₦airaland Forum

yinkeys:
Who is the umpire ?
Élection that they will write result ?
Jonathan made someone he never knew & from a different part of the country INEC chairman
I don’t think the city boy did this ?

Bros, Jega was appointed by Jonathan and still delivered 2015 properly. Jonathan accepted the result himself.

Here is the thing: when people really don't want you, rigging has a limit. You cannot rig 70% of the votes. INEC cannot write result if the people have already decided security is finished.

When insecurity is that bad, no referee save anybody.

favor914:
Delusional imagination, name the person in your imagination that will defeat President Tinubu?

Fair question.
In 2014, name the person who would defeat sitting President Jonathan. Honest answer? Nobody obvious. Buhari had lost three times. ACN, CPC, ANPP were scattered. Then insecurity cracked Jonathan, the opposition merged into APC, and the rest is history.

favor914:
Delusional imagination.

Two words. Zero argument. Na so person dey reply when him no get response.

Jonathan won 2011, lost 2015 as a sitting president. What changed? Boko Haram and Chibok. Buhari's whole 2015 campaign was security, not economy. That is fact, not imagination.

Kidnapping don cross enter Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara. Tinubu's own backyard. You fit disagree, but bring facts, not vibes.

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Make I yarn una small political maths.
Goodluck Jonathan no lose 2015 because of economy. He lost because Boko Haram was eating the North-East and Chibok happened on his watch. The country looked at him and said, this man cannot protect us. Buhari rode that one feeling straight into Aso Rock.

Now look around. Kidnapping has crossed into the South-West. Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara borders. Schools attacked. Children seized. Monarchs killed. The same fear that finished Jonathan's second term is now landing in Tinubu's own backyard.

And the response? "Opening communication channels." Surveillance aircraft bought several months ago still warming up. Federal government too quiet. Negotiation with men who behead teachers.

The average Nigerian no send economic indices when him pikin no fit go school safely. Security is the first promise of any government. Break that one, every other achievement na decoration.

If this insecurity wave is not crushed fast and visibly, 2027 go be Tinubu's 2015. The script dey replay in slow motion, and Aso Rock is reading it like say na poetry.

People will quote you love. They will quote you compatibility. They will quote you chemistry.

Nobody will quote you school fees. Nobody will quote you the family holiday in Dubai, the anniversary dinner at Nok by Alara, the wife's Range Rover, the children's private school in Lekki.

But those things will show up. And they will not wait for love to sort them out.

A marriage without money is not a love story. It is an endurance test. Two people grinding against each other's frustrations and calling it commitment.

Get your money right first. The love will have somewhere comfortable to land.

Yeah.

The criminals must be guaranteed that, either capture or being killed, and rescue of victims is their sure end... Otherwise the business continues.any ransom paid is like paying for their motorbikes, guns, and fuel for the next kidnapping of Nigerians.

President Tinubu, and Governors, show strength and wisdom.

Doctortyre: Are you sure they beheaded the two old child too?

No bro. The beheaded victim was Michael Oyedokun, the maths teacher.

zoghys: They should be killed not apprehended. Though I agree can't negotiate with crazy but those innocent children should be taken into consideration before any rescue mission...

I agree. Armed terrorists in the bush, holding hostages, actively fighting back? They get neutralised in a proper rescue operation. That is normal security work in any serious country. No issue there.
Mr President needs to act like a president.

Isobug: Hmmm, those Little children of ages 10 to 4 will be in grave danger if they follow your suggestion. They should pay or promise them to pay while surrounding the vicinity of ransom payment. Those kidnappers must not be allowed to go free without apprehending them

Bros, we actually agree more than it looks. I said clearly in the post: hostage safety first. Nobody is saying run in shooting while toddlers are in the line of fire. That is suicide for the children.

The "hunt them in the bush" point is about locating them with proper ISR (drones, thermal, satellite comms) so a trained team can move in at the right moment, the way real hostage rescues are run worldwide. Surround, isolate, extract the children, neutralise the armed men. Not cowboy operation.

Jakumo: This is a concise and intelligent approach to dealing with terrorists... The only point raised in your excellent submission that I find puzzling is the mention that surveillance drones, purportedly acquired by the Oyo State government two years ago, will only become available for operations "in June"...

Thank you bro. One small correction on the timeline so the record is straight. The two DA 42 MNG ISR aircraft were approved by Oyo Exco in July 2025, not two years ago. The governor's recent statement is that they arrived in Nigeria, are in final assembly and testing with the Nigerian Air Force in Lagos, and should be operational on or before end of June 2026. So roughly 11 months from approval to (promised) operation.

That said, your wider point stands. 11 months is still too long for a state under active siege from kidnappers, and the federal government with far more capability has been quiet. Time is the one thing hostages don't have.

