₦airaland Forum

TimeManager:
Lol.. Lere Olayinka is a kryptonite of those political presenters at Arisetv. Soon when they hear his name as a guest on the show, they will run away.
To be honest, Wike had been of tremendous help to so many people just like Tinubu. We never knew that he had helped people like Gov Bala Muhammed, Ikenga Ugochinyere, Reuben Abati & the likes who are now turning against him. But of course, we knew about Fubara, Amaechi, Odili and the likes in Rivers State whom he had also helped in the past. However, the difference is that Tinubu , despite all the betrayal, never fought dirty in public. We can then agree that people are wired differently to react in different ways.


-Kiss the truth!

Where is Wike’s factory? Where is his successful law firm? Where are his successful known businesses? How did Wike amass the wealth? Can you please tell us.

We live in a country where youths rather question their leaders on their irresponsible levels of embezzling their comment wealth, support them and continuing wallowing in misery. Some of you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Akpakomiza2:
In Guber or presidential!? Will that make obi win Aso?

So the Governorship and Presidential elections have different years in Delta state? What’s the business of Obi or Tinubu with Governorship elections? And by the way, is there any constitutional provision that reserves Aso Rock for a particular person? Is anyone’s name or family specially attached to Aso rock?

I am talking about Delta politics please. Do not waste my time.

Bestwt001:
It's really understandable why MURIC is upset about the train rides. When you see free rides for Christmas but not for Eid, it absolutely feels like a double standard. Professor Akintola makes a strong point about fairness, and it's especially jarring when the government is led by Muslims.
This isn't just about train tickets; it's about feeling equally valued in your own country. The government really needs to explain this disparity or, better yet, fix it to show all Nigerians that they're treated with the same respect and consideration.

I never want to talk about religion on this platform. However it is very sad and disgusting to note such comments as this.

Double standard? Government is led by a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President. The number 4 citizen is a Muslim. The entire NW, NE and parts of the NC have Muslim governors. Some states in the South have Muslim Governors. What about MDAs? Mostly Muslim leadership. When Christians complained about Muslim/Muslim ticket, you all said majority should have their way and minority should have their say. How is the political landscape skewed in favour of Christians?

What about the economy? While oil and gas is used from the Christian South to run the nation, we hear daily how other rare earth minerals in the Muslim North are stolen, taken away from the country and never accounted for. Those swaths of land in the North taken over by bandits, terrorists and herdsmen have unquantifiable rare earth minerals daily looted and we have been made to shut our mouths. Where do such things happen, if not for a country already damaged by horrible people who are completely religiously intolerant and tribalistic?

Sometimes I wonder how some of you appear so greedy and insatiable. If not for shamelessness, how would such a man make such a comment over what should amount to nothing. Even if free train rides are given during Christmas, is it not for the benefit of the entire country, irrespective of religion and tribe. This is celebration day. Why are you not bothered that a huge percentage of celebrants cannot purchase rams. A huge percentage cannot even afford to celebrate in anyway and yet we have a Muslim leadership.

I have always held the opinion that the country is on a brink. It is better to let everyone go their separate way and have some peace, rather than having such comments that incite citizens endlessly.

bestman09:
“I am not aware of any arrest, but I am aware of a rescue. I am aware that two students protested and some other students wanted to rough-handle them,” Olanrewaju disclosed.

“I am aware that the security operatives quickly intervened, took the two students outside the hall. I don’t know what else transpired because I was the one who anchored the programme. Some of their colleagues had already moved to them, wanting to beat them up. We did not want anything nasty to happen, so the security operatives escorted the two students out.

It is well with our leaders.

In a single statement, the man contradicted himself.

They all will be caught.
Anambra state has become very dangerous for criminals of all sorts, irrespective of the name of the group. It should be expected that the evil men will not sit and watch themselves completely annihilated. They will always fight back and the government will always get them.

Absolute peace must return to Anambra state, whether criminals like it or not.

Akpakomiza2:
LP will win with a lesser margin

Two years to go. That’s a long way and we are talking about politics and money.

LP had a very good chance of overrunning Delta state in 2023.

Artiiclebeast:
An airport that is yet to host a single commercial flight oh.

Nigecomedy

Built by the man who is constructing the Lagos-Calabar superhighway and the Lagos-Sokoto superhighway. Very shoddy job, just like others that he has been accused of. Imagine using concrete to build the runway. So as an Engineer, he did not make proper research on how runways are built. We all know that at the pace it is going, the superhighway to Calabar will take 24 years, with just 30km of 720km constructed in two years. In another six years, they should complete just 180km.

