₦airaland Forum

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Not trying to take away any point from the discussion, but I laugh when people compare these parts of Lagos during the demolitions. It shows you people don't know Lagos.

Firstly, Alabarago is 90% shanties. I'm not trying to insult Northerners, but that place was just a market for buying foodstuff, and a park to travel. You can Google Alabarago, and prove me wrong by showing me the beautiful buildings there.

A middle-class Northerner does not live in Alabarago. These are people who trade on the expressway, and have virtually occupied the last lane of Lagos/Badagry expressway, with their sales of second hand furniture and mattresses. That is what LASG went to clear out.

If you contravene the laws of any place, you face the consequences. Emenike should swallow the pill and move on. But anyone comparing Alabarago to Festac is just either ignorant, or deliberately trying to be funny

If you meet 100 educated, middle class Northerners in Lagos, the chances of 1 living in Alabarago is a big Zero.[/color]

Beyond all the above, Alaba rago is a hot bed for crime and illicit drug trade. All kinds of drugs you can think of are on full display at Alaba rago.

As far back as 2010 I have always told anyone that cares to listen that a place like Alaba rago should nit exist in a state like Lagos.

afrodoc:
UNO reverse card.

Doc what do you think about the rumour and speculations that Wale Edun may have suffered stroke ? In medical practice, are there evidences of people surviving stroke and Coming back to work in offices as stressful as that of a country's finance minister or even CFO of a company?

I thought the whole thing was a rumor but this one that Sunday Dare yesterday was claiming " I just got off phone with him..... I discussed with him over a plate of Amala....etc " is looking exactly like the COAS Lagbaja's case.

That was how it was rumored the COAS was sick around October only for the chief of defence staff to claim he was hale and hearty and that he spoke with him on phone same October. Fast forward to November the man's demise was announced.

CrystalTiger:
Lord Lugard really did us dirty honestly...It's like these terrorists increase in numbers everyday..I doubt the north survives up to a year if we go out separate ways..

Saw news before that terrorists collect levies from some communities in the north, don't know if it's true but seeing videos like this makes me believe it

If the armed bandits in the video demand levies from the villagers I don't they have any choice but to pay. I have stayed in one of the their villages before and from experience government presence and security agencies like police are usually very far away from such villages.

izzou:
[color=royalblue] Did you see that one with RPG?

E carry RPG come Peace talk [/color]

I kukuma saw him with the RPG hanging over his shoulder. It's just disturbing how they breeze in and out of town.

Look at the young and impressionable kids in the video looking on. It will be very easy for the bandits to recruit them sef

This is the Nigeria Daniel Bwala talk say "is superlatively safe" under Tinubu's government.

Yesterday in Katsina State, bånd!ts reportedly held peace talks across five different local government areas😳😭🙆 pic.twitter.com/5bXfu2cny4

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) October 13, 2025

Omo, shey dem no go fence that north like this? Just look at the kind of arms in those guys' hands. The same military camouflage that you dare not wear in the south, see as dem knack am full even with cap to match. 😲

[b]40. Babangida Saliu, 35. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining.

