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Plausible the unthinking and rash Donald Trump would be the cause of a third world war even as that is a terrible scenario to contemplate.

The man is clearly unstable yet America, especially her legislative arm, keeps indulging him.

Kdon2:
Association of people with over bloated ego. Or association of delusional conmen which is better to call these people?

Even those dissatisfied with the current Government and ruling Party will admit ADC is a disaster sane folks should not wish on Nigeria.

Desperate, disorganised and deceptive.

We4all:
You sound like someone suffering from Dunning Kruger effect.

You think a white man is not smarter, but they outsmarted your fore fathers, and centuries down the line, you guys still worship them by selling off your properties to go slave in a white man's land.

If a product is not from a white man's country, then we feel it is not good enough. But truthfully, can we even compare a 'made in Nigeria' good to goods made in Western countries?

The bitter truth is, it will take a new world for a black man to stand neck to neck with a white man. Nature has made it so, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Acknowledging the truth does not make one stupid or inferior, but it should be an eye opener and a lesson on how to completely change our ideology which is the primary reason why the white people are miles ahead of us.

Rubbish talk. You're all over the shop and vacillating incoherently. My point was never about which of the race is more intelligent when that is even a subjective debate with many varied answer.

My consistent point is that it is patently self-hating to fail to engage your brain, over critical issues, merely because skin colour has disrupted an individual's ability to inspect issues logically and objectively.

Non of you here have taken up the challenge to investigate "Mike Arnold", as logical aind inquisitively objective folks who do not like being made a fool of would do, to see if there is truth to the allegation he is a conman trading with his skin as currency to others willing to declare him credible merely and only because he is white.

Typically, and as obtusely argumentative as many Nigerians are, simply because they prefer doubling down on erroneous arguments rather than accept they are wrong, you are providing answer to questions you were never asked.

The proviso of my argument is simple. If indeed "Mike Arnold" is a crook and a fraud, does that not invalid his credibility which, on this forum and to Nigerians, seems to be sustained alone by the fact he is white?

Where a critical thinker would counter me, if they differ with my opinion, would be to minimally seek to establish whether "Mike Arnold" is a carefully and deliberately contrived fraud or not.

Anything else is a waste of your time and mine because I have based my argument he is not credible on allegations, which I stand by, that "Mike Arnold" is a glorified Yahoo boy and confidence scammer.

He is someone no Nigerian should take seriously let alone declare credible because "whites are always right" as some have stated unbelievably here.

If you want to dispute what is alleged below, then show verified history of "Mike Arnold" in the USA from age 20 to when he became Mayor since that would be impossible for any human being to obliterate or hide unless such is because of a past they do not.want made public.


https://www.nairaland.com/8554519/mike-arnold-drug-peddling-fake

Mrtaye:
Yes because not everything should be politics imagine playing politics with people's lives....wil it take forever for you to nip it in the bud and if you're not ready to tackle it head on let people who are ready tackle it okay....if you can't use the isreal and American template of decimating and obliterating instead of futile dialogue and fruitless ransome payments

I agree with everything you are saying but that is for us Nigerians to focus on and demand action over.

When we begin to look for foreign saviours, out of desperation and the belief "Oyinbo" is superior and always right, we exposed ourselves to being used by miscreants and opportunists like "Mike Arnold", a 'ghost' with no history as many white predators in Africa are, who understand they have a unique window of opportunity to scam and abuse us because we worship and trust their white skin and Western background.

I am particularly passionate about this topic because I have lived in the West majority of my life to know their is nothing as silly in life as the belief of unexposed Nigerians and Africans that white folks are naturally virtuous and intrinsically good.

We have many criminal and deviant white people in Africa today perpetrating all manners of heinous crime, against vulnerable and unprotected children even, because of the gullibility of Africans who confer exalted status on them without even a desire to establish who they are are what their intentions are.

I know what I am talking about. People like "Mike Arnold" are dangerous predators Africans should be checking and protecting their people against and not making infallible messiahs because they pretend they care about us and are white.

We should develop the bravery and focus to tackle our leaders to deliver solutions to our problems. We must not empower foreign opportunist, with hidden agendas, who believe Africans are gullible and to be exploited in ways they would not try where they are coming from.

What is revealed below is sadly a common and big reality of Africa many are not aware of. The article below is all the way back from 2004.

What do you think the status quo is today vis a vis what the likes of unregulated "Mike Arnold" are getting away with? Read the full article using the link.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/04/childprotection.uk

European paedophiles flock to Gambian 'Smiling Coast'
This article is more than 21 years old
Alex Duval Smith in Banjul
Sun 4 Jul 2004 00.49 BST

Baboucar Ceesay, a rep with The Gambian Experience, said a quarter of the population lives on tourism and, given that the country is a cheap destination - a Coca-Cola costs 7p - it is not surprising that visitors include paedophiles.

