₦airaland Forum

Afrojuju2017:
There are more never do well in USA than the population of unemployed people in Nigeria.
I'd even say the western world is the Oasis of never do wells because they can hide their incompetence, Ademola has been propped up by his brother and family all his life, even when in USA he was working for his brother, his CV states so

Don't mind the tribalists. Ademola that did not have compete secondary school certificate before he became Governor is the one that they claim was a billionaire. Meanwhile, the same tribalists would be crucifying Peter Obi for allegedly having a third class certificate from a university.

helinues:
How much do you think a governorship election cost on average state in Nigeria?

Are you aware that Ademola's first trial for the same governorship position he loss and then came back

How much do you think he spent in his first 2 elections for the governorship position

And they told you Ademola spent his own money to run for governorship the first time?

If he had money to run election this time around, why did he cry to president Tinubu when EFCC froze the state accounts a few weeks to the elections?

dominique:
This very daftman has no rights to condemn anybody mismanaging funds. Someone that was given #250m by Burna Boy to renovate a school and went on to draw huge paintings of himself and Burna as it that would benefit the children in anyway. Photos of the classroom and the library looked so substandard that the chief of the town refused to come and launch it. If I hear say he spent up to ₦100m on that project, as how now?

N100 Million ke? Ebi like say you are ignorant of the cost of construction in Nigeria. N100 million no go build a block of 4 flats with standard finishing in today's Nigeria. I am not including fencing and external works. Why not compare with similar government projects. Ordinary renovations of same buildings by the government would cost more than N250 million.

Na wa o. The hate is real. So the painting of Burna boy and VDM is now your beaf. But you don't have beaf with wike for renaming the Abuja Conference centre to Bola Tinubu Conference Centre, just because he renovated it with government money.

You claim the chief of the town refused to come and launch the school because it was substandard, but the same chief conferred VDM with a chieftaincy title for the same substandard project. Oya, show me a public school with better standard in Nigeria.

Nigeria can never progress until this generation is wiped out. Its just too corrupt. Government officials and their families are stealing the people blind and fronting it in their faces, and some people are defending due to tribalism.

oglalasioux:
Allowing everyone to publish such results is calling for anarchy. You’ll see a hundred different results for one polling unit alone.

Let INEC rather have a website where polling units post results and we all can log into the portal and follow the results.

Then how come there is no anarchy in the US, UK, and even South Africa that media houses project the official results before it is officially declared by the electoral body.

quickly:
na that one go make nigeria better? Is having Dual Citizenship the leadership issue of nigeria. OR the corrupt mindset of the average nigerian. Stupidity is plenty in Nigeria

You don't tell Super Eagles Players to renounce their Foreign citizenship

That's is the main problem. How can swear allegiance to two countries, and still hold sensitive office in one of them? Even the Bible says you cannot serve two masters. This is why most of our politicians steal and destroy their country and states, and jump into the next available flight immediately leaving office.

cyrusmillz:
Sadly it's the same thing everywhere. People are stupid and lose all sense of reasoning when it comes to their political messaiah
- Bring up Tinubu's drug case , educational background, pictures of him as child , crazy policies he's implemented and watch the BATs start foaming in the mouth
- Bring up Atiku's privatisation scam , immense corruption allegation by OBJ and many others and watch how his supporters react
- Now Bring up Obi's inconsistent and flaky talk on subsidy, Azukwu sars under his administration and the holier than thou attitude that his fellow politicians have talked about and watch the obidient mobs tear you apart.

This was why Plato said democracy eventually end up producing idiots and Winston Churchill said the greatest weakness of democracy is the average voter.

AlphikkaTech:
It's 6 continents. Europe is not a continent

Exactly! How is Europe a continent? I thought the definition of a continent is a large, unbroken tract of land that was not interrupted by major oceans. So which ocean surrounds Europe? How come Russia is in Europe and in Asia at the same time? Is Russia divided into 2 by an ocean? Then there is the issue is Israel? Is it in Africa, Asia or Europe?

Kingrshd3:
But I thought he increased state allocation times two or three

I think he also BUILT major roads that worth billions

I thought he also increased minimum wage etc and still counting 🤪

So you mean Nigeria is so rich like UK and Canada and Germany but we just stil want to borrow??

