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malali:
I agree with Usman Yusuf’s assessment that his detention and denial of bail reflect a troubling attempt by President Bola Tinubu’s administration to silence critics and suppress dissent.

His experience, being detained without a warrant, subjected to intimidation, and held for 30 days despite no capital charges,violates democratic principles and constitutional rights, as he rightly notes.

It’s particularly ironic that Tinubu, a former NADECO activist who fought military rule, now appears to stifle opposition, undermining Nigeria’s democratic freedoms. Yusuf’s resolve to continue speaking out highlights the importance of protecting dissent as a cornerstone of democracy, and his ordeal serves as a stark warning against the drift toward authoritarianism.

Are you no longer confident of the coalition defeating Tinubu in 2027?

This man now seem terrified of the recent mass defections to APC. He seemed very confident of Tinubu's "imminent defeat" just few weeks ago.

Those suing should get themselves acquainted with the Land Use Act. The state governments own every land in Nigeria, except for the ones owned/occupied by the FG. Every state government can appropriate any land within its jurisdiction as it wish, with the excuse of "overriding public interest."

Yankee101:
Saturday PUNCH gathered that part of the foreign debt was the $4.95bn in loans obtained by the current administration in its first 12 months, just as the Central Bank of Nigeria said a total of $15.55bn had been spent on debt servicing between 2019 and 2024.

Some of the loans obtained during this period are the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance ($200m)


Read through

You are a very dishonest person with high penchant for driving narratives, but not the truth. You joined two different parts of the news together to mislead your readers.

Go back to read the news again. The $200m for Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance was obtained in 2006. Anu mpama!

OredoPikin:
As part of the transition programme from military regime to elected civilian government, local government elections were conducted in 1999 across the country for a three-year term. At the expiration of the tenure of Local Governments in 2002, it was expected that election would be conducted immediately, more so as the country was in a democratic dispensation. Unfortunately, it was not so. While the consistent attempts by state governments to weaken local governments in the country is not yet new, the complacency of the federal government and the possible complicity in the delay of Local Government election is disturbing. The state government all over the country are not interested in conducting election in the Local Councils across the country because the non-conduct of election gave them the absolute control over Local Government machinery in their respective states. It is sad that the state government have failed to appreciate the fact that Local Government is fundamentally an integral part of democracy. They have undermined Section 7(1) of 1999 constitution which guarantees democratically elected Local Government council across the country, only few states had witness election since 1999 till date. The diagram below shows states where election has been conducted from 1999 to 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333267851_Local_Government_Administration_in_Nigeria_A_Historical_Perspective#pf15

Given how you people packaged Obi, I am disappointed in the timing of that kangaroo election. It is better to not even conduct the election at all. How is conducting election two months to the tenure expiration different from a governor borrowing money few weeks to the end of his administration.

If you have any integrity in you, you would have moral questions about the timing of that election.

I have absolutely no problem with Obi, but his supporters. You guys elevated him above the average Nigerian politician, even though he has many baggages that were carefully suppressed by Obidients. You viciously attack those who are curious enough to find him out.

Obi does not deserve the hype Obidients give him. He is just like any other politician that is deceitful, greedy, pretentious and pseudo-democratic.

A better pitch for Obi presidency would have been to have a president of Igbo ethnicity, which is very valid, given that the SE have been excluded politically at the federal level. Due to arrogance, cunning and deceit, Obidients decided to market him as some messiah with impeccable administrative credentials. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IfnobeGod20:
All this your long grammar has not taken away the fact that Peter Obi did conducted local government election before the expiration of his tenure. Reno Omokri said Peter Obi never conducted local government election in his 8 years but records disproved that. Even if he conducted it a day to his reign, he still conducted but to come out to claim he never conducted it, the same way you put it in your comment that he never conducted it but still went ahead to say he did it two months to his tenure and also stylishly fabricating lie that the conduct of the local government election was what caused the feud between him and Obiano but there has never a time Obiano said the feud between him and Peter Obi stemmed from the local government election he conducted. Remember Obiano never conducted local government election in all his 8 years reign and even till date.
Reno Omokri was just been petty, nearly all Nigerian governors are guilty of the offence. If I ask you your state, you will discover your state governors present and past are also guilty of the same scenario.
Reno Omokri is just been petty and filled with negative energy towards Peter Obi and nothing more.

