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Ayeni is a shameless man

mrvitalis:
Yes but we understand democracies have failed
. It's better to have military dictators than have the type of democracies we have today


We want restructuring
We want equitable state creation
We want a new system of government

And a military government would fight security head on

The military is the problem of everything you listed up there.

They ruined regionalism

The created more states in the north compared to the south

They introduced a unitary system of government

They created unviable states

koyeni:
That's all they say to justify their misrule.
Military rule is bad but democratic rulers must do better in Africa. If Africans leaders do their best and make lives easier , no one would be talking about the military

If military rule is good, we won't be where we're today

Yankee101:
The problem in Nigeria is the amount is stealing going in in civilian administration is so shameful and the military administrations in Nigeria created so much

The states where created by the military
Third mainland bridge
Abuja the new capital
The conference center Abuja which Wike refurbished and named after Tinubu was built by Babangida
We didn’t have long lasting insecurity like this


The bottom line is insecurity
Without security it’s difficult to pursue development
So the bedrock most be fixed if not people will keep supporting the military

List out the things created by the military in your state.

The military ruined Nigeria by creating unproductive states. The oil money that should be used to develop Nigeria, it was spent on Abuja while the rest were stolen.

Poor power supply, bad road infrastructure, unviable states, Ill equipped and underfunded hospitals and schools etc is the result of military rule.

3rd mainland bridge construction started under Gowon and was eventually completed by IBB, how many years is that?

In 1999, all the 36 states infrastructure were nothing to write home about. Even in Lagos, from the island to the mainland was a mess

Emeskhalifa:
Abeg enough of all this fear you people are inciting. What could be worse than what Nigerians are currently going through? No one anywhere is praying for Military takeover but the rot of the politicians with reckless abandon is going unchecked, while the masses are always at the receiving end, reason why you see people calling for military takeover

Even Abacha's regime was not as terrible as it is now so make we hear word abeg

You're very ignorant

Subsahara Africa have a long way to go

A lot of Nigerians love abusing freedom of speech

Nnamdipapa:
Kanu and IPOB have destroyed the SE for us and some dunces on NL are supporting him.

My point is that, you shouldn't have embarked on a journey in the south east on monday knowing there's always a sit at home every monday. What you guys had to do on monday or early on tuesday in Lagos can wait. Your lives nah the koko.

Nnamdipapa:
My final piece on the Nnamdi Kanu judgment and Peter Obi Statement situation:

On the 25th of July 2021, I and some family members drove from Lagos to Anambra to collect the bridal list from my in-laws, officially commencing the journey to my marriage. We arrived Nnewi around 5 pm and finished sometime past 8. My wife was in that blue Lexus 350 with us, likewise my uncle and brother, and the plan was that very early the next day, being Monday the 26th, we will drive into Nnewi to pick her and then be on our way back to Lagos.

We slept in my hometown, Azigbo, and around 5:30 the next morning, as planned, we started for Nnewi. We drove through Amichi. On getting somewhere around that market close to Igwe Orizu, we noticed that the vehicles going in the other direction were flashing their headlamps on us. We slowed down and soon a commercial bus driver revving his vehicle asked us while speaking at the top of his voice to go back because they were shooting somewhere ahead of us in Nnewi.

Who, we asked, and he said something about Biafra and IPOB and zoomed off. We reversed and join the procession of fleeing vehicles. Because of different engagements the people in the vehicle had back in Lagos the next day, we really needed to return to Lagos. So we tried again to drive into Nnewi through the inner roads in Awka-Etiti. The closer we got to Nnewi, the worse it became because we could now hear the gunshots. We drove back and decided to wait a bit. We phoned our in-laws and they confirmed it was hot that morning in Nnewi and that we should consider staying back, and/or leaving without their daughter. She would come back the next day using public transport.

We went back to Azigbo and decided to wait out the time. Later, because we hadn't planned on staying that long, we wanted to go find something we would eat, and also see if we could still travel back to Lagos, even if later than earlier. While on our way, a group of men intercepted us at Ichida Bus Stop.

“Who are you people”, one screamed at us, hitting the bonnet.

“Whine down the glasses”, another added, order coming from different angle as they surrounded our vehicle.

“Where are you going to”, the barking continued, with little time given to really answer their questions.

“Don't you know that today is sit-at-home; where do you think you are going when our leader Nnamdi Kanu is held prisoner in Abuja and is going to court?”

