₦airaland Forum

Treasure17:
So we should call pasuma now àbi? The basics are the things we should be celebrating? Nonsense.

But you people said he isnt doing anything, now its the basics you are mow calling it......no one was expecting you to have anything ro be happy about because ot isnt news about kidnappings or killings.

Dan orbit,what a great loss,on of the most astute politicians in edo state.

Rip to him.

Sheuns:
Tinubu doesn’t have any relationship with Yaradua Shehu.

The dots can’t be connected at all.

Tinubu was never present in Nigeria during the military junta, from his numerous lies he said he schooled in the US and worked with Deloitte for about 7 years then returned to Nigeria in 1992. How would he have been under Shehu Yaradua’s tutelage and met Atiku that had always been in Nigeria and in the customs and also a northerner?

The maths aren’t making sense.

Stop yapping rubbish, go back and read yout history,tinubu was in the pdm with atiku which was yar adua 's political structure.....he not being in Nigeria doesn't mean he couldn't partake in politics, in 92 he was already a senator under SDP,atiku couldn't partake in politics because he was a civil servant while tinubu was free to....atiku retired in 1989 while tinubu was already an established politician.

Rayjay45:
Oun naa fe eniyan to da fi s'ore. Orisirisi

What in the world would Shehu (RIP), a clean man in and out, be doing being friends with Baba 90?

Question for the e-rats

You call shehu yar adua a clean man,you obviously no zilch my friend, so your political judgement is obviously repugnant.

Mr Abdullah,in as much as I like your persona and erudition and really wish you remained in the apc,you are very wrong on this and your job to defend your principal is really throwing you off as a thoughless propagandist.

Will you give the refineries the crude for free,wouldn't your givt be loosing money on the so called Subsidiesd crude......the production incentive the tinubu govt gave the operators,are you going to be wiping it out in ine fell swoop which isnt even possible to start with because that will be billions of dollars in investments out da window and if you will retain it thats the govt loosing money in 2 fronts from its major revenue earner.......hiw about the exchange rate,will you continue to subsidise that too so the dollar can cone down but also at what cost to govt.

The impracticality of this promise of yours is so manifest from the get go and your feeble attempt in trying to defend it throws you of as a person unintelligent on economic matters......so sorry say.

aswani:
It would have been better if he established questions that the interview is not allowed to ask or at least ask for the questions beforehand to give him and his advices time to discuss a way of answering it.

I genuinely don't think there's anyone with so much baggage in this country that has sought to be President.

What a cad!

What so you expect of a content creator with the likes of mama pee, that Randy fellow and zekeri as his campaign managers......very ridiculously uncouth bunch and an airheaded presidential candidate who can't tell his right from his left.

MamaFryo:
So you didn’t see the technicality in that question? Obi saw it and didn’t want to set himself up, he answered smartly.

Agbados will get high BP by force 🤣😂🤣 una never see anything yet. Al-Jazeera and BBC are televising the Benin-Agbor-Asaba road. Come and campaign oga President we dey wait.
#PeterObi4President2027 #NDC ✌️


Wetin I even know sef? I'm just an ordinary Nigerian Policewoman.

"Ordinary nigerian policewoman" what technicality,di he call the election a religious war,yes or no?

Obi just gave his opponents another campaign line for them to attack him with and trust me they will hit him hard and many nigerians will discredit him the more......you might like his statement or how he keeps embarrassing himself at every interview but trust me many other Nigerians dont share your views.

He even said his ADC the closest person to him is a northerner, can that ADC be closer than the wife of the president to her husband who is equally a Muslim and she a xtian,a deaconess at that.

Tenses:
They should braceup for more contents then.

Your content creator keeps binding himself up with a rope and you are urging him on,wetin consign us,make he kwantinue.

shortgun:
A typical corn eater, you lots will never fail to disappoint. Officially Peter obi scored over 6 million votes in the last presidential election without inducing any voter. Do you know what it means to have 6 million people queue behind a man?.....He was governor twice.
Peter Obi is the only former governor without a corruption case.
Bwala should contest for local government councillorship before we even begin to compare him with anyone. Also, the fact that you don't even know that Peter Obi graduated with a Second Class and not a Third Class proves that ignorance and confidence are a dangerous combination. You know absolutely nothing about the man peter Obi yet here you are arguing ignorantly.

No corruption case!! What of the Pandora box?

Keeping state funds in his personal bank is what?

Investing state funds in a brewery he has personal interest in is what?