Given how you people packaged Obi, I am disappointed in the timing of that kangaroo election. It is better to not even conduct the election at all. How is conducting election two months to the tenure expiration different from a governor borrowing money few weeks to the end of his administration.

If you have any integrity in you, you would have moral questions about the timing of that election. Even in the link you provided, it was stated that the election was mostly a sham in many local governments.

I have absolutely no problem with Obi, but his supporters. You guys elevated him above the average Nigerian politician, even though he has many baggages that were carefully suppressed by Obidients. You viciously attack those who are curious enough to find him out.

Obi does not deserve the hype Obidients give him. He is just like any other politician that is deceitful, greedy, pretentious and pseudo-democratic.

A better pitch for Obi presidency would have been to have a president of Igbo ethnicity, which is very valid, given that the SE have been excluded politically at the federal level. Due to arrogance, cunning and deceit, Obidients decided to market him as some messiah with impeccable administrative credentials. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree to some extent, although both are bad. Drugs are just substances some governments consider(ed) bad and made illegal. There are also a lot of politics around drugs and what substance should be considered as drugs in every part of the world. Marijuana is considered as drug in many states in America today. Many politicians in the US are currently pushing to remove marijuana from the list of harmful drugs, after thousands of people have been jailed for taking or trafficking marijuana. In fact, Marijuana is no longer a drug in California.

A substance that is considered a drug today, may be considered as okay tomorrow. In other words, the concept of drugs may change over time.

Human trafficking is purely human exploitation. Deceiving underage girls into prostitution and making money from such is horrible. Shipping out underage girls for sex-slavery is beyond appalling. I would not care about a mature woman making money from prostitution, but having a man/woman make money from another woman's body is something else.

NB. I would want you to reason my point logically and not from a myopic political lens.

I agree to some extent, although both are bad. Drugs are just substances some governments consider(ed) bad and made illegal. There are also a lot of politics around drugs and what substance should be considered as drugs in every part of the world. Marijuana is considered as drug in many states in America today. Many politicians in the US are currently pushing to remove marijuana from the list of harmful drugs, after thousands of people have been jailed for taking or trafficking marijuana. In fact, Marijuana is no longer a drug in California.

A substance that is considered a drug today, may be considered as okay tomorrow. In other words, the concept of drugs may change over time.

Human trafficking is purely human exploitation. Deceiving underage girls into prostitution and making money from such is horrible. Shipping out underage girls for sex-slavery is beyond appalling. I would not care about a mature woman making money from prostitution, but having a man/woman make money from another woman's body is something else.

NB. I would want you to reason my point logically and not from a myopic political lens.

I like her 'green-white-green' top though.

ArcSEMPECJ:
Following the same line always .....

Tell me why you voted for Buhari who is a Fulani man the second time upon seeing what he and his people are doing to your people....

Why did you form Amotekun?

Stop begging me for a relationship....answer my questions and stop being emotional

I didn't vote for Buhari. I don't know about Amotekun. The issue here is that: why does an average SEner always feel that someone is after them? If the same thing happen to ten Nigerians from all tribes, including three SEners. The three affected SEners are likely claim victimhood. Why?

overall90:
Landmark is trespassing? How?
Are you sure you know the facts of this case or you just bandying about a word you don't know the meaning.
Was landmark having any issue with the government before they started the construction of the controversial coastal highway.
If landmark was trespassing, what about the other private beach resorts that are all over Lagos.
You guys are mischievously ignoring the fact the crux of the whole matter is that there is an original route that high way is supposed to follow which they ignored and after all the destruction they are now going back to it.
Who is fooling who?

You are the one that don't know the fact. I watched his interview on TVC before the demolition where he reluctantly admitted to the fact that he didn't own beach. That is trespassing. He was only taking advantage of the closeness of his property to the beach, which is not bad. My problem with him is that he feel entitled to the place when the govt. decided to use the place.

The other people who own beach resorts in Lagos do no not own those places too. If tomorrow the government decides to take over those places, I would not expect them to act in the manner Landmark acted. You should never feel entitled to what you don't own.