Yet if they ask u to pay tax u will still complain 🤔

In the so called developed countries they pay tax in everything they do and that's why they have enough money like revenue to build the nation but if we want to implement same strategy here .

You all will complain and u want a better nation like that same US and Canada 🤔

Do you agree with me

Which major road has he built?

I mean a major road that was started by his administration and completed by his administration. Not a project inherited from a previous government, not one merely commissioned, and not one still under construction.

I await the list.

And what exactly do you mean when you say he increased the minimum wage?

Are we talking about the increase in absolute naira terms, or in real terms after considering inflation and the exchange rate?

Today's minimum wage of N70,000, at an exchange rate of about ₦1,400 to $1, is approximately $50.

During Buhari's administration, the minimum wage was ₦30,000, which was approximately $40 using the then black market exchange rate of about ₦750/$ (the official Market rate was around ₦550/$.

And this comparison doesn't even account for inflation, which has averaged roughly 20% annually since 2023.

So, in real purchasing-power terms, what exactly has improved?

Then comes the mystery of subsidy removal.

We were told that removing fuel subsidy would free up government resources that could then be redirected into infrastructure and other developmental projects.

So why are we borrowing more than ever before to finance government projects?

If subsidy removal was supposed to create fiscal space, where is that benefit being felt by the ordinary Nigerian?

What do you mean when you say Nigerians don't pay taxes?

Nigerians already pay some of the highest in the world in numerous forms.

We pay official taxes, levies, fees, permits, fines, VAT, customs duties and other charges at the federal, state and local government levels.

The Federal Government even deducts ₦50 from electronic transactions above ₦10,000. Do you know I much I pay to FG everyday in electronic levy?

Then there are what I would call unofficial taxes—payments to the police, Road Safety, unions, Iya and Baba Oloja, and the almighty agberos.

Many transporters reportedly spend up to 30% their daily income to these various payments.

Try building a house in Nigeria. You can pay the official government charges, permits and fees, and then encounter additional payments demanded at virtually every stage of construction and every activity carried out on your own property.

These are effectively additional costs imposed on ordinary citizens and businesses.

And that is the bigger issue.

In countries such as the United States and Canada, citizens certainly pay taxes and various official charges. But the system is not supposed to operate through the same maze of unofficial levies and informal collections that Nigerians routinely encounter.

So before telling Nigerians that they don't pay enough taxes, perhaps we should first ask:

How much are Nigerians already paying in taxes, levies, fees and informal charges—and what are they getting in return?

Kingrshd3:
What do I mean by wicked??

because he removed subsidy or what ?

Where him take wicked?

U no won pay tax but u want Nigeria to be like America?

I no understand where the word wicked came from 🤔

Or did he tell u no to eat?

What did he do with the subsidy? After removing subsidy, he promised Nigerians that he will employ the savings to improve the lives of Nigerians, what happened to the savings? Instead he is taxing Nigerians more and more. Even Abacha as wicked as he was, used money from petroleum at N14 per litre to benefit ordinary Nigerians.

Then, where is the audited account of NNPC? NNPC accounts have not been audited throughout this administration.

What about transparency in public procurement, how are mega contracts signed without any bidding, passing through public procurement process and even budgeting?

Then there is anticorruption effort. How come EFCC has not been able to arrest and prosecute one politician in connection with numerous allegations?

I am explaining to you the reason ordinary Nigerians are chanting ole ole (thief thief wherever they see president Tinubu.

tfelicityk:
Smiling...
The clowns people behind this may regret their actions later...
Is calling or chanting "the president Ole" has solved their own problems?

No. It is chanting "on your mandate we shall stand" that would solve their problems.
Tinubu cannot win a free and fair election in his own family.
He is aware he is hated by ordinary Nigerian irrespective of tribe and religion, that's why he only relies on INEC, dubious politicians and thugs to capture and maintain power.

This confirms that the reason she left her marriage was not cheating per se, it was kudi/ego/owo. If the husband was a billionaire, if he likes, let him marry wives and have concubines like Solomon, she ain't going nowhere.

