Agbegbaorogboye:

The boys were never going to be handed to BH. And even if they were handed to BH, so were the dapchi girls and this govt got them back. What is obvious in all these is that this govt has a strong line of communication with BH and bandits. Also BH and bandits have a strong link and connection.

Dapchi girls weren't rescued, ransom was paid for them even though the government wouldn't come out with the truth.
What is the point of letting Boko haram get hold of the boys?
I see no reason why paying a ransom to bandits is worse than paying to Boko haram.

Both have now learned they can make money from staging kidnaps so the question is now that they have a catalyst for their behaviour, what inhibitor is govt having in mind?

This isn't new. Boko haram and bandits have been making money from kidnapping for years. They didn't just learn now.
The only alternative is an armed rescue but the government wasn't willing to sacrifice the boys to dissuade future kidnappers. We can't stop kidnapping without stopping ransom payment but when and where should that policy start and will Nigerians be okay with such policy and its attendant deaths?

odehsun:

Well the lives of this school boys are important but we should be careful of not creating rooms for kidnapping to become a norm.

It is already the norm. Bandits know that they will almost always get paid when they kidnap people.

If you pay ransome for release, you will continue to pay. If you negotiate with criminals for once, you will continue to negotiate.

The ship has sailed. Many government agents, operatives, politicians and VIPs have paid ransom and kidnappers know that the Nigerian people will always support ransom payment. Just check people's response to the Katsina kidnapping. It was overwhelmingly to bring back the boys without harm.

I doubt if any Nigerian government has the political will to break the kidnapping cycle because of
the propaganda value of hostage deaths due to botched rescues. The truth is that most rescue operations will fail.

American Govt. Don't negotiate, you kill an American, you get a colossal damages

While it is a general principle for the US government to not pay ransom for its agent or operatives. It is legal for citizens' family
to pay ransom. The American government also negotiate sometimes when the target is high value even with terrorists.

Watchout.

Aisha has a serious problem.
There is a thin line between Miyetti Allah and bandits so it makes sense that they negotiate on behalf of bandits.
Before you jump to Aisha's defense or deflect to Buhari's glaring incompetence. Ask yourself whether the lives of over 300 boys are worth some activists' ideal but wrong view of reality. If you want to play cleanly with bandits, those boys would have been handed over to Boko haram by now and the rest will be history.

Muna4real:


And how will bombing a church give wike hell?
Sometimes ehh, I'm made to believe that Nigeria is worse than a zoo filled with senseless animals. What will that bombing do for ipob and kanu?

I would have explained the basics of terror groups to you but how can you understand without a proper configuration of cerebral cells?

Freestainworld:
you are blaming those youths now but this same police will never learn anything, upon this end SARS issue that just ended.

I hear the dead Okada rider resurrected after the police station was burnt.
There are just too many dumb people in this country.

Okay. I hope he won't deny them in a few months' time.

Evil criminals are looking for means of reaping from where they didn't sow.
Their plans to destroy the hard-earned investment of people won't work.

VaselineCrew:
Or is it just on nairaland? cause I know this is the most hate-filled social media site compared to others

The fact that some can still support these corrupt bastards on here.

Same APC, Same PDP

Same politicians that can barely speak english, the ones that go as far as to hoard Indomie while locking people down.

The ones that will allow your roads to spoil to the point that it is unmotorable.

The one that can't even get simple law and order down.


I mean, if not for Hollywood, will Nigerians know what it means to get pulled over by a squad car?

When you hear sirens in Nigeria, do you pull over? Do you even slow down to let them pass?


God, I will keep fighting for the country were I was born, but what gives? Why are these people all around me happy with the status quo?

Why are they happy with open gutters, no light, no law and order, no lanes on roads.

Why? God why?

Why does a Nigerian have to be wired so differently?

You know what they say, talk is cheap and APC talked more than you are doing. What does the new order have to offer? Which specific policy does the new order have to create a country that will rival the Hollyhood of your dreams and where will the money come from? How will they handle subsidy, debt, and infrastructure?

CIA

Many people are interested in what to eat. Unless you can convince them of the direct benefit of voting such as money. They won't participate.

clarocuzioo:
coming at a time when southern regions are calling for restructuring.


The unity of the country became negotiable the moment Boko Haram started killing with reckless abandon and government started treating them to buffets.

The unity of the country became negotiable when a certain section of the country occupied 90% of the security posts.


The unity of the country became negotiable when alcohol is destroyed in a section of the country yet they enjoy the taxes from those alcohols.

Shouldn't the victims of Boko haram be the chief complainers?

Always.

It is always like this.

However, IPOB in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful has denied responsibility for the attack, noting that its members don’t deal in explosives and have no intention to start.

