₦airaland Forum

izzou:
Na why I really need to understand how Remi Tinubu was ordained a Pastor.

A Pastor obviously has a Parish wey e dey serve. Which one she dey? A woman like that no even get one photograph for pulpit.

Even Osibanjo has the province abi parish he served. Which one "Their mama" dey under?

Well, make we leave am like that.

Na special candidate

Amigoos1:
I think she's an assistant pastor not yet a full time pastor . It's kind of an administrative role.

I think Assistant Pastors preach in RCCG.....Even deacons and elders sef dey preach occasionally .

izzou:
All Pastors preach, my brother.

Those ones you see on Sundays doing minor functions, will eventually preach maybe during the week or in another service. Anybody who is ordained a Pastor, has spent time to preach.

Unless RCCG don redefine Pastoral duties.

She might probably be preaching during the week sha, but I doubt such midweek services will get recorded or streamed like Sunday services are done. Come to think of it sef, how many times she go dey get time to attend Church even when she was a senator, talk more of now that she's a first lady.

Shebi na who dey go Church regularly dem go dey give chance to preach on Sundays na.

izzou:
Shebi this woman na Pastor?

Anybody get any link to her sermons?

Not all pastors in RCCG preach na.....Some of them just sit on the alter to do minor functions like conduct "offering time, blessing time " , while others come out to call hymn during a Sunday service.

I want to believe she falls under those categories , so u will hardly see any of her video preaching sermon online.

iamoyindamola:

Like, they no rate us at all Abi them they craze true true
She no get job than checking time

She just dey whine us anyhow she like. Na she dey plant vegetable in her garden that time as solution to food inflation.....Na she still dey give us impression say she borrow money from Shettima wife.

Even if she no get work, make she just keep shut and stop whining us abeg!

iamoyindamola:
See lamba na
https://www.nairaland.com/8682811/husband-now-sleep-3am-every

E be like say their husband and wife dey Craze sef!

daveP:
Exits

Trossard
White
Martinelli
Nwaneri
GJ


Possibly
Norgaard
Kepa
Havertz


Faves to grab IMO
Kroupi J
Morgan Rogers
Tonali
Livramento
Musiala
LW open

Arteta has to use style to move from the Odegaard era. Concerns are on Saka now. We only hope he's going to go lethal next season with Timber behind him.

We may get a CM, DM, RCM and still have Merino. But I'll rather not see Merino and Rice together sha. It will be funny if a CM and LW arrive and they form new and strong chemistry with Gyokores on arrival.

You actually think Havertz will move away from Arsenal at this stage? Isn't it clear enough that he's one of Arteta's fave?

Also, I don't see Arteta moving away from Odegaard in that AM/CM role. Being the team's captain gives Odegaard some kind of insurance that will always guarantee his place in the team except he goes completely out of form and Eze is given chance. The fact that Odegaard has very good work rate while Eze is the exact opposite will always make Odegaard Arteta's preferred choice in that middle except we get another player which seem to be very unlikely.

I think Merino will most likely play more as a false 9 like he did last season when he was banging in goals. I just hope that will not stop Berta from getting a decent striker to fill the vaccum Gabriel Jesus' departure will create in our frontline.

Whether na bulk or buck, Tinubu was calling for the resignation of Jonathan because he couldn't deliver on one of the major function of government - security of lives and properties of the governed.

He knew the States had governors when he was calling out the then president. He has also failed as a president in that aspect ; anybody trying to turn Amala by playing on semantics should miss us with that BS.

He peeformed so woeful in that aspect of governance that he's pointing fingers at imaginary opposition figures without prosecutung anyone of the so called opposition figures fueling insecurity. Talmabout a bad workman that would always blame his tool.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Na question wey you wan use drive agenda be dis. Next u go ask me wetin be the definition of NOUN, no be say u no know am

Not everything is agenda . If I know what you believe to be the meaning of culture maybe I can see where u are getting it wrong .

I see you trying to make an argument that Nigeria and India are no different when it comes to cultural homogeneity . Perhaps if you understand that religion is one of (if not the most important ) foundational component of culture , you will see how you’ve been contradicting yourself with this Indian story you are trying to rewrite .

You have agreed over 80% of Indians practise Hinduism as a religion which has always given them a cultural identity . Ask anybody who has ever worked in an Indian owned company even in foreign countries , they will tell you how that religion bounds them together . They literally have their temples erected in their workspace .

