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SeeWahala:
Mschew APC's rodents creating social media accounts to impersonate Obidients

Heffalump:
The Headline is very misleading. One person will make a statement and next it will be labelled on Obidients.

The fear of Obidients is truly the beginning of wisdom for Tinubu supporters. They're trying so hard to drag dirty and whittle down the power of the Obidient movement. How they failed to realise that not all homo sapients are as brainless as they think is what surprises me. The effect of drugs on these fellas is very alarming. That your master is a druggie, does it mean you should be engulfed in it too?

LagosOrigin:
Everybody is Obidient to tinubu N30k supporters

QuinQ:
You are posting nonsense. All western countries have always had higher suicide rates than poorer countries. WHY? Does that mean life is worse in rich countries?.
18 Anericans have been killed in Iran war, not just this woman. How come the other 17 are not complaining? Have you ever asked yourself that??

Flangelo12:
This one is comparing s poor country like Nigeria with US.

Shame no dsy catch you?

QuinQ:
You the one talking TOTAL crap.
We are discussing KIA and their compensation and he suddenly jumps to suicide. What has one thing to do with the other??

Compare how US takes care of it's soldiers and vets to places like Nigeria or Iran. And if you're KIA your family will never suffer. That's why US will never need a draft to get soldiers!

iwaeda:
Nigerians better off under military rule – Donald Duke

Former Cross River State governor and presidential candidate of Peoples Redemption Party, Donald Duke, has declared that Nigerians were better off under military rule.

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He argued that 27 years of civilian government had imposed enormous costs without delivering corresponding improvements in the lives of the people.
“The people were better off under the military. At least governance was not that expensive,” Duke said in an interview weekend, adding the assessment should be measured against the welfare of citizens and the “democracy dividends” delivered since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.
“I’m speaking broadly now. If we focus on the well-being of the people, what we term democracy dividends, how much has been delivered?
“We’re still having the same problems we had 27 years ago. It’s getting worse. The number of children out of school has not improved; it’s deteriorating. The healthcare system is not improving; it’s deteriorating.
“Infrastructure deficiency over the last 27 years—are we better off? The question is: are we better off today than we were in 1999? Hardly so. Hardly so,” he added.
Duke said Nigeria had failed to resolve the fundamental problems that existed before the return of democratic government.
“The problems that existed before 1999—electrification, unemployment—those things are still there. And I don’t see a structured approach towards dealing with these issues.
“This is my frustration, because there’s no problem we cannot resolve. We’re not a unique country.
There are peer reviews you can do. How did you solve this? How did you do that? Are we thinking through our problems?” he queried.
The PRP presidential candidate said Nigeria’s governance crisis was worsened by an ineffective opposition and a political system in which election results often failed to reflect the wishes of voters.
“The opposition is terribly weakened and self-centred. Democracy is also in danger. The results you get from the polls often don’t reflect the views of the people.
“So there’s a disenchantment with the system, both by the contestants and the public. Most people don’t vote because they believe their votes don’t count,” Duke contended.
He argued that disputed elections had weakened accountability because political officeholders who did not feel answerable to voters could easily disregard their needs.
“Because your vote doesn’t matter, there’s a tendency to take people for a ride and disregard what is required by the people,” he said.
Duke described Nigeria’s democratic system as a pretence, alleging that neither the legislature nor the judiciary provided effective checks on executive power.
He said: “We don’t have a democracy. We are pretending democracy. We’re not a democracy. You and I know that. And the checks and balances from the National Assembly, you know there’s no check; there’s no balance.”
He cited the speed with which the National Assembly approved the return to Nigeria’s former national anthem as evidence of lawmakers’ failure to interrogate executive proposals.
He lamented: “We changed the national anthem in a week. Nobody was asking questions. They shouted, ‘On your mandate, we shall stand,’ abdicating their responsibilities.
“We had a Chief Justice of this country singing, ‘On your mandate, we shall stand.’ There’s no judiciary. We all know it. But are we prepared to deal with it?”
Duke blamed the country’s elite for abandoning the political space to people who treated public office as a permanent occupation.
“It’s a failure of the elite more than anything else. We’re elites; we’re enlightened people but we abdicated our leadership to those whom we should be leading. Politics is no longer a vocation. It’s an occupation for those people. And you can’t get them out,” he said.
The former Cross River governor, who warned that the widening divide between the rich and poor posed an increasing threat to social stability, said further: “There was a time when I used to be in the National Economic Intelligence Committee and Professor Aluko used to say, proverbially, that a time is coming in this country when the rich won’t sleep because the poor have not eaten. I think the time is coming.”
He said Nigeria’s failure was particularly painful because the country possessed the human and material resources required to transform the lives of its citizens.
“Nigeria is exceedingly blessed. It’s sad. It’s painful that we are where we are,” Duke lamented.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/nigerians-better-off-under-military-rule-donald-duke/

QuinQ:
Doesn't matter who he knows, what you can be sure of is, if you deny any of those families a penny on the excuse there was no war, you'd get real war. The whole country will be in uproar about it. Do you know governors attend these guys' funerals and flags flown at half mast?