RollinTNDA:
Spineless Delta state should take note

Sorry, but the next elections in Delta state will witness a crushing defeat of APC by Labour Party. The last Presidential election showed Delta as a Labour Party state.

Trump = BAT
Musk = Wike
DOGE = FCT

Na here we dey. We dey look jeje. Only a matter of time. Expect first jab from Wike to BAT.

In all, he came out to tell us that what he discussed with BAT was private.
He seemed to have set aside his anger. He seemed to have forgotten his words against BAT right from the pulpit. He remembered their days together when they fought GEJ to a standstill over subsidy and eventually ensured that he returned to his village.

I simply believe that the man should wear his political garment daily and drop the religious cloak. He remains a politician.

What difference would a relocation have made? His predecessors would first get “matching orders” from the President. Next they would tell us about the “theater of war”. Next they would relocate back to their headquarters, while terrorists continued with their evil acts nationwide.

Why would this not issue keep lingering for so long like this? When will communities begin to enjoy some peace and farmers return to their farms? When do we expect some peace and sanity in Zamfara, Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Borno and other states where non state actors have overrun the military and communities?

DeLaRue:
And people wanted the ruinous subsidy retained.

Now, with the benefit of hindsight, their leaders go on Arise to say subsidy should not have been removed until palliatives were in place.

Another of their favourite phoney line is, the President should have removed subsidy in stages.

In reality, we know neither of those options would have resulted in the total removal of subsidy as we thankfully have today.

Any President that announces removal in stages would only succeed in removing the first stage because ASUU, NLC and the rest of them would have made the next phase of removal impossible, and anticipation of subsequent phases would have sent goods and food prices as high as full removal did, except we would not have had full removal and prices of everything would still have gone up.

As for having palliative in place before removing subsidy? That's laughable. In this Nigeria? How much palliative can a govt put in place before people would say oya, you can now remove subsidy. And where was the money to even continue to pay the subsidy.

What the fraudulent subsidy cabal needed was a shock therapy that gave them no time to start sponsoring protests. That shock, that gave them no time to react, was exactly what the President delivered.

Nigeria's most decisive, boldest, and most reformist head of state/President since independence, 65 years ago. Full stop.

Hypocrisy at its highest level.

So you want to pretend that you were not in this country eleven years ago, in 2014, when the same President organized rallies against fuel subsidy removal by the then sitting President? What changed? You damaged a policy that could have moved the nation forward eleven years ago and you turn around to say “ah subsidy removal is the way to go”, after ensuring that you impoverished the citizens from the very first day in office of your political party.

You were not there when this same President led the immediate past one, current and past members of the cabinet, the same ASUU and NLC to completely reject fuel subsidy removal in 2014, gaining them leverage to win the election in 2015.

In these years since 2015, with all the blame on the then ruling party, how have Nigerians fared better looking into their kitchens?

You did not listen to the President at one of his campaign rallies say that he could have been a beneficiary, just like his friends? Did he have an initial plan to remove fuel subsidy, with his “na statistics we got chop”, if not for what he was hearing from other contestants. Why did he not advise his predecessor to end it the moment they got into power in 2015? Why did it have to linger until 2023, eight clear years after they secured power?

With all his promises to provide palliatives and CNG buses to cushion the effect of subsidy removal, which one have you seen?

The next statement from this same man will be “welcome to one family”. By his words, the man has shown that Adeleke family are on their way to APC.

Mitsurugi:
That's why the suicide rate here is low compared to there. We breed the strong. I ran errands for my mom outside the house from 5. Learned to cross the road unsupervised. Helped me a lot later in the jungle called Lagos.

Get to the USA, have children at that age, let them run such errands and know how far.

That’s why the country remains the way it is, when people do not have respect for human lives. Maybe it would have been better for you to run errands in certain parts of the north to prove that you were growing strong.

SmartPolician:
If a child of 7 cannot run errands for the house, when exactly will he learn how to run errands? Perhaps when he's 18? Almajiris who are much younger even sleep by the roadside, begging across Nigeria. Anyways, rest in peace to the boy!

So simple to say. So easy to say such things. Your words show that you are a bachelor, with no experience at all on how children are treated.

