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Sonofgod1990:
Terrorists collected them from the government.

Please bro how was the arsenal match with PSG

Welcome back to life Methuselah, Arsenal won the match. Don't forget to collect your N20m win from Sportybet

Gotocourt:
Theft/insecurity
Loan
Employee
Bad location
Inexperience
Expensive rent
Energy (run from fuel (petrol & diesel), use solar.


Most businesses fail in this bad economy, lots of new businesses around me can't renew rent😥.

*If you watch Nigerians in the diaspora closely, you’ll notice a pattern.*

They send millions home to buy land.

They:
- Build houses in Lekki.
- Estates in Abuja.
- Warehouses in Ogun.
- Land in Owerri, Aba and Onitsha.

*But they rarely build operating businesses.*

Ask them why and the answer is usually the same:

*“If my eyes are not on it, it will grow wings.”*

So they stay abroad:
* Running pharmacies
* Managing care homes
* Driving trucks
*sending money home to assets that sleep.*

The land appreciates either.

But the business never starts.

*Now here’s the interesting part:*

_A Nigerian in Lagos can start a business in London, put another Nigerian in charge, and sleep well._

But
_that same Nigerian in London cannot start a business in Lagos, put a Nigerian in charge, and sleep at all._

* Same people.
* Same blood.
* Different environments.

*This is not primarily a trust problem.*

*It is a systems problem.*

The same Nigerian who won’t trust his brother to manage a supermarket in Lagos will gladly hire a Nigerian to run a logistics company in Manchester.

*Why?*

Because in Manchester, *the system enforces the agreement.*

In Lagos, *the agreement often enforces nothing.*

Trust is not just about people.

It is about structure.

A Nigerian in Manchester trusts another Nigerian in Manchester *because the system makes trust cheap.*

A Nigerian in Lagos distrusts another Nigerian in Lagos *because the system makes trust expensive.*

The person is the same.

The environment changes the behaviour.

This is why smart business owners focus less on
*“finding honest people”*
and more on building systems.

Don’t recruit for character alone.
Build for accountability.

Don’t pray for honest employees.
Create structures where honesty is the easiest option.

*Your brother in Manchester is not magically more honest than your brother in Mushin.*

He is simply in an *environment where honesty pays better.*

Change the environment,
and the behaviour changes too.

*Copied*

Ade2024:
Please my advice to nigeria and nigerians
Please avoid hungry politicians
Please they can do do or die politics

All polithiefcians are hungry for money, both rich and poor. So your advice should have been: avoid all polithiefcians.

OfoIgbo:
Yorubas had o hand in kidnapping Mnk.
Fulanis had no hand in sentencing Mnk.

5inubu could have released him when he fraudulently took over the presidency, but he didn't. He, along with his fellow Yoruba legal people, wilfully chose to sentence an innocent man

You are still stretching the truth mischievously again by deliberately forgetting that it was the same Fulani man that clamped your hero in DSS gulag, and started prosecuting him vigorously until the Yoruba man took over.

OfoIgbo:
Ig was Jagaban and is fellow Yoruba people that sentenced MNK 5o life imprisonment.

The Fulanis had no hand in the unjust and wicked sentencing of an innocent man with non-existent laws

Conveniently forgetting that it was a Fulani man that kidnapped him from Kenya to Nigeria is the height of hypocrisy.

vr0xen:
I don’t like the way he treated denilson igwe believe me these guys are so diabolic and fetish that guy denilson igwe was a bunch of talent today he is gone probably to Bermuda Triangle. With the spirits of heroshima and Nagasaki

Haha, Bermuda Triangle, Hiroshima and Nagasaki as destinations just for one Denilson Igwe, whaaaat, are you a winch?

TheStoriesOfMan:
I keep telling people that only three R's will save this country: Revolution, Referendum or go Regional.

Anything outside these three, na play we dey play.

You failed to add the most expedient of the options: Separation. Each region goes its own way to form another nation.

Gwazah:
No one told u it was police who took him there, una hate for police has no boundaries.
Abi u no sabi read?
Don't u see where the lawyer sue River state government and prisons officials ? U think he is afraid of suing the police if they were part of it? Kai.

