₦airaland Forum

chidiokay:
There is no correlation between what happen to Ajaero and democracy, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
IF Ajaero was assaulted carrying out is assigned statutory duty then that its an insult to Nigerians which in turn is a threat to democracy" BUT NO
Ajaero was assaulted outside NLC presd. jurisdiction, he was carrying out his own interest and the truth remains Ajaero had no business being there in the 1st place.

Ajaero is not bigger than the people, Nigerians suffer numerous assault under Buhari, Ajaero did not deem it fit to lock than Nigeria. Is office is to serve the people not personal use

That Ajaero/NLC have fail to see all clampdown and sanctions in IMO will only affect the people and not Uzodinma or the commissioner shows height of insensitivity

With all the rubbish you wrote, you agreed that the NLC president was assaulted, where he was carrying out his own interest or official NLC interests. You should be aware that assault is a crime under our laws. So who has been arrested and charged for the assault? Are you suggesting the assailants should be left to go free because they were acting in support of the state and federal government?
There is no other democracy where a whole labour president is assaulted and brutalised with no arrests and the government will survive.

IamAtikulate:
Tinubu is highly over-rated.

Even, fools know that temporary measures like injecting dollar into the market to clear backlog will cause dollar to fall in the short-term, encouraging people to buy the dip for hoarding. How our Yoruba people failed to understand this surprises me.

People with lots of money trading the naira are making a killing. Imagine buying the dip at N950 and selling at N1150 just a week layer, or waiting a few weeks when December rush starts and selling above N1200 - N1300.

It seems these guys sucks at national leadership.

Nigeria has lost national leadership since after the first republic. Now we have even lost regional leadership.

For a starter, the FG should allow Nigerians to make USD payments with their Naira cards and ban physical dollar bank withdrawals. This will help unify the exchange rate.

Disaster.
As long as nigeria and Nigerians are not earning dollars, but demand dollars to import goods and services from overseas, naira will jump ballistically to N2000.

MindOnMatters00:
I have said all this in previous posts and threads so I understand you.

Naira appreciating is just a speculation which majority of Nigerians don't want to believe.

All currency value, in fact the whole of modern day economics is based on speculation. Its speculation that makes people buy shares, commodities, crypto, gold and certainly currencies. Demand and supply curves is ruled by speculation.

The question we should be asking is why is the general concensus (speculation) of the naira always on the upwards trend? The answer lies in the demand and supply curve.

MindOnMatters00:
Not just allow it but increase the limits, still they wouldn't do it cos they are scared of their own likes.

The naira will go nowhere unless the BDC's are controlled instead of them controlling the price market.

All these suggestions are chasing shadows while leaving the substance. The real issue is demand for dollars to import most of our consumables instead of local production and exports.
The government has discouraged exports through various bottlenecks, corruption, lack of infrastructure and basically lack of interest in improving Nigeria's productive base. To exprot anything nowadays is a herculean task. The cost and bottle necks are outrageous.

The Naira will continue to fall until something gives. Either poverty will unite us and then lead to a major revolution or a major conflict will break the country into pieces.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
It is the same Government and banks that are carrying the scarce Forex to the BDCs thereby allowing same BDCs to control the narratives.

If na yo nko? Would you rather sell at official rate of 700 instead of black market rate of N1150? Shebi, the government is promoting free market, thereby allowing the naira find its market value?

gasparpisciotta:
Only but a few are smiling.

PBAT promised a credit driven economy. He should encourage Banks to give credit out of their humongous profits

Credit for what exactly? Credit for local manufacturing and agriculture or Credit for consuming imported products? How will the Credit be paid back, if not used for production and investments?

Heyzee5:
Pls is it still worthwhile to convert to LPG since LPG is now selling for #1,200/kg?

It is not, at N1200/kg of LPG you will be filling up a 12.5kg cylinder with N15,000.
I switched when it was N650/kg. Then it was worth it.

I have since switched to solar to run my business.

There have been total blackout for the past 2 days, my solar set up came to my rescue.
It is expected to break even in 18 months when compared to running on gas/petrol at current rate.

Maize247:
EFFC was very wrong to have forcefully entered students hostel to arrest students at random in the name of looking for yahoo Boys. There is no where in Nigeria expecially the student environment where you won't see 10 potential yahoo boys among 50 students picked at random. EFCC under this new boss should be careful

Exactly. You break into student's hostel without any arrest warrant, arrest 69 students at random, seize their phones and laptops forcefully, and then only able to arraign 11 for romance scam aka catfish. That's impinging on the fundamental rights of citizens to privacy.

abobote:
So EFCC is basically for yahoo students now.

