₦airaland Forum

badoh:
So why are people attacking Afe Babalola for getting Dele Farotimi Arrested for defamation without evidence. I realise most Nigerians are full of hypocrisy and only support who they like and go against who they don't like. Why are they in support of Reno's arrest warrant and against Farotimi's arrest?

Most of the attacks against Afe is political in nature.
Very few of those attackers will protest if Dele was in another political camp.
The real question is whether you support police action in both cases or simply side
with one of them based on politics.

FreedomfromtheT:
It has been widely reported over the years by Donald Trump's opponents, critics and haters that he is a racist who hates blacks and people of colour.
With the invitationband honour extended to Nigerian gospel artiste Nathaniel Bassey and pastor William F Kumuyi the General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church to his inauguration, do you think Donald Trump is actually a racist as portrayed?

Some racists even marry blacks.
Racism is a supremacist ideology that exists in various forms.
It is not always about 100% exclusivity.

galserv:
The citizens are wiser now

They've discovered that working is advanced slavery to the government and unlike Nigerians and other immigrants, there is no home country to send hard-earned dollars to to carry out projects as consolation.

So they quit!

It is not being wise but foolishness.
It is like eating ones children's future today.

The UK government is not a magic genie that produce wealth for lazy citizens.
It gets most of its fund from taxing working citizens.

If the system is not reformed, at some point, the working citizens tax will not
be enough to cater to the lazy bones and they will end up with economic collapse.

At present, they are hiding the problems through immigration but the citizens are
becoming xenophobic and immigration will be highly restricted in the future.

SultanOfAbia:
All these Gen Z mothers are very stupid

The foolish woman carry 2 year old go dump for school.

4 years is the standard
You westernized woke fools

It is a kindagerten not mandatory formal school.
And family where both parents work must use one.

Chummynoni:
what sort of BS is this? Even on a thread like this? @seun, what are your mods doing about f**ls like this? ...
Back to the topic, either the girl drown or get electrocuted, it doesn't change the fact that the school is guilty of negligence. Things like this don't even happen in public schools. Parents pay school fees through their noses, and you still can't guarantee the safety of their kids. Smh

Yes, the school must be investigated and the guilty parties penalized.
However, comparing this to a public school is wrong.
Safety in public school is not a result of policy or carefulness but that of different
circumstances defined by scarcity.

First, public schools won't accept a 2 year old and most neither have swimming pools
nor connected to electricity. So, you can never hear about drowning or electrocution.

BTW, I don't think any school dealing with kids should have a swimming pool in its vicinity
barricaded or not, manned or not. I also wonder why an electric outlet will allegedly
be accessible to kids to the point of electrocution.
Lagos state will probably need a new law to prevent reoccurrence.

This reminds me of Davido's son, if he was born to a poor family, he will likely
be alive as there will be no pool to drown inside.
But that doesn't mean rich families don't care about children's safety as the poorer ones.

saintopus:
There is nothing wrong here, apart from using it to trend for nothing

It is not for nothing.
There is a serious rush for "influencer" status among the younger population using any available means.
I am sure the father was briefed on the aim of the photo/video ops.
Nothing happens by accident these days again, it is all scripted.

OneOnland:
NGO's are not easy to ban, there'd be more. FG would be better off arresting and convicting the staff members involved effectively sending message to the NGO's and the country they may stem from that "one agent down", "try this never again", and the diplomacy that follows.

NGOs are the easiest to ban especially in a conflict zone.
No NGOs can operate in such area without government approval.

The ones on ground even move about with government approved security details.

NGOs are neither ghosts nor Boko haram that is ready to die for its religious ideology.

Harnny:
Was Ukraine originally occupied before the war?. Your comparison does not apply. Westbank and Gaza was directly or indirectly being controlled by Israel and according to international law, they have the right to resist. What happened in Ukraine is completely different. Ukraine was not occupied by Russia before the war and have no reason to attack Russia. As at now, due to Russias current occupation of the Lahansk territory, whatever Ukraine does to Russia is Justified. Everyone however ignores this bit when it comes to Palestinians and continue to ignore this situation in the case of the Palestinians.

Crimea was occupied before the war.
It is always a bad idea to try to terrorize a more powerful enemy that doesn't care about public opinion
or rights regardless of the reasons.

Many of you Palestinians supporters are something else.
How can you support an action which usually results in almost 1 to 50 ratio kills?
At the end of the day, no single inch square of territory is gained, in fact,
more is likely to be lost?

The only viable path to a Palestinian state is the PA not Hamas, yet you guys love
Hamas to the core.

The world still bends to superior power as it always does, not sentiments.

