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Ihebu4chelsea:
Hope you have seen how the Midfield looks without Caicedo, you labelled him gidigbo the other time, I wonder how una dey take watch una own match

I didn't label him gidigbo footballer, everyone with eyes can see him play gidigbo every now and then both in Chelsea colors and in his national team colors.

Stop getting emotional over nothing, observing he's a gidigbo player is not an insult. I'm sure if I had said his style of play for a DM is "aggressive", you wouldn't think it's an insult. Don't get urself worked up over nothing. You don't need to agree with me over my assessment of his style of play, you can as well call him "Yori-Yori" midfielder if you like.

Forrest supposed don score like 3 if their players head correct Sha. I'm sure if it were to be a team like crystal palace that saw those chances the scoreline for Don show their dominance

See wetin Una Santos miss 😲

TemporaryHansel:
Are strawberries sold for this amount anywhere? E be like una dey another world for that Lagos oh.

I saw this pack of strawberry at the store just now and the price is N4,650 for this same Lagos.

Na she know where she dey shop.

https://www.nairaland.com/8542201/defence-intelligence-detains-brig-gen

Saharareporters claims real reason why October 1st independence day parade was cancelled was because intelligence reports revealed a coup plot was to be carried out by some military officers on that day.

They claim the senior military officers have been detained by the defence intelligence agency.

GloriousGbola:
that is what i consider the real purpose of almajiri. an army of unknown soldiers and cannon fodder to put the disbelievers in their place. also to make up the political numbers. an army of illiterates for whom everything can be reduced to he is a believer vs he is a kaffir. and now it has backfired on the north and on all of us

One can understand if the almajiri who are illetrates commit such dastardly crime and tbey blame it on illiteracy. But one does not expect the elite who are expected to be educated and knowledgeable to either defend it or give excuse/conditions under which such crime is permissible.

Just look at! 🤦‍♂️ Fellow students killed Deborah and then you see 34 senior lawyers including a professor of law wearing the law robe to go and defend the murders in court. A professor in the same university system where the crime occurred

Omo!

iamoyindamola:
Be like the pastor is ex-military
I like the statement, very soft and less threatening

Yeah, he's either a police chief or an ex-military.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Members of the sane Islam should do well to reject this sect of radical Islams violently.

It's not just enough to say "Prophet Mohammed did not say" stuff. Violently rejected them.

You cannot, as a Muslim, be negotiating with terrorists who attack and kill in the name of Islam, and still want the world to believe it's not part of the doctrine.

Especially Nigeria, where a certain Late President (name withheld) was almost sympathetic to them.[/color]

Truth be told, majority of Muslims down south without fear or favor express their disapproval of radicalism and killings in the name of the religion(bar MURIC and the band of radicals he's been leading in recent times) . But you see Northerners, they will be twisting and bending mouth for fear of being labeled sellout or enemy of their own religion.

Look at how Atiku shamelessly deleted his tweet condemning Deborah's death, that was a classic example of how northerners fear to speak truth to power even when they know such killings are barbaric. Look at how Amoto here kept bending mouth, twisting and Turning by saying he supports death penalty for blasphemy but he doesn't support the death happening without some grand khadi presiding over a kangaroo trial to pronounce the death penalty. 🤦‍♂️


Like, the elites and educated ones among them will tacitly support the same thing the unlettered are bold enough to carry out. Shebi when the killers of Deborah were arrested, different northern Muslim lawyers sprang up to stand for their defense. Those are educated men who spent 5 years in a Nigerian university and 1 year in the Nigerian law school. That is cumulative 6 years of higher education they willingly used to defend criminals who took the life of their fellow student because of radicalism.

"You are welcomed here to encounter Jesus.

But if you arrive with any intent other than that, we will gladly set the appointment for you to meet Him."


😂😂😂

larride:
Another Appeal court judge granted a stay of execution on the judgment and Kanu lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court. The supreme court ruled in December 2023 that the trial should continue and squash the appeal court judgement.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c882re2mry3o.amp

Oh, okay. So FG pursued the case down to supreme court and had the appeal court case overturned.