Sorry, the talk is not about Almajiris. And even if it was Almajiris, where is the pleasure in seeing the Almajiri children living miserable lives? Where is the pleasure of losing one’s child at 7? Did you not read that it was the first time of going out alone? Does that statement alone not show you that the lady and her husband understood the law about child protection? Did you not wonder why government chose to charge the grieving parents, as against the old lady who the boy ran into her car? Or you think it is your anyhow country where the old woman would have been charged for an offence, which was clearly arose from the carelessness of the child’s mother?

If you read carefully, you would have found the word “supervised”. That’s what you find in societies where human lives are valued and children treated with utmost respect. That’s the society where children’s rights are protected. Such societies do not permit children to go around unsupervised at that age. If you lose focus on taking care of your child, government takes the child away permanently and hand the child over to foster parents who know how to value them.

Children at that age are very tender and easy to get into danger. Even in Nigeria, you will not find the children of decent people running errands on the streets at 7 years. That’s why parents run such errands themselves or have househelps who run such errands.

Nigeria has started growing beyond the level where children are left to do errands, as no one wants to suffer losses of children or risk having their children kidnapped. I sincerely believe that you will not allow your child run an errand on a busy road at 7 or even 10 years.

I wonder why this issue of boko haram and all forms of terrorist acts in this country cannot be dealt with speedily and decisively. Why is it taking the army and authorities so many years to sort out this matter once and for all?

By now, most of our political leaders, especially those from the north should be completely ashamed of themselves. Those who stand accused of sponsoring or supporting them should be rightly charged and if possible capital punishment prescribed.

I wonder how we have been at this issue for so many years, with trillions wasted fictitiously on equipments and shared by the corrupt, who even cannot return to their villages anymore. Governors, members of the NASS, ministers, and leaders of of Northern extraction should bow their faces in shame. If your citizens are daily murdered for nothing in cold blood, yet you are in position of power, you must vacate.

Would such rascality and wickedness be tolerated in European and Asian countries, while leaders swindle the state and look the other way? While the irresponsible leaders ferry their family members abroad for safety, they seem to use corruptly acquired funds to keep them there, while making the military suffer.

Again, military personnel found to be sabotaging efforts to fix this wickedness, must be made to face the law and capital punishment. If there’s strong desire to end these acts of terrorism, it can be achieved in less than one year. How can non state actors be better equipped and in most cases appear more powerful than the nation’s armed forces? How can non state actors overrun military barracks with ease and precision, leaving many soldiers dead?

BAT must tackle this matter once and for all. Politics must be set aside. Those marauding herdsmen who chase citizens away from their lands and farms must be dealt a final blow. Hunger is now at its peak and with no farms to go to, how can we succeed with the fight to get food to tables? How many lives must be lost before we an have some sanity in the nation?

This nonsense must be put to an end quickly please.

So no more negativity from Omokri? So Obidients overwhelmed him.

You cannot be looking for an ancestor, yet you walked with your two legs into the ancestor and his wife’s Abuja mansion, coolly collected 500K from him and walked away. If you get respect, why collect 500K and told us that ancestor and his wife blocked you the same day. The little girl then brought it to the public that you received 500k from ancestor. You use bone face to defend yourself for public. Mama like you dey collect 500k from small girl and ancestor?

You claimed that the same ancestor wanted you to feature his wife in your movie. The same ancestor that can finance the entire movie makers for life? Between you and ancestor’s wife, who should be begging to feature, knowing fully well that ancestor is a money bag.

You no get ancestor. You no get small boy. Where is your own husband? No husband. Small girl has a husband with two children, whether ancestor or no ancestor. You married and divorced and became “a former married woman”. Now you dance in the sand with a so called small girl. Now other small girls are joining forces to take you Mama Angela apart. Get small shame. Regina Daniels is not Mercy Johnson. She is not the regular small girl. If you joke with her, do not forget that ancestor will personally come after you as he did to the other lady. Remember that people begged and begged him before he let go. MJ too no be your mate. Her husband na rich man and a member of the house of reps. MJ too na SA to the governor of Kogi state and a rich lady. No be by beauty dem dey do am. If na beauty, the girl is beautiful. You no fine. Na pancake for face we dey see. No be by too much English Na God get power. Mama Angela, na jealousy dey full your mind there.

Now men are doing “touch and go” with you.

Very sad indeed.

We should not be talking of only the SE. The entire SS is in a mess. Delta state has been completely overrun by these evil fellows. Edo state is in shambles. Let’s not talk about Bayelsa and Rivers state. It is indeed a shame.

Infact the entire Southern Nigeria has become like a war zone. The rate at which herdsmen invade the South and forests is very alarming.