Christistruth03:
Go and read Lord Lugard’s diaries

Post the link

Christistruth03:
That means that it was when Lugard had his Capital in Calabar that he Subdued the Far North and he ruled them from Calabar Afterwards
It was after their Administration from Calabar became too difficult for him from Calabar that Lugard moved the Capital to Lagos.
Lagos has been the main port the far North patronised for Centuries and there was always a constant stream of people coming from Kano to Lagos and back so messages and letter were far easier to send quickly between the two Towns


There was road from Lagos to Kano since Ancient times and In 1908 British built Railway between the two cities


Calabar was the first Capital of Nigeria
It was not only Southern Nigeria that was ruled from Calabar
The far North was also administered by Calabar


Read Lord Lugard’s Diaries for the full picture

Sorry to say but you've the whole thing messed up, and you are misinformed. Calabar was never Capital of Nigeria, it was Capital of Southern Nigeria from 1884 to 1906. Lord Lugard was appointed Governor General of Southern Protectorate in 1907
Here is a brief career progression of Lord Lugard gleamed from Wikipedia:
He was Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912), the last Governor of Southern Nigeria Protectorate (1912–1914), the first High Commissioner (1900–1906), the last Governor (1912–1914) of Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the first Governor-General of Nigeria (1914–1919).

He was appointed Governor General of Northern Nigeria in 1912, and then appointed Governor General of the whole of Nigeria in 1914, after the proposed amalgamation was approved by the British Government. Meanwhile Lagos was made administrative Capital after the amalgamation.

Lord Lugard never had an administrative office in Calabar. when he operated from lokoja and Jebba when he was Governor General of Southern Nigeria, and operated from Kaduna when he was Governor General of Northern Nigeria and Nigeria as a whole.

Edit: Here are more details of Lord Lugard’s expedition into Northern Nigeria from Wikipedia, no where Calabar was mentioned.
In 1894, Lugard was dispatched by the Royal Niger Company to Borgu, where he secured treaties with the kings and chiefs who acknowledged the sovereignty of the British company and reduced the influence of other colonial powers. From 1896 to 1897, Lugard took charge of an expedition to Lake Ngami, in modern-day Botswana, on behalf of the British West Charterland Company. He was recalled from Ngami by the British government and sent to West Africa, where he was commissioned to raise a native force to protect British interests in the hinterland of the Lagos Colony and Nigeria against French aggression. He led the 'Race to Nikki' in 1894 and arrived in the important city in Borgu weeks before his French rival. In August 1897, Lugard organised the West African Frontier Force and commanded it until the end of December 1899, when the disputes with France were settled, but Nikki was integrated into the colony of French Dahomey. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lugard,_1st_Baron_Lugard

Christistruth03:
Sokoto , Kano Zaria and Bauchi were all subdued and ruled from Calabar!!!!!!!

Lord Lugard himself called Calabar as his Administrative Headquarters while he was in Sokoto and Kano !!!!

It was because the urgent letters from the British Colonial Office took longer to reach him through Calabar that he started looking for another Headquarters and had to settle on Lagos again

Even before Colonisation there was already a well travelled Road between Kano and Lagos and also Kano to Sokoto


There was no road between Kano and Calabar
In fact Lord Lugard and his Army reached Kano on Horseback from Calabar

I still don't understand what is meant by the claim that “Sokoto, Kano, Zaria and Bauchi were all subdued and ruled from Calabar.” That is a very broad historical claim, and it needs to be supported by evidence showing the actual administrative structure and locations of colonial authority at the time.

Calabar and the major emirates of Northern Nigeria were geographically very far apart. Calabar was in the far southeast, while Sokoto, Kano, Zaria and Bauchi were in the north. It therefore does not follow that because Lord Lugard may have used Calabar as an administrative headquarters of Southern Protectorate before he subdued the north, those northern territories were consequently being “ruled from Calabar.”

There is also a major logistical issue with that interpretation. A movement from Calabar to the northern emirates would have involved travelling hundreds of kilometres across very different terrain and through numerous territories before reaching the northern region. In the early colonial period, transportation infrastructure was extremely limited compared with today. So we need to distinguish between military expeditions, temporary headquarters, areas under military occupation, and actual day-to-day colonial administration.

Most importantly, the statement needs to be placed within the correct historical timeline. Lord Lugard's activities in Northern Nigeria, including the conquest and incorporation of the Sokoto Caliphate and other northern territories, occurred through military campaigns and the establishment of colonial administrative structures in the north. Saying that these territories were simply “ruled from Calabar” risks collapsing several different stages of British expansion into one statement.