But our judicial process is slow Sha. Someone was arrested in and it was in 2023 the supreme court just decided on the case on his method of arrest.

In 2025 the prosecution is still yet to establish and close their case against him.

larride:
Yeah the bail was in 2017 but since he was arrested and brought back to Nigeria in 2021, no judge has granted him bail.

What about this BBC report in 2022?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63241555

I read through it and what I could sense from it was that the appeal court nullified and declared the process of his rendition to Nigeria as illegal and no real trial can take place from that illegality.

Malami the AGF seemed to speaking Buhari's mind by insisting they won't release him despite the court ruling.

Personally I think Buhari and his (ill)advisers messed up the case and dumped the bad case on Tinubu's government who have not really made any headway from the problem they inherited.

raumdeuter:
They are covering all the base so that every injunction from NK and his team can be covered. Dont be in a rush, Justice would be delivered for all the victims

This is a very bad defense point. The state took 4 years to cover its asss against injunctions a private citizen might bring against her?

Haba!

Perhaps it's due to the illegal means through which he was renditioned. Because normally no state should be scared to the extent of covering her asss from injunction for 4 years.

What if the case is now Nigeria vs Another Country? How many years will we use to cover our asss?

larride:
The case itself hasn't started, they are still on arguing bail and the likes the last time Kanu was in court.

It's a joke.

Can you imagine? I thought at some point the trial judge granted him bail or so.

The case is so messed up that the average Nigerian has tuned out and no longer interested in it.

raumdeuter:
Some of the communities who fled to exile because of NK terrorism are starting to return. This is one of them in Ihiala

Read some comments on the thread of what NK did to people and their livelihood

https://www.nairaland.com/8540844/residents-ihiala-return-home-after

Why can't DSS get all of these witnesses, have them testify and close the case against him for 4 good years?

Why do they have to keep him in custody till lunatics like Ekpa started drawing inspiration from his alleged "persecution"?

The more they keep him in custody without a judge sentencing him to prison, the more they make his a Matyr.

raumdeuter:
That is because his case was complex, he was first arrested in 2017, he jumped bail, committed more crimes while on the run then having to be tried for the initial crimes, jumping bail and new crimes committed

The Justice system failed by not holding his guarantors liable like they should making a joke of the exercise cos flouting laws now had no consequence

This doesn't make sense to me.

Whether he jumped bail or not is immaterial. He was arrested in 2021 and the DSS have a chance to try him for whatever crime they feel he may have committed whether in 2017 or 1999.


What happens to consolidating their charges against him, take it before a court and close a case against him?

4 years is a whole lot of time if you ask me and it's failure of the entire justice system that a man will be kept in incarceration for 4 years without producing him. Even under military government , one is not expected to be locked up indefinitely without a court sentencing him to prison or putting him on death row.

It's a shame!

larride:
True but if the President can pardon a military major personnel who sold guns and other ammunitions to terrorist (The clear definition of treason), what's the point of prosecuting MNK?

I don't blame those calling for his release one bit. The government shot themselves in the foot.

You cannot be pardoning someone convicted for treason and wasting scarce resources to prosecute another man for treason

DSS has had him in custody for almost 4 years and have not been able to close their treason case against him.

Is that not even a shame on them?

If he has indeed committed treason, they should present their case before the judge and let the judiciary instead of making a cult hero which arsonists and terrorists draw inspiration from his incarceration.

raumdeuter:
Nnamdi has not been convicted, so what would he be pardoned for when its still likely he gets released as innocent

The real question is: How is it that someone who was arrested in 2021 has not been prosecuted and convicted in October 2025?

Does that not signify the failure of the entire justice system?

raumdeuter:
What of the KYC done by the bank in opening the receiving account which includes phone number, NIN, utility bill and guarantor, Can they not use that t trace the owner of the account

The bank's job is not to trace the owner's home address for u and effect arrest. Theirs is to identify the owner, block the account and provide his details to security operatives.

