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lordm:
How did they get that Putin figure, I doubt that amount abeg

ednut1:
90% of states in Nigeria are not viable we don’t need more states abeg

kaludestiny10:
Nigeria can't be on the list because we are not a manufacturing country. Also the population of Nigerians that own cars are minimal or less in number. Most of those countries on the list are among the top manufacturing countries in the world ranging from car, aeroplane, super machines etc.

Mirasteel:
Modi is an illiterate, he can't speak English. Putin speaks little English, Xi can't speak English.

EvilMerodack:
That guy isnt Yoruba. Check his past comments from Day1 and you would see he doesnt even like the t-ribe

You dont have to make untrue assumptions. It makes your entire comment unexciting

aribisala0:
According to CHATGPT the north have been in Power for 45 years

blamingthedevil:
Obasanjo-11 years
GEJ-5 Years
PBAT-2 years
Ironsi- 6 months
Shonekan-3 months
Azikiwe Ceremony - Zero year


I think he meant 19 years not 29 years

bluefilm:
I see the writer continuously making the claim Nigerian-born Nigerian-born in the write-up

But the truth is, does eze even identify as a Nigerian?

Where exactly in Nigeria is he from?

Nonsense

OKOATA:
Oga the guy tried his best, he was amongst those advocating against LGBTQ. His daughter even had to relocate to South Africa because of that. What's meant to be will be.

Mariangeles:
Wait!
Is it a son that turned into a "daughter", or a daughter that became a "son"?
This their gender thing confuses me atimes.

Truths9ja:
C Ronaldo is richer than some musicians in America

Starmer to Badenoch: “Her claims about the economy under their watch are about as credible as her place at Stanford University”#PMQs #PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/JUdDXRf7UO

— David (@Zero_4) September 3, 2025

IamGonnaBeRICH:
I took the time to read through everything and the above I am quoting means a lot. Being an African and most especially Nigerian, there are a lot of odds stacked against you. The message is silent but clear

Doubts have surfaced over Kemi Badenoch’s claim to have been offered a place at a prestigious US medical school at 16, with admissions staff unable to recall the proposal and the university not providing the course.

The Conservative leader has said in interviews that she was offered a place and a partial scholarship to study medicine – sometimes describing it as pre-medicine – at Stanford University in California, one of the most competitive in the US.

However, medicine is only offered to graduates at Stanford and there is no pre-med degree.

When asked for clarification, the Conservatives then said Badenoch had not applied but had been offered the place by a number of US universities – including Stanford – on the basis of good exam results in US standardised tests.

But academic and admissions experts have cast doubt on this, saying it was an impossible scenario.

Jon Reider, the Stanford admissions officer at the time of Badenoch’s application who was responsible for international students and the allocation of bursaries, said he would have been responsible for offering Badenoch a place and had not done so. Badenoch moved to the UK from Nigeria aged 16.

“Although 30 years have passed, I would definitely remember if we had admitted a Nigerian student with any financial aid. The answer is that we did not do so,” he said.

Reider said he had admitted a few students based in Africa during that period but not from Nigeria. “I assure you that we would not have admitted a student based on test scores alone, nor would we have mailed an invitation to apply to any overseas students based on test scores,” he said.

He added: “O-levels would not have been sufficient, and we would have been very nervous admitting a 16-year-old. She would have had to have an extraordinary record.”

Reider also revealed it was implausible for a student to be offered a partial scholarship they could not afford to take up.

“If an applicant needed, say, $30,000 a year to attend Stanford, we would offer them the full amount. There was no point in offering them less because they would not have been able to attend. If we admitted them, we wanted them to enrol,” he said. “We were very generous and could offer only about 30 full scholarships a year. Some turned us down for Harvard, Yale. I made the selections myself, subject to the approval of the dean. I was never overruled by any of the three deans for whom I worked.”

The Guardian has also consulted Ivy League admissions coaches, an author specialising in college admissions, several Stanford graduates and an Ivy League vice-provost.

