₦airaland Forum

chatinent:
Can we agree Tinubu is the most decorated failure in Nigerian history?

His followers must be having a hard time still following him. Tinubu also knows those following him are for personal gains.

Yes oo…we all agree….even Tinubu supporters will hide they’re face in shame by the time they off their data because they know.

tnerro1:
Very soon, VAR will soon replace referees

VAR won’t replace refs…no Dey talk wetin una no know. VAR just help to make refs decisions easier and reduce bias in games.

Hhh4444:
If we really wanna reason logically,op did not beg anyone to give birth to him.There are many people that would prefer not to be here,but they are here because two adults decided to conform to societal expectation. Nature is really not fair cos people are brought here without their consent.

Understood but the million dollar question is now that you’re already here, how long are you going to keep complaining about your situation? Is there anyone that chose to be born? You’re already here…what you can now do is to make legit efforts no matter how small and there’s nobody that makes effort that God doesn’t help and increase….sitting down and crying about the family you constantly come from is victim mentality and its cringe.

Sirchiboy:
Why should a struggling man marry a woman with no handwork or education and give birth to us to suffer .
They blame it on God and the country

Oh boy…at some point you’ll need to stop whining like a 5 year child on nairaland and make your own life what you want it to be instead of always blaming your parents. Some people grew up without both biological parents being alive and still took life by its horns…you’re not the only one who has had a tough life….if you come from a poor family, make sure one does not come from you. You’ve been doing this for like three years now or even more are you not tired?

2special:
They will say this is part of the script.

Of course it’s part of the script let it pepper you

Sonofgod1990:
This people should stop disturbing the peace of Nigeria. Tinubu cannot go and kill him self

Just see what you’re saying…maybe you should kick that bucket yourself

Someone that is clearly enjoying the attention and intentionally showing the curves why is she now coming online to complain? And while is this a topic even? No one cares. Next please

Directed by wale adenuga. Smh

rummmy:
No be by cv na haba..
People with most rich cvs are often rejected too

Two truths can co exist….hr might already have their family and friends they will pick next for a role or the Ogas have their family and friends too…but that doesn’t mean that your CV too shouldn’t be well put together at the same time too so that anyone seeing it can take you serous….so at the same time, pray to God for Favour to grant you the job exactly in which he has planned for you even while you search or test your entrepreneurial skills….you may be surprised the business initiative you can come up with or services you can offer if you just give it a try…..not everyone will work in a corporate environment. So cast your bread on many waters also

Anguldi:
I didn't know you haff sense

He does not have….na reality just make am wake up.

DatNiggaDaz:


Xou know that going to the mosque will not solve the problem but instead of being a sensible human you allowed religious hypocrisy to take over you, defending those that failed to take care of their responsibilities chanting sai darling daddy from morning till night

Now again doing thesame nonsense gaslighting yourself chanting God God God even though you are a muslim who denied the genocide perpetrated by thesame people you are wsiling over.

You are already getting ready to snatch for thesam faaake certttifficcate hollldderr who has caused you to start chanting God God God despite being a failure in thesame issue you are calling God God God

Why do you data boiz live to decieve yourselves

No mind am….everyone will have sense by force

flokii:
You people are part of the problem.. prayer hasn't solved the problem and won't solve the issue on ground.
These guys are going about with ammunitions, killing and commiting genocide, yet all some of you could think of is prayer.. really?

Oh God.. we're in serious trouble in this country.

I’m surprised all of you are changing mouth…you supported a high ranking occultic corrupt man with your full chest just because he’s from your tribe now you’re turning around to complain? Take several seats please. Tinubu for life

Burob:
Stop admiring yourself in the mirror.

They would sympathize with your family soonest.

dominique:
In about 7½ hours from now, Arsenal will be crowned champions of Europe

Eya take some time to grieve Ehn 🤣🤣

Diamond098454:
We are not learning anything from them. That's why I choose to stay here reading news and opinions than following those ladies.

I’m not talking about you personally…I’m concerned for younger girls whom don’t know better and don’t know their left from their right

Starz825:
Ya'all be stupidddd...if you take her statement out of context...

She is not advising anyone to be ashawo..

She is talking to those who are already in the hookup business not to stay there.

I understand you are an ashawo / a runs girl...but dont remain like that.


Ya'all struggles with comprehension.

How old are you? Please get sens fast.

Diamond098454:
I don't think she is serious

Believe it or not she is serious…Satan is looking for every opportunity to speak through influencers to send people to their demise….i pity people who still follow phyna, tacha and the likes. What are people learning from them?

LordBiden:
Where is the evidence wike is grabbing the said land.The said land was revoked because it was underdeveloped for over 15yrs, abandoned for years while shanties where built over it.


So asking people to do things right is now land grabbing.You believe sowere an attention seeker who is a sworn enemy of wike.

I am even sure you don't even know the issues surrounding the said jabi lake,you all just want to paint wike in bad light.

At this point I wonder if some of you Nigerians are stable in that your number six at this point…has wike ever been in a good light for anything? What are you saying?