Where is the corruption case against tinubu,even gej tried to nail him,he couldn't you people will just open your mouth to spew nonsense.

shortgun:
if not for freedom of speech, who is Daniel Bwala to lace Peter Obi's shoes

If not for freedom of speech who are you to abuse tinubu......try that in Uganda and Tanzania,burkina faso, guinea or niger or eritrea and see where you will end up.

Penguin2:
Obi will visit more churches.

Agbado people should get to cry harder.

And he will fail woefully again and you would cry even harder.......when somebody running for president doesn't have a campaign management team and everything is all about him,what do you expect.

Beautifulday:
When APC were running to the mosque. They weren't content creators?

Them no dey discuss spiritual issues in the mosque

Did you or have you at anytime even to the run up to 23 elections see tinubu campaigning at any mosque or religious sentimentalism,just one sentence from him in that regard.

happney65:
Since Atiku said he will return fuel subsidy,he hasn't stopped pressing the necks of APC and since then,they have never ever known peace..

It has been from one shalaye to the other.

Ask atiku if he ended the suffering of old nitel staff when he sold their agency for peanuts and threw them all out if jobs without even caring about paying them their severance packages.

Atiku was vp when poor Barassie citizens were gifted to Cameroon to be persecuted and burdened by that country while his govt left them to their faith, did he end tbeir suffering?

Atiku never ended our suffering despite them spending $16b on electricity but we are still energy poor.

Kukutente23:
Based on crude oil price today, price of petrol shouldn't be above N950 even with the so-called subsidy removal.
Let's calculate it. Price of Brent crude today is $86 per barrel. Let's round it up to $90
At today's exchange rate of N1330, that's N119,700
A barrel of crude holds 159 litres. Thus 1 litre of crude should be N752
NMDPRA says this price of crude should be 80% of the price of petrol which leaves a 20% margin for other costs
Thus the full price should be N941.
So where is the N400 pushing the pump price to N1300 coming from?

So where is the subsidy removal scam,or are you now in the business of click baiting, kukute?

This are very weighty allegations, lets wait for inec to explain their own side,and pressure must be put on them to get a response immediately.

yaroinsider:
On social media, it can look as though everyone is doing well.

New cars. Expensive restaurants. Designer clothes. Luxury apartments. Weekend trips. Parties filled with champagne and photographs.

But behind some of those images are Nigerians struggling to pay rent, repay loans or simply maintain the lifestyle they have created online.

The uncomfortable truth is that looking wealthy and being financially secure are two completely different things.

the pressure to look successful

Social media has changed how success is measured.

For some young Nigerians, success is no longer judged only by savings, investments or business ownership. It is increasingly displayed through what people can show.

A new phone becomes a status symbol.

A rented luxury car can look like personal wealth.

A hotel visit can look like an expensive holiday.

A designer outfit can suggest financial security.

But a photograph rarely tells the full story.

Someone can spend ₦500,000 on a weekend and still have almost nothing saved.

That is where the pressure begins.

the lifestyle trap

The desire to keep up appearances can become expensive.

Someone gets a better-paying job and upgrades their apartment.

Then comes a more expensive car.

Then better clothes.

Then restaurants and nightlife.

Before long, the person’s income has increased, but so have their expenses.

Instead of becoming financially stronger, they have simply created a more expensive life to maintain.

This is known as lifestyle inflation.

The danger is that once people become accustomed to a particular lifestyle, reducing their spending can feel like failure.

borrowed money can look like wealth

Debt can also create an illusion of prosperity.

A person may have an expensive phone, car or apartment but be paying for them through loans or instalments.

From the outside, everything looks perfect.

Inside, however, monthly repayments can consume a large part of their income.

This is particularly dangerous when income is unstable.

One job loss, failed business deal or unexpected emergency can expose how fragile the lifestyle really was.

social media makes comparison worse

The average person doesn’t see another person’s bank balance.

They see their highlights.

They see the new car.

They see the birthday party.

They see the holiday.

They see the restaurant.

They don’t see the unpaid bills.

They don’t see the family member sending money to help.

They don’t see the loan repayment.

They don’t see the nights spent worrying about money.

This creates a distorted picture of reality.

Someone struggling financially can look at social media and believe everyone else is succeeding except them.

That can lead to even more pressure to spend.

the Nigerian family factor

Money pressure in Nigeria is not always about personal expenses.

Many people also support parents, siblings, relatives and friends.

