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I hope himself and his family members will use the hospital when they are sick and stop wasting taxpayers moneys on medical tourism like his cronies do?

SixSeven:
Thieves should do it well, they can rape and maim as they wish

Terrorists should do it well, they can have government contract

Thugs should do it well, they can become doctors

Electoral riggers should do it well, they can count 136 as 9000 votes

Bandits should do it well, they can always repent

A fraudster should scam people only long enough to escape poverty

A corrupt politician should embezzle strategically, then retire gracefully

A drug dealer should sell carefully and invest in a better future

A father would never let his daughter do something like that or even encourage her to do it. There is nothing like I don't judge.

What she is saying is wrong and it is more disappointing to see that there are young girls there in the studio. Anyway, Morayo and her husband de talk for the same show, let her ask her husband the same question. No sane man worth his salt will give such advice. Women and their dangerous advice. It should be condemned.

Circumstances can make someone be on the wrong path but she made no sense in saying stay there, do ashewo well but don't stay there. Shaffy, do not teach people to become comfortable with what harms them. There is nothing to understand there. You don't need to be liked to say the truth and be firm with it, you don't need to be politically correct. I am not going to preach because of the economy but economic factors have never been an excuse for us to lose our morality and dignity because we know the end as a people.



As a Yoruba woman, she should know better and promote the values of her culture than this misguided talk.

Irrespective of the form, social vices remain what they are and should not be encouraged.

yemre:
where all these f00l5 get it wrong is that they always believed that they are not known, nobody knows where they live, etc! As a result, they would always hide behind their phone and keyboards to commit all these abominable acts. Just imagine someone coming online to say your daughter has died of a strange disease, and knowing it to be a lie!!

I have always told people, especially those of you who go online to insult influential people, right from the president, the politicians, to the leaders in the religious circle. Just pray that they don't have your time. If they ever spare a thought for you, I pity your generation. You would regret ever getting the money to buy that phone with which you committed that crime.

A word, they say, is enough...

But why don't these people apply this same energy on bandits?

If I only they are this swift to track and arrest kidnappers, bandits, and ungun known ken, Nigeria would have been safe.

MaxInDHouse:
The Christian God said about Jesus:

“This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved. Listen to him.” Matthew 17:5

And Jesus commanded his followers:

“You heard that it was said: ‘You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  However, I say to you: Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you, so that you may prove yourselves sons of your Father who is in the heavens, since he makes his sun rise on both the wicked and the good and makes it rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those loving you, what reward do you have? Are not also the tax collectors doing the same thing?  And if you greet your brothers only, what extraordinary thing are you doing? Are not also the people of the nations doing the same thing? You must accordingly be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" Matthew 5:43-48

So if anyone is CURSING his neighbor for any reason whatsoever surely such a person is not expecting Jesus' father to grant it nah!😟

I'm asking think cos I'm wondering how Christians survive in Lagos, most especially those that have vehicles.😂😂😂 Cursing in Lagos, for instance, is seen as a form of greeting amongst road users, most especially.

As a Christian who believe our God does only good at all times, when we get any and tell someone "God punish you or it will not be well with you." To which "god" are we offering this prayer, "the Christian God or to the Traditional God we do not regard?"

Rapmoney:
Lately, I have been seeing different threads online created solely to discourage young Nigerians from travelling abroad. One particular thing common among these posts is how the writers unrealistically make oppornities in Nigeria seem equal or even greater to those that abound in Europe, America, Canada, or Australia. That is very ridiculous. We are not blind. We know the current state of Nigeria - from epileptic power supply, hyper inflation, to monster insecurity. I saw a video where a young youth corp member was being tortured by bandits in the north as if we were living in the 1720s. Until now, the authorities and security agencies have not made any statement on it. Why would they? It is 'normal' in Nigeria.

Last year, I travelled to a state in the Niger Delta Region for a project. An entire local government area has not seen light for donkey years. In some parts of the state, people do not use electricity up to 10 minutes in a day. Then, you have remote workers in these places. You have artisans who need electricity for their business. These people spend hell on purchasing fuel, and by the end of the day, their profits cannot even make them have access to a decent life. Tomorrow, when their business crumbles, you call them 'lazy people'.