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Make una hear me. 39 students. 7 teachers. A child as young as TWO. And a maths teacher beheaded in captivity.
And the talk now is negotiation. Opening "communication channels" with them.

Think about who we are begging. These are not people with honour. Men who behead a teacher and seize toddlers are not rational actors you reason with, and many of them are high on hard drugs round the clock. You cannot appeal to a conscience that the drugs and the killing have already burned away. You negotiate with them, you only rubbish yourself. And you tell every other gang that Oyo children are easy money.

The only language they understand is force. Find them, surround them, free the hostages, and take the armed men out of action. Hunt them in the bush.

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And here is the good news. The tools to do this are now within our reach. A few years ago serious ISR technology was expensive and locked away in big militaries. Today it is far cheaper and far more available:
:: Surveillance drones with thermal cameras track every human heat through bush at night. A forest has finite exits.
:: Satellite comms (Starlink-type) give one live map for every patrol team instead of hunters wandering blind with no signal.
:: Data fusion (Palantir-style) pulls phone records, money trails and informant tips into one picture so the network shows.
:: AI pattern analysis. Three schools hit at once is planned and rehearsed. Study the pattern, get ahead of the next one.
Oyo even has surveillance aircraft inbound, two ISR planes due to be operational by end of June. Good. The capability is coming. The will must match it.

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To be clear: armed terrorists in the bush get hunted and neutralised in a proper rescue operation, hostage safety first. Suspects captured face the court, the ones in the bush get hunted and neutralised. No jungle justice. Two different things.

The deterrence na simple maths. Make capture or being hunted down in the bush the guaranteed end of school kidnappings. Make ransom impossible to collect. And understand this: every naira paid as ransom is the budget for the next attack. The guns, the bikes, the fuel, the next raid on another school, you are funding all of it. Pay them today and you are buying the kidnapping of other Nigerians tomorrow. They run cost-benefit like any business.

Stop the begging. Hunt them.

It's because they don't need more doctors from Africa for now.. when they need again in the future they will come back and open more centers again.

It's an on and off immigration cycle that has been on for decades.

Love is sweet. Especially when you understand that marriage is an economic union, not a romantic union.

If you do it right, I guess it's lovely 😻

Samantha125:
He's not okay at all...🤣🤣🤣🤣

Imagine a whole 20 years... No offeinscee....

The irony is plain for those who can see it. The men who chase rarely get the woman. The men who are simply too busy building themselves to chase are the ones women find a way to reach.

MrCork:
ok so we shu step bak & wait 20 years b4 we start chasssin women...corrrect?.....are u ok sir!!!(no oofense)

If you don't get it, forget about it 😊

Samantha125:
In my language there's a proverb which says "tšhwene ga e ipone makopo", meaning it's easier to spot other people's flaws while rarely noticing your own.

There are some things that are so beyond your control as men that you might rarely even notice them while we ladies do, because tell me why the tone of a typical man's voice generally changes from when he's talking to his fellow men to when talking to women? It doesn't matter whether the discussion is work based or just general... Someone would just be talking to you in his bedroom voice for no particular reason...😒😒😒

And if a man is not seeking validation from his girlfriend, wife or FWB, he's seeking it from either his mother or sisters.

You speak of men who do not know themselves yet. That is a different conversation.
Seeking emotional completion in a woman, whether mother, sister or lover, is not intimacy.

Samantha125:
Show me a man who's not in desperate need for feminine validation and I'll pay you.

I am not. Because I understand how it works.
Ask any honest woman how she feels when a man desperately needs her validation. She will tell you herself.

We celebrate the lion not because lions are everywhere. We celebrate him because he is not.
The man who has built himself quietly, who eats well and sleeps well and moves through the world without the desperate need for feminine validation.. he is not the standard. He is the exception. And exceptions do not chase. They attract.

This is the cruel irony of the modern Nigerian woman's predicament. She spent her finest years training on boys who needed her. Boys who called at midnight, who sent alerts unprompted, who rearranged their dignity to sit at her feet. She mistook this hunger for love. She mistook scarcity for power.

Then life, in its characteristic absence of mercy, introduced her to a man who had built something. And this man looked at her the way a person who has eaten looks at a menu. With mild curiosity. Without urgency.
She did not understand it. She had never seen it.
Because yes. Men like this are rare. They are rare because becoming one is difficult. It requires years of unglamorous discipline while others are chasing. It requires choosing yourself so consistently that it becomes character and not performance.

But here is what nobody wants to say out loud.
The rarity is not a flaw in the design. It is the design. Gold is gold precisely because the ground is mostly sand.

Show interest. That is all.

If she likes you she will let you know. Women are not complicated when they actually want you. The signs are clear. The access is easy. Everything flows.

If she is playing games, step back without resentment. Take that energy and pour it back into yourself. Your work. Your money. Your peace.