41. Adamu Sanni, 39. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining.

42. Abdulkarem Salisu, 30. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

43. Abdulaziz Lawal, 18. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

44. Abdulrahman Babangida, 20. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining

45. Maharazu Alidu, 22. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

46. Zaharadeen Baliue, 38. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

47. Babangida Usman, 30. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

48. Zayyanu Abdullahi, 28. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining, 2024

49. Bashir Garuba, 20. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining

50. Imam Suleman, 25. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining, 2024.

51. Abbeh Amisu, 28. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining, 2024.

52. Lawani Lurwanu, 20. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining, 2024.

53. Yusuf Alhassan, 33. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining in 2024.

54. Abdulahi Isah, 25. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining, 2024.

55. Zayanu Bello, 35. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

56. Habeeb Suleman, 22. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining.

57. Jubrin Sahabi, 23. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

58. Shefiu Umar, 28. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

59. Seidu Abubakar, 29. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining.

60. Haruna Abubakar, 24. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining

61. Rabiu Seidu, 26. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining.

62. Macha Kuru, 25. Sentenced in 2024 to three years for unlawful mining

63. Zahradeen Aminu, 25. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining.

64. Nazipi Musa, 25. Sentenced to three years for unlawful mining in 2024

65. Abdullahi Musa, 30. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

66. Habibu Safiu, 20. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

67. Husseni Sani, 21. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

68. Musa Lawali, 25. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

69. Suleiman Lawal, 23. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

70. Yusuf Iliyasu, 21. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

71. Sebiyu Aliyu, 20. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

72. Halliru Sani, 18. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

73. Shittu Aliyu, 30. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

74. Sanusi Aminu, 27. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

75. Isiaka Adamu, 40. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

76. Mamman Ibrahim, 50. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

77. Shuaibu Abdullahi, 35. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

78. Sanusi Adamu, 28. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

79. Sadi Musa, 20. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.

80. Haruna Isah, 35. Sentenced to three years in 2024 for unlawful mining.[/b]

I had a look again at this list and I'm still shocked.It looks so unreal So 40 people who were sentenced to 3 years imprisonment each for illegal mining in the Northwest are released back into the society after just serving a year in jail just like that.

I can bet these guys would gladly join the rank of Bandits in Sokoto, Zamfara and Niger state. If u get relative for that part of the country, dey try advise them make dem find their way o. If these kind guys hold person, dem go use para do am wetin no good first before ransom.

Talking about crypto crash; the building in the picture below was used as Cbex Lagos office. It is located along the express that goes from Iyana Ipaja to Lasu/Iyana Iba road.

After the Cbex crash, I drove past there and noticed EFCC sealed the building as part of their "investigation" into the Cbex crash. Recently I drove past and noticed the building is still under sealed .

Mind you, the building is a very new complex that had tenants who may not have anything to do with Cbex occupying it too. I don't even know if the building actually belonged to the promoters of Cbex or not.

Now my question is what will be the fate of other tenants who rented either office or shop space in the complex? Do they have any hope of ever recovering their rent from whoever owns the building?

WhoDeyHause:
Even these ones can pack up on a very bad day egbon especially if a crook has access to the funds in their establishment or other reasons, it's just that crypto is more volatile by far cause of several market factors affecting it, anything digital currency or trading is always more susceptible to losses, ajebo Danny said he lost $500,000 during the Bitcoin crash years ago.

Those ones are safer compared to all these digital currency/ trading that don't have any real leg to stand on. Anything that has regulator/government hand in it will always be relatively safe and less susceptible to manipulations compared to non-regulated terrain.

TrebleChamp:
Heard crypto crashed days ago leaving most people's investment completely wiped out, crazy how a statement by 47 could affect people's investment and life in such huge manner. Na to focus on physical business and treasury bill them jejely like this..

At times I do feel like I'm the one among my peers who doesn't really know much about crypto. I know a whole lot of things but u see crypto; I know next to nothing about it.

The good thing is I have a personal principle to never invest in anything I don't have a full grasp of its intricacies. Most times I see people posting about crypto , forex and and those digital "investment" stuff I just face my front to avoid this kind of stories.

One of my former colleagues literally used crypto money to relocate abroad with his family. His crypto investment swelled but that didn't make me chook my head into it because I know if I put my widow's mite into it and the thing crash, I fit craze from the loss.

I would always take investment vehicles that are properly regulated by government or its agencies like Treasury bills , mutual funds, bonds, etc over crypto and dem forex any day any time

CrystalTiger:
As in ehhh, even if them wn deceive am, can't he read?..Abi na just to sign papers..In what world is it okay to pardon a criminal like this?..All the hardwork of security agents and well meaning Nigerians who helped during the case, gone, just like that 😡😡😡



My goodness 😡😡😡

There's everything wrong with the list. See this one again, a senior military officer sold arms and a munitions to militants/terrorists but now he's been pardoned.

This list is an indictment on the person of Lateef Fagbemi the AGF. The Kelvin kidnapper guy kidnapped his fellow SAN ; Mike Ozekhomen and somehow he forwarded a list that included the kidnapper to the president for pardon. Now we are learning he also forwarded a list that had the name of a saboteur military officer who sold arms that was used to kill our military men.

How do they want the families of these criminals' victims to feel?

CrystalTiger:
Madness, total madness.. Who's in charge of the pardon list?.. Like are there no credible intelligence people around BAT?

Omo!

All the arresting officers, prosecuting witnesses and people who facilitated his arrest and conviction would begin to live in perpetual fear from now on.

Tinubu's presidency is the worst thing that ever happened to a common Nigerian. 🤦‍♂️

CrystalTiger:
The more you read about those who were pardoned, the more the whole thing looks extremely stupid..

Like how does a sitting president pardon the man below??..This crime is tantamount to treason...

