₦airaland Forum

henkey:
These people doesn't deserve extra day.

They should immediately send him to his ancestors after confession.

Well, after identifying the alhaji.

Bluna:
France ✅
Spain ✅
England ✅
Argentina ✅

Morocco ❎
Belgium ❎
Norway ❎
Switzerland ❎

France will not get past Morocco.

silibaba:
Musa yaradua work with it and it was perfect

Yar Adua achieved nothing.

Kanwulia:
Tell you Guinea Fowl president to leave Nigeria alone first. I am more of a Nigerian than TIFFYNUBU.👍🏽

You're not a Nigerian to start with.
You want to burn your Nigerian passport, remember?

Ofunaofu:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/07/07/breaking-gbajabiamila-threatens-10bn-defamation-suit-gives-adeniyi-adeyemi-72-hours-to-retract-allegations/

Bro. Gbaja still wan collect the initial 10billion

lalasticlala:
It's one year already.

Happy birthday to my twins - Delight and Destiny.

#Ejima #Ibeji

Happy birthday ladies 🎉

It's very easy to spot the second born 😁

Kanwulia:
As she no gree comot nko?🙄
Very annoying!
I will wait o. I don wanno go to any dorty Nigerian consulate to get visa. 😁
Till then, you will not sleep on NL.🌹

What you can never see on the tallest building on the planet, she's seeing it lying down.
Oya leave Nigerians alone na. You complain more than us. Wetin happen?

oneMalik:
Na Tinubu still make you father failed you as a parent ?

if your father put more effort maybe na him for be presido now .... here you are blaming another man for your papa failure .

Omoh! So people are so poor in detecting sarcasm? Damn!

Kanwulia:
Tufiakwaaaaaaaaaaa!
I have not lived in Nigeria for over 30 years and will NEVER live in such a shytehole!😂
Twaaaaaaah!!!!


Just waiting to remove my mom from there and burn my passport.😍

Instead I will go to LIBYA!🍷

Why do you need your Mom to be removed from Nigeria before burning your passport?
Burn it now and face wherever you are, so we can rest on nairaland.

Since everyone decides to go mad.
This is July so far. You don't want to see for June, but I'll be a liar if I tell you this for food only.

There's more food security in the north than the south east.

Namaster:
Your sister is 31-year old and DESPERATE.
She's been WAITING for a man to call her OWN for nearly a DECADE.

Plus, she's clearly one of those people born with a built-in NGO software—ALWAYS on the lookout for a project to FIX.

Add that to being CHURCHY and you have a HORRIBLE decision maker like your sister.

The "brother" is banking on the CHURCHINESS of your sister to perpetrate his SCHEME.

His declarations of becoming a "Pastor" is also a RUSE.
With that frame perfectly established from the get-go, he can use BIBLICAL platitudes like being the "head of the family" and "wives submitting to their husbands" to SCAM your sister.

She will make the money.
And be FORCED to let the SCAMMER decide how it's spent.

Your sister is about to learn a very HARSH lesson.
By the time she's done with her education, she'd have become a Single Mother of THREE at 40.

Unfortunately, there is NOTHING you can do.
Women love FORBIDDEN love.

Telling her she's making a TERRIBLE mistake will just HARDEN her resolve.
Plus, it's going to make it more DIFFICULT for her to approach you for HELP when the man INEVITABLY starts showing her PEPPER.

Also, logic will NOT work with her.
Let her LEARN.

It's only MADNESS (and DESPERATION) that'd drive a Master's Degree Holder to be UNEQUALLY YOKED with a 35+ person with ONLY Primary 6 certificate and a VAGUE forward-looking statement of becoming a Pastor.

MADNESS!

Well, I couldn't agree more.

Na wa o. See book of Lamentations.

altteemy:
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3

They all make sense

[quote author=LegendHero post=139905072]

My dear wife, the first Lady, Iya Alakara.

-- President Tinubu at the Presidential Press Corps Dinner 😭😂😂 pic.twitter.com/gL0jkyaEhK

— UPDATEBOYZ  (@Updateboyx) July 2, 2026

werey 😂
Now everyone can rest since the president has owned up to his wife selling akara

Prestar:
My dear wife, the first Lady, Iya Alakara.

-- President Tinubu at the Presidential Press Corps Dinner

My dear wife, the first Lady, Iya Alakara.