As a young Nigerian, if you have the means to travel to access better opportunities, DO NOT ALLOW anyone to discourage you. Some of these people who try to discourage you have family members abroad who have established businesses for them here. Some of them might even be living abroad, but you do not know that. Some are beneficiaries of the failed systems and institutions in Nigeria. If your country was okay, why are the children of your leaders living in developed countries? Shouldn't this country be good for them instead?

Countries that have thriving economies do not even have citizens who discourage their fellow citizens from travelling, talk more of a country that has failing systems and institutions.

How does another man's decision to travel affect your own life? The decision to travel for greener pastures, better social amenities, and guaranteed security is a personal thing, and should not give other people headache. Why you dey swallow panadol for another man headache?

You dey Nigeria dey earn 40k as a private school teacher, and you dey allow another man wey dey Sweden dey earn millions with better security and healthcare to brainwash you. You go die poor ooo! Nor go find scholarships or sell family land. Dey there.

In as much as I love Nigeria and won't give up on it, run out of it if you have the means to, tomorrow might be too late as there's no hope in sight?

Entertainment, Development, and Africa’s Economic Future: Should Africans Stop Entering the Creative Space?

The recent claim that Africans are globally relevant mainly in entertainment, particularly sports and music, has generated debate in public discourse. While it reflects the visible global success of African creatives, the suggestion that Africans should abandon entertainment because leaders prioritise importation over local production is neither practical nor development-oriented. A balanced analysis shows that the issue is not entertainment itself, but the broader structure of economic policy and governance.
1. Entertainment is a Productive Economic Sector
Africa’s creative industry is not merely recreational. It generates employment, foreign exchange, tourism, and global cultural influence. Nigeria’s Nollywood, Afrobeats, and sports exports contribute significantly to national income and soft power. Rather than being a distraction, entertainment represents one of the continent’s most successful examples of indigenous enterprise thriving despite limited government support.
2. The Real Problem is Structural Economic Policy
The concern about leaders importing commodities instead of supporting local production is valid. Heavy reliance on imports weakens domestic industries, limits job creation, and exposes economies to external shocks. However, this policy failure affects manufacturing, agriculture, technology, and the creative sector alike. Stopping entertainment would not address the underlying governance and industrial policy gaps.
3. Entertainment Demonstrates Private Sector Resilience
The growth of African music, film, and sports largely reflects individual innovation, entrepreneurship, and market demand. This resilience offers a model for other sectors. Instead of discouraging entertainment, policymakers should study its ecosystem—talent development, diaspora markets, digital distribution, and private investment—to replicate similar growth in manufacturing and technology.
4. Development Requires Diversification, Not Elimination
No modern economy grows by abandoning a successful sector. Sustainable development depends on diversification: strong agriculture, manufacturing, technology, services, and creative industries working together. The creative economy is globally recognised as a driver of innovation and youth employment, which are critical for Africa’s demographic structure.
5. The Appropriate Policy Direction
Rather than asking Africans to stop entertainment, governments should:
Promote local production through industrial incentives and infrastructure.
Reduce excessive import dependence.
Invest in skills, research, and innovation.
Formalise and support the creative economy as part of national development strategy.

I make bold to say that Africans should not abandon entertainment. The sector is one of the continent’s strongest global assets and a source of economic opportunity. The real challenge lies in leadership priorities and economic policies that fail to support local production across sectors. Africa’s path to development is not to reduce its areas of excellence, but to replicate their success through deliberate governance, industrialisation, and economic diversification.I

Kemetian:
What ''poor healthcare'' ?

What is a youth like you doing talking about ''health care''?

When last did you step in a hospital to be talking about ''poor health care''?

Did you go there and there was no treatment for you?

You just copy and paste other peoples' rubbish into your head.

I don't think you've had a reason to go to the hospital in the last 2 months, if you did you'll not type this rubbish here. Private hospitals are overcrowded as health workers in government establishment are on strike due to poor payment and inadequate facilities while the useless politicians you back up brainlessly and their families are running abroad to seek healthcare as they don't trust the system they are overseeing. May Nigeria not happen to you.

