₦airaland Forum

brain54:
In my mind what we need is a new breed of politicians... one might say this comes with a younger generation of people but not necessarily!

I wonder if I can borrow brain.

By "breed of politicians", do you mean, a group of people who have joined together to follow and lead, for want of rephrasing?

It would involve organising groups, which even my supposed youthful Obi is failing at for now, dare I say.

What a formidable force a youthful breed of politicians would be if organised to work together instead of all of us wanting to lead.

okpouman:
It's not the only criteria but a very important criteria Nigerians overlook.it is extremely important for a fragile poor nation like Nigeria

I do agree Nigerians should elect a young leader. I'm just sad to find your thread was to promote one particular individual, who's only supposed redeemings are, "young and sound".

The young and sound must surely do more work than that, I'd think, if they want to elect not to talk of electing.

But hey. Since we are just nominating for now, Seun Osewa for president, please.

Second choice, Dangote. For saying "let there be locally produced petrol in Nigeria", and there is locally produced petrol in Nigeria. Unfortunately, he's on the oldish side.

Ibime:
When did Israel behead a journalist?

By not letting journalists in to see the Gaza they are bombing, Israel is beheading journalists, though I'm certain the ref above was Turki al-Jasser, the journalist Saudi's tyrannical regime recently executed.

okpouman:
Adebayo of sdp,the man is quite young and sound. A person like him as what it takes

Never heard of him and don't know him.

Besides, being young (the sound I'd need to hear myself), is not the only criteria for being a good president, or I'd just vote for young seun who has also registered the population of some states on Nairaland.

helinues:
You are a liar. Notorious one for that matter. Is this my first engagement with you? Is this the first thread about Obidients that I created that you are responding to? So you have forgotten your own words of denying being an Obidient

Shame oo

You assert, so provide evidence please that buda denied being an Obidient!

Meanwhile, the below is about 11 months old.

budaatum:
I am obidient.

I like this your post.

You did not pay me.

Just saying.

WizardOfNG:
The bolded is the biggest red flag that indicates how sinister and anti-Nigerian they are.

Any good new about Nigeria, under the PBAT Government, they will be the first to attempt discrediting and mocking such.

No news is ever good about the "Zoo' so long as they are not in charge.

First, anyone who calls Nigeria a zoo is confessing they themselves are animals.

Tinubu removed fuel subsidy, to my delight, and he free floated Naira. If he removes subsidy from employment (by scrapping NYSC), Tinubu will become a god. I'll give him a waver on Let there be light, because he alone can not accomplish all that will shoot Nigeria forward.

I am Obidient.

helinues:
You see why I said you always behave like a chameleon. How many times have you denied being an Obidient on this forum?

Try and be consistent with your beliefs.

Must you lie?

Show once where buda "denied being an Obidient on this forum"!

As for "beliefs". Insult me, why don't you.

helinues:
Btw, why are you triggered with this post if you are not Peter Obi or one of the Obidients?

I am an Obidient.

Your thread was intended as an insult, to trigger, which kind of shows you attack first then wail when attacked back.

helinues:
You know, your activities on this forum is not different like a chameleon. You are neither here nor there.

If Peter Obi and Obidients are different entity, if Peter Obi is not a NL, if I didn't mention Peter Obi in my initial post, what precisely is your arguments about or you just want to argue blindly?

I don't think you know me enough to know where I am, and that shows in your confusion of me being neither here nor there and insulting me, but that's besides the point.

When you insult supporters of a person, the supporters will feel hurt. Its the same way you feel hurt when anything Tinubu is disrespected.

helinues:
Answer my simple questions. Is Obidients and Peter Obi same entity?

Yes or No

Is Peter Obi a NL? Yes or No

Did I mention Peter Obi in my original post? Yes or No?

You've claimed they are not the same people, so there. Last I checked though, Obidients are Peter Obi supporters.

Next you'd insult MAGA and claim you are not insulting Trump. Only illiterates will buy though.

helinues:
Hahaha, so Obidients and Peter Obi are same entity?

What precisely is the colour of your confusion?

So, you don't mean Obi when you say Obidients?

