₦airaland Forum

Lekby25:
You are not in Osun State, you don't reside there, so you absolutely know nothing about the state. So you are not qualified in any way to make comments on any issue happening there so please keep your comments

Keep quiet. You're nothing to tell me not to make comments on the state and politics of my state of origin.

Politics in Nigeria has become a disturbing theatre of hypocrisy. Politicians will stand before the people, swear that they want nothing but to serve, transform lives and build a better country. But when elections draw near, the mask comes off.

The desperation becomes frightening. They manipulate, deceive, betray alliances, weaponise poverty, exploit ethnic and religious sentiments, and will cross almost every moral line imaginable just to secure power.

The sad truth is that for many, politics is not about service. It is about power, privilege and personal survival. The people are treated as stepping stones to political office, then remembered again only when another election approaches.

If someone is willing to do almost anything to win power, we should ask a simple question: what exactly will they be willing to do once they have it?

Nigeria deserves leaders who genuinely want to serve, not desperate power-seekers who discover patriotism only during campaign season.

NairaMaster1:
You go explain taya.

God pass your wish.

You wey he owe landlord.

You live from hand to mouth and I'm not like your parents.

In a functional democracy, a politician should seek re-election based on measurable achievements, tangible development, and the positive impact of their administration, not on how much money, food, or other “peanuts” they can distribute to voters during election season.

Sadly, we seem to have normalised a system where politicians can neglect their responsibilities for years, appear during elections with handouts, and still expect the people to reward them with another term.
I do not live in Osun State, so I may not have the full picture. But from what is visible, I honestly struggle to see the level of transformation that should justify rewarding the same leadership with another term.
So the question is simple: what exactly are the measurable achievements that qualify this man for re-election?
If the answer is merely political connections, handouts and the ability to mobilise voters with peanuts, then we are not electing leaders. We are rewarding mediocrity and perpetuating the very system that keeps Nigeria underdeveloped.

The saddest part is seeing people turn this into another pointless APC-versus-opposition party war.

You’ll see some people mocking APC now. But if the rigging had worked in APC’s favour and their candidate had won, many of these same people would be shouting that APC rigged the election.

This is exactly the mindset we need to outgrow.

What Nigerian youths need to understand is that rigging does not happen in a vacuum. If people refuse to register, collect their PVCs, show up and vote, there is very little for anyone to manipulate. Your vote actually matters.

If you genuinely want your preferred candidate to win, stop limiting your political participation to Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp. Get your PVC. Organise. Campaign. Mobilise people. And, most importantly, show up on election day and vote.

Elections are not won on social media. They are won at the polling unit.

Stop crying online after the results. Start doing the work before and on election day.

Did it happen in South Africa?

saintopus:
Fly wey no dey hear word, go follow deadbody, enter grave.

So you believe the man? He's a bloody liar if he can't show us data evidence.

Shameless old mugu
Imagine person papa ..

BennyDGreat:
Please prove that there are no evidences of the claim of the Bible.

Have you read the Bible in its entirety to solidly come to a conclusion that it cannot be taken as an authority?

I feel drained reply you honestly.
Okay, let me ask you too:
Please prove that there are no evidences of the claim of the Qur'an
Have you read the Quran in its entirety to solidly come to a conclusion that it cannot be taken as an authority?

All these “glorified hubs” that only the rich can afford. The government keeps building shop spaces and houses at ridiculously expensive prices, completely out of reach for the ordinary Nigerian.

How can a shop space of roughly 4 × 8 metres be priced at ₦16 million? Who exactly are these projects meant to serve?

How can 2-bedroom be sold for 80-150m on the mainland?

Instead of making housing and business spaces more accessible to the common man, they are turning them into another avenue for exploitation. The people who actually need affordable spaces are being priced out, while only the wealthy can afford them.

Lol
Very senseless and ridiculous development


NONSENSE!

Very wreckles thing to say

4good:
The term spiritual blindness is not an insult, it's a scriptural term used to describe inability to understand spiritual things or the ignorance of spiritual facts/realities. A stronger word is spiritual death which means to be disconnected from God the source of eternal life - Ezekiel 18:20, Isa 59:1-2

And truth be told, from your long submission the best word to describe the state of anyone with your mindset is spiritual death.

