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GloriousGbola:
the biggest argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter

The average voter is actually not the problem . The average voter wants life to be better for himself or herself under whoever gets elected in the long run.

The greatest argument against democracy in Nigeria is corruption by the elected officials .

Mojisolaoluwa Alli-Macaulay was a lawmaker in Lagos who got palliatives from government/private sector partnership during COVID-19 to be shared for her constituents . Instead She kept the palliatives and decided to share to those who attended her birthday later that year. Is that the problem of the electorates too?

Guess what ? After she lost her re-election bid, Tinubu recently appointed her as ED of a Federal government parastatal . Smh . 🤦‍♂️ Later if we hear of any corruption scandal in NSITF during her time there , we will start forming surprised

raumdeuter:
We the elites place more importance on things that do not matter to the bulk of the electorates. To the electorates its how visible and how relatable you are to them. From what I heard Monday has always been on ground in his locality. I saw one video wey dem say he donated 6m to a sick AAU boy. Being present and helping your community before electioneering is valued than 6 debates on TV where the bulk of voters wont even watch and those watching are looking for faults and wrong grammar

Was he doing that as a private citizen or when he's already a senator?

If not that Nigeria is an upside-down society, is this the job of a senator? Monday was a senator before he contested for the governorship seat. Ideally what would've impacted more on his constituency is for him to sponsor bills that will translate to the betterment of the life of his people.

All those Senators collecting hundreds of millions as salaries & allowances, collecting billions as constituency allowances and sharing paltry sums to their loyalists in the name of constituency project will never take us anywhere. How many people can he even pay their hospital bills if he wants to?

What matters to the bulk of the electorate is what will touch their lives in general and not just a handful of people getting keke NAPEP, hairdryer, grinding machine, etc. in the name of constituency projects. They just use that nonsense to siphon money.

The House of Assembly members should be the ones bursting padded budgets which the executive arm of government submitted to them. That is also what they can do to touch the lives of the common man in order to ensure they have hope in this so-called democracy. Instead, they would rather add more paddings to the already padded budget.

Lush100:
Pep has said arsenal were not at fault for playing defensive after being a player down.

That is the responsibility of Manshitty to break it down.

He also said he called Arteta after the match that it was a good match.

Meanwhile Gabu has said he is waiting for them second leg.

Even Gundogan made similar comments.

“It was a very emotional game between the players, the fans,” said Gundogan. “Obviously, it’s a tough opponent and a tough game to play. They made it tough for us and tried everything to get something out of here. We have to give them credit for the way they defended.

It's rival fans that will not rest but continue to shed salty tears. Anyways, it is understandable why they would cry more than the bereaved sha.

Una go wail tire

Nobody has Arsenal time yen yen yen.....But 3 days after Pep who played draw against Arsenal has moved on, haters still dey wet the grass with their tears.

Make una keep up the salty tears.

iamoyindamola:
You will wait till next week to get single link
For now scattered link available

Okay no wahala

iamoyindamola:
Till next week

Abeg help me resend the download link. The one u sent yesterday, the files are scattered with different download links. I was distracted and later couldn't download it.

Amigoss:
You got to love an institute that multi task

The funny thing is this institute will most likely not be aware of any of such project in its budget. It is definitely at the ministry level the padding would've been carried out.

I still pass by the Institute this morning on Ahmadu Bello Way, V.I. Nothing concern that school wey I see with road construction; what they do basically is train marine engineers, marine technicians and marine scientists.

daveP:
Jover over to you because he's the setpieces coach. He needs to tell the players to watchout for carelessness and exploit it. Simple.


You think pks come naturally these days?? Don't make me laugh please. Naturally is the odd word to use by farrrrr. For starters, we're the ones suffering from the lack mostly. Let's get it back up. I dunno why you're against this seriously. We need it.

Don't get too comfortable because you're enjoying the way we currently play.

Maybe you've not been watching the way other teams exploit it to advantage. I rest my case.