You be policeman? Why are you defending them? Everyone in Nigeria knows that the policemen in Nigeria are evil and insanely corrupt.

themanderon:
I am just shedding tears. I have always said this entity of a country is inherently evil and I just don't know why. It's as if the foundation of the country was founded on wickedness and everything evil.
Just look at what this evil entity did to this man. They robbed him of his childhood, parents and Sanity. These are valuable things that can never be replaced.
People have to take responsibility for this evil. The policemen that did this are probably retired but the deed from their wickedness lives on.
The thought that there are so many cases like this of people languishing in jail without trial shudders me.
Everything is truly wrong with this country.

"The thought that there are so many cases like this of people languishing in jail without trial shudders me.
Everything is truly wrong with this country."

Arsenal should win. If PSG lost, no qualms they won it last year, and they should be satisfied with that.

gaskiyamagana:
If you like say yes, if you don't, na your wahala be that.

Instead of you to spend your time watch Arsenal Vs PSG match, you dey waka follow me up and down on a toxic Nairaland thread. I don't shift my fight go another thread, see you there.

Penguin2:
One thing I have noticed about Tinubu supporters, especially most of those of his ethnic stock, is the fact that they would rather look for silly things to diffuse attention to rather than say the truth and hold government accountable.

Since the Oyo kidnapping happened, not once, I mean, not once has this people called out the government for its failures. For heaven’s sake, even in our constitution it is stated there that the primary responsibility of government is security. It is when people are secure that you will build infrastructure for them. It is a secure people that will stay alive to enjoy the benefits of a repositioned economy; since that’s the only thing Tinubu supporters have accepted he achieved.

However, rather than hold Tinubu accountable for failing on this basic task of ensuring security for his own kit and kin, his supporters are rather looking for who posted what, and who retweeted what?

And I ask… the posts you are vituperating about, are they wrong? Or you simply hate hearing the truth?

Now, to the post you people are saying it’s mockery of Oyo kidnap victims, how is it mockery because I can’t see it?

Peter Okoye simply made a post recognizing people’s right to choose their preferred candidate to vote but stated however, that everyone will be held accountable for their choices and that choices have consequences.

Now, someone responded in agreement to him and attached the pictures of the Oyo Kidnap victims plus other victims of mass slaughter by bandits as a direct consequence of the choices some people made in 2023.

Now, I ask, where is the mockery?

Is Peter Okoye wrong to state that choices have consequences?

Or the respondent who attached pictures of victims of banditry wrong to attach those photos as a direct consequence of the choices some of you made in 2023? Is it not?

We had different candidate who dwelt heavily on how he was going to end insecurity and ensure that every inch of Nigeria is accounted for but you dismissed him and went for someone who didn’t even say anything about what he would differently from the Buhari administration regarding insecurity.

Now, people are telling you that everything that has happened in this country since Tinubu was sworn in 2023 and the things happening now, are all direct consequences of the choice you made in 2023 and you dare call it mockery?

Is it mockery or you’re just too dishonest to accept the truth and make amends?

And what I find most heart wrenching is that Obembet who made that post is supposedly a MOD on this platform which is pathetic.

I will conclude with this…. In 2014, prior to the 2015 general elections, over 200 children were kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State. Tinubu, Buhari and all their lackeys championed the “Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG)” campaign against the Jonathan government until it became a global phenomenon drawing the attention of Michelle Obama and other American celebrities.

Was that act mockery of the Chibok girls or genuine outrage and desire for a change of administration to someone who could do better?

Keep on mocking us in our present predicament, we have the thick skin to absorb it. Bring all the foulest imprecations to shame us because our son's head was cut off in the bush by the demons from the pit of gehenna, it is your time to shine, shine on.

But my question is when did our voting rights become the determinant of terrorism in Nigeria, which has been plaguing the nation since 2011?

And going further, what gave you and Peter the assurance that when we support your townsman in politics to rule over us, the terrorism will suddenly disappear?