How do you know all of these and continue to argue the situation of India and Nigeria is one and same ? There was a reason my first response to you on this topic was that “I don’t even know where to start explaining to you “

Also , I noticed you are not talking about the “country designed not to work “ the British left in their exit from Nigeria . A country that literally fought a bitter civil war within 7 years after the British left because of the divide and rule system they left behind , how do you compare that with a fully functional state that was left in India ?

chrisooblog:
It's not perfect but the Nigerian State with its many tribes can still serve as a neutral party between warring ethnic groups.

If terrorists hook up with MURIC like adherents that create SW ISWAP division what will you do?

Bomb forests with what jets? when you're still battling to provide basics like pipeborne water and electricity?

They will be dealt with in the language all terrorist organizations understand instead of pampering them and not wanting to offend some powers that be because of political patronage .

As much as most terrorist organizations always predicate their ideologies on extreme Islamist ideologies , is it not surprising that Muslim countries like Turkey , UAE , Qatar , Kuwait, etc always go hard on terrorists who try to forment trouble within their country ?

I am of the strong belief that if the Majority Muslim northern Nigeria was a country on their own, nobody will tell them to fight terrorism before they fight it . They know nobody is coming to save them , they will fight those extremists amongst them in order for them to enjoy their own country .

In same vein , I don’t believe a Yoruba nation will open its eyes to watch some yeye MURIC turn their country to hot bed for terrorism before dealing decisively with them . It’s all these fear of losing political patronage in a multi cultural and multi religious society like current Nigerian state that is making some of those terrorists group fester .

PS: This is my personal opinion which I strongly believe in

chrisooblog:
Even that is not the silver bullet we might not think.

Ok we disintegrate today what happens to North Central with Indigent tribes and Fulani settlers wahala?

South South nko like Delta where Urhobo, Ijaw, and Itshekiri were at each others throat not too long ago.

It's only SW and SE with its homogeneity that might be able to go solo as a country even that isn't a guarantee?

Individual countries today isn't a guarantee murderous terrorists will not come to your door.

The whole of West Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria) is under serious attack from ISWAP. I'll rather that existential threat is eliminated first before talk of balkanization is brought up.

Does this current artificial union stop Urhobo and Ijaw from being at each others' throat?

This country in the current state is obviously not working and it is only a matter time for things to get worse if we don't have that hard talk about breaking it into smaller units that work things out for themselves however they deem fit.

You think if the south west is country on its own and some murderous Fulani militia are lurking around it's forest , the country would be hesitating to bomb them to smithscreens ? You think anybody will be putting him with all those nonsense repentant boko haram rehabilitation program?

Some of these problems we see in this country is due to the so called unity in diversity we are trying to portray. That unity in diversity has led to tolerance for some BS and looking away from crimes that should've been properly punished.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Which other substance you dey talk about? I've said earlier that there's no perfect system of government rather even the imperfect system will be made near perfect in the hands of capable leaders which are the tools that operate and enforce this system.
India is blessed with good leaders, strong government institutions, human resources. However, geographically they're at disadvantage. They have China and Pakistan (two nuclear powers) right there on there border to checkmate them. We saw how the Pakistan Airforce with the help of Chinese made military aircraft wrecked India.
They don't have natural resources in abundance like us. Iran block Strait of Hormoz dem come start to dey ration petrol and gas.

This 57% na stat from 2011 which is 15years behind. India as an ancient civilization does not have a national language.
Iran/Persia
China
Russia all have national language.

India have 1000+ indigenous languages

India have 2000+ ethnic groups. They're not an ethno-cultural homogenous State. Overwhelming majority of the population doesn't share the same language, ethnicity & culture.
Most importantly, religion doesn't determine homogenous country. It's mostly language and ethnicity. U no go tell me say you share the same culture and tradition with person wey u no dey hear or understand his language. Ex UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is from Punjab province/State(The punjabis are one of the minority tribe in India). Their language is Punjabi but his religion is Hindu.

Na country like Japan wey dey ethno-culturally homogenous not India.

To you , what is the definition of Culture?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Another bunkum.
How does 80% of Hindu relgious worshippers in India translate to India being an ethno-cultural homogeneity?