As for the route, the government reserve the right to change the route to however they want. The fact that Landmark does not own the new route diminishes your line of argument. Besides, if you check the original route, you would notice that real buildings would have to be demolished. The current route minimizes the amount of buildings to be demolished. Your tribalistic mind would not allow you to see that. Those multi-storey buildings that would have been destroyed if the original plan was followed does not matter to you. You care more about an almost empty beach because it affects your kinsman.

overall90:
What indictment?
By comparing private homes with an investment worth millions of dollars.
Are there there no Igbo private homes that were destroyed too?
Do you realize that the road is not supposed to pass through the route in the first place?
Do you know how painful it is that after the destruction,they are going back to the original route.
Do you know that the minister lied when he claimed that they have done environmental impact assessment when he was asked before the project was commenced
The point is that some of you find it difficult to differentiate right from wrong.
The minister knows he messed up but as a typical Nigerian politician, he is bringing up ethnic sentiments because he understands Nigeria very well.
So landmark have no right to complain because he is igbo.

You are not making sense. Landmark was trespassing on the beach. That beach is a public property. His actual property was never touched. I actually don't see anything wrong in him using the beach. However, the narrative he and his tribesmen put out that he was being persecuted for him being Igbo is horrible. I don't know where he got that sense of entitlement to a place that was never his.

Whether Landmark is a business does not matter. Is he not benefitting from the business? Would you allow any business person to tresspass on your property. Besides, he was not the only one affected. In fact, there are other businesses owned by non-Igbos there.

ArcSEMPECJ:
Sympathizer of Nigerian Unity ......lols

Didn't you vote for Buhari upon all his ethnic bigotry words he used

But because he used it against the people you so hate their progress , you called all your kinsmen to equally vote for him two good times and now you have voted another calamity......

How many people have Fulani herdsmen killed in Nigeria, you eve denied it including the President until when your women and men are butchered and your sisters raped , that's when you woke up in your pretence and formed Amotekun....lols

Didn't you upon all these , vote for Buhari for second tenure?

And you are here talking about Igbos and how they won't be President because they did nothing but just hated by you ..lols

I don't hate Igbos. I am closer in blood to Igbos that you may ever imagine. Fortunately, I don't deal with people like you in real life. I am beyond comforted that there are Igbos who don't share the same views as you. People that see life from your perspective are the real problem of Obi and the Igbo presidency. You go all about social media putting down other people without recourse to truth. The only truths that you care about are such that make you feel good. If the truth doesn't make you feel good about yourself, it must be because others hate you. How classy can one be?

ArcSEMPECJ:
You can't come to my premises that I have managed for long to begin to claim some parts that you know was your own but you left it to my own mercy until i got it right and developed it for habitation most importantly tourism and expect me to understand you...

Federal Govt should consider whatever is their claims with good understanding, no one is arguing the right of way of the Federal Government but truly speaking, the road construction didn't follow proper due process....

No E.IA...no pre-information or meetings with the owners of the premises at least eight months before demolition. So why won't the owner begin to feel that he is being intimidated because he is not in his land?

See, Federal Government if the project was actually started through due process , will never bring this issue out, the owners should have been long settled , all we will see is the demolitions going on....but Umahi feels he knows better than his kinsmen...

I just felt like replying you because you have a better sense of judgement and argument anyway...

SMH @ the bolded comment. I thought you were a reasonable fellow. Did he have to permission to 'manage' the beach? He was trespassing on a public property. When the owner of the property came calling, he decided to incite his ethnic people against the owner. That is it. If a piece of land does not belong to you, it does not belong to you. Did anyone ask him to manage it? He was even making money from it.

Like I earlier commented, I have no problem with him using the beach front. I would have done the same thing if I owned the property. What I find distasteful was him inciting his fellow tribesmen against the government for taking over a place that wasn't his. The audacity is crazy.....

ezechi24:
Umahi sit and ask your stupid self....where is okorocha today....he single handedly brought APC into the easy ...but he has been totally silences by the people he fought his brothers for.

This comment here is one of the reason some people would be skeptical about voting someone from the SE. You are not concerned with the truth, you are more concerned with Umahi covering the lies of his Igbo brother. No wonder Obi got 90% of the votes in the SE in the last election.