Therefore, continue to mock us, this one will also pass. And when we cross to the other side, we know who to trust, and who to be decisively pushed out of our optic.

gaskiyamagana:
The same way your tulubu is worsening it, abi. A ri t'eni eleni mo wi afa'padi bo tie mole, abi?

Small Yaro, you get it all wrong, the adage you quoted actually applies to you.

geoworldedu:
That guy thought that there's nothing he could do better again in Nigeria and he thought the only way forward is to replicate Tinubu's drug life. Now see where he got himself.

Keep on mocking your townsman in Indian jail. 15 years in an Indian jail is like 30 years in a Nigerian gulag.

anonimi:
If he was never CHARGED to court, how come he forfeited $460,000 to the US government to avoid jail like that useless oba in Osun state

Atiku's political jobber on the beat again. Your master will be happy paying your stipend this month. He has won his abracadabra nomination election again. Remains the big platform in February 2027, where he will fail again.

gaskiyamagana:
May you not fall victim of your master's clueless on security in other to witness your Payback.

The same way your Buhari and Elrufai were masterminds of the insecurity and clueless on how to rein in the demons they unleash upon the country.

Skullminers1:
I hope you know this one is Peter Okoye you Yorubas love with passion because he married Lola your sister and this is not Paul Okoye(Rude boy)you people hate with passion for no just reason.
Any Igbo that sing una praises you will people will pretend you love the person but the moment the person says honest and bitter truth just like Peter Okoye did he automatically become you people's enemy and I pity those Igbos that allows you people to deceive them like Soludo,Dave Umahi,etc

He too will pay. His diatribes against us will be tolerated just a little time more, then.....

We never forget too. We are keeping tabs on all your utterances. Payback time draws near. Keep mocking us.

CULPRITS: The Indictment Nigerians Were Never Meant to Read

Dele Ogun's "Culprits: The People and the Paper That Made Nigeria" is not a history book. It is a murder investigation. And the body is still warm.

For two hundred years, we have been told that the Fulani jihad was a religious reformation. For a hundred years, we have been told that the 1914 Amalgamation was an act of administrative convenience. For sixty years, we have been told that Nigeria's problems are our own fault, tribalism, corruption, laziness.

Everything you have been told is a lie. Dele Ogun, a London-based constitutional lawyer of thirty years' experience, has done what Nigerian historians have been too afraid to do. He has followed the paper trail. And the paper trail leads straight to Whitehall.

This is not a work of emotion. It is a work of forensic accounting. Ogun, called to the Bar in 1985 and a solicitor in London since 1995, approaches the creation of Nigeria the way a prosecutor approaches a crime scene: with documents, ledgers, treaties, and sworn statements. He owns his own publishing company, Lawless Publications, because no mainstream publisher would touch what he has uncovered.

The book's central argument is simple but devastating. Nigeria's dysfunction is not an accident. It is a mathematical output of a deliberately flawed blueprint designed by the British Empire to maximize extraction.

Ogun writes with the precision of a lawyer and the fire of a prophet. Each chapter is a count in an indictment. Each footnote is a nail in a coffin. And by the time you finish the book, you will understand that the Nigerian state is not a nation, it is a corporation. And you are not a citizen. You are a shareholder with no dividends.

The Hidden Hand: How America Broke the British Empire

Ogun proves that the real driver of African decolonization was not Harold Macmillan's "Winds of Change" speech of 1960. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president, who extracted a secret commitment from Winston Churchill in 1941: the liquidation of the British Empire was the price for American entry into World War II.

The Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941, which pledged self-determination for all colonized peoples, was not a moral awakening. It was a deal. Churchill, desperate to bring America into the war against Hitler, agreed to dismantle the empire his ancestors had spent centuries building. Implementation was delayed only by Roosevelt's death and the onset of the Cold War.

Ogun pulls back the curtain on this geopolitical chess match, revealing that African nations did not win their independence through peaceful negotiation or violent struggle alone. They were handed a pre-packaged form of sovereignty, a flag independence that left all the economic and administrative levers firmly in British hands. Nigeria's constitution was written in London, not Lagos. Its civil service was trained to serve the Crown, not the people. Its military was structured to protect British interests, not Nigerian borders.

