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I love this news. Jumoke that abandoned me because o I'm a one minute man and ran away with another man will come to me me as three hours forty minutes man.

Raping festival? Na wa for Blackman o. Wetin Musa no go see for gate.

What's cute in Tinubu's mouth looking like that of a village palm wine tapper? Op please don't give cute another meaning.

From Abacha to Now: Are We Watching Opposition Politics Being Silenced Again?

In 1998, under Sani Abacha, Nigeria had five political parties; the United Nigeria Congress Party, Congress for National Consensus, Grassroots Democratic Movement, Democratic Party of Nigeria, and National Centre Party of Nigeria.

But in reality, there was no opposition.

All five endorsed one man.

No competition. No resistance. No real choice.

Today, under Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we are told we are in a democracy. Multiple parties still exist on paper. But what is happening in practice?
• Opposition figures are defecting in droves
• Opposition parties are entangled in endless internal crises
• Political pressure and strategic alignments are shrinking the space for dissent

Let’s stop pretending this is normal.

You cannot have real competition when the opposition is constantly weakened, divided, or absorbed.

You cannot claim healthy democracy when alternative voices are struggling to stay visible, organized, or effective.

And you certainly cannot ignore the pattern:
A system where power keeps consolidating on one side, while the other side keeps collapsing.

This may not look exactly like Abacha’s era, but it is dangerously familiar in direction.

Back then, it was forced consensus.
Now, it looks like engineered dominance.

The method may be more refined.
The outcome could be the same.

A nation without a strong opposition is not practicing democracy, it is rehearsing control.

As 2027 approaches, Nigerians must ask hard questions:

Are we strengthening democracy…
or slowly surrendering it?

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Queen To Be k#'cked out of the palace for allowing Peller cause emb@r@ssment to Benin kingdom

The Benin Traditional Council has initiated disciplinary proceedings against a queen in the palace following an unauthorised visit by social media influencer Habeeb Hamzat Adelaja, popularly known as Peller.

In a statement signed by its Secretary, Frank Irabor, the council described the incident, which occurred on March 6, 2026, as a serious breach of protocol and a desecration of the palace, the sacred seat of Oba Ewuare II.

According to the council, Peller and his entourage gained access to the palace without proper authorisation, causing embarrassment and disrupting the peace within the premises. The council stressed that the palace is not a public space for casual visits or content creation but a revered institution governed by longstanding traditions.

As part of ongoing investigations, a chief linked to the incident has been suspended indefinitely, while a palace staff member has been detained and charged by the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly aiding the breach.

The council also confirmed that a queen featured in the incident is currently facing serious disciplinary action, which may lead to her removal from the palace in line with traditional customs.

Meanwhile, Peller has been summoned to appear before a committee of chiefs to explain his actions but has yet to honour the invitation. The council has now issued a public directive demanding his immediate appearance and an unreserved written apology.

It warned that failure to comply could result in legal action, adding that law enforcement agencies have been placed on alert.

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Sometimes it honestly feels like being Black in the UK 🇬🇧 is a disability.

Not because there is anything wrong with us.

But because you constantly feel like you have to work twice as hard just to be seen.

You walk into a room and before you even speak, people have already formed an opinion.

At work you double-check everything because you don’t want to make mistakes that others are allowed to make.

You become extra polite, extra careful, extra professional… just to avoid being misunderstood.

You learn very quickly that sometimes you have to prove yourself first before you are trusted.

And the funny thing is, most people will never see that extra weight you carry every day.

They just see you smiling, working hard, living life.

But behind that smile is someone who has learnt to navigate spaces that were not always built with them in mind.

Still, we keep showing up.

Still, we keep pushing forward.

Still, we keep breaking barriers.

Because our presence alone is already changing the story.

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Decent09:
If one gone, hundreds will come up, be rest assured Tel Aviv will becomes history.

dream on.

Very good. One down more to go. Death to all terrorists of the world.

How much did she gaved him?

*The Blood on Maiduguri’s Streets and the Silence from Windsor Castle*
_By Ayozie Uchechukwu Ronald_

As I write this, the soil of Maiduguri is once again soaked in the blood of innocent Nigerians. Yesterday, March 16, 2026, the silence of the night was shattered by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings. At the gates of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital—a place of healing—and in the bustling heart of Monday Market, at least 23 citizens were blown to pieces. Over 100 others are currently lying in hospital beds, their bodies riddled with shrapnel, their lives forever altered by a terror that this administration promised to "renew hope" against.

*But where is our President? Where is the "Commander-in-Chief"* when his people are being slaughtered in war-like numbers?

_The Tale of Two Worlds: London Luxury vs. Borno Bloodshed_

While Borno mourns, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has jetted off to London. On the very morning the news of the carnage broke, the President departed for a "historic" state visit to the United Kingdom. While the families of the deceased are identifying mangled corpses, Mr. President is preparing for a carriage procession to Windsor Castle to be hosted by King Charles III.

