₦airaland Forum

The truth most. Prevail. In Nigeria people hate the truth. They find lies convenient but the end they will be ashamed.

When people are attacking some one for standing for good just know that they will scandalise such.

Just like how peolpe attack Peter Obi.

This is heart breaking.. Suicide rate under APC junta is astronomical. Is like there's nothing to hope for.

RIP to the deceased.

They should tell. Alia. He will pay the ransom dude is very generous, docile and daft.

Awoniyi needs prayers. His injury prone spell will ruin is fading career.

D.... Like his music can cure Nigeria sickness.

Pay your band members Wells.

They are very much around. Many are on nairaland. Still languishing. But are afraid to ask for help.

kingsways:
If you compare the situation today with that of 2012, there was absolutely no need to protest

The so-called protesters, where are they now. Are they all dead? That’s the question Obi asked, a valid question

Some brainless people will argue that Nigeria was making more money then than now.

That the corruption of then is what is affecting now

And that if they did not protest then we won't be enjoying now.

What they are enjoying I don't know.

Bobloco:
Those who organized, sponsored, and financed the 2012 Ojota protest against subsidy removal have now taken credit for removing the very subsidy they once opposed. This development underscores one clear reality: their actions were driven by political motives rather than genuine patriotism

Mad. Oh
The. Fatty frog jump. Go funny.

This. Sandra duru must be a female vampire.

H

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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters taken into custody after demonstration at Columbia University library



CNN
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Dozens of people were taken into custody by the New York Police Department at Columbia University after a pro-Palestinian protest in an area of the main library on campus Wednesday.

The large demonstration comes as universities including Columbia face the threat of funding cuts from the Trump administration, which has canceled hundreds of international student visas following the wave of protests against Israel’s war in Gaza that swept campuses last year.

Columbia University officials asked the NYPD to help secure Butler Library Wednesday night, after protesters’ actions caused “substantial chaos” and “posed a serious risk to our students and campus safety,” acting university President Claire Shipman said in a statement.

“I spent the late afternoon and evening at Butler Library, as events were unfolding, to understand the situation on the ground and to be able to make the best decisions possible,” Shipman said.

“I arrived to see one of our Public Safety officers wheeled out on a gurney and another getting bandaged,” Shipman added.

“As I left hours later, I walked through the reading room, one of the many jewels of Butler Library, and I saw it defaced and damaged in disturbing ways and with disturbing slogans.”

“Violence and vandalism, hijacking a library—none of that has any place on our campus. These aren’t Columbia’s values,” Shipman said.

At least 80 people were taken into custody, the Associated Press reported, citing the police, though it is unclear how many of those people came from the protest inside the library building.

Charges are pending against the individuals, the NYPD said earlier. It’s unclear what charges they may face.

CNN has reached out to the NYPD for further details.

Columbia had earlier said there was a “disruption” in reading room 301 of Butler Library – about two days before final exams are scheduled to begin at the university. Protesters entered the room around 3:15 p.m. ET, CNN affiliate WABC reported.

Video from inside the library earlier Wednesday shows public safety officers confronting protesters, who were being blocked and pushed from the library doors as some yell, “let them out!” “Stop! You’re hurting me!” one protester is heard shouting.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on X around 7 p.m. ET that “NYPD is entering the campus to remove individuals who are trespassing.”


At the direct request of Columbia University, the NYPD responded to an ongoing situation on campus where individuals have occupied a library and are trespassing,” an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. “Multiple individuals who did not comply with verbal warnings by the NYPD to disperse were taken into custody.”

Videos from the scene showed officers escorting at least 15 people from the building in zip ties and taking them to an NYPD bus down the block. Officers with crowd control gear, including riot helmets and batons, are seen as the crowd chants “Free Palestine.”

In one video, at least one public safety officer bent an individual over what appears to be a desk, handcuffing them. Another person assisting with the detainment approached the person recording the video, saying “Back up!”

