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There are things we don't know. The problem is that we just don't know that we don't know these things, until we realise we didn't know them in the 1st place and that comes only after we know them.

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Your generation are literally cOwards, that's why Tinubu is still president. Your generation fathers are still the ones in politics and you guys are doing nothing ~ Gen Z nigerian girl tells elderly man

@Mrczar_ Same Makinde that campaigned for Tinubu in 2023 and said he'd rather forfeit his own governorship ambition. You people need to wise up o. Naija politicians are useless.

NDC + Kwakwaso in Kano, Clock Makinde 😃 The game is on

@Nackson147 Same David Mark that was among those that worked against the swearing in of a democratic elected president in '93? You people need to read history and know your enemies. Even as Senate President, what was his achievement, apart from ballooning NASS expenses and salaries?

I thought David Mark was serious. You allowed a political heavyweights movement like Obi and Kwankwanso to exit the party you chaired because of an 80 years old man who has being running since 1993? We overate some people ooo. This is unheard of

I learnt this firsthand in the local govt I served during NYSC. Local Govt Manager > LG Chairman.

Not that second coach tossing her like a pizza base 😂

The Nigerians were busy organising an effective global boycott of the government that shot your children That International pressure and isolation are what stopped the killings of your children If you were on your own, you would still live in SOWETO as a third-class citizen You don't like illegal immigration, that's fair, hold your government to task to do their jobs What you are doing today will turn you into a pariah, just like the Apathaid government that shot your children

I cannot be swayed by share price manipulation called Fundamentals sha. I was there when Erastus Akingbola and Pastor Obieri were manipulating Intercontinental Bank share price; when Cecilia Ibru was using Oceanic bank money to build bank branches in her name and leasing the building back to the bank. When Ote$ and Dangote as Chairman of the Bourse fought dirty with AP share price manipulation where a share that didn't worth more than N32 was sold for N230... Cadbury Finacial statement manipulation and so on.. I was there when Sterling Registrar was at Knight Frank Building, Ajele.. I worked with late Bablo (sterling Registrar) during Japaul public offering... I was there at Afribank Registrar during this fraud packaged by OBJ 🤣🤣👌 (Kehinde Ogundimu: head of new issue) Shey make I go on ni?

Informative.

A bitter pill Nigerians have to swallow is that police brutality and extra-judicial killings will continue unabated until the current system is destroyed. The reason is because the current men masquerading as Nigeria Police Officers are essentially British soldiers wearing black masks. To see this, let us go back in time to the colonial era. When the British Imperialists wanted to set up a Policing unit in Nigeria, they faced a very serious problem. Their own Police Unit in England was too soft for colonial policing. Their police was based on the Metropolitan Police Model. The most revolutionary idea of this model is that the power of the police comes from public approval rather than the power of the state. In the Metropolitan model, the police are not there to force the public into submission; they are there to help the public maintain order. If the public loses trust in the police, the police lose their legitimacy. Even today, most UK police do not carry firearms on regular patrol. They carry batons and use communication or de-escalation as their primary tools. Force is only used as a last resort, and it must be the absolute minimum necessary to achieve the objective. The problem with this policing is that it is only designed to "protect" the people. The British on the other hand came to Nigeria to steal, so they were only interested in protecting themselves and not the people. Extracting the wealth of millions of people was never a simple matter because the people would often resist. Since the resistance was always organized and often violent, the British needed a police force that could fight like an infantry unit. To this end, they created a force that lived in fortified barracks, carried rifles, and was trained in military bayonet drills. When the police units were set up, the British faced another challenge. How do you make this force violent to the people so that they beat up their brothers, neighbours, and tribesmen and treat their own friends like a common criminal? To solve this problem, the Imperialists developed the "Alien System." An officer was never allowed to serve in his home county or any county where he had family ties. They would take men from the North and post them to the South, and vice versa. The goal was that if a Yoruba community protested against British taxes in Lagos, a Hausa police officer who did not speak the language and shared no cultural ties with the protesters would have no "sentimental" hesitation in using his baton or rifle to crush the protest. The result was that it turned the police into an internal army of occupation. The officer wasn't a "brother" to the citizen; he was a stranger sent by the state to enforce its will. One of the most profound effects of the Alien System was the intentional creation of a communication gap. When an officer is posted to an area where he doesn't understand the local dialect, he cannot engage in community policing. He cannot listen to grievances or negotiate peace. Because the officer cannot communicate effectively, he relies on the one thing that needs no translation: "Force." The shouting, the slapping, and the brandishing of the AK-47 become the primary modes of communication. But this "Alien System" would still not be complete without the Barracks. Because the officer was an "alien" in the community, he was often viewed with suspicion or hostility by the locals. The officer felt safe only inside the barracks with his "fellow aliens." This created a "Siege Mentality." Every time the officer left the barracks to go on patrol, he felt like he was "going into enemy territory." This is why you see police in Nigeria today riding in the back of trucks with guns pointed outward. They are prepared for an ambush in a land they do not consider their own. Also, the state of the Police Barracks then and even now was really disastrous and basically glorified slums. Officers often live with their families in single, damp rooms with leaking roofs, stinking gutters, and shared toilets that are frequently broken. This is not a matter of mistake or incompetence. It is a psychological factory that systematically conditions officers to be aggressive, extractive, and detached from the civilians they are meant to protect. If the state treats an officer like an animal by housing him in a "pen," that officer subconsciously begins to see himself as less than human. When he steps out onto the road, he "mirrors" this treatment. He treats the public like animals because that is the reality he wakes up to every morning. Also, the practice of "shuffling" or transferring an officer who has committed a crime rather than dismissing or prosecuting them is not a modern Nigerian invention. It is a direct management strategy inherited from British colonial policing, specifically the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) model. The police officer, Nuhu Usman, shot an unarmed civilian who was tied down to the ground with his arms chained and was literally pleading for his life. His police career is pretty much filled with stories of violence and how he engaged in extra-judicial killings instead of being dismissed from service. Even the British never dismissed such officers because they are a rare breed. They are the kind of people who had no sympathy for the people and were actively being deployed to quell protests and fight dissent. In essence, the current policing system in Nigeria is the British system and that makes our officers in uniform British soldiers. You cannot reform the system. That is why ENDSARS changed nothing in terms of police brutality and extra-judicial killings. Firing a few officers here and there changes nothing. For a complete change the barracks must be destroyed and burnt to the ground. The only people who are kept in barracks are soldiers who need to train daily and integrate new weapons into their military.

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The best financial strategy is often about keeping what's already yours.

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