₦airaland Forum

confusedlady:
■ Who are those that wrote a petition against Ijele,if not Ibos? Now in order to spread your usual lies and sophistry you are blaming the Nigerian government. At least try and have a little shame once in a day!

The treatment this man is receiving today has nothing to do with a petition. Let's at least be honest with that. The corruption and ineptitude of government is to blame for why a mere petition that may have been compiled of falsehood is being used as a reason to deprive this man of his constitutional right - section 35 of the Constitution. The people may do stewpid things but that should not be used as justification for the imbe_cility on the part of those who are to abide by the Constitution in this.

Omooba77:
■ The Emir of Minna, Alhaji Umar Farouk Bahago, has stated that the current economic challenges faced by Nigerians were inherited from the Buhari administration. He made this assertion during a sensitisation event on federal government intervention programmes organised by the Office of the Minister of Information and National Orientation, held in Minna, Niger State.
Represented by the Hadinin Minna, Alhaji Maikudi Achaza, the emir commended President Bola Tinubu for his efforts to address the issues stemming from past corruption. He emphasised that many citizens remain unaware of the Tinubu administration’s initiatives due to insufficient communication from government spokespersons, particularly in local languages.
On the other hand, former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar has expressed concern over the escalating hardships faced by Nigerians, urging the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government to take immediate action to alleviate the suffering of citizens.
The emir said, “A significant amount of funds was misappropriated by previous administrations, and the current government is working to recover them.
“Since the removal of fuel subsidies, various measures have been implemented to alleviate the impact on citizens. It is crucial for the government to communicate its policies and programmes effectively, using local languages.”
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, represented by Asabe Sule Garba, Zonal Coordinator of the Federal Information Resource Centre in Minna, stated that the event is aimed to raise awareness about the federal government’s efforts to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people. He highlighted President Tinubu’s commitment to accountability and transparency and called for citizens’ support.

Yet the Tinubu government has made near no effort to prosecute those who, according to you, misappropriated funds. His administration has instead chosen to continue the tradition with politicians — Tinubu himself—embracing waste on a scale much worse than the previous administration.

Oluboh:
The Chief of Staff to EFCC Chairman, begging Former Governor Yahaya Bello to go and leave the EFCC office, after spending over 4 hours in the premises.The EFCC later denied that Bello was not in their custody yesterday. At night, they visited the Kogi office in Abuja shooting sporadically. What's the EFCC'S game plan?

You have proof of what is obviously a plot against the Nigerian people yet you dey ask of the game plan?

Bobloco:
■ So why is he thrown into a dungeon since he was trying to save his people

Why should he be thrown into a dungeon in the first place? What legal reason is there for him or any Nigerian out there to be treated in such a manner?

Ojuntana:
■ That nigga has been used and dumped by zombies They were hailing him when he was doing videos in support of govt propaganda upandan. One zombie here even claimed the guy will not sleep a night in detention. Now, na Sowore dey fight for am. Zombies have abandoned him to his fate

So, because of this private delusion of yours, what you are saying is that this serves as justification for his illegal detention in the prison system, abi? Why are you people so mentally fked up for Pete's sake?

Bobloco:
■ Ijelespeaks, you brought this upon yourself. You were warned and re-warned Now the people who egged you on and hyped you to your doom have long abandoned you. "Don’t sell your brother, the buyers won’t trust you" - African proverb

You are a clear example of why I say Nigerians are bad citizens. How did he bring about what is a clear violation of his Constitutional rights as a citizen of this world upon himself?

dododawa1:
The Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has alleged that his predecessor, Bello Matawalle, was fully involved in some banditry issues bedevelling the state.
Speaking on a TVC politics programme on Wednesday night, the governor alleged that with information at his disposal, his predecessor headed a government that was in bed with bandits.
Lawal also accused the last administration led by Bello, who is now the Minister of State for Defence, of siphoning the state funds and handling insecurity with kid’s gloves.
“Yes, there were a lot of issues in the past, with my predecessor. In fact, let me state this very categorically, if I were him (Matawalle), I would resign and face all the allegations against me and that would have been more honourable. Because from all the information we are getting, my predecessor (Matawalle) was fully involved in some of these banditry issues,” Lawal said.
Justifying his claim that his predecessor was involved in the banditry issues, he recounted how a permanent secretary during Matawalle’s administration paid ransom through the government house to free his children abducted by bandits.
The governor said, “Typical is the fact that there was a permanent secretary whose children were abducted and it was unfortunate he had to pay ransom through the Government House. It was also very clear based on all the allegations that bandits were being kept at the Government House. And there were so many other issues.”