The security operatives there is the police that will not move an inch for you except you drop hundreds of thousands as mobilization fee. Someone who has just been robbed is definitely not in a position to drop that kind money.

I get person wey don follow through the process before and I can tell u it's a dead end without you dropping money for police on top the money u Don lose in the robbery.

liveLongNprospa:
Why is Tinubu not able to sort this out

Diego Forlan, see where you go hang jabulani! 😂

GloriousGbola:
Arbitrarily killed without due process.

Human rights in the mud.

He knows what he is doing, u will notice he kept insisting arbitrary execution is acceptable in the middle east. He is deliberately being silent on the human rights angle, but he quotes UN time and again to score a point against how Israel has prosecuted the war against Hamas.

Ask him if his beloved UN thinks about rounding up people and summarily executing them without any form of fair trial, then you will another long rambling epistle from him that makes no sense.

afrodoc:
It’s like someone is not well at their end. In what world did they expect people to accept that obnoxious list without any form of pushback?

Here is my theory; aside Farouk Lawan and maybe Maryam Sanda, there are not so much well know PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons) on the pardon list. They didn't envisage people would google and query the inclusion of Kelvin the kidnapper, the Nigerian Army who sold arms to terrorists, the 40 illegal miners and 70 drug offenders on the list.

They had thought people will grumble about Farouk Lawan and maybe Maryam Sanda, then few days after we will move on while the horde of offenders who committed violent crime or drug related crime on the list would've passed under the radar.

I have a very strong belief that majority of those criminals did actually pay for slot to be included in the list (Bar dem Herbert Macaulay, Vatsa, Ogoni nine, etc). Then the AGF, SGF and another office expected to vet the list were either incompetent or complicit to the extent of allowing the list to pass down to the president who signed without reviewing the list himself.

The whole thing reeks of corruption, incompetence, negligence and criminal audacity to push nonsense down the throat of the people knowing fully well that there are people who will off cloth to defend the nonsense.

LordAdam16:
You are not wailing but you have referred to me and commented multiple times about this since Hasbara floated this new agenda.

Palestinian Live Matters.
A Palestinian that collects money and weapons from genocidal barbarians to kill Palestinians in the middle of a genocide clearly does not believe Palestinian Live Matters.
And the penalty for that treason in most of world, particularly in the Middle East, is death. It is open and shut.

The UN found that Israel committed four of the five acts of genocide.
That is open and shut.

So if Israel starts bombing Nigeria, you will also collect money and weapons from the Israelis to kill Nigerians.
Or will you do it for the promise of a visa?
Look at how low you have fallen in a maddening bid to justify genocide.

-Lord

All these long hypocritical shalaye no really concern me.

It's just amusing how you moved from that Nairaland Palestinian who "loved" all Palestinians (both the armed militia and the civilians) with "brotherly love", only for you to suddenly start justifying why some Palestinians need to die and others empowered to kill them.

Weldone! Eku Ise takun takun; Eku ija fun eto omoniyan

iamoyindamola:
If a business owner is paying pension they should be able to pay 20% employers because they are the culprit here
Those guys are evil they under pay and still delay pension remit, of they won't pay pension they should pay full salary with tax
We know many companies don't declare their full profit at the end of the year

Most well run company remit your pension to your preferred PFA which you submitted during onbaording and you will get alert from your PFA anytime your company do remittance to your RSA.

Since I started working, all my employers do remit my 8% and their own 10% contribution to my RSA and I get alerted when they do. If a company is not remitting, then the staff should ask questions or talk to management na.

What I'm saying is this; increasing the employer's contribution from 10% to 20% is a burden on their books. You are looking at it from the lower level angle . Look at it from the angle of employees earning N2m per month, it means the company will have to cough out N2.4m per month for the Salary + pension contribution of that staff. Whereas, before now they were only paying N2.2m as that staff expense. If they do same for all their staff, it will significantly increase their personnel cost na.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Dangote promised us all 820 naira/Litre fuel, because he was delivering it free. He even added a little bit of NUPENG dragging, as the icing on the cake.

