₦airaland Forum

AmazonTopaz:
Happy birthday @cococandy.

May this year be all round amazing and beautiful for you and your loved ones. God bless you.

Happy birthday cococandy!

IjeBos:
What did you think?
Honestly, the more questions and answers I hear about Israel, the more issues I have.

I wasn't expecting to get any answers from them about anywhere, not to talk of Israel, but I got who they are.

It's shorter on 1.15 speed, I found, and semi bearable but still a whole heap of Tucker, to me. My mind wondered far too much because they rambled like two grifters selling themselves to who pays them the most money.

You are of course asking us after you've already sacked the nanny who was poisoning your 5 month old baby only once.

Right?

Sounding like he went to paint in a restricted area and gung ho.

A 21‑year‑old North Carolina man who was shot and killed early on Sunday while attempting to enter the secure perimeter of US President Donald Trump’s Mar‑a‑Lago estate was known among friends and on social media for creating dark, moody watercolours and sketches of golf courses, according to the New York Post

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/maralago-gunman-austin-tucker-martin-was-a-painter-obsessed-with-drawing-scenes-from-local-golf-courses/articleshow/128684394.cms

Brendaniel:
The type of shariah being practiced in the north presently... would you accept it in south west?

No I wouldn't accept it. Most Northerners don't accept it neither. Even many Muslim Iranians are not accepting it, so why would atheist I accept the type of sharia that some are imposing on the North?

But why are we even considering this? Do you think only buda will be yelling "We no go gree! Ali must go!" on the streets of Nigeria when someone tries to replace their Yahweh Jesus Christ with Allah Mohammed or do you just lack faith in us and in yourself!?

IjeBos:
The US has a white male who is a Trump supporter or who comes from a family of Trump supporters' problem.
All these attempted assassinations or shootings fit that profile.

I'm thinking these kids thought dump would save them from their abusers only to find he was one of them.

IjeBos:
Justice Gorsuch had a good concurring opinion in the tariff case.
It's sad that he had to give a basic civics lesson as well.

"But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today's result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is"

Not sad at all, and apt.

IjeBos:
I thought the same. But I listened to it while running errands/shopping.
It is a good listen.
The questions Tucker asked and Huckabee was unable to answer were enlightening.

Not endorsing Tucker but Huckabee's answers are worth a listen.

I'm listening.

IjeBos:
Not a fan of Tucker Carlson.
I thinks he is just as awful as his buddy Trump.
Not sure his motivations but he was probably the only one who could ask these questions since they are friendly.
The way he beat down Huckabee's arguments was like MAGA on MAGA violence.

I would say it's amazing that someone can fulsomely say he believes something but can't even express the rational for that believe but I see it here every day.

https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=XS7itdfgNnU

3 hours? You kidding!

Maeve7:
Out of the respect for my brain, I didn’t read this.

Scrolling pass it is just too easy

Brendaniel:
No, this leader is only asking for Shariah to be implemented for Muslims in the south west, with hisbah police and shariah courts like it is done in the north, would you accept it?

I am not a Muslim so it wouldn't apply to me. Most Muslims in the south wouldn't accept it neither, though a limited form of Sharia exists in the South for those who accepted it.

Sharia takes many forms, so you'd need to be more specific about the aspect of Sharia being introduced, because I doubt most places would accept the cutting off of a petty thief's hand, though I wouldn't mind cutting off the hand of a politician who stole millions.

Brendaniel:
If a respected leader from the north becomes president today and says he wants to implement Shariah for Muslims in the south west with Shariah courts like they did in the north and setting up hisbah police to checkmate immorality like they also do in the north, would you accept it?

As in, this leader from the North tells everyone in Nigeria to bow down to worship Allah too?

You might as well ask me what I'd do if the moon gets tired of where it is and decides to come live in Nigeria! That's how absurd this is.