'Where they come from they cannot have young girls. It's easy for them to manipulate our culture and our children with things that can seem attractive.'

Only a few prosecutions have been successful. In 2001 a German was given a two-year sentence for raping an eight-year-old. By contrast, a British resident was cleared in January this year for shooting a sex video with four white men and 11 teenage girls who were allegedly paid 100 dalasis (£2) each.

OneCandleAway:
Currently they politically know more.

In the past they sent explorers to find out more about us, record our history in writing down. And written history is always stronger than oral.
We blacks don't love ourselves enough to want to develop our land like the whites do.

Rubbish. We don't love ourselves yet the white man loves himself so much he had no problem enslaving Africans physically (slave trade) and socio-economically ( dubious and exploitative commandeering of African natural resources) to "develop" his land in the past and even to date.

If those practices demonstrate your messiah white man's "developmental love" for his land you feel we should copy , still ongoing today with Trump enslaving Venezuela recently with might, as a sordid example of how your white messiahs operate, then I'd prefer Nigeria remain undeveloped than become succesful through the bloodying, assassination, machiavellian orchestration of regime change and raping of others.

Mrtaye:
Are you now saying there are no jihadist killers

Of course not. Yet, are you not ashamed we cannot speak or act for ourselves and we now have to crown a man with white skin our messiah because he is saying the obvious even as everything about him screams hidden and malevolent agenda?

Where did he come from and what is his connection with us to the extent he is now solely and exclusively focused on the affairs of Nigeria?

He insults our leader and talks in ways showing he has disdain for Africans and their democratic choices with talks like "Trump is coming to nuke Nigeria" etc.

I have witnessed such talks many times, haven lived in the West most of my life, to know it is the utterance of vile racists who have no respect for black skin and believe we are dullards to be manipulated and controlled by white folks.

Look bro, the whole thing is disgusting and marks us as barely more evolved than our forefathers spirited away as slaves by the forefathers of "Mike Arnold".

At least our forefathers taken as slaves can cite illiteracy as complicit in their fate.

What is your excuse and mine when we are allowing the likes of "Mike Arnold" perpetrate second age slavery on us when we should now be educated, analytical and focused enough to handle our own problems without looking for white and foreign messiahs to crown as our Christ-like saviours?

Dude is a confirmed fraud for God sake. How can you not be ashamed a glorified white Yahoo boy is running rings around you?

Pinklada:
I think thisSowore is just being foolish n Childish.

He just dey use igbo people dey dance ZobuZobu

100% correct. Sowore would pronounce Lawrence Anini, Monday Osunbor, Dr.Oyenusi, Shina Rambo, Shekau and Bello Turji "innocent" also if those men are from emotional and sentimental ethnic groups every living creature can bamboozle and dupe by massaging their ego.

Jakumo:
With the manic behavior Sowere displays in his desperation to make news headlines, it is likely Sowere is afflicted with mental illness. All the same his bumbling capers are entertaining as a case study in what clinical insanity can propel a seemingly rational person to do compulsively.

I believe so too. He is a lunatic. That is the only explanation for his lawlessly mad behaviour and talk.

Jakumo:
Life-jailed terrorist instigator Kanu's armed goons killed hundreds of people to enforce their ILLEGAL house arrest of an entire population in Igbo-land, therefore Kanu is lucky he did not score a date with the hangman as his reward for organizing mass murder.

Mr. Sowore the professional complainer is thus wasting his time producing his silly little videos that only his cult followers will bother watching, in which Sowore complains about his own inability to become a dictator in Nigeria, and complains about the well-deserved life sentence in jail that was handed down to that demented homicidal psychopath called Kanu.

Soon enough, Sowore himself will instigate bloodshed as he becomes more unhinged and desperate to break out of his role as a perennial election loser, and that is when he too will earn a nice long spell behind bars like Kanu, the Seiki of Sokoto Prison.

Well-said Jakumo. Sowore is an anarchic thug with no respect for the rule of law. This is why I don't understand how some Nigerian are hailing him as some sort of messiah merely because they hate PBAT etal.

Being adult should come with the capacity to make sound judgement meaning I can simply conclude, without equivocation, Sowore is a lawless and dangerous individual for pronouncing Kanu innocent after a competent court of law found him guilty of terrorism.

How are people like Sowore, Kanu etal different to jihadist terrorists, bandits and their sponsors who feel the laws of Nigeria should not apply to them?

