₦airaland Forum

helinues:
Okay. So what assurance was given to the Senegalese for them to have returned to the pitch after initially left for the tunnel?

I wasn't in Morocco and was never part of the Senegalese team. I'm only analysing what I saw on the screen and my analyses are way okay for me. Sadio Mane made the difference.

Were you in Morocco?Kindly intimate us what and what was promised before the penalty.

helinues:
Did you watch that penalty?

Yes, I did. It was a failed Panenka. He was consoled off the pitch after his substitution. He played to score.

helinues:
Diaz probably deliberately missed that penalty just to make the game to continue

They almost abandoned the game with that late penalty which should have been given because if it was Senegal that had such foul at that last mins, the referee would have over looked

At least , I was glad the Senegalese returned to complete the match cos they would have been heavily fined and sanctions for abandoning the game

Diaz deliberately missed the kick? How, why and when? Someone who was crying his eyes out throughout the rest of the game and even during the medal presentation.

Don't say that in Morocco, it's a treasonable offence.😀😀😀

Gooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll

He missed the penalty.....shame on the referee

That was a clean goal

He is a performer and a leader with impeccable character. He is the incoming Ogun State governor by God's grace.

It's only a matter of time before the world would reset.

May her soul rest in Peace.

bunmioguns:
The only "Gross Misconduct" Fubara committed was refusing to be a remote-controlled Governor. Since he decided to serve Rivers people instead of serving one man's ego, you people have lost your sleep.

​My Advice to Amaewhule and co: Pack your bags. You people are already political "expired drugs." The streets of Port Harcourt are with Sim. If you try any nonsense, the "simplified" heat will be too much for you.

I want to ask you a very sincere question. Did Fubara act against the law or Constitution before the impeachment proceedings? True or false.

Stiv19cuff:
Thu, 25 Dec 2025 6:20:17 WAT
By Mohammed Bello Doka




Nigeria is a federation in name, but under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is beginning to look like a country governed from one city, for one city, and in the image of one city. What is unfolding before our eyes is not announced, not debated, and not legislated—but it is real. By policy choices, budget priorities, and institutional drift, Lagos is being rebuilt as Nigeria’s de facto administrative–economic capital, while vast swathes of the country are left to decay.

FAAN, CBN (key departments), BOI, NPA and NIMASA.

These are not minor agencies. They are the command centres of aviation, finance, industry, ports, and maritime regulation. When such institutions either move their headquarters to Lagos or concentrate their real power there, the question practically asks itself: if power, money, and decision-making all live in Lagos, what exactly is Abuja for—and what is left for the rest of Nigeria?


Let us begin with the facts.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has formally relocated its headquarters from Abuja to Lagos. The justification offered was “operational efficiency” because Lagos handles the bulk of air traffic. Yet Abuja remains the constitutional seat of government. No constitutional amendment was sought. No national debate was held. A major federal institution simply packed up and moved.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, officially headquartered in Abuja, has quietly transferred some of its most powerful departments—Banking Supervision, Payments System Management, Consumer Protection, Financial Policy and Regulation—to Lagos. Anyone who understands how banking regulation works knows the truth: where supervision sits, power sits. Abuja may keep the signage, but Lagos now holds the nerve centre.


The Bank of Industry has received Federal Executive Council approval for a new headquarters in Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, effectively relocating its functional command base from Abuja. A development finance institution, meant to catalyse industrial growth across Nigeria, is now planting its flag in one of the most exclusive real-estate enclaves in Africa.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and NIMASA, though nominally federal, have long operated as Lagos-centric agencies. Under Tinubu, this imbalance has not been corrected—it has been reinforced.

Piece by piece, institution by institution, Lagos is being reassembled as Nigeria’s true capital—without Nigerians ever being asked.

If the institutional drift raises suspicion, the budgetary figures remove all doubt.

Consider the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, a flagship federal project championed by the Tinubu administration. The road, stretching roughly 700 kilometres, has been reported in multiple credible sources as costing between N14 trillion and N15 trillion when completed. Even the first tranche alone approved by the Federal Executive Council—N1.334 trillion for about 130 kilometres—is staggering.