If the argument is that Calabar served as Lugard's administrative headquarters when he ruled Southern Nigeria, and from there he moved on the north, that can be understood.

But that is very different from saying that Sokoto, Kano, Zaria and Bauchi were all subdued and governed from Calabar. The latter requires specific evidence about where the administrative authority for each territory was actually located, who exercised it, and during what period.This version is stronger because it challenges the specific historical proposition rather than relying mainly on the distance argument.

Christistruth03:
Calabar was Nigeria’s first Capital
Northern Nigeria was ruled by the British From Calabar

Northern Nigeria ruled from calabar, how? Was there road or any link between calabar and Kano or Sokoto? When you say ruled, what do you mean? What was the system of governance, and how did Lord Lugard run sokoto from calabar?

SeeWahala:
Lagos is a no man's land lateef Jakande said it amd it was coined as law from that day henceforth

Nothing in this world can change that status given to lagos by its best governor since time immemorial . . . NOTHING ask the Chinese if its true or not 😏






I am waiting for the usual tears to drop into my waiting cup 🥤 🙃

When people refer to Lagos ( colonial Lagos and not Lagos State) to "no mans land", they mean the land was inhabited by people from different places - Egun migrated from Benin republic, Aworis from Ogun,Yorubas from hinterland,Slaves returnees, Bini empire capture it and rule over it, the British made it their administrative capital. Even the current Oba of Lagos trace his roots to Binin.

The word Yoruba is a fairly recent term to describe the people of the Old Oyo Empire.

essentialone1:
Minister of Defence, *Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.)* spoke on the *African Leadership Podcast with Ken Giami*.

His exact words:

> "Every Nigerian should be able to go through military training. It will give you a different perspective about life. You will now understand what it means to stay hungry and what it means to work in days without sleep. It will show you what endurance means when you walk kilometres and you are tired but you still need to keep on going."

He said it's not a formal policy proposal, but his personal wish — that experiencing hunger, exhaustion, sleep deprivation and long treks would help civilians appreciate the sacrifices soldiers make daily.

He also added: "That's exactly what the military men are doing, putting their lives at stake for their country to move around" and said it's painful when people insult the military without understanding that soldiers are "fathers, brothers, sisters" who leave families behind in rain, dust, day and night to secure the country.

So it's a suggestion about discipline and empathy for the Armed Forces, not that conscription is starting.

I never knew military training included hunger training or fasting. Even during a war. I never knew troops are starved on the battlefield. I had thought they say Biafra lost the war due to hunger.

Anyway, I support all Nigerian youths between the ages of 18 to 25 undergoing compulsory military training, including the use of arms. The NYSC scheme should include one year military training. (Not hunger training o).

Vision101:
Is aviation fuel not a byproduct of fuel refining? When there was subsidy didn't we experience scarcity of aviation fuel? Are we experiencing it now?

What are you talking about? There was never subsidy on Aviation fuel, it had always been priced at market price. The FG removed subsidy on diesel and kerosene long time ago. The only petroleum product with subsidy before the Tinubu administration came on board was petrol. So how would removal of subsidy on petrol affected Aviation fuel, diesel and kerosene sold by Dangote refinery

Vision101:
The reforms encouraged the refinery. I don't know how the refinery would have operated under the old policy of fuel subsidy.

Watin concern subsidy with aviation fuel. If there was still subsidy on petrol, Dangote would simply sell to dealersabroad, and have NNPC import the petrol from these dealers and collect their Subsidy.

Stephen0mozzy:
Well, seeing that Tinubu needs planes to keep flying so that he can run to Europe for unnecessary vacations and rejuvenation a.k.a health check up, I'd say he has a vested interest.

Secondly, if NNPC was the one supplying Europe under Tinubu then that will be a deserving thanks. But for a private refinery, please keep quayet Sir and sofri dey hawk your IPO/Shares.