Wallade:
We should submit to higher power like the USA abi?

Are you good - okay?

Are we a territory of the USA🇺🇸? Is Nigeria under the sovereignty of the USA🇺🇸?

Your sentiments against the Nigerian nation has affected your mentality to the extent that you find it difficult to reason objectively.

Those people naturally have disdain for Nigerians and black people because of self-hatred of their own black skin and African origin.

They will always be found claiming Jewish ancestry or promoting the theory black folks are inferior and must automatically look up to and learn from white men.

Imagine one of them claiming the "whites", i.e this criminal called Mike Arnold, "always know best".

You are proclaiming someone talking down on your Country and leaders a messiah merely because he has white skin yet you cannot do 5 minutes of research into his background.

What has really changed from over a century ago when white men came to take black folks as slaves in Africa?

The status quo looks exactly the same. I.e deceitful and dubious white man arrives pretending to be good while nursing an evil agenda of exploitation and fooling simple negroes whi dash him thousands of their people to be taken to God knows where.

The only difference is that Africans are supposedly educated today in comparison to our forebears who empowered slavers. Making the situation even worse

Wallade:
Honestly, that Mike Arnold upsets me.

He is a total fraud and former criminal who deliberately attempted to obliterate his past history and records from public archives likely because he has a nefarious agenda revolving around defrauding gullible minds. I.e Africans and specifically Nigerians.

Anyone can discover that about "Mike Arnold" doing less than 5 minutes of research.

I am always amused with how Nigerians think leaders are the entire problem of Nigeria without understanding our biggest problem are followers and average folks not at the requisite level of human development to be effective 'gatekeepers' of what leader do or don't do.

SadiqBabaSani:
This Arnold might know more about Nigeria than DSS

Is it that he knows more or is the simple trick one that revolves around his belief Africans are mentally enslaved and conquered simpletons ready to worship and die for white messiahs to the extent anything 'Oyinbo' say appears as if they "know more about Nigeria than DSS"?

When a mind is unexposed and unevolved as yours is, then why won't it be a blank canvas for evil white men to commandeer and manipulate?

Bro, do you know the number of deviant paedophile white man who have fled the West, after terrible crimes against even children, to Africa and are operating there with ease and being worshipped by simpletons locals, like you, who believe white skin is automatically superior and good?

Do you, for example, know who "Mike Arnold" is or have you simply given him credit as superior to your fellow black men and black leaders because he is white?

Show me his 'messiah' background, [b]factual records prove, [/b ]and historical love/dedication for Africa. I am really eager for you to reveal this to me.

OneCandleAway:
The whites always know more. They are Soo inquisitive and eager to even sacrifice their life for knowledge. That's why they led expeditions and came to Africa to loot and colonise us.

Lol. The "whites always know more" ba? What an ignorant and self-hating comment.

Maybe some of them, like "Mike Arnold" are just manipulative, in Machiavellian pursuit of what they want, to the extent they always settle on deceiving Africans they believe are dullardly simpletons worshipful of their white skin and willing to see them as messiahs as you have proven with your post.

I am just so amazed how you people believe "white people" are the personification of superiority and virtue whereas some of us have lived with them decades understand many Nigerians, like you, are simply suffering from hideous lack of exposure.

Have you wondered how "Mike Arnold", of no verifiable history, emerged "mayor of Blanco" Texas of 2000 people to leave the position after two years and then be completely obsessed about Nigeria to the extent he speaks of no other nation or leaders than Nigeria and her leaders respectively?

Blanco and the USA does not need him but Nigeria does because he is your 'Oyinbo' messiah' and virtuous Saint abi ?

PigTormentor:
This clown has to be the worst, most dishonest politician ever. He's just spewing garbage for his gullible cult followers. Just imagine the diatribe from a man that's clueless and incompetent at every level.

He is. A repellent, bigoted and unscrupulous individual who leaves a bad taste in the mouth of progressive Nigerians always.

Yes leaders can play opposition politics all they want. It is normal globally. Yet, globally, you will see all genuinly responsible and well-meanin leaders, ruling or in opposition, form consensus always in the interest of what is best for their people.

Obi has never ever done that. He speaks always as if he has no interest in what is important for Nigerians and only wishes to demarket the government in power with anything and everything.

He can never support what is in the greater interest of Nigeria merely because he is a malevolent, duplicitous, devious and toxic individual who has zero clue of what genuine leadership entails as his time as Governor of Anambra proved.

Jomonix:
What Obi is saying is that we should store petroleum products strategically so during period of scarcity the stored products can be released. This way the price fluctuation can be better managed. I see nothing wrong in that. He is saying the truth. Let us learn to accept the truth because it is constant no matter who is saying it.