Omo! 😲

Nigeria is just a jungle where the powerful out muscle the weak and make them live with whatever decision tbey make.

The major probably has someone within the committee who is very powerful and pushed for his case.

Tinubu probably has hungry sycophants around him who just needed the right cash inducent to push for the major's inclusion in the pardon/clemency list for them to do their thing.

TemporaryHansel:
Men are trying sha, you'll buy something for someone, and they'll be giving praises to God, instead of you.

Do you have any evidence suggesting she bought the car from what was given to her by a man?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Another fact that this Presidential pardon exposes is how weird the convictions are.

You sentence a 70 year old man to 15 years for selling Cannabis, and then a 30+ year old to 5 years for a similar offense.

Also, our anger should be channelled more to the committee that created the list. AGN, CAN, and all of them who didn't see it worthy to release a man that was defending himself from his attacker, but released Maryam.

Well, nothing spoil. One day, One day.[/color]

What If they included him in their recommendations but his application was not approved by the presidency?

The report, presented to the council of state in Abuja, showed that 175 inmates were interviewed and 294 applications reviewed.

Just saying; In this country, the weight of the person pushing for you also matters. 294 apocations were received and submitted and 175 made the cut eventually. What if the guy who acted on self defense was amongst those who didn't make the 175 list?

Come to think of it, a presidency at its infancy that used fake bishops to to give the current president's campaign endorsement tells you they included CAN in the committee doesn't make you think the CAN they are referring to may be the same agbado bishops who don't really give a 4ck about Sunday Jackson?


Finally, the overview of the 175 that made the list shows their fate was already predertmined. Even if me and you were allowed to nominate people who would make the list ; those 175 people will still make it one way or another. It is what it is!

Tochex101:
You want our principal to seek the wrath of Miyetti Allah.......the common people are just expendable pawns.
Just live quietly and avoid trouble...... that's how to survive here.
Nobody send anybody!

Na wa o.

Make person just protect his life so as not to get killed like fowl. Also one should not see wetin go carry am go jail o

So that guy who was sentenced to death for defending himself against Fulani Herdsmen was not granted clemency yet someone who carried out premeditated murder was granted because she's from influential family? 😲

KingTom:
The Nigerian correctional system is something else chief. I was in a abeokuta last year when I saw one of our guys who was sentenced to prison for macheting another man over APC LP disagreement. I was surprised when I saw the werey ordering isi ewu and drinks for us at the bar na hin I corner him brother ask am kilon sup? That one said he (prisoner) gets weekend passes whenever he likes and travels from Lagos to ogun to chop life then returns on Monday morning

I won't doubt this one bit! That bobrisky case has shown this and more is possible within Nigerian prison system.

Tochex101:
Very bad, on what basis do you show clemency to murderers, kidnappers and drug runners who ruin innocent lives.

What more can you expect from a Government that rewards militancy and terrorism with fat security contracts and huge payoffs.

More reason many people are joining the underworld in various guise......its no longer a secret that people are now hunted, kidnapped and butchered for their organs in Nigeria.
Human parts trading.

These are the kind of things you read about in books or movies narrating earth post desolation.

It's very very bad bro. I know APC and Tinubu supporters will come up with defensive points justifying the clemency/ presidential pardon within the next 24 hours, but to an average Nigeria this is not good for optics at all.

1. Illegal mining has been alleged over time to be responsible for the insecurity in the northwest particularly Zamfara state. Today Tinubu is granting clemency to convicted illegal miners. Is that not rewarding bad behaviour in the society?

2. NAPTIP(the agency responsible for combating human trafficking) spends hundreds of millions yearly on investigation, hiring of lawyers and prosecution of human trafficking offenders but president dey grant convicted human traffickers reduction of sentence. To achieve what exactly?

3. NDLEA spends hundreds of millions to arrest and prosecute drug mules and drug barons. Some of their officers even get shot at while trying to effect arrest against big drug lords ; yet Tinubu is letting go the few ones the agency has successfully convicted.

4. Kidnappers too are getting clemency then we wonder why kidnapping is almost a daily occurrence on major federal highways in the country.

What is even worse is the precedent this administration is setting with these ill-advised use of executive power. We may as well wake one day to see ritualists, terrorists and mass murders getting pardoned by another government then they will refer us to the precedent Tinubu set.

