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It could be that ceremonial President Buhari suggested a redeployment.
President Abba Kyari overruled him and sacked the aid.

Or more likely, they are both playing a script.

Aturitoroman:

I don't Even understand why people are coming out to vote self,

When you know your vote won't count

Why waste your time to vote..

Dey there.
People come out because the vote counts.
Thugs invade polling stations because they know the votes count.
Politicians buy votes because they know the votes count.
It is a lie that votes don't count.

Bello in trouble!
If this woman continue to divide his vote in his home base, then he stands no chance.

You shot yourself in the foot when you imposed your boy.
Now, all your allies have decided to stay back and watch.

theenchanter:
no, i've never been there but judging by ur pics and what i've read about it, u're overhyping it.... nothing specular, we need to stop celebrating mediocrity in this country.

I see that many people are avoiding your posts.
Which country or city in any part of the world is not mediocre and why?

saraki2019:
This is yahoo plus 2, but efcc shouldn't have espoused them but use them to arrest many yahoo guys as possible, if this should happen in USA, this guys will be employed and used but this is Nigeria.

You watched too much movies.
In the US, they will be charged to court on multiple charges.
They will spend a loong time in prison.

Hofbrauhaus:
I hope i understood you well...Somebody hit you and lay unconscious on the ground and you left him there? You didn't even go to check on him to confirm if he is dead or dying? Did he hit you on purpose? No, it was an accident. A good Christian would have at least checked on him.

LegendHero:
Sorry OP for what happened to you.

But I think you’re profiling those guys here and looking at this through an ethnic biased mindset.

It’s a normal thing for Okada drivers and Taxi drivers to rally around and support themselves irrespective of whether their members are right or wrong. It’s not unique to any tribe or religious association.

Either they are Yorubas, Igbos, or Hausa, most of them will always toe the path of their member because they know if it’s their turn tomorrow those guys will show the same solidarity.

While I agree with you that some of the okada northerners are hostile, on drugs, and most times dogmatic such that they don’t like shifting ground, I can also tell you there are some that are friendly, down to earth, and truthful.

If it had happened in the East, with an Hausa man in your situation surrounded by Igbo Okada riders, what do you think would have happened? In all honesty, don’t you think they will toe the same path?

See them blaming the victim as usual.
This is not a hit and run. An irresponsible biker caused an accident in which he got seriously injured.
It happened in broad daylight with the as a witness.

If his brothers who are ready to kill for him can't help him, why should the victim?

The only mistake she made was getting up on time.

LegendHero:
Sorry OP for what happened to you.

But I think you’re profiling those guys here and looking at this through an ethnic biased mindset.

It’s a normal thing for Okada drivers and Taxi drivers to rally around and support themselves irrespective of whether their members are right or wrong. It’s not unique to any tribe or religious association.

Either they are Yorubas, Igbos, or Hausa, most of them will always toe the path of their member because they know if it’s their turn tomorrow those guys will show the same solidarity.

While I agree with you that some of the okada northerners are hostile, on drugs, and most times dogmatic such that they don’t like shifting ground, I can also tell you there are some that are friendly, down to earth, and truthful.

If it had happened in the East, with an Hausa man in your situation surrounded by Igbo Okada riders, what do you think would have happened? In all honesty, don’t you think they will toe the same path?

You are partly right.
However, the problem here is not that the Okada men support themselves, it is that
they are ready to follow it up with violence if their wishes are not met even when they
are completely wrong.

I see this more as a problem caused by illiteracy.

robertmugabe:
In the first place, every discerning minds knows it was an empty case that was more of embarrassing the pastor than seeking justice... All was going fine until the initial agreement was no longer facing the usual direction, hence the need to treat the pastor's Bleep up by bringing up a rape case that was obviously a mutually an enjoyable sex between the two love birds... t

What initial agreement?
Who was a party to it?
Free education has so many disadvantages.

marvin906:
madam there was no case to begin with remove sentiments aside..

Yes. There was no case, it is all sentiments.
Just as the following people have no case too as you would agree with me.
Tinubu
Saraki
Okorocha
Oshiomole
Babachir

There is no case because none of those men can be convicted.
They are totally innocent.
SMH

Hmmn

Angelfrost:
Once again, why all these fuss about rice??!... How many Nigerians have always been able to afford rice, especially since Buhari took over in 2015??!

The food in itself is overrated in my humble and dietary opinion.... Some outside Nigeria would think rice is the sole meal that keeps us alive in this country. The rice in my house lasts longer than any other food, cos I would rather eat swallow, bread, beans, etc than the unnecessarily hyped carbohydrate source.

Let's give this a rest jor.... Most of us are already beginning to sound dumb.

Another arrogant who thinks only him deserves to have a choice.