This is the first indictment: Nigerian independence was a theatrical performance. The script was written in Whitehall. The audience was the world. And the actors were our own leaders.

The Paper That Condemned Us

Ogun then turns his scalpel to the infamous Paper, the treaties, colonial edicts, and administrative acts that forced over 371 ethnic groups into a single geographic prison. He proves that the 1914 Amalgamation was not a marriage of northern and southern protectorates. It was a corporate bailout.

The landlocked Northern Protectorate was running a massive deficit. The Southern Protectorate held a massive surplus from coastal customs duties. The British solution was to Shackle them together and call it a nation. The North got a lifeline. The South got a burden. And both got a colonial administrator named Lord Lugard, who was less a governor and more a CEO of a failing conglomerate.

Ogun provides the financial ledgers. He reproduces the internal memoranda. He names the civil servants who designed this "extractive blueprint." The goal was never to build a nation. The goal was to build a machine for resource extraction, groundnuts from the North, palm oil from the East, cocoa from the West, and tin from the Plateau. All of it shipped to British factories. All of it processed into British goods. All of it sold back to Nigerians at British prices.

This is the second indictment: Nigeria was not born. It was manufactured. And its manufacturers were not interested in its survival beyond their profit margins.

The Betrayal of the Fulani Elite: A Two-Century Crime

But Ogun does not stop with the British. He names the local collaborators. And here, the book becomes a mirror in which every Hausa person must look.

The British did not invent the emirate system. They inherited it from the Fulani jihad of 1804. And they preserved it because it was the most efficient machine for controlling the Hausa masses. One Fulani emir could collect taxes, enforce order, and deliver groundnuts to the railway station. The British provided weapons and legitimacy. The Fulani provided obedience and information.

The scale of the crime is staggering. By 1900, the Sokoto Caliphate had at least 1 million slaves, and perhaps as many as 2.5 million. This made it the second-largest slave society in the modern world, second only to the American South. Slave-raiding devastated vast regions and almost depopulated the countryside, hampering the commercial activity of major cities like Zaria and Kano. The annual tribute to the Sultan of Sokoto was paid by the Emir of Kano and all other chiefs in the form of slaves, and these slaves were "nearly all raided from the neighbouring outlying villages". Charles H. Robinson, a British observer, reported that 500 slaves could often be seen for sale in the Kano market in a single day. He estimated that if the whole population of the world were brought together, one out of every three hundred would be a Hausa-speaking slave. He also stated that if London were emptied, the city could be filled by the slaves held in captivity in Hausaland.

Ogun documents how the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano, and other Fulani traditional rulers were given guarantees of their continued authority under British rule. In exchange, they agreed to suppress any resistance, to deliver taxes, and to ensure that the Hausa masses remained docile. The British called this "Indirect Rule." Ogun calls it what it is: a deal with the devil.

This is the third indictment: The Fulani elite are not innocent victims of colonialism. They are its willing agents. And they have been cashing the checks ever since.

The Betrayal of Abdussalami Bagimbame: The Hyena's Share

Ogun's book resonates powerfully with the story of Malam Abdussalami Bagimbame, a Hausa scholar and one of Usman dan Fodio's most trusted followers. Abdussalami fought in the jihad, helped establish the Caliphate, and then watched as the spoils were divided exclusively among the Fulani elite.

After the death of Shehu Usmanu Danfodiyo, Abdussalami wrote a bitter letter to Sultan Muhammadu Bello, recorded in Bello's own book, Saddur Kalam. Abdussalami drew a map showing how the conquered lands were divided:

·The West went to Abdullahi Danfodiyo, the Shehu's brother

· The South went to Atiku and Buhari, the Shehu's sons

·The East went to Muhammadu Bello, the Shehu's son

·The North went to Aliyu Jaido, the Shehu's son-in-law, and his two sons

Then Abdussalami asked the question that echoes across two centuries: "I, Abdussalami, where is my share?" He stated that he had received nothing but his pre-jihad farm and the plot of land for his grave. He called this "rabon kura" the hyena's share.

