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Nigeria Sars protest: The misinformation circulating online
Misleading claims about protests against a controversial police unit have been widely shared.
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Was this the previous government resigning Nigerian style.
Looks like targets will not fall when hit.Hmm ... I hope they gave them some practice on accurate shooting, the standard shown here is appalling ..
I had a fine office in the compound of a major logistics organisation in Apapa, facing the water (if you could see it for the rampant weed). Bodies there were, in and out with the tide.The lagoon on that side, but your point is valid.
As an aside, when MTN had built their first switch in Nigeria they held a braai next to the creek on Ikoyi. It was a balmy day and everyone was in high spirits (one or two of the men might have been wearing knee-length shorts, knee-length white socks, and sandals).
Looking over the foetid lagoon a bloated white thing passed by. "What's that?" exclaimed a saffa woman.
My B2B gleefully told everyone, "We've got a floater." (Dead body.) Just after he said that a speedboat came roaring down the creek and ran over it, bursting the body. The stench came wafting over the braii area and not much was eaten.
Lovely fire control orders familiar to all Targets to your front , two rounds , in your own time go on !Hmm ... I hope they gave them some practice on accurate shooting, the standard shown here is appalling ..
to my surprise people i know who live very very comfortable lives are tweeting and posting on instagram pictures saying "first black people suffer from police brutality in the US and UK and now this" acting as if what is happening in Nigeria is the same as the one black person wrongfully killed in the US is the same as massacres in Nigeria at the hands of policeBlack Lives Matter
Only if whitey is involved?
Just criminals (the non-political types). They stopped the executions there after Sani Abacha died under two Chinese prostitutes.
I thought the 'Coup from Heaven' involved Indian prostitutes and a viagra-induced heart attack. Either way, the lucky winner was Obasanjo who was scheduled to be bumped off but emerged as President instead.
Quick Lekki story. One upon a time there was an RTA opposite the front gate of a large foreign energy company. The drivers got out and started a fight, at which point loads of bystanders remembered that it was Nigeria and they were Nigerians and promptly joined in. They were all having a high old time when someone decided that it must somehow be the fault of the large foreign energy company and the company compound started taking rounds.
Each to their own but it's not my idea of a classy neighbourhood.
So I was right, thank you.Ok, Mike.
I spent a lot of time in Lagos.
Normally VI, but also Lekki, as many Saffer companies are investing there.
Yes, Lekki is a 'gated community'.
With some serious security to keep the riff-raff out.
However, it is an enclave of mega rich, and is no reflection whatsoever of Lagos as a whole.
Which is a shithole.
And yes, lots of Bentleys and other fine cars.
Shame the roads -and traffic - are so bad you'd never be able to drive them anywhere near their potential.
I am not getting any information on the political situation though, am I? I am getting the usual thinly veiled racist drivel from our coterie of resident self-appointed Africa experts, I usually ignore their tiresome posts but they seem determined to crayon all over this thread.Mike, you asked for the unvarnished opinion and stories from people who have worked in Nigeria and you have got them. They could never pay me enough money to work in Nigeria.
... I am getting the usual thinly veiled racist drivel from our coterie of resident self-appointed Africa experts, ...
I think you're missing the last 50+ years of African history.I am confused . Liberals assure me all of Africa has become a peaceful bastion of democracy with oodles of human rights after we wicked colonials left, Am I missing something ?
You asked a question. You claimed to want information because you didn't know the situation. You didn't like the information you were given because it didn't reinforce your prejudice. You call those who gave you that information rude names.I am not getting any information on the political situation though, am I? I am getting the usual thinly veiled racist drivel from our coterie of resident self-appointed Africa experts, I usually ignore their tiresome posts but they seem determined to crayon all over this thread.
I am not getting any information on the political situation though, am I? I am getting the usual thinly veiled racist drivel from our coterie of resident self-appointed Africa experts, I usually ignore their tiresome posts but they seem determined to crayon all over this thread.
Absolutely not!You asked a question. You claimed to want information because you didn't know the situation. You didn't like the information you were given because it didn't reinforce your prejudice. You call those who gave you that information rude names.
That makes you a troll at the very least. My list of ignored idiots is now longer by one, and longer in 2020 than any year since I joined arrse.
See my reply aboveThat's an... 'interesting' point of view.
If only this wasn't CA.
My bold: That sums up the place perfectly.
Lekki may look good on an estate agent's website, but here's the last serious incident I had to investigate (3 of ours dead & 1 VSI):
The first part of the vid below shows one guy with and RPD and one with an AK deployed as cut-offs at the junction of Admiralty Way and Adebayo Doherty Rd (you'll need to click the youtube link):