₦airaland Forum

jaxxy:
are u telling me he didn't lie about his age? U better leave this emotional biased defense and state the objective truth.

What does lying about his age have to do with an allegation of organ trafficking?

omonnakoda:
How much cash was he offered?

Ike Ekwerenmadu paid Dr Obeta N4.5 million, but the boy was said to have received only N177,000.

omonnakoda:
I believe you are literate can you name the person who that quote is attributed to ?
Simple Answer =Name

= UNNAMED SOURCES

=FICTION

There is a Guardian newspaper in the UK and the BBC

The info is on both websites

Did you bother to read the nonsense you posted?
Find an article from any UK newspaper or the BBC
NEWSPAPERS
The Times
The Guardian of UK
Telegraph
The Sun
The Daily Mail
BBC

Not Vanguard or Guardian of Nigeria they are not credible

See chronic colo-mentalty. All British newspapers are credible and all Nigerian newspapers are not credible. Oya let's have a screenshot of any British newspaper you term credible that said David Nwamini Ukpo was compatible with Sonia with sources. At least I provided screenshot of my unreliable Nigerian newspapers.

Angelfrost:
I know Ekweremadu is guilty as sin!

I just feel the young man needs to be critically looked at also.

Critically looked at how? A poor 21 year old was offered offered a way out of poverty by selling his kidney for a better life in the UK and cash. How many in such conditions will refuse the offer.

The boy will probably be granted asylum in the UK, because he can claim his life will be I danger if he returns to Nigeria.

omonnakoda:
Can you stop talking like an illiterate
There is nothing like that
What is the source?
How can you be so insistent on such an obvious and childish lie

You are thr one that is talking like an illiterate that cannot read or comprehend. There were numerous reports stating that the kidney did not match when tested in London (along with concerns about the boys demeanour). That's why the operation could not proceed and the beginning of the boys troubles that led to him running to the police station.

omonnakoda:
Do some research and stop making categorical statement about what you are clueless about.
I wil help you
I have posted those reasons on Nairaland in The past 7 days
They are available on the BBC website
There is absolutely nothing like his kidney did not match
That is not stated anywhere and so obviously you fabricated it
Only you know why you are doing that

Read the story well. The kidney did not match.

Angelfrost:
Sigh... 21 year old street trader was brought to London for organ trafficking and he has no idea!

Whether he has an idea or not has no bearing on the case. Buying and selling of organs is illegal in the UK. Period!

The holes in this gist ought to be obvious to a serious court!

How does the whole have impact on the legality of the case? What about the holes in the Ekwerenmadu's story. The got the boy to the UK claiming he was a cousin.

UK court wan just fall hand anyhow!

You think UK courts is like Nigerian courts that is partial to the rich and powerful?

TheChameleon:
Leader of organ harvesters.

Ekweremandu that has 40 houses and despite 20 years in Senate, his region is such a pit latrine that indigenes see Lagos as London.

I told one IPOB named OnyeAshuaru defending him that Ekweremandu must have trafficked his brain. No one should be that senseless.

That's the greatest disease of the black man, irrespective of tribe, creed or religion - Greed. Greed is a diseases that causes death and poverty to all around us, it is responsible for the death of thousands of expectant mothers, children and adults dying of simple curable diseases. It is responsible for lack of water, light and simple amenities that's taken for granted in other places.

If Ekwerenmadu had been less greedy and offered the boy a mere £20,000 to resettle himself in London, the boy would not have needed to go to the police station to avoid being depleted. If Ekwerenmadu had been less greedy and helped his kinsmen, his fellow law makers and his extended family, i am sure he would not have been abandoned like an orphan, and Nigeria would have used diplomatic channels to help him.

Abeg help me ask what Ekwerenmadu is doing with 40 houses when his village is still in abject poverty?

I Hope oyinbo people would develop vaccine to help cure Greed, else we will destroy ourselves.

At least a documentary about the life of Tinubu will include his educational background - primary and secondary schools he attended including some of his classmates, his family background - his real father, uncles, aunties, cousins, etc., and his career back ground - if he was actually an employee of delloite.

