#Nigeria: Parents must bear the first responsibility for the children they bring into this world before we begin putting blames on the government of the day. Many of the bandits & terrorists in northern Nigeria were denied parental care too early in life.

SLS on my mind now.
Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was trying to say something about developing a new approach to family structure in the North but somehow the baby was thrown away with the bathwater. I agree he veered too deeply into politics.

It is clear the issue must be revisited.
I have seen some pictures of some of the apprehended bandits, kidnappers and terrorist and I could only open my mouth in amazement at how small and young many of them are. They remain criminals to me but I wonder if we are going to line them up and shoot them now?
When talking about the remote causes of today's criminal activities in northern Nigeria we must not forget that the socio-cultural factors came b4 the economic ones.The society encourages men to procreate with many women. The economic burden to the man is often not talked about.
The children thus produced easily learn the rule of the jungle, "survival is everything ". They form groups & cartels which begin to mount their own version of "war of all against all."

The family is the unit of society and once we overlook this then we should be ready for war.
We must begin to rethink the laizzes fairez attitude to family size that presently exist among people of low socio-economic status in Nigeria.

It's not for nothing that China established the one-child policy for a long time. The results are there for all to see today.
If we think its our natural right to continue procreating as we desire, then we have not seen anything yet with criminal activities in our country esp. in the North. Things will only get worse with an exploding population.

We must begin to limit our population growth.

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24 Oct
#NigeriaPolitics: Once you see that fake-blood stained picture on anyones Twitter dp, just know that he or she is one of those who want to pull our country down through a multifaceted civil war.

Distance yourself from such people by unfollowing them.
Defacing the flag of a country in any way is a sign of disrespect to the country and is in fact a crime.

Hating a president or a party or a government should not equate to hating your country.

Many of those people are suffering from an incurable inferiority complex as Africans.
Rwandan was a country of about 10million people in 1994 with only 3 ethic groups; a civil war, essentially intertribal in nature, claimed up to 1 million lives over a period of 3 months.

Nigeria has more than 200million population & >250 tribes. We can't afford any form of war.
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23 Oct
#NigeriaPolitics: Advice to all those who vehemently hate Buhari and his government: there is still time to form your political party and vie for power at all levels in 2023. It's not far.

All these asinine schemes to unseat a government mid-tenure will only lead to bloodshed.
As you strategize,make sure you get people outside of Lagos involved, make sure you involve every geo-political zone.

All these grandiose talk of youth power based on primordial animal rage is rubbish.

Look at a map of Nigeria, Lagos is only a small part of Nigeria.
Citizens including the so-called youths must realize there are processes and procedures in policy-making and politics.

The right process to take over power is via the democratic process of party politics and elections.

Let's stop destroying our country by our own hands.
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20 Oct
#Nigeria:Shame on the conveners of the ENDSARS protest. Now,a curfew has been imposed in Lagos.

How you disguised your ignoble plot to unseat a government behind the call to 'EndSARS' is disingenuous & stands condemned.

There must be a day of reckoning. I hope it will be soon.
We warned all of you fellows who kept applauding these ignorant folks with large followings on social media but kept clapping nonetheless.

We shall see, how many of you are ready to join a militia when the time comes?

Please call 'Mochievous' et al. to come home now.
What I find most abhorrent is the pattern of lies whereby government is blamed for setting its own police station on fire, releasing thugs on protesters etc. Are these people and their followers these stupid?
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20 Oct
DO NOT GIVE UP NIGERIA TO ANARCHISTS AND NIHILISTS

Anarchists do not believe in authority while Nihilists believe in no morality or religion : perfect descriptions of the so-called youths who want to use the 'End SARS 'protest to terminate our democracy.

We must resist them!
Unfolding right now before us us is an insurrection against our government and way of life. Do not fall for their lies anymore.

How did a 5-point demand transmutate to 20 points ( and counting)? Why did the youth representative not show up at Lagos judicial panel inauguration?
Why do the favourite 'influencers' make imbecilic assertions without evidence? For instance, "it was the government that released prisoners in Benin in order to give the protests a bad name!"

Look very well, there is a co-ordination of the lies they tell.
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19 Oct
People are actually wishing for anarchy to set in. They lay all the blame for our developmental short-comings on @MBuhari's head. Hm. We tried our best.

Una eyes go soon clear!
Find out how long it took the United Nations under the leadership of a black man, Kofi Anna, to intervene in Rwanda? Close to 1 million people had been killed already.

It will take longer this time because the world has it's hand full of crises.
Everybody will have to answer his father's name.

Soldiers and militia members will have the best pick of everything from houses to women; even the feminist co members will be commandeered!

All entreaties to common sense are failing.
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3 Sep
#Nigeria:The negative commentaries relating to the rise in fuel price is finally confirming what I've always suspected about our COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE being very low.

No doubt we have individually brilliant people but their brilliance has been of no use to the country.
How do young people like and retweet a post in support of fuel subsidy removal 2 months ago and now that the subsidy has been removed with the corollary of upward price variation setting in,they are now supporting Sowore's revolution!😀
The same thing about our low collective intelligence is why our people steal government funds that should have been used to develop our society , stash it in cash and other assets in already developed western countries. We have a long way to go!
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