Nothing concern us…na the man know wetin e marry

@antichristian shey you are hearing?

sartun:
Not the smartest idea.
What about the thousands of Nigerian citizens they employed?

Apc politicians are not intelligent normally…. do you expect sensible things to come out of oshiomoles mouth?

Atlético Madrid only had one job. Anyways arsenal will still do what they do best

Oh so now you said something….if this ask you this in future again now you’ll say you didn’t say so

Champions League here we go

HacheNoire:
Why Lagos Needs to Break Free from the APC

There is a particular scene that has played out with metronomic regularity in Lagos politics, and it played out again just last week. Abdul-Azeez Adediran — “Jandor” — purchased his expression of interest forms, rallied his movement, and mounted a governorship campaign. Then came a phone call, a meeting, a presidential endorsement of someone else, and Jandor stepped aside, pledging loyalty to the party and its chosen candidate. One day’s aspiration, extinguished in an afternoon. No primary. No debate. No contest. Just a decision handed down from above and accepted below.

This is how Lagos is governed. Not from Government House in Alausa, but from a network of backrooms, phone calls, and Governance Advisory Councils that answer ultimately to one man — President Bola Tinubu. And the city of twenty million souls, the engine of the Nigerian economy, the continent’s most energetic megalopolis, has for a quarter century allowed this arrangement to stand.

It is time Lagos asked a harder question: what exactly has this arrangement delivered for Lagos — and what has it cost?

The Anatomy of a Fiefdom

Since 1999, Lagos has been governed by one political structure under successive brand names — the AD, the ACN, and now the APC. Since 1999, Lagos has largely remained under the control of the same political structure, and the state has not fully maximised its enormous potential to become a truly world-class city. The party is not merely dominant; it is the only game in town. Governors are selected, not elected. Speakers are installed, then repositioned. Governorship aspirants purchase their forms, feel the wind, and stand down.

The most recent illustration came in April 2026, when Tinubu endorsed his deputy governor, Obafemi Hamzat, as the consensus APC candidate for 2027. The unfolding developments underscore the highly centralised nature of decision-making within Lagos APC, where strategic candidacy alignments are often brokered at the highest levels of party leadership. Jandor withdrew within days. Even Mudashiru Obasa — the powerful Speaker of the House of Assembly, long one of Lagos’s most formidable power brokers — was reportedly redirected from the governorship to a House of Representatives seat after Tinubu weighed in. Political observers note that Obasa has already begun low-profile consultations in Agege, signalling early groundwork for what could become a tightly managed intra-party transition.

This is not internal party democracy. This is a succession system.

A Warning Written in Ballots

Lagos residents have already expressed their frustration — they did so loudly in 2023 and the political class has largely ignored it. Peter Obi of the Labour Party won Lagos State by nearly 10,000 votes, a massive upset over former state Governor Bola Tinubu in his own home state. It was the first time in over two decades that a presidential candidate from outside the ruling political structure had carried Lagos.

What did that result mean? It meant that the majority was hungry for better governance and wanted to change the poor political system that had been imposed on them for years. It meant that Lagos’s young, educated, multi-ethnic population — long taken for granted — had begun to vote against the machine.

The loss of the presidential vote in Lagos to the Labour Party has remained a reference point in discussions among APC party leaders. And yet, despite this warning, the response has not been reform — it has been consolidation. The same faces, the same structures, the same consensus arrangements.

What Twenty-Seven Years of Monopoly Has Produced

Defenders of the APC will cite infrastructure: the Blue Line rail, Eko Atlantic, the Lekki-Epe Expressway expansion, the Lagos-Ibadan highway negotiations. These are real. But they are not the full picture.

Critics accuse the APC of presiding over a Lagos plagued by systemic rot — perennial gridlock that turns a 30-minute journey into a four-hour nightmare, flooding that turns neighbourhoods into rivers every rainy season, a mounting debt burden that has mortgaged the future of unborn Lagosians, and a growing sense of insecurity. These are not the complaints of political opponents alone. They are the lived reality of Lagos residents, stated daily in traffic jams on the Third Mainland Bridge and flood waters rising through Surulere living rooms.

A functional multi-party system is vital for ensuring accountability, inclusiveness, and effective leadership. When one party is guaranteed power regardless of performance, there is no competitive incentive to perform. Why fix the drains when your re-election does not depend on fixing the drains? Why open the books when no one can open an alternative?

The APC’s own internal dynamics have revealed the rot. Party members in Agege have accused the leadership of manipulation, exclusion, and abuse of party machinery by entrenched interests who have hijacked the local political space. If the APC cannot maintain internal democracy within its own structures, what chance does it have of delivering democratic governance to Lagos as a whole?

The Consensus Trap

The word “consensus” has been weaponised in Lagos politics. It sounds orderly, even statesmanlike. In practice, it means that the preferences of millions of voters are pre-empted by the preferences of a handful of powerful men. Jandor stated that he had pledged to support whoever the party presents as its candidate, framing submission to the party hierarchy as democratic virtue. But this is not democracy — it is deference dressed as principle.