Imagine Dangote refinery that was built and commissioned during the reign of Buhari is now being attributed to Tinubu.

motymop:
not bad, dont be entitled to people money

na the brother say make em born 5 kids wey he no fit take care of

he should not give the brother any money

a brand new keke cost around 3.9m naira that is about (2,172.83 pounds) that is a huge chuck of money especially savings)

most family members are entitled and wont follow through with the agreement

That's the bane of modern Nigerian societies - selfishness. We are talking about family. A family is supposed to be the basic unit of any society. The meaning of family is a group of people often related by blood, who pool resources to advance the wellbeing and security of entire members of that group. The junior brother did not succeed by himself, it took sacrifice and support from other members of his family to get him educated and travel to another country. The parents might have invested in the junior brother hoping he will help other members of the family to succeed, who in turn will help others. That's how Arabs, Jews, Indians, Pakistanis, grow their family units and take over businesses wherever they go. In Nigeria once we make it, with the help of our family, the same family immediately becomes our enemy.
It's an insult for the junior brother to see keke business as the business befitting his senior brother. Its an abomination to ask his junior brother to become his employee, by him remitting N100,000 per week, N400,000 per month, N4.8 million per year. (Not even hire purchase).
Why can't he offer to help his senior brother without anything attached? Maybe sponsor one or two of his children to school or abroad? Typical Nigerian family that doesn't want other members of his family to succeed as him.

correctguy101:
I dunno. I feel that perspective is just the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans trying to manipulate the subconscious of others to propagate them into realms the Europeans and Jews have dominated for too long.

Does anyone have a record of a child that has gone through such tedious and overbearing training, who later become a chief or king in any field? I'd love to see the record.

On china instead, many who innovate and invent were dropouts and those who have drive.

This is not to say the program is faulty as that would direct the way the younger ones think and do things in any situation.

I no know again abeg. I just know say whatever they're planning. With what they're showing. I'm in full support and would love| my motherland to imitate it all... Simple

Which other evidence do you need than the level of development of the country? Is the number of Nobel price winners a country produces not enough evidence of the effectiveness of their educational system? What of the number of World renown scientists and intellectuals? What contributions have we made or is making to the general knowledge pool?
Given our population of close to 250,000,000, we are faring badly in human, social and capital development, when compared to others.

Imagine raising our children on 6 hours of active learning, along with absence of modern educational tools, with just chalk and blackboard, and obsolete books. Meanwhile, you expect them to complete with the rest of the world.

olaniyilukman:
I am so happy with this, extra lesson after school hours makes children to be exhausted and dull, it doesn't help academically

In this age of globalisation, where knowledge and skills is the most valuable commodity? How fo we hope to compete with China or Japan, where students learn for close to 10 hours everyday. In today's world, where you need to a general knowledge and versatile skills for long term term survival, you are asking your students to spend less than 6 hours per day learning.

stuffs2002:
Prison dey smell for your body if you think social media have eroded Nigerian laws

Then na all of us prison dey smell for him body. Everything you type on nairaland, twitter, Facebook, and all other social broadcast media is subject to Nigerian laws.

Certain provisions of the NBC laws are at variance with the provisions of the constitution, they are vestiges of past military regimes, and can be challenged in court. If people like chief Gani Fawehimi was still here, he would have challenged these laws in court.

stuffs2002:
You OBIDIENTS will always defend something wrong as long as it favours you.

I was once a journalist because I was a national TV presenter myself, I was also a TV director and actor so I know the rule of NCC that clearly stipulates that a presenter must exclude his opinion from a discussion. It is the same thing with a judge or football referee taking sides and no amount of lies you spin will never change the law to favour your Rufai Oseni.

Also note that I didn't give you my opinion but the law of the land as stipulated by the NCC and no context will change a law

In this era of social media when everyone win a smartphone can become a presenter overnight? You have you mind stuck in the 80s when government had absolute monopoly on broadcasting and broadcast media. In this era of a deregulated media coupled with the rise of social media, presenters, journalists and media houses have their biases to cater for their audience. That's the way it is in all democracies of the world.

Besides, the constitution which is the grand norm of the country, stipulates freedom of thought, religion and association.

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correctguy101:
A guest isn't a prisoner. I wonder where the do's and don't of a guest are coming from.

I kid you not, you're entirely correct. We are a conquered people. Thoroughly conquered.

And this is also on point but who'd do anything about it?

No one insinuated a guest in an interview session is a prisoner, even if it's a job interview, you are free to simply stand up and walk away. What we are talking about is respect for the people that purportedly put you into office. Journalists are supposed to be the communication intermediary between the governed and the government. So refusing to answer basic questions of government activities live on air is disrespectful not even to the interviewer but to the general public. He should have insisted on his preferred interviewer before coming live on air.

bamasite2:
Ayo did well. Even if Rufai is a case of his own,Lere erred here

What did Rufai say that got Lere Olayinka so annoyed, that whosoever the PDP Presidential candidate would be, he would be a "gbewudani" (placeholder). Is that an insult on any particular individual? PDP Don get Presidential candidates?

okoolori:
Some of you are just not it...