-- President Tinubu at the Presidential Press Corps Dinner 😭😂😂 pic.twitter.com/MwqV8qjexi

— Star Potter (@Starpotternews) July 2, 2026

Tinubu is funny in some ways.

ozo13:
I came across something yesterday while reading a blog. I was meant to take a screenshot, but somehow I didn't. Someone raised the question, what if South Africa has long been shouldering the consequences of poor leadership elsewhere in Africa, and is simply tired of it

How many foreigners are even in that country to start with? We have more other Africans living in Nigeria than you'll ever get in south Africa. Why are we not killing them like savages?

renderme:
Source:

Speaking further on the planned NYSC reform, the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, revealed that the NYSC orientation camp would be restructured into three phases:

- The first two weeks will focus on civic responsibility, national… https://t.co/VLZr9znbE9 pic.twitter.com/hHZibUASFB

— Nigerian Affairs Journal (@NigAffairs) June 29, 2026

Nice initiative. However, I'd like the national service to be like 3 months training instead of 2 weeks, then the rest of the time for industry experience.

diabeticdeals:
ABU, Zaria didn't make the cut, shocking!

Seriously? You didn't see Ahmadu Bello University on that list?

CodeTemplar:
So if you give SMEs power or Solar systems, they will reject it and ask you to dash your children instead?
Your sense is paining you. Walahi.

I'm not aware those complaining are even into SMEs. You want government to give solar systems to people without the skills or do you think people who have solar installations skills would need that kind of grant?
I'm sure you're not blind to see my own personal experience. I'm sure you'd have know the reaction to it if the first lady gave that example too.

CodeTemplar:
In a country exporting billions of dollars of raw material, see what someone is typing in support of wicked insensitive leaders.
Such scale of empowerment is suitable for alhajis and middleclass Nigerians like the OP. Remi Tinubu with her office should be sending out kits to 100,000 farmer or solar kits to 100,000 SMEs or or to producers of everyday goods.

The reactions would have been the same.
If I was to give same speech as madam Remi based on my personal experience, I would cited a different example, but the reaction would have been that I should tell my children to start it first. Are my children unemployed and looking for a means of living? No!
I started pig farming after school. I used the proceeds to fund my software engineering training in Bulgaria 3 years later.
The price of a used iPhone XR is more than what you need to start the same business today. It's about getting your priorities right in life, which I see most people don't seems to get.

mactoni91:
Mention 100 Nigerians out of over 200m Nigerian that has built a house with 50k Akara business.

Sometimes, you guys just vomit rubbish

How many Nigerians earning 500k monthly today do you think can buy a house?
The business won't grow to be able to build a house from the proceeds if not started.
You want to start something and see returns immediately and that's why many of you will continue to fall victim to MMM-like Ponzi schemes.
Do you think we have people making a living from these businesses? I do because I know many people who have trained graduates doing these businesses you think it's worthless.

geoworldedu:
A grant of 50k to 100k can't do anything sustainable. People who are using 300k to do businesses are even folding up , not to talk of someone with just 50k. The money won't last one week.

Grant of 100k is more than enough to start or empower those into akara or kulikuli business.
I don't think she's asking graduates to go into the business. 60% Nigerians don't need millions to make it in life. Most of them just need a little raise to pick up, but you won't realize how much 100k is worth if you've not given it to those who actually need it (I'm not talking about those who use iPhones but unemployed).

budaatum:
You indeed do not understand my point. And that's not your fault, as my point on this issue is spread over many threads.

You mentioned "sane climes". Where I live, there'd be consultation and studies where such has been implemented to see the problems they faced so they can be mitigated against in advance. Nigeria, however, does not consult nor study enough.

You mentioned Texas. Texas, had many cities (or villages even, though they called them towns) at conception in the 1700s, some very far away from each other such that journeys by horse, which is all they had then, took days. That's why each town had a marshall. A federal police would not have worked. A place was not even recognised as a town until they had a marshall and a post office. And some marshalls were very prone to abuse their office, you'd find.

I do not oppose state police. I just want it implemented properly

We have to start from somewhere. Nothing starts out as 100% perfect.

nairalanda1:
Yep, we can constiutuonalize the thing, it won't make money to fund it properly magically appear.

Nigeria is a poor nation. That is evidence of our leader's failure...Nigeria is a poor nation because we don't use what we have to get us to first world level.

Lagos state for example, cannot provide proper accomodation for students in its own state university...proper decent accomodation, and you expect it to suddenly get good enuf state police?

I guess we should just suspend the constitution then because we are a "poor" nation. We are talking about the security of lives, you're talking about accomodations in Lagos state. Oga, you need to be alive before talking about getting a roof over your head.
If willing States wants to spend everything they have to secure themselves, so be it. Like I said, it should not be compulsory for every state. Katsina can decide to build homes to go round, tar and do proper landscaping for every inch of the State, while bandits kidnap their people from their new homes and match them into the forest. That's their business.

budaatum:
I'm very certain that we are talking about the "sane clime of Nigeria", and not some "climes" that have been doing it for decades and have refined it so it now works efficiently.

It definitely didn't work as effectively in Texas when it was first introduced as it does today.