The full list of people Tinubu pardoned and their crime is available in this link

https://x.com/imranmuhdz/status/1977043539608351034?s=46

Omo! Na drug dealers, convicted killers and thieves Tinubu pack full the list. 😲

Not less than 55% of the people on the list were either sentenced for running cocaine/cannabis, homicide (killing someone) or thieves involved in illegal mining & armed robbery.

I even saw two different human traffickers on the list who had their prison terms reduced significantly and kidnappers too.

This kind of politics is really really bad for optics

During the hearings, witnesses narrated how Ms Sanda had allegedly attempted to stab her husband multiple times before his death, while she argued that the killing was not premeditated but the result of a domestic quarrel.

After over two years of trial, Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court found Ms Sanda guilty of culpable homicide on 27 January 2020. He ruled that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced her to death by hanging.

Ms Sanda is among 175 convicts and former convicts that President Tinubu pardoned or reduced their sentences.

The list includes “illegal miners, white-collar convicts, remorseful drug offenders, foreigners…,” Mr Onanuga wrote.

At this rate, I won't be surprised if we hear some day Osinachi's husband and Evans the kidnapper gets presidential pardon after being considered as remorseful and repantants in prison.

iamoyindamola:
I am not sure she served any jail term sef
Could be those vip cell

She served 5 years plus in jail, but like you rightly said she will probably spend it in the VIP wings. Who knows maybe they were allowing her to go out sef.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Maybe na the late husband family press for her release.

Because what are the odds of Tinubu remembering this case, and offering clemency?

It's very possible that by gones have become by gones[/color]

Not at all.

Bayo Onanuga clamied the lady's family pressed and appealed for clency for her and that her prison records shows she's been behaved.

So Tinubu granted her clemency.

That's the summary of Bayo Onanuga's press release on the matter

iamoyindamola:
Na who die lose

Aswear! I wonder how the family of the late husband will feel now seeing her going about her normal life after her release

Who remembered this case back then? The lady who killed her husband ( son of a former PDP chairman) following a domestic dispute.

The lady was sentenced to death in 2020 after the prosecution team proved beyond reasonable doubt that she indeed murdered her husband in cold blood. Tinubu has granted her clemency and she will be released or may have been released sef

For this life, no allow anybody kill u o.

Omo! 😲

Israel keeper just saved Halaand's two penalties in quick succession. The keeper saved the first one but the ref ordered a retake and he still ended up saving that as well

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I think the wire mesh is to retain the position and markings for them to fix the rods after they have bent them.

Maybe I'm wrong sha.[/color]

For all our sake, let's hope you are correct.

It won't be nice that they would borrow huge amounts of money to award these contracts only for the contractors to not use proper materials

Emaprince:
People that lives their life without any problem...that they had to manifatture problem out of nowhere, just to have a glimpse of what problem feels like.

They are spoilt people. Everywhere stew, so theu can afford all this.

Dem no really get problem at all.

Minister of Works, David Umahi don buy market like this🙆🏼‍♂️, another man has come out to question him about the quality of rods being used for the Ore–Ondo expressway construction😭💔
pic.twitter.com/5Ceg7RuoyL

— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) October 11, 2025

Look at the quality of iron they are using for Ore-Ondo expressway o. Later if they ask Umahi question on live TV he will refuse to answer and be forming performatory anger over non-issues .

The road is one of the busiest roads in Nigeria with so much vehicular movement on a daily basis , but see the kind iron rod dem dem use in its construction. If rain washes the road off few months after commissioning they will claim it is due to acidic rain that has been falling in recent times 🤦‍♂️

iamoyindamola:
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Our resident woke bot will defend it

Nothing wey person no go see o

Oyinbo people Craze gan o. Dem Craze pass my imagination of their craziness

So there's actually a book titled "Meow" written by Sam Austen. The crazy thing about the book is ; the only word in the book is "Meow" which was repeated over 80,000 times all through the chapters of the book......

Even the people wey review the book on the back page, na "Meow" dem still talk to take review the book.. 🤦‍♂️

Guess what? The book is sold for $17 on Amazon and there's even an audio version of the book.

Oyinbo ya weyrey gan o!

iamoyindamola:
The most complicated phone of all time
You are using a phone and still clueless what you are doing with it 🤣🤣

I was never a fan at all.

sleekdot:
Those ones still dey use seniority enter team.

We should be giving players like that Adams more opportunities. The guy came in and brought breath of fresh air with him.

But that our coach I'm still not impressed with him. He used to big attackers to start the match but his wingers and full backs are not sending the ball into the box. I didn't see him work on that all through the first half.