The Caliphate's response was swift and brutal. Sultan Muhammadu Bello charged Abdussalami with treason, led a military campaign against him, and had him killed. An arrow pierced Abdussalami as he fled toward Zamfara. The Fulani elite had used the Hausa to fight their war, and then discarded them.

This is not ancient history. This is the DNA of the Nigerian state. The pattern of using Hausa scholars, soldiers, and commoners to secure power, only to push them aside, has never stopped. Ogun's book exposes this pattern at the national level, but it began in the palaces of Sokoto.

This is the fourth indictment: The Nigerian state did not invent exploitation. It inherited it from the Fulani Caliphate. The same elites who betrayed Abdussalami in 1817 are the same elites who betray the Hausa masses today.

The Betrayal by Southern Elites: The Fifth Wall

Ogun does not spare the South either. He exposes how the Yoruba and Igbo elites also collaborated with the British, competing for colonial favors, dividing their own people, and laying the foundation for the ethnic tensions that would explode into civil war in 1967. He names the politicians who signed the pre-independence constitutions without demanding real sovereignty. He names the lawyers who advised the colonial office on how to keep Nigeria together for British benefit.

The Fourth Republic itself, Ogun argues, is not a democracy. It is a managed democracy, a system where elections are held, but outcomes are predetermined; where politicians rotate, but policies remain the same; where the people vote, but the real power resides in the same extractive machinery that Lugard installed in 1914.

This is the fifth indictment: Nigerian elites, across all ethnic groups, have been complicit in the continuation of the colonial project. They have traded the liberation of their people for personal power.

The Orange Union: A Path Forward

The book concludes with a radical proposal: the Orange Union, a true, voluntary federation of ethnic nations, each maintaining its "fullness of identity, self-determination and integrity" under a shared protective union. Ogun explains the metaphor: "As with the fruit, it is a concept whereby humanity enjoys the peaceful harmony of a union within which the separate segments are distinctly and uniquely covered by a soft internal border, while the shared cover is the much firmer peeling acting as the external border to the rest of the world."

This is not secession. This is honesty. Ogun argues that "real nationalists are those who believe in their identities as Yoruba, Hausa, Ijaw, Ogoni, Kanuri, etc. organic and God-given identities" that sustained us for thousands of years before the colonialists came and caused their confusion. The "tag of nationalism" has been used as a dirty word by "servants of the colonial confusionists" to keep Nigeria trapped in its original prison.

He points out the hypocrisy: in Britain, it is acceptable to wave the Welsh flag or the Scottish flag without being called a separatist. In Nigeria, to speak of ethnic nations is seen as "the politics of hatred." The Orange Union would allow each ethnic nation to govern its internal affairs, while cooperating on defense, currency, and external trade. It would end the forced marriage that has produced nothing but violence, poverty, and despair.

This is the sixth indictment: The Nigerian state has criminalized the very idea of self-determination, while pretending to be a democracy. The Orange Union is not a threat to peace. It is the only path to peace.

Why Every Hausa Man Must Read This Book

The Hausa are 80 million strong across West Africa. We have the numbers. We have the land. We have the history. We have the economic muscle. What we lack is the will to organize, the courage to confront, and the patience to build.

This book is the weapon we have been waiting for. It proves that our suffering was not ordained by Allah. It was drafted in Whitehall and implemented in the palaces of Sokoto. The Fulani elite were not victims of colonialism. They were junior partners. And they have been junior partners ever since.

Ogun warns that "those behind the Nigerian state see the IPOB leader as a threat to the continuation of Nigeria as it is." The same applies to any Hausa man who asks why he cannot be emir in Kano. The same applies to any Hausa woman who asks why her children must beg on the streets while Fulani children fly to London for university. The Nigerian state was designed to suppress such questions.

Reading Culprits is an act of rebellion. Owning a copy is a declaration of war against the colonial confusion that has kept us enslaved. Sharing it is the first step toward building the Orange Union.