Bello Turji has more than confirmed many of what this Governor claims at this point. The problem is what are the people of Zamfara doing about these allegations?

Matawalle is just a minister and there is no immunity around his office. So how many suits have been filed against him in the courts abeg? If the Governor has all of this information at his disposal, why has he not called for the immediate arrest, investigation, and possible prosecution of the Matawalle?

GreyWolf01:
OP is an idiot.

The Eeejiot would your person if given the evidence provided, choose to ignore what may be gross mismanagement of what is taxpayer money? And Yes, you all pay taxes now and there is more of that to come.

fx45:
■ Rose, since the creation of Abia State in 1991, no Governor military or civilian has done half of what Alex Otti has done in one year of office. The Op is one of the disgruntled criminal PDP members who are starved of free money to share. Let them continue wailing. 2027, Alex Otti will win by 95% margin. By the way, I am from Abia State.

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Adaisback:
May God punish you and may your generations always meet with sufferings and disaster. Be careful what you post o coz the kind of generational curses we will heap on you will surpass the entire amount you are being paid to malign his excellency. Now that we are all happy that Abia have gotten it right after so many years is when you choose to rear your ugly head. It will not work for you. God bless Alex Otti and God bless Abia state

That is not a good enough reason for why he should waste government funds though. Your being from Abia does not mean anything when it comes to differentiating between good and bad though. So, I suggest you folks try to learn to pocket these meaningless declarations you go about making.

OP spotted an issue of concern. An issue that every resident should be concerned with since much of that wasted money is tax-payer money — yes, you now pay taxes and so should begin to think of how every kobo of the money in the hands of your politicians is being spent. Rather than attack Op, a more reasonable response would be to call for an investigation into the missing funds and why the governor is making such trips when he is instead hired to fulfill the responsibilities he has to the people in his state.

@Adaisback, isn't this god of Abia state already punishing Abia State that the people rejoice when the dividends of years of their own hard work is finally remitted to them after many years and the naira terribly devalued?

MyX1:
■ WILL ABIA SURVIVE THIS MAN? Out of the over N30bn he spent last year on running his office, he claimed N574.64m for international travels that returned ZERO VALUE to Abians.
Recall that he spent N26bn last year on the entire Abia workforce while he spent over N30bn in running his office.
He went to Hungary and Rwanda last year, and claimed N575m.... what a great saviour! This was more than the N300m he paid Abia Poly workers which was highly publicised. He has already embarked on a few of these futile visits in 2024, and is about to do more now.
This ill-fated visit appears like smart way to claim more hundreds of millions of Naira of public funds for himself. This is a guy that has created NO SINGLE JOB and has completed no LANDMARK PROJECT since he came to power 16 months ago, when Abia has earned over N400bn. Pray for Abia..
■ By the time he is finished with Abia, ha ga-ekweta! University of Buckingham, England must be careful about who they invite to these prestigious institutions. They must review their track records. See pictures 2 &3 Evidence of Alex C. Otti's 2023 spend on international travels.
You can as well follow the link below , it will take you straight to the state Government financial reports as released by Gov Alex Otti's Government and you'll see things yourself. Open the website and click on Download👇 https://Abiastate.gov.ng Abia is indeed bleeding and Naive People are clapping.

1. As for his travel records, please let news sites such as SaharaReporters and others be made aware of this. Even Radio Stations so these questions can be put out there as soon as possible. I know lots of Nigerians are quick to reduce themselves to the level of sycophants even politicians whom they pretend are working for them but bad governance is just bad governance and should be called out no matter what or who.

2. OP, write a petition to the University of Buckingham detailing all you have found out about this man to their administrative office or something. That is one place you could and should go with this reveal you have.

bjdon:
■ 100%. Nigerians are the worst citizens on earth. Corrupt and selfish. Thats why all this lawless impunity can thrive.