Because here is the thing nobody tells young men. The version of you that stopped chasing and started building is the same version that women will pursue.

Another woman who actually wants you will always show up. And she will make it easy.

Julibet:
What you're saying is true but don't expect men to change anytime soon. You just have to understand that just like the poor, the Simps will always be among us.

The simping sef is draining. You don't need to chase. Show interest, and if she likes you she will let you know. If not, redirect that energy back to yourself.
Another woman who actually wants you will always show up.

Goo0dHardDick:
Exactly why you must be different from those men.

Make her wonder why you're so different and wouldn't chase her and simp for her but would rather walk away.

Hard to do though. Most men are not emotionally sound enough to walk away.

Value your attention. It is oxygen for women.

DEROX:
Yes no truer words, so they get addicted to the treatment and feel life is a bed of roses

Funny thing is they don't even respect these men.

Make I tell una the truth wey nobody want to hear.
That woman wey dey form scarce, dey collect and disappear, dey treat men like options on a menu... she was not born like that. Somebody created her.

The first man who chased her for six months and got nothing but still stayed. He taught her that male attention is infinite and cheap.
The man who paid her bills, asked for nothing, and called it love. He taught her that a man's resources are hers by default.
The man she treated anyhow and he came back begging. He taught her that there are no consequences for bad behaviour.
The man who wife-ed her up immediately, gave her the whole world on a platter before she earned any of it. He finished the job.
By the time the next man meets her, she has been fully programmed. She does not even know it. She just knows that this is how men behave around her. She is simply operating on the data she has been given.

So before you curse the entitled woman, ask yourself who ran the training programme.
Men created the monster. Men keep feeding it. And then same men will come online to complain about it.

Fix your inputs. The market reflects what buyers have been rewarding.

Women. You can't live with them. You can't live without them.

spiceadole:
Leave him.
They only make noise and form alpha males online.
Offline, they are mostly weak and seeing shege from women who are not mid

Honestly, I understand life and I understand women. The busier and more focused a man is, the less shege he sees. Your attention should be scarce. You have a life.

Thelma001:
You made an argument based on your perspective, you view, your ideology, your mentality. And I told you to work on that perspective of yours, that mentality of yours that’s making you think and write what you wrote there, because with this mentality you’re having, you won’t take any lady serious.

The summary of everything I wrote is simple. Religion and culture were the guardrails. They kept men from acting on polygamy and women from acting on hypergamy. Both are now weak. That is why relationships and marriage are struggling everywhere you look.

That is not my mentality. That is just what is happening in front of all of us.

oshkoach:
Nigerian government is the worst government in the world in the area of citizens welfare.

Now everybody has turned to a beggar, be it corporate begging or individual begging.

You now have to choose between fueling your car for work or buying food for your family.

It is so painful when you now see people who are not yet mad defending this administration.

Nigerians please shine your eyes and call a spade a spade.

Exactly. Real power is measured by how much better your people's lives become.

When a leader sits on billions while mothers choose between feeding kids or going to the hospital, that's not governance. That's just fancy theft.

And that's precisely why diseases like hantavirus terrify me for Nigeria. Our system will fail the people who need it most... not because we're poor, but because we're poorly being ruled.

Thelma001:
I pity the woman loving you atm. With this your mentality, dating you will be headache....

Nothing I wrote was about me personally. I just made an argument. And you didn't dispute a single point. Not one. You went straight for character attack. That's called ad hominem.

If the argument is wrong, show me where

Jman06:
This is going to be deadly, especially for a country like Nigeria where healthcare is at its poorest state! A country that would .......

Exactly. We are not poor; we are poorly led.

The money exists. What's missing is vision, discipline, and genuine commitment to people's welfare. You can't build a resilient healthcare system with political theatre. You need sustained investment, proper staffing, infrastructure maintenance, and leaders who see healthcare as non-negotiable... not as a campaign promise to forget after election season.

We churn out qualified health professionals every year, but many end up abroad because Nigeria doesn't value or support them. That's not a resource problem.. that's a leadership problem.

The hard truth.. Power without the brains to use it for public good is just fancy criminality. And when the next crisis hits (and with hantavirus, dengue, and other emerging threats, it will), we'll pay the price in lives because someone chose politics over preparation.

This is why we must keep speaking up. Change comes when citizens demand it relentlessly.

Make I shock you small.
We dey always talk say na men want variety. Na men want polygon. Women just want one faithful man forever. That narrative is a big fat lie.
Watch what women actually DO... not what they say.

A woman meets a desirable guy. She goes all in. Loyal, loving, the whole package. Then a more successful, more attractive man enters the picture. She doesn't collect two like the man would... she LEAVES the first one and moves to the new one. Settles again. Then an even better option appears. She leaves again. Moves again.
One man at a time. Technically monogamous. But permanently? Never.