Without clarifying these contentious issues a documentary on Tinubu will be meaningless.

N3TRAL:
The biggest American companies have their production factories in China because of lower cost of production. The 20th century witnessed a disruptive change in the Labour laws of the west. The cost of factors of production, especially Labour and Land, could double the prices of finished products. China was the choice destination for Western capitalists specializing in production.

China started to thrive because of technology transfer from America and other Western countries. Tough production by biggest phone manufacturers like Apple to easier production by sports wear producers like Adidas are done in Chinese factories where there are lacunae in labour legislations.

Yes, Japan can be classified as one of the most homogeneous countries in the world. I've always held the opinion that Germany and Japan occupy Engineering's top spot. However, despite the uniqueness of Japan technology and their ingenuity, China's economy is larger and China is more powerful in international politics.

Japan represents a country with limited foreign investments than China and China has displaced the former Asian powerhouse.

I won't talk about America, everyone knows that they're the most open to foreign investments.

Let's talk about the United Kingdom. Sports, particularly football, contributes reasonably to their economy. Who are the biggest investors in English sports? Foreigners. Russian Abramovich, Americans and recently the oil rich countries of the gulf region. If UK closed its territory to foreign investors, sports wouldn't contribute as much as it does to its economy. The EPL wouldn't be the biggest league- facts.

Told dem my broda. The igbos need to change their mindset and start accommodating outsiders. They should stop their we have all, we know all and hostile attitude towards foreigners. If Canana, Australia and even UK is still encouraging foreigners to bring in their money and skills, why do igbos think they can be an island.

GREATIGBOMAN:
What do you mean insecurity

Kidnapping for ransome had been a problem in the South East since the mid 2000s. Evans started his trade in the east sometimes in mid 2000s before expanding to Lagos and Abuja.

Before IPOB south east have been one of the safest zone in Nigeria

From 2007 I know many easterners that was afraid to go home for their yearly Christmas holiday due to the fear of kidnappers. In the same 2007 a tenant of my father inlaw was kidnapped in the east, he was held captive for 2 months. On his release after paying huge ransome, he was cripped. He had to abandon his trucking business in lagos and relocate to the village.

Unless you want to tell us YellowBars only started thinking of investment and building estates less than 3 years ago

As I said, the east is not investment friendly, not even for indigenes not to talk of outsiders. That's why wealthy igbo men has more investments in other parts of Nigeria than in their states.

Putinofrussia:
No,Obi was not cheated.His albatross is the North.He should try to build bridges so as to come up tops next time.

Everyone cheated. It's the best cheater that was declared winner. That's what is referred to "structures"in Nigerian political lexicon.

Armaggedon:
Laziness and in failure has become established as a norm to you. No country wants foreign investment if their citizens can do what foreigners can do. The most independent countries are ones with majority local investment . This is why countries like Japan and China are able to curb western influences while developing. Imagine the little investment netflix has made in nollywood, they are already introducing extreme nudity. some countries even close some sectors to foreign investment. Your logic that only Igbos investing in Igboland cannot lead to development is flawed. We need investment foreign or local, but if most come from our people, it's an advantage.

The problem with the average igbo, particularly those with limited exposure is arrogance - unrestrained egocentricism. Igbos are the most hard working while all others are lazy, igbos are the most intelligent, while all others are stupid, igbos are the richest, igbos are the prettiest, all without statistical evidence. The irony is that after all these chest beating, the next minute the same person will start crying of marginalisation, oppression, hatred by others, etc.

Igbos are no more hardworking than the average Yoruba service provider, hausa farmer or Ijaw fisherman. The problem is difference in areas of specialisation. While Yorubas prefers administrative jobs and services, hausa/fulanis prefers farming/husbandry, igbos prefers trading and hustling (any business that bring in money irrespective of its legality or morality). This is what lots of you guys call hard work.