Today, na 920 we dey buy for Lagos....Baba no design flyer to inform us.

It's alright. God is alive[/color]

Nigerians are one of the easiest people to deceive/manipulate in the whole world.

Few weeks ago Dangote had most of them believing PENGASSAN and NUPENG are the reason the government refineries are not working. NUPENG is the reason why they are not buying PMS cheaper because of the levies they collect on each truck of fuel and all other sort of nonsense his PR machineries dished out.

Today everybody is quietly buying Dangote PMS and NNPC PMS above N900 and they are not outraged.

Dull people were saying PENGASSAN should go and build their refinery forgetting how FG gave Dangote access to FX which every other Nigerian needed access to back then o.

If u look at what our politicians, religious leaders and even big conglomerate have successfully done to manipulate Nigerians to be on their side always, you just have to agree that as smart as we may be as a people; we are so easy to manipulate especially with our biases

iamoyindamola:
On the long run I don't think this is the way
If the government really want to help they should review the pension scheme to 5% employees and 20% employers
Some people will work for donkey years only to retire to meet peanuts
Anyway make them they do shebi na wetin they see for paper they will tax people

The government cannot do this because it will be unfair to the employers/business owner. If I own a company and government is proposing to increase Employers' contribution to staff pension to 20%, I will kick against the move because it will further Impose financial burden on me as an employer of Labour.

The only way is government further working on our wage system. If people earn well, the current 10% employers contribution is not so bad if the staff earn decent salary.

LordAdam16:
When you are done wailing, Satanyahu still has an international arrest warrant.
The UN still called Israel's actions in Gaza genocide.
Hamas will continue to eliminate Israeli agents in Gaza.

The Resistance returned the body of a Palestinian militant who joined an Israeli unit in a raid to Israel during the prisoner exchange.
If you are a Palestinian and you collected weapons and money to kill Palestinians on behalf of Israel in the middle of a genocide and you were unable to return to your masters, you will receive your judgement on Planet Earth.

Your agenda is DOA.

-Lord

Wail keh? 😂

Wetin concern me with Jihadist taking themselves out? 🤷‍♂️ Just pointing out the hypocrisy in spending majority of the year crying "Palestine Live Matters" only to dey do shalaye in October as to why Palestinians deserve to be executed .

Ellexy:

Palestinian-on-Palestinian crime no concern the nairaland Palestine contingent, You no see how dem dey type verbose paragraph to justify people being rounded up and executed summarily?

Na when they deal with the Jihadists in the language they understand, then you will see them carry Merriam-Webster dictionary begin define genocide, war crime, and all those words that don't apply to Palestine but must apply to Israel or any other person dealing with their murderous asses

GloriousGbola:
as an aside - you think say nigeria never happen to me

No, I'm saying where Nigeria happened to you reach na im you know. Nigeria happening to person go far gan.

That's why you think the criminals would be caught by handing police a few thousand notes or that there's any thing bank can do to retrieve money wey criminals move to and already withdrew from burner bank accounts .

GloriousGbola:
If the police are dashed enough money or enough pressure is put on the bank they will trace the entire transaction and hold somone

And as I noted before, this is also why they are now putting stringent rules on pos agents

You are not getting it. The bank has done what they need to do by placing a lien on the receiving account so nobody can withdraw from that account again but does not help your case. Why? The money they transferred from your account to that account was withdrawn immediately. While you are being held hostage by the criminals, they would've dropped one of their members along the way to go see to withdrawing the money. By the time they are releasing you, the money has already moved. Don't forget that they took your phone, and every other means you can use to get through to your bank, and you will be dealing with injuries and trauma from the incident for the most part of that day before having chance to reach your bank o.

As for the police, e be like you no know how much Nigeria police dey collect to mobilize to sort that kind case. Mind you, at the time they will be demanding that money your net worth is 0.

