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Na wa o. Belarus that is in Togo na him people dey rush like kose?

Peller Conducts interview for Masters Degree Holders.
“How Did We Get Here?”

A viral video by Peller, a Nigerian TikToker, shows him interviewing Master’s degree holders not for jobs in academia, policy-making, or engineering but to become his cameraman. It’s a scene both absurd and heartbreaking. The instinctive reaction is laughter or disbelief, but beneath that is a far more serious question:

How did we get here? Has Nigeria failed these people or have we all failed each other?

1. A Broken Social Contract

In a functioning society, education is a ladder an assurance that if you climb it, you rise. But in Nigeria, that ladder is missing its rungs. These Master’s holders were told: “Go to school, get a degree, and doors will open.” But what they found instead were padlocked gates, rusted over by unemployment, nepotism, and a near-dead economy.

The truth is brutal: Nigeria lied to them.

2. The Collapse of Value Systems

That someone with a Master’s degree would line up for a cameraman job isn’t an indictment of them but a damning judgment on our society. The nation no longer rewards excellence; it rewards connections, virality, and hustle. There is no shame in honest work, but the mismatch between training and opportunity here is tragic.

We’re watching a generation of trained minds being wasted, re-purposed for roles they never imagined, because survival has replaced ambition.

3. Peller and the Power Shift

Ironically, Peller ,a TikToker, not a scholar , holds the economic power in this scene. He has the money, the platform, and the leverage. That tells us something else: cultural capital has replaced academic capital. In a digital world, clout is king.

Is that Peller’s fault? No. He is a symptom, not the cause.

4. Who Failed Whom?
• The government failed by underfunding education and making it irrelevant to the job market.
• Society failed by glorifying migration, fraud, and fame over knowledge, service, and integrity.
• The system failed by not creating opportunities for the educated to thrive.
• But perhaps, we the public also failed by normalizing this dysfunction, laughing instead of organizing, scrolling instead of speaking.

5. So, Where Do We Go From Here?

We need:
• A reorientation of what education means in 2025 Nigeria.
• Reform of our economy, so that brains don’t rot while bodies hustle.
• Empowerment of the informal sector, but without abandoning the educated class.

Final Thoughts

Those graduates standing in line for a cameraman gig aren’t desperate, they’re resilient. They’re not lazy, they’re survivors in a country that promised them light and left them in the dark.

The tragedy isn’t that they want to work for Peller.
The tragedy is they have no other options.

Let that sink in.


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OP abeg try to eat o. No because of your stolen car refuse food or begin ignore madam. When there is life there is hope. No allow olsa to catch you. Abeg try to eat well well

Cajal:
May Almighty God return it back to you

Oga ooo

Begin to pray

leave God out of it. Everything una go dey disturb God. What is the work of police in your country?

selleniza:
My advice is that you should put the matter to God in prayers.

in a sane country, you don't disturb God with this kind of thing. The police deals with it and recover it.

Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaa! See motor wey never reach one year don go just like dat. Village people una no try at all o.

*BANDITS RETURN TO CATHOLIC SEMINARY IN EDO, KILL OFFICER, ABDUCT THREE SEMINARIANS — AND THE SANCTUARY BLEEDS AGAIN*

*By Fr. Dr. Okhueleigbe Osemhantie Amos*
*BENIN CITY, Edo State | July 11, 2025*

Once is a tragedy. Twice is betrayal.

Nine months after blood first splashed upon the altar of Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Ivianokpodi, that blood has thickened. It has returned. It now cries — not only from the ground, but from the crucified conscience of a nation.

On the night of July 10, 2025, bandits — not phantoms, but men with breath, names, rifles, and coordinates — breached the walls of a minor seminary for the second time in less than a year. They fired bullets into the body of Mr. Christopher Aweneghieme, a Nigerian Civil Defence officer assigned to the seminary. They overpowered the watch of night and vanished into the blackness with three teenage seminarians — children with dreams stitched in white cassocks, dragged into the bush like lambs to a place unknown.

But this is not news in the ordinary sense. This is an indictment. A lament. A dirge for a nation whose soul now reeks of abandonments too many to name. And what is worse: we have become used to the stench.

