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Politics is about connections not popularity

Do you know how many market leaders, church leaders, civil servants are behind APGA, there is a reason why they keep winning, even Peter Obi was governor under APGA.

Politics is offline not online and at the end of the day it is about personal interests.

APGA support will go a long way, 2023 was a surprise attack, nobody could have predicted the PDP crisis and Buhari currency madness everybody was shocked and trying to adjust accordingly, that is why Peter Obi had high votes. This time nobody would be caught unawares.

People don't understand that the word 'Nepotism' originated in the Catholic church & the word 'Godfatherism' was inspired by the book/movie Godfather which was itself inspired by the Catholic church. Na dem be the baba for rigging, they invented it.

Las las the Pope will never be a non Italian and will most likely be from Naples or Florence.

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Crzbshp:
You say this when the Pope who just died is from Argentina and the previous two popes were Saint Pope John Paul II of Poland and Pope Benedict XVI of Germany.
Nigerans and conspiracy theories no be here.

Impliment:
Did the previous Pope from Italy?

Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936[15] in Flores,[16] a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.[15] He was the eldest[17] of the five children of Mario José Bergoglio and Regina María Sívori. Mario Bergoglio was an Italian immigrant and an accountant[18] from Piedmont.[19] Regina Sívori[20] was a housewife born in Buenos Aires to a family of northern Italian origin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis#:~:text=Francis%20died%20at%20the%20age,day%20before%2C%20on%20Easter%20Sunday.





Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born on 16 April, Holy Saturday, 1927 at Schulstraße 11 at 8:30 in the morning in his parents' home in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany. He was baptised the same day. He was the third and youngest child of Joseph Ratzinger Sr., a police officer, and Maria Ratzinger (née Peintner); his grand-uncle was the German priest-politician Georg Ratzinger. His mother's family was originally from South Tyrol (now in Italy)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI



John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as well as the third-longest-serving pope in history after Pius IX and St. Peter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II


Last modification: For the New Pope

Robert Francis Prevost was born in Chicago on 14 September 1955, the son of Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Martínez.[4] His father, who was a United States Navy veteran of World War II and school administrator, was of French and Italian descent, and his mother, a librarian, was of Spanish descent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

Rossikk:
I'VE READ SO MUCH GARBAGE ON THIS THREAD.

Everybody is WRONG.

The ONLY REASON Nigerians/Africans abandoned their traditional religion was because the colonialists seized NOT just the land, but the resources and riches of the land.

Access to those resources became dependent on your getting a British-style education in one of their wretched 'missionary schools', become a clerk, typist or whatever. A COLONIAL JOB.

(In areas where Islam was prevalent, they made no such demands to abandon Islam.)

Now to gain ADMITTANCE into those ''missionary schools'', you had to renounce your traditional religion, adopt christianity, get baptised, and get an English name, like John, 'Henry', or 'Jonathan'.

So all the chiefs and great traditional leaders began sending their wards to the missionary schools, and those later became powerful leaders who were christian, and who entrenched the new belief systems across their regions. Guys like Samuel Ajayi Crowther and co.

One thing you people need to realise is that Nigerians have been aware of christianity since at least the 1400s.

The Benin Empire had extensive trade relations with Europe, especially Portugal, with whom she exchanged ambassadors in the 1500s.

Yes, there actually was an Embassy of the Benin Empire in Lisbon, Portugal, in the 1500s, staffed by Benin bureaucrats, and an ambassador.

King Alfonso in the early 1500s had tried severally to get Oba Esigie to allow the establishment of churches in the Benin kingdom.

These overtures were bluntly rejected by the Oba, who only allowed the establishment of one or two churches in the kingdom. And no more.

And so it remained for many centuries, until 1897, when the British invaded, bombarded, burnt down and looted the great city of its treasures, like the pack of savage vandals they are, and today display their loot shamelessly in their 'museums'.