Na wetin dem dey call hypergamy. I just call am selective serial movement. Women are wired for it the same way men are wired for polygamy. The difference is religion and culture flogged it out of them for centuries. Every tradition that gave men four wives gave women ZERO options... and punished them brutally for trying.
So the tendency never died. E just went underground.

Now? 2026. Financial independence. Weak religious grip. Reduced social consequences. And what are we seeing? Marriage rates crashing... and it is not just men refusing. Women are opting out too.
Both sexes are now finally showing their factory settings.

Your early thirties men and women are not marrying. Gen Z own go be worse.

The institution of marriage existed partly to manage both impulses - male polygamy AND female serial movement... through external pressure. Remove the pressure from both sides, you get wetin we currently get.

Ndi nwoke, it's time we talk about a silent killer that has just proven it can wreak havoc across continents. While many of us sleep, a deadly virus is spreading globally, and Nigeria... with our rodent population challenges and weak health infrastructure... cannot afford to wait.

THE GLOBAL WAKE-UP CALL
Just days ago, the World Health Organization confirmed that a cruise ship (MV Hondius) carrying 147 passengers and crew reported seven cases of hantavirus infection with three deaths as of May 4, 2026. This isn't some small incident. Passengers from 23 different countries dispersed across multiple continents before the outbreak was fully understood, with comparisons being drawn to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here's what makes this scary: The Andes strain of hantavirus is the only known hantavirus capable of human-to-human transmission, although this is extremely rare. One moment, you're on a cruise ship. Next moment, you're spreading it through flights to Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Singapore, and beyond.

THE GLOBAL BURDEN
This is not a localized issue. An estimated 150,000 cases of hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome occur annually worldwide, with more than half occurring in China where 10,000–15,000 cases are reported yearly. In the Americas, eight countries reported 229 cases and 59 deaths in 2025 with a case fatality rate of 25.7%.

Even developed nations are struggling. Germany reported 55 cases in the first half of 2025, double the previous year, linked to a spike in the bank vole population. A resident in New Mexico (USA) died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in February 2025.

WHY NIGERIA SHOULD WORRY
Let me be blunt: Nigeria is a perfect storm for hantavirus transmission:

Rodent Infestations: Our homes, markets, hospitals, and food storage areas are infested with rats and mice. Hantavirus is primarily acquired through contact with urine, feces, or saliva of infected rodents.

Weak Disease Surveillance: We barely track local outbreaks. A hantavirus cluster could spread for weeks before we notice.

Poor Rodent Control: Unlike countries implementing strict pest management, we lack coordinated rodent control programs.

Vulnerable Infrastructure: Our hospitals lack adequate ICU facilities. There is no licensed specific antiviral treatment for hantavirus, but early supportive care and immediate referral to a facility with complete ICU can improve survival. Many Nigerians don't have access to such facilities.

International Travel: With more Nigerians traveling and foreign visitors coming, the virus could easily reach our shores via someone on a connecting flight.

WHAT NIGERIA MUST DO NOW (PROACTIVE MEASURES)

Establish a Hantavirus Task Force: FG needs to coordinate with NCDC to develop a national hantavirus surveillance and response strategy immediately.

Public Health Awareness Campaign: Educate Nigerians on rodent avoidance and safe cleaning practices. Prevention focuses on rodent control, sealing buildings, safe wet cleaning of contaminated areas, ventilation, and avoiding dry sweeping or vacuuming droppings.

Strengthen Rodent Control Programs: States must implement coordinated pest management in food markets, hospitals, schools, residential areas, and our individual homes.

Build Laboratory Capacity: Can our reference labs even test for hantavirus? If not, we need to immediately establish diagnostic capacity.

Prepare Hospital Protocols: With no specific treatment, early ICU care is crucial. Train hospital staff on isolation procedures and symptomatic management.

Border Health Screening: Health officers at airports and land borders should be briefed on hantavirus symptoms and screening procedures.

Community Education in Rural Areas: Farmers and rural dwellers need to know the danger of handling dead rodents or contaminated grain stores without protection.

THE BOTTOM LINE
This is not fear-mongering. This is reality. The global hantavirus threat is rising, and Nigeria's weak health system makes us vulnerable. We cannot wait for the first deaths before we act. The time to be proactive is NOW.


#PublicHealth #Nigeria #Hantavirus #NCDC #HealthMatters

That just shows we get deeper problem as a society. No be men versus women, na economy dey choke everybody.

PerfectStranger:
My point is, employing more women than men won't help matters, coz you don't expect a stingy Nigerian woman to use her money for wedding and all, na men dey run am.
Majority of 30+ men still struggling don't even have marriage on their plans, including me. Highest na to find one babe whine knack her belle, case close