One of them tried to open the door.

“Oga come down; all of you should come down, we are driving this car to Abuja today. We are going to see Kanu. It is either you join us or you give us this car”.

We begged, cajoled, and agreed with them on the spot about the injustice meted out against us Ndigbo, Kanu, and the southeast in Nigeria. After a lot of parley led by my uncle who was in his late seventies, we gave them money, saying we supported the cause, and they allowed us to go. We went to the popular nwanyi ocha place in Ichida, ate, and decided not to go back that way, rather risk our way to Onitsha, away from Anambra, and then to Lagos.

The question I have asked myself all these years was, if that experience had happened sometime between 2022-2024 when tensions had stiffened and the group, with their spin-offs, more militarized and armed, what would have been our fate that mid-morning? Your guess is as good as mine as we have all seen similar events reported in the news and on social media and how they ended up.

Two months later, proceeding to the next stage of our marriage, my wife and I had to go to the headquarters of the Nnewi South local government in Ukpor to register our marriage and fufil other requirements like getting the documentation we would eventually hand the church. A local government wedding per se, which can be done in lieu of court wedding. Everything went well and while we were about leaving, we met a guy from my village, Iruokpala, who worked at the LG HQand he helped us take pictures.

A few months later, however, I met again with the guy in Azigbo. Amid conversation, he asked me to refer him to any job, building gig, or just about anything that he was no longer working at the LG HQ. On further enquiry, he narrated to me how sometime after we met at the HQ, unknown gunmen paid a visit and shot and ‘keed’ people, tagging them saboteurs working for the zoo government (or something to that effect).

“Nwanna, I escaped narrowly; small thing and I would have been a dead person today”.

I made some posts yesterday and a horde descended on them. Worse, my disagreement with the statement Peter Obi put out further inflamed many. I still stand by that condemnation.

Almost every social upheaval has a complex history, their evolution traced to various events. In 2019 or thereabouts, Obi was interviewed in the run-up to the election where he was vice to Atiku, and about IPOB he said something to the effect that they were harmless freedom fighters with valid grievances who could be dialogued with and things handled better, instead of the blanket proscription, nailing them as terrorists.

I agreed with Obi at that time. Even today, when situated in that context and time, I still agree. During the 2023 elections, when his detractors were everywhere whipping the video up in the face of worsening violent activities ascribed to IPON or its spin-off groups, attempting to utilize it in their bid to tag him a terrorist apologist, I was everywhere too erecting context to the video and arguing unremittingly in support of what Obi really meant there. This is a different case.

To be clear, I categorize the evolution of the agitation under Kanu and IPOB into two broad categories: Pre-2019 and Post-2019. If Obi’s statement verbatim dropped 22nd November 2019, I will agree verbatim with him. But this is 2025 and we have stood witness to the events of 2020 to this day. And, at this juncture, I will be fair to stop using the taxonomy, IPOB, as historically things began to be more complex somewhere around 2021/22 and it wasn't clear which group was behind the things that happened as we saw the proliferation of splinter groups, personalities, and units who carried activities that the ‘official’ IPOB themselves publicly denounced, or so it seems.

Staying relevant to Kanu, we all listened to broadcasts where he incited, ordered, and even took responsibility of some unspeakable things. These broadcast speeches are still out here on the internet. Kanu nailed himself with every broadcast, making it hard for anyone on earth to truly defend him with deep honesty.

I remember the 2020 EndSARS protest that was going on smoothly as disillusioned Nigerian youths vs incompetent government thing, and out of nowhere Kanu inserted himself in it. I remember listening to that broadcast in utter shock. It was too nerve-wracking that till today I still remember where I was, mouth agape, eyes popped in disbelief, and soon we were making calls amongst our young Igbo links and asking everyone to stay away from the protest or going out as Kanu’s speech might turn things on its head and set us against the Yoruba. Unfortunately, this happened towards or after a group of disgruntled younglings looted the palace of a Lagos Oba. It wasn't long and the propaganda machine went into work trying to leverage Kanu speech to say it was the Igbo youth burning down Lagos and desecrating traditional heritage. They also said the BRT inferno was set up by the Igbo.