In October 2024, the first wound opened. The Rector, Rev. Fr. Thomas Oyode, was taken. A seminarian — young, pure, unnamed by most headlines — was murdered. The priest returned half-alive, demoralised and traumatised. The student never returned at all. The State made promises. Cameras flashed. Statements were issued. But nothing followed. Nothing deep. Nothing just. Nothing honest.

Now, the blood has returned. Colder. Thicker. Sharper. And what was once grief is now shame.

Let us be blunt: Immaculate Conception Seminary is not a battlefield. It is not Sambisa. It is a minor seminary in a rural Edo community — a sanctuary, a prayer ground, a house of discernment. It is a sacred furnace where boys are melted into priests, into givers of absolution, into defenders of the sacred. But now it is defiled — a stage where blood is spilled, not wine. Where screams echo louder than psalms.

What exactly do these bandits want? If ransom were their goal, why the repeated targeting of the same religious institution — where no naira is minted, no gold mined, no oil explored, no weapons stockpiled, no political power contested, no diamonds traded, and no militants trained? Why a second strike on the very soil still soaked from the first? Is it money they seek — or the psychological conquest of the Church? A disruption of priestly formation? A warning to the moral voice of Nigeria?

These are not crimes of opportunity. They are symbolic, systemic, and sustained. The message is clear: nowhere is spared anymore.

And yet we ask — with trembling but clarity — where are the perpetrators of the first attack? Where is the dossier? Where is the pursuit? Where is the prosecution? Why was the crime scene cleaned, but not investigated? Why were rosaries lifted but rifles not? Why do these criminals walk freely in daylight while the faithful gather in fear?

Nigeria, let the truth burn your skin: *Bandits are not spirits.* They sleep somewhere. They spend money somewhere. They communicate by mobile phone, eat food, access fuel, and belong to communities that know them. They are traceable, stoppable, breakable — if only there is the will to do so.

In Mexico, the 2014 abduction of 43 students ignited a national firestorm that birthed a federal truth commission, sweeping arrests, and global attention. In the Philippines, a series of church attacks was followed by an iron-fisted military response and grassroots intelligence that cleared entire forest regions. In Sri Lanka, when Catholic churches were bombed on Easter Sunday, the State declared a no-passage zone and cleaned up the terror cells in weeks.

What about Nigeria?

Here, we have excuses instead of arrests. We have condolences without commitment. We have prayers without policy. The forest swallows our children — and we offer platitudes.

Let it be said without hesitation: the Diocese of Auchi has responded with the only weapons she possesses — votive Masses, rosaries, processions, and Benedictions. Most Rev. Dr. Gabriel Dunia has rallied priests and faithful alike. But the Bishop does not command drones. He does not deploy special forces. He does not control intelligence units. That mandate belongs to the State.

And so we say to Abuja, to Benin, and to all offices of governance: do not merely send letters. Send justice. Do not merely express regret. Show resolve. Do not show us seminarians rescued with bruises. Show us the perpetrators chained in court.

Immaculate Conception Seminary is not a soft target. It is a focal point. And to attack it twice is to wage war against the Church’s tomorrow. The bandits did not just take three teenagers. They kidnapped tomorrow’s pulpits. They hijacked the hands that might one day lift the Host. They desecrated the womb from which truth might be born.

A priest is not made in a week. It takes a minimum of ten years of human, pastoral, intellectual, and spiritual formation — years of prayer, chastity, humility, and hardship. To interrupt that process with bullets and blindfolds is to scar the future in ways no data can fully measure.

And so, to every Nigerian with a conscience still alive: speak. Act. Demand. Cry. Refuse to let this crime be folded into the tired gallery of unremembered atrocities. This is not the death of one officer. This is not the kidnapping of three boys. This is a test of whether Nigeria still knows what is sacred, still cares what is holy, still believes in the sanctity of life.

Let this moment not pass quietly. Let it burn through silence like fire through straw. Because evil has knocked twice. And if it knocks a third time, it may no longer knock — it may blow the gates down and occupy the sanctuary.

God is watching. History is writing. The question is: *Who among us is still awake?*

We lose nothing by providing security for Immaculate Conception Seminary — but we lose everything by refusing to.

*Fr. Dr. Okhueleigbe Osemhantie Amos*
*Benin City, Edo State*
*July 11, 2025*


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AkinboT22:
God please help us in this country 🙏

heaven helps those who help themselves.