[color=#990000][/color]

Why not just move away from this and debate him on the substance of his subsequent post? I believe he has already made a post addressing the mixup of Hindu the religion and Hindi the language.

It will actually be better if you debate the other points he raised like 57% of the Indian poulation speaking Hindi na. I'm sure other members of the thread and guests will learn one or two from the debate.

Theflint1:
Blaming Lord Lugard for all or 90% of the woes that the Nigerian state suffer today is simplistic.

Yes, the zoo should sooner be balkanized, but Lord Lugard is not why states as large as most countries in Europe and that share a similar identity can't come together to agree on a path forward for their states.

Lord Lugard is not why we have a D7 governor in Edo State, nor is he responsible for the years of misgovernance that the state has suffered. If there cannot be an elite consensus at state-level on how to make life better for the majority today and generations down the road, then we have a bigger problem than Lord Lugard who almagamated Nigeria over 100 years ago.

I don’t read his post as blaming Lord Lugard for Nigerian state’s current woes ; instead I read it as someone stating the root cause of the problems we see today .

Generally speaking , For most problems there is always a root cause and an immediate cause . The root cause is usually an underlying system or foundational issue that allowed the problem to exist/manifest, while the immediate cause is the direct and observable issue that allowed the problem to materialize .

The foundation of the Nigerian state is faulty ! Luggard laid that faulty foundation with the forceful almagamation, the Indirect rule system and how they left the country when the British were leaving . The fact that the country survived up till this moment despite various “federating units “ working at cross purposes is still a mystery . There’s a reason the US Air war college published a paper in 2011 that hypothesized the possibility of Nigeria becoming a failed state by 2030.

Our leaders have been ruling like everyone just wants to get whatever goodies they can get for themselves and their people before this artificial contraption implodes .

I think going into the transfer market we need to Prioritize getting a CM who can equally play AM in the absence of Odegaard and Eze. It is safe to say Odegaard is not going anywhere and would always have Eze competing with him for that AM role come next season. Signing Tonali won't be a bad move at all.

Also we urgently need a real RB who would deputize Timber on that right hand side of defense. We suffered greatly this season for not having a worthy backup for Timber. I want to believe Berta and his scouts must have identify a decent RB who would compete with Timber on the right. I really don't want to see Mosquera playing RB next season; he should just focus on developing into a cover CB for Saliba.
I don't know much about the academy boys and their development, but it won't be bad if a RB from the academy is also promoted to join the first team. At least let such player be given chance to play cup matches like FA and Carabao cup

We should really get the LW sorted during this Transfer window. I believe Trossard has really done well for this team and it is highly time he takes a bow while the ovation is loudest. We should let Trossard go and sign a very good LW to replace him. If we see suitors willing to drop good money, we should also cash-in on Martinelli. For all his speed and occasional solo goals, I think Arsenal deserve better than him as a winger if we really want to be creative on that side of the pitch.

Finally, I believe I speak the mind of most fans when I say Arsenal needs to find a way to dispose of Gabriel Jesus and sign another striker who would put Gyokores on his toes. I don't see why Jesus should be allowed to be on Arsenal's payroll next season, I just don't see it. If we can get a young striker eager to make a name for himself in this current Arsenal set up, we should go for him. It doesn't need to be a big money signing like Gyokeres.

GloriousGbola:
Nigeria is a share share economy. Sharing proceeds from oil. Therefore whatever people may say the only region that may truly want out is the south south. And that is a may because some may realise that a South south on its own may now descend into even more balkanization

The first thing I think we need is fiscal autonomy of different regions. Which may be achievable if the leaders are not playing their own games

Fiscal autonomy under the current system is a dream that will never come true. Nigeria is too dependent on natural resources which the country is rich in but not evenly distributed across different regions. While the southern parts and Middlebelt have majority of the natural resources that are economically valuable, the north is not so fortunate.

How can you ever achieve financial autonomy with that realization? Maybe if the country had not deviated from the old regional governments, we had post-independence things may have been better. Maybe if each region had decided to invest in whatever resources they have comparative advantage in , things would've been better.

Imagine if the north had invested in human capital and taken Agriculture more serious like they do in countries like Netherlands, they may not even have to look-up to FG's sharing formula to get their share from the South-South oil sales.

Balkanization of the country in its present state is the only reasonable chance of pressing a reset button over the forceful union that has not yielded good fruit to all parties.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
U literally confuse the Hindu religion with Hindu language which is incorrect. If 80% of Indians speak Hindu then they should have Hindu as their national language

Hindu is not a language , Hindi is .