Kanu never cared about Igbo people in Lagos and what could have happened to them if the spin caught on. And from thereon things went further downhill. Kanu will make a broadcast saying, k*ll security operatives, police, soldiers, etc and take their weapon. Soon, mostly days after, security operatives are indeed murdered and weapons taken. Some of them were Igbo and they were dealt harshly with regardless for continuing to work in the Nigerian force. This happened in many places in the southeast. Today, people want to revise this recent history gaslight us for pointing these out, trying to divorce bloody effect from its clear cause.

To some others, it isn't that Kanu is innocent and blameless, rather that a case of calling out the apparent hypocrisy of the federal government and the equalizing of approach to insurgent groups. Fair point and a solid argument to be had there. However, I as an individual do not care about other regions of Nigeria pampering violent group that have now held them hostage, and I do not want that model replicated in my region.

There used to be a time, just as recent as 2014-16 when, right here on social media, we brag to other Nigerians that nothing will ever make an Igbo person resort to terrorist activities. We bragged that an average Igbo will rather man a kiosk from Igba Oso-Afia, and gradually grow it to a business empire, than take up arms. We said these things and believed it. How wrong we were.

Look at Ihiala, Iseke, and environs today. Our own people did those things, and to their very own folks. Some people have attempted to counter these occurrences with the conspiratorial claims that the violence and the violent groups were planted by ‘the evil federal government to destabilize our region and implicate Nnamdi Kanu’. To this, I will say nothing.

People like Asoegwu are receiving death threats by folks here just because he is calling out these maladies, complete with video proof. Such utter radicalization. Yesterday, someone whom I spent six years with in a boarding secondary school threatened me too right there in the comment section. This is the last I will say about this matter and I end it by reiterating the popular saying that those who feed and ride a tiger will someday end up in its belly. For years people have fetched ant-infested firewood and now the lizards are here, and it will take some time to get rid of them, if we ever.

Some of una just love risking Una life unnecessarily. Una no dey listen to news?

Wike is doing a good job in the FCT

DonBenny77:
Make una go sleep, is it being enforced nationwide.
Focus on security for the FCT

The mod needs to hide this your meaningless comment

ariesbull:
oy as a yoruba man go claim it from international investors

Dude goake money and stop shouting yoruba land up and down as if that will put food on your table

Eko Atlantic City is Yoruba Land.

ariesbull:
Oya go claim am! You think say shouting yoruba land will give you an apartment there !

Eko Atlantic City is Yoruba Land

Good news. The president is not just sitting idle

Racoon:
A wave is sweeping through Africa.

You're free to move to Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger or Burkina Faso.

CyynthiaKiss:
Photos and video of Islamic bandits removing merry Christmas banner in Kwara State Nigeria

Islamic extremists destroy a “Merry Christmas” banner in Kwara pic.twitter.com/pjH3NdOHJ6

— Harry Da Diegot (@trigottista) November 27, 2025

Nlfpmod Nlfpmod

Why are you intentionally posting an old video and asking the mods to move it to the front page?

ThroneNGamez:
What would you do in this situation...

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There's no need for him to be permanently moved to Abuja. He can be coming from Sokoto to Abuja.

givedemwotowoto:
A Nigerian soldier can be seen lamenting about the insecurity in Nigeria and the lack of leadership from the President.

He's free to resign instead of causing problem for himself. The Nigerian military is a voluntary organisation

ebukal67x:
Kano IGR doubled? That should be investigated. Something is definitely wrong.

Look at the way an adult is reasoning

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ariesbull:
Eko Atlantic city is a private investor and the city will be the future and it is not about I am yoruba or Igbo ...if you have the money go and buy land there and there will be nothing like

Owo da mentality
Omonile mentality
Ile baba me attitude
Lagos is yoruba land attitude...it's a private sector
Living there is strictly for those that have the balls and not tribe

Capitalism is awesome ... Just like living in banana island !

Go make money and stop shouting LAGOS IS A YORUBA LAND

Eko Atlantic City is Yoruba Land

UrPapa:
hkw u take know say massive. mall wey u Neva enter

May God grant you common sense

A sad news

May his soul RIP

The mall is massive. All those small stores in VI selling overpriced goods will surely lose a lot of customers.

Which kin mumu question b this?

bixton:
It doesn't work that way in certain issues and that's why even the LG autonomy suffers full implementation.

If you can recall sometime ago, a memo was sent to all State Assemblies as regards the issue of formation of State Police, a few responded, many did not agree especially in the North, some refused to respond given the time frame the FG requested for their feedback.