After that fraudulent election, they couldn't see any politician to arrest, instead they are going after poor students

Imagine what EFCC has been reduced to!


claiming that you are an American Female in love with your victims in the United States of America with intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) (i) and punishable under Section 22 (2) (b) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc.) Act, 2015.”

fraudulently impersonated by representing yourself to be a white man by name Alex Stephens from United States of America to one Megan Johnson, through your Google Chat and your email address (alexsteps678@gmail.com) with intent to gain advantage for yourself


Even Nev Schulman hosting the MTV programme Catfish does far better job with far less resources.

EFCC should be scrapped. They have not been able to investigate, arrest and prosecute actual economic or financial crimes for decades.

benuejosh:
was there no interim injunction? Why must he disobey court orders?

If a person disobeys a court order, the right thing to do in a democracy is to go to the same court and obtain an arrest warrant, arrest the person and then bring him before the same court for punishment. The police has no legal right to assault him.

DeepSight:
Surely you exaggerate sir.

Believe me sir, I am not exaggerating. There is no human rights abuse thar was carries out under military dictatorship has not been done in this our so called democracy.
Is it political assassination that remained unresolved?
Is it locking up political prisoners indefinitely, sometimes more than a decade, without trial?
Is it threatening and closing down media houses?
Is it disobedience of court orders?
Is it brutally cracking down on peaceful protests?
This government even surpassed military regime by brutalising a whole president of NLC? Even Abacha never arrested NLC president, the worst he did was arresting Frank Kokori, former General Secretary of The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG.

benuejosh:
Oga, even when the NLC state chapter said they don't have a problem with the state? So what took him to protest? He was playing politics using the union.

That's not enough reason for the government to brutalise him. He has personal right to protest, and if he is protesting using the union, the state chapter can dissociate themself in an official letter.
There is no excuse for the government to resort to violence in a democracy.

benuejosh:
have you read the police report/statement? Ones it is against the government you haters of Nigeria will blindly follow. What was he protesting for? Cause threat to public peace.

In a democracy, protesting is a right. You can protest anything that you feel concerns you. Under a military government, I led a protest in my school because the school served us yam and stew instead of our regular Bread, egg and tea. The school had to be closed in order to buy, prepare and serve us the bread, egg and tea.

It seems tribalism and parochial sentiments has blinded Nigerians from the true meaning of democracy.

Thundafireseun:

Let’s stop pretending ,there is no democracy in Nigeria

No Nigerian has any right whatsoever in his/her own father’s land

And some people will will continue to sing the mantra "worst civilian government is better than the best military government. Even under military government people protested against government policies, and they were never killed or brutalised. Adams Oshiomhole made his name protesting and striking against a military government, he was never brutalised or maimed.

This government will turn out to be the most intolerant and brutal government in Nigeria's history. It does not condone any opposition. Opposition is either bribed, threatened or brutalised.

Usmanovic95:
We are been helplessly drag back to stone age.
I guess we should also learn to make fire using stones?

Imagine, someone talking about trekking rather than use Okada and people buying bicycle when others are talking about self driving electric vehicles, Charcoal being used by middle class family to cook when others are talking about thorium fueled power stations.

Someone even saying earlier that conducting and transmitting elections is too difficult to achieve with the current state of our technology.
Abeg who cursed the blackman form embracing technology? We prefer to go back to the stone age.

whatisthetruth:
Bro, it's sad men.

The guy said trial phase in 2023, but Elon Musk them are already thinking Mars

Some Nigerians are so demonic in their hate for progress of the nation, while tagging those that actually want progress as enemies.

Ordinary data sending we have been doing since nokia 3310 days, and now in 2023 with foldable phones and such, no one even thinks of data sending at all as we all use i-message, whatsapp, twitter, email, instagram...


But that wicked cave man Nigerian says we are doing trial for sending ordinary image data and yet it still failed.


OMO, these people are satanic, I cannot see any other reason for such hate for progress

My brother it is more than sad. It is humiliating. Abeg tell me what's difficult in collating, processing and transmitting data in real-time, in 2023? A country of over 200 million cannot achieve this simple (I will say mundane) task? No wonder we cannot generate and transmit more than 5000Mw of electricity, we cannot build an maintain a petroleum refinery, we cannot build ships and aircrafts. Meanwhile, UAE of less than 10 million has sent a space vehicle to explore Mars.

We are lucky the world has left behind inter racial wars. If a war should break out among the races, we blacks will be wiped out within weeks. We are both helpless and hopeless. We depend on others for our survival.

Hsurdluxury:
government should also take note of the scam going on.in this market

those guys will scam you and still wants to beat you ontop your money

sell fake tv or radio and refuse to refund your money

gov. sanwoolu take note of the scammers aspect

Alabarago is different from Alaba international. Alabarago is the market for livestock and foodstuffs, while Alaba International is the market for electronics.

remiopash:
But they said "only Ibo dominated markets are being shut down"

Alabarago should have been the first market to be closed before any other market in Lagos State. It is the most filthy and smelly market in Lagos if not Nigeria. It has always been an environmental disaster with cowshit and smelly gutter lying next to foodstuffs.
That Ladipo, Alaba and trade fair could be closed before Alabarago is the mystery of the century. It was after questions by reasonable Lagosians that the government eventually shut down Alabarago market. Even after this so called clean up, it will still be far dirtier than alaba international before the shut down.

