When will we ever learn in Nigeria? Is it not better for people to express themselves in a protest than hide behind any extreme motive to seek justice?
I would rather have a peaceful protester than a bandit with AK 47
If #EndSARS protesters promises to be peaceful, let them be.
If for any reason, an iota of violence is detected from them, the authorities should quickly mobilize and disperse them.
But as long as protesters claimed to be peaceful, we should give them their right to protest and protect them against possible hoodlums hijacking the protest.
The more reasonably engaged in citizens right to action by the authorities, the better the chances of having them on the side of the Govt.
The more distance the authorities portrayed, the more hoodlums take advantage and inflame their ambers for evil
It’s all about empathy
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Countries are doing everything possible to move up the ladder of the global value chain, yet Nigeria is hell bent on ethnic & religious politics to the point where everything else is secondary, aside these
Today, apart from oil, Nigeria cannot boast of any strategic global asset
The Cold War, started after June 1967 War between Saudi Arabia & America is officially over with the U.S becoming energy independent. The die is cast on January 20, 2021 when @JoeBiden become the President.
Because of our OPEC alliance, Nigeria focuses more on oil, this is gone!
A leapfrogged economy, dominated by servicing (55% of our GDP) what we never produce will not move us up the value chain nor provide employment to nearly 50M people out of job.
We must move back to farm, then to factory.
This is the only way to get many people into job market.
Looking at everything, it’s not all together a bad thing for the North to secede from Nigeria.
The North is the only region in Nigeria that practically have everything, yet its people suffer the most, with hope dashed, underproductive young @ & betrayal of the elites.
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The North is the single largest supplier of raw materials in all Nigerian industries, from food through agriculture and cloths to shelter through cements and other building materials available in the Northern rocks, including iron ores and ceramics.
The North have Gold, Diamond, Tin, copper, gypsum, coal, magnesium, etc and even uranium all over the area.
A liter of groundnut/cotton oil is more expensive than a liter of oil, and it has long industrial chain value , from pharmaceuticals, detergents etc.
Do you know that there are more university graduates and professors in Northern Nigeria than the whole of South Africa?
That ordinary people in Maiduguri can speak better English than ordinary people in Aba? (Not condescension on Aba but illustrative).
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The issue in the North is not lack of education but unemployment, underemployment or Mis employment.
Some can be due to culture of conservatism, entitlement to bigger things mentality by not starting small or waiting for white elephant government jobs.
This is true based on my personal experience as an employer of labor. Most of the people (not all) I employed from the north are either too big to accept lack of experience salary, too busy to pay attention, be patient and learn on the job, too dependent on I-know-someone who....
I’m a Fulani man, but I can tell you that it doesn’t make sense for cows to be roaming the streets in 2021.
Cows should be ranched on a land acquired or rented by the ranchers.
By law, land can only be used through rent or purchase.
Govt should step forward & clear this out.
I believe, to reconcile the raging herders crisis is to open proper communication where each knows the laws of the land.
All lands in Nigeria, including forests belongs to some entity, FG, SGs, LGs, Company’s or individuals.
Thus no land can be used without proper authorization
The problem of the Fulani herders is a betrayal from the city Fulanis, who decided, after moving to cities, acquiring wealth & power, but forget to carry the village brothers along, leaving them in a desperate situation.
The rich Fulanis must come together & get ranching lands.
When I spoke against the insecurity situation affecting the country & called out the President, some people tried to compare it with #endSARs, not true!
#endSARs is now an official failed Biafra movement supported by gullible ones. We know it.
Take this from me. #endSARs is hijacked by the haters of Nigeria, with a principal mission to hate everything everyone except a movement to destroy Nigeria & create an unimaginably failed audio/internet country, by people who never knew where their village is
Don’t fall for it!
These guys, less than one percent of the Igbo population are doing everything to showcase the whole Igbo as supportive of their mission, so loud that you’ll seem to believe them.
Kidnapping in Katsina, Kidnapping in Zamfara, Kidnapping in Jada. Kidnappings all over. The strange thing is, nothing is done.
Kidnapped victim’s families are burdened with the responsibility for ransoms.
If the government cannot secure us, they should ba paying for the ransom.
Govt budgets billions every year for security of the citizens. With this obvious failure. The budgeted amounts should be diverted for freeing up the kidnapped victims.
These kinds of failures are unprecedented in the history of Nigeria
How can bandits/kidnappers operate freely?
These guys employs same methods, targeting, in most cases same areas, and yet this is allowed to be repeatable all the time.
Do our leaders really care about this issue?
Busy organizing expensive wedding parties, yet vulnerable victims are left at the mercy of non-state actors.