Sorry. I was not aware Obidients are Tinubu supporters.

helinues:
Could you point out to where I mentioned Peter Obi on this thread?

Is Peter Obi a NL?

Are you not mentioning Peter Obi with the "Obidients" in your subject line?

Were you not insulting Obi supporters with your post?

Kind of implies you attack first then wail when attacked. Is that what you do?

swagifted:
As a patriotic Nigerian, i will NEVER EVER suggest such a thing... That is the difference between me and you... It is NOT and CAN NEVER be an option in my dictionary. Period. Anything BELITTLING and BEMEANING I DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO.

You don't have the schools in Nigeria, I'm afraid, and I'm patriotic to my education more than I am to Nigeria, because I want to big myself.

Who did patriotuc Nigerian you vote for in the last election? I'm curious.

swagifted:
Why don't you also go back to school to study and have a high skill that is in the demand so that you will never have to clean toilets for the imperialists

Read how many times I mentioned what some might construe as "go back to school" in the below.

budaatum:
Pay is usually tips only, they tell me, but the advantage is its night work so they can go do early morning cleaning and be at university for 9, where they are learning to better their life.

budaatum:
But who in their right mind travels abroad and intends to survive on toilet cleaning? Most japas do it for the first few weeks or months on arrival and until they find something better, while they school on improving themselves so they can dump toilet cleaning and get much better jobs as I already informed SoliBayNG.

budaatum:
The cause of the race is not for living, least not where I live, and anyone who thinks it is is bound to fail, I'd think. Here we want your brain to help develop our nation so we can stand up to the likes of Trump and EU and Japan, and would therefore hope you will realise that the cause of the race is for you to learn so you help us rule the waves and you will live better in the long run. Okay, not you exactly, but your children whom you will send to our schools and whom we will educate properly to earn their daily bread and increase our gdp by using their brains.

budaatum:
Clean toilet in UK can be early morning. You start off at 4am to get the last night bus to go clean toilets 5am to 8am, then you go off to college or uni.

Uni finishes 3pm, you get some sleep, wake up by 6 to go clean

Or is it that you think I'm preaching what I haven't done?

"Clean toilet", does not just literally mean toilet cleaning. It includes any job one does while one is grafting to improve oneself, and may be McDonalds, security, silver service, social care, street cleaning, and of course, toilets.

raumdeuter:
How does the land belong to Palestinians? Both Israel and Gaza have a historical claim to the same land
So where should Israelis live or go after they were murdered in lands the migrated to

Historical claim, my ass.

What they have is a biblical claim, and that's as good as a CofO from Oluwọle, as far as I am concerned.

https://www.nairaland.com/8454839/israel-1948-same-israel-bible#135810406

Where the "Israelis live after they were murdered in lands they migrated to" is not a reason to go murder people off land they've lived on for centuries. It is similar to Native Americans deporting migrants so they get their land back, except they just don't have the might.

They seem pretty much the same to me, though current Israel is buying migrants from everywhere to increase their numbers, which the old Israel would not pollute their bloodline with.

They both drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before them and dispossess the inhabitants of the land.

50 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Numbers 33:50-55 King James Version

Makes me think of an omo onilẹ asking for land rent on a house built on land his great great grandfather sold before his father was born.

The last verse does sound like a motivator for much of Israel's current actions.

raumdeuter:
The question is if you are Israel facing the attacks from Irans proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis daily What will you do?

I personally wouldn't be Israel, inviting westerners to come and help steal land off Palestinians, because I am certain those I steal land from will never go away even many generations later, and will remain a thorn in my flesh forever unless I completely annihilate them, which I can't do because that would be so swastik.

We liberals need to give credit to dump for reducing food prices, which will reduce inflation and make aga.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLKskYbhL8?si=HiYKTcmNaZ6FwRjl

RolexOfGeneva:
If Lagos is expected to be hit by a nuclear bomb tomorrow, e go shock you say the entire city go empty by midnight and neighbouring states like Ogun and Oyo will become overpopulated.

And after the bombs have dropped we'd find the bombers don't know Lagos is not Ogun and Oyo.

