago and vice 35 years... i'll rather listen to an ijaw or fulani man that has AsoRock experience not some outcast praise singing outsiders of corridors of powers

Notice though, how this individual doesn’t care that Nigeria is now the poverty capital of the world and how almost every sector of the nation is comatose.

All he cares about, is that his brothers have ruled before and will rule again, not minding that their combined rule has brought Nigeria to the point it is today.

This is the average mindset of Nigerians that I preach against.

You don’t care about the future of the country as long as your tribesmen are there, even if it effects you directly.

Shouldn’t you all be looking for the best leaders at every single political position to bring Nigeria into glory? At least while the nation remains one.

Every single election, you all get it wrong based on sentiment, tribe and vote selling.

I just wonder when Nigeria will ever get it right.

solmusdesigns:


why should a yorubaman listen to an ibo man on anything relating to National politics? when your last Head of State was 50 years ago and vice 35 years... i'll rather listen to an ijaw or fulani man that has AsoRock experience not some outcast praise singing outsiders of corridors of powers

You see the lapses of a typical black man on full display here.

How can you brag about longevity of leadership, when all that has brought you to becoming the poverty capital of the world today?

Is that the legacy you truly want?

Or maybe you do, just as long as another tribe is put down. It doesn’t matter if your whole country burns.

Honestly, this Nigeria might be cursed, but I know God still sits on the throne, so a turn around for Africa is still possible.

How? When Nigerians love electing the most corrupt of individuals.

In fact, if you are not corrupt, Nigerians won’t elect you.

Then the same Nigerians would turn around to complain about bad roads, no light, bla bla bla

Nigerians, lovers of suffering and smiling. They love the smell of poo from their open gutters on every street.