China did not start developing until it opened its economy to the world. China initially lost out on industrial revolution because it closed up its country and economy. It opened up its economy to foreign investors starting in the 70s. It gave tax breaks and other incentives to western countries to set up industries in China. They started building infrastructure eg, rail, ports, power stations, roads, etc, to support industries. The only condition the Chinese government gave foreigners to investment in China being that Chinese citizens must be involved as a shareholder and most of the workforce must be Chinese. Most western companies moved moved their factories to China. This single move catapulted the Chinese economy to the second biggest in the world within two decades.

Lagos is what it is today because it attracted investments not only from other Nigerians but from other foreigners from around the world.

You guys stubbornly refuse to learn.

JOemmy:
Most igbos have actually moved on but those who claimed to have won the war are actually the ones who have vehemently refused to move on and give peace a chance they continue to plot against the igbos politically like what the world just witnessed in this past presidential election. All those countries u mentioned above that fought civil wars most if not all prosecuted and jailed those that were found guilty of committing genocide a crime against humanity but that wasn't the case with those that fought the biafran war that is simply why the mass murderers were emboldened to continue with their actrocities till date in nigeria. Without justice and equity there can never be peace and complete closure.

What do you mean they continue to plot against the igbos politically? Politics is a game of power, intrigues, alliances and strategy. If you lose out today, you go back to to drawing board and restrategise again. You don't shout "civil war", marginalisation, etc, everytime you lose out politically. Remember the Yorubas felt they were marginalised by President Jonathan, what did they do? Instead of threatening other Nigerians with civil war and secession, they formed an alliance with the Hausa/Fulanis to remove Jonathan. After that the Yorubas strategized to take over the presidency.
Now what did you guys do? You guys started employing blackmail and threatening secession because you lost out after Jonathan. IPOB started insulting everybody including Yorubas, Fulanis and anyone who does not support them. Kanu became a demigod to the youths and the elders instead of cautioning him remained silent. Now the hatred he sowed is beginning to germinate, yorubas are responding, even the nigerdelta who were at the receiving end of kanu's insults are just watching. The worst of it is that IPOB made the Igbos politically irrelevant by their stupid sit at home and no elections in the east declarations.

Luckily they now have a Peter Obi. If the igbos are wise, they should rally around Peter Obi, Peter Obi has support more from other Nigerians than even igbos themselves. Prominent igbos including members of Ohaneze, Governor Soludo and Givernor Wike did not support Obi.
Afenifere supported Peter Obi, Retired Nigerian Generals including T.Y. Danjuma, Obasanjo Supports Obi. Even if he is cheated this time around, with the right alliance, messaging and strategy he will surely win the next election.

benalvino3:
According to INEC tinumbu won the election but you are crying fraud. So you don't always believe the authorities in charge because your common sense and eyes can make obvious judgment.

According to INEC. INEC does not have the final say on who wins an election in Nigeria. The courts have their say also and then the person will have to be sworn in.
Now how do you reconcile this your view with your belief that Trump won the 2019 presidential elections and that Biden is an illegal president, despite the electoral body in the US, the State's executives of each state, the legislatures of each state, the US Congress and the courts up to the supreme court, all affirming that Joe Biden won the elections and Trump lost.
Is this not a classic case of cognitive dissonance?

I have showed you evidence of other people dying from OD just as how Floyd died. Political weight on Floyd's case was too much.

Another evidence of cognitive dissonance. How does showing me evidence of other people dying from OD prove that George Floyd died of OD? Can you use another person's evidence to prove another unrelated case? Can you use someone else's medical test to treat your own? Why didn't Chauvin's lawyer present this video evidence in court as evidence of his innocence? Maybe you should present this new evidence to Chauvin's Lawyers so they can launch an appeal.

Lmao. Unlike you who and budaatum who does not criticize Biden, I criticize trump and I am doing it this morning.


You can't read. Trump is incompetent, he is claiming he wants to take down the deepstate again after he did nothing the first time.

You criticize Trump? I rather wait for hell to freeze over.
Your so called criticism is against the "deepstate" and not trump himself. Trump can "grab dem by the pussy" in Broad day light on 5th Avenue, you will still blame the "deep state".

I prefer DeSantis over trump, but if trump is the front runner for reps against Biden, then I will support trump.