What angers Iranians is that the regime has squandered money supporting anti-Israel proxy forces such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, rather than spending more at home. Police were arresting women for not wearing headscarves even as Mossad agents were smuggling in the drones that killed top military leaders Friday. “While the ideologues were securing the windows, they left the front door wide open,” argued Ben Taleblu, expressing an opinion he said is being voiced widely in Tehran after Israel’s attack.

The right approach in thinking about regime change, argued Sadjadpour, is to encourage patriotic nationalism, without the mullahs. “What should come next is a group of leaders whose organizing principle is not Islamic revolution but national interest,” he told me. “Instead of ‘Death to America,’ the slogan should be ‘Long Live Iran.’”

https://wapo.st/406EGxD

Some Iranians want regime change, and have been fighting years for it. I just wish they won it themselves instead of Israel delivered, which I doubt most would quite appreciate in the end.

“I know that war won’t bring democracy,” she told me. She was active in the Women, Life, Freedom movement against compulsory veiling in 2022–23, and she told me that Netanyahu is no champion of the movement’s values. “The life that we wanted is the mirror opposite of the terrible events that are now happening,” she said. But the war hadn’t endeared Iran’s leadership to her, either—she blames its aggressive policies for the country’s predicament.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/iran-opposition-israel-war/683207/

9.8 million people live in the city of Tehran as of 2025, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan of 730 km².

I checked. Its like telling Lagosians to evacuate.

joshuaidibia:
Don't get me wrong brother. When I say it's not easy, I'm not talking about the physical aspect of the job itself. Of course no work is easy. What I meant was the pay.

Clean toilet in UK can be early morning. You start off at 4am to get the last night bus to go clean toilets 5am to 8am, then you go off to college or uni.

Uni finishes 3pm, you get some sleep, wake up by 6 to go clean toilets or be the attendant in a pub till it closes at 11pm, then you off to do the same in a club till 3am, except the person who hired you knows you don't have a work permit, so tells you the club work is tips only, after his 25% cut.

Do I mean the pay, and the effect on your mental health and your body that you can barely afford to feed and let sleep?

Trust me. It's very very hard. And compared to what I've described above, many japanians will shudder still, as it's nowhere as bad for most who come legally these days. But life, generally is hard, though we Nigerians don't seem to have figured out it is yet, or we'd be doing that work making Nigeria great instead of japaing to make great abroad.

CoronaVirusPro:
The cause of the race is for living. Compared to Nigeria where you can achieve yo certain extent and will maintain status quo irrespective of what happens, it’s the opposite in western world. Taxes will continue to hit you, and when you default, those things you own you will start losing. It a system that entails you to keep earning or you will lose it all. Have you heard of foreclosures and liens?

I think you completely disregard inflation in Nigeria, which is much worse than tax, and in the long run would make all "you can achieve to an extent" insufficient at maintaining any status quo, but reason for responding is to say your description is not everyone's, and many have different realities. Basically, some succeed while some fail, aboard and in Nigeria or anywhere.

The cause of the race is not for living, least not where I live, and anyone who thinks it is is bound to fail, I'd think. Here we want your brain to help develop our nation so we can stand up to the likes of Trump and EU and Japan, and would therefore hope you will realise that the cause of the race is for you to learn so you help us rule the waves and you will live better in the long run. Okay, not you exactly, but your children whom you will send to our schools and whom we will educate properly to earn their daily bread and increase our gdp by using their brains.

I'm sorry about your personal experience, In fact I apologise, but I'm very certain you'd know lots of people abroad who have paid off their mortgage and educated their children and are not just maintaining their status quo but are enjoying their lifes too. In UK you get taxed according to your earnings, and you can't be taxed more than you are willing to put up with, because you yourself will get off your ass and go vote someone who offers to tax you less. It's the same in the whole of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and many other similar places, I'd bet. And we do have to tax you, don't we? Or how else do you expect the streets to be clean, and the police to stop crime, and an ambulance or fire brigade turn up when when you need one and not make you pay for educating your children so they are useful?

We japa to countries that realise that the Wealth of the Nation is derived from the annual produce of its land and labor, not from the accumulation of gold or the profits of merchants. You are the labour part. Brains are required.

joshuaidibia:
My brother, I put it to you that cleaning toilets abroad is not easy. In fact, you will need more than 3 jobs if you want to be cleaning toilets. Hunger and frustration will break you, you'll run back to Nigeria. Don't let them deceive you o. You can't survive by cleaning toilets only.