SO THIS WHOLE GARBAGE THAT ''Oh, it was because Africans saw that their gods did not work'' etc etc is just that , PURE GARBAGE.

It was ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL BY COLONIAL INVADERS WHO PREDICATED INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS UPON ABANDONMENT OF AFRICAN RELIGION, that forced them to do so.

Ancient Nigerians always saw the christian story as BULLCRAP.

The entire story made no sense to them. They laughed it off as the story of children.

They stopped laughing when the 'holy' christian guns by colonial thieves pointed at them.

If Africans abandoned religions because of military defeat or setbacks, why do the descendants of slaves practice their Yoruba religions till today in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad and elsewhere?

Why didn't they say ''Oh well our African gods did not save us from being enslaved, so let us run and accept the 'white man Jesus' as our ''personal lord and saviour''?

NONSENSE.

ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL is the answer.

Here's what would have happened if the British had not IMPOSED Christianity on Nigerians.

They would have handed over to an educated leadership practicing a modernised version of TRADITIONAL RELIGION, just like JAPAN is doing today.

Japan's religion is Shintoism.

There is very little difference between Shintoism and African Traditional Religion.

In Japan there are over 200,000 public shrines, many built and maintained by the govt.

When a Japanese man buys a car, he takes it to a shrine where the traditional priest pours a strange concoction over the car, to guarantee safe journeys.

The Japanese simply replaced blood sacrifice with sacrifice of food, flowers, etc. They upgraded with the times.

THAT IS WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN NIGERIA, if the British were not ASSHOLES.

By now we should have BEAUTIFUL SHRINES AND TEMPLES to our various orishas and to the Most High.

Shrine in Osaka, Japan
https://www.howto-osaka.com/en/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/koyasan-4.jpg

Nice write up

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

- Fredriche Nietzsche

ChiefOloye:
Gamblers live in perpetual regrets:
When losing, they regret the decision to stake;
When winning, they regret not staking more.

Very true, i just won by betting on PSG and i regret not betting more.

All is well

It seems like FG has been tapped to release this terrorist because i don't understand why the prosecution are acting so stupid...

- Argue about his allegation that the militarty tried to kill him
- Argue about his broadcast to burn Lagos
- Argue about his Fulani Herdsmen allegations and ask him to provide evidence
- Argue about his dual citizenship and question his right to interfere in Nigeria
- He has already admitted to illegal broadcast
- Argue about his claim that Buhari is dead and a clone

And why are they putting too much faith on a single witness that can be bribed or threatened into submission?

Unless this is a strategy, the prosecution acting unserious so unserious i conclude they are trying to release him.

This is like the O.J Simpson trial, where a very incompetent prosecution allowed a murderer to get free.

TrackerSK:
If this happens in south east,this brainless cowards would have burn down the whole community and some useless people we be applauding them .But they can't do shit in the north.

It happened in Abia state last year yet nothing happened in the community, that same year a bomb was dropped by the Nigerian army in Sokoto

Racoon:
When hardwork and dignity of labour was well appreciated. True riches was then through being industrous

So most Nigerians back then were lazy and undignified?

Wealth comes from knowing how to take advantage of time, place, climate and people not by hardwork.

Dantata is the only one that laid a solid foundation with his wealth, his heirs surpassed him.

Unlike the one whose son decided to play war instead of business.

Rat 100%, had this problem, the rat used to dig in my bathroom everyday around 11pm - 4am, it would stop digging and run when it saw my movement - then it would return when the coast is clear...

One day i bought rat gum (the black one) and set in the entrance of my bathroom, i even thought it didnt work until i heard the sound of something trying to escape.

Sweet dreams since then.

Nigeria should better start imitating Trump, so far we have been helping them extradite and arrest criminal Nigerians, what is our government getting out of this deal?

Tariffs?

bunnae:
Nope! The blacks started it. Its the other way round.

I don't think the blacks started it, he did the crime before the white woman but they only started funding him after seeing the funding the white woman got.