Now place that figure beside the reality of northern Nigeria.

According to compiled 2025 approved state budgets:

Yobe State: N320.8 billion

Gombe State: under N500 billion

Taraba State: under N500 billion

Nasarawa State: under N500 billion

Adamawa State: under N500 billion

Seven of the ten states with the smallest budgets in Nigeria are in the North. The combined budgets of the ten lowest-spending states nationwide amount to about N4.2 trillion.

Let that sink in.

A single federal road corridor, anchored in Lagos and running along the coast, is projected to cost over three times the combined annual budgets of ten Nigerian states, most of them northern. Even the N1.334 trillion first phase alone is larger than the entire annual budget of multiple northern states.

This is not development. This is concentration.

While trillions flow southward into concrete, glass, and coastal highways, the North is bleeding.


Insurgency and banditry continue to cripple the North-East and North-West.

According to displacement tracking data, millions of Nigerians remain internally displaced, with the highest concentration in northern states.

Poverty indices consistently show the highest multidimensional poverty rates in the North.

Literacy figures reveal a scandalous educational divide, with some northern states recording single-digit literacy rates, while parts of the South approach near-universal literacy.


These are not abstract statistics. They translate into: children out of school, communities cut off by insecurity, markets unable to function, states trapped in survival mode.

And yet, when the Tinubu administration reaches for its biggest chequebook, it reaches—not northward—but towards Lagos.

Let this be clear: Lagos is not the enemy. Lagos is industrious, vibrant, and economically vital. But no federation survives when one city becomes the gravitational centre of everything—capital, institutions, infrastructure, and influence—while others are treated as afterthoughts.


Abuja was created to prevent exactly this outcome. It was meant to neutralise regional dominance, balance power, and symbolise national ownership. What Tinubu’s Lagos-centric governance does is quietly undo the philosophy of the Nigerian federation, not by law, but by practice.

A federation does not collapse only through coups or constitutions. Sometimes it collapses through budget lines, headquarters relocations, and silent administrative decisions.

To the North, the message is clear: endure insecurity and poverty while watching national wealth pass you by.

To the South East, already starved of federal presence, the message is familiar: you are not a priority.

To the South South, the resource zone of the federation, the message is bitterly ironic: your oil may fund the centre, but the centre lives elsewhere.

And to Lagos, the message is unmistakable: you are the centre of the republic.

President Tinubu owes Nigerians an answer—not rhetoric, not slogans, but an answer grounded in policy logic:

Is Nigeria still a federation, or is it being reorganised around Lagos by stealth?


Because when: federal agencies move,
regulatory power relocates, development banks follow and trillions in infrastructure spending cluster in one axis, then what is happening is not accidental.

And that choice, left unchecked, risks turning Nigeria into a country where citizenship depends on geography, and national unity becomes a slogan rather than a lived reality.

History has shown—again and again—that nations do not fracture only from rebellion. Sometimes, they fracture from neglect dressed up as efficiency.

Nigeria should be careful.



Bello Doka can be reached via bellodoka82@gmail.com

Abuja Network News

https://dailytrust.com/is-tinubu-relocating-nigerias-capital-to-lagos-piece-by-piece/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHn9RZ2WTOpYwOM9Ea8F8rPK1CvTsSpgsH4QIB-v4SF4xqwHwZBnkJPDPQQuy_aem_d_F4WWBJbgajoEbgDHMuGg&noamp=available

How much is the security budget going to the North and South? The development in the north has been substituted for banditry and terrorism. When 90% of the security budget of this nation is being spent in the North, the other parts of the country should be left undeveloped because of that?

Stop the terrorists in your region and the defence budget will be allocated for development. You cannot eat your cake and still have it. The nonsense Buhari tolerated in his government is what is biting you hard over there now. Nigeria does not start and end in the North.