Isn't it dumb to be using a phone when you can do without it?

swiz123:
Northerner prior to now were known to be contented by nature. Well, I guess people change. Maybe, the overbearing and money mongering attitude of Ganduje and other stomach-serving northern politicians have started robbing off on them

Don't be myopic. Nothing has changed.
The Almajiris are still contented with begging while those with opportunities
are milking their departments like every other Nigerians.

Tranquillity360:
stupid propaganda.

No reasonable igbo man will adopt an hausafulanis boy as his child.


That you saw an hausafulanis child in anambra doesn't mean he was kidnapped,there are so many of them in street of onisha.
But trust nigeria police that can arrest a random person and force him to admit to offence he know nothing about.

Comment from a sick mind.
The "unreasonable" criminals have all confessed to their crime and the victim rescued.

Amumaigwe:
A child in this condition was rescued not kidnapped. Learn to use the right adjective next time.

Criminal!
I would support death by hanging for child traders.

Charleys:
You are living backwards, because unlike you I'm not in your shithole.

And you live your entire life on a shithole forum.
One would expect you to be a part of your heaven hole.

Oh, I forgot, you are part of the dregs of the society in the heavenhole.

contigiency:
Did you say rule of law? As if you didn't read where Sowore said he doesn't care and nobody should tell him the legal implications of what he was about to do. And now people are saying the same rule of law he rejected should be used to free him. Habaaa!! You can't blow hot and cold at the same time.

Let adults discuss this issue.
Just watch from the sideline.

EmekaMD:
I've been mostly a critic of this administration, and i believe my critics has been for the right reasons.

But on the land borders closure: i stand with the Buhari administration on this.

I have often wondered what it means to be a critics in Nigeria.
But all I see are opportunistic attacks, there is hardly any criticism based on principles.

You'll agree with me that fake and substandard (mostly contraband ) products make their ways into the country mostly through the porous land borders. Were still, these products are produced outside of Africa and the import taxes are collected by the neighboring countries yet they are sold in Nigeria.

No.
The borders are mostly used to smuggle food items, not fake industrial products.
Fake products, whether drugs or electronics come in through the seaport.
I know how easy it is to bring in any product that is not banned through the sea.
Anyone familiar with importing already knows this.

Secondly .. activities of the Fulani marauders and murderers have either abated or disappeared since this land borders closure. You may want to contend this but my observation seems mostly accurate.

This is totally wrong.
At the height of the Fulani attacks, were you or any of your family members a victim?
The answer is no.
Then why do you attempt to make light the problems of people you don't even know?

The Fulani brazen attacks ended with 2019 election.
However, bandits have not relented in their attacks and kidnappings.
Abductions occur daily on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway and a lot of people
have turned to the trains for security.
It is sheer arrogance to stay in Lagos or Anambra while telling victims up north that
their problems is solved.

Thirdly.. very few Nigerians (mostly corrupt border officials and the businessmen who ply ply these borders) are mostly the people complaining . Average Nigerians may be having it hard for now too (cos of high market prices), but I'm positive that the "demand and supply" natural market policies would evntually effect some positive changes when local production is driven high as a result of this closure.

Very few Nigerians?
Really?
When exactly did you take such survey?
It is funny how people like you complain about the government while having a more wicked
mindset towards your fellow citizens.

Do you really think local government workers who earns 12 to 15k are happy that foodstuff prices have gone up?
Are the market women themselves happy that their profit margin has shrunk?
Who exactly are the majority non-corrupt Nigerian who are happy with the border closure?

Any government which prioritize the welfare of an insignificant percentage of the populace(rice and poultry
farmers) over the majority is pure evil.

Buhari would eventually open the border, one way or another.
He has not learned that the economy is not the army that you can order around.
I will be here when those who support the border closure will turnaround to praise him
for being a "listening" president.

Mrsserene:
The only people pained by this new rule are bitter people or people that feed from spreading false news and hate. I have been wondering why such people are going unpunished in this country. Dear FG, start with Nairaland hate vendors!

Can you define hate?
What is false news?

Just because you don't like a news doesn't make it wrong.
Under a different government, you would be in jail.

Brandstudio01:

In as much as im not in support of The Federal Government, the problem is a large number of senseless youths on Social Media who cannot define the common boundary between senseless talks and constrictive criticism.

Some comments sucks. Because some of the us were giving nothing to say either by their actual environment in life, the school system or our parents. Which is why today we have a Government who feel they can do anything and get away with it

You made no sense.
People are free to say nonsense whether on social media or in life interactions.
Just because you don't like a comment doesn't make it wrong.
Many people also think your comments suck.
Would you like to go jail or be hanged on such subjective points?

The question is whether what they say is illegal to begin with.
We already have laws against libel to cover that.

If you asked the proponent of this bill to define "hate speech" and give examples
in the Nigerian context, they can't.

“We are not alone in doing this. Countries around the world are as concerned as we are, and they are doing something about the social media. The list is long: Germany, UK, Singapore, China, South Korea, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, etc,” the minister said. He said the campaign against fake news and hate speech had assumed a heightened dimension.