Definitely, cleaning toilets abroad is not easy! It's toilet cleaning for Christ's sake, why should that be easy? And it definitely don't even pay much, just about enough for daily bread and shelter, if you asked me and if you eat small, and your boss will constantly be on your case, sometimes making you clean the same toilet like 5 times because, according to them, you did not clean it to their standard.

Slavery, I'd call it, except instead of paying the pittance of a chain round the neck and a whipping on your ass they give you a few pounds or dollars they know their own people would never accept. But who in their right mind travels abroad and intends to survive on toilet cleaning? Most japas do it for the first few weeks or months on arrival and until they find something better, while they school on improving themselves so they can dump toilet cleaning and get much better jobs as I already informed SoliBayNG.

budaatum:
We see Naijas working toilet in clubs where I live. And yes it can be dehumanising, So dehumanising that I can't help talking to them.

Pay is usually tips only, they tell me, but the advantage is its night work so they can go do early morning cleaning and be at university for 9, where they are learning to better their life.

Only a few Nigerians who are lazy or have made tons of money or have the opportunity to do so in Nigeria reverse immigrate from UK.

If you can not put up with the hardship of "3 jobs", please stay in Nigeria. Because anyone will tell you your first few months in England at least, will be like moving to hell as a slave, but with some use of the sweat of thy brow and the educating of your brain, not only will you eventually eat, you will feed family back home too who will be begging you for bread daily.

I say "toilet cleaning", and I include all those other hard jobs that Nigerians come to UK to initially do while they find their feet. Note.

After popular demand, "the ayes have it", not.


https://youtube.com/shorts/uOLpxxCx20o?si=j4I2nUo8ffXOdc3s

Sounds to me like PETROAN do not want their own monopoly challenged.

danvon:
The governor of Benue state who is not Fulani isnt saying anything.

Nigerian army has a large number of soldiers from Benue yet those soldiers aren't complaining.

The problem is most Fulani herdsmen are illiterates and they don't have technology so we only see the other side story.

But recently lots of cattles just mysteriously died and the problem is that those cows usually don't belong to them.

The governor of Benue state is alleged to have said something. See image below.

Soldiers don't usually state their own opinions much less complain. As is sung:

Zombie no go go, unless you tell am to go (Zombie)
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell am to stop (Zombie)
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell am to turn (Zombie)
Zombie no go think, unless you tell am to think (Zombie)
Tell am to go straight
A joro, jara, joro
No break, no job, no sense
A joro, jara, joro
Tell am to go kill
A joro, jara, joro
No break, no job, no sense
A joro, jara, joro
Tell am to go quench
A joro, jara, joro
No break, no job, no sense
A joro, jara, joro

Those two points alone hopefully show I definitely do not know what you claim to know, but that might simply be because I am not "everybody".

danvon:
The question is, what did the Benue people do?

Fulanis didnt just wake up and start fighting.

They confused Fulanis for Igbos but Fulanis will never be victims in this life.

Everybody knows Benue people are not innocent, that is why they are silent.

I guess I'm not "everybody".

Please enlighten me.

Mabuggi88:
But honestly she he has a point. If it's trivial matters the National Assembly will quickly converge for a seating because they will get money in doing so. See Rivers state case for instance, Tinubu had hardly pronounce the state of emergency in Rivers than the NA quickly move and converge only to say the ayes have it because they know the president will drop some boxes. Of course that is what that one is known for, bribery

You make me want to go find a video I once posted where the ayes did definitely not have it, but Akpabio said the ayes had it.

My current crime is however, having better things to do at the moment, so, if anyone can oblige, it deserves to be here.

*Edit after demand.

https://www.nairaland.com/8452048/bobrisky-knocks-senators-over-silence/1#135770713

Fearurcreeator:
So na like this you dey do when you dey Nigeria with your kinsmen, eeyah sorry

I don't know what to say to you, and looking at your post history shows I needn't bother.

Fearurcreeator:
Lolzzzz! Dont tell me you are a graduate ooo