QuinQ:
You people ought know what is impossible in US by now and what is likely administrative mistake or simply fake news.
18 US people were killed not just this woman. If you deny any of them A PENNY due them, be ready for war! You think US is Iran
See the circled below

QuinQ:
You people ought know what is impossible in US by now and what is likely administrative mistake or simply fake news.
18 US people were killed not just this woman. If you deny any of them A PENNY due them, be ready for war! You think US is Iran
See the circled below

AMINDA:
Tinubu and his lackeys should move on from this and stop bombarding the WhiteHouse with enquiries. The WhiteHouse has categorically told Sunday Dare that indeed, Dr. Karl Von Batten was appointed by Trump. Dare has sinced moved on to consoling himself that the role is an inpaid one. Can a man who rejected a bribe offer of 3m dollars be seen as broke? The WhiteHouse also reached out to Von Batten to inform him that the presidency have been bombarding them with enquiries, which prompted Von Batten to take down the post to discontinue the constant spamming of the WhiteHouse by Tinubu's lackeys.

bestfriday:
Jumping to were, all this story that do not improve the warfare of the common man

Validated:
Please talk to the topic and quit deflecting on the main topic. When Tinubu took oath of office, he took responsibility over the whole territories of Nigeria.

Validated:
In mid-2025 the Shehu of Borno publicly said Abadam, Marte and Guzamala LGAs were effectively under Boko Haram control and were no-go areas, while Zulum himself warned the state appeared to be losing ground to the terrorists. Guzamala has been the standout case for years — no civil authority has returned there since 2018. (Daily Trust) (Daily Trust)
Analysts suggests that Boko Haram has territorial influence in around 20 LGAs and declared a caliphate at Gwoza. Today the groups tax fishermen and farmers around the Lake Chad islands and move freely in rural fringes.
ISWAP has stayed resilient with a high rate of activity across the northeast through 2026, and has been fighting Boko Haram factions over revenue in Bama, Biu and Kukawa LGAs.

In all of this our defense minister, General Musa is busy playing politics in Kaduna.
One hopes that the opposition is taking note so that INEC and APC do not use these 20 LGAs in Islamic Calphate to rig the 2027 elections.

BondRiv:
The people working for NASA are actors and animators deceiving the world.

lastmessenger:
even una druggie presido cannot even claim sambisa not talk of moon

BondRiv:
No one has been there. Earth is a closed system with a firmament.

MightySparrow:
You get my point. The young fellow of 33 that his family is demanding for benefits has no reason to disobey a superior in matter of engagement. It is unfortunate that he died. But Pentagon refusal to grant this necessary benefits to the family left behind is something else. To what did the soldier and the family owed such treatment?

orangutan? No so you hate Trump reach?

RaySimran:
So much disinformation from this fellow.

Congress never tried to make any declaration on what's happening in the middle east,

Cybaghost:
Op, did you even read your own article? Useless sensational headline with entirely different body. The families was properly compensated within the confines of their active duty . There was no official declaration of war by the USA congress so the soldiers didn’t qualify for certain entitlements that are given only in the event of full war declaration. USA pilots die even before this conflict from training or random plain crash during exercises with nato or allied countries and they have a stipulated payment package they receive. This family has received what is due to them. USA is officially not at war. Democrats will always want to play politics with everything and foolish foot soldiers like the op propagate such rubbish and even deliberately twisted the headline.

Flangelo12:
Lights are on.

Nobody's home.

franchasng:
I don't think you have ever left your father's hut in Ogbomosho..


Tinubu removed fuel subsidy.

Tinubu unified forex.

Tinubu devalued Naira

Tinubu increased school fees.

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QuinQ:
Did you read this below? He was indeed paid!

MightySparrow:
This is senseless, how can the military disobey the commander - in - chief because of the congress not declaring war?