They complain a whole lot... have even turned social media into their complaint/gossip parlors but do nothing afterward to change the situation. It is pathetic. Then when the next election cycle rolls over, they now either vote into power
►the thief they imagine in themselves is better than the other thief
► or a criminal that is less of a criminal than the other thief,
► or the thief that everyone around them has declared is now suddenly a better man,
►or, my favorite, the criminal that is from their ethnic group because, in their minds, the criminal from the other ethnic group is somehow worse. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

To top that all up, we have the Nigerians who believe elections are fraudulent and so a reason why they ought not to vote at all. Yet these same people go on to raise families, make friends, and even try to set up a life for themselves in that same country where they refuse to cast their vote in and then wonder why their lives remain fked even at that. 🙄

Okechinwadike:
Sometimes I wonder what someone like oshomole will tell me and i listen to him. Tomorrow now you will see Edo people crying blaming the government, but get it right now lie lie

All of these politicians who have occupied political seats in one capacity or the other over the last 25 years are proven corrupt and/or inept individuals. So I don't see why people would be clamoring to vote any of them back in to begin with.

mycaremimi:
■ According to the statement, the Ministry is aware of dissenting views by some parents to the inevitable increase in boarding fees in our model colleges.
“This is not an easy decision but the welfare of the children is a priority for the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and Lagos State Government.
“Lagos State Government provides free education in 1,021 Primary schools, 369 Junior Secondary and 329 Senior Secondary schools which include 32 model colleges across the State. Except for Vetland Junior and Senior Secondary Schools, all the model colleges are boarding schools.
“Since enrolment of a child into a boarding school is an individual choice of every parent, they are expected to pay boarding fees.
“The boarding fee is paid every term and it is used basically for feeding, janitorial and other miscellaneous cost related to keeping them in the hostels per term. The schools also take care of energy cost on fuel and cooking gas, which are essential for preparing their meals.
“The concern of ensuring a better welfare for our model college students, who are over one percent of the entire basic and secondary school student population in public schools in the state, necessitated the increase in boarding fees.
“The model college students enjoy all other privileges of free education vis- a- vis provision of education infrastructure, free tuition, technology support (free devices) provision of adequate security in schools and payment of terminal examination fees (LASG pays WAEC fees for all public school students).
“So, the N35,000 boarding fees being paid since 2021 is not realistic in 2024.

Magically, many of these same people will retain their kids in the same boarding school systems o. That is the magic of suffering and smiling in Nigeria.

Typing:
■ Wetin your Obaseki don do for Edo State in the last 8 years since he become a Governor? Mention ONLY 10 Obaseki's projects and I will reward you with 50k

Una no dey shame at all when una dey mention all of these things? The former governor ruined 8 years of your lives including your futures by stealing from you all. Rather than, allow this spur you all to thoroughly scrutinize the next person who will come so he does not repeat the same devastation on your lives and that of your children, family members, and communities put together, na to bicker even making the outgoing thief a standard? No wonder you all only go on to elect someone worse than the previous in each case. Good governance is seriously day far far far away from you all.

The worst of it all is you all will also allow Obaseki to go scot-free after all the devastation he has wrought over your lives in the end. Seriously Nigerians are en masse, a really pathetic people.

Okechinwadike:
That's why when i looked at Edo people i nearly cry. Is it that they choose to be stupid or totally brainwashed by this useless politicians

Look at the crowd at their many rallies... Na suffering Nigerians full am o. Many in those crowds have children, family members, and even friends they should be fighting to ensure a better future for, but none of that seems to matter to them once these politicians appear in front of them. They can't wait to hand over their mandate to the clown to pay them anything. Nigerians are a bunch of evil folks abeg!

Coolsperm:
When Yoruba Muslims were insulting GEJ and even protesting with a mock confine, now local Yoruba Muslims don't want you to insult the manequine in Aso rock

Please stop this nonsense rant abeg! GEJ was equally an example of bad governance. Nigeria is a nation made up of terribly bad citizens and the outcomes we continue to see are those expected when the citizens do the worst over and over again.

ariesbull:
data is life, they are giving you data, you have used propaganda for decades it didn't work, this is the era of Data ...let us know which states and regions that are suffering

In a country where the average investment into to the healthcare sector by the government is about 5% what the government spends on itself, you think it makes sense to claim there are 1.8 persons per functional healthcare facility? You need help if you believe that jargon. Same way those who claim to believe they get 23 hours of electricity every day in a country of over 200 million people with only approximately 5000 MW of electricity produced on a good day equally do.

Ebubu:
I'm sure you would have been cool with it if your state is top 5
God bless Ebonyi state

Thankfully I don't and can't reason things the same way you do.

ariesbull:
FUNCTIONAL HEALTH FACILITIES PER SQUARE MILE
Number of people per one functional health facility by state
#Statisense
(WASHNORM)
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1836513146833719783

Thjs report makes no Nigerian sense. What does this group gain from reporting these unverified nonsense abeg!