A person earning a relatively good salary may have several people depending on them.

Rent, food, transportation, electricity and healthcare can consume income before personal savings are considered.

That means someone who appears comfortable may actually be carrying significant financial responsibilities behind the scenes.

expensive doesn’t always mean rich

One of the biggest mistakes people make is confusing consumption with wealth.

A person who owns productive assets, has savings and investments and can survive several months without income may be financially stronger than someone driving a luxury car while heavily indebted.

Real wealth is often less visible.

It can be a business generating income.

A house producing rent.

Investments growing quietly.

Emergency savings.

Or simply having enough financial freedom to say no to things you cannot afford.

why people hide the struggle

Many Nigerians are uncomfortable admitting that they are struggling.

There is social pressure to appear successful.

Someone who recently lost a job may continue posting expensive outings.

A business owner facing cash-flow problems may continue presenting the image of a thriving entrepreneur.

A young professional struggling with rent may still feel compelled to maintain appearances among friends.

The fear is simple:

“What will people say?”

And sometimes, the desire to avoid embarrassment becomes more expensive than the original financial problem.

the uncomfortable question

How many people around us are actually wealthy, and how many are simply good at looking wealthy?

There is no reliable national figure showing how many Nigerians finance expensive lifestyles through debt or financial support from others.

That is important.

It would be wrong to assume that every person displaying luxury online is pretending.

Some Nigerians genuinely earn enough to afford expensive lifestyles.

But the broader lesson remains clear.

A social media post is not a financial statement.

The next time someone appears to have everything, it may be worth remembering that you are seeing a photograph, not their bank account.

In today’s Nigeria, perhaps the smartest definition of success is no longer “How expensive does my life look?”

It is:

“How secure is my life when nobody is watching?”

Source: https://yaroinsider.ng/nigerians-secretly-struggling-expensive-lifestyles/

Funny,this are the people that will be shouting tinubu,hunger wants to kill them.

Someone on an annual income of about 50m per annum,wants to drive a 40m naira car,leave in a 7m naira apartment per annum,his 3 kids school fees runs into like N1.5m per term,thats N4.5m.......wants to drink like 4 hennessy every week,keep up with nightlife and parties gulping hundreds of thousands weekly ,extended family pressures,still funding side chick life style also running into millions annually.

At the end of the year he can't have nothing saved,rather than being more meticulous with their expenses,tinubu will be the fall guy......there are several of them like that......a small yahoo boy got about 10m,the first thing he bought was a 1.3m phone,expensive clothes and clubbing,he wanted to buy a car nigerian used lexus IS 250 before I told him he was crazy.

MrSly:
In 2023 I wasn't a party agent. In fact I did not and till today don't belong to any political party. But it remembered how labour Party agent showed me immence appreciation because of my contribution to ensuring the right thing was done. I even went as far as going to collection centre to ensure that the right thing was done. So I know what I am saying but you people are still living in centuries ago.

So thats how you want to win elections abi? Kwantinue u hia

ElevationD:
Oga, stop forming “osubi, okpe lga and ibori from Ogbara Ethiope….” as if you have the faintest idea of where those places are located. If I ask you how to arrive at in Okpe or Orogun, you go open mouth down.

“ Delta north is a known obidient stronghold but okowa backed by state machinery will be difficult to beat”.
Those are you words, stated previously.

People on ground in Delta state are telling you the reality and you are busy disputing what they know. Who says APC is not in power there? Who says APC will not fight to retain the seat?

You claimed earlier that the realities of 2023 and 2027 are no longer the same and you have been informed that nothing changed with the supporters of Peter Obi. His structure was and has been completely not only retained, but heavily upgraded and fortified.

No one should underestimate others in politics. You do not want APC to be underestimated, but in the same breathe you underestimate a person who swept APC and PDP aside easily in 2023 and who is still solidly on ground in the state. You underestimate NDC, just as you all underestimated LP before the 2023 elections. You said “NDC is wobbling”. You are not there in Delta state, you do not know the events there and simply drew your conclusion about what you know nothing regarding NDC in Delta state, just by reading social media pages.

“Delta north hates Okowa…”. Who told you that? If Delta north hates Okowa, why did he lose the entire state when he tried to be the PDP candidate in 2023? Or Delta north has become Delta state as a whole? Politics is all about preference. He lost because people saw a different person who they could trust.

Oga, talk of the SW areas that you know. Leave the SS and SE areas to those who reside there or who are from those areas. Listen to what they tell you about events and people of the areas and watch.