True internal democracy would allow multiple candidates to contest, voters to choose, and results to stand. Instead, a gubernatorial aspirant can purchase forms one day and be advised — through back channels — to redirect his ambitions the next. A party chieftain stated that open declaration of interest is often avoided in Lagos politics, noting that excessive publicity around ambition could affect a candidate’s chances within the party structure. In other words, political ambition must be managed quietly, with permission. This is the logic of a court, not a democracy.

The Structural Problem

The problem is not simply that the APC has poor leaders or weak policies in Lagos. The problem is structural: a city cannot hold its government to account when there is no credible threat of removal. Competition is not merely a democratic nicety — it is the mechanism by which governments are made to listen.

While Nigeria remains constitutionally a multiparty democracy, recent patterns — mass political defections, executive-legislative convergence, and weakened opposition — suggest a drift toward de facto one-party dominance, raising critical questions about accountability and democratic resilience.

Lagos is the sharpest example of this drift. The House of Assembly functions as an extension of the executive, not a check on it. The opposition is fragmented and, increasingly, absorbed — as Jandor’s own trajectory from PDP flagbearer to APC loyalist illustrates. When opposition politicians dissolve into the ruling structure rather than contest it, the city is left with one voice where many are needed.

What Decoupling Would Look Like

To be clear: this is not an argument that Lagos should simply swap one party’s dominance for another’s. It is an argument for competitive politics — for a Lagos in which elections are genuinely uncertain, in which the ruling party governs with the knowledge that failure carries electoral consequences, and in which the opposition is strong enough to demand answers.

It means Lagosians — young voters especially, the same cohort that delivered the 2023 presidential result — turning up in gubernatorial and legislative elections with the same energy they bring to presidential contests. The machine is most powerful when turnout is low and predictable; it is most vulnerable when Lagosians decide that local elections matter as much as national ones.

It means the opposition parties — PDP, Labour Party, ADC — presenting credible candidates with specific, costed platforms rather than simply running against the APC’s record. A governance approach centred on service delivery, accountability, and tackling core challenges including traffic congestion, flooding, inadequate housing, healthcare, and the escalating cost of living is what Lagosians deserve to hear from multiple competing visions, not just one.

And it means acknowledging that political godfather systems — however effective at delivering short-term stability — are fundamentally incompatible with long-term democratic development. Lagos is too large, too complex, too diverse, and too important to be run as a personal project.


The City Lagos Deserves

Lagos generates an estimated $136 billion in GDP annually. It is home to the continent’s most dynamic creative economy, its busiest port, its most entrepreneurial population. It is, by most measures, the most consequential city in sub-Saharan Africa.

A city of this scale and ambition deserves governance that is accountable not to one man’s political interests but to the twenty million people who wake up in it every morning. It deserves leaders who earn power through competition, not inherit it through arrangement. It deserves a House of Assembly that interrogates the executive rather than ratifying it. It deserves flooding that gets fixed because someone’s job depends on fixing it.

Lagos has lived under the same political roof for twenty-seven years. The roof leaks. The traffic is still there. The floods return every rainy season. The consensus candidates are chosen in rooms most Lagosians will never enter.

The city is still waiting to be governed as if it belongs to everyone who lives in it — not just to the men who run it.

No sir…”Tinubu built Lagos” Abi? Why are you now complaining? Lagos is okay the way it is. Next please.

LagosOrigin:
That photo is fake

I've made my research

This photo doesn’t need any research now…everyone knows Tinubu didn’t do youth service

Biodun556:
Jagaban of Nigeria. Four + four

Is this the extent to which you guys really don’t have shame?

Tombrown3:
Biggest lie of the century

We’re in 2026. Get yourself educated and stop saying gibberish with confidence. Even before everyone easily had access to internet they taught in school that sharing clippers and razors can be risky and transfer aids but it’s either you didn’t go to school or you didn’t pay attention . Yes the risk may be low compared to sexual intercourse for example but dosnt mean it’s not possible at all

Juliana2025:
Every role matters, Every workers counts. To everyone who works to keep the world together and running.

Have you even spoken about of the data breach that just happened? How will your potential clients now trust you?

casualobserver:
When the one eyed man leads the blind, the blind know not what they are celebrating.

Honestly you must really be devoid of a lot of grey matter to follow the ADC.

I have said it many times, if I was a supporter of the opposition I would be very angry with them for the manner in which they have bungled my support. Not only snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2023 but failing to learn from their errors and continuing with their anyhowness! ……but then if I can support this lot I’m probably not too bright myself!

1: Atiku faction. How do my ou buy a party that had 13 legal cases, how do you buy a party without reading their constitution? Where was your due diligence?
2: Obidient faction. How do you jump from a party you control to become an afterthought in a party despite having 6m votes. How do you leave the security of LP knowing you were the beautiful bride without securing certain commitments? Party Chairman…not you, secretary….not you. VP slot not you, presidential slot not you….so what are you doing there? How can you be so reckless with the hopes of 6m suppprters?

You talk too much for someone who claims 2027 is already secured for APC…won’t you go outside and touch grass small? Onisokuso