Justnation:
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Orji uzoh kalu is a wise man, I love his answers.
He truly shows that he is a matured Igbo politician not the stupid soludo who opens his mouth wide and be talking nonsense about his brother to attract favor from tinubu.

Well done OUK, I respect your wisdom and maturity

The best comment here. You clearly interpreted the issue. It was wisdom and maturity.

Well done.

Tendd:
Rich people in Nigeria don't live longer either.Nigerians living in those advanced countries have a relatively low life expectancy.While money or country of residence are important, individual efforts remains a vital factor to living healthier and longer.Exercise remains the most potent tool and it is up to everyone to do that regularly,if we want to live longer.

Rich people don’t live in fear? What are the indices to measure safe societies? Surely the indices do not include the rich moving around with too many security men. Those who do that are the fearful. The rich. They have the drive mentality because they are the same persons who make societies insecure.

Take a look around some countries and you’ll find Prime Ministers walking freely on the streets, with no escort, no security aides everywhere. Can even councillors move around alone in our states, not to talk of LGA chairmen and above?

Sure, exercising remains crucial and we must all put it to practice.

FreeStuffsNG:
LGA funds for Ileya Ime subsidy.

Is Holy Qur’an teachings not against buying ram if you can't afford it? So why subsidise eid ram with LGA funds?

It is understandable if he's using his personal funds but using LGA funds to give N125K subsidy on eid rams for 1,000 rams costing N125 million tax payers seems somehow. N125m is a lot of money o!

I think the government should look at this kind of expenditure now that Supreme Court has ordered the direct release of funds to LGAs.

But they did not get the rams for free. They paid 75K each, which was affordable to them.

Blame should not go to the citizens, as they perhaps find not know the source of the funds, whether it came from the purse of the chairman, or the council’s purse.

sylve11:
**Environmental factors and the dynamics of our interpersonal connections play significant roles in determining whether we enjoy a long life or face untimely challenges. These aspects are deeply intertwined.**

But let me make this clear: the true richness of life isn’t found within bustling city limits, as you might think. It lies in the charming small towns that you may have overlooked. If you view these places as mere shadows, you’re missing out on countless hidden gems.

Connecting with nature brings a profound sense of peace, and this connection can lead to a longer, more fulfilling life.

I’m here to share this truth!

Those who reside in villages or small towns also suffer, if we refer to our country.

Life belongs to God. However Medicare is very crucial. In medical emergencies, the difference between life and death can be access to proper medical care. Those countries have it in abundance. For example in the UK, in emergencies, ambulances arrive in 3 minutes with doctors and nurses. In Nigeria, we look for okada/danfo/keke Marwa that take ages to arrive. Get to public hospitals and there are either no beds or Doctors on duty.

Those countries have very advanced medical systems that make life easier for the people.

Social services play a huge role too. With infrastructures that make life easier for people, then expect better lives.

What about availability of food and money in the pockets of citizens? For example, in Nigeria, there’s no rule about the feeding pattern. You can wake up in the morning, eat eba and egusi soup with ogunfe. You eat beans/bread or amala or fufu. You get the stress of jumping from one bus to the other and then no money for lunch. You get back home in the evening to the same morning combination, with filled up belly to bed. You begin to develop Esophagitis, Duodenitis and Pangastritis without knowing. The day you eat Sharwama, you feel like an acting big man. Two meals a day, maybe a bottle of coke and gala. In those countries, there are rules about what to eat. No one wakes up to eba. Citizens have meals three times a day. They have snacks and fruits in between, with no stress.

What about living in fear at night. What about moving from place to place. Insecurity everywhere. That’s the challenge of West and Central Africans. Poverty and horrible leaders.

Eriokanmi:
That shows how prudent he's always been. Many banks that were established same time as Fidelity had liquidated. They've never made noise yet, keeps achieving great. If fidelity wasn't well managed, would reno the parrot have said this? For me, that's a plus for Obi.

The same reno, before he became a sycophant of tinubu, whom he's abused so much, once said, Peter Obi would make a good president as he possessed the quality needed in a leader. What has changed is simple. Reno has a heavy corruption case with the efcc. So now that he's in the apc, his sin has been forgiven. I always pray for and believe in obi's presidency as he's the only one who can truly sanitize the already shattered Nigeria.

He may not be 100% sane but he's the best amongst the rest, for now. I can't wait for obi to send the parrot to jail. Maybe by then, he'll swith and start calling tinubu a failure again to escape justice, just the way Bwala moved from praising buhari to tinubu whom he once abused openly. Na their way.