*Darkness as Policy: A Citizen’s Lament on IBEDC and Nigeria’s Power Sector. Is access to power supply a luxury or a necessity?*

In Genesis, God created light before everything else. Not because He needed it, but because order is impossible without it. Nigeria, however, has improved on this model as we have chosen darkness first, we are very committed to it and this explains why nothing works.
The rebranding of NEPA to PHCN was Nigeria’s first national comedy skit. Same darkness, new acronym. Then came “privatisation”, a more sophisticated joke where public suffering was auctioned to private friends of those in power. The promise was efficiency but the result was organised confusion with invoices.
Access to electricity in Nigeria is not a right but a favour that's priced. And like all favours, it is distributed by class. Thus was born the holy trinity of madness: Band A, Band B, Band C. One wonders when Band “Bandit” will be officially announced—those who see light only in dreams. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine MTN announcing that some customers in Band A will enjoy network for 18 hours while others will manage with two hours, yet all must buy recharge cards at the same price. The country would burn, right? But when IBEDC does the electrical version of this nonsense with those in Band A to pay more, we are told to “manage”.
For the record, under estimated billing, Nigerians pay faithfully for darkness not light. Yet bills rise with confidence even when power disappears completely. We fear light going off, yet no longer expect it to return. This is emotional abuse, but with invoices and audacity.
Notably, because electricity is unreliable, citizens improvise. Generators roar like angry lions, candles quietly burn houses, lantern fumes shorten lives, and extension cables become instruments of faith. When disasters occur, we are advised to pray harder and be shouting "it is well" upandan even when we know nothing will be well. We have been taught to live in falsehood.
As industries shut down due to lack of electricity, jobs disappear and productivity collapses. Those responsible for this corporate failure then import the same products we once manufactured, sell them back to us at criminal prices, and call it economic policy.
Privatisation was meant to bring relief. Instead, distribution companies like IBEDC perfected a business model where customers finance their own oppression. Communities buy poles and wires, also they pay officials to install them but the IBEDC arrives to declare, with straight faces, that the poles now belong to the government while the bills belong to the people.
If high voltage destroys your appliances, congratulations! You have won a spiritual lesson add as there is no compensation, no functional legal process, only patience, prayer, and the grace to bear the loss. Importantly, if they want to disconnect your light, ladders will appear like angels but if there is a fault, suddenly there is no ladder and one would advised to rent one. This is what innovation looks like in Nigeria. Instead of thing of what problem to solve, people are burdened with the thought of whether light will come or not. With time, the prepaid meter arrived as the Messiah. However, many doubted it, rightly so. After years of corruption, trust is now an endangered species. Under the old system, someone owing ₦200,000 for darkness could settle the matter with ₦5,000 and a handshake. Corruption is so normal now that honesty feels suspicious.
With the class structure, for instance, Band A m customers are promised premium light but receive premium darkness with several excuses of a collapsed national grid instead. In places like Ilishan, Band A customers sit in darkness for days, yet remain classified as “privileged” and when a a pole falls down, replacing it becomes an engineering miracle. One begins to ask: what exactly has IBEDC invested in apart from ladders for disconnection and energy for extortion?
When residents complain, IBEDC officials roam around with ladders, not to fix power, but to remind people who is in charge.
And when freezers fail, medicines spoil, businesses collapse, and lives suffer, the national prescription is consistent:
Diagnosis: No light
Prescription: Religion
Dosage: Two worship songs and one psalm, three times daily
Must we pray for everything in Nigeria?
That is government is telling the masses not to pay for pre-paid meters is laughable as it comes with hidden charges that will be revealed with time. Some customers in Band C will pay as high as those in Band A but will not see the light as much as the "privileged" like I have currently experienced in the last one year since February 2025. This is not about one government. This is about a system that rewards incompetence and punishes citizenship. Our silence, our tribal loyalty, and our legendary patience have kept this nonsense alive.
But let it be said clearly: light is not a luxury nor is it a favour or a campaign promise.
It is a right and a basic need of the masses and asking for it is not too much and efficient service delivery is not rocket science.
Until Nigerians decide to demand it, legally, collectively, and to do it loudly, darkness will remain government policy, and IBEDC will continue to do business very comfortably as there's so much money in the darkness the provide.