You are only an APC supporter who hopes that APC will win all positions at the ballots in 2027. It is perfectly normal to have such hopes as a supporter, but do not trivialize the efforts of other parties and people who look out for the same positions.

“Obi can win delta north but I will readily give south to APC…”.
How can you give what you do not have please? You will not vote there. Even if you are from that area, na only one vote you get.

You are just a ranter and nothing more,where did I underestimate your pretentious candidate and his mob........i acknowledged is strengths in the Delta north and even gave him a win probability there as an objective analyst should........but you haven't at any point acknowledged the strengths of the party you will be up against,your myopia my gain,I care no less.

Obi cannot beat apc in Delta south, take that to the bank and yes the dynamics for every election is always different from the last.....tinubu isnt buhari and both tinubu and obi are both southerners.

The battle ground is Delta central and the odds still seemingly favor apc.......you seat in your little corner in the midst of your few friends and family who appeal ro ur sentimentality and you speak for a whole state where the sands are always shifting.

Just so you know,I have a logistics hub in @ airport junction in warri and I have transversed several parts of Delta from umunede to ibi to uleh to patani........I was in utokutu and aladja just last month for a clients father's burial.

ElevationD:
Oga, stop running your mouth in the affairs of Delta state. You are not from there and have no single knowledge of the politics of the state.

Okowa did not fail because of Atiku in 2023. He did not need to sell Atiku. PDP was the party then and had huge popularity. Okowa could not sell himself and failed as the VP candidate because there was a very popular movement in the state called the Obidient movement, fully supporting Obi, completely youth and middle age based who were tired of Okowa himself. Okowa was already tagged as a betrayer, which cost him hugely. Civil servants were tired of Okowa and everyone wanted him out while he was the sitting governor. He lost popularity completely at the grassroots. His last minute sharing of 10k deposits into the accounts of civil servants, with his appeal the night before the election, saved Sheriff who would have been swept away by the Obi wave also. Okowa as the VP was swept away by Obi who was long popular, even before the election in the entire state.

For your information, before Wike and his group brought confusion into PDP, coupled with Okowa’s fear of the corruption charge that made him decamp suddenly to APC, it was completely impossible for APC to make inroads in Delta state. The only area APC was found was Delta central, which anyway was the district where APC took off when the party arrived Delta state. Ibori teamed up with APC because of his relationship with Tinubu, allowing APC to gain grounds in the senatorial area, winning his daughter’s seat. Aside from that area, PDP was very solid and the only factor against PDP was a stronger Obi and LP.

Delta politics is not an area known to you in anyway. That PDP collapsed all the structures into APC does not mean that all PDP members went into APC. There were and still are those aggrieved persons who never wanted anything to do with APC. There are those who stayed aloof; those who felt left out and have been waiting to deal with decamping PDP leaders who made them feel some pain. Aggrieved foundation APC members who were pushed away by Sheriff are waiting for payback day.

The late Chuba Okadigbo once said that in politics you must read the barometer and do the arithmetics. Delta politics typically is described as that. You think that having been rigged out, Ned Nwoko will give up Delta north without a fight? You have not heard of protest votes? Maybe you need to know that Delta north is the border area of Anambra state. Aside from the Igbo speaking citizens of Delta state, those from across the river reside in different areas of Delta north and are Obi’s supporters. The same wind that blew in Anambra state giving Obi victory there, happened in Delta north giving Obi victory there. The Niger bridge is the boundary between Asaba and Onitsha and people walk across the bridge from the two cities. How can you cut off Obi’s voters in Delta north? Obi is very popular in Agbor, Okowa’s place, not to talk of Warri or other major Delta cities across the state. Okowa knows that his battle is not just against Victor Ochei, a well known and seasoned grassroots politician and the former speaker, but also against the name of Peter Obi. You think money does it all? With the youths in Delta state, money is not a factor.

Oga, talk about Ogun state or Lagos state. Delta, Edo and the entire south east are you areas that you have visited, reside or have any knowledge about their people and events. You only watch social media pages to arrive at you wrong conclusions.

You are just yapping on about what not,where in my post have I disputed obi is very popular in delta north,go back to the original post and see my affirmation of obi's Influence in that place.

But you disregarding APC’s growing strengths and underestimating their influence too will be a naive position to anchor your hopes.......Delta south APC is very strong there especially the riverine regions and thats a huge factor for anybody,also the incumbent gov is from Central and because Delta north hates okowa doesn't mean Central will do same for sheriff.