Sigh!

helinues:
No to Yayi. It's as simple as ABC

😀😀😀😀😀

It is very obvious you have a thing or two against Yayi. He is our choice. Learn to live with that.

helinues:
Because both was supported/influenced by Ogun central people. If Egba and Yewa /Awori present a governorship candidate in 2027, Ogun central candidate will win in Ogun West because apart from them in OW not united, it's the Ogun central people that control the politics of Ogun West

Let me laugh at this. You still live in the past, I repeat.

helinues:
If Yayi is the candidate the Ogun West people will be presenting in 2027, they should forget about it

Ogun West are minority in Ogun state politics. Infact, it's Ogun central people that command the politics of the area. Find better candidate apart from Yayi or loose out

You won't rest on the westerner's choice. If you have your central candidate, present it and stop hiding behind a finger. The sky is big enough for everybody to project his candidate.

Burob:
Colonial black man mentality in 2026? what a shame.

For your sanity, you better stop engaging people like this.

Who's Imala? I'm awori, 100. You still don't understand what's going on. You still much believe in the past.

helinues:
Imala people, hahahah. I have been wasting my time with you . Aje. You don't know jack about Ogun state local politics

helinues:
Let me make it logically for you.

From my own analysis, it's likely possible that Ijebu will be presenting candidate in 2027 which is automatically game over for Ogun West.

If Ijebu is presenting a candidate, either DA or OGD will support them but the 2 of them can't. Likely possible OGD.

DA and his group from Ogun East would rather align with Ogun central as they don't share much with Ogun West people.

So who will Ogun West people align with, if Egba will also be presenting candidate?

A possibility of Ijebus aligning with the Egbas is also same with aligning with the West. The westerners are more unified now in Yayi than any other time and when the ongoing negotiations becomes right, even the egbas will support the Westerner.

helinues:
Ogun East are always into 2 ( OGD and DA), while Ijebu as one. One of the 3 will align with Ogun central

Egba and Owu are one, plus awori, one from Ijebu axis and still grounded in Yewa axis. Game over

During the last Ojude Oba, one artist was shouting Ijebu lokan Ijebu lokan meaning the Ijebu people might present governorship candidate in 2027 even upon DA about to complete 8 years.

Pay attention to the local politics on ground not the media news

Everybody will fall in line when the big bell rings. Every region can aspire to become whatever they want but the realest will prevail at the end. It's a matter of time before everyone falks in line. Mind you, awori people can never align with the egbas in 2027.

helinues:
The conclusion from your epistle is you are only being optimistic but not interested in being realistic

Optimism isn't a belief that things will automatically get better; it is a conviction that we can make and do things better. We believe and are working towards our belief. You cannot control the western politics forever. Wake up.

helinues:
You can see how high your derision is. Politicians from the same zone with supporters will be relegated when they supposed to work in unison.

You are sounding confused with your analysis

All spoilers will take the back seat and the son with the highest chances will be pres3nted and voted. Watch and see, your analysis should focus on the Egbas you're promoting.

helinues:
You are grounded and you don't know how irrelevant the politicians from your region are in Ogun state.

Continue with your derision

Irrelevant because you are still stuck in the past. No champion forever and the Central people will feel the heat. Egba controls the yewa and the aworis right? You'll wake up from your slumber when the yewa anthem starts singing in Oke Mosan.

helinues:
Realignment when the election is how many months now?

GNI, Yayi and Akinlande can't be playing entirely different politics while the region is clamouring to present the governor in 2027 and at the same time, blaming others for your internal scuttle

Akinlade and GNI will be relegated this time. YAYI is fully in control of the West now, 90%.

helinues:
You are not getting the points. Have Yewa not been presenting Senators and House of reps members for decades? Why should Sango Ota road still be in dilapidated situation? How are the governors from other regions winning election in Yewa axis upon how all of them have been neglecting/abandoning the region?

You know little about Ogun politics

You are delusional with the current happenings in the state's politics. I'm fully grounded in the politics and your arguments are no longer realistic.


I.told you no one stays in a place forever when he has growth instinct. Time is evolving and you are still stuck in the past.

Notable sons and daughters of the West are now actively engaging the relevant stakeholders from the axis, the West must develop.

Do you know the amount of construction and repairs going on in the western axis as we speak? The recent online attack the Darudapo governor received from the axis even made him cry on a live TV.

helinues:
Funny you.