Who are Ipob members?
This denial is proof that they did it. They promised to give Wike hell and now they have started.

Bad.

He hasn't even won yet. Headline went wrong again.

infini771:
This election falls below standard. Can you imagine

What standard?

gaius01:
Arrrrrrrh

I thought election in America is better than Nigeria in terms of rigging. Till I saw Trump and Biden election vote, I lose hope.

Corruption is evitable in politics!!!

Real life is not like movies. If you spend some time examining everything you know about the west, you would see that most are pure exaggerations and even fantasies. I hope you have learned your lessons.

FunkeOseni:
The election is a sham and a disgrace to U.S

The election is fine like others before it. There has never been a perfect American election or any country for that matter. The disgraced one will be kicked out in January.

Some people will always benefit from changes in government policy. The question now is whether impoverishing millions of Nigeria is worth a few thousand farmers' income.

Reps should mull about reducing their own salary. That is all that matters for now.

Faller:


hope you know Bogus means Fake. Next time before you come out to blow grammar. please choose your words carefully

There is something called connotation. I believe it was part of the Junior High school curriculum.

The easiest thing for NASS to do is reduce their salary. But you never see them do it. What they use in justifying their bogus salary is generating sensationalism, alleging big money is missing without looking for it or sounding an alarm instead of tackling the problem.

When they identified an alleged problem with the delivery, their response should be to invite the appropriate bodies and demand an explanation and action. It is all about big news.

Malawian:

If he come land inside ocean nko? Even bird no dey fly from Africa go America.

They do.

Seyzcham91:
Stop trying to defend nonsense! i can't begin listing

just take it okay, the fact remains we are backward for a 60years nations its a known fact thats undeniable

MOVE BRO!

You guys are too predictable. You sound so assured but when pushed, you have nothing to show for it. SMH

Some idiots seem to think that they have the right to kidnap or commit crime.

Seyzcham91:
getting where? for your mind abi!

dem really tried for an assembly plant though but we still backward for a 60years nation

List countries of 60 years that are advanced.

Okoroawusa:

Please don't air this opinion in China. Stop listening to Western media and historians

Take your own advice. Mao was the greatest calamity to befall China. The development of Taiwan clearly shows that you don't need to kill millions to develop, in fact, killing slows down development.

blacknp:
Zombie how many Parties have ruled China since they drove the Nationalist Party to Taiwan, the communist party of China base their ideology on long term planning, Chairman Mao was the Agriculture revolution,

What a joke!
Party don't rule China, people do. I know it is confusing to plain folks but it is not that complicated. The party name is irrelevant,
it is what they do that matters. If Mao didn't die, China will be poorer than North Korea.

Chairman said it, a few have to die for the future of the country, & that is why China, is China today, a generation sacrificed when the world was laughing at them, you want to enjoy in Nigeria you don’t want to sacrifice, ordinary 30 kobo increase in pms, it would be like the world has come to an end.

30 million a few? Hitler also sacrificed a few, so is Shekau currently doing. Development does not require killing. Get that into your skull.
Let me kill some of you so we can develop. Nothing can be crazier

China cannot feed itself? Have you lived in China, or you watched it on CGTN?

I now see where you are coming from, some channels have been playing with your head.
Mao killed 30 million people so China can produce its own food, today China is the largest food importer in the world.
Mao was such a failure.

Yesterday on CNN I believe I saw the Mayor of Houston, complaining that many people in his city had nothing to eat on thanksgiving, I believe also The United States that can go to the moon, cannot feed its people?

I see you also have a comprehension issue. Don't just watch news, also think about what they mean. Did the mayor tell you there was no food in the market for people to buy?

American farmers produce too much food that ends up being destroyed every year. That mayor is calling for free food but you couldn't see it because you were carried away by flashy images and emotions.

The greatest repudiation of Mao's foolishness is that Taiwan didn't kill millions but today, Taiwan is twice as rich as China. Mao was the greatest disaster to befall China.

blacknp:
China sacrificed under Chairman Mao (Mao Zedong), now they are reaping the sacrifice, no Nigerian generation wants to sacrifice, they just want to enjoy, you don’t plant anything but you want to eat cheap rice, you didn’t build any power transmission stations & lines, but you want to have electricity? even the price of ordinary garri will triple despite all the cassava we have in Nigeria, they will be quick to blame the president.

Chairman Mao was an absolute failure. He killed nearly 30 million people just to return the Chinese to the farms. China's success began by diverging from Mao's failed policies. His successor was replaced because he is seen as another crazy airbag. The father of the Chinese economic miracle is Deng Xiaoping and not the murderous Mao.

Nigeria needs sacrifice but not to try out failed economic policies. Even today, China cannot feed itself and that is not a bad thing.

Wike is free to choose whichever tribe he likes.