There's a very very thin line between diving and exploiting a player's carelessness to win PK.

I played amateur football, and I've watched professional football long enough to know that players do actually lose goalscoring opportunities while trying to win a penalty in the box. You can have a ref waiving the ball play-on for not enough contact in a PK appeal, You can have a very brilliant defender who withdraws his outstretched leg at the last second, or worse still u can have ur player booked for diving.

Let our players focus on playing football and putting the ball at the back of the net instead of unnecessary distraction of trying to win an unsure penalty. We've seen in recent times how glaring fouls are not decided in our favor in the middle of the park; what makes u think those referees will award fouls to us in the opponent's box?

daveP:
There is a lot abeg. How will relegation teams be seeing pk against even big teams and we can't even? I didn't say they need to train for it but to EXPLOIT THE HOW. it is part of the game. It is also one aspect of the game used to kill the vibes of the average gunner across seasons. So why can't we use our cunny to our advantage.


We should do what it takes to win abeg. We need alll possible means to our advantage. That's what the game is about. Yes we are sleek with the ball in the opponents box already but stuff like this can help by far to make a difference on days when everyone no get wetin dey sup with goalscoring.

You're talking like this because Raya is saving so the story is different. Lol. You want to wait for days it will be the big difference before you realize we barely get pks?

You want to wait till a UCL semifinal at 99mins before you acknowledge it is a deal breaker?

We need it. We need it. More frequently. We are the team in top 6 with the lowest to start with. We are also the top 6 team with the lowest because of ref overlooked. Naaahh.

You literally said " Jover over to you " in ur post I quoted and now u are saying u didn't ask them to train for it. So why did u call Jover name ?

The Jover u called is our Set piece coach whose job is to "train" the players on set piece; It gives an impression that u want our players to train on how to win penalties in matches.

That will amount to putting unnecessary pressure on the team and disrupting their flow of play because they will always have their mind on winning a PK when they are in the box even when they should be aiming at scoring open play goals.

Let our players just focus on being better players by taking their chances when they come. Simple.

Penalty is part of the game and will come naturally when our players are fouled, or opponents handle the ball in the box 18. There's no need to start focusing on how to win penalty; to me that's cowardice. It's more like u are already conceding u may not win the game trying to score open play goals. Going that way will undo some of the good work the team has put in because there's a risk of getting penalized for diving right there.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I just priced a bag of rice for 93k.

OasisX, come through for me. You told me i can buy it for 40k

I need you now, more than ever, bro

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The last time I bought about a month or two ago it was still 84k o.

God supposed punish Buhari and his supporters specially for deceiving the ignorant people claiming Rice price will fall after launching their scam rice pyramid

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaooo this means you actually get Amigoss point.
For him Sanwo-Olu didn't do enough to enable you vote him over GRV.
But you still voted him.

So he's wondering why you'd be accusing Theflint1 for following your steps?
After all you weakened LP by voting apc. Same thing Theflint1 did 😁

I think the only reason why they are hounding Theflint is because he kept on preaching the gospel of "vote LP top-to-bottom" even when it was pointed out that aside from riding on the wave of OBIdients movement, GRV was not all that. Just like Olumide had his baggage of issues, GRV had his too and Theflint still insisted on supporting him because he's running on LP.

If Theflint had said he's supporting Asue because izzou supported Sanwoolu, I don't think people would've made much fuss about the motive behind his support for Asue.

Amigoss:
Which subsidy is Dangote talking about again oooo,Didn't Tinubu announce subsidy was gone?

Fuel to 2k E.o.y is sure

Dangote is mad and NNPC + Ministry of petroleum + Tinubu (The minister for petroleum) are crazy!

1. Dangote is saying his own PMS is 15% cheaper than NNPC's imported PMS . Oya Very Angry Alhaji tell us how much you sold your PMS to NNPC....... No response.

2. Dangote claims NNPC spends serious money on subsidizing imported PMS and wants FG/NNPC to remove subsidy so we can all buy fuel at a price that will kill the economy that is heavily reliant on PMS so he can recoup his investment in the refinery within the nearest possible payback period.