Does a poor Nigerian have hope of getting light from the POWER Holding Company of Nigeria or all power belongs to God? 😂😂😂

As election year has come, vote for who will WORK and not who will WIN by rigging as they have nothing to offer us.

From an angry IBEDC customer.

As a young Nigeria who is seeking for how to escape from this country to seek solace and opportunity in any country my legs can take me to without recourse to whatever I might face out there, I, like many young Nigerian youths, are striving so hard to leave the shores of this country at all cost as there is no hope for the common man without political connections.
Being poor in Nigeria now is a crime as majority are just surviving every passing day with no hope to live a life worth living. Should we talk about poor healthcare, insecurity, high rates of unemployment, or increasing social vices just to survive the next day?

Funny is how all that the charlatans in government had to offer is "student loan" and not employment and some mediocre are hailing this shenanigans. Only a few are asking the question of whether the government has plans for job creation to enable the repayment of the loans after their NYSC program.

Some years back, as a fresh graduate with no hope of my next meal, I created this thread of the comparison between education and skill acquisition https://www.nairaland.com/3384262/which-should-given-more-priority#138524589
This was solely because education in Nigeria is based more on theories that are not implementable but honing the right skills seem to provide better job opportunities as the service provides will always be relevant in the society as solution providers.
Seeing this content by @Gana, https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ECwJ2B4rr/ on Facebook reminded me to ask these question:

1. Is the problem bedeviling the average Nigerian youths lack of jobs or lack of education?

2. Why is the FG more concerned about creation loan schemes for students through NELFUND when it cases less about the fate of the students after graduation. If those that have graduated, some with masters degree are not gainfully employed, what then is the encouragement to want to go to school in loan with no hope to pay back?

3. What happened to job schemes like YOUWIN of PDP and NPOWER of the confused APC?

4. Is this not a ploy and a plot to steal taxpayers moneys undisturbed?

5. To those fanning the embers of stupidity of those who forced themselves, where the hope of tomorrow for your children? Or do you thing your evil cronies will always be in power?

6. After taking a loan to go school, what happens after graduation when there are no plans to create jobs but to loot and waste taxpayers monies?

6. Who has bewitched us, oh foolish Nigerians?

In the coming election, I'd rather we vote for who will WORK and not who will WIN by rigging.

Kirinwa:
It has been inculcated in the Secondary school curriculum as a compulsory subject, tertiary institutions offer it as a course headed by Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, skill acquisition centres abound all over the country supported by NDDC, MDGs etc Its impossible to pass through a tertiary institution now without seeing a seminar organised on skill acquisition either free or at subsidized rate. Its compulsory in NYSC programme to choose a skill which you will be taught.

Dude the struggle is real. I would expect you to do more research before posting issues such as this.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/166030-nigeria-revises-basic-education-curriculum.html

How effective is this?

Instead of changing our stupid thievery mentality and work for the common good of all, we loot, defraud people, sell even family members and change location. This monster we have created will consume all of us. A bunch of stupid people.

Why are you scared of your popularity?

ednut1:
But wetin go make people want to live on the water surrounded by filt?

That validates the saying that if the preferred is not available, the available becomes the preferred. Was the useless govt not supposed to provide for them a conducive place for evacuate the people to? Should the Lagos state govt not be ashamed that people are living in slums in "the almighty Lagos?"

If not that they are trying so hard to protect some people, why didn't they trail the trucks to their destination but intercepted them on the way? And why is the identity of the said individual not released?

brain54:
France has history as one of the worst colonisers in history...



The countries they colonize hardly recovers. They drain them to the last bit.


Till date they haven't fully stepped aside from their ex colonies.


France is really a horrible country colonizer !

France is not the worst, it has only accepted the narrative. The British is not any better. They are all fraud.