I will not say lagos state government is particularly targeting igbos, I believe all these market closures were motivated by revenue drive. And igbo dominated markets are the richest.
It seems Sanwo Olu wants to use this second term to cash out.
Imagine charging each market between 40 to 70 million before they can be reopened.

Gucciswaz:
it will surely backfire cos no sane Nigerian go come out go vote come 2027 elections

It seems that is the plan of the political elites, especially those in power. They want to discourage people from voting by destroying confidence in the electoral system, so that they could easily manipulate and rig the system. Imagine a president getting into office with less than 3% of the population, less than 7% of registered voters.

PHAYOL81:
Remember it was the maiden session and stuff like that was still in its TRIAL phase would always come with their challenges. IT would be wrong if having detected glitches, they still go ahead to use it.
Infact, in the almighty USA the complaints THRUMP took to court had to do with the ONLINE voting malpractises （eventhough the court later detected nothing of such happened）which resulted n a riot that horribly affected the CAPITOL and this is a system that many considered top notch
What do you think will happen to us if such was permitted for use despite: RERUN, and with our financial status, we can't afford that for now. I trust you will be part of the complainants too if such happen.

TRIAL phase in 2023? that's a huge disgrace to the so called most populous black nation. When others developing nations are sending vehicles to the moon and Mars, we cannot use computer to conduct elections. We have been talking about electronic voting since 2011 and up till now we are still in trial phase.

In the mighty USA election results are transmitted in real time. Its only when there are complaints or the election is very close that manual recounts are employed. Paper records are kept as backups in case of any issues and not relied on as the main method of transmission of results.

In Nigeria we deliberately sabotage everything in order to cheat.

Racoon:
Is that what the electoral act said and INEC told the whole world?

Forget what the electoral act said. Even if the electoral act specified the use of IREV, the supreme Court will ask petitioners to prove that the non use of IREV substantially affected the outcome of the results. They would add IREV is not mentioned in the constitution and that electoral act cannot supercede the constitution.

PHAYOL81:
Exactly, computer may malfunction, data service may break down and cloud support do go down as well, does it then means THE ELECTION HAS TO BE POSTPONED OR CANCELLED,AS A RESULT？ Absolutely not

Why will computer malfunction, data service break down and cloud support go down on the day of election or at most a couple of days during a election? JAMB conducts exams in a single day using computer, data service and cloud support. Elections in other countries are carried out using computer, data service and cloud support, so why can Nigeria, the so called giant of African employ IT in its elections? Even other African countries have gone digital in their elections, but Nigeria wants to continue to conduct elections the same way it conducted it in the 60s.

Femeto:
The election process is a fraud even the supreme court doesn't want it to be transparent.

I stopped taking the Nigerian supreme court serious in election cases when it validated the 2007 elections. An election that clearly violated the electoral act and common sense.
Section 45(2) of the Electoral Act, 2006 states expressly that, “The ballot papers shall be bound in booklets and numbered serially with differentiating colours for each office being contested.”

But professor Iwu conducted the 2007 elections without serialised ballot papers or bound in booklets. The supreme court said that such non compliance with the electoral act did not affect the outcome of the elections, and so declared Umaru Yaradua as president.

TenQ:
If i get you correctly, the Palestinians built the city of Jerusalem as the Jews are normadic people?

Joshua 10:1-15
1. Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured and totally destroyed Ai and had killed its king, just as he had done to Jericho and its king. He also heard that the people of Gibeon had made peace with the Israelites and were living among them
.......

garfield1:
Which tinubu will still win

I am not disputing that he could still win due to political horse trading. Politicians are like ashawo, they hold no allegiance to anyone and anything but their own selfish interests. The winner will depend on who the third person in the triad decides to support.

What I am sure is that there was no way Tinubu got 50% of total votes in the last election and at the same time lose Lagos, Abuja, the South South, the South East and a few Middle belt states, without the magic by Mahmood Yakubu.

OGHENAOGIE:
opposition division Made APC win... Has nothing to do with rigging if it was rigged APC wouldn't have won with 38 50 Percent... It should have won with 60 percent... U guys should use ur Head tel obi to return to PDP that's the only Party capacity of defeating APC... by 2027 if obi run on LP u ll still be shouting rigging after APC wins again

If we were to be honest with ourselves (and expecting honesty from a Nigerians is like expecting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle), you will know that there was no way one candidate would one candidate would have secured over 50% of the total votes.