Padipadi:
Read the news and felt sorry for that state. Probably the killers didn't know he can be an asset to them.
That region needs urgent genuine rescue

He can't be an asset to them.
The only asset they need is ransom money and power.

Bliss4Lyfe:
The people behind Mbata from Ikwerre are much and highly placed and if time is not taken, those in charge of Ogbakor Ikwerre will pay dearly.

Hope you are not planning on sending UGM/IPOB after them?
You funny hypocrites wants "freedom" for yourself but want to force an identity on those who don't want it.

Bunch of dullards.
If NGOs are the arms supplier. Get them all banned.
How hard can that be?

But they won't make such move as there will be no more
"enemies" to be blamed instead of sheer incompetency.

They are too scared to even name one of the NGOs.
SMH

UK seems to haz the laziest young citizens in the whole wide
thanks to the overburdened and unsustainable welfare system that makes it more
profitable to be jobless than working.

Eventually, something will have to give or in the future they will be
desperately recruiting foreign judges, cops, civil servants and maybe MPs too to help run the country.

None of the political parties would even dare address the issue but they
choose to blame the systemic dysfunctionality on immigration.

UK desperately needs another Margaret Thatcher.

This is how these illiterate criminals set up innocent people over "missing manhood".
Imagine if the accused wasn't a police officer, they would have a organized a mob to lynch on
false accusation.

LivingSage:
By sidelining the king makers and chosing the prince he preferred himself as king?

The kingmakers are corrupt.

If Makinde was interested in imposing a candidate, he had more means of influencing
them than Gbadegesin and Bashorun combined which every other governor successfully do when in power
and Makinde himself have done previously.

Makinde is merely reacting to their treachery which didn't start today.
And the kingmakers are angry because they felt undermined.

ednut1:
never knew i was a male feminist o

You must have bucked the trend and place the blame where it belongs in a particular thread where
all men were expected to blindly bash women instead.

That is how you become a male feminist on Nairaland.

kettykin:
Even more hypocritical is your silence on Awolowo’s eventual forced suicide, a tragic culmination that elicited no national mourning. Or the thousands slaughtered during Operation Wetie, victims of unspeakable violence. Where were the tears then?

You are seriously sick.
No suicide after being set up and sentenced to prison for "treason".
But "forced" suicide at 78 years old a free man.

Surely, many are mad but few are roaming.

Akpaamunsi:
If money rituals is not real, people will not keep going into it. Keep shut kiddo, there is a lot U simply don't know about this life

See this child in adult body.
You are hopelessly ignorant.

How about If 72 virgins reward are not real, suicide bombers won't keep killing themselves.
A smart person knows that humans do stupid and deadly stuff based on false beliefs all
the time.


And when your type is confronted with the pertinent question of how
ritual translate to riches, you start convulsing about your special knowledge
or allege some mandatory secrecy concocted by the scammer spiritualist to evade scrutiny.

A few magic tricks is all they use in ensnaring your brain for cheap.

My major concern is that you are likely to transmit your learned
gullibility to an innocent child in the future.

It is good when a country has the will to enforce the law in its books.
Now every kuluna or potential kuluna will know that their next operation
might be their last.

Despite what modern activists claim, harsh punishment is highly effective in curbing
crimes and destroying gangs.

Iweakbro:
You are unintelligent. My lecturer back in the day always reminded me never to sweep aside, a concept I haven't thoroughly investigated.

If I may ask, where is your research of inquiry that proves your point?

You are obviously a cre tin, an embarrassment to the body of academics if you are unfortunately a member.
Let us even ignore the fact that a full grown adult is still quoting his lecturer to make a mute point.

Your dyslexic brain shouldn't be that dysfunctional as not to understand basic cause and effect.
That a group of degenerates chose to believe in destructive archaic scam of money ritual does not
in any way prove its validity.
If you are so keen on asking questions, you should have directed them at your fellow ritualists.
I am sure they have no answer to give other excuse of "secrecy".

Even a kid know you don't need a "research inquiry" to determine the effect of being hit by a speeding vehicle.
A basic human brain can already extrapolate the outcome even without lived experience.

As to your ritualist co-travelers who believe human body parts can make them wealthy.
You guys are already a lost case, we only up the coming generation see through the elaborate
scam perpetrated by dubious characters and their agent.

There are very few ways to wealth including providing goods or services, inheritance, gambling
and criminal acts of robbing/scamming those who already possess it.

No spirits or rituals or chants can make anybody richer than they already are. None.
It is all an elaborate scam reinforced by a gullibly superstitious society.

Philistine:
i feel pity for the Yoruba ethnic tribe, they are easily deceived. So, Makinde suceeded in bypassing the Oyomesi by forcing his own choice on the people. what a timid tribe.

