We should control our tongue at all time.

[De-cub]

Well in this case I will say it's a nice topic there.. we should control our tongue at all time, I had an experience over this topic last week, I was in my business place when two guys came in, although they wanted to cut their hair, so they started talking about asari business saying how the government normally attack them whenever they are in their work so they never knew I was barbing an army guys hair, the man was just busy making a phone call... calling his colleges before I could knew whats happening 4 army guys came in my shop and took them out of the shop...so any where you dea no dea talk pass wetin u no know, abeg make we dea try dea control our tongue abeg

[odunybiz]

Anything wey me I dey talk, I make sure say I talk am for the right place and the right time, wetin the girl talk na truth, police men for naija now don lazy finish. Sometimes sef na empty threat them dey do. I fit remember when I dey travel, police men stop the bus wey I enter to check people logage and them charge the bus driver money, but if na thief or harm robbers police men see that night them for no fit do anything rather na them go run. For naija, work wey road safety officer suppose do na wetin police man dey do.

But why I dey blame the girl she no suppose talk am for there, just imagine me telling a police man that they're thiefs I dey try tell them make them thief my money na, and I sure say as that girl talk that thing they mind don happy because money go finally drop and them go charge the girl.

Sometimes is better to leave some words unsaid. Although wetin she say na true but na naija we dey. Naija where person wey dey claim right was carry to police station and was accused of abusing their boss. Everybody know policemen no dey do their work this days. But wetin citizen won do. Words of our mouth can save us and at the same time kill someone. It's better one learn how to control his/her mouth in public.

[Y3shot]

The tongue  is very powerful,  the tongue fit put man for problem wey be say man fit lose him life, the wey man too present is tongue fit make ahm obtained favour from other people. I will say the tongue is life because na the tongue na go determine how man life go be. E get the way person go dey talk people go shit and no gree come closer because wetin dey come out from your mouth no beveetin sweet and person go won dey close.

[Brainiac01]

Your anecdote say it all. People need to take note. You know, most times, there is no need to jump into conversations, especially when you're not included. Also, I find it expedient to refrain from replying someone even if he/she makes a sly comment or angles a mocking word towards you, because some people are just troublesome, they're just waiting to know what you have to say. And I believe that the best response you can give to a fool most times is just silence (nothing more, nothing less).

[AVE5]

The tongue is an abundant speaking tool which literally tends to utter our innermost fellings with the possibilities to indict and put us to problems if carelessly and mindlessly unwatchful on rapport with others people.
Infact, it is either a self defence or serves against selves defenses. So it is necessary if we must take control of our tongues if we must talk in communications with others

[Manlikefrank1]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

At all cost you should try to control and good communication skills when talking to people,most especially the a force agent which is on duty.you should know how to control your communication and tunes of words,sometimes you need to allow them to do there duty since you are at there post.but I have watch videos where boys drives and speeds to pass Chechnya point without been check by force man on duty. So when I see some officer been aggressive to the youth or some driver I don’t complain about it because.there have seen a lot of that l.

[Ever-young]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

I believe that everyone suffers with it at times, and that with practice, we can all improve. This is especially crucial in today's environment, since social media and the internet allow our thoughts to be magnified effortlessly. One careless statement may be repeated and disseminated far and wide, with unexpected repercussions we could never have anticipated. So the lack of face-to-face connection also removes some of the social indicators that would typically help us be more conscious of how our words are perceived, because it is easier to mistake a person's voice or purpose when conversing via text rather than in person. So assuming the girl controlled her tongue, she wouldn't have found herself in that situation.

[Wiwo]

The girls jam talk and should will learn in the hard just like very dark man were no use freedom of speech well were police done pick him for over a week now, this is how it supposed to be and every citizens should at least mind they business and only say what they have fact about and not just based on assumptions or stereotyping.

Most time when you are at a police check point or any check point for that matter, you need to act with ultimate respect to the officers on duty and mind what we talks a matter of fact we should keep silent and never ulter any statement until we have a legal adviser that can interpret and guide our statements, because those officers are5 Mobile law that is to say anything you say or do will always be used against in the court of law and this girl in the story is going to serve punishment for that unlawful speech.

[Pi$$]

Some time we need to keep quiet, is not to just talk without reasoning wetin we want talk. Let use this examples and teach you guys something, one we travelling  so as we were going we reach a checkpoint were the police say let the driver give him 500 naira so  the driver say  he dont have  then the police went back to the car and saw those fake fuel and told the driver that go see wetin e dey carry for back of the motor and the driver said that is garri.LOL.why it was this fake fuel. Do the police enter inside the motor and wanted to park it so one woman  inside now started shouting oga e don tell you say na garri wetin u still dey do now, even though say na burkerring no be all of oo na dey do am, na so the police verse slap the woman. So na why  sometime we need to they reason before we talk.

[Ever-young]

Our tongue small ehn but na e dey powerful pass, we fit kill person through our tongue or we fit enter big problem self through this our tongue, which is very bad, no wonder the bible say " Life and Death are in the power of our tongue" because of the kind things wey our tongue dey do. Although e dey serve us good o, like we dey know the taste of something like food, and without tongue we no dey fit talk but at the same e dey land us for problem if not probably use, and some of the problem wey some people dey today na wetin dem talk na e cause them dey for the problem, even some people wey dey for prison or wey die self, na wetin dem talk na cause why dem dey for prison or wey dey die. So make we mind the way we dey talk because wetin we feel say e no matter, na that thing dey matter pass, so mk we dey mindful with our words

[Dailyscript]

OP, i it is good to control our tongue when necessary not all the time because sometimes it is good that we speak out or make clarification in a discussion for better purposes. The thing is most persons do not know when to say things they are being triggered by emotions, anxiety or insecurity. And it has caused them a lot of damages. In the case of this police issue, its something that would not have gone too far up to this extend. And by the way they were not talking to him directly, even if he had remembered his encounter with any police officer or military personnel he should have just kept quite.

I think we should think multiple twice before any words comes out of our mouth. There are people who listen to every words and takes it so serious even if it was spoken out of jokes. Maybe that police man was someone like that and he felt insulted that is why he wants to use that persons as an example to others. At least you learnt something that day and the other persons in the vehicle also learnt as well. Next time you wont repeat what that guy did, so you see the lesson he wants to make out of that guy made you shared this topic with us.

[teamsherry]

Thank you OP for sharing this experience with us, it shows that it's not good to go around talking anyhow to people just because you feel that way, words are very powerful and can cause a lot of harm if not used properly and I her case she put herself in a difficult situation because of that, even the bible did want us about how important it is to tame the tongue.

Another thing I would also warn us about is how quick we can be to lay curses or insults to our children or siblings without minding that we hurt their feelings this can later lead to low self esteem in children.