₦airaland Forum

papagiddy:
Dis guy u funny die.... i fell from chair laughing 😃

Hope you did not break your back felling from the chair laughing over a bald statement?

Chuksgeo:
There is still way too many part of the project to be completed, I doubt if this project will be completed and worse still is that why are they doing this project such that they could invest this funds in other transport and logistics sectors like a brand new eastern railway line and fixing and upgrading all trunk A roads to accommodate railway alongside

Ask your Eastern governors to pool funds together to build a "brand new eastern railway line" like the SW governors who have initiated the same railway project across their major cities.

Kukutente23:
Well, it's obvious you're doing a poor job from what we can see
You even became an apologist for Kanu in the process
I'm sure that's not how you expected this to pan out when you set out on your futile expedition

You can only make correction to your creation.

But the original stays.

The truth can never be erased.

Kukutente23:
Maybe you should be sorry for yourself for being unable to see beyond the myopic lens of trolling Kanu

Trolling NMK? Nay.

But trolling Kukutente23? Maybe.

Kukutente23:
Yeah
Care to join him?
Too many daftos on this forum

I am only sorry for Kanu for gathering a set of psychos as followers who make open mockery of him in his adversity.

Kukutente23:
I wholeheartedly support Tinubu to invade US gun-a-blazing. But he should please draft his zombies like this dude into the all-conquering army. Afterall, they are elite forces of the Jagaban Army created in 2023
The hypocrites who praised Nigeria for invading Benin are crying and baying over Trump's call for them to arrest the insecurity in their own land
BTW, I've noticed no zombie has commented on the soldiers detained in Burkina Faso eating watery beans like Kanu since last week!!

So you are happy that your master Kanu is "eating watery beans" in Sokoto?

You must an an unworthy disciple for making mockery of your suffering deliverer.

So the President has conveyed—through the National Security Adviser—the promotion and retention of Col. NA Yusuf as his ADC.

This same Col. NA Yusuf was decorated as a Colonel in January this year, making this his second promotion within twelve months.

In the Nigerian Armed Forces, elevation from Colonel to Brigadier-General requires 5 years at the rank of Colonel and attendance at the War College or the National Defence College or its equivalent.

Col. Yusuf has attended neither.

As a 52 Regular Course officer, this promotion places him senior to officers of the 50 Regular Course who have completed both colleges and are legitimately awaiting promotion.

From 1960 to date, no President’s ADC has enjoyed such an exception.

The late President Buhari’s first ADC, then Col. M.L. Abubakar (now Brig-Gen), had to disengage from his ADC appointment to attend the National Defence College before he could be considered for promotion. He remained a Colonel for five years, in line with the Armed Forces Terms and Conditions of Service.

Today, however, we have an officer who spent barely a year as a Colonel, has not met the professional requirements, yet has been elevated to Brigadier-General—and still retained to continue performing ADC duties [as a General] an arrangement that is absolutely alien to military tradition.

This is not an isolated case within the Presidency.

The Chief Personal Security Officer to the President, CP Usman Shugaba, has reportedly received three accelerated promotions in the Police, leapfrogging peers who remain CSPs, SPs, and DSPs purely on the basis of proximity to power.

Such practices may be familiar within the Police system, but they are alien to the military, where structure, seniority, and professionalism are sacrosanct.

It is therefore not surprising that the conveying letter reportedly came from the office of the NSA—a retired police officer—effectively importing police disorder into the military institution.

But the blame does not rest there. The ultimate responsibility lies with the President, who sets the tone, authorizes the exceptions, and normalizes the erosion of standards.

This is not about Col. Yusuf. This is not even about the Police or the Military. This is about a President who appears increasingly comfortable governing by favoritism, and an administration steadily converting proximity to power into a substitute for merit.

But the real concern is not the individuals. It's the message being sent to the rank and file.

It is the silent demoralization of officers who played by the rules. It is the corrosion of trust within the ranks. It is the message that professionalism is optional if one is close enough to the throne.

When privilege overtakes process, when proximity replaces professionalism, and when rules bend for a few, the institution itself begins to rot.

A system that rewards access over merit cannot command discipline, loyalty, or trust.

This is how institutions collapse— quietly, incrementally, and from the top. And this is just one case among many.

This country. Something must give!

Validated:
The opposition should just send a high powered delegation to Washington. Present their case with the US congressional caucus on international affairs and democracy. Once Dnald Trump hears about it, both Tinubu, EFCC and co will tuck their tails in their bum-bum and run into hiding.