He is talking garbage. One of the reason Nigeria is failing is lack of fiscal, policy and regulatory discipline and integrity that keeps the most ethical and progressive investors away from our nation.

This has gone on for over 50 years now. We do crap like printing trillions (Buhari) and commit policy somersault that makes the world understand we cannot be trusted with the type of huge investment that will make foreign financiers very wealthy but will develop Nigeria into an enviously succesful nation, precisely same way Singapore did it, to then see us become the meritorious giant and pride of Africa.

Lee kuan Yew of Singapore did a lot to show the international community that Singapore was ready to be a nation with policy integrity deserving the confidence of investors from every corner of the Earth.

We have wooed the world our oil and gas sector is now completely deregulated and private-sector driven plus ready to accept investment from anyone/entity from any nation of the world.


Meaning we have committed to letting market forces play out to protect investors.

What good are we doing to our capacity to attract and retain socio-economically crucial and definitive FDI inflow, that transformed the likes of Singapore into developed nations, if we show we cannot maintain national policy discipline global market require as sacrosanct to viewing nations as A-grade destination of substantial and transformative FDI?

It is this consideration, that Tinubu and his economic team know most Nigerians will never understand, that has prompted the FG to be silent making any announcement on rising PMS price while the dullardly Obi is being mischievous over an issue that requires all Nigerian patriots to support what is best for Nigeria.

I did no even bother to read the nonsense the unintelligent and dullardly Obi had to say for one simple reason.

If far more socio-economically advanced nations of the world, like the UK for example, have been blindsided by negative outcomes of this sudden and rash action of Trump no one could have predicted, let alone "plan" against, what gibberish is Obi saying with his suggestion Nigeria, going through crucial reforms and existential policy changes, is guilty of "lack of planning"?


We have removed subsidy and deregulated our downstream sector to make it virtually 100% driven by private sector forces and free market competition.

Meaning Government must accept the good and bad of such a fundamental decision taken because it is deemed best for us middle and long term.


What then should be the approach of the Nigerian government if not as an observer who, recognising the sanctity of investor confidence in our oil and gas sector, must only intervene as a last line resort of defence so as not undermine the freedom of private sector dominance to shape our oil and gas sector as we have settled on as national socio-economic strategy?

We cannot settle on private sector-driven growth of our energy sector for our oil/gas and even electrification sectors, since history has shown Government cannot run those efficiently to the socio-economic glory of Nigeria, to then beg a return to the bad former status quo of Government corrupt intervention and subsidy the minute difficulties (external and not linked to Nigeria in this case) arises.

We chose a path, that history and logic show is best, and must stay the course for a substantially better future as Singapore did.

Tinubu made it clear to the Universe he wants a decentralised democracy driven by the private sector and free market competion. The sort that has made the USA, Singapore, UK etal great. What then is the dullardly Obi saying?

Honestly I am really disgusted at how bigoted, unpatriotic and dullarly Obi is to the extent he cannot ever put Nigeria first to then refrain from playing bitter and mischievous politics with a situation first world and developed nations are struggling with.

Yet Obi is cluelessly suggesting third world Nigeria could somehow plan better for what we had no idea is on the way and are especially vulnerable to because of reforms being implemented in our oil, gas, power and energy sector.

truthera:
Unemotional robotic man how are you enjoying your new deadly fulani jihadist neighbors.....? Nnamdi Kanu should be the least of your problems right now.... The injustice against him will definitely end soon.....

Keep daydreaming..Your prerogative.

killsmith:
Someone who helped you get power.
May we never be ungrateful to our helpers.

Can you listen to yourself and how partisanly unfair you sound? El Rufai helped Tinubu to power yet has been doing everything to destroy and pull down the PBAT Government and you expect Tinubu to watch while El Rufai act and talk lawlessly as if he is above the law?

How long has Tinubu graciously ignored all the outrageous and unacceptable behaviour and excesses of El Rufai to the extent even the loyalist of Tinubu were getting infuriated he is allowing El Rufai poke him in the eye and ridicule his Presidency as if untouchable?

Do some of you know what political leadership is about? You think it is about watching while your opponents humiliate and destroy you?

This is the problem with most Nigerians. You reason and argue based on who you like or dislike and never objectively, logically, dispassionately or based of the facts presented to you.

Just admit you hate Tinubu, and can never be objective towards him, because he is Yoruba and from the ethnic group you people hate most.