All of those who spoke to the Guardian said they did not believe it was plausible for a place to be offered proactively on exam results alone. One senior US academic said he had never heard of any exemptions – not even for internationally renowned child prodigies or royalty.

Badenoch first mentioned her admission to Stanford in an interview with the Huffington Post in 2017, when she had just been elected as the Conservative MP for Saffron Walden.

Asked what she wanted to be when she was 16, she said: “A doctor, like my parents. Going to a very bad school here stopped me. I had actually got admission into medical school in the US – I got into Stanford pre-med – and I got into medical school in Nigeria but I came here because being a citizen, it was just a lot cheaper.”

Additional detail was given in an interview with the Times in 2024. The interview says: “At 16, her US SAT scores won her a partial pre-med scholarship to Stanford, but her family still couldn’t afford the place.”

The claim that Badenoch had an early offer from Stanford has been mentioned in numerous other newspaper articles. In a profile in the Spectator in 2020, it says Badenoch “won a part-scholarship to Stanford University to study medicine”.

The same claim is made in a profile in the Daily Mail by Lord Ashcroft last year, previewing his biography of Badenoch.

On its website, the university says: “Stanford does not have a pre-med major. For any of the health professions, you may major in any discipline.” Medicine is a graduate degree.

A Conservative party source said it was a common colloquialism to refer to taking a science undergraduate degree as “pre-med” and that Badenoch was using this terminology having spent time in the US.

After further questions, the Conservative party said Badenoch had not in fact applied directly to Stanford but had received a number of offers from US, UK and Nigerian universities – including Stanford – when she received good SAT results.

A spokesperson for Badenoch said: “Nearly 30 years ago, and aged 16, Kemi was offered a part-scholarship at Stanford that her parents couldn’t afford to take up.

“But, given her subsequent degrees in both engineering and law are a matter of public record, she questions the hysterical efforts to disprove this, from people who showed little interest in probing Rachel Reeves’s hole-filled CV that has contributed to the economic crisis engulfing our country.”

Irena Smith, another former Stanford admissions officer who began there in 1999 and authored the memoir The Golden Ticket, said: “Based on my experience, students with high SAT scores might have been encouraged to apply, but would not have received an offer of admission without completing an application, which would include a list of their activities, teacher letters of recommendation, and multiple essays.

“I have not, however, ever heard of a student being offered a spot at Stanford based on high SAT scores alone, without submitting a full application.”

The Liberal Democrats said Badenoch should reveal the full story behind her apparent offer. A party spokesperson said: “Kemi Badenoch spent months asking questions of the chancellor regarding her CV. It’s now time for her to answer some of her own.”

Badenoch has spoken in the past how she felt she was let down by poor British teaching in her final school years, having moved to the UK as the political situation in Nigeria deteriorated.

Aged 16, she was studying part-time at Phoenix College, a further education college in Morden, achieving a B in biology, a B in chemistry and a D in maths. She says she had previously been a straight-A student but was repeatedly put down and underestimated by teachers at the college and discouraged from applying for medicine or to the University of Oxford.

Stanford University did not return requests for comment.

Ezeama400:
I think the lies these guys have spread for ages have now come to and end today..

They claim to be the ones that pushed for Joanathan to be sworn in as an acting President, yet they have no single evidence to prove their claims ..

Here is the woman that ensured the proper thing was done to save Nig Democracy

WizardOfNG:
What Datti Baba-Ahmed and El Rufai etal will fail to confess is that APC is not one. It consists of very distinct and seperate entities. Strange bedfellows only united by the search for political office and control of the center and not much else.

I.e North vs South, Fulanis vs all others, over-religious and extremist North Vs Liberal and tolerant South.

To Say APC is using terrorism to remain in power must be exclusively clarified to mean Fulanis and Northerners in APC are those guilty of that. For example, there is no terrorism at all in the SW and SS. Even that in the SE is localised and not exported as is the case with the North.

It is never Southerner responsible for terrorising Nigeria and Not Southern leaders tacitly abetting terrorism by commision or Omission.