Make Nigeria no just happen to you, it is only then you will understand the kind of jungle we live in.

GloriousGbola:
but you can always trace the opay account back

my memory may be hazy on this - but most of the robberies in the recent past have been tied to people doing large cash transactions or carrying dollars. i witnessed one in orile in 2014. some guy was moving with money and robbers closed down the road to take it from him.

any robbery where you use opay card can be traced back to the operator. also why imho they are now imposing new rules for POS operators

before transfer - any transaction involving cash, you will be sweating. 2015 we were to give a community money for project. we carried it in ghana must go. of course everyone was sweating because one idot may have told his friends there was cash for the taking.

just as cash transactions have no paper trail record, cash robbery has no paper trail - at least in naija where we don't seem to record serial numbers

All these ones wey u dey talk na because u never enter one chance along Ketu/Berger to Iyana Oworo axis and Charley boy/Gbagada to Iyana Oworo axis.

If one chance operators hold you they will wipe all your account and ask your family members to still transfer to your account before they release you or dump Ur body somewhere for them to pick.

If you listen to people's account of how they were cleaned out following their encounter with these dare devils, you will understand that not having cash even puts u in danger when u encounter them.

Few months ago a colleague was a victim, tbey cleaned her out and still said the money was to small. They called her family members, church mule hers and her manager in the office that she has been kidnapped and currently in their custody. They put her on phone while she was being hit in the knee with hammer.

People had to rally round to send cash before they dumped her injured at one bus stop. Police were later requesting substantial cash to investigate the case ; imagine someone that was cleaned out and police requesting for money.

When she traced the money through her bank, they revealed the money was moved from the receiving account almost immediately and there's no cash in the receiving account again. Although they placed a lien on the reviving account, but it's of no help to her.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Tax and accounting is not my forte. I cannot even deduce what the whole stuff entails.

But I know that many Nigerians will not be taxed.

And I also foresee cash payments being popular again. All these Olosshows wey dey charge 150k per night, go collect 100k cash, and 50k transfer, to stay within the 800k per annum category [/color]

Nigerians are vexed because typical of Nigeria, most times what is stated on paper don't usually play out in real life most times. There have been talks of the new tax law curbing multiple taxation but we will only know the true picture of things come 31st January 2026 when most people must have felt the impact of the new tax law either by the tax deducted from your salary or what the relevant tax authorities will demand from you after the first month of the new tax year.

For example they currently take more than x2 of some people's salary from my monthly income as tax. When I get periodic allowances it gets taxed too heavily and if I make investment from my already taxed income to earn interest ; I still pay tax on that income as well. Let's not forget that for every 10,000 that gets credited to my account the bank takes 100 naira on behalf of government which in itself is a tax. i.e if for example I move money from my salary account to my savings account or any other bank account, they will remove 100 naira from the receiving account.


Come 2026 one would need to see how all of these play out ; it is only then one can know if the talks about the tax law eliminating multiple taxation is real talk or if it's just government propaganda as usual.

We would also be interested in how sloths like NURTW people who collect cash on a daily basis are made to pay tax and not just only hardworking people.....

The people are also vexed with Oyedele whose job is to make them pay tax while nothing is being done about the corruption of the upper class. Nobody is happy paying tax to a government headed by Tinubu that would award a mega contract like the coastal road to Abacha's crony without following due process. It's just a case of people not trusting their leaders and they are nit wrong for not trusting them.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I don't even see how he hopes to come out of this pit wey e dig for himself.

This one just carry ammunition and RPG, give Obidients. [/color]

Reno is shameless and when a man is shameless, there's nothing he won't do to have his hand continually stick in the cookie jar.

If Reno can backtrack on all the vile things (both true and untrue) he said about Tinubu only to be the unofficial defender of Tinubu, then this particular matter is not something he won't try to wriggle his way out.

Unfortunately, the moment he starts to appeal to emotions of people like making it about him being attacked because he supports the ruling government ; in no time he will have supporters of the ruling government standing by his side ASAP.