3. Tinubu still thinks he's carrying out reforms that will make the economy bounce back. Lmao . Somebody that says subsidy is gone when it's not is the same person that wants people to believe he's actually carrying out any reforms when people are already suffering hardship from his ill-advised policies.


All of them are mad!

izzou:
[color=royalblue]A new generator will come with an AVR (Automatic voltage regulator)

So unless she tampered with the AVR or removed it, if you like increase it to 2 million decibels, the AVR will protect the output.

She's lying, if it was a new generator[/color]

Na normal twitter engagement-inducing gist. She dey farm Elon Musk's dollars

GloriousGbola:
That guy went hard.

The guy Dey enter Asue anyhow . I always see his videos on TikTok and twitter . He genuinely believes PDAPC has failed and a third force should be given a trial; he has conviction and puts in serious work for what he believes in.

GloriousGbola:
Maybe I am wrong because I did not see any videos of Aisha stumping for Olumide. We saw Peter obi campaigning for Olumide to the end. I did not see aisha doing same.

Aisha Yesufu actually campaigned for Olumide till the very end . She didn’t fold at all.

Jodera:
Lmaoo..
You even bring receipt of all the whole big 6 and their results with red card.

But to be honest, that's what they expected. Maybe come 2nd half, score us 4 more goals to make it 5-2, then do one kind backhanded "compliment" on our players on how they were good but were "unfortunate" to concede 4 more goals. Dem never serious.

Haaland himself who's mostly cool lost his head that day even went as far as confronting Arteta. You could clearly see that this rivalry is really entering their skin

At some point city was literally clueless ; they spent minutes passing from side to side in front of our box without actually doing any damage . If I was them too, I would be frustrated .

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8221269/akpata-blames-lp-members-selling




Poor Olumide, stabbed in the back by members of his party

Tomorrow Aisha Yesufu will be making noise up and dan.

Agege bread and peanuts is delicious tho

But Aisha never folded , she didn’t ditch Olumide for Asue. In fact Aisha has been roasting those influencers that ditched Olumide for Asue .

afrodoc2:
Abeg stop posting dis kain things na. I never recover from "I go by me a plane".

See as the guy dey explain the thing in detail with serious face like say na Differential Calculus.

The guy has been very vocal about Obaseki’s underperformance from day one and I’m glad he didn’t fold to start doing shalaye afterwards .

Just listen to his first hand account assessment of Obaseki’s administration

The PDP candidate is attempting to obtain us by false pretense. That candidate is infinitely unelectable, for the APC candidate the facts speaks for themselves. #edostate #politics #nigeria #labourparty #benincity #Edo2024 pic.twitter.com/nLnyp0Y9hG

— Zekeri Idris Jnr (@IdrisZekeriJnr) September 19, 2024

Jodera:
For Man City players to take a dig on our players about trophilessness and start comparing us to Liverpool, they already know the rivalry is real and this is not the arsenal of before.

I believe the players will mentally move on and be motivated about everything henceforth

This what the Man city players desired , unfortunately we dashed their hope and that of the rival fans that have been wailing about the outcome of the match.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]How many Obidients stood for him? So far, the loudest and most influential online walked away.

What the fcck is Obidients for Asue sef? Una dey laugh Wike for anti party activities, una dey justify una own?

The truth is Obaseki carried una handicap. He was nothing you guys painted him to be.

He didn’t govern well. He cannot even win his Local government? Apart from Obi Tsunami in the SE, which sitting governor will lose his LG?

A whole incumbent cannot win his LG. That's enough proof that he was outrightly rejected.

No vex say una market wetin no sell. It happens[/color]

“OBIdients for Asue” is like saying “Christians for Sango” -Idris Zekiri Jnr (2024)

“Obidient for AI” is like saying “Christians for Sango”. We can understand the economy is bad and people need to eat. #edostate #politics #labourparty #benincity #Obi40lu #Obidients #Edo2024 pic.twitter.com/r05yUrU0QF

— Zekeri Idris Jnr (@IdrisZekeriJnr) September 15, 2024

Theflint1 are u from Edo Central senatorial district ?