MsJackson:
Happy sunday to you all. I have a problem. There is this young man i just met 2yrs ago. I'm yoruba, he's delta by tribe. We've been just platonic friends but now he wants my hand in marriage. I am a graduate of OAU but he only stopped sch at sec sch. He attended a technical school later, learnt a skill in electricity. Workin now wit an ok salary. I feel no qualms abt marrying this guy becos he's so humble, very hardworkin and selfless, ALWAYS ready to put people's interest ahead of his own. He has a positively dangerous sense of humor, cracks me up so badly lol. Plus, he's so so cute. Lol. We flow well. Problem is, people are talkin abt our educational differences and its gettin to me. I'm ok wit him but people, even my family feel we dont match. I luv him badly. MUST HE BE A GRADUATE TO BE MARRIAGEABLE? Please i need reasonable nature responses. Tnx.

Seems this was a red flag for you from the get go.

Zaheertyler:
■ The trauma can be devastating my friend and then the tendencies to be like him will come because he has done it and got away with it..but regardless love your mom unconditionally no matter what she does and still give the rest space..focus on your job and relationship with Jesus Christ if you’re a Christian You go Dey okay my Gee

This is very very nonsense advise!

OP, avoid those who use the mention of God or Jesus Christ to try to make their ordinarily silly advice seem worth exploring abeg! Many of these people are probably living through the same silly situation you are living on only they mask their pain & probably shame too before the mention of the name of God.

Edojoma:
■ Hmmmmm, so a lot of families are facing this issue as well. Bro, u are not alone, it's like a general problem here in naija. Be glad dat it's ur immediate family, not from ur inlaw's family. And be happy u were not even asked to apologize to ur brother in-law u r 10yrs older dan, when everyone knows u dat u were d one offended.
My advise is for u to maintain ur distance, and cut of all those dat support him because of his cash. Anyone dat love's u because of money can betray u for same money. If there is a family celebration that u are expected by tradition to attend, pls do. But don't let d fine face and gossip others will tell u too abt other family members get to u. Don't ever take anything they say to heart or hate another cos of wat u were told. They will do dis , if they are not already doing it now, just to get favor from u too. Hold tight to ur principles, so everyone knows who u are and wat u stand for. And never attend any celebration/get 2geda unless invited. Nor involve ursef if dem nor involve u too

These are all signs of a severely dysfunctional family relationship for Pete's sake!

JaySmart4422:
■ But in all this I stood my ground to be different , when this issue was transferred to him as gossip my name was a trending topic in the family but I closed my ears and I quickly gave them a long distance and cut of communication cos the entire circle is toxic I can't be with people whose only discussion is gossip about other siblings. Was I wrong for express my pains to my orders ones? Was I wrong for distancing myself from them? Is is a crime to complain? My brother offended me I would have died in the the process but because I have no money then like him. They took side with him knowing the truth
Today God has remembered me , he has blessed me them moment I distant myself from them God took over my situation .But this people are still dragging me. All to gain my attention. Everyone of them knew I was right but they concealed the truth and painted me black just for some favours that will come from him. Some are telling me to resterblish communication but the issue there is they are not ready to quit internal gossip. My brother has built his life around gossip and it is has destroyed the family.

Leave God and His mention out of this hogwash abeg!

Yes, you are doing better financially but clearly, you continue to struggle emotionally because you have been carrying this thing around with you all of this while. It also does not help at all that you seem to come from what is a dysfunctional family background as well. Since you had a hand in igniting the furious flame — rather than approach your brother you decided to tell on him to everyone else thereby giving already hungry wolves something to feast on to your detriment —I suggest you instead work on forgiving your brother whatever it was that was his fault, accepting the part you played in all of this and move on. If you wish to ignore your brother at this point, that works too since there is no rule against ignoring those you cannot seem to work well with.

Otherwise, if he committed a crime against you, then take the evidence and your grievances to the police or the courts.

JaySmart4422:
■ Some time ago one of my elder brother did something very wrong to me , I was bitterly hurt beyond words. I am the last child in the family so as at when this happened life was really dealing with me life was hard. But that my brother has so much much money, mind you he is not the first child or second but he has money. So that makes his word a law in the family he is playing the role of the eldest. I got to know that money cover multitude of sins looking at how he has been getting special treatment in the family , no body is human being except him.
He is treated like an only child. No other person in the family matters. He hurts anybody with no one blaming him for his actions rather other members of the family will back him up with full support. This has been going on for years. So when I had issues with him I immediately reported him to every member of the family started from the older ones cos he is older than me I can't challenge him so I expected the elders to address the issue but it was transferred to him and interpreted as gossip. They all gang up against me
They presented the issue to him like I gossip him to them. But It was never a gossip cos I told almost everybody about the issue myself and even told them that I will repeat same thing before him should incase they call for a family meeting or something. All of them knows that the only way to obtain favour from him is by submitting a gossip this has always been like this in the family.This internal gossip has destroyed my family. Everyone is hunting gossip just to deliver to him so he can help them or have good spot In his heart.