Hindi is the official language of India . Hindu is a person practicing Hinduism (the religion with the most number of adherents in India)

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I honorably disagree with you here. India is a diverse country with thousands of languages & ethnicities

You can't be disagreeing because you feel like disagreeing with something that is a fact. Nobody is arguing with you whether they speak one thousand languages in India or not.

Don't you understand what it means when they say people share cultural ancestral history ? The Central government in India uses Hindi as the official language and the language spoken in the Indian Parliament. Nigeria adopt English as official language because a Calabar man in Nigerian parliament has no business with speaking Yoruba, A TIV man shares absolute zero cultural values and language with the Igbo man.

If u meet a man from Southern India and another one from Northern India you will hardly know the difference as a foreigner, same cannot be said about Nigerians from different parts of this country

nihilistjnr:
Well, that's the game that has to be played even by good actors. Which makes it worse when bad actors like Tinubu get into the system
The structure does not incentivise continuity, does not incentivise nation building, does not incentivise long term planning, and does not incentivise finding like minded partners.

It starts with north Vs south, Christian Vs Muslim, then sub-regional rotation. Obi's travails are the perfect microcosm of the irredeemable flaws of the system - at some point Obi was even promising to do only ONE term to try and garner support NOT with the electorate but within the political system.

There's no hope

On this we agree.

I think the president that takes the bold step towards Nigeria's disintegration will be the best president Nigeria ever had.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
India is not different from Nigeria.

Great Britain also colonized India.
Britain merged different cultures, ethnicities, languages to create one State called India.
Today, India is the largest democracy in the world

For starters the British employed Indirect rule in Nigeria while they adopted direct centralized rule in India. They unified the Indians under a centralized government and gave them a national identity forged out of their ancient civilization. India is an ancient civilization unlike what we have back in africa with different tribes and ethnic groups that don't share any sort of identity culturally .

The British actually left a functioning state when they were exiting India at Independence. They actually built a state out of India which is in contrast to what they did with Nigeria. They practically left a divided under developed state comprised of culturally heterogenous groups that were forcefully amalgamated under one country.

You really need to understand how terrible the idea of Lord Luggard's amalgamation was to understand the crime the British committed here. Nigeria was created for them to just extract our resources and nothing more.

nihilistjnr:
Lord Lugard is representative of the colonial legacy that has destroyed any prospects of Nigeria surviving as a state.

When you artificially create a state to include ethnic groups that historically had little contact with each other, share almost no culture, language or religious principles and then disappear - the only way for those groups to stay in the single country is federal character.

The British implemented direct rule in the south, and indirect rule in the north creating the educational divide that exists today - yet the largely uneducated North must be represented in government regardless of their lack of education, skill, exposure, or experience.

The argument for representation is what has led Nigeria to go from 3 regions to 4 regions to 12 states to 19 states to 30 states to 36 states, and has given us the ridiculous concept of a 'South-South' geographical reference.

It is impossible to move to a political scenario where anyone can consider what is best for the country when the starting line is the consideration of what is best for each individual nation state.

When the political equation forces a southerner to cut deals with northerners to buy support for a national election that cannot be won solely on the merit of the manifesto, then the Defence portfolio HAS to be for sale, same as all other ministerial and legislative slots.

Make no mistake by thinking Tinubu is uniquely at fault here - he is btw, but the political fragmentation in Nigeria means that Democracy is ironically the worst possible political system to practice in the country. If political thought cannot be debated by a majority culturally homogeneous which we clearly lack, the only option to keep Nigeria as a single country is consolidate political thought and power into a small centralised axis like we had during the military era. I don't believe that's what any rational and right minded person should be subscribing to.

However I do believe it's the only option with a reasonable chance of keeping Nigeria as a single non-failed state long term. The alternative which is what I believe in, is to break the goddam contraption into pieces and try to undo the havoc of the colonial administration that created it solely to streamline their resource extraction efforts more efficiently.

There is no hope. The previous 'improvement' in the administrations post Abdusalam Abubakar were just the consequence of the lag between the effects of the centralised government winding down and the effects of proportional representation catching up.

Nigeria has always been doomed. Tinubu or no Tinubu.