Tinubu for one was very unpopular within Nigerian youths due to the endsars protest, which they put the blame on him and sanwo olu. They burnt any properties they feel he owned. Tinubu used his own mouth to say he doesn't use social media because of the "abuses" cum insults he receives.
Afenefere, a major Yoruba socio political organisation did not support him.

The Christian South vehemently opposed him because of the Muslim - Muslim ticket and because of his shady background.


He got actual support from core North due to the Buhari factor and the Muslim - Muslim ticket.

Likewise Peter Obi and Atiku had their political baggages. So not one of them would have secured an outright majority in a free and fair election. That's why I believe that without the massive rigging, there would have been a runoff.

Myer:
1. Israelites just like in the bible seem to be nomadic in nature. Since Abraham, isaac and Jacob/Israel.

Yes the Israelites were a nomadic tribe just like any nomadic tribe suffering desert encroachment. The move around looking for more favourable lands to graze their animals.

A typical analogy in west Africa are the Fulanis. Desert encroachment is bringing them to southern Nigeria, where they fight to displace people from their lands in order to graze their cows.

The ongoing war between Palestine/Philistine and Israel is the same one that was documemt in the bible. So you can see that the Bible is in fact an historical book of facts.

That's fact from the perspective of the authors - the Israelites. If the Palestinians had written their own facts, it would have been different and favourable to the Palestinians. The Israelites had stable kingdoms with powerful kinds who instructed scribes to keep record - both actual and fictional. The Palestinians never had a stable kingdom.

Jacob and the whole of Israel left Canaan for Egypt during the great famine at the behest of his son Joseph who was then the Prime Minister of Egypt.
Unfortunately when the Pharoah and a generation died, subsequent Pharoah enslaved them. And for 400 (430) years as prophesied they were enslaved.
It took another 40 years (a generation) for them to return from Egypt to Canaan which had them been inhabited by other tribes. This marked the beginning of the wars. The reason God allowed this is also detailed in the bible.

No record whatsoever that the Israelites were ever held captive in Egypt. No records whatsoever of an Israelite called Jacob ever becoming prime minister in Egypt. It's even a paradox that a slave became the prime minister his slave masters.

The Egyptians were excellent record keepers just like the Romans, they have records of all their Pharoahs spanning over 4,000 years. Joseph did not appear in any Egyptian hieroglyphic.

2. Every religion can be a charade but God isn't.
When you encounter God, He leads you to the Truth.

The Christian religion is a charade build by the dying Roman empire to unify and controll the empire under a common set of beliefs and laws.

The Europeans later employed it to kill the religion and customs of lands they conquered and bring the people under its control.

Myer:
If indeed you have peace of mind and joy outside Christ, then you're fine. The gospel is for the rest of us who are empty without Him.

Sorry to but in, but I fund this statement puzzling.
Why will you feel empty without a religious figure (mythical or real), that supposedly was killed by his people over 2000 years ago?

Is that not sort of a deeper psychological problem?

TheAlchemist:
This is a vote of no confidence on George Weah .. if he had performed well he should have gotten a landslide victory.

False. Landslide victory is extremely difficult in real elections. That's because people vote according to different reasons. Some vote for ethnic tribal sentiments, some religious sentiments, some economic, etc. So except a government has performed extremely well or extremely poor, the margin of victory in proper elections are usually less than 10%.

SoNature:
If George Weah can be forced into a runoff, it means his performance wasn't impressive.

BTW, the population of Liberia is 5.5 million. That's not even up to the population of some Nigerian states. Since Nigeria is difficult for us to manage, break this country into smaller units.

It's not about performance, it's got to do with election integrity. There are very few elections in the world where one candidate will win with the kinds margins we have in Nigeria.

If not for massive rigging by the ruling party in collaboration with the election umpire, I am sure the last elections would have been a run off.

This simply shows elections in Liberia is more credible than those in Nigeria.

LordReed:
LoLz! Trump himself selected this people so your spin is just nonsense. After shouting drain the swamp, filling the courts with conservative judges and giving tax breaks to the rich is now you know DC is corrupt. Why didn't Trump do anything significant to combat the corruption? Why is it the very people of his kitchen cabinet that are falling apart? Nonsense and ingredients. Bwahahahahaha!

That's because Trump is the only human being outside Jesus christ that is sinless. Every other American outside his disciples like Jim Jordan,
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and other MAGA followers are evil. All his former staff including lawyers, accountants and personal aids are all compromised. All his appointee aids and staff as president are all parts of the deepstate. Even some members of his family like his wife and daughter are all working for the deepstate. In fact only Trump can save America from every other person in the US.

Iziquiel:
Great news.

The EFFCC should go after those Nigerians who connived with foreign national to defraud Nigeria.

There should be grave consequences for actions like these.

EFCC only goes after Yahoo boys.

This case was was prosecuted and concluded without the involvement of EFCC. What a shame.