I am an atheist, and the only reason I won't abolish all religions in Nigeria is because I can't and I'm not enough of a dictator to try something so absurdly ignorant and stupid. Instead, I am mandating every child in school receive a single copy of the New Testament and the Old Testament and the Quran in one single book.

When we all read each others god books, we'd understand one another better

Makavelli001:
If you still don’t see anything wrong with the system, you’re the problem and an enemy of the country.

What would you call those seeking solutions to the problems that you see?

Brendaniel:
Why do you think Boko haram is thriving in Islamic north?

Because they force their ignorant ideology on people and kill those who oppose them, though I don't agree with your "think", since bokoharam control less area and people than they did in say 2014, and most Muslims are antibokoharam, with more Muslims and everyone in Nigeria in fact, making boko more halal with more Nigerians reading in Nigeria today than ever before - 'reading' not limited to just books, which are being read more, but also other means of consuming information, online, youtubes, twitter, books, you, here etc etc etc etc.

Please know that my view or my opinion Nigeria is not as developed as most of us hope, is that we Nigerians do often not seem to put in sufficient effort to look and see and understand a situation before coming up with solutions. Worst is, we create problems that don't exist and then we insist on solving them. Funny though is you trying to make me think your "think" when I can easily open my own eyes and look for myself and see. It made me laugh. I'm sorry.

Brendaniel:
What if the people there reject your educational plan for them and call it haram like they did to Jonathan's educational plan for them, what would you do?

First, I think Jonathan's plan was flawed. He literally just proclaimed a plan with no plan for its implementation, and was like a God saying "Let there be Light", without first hovering his Spirit over the waters to see that the earth was formless and empty anr darkness was over the surface of the deep. The result as we see, is not, "and there was education". The result was at best "Nepa!"

Every "people there" can not reject my president budaatum educational plan for Nigeria, Brendaniel, and it is people who have no interest in solving problems that create problems like these they know do not exist, wo don't ask me to create imaginary problems that don't exist when I have enough real existing problems to be solving already. Do note however, that my choice of the Emir of Kano Sanusi is precisely to preempt your above and because of such few people who may reject my educational plan.

Sanusi's own children are very highly educated, and he is educated enough to use the fact that Uthman Dan Fodio educated his own daughters to implement my agenda, which moreso is the education of girls, with hope that the boys follow, with incentives if required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Asma%CA%BCu

Please know that part of my president budaatum education plan for Nigeria is taking my buda ass to Sambisa Forest Secondary School to teach there for a week twice each year. For balance, I'd also visit universities in the country so students can stone me. And I will be here too (like once a month or I wouldn't get work done), so Nairalanders can stone the president budaatum you all helped nurture and elect since there is no way I can be president of Nigeria without the backing of you Nairalanders who know me best.

Edit!

Link below will load entire book of 784 pages and takes time, which makes me feel it's data hungry. If you open it, I suggest you save to device for later reading.

https://ia601400.us.archive.org/18/items/collected-works-of-nana-asmau-daughter-of-usman-dan-fodiyo-1793/Collected_Works_of_Nana_Asmau_Daughter_of_Usman_dan_Fodiyo_1793.pdf

This post is a clear example of the increasing power of we Nigerians!

Soon we will be going up to the heavens to question the gods themselves. Amen!

Ref:
https://www.nairaland.com/4881702/atheism-madness/2#74112688

Brendaniel:
Nigeria is already on self destruct,

The above? Sorry, but that's not what I see.

Brendaniel:
Let me ask you a question:

If you were president today, how do you stop the Almajiri and uncontrolled birth system in the north?

First I will revise our education system so it serves a purpose of empowering people. Then I will make the Emir of Kano Sanusi my minister of education and tell him to promote the education in the country that he has been trying to promote in the North for years.

I will provide him with a huge budget to improve education delivery in the country too. And I will provide him with security so the northerners who are anti education do not kill him!

For while you think Almajiri and uncontrolled birth system is only in the north, I see it all over Nigeria and in my very own Orolu Kingdom of Ifon Osun in Osun State in the south.