The least I would have expected of you, would be to fact-check Umahi. The fact is that Landmark was not the only one affected with the demolition. There are many Yorubas affected, but you guys turned it to ethnic issue.

Even the exclusion of Okorocha in APC politics is tribal to you. I can easily name 10 prominent Yoruba men that supported the emergence of APC, who are nowhere today. Why must ethnicity always come first to you? Yet, you want to rule Nigeria.

ArcSEMPECJ:
I know you and Umahi don't know anything about landscaping or it's value in relation to existing structures....

You didn't touch my main building but you pulled off the gate and gate house with the big lawn withing the compound , and to you, you didn't touch my main property but advised me to look for another means to leave my house...

Any way, anything that makes Igbos look less is your priority in life ...enjoy while it remains a problem and sickness in your life ...lols

I understand the importance of the beach to Landmark. However, it is not his property. He and his enablers should have appealed to the government instead of appealing to ethnic sentiments and lying that his property was destroyed. Nigeria is a very volatile country. The narrative of Landmark and his brothers was wrong.

The landscaping value you talk about is not his right, but I understand the impact on his business.

Yourbaslayer:
This is one very unintelligent post

I don't see that scenario playing out. However, calling someone's post about a possibility of state of emergency in Rivers unintelligent, shows you are either ignorant or in your twenties. The constitution clearly gives the FG the power to impose state of emergency on any state in Nigeria. It happened twice under Obasanjo and heaven did not fall. It is just that Yar-Adua, GEJ and Buhari refrained from using that power during their times.

At last the Fulanis are winning.

I remember how every Southern state kicked against allocating Southern lands to the herdsmen for grazing. The initiative was renamed RUGA and it was resisted, as well. This was at the start of Buhari's administration. From then on, killings and herdsmen-fueled insecurities increased across Nigeria. I have always suspected that these killings were, in part, meant to arm-twist the government to ultimately give them land for grazing. Now, it is coming to fruition.

I just hope that the Enugu government and other Southern states think this through very well. Any land given for grazing might be lost forever. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

Dream25:
Lagos is Yoruba land, the egun are our cousin and they're not denying that..

Yeah, but Badagry is Egun. I agree they are our cousins. The Eguns and Yorubas have been living together for centuries. In Ogun State they have Ipokia Local Government, in Lagos State, they have Badagry Local Government. In Benin Republic, they live side by side with the indigenous Yoruba there. We are 5 & 6.

caracas:
Na where you dey live ? Am sure you stay in oshogbo.
For your info what we hear most in Lagos public. Either markets, public transport etc is Igbo language. You only hear ppl speaking yoruba in those useless public schools.
Like seriously Lagos is a no man’s land
No caps ….

I know you are just trying to troll with this comment. Your last mention on my previous comment shows you are intelligent. That people speak Igbo in certain places in Lagos only mean there are many Igbos there. If two Yorubas or Hausas met themselves in Onitsha, they would speak in Yoruba or Hausa.

Calling Lagos a 'no man's land' is unnecessary. Lagos represent the collective efforts of Nigerians, and in that sense, it belongs to us all. However, it is indigenously Yoruba & Egun land just like Ogun State belongs to Yoruba & Egun people.

IkpuMmadu:
show me naaa...I was thinking it is men that chase women


Why is it that yoruba men are running away from there women? Why? There must be something they aren't telling us about their women

@bolded, it is common for women to ask men out in America. Even in Nigeria, some ladies could still ask you out. It happened to me once in Nigeria.

As for Yoruba men running from their women, that is not the case. Most Yoruba men would still marry Yoruba women. That said, most young people these days prioritize feelings, educational status, religion, social status above tribal considerations, when deciding who to marry. For example, I have seen an Igbo lady reject a guy from her village to marry a Yoruba guy before. Also, a Yoruba Christian would prefer to marry an Igbo Christian lady to a Yoruba Muslim lady. Although, the Yoruba Christian would likely vote for a Yoruba Muslim in a presidential election if the Yoruba Muslim was contesting against a non-Yoruba Christian.