Protesters – who are asking for the university to divest from companies that have ties to Israel – called for the library to be renamed the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” according to a Substack post from Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Al-Araj, a Palestinian activist, was killed in an Israeli raid in 2017.


At the direct request of Columbia University, the NYPD responded to an ongoing situation on campus where individuals have occupied a library and are trespassing,” an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. “Multiple individuals who did not comply with verbal warnings by the NYPD to disperse were taken into custody.”

Videos from the scene showed officers escorting at least 15 people from the building in zip ties and taking them to an NYPD bus down the block. Officers with crowd control gear, including riot helmets and batons, are seen as the crowd chants “Free Palestine.”

In one video, at least one public safety officer bent an individual over what appears to be a desk, handcuffing them. Another person assisting with the detainment approached the person recording the video, saying “Back up!”

Protesters – who are asking for the university to divest from companies that have ties to Israel – called for the library to be renamed the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” according to a Substack post from Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Al-Araj, a Palestinian activist, was killed in an Israeli raid in 2017.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/07/us/columbia-university-library-protest

If Akapbio does not see natashas period he will not rest. Sm

The word ACCIDENT is English. When things like this happen, to know who is at fault matters.

frankson1:
The same functional system killed him

Why una no dey apply small reasoning sense

When a system is functional, the law will prevail.

Not like Nigeria by now adjournment mean the case will die prematurely.

The way insecurity is going in Nigeria. It will take more than academy to fix.

If the state actors and non state actors are not thoroughly dealt with.

The use of police or army will just be for show off.

Borno state is that not the vice president state.

VP shettima is a boko haram sympathiser,

NA can not defeat BH without shetimmas consent.

You have said your own side.

Now can you go to a restaurant, after eating, they add 3 or more customers bill to yours and ask you to pay. Will you pay.

With prepaid meter there's no need for subsidy crap..

Why people have apathy for discos is( NEPA)
Not Enough Power Always.

nairalanda1:
The fact is, most of the country is underpaying your local disco.

It costs N160-170 to make one unit of electricty. Band A consumers are the only ones who pay above that, and they form less than 20% of consumers and not all of them pay

Most of the country pays subsided bills. And at least 37% do not pay anything naitionwide, or drastically underpay, or bypass their meter...because 'we are poor'.

THat means discos lose money. And thus cannot provide you with improved service, or attract investment that would bring in improved service.

The EEDC like other power disco company in Nigeria are mad

People are just paying for darkness in this country.

EEDC staff need military treatment, I mean. Enuf beating.

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Russia’s Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine




Moscow
Reuters
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President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons.

Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe’s biggest ground conflict since World War II and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed or injured and US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the “bloodbath” that his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia


In a film by state television about Putin’s quarter of a century as Russia’s paramount leader titled “Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years,” Putin was asked by a reporter about the risk of nuclear escalation from the Ukraine war.

“They wanted to provoke us so that we made mistakes,” Putin said, speaking beside a portrait of Tsar Alexander III, a 19th century conservative who suppressed dissent. “There has been no need to use those weapons … and I hope they will not be required.”

“We have enough strength and means to bring what was started in 2022 to a logical conclusion with the outcome Russia requires.”

Trump has been signaling for weeks that he is frustrated by the failure of Moscow and Kyiv to reach terms to end the war, though the Kremlin has said that the conflict is so complicated that the rapid progress Washington wants is difficult.


Former US President Joe Biden, Western European leaders and Ukraine cast the invasion as an imperial-style land grab and repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine.

Putin portrays the war as a watershed moment in Moscow’s relations with the West, which he says humiliated Russia after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 by enlarging NATO and encroaching on what he considers Moscow’s sphere of influence.

Trump has warned that the conflict could develop into World War III. Former CIA Director William Burns has said there was a real risk in late 2022 that Russia could use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, an assertion dismissed by Moscow.


Putin in power
Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 by an ailing Boris Yeltsin, is the longest serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, who ruled for 29 years until his death in 1953.

Russian dissidents – most now either in jail or abroad – see Putin as a dictator who has built a brittle system of personal rule reliant on sycophancy and corruption that is leading Russia towards decline and turmoil.