Botragelad:
This deserves proper scrutiny. Why is there a fundraising campaign for a guy who brutally stabbed someone to death in cold blood?

What’s striking is that this fundraising happened before the backlash against the fundraiser for the white woman who used a racial slur. So why are people outraged over her case but silent about this black murderer, whose victim was white?

Is this not a blatant double standard?

God1000 there's your comment hours ago on the other thread. Do you care to condemn this guy's action and the whole fundraising thing as racism?
Why's he being rewarded for stabbing a guy to death?

I don't think the blacks started it, he did the crime before the white woman but they only started funding him after seeing the funding the white woman got.

Forcing people to sit at home every Monday and killing those who refuse, is not terrorism?

She is foreshadowing her downfall, i cannot wait to laugh that day.

House niggers must learn by force.

Enemies of Nigger area perishing one by one, home and away.

He will win in court, if O.J Simpson can win who is Diddy that he cannot win.

atiku4President:
Is Donald Trump on X (twitter)? That's the first question any intelligent person will ask before believing any thing that's posted.

Trump uses Truth Social

This is an epidemic.

I'm sure most of them are Nnamdi Kanu supporters, this is how they would run their country.

I was banned like 11 times last year (from October to December) so far i've been banned twice this year. The ban happens in two categories - there's the 1 hour ban where i can't post or comment at all, after that comes the 24hour ban where i cannot post or comment only in a certain section.

My advise, don't take it personally.

I'm just curious how someone will take drug and pass through airport - even worse successfully land in another country, yet neither country of departure nor arrival could detect the drugs, that is an insane level of bribery and corruption.

Some immigration workers must be compromised.

What does that even mean?

If your sick and broke will you not die?

By your logic, then Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust, he said a lot but he personally didn't do anything.

He knew people would act on what he said but he still went ahead to say things.

Like that saying in game of thrones, "power resides where men believe it resides".

KillahPriest:
smh.. oppressor in this type of business where you deal with international entities and regulators on a daily. Na wa

And? He is the richest man in Africa, he can get away with certain things.

chiagozien:
What are you trying to say?



Come again

I'm saying he is a hypocrite

gidgiddy:
Ohamadike! Ride on bro, your only enemies are supporters of the British colonial system of injustice known as 'one Nigeria'

And Nnamdi Kanu is a British citizen who lived in London and stationed his Radio Biafra there, how is he not a colonialist?

ogaemma:
If only Kanu is willing to decamp to APC today, he will be released first thing tomorrow morning.
But since he has refused to decamp and compromised with them, that is why he is still being persecuted.
Criminals past Governors who stole trillions are ceremoniously welcome into the APC with so much promises to steal more money.
That is Nigeria for you.

Nnamdi Kanu is a Prince who was raised in a wealthy family, he is also a British citizen, he has more in common with those criminal politicians than the common man.

A little peek into him and his family history and i'm sure you'll find lots of corruption there, you don't become a King in South East Nigeria by having clean hands. We have poor journalism in this country.

SensetionalGoal:
Off topic as usual

The topic is becoming too boring and too predictable.

So they allow people to dye their beards in Nigerian prison, no wonder he doesn't want to get out.

Fendi should pay this man for promoting their products.

jimi4us:
It was obviously stealing petroleum products

From the judge name you would know there's fraudulent activity going on.

ALUKO is a notorious name in fraudulent activities

Maybe they did not want to destroy Dangote reputation as that could lead to defamation

KillahPriest:
There's some shege you survive in business that you end up being wicked especially when you notice people suddenly moving funny. I don't blame Dangote at all for his actions

Dangote is not a poor man though, he might even be the oppressor

oskopy:
Look at what you turn your self to.you spoilt the whole write up with Reno omokris name.is that how bad we ve become?

I'm pointing out how some of Tinubu loyal supporters were initially Jonathan supporters and as mercenaries they can be flipped back.