The Verdict

Culprits is a chef-d'œuvr. It is a gripping cinematic detail of the greed of Empire and the lots of its victims even after hundred years. It is essential reading for every Hausa intellectual, every Hausa student, every Hausa farmer who has ever wondered why his people are the permanent servants of a foreign elite.

The problem is not Nigerians. The problem is Nigeria. And the solution is not to wait for a messiah. The solution is to understand the blueprint, dismantle the prison, and build something new.

Ogun has given us the indictment. Now we must sit as the jury. The evidence is overwhelming. The witnesses have testified. The documents have been submitted. The only question remaining is: what is your verdict?

Will you continue to accept the colonial prison? Or will you join the movement to build the Orange Union, a voluntary federation of free Hausa, free Yoruba, free Igbo, free Ijaw, free Ogoni, free Kanuri, and free every other ethnic nation that wishes to govern itself in dignity and peace?

The choice is yours. But make no mistake: silence is a verdict too. And history will judge you for it.

This book is not just a history. It is a manual for liberation. It is the most important book written about Nigeria in the last fifty years. Every Hausa household that can read must own a copy. Every Hausa leader who claims to speak for the people must read it. Every Hausa youth who dreams of a better future must study it.

Khaleed Yazeed
Founder, Wakilin Yamma Youth Development Network
Katsina State, Nigeria
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samuelson06:
You'll make no example of him. Did the report say the video was seen in any of his social media channels? Did the report say they have a link of the video and that link takes them to VDM's channel? You guys would just be talking without thinking. Is VDM the person that posted the so-called video? So you think you're more intelligent than VDM? You people should go sit down somewhere please. You don't have anything against that guy.

The same thing you said concerning El Rufia, and for the past two months he has been held under DSS gulag, and you have done nothing to help him. Except to mock him additionally.

Mrexcell:
Obi isn't popular but yet defeated ur tinibu in his lagos and even in abuja including inside aso rock the word popular might really mean something else to u.

Let your Obi come and do that again in 2027. Your toxicity has driven well intentioned voters far away from him.

CLOUDRepublic:
All the Promises he made to voters did he also fulfill them
If you had, you would have won the Primaries fair and square

Rather he was busy grabbing helpless people's lands up and down, and jailing them if they protest.

Now power has returned to the people.

Chelsea started the season with series of red cards and they are ending it with the same.

Sunderland is above Chelsea on the league table, and they are playing at home, so it is expected that they will beat Chelsea in this match. Moreso they are playing better than Chelsea's ragtag team.

Biodun1929:
"Obasa remains the best politician I've seen when it comes to giving back to his community... "


Which community in particular, and can you give me examples of what he gave back? I'm genuinely curious, no malicious intent.

He gave you one good example of Obasa's magnanimity to his immediate constituents, the Bokku cheap Supermart, you deliberately decided to ignore that, and you are still MALICIOUSLY asking him to do so.

Are you winch?

It seems Nairaland has run out of useful articles, or what is the purpose of all the mundane topics its mods are pushing to the front page lately?

zoghys:
Just because am not an ethnic bigot like you doesn't make me lesser Yoruba than your like. Paper and internet warrior like you don't know anything about us, the true Omoluabi, who still believe in humanity. Exchanging message with you is a waste of time, enjoy your low esteem life.

The true omoluabi does not denigrate his lineage.

A low esteemed person is one that does not value his culture, his people and his heritage.

There is one Yoruba adage that aptly captures your case, but I won't insult you with it.

zoghys:
Am not one of your co loosers who judge based on ethnicity or tribal affiliation. Am 100 percent Yoruba and precisely Remo, ogun state. I have met with corrupt and drug stricken Yorubas as much as other ethnicity in this country. Am first human, before my religion, colour, gender or tribe. So suck on it and jog on.

Unwanted alien, claiming to be what you are not.

Please you are far away from home, keep trekking on, your destination is still upfront, and not on our noble Remo land

2:0 by Chelsea. Tottenham on hot seat.

Chelsea should be magnanimous tonight by allowing Hotspur to draw to save their face.

The thread so dry. Everyone was busy watching Bournemouth (Arsenal) Vs Man. City game. Arsenal has won this year EPL Cup.