But you failed to comprehend, you are too emotional that's why. And you project every problem the left is having on the right. Go do your research. There is a reason you are very unhappy, it shows most times you reply the other side here. My initial post to you showed some studies. Leftist are usually mentally crazed and are suicidally unhappy.

How many leftists have commited mass shootings, how many have been involved in mass suicide? How many have been involved in sex scandals, multiple marriages and divorce? It's a rarity to find a Senior Republican that had been married to only one wide.
Republicanism (the US version) is for emotionally and mentally disturbed people.

I am colorblind, I won't support blacks because I am black, I will support humans.

You want to build a stereotype on blacks by excusing bad behavior because they are black go ahead. You only attack more mahem to yourself by prejudice.

You can never support blacks for any cause, expect maybe they represent white extremist views.

JOemmy:
The hausa/fulanis and yorubas committed genocide against the igbos in igboland during the biafran war some of those that committed these actrocities are still alive till today plotting and scheming against the igbos politically so why should these same people have the confidence to go and invest heavily in the land of the people they massacred years ago? It's not just logical.

That's the problem with igbos youths. They are forming trauma of events that didn't happen in their life time and have no bearing whatsoever on the present or future. The seem to be crying more than their fathers that actually experienced the civil war. Yes, it was a civil war, a war . Most countries have fought civil wars before, but the countries move on after the war and start rebuilding. US, UK, Germany, China, Vietnam, Rwanda, and so many others have fought bitter wars - either civil or external, but they quickly got over it. But a twenty something to forty something old igbo youth is crying over a civil war that ended 50 year ago.

benalvino3:
Sometimes I fear if you will be suicidal when you hear that George Floyd died of drug overdose.

That's in your make believe world that you created in your mind. According to medical and court records and to which a jury of 12 accepted, George Floyd cause of death was homicide by Derrick Chauvin as a results of kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes.

You are too emotional, and most times you can't think straight especially when someone disagrees with you. Here are some facts for you.

You are schizophrenic. You hold on tenuously to unfounded and illogical beliefs of Trumps deitification and his infalibilty. You then add to it a diabolical hatred of Democrats, liberals and globalist and before I forget Blacks . Very dangerous combinations indeed.

Boomkalakuta:
Igbos should start investing in their region to avoid insults .

Not after suffering to buy lands and build another man will wan to kill you for it in this 26th century

Wrong mindset. Only Igbos investing in igboland cannot lead to development and progress of igboland. Igbos need to start encouraging other tribes and even foreigners to start investing in igboland. Countries that developed rapidly are those that encourage foreigners to invest - ie UAE, USA, Canada, even China. They bring in capital and skills. The Saros and the Agudas from Brazil brought the first major development of Lagos (Lagos Island). They were the ones that starting building with cement blocks in Lagos. Some of their structures are still standing after close to 200 years.

The igbos are too hostile to foreigners, they need to be more accommodating.

budaatum:
Long before Biden we were telling you dump was incompetent but you wouldn't listen! Now his incompetence gave us Biden and you think it's Biden's fault.

Do you not recall that while this dump was running around covid spreading, Biden sat in a bunker with a mask on? Yet bunker Biden wopped his ass so bad that it's taken you this long to accept it. I mean, ono and that wycatt and our basilico here still believe dump won when the obvious fact is that Americans thought so bad of dump they'd rather have a person you'd call dementia bunker biden.

Ah well. I always had my undying faith in your eyes eventually opening. I just have to suffer long it seems for basilico to eventually see.

I wish Trump becomes the Republican nominee, this time the competition would not be close. dementia bunker Biden would trounce him so bad that kraken, 10,000 mules and dead voters would not be able to help.

Obrigardo:
Can we leave politics aside and let's look at the character of men.
Criminal trump is the worst of men, violent, vulgar, divisive, and incorrigible.
Do you really look into yourself and wonder why you are drawn to him? What does that say about your own personality? Why are you not drawn to good but vengeance, hatred and bigoted ideology?

Why? Why? Whyyyyyyy?

I don't understand why you guys love hate than love and just being good.

