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raumdeuter:
Religious and ideological brainwashing has no limit

Prof Ishaq Akintola of Muric na real prof in case you no know.

You will see very intelligent people doing absurd things in the name of religion

Prof Akintola of MURIC actually has a PhD in Islamic Eschatology (the part of Islamic theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul/humanity). What were you expecting he would do with his research ? 😂

iamoyindamola:
Exactly

Me and u know Gbadebo won't win local government election in Lagos if he didn't join APC. Even if he joins APC, they might not give him the primary ticket

izzou:
Haaa

Really?

I didn't know oh

Post-2023 elections it was one of the grounds Gbadebo petitioned the election tribunal. He argued that when Hamzat became a US citizen, the oath he swore required him to renounce Nigerian citizenship and swear allegiance to the United states of America.

Hamzat on the other hand argued Nigerian constitution allowed for dual citizenship and he actually hold dual citizenship ( Naija and Yankee).

The petition was thrown out Sha because Gbadebo's team couldn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that Hamzat renounced his naija citizenship.

I don't think the whole thing will fly in any court in naija Sha. It's a pre-election matter and the new electoral act has already established that such matter won't be ground for the election outcome to be overturned.

izzou:
Hamzat swore allegiance with United States?

Huuuuhhh...

You mean he's a US citizen who swore US citizenship oath? That's not news na, I thought everyone knows that since.

It had trended when he was selected Sanwoolu's deputy pre-2019 elections.

CrystalTiger:
I'll never understand what goes on in the heads of these extremists.. How do you allow yourself to be brainwashed to this point?

Airline business is very nasty just based on daily operations only, imagine this level of fvckup being added.. These ones will need PR greater than any PR ever done to get back in business again..

I think most of those guys just require someone to trigger the hate in their mind with indoctrination and then they go all extremist on every other person who doesn't believe in their extremist views.

Imagine people wey Don book FlyDubai airline a month or two months ahead of their trip before this ugly incident happen. Someone like me, I will be going to LinkedIn, FlyDubai website and every other online resource to check the profile of their pilots. I will just be overthinking and hoping they don't assign any pilot that may have extremist views like this Omani guy.

Air traveller's will be avoiding their airline like plague for now sef. Cos nobody Wan dey inside plane wey their pilots wey dem no do background checks for dey captiain

It has been confirmed that the co-pilot who attempted to crash the FlyDubai aircraft is an Omani with extremist Jihadist view while the pilot who fought him is an Indian. The initial claim that the pilot is Russian and co-pilot Ukranian was incorrect.

So it appears the co-pilot was sacked on his previous job due to his extremist views. FlyDubai apparently employed him without doing any background check 😲😲😲

I think all passengers should sue the Airline for their negligence that put the life of passengers in danger.

Even some Nigerian companies carry out background checks on new employees. They contract the whole background check out to 3rd party companies who conclude their investigations into you before you are due for confirmation in 6 months time. (I've experienced it before).

Neymar1095:
No one is talking about Russia. The fact you keep bringing it up just means you have nothing concrete to say. Let's agree to disagree but I know If this was Argentina and Messi you won't be typing all these.

Fact remains when Neymar was fit, he didn't win the world cup for his team ; in fact his team was getting dumped out of the world cup. His absence didn't change anything.

Na u know why u dey call the name of Messi the GOAT that has completed football while we are discussing Neymar the prince of shakushaku

Neymar1095:
The game would have been 60:40 in Brazil favour if Neymar wasn’t injured. His injury issues affected their preparation and mentality going into that game. The Germans you are trying to hype barely escaped Algeria and were dominated by France.

You are the one trying to prop Brazil's mediocre squad and make it seem like Neymar's shakushaku would've saved them from the loss they were bound to suffer from Germany.

4 years after at Russia the same Neymar was fit, yet Brazil was dumped out by Belgium. If he had that superhero power to have saved Brazil from Germany, why didn't he activate same in Russia vs Belgium?

Neymar1095:
You can see I was specifically talking about the world cup hosted In Brazil. I don't know what other tournaments had to do with my post.

Germany would've still dumped Brazil out of that world cup with Brazil's expressway midfield and open access defence. Neymar would not have made any difference beyond making the Germans' win margin more respectable.

Neymar1095:
It's crazy how Brazil would have won this game if Neymar wasn't injured and likely the world cup. My boy was so unlucky.

So why didn't he win the Russia 2018 World cup ? Abi he was also injured when Belgium dumped Brazil out at the quarter finals?

iamoyindamola:
There was one European final Spain were leading Italy 4 nil, casillas went to meet the ref to stop the final with some minutes to spare.
Thunder fire the referee true true

Exactly bro. Refs always use their discretion in such instances when dem see say water Don pass garri.