You are talking about Yayi's governorship ambition from Yewa right.

Akinlande and GNI who are the top politicians from Yewa, do they share same ideology with Yayi? Even if those 3 are in the same camp, their ideologies have always been different
Same top 3 that supposed to be sharing ideas together

Ogun west people can't be playing internal saboteur game while shifting the blames on others

You'll see the realignment when the time is right. Yayi is the man to beat this time coupled with the presidential backing he might get. All fingers crossed.

helinues:
Unfortunately, Ogun west people politicians don't have a say in Ogun state. Unfortunately

When Badru was made DP to OGD, what achievements did she bring to the Ogun West region?

The current DP is also from that axis, I heard whenever she's coming to Abeokuta, she normally make use of the express way instead of the Sango Ota road. Politicians from Ogun West have always been like P in psychology

I wonder what impact you want a deputy to the governor to make in the state's politics. Even the SSG and CoS are more powerful than the deputy. Tell me one state where the deputy has developmental influence in the whole of the country. We know how it works and the Westerners are evolving with time.

helinues:
Ogun west people can not blackmail anyone. Before Amosun was rounding up his second term, the opportunity was just too Open for the Yewa people. What happen after?

Akinlande and GNI contested the next election from different party. Whose fault is that?

We know who the sponsors of GNI are at the back(Central people) to always act as a spoiler for Ogun West. Armtwisting the West at this time can never work. GNI himself mght not survive the political tornado if he misbehave this time.

helinues:
Regurgitating. Hahahaha. How many years have you read what you are calling regurgitating from me that the Egba people are now confirming.

Dey play, sha make sure you score and not own goal

In all South West states, Ogun state is the most respected by president Tinubu. It get why.

Those who are expecting imposition from above can be regarded as jokers

Egba people can gather but they can not prevail over the west this time. Ogun West politics is also evolving and developing, no one plays the stooge and takes the backseat forever. Even Asiwaju shouted Emilokan when the time was ripe.

God bless you for this. The Central always think the West are inferior to them and can never become the governor of the state. They have always been the clog in the wheel of progress of Ogun West people.

humberjade:
Here we go again! 😅 Who cares about the kingdoms. It is when people want to be mischievous that they will start highlighting the difference between Iru woro and Iru pete, whereas, we all know they belong to the same source. When it is the turn of any District, they can zone it to any of their sons or daughters, ko kan aye. But what nobody will do is arm-twist other zones to fit into their selfish agenda. Enough of this zoning nonsense. Out of 28 years, you've had 12 years, East 16, West 0, yet, it is your turn again? Jokers.

Like you guys will always say, the Ogun Governorship is not a gift, you have to fight for it. So we Westeners won't beg for it again, no more the marginalisation cry, or the scream of the "Yewa lokan" slogan. Let's go to the field and slug it out.

If it is not greed, out of the four Ministers from Ogun State, you have three. Out of the 2 ambassadorial nominees from ogun state, you have both. Still, you are laying claims to the Governorship slot in the next political dispensation as if it is kingship.

Las las, everybody go dey alright.

helinues:
Yewa politics, it's Egba people that are controlling it. Awori have always playing the same politics with Ogun central

You keep regurgitating this at every opportunity you get. This time w be different in Ogun politics. Ogun West also has the population to be a spoiler too, remember? Yayi is the candidate to beat in APC.

The locals are definitely involved in this.

[quote author=zoomzoom post=137696694][/quote]Politicians are the same . Even Obi has vowed at a time never to leave APGA. No difference in all of them.

“Those that claim that I have joined them and seek to link my good name to such a bloodthirsty, blood-lusting, accursed political association of Boko Haramists, Fulani herdsmen, genocidal maniacs, ethnic cleansers, mass murderers, ethnic supremacists, religious bigots, cow-lovers and corrupt treasury looters that have brought nothing but death, division, misery, poverty, incompetence, shame and destruction to our nation and our people will burn in hell forever!

Perfect description of Bashir Ahmad and his co sojourners under the leadership of late president Muhammad Buhari ( the figurine fulani president).

FFK was right.