They are anarchists who lacked love, compassion and empathy, attributes that makes us human. They probably lacked love in their childhood and so they grow up to hate and destroy. They hate everyone, their families, their communities, everyone that looks different, has different believes or opinions.
Believe me they are suicidal, they don't mind destroying themselves as long as the whole country or even the whole world gets destroyed along with them.

jaxxy:
People will be held accountable for these atrocities against our democracy.

Which people will ve held accountable. Political crimes including murder is not a crime in Nigeria. I inec will announce its prepared results, they will ask people to go to court, the winner will be sworn in and the courts will throw put the cases on technical grounds.

Nigerian elections seems to be getting increasingly violent and bloody.

dynicks:
Omo the level of politics and ethnic bigotry in Nigeria is on a high scale!....Ain't child's play!!

Lots of different tribes men/women are based in Lagos but anyone against sanwolu and tinubu , is termed as IGBO.......shit has turned scary!!

IF UV GOT ME SO MUCH IN YOUR HEAD, SIMPLY MEANS I'M BIGGER THAN YOU AND YOU ENVIOUS OF ME!!...

A precedence has been set...I just hope when it comes hurting, it doesn't turn severe....

Fact is lagos, based on regionality, is a yoruba land....u can't take that away from them!.... IGBOS, while on the hustle else where, should think home!!..

Not exactly. Lagos was originally Eko, a trading post established by the Benin Kingdom. Before then it was probably a fishing outpost for Aworis and the Eguns from Badagry. The Portuguese came and made it their main trading post and thus renamed it Lagos. The British took over, made it their slave post on the way to Badagry which was the main slave port. During colonization, the British made it their administrative capital, they actually attempted to set up a colony in Lagos. That's why almost all roads, buildings and infrastructures on Lagos was named after British Royals and amniniststrors until they began to change them fairly recently.
Beforw independence the status Lagos was contentious. The Yorubas wanted Lagos handed over to Western Nigeria, the others opposed and demanded it to be defined as belonging to all Nigerians, aka no man's land. At the end of the day, Lagos was defined as belonging to all Nigerians, and the post independent capital remained there. Please note that the capital of western nigeria remained in Ibadan. The road that leads from Lagos to Western Nigeria was named Western Avenue.
In 1967 General Gowon created 12 states with Lagos State as one of them. He then joined Ikorodu, Epe, Badagry, Ikeja, etc, from western nigeria into Lagos.
Then the migrations started. Yorubas from all over the former Western Region migrated to Lagod. Igbos who lost everything during the civil war faced Lagos. Even northerners from all over former northern nigeria started migrating to Lagos.
Today Lagos has become overpopulated and under tremendous social problems. Everyone now wants to claim Lagos now. If something is not done to decongest Lagos by developing other urban centres even in Yoruba land, Lagos will literallyexplode.t

Kobonaire4:
That's a big reason why I am disappointed with Obi, Atiku and Tinubu and Buhari and all our leaders past. They won;t make the decisions needed for us to become an industrial producing nation...which is how we can earn enough cash to be like UAE.

If Nuclear fission is discovered tomorrow., UAE is going to go broke in a year. And they know it.

False
They don't depend on oil revenues alone. They have invested heavily in trade, services, infrastructure, tourism and internationally, and today they are reaping the rewards of their investments. If they stop exporting today, they would not go broke.

Kobonaire4:
Yes, army did constituton in six months...without our consent, is what you guys are now praising.

If you want restructuring now, form a party and fight for it. Democracy is hard work.

Restructuring lies with the national assembly as it is a constitutional issue. Why has the national assembly not restructured the constitution and thus the country after 24 years of democracy? How long do you think they would need to change the constitution to reflect restructuring?

Kobonaire4:
Oga, if all the votes against APC went for Atiku or Obi, you won't be telling me this.

This is not the first time opposition loses elections.

Kenyan oppositon lost two elections before they grasped the fact that they had to work together. And win they did, under the same electoral system wherein they lost twice.

Buhari won, after losing three times, because the oppositon in 2015 was united, while the governing party was divided.

Tinubu won for the same reason GEJ won in 2011, the oppostion was divided into 4 parties...just like it was in 2011.