Thankfully he said Peter Obi’s bank. He went further to say that Obi owns 10% of the bank. At least we all know some of Obi’s investments in Nigeria and abroad. We all know that he does not own a private jet or multiple private jets. That sorted, let’s ask Reno Omokri the following:

1. Mention one business owned by his oga.

2. How did he become the owner of private jets, with no one knowing the source of income?

He called Obi a breasted haemaphrodite. Having not bothered to respond to him, does it not show him that Obi regards him as a worthless fellow?

I have plenty 50 Naira notes.
I have 5 and 10 naira notes and the coins introduced by OBJ/Soludo. Problem now is hardly do people accept 5 and 10 naira notes. Inflation in the days of APC ruined that.

MoneyMan5:
cities have litters but the rate of littering in Nigeria is irresponsible and too much because Nigerians lack discipline and ethics, although the government is bad but I won't exempt the citizens too, the citizens are also very bad and they are the one that later turned to the irresponsible government. Where are the workers for Lawma and co going to come from ? Are they not from the same undisciplined and dishonest citizens?

Japanese people are well known for their discipline you want to tell me Japanese litter at the same rate as Nigerians ? To be better you have to first admit your shortcomings, Nigerians are very dirty people.

There may be one or two dirty British but you want to tell me a British or American will be selling his/her ware in a location full of trash like we have in most Nigerian markets?

British, Japanese, Korean, Americans, Chinese litter the ground indiscriminately like we do in Nigeria ?

Take Nigerians out of Nigeria and move them to Japan, China, Korea, America in and move Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Americans to Nigeria In 5 years Nigerians would have turned those places to a cesspit and Nigeria would have became another first world developed country developed by Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Americans.

All boil down to governance. Buhari/Idiagbon implemented “War against indiscipline”. Citizens sat up immediately. You could not urinate indiscriminately or through refuse anywhere you likes. People would not dare jump queues and everywhere was calm, until a certain IBB and his friend Abacha removed them. The country returned to its previous state.

Lee Quan Yu, popularly called the father of Singapore, made it what it became today. One of the most beautiful countries on earth. There was instant punishment for open defarcation. There was instant punishment for dumping of refuse indiscriminately. There was instant punishment for crime. I urge you to travel to Singapore and see for yourself. Today, Singapore is better than Malaysia that it came out from.

Infact I was on a queue one day at a KFC. There were about six of us on that queue. A Nigerian lady jumped the queue and tried to make her purchase. Everyone was aghast. First you must be disciplined at home, otherwise you will take your indiscipline to the public. Organize your children at home and they will organize themselves in public.

Let the laws work effectively and see changes.

Rwanda became what it is because of a certain Paul Kagame. Even our leaders go there to understudy and for retreats.

Our problem is bad governance. Our problem is corruption. Citizens, yes because the vote for horrible leaders. But when election time comes, leaders don’t care, as they want the votes only.

Good write up.

MoneyMan5:
In all the big cities in the World do they litter the ground and drainages with trashes and dumps like Animals?

Well for your information, all cities have litters on streets and drainages. The difference why you see them all clean is called GOVERNANCE. It is the duty of government to have agencies who handle them all. Government provide the resources used to purchase trucks and dustbins that are scattered all over the places. Government employs the workers that do the jobs and ensure proper supervision. They all do their jobs, picking refuse everywhere, cleaning the roads and ensuring that their environments are cleans and their communities and cities beautiful for habitation. That’s the job of government. That’s one of the reasons why you pay taxes.

Oga, Lagos has LAWMA, just like other states have their equivalents. Ask yourself if all of them are efficient. Go around the entire length and breathe of the whole country and you will find the same story. Lawma does not have enough trucks. Lawma is understaffed. That’s the same story all over the country. Even their contractors must be clean first or understand what cleanliness is all about.

Where in the whole world do you find places like Ojota’s olososun refuse dumpsite? What about the whole stretch of Lanre to General hospital along Igando - LASU road?

Do not support irresponsible leaders and those whose stock in trade is to swindle you, while you give them your support, after collecting bribes.

That was the position until BAT went into agreement with Wike to deliver Rivers state. A political calculation that did not take the interest on Amaechi into account, knowing that Amaechi joined others to ruin PDP and bring the same APC to power. It is public knowledge that Amaechi and Wike have been bitter foes since 2014. The possibility of being political allies is very slim, if not impossible.