Please note that I do not expect to see change or results of my actions till at least 4-6 years, and Sanusi works best for me because I would have been elected as an atheist.

Refs:
https://www.nairaland.com/6301141/emancipate-yourself-slavery-ignorance#96823944

https://www.nairaland.com/6294107/scolded-girlfriend-doing-did-wrong/3#96721274

FatimaAbubakar:
If you see Nigeria as a country making progress, then you're living in a fool's paradise.

You are Nigeria as a country, FatimaAbubakar, and I do see Nigerian you making immense progress.

But if you do not believe me and think I am "living in a fool's paradise", please make a note in your diary for 10 years time to remind you to come and celebrate your definite immense progress with me. I have made a note in my diary to remind you, note.

You will live much longer than that.

tctrills:
Fred
History is the best teacher they say. Last year, April 1st, Trump raised tariffs. What was the result?
1. The US government earned hundreds of billions.

That they now must pay back since the mandate they collected it by has been deemed illegal.

tctrills:
2.The US economy had been growing at a very fast rate ever since.

You will need to show the source for this your growing please, because simple searches show otherwise.

U.S. economic growth slowed significantly to a 1.4% annualized rate in Q4 2025, down from 4.4% in Q3, driven by reduced government spending and a wider trade deficit. The 2025 full-year growth was 2.2%, the slowest in five years. Data from early 2026 indicates continued, albeit moderated, expansion following 2025's, with{" "} Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) providing interactive, historical charts from 1947–2025

tctrills:
3. What was the effect on inflation? The rate of Inflation actually went down.

The rate of inflation change may have gone down but I hope you know that does not mean costs go down. Like if a thing was ₦100 2 years ago, and inflated by 10% last year so it was ₦110 last year, a reduced 5% inflation this year will add ₦5.5 to the cost this yea so it will now be ₦115.5.

tctrills:
Lastly, Nigeria has very high tariffs. Would you advise the Tinubu government to put an end to that? I would really love to hear your opinion on this

I have in fact been thinking about this in anticipation of you asking, and my answer is yes. Tinubu should remove some tariffs because tariffs are stifling our consumption and our growth. And when I talk of tariffs in Nigeria I include the unnecessary cost due to port delays too!

The first tariff he should remove is on brand new electric cars and computer equipment (he can keep tariff on tokunbo because they are junk that we must keep out).

Brendaniel:
Even if Obi becomes president , I will still want Nigeria divided, what your people want is not what my people want, same with the Islamic north

I have a problem with people who want Nigeria divided, even with my own yẹyẹ Yoruba people who want Nigeria divided.

Nigerians who want Nigeria divided need to destroy Nigeria for it to fail and divide, so everything they do where Nigeria is concerned must be negative and anti-progress and anti-development of Nigeria.

They are like people who don't like you building a house so come in the night to tear it down. They can't enter progressively so they block the path of progressive others, and every little progress achieved with such people if any will be turned into backward steps of destruction, then they come to places like this to wail about the Nigeria they themselves are destroying.

Such people, if they work in Nigeria would be corrupt. They'd be undedicated, They'd be inefficient, not diligent, would generally not care, and every thing they do would be to fill their own pockets at Nigeria's expense

I don't want my neighbours in other parts of Nigeria to stop being my neighbours and go and be separate countries of their own because I need those other tribes and people watching my own tribes people so my own tribe and people don't become tyrants over me (remember we Yoruba traditionally don't democratically elect our obas and ruling families who are chosen by the gods), and because we are more powerful when we unite.

I want a reward for reading all that please.

Btruth:
Maybe she too has been compromising cases 🤔

Indeed, maybe. So I dug. Because I don't like creating lies inside my own head.

https://tracreports.org/immigration/reports/judge2024/00144NYC/index.html

I think we are self interested before patriots. Like me, first, before others and before country.