I believe what the FG wants to do is also like the LG autonomy and they will support through finance any State governor that is ready for it once the recruitment and enlistment process is complete.

But I don't think those in the North would want to do such now. Many would want to wait till after the next elections.

Look at Tinubu urging the NA to amend the law so as to create room for state police.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on the National Assembly to review existing laws to allow states to establish their own police forces, as part of efforts to address rising insecurity across the country.


https://punchng.com/insecurity-tinubu-urges-national-assembly-to-legalise-state-police/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOURPBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6Hy2-rHuczC0C9G6SDyUXpx82ZJBpTqBRXn7vp4PPmxIrlWTIb_hkGXWzFQg_aem_KN7Z2aCi2SKwDi-x3rHMsQ

If the bill succed at the national assembly, the bill will be sent to the state houses of assembly.

bixton:
It doesn't work that way in certain issues and that's why even the LG autonomy suffers full implementation.

If you can recall sometime ago, a memo was sent to all State Assemblies as regards the issue of formation of State Police, a few responded, many did not agree especially in the North, some refused to respond given the time frame the FG requested for their feedback.

I believe what the FG wants to do is also like the LG autonomy and they will support through finance any State governor that is ready for it once the recruitment and enlistment process is complete.

But I don't think those in the North would want to do such now. Many would want to wait till after the next elections.

The National Assembly on 29th March 2022, transmitted 44 Constitution alteration bills to State Houses of Assembly for voting. These bills were passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives on 1st March 2022, out of a total of 68 bills to amend the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. At a transmission ceremony in Abuja, Clerk of the National Assembly, Amos Ojo distributed copies of the 44 bills to the clerks of the State Houses of Assembly. The process for altering the Constitution as provided in section 9(2) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution requires that bills passed by the National Assembly have to be approved by resolution of the Houses of Assembly in at least 24 out of the country’s 36 States in order to be forwarded to the President for assent.

The Constitution review process of the 9th National Assembly saw citizens calling for fiscal federalism, judicial and electoral reforms, as well as other far-reaching reforms. In spite of this, some bills on key issues such as State Police and women’s political representation failed to pass. However, some of the other notable bills that passed include bills to create local government autonomy, provide for uniform retirement and pension rights for judicial officers, separate the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation/State from the Office of the Minister/Commissioner for Justice. Some other notable bills that passed are the bills to grant the legislature power to summon the President or State Governor, provide for independent candidacy in elections, move items such as airports and railways from the Exclusive legislative list to the Concurrent legislative list.

To the anger of Nigerians, five bills seeking to improve women’s rights did not pass, including the bill to create specific seats for women in the Federal and State legislatures. Women’s political representation has dwindled in recent years and remains at the front burner of advocacy by pro-women groups.

In a related development, Speakers of State Houses of Assembly gathered at the First Quarter General Meeting of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria on Saturday, 2nd April 2022. The meeting which was held in Oyo State was themed, “The Imperative of on-going Alteration of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” In his welcome address, Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin, stated that the Nigerian Legislature is poised to address the agitations of Nigerians on the need to alter the provisions of the Constitution. He urged his colleagues to commence work on the proposed amendments in order to deliver timeously.

https://placng.org/Legist/constitution-review-vote-goes-to-the-states/


As you can see, the National Assembly will first work on the bills, once they pass the bills, they will send it to the state assemblies who will also vote on the bills.

The national assembly will first work amend the bills and then send to the state houses of assembly

bixton:
It doesn't work that way in certain issues and that's why even the LG autonomy suffers full implementation.

If you can recall sometime ago, a memo was sent to all State Assemblies as regards the issue of formation of State Police, a few responded, many did not agree especially in the North, some refused to respond given the time frame the FG requested for their feedback.

I believe what the FG wants to do is also like the LG autonomy and they will support through finance any State governor that is ready for it once the recruitment and enlistment process is complete.

But I don't think those in the North would want to do such now. Many would want to wait till after the next elections.

You need to make some research on this issue boss. The National Assembly will first pass the bills, then they will send it to the state assemblies to also work on the bills.

When the last assembly amended the bills, they sent 44 bills to the state houses of assembly, but bills like LG autonomy failed at the state assemblies. I think even Lagos lawmakers voted against LG having an autonomy but the NA assembly grantdd them autonomy, it couldn't become a law because it failed at the state