Who she be sef...

Let me enlighten your likes and those who wants to know their right on the future...

Between Lere Olayinka and Rufai Oseni:
Does A Guest Have The right to choose whom to engage with?

​The Morning Show on Arise News witnessed a dramatic moment when Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, declined to take questions from co-anchor Rufai Oseni.

​A section of the online media has framed the station's decision to discontinue the interview as 'a blow to Olayinka'.

​It was not.

​This was a spokesperson taking a decisive stance live on air against being subjected to an anchor who had previously engaged him in a antagonistic manner.

Does a guest have the right to choose whom to engage with ? Absolutely.

​A guest appearing on radio, television or print media retains the ultimate right to determine where and with whom they engage.

When an interviewer is widely perceived as combative, partisan or has the reputation of undermining guests rather than facilitating constructive dialogue, public figures and their representatives are fully within their rights to refuse questioning from that specific individual or to decline the platform altogether.

I just want everyone here to enlighten the public on their rights.

All these APC people sabi turn logic upside down, just to justify very stupid and arrogant behaviour. I no blame them, na Nigerian masses wey make politicians dey feel like conquerors I blame. Now they treat us like conquered people who cannot question them or hold them accountable.

Yes, a guest has every right to choose whom he wants to engage with in an interview. But that right does not extend to making such demands live on air, after he has already been asked a question and a response is being awaited.

If he had a preference for a particular interviewer, he should have made that demand before agreeing to come on the programme. He could even have requested to see the questions beforehand, or specified the questions he was willing or unwilling to answer.

But he cannot agree to an interview, come on live television, get asked a question, and then suddenly start making demands about who should interview him. That's an insult on the rest of us Nigerians who were watching the interview.

At that point, he is no longer exercising a legitimate choice; he is attempting to dictate the terms of an interview that has already begun.

Kobojunkie:
How can I make a case for this US action when I have yet to understand or see proof/evidence for your against the deal? Where is the evidence or proof for what you believe about this deal? 😒😒

2. So, what you are saying is that when a person gives a gift to another, it means the gift is not purchased in any way or form? I don't understand your logic or where it comes from. That is why I keep insisting on proof that this deal supplies the US with free oil from Venezuela. Why is this hard for you to do?😒😒

I am really disappointed by what you wrote up there. I give your far more respect that this. The screenshot of the search query you have been posting clearly negates or disproves your claims, that the Venezuela's oil is not been stolen by the US.

The first bullet point says Right to buy at cost. That virtually means free oil. It means the country makes zero dollars from selling oil to the US. Abi, you expect cost of production of the crude to be paid by the Venezuelan government also?

The second bullet point says controlling stake. It says the US has a controlling stake of 55% in Venezuela's oil. I hope you know that you only need 51% controlling stake in a company to have absolute control. In Nigeria, NNPC has 55 to 60% of all oil production.

I stopped responding to Trump supporters, because his words and actions have become a religious dogma. No matter how ridiculous his actions and words are, they would find more ridiculous excuse to justify them. He has become infallible to his supporters.

Smartguyboy:
Olodo uprising is real.
I ask for him qualification

You asked what qualified him to speak at the NBA Annual conference, I gave you valid reasons why NDA deemed him fit to speak on the topic of "Known Gunmen" during a plenary session, and you went into insult mode. That's not evidence of a smart kid.

Smartguyboy:
What qualifications this guy have to speak at the NBA Annual General Conference?

Just curious

He was first on ground when serious attacks took place in Benue and Plateau states. He interacted with the victims and investigated the attacks, even when the police and SSS refused to investigate. Furthermore, Fulani herdsmen have reached out to him to air their grievances.
NBA felt he will have a unique perspective on the insecurity caused by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria.

ElSudani:
Right, absolutely right. Fulanis are moving around with 500 cows and they are government employees.
Do you even need to go to school to know how ridiculous this is?

What he meant was that the cows are owned by government officials or their cronies. The Fulani herdsmen are therefore protected by the government. Thats why he used Wike as an example.