Who made Donald Trump and the US Congressional Caucus a brother over us that we need to run to anytime we have problem?

Have we no shame at all declaring we can't manage our political affairs by ourselves?

georgeakins:
Go and start that nonsense in your region. Go and rise against your leaders who have looted your destiny since 1960.

Nobody prevented your papa from becoming an elite.

What's your own concerning the good insurrection of the masses against the thieving elites of nation that the man is advocating for?

Are you threatened by it because you are one of the children of the elites draining the commonwealth of this nation?

The insurrection will surely arise whether you like it or not.

Unless he makes a new deal with the d£vil,

For Pete Obi in 2027,

Sope otilor.

AfonjaPriest:
Igbo lady too dey fine naturally.
No bleaching cream.
No bowlegged amala dudu contraption.
It is well, omalicha nwa.

Omalicha nwa wey Darlington don regret marrying?

You are praising the wrong one.

Garnacho nearly made it 2.

TempleHouse:
I'm disappointed NIGERIA is not mentioned ☹️

Despite our beautiful faces like Oshiomole, Wike and Sule Lamido‼️

You forgot to mention Ned Nwoko and Baba Obasanjo, and sorry Obaseki.

After they have looted Osun State blind.

Poor Osun State, Oyebamiji will restore your lost glory.

Nwaikpe:
Ok, seems like the question was too tough, so I will help:

In a democracy, the government, elected by the majority, speaks for ALL.
Meaning that if Trump speaks, he speaks for ALL Americans.

Now for individual disagreements, it doesn't count at a broader scope, mostly when it is considered out of the personal space.
In Americans' case, what population of Americans deem themselves as Christians? 80%. What about the 20%? That includes that 1.5% population of the country that are muzlims while the others are simply "woke" leftist that are gradually swallowed up by the extrremist 1.5%.

Now I got you.

No, no, no. Though Trump might presently be ruling in America, but he does not speak for all Americans, not by a long yard. Just in the same way that Tinubu does not speak for you and me, even though he is our president.

Kobicove:
If he is not making progress why then are you people fighting tooth and nail to emigrate to the United States?

You people should stay in your own country and stop worrying about bottlenecks the Americans are putting to reduce the number of undesirable elements that enter their country

You are too obsessed about American citizenship as though it is the eldorado of everybody's dream. Let me burst your bubble, I have seen many people who studied there, but prefer coming back to their country to enjoy their own cultural affinity. E.g. Obama's father, and e.g. my uncle.

It is not everybody who has inferiority complex about their country as you.

Nwaikpe:
Now, let me ask you:

Does the government of a country represent and speak for the people?

Does the Nigerian government represent and speak for the Nigerian people?

Or does a government represent only their supporters? Which one?

Let me be personal.

Does Tinubu government represent and speaks for you?

If not, then you've literally agree with what I have been saying all along on Trump's Whites only immigration policies, which is not supported by the majority of American citizens. Else, there wouldn't be any protest against it, as it is happening across every city in America.

And if yes, then why have you gone sometimes beyond the boundary castigating Tinubu on Nairaland?

Nwaikpe:
You think that a government that was elected by the majority in Nigeria speaks for Nigerians
But the government elected by the majority in the United States only speaks for people who elected them.

Whether you like it or not: America is a ChristiAN Nation.

Do the liberals that are opposing Trump's divisive immigration policies appear to you as Islamists? Putting religion as the base of Trump's immigration policies is inane and childish. Christians or Moslems immigrants have nothing to do with Trump's Whites(Europeans)-only-in-America policy. Both Christians and Moslems and Buddhists of many countries are ejected from America at his personal will.

Nwaikpe:
Wagging ur "pity poor me" emotional tail will not help in anyway.
It is their country. They make the rules.
If you can fit in, then fit in. If you can't, stay out.

They didn't make you p o o r . Did they?

You are getting it wrong: it is Trump's rule not the country's rule. Trump is not the whole country. The country has liberals which vehemently disagree with Trump's class and race based immigration policies. And Trump's term will soon elapse, and the country will revert to the default immigration culture.

Kobicove:
He's not there to love anyone, his job is to get Make America Great Again!

And is he making America great again by any quantitative measure?