Lie Muhamed doing what he knows best.
No single democratic country is making laws to jail or kill citizens over social media posts.

What an excuse of a minister.

DanseMacabre:
Nawa o. This baby factory thing seems to be a booming business in the east.

Don't their patrons know they could still adopt kids through legal channels?

With the legal adoption, there is no opportunity for testimonies.
However, buying babies allows the patron to claim miraculous births after 10, 15 years.

Amumaigwe:
If a Good Samaritan from Onitsha picks him up to give him better life, haters will term it kidnapping and publicise it to embarrass the Igbos. However, they will never publicize the harrowing hardship and subhuman conditions they are subjected to by the same people criminalizing legitimate helpers.

You need your head examined.
A good samaritan buying and selling kids?
BTW, there are out of school kids hawking in that same Onitsha but your human
traders don't bother to give them a better life.

beamtopola:
No, even about about unpopular, Dickson implanted a great pain in the heart of Bayelsans.
Unpaid pension for our pensioner.
No tangible development.
Abandoned the statement own gas turbine and in his 8years of rule, a particular local government has not seen light for 8years.
Increment of state own university fee.
Sacking some women that were employed by alamiesiaye, Gej, Silva from work.
The killing of amassoma youth.
Cutting of civil servants' salaries.
Closing down of the rice farm initiated by Silva which rendered so many youths that were employed into the sector jobless.
A robber industry that was established to cope with the issue of unemployment was also closed down by Dickson.
Disregard to the elders that brought him into power and single handly picking the flag bearer and it deputy by not consulting or asking for the opinions of the founding fathers.
Picking both the governor and its deputy from just a region without considering the epie, ogbia and the nembe.
Dickson has to go

All these are meaningless in the scheme of Nigerian politics.
If you dedicate your time to it, you could find a similar or worse record for any elected governor.


The godfathers of any state determine election winners.
The result may be skewed by presence of federal forces.

The people who complain the most hardly votes due to fear or indifference.
Of course, they would always claim victory if their prediction was right
but hide their faces otherwise.

If Dickson's candidate loses, it would have nothing to do with his performance in office
but the big men he offended.

Solsix:
Op is right I saw this news in another platform.
My take is that 1m is small, the judge could have ask her to pay 1b to serve as deterrent to others

You mean you saw the headline.
Courts do not exonerate suspect!

I hope you are ready to conduct another election or have the courts decide the winner.

BelM:
That's the point, he imposed someone on PDP that's why Bayelsans(majority) were looking the way of Apc

If the court eventually throws out APC, PDP is 100% guaranteed a victory because the case of Rivers will repeat itself.

Fake news from an illiterate.
The court does not exonerate suspects.
They may throw out a case for lack of evidence.

Quality20:
is ds how PDP wanna b winning elections?

Is there a rule for winning elections?
This is not the first case of forgery.
Parties should stop fielding illiterates and certificate forgers.

BelM:
we will rather vote Accord party than PDP in Bayelsa state.

Who are we?
If not that Dickson acted stupidly by imposing an unpopular candidate, there won't
even be a talk about opposition.

Pafoma:
Guys! I need serious, real and honest contributions.. Thanks to all that will contribute.

I have a lady whom i am dating. I truly love and care about her but she has been with people that are in my circle and this disturbs me. She didnt used to be a straightforward and totally faithful person but i see that she is making efforts towards being completely honest and straightforward but still i dont have rest in my spirit about taking the decision to marry her.

I have observed she is soft with guys and is not firm, although i am aware it takes time for someone used to a particular pattern or lifestyle to adjus. I need help because breaking up with this lady will mean that i have to look for someone else to start the entire circle with again and who knows what if the new one also comes with even worse baggages.

My questions are these

1. What do you advice i do?
2. Who has been in similar situation where you fell in love with a lady your friends and circle have been with then married her? What was the experience like including things to look out for..
3. How can be sure i wont regret the decision to go forward?

Please feel free to ask me any question and i’ll answer if they are not sarcastic or jokes..

Thank you.

You knew this from the beginning right?
You pretended as if everything is fine until now.

Your decision has nothing to do with love, you wanted something from her
and have gotten it.

The way forward is to break up with her immediately.
If you wait longer you will end up with a vengeful ex primed to destroy you
and you would deserve whatever hatred comes your way.
It is evil to continue a relationship you are not comfortable with.

If you decide to marry her, you will spend your entire life living with suspicion
and it will be nearly impossible to be happy.

Never marry someone who you are not comfortable with their lifestyle.

Myself2:
You just echoed my sentiments, totally disgusting and unnecessary
This is just as if the idiotic woman and the other adults there just wanted to shame and traumatized the children.
Foolish woman, witch
I spit on you and every other useless official of Anambra state govt that committed this evil against these children

You mean pictures are more dangerous to kids than hawking on the streets?