Islie:
https://leadership.ng/natasha-throws-jibe-at-akpabio-over-police-escorts-reversal-plead/

Why are you scared of the people you claim to represent? Truly, the wicked knows no peace and one day the poor masses will the "evil" rich and I pray it comes quite soon.

nairalandankrah:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/817663-sokoto-govt-introduces-allowances-for-imams-monthly-cash-allocations-to-mosques.html

How on earth did we get to this deplorable state?

nairalandankrah:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/817663-sokoto-govt-introduces-allowances-for-imams-monthly-cash-allocations-to-mosques.html

How on earth did we get to this deplorable state?

princeade86:
But where is treasure single account they said we are using?

I laugh in Biafra. They are all mad. One arm of the government fighting the other and such government want progress. Like how?

These serves them right. It is only a demon that destroys his own house and seeks shelter in another man's house (that is not built by angels but by men like us).

So, people not interested in going to school are now free to use drugs? We are mad in this country. Why not clamp on the importers and sellers instead of wasting money on drug test? Or is this another way to syphon money?

tunnyl:
I am really curious about this question. One time it was small unnoticeable earrings by nowadays its the dancing earrings with many guys putting them on.

I refuse to believe it is merely for fashion.

And I will reframe your question to "Why do women wear earrings on? If we can make excuses for why the women should drill holes in their ears for validation due to inferiority complex, then the men see no reason not do do same. We are only successfully normalizing the abnormal. Afterall, they said "What is good for the goose is good for the gander" So, let the madness go round. Na our celebrities dey use their platforms through the media dey promote all if this rubbish we consume on a reg. Any rubbish they see abroad, they copy and paste here.

Fake life no dey pay but them no dey hear word. Every Nigerian is ever busy to oppress or impress who no send their papa. These idiots go about giving honest Nigerians bad name. May all your shenanigans be exposed, you shameless charlatan wey dey buga through fraud attributed to God.

advanceDNA:
Lol... news flash.. bli or ble whatever way u want to spell it means to grow, or to become in Norwegian....google is ur friendd

Ore, except you are speaking that Norwegian language or any other language, and use the blebleble, then it makes sense else that's gibberish. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, there was no blebleble in this command of prayer, it was simple and straight forward and I want to believe that irrespective of the situation, the Lord's prayer is enough to move God and not all of these craziness all around.

advanceDNA:
I am a devil's advocate here.....I don't understand all languages ...so I don't think it's necessary to say someone's tongues is rubbish because I don't understand it..Remember the acts of apostles pple quote also said the disciples were accused of being drunk because they don't understand....
I watched discovery channel one day and I saw a newly discovered remote area...u need to hear the stúpid language they were speaking...doesn't even sound like human being conversing

But the people in Acts heard them speak their languages and were amazed, isn't it? I'm sure their fluency and proficiency in the language was surprising too and it was not just a repetition of a word, are you understanding what I'll trying to say. Imagine how surprised those people in that remote area will be seeing you, someone who understands only English, speak their funny language fluently?

achorladey:
Based on the scripture cited of which you are responding to,your question can be reversed this way......



How do you plead?

A man is chosen and anointed a priest by God if you read all through the bible. Paul will even say let the deacon be a man of one wife but I never read a woman of one husband. In societies that lack men due to war, it's understandable but this unhealthy competition between a man and a woman. They are not the same

Sirchiboy:
Always pray for God to give you sensible parents and sensible elder bro.
This is the story of my elder bro I disown because of his foolishness.
He made little money and he thought he has arrived.
He was barely 30 when he made little change.
Instead of him to use that money to uplit his junior ones who are still struggling.
He used the money to go and marry one igbo girl.
The house his father had been building for years,
as a first child , he never complete or supported the buiding
He was busy thinking with his penis.
Within 5 years of the marriage , everything crash becuause he was going about sleeping with diffrent girl that his wife even caught him in their bedroom doing the thing.

This is a big lesson to you elder bro reading this.
Once you make that little money , don't go and rush marriage
Please build and help your liitle ones first

Is his crashed marriage suppose to be a prayer answered? SMH

brainhgeek:
If the Bible is not explicit over the issue, any other explanations are exegesis. There were prophets and there was a king when Deborah led a war.
Joel 2, God said He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh . The Spirit that equips for the saints is not for men alone

Joel 2:28.,29.
28. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

That a woman prophesies doesn't in any way make her a priest or a pastor, does it?