That makes far more sense than your jaundiced "ungrateful to our helpers" argument given all the malevolent things every Nigeria saw El Rufai do and say that Tinubu had graciously ignored for ages

reddingtonblack:
whatever you think for your pocket, He said what he said ... Let your brillant/intelligent govt dogs take rufai to court and proof El rufai is as dvmb as you think

We are tired of All this exaggerations, biggiest crime ... Mvmv its even bailable offence that does not carry more than 2yrs jail term

Stop stalling, let the court judge, i want to see whether naa constitution dem go use abi Naa emperor Wike go write the punishment

Stop barking unintelligently and emotionally. Do you know what the USA or any serious nation would do to an opposition leader who admits to being part of a conspiracy to listen to the conversation of their national security chief?

Can't you guys, even if you have people you love or hate to death, reason and talk like sensible adults sometimes? You just keep embarrassing Nigeria with posts you drop here the world can read.

Maybe you don't understand what national security means and how sacrosanct and above everything else it is on importance.

ddippset:
Rubbish! Stop being dramatic!

He's only a victim of political persecution,,, if not he should be home in bail already.

All it takes is for him to deny the charges and claim that he was joking.

Then the onus would then shift to the NSA to prove that his phones were tapped.
If he doesn't have proof, case is dead!

They are only holding him because he has offended Aso Rock.


Besides,
I don't even think the NSAs phone is difficult to tap,,

Someone who's car was tapped, someone who cannot trace bandits.

That's how it works ba? You are Femi Falana, Gani Fawehinmi and Johnnie Cochran rolled into one ba?

truthera:
Hahahahaha @WizardofNG I had no idea you loved one Nigeria so passionately.... Tell me which is more embarrassing, having a lawless government or having a terroristic government? Shamefully, Nigeria's Tinubu APC government can clearly be described as possessing both attributes!

Did Finland break international law to kidnap Simon Ekpa from another country to face trial? Did Finland government subvert it's own constitution to push a kangaroo trial over Simon Ekpa?

Nnamdi Kanu has always told all those who care to listen to his broadcasts that IPOB will not attack anyone except in self-defense.... it was a peaceful agitation, this is why when Simon Ekpa's group went rogue and started killing security operatives without any provocation he denounced Ekpa and distanced IPOB from Simon Ekpa's activities....

I had refrained initially from replying you @WizardofNG because I know your usual antics but to set the record straight, if you care so much about Nigeria's international image tell your terrorist loving lawless government to obey local and international law and free Nnamdi Kanu.... As long as international community is concerned, Nigeria has no image left to protect and you know it so stop deceiving yourself.... Instead of your long epistle, you could've simply said "Nigeria must jail and ensure Nnamdi Kanu remains prison for rest of his life because he is an igbo man...." your hiding behind a fake patriotic sentiment of caring about Nigeria's international image is pathetic....

Emotional man how far? Start fifty threads a day about Kanu's "illegal and unjust" incarceration if you like.

You are only wasting your own time..He is going nowhere.

bobogogo:
I cant learn from you.
Na by force?

Lol. No wahala.

bobogogo:
And when they start to sit, you will still come here to complain.
Pendulum!

You think I send una like that? Sit at home for the whole week if you like. Who will feel it? Me?

The SW that is waxing stronger and now the most functional, most well-regarded and.most important region of Nigeria along with the SS?

bobogogo:
I cant learn from you.

Is it not obvious I am asking you to learn from history not me? Was I born when Azikiwe effed up to ensure secession clause wears not included in our constitution only for you lot to ironically be the biggest victim of his greed to head a unified Nigeria?

Was I alive when Nzeogwu and co carried out the Igbo coup?

Had my parents even met or of marrying age when Ojukwu declared Biafra knowing secession is outlawed by the Nigerian constitution and an act of treason?

Did I have anything to do with Kanu's lunacy that led to the implosion of an ethnic group, who followed him blindly, and the desolation of the SE?

You want me to go on? The lesson is simple..You guys never learn.

bobogogo:
Sowore is a very sincere yoruba person.

His breed are very few in southwest.

Lol. Sowore the deceptive attention-seeker who is just using and deceiving you sentimental lot as countless folks have done before yet you never learn?

Don't say you were not warned.

Asmanthinket:
the 1966 coup staged by majority of Igbos was to free awolowa, who was illegally detained by the northerners and ankotola

Lol. You people and shameless revisionism are five and six

Street protest ke? Why don't they add Tuesday and Wednesday to Monday sit-at-home protest to demand Kanu's release.

Three days of sit-at-home will definitely see Kanu freed. Jokers.

Madmohamed1:
Ùyou sound like bitter reno omokri

Enrol in a decent primary School bro. Never too late.