Maybe the ref play over 12.5 goals on his bet ticket 😂

CrystalTiger:
Whether na ref carry una come ball

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

But the ref sef na wicked man, he no supposed add any minutes.

Champions league final wey PSG wallop Inter Milan 5-0 , the ref didn't add a single minute as an act of mercy to Inter Milan. The ref blow whistle at exactly 90 minutes to save Inter from their misery.

Why the ref dey add minutes to a game with scoreline of 12-0 ?

The airport wey Umahi spend ₦53 billion of Tax payers money to build in Ebonyi, Thue said na Church dey use am do services now.

This country ehn. 😲

Umahi spent ₦53 billion on an airport for himself and his family. pic.twitter.com/d7Ias1vB5I

— gst (@wearegst) September 30, 2026

/video/1?s=46

But the claimants maintained tha they delivered the money to Mr Wike to help them facilitate the acquisition of land in Abuja after they met in London and established a relationship.

So they met Wike's son in Abuja, they maintained relationship & kept in contact before later paying him the $2.1m in naija. I want to believe this has cleared the confusion about whether they paid impostor or not.

cc: Ibime, izzou

GloriousGbola:
but in this day and age as they caught ganduje on camera, they could easily have caught the boy on camera as well

a person with 2.1m to spend has enough money for meta glasses or even long distance audio capture.

it is actually dangerous to send your son as a proxy for cash collection because there is always the possibility that someone with a gun wants to hijack the dollars

Any smart person would've learnt from Ganduje's ordeal, they wouldn't let smart phones, smart glasses or other any electronic devices in room where such meetings take place. If they still catch you like they did Ganduje with any smart device , then you are very foooolish na.

Who want to hijack cash from a minister's son that uses escorts around town ?

Just dey play!

Ibime:
The boy says he wasn't in Nigeria when the cash was supposedly handed over to him, and his passport should prove that

I believe an Impostor done dupe them

The story always struck me as funny cos there is no way I will strike a dodgy $2.1m deal and collect only $100k. If I was a criminal and strike such a deal, I am collecting at least $500k

You think people who drop $2.1m don't know what the person they paid looked like ?

What if during that period he genuinely travelled to America with his American passport, Left America for another country with his American passport and entered Naija with his Nigerian passport around the time of the deal? In doing so you will see that he was out of naija on his American passport, but the Naija passport he used to enter naija will not be tendered as evidence.

The boy's father is a lawyer and he has a SAN representing him so I give it to them that they can play around the law and have him acquitted on technicalities. But I don't want to believe those people would pay an impostor Jordan Wike. Almost everyone who watches Wike public outing video knows what Jordan Wike looks like na.

CrystalTiger:
Baba you sef reason am, how do you pay a whooping $2m bribe through proxy without a meeting?
From the story, they haven't had any meetings with wike at all..Wetin the boy tell them sef wey make them part with such amount? If na the $100k, e dey understandable, but $2m join, Jordan fit dey use jazz walai..

Payment suppose dey after meeting.. Now they're crying, when wike dn build duplexes finish give judges..Otilor

Na this kain things make politicians children full Abuja dey ball scatter with hard currency..I think there was a time Tinubu give seyi small run from villa sef..

Bro, people like Wike get sense pass Ganduje that was recorded with spy cam stuffing his babariga with Dollars. A "smart" person like Wike will not be meeting contractors/ favor seeking businessmen in person, he will almost always use proxies except on raare ocassion.

No proxy sure pass the man's own son . The Jordan boy is seen almost everywhere in public with his father, so those guys no go even doubt his connect. The boy just decided to run them streets for reasons best known to him; no be say dem stewpiid at all..

CrystalTiger:
People are stupid sha..How person go fall for this kain scam? Just carry $2.1m give pikin like that..

I will not neccesarily call them stewpiid sha. They must have been used to paying public servants through nominated proxies , so they thought the boy will deliver his "polling unit".

But that boy's eye really tear o . He collect a whole $100k as fee for him to deliver his papa $2m

The suit was instituted by Safwan Garba GY and GY Global Oil & Gas Nigeria Limited who alleged that Jordan Wike received $2.1 million in cash from them last year to help facilitate the acquisition of hectares of land in two choice areas of Abuja.

The judge, Sylvanus Oriji, ordered Mr Wike, the minister’s son, on Monday to produce his American passport following a dispute over his whereabouts on 25 October 2025, the date the claimants said the minister’s son received $2.1 million cash from them at a residence in Gwarimpa, Abuja.