Obi can win delta north but I would readily give south to APC while Central remains the battle ground and will be a direct fight between sheriff from osubi,okpe lga and ibori from oghara Ethiope west and omo agege from orogun in ughelli north.

KillahPriest:
"...Adebisi further disclosed that the Chief Security Officer of the cinema had been taken into custody as investigations continued..."

WHY ?

The killing the suspect could have been extra judicial.

ElevationD:
Calm down when you have assumed knowledge of what you know nothing about?

What are the dynamics that changed please? Nothing changed between 2023 and 2027 except PDP crumbling and APC taking over for now.

Maybe you need to know that Obi’s supporters in the entire Delta state are diehard citizens. Go and ask anyone from Delta state. Go and ask why Omo Agege chose NDC as his destination among other parties.

Oga speak for yourself...... delta goes beyond delta north, okowa failed because Atiku as a northern candidate was rejected by the people. And very difficult to sell.......obi was the closest option to them.

Now the pdp is dead and all their structure already collapsed into the apc,that should tell you apc has grown stronger. . ......delta south will go apc forger that your obi talk and thats where the voting population is.

Now you have a southern president with all the state structures in place and you think the apc will want to loose delta.... Apc has grown bigger un delta and the NDC is still wobbling,

[quote author=AMINDA post=140483213]Tell us the tribe of this one.

Again, SUBSIDY MUST RETURN. pic.twitter.com/c6XS3kFytT

— Oluwaseun Ajede (@oluwaseun_ajede) August 20, 2026

d you think he will choose obi or atiku over tinubu........your myopia is GWR worthy.

ElevationD:
Say what you know.

Okowa was roundly defeated in 2023 as the VP candidate of PDP by Peter Obi. He was crushed in his senatorial zone and only escaped in his LG.

Delta north continues to remain loyal and a stronghold of Mr. Peter Obi. You may get some t/fare and travel there to see things for yourself. Obi never stopped being popular in Delta state after 2023, rather he won the hearts of more citizens.

All you APC supporters always hope for is “state machinery”. You lots should be ashamed that you agree with and choose the path of rigging elections to determine your leaders. How can you not continue to have crooks in position of power, who rather than fix communities, the embezzle the commonwealth. Nwoko continues to lament the primary election that he says were rigged against him by his party.

No be only state machinery, na machinery corporation. If the 2023 Presidential and governorship elections were held the same day, Sheriff would not be the governor today. He is lucky that he escaped at the last minute using the same state machinery that Okowa could not use as the then sitting governor to win his own Presidential election a week earlier.

Bro calm down and drink some water.....nobodi dey fight u, the dynamics of 23 are totally different from 27,smart people knows this........okowa can never loose his senatorial seat to anyone.

[quote author=AMINDA post=140483216]Or the tribe of this one.

" I don't want Tinubu, he didn't do well, I don't want Tinubu" pic.twitter.com/qlxthn0ecu

— ÓMÒÉLÉRÍNJÁRÉ (@omoelerinjare) August 21, 2026

you think she would vote obi or atiku over obi......on a long thing u are!!

Nothing new,he was always a tinubu ally during his time before ganinafams turned renegade.

Check his tribe,its not too difficult to know.......they always sound very bitter and agitated, they never see anything good in the country.

SeeWahala:
Same south where they lined up and as that APC man was passing they were 'casually' BUSTiNG Hero Beer Bottles on his scalp?

Is that part of the south that you're speaking about? 🤔

Anyone can conjure that,even adc can do more to obi campaigners in jigawa.

tuoyoojo:
I don't know if the video is old but it's evident but I just laugh when I hear that governors promise to deliver their state

Omo that deliver go dey prolonged o

How the gov want that push the [/s]baby[s] abi na votes out

How them wan do am

Them get 200k to pay per vote ni

Delta north is a known obidient stronghold but okowa backed by state machinery will be difficult to beat.

LagosOrigin:
The entire south south is on lockdown for Peter Obi

Delta north is known to ne an obidient stringhold......delta north is populated by the delta igbos/okay people........the votes in delta is in delta south.

tishbite41:
You have no self esteem
Don't dehumanize yourself

Who has anyless self esteem than that wanting to foist obi on us all at all cost just because of latent parochailism......nothing about what he is coming to do different only the nebulous amorphous rhetoric of he saved anambra state money in his bank.