All you need is to become born again by accepting that God is, that He loves you, that He sent Jesus His son to die for the sin of the world so whoever believes can receive the spiritual life which is the life of God that was lost in Eden. John 10:10, John 3:16

Anyone who is yet to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior is spiritually dead Romans 3:23. A child of God or anyone that is ignorant of correct spiritual truth(s) is spiritually blind.
Checkout these;
Genesis 2:17, 3:22-24, 1Corinth. 2:14, Rom 1:20-25, Rom 11:25,

Jesus loves you, so do I.

The funniest part of your response is that you have completely demonstrated the exact problem I was pointing out. 😂

I question the reasoning behind your claim, and your response is to quote the Bible to prove that your claim is true.

But here is the obvious problem: why should I accept the Bible as an authority when I don't already accept the Bible as an authority?

You can't use the Bible to prove the Bible.
That is circular reasoning.
It is essentially saying:

“Why am I right?”
“Because the Bible says so.”
“Why should I believe the Bible?”
“Because the Bible says it is true.”
😂

Imagine a Muslim telling you, “You are spiritually blind because the Qur'an says so,” and when you ask for evidence, he gives you another 15 verses from the Qur'an. Would you consider that an objective demonstration of his claim, or would you simply say, “You are quoting the book you already believe in”?

That's exactly what you're doing.

And notice something else: instead of addressing my actual argument about evidence, causation, confirmation bias and logical inference, you changed the discussion to whether I am “spiritually dead.”

That's not a rebuttal. That's a theological label.

You have essentially constructed a system where:

If I agree with you → I have spiritual understanding.

If I disagree with you → I am spiritually blind.

If I still disagree → I am spiritually dead.

That is a wonderfully convenient belief system because it makes itself impossible to falsify. 😂

You don't have to demonstrate your claim because disagreement itself becomes evidence that the other person is spiritually blind.

That's not critical thinking. That's a closed epistemological loop.

And again, I am not debating whether Jesus exists or whether God exists. Believe whatever you sincerely want. I'm questioning whether your personal experiences and quotations from your religious text constitute objective evidence for someone who does not already share your assumptions.

They don't.

Your faith may be deeply meaningful to you. I respect that.

But “I believe it because my scripture says it, and my scripture is true because it says it” isn't an argument that establishes the truth of the claim to someone outside your faith.

So before diagnosing other people with “spiritual blindness,” perhaps pause for a moment and examine the rather amusing possibility that what you're calling spiritual blindness might simply be someone refusing to accept your premises without evidence. 😄

Eriokanmi:
In response to this epistle,Jesus is real. If you can truly find Him, you'll see Him. He had appeared to devout Muslims and idol worshippers who never had anything to do with Him and they left the religous belief to serve Him. You can hear His voice, same way you hear humans speak to you. He can tell you things to come and it will be same and exact. He heals, delivers and blesses.

Do you think it's easy for these mammoth crowd to come from different parts of the world without a reason and confirmation of God's existence and things He had done in their lives ? Those women whose wombs have been cut off but still conceived and had children would be among the crowd you're seeing. Those healed of cancer by God, those healed of HIV and other life threatening diseases through the ministry of Pastor Adeboye too will be there.

I'm not a member of the RCCG but God had done many miracles in my life through it. I go there to pray on my own once in a while. I don't need to narrate any story unless you experience Him personally. However,there's one which still amazes me till today. There was a time I needed to travel to the US for an important programme but no money. The funds i was expecting didn't come as well and time to travel had approached. I went to the RCCG camp to pray . As i was stepping out of that auditorium 2 different credit alerts were received. One, from one of my customers who wasn't owing us at all, the other came from an unknown source. It was the exact amount I needed when summed up. I was shocked. Days later, the one who's our customer called and said they made payment into our account by mistake. I said yes and refunded them but that time, enough money had already hit our account. The second source has not contacted us till today. I went to my inbox to see if I could see the sender's name details from email alert received cos sms alert is always short,no way. I printed a statement, no name.
I just shared this,out of several helps I had received from God.