Mr Wike, who has denied receiving money from the claimants, had told the court on Monday that he was not in Nigeria on the said date, saying he had travelled outside Nigeria with his American passport.

But the claimants maintained tha they delivered the money to Mr Wike to help them facilitate the acquisition of land in Abuja after they met in London and established a relationship.

They alleged that Mr Wike agreed to acquire 30 hectares of land at Katampe and Guzape, respectively, for a fee of $2.1 million.

The minister’s son allegedly told the claimants that $2 million was for his father, the minister, and $100,000 for himself.

The claimants said they delivered the $2.1 million in cash to Mr Wike on 26 September 2025 in the presence of Adamu Sani, Aliyu Sarki and Sai Wani.

They also said Onor Sandy, who accompanied Mr Wike, was present when the minister’s son received the money.

https://www.nairaland.com/8757770/wike-son-submits-american-passport

Wike's son allegedly run these ones streets to the tune of $2.1m while they were trrying to acquire hectres of land in Abuja.

Elder wey dey talk say Umahi fit don see money pass Wike based on juicy their portfolios as ministers are, hope you dey see this o.

Roland17:
https://www.nairaland.com/8757410/flooding-wahab-faults-rhodes-vivour-says

The last time, I said GRV and Wahab have a long history, I am glad they kept it civil this time.Something about GRV really triggers Wahab.

Wahab says nothing about an obvious situation until GRV speaks. I still maintain that Wahab should resign from this position because the environmental situation in Lagos is now in crisis.

In my own personal opinion, I feel Tokunbo Wahab sees Gbadebo as a small boy whom he's bigger than in everything. Wahab is 54 while Gbadebo 43..... Wahab strikes me as someone who sees Gbadebo as a small boy that should never be able to "put him for talk" If not for him(Wahab) being a public servant.

You can tell Wahab can hardly stand Gbadebo's guts for anything.

afrodoc2:
95kg at 5ft 9 is worse than overweight. It falls into obese category. There is a formula for this. It is not an opinion.

😂😂😂

izzou:
The sycophancy is now something else

A civil servant went on vacation, and people gathered to welcome him back from a vacation

Nigeria na comic relief.

Sanwoolu was just nodding his head behind Tinubu when that one was saying " Ready to kick, ready to work and there's nothing wrong " 😂

I say see this yeye governor wey him state dey struggle with agbero menace and waste disposal crisis dey do Waka-pass for background.

GloriousGbola:
you mean wiper?

i think sanwo is offically in lame duck mode now and is waiting out the end of his term.

because there needs to be some show of force in that axis or this will only get worse

Sanwoolu's only official assignment till end of his tenure is to fly to Abuja airport or Lagos airport anytime Tinubu travels, stand among other VIPs receiving the president and go back to ghost mode once the president
don reach his destination 😎

KingTom:
What's this nonsense I'm seeing about some misguided youths castigating the judiciary for handing out death Penalties to Kidnappers in Edo? No be everything we suppose dey cry about o, those baskats will not have mercy on you when you are their victim o hmmmm. Talmbout 'Boko Haram were given amnesty after killing hundreds'

They are being fooolish and forming nonsense emotional activism over kidnappers rightly sentenced to death. I want to believe it's because none of them or their loved ones has experienced the trauma kidnap victims suffer.

I saw video of clip of those kidnappers how they kidnapped their victim and I support the death penalty 100%.

We can fight for the Judiciary to also fast track trial & sentencing of Boko Haram & Bandits, but that does not mean we should be letting kidnappers loose with llight sentences for crime they intentionally committed despite knowing the law.

Another thing people are mixing up is that if Boko Haram is getting amnesty, that is not the problem of the judiciary. Judges can only hear cases brought to their court by the executive arm of government (Police and DSS). If the executive arrest criminals and later decided to grant them amnesty for whatever unreasonable reason, that's not on the judiciary.

I think most people commenting on social media don't even understand how governance works and the functions of different arms of government.

afrodoc2:
This is to let you know that they see people primarily as victims and not criminals. Their extortion business is just easier for them if the person they are interacting with is an actual criminal.

What they do is to either see you as a criminal or pretend to see you as a criminal. Your criminality is just a means to an end for them, and that end is obtaining you and meeting their daily quota.

Now when you put it this way, It makes a whole lot of sense.