Roland17:
From the moment I learnt it was Oliver I knew we were in for a long thing. Oliver is compromised, there is nothing wen anybody wan tell me. He is one of those refs who likes to be the center of attention during games, especially high profile games.

I just hope people can make enough noise about Jim’s and his bias officiating so he won’t spoil more top matches going forward . At least when knows there are so many eyes on him, perhaps he will be more reasonable in his decisions in future games.

He supposed get conscience

Ballzproblem2:
They no even allow am ascend 😂

In a way he has ascended; just that he ascended to heaven

Ballzproblem2:
BREAKING🚨 CONFIRMED Ali Karaki, the #3 in Hezbollah, was eliminated in the Beirut strike. He was Ibrahim Aqil's replacement.

😁

Tough! They did not even allow him enjoy the benefits of his new position before dem kpoof am

Jodera:
Rodri himself don dey talk say players don tire and they need rest.

Maybe this is the gods answering his prayer and giving him the needed "rest"

Yeah, he finally gets his deserved rest he's been calling for.

KingTom:
The bigi bigi don Dada

May God help them.

Jodera:
I was one of those who talked here about how Oliver deh favor Man City but e be like say I deh look for excuse before game.

I always give officials benefit of doubt because I believe they're humans and they can miss a call(or sort) but Oliver have proven over and over again that he has something in favor of Man City

Aswear! I always see ref's mistakes as just innocent mistakes or getting carried away in the heat of the matter, but Oliver obviously agenda going by his history in this particular fixture.

Michael Oliver has blood on his hands . I no even know he’s done this harm to us overtime.

https://x.com/nischal_15/status/1838084122599891123?s=46

Theflint1:
The culture around thugging in a particular place also plays a role in what underlings can aspire towards. Tompolo by now don suppose leave some of the things e dey do, surprised he's still so deeply involved. Only a couple days ago, I saw video of him giving some of these Ijaw Youth Council boys water from one drum to drink...all of dem wear white, dem reach like 300+ persons, of different ages, na dat place Itsrm say dey safe

Asari Dokubo u mean.

Yeah it's surprising that despite the kind of wealth he has amassed to the extent of owning a university in Benin republic, he still goes around with rough looking guys brandishing rocket launchers.

Theflint1:
Another angle, for some of these thugs, completely insulating their kids from the game could mean leaving everything on the table when their time's come. There are many things that also determine the nature in which these people's kids get involved in thugging. For Benin for example, the full extent of industries you can penetrate with thugging no pass motor parks, street traders, oni le and some small time thing.

MC Oluomo is a Lagos thug, so his perspective is going to be quite different, there's more than enough for him to completely leave the streets and focus on bigger picture things. His son is MIT educated, and from the way I've seen him on SM, he's not a softie at all, that MIT degree plus his dads control of the thuging machinery could create some really deadly fellow, and there's tons of industries available for him to apply himself.

Tompolo is another thug that seems to be moving smart, and this is made easier with access to the Niger Delta oil thing.

The kind of money these thugs in Lagos have access to

They motor parks, network provider Masts, illegal car parks, market levies, building projects, etc. If u go to Balogun or Idumota at 2am when Igbo traders are having their container being unloaded from trailer, u will meet Agberos there to collect money. Like, those guys run 24hrs shift . If you go to Alaba , before a truck laden with container will gain acccess into the market they would've paid toll at different points on their way into the market.

There's no how u will see the kind of money they make on the streets in Lagos and u won't want to clean up urself and ur family. That's why those actresses and other beautiful ladies always end up as either their wives or mistresses. The money long.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
So once you're not in the good book of US you should be tagged a terrorist because the US is the one with REAL POWER??

It's not just the USA, majority of the world powers.