At the end, unity matters. If Obi and Atiku and Wike and Kwakwaso had been more humble...if the Asaba accord to get a Southern candidate for PDP had been adhered to, Tinubu and Buhari would have been the ones being angry about losing.


Better focus on 2027 now, or we would end up with 12 additional years of APC for nothing.

I am really not bothered about the politics and I don't care who becomes the president. My own is concern is a free and fair process thar reflects the wishes of generality of Nigerians.

If INEC followed its guidelines, there would be no question of rigging or legitimacy of the elections. We should discourage the practice where governors and political bigwigs rig elections and impose candidates on the electorates.
Democracy will only start to take root when political office holders are afraid of the electorates. Right now the relationship between political office holders and the electorates is that of overlord and servant because their votes don't count.

Kobonaire4:
The same constitution you guys grumble about, you are now praising?

Okay.

I am not praising anything. I am asking why the constitution has not been changed by civilians after 24 years, abi dem dey wait for military to come back and change it for dem?

Kobonaire4:
UAE is a oppresive nation, and building an economy is not the same as building a democracy.

What do you mean UAE is an oppressive nation?who are they oppressing? - their own citizens or foreigners?
Housing, education, health care are free for citizens in UAE. Would you not crave that kind of oppression?

We tried army rule in the past and emerged poorer for it.

What do you mean? Nigeria is poorer now than at any time during military regime.

It takes time to build a democracy.

How much time do we need to start building democracy because what we are building now is not democracy. People are being threatened to stay off the polling booths, thugs are killing and snatching ballots boxes while security agents look on, electoral officials are writing results that not reflected by the actual votes, at the end of the day president is said to be elected by less than 10% of the total population. If that you definition of building democracy.

All I know is, I am freer under democracy, even with the APC and PDP mess, than I ever was under army rule.

Sing a song or put out a blog insulting the first lady today (not even the president) and we will see if you are freer under democracy than under military rule.

Tinubu has hinted that he will be be intolerant to press and opinion freedom when he ascends power. He is already threatening Peter Obi for rejecting his election.

onumadu:
Look, APC did not win elections: APC simply stole the elections whole sale.
If PDP did half of what APC has done since 2015, PDP will still be in power till today.
No matter how united the opposition may get, APC will simple rig the elections. End of story.
The problem is that APC destroyed Nigeria's democracy, and there is really no hope.

Nigeria still has an intact military and that is good.
These politicians have not achieved any political transformation of Nigeria since 1999.
Simple constitutional amendment, they can't do.
Something the military did in a matter of months, these politicians haven't done in 24 years of democracy.

My brother imagine. Something the Military did in 6 months with little resources and people, the civillians have not been able to do after 24 years of democracy, and after spending tens of trillions of naira with thousands on so called legislators. And these same people are still blaming the military for giving us decree 24 of 1999.
So why exactly are we spending trillions naira on both state and federal legislatures?

Kobonaire4:
Even then, it did not make Nigeria better.

That your personal opinion. Lots of people will say their lives is far worse in terms of security, standard of living and happiness now than under the military

At least under this civillian rule, I can call out this government, and the incoming one for their evil. I could not dare do that under army rule.

I don't see much difference in terms of freedom of expression between this our democracy and military rule. Lots of people called out the military, some were persecuted, some were not. Some people like late chief Gani Fawehinmi and Fela were a thorn in the flesh of the military. Fela openly insulted a sitting head of state and he was not locked up and arrested. A blogger insulted the first lady, and he was arrested, taken to Aso Rock and beaten in front of the first lady. Is that not evil?

Let's be a democracy. At least we have a choice. I am just as disgusted as you are with this democrazy, but army rule is a big no for me

The so called choice is an illusion. The government in conjuction with the ruling class have already decided on who will be president before the first ballot is cast. If we actually have choice, why is it that the choice is limited to only 3 or 4 candidates. Since this democratic experiment Atiku, Buhari, Tinubu are perpetual candidates. If a primary is held a hundred times, and they are allowed to contest, they will always win.

Cheap ke? The same looting that happens now, happened then. The same budget deficits, same losses, etc ...happened under army rule.