Nigeria failed her.

destinychildolu:
The president has his private life to live
Not all his movements must be disclosed
What about if he wants to spend a week with a side chick, will it be announced

na people like you wey dey support dis kind nonsense dey allow dis people to take us for granted. Nigerians have the write to know the whereabouts of their president.

Baba don go charge him weak batteries. The thing dey for 35% before he traveled out.

An Open Letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Dear Mr. President,

I write this letter to you, not only as a concerned Nigerian but, more importantly, as a proud Edo woman whose voice reflects the frustrations and deep sense of betrayal felt by many people in my state. This letter is not born out of political bitterness but from a place of truth, patriotism, and unwavering concern for the future of our democracy.

The events that followed the Edo State governorship election have left many of us disheartened. From the questionable role of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the final verdict delivered by the Supreme Court, it has become clear to many Nigerians that the will of the people was subverted in favor of political expediency. The manipulation of institutions that are meant to be independent and neutral, all in a bid to force your party’s candidate, Monday Okpebholo, on Edo people, is a gross abuse of power and an insult to our collective intelligence.

Sir, it is one thing to interfere with an election, but it is another — and even more grievous — to impose a man who is clearly unfit, unprepared, and embarrassingly unqualified for the office of Governor. Monday Okpebholo lacks the basic competence, intellectual capacity, and administrative vision to lead Edo State. He is not just a poor choice. He is a tragic insult to a state known for its rich history of brilliant minds, trailblazers, and technocrats.

Let us be honest, Mr. President — this was never about democratic choice; it was about political control. In the process, Edo people were handed a man who did not even know the total number of registered voters in the state. A man who publicly claimed he would deliver 2.5 million votes when the total number of registered voters in Edo State is 2,629,025, and only about 2.2 million had collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at this time.

Mr. President, you may have succeeded in forcing an unpopular and unfit man on us, but please understand that we are not blind to what has happened. We are deeply wounded but not broken. We are disappointed but not discouraged. And we are determined — more than ever — to make our voices count.

Come 2027, by the grace of God, since you stole our mandate, we will speak with our votes. We will reject you and your political party or candidate associated with this betrayal. We will not reward your party with our mandate because you have proven that you do not value our votes unless they serve your political interest. You can not punish us with bad governance and expect loyalty in return. It does not work that way.

Edo people are enlightened, politically aware, and resolute. Our message is simple: we will vote accordingly in 2027. And we will ensure that you and your party do not even get the required 25% in our state. This is not a threat, Mr. President — it is a promise rooted in democratic resolve.

God keeps us all alive!

Yours sincerely,
Rita Ebiuwa
Concerned Nigerian Citizen and Proud Daughter of Edo State

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Enu lo wa ya. E go soon reach your turn. Continue you hear?

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I suspect soapy going on behind the scene


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There was a time this woman use to hungry me, but not anymore. Old age has taken her away from my youthful mind.

Osimhen is highly overrated.


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ComeToJesus:
India is a culture that is rigged with a lot of retrogressive cultural practices.

Brothers can just lynch a sister to death if they beleive she's a candidate for bringing dishonor to the family. But the male siblings can be as uselessly drunk and wayward as it gets, honour killing doesn't apply to them.

For just talking to a boy, a girl could be killed.

They hate women with passion that's why the men rapæ them in droves..

On the flipside, when married, their wives takes major decisions while they cower under the shadow of the wives..

Very disturbing civilisation..

you got it. Absolutely write.

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It reminds me of Marvin Gaye

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Hunger bad. Tinubu has done it again.

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EponObi:
Even with all these, no one is mentioning or bidding Osimhen. One day, we go really understand what the issue is. Very weird phenomenon.

Gyokeres, even Rashford, Ademola (that has no business with Barca) are getting interest. But not Osimhen.

no be him fault o. Na him village people cause am. He refused to marry the village chief's daughter.

Everything and all the signing will end up in second position

The major mistake being made is japaing to abroad.

Na true you talk and married women are the sweetest. Their ringtones dey very loud and melodious.

See what made front page on nairaland, even Tinubu will not be happy to see this.

femi4:
He'll rot in jail no doubt
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you don't even know the difference between he and she? Na wa for you o.

Goodlady:
If you see me in reality I would be the most beautiful woman you have ever seen. I am better than you in speaking and writing btitish english. You d wish you had me as your gf.

abeg, abeg, abeg , no make me have nightmare tonight. Remove yourself from my front.