You're arguing against a position I never took.
I'm not debating whether Jesus is real or not, whether God exists or not, or whether miracles happen. I'm only questioning the method of you people's reasoning...

Your entire argument is basically: “I experienced something I cannot explain, therefore God did it.” That is not evidence. That is an interpretation of an experience.

The money story is actually a perfect example. You received two unexpected payments that happened to add up to what you needed. You interpret that as divine intervention. Someone else could interpret it as coincidence, an accounting error, an unexplained transaction, or something else. The fact that you cannot explain the second payment does not logically establish its supernatural cause.

And “thousands of people came, therefore their experiences confirm God” is the same problem multiplied by thousands. A crowd is not a scientific instrument. Ten thousand people sincerely believing something does not make the explanation they believe objectively true.

The irony is that you accuse others of not being able to “find Him,” while you haven't demonstrated the critical thinking required to distinguish what happened from what you concluded happened.

If someone says, “I experienced something extraordinary, and I believe God did it,” that's perfectly reasonable as a personal belief.

But when you move from “this happened to me” to “therefore this proves God did it,” you have crossed from testimony into an unsupported conclusion.

So no, I'm not asking you to prove that Jesus exists. I'm asking you to apply the same intellectual standard to your own explanation that you would demand from someone else's explanation.

Faith may explain what something means to you. It doesn't automatically establish what caused it.

And frankly, calling everyone who questions your interpretation spiritually blind while presenting your own interpretation as unquestionable evidence is someworth foolish and not exactly the impressive demonstration of objectivity you seem to think it is. It is just confirmation bias wearing religious clothing.

ppogba:
Give credit to where you copied this from.

Is this one of the olodo uprising?
So where did the person that copied it copied it copied it copied it copied it copied it... from?

Organized religions will always attract humans.

Religion is one of the oldest and most sophisticated frameworks ever created for managing the terrifying space between what we know and what we desperately want to know.

It gives death a narrative.
It gives suffering a meaning.
It gives morality a structure.
It gives fear a language.
It gives hope somewhere to live.

And perhaps most importantly, it gives human beings a psychological mechanism for controlling themselves when nobody else is watching.

Because the human animal is not governed entirely by reason. We are driven by desire, fear, greed, lust, anger, status, survival and the need to belong. Civilization discovered very early that laws can control behaviour only when someone is watching.

Religion introduced something more powerful:

A watcher who never sleeps.

Whether that watcher objectively exists is a philosophical and theological question. The psychological effect of believing that the watcher exists is a different question entirely.

Heaven and hell become incentives and deterrents.
Sin becomes internal surveillance.
Repentance becomes psychological correction.
Ritual becomes behavioural conditioning.
Community becomes social reinforcement.
Faith becomes a mechanism for tolerating uncertainty.

And this is where religion becomes fascinating.

You don't necessarily need to prove that humans are stupid to explain religion. You only need to recognize that humans are fragile creatures trapped inside an existence they barely understand.

We fear death while being unable to investigate it from the other side.

We crave justice while living in a universe that appears completely indifferent to whether justice happens.

We want meaning while nature provides no obvious instruction manual.

So we construct one.

Call it religion.
Call it philosophy.
Call it ideology.
Call it spirituality.
Call it science when science is asked questions it cannot yet answer.

The labels change.

The psychological problem remains.

As long as humans remain conscious enough to ask "What happens when I die?" and incapable of obtaining a definitive answer, organized religion will have fertile ground.

Perhaps religion survives not because humans are incapable of thinking.

Perhaps it survives because thinking deeply about existence eventually confronts us with the limits of what we can know.

And humans have never been particularly good at staring into an abyss without giving the abyss a name...

Ridiculous
How does that even happen?

Okay
So what?

So, what exactly are Nigerians gaining from the Dangote Refinery?

We were told that having a massive refinery operating in Nigeria would reduce our dependence on imported petroleum products, strengthen the naira, create jobs, improve energy security and, ultimately, make fuel more affordable for Nigerians.

But we need to ask some uncomfortable questions:

Has petrol actually become significantly cheaper for the ordinary Nigerian because of the refinery?

Is the Dangote Refinery a government-owned facility or a private business? If it is a private company, why should Nigerians automatically assume that its success is the same thing as public benefit?