1. You are an adult, right? If someone — regardless of how much older or younger the person may be— offends or hurts you, don't you think the common sense thing would be to approach the person directly and air your grievance right there? If the person does not like what you say or refuses to apologize, that shouldn't matter. The important thing is to get the grievance off your chest and onto the person who you believe rightly caused it. Why in the world would you think it would make sense to broadcast it first to everyone else but the one whom you in fact have a problem with?

I think you approached it very very wrong as an adult who is supposed to be both socially and emotionally intelligent enough to know there is no place in reporting an adult to another. It is just uncalled-for behavior.

YINKS89:
■ But then doing that as a married woman is worse.

Nonsense... why is it worse? Come over here and you will find that almost 99.9% of the Nigerian men who left their wives back in Nigeria are doing the same thing. Did you listen to the caller at all? Why is it worse because it is a woman doing it? Where the fk do you people get these ideas from?

When it comes to such guys over here, in all of the years I have been here, I can only count on one hand the number of them that tried to last 6 months before falling headlong into temptation and once they fall, they start spewing tripe about how a married man should not be expected to abstain from sex for any reason.

Treasure17:
■ The results of accumulated bad leadership. When you peruse the misadventures of Nigeria with your inner visual faculty, you will conclude that the misfortune is irredeemable.

More like the reward of bad citizenry! Citizens cannot sit with arms folded electing criminals into office each election cycle yet expect things to magically turn out well. Never in the history of the world has it ever worked out that way.

What we have in Nigeria are clear examples of bad/terrible citizens who don't really care for the collective welfare of the country and its people. They may say they do with their tongues but action, they say, speaks louder than words!

Lizzysamuel:
Kaduna to Zaria went from N200 to N2000 in 8 years without civil war

E never reach Naira 20,000 so keep hanging on.

Ruffysonpedro:
So, you gerrit! They can't do nothing means they shouldn't be there! Do the job or get booted out!!

It's more like why are Nigerians holding on to them? Why are Nigerians refusing to boot them out of power? Why are Nigerians sitting back and taking it all without so much as a revolt?

Ruffysonpedro:
As we gear up for #EndBadGovernance protests in October, we have 'cooked up' this AfroAma tune to spice up the experience. It's titled "Donbie Azombie". Our government must sit up and deliver the dividends of democracy. It's not rocket science but for their greed, they will never learn until things get out of hand and we hit the streets in protest. Things are so bad now than ever before. People are dying quietly and some are preaching patience for a change that will never come through these crop of people deceiving people (PDP) and all promises canceled (APC) parties. Mobilization has begun already. No violence! Only Peaceful protests!!
#EndBadGovernance #Songofresistance #protestanthem

Nonsense talk! A government that has more than proven it does not give a fk about you, is the one you expect to sit up and deliver what again? Were you all dropped on your heads as babies or what? These people CANNOT do anything beneficial for you... there is evidence every where you look to prove exactly this.

lawani:
Who died for you?.

As Americans, there are people who died for the nation against Britain while fighting for independence and during the civil war and subsequent military engagements around the world. We know those who died for the IJESA nation throughout the centuries of existence of the nation. Fejeboju war, Kiriji war and etc. Those who died for the Yoruba nation willingly in Nigeria include people like Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, Colonel Victor Banjo and thousands of others during the civil war and after the state murder of Bashorun Abiola. It is an attack on the spirits of the true heroes to say Jesus Christ died for Americans, the IJESA or the Yoruba as a whole when we know those who actually died. Making the statement about Jesus Christ in public should not be encouraged in any nation.

Jesus Christ instead said He was sent only to the Lost Sheep of Israel meaning His death was for those who are of the bloodline of Jacob alone. This fact has been established for about 2000 years now. So any claim to the contrary is of course a lie!

Owocheboy:
Beloved, genuine love bears no grudge. It is accommodating, kind, tolerant and not boastful.
Christ love for us is so genuine that his sent his only begotten son to die for us. Oh! What manner of love is this. Little wonder why the Bible says that we can heal, teach or even speak in tongues, but if we have not loved, we have achieved nothing. Let's Inculcate the gift of love anywhere we find ourselves and may God give us the grace to show and practise genuine love.

Jesus Christ said His love belongs only to the blood descendants of Jacob, the only ones His Father sent Him to. How many Nigerians belong to this particular bloodline?