It is quite easy to identify illiterate idi ots with free data.
What do you mean by ethnic tribe?

1Alex:
Instead of me to pay 250k for a new meter, I will add money and buy power station and enough solar panels that can power fridge during the day. At night I use power station.

So, you think investing millions of Naira on solar is better than public grid?

Falana will not apologize.
This is the season of defamation suits.
Falana vs VDM
Zinox vs Falana and so on.

Money ritual is a scam.
It does not work and will never work.

We all know humans are inherently selfish.
Even close friends hardly reveal a successful business cash cow they just discovered.
But some gullible idiots want to believe that a total stranger wants to make them rich through ritual.

The winner in this elaborate ritual scam is the spiritualist promoting it and his recruiters.

They get paid for their fake services and also secure a lifelong slave that can be milked through
threats and fear whenever they need money.

Those creek based kidnappers seems to be enjoying immunity.
They enter, kidnap and leave without resistance most of the time.

Noblechykk:
Very true. The only problem is that dirty politics is a barrier and there is no sign it will stop anytime soon

What is dirty politics.

I doubt if the OP has read Samuel Johnson's work.

Johnson did not do any damage.
He reported fables as he was told by royal historians and then
wrongly though expectedly try to link them to Jewish and Arab myths as a believer himself.

He didn't even restrict himself to the "Oyo" versions only, he collected
different origin myths from different sources.

As to the Yoruba name, it was never rejected because of its origin or meaning in any part of Yoruba land.
Cite any reputable source if you disagree.

In fact, even the Oyo that you blame did not address itself as Yoruba until
the age of westernized writing arrived and the writers decided to adopt the word.

BTW, Yoruba does not mean trickery.
By making this claim without evidence, you are engaging in assumptive retroactive interpretation
of which you accuse Johnson of doing. It is when you lack knowledge of an historical issue and then
look for something familiar or vaguely congruent in the present to explain it without any concrete evidence.

You also forgot that without the "damage" caused by the Oyo, 90% of Yoruba land would have been shared
between the Edo and Nupe kings.

Also, you wrote about a mythical "pact" and the "arrival of Oyo".
Where did they arrive from? Outer space?

If you had taken your time to learn about early Yoruba people migration dispersal, you would
know it is steeped in conflict. Which is a normal event observed among evolving group.

It is thanks to the Oyo "damage", that Yoruba got somewhat unified and standardized. Without it, we will be grappling
with hundreds of sub-groups claiming origin from Sudan, or wherever they fancy because they would have had no shared
history in living memory.

Stop relying on emotional internet warriors or one source as absolute history.

First time of reading about "Oba of Ede". Which town is he from?
I reserved my comment until we get a clearer picture of who and who were actually involved.

mrvitalis:
Last year Enugu governor used army and police to chase away ESN and boom Fulani are back to kidnapping on Nsukka highway

People seems to forget so soon why ESN was formed... People forget how Fulani bandits ravaged South East before ESN came in

It is now completely clear why they creates UGM to give ESN bad name

Both ESN and Herdsmen have been involved in kidnappings in Enugu.
The Fulanis never left, they just lost some of their market share for a while.
We can't tell for now with just one or two events which of the group is currently the market leader in kidnapping.

That will be determined in the nearest future.

chiagozien:
dumb logic.


Even if my name is John,I still have my Igbo name included in my names,I still speak my native Igbo language.

My name is not Joseph Jones Paul.

By, your logic, any igbo that can't speak Igbo language is not Igbo?

ZombieDredd:
No problem naa

But why are ikwerre people in ohaneze ndigbo group?

Someone should help us answer

Freedom of association I guess.

BERNIMOORE:
They are deemed to be a suspect until they can prove otherwise with proofs to the court that they are not Guilty.

What nonsense is this?
They are deemed innocent until Makinde can prove otherwise that they are guilty.
BTW, use of handcuffs is to secure suspects and protect the police from unruly behavior.
It has nothing to do with the actual charges filed.
A person could be handcuffed for fighting their neighbor while an armed robber is paraded
without handcuffs.

psucc:
Seems you're just back from overseas this January. You're not here when the 2023 election was held. Asked them what happened in Rivers State for example.

Do you know that till today, INEC do not "know" the State Returning Officer, let alone producing him. Even at the State level, known or unknown, the RECs are ever ready to announce it as being prepared and sent to them.

What happened in Rivers was the hatchet job of the then desperate governor
who has something to gain and much to lose if the result doesn't favor him.
Even at that, in no other state did such happened.

Since 1999, elections have always been rigged where either the incumbent is popular
or the leading candidates are neck to neck.
Wherever theres is massively outsized support for one side or the other, such side carry the votes always.