I agree with ur post 98%. The only point I disagree with is that "Nigeria has always been doomed with or without Tinubu". It gives a feeling like Tinubu can be absolved of any blame for the shambolic state we find ourselves as a people today.

Tinubu himself made strange bed fellows in the name of playing politics and forming master strategist. For starters what business does a fellow like Bello Matawalle have with being appointed Minister for state for Defense? What is the pedigree of the man that made him fit for that role? He literally appointed as defense minister a man whose state was overrun by terrorists while he was governor.

There are quite a number of these guys in his government that gives the feeling that he is more interested in politics than governance and that is showing in the results we see every day. He appointed Atiku Bagudu as his minister for budget despite that one being known as Abacha's bag man.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
No point here.

India has more than 1000+ different spoken languages.
India has more than 2000+ ethnic groups
They also have more than six major religious groups.

India is flourishing and seeing economic growth, development & prosperity.

India is very much different from Nigeria; I don't even know where to start explaining this to you.

akwesenana:
Isn't it amusing that the most emotional person on this thread dey try form logician? 😂😂

Very funny stuff 😂

And the fact that he thinks because we complain about Tinubu's government, we are all suffering and not doing well in our respective careers even as the country cast reach.....He calls it wailing.

The best fan base in the world!

When they said we were unbearable…what they really meant is we have the best fan base!! pic.twitter.com/fM0DooNrfP

— LIVELY (@mc_lively_) May 31, 2026

Ellexy:
Lol clearly you're the emotional one here. Why are you angry that Obi is contesting when it's clearly the turn of the South? Can't your greedy mumutiku support a Southern candidate and take over 4 years later...and make sure you tell your selfish boss to also choose a Northern running mate since he doesn't care or believe in zoning.

Simple!

Since Elder like his irresponsible principal thinks talking about southern or Northern politics is about emotions, let Atiku kukuma select another northerner like himself as his VP candidate na.

Maybe if he does that he will win his first presidential election in over 30 years and stop being the serial failure we have come to know him to be.

Some of the rival fans are just plainly shameless and hopeless, hence their wailings from the place of pain!

Prior to the match rival fans both offline and online were predicting arsenal will be whitewashed by PSG the way Inter Milan swallowed goals in the final last year. Chelsea fans whose team were drubbed home and away on heavy goal difference by PSG hoped we would share in their misfortune while the other ones that either didn't qualify for champions league football or lost on the way thought PSG would give arsenal a humbling defeat so they can claim we didn't deserve the EPL like some dumb ones have been parrotting.

When the match start reality hit everyone. They saw arsenal holding UCL champion to the jugular for 120 mins till the penalty shootout.

Now the fear of what arsenal has become has not allowed them rest even when arsenal has moved on to relish the wonderful season they just had.

Make no mistake, there will be more wailings in the coming days but be rest assured it is from a place of pain and copium!

Arsenal tí di araba, inu'n bi old school ìrókò tree wọn! 😜

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
No be the same military wey he say dey overstretched Tinubu deploy to Benin in April 2026 for inauguration of government officials in Benin Republic? last year we saw Naija airforce fighter jets in combat operation in the same Benin to quell military coup. This argument of military been overstretched doesn't hold.

This is why I told GloriousGbola those excuses he was giving on behalf of FG are actually not it. The government just chooses what it decides to prioritize while other issues are left unattended to.

It's just the same way Buhari government left a lot of roads not repaired and then decided to start constructing railway line to Niger republic and we have people making excuses on behalf of Buhari's government explaining the benefits of constructing that railway line.🤦‍♂️

MenDem! 😎

Oriza Sativa!

Sportsweb:
Cry for me joor. European Virgins

If u Don commot here u go return to pouring ashes over Ur head to wail about blueco 😂😂😂

Ẹni ìyà 🤡🤡🤡

Sportsweb:
Arsenal fans sabi cry. Same ref that ron ATM in your favor

Yu obviously don't know the definition of crying. My players are having a good time enjoying a trophy parade and we dey enjoy am.

Na.u know where u see cry, maybe na that west London side Sha

raumdeuter:
Na so bro


Blueray trying to sleep last night

Ask the ceiling, Why didnt Gabriel place the ball to the left?

If Gabriel dey here dey chilolo..... Who am I not to enjoy my weekend with my henny bottle in my parlor while streaming the trophy parade? 🤷‍♂️