And perhaps most importantly:

Before the refinery, what was Aliko Dangote's net worth? What is it today?

Forbes estimated Dangote's 2026 net worth at about $28.5 billion, while other recent estimates have placed it substantially higher.

Meanwhile, the refinery is a private commercial enterprise, and recent reports indicate that it is being positioned for a major IPO that could value the business at around $40 billion.

So the real question is not whether the Dangote Refinery is an impressive industrial achievement. It clearly is.

The real question is:

How much of the economic value created by this enormous investment is actually reaching the average Nigerian?

If Nigerians are still paying heavily for petrol, diesel, transportation, food and electricity, then we must distinguish between building a world-class refinery in Nigeria and delivering broad economic benefits to Nigerians.

Yes, the refinery has reduced Nigeria's dependence on imported refined petroleum products and has become a major supplier to the domestic market.

But Nigerians have every right to ask:

Where is the measurable public benefit?

Has it reduced the cost of living?

Has it substantially reduced pump prices?

Has it created meaningful competition that benefits consumers?

Has it reduced Nigeria's foreign-exchange burden?

Has it increased government revenue enough to improve public services?

Or are we simply celebrating the growth of one of Africa's largest private fortunes while ordinary Nigerians continue to struggle with the cost of energy?

A refinery being located in Nigeria is not, by itself, proof that Nigerians are benefiting from it.

What Nigerians deserve is transparent evidence, measurable economic benefits and accountability, not simply the argument that because the refinery is in Nigeria, Nigeria automatically wins.

This cancer na real killer of life...

No be lie
Naira has lost so much value... Imagine CFA

Wow
The news is true

RIP talented artist.

Obviously oil spill...
Nigeria blessings that's a curse...

Truth be told, that professor really tried for JAMB.
No one is perfect.

Wetin make dem come dey use? Collinton?
There's no be deal to people using their professional prefixes, after all, doctors use theirs.

BodyCount:
I don't think I should be committing a crime simply because I refuse to help someone investigate my own phone.

A person's phone is their private property and contains highly personal information. If a law enforcement officer wants to examine its contents as part of an investigation, the responsibility should be on the authorities to obtain lawful access through the appropriate legal and technical processes, rather than relying on the owner's cooperation

My phone is my private property and contains my personal information. If law enforcement believes they need access to it for an investigation, they should use the legal and technical means available to them, not expect or require my assistance.

I agree with you
If they want to see his phone, they should use technology and not his help to provide password.

zoghys:
Definitely you can't ,my son will do a better job of knowing what a person of colour who mean in this age and time. Stop displaying your shallowness on SM.

No carry this kain sense train children o
Carrying slave-tag inferiority mentality about...

One of the reasons visa restrictions and denials have become so stringent for many African countries is the repeated abuse of travel privileges by a small number of people.

When an entire football team disappears after a tournament instead of returning home, it reinforces negative perceptions and makes immigration authorities even more cautious. Unfortunately, the consequences are borne by genuine travellers, students, professionals, researchers, businesspeople, and tourists who have no intention of overstaying.

This is similar with many beneficiaries of publicly funded opportunities who fail to honour the purpose of those programmes. There have beeen several cases where research grants intended for scientific work have been misused for personal expenses instead of the approved research activities. Likewise, some individuals sponsored by government-funded overseas training schemes, including programmes such as TETFund, choose not to return after completing their studies or training despite the significant public investment made in them. While these cases involve only a minority of beneficiaries, they undermine trust in such programmes and can lead to stricter oversight and reduced opportunities for others. AND LATER, WE BLAME GOVERNMENT...

The actions of a relatively small number of people continues to shape international perceptions and domestic policies, making it more difficult for millions of honest Africans who simply want to study, conduct research, work, travel, or return home after achieving their goals.

Shameless people.

zoghys:
Obviously you lack the wisdom here, someone needs to cut you to your size.

Lol
I'm not the one of the people who raised you so don't confuse me for them.

zoghys:
Get some education and stop been *fuc""kin ignorant. A man of color is simply a black man of African heritage.

Shame, you can't even read between the lines.
No wisdom and common sense to

Any surprise here?
Did Isreal not drag USA into war with Iran?

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