The more reason why the right time to start it is yesterday. We are saying the same thing, or how do you want to refine a process you've not started yet? Governance and policy, like product management, is supposed to be an iteration, not something perfectly designed from the onset. Start, get feedback, refine, repeat. We won't get better if we don't start so I don't really understand your point.

dre11:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/06/26/nigerian-govt-should-make-senate-part-time-work-ndume/

Get to it then. Why telling us?
None of these people would pay their staff the outrageous amount of money they're being paid from the national purse to do exactly what they're doing at the national Assembly.

nairalanda1:
And I am telling you that no state can afford an effective police force.

You can disagree with me, but it is what it is. The money needed is a lot

Plus we do not just need police force, we need good forensics, detention centers, juvenile law, enough judges , because Nigeria no get enough judges, that is why people are awaiting trial up and down, good training centers, not glorified secondary school wey dem go label am police training center, and even better funding for our universiites.

Plus, we need sane police officers, or do you want somebody with a few weeks training to come and be beating you up for nuthin?

Even if na to fight fulani herdsman, we need records, etc...even forensics to be sure we are holding the right fulani herdsman , not Hamidu from Kano who is passing through to buy some things for his shop in Kano, and knows nothing.

And in some instances, we need amored vehicles, tactical gear, drones, helicopters, not just one for every state, but several, decent cars, decent vehicles, not just dangote car wey he donate to police...hilux type cars, etc.

And all that needs a lot of money.

And it all needs to be maintained and upgraded, which means heavy duty taxes. You people wey dey call me Mr Tax, you see how e go be.?

State police is not what you people think. It may not involve a Bugatti, but it is not the nansense like Amotekun that cannot take on armed bandits.

Now, call me anti-progress.

Amotekun doesn't have as much ammunition as the bandits and they can't even procure a better firepower because of the restrictions. Constitutionalizing state policing will change all that. It's now left for the individual states to adopt it or choose the other option: using monies they should be spending on state police to pay ransom.
State policing gives states the option to decide. This is supposed to be a federal government. Kano can decide to stick with hisbah, we the progressive south want something different. Is that too much to ask?

EponObi:
That's no excuse.

We can't continue this way.

If not that our founders who wrote the constitution get choco for head, how can the Federal government, as a single entity, secure the entire Nigeria? With our massive landmass, 36 states plus FCT, with over 200 tribes? How is it possible to secure Zamfara, Kogi, Kebbi, Niger Delta while some elements are planning to kidnap teachers and students in Oyo state with their massive forest reserves, some of which I'm just learning are larger than the entire Lagos state.

Every state hangs their insecurity issues on Abuja, as if the security commands in Abuja are Homelander and Superman or Spiderman. We've not even talked about the terror insurgencies that is being fought at the same time against boko haram, isis, etc.

Tinubu took the right step. Decentralization of our security architecture is the way to go.

Even the USA being the most powerful and richest country in the world doesn't use our system of national security. States handle their own security and Washington does oversight, while controlling the national Guards (alone with the states), Army, Navy, Air Force etc.

The matter of implementation of state police will go the same way as economic development. Some states will do rubbish and others like Lagos state and FCT will thrive and excel. Some will fund their state police adequately and become a model for the entire nation.

For states that mess up implementation, their citizens should hold their governors responsible. Any state that wishes can continue funding mass marriage and hajj, while neglecting their own security, it's no problem. The states with serious governments will emerge stronger and more attractive for local and foreign investments.

Maybe, just maybe this is the right trigger to open the consciousness of the citizen that's their state governments also have a responsibility to them. Na everything we look to Abuja for.

State governors who fail in securing their states, if their citizens like, they can reelect them. Like I said, the serious ones will progress massively. Secure states will become the Meccas of Nigeria.

I know for a fact that Lagos state already have their plan and are heading straight to implementation. And I know many states will only start planning as of right now. To each their own.

Let the Federal government concentrate on securing the border and taking the fight to those boko and isis boys.

Better days ahead.

I don't even know why some people have this morbid fear of State policing, or should I say, it's an impediment to their goals?
For God's sake, I don't think it's even a requirement that all states should implement it. Why should states that need it be at the mercy of the backward ones?

budaatum:
Unfortunately, I don't think the criminals and bandits in my state will only stay in my state, and it is very likely they come from my state to come do crime and banditry in your state, thereby making the incompetence in my state your state's business too just because my state stupidly spends state money on hajj.

Talking about hajj, I think I should go get a religion so my state can spend state money sending me on my own pilgrimage. I'll choose Mars as my god so they can pay Elon to send me to Mars.

How do you think it's been done in what you'd call saner climes? You commit crime in Texas and run to New Mexico and you think you'll be safe? Common!
We will still have the federal police and also collaboration with other States to apprehend any cross border criminals. This is not a logical reason to oppose State policing.
And no, it shouldn't be compulsory for states that can't afford it to have state police. We just want to make sure, States that can afford it can stop this raving madness going on. You can handover the control of your state to bandits if you want, but let others determine their own destinies.