There is no official statement from the Presidency that matches the gravity of this horror. No national broadcast. No immediate visit to the scene. Just the cold, mechanical hum of a private jet taking our leader away from the suffering of those he swore to protect.

*And where is the Vice President?* Kashim Shettima—a man who once governed Borno and should feel this pain in his marrow—is in Awka, Anambra State. He is not there to condole with the grieving; he is there to attend the second-term swearing-in ceremony of Governor Charles Soludo. The optics are staggering: a celebration in the South, a royal banquet in London, and a graveyard in the North-East.

*A Government of Selective Swiftness*
_We must ask ourselves: why is this government only "swift" when it comes to political conquest?_

Let us not forget that when there was a political impasse in Rivers State, President Tinubu was quick to act with an iron fist. He did not wait for a consensus. He invoked a State of Emergency, suspended an elected Governor, and installed a military sole administrator. When it comes to dismantling the democratic mandate of a perceived political foe, the President is a "lion." But when the enemies of the state—the real terrorists—slaughter 23 Nigerians in a single night, the lion becomes a tourist.

This is the height of insensitivity. It shows a government that values power over people, and political control over human life.

*The Insult of the "City Boys"*
To add salt to our collective wound, while the nation bleeds, the President’s son, Seyi Tinubu, traverses the country with a group known as the "City Boys Movement." While our youths in the North-East are being blown up at hospital gates, these "City Boys" are busy holding rallies and "empowerment" tours, deep in the arrogance of dynastic politics.

Is this the Nigeria we were promised? A country where the President’s family lives in a bubble of luxury and political vanity while the average Nigerian cannot even walk to a market or a hospital without the fear of being vaporized?

*No Nigerian is "Common"*
We must state this clearly: No Nigerian is common. The life of a trader in Monday Market is worth exactly the same as the life of any politician in Aso Rock. No Nigerian is "more Nigerian" than the other. When 23 people die in Maiduguri, the flag should fly at half-mast, and the President should be on the ground, not on a red carpet in Windsor.

The APC government has failed. They have failed on security, they have failed on empathy, and they have failed on every promise made to the Nigerian citizen. We are living in a state of undeclared war, where death has become a daily statistic.

*A Call for a New Direction*
A leader who cannot stay with his people in their darkest hour is not worthy of leading them into the light. A government that prioritizes royal banquets over the burial of its citizens has lost its moral right to govern.

President Tinubu and the APC have shown us who they are: a government of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite. They do not deserve a second chance to lead a country they so clearly do not care for.
Nigeria belongs to us—the people—not to a movement, not to a dynasty, and certainly not to "City Boys" who are deaf to the cries of the grieving.


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I' took my time to listen to the tape. Na God safe the guy o. Israel for kpai him like a chicken. That place where the father was praying for him really touched me.

puremaker7:
Werey, sha complete your 8yrs make we no weytin remain

which 8 years? Abeg o, I no wan die. My body is already paining me.

Did you know that Daniel Bwala’s performance in that interview was even worse than what we saw? Some parts were cut from the final edit. For instance, we didn’t get to see this part:
Hasan pushed him on a question, asking ‘why’, ‘why’ ‘why’? Bwala responded with: ‘because Y has a long tail and two branches".

Bwala’s Self-Indicting Post-Interview Alibi Poor Performance

By Farooq Kperogi

I have said far more about Daniel Bwala’s sensational Al Jazeera rhetorical incineration than I am inclined to, and honestly wanted to move on, but his ludicrous, self-indicting post-interview ego defense has drawn me in again.

I will isolate only the most egregious alibi he invoked to explain away his embarrassing lies, contradictions, inconsistencies, and lack of basic decency to admit the truth.

He says he should have been told in advance that his past criticisms of Tinubu would come up in the interview so he could “prepare himself.” That is a remarkable confession.

In journalism, interviews are not take-home exams where guests receive the questions beforehand, rehearse answers and stroll in to recite them like memorized lines in a secondary school debate.

If that were the standard, every interview would sound like a badly rehearsed stage play, or what my friend and former colleague Crispin Oduobuk used to call a “stand-and-deliver” performance.

The entire point of a personality interview is to test what a guest actually knows and believes when confronted with real questions.

What Bwala has accidentally revealed is far more interesting than his ego-defending, self-pitying lamentation. By complaining that he was not forewarned, he has essentially told us that for all his appearances on Nigerian TVs, he always gets the questions ahead of time. In other words, the “analysis” viewers watch is often scripted, pre-packaged theater.

That’s not journalism. That’s PR. As I pointed out in my August 26, 2020, article titled “Fani-Kayode: All Great Journalists Are ‘Rude’” and again in my February 09, 2023, reflection titled “Kwankwaso’s Superhuman Restraint During Arise TV Interview,” our job as journalists is to rupture the composure of politicians, to so rile them up that they trip up and say things that are unscripted and therefore newsworthy.