Supporters cast Putin, who Russian pollsters say has approval ratings of above 85%, as a savior who pushed back against an arrogant West and put an end to the chaos which accompanied the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/04/europe/putin-speech-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-intl-latam

Audio reserve. Cardoso the LAPO banker cum CBN governor under tribal nepotism.

Cadoso lacks substance under your watch naira is useless.

Our Dollar reserve has dwindled due to mismanagement.

The next step for cardoso is for CBN to collect Ajoo.

What a DAFT.

Elon Musk Reacts After Ray Dalio Warns Of US Decline, Says China Has Already Surpassed America As Global Consumption Leader





Billionaire investor Ray Dalio recently sounded the alarm on the future of the United States, warning of a breakdown in the global order and the end of America's dominant economic role. In response, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk challenged Dalio's core claim—suggesting that China, not the U.S., is now the world's true consumption powerhouse.

What Happened: In an X post titled "It's Too Late: The Changes Are Coming," Dalio warned that the global shift away from U.S. economic and geopolitical influence is no longer speculative—it's underway. "Enormous trade and capital imbalances are creating unsustainable conditions and major risks of being cut off," he wrote, citing a growing chorus of global companies planning to reduce reliance on U.S. trade.
Dalio argued that the U.S. cannot indefinitely overconsume and rely on foreign lending. "Assuming that one can sell and lend to the U.S. and get paid back with hard (i.e., not devalued) dollars is naive," he said, calling for "coordinated engineering and implementation" to avoid disorderly collapse.

Musk swiftly pushed back on one of Dalio's central premises. Tesla CEO wrote, "Correction: China is a much bigger consumer of manufactured goods than the United States. This year, Chinese consumers will buy more cars than America and Europe combined."

Why It Matters: Dalio's warning rests on the idea that the U.S. is still the main consumer and debtor at the center of global economic gravity—but Musk's data point upends that.

If China is now the primary global consumer, the leverage shifts. Dalio sees the U.S. as risking global irrelevance due to unsustainable policies, deteriorating trust, and geopolitical missteps. He points to parallels from history, calling today's trajectory “contemporary version of the old story of how monetary, domestic political and social, and international geopolitical orders change”.


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reacts-ray-dalio-025549136.html

Ogun state used to be safe during Obasanjo era but now is home to herdsmen, Aiye confraternity, kidnappers, human organ harvesters and all sorts of native doctors.

Haven read the take away, I have come to the conclusion that Obi is the kind of leader Nigeria needs in this dire time.

Like Obi said devaluation of the naira should be done when there's something on ground.
Tinubu has nothing on ground yet devalued the naira.

Things are really expensive now. visiting friends and family has been affected.
Cost of living is just so high.

Is it that you don't know how to read.
Browse nairaland cache of over 1000 repentant jihadist reintegerated in Nigeria army.

tunde1200:
Can you point two pardons repentant BH pls.

Talk is cheap.

After absorbing bokoharam members into the Nigerian army. Do you really think you can defeat them.

These are strange times so people have to be careful.

I still don't get it why detain nnamdi Kanu over terrorism charge yet you forgive and pardon so called repentant Jihadist.

Nigeria. Is the only country in the world that
absorbs. So called repentant terrorist into its Army. There by compromising it.

Wow. Tinubus lap dog on display. Sanwo Olu is just a puppet. OBASA should be given the credit

A governor that can not put his house in order is worst than a SIMP.

Politics is like a wrestling bout. To succeed you need strategy, clout and most important strength 💪.

For politics the strongest man leads and others not as strong as him follows.

Recently, there was a power tussle in the lagos state House of Assembly. Which saw the speaker lock horns with assembly members.

While the hullabaloo Lasted, the electorates where confused. As to who was in charge.

Because In the power pyramid, the state operates on levels and the governor should occupy the highest level.

Which leads to my question. Who is more powerful in lagos.

The elected Governor.

Or selected house speaker.