The truth has to be told to these arrogant, unrepentant and gaslighting Northerners that a beautiful nation is being destroyed because of their actions while they deflect blame elsewhere simply because they cannot tackle the extremists amongst them and prefer to pay them not to slaughter Nigerians.

Also Crystal clear it is not an APC President from the Yoruba ethnic group, that value the sancity of human life, sponsoring terror for political gains as Baba-Ahmed alleges.

El Rufai plus Datti Baba-Ahmed grandstand and gaslight arrogantly all day because they know the South is not united or emotionally intelligent enough to ask them "why are you people so predisposed to fundamentalist terror and killings?"

Why deny the problem you are causing for Nigeria for God sake to then only be talking about APC, Tinubu etal patronising and distractingly?

Clever folks will know those who deny being the problem, to then deflect blame towards all others, are not remorseful, responsible or interested in solutions to insecurity. They may even be direct sponsors of it. Otherwise they would not speak as if charity should not begin at home.

Northerners right now are looking very bad and dangerous to those with decent intellect capacity because, from Datti Baba-Ahmed to El Rufai, there is a clear and disturbing refusal to take blame for what they have used to essentially destroy their own region and Nigeria by extension.

Instead they cleverly talk about APC and PDP, Tinubu's "evil Government" etal yet non has shown the honesty to admit "we Northerners are the one's responsible for terrorism becoming part of Nigeria's reality today" to then pledge to tackle the issue sincerely.

We have seen lists of sponsors of terror consisting of almost Northerners entirely. When will Datti Baba-Ahmed, El Rufai, Atiku etal talk about those names and how to neutralise their nefarious influence instead of shouting APC, Tinubu, "Yorubanization" etal everywhere?

Jecci:
All these countries you just mentioned are Eastern Europe countries. Dey are the India of Europe.their citizens are all over Europe doing menial jobs/crimes to survive.


Look for better country

DoctorStanley:
Did anybody see 1900?

"According to him, when he took over, the exchange rate had ballooned to N1,900 to the US dollar. But thanks to reforms and fiscal discipline, the rate has stabilised around N1,450"

😅I've seen blatant lies before but this one takes the cake!

TheWebbers:
I have this weird sexual fantasy. I want my wife to sleep with another man while I watch them. The idea has been with me even before marriage. My wife is very fine and have a banging body even after two kids and I would love the idea of another man enjoying her.

The man must not be a friend or someone I know from anywhere, just a new random guy and must be cute. I want them to make a video of their sex and then I can watch anytime I like. I believe I would love it and will arouse me a lot. And I wouldn't judge her at all with this. The only condition is that the relationship should only be sexual alone and I will know about it.

Another funny angle is that I am a very jealous husband. I dont want my wife to cheat and if she does, it could break our marriage, but if its a sexual relationship I know about and I approve, i wont consider it cheating.

I once stylishly tried to mention something like that using someone else as example and she was like, "Jesus, God forbid. How can people be thinking rubbish"

Now, how do I tell her about this weird fantasy? How do I get her to accept it? I want this really bad.

Awon Pdiddy fellows, na just baby oil remain ....sha sha, best of luck and let us know how it goes

Elose11:
His mum is not Yoruba, but Edo. Ora to be precise

tunjijones:
World power gradually shifting away from the US.

I. Less than 50 yrs, US will be no longer be world power

mightyhazel:
What language are they speakinggggg?




Guess right and win writernig blue and red pen🤌

RollinTNDA:
The health standard of a BIG club like AC Milan require high level fitness.

Small clubs like Werder bremen and Empoli require little medical fitness.
That's why they can sign him

No big club will sign Boniface

MasterJayJay:
The post is a sponsored post by Reno Omokri aimed at damage control. The deleted comments were against Reno Omokri. So the comments were deleted or they have to refund money to Reno Omokri.

ryloy:
He was just joking bro. It was his people from PDP that contested under APC

God Bless Rivers State
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

nairalanda1:
Forget party, this is a good thing.

If only more young people took interest.