"Smart politicians know this," I wrote. "Instead of allowing themselves to be immobilized by impotent anger, they respond to high-pressure, 'embarrassing' questions with poise, and disarm adversarial reporters with humility, grace, and gentleness."

That a presidential spokesperson who fancies himself as a towering intellect does not know that real journalists do not send interview questions in advance, and who did not anticipate, much less prepare for, questions about his own past, says a great deal about him.

And the exam analogy writes itself. Imagine a student protesting after failing a test: “The lecturer never told me these were the questions he was going to ask!”

That protest does not expose the lecturer. It exposes the student. Bwala is, in effect, complaining that he failed the exam because he didn’t get the “expo.”

It makes you wonder how he passed his exams in his educational career, particularly since, for a lawyer, he seems to struggle a great deal with English grammar, his tool of the trade.

He apparently has zero clue what subject-verb agreement means in spoken English. He also appears not to have learned even a little about English plurals and uncountable nouns, which would explain why he said, “this is a water” during the interview.

So, despite the post-interview spin, the complaint says what no critic could say better: he walked into the room unprepared, and the questions did what questions are supposed to do.


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Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaa, so shaggy don die be dat? Government should do something about the insecurity in Nigeria o. We are tired of seeing people being killed.

Easy access to the female students. Does the 40% include female lecturers?
#iamapeepingtom

Nigeria is long goned.

Please take a moment to write a quality post with at least 20 characters.
This will make the forum more interesting for everyone

Let them go. 72 virgins await them there

The Nigerian music industry is controlled by Yorubas.

Tinubu wants MC Oluomo in Abuja for a reason well known to everyone.

That means Obi is still a boy.

All is now set. Let's go there

Yinmu! Dey play. Election that we're already writing the results.

TINUBU’S POWER GAME: WHEN A PRESIDENT TREATS A NATION LIKE A PRIVATE COMPANY
Kio Amachree

The political opponents to Tinubu cannot play the gentleman game with this man. He is a Donald Trump in black face and agbada. He is a John Gotti from Lagos Nigeria, a Mafia don, capo de capo.

Tinubu has no respect for people like me. He is the kind of man that has frustrated my career and life in Nigeria for years — a crook who uses his dirty money to squash the colonial-trained Nigerian elite and replace us with thugs and criminals like Wike.

He despises my Eton education and my Ivy League credentials. He believes his street education, his gangster methods, and the billions of dirty money he has accumulated are what Nigeria respects and understands — not my grammar, not my posh British accent, not my fancy Oyinbo ways.

He will use the legal system to bully his way to the front of the queue. He will pay his thugs to beat up anyone who gets in his way. He has made the presidency his own personal business. It is now a Tinubu company. International loans are deposited into his bank accounts. His mindset is fascist, his philosophy narcissistic, and his addiction to power is one hundred percent addictive.

Unfortunately for him, I have seen his type before. In the Second Republic, with military leaders and civilian power bosses who fell into the same trap Tinubu has fallen into — the misguided belief that evil is permanent.

It is not.

It is a temporary high like a sniff of cocaine. Great the first time you sniff it, then more and more cocaine is needed in the attempt to reach the first high again.

Tinubu has no regard for the law, for tradition, or for discipline. He has created a universe with himself as the sole energy source. But history has taught me that such men always fly too close to the sun.

These men listen to no one. They think their god status is real, forgetting how they started, where they came from, and how they maintained their enormous bank balances.

When I heard that Tinubu had given his friend Gilbert Chagoury the second highest award Nigeria can give a civilian, it told me that this man has no regard for honesty. He is what they accuse him of being — a drug baron, a CIA informant, a corrupt former governor, a man with a fake education and a questionable background.

One criminal honouring another criminal without a care in the world what anyone thinks, believing he is now untouchable.

These kinds of men hardened me. These kinds of men made me look at the power game differently. They made me reorganize my arsenal, replace my infantry, cavalry, and missiles far beyond the battlefields of Nigeria and onto the international fields of power.

Because without the Swiss bank accounts, without the luxury mansions in Paris and London, without the ability to move around the world, Tinubu is just another loud-mouth bush politician from God knows where.

Once confined to Nigeria.
Once confined to the depreciating naira.
Once exposed from all quarters.

He is finished.

Lastly, he is no longer a young man. And if Seyi is the future of the Tinubu brand, then I do not need ninety percent of the attack mode I would reserve for the father.

Tinubu is used to one kind of enemy — the easy-to-buy one.

Not the angry intelligentsia determined to destroy everything he represents.

Kio Amachree

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If the rice and supergeti no do you, see fried meat, I dash you.

Boat is sinking. You can only throw one overboard to survive. Who will it be and why?

Yinmu! Dey there dey lie.

The list is incomplete without the prices of olosho in both countries.

This news sweet me die. Awalokan, but they decided to do ojoro and gave it to him. There won't be peace until the writeful person is chosen. Awalokan!

Marry them at your own risk.