In summary, people's marital decisions are not as straight-forward as you think.

caracas:
This has nothing to do with tribe but class
You don’t expect her to marry a non educated Igbo man when an Ivy League yoruba man knocks on her door…. Am sure she will choose the Igbo man if he was also Ivy League educated….

Maybe! However, I see more inter-tribal marriages in my circle than same-tribe marriages.

IkpuMmadu:
show us evidence of Igbo specifically asking for Yoruba men

People like you would never understand. You expect me to be combing people's dating profiles to post here to satisfy you, right? Sorry, I can't. You can disbelieve me if you like. There is nothing to gain by making this up.

DMerciful:
The revenue being shared to Lagos from the national wealth including all the fg projects in Lagos, how much comes from the contribution of SW states? Maybe Ondo to a small extent.

If you want to look at it that way, then every state in Nigeria is beholden to the SS states. Anyway, the argument about Lagos is unnecessary. Lagos is for all Nigerians. I don't think any Yoruba man would argue that only the Yorubas build Lagos. Lagos represent our collective effort as a nation. However, it's obvious that the Yorubas are proud to have Lagos in the SW and hate it when other people call it "no-mans-land". To me it is nothing. Na person wey get investment for Lagos be the chairman.

DMerciful:
Lagos belongs to all Nigerians equally. Infact my state Delta has made more contributions towards Lagos development than any other SW state!

There is no empirical fact to back your claim that Delta State makes more contribution to Lagos State than any other SW State. However, I believe that Lagos belongs to all Nigerians, though it's a Yoruba & Egun land.

AustineE1:
You dont need to look far, Igbo girls are so beautiful and every accomplished Yoruba guy not the twerps on nairaland,would want to be associated with these beauties and brain,so that their offsprings could tap from their mother.

There is something the Igbo girls too see in those men, let us be honest. An Ivy-league-educated Igbo lady is unlikely to marry a Chibuzor selling spare parts in Alaba.

Menclothing1:
You so right it’s good
Igbo lady and Yoruba men tends to love each highly educated once and their love they swt

That is the case. Igbo ladies like Yoruba men. On many dating platforms in the US, you would see Igbo ladies specifically indicating their preferences in either an Igbo or a Yoruba guy. It is common and surprising. It is expected that they like Igbo men, but it way too common to see them joining Yoruba guys into it.

I think the tribal beef between Igbos and Yorubas is fueled mostly by men on both sides, and it has more to do with masculine ego than any other thing. The worst of the tribal beef came up last year after Obi squared up against Tinubu. Atiku that came second sef is rarely talked about.

DMerciful:
Let Oyo do their own and Lagos do their own as is being done. Why every SW state wanna shook mouth in Lagos that belongs to all Nigerians equally?

How is that your concern? Mind your business, and leave the SW to sort themselves.

One Yoruba brother has colonized this beautiful, smart Igbo lady.

Why do the most beautiful and educated Igbo ladies tend to marry Yoruba men.

There are many of them here in America. You would see Ivy-league-educated Igbo women with Yoruba guy(mostly Ivy-educated too). There are more of such marriages than highly educated Igbo-Igbo marriages.

The GDP in Naira has increased significantly in the last few months, according to IMF. However, the devaluation of Naira saw Nigeria drop to number 4.

Historically, GDP rise and fall for most African countries. Nigeria has had her share in the oscillations of her GDP. Nigeria has been number 1 at various times in history, even under Abacha. In 1996, under Abacha, Nigeria was number 1 in Africa.

I believe Nigeria will get back to number 1 next year or before the end of the year or when the government implement the new minimum wage.

I read the story on Bloomberg yesterday. The projection was predicated solely on the devaluation of Naira. Funny enough, it was the same IMF that advised Nigeria to devalue Naira. Now they are projecting our GDP will reduce by 50%. The most negative part of the recent projection is that Nigeria will not reclaim the number 1 position anytime soon, i.e it will take years. We will see how things pans out.

The same IMF projects our GDP to increase by 3.3% this year. We don't know what to believe.

See format! So, if he doesn't forgive you, you would not serve his God. This is a form of blackmail sef.

The guy should be severely punished and used as deterrent to other Nigerians who like to invent fake news for malicious intent. I have never seen a people like Nigerians who like to carry non-intelligent rumors about people they despise.