UniQue84:
I am from south south and I will never be under this evil party called APC and will never vote any soul under that party whose aim is to steal, kill and destroy, Abi dem wan force my hand thumb print for APC ,

Voting Tinubu and his pastor proud wife is tantamount to signing a death warrant for me and my family .

GOD forbid BAT thing.

Your one vote has no value in the final scheme of politics. You are just vaunting your political significance for nothing.

Olamummy001:
"Mechanic Ondo Road"....and that idiot go dey call me for 12am when me and my babe dey sleep. My woman later got to know

You must living in Akure or Ife.

This toothless bulldog called NLC are shameless. Nigerians have lost confidence in you.

U09ce:
Good one. The project started a long while ago I think by GEJ. The major progress was achieved by Buhari. Tinubu put finishing touches. Also note that the project was jointly funded by FG and NLNG. This clarification is quite important before propagandists start to wholly claim the work as 'renewd hope'.

Just thinking. This project(of about 35km( took about a decade to complete , who can estimate how long 700km Lagos Calabar road will take, considering that the terrain is somewhat similar?

The terrain is not the same. The Bodo-Bonny road is a bridge like road built across the ocean to connect two communities. While the Lagos-Calabar road is a land based interconnected highway. And both require different engineering strategies.

zinaunreal:
This road belongs to the Eastern region not the brown roof association 😭

Correction: the road belongs to South South region, and not to Eastern region.

Stop claiming what does not belong to you. That attitude is called greed.

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DTaj:
God bless you! This is the most sensible post on this thread.

When Sylvia stole billions and wrecked Bayelsa State as Governor, and also did same as Minister of State Petroleum, did the lives of Bayelsa people and Nigerians improve?

When Nigerian political elites fight, like their counterparts abroad, including the so-called 'saner climes' (an often-used expression I consider self-deprecating and senseless) do, the common people should merely watch and get amused. They fight (or pretend to fight publicly), they steal, and they eventually reconcile.

The same David Lyon, of APC, who was at the brink of becoming Governor of Bayelsa State, only one day prior, but for the judgement of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, is now in the same party and in cahoots with Governor Duoye Diri (formerly of PDP) who benefited from his misfortune!

Aregbesola and Tinubu have fallen apart. Who would have predicted that?

Please leave politicians to 'roast' themselves! Majority of them do not care about you...

They get away with 'blue murder' because they know too well, that Nigerians are so gullible! Instead of fighting them together and demanding accountability, we support them based on region, religion and ethnicity, a la "my thief is better than your thief, leave him/her alone." So sad!

Well spoken.

More fuel to your medulla oblongata.

OdogwuAnambra:
They have been agitating for that for 50 yrs from his region, they even jailed Kanu

Just tell TINUBU to do referendum let's know how serious they are about their Biafra or stop disturbing us about Igbo in SW ...enjoy the one Nigeria

You are getting it wrong. Your people have only been agitating for secession with no formal demand for referendum. Let your leaders in unison come together and demand for referendum to leave as an Igbo nation from Nigeria, and see if Tinubu will not quickly ratify it.

SpatialKing:
Tell Lagos State Governor and his people to stop blocking the transfer of ships and traffic to Eastern seaPorts.. Until then we are going no where

Where are the Eastern seaports located? Certainly not in Onitsha, for the ones in Port Harcourt and Calabar are for the South South.

Kalashnikov49:
Yes...abeg tell TINUBU to issue referendum so you can enjoy this your SW without IGBOs.

You should be pushing Tinubu for Oduduwa Republic..

Iamfraud...won't it be nice?

It is not Tinubu's job, who is not from your region, that will agitate for referendum for you. If you are truly want to secede from Nigeria, put pressure on your governors and legislative representatives to fight for it.

It will then we will believe that you are ready to go. Not with all these meaningless posturing on social media.

UPDATE

Benin’s President Patrice Talon is safe, and security forces are restoring order after a faction of soldiers claimed to have removed him from power, the presidency announced on Sunday.


In a brief statement, the presidency dismissed the soldiers’ declaration as the actions of a fringe group with limited influence.

“This is a small group of individuals who only managed to seize the television station. The regular army is steadily regaining control. Both the city and the entire country remain completely secure,” the statement said.


The clarification follows an earlier broadcast by soldiers identifying themselves as the “Military Committee for Refoundation,” who declared that Talon had been removed from office.

The government has since described the broadcast as an isolated disruption, assuring citizens that the situation is under control.