KingTom:
What GloriousGbola said holds weight (pun intented) the Police profile people based on appearance at least during the day, at night everybody's fair game

I had an Uncle, one who lived most of his life abroad and has been used to 'calling the cops' some boys stole his laptop and were eventually aprehended by a mob and his laptop was given back to him, instead of Baba to find boys something and call it a day seeing as they had already given the thief a proper 'Abeokuta beating', he went and reported to the police who turned him into their ATM and eventually wanted to charge him for 'assaulting' the boy who stole, after every every he settled DPO with about 500k and cried back home saying 'Nigeria has gone to the dogs' .

" Nigeria has gone to the dogs" Lmao....

GloriousGbola:
I have always told my son this policeman you see smiling and grinning at me will have a completely different stance with you if he meets you one on one.

And for our daughters it can be even worse. No qualms about sexual harassing obvious children.

Someone once told me that as a graduate If I had joined the Nigerian police and was on the rank of ASP, I would have a police patrol Van at my disposal. I would have at my dispoal a standby Patrol team which I will send out daily and get retruns from them on a weekly basis. We would have an agreement in principle for them to remit a targeted figure which they must always meet up or get replaced on my team.

He said that's why I see most olopa on the road dey take their shake down business so serious and they would go to any length to extort money from you.

I'm sure most people will see the fresh ASP in his well ironed uniform and think he's a good guy while the olopa at roadblocks are the scum of the earth.

CrystalTiger:
Invited my little cousin to Lagos so he could grow under me after he graduated, same field.. Initially wanted him to be at my branch in Enugu but he wanted out of the East and away from his mom..

Travelling from Umuahia to Owerri to take his flight, there's a police checkpoint that's very notorious if you take that road.. There's no single day that you don't see them harassing people..He got there, they stopped him, saw ByBit app on his phone and detained him at the back of their hilux, from where he called me..Long story short, I found him three days later at Mbaise police station, the one that was burnt which they use as their illegal detention site which is officially decommissioned btw..

I don't even want to describe what my life was like for those three days or what a 22yr old passed through in their hands because there was zero arrest records of that boy anywhere in both Imo and Abia...

So yeah, there's no group of individuals that deserve misfortune like them..

Omo! The kind stress you will go through for that 3 days while looking for the boy ehn, you would be so scared and be praying that he's not be un-alived.

I'm sure by the time you finally locate the boy and have him released, your anxiousness would've dissolved into gratitude.

izzou:
I don't like Policemen, to be honest.

But there are obviously good ones. There are those who are not wicked.

Also, they are the only ones you will reach out to when you are in distress. You cannot call a thief to come and save you from a thief.

Personally I don't believe there are genuinely good police officers in this country , the degree of evil they are capable of doing just varies from officer to officer..

The same police officer that may be good to you (either because you are a church member, a family friend or for any other reason) will join hand to punish an innocent person. And when they shake down people for money, both the ones that are nice and the mean ones will share in the largesse.

Couple of hours ago a FlyDubai airline was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv in Israel. In the course of the flight an emergency signal was transmitted from the aircraft and the flight turned back to Saudi Arabia instead of proceeding to Tel Aviv the final destination.

The Israeli military high command were on high alert and started having emergency meetings. They fear it may be a hijack/hostage taking situation considering that over 100 Israelis were aboard the flight. I'm sure they were probably considering rescue operations should it turn out to be what tbey fear.

Alas! It turns out the Russian Pilot and the Ukranian co-pilot had a fight in the cockpit while aircraft was mid-air. That was what made the crew members trigger the emergency signal......

But how can the airline pair Russian Pilot and Ukranian Co-pilot to command an aircraft considering the war going on between both countries? 🤦‍♂️

Omo! If I'm a passenger on the aircraft, as soon as I return back to base I will sue the helll out of the airline company for putting my life in danger. 🙅‍♂️

GloriousGbola:
Not as a criminal, but as a victim to be harassed, exploited and obtained

Well, they see u as a criminal first ; that's why once they see you a young person looking good it is assumed you are a yahoo boy. They expect you to prove them wrong by showing your ID, show verifiable source of income (which they must approve of) and don't get offended no matter far they cross the line while profiling you.

KingTom:
The Police haven't done anything to sanitise their image, Tunji Disu is a good man but one drop of water cannot cleanse an oil spillage. People will continue to celebrate their misfortunes until the end of time, maybe hundreds of years from now when we are all dead there might be a glimmer of change. Almost every Nigerian has a terrible Police story to share and it's saddening

Sometimes I feel Nigerian police officers are trained to treat every average Nigerian civilian as a criminal first, until such civilian proves he's not .

You can see they've already concluded you are criminal at the first contact they have with you. Na you go come prove say you no be criminal; You still fit prove make dem still hol you. That's why I dey look elder wey dey cap careless about "Only Criminals fear police"