How much looting takes place in military regimes? You want to compare the revenues and budget under military governments to civilians? You want to compare the amount borrowed from external creditors under military regimes to under this democratic dispensation. The budget for a single year is more that the total budget of the Abacha and abdulsalami admistrations for 8 years.

Let's get this democratic experiment working.

It's just not working. It's getting more expensive with each election and getting worse in terms of credibility.

APC won because the opposition was divided.

APC would have won obviously because the opposition is in disarray. But it cheated with the connivance of INEC. Let INEC prove that APC actually win fair and square.

That's why we are all so sad. But if the egos in PDP had calmed down, we would have not had an APC government incoming after the disaster of the last 8 years.

That's politics. The same thing happened in the US. The republicans lost the last election because they were disunited. All we need and deserve is a free and fair election. If it failed, we can take the blame in clear conscience.

We've tried army rule twice. It DID NOT MAKE US BETTER...infact it even inflicted some of the problems we are still dealing with today. We are suffering because of the mistake of 15 january 1966. Yes, the first republic was corrupt, but at the end, removing it created the mess we find ourselves in.

As I said the army came in to unify Nigerians, and they did a descent job of that. Its only the military that's keeping Nigeria as a country today. The day the military divides, we break up into a thousand pieces.

Democracy is not built in a day.

Yes. But we do not have to reinvent the wheel. We can build Rome faster - probably in a decade by buying/adopting the city plan. UAE built Rome Dubai in 30 years, how long will it take us to build Rome?

Kobonaire4:
Army rule was no better, and even worse.

Plus what is a superior authority? Is it not the same corrupt people form Nigeria that make up the army?

Please, no make me laugh.

Army rule was a nightmare. As much as I am angry about this democracy, it is better we don;t go back there.

Army rule has its pros and cons just like this quazi-democracy.
Pros of military rule
Nigerians were more united. No tribalism or tribal hatred among Nigerians. Nigerian were living in all parts of Nigeria without molestation or oppression from tribalists or religious extremists. Isolate cases of religous extremism was quickly dealt with by the military. No sharia,no militancy, no cultists.

Anyone could be governor of any state irrespective of tribe. Lagos has had igbo military Governors twice and no one complained.

Cheaper.
Military regime was far more Cheaper than the present democracy. Power charged hand by simple coup and state governments by simple appointments. This last election cost Nigerians close to half trillion. This will more or less wasted every 4 years.

Another area of cost savings under military is political offices and appointments. Under military regimes the head of state and governors have very little appointments, the number of ministers, special assistants, senior special assistants, advisers, special advisers, etc, are very few. Under democracy, apart from commisioners, there are a plethora of assistants, special assistants, senior special assistants, etc. Governor Wike alone appointed over 200,000 special assistants in one go, all to be paid from state coffers.

Then there is the cost of the legislature. Under military there is not legislature. So the cost of running national assembly and state assembly for each state is non existent.

These were the reason why there were more public investments in infrastructure during military regimes than democracy.

Let me add Less Corruption.
Under military corruption was an oligarchy. Only the head of state, his family and few allies have access to public treasury. Under democracy, corruption is democratised, every level of government is corrupt, highly corrupt. On the federal level, every minister, DG, head of parastatal has his/her hands on the public purse. Its a competition of who can steal the most. On state level, the state treasury is at the mercy of the Governor and his Godfather - no checks and balance whatsoever. The local governments are just national cake distribution points.

Kobojunkie:
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I gave a perfect example to buttress my point. Chess which is the ultimate Sport of brain power is dominated by men. If women and men are put in the same grade, the best women grandmaster would not make top 50.
Another good example is computer programming. Men outperform women in computer programming. How many war generals have been women in the whole of recorded history?

Men will outperform women in activities that requires a lot of brain power.

optionalY09:
No Yoruba is are the major tribe in Africa we must be put first anywhere you see us. We are the superior tribe of Africa and we must be respected anywhere you find us

Any tribe that crave to be respected and become xenophobic to establish itself has an inferiority complex. Respect is earned and not forced or imposed.