I tell you story. I fell ill in Nigeria once and live because I got my ass on a plane and came home.

buda first. Then family siblings parents neighbours my village people in no particular order way before, well, patriot. Unless I am able to deceive you that I knock on my neighbour's door to see if he is starving before I eat my dinner.

Notwithstanding.

Maeve7:
So you don’t live in America and yet spend most of your day here?

Trump supporters are truly possessed.

Imagine coming up with that for a reason for anything.

It is too shameful even for him but he just can't admit it because he is dump.

Maeve7:
It’s called projection, darling. You know, the things they accuse others of …

Let me dance some more.

I provide some music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps?si=VPGmvC5CYUydY2zk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Iel3S1GjM?si=xxwqgJ-ySCg99jBC

Curtsy BreakingNews21.

Brendaniel:
So according to you, people can keep dying due to bad governance that you support while you celebrate food as one of the best achievement for Nigeria ?

have you ever opened any thread to talk about the killings going on almost on a daily basis?

That's because you don't care about the country, you don't care about the people, your brother is in power so all that matters to you people is the glory of the image you want to portray while your brother is in power and bragging rights that you people are in charge, while disasters are happening...

This is what Nigeria means to you people...

You people made me give up on the unity of the country.....

Did you not eat today Brendaniel?

I ask because you talk like hunger strike you did not eat today because some people died in Nigeria.

Me, I went to the 80th birthday of a Rev Mrs and ate and drank and ate a fistful of well cooked amala and abula and partied, and to be honest with you, we still would have partied and danced and eaten regardless who ruled Nigeria, so I resent you being tribal! But seriously, do you have this idea that we should go and be the Messiah of Nigeria and banish death?

We do not give up on the unity of our country Nigeria, Brendaniel. And to be honest, I think you missed the celebration of our various uniting foods.

Still, unite. Basically. And vote for my Obi please.

tctrills:
Bro Trump just increased tariffs on all countries, hope you are following?
How do you think this will impact the midterms?

I am only just reading it now you told me and I went to search and find it was true, and as I write I'm smiling.

Let's forget midterms please, it's not till November after all, and think what impact tariffs have on consumers. Will Americans vote to pay for inflation?

Will you import tokunboh to Nigeria, pay custom, tariffs, etc, and not make customer pay plus profit?

Emphasis on the consequence, below is why I smile. Ruefully.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7255316/

Why does output fall after tariffs?

Furceri et al. (2019) explore some plausible explanations. The wasteful effects of protectionism eventually lead to a substantial reduction in the efficiency with which labor is used, leading to a decline of about 0.9% of labor productivity after five years. Tariffs also lead to a small and marginally-significant increase in unemployment. Both of these effects plausibly lead to a reduction in output. In addition, using industry-level data, Furceri et al. (2019) show that the negative effect of tariffs seems to arise from an increase in the cost of (imported) inputs owing to tariffs. In our companion paper (Furceri et al., 2019), we also find that higher tariffs lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and the net effect on the trade balance is small and insignificant.

Many were interviewed and psychological accessed to find out if they are one marshmallow people or two marshmallow people before those in that photo were selected so so much much paint and time wasn't invested in those who would let their "level down stairs" ruin the photo with their "burst out".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ?si=6RmOt93RQ0i5ZzRZ

PeacePro Executive Director Abdulrazaq Hamzat described the situation as a “silent economic emergency,” arguing that Nigeria’s growth challenges stem less from resource scarcity and more from failure to activate existing assets.

Failure to activate our existing minds.

“These are not hypothetical losses; they are capital already paid for but not producing value,” Hamzat said".

We know how to produce value but we just currently don't, or can't.

When infrastructure stands idle, frustration grows. When assets generate value, stability increases,” Hamzat said.

Our not frustrates us while doing will grow us.

“Nigeria does not need to borrow its way to prosperity while trillions in value lie unused,” Hamzat said.

We have all that we need.

"The question is whether we have the political discipline to activate them.”

If we discipline ourselves to we will.